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Sequel To Fear and Hope (Final part Of Nightmare and Sins)
In one universe - Dream was trapped for one hundred long years. He escaped and gathered his sigils as the story is told.
In another universe - Roderick requested help with his cage, not knowing that one single action would cascade into a partial remaking... of Dread of the Endless. An Endless not bound by laws or rules and wanting nothing more than to tear Dream - his former self - apart. A plan aided by Lucifer, who wants nothing more than Dream brought to heel... and worsened by Death of the Endless - now corrupted - into Demise of the Endless. All the while Dream and Desire work (reluctantly) to set aside old family grudges and trauma to try and salvage their family.
And yet in another universe, the Burgess estate succeeded in not only capturing Dream... but the other Endless as well. Endless that have no reason to trust Johanna, who is now trapped with them. Johanna who wants to desperately get back to her Dream... And if she fails, it may very well be the end of not only Dream but the other Endless as well...
Endless serve humanity... but corrupted Endless, ones not bound by rules or blood, may very well destroy it.
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- Part 3 of Facing Fears, Finding Hope
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In one universe - Dream was trapped for one hundred long years. He escaped and gathered his sigils as the story is told.
In another universe - Roderick requested help with his cage, not knowing that one single action would cascade into a partial remaking... of Dread of the Endless. An Endless not bound by laws or rules and wanting nothing more than to tear Dream - his former self - apart. A plan aided by Lucifer, who wants nothing more than Dream brought to heel... and worsened by Death of the Endless - now corrupted - into Demise of the Endless. All the while Dream and Desire work (reluctantly) to set aside old family grudges and trauma to try and salvage their family.
And yet in another universe, the Burgess estate succeeded in not only capturing Dream... but the other Endless as well. Endless that have no reason to trust Johanna, who is now trapped with them. Johanna who wants to desperately get back to her Dream... And if she fails, it may very well be the end of not only Dream but the other Endless as well...
Endless serve humanity... but corrupted Endless, ones not bound by rules or blood, may very well destroy it.
Comic Verse. Credit to Nebulavibes0 for the artwork
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- Part 6 of Facing Fears, Finding Hope
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walking around with this bullet inside me by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
29 Jun 2025
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There are two people in the entire world who have the number of the shitty prepaid burner phone that’s been burning a hole through Hob’s pocket for far longer than it ought to. That's going on four years now. Four years, two people in the world, and it’s never once rung.
Hob gets a long awaited phone call signalling that his friend is alive, and he's back, and he's carving a terrible path through London’s underbelly. The transatlantic flight home gives him plenty of time to replay the scant memories he has of his stranger before he up and vanished. What he finds is a bloody and brutal terf war, his stranger a bit more feral, maybe, but it's familiar enough to ache.
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- Part 1 of hungry and hollow
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The Reluctant Hero by kurenohikari
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), Constantine (Comics), DC Comics, The Sandman (Comics), Constantine (TV), Batman - All Media Types
16 Jun 2025
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John didn’t ask for this. He didn’t sign up to be a hero, a savior, or whatever nonsense the universe seemed to have in mind. Time travel was complicated enough without stumbling across imprisoned magical deities. Yet, here he was—an unwilling do-gooder with a growing list of freed gods, spirits, and eldritch beings who now owed him favors.
Not that John wanted their help. He just wanted a quiet life, free from divine drama and cosmic messes. But no, every time he turned around, there was another desperate deity locked up in some ancient relic or cursed dimension. He tried ignoring them. He really did. But then guilt—or perhaps sheer bad luck—always dragged him back.
Now he’s neck-deep in magical debts, interdimensional grudges, and a timeline so tangled it could strangle a lesser man. The gods might call him a savior, but John knows the truth: he’s just tired. Tired of time travel. Tired of magic. And most of all, tired of being the universe’s go-to handyman.
