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you cannot save me (you can't even save yourself) by theseancequeen
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
31 Oct 2022
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When Hob hears about Roderick Burgess capturing the Devil, he doesn't think anything about it. Only when he's invited to a party at Fawney Rig, does he realize it's not entirely a lie. However, it's not the Devil that's in the basement, but his mysterious stranger. Hob is determined to save his friend. But when the plan goes awry, who's going to save him?
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- Part 2 of Whumptober Creations
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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.
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Two Endless and a Century of Confinement by alivebutdeadinside_6_6_6
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
23 Sep 2022
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Desire meddled with the spell that was meant to summon and capture their sister, Death, so that Dream would be summoned instead.
What they did not count on was being pulled into the circle with their brother.Series
- Part 1 of Dream and Desire
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In order to perfect humanity’s own dark mirror, one needs not look for evil or greed. In the true heart of darkness lies a sort of ambiguity. Hob taught him that.
(Or - Dream indulges his selfishness, learns a few lessons, and creates his masterpiece. A moral treatise of dubious legitimacy, but nonetheless, a love story).
*Now with podfic!*
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Come and Save Me from It by locamohita456
Fandom: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
15 Mar 2023
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In this universe, Desire gets captured and tortured by a power-hungry mortal. The series chronicles the imprisonment and the aftermath as they try to heal after everything they went through.
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Hob Gadling has seen the same man sitting still like a statue every day for a week and looking terribly upset, all he really wants is a peaceful lunch break but he can't bring himself to ignore someone in need - especially a very gorgeous someone who looks like they're on the verge of a breakdown. A chance meeting becomes far more, and gives Morpheus a means to heal.
-An AU where they meet on the university campus and Hob gets more than he bargained for when he decides to be a good person-
(This story is a self-contained arc and not hinged on future series entries!)
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- Part 1 of Corvid Chronicles
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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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Hob Gadling remembers the night of 1889 well.
He dreams and dreams of ways it could've been different, but dreams are often a way of escaping a more terrible reality.
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- Part 1 of sleep and waking
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A Visit from Death by v838monoceros
Fandoms: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
05 Sep 2022
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Death comes for Roderick Burgess.
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Jessamy was a raggedy, much mended, button eyed stuffed raven. She was Morpheus's only friend, and he loved her more than anything in the world.
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Morpheus is six, Morpheus is kidnapped, Morpheus is accidentally visting one Hob Gadling in his dreams as a way of escaping his dire conditon. Morpheus needs rescuing, if Hob can figure out juat what these recurring dreams of a tiny dark haird child mean.(Funky little Platonic Dreamling idea that came to me late one night and wouldn't let go, so here we are)
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string of pearls (by fate's design) by youcanseethecosmos for TheCosmicMushroom
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
12 Nov 2022
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He knew of Roderick Burgess. Every man, woman, child, and dog has heard of The Great Collector and his labyrinth of mythical creatures. Hob had never been rich enough to get invited to the shows and parties Burgess would throw at his mansion. Nor was he ever sneaky enough to attempt pretending he was a nobleman. But Hob knew what happened at those parties by observing others. Listening in on drunken rambles of the aristocracy who enter The White Horse to escape their totally miserable lavish lives.
What a bunch of cunts they are.
But again… a job is a job.
Hob Gadling becomes the new guard of an unknown creature hidden away in Roderick Burgess' dungeon.
But things aren't always as they seem.
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Dream did his best to slow any healing he did; he needed to hold out as long as he could, preserve what little power he had, until he could escape. Some days were harder than others, and some damage required immediate attention if he didn’t want to die.
As if each use of power wasn’t slowly driving him towards death anyway. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to see his sister – he really, really did – but he’d rather not have their next meeting be their last one.
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Wherein Roderick Burgess decides he can make a profit off Dream's blood, and then wonders what else he can take from Dream, and Dream only has so much power to keep him alive...Look, this is not a nice story. Consider it my Application to Hell.
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Dream of the Endless by Wondrous_fangirl
Fandom: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
08 Jul 2025
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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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For You, My Son? The Universe. My Realm. by AshWinterGray
Fandoms: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
05 Oct 2022
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The Corinthian wants to ensure he has a long, happy life in the waking world. So that, naturally, means Dream of the Endless must be out of the picture. To ensure such a thing, he gives Burgess one last little trump card.
Dream and Orpheus find themselves face to face for the first time in many a century in the year 1990.
This fic now has art by Did_you_see_the_light_in_my_heart on AO3. For You My Son? The Universe - Red Butterfly
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i think of you in motion and just how close you are getting by onyourleft084
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
30 Jun 2023
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Wherein Hob Gadling stages an impromptu rescue after he discovers his mysterious Stranger trapped in the basement of a would-be sorcerer, wherein the subsequent escape into the Dreaming results in Morpheus suffering severe memory loss, and wherein Lucienne, the loyal librarian who's just trying to keep it together as it is, must work with Hob to help nurse Dream back to health and get his memories back. Also wherein feelings develop, as they are wont to do, and rise to the surface, changing everything for the three of them- and the Dreaming.
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All Is Lost, Hope Remains by AwfulGoodness
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
30 Mar 2024
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What a vexing man. Luckier than he deserves, audacious too, but a mystery.
Now, starved of contact, cut off from his realm and Lucien, Dream realises that perhaps it would be prudent for him to swallow his pride and forgive the man. He likely hadn't understood the gross overstepping of his station that he'd committed, by daring to call an Endless his friend, claiming him to be lonely, as if Dream were the one in need of companionship.
Still, he rather misses the mortal, as much as one such as he can.
Dream's perspective on his time in imprisonment. Hob just wants to see his friend again.
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Sixty years of dreaming did nothing to prepare Dream for the reality of Hob Gadling.
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