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Dream of the Endless was powerful. Eternal. He was a god in all but name, older than suns, older than the whispered prayers of the first mortals. He needed nothing.
But now, he was starting to wonder if his weakness had a name. If weakness could look like her.
When Destiny summoned them, it was only duty that brought Dream to the meeting. An anomaly had been discovered, some strange flicker dancing between realms. Destiny could not read its path, so It was Dream’s responsibility to investigate. To restore order.
He expected a problem. He did not expect her.
She was… unlike anything he had ever seen. A being carved from some other truth, wearing a shape his mind struggled to define. Small, yet radiating power like a star wrapped in silk. Those ears, twitching whispers of another world. That blush on her cheeks, too human, too soft— and the eyes. Depths filled with wonder that should not exist among beings like them. She looked… new. Fragile, almost.Could she be one of them? Another Endless, born from some concept unspoken until now? But that was impossible. There had been no new Endless since the dawn of time.
And yet, she stood there, real and bright and staring right at him.
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Dream has known love.
And loss.
He’s buried both beneath centuries of silence, determined never to feel that kind of ruin again.
But then came the accident.
A fire. A fractured breath.
And a mortal woman who slipped through the cracks of reality… and landed in a part of the Dreaming no soul was ever meant to reach.
You weren’t supposed to survive.
You weren’t supposed to touch him.
And yet, you did.
He should have sent you back.
Erased the moment. Closed the wound.
But now… you bend the Dreaming. You unsettle the Endless.
And something inside him — long-buried, long-feared — begins to stir.
You are mortal. Finite. Impossible.
But he can’t stay away.
And if he falls for you… it might break the very thing he was created to protect.
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what was before is left behind by academic_of_the_endless for everythingisconnected
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
23 Jul 2025
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Today, Dream Of The Endless, Lord Morpheus, King Of Nightmares, does not perform his duties. Today, he keeps the blood on his hands out of view of his subjects, of his librarian. Today, he chooses to wash the blood clean from his hands as if it’d remove the stain from his soul. Dream could spare but a thought to remove the blood of his son from the hands that brought about his end, but he chooses to wash it away.
Dream Of The Endless thinks of hands warmer than his own whilst washing the blood of his son. A vow is extracted, a promise is made, and somehow despite choosing Death at every chance, Hob and his daughter give Morpheus a chance at life. Hob, recently bereaved himself finds comfort in the care for his friend, and the life he can share.
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- Part 1 of what never was is now
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Hob Glading thought he would not see his Stranger for a very long time (he said so himself after visiting him in a dream) but then the next night Hob gets pulled in another dream, one with old gods and monsters feasting in a great hall with his Stranger as their host.
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I'm glad to have met you. Finally. by S_a_n_d_f_l_o_w_e_r
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
13 Jul 2025
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‘What do you want from me?’
she shouted with a look.
‘A question that exists to be sure.’ he answered in silence, leaning his cheek on his hand.
‘Then let me go.’
she pulled her arms even closer to her chest.
‘I am incapable of that.’
the hint of a solemn smile did not escape her.
A raindrop fell on her nose, breaking the intense lock between them long enough for Nuala to decide there was only one thing left to be done…run.Series
- Part 1 of The Sandflower one shots
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Unwelcome guests occupy the Heart of the Dreaming, all vying for the burden that the Morningstar has left in Dream's care. Unsettled by their last conversation and in search of his friend, Hob Gadling chooses this moment to learn how to lucid dream and unknowingly puts himself in the middle of it.
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- Part 1 of season 2 dreamling vignettes
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Morpheus didn't want to hurt Death, but he also wouldn't trust anyone else with her.
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- Part 7 of July Break Bingo 2025
- Part 574 of Completed Works 2
- Part 4 of DreamDeath: Morpheus x Death
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In one universe - Dream was trapped for one hundred long years. He escaped and gathered his sigils as the story is told.
In another universe - Roderick requested help with his cage, not knowing that one single action would cascade into a partial remaking... of Dread of the Endless. An Endless not bound by laws or rules and wanting nothing more than to tear Dream - his former self - apart. A plan aided by Lucifer, who wants nothing more than Dream brought to heel... and worsened by Death of the Endless - now corrupted - into Demise of the Endless. All the while Dream and Desire work (reluctantly) to set aside old family grudges and trauma to try and salvage their family.