Someone, please, save him this time. Before he snaps and uses all those favors to take a permanent vacation in a timeline where none of this exists. If such a place even exists anymore.
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- Part 4 of The Unholy Trinity
- Part 6 of My Rewrite Library
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Away From The Sunless Lands by Jack_The_Honest
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics), Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
09 Jun 2025
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This story takes place in the waking world, or as mortals insist on calling it… the real world, as if the other realms hold no importance in their daily lives, in their choices, in their dreams.
To mortals and humans in particular the realms other than theirs are of no concern to them, their passage through the landscape of Grey Realm do not affect them, don't define them.
As if what happens to them, in them does not matter.
Black Winged Death was trapped in this version of All Seeing Destiny’s book.
Her wings are bound and the road to the Sunless Lands is concealed from her eyes, her Ankh stolen.She was alone and cold, even if time itself wouldn't bring her to madness, the silence and solitude hurt.
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on the creature scratches (it doesn't know how to get out) by CourfeyracFredMariusCratchit for CinnamonCake
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
09 Jun 2025
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The Endless are older than the Fears, and by far more powerful, yet not immune to their touch.
When Dream recognizes their touch upon Hob, he decides to put them in their place.
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- Part 1 of can't you hear the scratching?
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"Echoes of Pure Sand Within the Lies of Dreams and the Truth of the Heart" by Theannoyingspeedstarofdifferentfandoms
Fandoms: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022), Lucifer (Comic)
02 Jun 2025
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“Once, a boy looked into the eyes of a caged god and said, ‘If I could set you free, I would.’ And then—he did.”
In an alternate timeline of The Sandman, young Alex Burgess chooses to free Dream of the Endless before World War II begins. With stolen artifacts, whispered magic, and a wound that nearly ends him, Alex sparks a bond that forever alters the Dreaming.
But mercy is never clean, and love—especially from a god who governs dreams—comes wrapped in silence, sacrifice, and cosmic memory. Trapped in a youth that no longer fits, Alex awakens decades later in a world that moved on without him.
And in those very years emerges the one person who is an equal to dream someone in terms of power and status
Something dream could never truly have and yet now he didHe didn't want this and yet he was given what he needed
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What if we rewrite the stars... (Say you were meant to be mine). by defianceoftheendless
Fandoms: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
22 May 2025
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What was the saying? Ah, yes, dreaming doesn't cost anything.
Well, what if it turned out that the concept of dreaming was much more than a concept? What if it was, in turn, a man behind glass, and there was once a girl who tried to set him free?
That girl's name was Esther Carrasco, and it turned out that dreaming cost her everything.
•Where a new entity, known as the Defiant of Destinies, emerges from the spilled blood of a dreamer.
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The Dreamer by LCallahan
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics), Constantine (2005), Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare
31 Mar 2025
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Summary in the opening chapter. Updates are monthly.
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I Admit it Was My Pride that Let You Leave by Nightcrawler247
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
11 Mar 2025
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Dream is Fae. A very powerful one at that.
Hob is human and his fated mate.
Not only does Dream fail to explain this to Hob, he also doesn't explain to the human the very long, very complicated process that is courting in the fae world. He just didn't realize he had to. In his opinion they've been moving at lightening speed.
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- Part 32 of All My Sandman Stories
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Death is Niki Nihachu in black by BelladonnaAddict
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics), Dream SMP
08 Mar 2025
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Niki wasn’t quite sure when she’d died.
All she knew was that at some point along the way, she had, and now she was having the absolute time of her not-life.
Things change. Worlds change, names change, lives change. And end. But who’s there to end them?
Well, that changes too.
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Dream's subjects follow him unwaveringly. It is only usually Nightmares who have ever dared to oppose him outright.
After his century-long absence, Dream's brightest creation is beginning to question their purpose.
