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You save a stranger from a glass bubble and suddenly your world is turned upside down - literally.
Reader is kept gender neutral, no use of y/n. Rated M for future smut.
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- Part 2 of Dream/Reader Stories
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The Pillars of Creation by Writing-for-Life (WheelyBin)
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
08 Oct 2025
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Some destinies are written in stone. Others are carved by hands that refuse to accept the inevitable…
After the events of The Light of Stars, Thalia Callaghan finds herself walking alongside Morpheus through his darkest hours as of yet.
She must navigate cosmic politics and family loyalty while learning that sometimes the greatest act of love is not in letting go, but in refusing to do so…There comes a moment when reality crashes through you like the tide breaking against worn stone, and each wave destroys you more than the last.
Dream stood in that disintegrating space right now.
Somewhere between mercy and death.
Someplace where love and loss had become indistinguishable.
Courage. Clarity. Strength.
Change…
Why did he remember now what he had told Thalia about the diamond back then?
He also clearly remembered what he hadn’t told her: It was not a stone he could give away. Perhaps it was even impossible to destroy it, but he had been wrong about that before.
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- Part 3 of The Light of Stars
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Nuala has been betrayed by her brother and the queen she'd sworn to serve with her life.
Now she belongs to a new realm, one which she has only ever known in rumor and whispers. But The Dreaming is strange, and its subjects complex, and its king... surprisingly absent.
With the help of a wilderness-become-man, a man-become-raven and a raven-become- librarian, Nuala discovers that home is the place where one does not require masks.
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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 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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Dream was changing. He learns everyday he lives, but now he chooses to no longer dwell on the past. He cannot change it and no longer wishes to do so.
However, he never would have dared to dream he could be a father again.
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When Nell Carter literally collides with a stranger on a Chicago sidewalk, she doesn’t expect him to be anything more than an oddly beautiful man with grief in his eyes.
She certainly doesn’t expect to start dreaming of him.
What begins as a chance encounter slowly unfolds into something deeper, stranger, and more real than either of them intended.
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Queen Titania wishes to have Lady Nuala back and decides as a trade to give Lady [y/n] to Dream of the Endless instead. He's displeased with the queen's choice but after getting to know one another, he doesn't see his new castle dweller as so bad. Bored and stuck in Quarantine in the Dream Realm, due to The Fates, he's beyond bored and doesn't want to bother Lucienne anymore than he has so he seeks out one other person.
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An Answered Prayer by MelodicMurmurs
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (TV 2022) RPF
30 Sep 2025
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Sleep had always slipped through her fingers and every remedy has failed. Desperate and delirious, after one agonising day too many, she gives in to a childish urge. She prays to deities that she does not know if she believes in.
Elpis, for hope. Hemera, for a brighter tomorrow. Eirene, for peace.
And at last, Morpheus. For sleep. For dreams. For mercy.
What begins as a half-hearted plea becomes an invocation she cannot take back when Dream of the Endless answers her whispered vow of “anything”.
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Quiet night for two anthropomorphic embodiments; Dreams and Hope, where they share a few words to express any feelings not communicated about Dream’s imprisonment.
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- Part 2 of Hopes & Dreams
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leave that vision of hell to the dying by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
28 Sep 2025
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Hob Gadling was celebrating beating Death herself at a game of dice (he only cheated a little) when he loudly declared to his compatriots that he is never going to die. It's what prompts his beautiful Stranger to materialize over his shoulder, proposing... a wager, of sorts. They'll just have to keep meeting century after century if his Stranger is ever going to collect.
Hob supposes they've both lost after he's left drinking alone in 1989. So thirty-some years later, when his Stranger rematerializes with an apology and little explanation, there's hardly pretense to resume where they left off. There just remains the task of figuring out the rules of whatever game they're playing now.
Or: the Vampire AU in which Hob learns that Dream is exactly the supernatural creature he suspects, fairy tales are exactly as bloody as their origins suggest, and Twilight is never, not ever, to be cited as an authoritive source on things tall, goth, and brooding.
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The King of Dreams and Nightmares leaves for the Waking World with an assurance that he will return.
You know the truth.
You know better.
There’s a small part of you that says it’s for the best. That Roderick Burgess’ prison changes him. That this is his destiny. That you are doing no wrong. That . . . that it is not your place to interfere with matters that are not your own.
This is for the best.
Right?
. . . Right?
[OR a collection of one-shots based on requests for an Isekai! Reader. Some follow the plot of the show. Some don't. Feel free to request if you want to see a specific interaction!]
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Dream places the ruby necklace around his neck. “You seem displeased with me.”
“Do I” You tilt your head, smiling.
“Yes,” he says, and there’s a smile on his face that can barely be called one. At least he sounds amused. “Have I done something to gain your ire?”
“It is not I who seems . . . displeased,” you say, lightly. “The Dreaming can fell it, my dear. Every resident can feel The Corinthian’s absence.”
