Sandman Fics
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The world’s population jumped to seven billion in the time Dream was trapped. For a century Burgess’s binding circle held back the tide of what that might mean, but once Dream is free, once his power is restored, the additions to the unconscious take some getting used to.
For the first few weeks, Dream just feels really, really high.
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- Part 1 of Sandman Fics
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Dream was mind-numbingly bored while trapped inside the fishbowl. He quickly found something to do.
Or, how he came to be known as the ‘Devil’ in Burgess’s basement.
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- Part 2 of Sandman Fics
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The meeting in the pub lasts longer than either of them expect, and Dream lets slip a couple of vague facts that give Hob more information about his friend than the previous six centuries put together. He learns that he’s something of a king (which isn’t a surprise) and that he missed their appointment because he was trapped somewhere (which is). The rest is cryptic and reluctant, but when Dream implies that everyone he’d ever known had either assumed he’d abandoned them or been too busy to come help him well—
Furious doesn’t quite cover it.
AKA: What to do when your mysterious friend who might also be a god doesn’t realise they feel betrayed.
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- Part 3 of Sandman Fics
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Hob has never been interested in finding out who his Stranger is, not when it would ruin the anticipation of waiting for him to tell him himself, but after he disappears he can’t help but worry enough to begin to put out feelers. Even if he had missed their meeting out of petty spite, Hob needed to know for sure, and he was prepared to suffer through another tense argument if that's what it takes to know his friend is safe.
He was not expecting to be kidnapped by a cult worshiping someone called the King Of Dreams, strapped to a table to be sacrificed, and then promptly declared their leader when they found out he couldn’t die.
Oh, and apparently he’s now in charge of a rescue mission.
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- Part 4 of Sandman Fics
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Shattering the ruby had some far reaching consequences, and in one universe that might have meant nothing at all, but a change in timeline means that Dream ends up going to his meeting with Hob completely and utterly high. Hob finds himself comparing the experience to corralling a drunk friend at a party when they want to talk to everyone.
Except that friend is a solemn immortal who’ll tell you he likes the taste of your dream.
(An AU of ‘Restoration’ but can standalone)
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- Part 5 of Sandman Fics
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Dream has always been able to recognise the vortex for what it really is—a test.
(A curse)
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- Part 6 of Sandman Fics
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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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Hob doesn’t age, doesn’t grow old, doesn’t change. Sometimes that’s hard.
His Stranger lets him dream it.
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- Part 8 of Sandman Fics
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Hob reread the instructions carefully, read them again, and then checked that he had all the right parts for what felt like the thousandth time. He ignored the steadily rising tide of confusion, the sheer incomprehension he felt—Hob had lived for hundreds of years and he knew how to build things—projecting what he hoped was a convincing aura of calm.
He heard a chuckle.
“Shut up Dream.”
AKA: Hob vs Ikea furniture featuring a very amused Dream of the Endless and his annoyingly chatty raven.
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- Part 9 of Sandman Fics
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Hob catches the flu.
Dream is surprisingly (or perhaps not so surprisingly) good at looking after him.
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- Part 10 of Sandman Fics
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The Endless family dinner goes a little differently in the 21st century; immortal families are strange after all, their jokes even more so, the way they tease leaning towards extremes the same as how they show love. The result is a bet that leaves Dream human for long enough to need a job, money, food. All things an Endless has never needed, now necessities he has to find. Dream of the Endless is human—
He’s better at it than everyone expected.
And incredibly offended by how confidently they assumed otherwise.
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- Part 11 of Sandman Fics
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The Kindly Ones come for her brother.
Death says no.
(A fix it of sorts containing major spoilers for the comics)
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- Part 12 of Sandman Fics
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Calliope grieves for Orpheus.
Her search for closure leads her down an unexpected path.
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- Part 13 of Sandman Fics
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From the cradle, a grave by Anonymous
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
28 Aug 2025
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Calliope returns to the Dreaming.
She won’t let Lyta Hall claim a blood crime for the death of her son.
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- Part 14 of Sandman Fics
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Dream finds Lyta Hall asleep in Hettie's flat and decides to wake her up.
There is time for a cup of tea while they wait.
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- Part 15 of Sandman Fics