Febuwhump Day 3 - Pinned Down
Day 6 - Forced to Stay Awake
Day 8 - Bleeding Out
Day 13 - "I don't trust anyone else"
Day 20 - "I did good, right?"Series
- Part 3 of Febuwhump 2025
- Part 6 of Stardust (Original Dream Character)
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The attempt is appreciated friend by ghoulkai
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
14 Feb 2025
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1889 The meeting is disastrous and Hob is left picking up the pieces of his life. Too bad someone took interest in the words shouted in the fray.
1916 Dream is summoned by a novice witch who cares not for the consequences, too driven by his own greed to notice.
1921 Dream's captor hasn't aged a day but his excitement on word of something he's been searching years for is palpable
1922 A letter finds Hob, inviting him to a place he dares not revisit so soon, by son of the man who caused him grief beyond imagining and he declines.
1923 That same letter appears, an apology and invitation to a dinner to express the mistakes of the father is made and Hob decides enough is enough. Sons weren't their fathers and it was time to fix the present.
December 1923 Hob meets his stranger once again
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when a vampire spawn unwittingly bites the dream lord in her sleep, she gets roped into helping him investigate why dreams are mysteriously dying/disappearing. what starts as a reluctant partnership turns into something more as they chase night hags around faerûn to save both the dreaming and the waking world.
or: a sleep-deprived vampire just wanted a nap and inherited dream's problems instead.
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Take My Hand, Take My Whole Life by galacticstingray
Fandoms: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
03 Feb 2025
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Hob cannot believe what is happening to him. He’s almost positive this is a dream, or at the very least, not real, but if the fucking King of Dreams wants to make Hob– Hob!- his spouse, then who is he to argue? It’ll be far better than whatever he could have hoped for in the– real world? His world? He can't wait to find out.
Or, Dream falls in love instantly. It takes Hob just a little longer to get there.
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Hire a Gardener for My Grave by JustJReally
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
18 Jan 2025
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When Dream escapes his imprisonment, he finds the White Horse abandoned, and does not find Hob at all.
A year later, he learns why.
Hob, who's been not-dying of hanahaki since 1489, is a little confused why his Stranger is suddenly so invested in curing him.
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Sequel to Of Nightmares and Sins
A year has passed since Dream has recovered his tools of office and recovered himself from almost being remade... into Dread of the Endless - thanks in large part to Johanna, Hob, and his sister Death... he refuses, even now, to acknowledge Desire's aid in any of it given their fault in it all.
However, things are far from okay. Dread remains ever present, Lucifer is far from accepting their humiliation, and there is once again plans being made to try and destroy the Endless.
All too soon, Johanna and Hob find themselves at the center of it all - with some allies (sometimes unwanted)… doing what they can to try and limit the damage and fallout. Of course, made all the worse, by having to also care for a suddenly very human Dream...
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- Part 2 of Facing Fears, Finding Hope
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It's a common story; you meet a tall, dark, and handsome man outside of a club and take him home that night. When he leaves, you don't think you'll ever see him again.
A couple of weeks later, you realize you're pregnant. But you only know his name, if that even is his real name: "Dream".
(title from the song Treehouse by Alex G)
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Dream finds one of his rogue Waking Nightmares attacking Hob Gadling and comes to his immediate rescue.
The Waking Nightmare, however, did expose several truths that it was clear Hob Gadling still kept close to his chest.
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- Part 7 of Dreamling Week 2024
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Inconsequential by Nightcrawler247
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005), The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
07 Nov 2024
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Sam is still sure the key to saving Dean from going to Hell is to make sure he can’t be killed in the first place. So, he does some research in hopes of finding a moral way to immortality. He stumbles across Robert Gadling.
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Sam and Dean kidnap Hob in hopes of learning his secret to immortality and his husband is not very happy about it. and Hob… Hob’s just chilling.
Was supposed to be a drabble but then got out of hand, so I'm breaking it up into a couple chapters
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- Part 11 of All My Sandman Stories
- Part 6 of All My Supernatural Stories