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On the seventh of June, 1389, Destiny's book requires that Dream of the Endless marry. His sister Death knows just where to find him a spouse. Hob Gadling is just happy to be here. Dream may have to marry, but he knows how to make sure his marriage lasts at least a hundred years before going down in flames.
A marriage, century by century.
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The Dreaming stands, but Dream... Dream is gone.
In the aftermath of the assault on the Dreaming, the Kindly Ones delivered their judgement, their punishment - for spilling blood - and yet, Dream is gone... but not yet returned. Death does not understand why. Endless remain... and yet Dream... is just gone.
Only because the Kindly Ones did not take his life that day. No. It's not much of a punishment if it was what he craved most.
No, instead, they trap him in an unending nightmare - living the moment he killed his son over and over again. Until he breaks, until he begs, until the end of time - Dream doesn't know. He just knows there's no escape. There's no help coming. He's alone.
And every day that he kills his son - just to wash the blood away again and again... He desires for this to end, he would beg for death, he wallows in despair, and he worries he's becoming delirious. The touch of his siblings reside in him, but he accepts they will never come for him. He deserves this. It's his punishment.
His siblings don't care - he tells himself... unaware they don't even know he's alive, and if they did - none of them, not even Desire, would agree.
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RIP to Orpheus But I'm Different by RoseGanymede95 for babyseraphim
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
24 Nov 2025
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“What is it?” Charles asks.
“Hang on,” says Edwin. He flips rapidly through pages of his notebook. He magically extended it a while back, so the bloody thing’s got more than seven-hundred pages full of Edwin’s notes and sketches. It makes for a tense several seconds of flipping.
When he does stop, finding the correct page and holding it open under the light, Charles’ breath catches in his throat.
“Is this her?” Edwin asks urgently.
Edwin’s a damn good artist, even if he insists it’s just a practical thing. He’s captured her likeness shockingly well. Lank hair, full cheeks, sullen pout. Wide, staring eyes.
“Yeah,” Charles breathes. “That’s her. Who is she?”
Edwin is clearly horrified. No, it’s worse than that. Edwin looks scared. Charles’ instincts all kick up into high gear, and he has to clench his fists to resist the urge to simply shove Edwin into his backpack.
“I don’t know,” Edwin says quietly, like he’s afraid of being overheard. “But I’ve seen her.” He hesitates. “In Hell.”Series
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【授翻】Giving Sanctuary by Transatlanticism_1015
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
24 Nov 2025
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1689年，在霍布·加德林失去了一切之后，他与梦再次相见。那一夜，他们的会面比预期持续了更长时间，谈话的内容转向了活着、失去以及丧子意味着什么。梦不忍心让一个与自己共享着相同悲痛的人独自回到黑夜之中，于是打破了自己的规则，邀请霍布与自己同住一段时间，至少等到他能重新振作起来。
这个故事讲述了两个悲痛欲绝、离异、丧偶、儿子早逝的父亲真正认识了彼此，并在他们人生最低谷的时候尽自己最大的努力，将自己、将彼此重新拼凑起来。
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A Pointless Resistance for You by IntoTheDreaming for Sister_Aurelia
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
23 Nov 2025
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Yet another take on the Hob-rescues-Dream-from-fishbowl scenario, but in this case it's a look at the aftermath.
Post-rescue Dream is extremely weak and can't access his powers properly, nor the Dreaming. He stays with Hob to recuperate. Lots of cuddling because Dream is touch-starved, Hob playing nurse, and both friends realizing *feels* slow burn style.
Also. Hob thinks Dream is way too proud for someone who needed the TLC of a toddler. And if no one else is going to take Dream down a notch, it's up to him.
(Contains non-con spanking - don't like, don't read)
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Lord Morpheus is dead, Hob's new reality. How can he continue to live his immortal existence without his oldest friend? The only light through these centuries of change. Will he simply give up searching for the truth behind the dark mysteries that govern the universe? One clue lies in his dreams, or perhaps in the mysterious notebook that appeared after his first dream since his friend's death. What if confiding his most secret thoughts in this black notebook was the key to keeping Morpheus alive? To finding the path that leads to his essence?
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The dairy of a wizard family by Beobhcm
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
23 Nov 2025
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In this Universe, the Endless family is the wizards. They are studying in the Raven college. The two elders Destiny and Death are the professors, while Dream is the last year and Destruction is the third year. Everything changes when Desire becomes the fresh man in this college.
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- Part 6 of I believe in bottom Desire supremacy
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Greatest In The League by ahyperactivehero (ahyperactiverhero)
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
22 Nov 2025
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Charles Rowland has it all figured out. He’s going to go to school, play hockey on a scholarship, and get a good job. That is his masterplan, and nothing is going to stand in his way.
Not even his lack of ice time. Or his questionable grades.
Thankfully, his new friend Crystal has the answer to all of this in the form of her best friend and world-famous figure skater, Edwin Payne.
They might just fall in love if they don’t kill each other first.
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Reflections In Glass by BeccaOfThePen
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
21 Nov 2025
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“Sister,” Morpheus cut over her, “why are you doing this?”
Death glared at him. “Why?? You seriously have to ask me that? I don’t want to see you scarred, Dream!” she snapped angrily, hurt. “If this goes wrong, you’ll carry the scar of this until the end of this universe! I don’t want that, and setting aside the part where I love you, brother, the very thought of it is abhorrent to me, to my very nature! And I don’t want to see that poor women withered away into little more then a spiritual tumour for you to bare!”
