imnotcryingipromise
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I wanna run against the world that's turnin' by imnotcryingipromise
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
03 May 2025
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Edwin and Charles have been together since a kissed they shared on the night of Charles’ death. The meddling of a certain Port Townsend witch threatens their once-steadfast relationship.
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The case of the Sleeping Beauty by imnotcryingipromise
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
30 Oct 2024
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"I was angry with you... for kissing him then," Edwin admits, voice suddenly small.
Crystal is unsure she's ever been allowed to independently witness such vulnerability from her friend.
"But I am begging you to do it now," he pleads.
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In which a gift from an allegedly satisfied client is not what it seems and one of the detectives falls under a mysterious spell.
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You hold out your hand to me and its heaven (god, I know its heaven) by imnotcryingipromise
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
03 Oct 2024
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"Stay awake for me Charles, please," Edwin repeats, now achingly earnest and desperately terrified, as his eyes frantically scan the room for means of their escape.
"F...or you?" Charles questions deliriously, a small, breathless chuckle jostling his chest.
Edwin feels the movement against his legs, on which his friend is lain. He looks down, hopeless, but enamoured by his companion.
"Anything," Charles continues in his confused, sentimental murmuring.
"I- you know- I love you? 'Have sin-ce foreverr," he admits, indistinctly.
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The Dead Boy Detectives hunt a witch that wields a weapon with the power to end their afterlives. Whilst injured, the younger ghost makes an unexpected admission.
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There's no better love, that has ever loved me by imnotcryingipromise
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
26 Sep 2024
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"Which one of them used the magic on you?" the Cat King demands of his subject.
Charles moves further in front of Edwin, his hands flexing defensively by his sides.
King or no, no one lays a hand on his partner, not while he is around to stop it.
"I did."
The lie pulls itself from Charles before he can contain it.
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Edwin and Charles have been together since the very first night they met. Until the introduction of Crystal Palace into their lives, the detectives’ romance had been unassailable. The sudden emergence of a new enemy, one with a particular interest in the older ghost, further threatens the once-unshakeable foundations of the boys’ decades-long relationship.
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Also: a pre-established painland are confronted by the Cat King. Jealousy ensues.
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I bargain with the stars, I beg for more than half your heart by imnotcryingipromise
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
08 Sep 2024
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"You don't have to protect me, love," Hob insists.
"But I want to," the Endless whimpers with uncharacteristic simplicity. It might not be exceedingly eloquent, but it is -in fact- the most earnest and truthful disclosure Dream has ever made.
"Then let me love you," Hob says, entreatingly.
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Following their 2022 reunion, Hob Gadling enters into a casual relationship with the Endless being he has quietly adored for centuries. After the Dream Lord falls asleep in his arms however, the immortal struggles to maintain the pretence of an uncomplicated, unattached affair, upon which the other man insists.
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and since the day we met, I’ve known I’d follow you anywhere by imnotcryingipromise
Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
03 May 2025
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After scathing words from his ex-wife, Dream is left to consider his failures that had brought low those he loved and who had once loved him. He had failed his son, disowned the boy even as Orpheus had disowned him in turn. Faced with the knowledge that Calliope was right, and with inspiration from his sister Death, he takes the old adage of walking a mile in someone’s shoes quite literally. Dream decides to spend a year and a day forgoing his power to walk among mortals as one of them with the belief that by the time he reaches Orpheus it will be with a new understanding deep enough to beg forgiveness.
His pilgrimage begins at the one place in the waking world with which he is currently familiar, the White Horse tavern, only to swiftly find out he is woefully ill-prepared. Dependent on the aid of an unexpected companion in one Hob Gadling, Dream must not only learn to be honest with himself, but honest with others as well.
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08 May 2023
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yesterday's gone (we'll make it through) by BuckytheDucky
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
17 Jan 2023
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After escaping Fawney Rig, Dream is left powerless. Broken. Defeated. Nearly human. He has nowhere to go, no one to call on.
Except maybe one Hob Gadling.
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21 Dec 2022
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We have all the time in the world by Picture_Yourself
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
25 Sep 2022
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A detailed examination on just what exactly would happen if Dream figured out he actually cared about Hob half a millennium earlier and Hob was a bit more successful in keeping his "friend's" attention. Aka they fuck by 1889.
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19 Nov 2022
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A Different Kind of Burn by Ruby_Casablanca
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
04 Oct 2022
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While the guards took their stimulants and were careful not to dream, the rest of the household had to sleep. Servants and family, guests and partygoers all slept in the numerous suites, tucked under covers with heads cradled by goose-feather pillows. The deepest, calmest sleep only his ruby could provide collected into a thin trickle of dreaming - not strong enough to carry him home but strong enough to keep him hopeful. Strong enough for Morpheus to close his eyes and let his mind slip away in the current, if only for a little while…
There was only one mind he knew on this mortal plane, only one place he could end up, after all.
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Wherein Hob dreams of war, Morpheus dreams of an escape from his prison, and over the span of many years, they fall into dreams that blur the lines between friendship and something more.
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23 Oct 2022