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Two events take place on the same fatidic evening of June 1916.
One, Dream of the Endless goes into the Waking world searching for a wayward nightmare and ends up captured by a magic patrictioner called Roderick Burgess.
Two, Robert Gadling wakes up to a stake in his chest courtesy of the descendant of a certain Lady who once tried to kidnap him (and his Stranger too).
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The art of deception
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Parental hob & JohannaHob adopt jo and she ends up finding dream in the fishbowl. They get him out together
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Over the centuries, Hob had dreamt plenty of dreams about his friend from the tavern. All good dreams, of course.
Very good dreams.
Usually not dreams that featured either of them wearing very much clothing.
But until the talking bird told him otherwise, he hadn't considered that those dreams might be real.
(Featuring: a live Jessamy, Hob rescuing Dream from the fishbowl, a mess to clean and a happy ending.)
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Who Will Light Up My Life Now That You're Gone by ironlin
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
15 Aug 2022
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Jessamy's death, from Dream's point of view.
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My Friend, My Friend, What Have They Done To You? by AshWinterGray
Fandoms: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
14 Aug 2022
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Hob Gadling and Johanna Constantine are unlikely friends who have found themselves intrigued by the claims of Roderick Burgess, the Demon King, himself. Given the sheer absurdity of of life around them, they decide to investigate.
This was not how Hob wanted to meet his friend again.
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Roderick Burgess has the Lord of Dreams trapped in his basement, but he won't talk or agree to the terms of his release. Morpheus is alone, naked and weak in his cage, so he can do nothing when Burgess gets an idea on just how to break the stalemate. The guards are willing to cooperate.
A difficult story of trauma and recovery.
Now with incredible fanart by Amielot:
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Plus a couple of additional fanarts here and here.FINISHED
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What are Dreams in one's Waking Hours? by insanepanda
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
29 Apr 2023
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In one universe, one Roderick Burgess spent his waking hours threatening, bargaining and cajoling an unspeaking Endless whom he had trapped within this basement. He would spend the rest of his living years coveting for boons that weren’t his to possess
In another universe, Roderick Burgess had an idea, and this idea became the tiny stone that started an avalanche altering the realities of this universe.
(or: Dream's psyche gets pushed to the brink during his time in the fishbowl, and something inadvertently breaks)
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In a bleak, cybertech post-apocalyptic London, Hob, a prototype augmented agent burdened with a haunted past, is summoned by the enigmatic Prime Minister Robert Burgess. Tasked with hunting down the elusive Dream, their relationship evolves from cold antagonism to an unexpected bond marked by trust, vulnerability, and dangerous attraction. As the lines between duty and desire blur, Hob must confront the shadows within himself and the dystopian world around him.
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Morpheus is clinically depressed, and suicidal, and immortal. He is also, inexplicably, friends with the personification of Hope.
Or he was, until he told his friend that hope was useless, and stormed out of their meeting.
When Hope doesn't show up to their next meeting, Morpheus sets out to rescue him, and their friendship -- and learns that he might have already found what he needed a long time ago.
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- Part 1 of Hope & Morpheus
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Hob is Hope in this one and he is trying to inspire Morpheus to want to live. The meetings and abduction by Rodrick still happen, minus the quest for his tools. SPOILER: This one is where Hope is buried alive in Roderick’s cellar and Morpheus has to dig him out. Despair rather than Desire is the villain in this one.
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It’s been said that a man’s word is as good as his bond. Back in 1789 Hob Gadling gave his word to his strange benefactor to be there, were the Stranger to ever need him. And to that word he’ll hold. Had it been up to him, Dream of the Endless would have never called for help, not from anyone. So perhaps it’s a good thing that it’s not up to him. For once a man’s word has been given, it is binding…
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Cold. That’s all Dream could feel. Even if he wasn’t a human and as such didn't have human needs like feeling warm or breathing, being cut from the Dreaming and shoved in this mortal coil for four years was starting to take a toll on him.
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or: In 1916 Dream of the Endless was captured by an amateur magician called Roderick Burgess. Trapped and with no way out, he thinks nobody is coming for him. What he doesn't take into account is that his raven will do anything to get him out, including asking for help from one Hob Gadling. -
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Jessamy doesn’t manage to save Dream. Not the first time. But when Alex Burgess misses his shot and she flees at her Lord’s command she knows she will have another chance. Next time she will succeed.
And she does.
Dream gets very protective of his raven after this.
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While Jessamy observed, she planned. The glass wasn’t something she could break in whatever small span of time she might get, but the binding circle was just paint, and paint could be scratched at by a raven’s beak and talons.
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"I believe he found you deliberately, knowing you were- of importance to me,” Dream replied, flustered.
It was a night of firsts for Hob. He had never seen so many emotions from the usually stoic man. He seemed unsure and abashed and afraid.
Hob laughed gently.
"Of importance,” he repeated the words.
" 'suppose I should be flattered."
