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• X Marks the Spot by gleamingandwholeanddeadly (something_safe)

  Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)  

  • Mature
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • M/M, Multi, Other
  • Work in Progress

  19 Oct 2025

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Dream of the Endless/Hob Gadling
  • Desire of the Endless/Hob Gadling (Sort of)
  • Lucien | Lucienne/Nuala (The Sandman)
  • Dream of the Endless
  • Hob Gadling
  • Desire of the Endless
  • Lucien | Lucienne (The Sandman)
  • Matthew the Raven
  • additional media typical characters
  • Death of the Endless
  • Delirium of the Endless
  • Modern Johanna Constantine (The Sandman TV)
  • Mad Hettie
  • Nuala (The Sandman)
  • The Corinthian (Sandman)
  • Attempted Seduction
  • Attempted Sexual Assault
  • (Both mild/non-graphic)
  • Dream on Desire violence
  • Desire of the Endless has way too much game
  • Dream of the endless being a bamf
  • Nightmare Dream
  • Hob Gadling is just trying to mind his immortal business
  • Curses
  • The Dreaming
  • lucienne is done with Morpheus' shit
  • Body Horror
  • Choking
  • Fake Marriage
  • Death of the Endless - Freeform
  • Delirium of the Endless - Freeform
  • mervyn pumpkin-head
  • no one is buying that this isn't a marriage
  • Discussion of canonical character death
  • Orpheus - Freeform
  • calliope - Freeform
  • Book 8: Brief Lives
  • Book 9: The Kindly Ones
  • Book 10: The Wake
  • canon DIVERGENCE: I would not spring a MC Death on you
  • No Major Character Death
  • Suicidal Ideation?
  • idiots to lovers
  • everyone knows but them
  • Daaaaate niiight
  • The Corinthian is His Own Warning (The Sandman)
  • Loki - Freeform
  • Huginn and Muninn - Freeform
  • Odin - Freeform
  • Johanna Constantine as the voice of every tired woman in Dream of the Endless' life

  Summary

  For reasons best known to themself, Desire of the Endless pays Hob Gadling a visit one fateful night. The results are a curse, and a race against time for Dream.

  (Part one of a tumblr fic, based on the prompt: Fake marriage - though this is an admittedly meandering journey to that point)

  Series

  • Part 3 of Dreamling Tumblr Prompt Ficlets

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  29,606

  Chapters:

  8/?

  Comments:

  104

  Kudos:

  173

  Bookmarks:

  38

  Hits:

  2,138