And yet in another universe, the Burgess estate succeeded in not only capturing Dream... but the other Endless as well. Endless that have no reason to trust Johanna, who is now trapped with them. Johanna who wants to desperately get back to her Dream... And if she fails, it may very well be the end of not only Dream but the other Endless as well...
Endless serve humanity... but corrupted Endless, ones not bound by rules or blood, may very well destroy it.
Comic Verse. Credit to Nebulavibes0 for the artwork
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- Part 6 of Facing Fears, Finding Hope
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Sequel To Fear and Hope (Final part Of Nightmare and Sins)
In one universe - Dream was trapped for one hundred long years. He escaped and gathered his sigils as the story is told.
In another universe - Roderick requested help with his cage, not knowing that one single action would cascade into a partial remaking... of Dread of the Endless. An Endless not bound by laws or rules and wanting nothing more than to tear Dream - his former self - apart. A plan aided by Lucifer, who wants nothing more than Dream brought to heel... and worsened by Death of the Endless - now corrupted - into Demise of the Endless. All the while Dream and Desire work (reluctantly) to set aside old family grudges and trauma to try and salvage their family.
And yet in another universe, the Burgess estate succeeded in not only capturing Dream... but the other Endless as well. Endless that have no reason to trust Johanna, who is now trapped with them. Johanna who wants to desperately get back to her Dream... And if she fails, it may very well be the end of not only Dream but the other Endless as well...
Endless serve humanity... but corrupted Endless, ones not bound by rules or blood, may very well destroy it.
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- Part 3 of Facing Fears, Finding Hope
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walking around with this bullet inside me by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
29 Jun 2025
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There are two people in the entire world who have the number of the prepaid burner phone that’s been burning a hole through Hob’s pocket for far longer than it ought to. That's going on four years now. Four years, two people in the world, and it’s never once rung. Until it does.
Hob gets a long awaited phone call signaling that his oldest friend is alive, and he's back, and he's carving a bloody path through London’s underbelly as he takes his revenge. The transatlantic flight home gives him plenty of time to replay what memories he has of his stranger before he up and vanished. What he finds is a violent terf war, his stranger a bit more feral, maybe, but it's familiar enough to ache.
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- Part 1 of hungry and hollow
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The Reluctant Hero by kurenohikari
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), Constantine (Comics), DC Comics, The Sandman (Comics), Constantine (TV), Batman - All Media Types
16 Jun 2025
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John didn’t ask for this. He didn’t sign up to be a hero, a savior, or whatever nonsense the universe seemed to have in mind. Time travel was complicated enough without stumbling across imprisoned magical deities. Yet, here he was—an unwilling do-gooder with a growing list of freed gods, spirits, and eldritch beings who now owed him favors.
Not that John wanted their help. He just wanted a quiet life, free from divine drama and cosmic messes. But no, every time he turned around, there was another desperate deity locked up in some ancient relic or cursed dimension. He tried ignoring them. He really did. But then guilt—or perhaps sheer bad luck—always dragged him back.
Now he’s neck-deep in magical debts, interdimensional grudges, and a timeline so tangled it could strangle a lesser man. The gods might call him a savior, but John knows the truth: he’s just tired. Tired of time travel. Tired of magic. And most of all, tired of being the universe’s go-to handyman.
Someone, please, save him this time. Before he snaps and uses all those favors to take a permanent vacation in a timeline where none of this exists. If such a place even exists anymore.
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- Part 4 of The Unholy Trinity
- Part 6 of My Rewrite Library
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on the creature scratches (it doesn't know how to get out) by CourfeyracFredMariusCratchit for CinnamonCake
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
09 Jun 2025
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The Endless are older than the Fears, and by far more powerful, yet not immune to their touch.
When Dream recognizes their touch upon Hob, he decides to put them in their place.
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- Part 1 of can't you hear the scratching?
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"Echoes of Pure Sand Within the Lies of Dreams and the Truth of the Heart" by Theannoyingspeedstarofdifferentfandoms
Fandoms: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022), Lucifer (Comic)
02 Jun 2025
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“Once, a boy looked into the eyes of a caged god and said, ‘If I could set you free, I would.’ And then—he did.”