Dream's face was suddenly serious. The alcove under which they stood now seemed impossibly small.
"You should be afraid."
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Also- a multipart fic beginning with Dreamling reuniting in 1889 and detailing Dream’s capture and Hob’s attempt to rescue him
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Maybe sprout wings by Moorishflower
Fandoms: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
21 Dec 2022
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There's a dead man in The Dreaming.
Hob Gadling navigates life after death, falling in love, friendship with otherworldly entities, and ravens. A retelling of a story about stories. A study of a complicated man.
See end notes for art! <3
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his heart, beneath the floorboards by imnotcryingipromise
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
12 Jul 2023
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"I will revoke our deal," Dream threatens, before he can bite his tongue, his grief and frustration lashing against his insides like boiling water in danger of spilling. The cruel ultimatum echoes off of the cavernous basement walls.
"What did you just say?" Hob demands, aghast. He is trembling all over, his shaking hands falling from Dream's face defeatedly.
"You will leave me here. You will let me rot in this forsaken place, as I have for so long now, or you will age and die.”
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Lieutenant Robin Stone attends an end of war celebration at the Burgess mansion in hopes of forgetting his ghosts for an evening, unaware of the familiar face entrapped beneath the floorboards.
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But he wasn’t in the Dreaming here. He was pinned to the incremental march of seconds upon seconds upon seconds that made up minutes and days and years. He was stranded in a form severed from the Dreaming. Like soil run through a sieve, the damned circle had held back the greater part of himself. He ached for it, for a form where he could simply choose not to feel the cold sinking into his bones, or the swimming haziness of air used up, or the hunger sweetly gnawing on the core of him.
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The same capture & rescue fic everyone has written, but playing off two ideas:
- I wanted to see Dream’s physical recovery take long enough that he could begin his mental/emotional recovery before heading back to the Dreaming
- There’s a lot of ways to hurt an anthropomorphic entity without taking them out of their snowglobe- Language:
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When Hob sees Roderick Burgess wearing a ruby he recognizes at one of the man's parties - he knows that his Stranger can't be far away, and might in fact be the rumored devil in the basement the man has.
After watching his friend take vengeance on Burgess and his captors, and after acquiring a name (and a position!) that he has been waiting centuries for, it's not weird that he has strange dreams, right? Even about castles, his friend, and a land called the Dreaming...
(Title is Latin for Justice)
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- Part 3 of Aria's Dreamling Bingo Fics 2023
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Roderick Burgess went fishing for an Endless.
When Dream rejects Roderick Burgess’s spell, it shifts targets. One Hob Gadling, touched by Death herself, is pulled through instead.
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Hob was certainly aware of the supernatural, but he always kept it in his periphery. The beyond natural world that he does his best to avoid for all that he walks a half step inside it. The closest he got was once every hundred years in the White Horse, chatting with his Stranger, his mysterious man who is not a Man.
Yes, sure, he’s an immortal man from the 1300’s, but he spends his days with the worst and best of humanity. He doesn’t need to add demons and magic to the mix for him to find wonder and sorrow all on his own. He still has so much of the mundane to explore- to live for. Maybe, he always thought, he would get bored and start exploring the supernatural that seemed more his Stranger’s purview than his own. Perhaps in a few hundred more years.
Pity, then, that the supernatural came to him.
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Hob Gadling has spent the better part of three decades wishing Roderick Burgess dead.
Near on every minute of his time confined to Fawney Rig has been spent hoping the old bastard might collapse, might spontaneously expire, or that a God he does not believe in might strike the awful man down.
The rest of his time has been spent in too much agony to think of very much at all.
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Dream of the Endless returns to the White Horse in 1989 to find that Hob Gadling has broken his promise to do the same. Torn between rage and betrayal, Dream breaks the vow he made to himself 600 years prior, that he would not read the book of his immortal companion’s life.
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Imminent Danger by PumpkinKingSalem
Fandoms: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
23 Mar 2023
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"You dare…" Dream starts, he stiffens up, glowering at Hob.
"No. Look, I'm not saying–"
"You dare suggest one such as I might need your companionship?" He spits out pridefully, staring into Hob's eyes. Yet his anger does not impact Hob as Dream intended it to.
"Yes. Yes I do, but I have a very good reason to think that." Hob replies. Giving Dream a soft smile, ignoring his sullen gaze.
"And whatever would that be?" Dream hissed, turning his chin up slightly.
"I think you're lonely because I am too," he starts, Dream's eyes widen in shock. Not what he'd expected.
"And I've watched friends come and go, I've watched kingdoms fall. And I can't share my experience with anyone else, but you. You're the only constant in all of these centuries I've been alive, all of these lives I've lived. I always look forward to seeing you at the end of each one, even if I don't know your name, or what you are exactly-" he chuckles, and keeps going:
"But it doesn't matter, not to me, not as long… As long as you're here, every century. As long as you come back, it'll always be worth the struggle."Dream stares at him in disbelief.