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Dreamling Fic Masterpost (2026 June 7)

Dreamling Day 2026 means it's once again time to update the Masterpost. Links go to Tumblr posts (for when AO3 is down), and each Tumblr fic post has the direct AO3 link as well.

You can also find me HERE on AO3.

(Cut for length so it's not ridiculous when pinned)

#TJs Fics #Dreamling #Sandman #masterpost

catastrophic-writer-deactivated

Story Time:

Working in retail is really fun, and the times when major fuck-ups happen, they can be either anxiety-attack inducing, or make it possible to get through the rest of your god-awful shift with a smile depending on the customer. My all-time favorite absolute fuck-up is as follows:

This kind woman is just doing her thing. She scans her membership card from her keychain. The register beeps to acknowledge the scan. We continue as usual. Neither of us notice right away, but after I’ve scanned a few more items, I hear a very quiet, “Um,” from the lady, very polite. I look at her. She is looking at the screen of my register, blinking. I, too, look.

And lo and behold. There is a charge of over four-thousand dollars ($4,000) worth of garlic bread staring us in the face. There are no words for a minute. We’re just… in awe. How did this happen? How the hell did this happen?

She didn’t even have garlic bread in her cart.

I sputter a partial apology - I was incapable of forming actual sentences in the moment - and try to void the garlic bread. Since there was no garlic bread to scan, I try to manually remove $4,000-some from this transaction.

Well, the registers don’t like it when you try to void off more than five dollars ($5) from a transaction, so naturally it pings my manager for confirmation, but she’s not by her pager.

At this point, both myself and the lady are just… dumbfounded. She’s not even mad. I’m not even all that embarrassed. Both of us are just looking at the screen. There’s a bit of laughter, but it’s mostly just… confusion.

I have to call through the whole store for my manager on the intercom because she’s not answering. She shows up, ready to override and void it, when she too, sees what exactly is being voided.

“What… did you do?”

“I genuinely. Have literally. No. Idea.”

She voids it, and I go to finish the transaction and tell the woman her total (minus the garlic bread). My register pings. It tells me that she hasn’t scanned her membership card. Odd. I distinctly remember her doing that. The woman goes to scan her card again, and I notice that her library card is stuck to her membership card. I tell her gently, and she separates the two and scans her card.

My manager, hovering nearby still, sees this and says, “I think it mistook the barcode of her other card for garlic bread, and the remaining digits were read as the price.”

And that’s when the laughter really came over us. There were no hard feelings at all. In fact, the woman was incredibly glad that the receipt still showed the garlic bread and the voiding of. I will remember it until the end of time, my only regret in the entire situation being that I didn’t take a damn picture, because she has proof and I don’t. But I swear to God it happened.

TDLR; Library Card Charged $4,000 of Garlic Bread.

anais-ninja-bitch

that’s just how valuable library cards are. each one is worth at least $4000 of garlic bread

nudityandnerdery

A picture is worth a thousand words, a library card is worth $4000 worth of garlic bread, if we can figure out how many words the average library card can check out at once, we can probably work out a picture-to-garlic bread conversion here, too.

iwtvsource

The Vampire Lestat: After Dark | Episode 2

#tvl spoilers #just in case #bl #cast #ariu

ispyspookymansion

how old were you when you came out to your parents/guardians (for the first time, if youve done it more than once!)

10 or younger

11 or 12

13 - 15

16 - 18

19 - 21

22 - 25

26+

i havent, and i dont think they know

i havent, because they already know

Remaining time: 16 hours 47 minutes

feel free to share what ages in the tags if you had multiple ^_^

+ obligatory 26 is NOT old to come out or discover who you are or feel safe saying so for the first time its an arbitrary cutoff. <3

#haven't #don't plan to #it was a discovery I came to well after I left home #and it's never been relevant #I don't feel the need

teejaystumbles

The Beast in Me - Dreamling (M) [AO3] [Graphic Depictions of Violence, Hob Gadling Saves Dream of the Endless | Morpheus from Roderick Burgess, well from Alex but same difference, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Hob Gadling is only half human, Feral Hob Gadling, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Self-Discovery, Getting Together]

Summary: In April 1995 random chance brings Hob Gadling to Fawny Rig. When he rescues Dream they discover that Hob is struggling with something monstrous.

Chapter 2 - in which Hob finally gets some information and tries not to freak out

"Hob Gadling." His friend's deep voice pulls him out of his head. Hob looks up at him helplessly. His stranger is sitting here, regal and beautiful amongst Hob's unremarkable things, like a treasure he stole that so very obviously doesn't belong to the likes of Hob. Why is he even here? How can any of this be happening? "I wish to thank you. For freeing me from that place. I consider myself…in your debt." Hob shakes his head instantly. "No. No debt. We're friends, I wouldn't have let you be stuck down there for a minute longer, if I had known… if I'd known you were down there, for years, my god…" "Peace, Hob. You could not have known," the stranger assures him quietly. Hob takes a trembling sip from his tea and slumps into the chair. "Forgive me. I'm a mess. This…has been quite a day. I have so many questions, but I don't even know where to start." His friend hums. "Then allow me to introduce myself. It is long overdue."

#to read!#Sandman #fic

sluttymorpheus

₊˚ෆ The Crookes - Dance in Colour. 2013.⭑.ᐟ

#It's Ferdie Friday somewhere

bisexualrozanov

#girl who is clearly healed and doing okay

#tvl spoilers #tvl #ariu

luna-azzurra

Just spent 45 minutes researching what a specific street in a city smells like in october so i could write the word "damp." the word is in the final draft. it is doing its job. it cost me 45 minutes and a mild obsession with historical weather records. worth it. the word is perfect. you would not believe how hard i worked on that word.

funkyness

at least can all we agree that the original gay flag with the magic and sex colours is BEAUTIFUL and it should make a comeback

funkyness

what’s more iconic than this

azeroundivided

What about the final version of the flag by the original creator?

Gilbert Baker added a 9th stripe shortly before his death, with the new stripe representing diversity. He added this stripe in reaction to the 2016 US election. It’s unfortunately not as well known as the 8 and 6 striped versions.

Here’s an image of him sewing together the 9 striped rainbow flag.