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“Dream of the Endless,” Roderick sneers, and taps the handle of his cane on the glass. Dream of the Endless blinks once, out of sync, but otherwise doesn’t respond. There is something terribly inhuman about him, something Ethel can’t define but recognizes on the same level of awareness that knows there is something lurking behind her in the dark.
They keep a tiger in the basement, in a cage of glass and willpower, she thinks to herself, and follows Roderick back upstairs and does not sleep at all that night.
(or, ethel cripps gets sick of roderick's shit and instead of stealing from him and running away, she frees dream from his cage)
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12 Nov 2025
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The rumor that Hob Gadling, the human who tricked Death herself into granting him immortality, has finally decided he's lived long enough and consented to die is sweeping through the supernatural community like wildfire. It even spreads to the Dreaming, where Dream handles it about as well as could be expected.
It is, to say the least, a bit of a shock to Hob Gadling himself, who is still very much alive- and increasingly in need of rescue.
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12 Nov 2025
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Rose Walker finds out that her weird, worryingly-ready-to-murder-her-for-the-greater-good, King-of-Dreams greatuncle is dating her favourite history professor in the objectively worst way:
Through the campus WhatsApp group.
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- Part 5 of Bedtime Stories (Sandman Prompt Fills)
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11 Nov 2025
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The young man turned, and asked, determination and cowardice both flickering in his eyes, “Professor, do you think it’s wicked to help the devil?”
For a moment, Hob thought - and tried to not let his mind dwell overly long on an entity he had long thought demonic.Is it wicked to help the devil? Less than to love one, surely.
A story in which Hob becomes a history professor a century earlier, Alex receives some inspiration towards bravery, and Dream is very grateful indeed.
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- Part 8 of Bedtime Stories (Sandman Prompt Fills)
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11 Nov 2025
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drink the poison lightly (there are deeper and darker things than you) by viiidispade
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
16 Oct 2022
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“I warned you, Robert Gadling,” the Stranger hisses. “Against keeping others in bondage.”
“And I listened,” Hob gasps. The hand on his throat tightens. “Slavery’s illegal, mate. For centuries.”-
in which erasmus fry needed to die, the damsel is saved, and hob gadling has no earthy idea how he wound up with a goddess bound to him.
(aka, the "hob saves calliope" trope with a twist.)
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11 Nov 2025
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Of Dreams, Family, and The Bane of Rules by AshWinterGray
Fandoms: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
29 Aug 2022
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Delirium finds her brother in a fishbowl. Which is a weird place to be. Dream is terrified for his sister's safety in this place.
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10 Nov 2025
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To Make A Nightmare A Dream by AshWinterGray
Fandoms: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
05 Sep 2022
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What could possibly cause a nightmare to desire to be a dream?
A question Dream must answer, for he has spent a century learning it.
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10 Nov 2025
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It wasn't from fear of entering his realm again that Rose lay awake night after night. It was the reliving of it all. The way it felt. Her life torn away from her, the chaos of the vortex, the turmoil in Dream's desolate eyes.
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In which Dream discovers Rose's recurring nightmare about the vortex.Bookmarked by PocketsizedKiwi
10 Nov 2025
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Sap of the Family Tree by Griombrioch
Fandom: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
01 Nov 2022
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10 Nov 2025
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The Long-suffering Journey of Prof. H. Gadling & His Nosy Students by SrirachaBunny
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
12 Oct 2022
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Finding out that your professor is a human, with ties and an actual life beyond the classroom is always a little jarring for students.
For the university students in Professor Hob Gadling's history class? It's practically life changing.
Now, if only they could figure out who this mystery man is.
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09 Nov 2025
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Who could’ve thought she’d ever lay in the arms of a dream quite this literally?
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08 Nov 2025
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How Adam Loved Eve by Moorishflower
Fandoms: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
15 Apr 2023
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It's said in the Bible that when the Lord took the rib from Adam and used it to craft Eve, there upon her breast, where the rib rested beneath her skin, was Adam's name writ in the old language of angels and higher powers.
Hob wonders, sometimes, if Adam bore Eve's name somewhere upon his person, or if she spent the rest of her life wondering if God had chained a man to her that would never love her back.
Everyone is born with the name of their soulmate as a mark on their palm. Hob Gadling is born with a thousand titles in looping scrawl on his arm and a name on his palm that no one can see but him.
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07 Nov 2025
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The Least of Clues by Moorishflower
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
27 Nov 2023
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After the New Inn is broken into, Hob starts sleeping with a knife beneath his pillow.
"You cannot hurt me, Hob Gadling," his lover says, but both he and Dream know that's a lie.
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07 Nov 2025
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Into Darkness and Howling (I'll Keep Him From Drowning) by TinyButFierce
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
24 Aug 2022
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It was beginning to sound like Roderick Burgess had something or someone trapped in his basement.
Hob was starting to wonder if he should do something about that.
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04 Nov 2025
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Spoken, Yet Unsaid by Triscribe
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
04 May 2025
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“Perhaps this might do it,” she hummed. Bringing her hands together, the Jedi bowed, just low enough the tips of her front lekku brushed the floor. The gesture served two purposes: a greeting, certainly, but also a momentarily stronger connection to the vibrations in the metal, giving Shaak a more precise peek at the intruder’s heartbeat and rate of breathing.
Reassuringly, both slowed a touch. And then, more reassuringly, the stranger bowed back: one hand held up flat, the other folded into a fist before they pressed together, and then a perfectly precise bend of ninety degrees from the waist, even deeper than Shaak Ti’s own.
(Cassandra Cain, Kamino, and the benefit of understanding body language above all others.)
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- Part 40 of What-If Star Wars AUs
- Part 16 of Canon? What Canon? Batfam Stories
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27 Oct 2025
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The one where everything is the same, except Anakin survives ROTJ. Mostly a connected series of fics written in the same universe, centering on Luke and Anakin's relationship, and written by request - updated on a whim, but each fic is complete.
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26 Oct 2025
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A History of Resistance by Fialleril
Fandom: Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
09 Mar 2015
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A series of connected fics that explore the Skywalkers, and particularly Anakin, through the lens of Tatooine slave culture and the history and reality of enslavement (and resistance).
This series ties in with The Tatooine Cycle in that I make use of the same headcanons and world-building for Tatooine slave culture and religion.
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26 Oct 2025
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Sam, after the end, making damn well the most of life.
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19 Oct 2025
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When Sam headed for the incinerator, he left his odradek behind
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18 Oct 2025
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A story about Horangi written by his voice actor, Nick Martineau, detailing the character's whereabouts leading up to MWIII (2023).
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12 Oct 2025