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What Is Immortality If Not a Series Of Losses by itsaseamonster
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
16 Sep 2025
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Six hundred years. Seven meetings. Countless dreams. And in them, Hob forgets to pretend he doesn’t want more—because the only constant in his long, immortal life has always been his friend.
- A fix-it Dreamling fic I started writing even before watching season 2.
- We follow Hob from the very beginning.
- Every chapter is character development *jazz hands*
- Centuries of pining, bad decisions, and unbuttoned shirts.
- Real plot starts happening in chapter 3!
- Hob has a lot of dreams! I wonder why! (from chapter 4)
- Extremely self-indulgent. Probably turns into a buddy comedy with will-they-won't-they energy. (They will.)
- Slow burn? Absolutely. Smut? Eventually. Emotional devastation? Without a doubt.
- A lot of hurt no comfort but it has a happy ending, I promise!
- English is not my first language and this is not beta read, we die like Hob doesn’t -
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“I am going to ask you for something. You have every right to say ‘no.’ In fact, you probably should, but I need to ask anyway.”
Six months after Hob Gadling said good-bye to his oldest friend, Morpheus, Death comes to him for help with an impossible task. It’s up to Hob to care for the freshly resurrected--and painfully human--Dream, help him restore his memories…and ultimately let him go all over again. For his part, Dream is just trying to figure out who he is, what he's supposed to do, and why the dark is trying to get him. The only thing that makes any sense is Hob and his kindness, and the certainty that that all Dream wants is to stay by Hob's side.
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【授翻】Giving Sanctuary by Transatlanticism_1015
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
13 Sep 2025
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1689年，在霍布·加德林失去了一切之后，他与梦再次相见。那一夜，他们的会面比预期持续了更长时间，谈话的内容转向了活着、失去以及丧子意味着什么。梦不忍心让一个与自己共享着相同悲痛的人独自回到黑夜之中，于是打破了自己的规则，邀请霍布与自己同住一段时间，至少等到他能重新振作起来。
这个故事讲述了两个悲痛欲绝、离异、丧偶、儿子早逝的父亲真正认识了彼此，并在他们人生最低谷的时候尽自己最大的努力，将自己、将彼此重新拼凑起来。
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Hob seemed to be the only one to notice him, the older looking man drifting in and out of the funeral, disappearing in between moments, never in the same space as one of The Endless.
One chance meeting later, Hob petitions Time to send him back to try and change Dream’s fate. Betting on the immortal’s inevitable failure and being an absolute arse of a cosmic being, Time does send him back. A few thousand years too early.
Or—
Sometimes altering the past makes everything worse before it gets better.
Alternatively titled: Hob’s semi-accidental sexcapades through time while desperately attempting to change history so Morpheus doesn’t die.
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The next time Hob "Goldlin" sees his stranger after the 1889 disagreement, he's gagged with mostly decorative chains at a dirty party at Fawney Rig in the late 1920s, lasciviously.
That wasn't his stranger.(Or rather: who needs crystal spheres with runes when you have necklaces that suppress consciousness and memories?)
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Thought I was waitin' for you by spookyserpent
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics), Dead Boy Detectives (TV), Good Omens (TV)
04 Sep 2025
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“He’s not really scary.”
Hob glances at the girl beside him. “Who isn’t?”
“My brother. He likes people to think he is. It’s… easier, I think.”
“Easier than what?”
Her gaze flicks to him, mismatched eyes catching in the moonlight. For a heartbeat, she looks older than the strange, restless girl she appears to be. “Than letting people see the soft parts. The parts that hurt. The vulnerable, gooey ones. If you’re frightening, people don’t touch you. Don’t want to know you. They don’t get close enough to break you.”
AKA: Hob Gadling sees much more than he lets on, befriends a couple of anthropomorphic entities, considers crimes and maybe saves his Stranger along the way.
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We are such stuff as dreams are made on by heyidkyay
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
01 Sep 2025
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Last thing he remembered was…
The bridge–
Then Death–
They had been talking, hadn't they?
After the funeral. About the funeral…
God, the funeral!
Was, oh–
He had packed it all in, hadn’t he?
Had finally given in. Given up.
He really had.
He’d finally done it–
He had, hadn’t he?