In an alternate timeline of The Sandman, young Alex Burgess chooses to free Dream of the Endless before World War II begins. With stolen artifacts, whispered magic, and a wound that nearly ends him, Alex sparks a bond that forever alters the Dreaming.
But mercy is never clean, and love—especially from a god who governs dreams—comes wrapped in silence, sacrifice, and cosmic memory. Trapped in a youth that no longer fits, Alex awakens decades later in a world that moved on without him.
And in those very years emerges the one person who is an equal to dream someone in terms of power and status
Something dream could never truly have and yet now he didHe didn't want this and yet he was given what he needed
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I Admit It Was My Pride That Let You Leave by Nightcrawler247
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
11 Mar 2025
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Dream is Fae. A very powerful one at that.
Hob is human and his fated mate.
Not only does Dream fail to explain this to Hob, he also doesn't explain to the human the very long, very complicated process that is courting in the fae world. He just didn't realize he had to. In his opinion they've been moving at lightening speed.
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- Part 32 of All My Sandman Stories
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Death is Niki Nihachu in black by Atropa_isnt_the_end (BelladonnaAddict)
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics), Dream SMP
08 Mar 2025
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Niki wasn’t quite sure when she’d died.
All she knew was that at some point along the way, she had, and now she was having the absolute time of her not-life.
Things change. Worlds change, names change, lives change. And end. But who’s there to end them?
Well, that changes too.
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Dream's subjects follow him unwaveringly. It is only usually Nightmares who have ever dared to oppose him outright.
After his century-long absence, Dream's brightest creation is beginning to question their purpose.
Febuwhump Day 3 - Pinned Down
Day 6 - Forced to Stay Awake
Day 8 - Bleeding Out
Day 13 - "I don't trust anyone else"
Day 20 - "I did good, right?"Series
- Part 3 of Febuwhump 2025
- Part 6 of Stardust (Original Dream Character)
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The attempt is appreciated friend by ghoulkai
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
14 Feb 2025
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1889 The meeting is disastrous and Hob is left picking up the pieces of his life. Too bad someone took interest in the words shouted in the fray.
1916 Dream is summoned by a novice witch who cares not for the consequences, too driven by his own greed to notice.
1921 Dream's captor hasn't aged a day but his excitement on word of something he's been searching years for is palpable
1922 A letter finds Hob, inviting him to a place he dares not revisit so soon, by son of the man who caused him grief beyond imagining and he declines.
1923 That same letter appears, an apology and invitation to a dinner to express the mistakes of the father is made and Hob decides enough is enough. Sons weren't their fathers and it was time to fix the present.
December 1923 Hob meets his stranger once again
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when a vampire spawn unwittingly bites the dream lord in her sleep, she gets roped into helping him investigate why dreams are mysteriously dying/disappearing. what starts as a reluctant partnership turns into something more as they chase night hags around faerûn to save both the dreaming and the waking world.
or: a sleep-deprived vampire just wanted a nap and inherited dream's problems instead.
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Take My Hand, Take My Whole Life by galacticstingray
Fandoms: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
03 Feb 2025
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Hob cannot believe what is happening to him. He’s almost positive this is a dream, or at the very least, not real, but if the fucking King of Dreams wants to make Hob– Hob!- his spouse, then who is he to argue? It’ll be far better than whatever he could have hoped for in the– real world? His world? He can't wait to find out.
Or, Dream falls in love instantly. It takes Hob just a little longer to get there.
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Sequel to Of Nightmares and Sins
A year has passed since Dream has recovered his tools of office and recovered himself from almost being remade... into Dread of the Endless - thanks in large part to Johanna, Hob, and his sister Death... he refuses, even now, to acknowledge Desire's aid in any of it given their fault in it all.
However, things are far from okay. Dread remains ever present, Lucifer is far from accepting their humiliation, and there is once again plans being made to try and destroy the Endless.
All too soon, Johanna and Hob find themselves at the center of it all - with some allies (sometimes unwanted)… doing what they can to try and limit the damage and fallout. Of course, made all the worse, by having to also care for a suddenly very human Dream...
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- Part 2 of Facing Fears, Finding Hope