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Hob Gadling has seen the same man sitting still like a statue every day for a week and looking terribly upset, all he really wants is a peaceful lunch break but he can't bring himself to ignore someone in need - especially a very gorgeous someone who looks like they're on the verge of a breakdown. A chance meeting becomes far more, and gives Morpheus a means to heal.
-An AU where they meet on the university campus and Hob gets more than he bargained for when he decides to be a good person-
(This story is a self-contained arc and not hinged on future series entries!)
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- Part 1 of Corvid Chronicles
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That foolish little thing called Hope by Picture_Yourself
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
04 Sep 2022
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What if Dream had noticed Alex and warned Jessamy before she'd been shot? What if she'd survived to seek reinforcements in the form of a certain immortal? And what if Burgess lost his patience...
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When Jessamy, raven of the Dreaming, discovers her long-lost king imprisoned beneath a cursed house, her desperate rescue attempt shatters the boundary between bird and woman—at a terrible cost.
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what if, after Jessamy got shot, she returns to a human form.
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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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What if someone heard Hob shouting after Dream in 1889? He was pretty damn loud. What if he gets himself caught? Will Dream notice?
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- Part 1 of [Podfic] The Storms of Life
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Hob Gadling has spent the better part of three decades wishing Roderick Burgess dead.
Near on every minute of his time confined to Fawney Rig has been spent hoping the old bastard might collapse, might spontaneously expire, or that a God he does not believe in might strike the awful man down.
The rest of his time has been spent in too much agony to think of very much at all.
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Dream of the Endless returns to the White Horse in 1989 to find that Hob Gadling has broken his promise to do the same. Torn between rage and betrayal, Dream breaks the vow he made to himself 600 years prior, that he would not read the book of his immortal companion’s life.
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"I believe he found you deliberately, knowing you were- of importance to me,” Dream replied, flustered.
It was a night of firsts for Hob. He had never seen so many emotions from the usually stoic man. He seemed unsure and abashed and afraid.
Hob laughed gently.
"Of importance,” he repeated the words.
" 'suppose I should be flattered."
Dream's face was suddenly serious. The alcove under which they stood now seemed impossibly small.
"You should be afraid."
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Also- a multipart fic beginning with Dreamling reuniting in 1889 and detailing Dream’s capture and Hob’s attempt to rescue him
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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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Hob Gadling was a smart man.
In 1789, he learned to keep an eye out for people who might be a little too interested in him or his Stranger.
And so, in every new country, city or village he found himself in once every twenty or so years, he kept an ear out for mentions of the occult.OR
Hob hears of one Roderick Burgess and suspects that the old man might have some skeletons hidden in his closet... or his basement. -
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In order to perfect humanity’s own dark mirror, one needs not look for evil or greed. In the true heart of darkness lies a sort of ambiguity. Hob taught him that.
(Or - Dream indulges his selfishness, learns a few lessons, and creates his masterpiece. A moral treatise of dubious legitimacy, but nonetheless, a love story).
*Now with podfic!*
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Over the centuries, Hob had dreamt plenty of dreams about his friend from the tavern. All good dreams, of course.
Very good dreams.
Usually not dreams that featured either of them wearing very much clothing.
But until the talking bird told him otherwise, he hadn't considered that those dreams might be real.
(Featuring: a live Jessamy, Hob rescuing Dream from the fishbowl, a mess to clean and a happy ending.)-
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For Want of a Name by sane_abandoned
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
11 Aug 2022
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Robert Gadling had a list.
It was not a list like most people would have, detailing the items needed when next visiting the shops, or tasks to complete that day, or even the aspirations for ones life,
Robert Gadling's list was never meant to be read by others, kept hidden deep within his mind, and it is a list of questions.aka Hob accidentally joins a group that summons and captures his best friend, and finally gets some answers.
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- Part 1 of For Want of a Name
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The Kindness of Ravens by MeesterSpock
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), Maleficent (Disney Movies)
17 Oct 2024
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If Jessamy was imbued with the gift of the Patron Saint of Ravens and Corvids, would she not have used it as she tried to free Dream of his prison?
An interpretive retelling of how the Fae Lord Diaval freed Lord Dream of the Endless from his cage, 70 years earlier than the story told.
Reading the first in this series might help with the world-building, but isn't necessary to the story.
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- Part 2 of Birds of a Feather
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The Corinthian "saved" Morpheus from Roderick Burgess and "released" him from his years of imprisonment. It's just that Dream is now under someone else's control- his own creation.
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Dream has been planning to escape from his marriage to Roderick Burgess for almost a year. Things go awry when he gets kidnapped instead.
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- Part 8 of Seiya's 2023 Dreamling Bingo
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In the year 1916, Roderick Burgess attempts to summon and capture Death. He misses his mark by quite a way, but he’s never been one to waste an opportunity.
Dream of the Endless was friend-zoned back in 1889. He does not get captured in 1916. The Dreaming remains in good order. He has never been more powerful.
And in 1916, Hob Gadling is just a soldier, until he isn’t. Immortality, it seems, has its pitfalls.
Oh, and The Corinthian? He’s having a wonderful time.
It’s the “Roderick Burgess Somehow Got Hob Instead Of Dream When He Did The Summoning” fic that you didn’t know you needed.
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Hob blinked, deliberately, and tried to look as unimpressed as he could physically manage. "No offence mate, but you're not my type. I don't go for blonds."
The man grinned, running over his sharp teeth with the tip of his tongue. "Ah, but you're just my type.
Dark, handsome, belonging to him . Yeah, you're a real catch."so fun!!!
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"I no longer cared, no longer cared about their stares, the comments on my appearance or term of being. Simple-minded mortals afraid of all things beyond their limited imagination, blinded by the idea of force being the only way to make anyone kneel to their pathetic existence."
Inspired by Desire, Roderick Burgess decides it might be useful to try getting through to the captured Dream by breaking his will by force. Morpheus tries his best to remain as calm and untouchable to the outside when yet he is internally breaking by the methods of those immoral mortals, but as the torture continues even after Roderick's death, he fears to lose hope.
But there will be more than graphic-violence, you also get a dead bird, a morally torn son of the tormentor, an incredulous serial-killer and a heart-melting librarian
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Dream did his best to slow any healing he did; he needed to hold out as long as he could, preserve what little power he had, until he could escape. Some days were harder than others, and some damage required immediate attention if he didn’t want to die.
As if each use of power wasn’t slowly driving him towards death anyway. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to see his sister – he really, really did – but he’d rather not have their next meeting be their last one.
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Wherein Roderick Burgess decides he can make a profit off Dream's blood, and then wonders what else he can take from Dream, and Dream only has so much power to keep him alive...Look, this is not a nice story. Consider it my Application to Hell.
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