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Episode Eleven ends a bit differently, as does Hob and Death's conversation..
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The one where Hob Gadling gives his word to be there for Dream, to aid him in anything, everything, and he keeps it. Even if most will never know.
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- Part 2 of No Less Valiant
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A story in which, in the early 1920’s, Hob Gadling fashions together a rather impressive net and goes fishing.
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I don't know why you say Goodbye, I say Hello by Elis_in_the_clouds
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
16 Aug 2025
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Last time they met, Dream had said "goodbye", Hob "see you next time".
He should have said goodbye.or
Death of the Endless decides to take it upon herself to deliver the news to Hob Gadling. -
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What if, Dream went to Hob Gadling after killing his son Orpheus? What if Dream and Hobs relationship finally flourished in the last days of Dreams life, in which Hob stood by him till the end.
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- Part 1 of Standing by him, standing by My Dream
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Death and Dream walk into a tavern in 1389, the bet they make begins a new destiny for Dream.
Hob Gadling enjoyed life, so much so that when he is offered eternity by a mysterious figure in black he takes it.
With their lives forever intertwined, some feelings are bound to grow, maybe a friendship, or perhaps more.
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DAUGHTER OF ATLAS by dxrkneptxne
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022) RPF, Der Sandmann | The Sandman - E. T. A. Hoffmann
07 Aug 2025
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A tale told in two lives. One ancient. One eternal.
The tragedies of Ancient Greece--known and not--and the making of The Oracle of Dodona.Eila was not always the Oracle of Dodona. Long before prophecy tangled itself into her voice and the gods lent her secrets too heavy for mortals, she lived amid the heartbreak of myth itself. Echoes of ancient Greece—its splendour and sorrow—shape the making of a woman destined to stand at the crossroads of time. Through buried tragedies and divine inheritance, Eila learns that knowing is a power more perilous than speaking.
Children of Eternity follows Eila in her unexpected friendship with fellow immortal Hob Gadling--eternal optimist and Dream's one true friend. Their coincidental meeting in the summer of 1989--the day Dream should have met him--would spark a peculiar tale, one that would draw Hob into the Endless world for good. A trip to Greece, a resurrected Orion, a meeting like no other...Hob has no idea what he is getting himself into. All he knows is that the woman he's with has four thousand years of life experience under her belt, and the knowledge of Time himself, and can cook a mean carbonara, so he assumes he's in safe hands. For now.
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- Part 2 of ENDLESS STORIES TO TELL
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Once upon a time there was a king who had lost his queen. The kingdom mourned the loss but none felt it as keenly as the king himself. Then one day, many years later, word reached the castle that the queen was being held captive in another land. At once, king Morpheus set off on a quest to save her, bringing only his trusted first knight Sir Robert Gadling and manservant Mathew with him.
In this fairy tale, however, things are not as straight forward as they might seem. Before queen Calliope left the castle, the death of their son had driven a wedge between king and queen. Now, some believe that the king’s affections may lay elsewhere, namely with his first knight. If that is indeed the case then it is not entirely uncomplicated because Hob does not know the king’s secret – that he isn’t exactly human.
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First, He turns up 130 or so years later. Then, he turns up 6 years later at his doorstep, shivering and drenched like a wet cat. Hob is utterly confused why the lonely Not Friend of his is breaking patterns so severely.
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“What were you parents like, Hob?”
Hob and Dream's conversation continues, and Dream reveals what is at the heart of his grief.
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A mighty ocean or a gentle kiss by everythingisconnected for academic_of_the_endless
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
25 Jul 2025
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After over 600 years of losing everyone he cared about, Hob Gadling was more than used to grieving.
Not this time.
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After the wake, Hob falls asleep.
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Hob Gadling hasn't been sleeping well. Not since a certain dream — or rather, Dream — came to him outside of schedule. As days blur into nights and reality starts to fray, Hob begins to suspect that something is deeply wrong with his old friend. And when Morpheus finally appears in the waking world, Hob must decide whether centuries of loyalty, affection, and restraint are enough to reach a grieving god on the verge of unraveling.
Post Season 2 Episode 6.
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Tragedy has its place, it always has, from the catharsis of Aristotle to watching The Notebook after a breakup.
Unfortunatley, Hob Gadling is done with tragedy.