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It has had many names over the years - Melancholia is the one he is most familiar with, but Depression is the modern day term.
Hob Gadling had hoped that for once, he would escape its clutches after his centennial visit from his stranger (now friend). Especially with the promise of another visit much sooner than one hundred years.
However, he's not that lucky - but this time, he has something he did not have before. A friend, who is not willing to be driven away.
UPDATE: Now with epilogue chapter!
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Cōnsummāre,
To perfect, to consummate.Cōnsūmere,
To devour, to take wholly or completely.Turns out, shoving all of your repressed desires into a box lined with teeth will spectacularly backfire when eventually you have to open the box up again. Or, Hob Gadling demonstrates his ability to code switch and Dream goes off the rails a bit.
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Hob Gadling has been a teacher at Yewtree Secondary school for four years, staff and students know he's married but they have never met his partner, this year they plot to get them to come to the schools annual Halloween party... While they plot Hob is happily remembering when he met and fell in love with his husband the third son of Duke and Duchess Aevum Endless.
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Alex shoes slipped on the wet stone of the basement and he misses Jessamy. She flees. But then she comes back and she seems to have brought help with her.
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When Hob Gadling made a drunken deal with a mysterious man in a pub, he didn’t expect anything to come of it. Waking up the following morning with a golden mark on his wrist was a shock, though less than finding out that he couldn’t die. Who had he made a deal with, and what did he want? His Stranger was far from forthcoming, so he’d have to figure it out himself. That his mark was not just a passkey to an underworld of supernatural beings but the sign that he wasn’t meant to spend eternity alone was enough to send him down paths he never knew existed and ask more questions than were answered. Who, or more importantly what was his Stranger, and did the mysterious man know who Hob was destined for?
(An AU where only immortals have soulmarks that mark their species/type as well as their partner, and Hob has something no one has seen before)
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“I’ll guard you for a night,” Hob says, “and say I please you, you can either pay me for a day’s work, or keep me on ‘til you reach where you’re going.”
“Do you know the way to Canterbury?” the lord asks, and Hob nods.
“Oh, yes. It’s a few days’ ride, not more than three or four, by my memory.”
“Then you shall have three days to please me, Robert Gadling.”
In 1389, known mercenary and bandit Hob Gadling offers to escort a strange lord to Canterbury, and wagers that he can guess the man's name in three days.
Incredible art by Tashina!: 1
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Nothing Comes From Nothing by mercuriallion
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
17 Dec 2025
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While dealing with Vortex, Dream puts his rogue nightmare in Hob’s care. Pining, UST and dark sexy times ensue.
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I, Carrion by gleamingandwholeanddeadly (something_safe)
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09 Nov 2025
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Hob is not entirely surprised by Dream's appearances while he sleeps, these days. He's never going to make the mistake of taking the luxury for granted, but it has stopped feeling so entirely foreign, the presence of another living creature in his flat, usually lurking around like an oversized crow waiting for Hob to wake up.
This morning, however, Hob senses something troubling outside of the general eerie that Dream supplies to the every day. The flat is usually silent even when occupied by Dream. He seems to move without stirring the air, like the human plain of existence isn't entirely sure what the rules are. Even when he handles things like cups, spoons, the sound is muffled - nearly delayed. But this is different. The change in the atoms is palpable even to Hob's rudimentary senses. He gets out of bed hurriedly, smelling ozone and char. Distress.
"Dream?" He asks. There is no answer, but an awareness in the quiet that does it for him. Progressing into the living room, Hob stalls when he catches sight of Dream. His breath leaves his ribs as if knocked out by the buck of a stallion. "Oh shit-"
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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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“You know what kept me going, century after century?” Hob is angry enough, desperate enough, that his voice drops low, quiet. “Even when I had nothing?”
The music around them crests, waves crashing against the unyielding shores of time –
“Chimneys,” Morpheus answers, bland.
Oh, what a bastard.
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Or, dreams are memories, Hob reflects about life, and Morpheus learns a thing or two about what it means to be saved, and to be loved.
