#hobpheus

edit:

based on this post :)

I run that really chaotic Sandman Facebook group so I have seen some weirdness but this morning I saw something that really unnerved me.

 There are people here who have survived trauma and have experienced real life abuse I am making this post for their sake.  To those who call the Morpheus / Hob ship "grooming" because of the "age gap" between them STOP IT!  KNOCK IT OFF!  Two consenting adults, no matter how big the age gap, are still two consenting adults.   Hob is not "Practically a child" and it doesn't make Morpheus a "groomer." You are diminishing the experiences of real survivors with this false comparison- this agist bullshit that shames adults in consenting relationships with age gaps (like Michael Sheen and his wife).   What I saw earlier today with that comparison, calling Morpheus a "creepy groomer" was not cute or funny. You infentalized a forty-something-year-old (to nearly seven hundreds years old) to try to justify thinking of the relationship with an older immortal as "gross."   And "wrong."   You compared a FORTY YEAR OLD MAN with an older man to CHILD GROOMING!  And you think that's okay?!???!

What you just did, whether you realize it or not, is perpetuated an old stereotype about gay men. There were PSAs in the 50s here in America that claimed older homosexual men would “groom” and “convert” younger men (and children) into the “gay lifestyle.”   You just accidentally channeled 1950s homophobia in the guise of “But the age gap!” *pearl clutch.*  

1389

DREAM :

Did I hear you say that you had no intention of ever dying?

Then you must tell me what it's like.

Let us meet here again, Robert Gadling. In this tavern of the White Horse.

In one hundred years!

HOB GADLING :

I'll see you in the year of our Lord, 1489 then!

⏳⌛

1489

HOB GADLING :

How did you know that I'd still be here? Who are you? A wizard? A saint? A demon? Have I unwitting made a bargain with the devil?

DREAM :

NO.

HOB GADLING :

Then why aren't I dead long since? Is this some kind of game?

DREAM :

No game.. . I'm here because I'm interested...

HOB GADLING :

In me?

DREAM :

In your experience... You live your life as you choose. Then in this day, every 100 years, we will meet.

⏳⌛

1589

HOB GADLING :

My friend! Sit down. I've got in a couple of bottle of wines for us. Already made a start.

DREAM :

Hello, Hob.

HOB GADLING :

"Hob"? Faith, that takes me back some few years.

It's Sir Robert Galden now, old stranger!

DREAM :

You've had good fortune, I take it.

Sir Robert Gadlen :

The gods have smiled on me as they smile on all England where no man is slave or bondsman!

(to be continued...)