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Lilly's gaze fixed on his eyes and the stars, the galaxies, the universe in his pupils. When he reached for her she stepped back with a gasp. “What are you?”
“I am everything I have ever told you I am, that my sister told you I am. You just didn’t understand, didn’t appreciate, the scale of what that meant. I have never lied to you, Lilly.”
Her eyes were wide and frightened as she whispered, “Dream...”
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When a single mistake creates a cascade of events with only two possible outcomes, either joy, or tragic devastation, all pieces on the board must be brought to bare.
With the Endless, magic, and love, lies just a hair's breadth away from the depths of insanity.
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“Where have you been you prat?”
“I was here---on earth. I don’t understand. It doesn’t make se----”
The earth shook beneath their feet waking every creature in the world. In the distance he heard screams.
“Welcome back sire,” said Merlin. “You’re just in time for the apocalypse.”- Language:
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What dreams know about love? by Ladyumbrella
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
21 Nov 2025
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The Queen of Love have grown used to the absence of her husband, the Dream King. After banning her from the Dreaming, they only saw each other when Morpheus summoned her for social or marital duties. He would go decades without calling for her, enamorated by a variety of mistresses. It broke Love's heart. Not that her husband cared.
However, after being imprisioned for a century, The Dream King wants to regain his Queen's love. She doesn't believe him, not after centuries of neglect.
The question is: Can dreams repair a broken heart?
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Aila was never a normal child. Being the offspring of Lucifer Morningstar was a guarantee of that, but only child of the devil or not doesn't change that her mother wants nothing to do with her - past, present or apparently future.
All Aila wants is to understand her place and purpose in the world - why she was born... prompting her to go in search of her father - a man that doesn't even know she exists. Of course, the last thing Aila expects is him to be an Endless - one without his memories.
But before she can even dive into that, she meets his nightmare, discovers her life and possible purpose far more intertwined with the Endless than not, and promptly - accidentally - sends herself and the Corinthian back to Greek times... where she'll get the chance to meet her entire family - and her brother.
Aila would have preferred to have been normal.
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- Part 7 of Facing Fears, Finding Hope
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Endless Nights Bring No Sorrows by KasForgotToSleep
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (2017), The Sandman (Comics)
20 Nov 2025
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Monsters can't get you while you're awake. That's what they all say. Nightmares stay under your pillow, stuck in a world none know of, never to touch and reach and hurt. But its all a lie. The true monsters are in the Waking world, they've always been.
And there's only one who can see it.
Only one who can slip through the cracks of worlds, and find their true home.
Why don't you fall asleep, dear Reader?
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Reader is a teenager with a traumatic past, who somehows finds their way into the Dreaming, getting tangled up in the web of the cosmic entities none could suspect while trying desperatly to find the answer to their past, but more importantly, to their home.
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Through The Looking Glass by Bookholicfangirl
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Sandman (TV 2022)
19 Nov 2025
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The story of the time before they were friends.
(A prequel to despair's friend)
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- Part 1 of Mirror Mirror
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A shift within you and Morpheus has been set in motion to the point when you can not remember where one begins and the other ends.
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The Raven and The Wandering Jew by Wolfox76
Fandoms: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
15 Nov 2025
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After their meeting in 1689, Dream has felt remorseful about Hob's fate. After all, it was his inane bet that led to this man's suffering. If only there was a way he could check on Hob between their meetings without revealing his growing interest in the immortal.
Lucienne only wished to be a librarian of the Dreaming. She thought her raven days were a thing of the past.
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In a strange coffee shop beyond time, Morpheus meets Paige, a lost and lonely Dreamer troubled by her forgotten past. Together, they encounter familiar faces and embark on a heartfelt journey of friendship, healing, and self-discovery.
Contains spoilers for the Sandman series finale ("A Tale of Graceful Ends") and the show in general. Which absolutely wrecked me emotionally. So. You know. I had to write a nice little epilogue for it.
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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 Roderick 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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“Who are they?” Hob asked
Seventeen-year-old Hob Gadling hates Shakespeare, avoids his homework, and lives under the heavy weight of grief and an alcoholic father’s volatile moods. With his dreams of college slipping through his fingers, Hob’s only escape is the golden meadow beyond his backyard — a quiet, wild place where the world feels softer, and his pain a little more bearable.
But everything changes the day they move in.
The Edvardsens — a mysterious family of seven adopted siblings with strange names, stranger auras, and a mansion that’s been abandoned for decades — have arrived from London, trailing secrets, whispers of fame, and a history even older than Hob could guess. When he meets Death, radiant and self-possessed, something shifts. And when he finds him — the boy in black, reading alone in the meadow — Hob begins to feel like his story might finally be starting. -
Nothing is Lost, Nothing is Created, Everything is Transformed by MwnPlqn
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
09 Nov 2025
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Based on a comment I saw under a post on TikTok that asked for a fix-it fic, so here it is!
I have only watched the show and therefore know nothing about the comics. You have been warned."Morpheus stopped himself from taking his sister’s hand at the very last second. It was a sudden and significant shift in his realm that had stopped him. A great foe had been defeated. He immediately assumed that the fate of the mortal woman who had invaded the Dreaming had been sealed, but his mind could not pinpoint who had managed to take her down."
In which Morpheus is saved by those closest to him moments before he gives up on his existence.