Dream stretches his hand out for you, close enough for you to see it as it is – An offering. You take it, and slip your cold fingers into his own. His hands are warm. It’s so strikingly different from the mood of The Dreaming.
[Or the events of Sandman S1 and S2 with the soft song of a king and a queen. A dream and a star.]
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Dramatic, Broody and Cosmic: Or, The Complicated Romance Between Superman and The Lord of Dreams by crypt_mirror
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022), Superman - All Media Types
25 Sep 2025
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It started with the immortal Hob Gadling facing the kind of plane crash that would’ve been very messy for someone like him — the certain-bits-and-pieces-scattered-all-over-the-Midwest kind of mess.
Superman saved the day. The Lord of Dreams took notice.
What follows is the complicated romance between Superman, who carries the weight of the world, and Dream of the Endless, who carries the weight of every story ever told-- and then some. There will be politics, cosmic meddling, Justice League side-eyes, sibling drama (Endless Edition), a Bat shaped billionaire's possessive concern, a few brushes with disaster, and—inevitably—frozen waffles in the Dreaming.
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kiss me goodnight (it might just end my life) by heylookitsMJ
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
22 Sep 2025
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Dream of the Endless knows the dangers if he is to give in to his own fantasies. Desire may tempt all they want, though they will never succeed. That’s what Morpheous tells himself, anyway. After all, pray tell, what does the King of Dreams dream about?
New chapters released every Monday!
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When Dream senses a disturbance in the Dreaming, he went out to investigate and found the source of it: a person extremely mysterious: he neither is a complete human, nor an Endless. He will try to protect his heart from falling in the chess game of the universe and understand beyond his concerns.
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The Dreamer by LCallahan
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics), Constantine (2005), Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare
19 Sep 2025
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You think you know the Sandman? I assure you, no one knew him better than a handful of people. His parents, Night and Time; his siblings: Destiny, Death, Destruction, Desire, Despair, and Delirium; his human friend, Hob Gadling; and a human woman who was a dreamer and, most likely, the love of his existence - Belle.
Of course, he must aid her in a time of great need before they become such a romantic duo. How must he aid her? As her beloved, affectionate, abnormally large pet cat, of course. And as the man she dreams and fantasizes about when she should be doing labs and calculus.
Isn't it against the rules for an Endless to love a mortal? Perhaps, but nothing good in life comes easy.
Follow Belle and Dream through their lives and adventures; their hopes and struggles as they traverse labyrinths between worlds and dimensions. As they brave the depths of Hell and agony. As they come face to face with gods, monsters, and demons. And as their love for each other grows stronger... endlessly.
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ꓘꓛAꓶꓭ ɹ̶o̶ɹ̶ɹ̶ᴉ̶ɯ̶ || m̶i̶r̶r̶o̶r̶ BLACK by ChocolateCarnival
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime)
18 Sep 2025
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Imprisoned for a thousand years, an ancient malevolence sinks into the vagaries of a split-second daydream, of orbiting and regenerating and affirming the unmasked facets of Himself―of deluding, churning, turning, becoming amidst the scream of waking theophany.
Destruction, then, dreams and reality storms... And the King of Nightmares...Dream of the Endless heeds the desperate call.
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What if Destruction of the Endless revelled in his function rather than despising it? What if he were Ryōmen Sukuna, who savoured his duty as much as he was tasked with sundering the universe?
And what if the King of Curses were to stir in the cage-and-breast of an ignorant brat to find the world thriving where he did not permit?
Never let it be said that the Bringer of Chaos was purposely remiss in his duty.
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In a room full of people, I look for you by sparkle_princess
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
17 Sep 2025
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“I think it would be safer for you to go.”
His words cut deep into Nuala’s chest. She felt wounded, not only because of the dismissal but because she didn’t seem to be wanted anywhere these days.
From being discarded by her own Queen to being sent back for the sake of safety. It wasn’t fair. She wanted to stay and fight but Lord Morpheus truly thought it would be safer for her to return to Faerie and leave him here to die.
He believed the best course of action was to not build an army and to not fight.
Nuala didn’t remember a time where she didn’t fight.
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A rewrite of Nuala’s storyline from episode seven onwards because I just wanted to see what one of those other paths Delirium mentioned would look like.
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“ความตายเป็นประสบการณ์ที่น่ากลัวฮ็อบ แกดลิ่ง ข้าไม่ปรารถนาให้เจ้าต้องเผชิญหน้ากับมันอีก”
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So can you see me in the dark? by wandamaxipad
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
14 Sep 2025
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You've found yourself trapped on a train with none other than the King of Dreams himself, and the realm's madness is trying to unravel you both. The only way you've found that you can escape? Well, let's just say it's... a hands-on approach to diplomacy.
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The train scene we all wanted in Season 2.