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Magnus Bane receives orders to investigate what is a trapped warlock (or something demonic) in the basement of one Roderick Burgess. He isn't expecting to come across two creatures already planning a rescue of said captive. Even more than that - he isn't expecting the captive to be an Endless, of all things.
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Hob Gadling, when a talking raven (named Jessamy) shows up to tell him that his oldest friend has been captured and needs his help, isn't expecting to get plunged into a world of magical beings, time travel, and more than his fair share of violence, but. For his Stranger? He would do anything.
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The Riddle of the Sphinx by Moorishflower
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
13 Jan 2024
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At some point during the summer, a sphinx had moved into the cliffs at the edge of the Endless siblings' property.
Dream of the Family Endless, in an ill-fated attempt to remove the sphinx that has built a lair on his property, finds himself coming to know the creature more intimately and sweetly that he ever could have imagined.
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Despite his better instincts, Captain Robert Gadling reluctantly attends one of his employer’s extravagant parties. Beneath the house, in the shadowed stillness of the basement, he stumbles upon a secret. Terrifying, unknowable, and impossible to resist.
Hob’s heart stuttered. The figure was man-sized from head to hips, lean as a dancer, skin the opal pallor of a drowned sailor. Yet, below the waist, humanity surrendered to abyssal myth. Hips tapering into a monstrous tail.
Even cramped within the ostentatious bowl, the creature’s every shift hinted at impossible strength pinned in a cage too small.
Hob found his voice only as a rasp. “My god…”
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Contrary to belief, the Endless did not know all. They were not the most powerful beings in the universe. They existed to serve the world they were born into by Time and Night. Time and Night, who in turn, only existed by a wave of the hand by the Creator - when the universe was born.
What was known was that Lucifer and Michael were fated to fight until the end of days - the war between the silver city and Hell constant and ruthless. However, it was not fought directly by them - but by their cohorts... demons for Lucifer and Nephilims for angels.
Nephilims were feral beings, no better than demons - only marked with grace and wings instead of blackness and horns. Creatures that were vicious and ravenous - feasting on the blood and essence of their enemies.
The Endless did not know everything, but even Dream knew that it was best to never meet a Nephilim without a muzzle... and better yet, it was best to not cross the considered leader of the Nephilim, the only female - Mikayla.
But as said before... the Endless... Dream did not know everything. He did know duty. He did not know her.
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Turning Glass in Sand by Lumerotte
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, The Sandman (TV 2022)
04 Dec 2022
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Death cannot really quit her job, even to assist her baby brother...but maybe she can send some help instead ?
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But he wasn’t in the Dreaming here. He was pinned to the incremental march of seconds upon seconds upon seconds that made up minutes and days and years. He was stranded in a form severed from the Dreaming. Like soil run through a sieve, the damned circle had held back the greater part of himself. He ached for it, for a form where he could simply choose not to feel the cold sinking into his bones, or the swimming haziness of air used up, or the hunger sweetly gnawing on the core of him.
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The same capture & rescue fic everyone has written, but playing off two ideas:
- I wanted to see Dream’s physical recovery take long enough that he could begin his mental/emotional recovery before heading back to the Dreaming
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Dulce et decorum est by Moorishflower for maybemalapert (laconicisms)
Fandoms: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
05 Dec 2022
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"This one is a special case," Burgess says. "He is a war hero. Do you understand? You will be on your best behavior. You know what happens when you are not."
Two years into his imprisonment, and Dream of the Endless has not given Roderick Burgess what he wants. Yet if he cannot have back his son, then he will have whatever else Dream has to give, and sell it to the highest bidder: body, powers, and all.
Hob Gadling, newly back from the Western Front, has barely slept since 1889, and is desperate for any sort of relief, even that peddled by mad old men claiming to be warlocks.
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When Hob sees Roderick Burgess wearing a ruby he recognizes at one of the man's parties - he knows that his Stranger can't be far away, and might in fact be the rumored devil in the basement the man has.
After watching his friend take vengeance on Burgess and his captors, and after acquiring a name (and a position!) that he has been waiting centuries for, it's not weird that he has strange dreams, right? Even about castles, his friend, and a land called the Dreaming...
