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Hob Gadling has lived through six centuries of history, and he’s collected more jobs than most people can imagine—mercenary, printer, pirate, mob boss, even a rock musician for a spell. But the one role that feels like home is the one he holds now: Professor Robin Golding, Medieval History, London.
Through lectures about chimneys and buttons, cups of tea at Nina’s café, banter with colleagues, and evenings in his pub, Hob reflects on the small things that shape lives. The inventions that go unnoticed, the food that feels miraculous after centuries of hunger, the city of London itself. And underneath it all, the quiet, stubborn hope that maybe one day his Stranger will walk through the door again.
A story about teaching, eating, laughing, waiting, and living—all the little things that keep Hob going.
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Chap 7 - Feels like it’s done, can’t wait to see what else is coming. Lovely story
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When an exorcism goes horribly wrong (as they so often do), Johanna Constantine really does not expect the corpse to laugh at her morbid jokes and get to its feet again afterwards. Hob Gadling, in turn, does not expect that his new friendship with a feisty exorcist and magician will lead to him not only learning the name of his Stranger, but to them running into each other in Johanna's ex-girlfriend's flat. Nor does he expect how changed he will find Dream to be after his long absence...
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The Chains of Inspiration by Ramenlover
Fandoms: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
06 Sep 2022
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When the mysterious stranger doesn't turn up for their meeting, Hob goes looking for him. He doesn't have a lot to go off but there can't be THAT many immortal beings who grant inspiration to writers can there?
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Hob goes looking for Dream, he finds Calliope instead
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Hob has been around death. Living in London throughout multiple plague outbreaks and fires, as well as making a living soldiering and dabbling in banditry, will do that to you. What he doesn't know is that Death has been around Hob as well. He has no idea that when his Stranger left him that night in 1389 after their first meeting, the woman who came up to him, laid a hand on his shoulder and said, “Good luck, friend,” was Death incarnate.
Hob doesn’t know that he is one of few things in this world that has been Touched by Death and lived. Had he known this, he might not have been as confused as he is when his body slams into the floor of a dim, candle-lit cellar and he finds himself surrounded by hooded figures and a gold circle on the floor. That is all he manages to perceive before everything goes blurry and consciousness slips away from him again.
Here in the Darkness.
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Roderick Burgess' spell does not summon Death, but someone who has been touched by Death. Hob Gadling ends up in his cellar instead of Dream.
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- Part 1 of Touched by Death, loved by a Dream
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you're not gruesome, just human (and you've made a few mistakes) by viiidispade
Fandom: The Sandman (TV 2022)
20 Oct 2023
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in which three immortals softly figure it out together♡
formerly promise not to promise anymore.
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put your lips close to mine (as long as they don't touch) by viiidispade
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
20 Oct 2022
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Ric laughs, humorless. “You know, the ancients believed in inspiration made manifest – Muses, goddesses of the arts.”
Hob is very well aware. “They weren’t as daft as people think. Why not say a prayer? Maybe you’ll get an answer.”
“Muses wouldn’t have patience for a fool like me,” Ric dismisses. Hob knows the feeling; he’s astounded Calliope's stuck around this long. “Do you know Erasmus Fry?”-
in which hob gadling misses his favorite divinities, solves a problem he didn't know he had, and doesn't kill anyone (even if he maybe wants to).
(aka: professor gadling's guide to finding your muse.)
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so sweet <3
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When Hob spots a sad woman in white through a window of a famous author's house, he gets a bad feeling. Further investigation reveals that she's in need of rescue, but what Hob isn't prepared for is the fact that the woman he sets out to save turns out to be a literal Greek goddess, the ex-wife of the Stranger he keeps waiting for, and a rather lovely person to boot.
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the fire’s lover knows only burning hands by imnotcryingipromise
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
14 Jun 2024
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The Endless is seconds away from revealing himself to the foul men (he imagines, perhaps, adorning himself with claws so that he can tear them limb from limb) when a strikingly familiar voice stills him in place with dread.
"Do you have to act so bloody smug, Madoc?" Hob Gadling's voice blares like a tornado warning inside of Dream's skull.
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Having received Calliope’s request for aid, Dream of the Endless finds himself in Richard Madoc’s flat whilst the man is in the process of making a deal with a heartbreakingly familiar immortal.
Meanwhile, Hob Gadling’s attempt to liberate a certain muse from her confinement goes completely awry with the addition of his long lost eldritch companion.
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Immortal Throuple: aka, they all have two hands each. by Thesuspiciousflyingjellyfish
Fandom: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
24 Dec 2023
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I looked at the chemistry that Dream had with Calliope AND Hob and decided that i couldn’t just pick one. So now Calliope and Hob get to drag Dream into socializing whilst also making fun of him.
