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Dream of the Endless has always had powerful enemies. Lucienne has not always been good at staying out of trouble. Sometimes the universe sees fit to speed along the inevitable.
morphienne sex pollen THE FIC
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- Part 1 of the body in bloom
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Since retiring and becoming human, Dream has been far more stoic about his pain than Hob was expecting.
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Or by Aria_Lerendeair for virgodream
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
06 Jul 2023
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After eons of serving the needs of his function, and his Dreamers, Dream finds himself with a choice, and that choice is centered around his closest, and sole friend, Hob Gadling.
Either he could fade away as a darkening facet of Dream of the Endless, gone but remembered, and perhaps even remembered fondly by those who mattered, or...
Or.
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- Part 6 of Dreamling Week 2023
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Dream is content with his scars.
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(Everything Looks Worse) In Black and White by Dira Sudis (dsudis)
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
28 Apr 2023
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Like any citizen of the 21st century, Hob wants photos of his gorgeous boyfriend, but Dream's nature makes that impossible... until it isn't.
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Rose Walker finds out that her weird, worryingly-ready-to-murder-her-for-the-greater-good, King-of-Dreams greatuncle is dating her favourite history professor in the objectively worst way:
Through the campus WhatsApp group.
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- Part 5 of Bedtime Stories (Sandman Prompt Fills)
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The young man turned, and asked, determination and cowardice both flickering in his eyes, “Professor, do you think it’s wicked to help the devil?”
For a moment, Hob thought - and tried to not let his mind dwell overly long on an entity he had long thought demonic.Is it wicked to help the devil? Less than to love one, surely.
A story in which Hob becomes a history professor a century earlier, Alex receives some inspiration towards bravery, and Dream is very grateful indeed.
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- Part 8 of Bedtime Stories (Sandman Prompt Fills)
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“An Endless?” Hob asks, softly, because it feels like a question that needs to be soft.
“That’s what we are,” Death responds, trying again for a small smile. “Me and D—”
“Don’t,” Hob interrupts, far stronger than he meant to, and Death looks surprised for as long as it takes him to get out, “Don’t, please. I-I want to hear it from him.”
Sympathy colors Death’s gaze even as Hob feels his face burn. Six hundred years, Hob thinks—he’ll be damned if he finds out his Stranger’s name from anyone but the odd man himself.
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It's 1989 and Hob Gadling thinks he's been stood up. Death herself is kind enough to inform him otherwise—and, well, now Hob's got to bloody do something about it, doesn't he?
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For all Dream's boldness in inviting Robert G.—call me Hob, if we're on bath-sharing terms—to his apartment, the physical aspect of their relationship took some time to develop.
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- Part 2 of A Well-Ordered Love Story
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Dream E. tipped well—absurdly well, sometimes, which was probably because Hob actually obeyed all the notes about things like Do not buy apples without sending a picture of them, I will tell you which I want and No other brand is an acceptable substitute on items like Sainsbury's own-brand custard creams. He would order half a dozen of the exact same frozen meal every week for months, then switch to a different one and be just as obsessed with it. There was only one kind of honey he would accept in one size jar. Hob knew probably not only how he took his tea but how many cups of it he drank every day; he was forever forgetting to order teabags and then texting Hob at the last minute to add a box.
Hob had taken to adding "Do you need tea?" to the standard "This is Robert G. and I'm shopping your grocery order" text.
(Robert G. who brings the groceries is one of the most-texted numbers in Dream's phone. This will surely never cause any problems.)
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- Part 1 of A Well-Ordered Love Story
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Dream knew that retiring from Endlessness to live a human life with Hob Gading wouldn't be easy. He wasn't expecting Hob to laugh at him so much though.
(In which there are misunderstandings, Dream hides things he shouldn't, and being human is hard.)
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Dream and Hob finally have their meeting in the New Inn.
"The New Inn?" Dream asked, averting his gaze. "It is yours?"
"Well, yeah." Hob cleared his throat. "Couldn't bring it over my heart to see the old one be torn down, so I...built a new one."
"You," Dream began, their arms brushing between their bodies. "Built a pub for me."
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“I couldn’t really help but pop by. And I do have to say, it is so good to finally meet you.” They drawled, lifting a hand adorned with sharp red nails and placing it gently on his arm.
“Uhm...” Hob mumbled intelligently. “Excuse me, but who are you?”
“Me?" Red lips streched impossibly wider. "You may call me Desire, my dear.”
Or: It really isn’t Desires fault that Dream is so easily ruffled. Especially when all they were doing was to flirt with a certain immortal.
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Dream had thought he would do anything to be free of his cage, to be released from a century trapped in glass and exact his revenge on Roderick Burgess. He had thought so when the immortal hedonist Hob Gadling came down to the cellar with a sledgehammer and a deal, and he still had to think it was worth it, even if he would be wearing this debt for a very long time. “You will come to me when I ask, whenever I ask,” Hob had said. “I’m a fair man. I won’t keep you from your duties. What’s a few hours here and there to the King of the Dreaming?” What Dream had not fully understood was that he would be paying for his freedom on his back.
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- Part 2 of Sweet Dream
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WTF is Gadling's Deal, Anyway? (Assorted Theories) by JustJReally
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
06 Jul 2023
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Five theories Professor Gadling's students came up with to explain His Whole Deal (and one time he told them the truth)
In which Morpheus is mistaken for a student, Hob is mistaken for many things, and no one is good at spying.
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- Part 1 of Gadling's Deal 'Verse
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Recently-turned werewolf Hob wants to protect Dream from this new side of him. Dream is. Not interested in being protected.
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Hob is a patient man, and Dream is a stubborn one. Or a stubborn something, considering Hob still doesn't quite understand what exactly he is. In fact, there isn't much he does know about his stranger, and even less about his stranger's family -- so Hob certainly hadn't expected his friend's sister to waltz on into The New Inn asking if he had any apples and telling him that she was in town for work that "luckily" didn't involve him.
And, naturally, he also hadn't seen it coming when she told him that his stranger needed his help. But if Hob had learned anything in his unnaturally long life, it was that things never went quite how you were expecting them to -- and sometimes you wound up breaking into a rich magician's basement to get your friend back.
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"You've never even given me your name," Hob calls out. He fails to hide the hurt and frustration in his voice, his nose tingling with the promise of tears.
The semblance of a sad half-smile flickers across his stranger's face. He replies without hesitation, without discussion.
"I am Dream of the Endless."
At last, something real. Peculiar, and it raises even more questions. But the answer is honest; Hob can tell.
"So… just… Dream?"
"I go by many names – but yes."
"Why tell me now? What's changed?"
Dream answers, unblinking.
"Everything."
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In which Hob and Dream reunite after Dream's escape. A story about healing, longing, change, and forgiveness, featuring lots of cuddling. And tea.
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Hob is a poor university student and an orphan; with no family name or wealth to trade on he won’t be able to make a match with any alpha of worth, and he doesn’t fit the stereotypes of a delicate obedient omega to attract one on his own. In a dusty section of the library he finds a book on summoning spirits from other planes of existence and learns there are demons who specialize in feeding off of sexual energy, and he decides he'll summon an incubus to take his virginity.
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Meeting Dream had gone from once a century occurrence to every six months, to just every month, then to around once a week, a change of pace Hob would be eternally grateful for, if only people stopped bloody interrupting them.
(Five times someone in Hob's life interrupts him and Dream's meetings (dates) and one time it's someone Dream knows.)
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