UPDATED: with art for chapters 1 and 4!
and with formatted epub version || pdf / printable version || cover art by the wonderful Holly (@redhothollyberries)Series
- Part 1 of when that piano sang again
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what never was is now by academic_of_the_endless
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18 Dec 2025
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As much as Hob likes this job, will be sorry to lose it, he’s not sorry for the punch.
Worlds collide at the British Museum. Hob Gadling gives into old instincts. Paul McGuire has regrets.
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How to Tell Whether Your Ancient Immortal Boyfriend Is Sexually Unsatisfied by JakeTakesaBreak
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
09 Nov 2022
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An offhanded comment from Dream makes Hob reconsider everything he thought he knew about their newly-established relationship. The only solution, of course, is to find out what a mere human like him can do to satisfy an older-than-universe being that created every single wet fantasy under the sun.
Or, Dream is oblivious, awkward and decidedly Not Interested, while Hob just worries too much.
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When Hob falls asleep in 1916, he doesn’t wake up.
When Dream is imprisoned by greedy mortals in 1916, Lucienne enlists the help of his friend, perhaps his only friend.
While Dream is away, Hob Gadling takes charge.
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The Heart of Dream by AshWinterGray
Fandoms: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
03 Sep 2022
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It has been pointed out to Lord Morpheus, King of Dreams and Nightmares, that he may be... terrible... at communicating when it came to mortals. Several times, actually. Having friends apparently means they like to point out your every little flaw.
One such case of his sheer idiocy, it appeared, would be his handling of Rose Walker and Lyta Hall. Something he seeks to rectify.
Somehow his efforts meant he now found himself with family that actually cared for him and was willing to make themselves a constant presence in his life.
How strange...
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“You are good,” Dream says, the words slow, deliberate; he uses his grip on Hob’s hair to pull him back, to make Hob look at him. “Look at you, making me feel like this; as if I could live off you alone.”
The noise wrenching itself out of Hob’s throat isn’t one he thought himself capable of, and it is almost too much, overwhelming, being forced to look at Dream and see the truth of it. To be stripped bare like this, beyond the physical, and the sharp contrast of it to the pain still prickling across his skin.
Hob has always loved to discover all the ways that make his lovers tick, and it's no different with Dream; apparently, though, even he can still learn something new about himself.
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destieltilidie: … helen.
destieltilidie: tell me this is not going where i think it’s going.
destieltilidie: tell me this is not going the only place that would warrant a nonexistent code red.blacknight: well
blacknight: do you want me to tell you that
blacknight: or do you want me to tell you the truth
blacknight: pick one, you’re not getting both
The thing is that he knows he shouldn’t look. He opened it, it was password-protected and therefore not the paper he’d assigned, he closed it. End of story.Should be end of story, anyway. Normally it is, but this time his interest has absolutely been piqued; for one thing, he doesn’t think he’s ever been accidentally sent a password-protected file before, and for another, the password is his name.
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queenbiro: i bet when daniel jackson talked in his sleep it was in abydonian
queenbiro: all that means is he knows the language wellblacknight: DANIEL JACKSON IS FICTIONAL
queenbiro: and we’re discussing whether one of our professors is an otherworldly being
queenbiro: or an immortal
queenbiro: or a glitch in the fucking matrix
queenbiro: what’s your goddamn pointSeries
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let me in before the rainy season starts again by tiltingheartand
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
13 Aug 2022
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“Oh shit,” he says, eyes wide. And then, “oh fuck,” as he’s scooting backwards as quick as he can, “sorry, sorry, I’m sorry,” because what else can you say when you realize, oh, that’s not just a version of your friend that your brain conjured up, that’s your actual friend, the anthropomorphic personification of dreams, in your actual dream. The dream where you’re naked and waiting for him to come be naked with you.
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The first thing Hob notices is that he is sopping wet, the next thing is a stranger standing in his kitchen. Not his Stranger, another man.
The third thing he notices is that this man is absolutely furious.
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Hob saves Dream, not everyone is really aware of that fact and still worries deeply. Well, one long lost sibling worries very deeply.