Contains Hob being both awesome and a bit insecure, Calliope being a complete sweetheart and badass, and Dream both the hottest anthropomorphic personification and a miserable wet cat as his lovers force him to have fun.
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until the stars all fall down (i'll ask you to run away with me) by viiidispade
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
04 Nov 2022
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He slams the volume shut and tries not to glare at Lucienne. “This has no place in the Library.”
“It appeared with the unsent letters, my lord,” she tells him, undaunted.
“For a reason, Lucienne,” Dream insists. “She did not send them.”
Whatever Calliope wrote, she clearly hadn’t wanted him – him, of all people – to see them.
“But she intended to, Lord Morpheus,” Lucienne counters patiently. “They were meant to be sent and read – and most of them are addressed to you.”
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in which dream of the endless finds letters calliope could not send, is faced with her trauma and his own, and does not understand why hob gadling always feeds him.(aka: dream of the endless and the guilty, angsty, very fluffy sad boi hours.)
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if I ever want to get back to the sandman
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When the dream touches ground, the demons walk in by starsniper
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
14 Oct 2023
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When Johanna Constantine is hired to investigate Richard Madoc by a jealous author who suspects he is using magic to help his writing, the last thing she expects is to find a muse locked in the man's bedroom, kept prisoner to give him inspiration. In order to free her, Johanna will have to confront her past with Rachel and come face to face with a power she's never encountered before.
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no more songbird in a cage (no more fear to carry) by Thranduilland
Fandom: The Sandman (TV 2022)
09 Sep 2024
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This Dream Is Over (Another Has Begun) by SigniorBenedickofPadua
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
02 Nov 2023
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The last person Dream expects to see in Burgess' basement is Hob Gadling, who has apparently been asked to consult on the restoration of the historic manor. He is pleased when his old acquaintance helps free him without a second thought, despite their past squabble, but he is horrified to realise that breaking the binding circle does nothing to return his powers to him, and that he cannot return to the Dreaming after having been released from his cage.
Weak, confused, and distressingly human, he consents to being taken back to Hob's home to be cared for until he can regain his strength. When he falls asleep that night (which he should never have had need for), he finally finds his way back to his palace, only to find someone else sitting on his throne, wearing his ruby, and claiming his name as her own — Dream of the Endless.
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What in wanting is freely given and in madness is taken away by imnotcryingipromise
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
14 Aug 2023
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"Dream," Calliope whispers, her face drawn with the same shock the Endless feels.
The man's name ricochets off of the modest apartment walls. The singular word threatening in its utterance to tear them all apart.
He watches the moment register on Hob Gadling's face.
"Dream?” the name falls in dreaded repetition from the mortal’s lips, his eyes grow wide with understanding.
"You know each other?"
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Touched by Death, loved by a Dream by SigniorBenedickofPadua
Fandom: The Sandman (TV 2022)
29 Jan 2023
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When Roderick Burgess tries to summon Death, he gets Hob instead, who is apparently the next best thing as he has been touched by Death.
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Where There Is Life by Tertium Quid (prettyclever)
Fandoms: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
19 Nov 2022
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Where there is life, there is Hope, aka, In Waking Hours 2: Electric Boogaloo.
Dream & his new husband Hob, now Hope of the Endless, rescue Dream's ex-wife Calliope from her long and brutal captivity. Turns out that's just the start of something much bigger.
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- Part 2 of His Hopeful Realm
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His Hopeful Realm by Tertium Quid (prettyclever)
Fandom: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
19 Nov 2022
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Left off at work 2, chapter 5.
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A Midwinter Night's Dream by Circeto, Emi_Hotaru
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), Good Omens (TV)
30 Sep 2025
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Dream Endless hated the festive season, especially since his wife left him on Christmas morning a few years earlier.
Writer in need of inspiration, forced to look after his son, whom he barely knows, Dream accidentally receives an email inviting him to a book signing in Tadfield, a small town linked to a childhood memory.
Dream accepts the invitation and is about to discover that Christmas this year is likely to bring him pleasant surprises...-
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Amid Intervening Stars by Anonymous
Fandoms: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
28 Aug 2023
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On the day where no one can lie Richard Madoc tells a police officer that he’s keeping a goddess locked up in one of his upstairs bedrooms. It’s laughed off as a joke, a writers play on words, then quickly forgotten as the world descends into chaos—
In this universe he says he’s keeping a woman.
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- Part 7 of Sandman Fics
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