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Once a century, the village provides a sacrifice, and for the next hundred years, the forest provides for every need.
Hob Gadling is not expecting to be Morpheus' next chosen, but he is certainly not complaining that he is.
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- Part 2 of dreamling bingo 2023
- Part 1 of the forest king
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26 Mar 2026
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“Hob?” Dream rumbles. Something about the quality of his voice makes Hob preen like a content cat.
“Yes?”
Dream sits up just enough to meet Hob’s gaze. His eyes are dark and full of the night sky, sparkling and beautiful.
“Earlier, when you thought that you would happily meet me here again next century, and let me have whatever I wanted of you. Did you mean that truly?”
Hob’s breath catches, not at the impossible knowledge Dream holds, but at the naked hope in his voice. His heart stumbles over itself, missing a beat and then hurrying to take as many as possible.
“Of course,” he says, far too empathically, every cell in his body straining towards the miraculous being in his arms. “I would wait a hundred more centuries and meet you at the end of each one. It would be the best adventure I could imagine.”
Dream smiles, wide and sweet, and Hob falls in love, totally and completely.
“I will see you in one hundred years, then, Robert Gadling.”
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24 Mar 2026
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In 1915, Dream of the Endless misses his next appointment with Hob Gadling.
Jessamy does not come with an explanation, as she might have at other times, but Hob does not worry just yet. There is a war on, Dream is a busy creature and a mercurial one beside. Sometimes he wants Hob every day for a year, and sometimes he disappears for months on end.
It is 1919 by the time Hob grows concerned. Fortunately, their raven comes for help before it's too late.
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- Part 2 of birds of a feather
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24 Mar 2026
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Dream turns in Hob’s arms, shifting until he kneels between Hob’s spread legs. He huffs when Dream tugs at his knees, sending him down to sprawl on his back.
“I seem to recall you enjoying me most when I was demanding.”
“Impossible creature,” Hob murmurs, smiling fondly. His hands come up, cradling Dream’s head between his palms and caressing his beloved face with a reverent touch. “I love you.”
Dream melts, contouring his body until he fits perfectly against Hob, all of their lines and planes and angles lining up, foreheads resting together. Hob grips him close, arms and legs wrapped tight around Dream, crushing them together, preventing an escape that Dream has no intention of attempting.
“As I love you, dear one.” The words seem to rumble from someplace deep inside Dream that rarely sees the light of day, the admission a truth that he has allowed them only a few precious times in the past. “You are ever my light in the darkness. In these long years that I have been alone, it was the thought of you that kept me from falling into fury and despair. I turn to you like a blossom towards sunlight, seeking your warmth and goodness to nourish away all the sharp, punishing edges of myself.”
Hob is crying again, by the time Dream’s words fade away, cool, slick tears carving rivers into his skin. Dream kisses him, long, slow, as sweet as honey. They are both raw and hurting, both traumatized by their years apart in different ways. But they are together now, their joining a balm against the cruelty of life.
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between the marble and the stars by behold_me for Messmonte
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
15 Nov 2022
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After their disastrous meeting in 1889, Morpheus goes home to sulk and Hob drowns himself in the comfort of sleep.
Jessamy intervenes to bring the fools together.
Dream will never quite be able to think of his throne, or Hob Gadling, the same way afterwards.
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- Part 1 of birds of a feather
Bookmarked by TheResearcher
23 Mar 2026
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Jessamy fluffs her wings, flicking raindrops off and following Morpheus as he steps between worlds in a flurry of sand.
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Abandoning the wreckage of his bedroom, already repairing itself in his wake, he strides through the palace, long cloak sweeping behind him. He encounters few denizens of the Dreaming as he goes, those he does shying away from the dark look on his face.
The doors swing open on silent hinges as he approaches, Dream blowing in with the silent fury of a deadly hurricane.
Faced with Hob Gadling, he stops in his tracks. Dream skids a little on the polished floor, though no being witnesses this and he would deny it to his last breath. He might not have the self-control to stop himself from behaving like a spoiled, rash brat, but he still has his dignity.
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Dream whispers his names, and as he does, Hob’s clothing falls away piece by piece until he sits upon the Dream Lord’s throne as naked as the day he was born, titles ringing in his ears. Hob is finely crafted, even touched with the blemishes every human must bear. These mean nothing to Dream, who only cares for the glory he finds in the imperfection.
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Unorthodox family constellations and their uses in raising children by Morpheus Gadling-Olympiou, PhD by chaosheadspace
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
29 Sep 2024
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Hob and Murphy have a lot to look forward to—they're engaged and Orpheus is coming back. But as they make their plans, life makes its own, as always.
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- Part 7 of The Library Idiots
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23 Mar 2026
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High-strung (646.42 Underwear) by chaosheadspace for starsniper
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
18 May 2024
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"Mind?" Hob's eyes grow heated and dark. "You really need to ask if I mind my boyfriend picking out lacy underwear? Murphy, I had to go and look at cartoon socks just to stop imagining you in everything I laid eyes on."
