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it's strange what Desire will make foolish people do by Nameless_Hanna
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
10 Aug 2025
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In dealing with gods, entities similar to or bigger than gods, supernatural and extraterrestrial creatures, humans could be divided into two types:
First type are the ones who respect them, worship them. They see non-human beings as superior. Some try to get on their good side for their own benefit, some do because they're scared. These are the cowards and the greedy.
Second type are the ones you would call dehumanizing, even though the beings they are dealing with are not even human, and that is for the lack of a better word. They see non-human beings as inferior. They would use, abuse, enslave and torture any non-human being if they had the power, and they would do it with a clear conscience because they're not actually hurting other people!
Desire had first-hand experience with both of these types.
Hob Gadling was a third type. He INVENTED a third type.
Desire and Hob find themselves obsessed with each other in Morpheus' absence; trying to fill a void he left behind. They will clash and they will hurt; but they will also love, which will be their undoing
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More to me than you can Dream by TentativeTreason
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics), The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
15 Jun 2025
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Hob has a forgettable encounter with a group of passing merchants during the Black Death.
Hob has a memorable encounter with two men when they rescue him from drowning during the Witch Trials.
Hundreds of years later, Hob meets the old guard in the midst of World War 1 and wonders how the fuck are they still alive.
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(i.e. The Old Guard are good Samaritans and Hob is just happy to meet other immortals.)
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After being imprisoned by crooked landlord Roderick Burgess, Morpheus Endelss, a cunning man from the South Downs, must find the strength and resilience to mend the emotional and physical scars that his captured wrought.
When a fae man named Hob knocks on his door one sunny morning, Morpheus will realise that courage and self-acceptance can be found in the most mysterious of ways....
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Chance Acquaintance with repercussions by SueRose
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
25 Jan 2025
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Professor Hob Gadling walks home after a party with his co-workers and picks up a stranger on the street. A beautiful younger man with night-black hair and a pale face, offering his body for a place to spend the night.
This is, how it begins...
Hob lost his wife and son ten years ago, still not over the loss and just knows, something is up with "Dream", as the young man introduces himself. What happened in his past, what lead to him acting like a startled cat? And why does he demand paying him with sex that much? -
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Hob is a commoner with only two simple wishes.
One, immortality.
Two, attending a royal ball.
Both of those wishes get granted when his "fairy godmother" Death fulfills them.Or:
Death is trying to cheer her little brother up after his divorce, and since he quickly needs to find a new monarch for his kingdom. Luckily she finds a perfect and willing man to do just that.
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Hob climes the ranks in only one day, going from commoner to mild nobility. Becoming a Baron in less than a day, just because an ancestor of his still had some wealth left behind.
Morpheus, Emperor of the Endless Empire hasn't had a pleasant day since his wife left him, until he meets Hob, whose kind soul, smiles, and gestures make his heart skip several beats each time.
While they try to make sense of their own feelings, they get thrown into several unpleasant situations. But they'd do everything for love, right?
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Hob Gadling is a commoner, living life in ancient Greece. But when he steals some food for the children in his village, he is sentenced to go and worship a god, to redeem himself.
That god being Morpheus, god of dreams and nightmares and hope, the prince of stories, and so much more.
They get to know one another, and find out, that they quite like eachother. But how far does this fondness go? And how long can it last when one of them is a "mortal"?
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Dream takes Death to meet Hob at the White Horse. A simple night of drinks takes a turn when Dream gets drunk and starts talking too much. Meanwhile, Hob tries to deal with the uncomfortable situation of taking care of a drunk and talkative Dream, who doesn't hesitate to share his deepest thoughts.
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living just comes with a bit of heartache, heartache comes with a bit of young faith by spilled_milk14
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
03 Mar 2024
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Morpheus does NOT know what a crush is and he is not keen to find out. He’s going to tho, whether he wants to or not.
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Dead Men Tell No Tales by PumpkinKingSalem
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
29 Feb 2024
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A storm approaches.
If it wasn't evident by the dark, angry storm clouds hovering in the sky above, a deep shade of gray, swollen and heavy and waiting to burst at any moment. It would be by the restless sea. Rocking the White Horse- a pirate ship inhabited by one of the most feared pirate crews on this side of the globe. The ship creaked as it swayed uncontrollably nearly sending some of the crew members tumbling aboard. Running around like ants, they tried to move the sails in a position that would benefit them and help get them through the stormy night that creeped upon these rogue sailors. Furious waves hit the sides of the ship, soaking the main deck and tilting it, sending crewmen tripping over their own two feet- or, in some cases, foot and peg leg.
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thinking 'bout you by Kyra_Maximoff
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
05 Feb 2024
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The moment Hob had stepped into the Burgess’ basement, he knew he was fucked.
In front of him, the mere sight forcing his heart into his throat, is his Stranger.
Encased in a glass sphere like a fucking Christmas bauble, he sits, arms wrapped around his deathly pale body in a heart-stopping rendition of an old Renaissance painting.
As Hob continues to stare, drinking in the sight of his Stranger, horrified by the raw animalistic cage he’d been put in, the butler shrugs, “It’s been down here for years. The Boss’ old man, Rodrick Burgess caught it, and they think if we let it go, it’ll kill us all.”
And they’d fucking deserve it, Hob thinks.Or...
Hob takes a job at the old Burgess house, and comes across the one thing he wasn't expecting to find.
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Moments in Hob and Dream's blossoming relationship. Moments that made their hearts skip a beat and realise just how much they love each other.
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Dream experiences being cared forSeries
- Part 1 of Acts of love
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Hob meets another one of Dreams siblings, and this one is incredibly familiar...
“Despite his hold on you Hob Gadling, you are truly a disciple of mine."
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- Part 2 of Hob meets the Endless
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Dream remembers when he first felt the Sun and its warmth.
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Dream tries cotton candy for the first time
Exactly as it says on the tin.
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A Token of Affection by Maelstrom22
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
29 Jul 2023
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Confessing your love should come easy to the Prince of Stories. Try telling him that.
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my body sings when I get close to you by IronicMaiden
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
22 Jul 2023
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You are in the middle of your period, you feel terrible and under some impulse you decide to seek comfort from your friend. After all, Hob Gadling has, over the centuries of his life, mastered the art of comforting people. Or at least this is what you use to explain yourself why you need him right now.
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I Hate Push/Pull Doors. by WrenOfWrath
Fandoms: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
07 Jul 2023
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The one where Hob and Morpheus are just trying to go home but a glass door tries to throw hands.
(MY FIRST FANFIC EVER AT 16!! WHAT?!?!)
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Always meant to meet you by Q_Fartheeta
Fandoms: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
05 Jan 2023
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An AU where Hob Galding had never met Dream but is still immortal anyway runs into Dream in Burguess’s basement.
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Dream decides to give Hob another immortal friend created in the Dreaming.