(Title is Latin for Justice)
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- Part 3 of Aria's Dreamling Bingo Fics 2023
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Wolf & Raven by Dominion_of_Dust1886
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
14 Jul 2025
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Fan Comic originally posted on Tumblr and is still ongoing.
What if Hob Gadling had saved his Stranger?
Well, this is a common trope. Yet a trope so easy to contribute to. However, this fan fiction is presented in comic format and dives right into the story.
Mind the tags as you dive in.
All line work, rendering and dialog had been done by yours truly, so it takes some time for me to post here. Single pages are located on my Tumblr if you are impatient, and completed chapters will come here.
This fan comic goes into dark places. Deals with dark things and isn't necessarily a happy story to start off. The original graphic novel touched on many, MANY subjects that were not spoken about publicly and still are taboo for some demographics.
This is a warning. It's not for everyone, but life itself isn't always pretty and perfect. I won't be offended if you decide that this isn't the story for you. It combines both the graphic novel and the Netflix series should you feel the need to find out more on some of the lore behind my story.
It gets tough before it gets better. I promise a rewarding experience in taking this journey with me.
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What happens when Roderick Burgess makes a second attempt at capturing the Angel of Death... and captures a different angel instead?
Minor spoilers for Good Omens Season 2 Episode 3. Uses the television canon for both Good Omens and The Sandman.
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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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Dream had become accustomed to the silence and how rarely it was breached other than when Roderick stormed down the stairs to make his demands, such as they were. It had been deafening at the beginning, and still was, catching him unaware at moments he did not allow the guards to see.
So when the roar that shook the foundations of the house rattled the chains holding his cage, making it sway, the panicked shouts were immediate, and Dream looked up from where he had been twisted to avoid the metal spikes at the base of the cage. Another roar, this one louder than the first, verging into a scream.
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- Part 2 of Dreamling Week 2023
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Dream didn't know that he was pregnant with Hob's child until Burgess captured and imprisoned him in the waking world. In the glass sphere, he realised that he was not the only one who was trapped there, and he only had a few months to get them to safety.
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Make perfect the present by Moorishflower
Fandoms: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
05 Aug 2023
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In the summer of 1895, Morpheus Sanfin – poet, omega, and disappointment to his wealthy father – flees England on the heels of Oscar Wilde's imprisonment for gross indecency out of fear that he will be condemned for the same unnatural urges.
Seeking a new life in America away from the stifling hand of his father and the expectations of his sex, Morpheus sets out for California with Hob Gadling, a mustang driver who agrees to guide him, not knowing that along the way they will encounter natural wonders, the ghosts of their pasts, and perils that will force Morpheus to reconcile with both his sex and his feelings for his new companion.
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Randall Burgess survived the Gallipoli campaign, albeit only just. Roderick Burgess is horrified at the indignity and pain his son has suffered and is willing to do anything to bring him peace, including meddling in powers beyond his understanding. Power corrupts, and when the Magus misses his target, his original aim is twisted and lost as he settles into the self-aggrandising effect of Dream's tools.
Randall is forgotten by the wayside and finds a strange comaraderie with the being locked up beyond his reach. He couldn't imagine they had more in common than simply being trapped, much less anything that could be the key to both of them escaping their respective cages.
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When my bones become dust (and trust, you said) by inmyfleabagera
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
20 Oct 2025
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After three years and four months of his disappearance, Morpheus Endless is found. With his return, him and his family grapple with the situation and try to heal.
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yet another Hob save Dream from Burgess with some omegaverse and caretaking.
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Sand And Dust by WingsOfTheDamned
Fandoms: Shazam! | Captain Marvel (Comics), Justice League - All Media Types, The Sandman (TV 2022)
30 May 2025
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Or the one where Billy frees Dream
This would be a twin to "Of Dreams and Magic". Another version if you will with many initial similarities but that splits into a whole different plot and outcome. Since I don't see myself able to do a second part for that one I chose to make a version with what some people asked to happen in part 2.