"Really?" Murphy smirks, his eyes twinkling. "Then you will be pleased to learn that I also bought the green ones you liked."
Aka me finally resolving a loose end
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- Part 6 of The Library Idiots
Bookmarked by TheResearcher
23 Mar 2026
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Inappropriate Uses of the Dewey Decimal System and Coworkers by Hob Gadling, no PhD by chaosheadspace for behold_me, notallmaenads, Pinto_Bordeaux (zsnesw), The_KickIt_Domain, tharkuun
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
04 Mar 2024
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Library assistant Hob Gadling has been working at a university library for a few years now. He's happy, or, to be precise, he has no reason to be unhappy.
But then Dream Olympiou, freshly hired subject librarian, stirs up the sleepy reading rooms and Hob's life with a personality that leaves much to be desired and a body that's got fine written all over it.
Hob is in for an adventure long overdue, including misunderstandings, shushed feelings, and checked out brains (and arses).
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- Part 10 of the honk zone
- Part 1 of The Library Idiots
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- English
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15 Mar 2026
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across the infinite march of time by behold_me for Messmonte
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
15 Jan 2023
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“There has been. A complication.”
“What sort of complication?”
A pause.
“My siblings have realised you are my consort.”
“Ah,” Hob says, in the moment it takes him to fully process the words. Then, “What do you mean, realised?!”In which Dream must share Hob with his family for an evening, and does not understand all the feelings this inspires. (They have sex about it)
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- Part 3 of birds of a feather
- Part 1 of dreamling bingo 2023
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- English
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Bookmarked by TheResearcher
14 Mar 2026
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Hob strokes a hand up and down Dream’s sweaty back as his pace increases again, his legs clamping tighter around his waist, his cock hardening between them once more. It’s slower this time, Dream driving Hob to his peak more gradually, so when it comes he falls harder and for longer, shaking and spasming around him until he’s almost sobbing with it.
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But still, Dream continues. He turns Hob over onto his back, settling in the cradle of his thighs. Hob clings to him, shaking like a leaf, his thighs solid and warm under Dream's hands. Every thrust leaves Hob twitching and moaning, breath coming out in sobs. Dream kisses him, licking along the seam of his lips, coaxing his way into Hob's mouth.
"D-Dream," Hob says between hiccuping sobs, slurring his words. "N-no more, love, I c-can't anymore."
"Just one more, Hob." Dream hides his face in damp, sweaty hair, inhaling his musky scent. "Just for me. I know you can give me one more."
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Dream's hand moves between his thighs to slide inside of him, fingers easily slipping into the mess there. Hob whimpers, eyes pressed tightly closed, thighs twitching. Too exhausted to close his legs and deny Dream.
"Do not fret, my heart. I'm only cleaning you out."
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painted ponies go round and round (captive on a carousel) by CourfeyracFredMariusCratchit
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
14 May 2024
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Fleeting moments, captured for posterity, in the settled lives of Hob, Dream, and their kids.
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- Part 5 of House at Pooh Corner
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13 Mar 2026
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Ah, it's more courageous to overcome by CourfeyracFredMariusCratchit
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
12 Mar 2024
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After Eurydice's funeral, Hob talks to his son about grief and moving on.
Even if that means moving back in with his dads for a while.
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- Part 4 of House at Pooh Corner
Bookmarked by TheResearcher
12 Mar 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
“...Does it ever stop hurting?” Orpheus’ voice cracked as he asked the question, hoarse from the tears.
“...Not really. It’s…Ok. Picture you have a bouncy ball inside a box, right? Every time the ball touches the walls of the box, you feel the pain. Right now? The box is only just big enough for the ball to exist in. Every time it moves, it touches the walls. But…as time goes on, the box expands. Soon, just existing isn’t going to hurt anymore, but every so often, the ball bounces off the wall. And it hurts just as much as it originally did. But the ball also stops being in contact with the wall quicker. The hurt doesn’t last as long as it used to. For me, the box for my Ell is pretty damn big now. Most days I can think about her and just be happy about it. But every once in a while…it still hurts. It’ll be the same for you, too.” The metaphor was a damned good one–shamelessly stolen from the grief counselor he’d seen as a condition of keeping Robyn. That metaphor was about the only thing he’d taken from those sessions, but at least it could serve him well again.
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Exploring the Impact of Battle Skirts in the Modern Era, by Robert Gadling,PhD by CourfeyracFredMariusCratchit
Fandoms: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
08 Jun 2023
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Morpheus Oneiros Aeturnus does not often attend PTA meetings. He pays Lucienne enough for that. But when he does choose to attend them, he plays to win.
Hob finds this out, which gives his imagination far too much to work with.
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- Part 3 of House at Pooh Corner
- Part 11 of the honk zone
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- English
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- 1/1
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12 Mar 2026
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so help me if you can by CourfeyracFredMariusCratchit
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
28 May 2023
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Robyn is a man grown now, off at college and fiercely independent.
That doesn't mean he still doesn't need his dad, once in a while.
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- Part 2 of House at Pooh Corner
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12 Mar 2026
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i'll be a better man than my father ever was by CourfeyracFredMariusCratchit
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
04 Aug 2023
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He spent the entire trip going over what little he’d been told, again and again. There had been an incident. Orpheus had been bullied. And another lad had (rightfully, the vicious, protective animal of his brain cried out!) punched the bully in question. He’d dealt with much the same mockery as a child–of course he had!
When two boys become fast friends, their fathers are tossed together by circumstances.
They stay together by choice.
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- Part 1 of House at Pooh Corner
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- English
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- 12/12
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Bookmarked by TheResearcher
10 Mar 2026
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After Lord Morpheus visits him in the waking world, Pharamond starts hearing some rumors that things aren't going so well for the King of Dreams. So he gets a bottle of wine and goes to pay a visit.
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10 Mar 2026
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Being in charge of transportation can be a challenge.
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09 Mar 2026
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An Examination and Analysis of Transformative Fiction by Dream of the Endless, Prince of Stories by behold_me
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
21 Mar 2023
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Dream stumbles upon some fanfiction in the Library of the Dreaming.
Intrigued, he decides to read it and leave the author some notes towards improvement.Series
- Part 7 of the honk zone
- Part 7 of dreamling bingo 2023
- Language:
- English
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- 2,479
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- 1/1
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Bookmarked by TheResearcher
08 Mar 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
[You have missed several key adjectives which would improve the description here. You truly do not do Hob's penis justice at all.]
{A note from the Royal Librarian: This is a direct contradiction to your earlier objections-}
[Do not interrupt, Lucienne.]
{A note from the Royal Librarian: I give up.}
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On the intentional superimposition of fantasy onto the real, by Hob Gadling, PhD (done entirely to the benefit for and told from the perspective of Dream) by Quilling for The_KickIt_Domain, behold_me, chaosheadspace
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
18 Mar 2023
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“I used to imagine – what would it be like if I was actually one of your students. What if I was actually as young as I looked. I imagined you noticing me, telling me I’d earned some special prize. Letting me – teaching me something that was very much not on any curriculum, as if I’m someone who had never, you know… So,” Dream’s voice trailed off. “That’s it, really. Bone-crushingly embarrassing, I know.”
(Or - what happens when the aforementioned scenario was no longer doomed to exist only in the hypothetical)
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- Part 6 of the honk zone
Bookmarked by TheResearcher
08 Mar 2026
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All poetry quoted are from Shakespeare's Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds . Dream is Shakespeare's fair youth is forever and always my OG cursèd agenda.
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Every so often Hob is forced to think to himself, with regards to Dream: I Should Have Seen This Coming.
He never does, though.
He's having a good time anyway.
Bookmarked by TheResearcher
06 Mar 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
Hob: I shoulda left you on the street corner where I found you
Dream: BUT YA DIDN'TI hope you enjoyed this! Remember that I feed on comments, so please do drop me a line :)
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“Defiling the Sublime: emerging technologies and their methodological implications”, by Hob Gadling, PhD by notallsandmen (notallmaenads) for BeatnikFreak, behold_me
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
05 Mar 2023
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Dream surprises Hob during a Zoom conference and blows him under his desk. Exactly what it says on the tin.
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- Part 3 of the honk zone
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06 Mar 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
I’d like to think that Dream and Hob have ongoing negotiations about a Hades/Persephone-style relationship — and by negotiations, I mean that Dream just leaves random crap on the floor everywhere and Hob (being a super-polite guest of the Dreaming) picks up after him, only for Dream to go “AHA, you have been BAMBOOZLED, for those are my pomegranate seeds, and now you must remain in my kingdom”, and Hob sighing because it is the third time he has done this in, like, three months
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How to Win a Fucking Bet, by Hob Gadling, PhD by behold_me, Wildshadows
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
29 Dec 2022
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“You haven’t forgotten our deal, have you, Hob Gadling?” Dream had asked, an infuriating grin on his face, as Hob’s mouth went dry as a desert.
Ah, the deal. The fucking deal.
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The deal which led to Hob giving a lecture with a butt plug in, much to Dream's glee.Series
- Part 1 of the honk zone
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,945
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- 1/1
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Bookmarked by TheResearcher
06 Mar 2026
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“I’m glad I thought to do this in the Dreaming,” Hob continues on, his tone musing. “It’s so much better to best you in your own realm.” Here he laughs, a sound of pure evil. “Although it’s more like the Creaming, isn’t it?”
Dream jerks himself away, but Hob’s arms are too firm for him to escape easily.
“That is an offence, Robert Gadling! You will erase that phrase from our recollection immediately!” Dream practically squawks, which only makes Hob laugh harder.
“I don’t think so, dream lord. This is my prize for winning the bet and making you come without even being present. My prowess as a lover will be sung through the ages!”
“You are awful. Just awful.” Dream grumbles. He is blushing, which is just the limit. He banishes the evidence of his pleasure from his skin, then reforms his body until it is more Endless and less frightfully human.