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There was a strange guest at the New Inn, who was always on the verge of tears every time he saw Hob.
An AU in which Morpheus is a vampire, and Hob is the reincarnation of his dead lover.
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"The river had brought great comfort, once. Now it only reminds him of a dark-haired immortal whose eyes looked just like the river, dark and reflecting the universe, carrying stories and emotions that Hob could never dream of knowing."
Hob Gadling sits on a riverbank, thinking about his Stranger.
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The attempt is appreciated friend by ghoulkai
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
17 Dec 2024
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1889 The meeting is disastrous and Hob is left picking up the pieces of his life. Too bad someone took interest in the words shouted in the fray.
1916 Dream is summoned by a novice witch who cares not for the consequences, too driven by his own greed to notice.
1921 Dream's captor hasn't aged a day but his excitement on word of something he's been searching years for is palpable
1922 A letter finds Hob, inviting him to a place he dares not revisit so soon, by son of the man who caused him grief beyond imagining and he declines.
1923 That same letter appears, an apology and invitation to a dinner to express the mistakes of the father is made and Hob decides enough is enough. Sons weren't their fathers and it was time to fix the present.
December 1923 Hob meets his stranger once again
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Hob Gadling had worked as a professor in London for some years. It had always been the same routine each semester, each day. Every day he returns to the same flat, the same deafening silence.
After several years at the university, Hob meets a strange colleague. Something feels familiar about him, but it is impossible that they know each other. Hob would have remembered the mysterious and shut-off stranger had they met before. He would know of he had run into the same emotional walls before as he tried to strike up a conversation with the entirely disinterested man.
Nevertheless, they cannot avoid one another as they continuously meet on campus. Neither can Hob deny that this stranger looks quite appealing from some angles. -
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Hob Finally gets some answers.
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【授翻】If I Please You by Transatlanticism_1015
Fandoms: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
24 Nov 2024
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1389年，著名的雇佣兵及土匪霍布·加德林提出要护送一位陌生的勋爵去坎特伯雷，并且打赌说他三天内能猜出这位勋爵的名字。
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Hob was just a simple farmboy destined to work his life in the dirt, but once he awakened his magical talent, everything changed, and he left the small village he had known all his life. However, having unlimited power doesn't mean one is invincible. A hardship leads him straight to the mysterious warlord Dream.
(yes, I was this uncreative with the title)
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When You Accidentally Adopt Two Dead Boys by readytobehumbled
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Sandman (TV 2022)
08 Oct 2024
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Hob Gadling had seen many strange occurrences over the last 600 years. So, really, he should be able to deal with two teenage boys trying to steal off him. Hob cleared his throat loudly behind the curly haired one, who was just reaching up to unhook the glass off the wall.
“Excuse me,” Hob said with a strained smile. “I think you’ll find that that glass is my property.”
The boy opened and closed his mouth like a fish, as if he had no clue that they would get caught trying to steal during rush hour. Hob waited a few seconds before reaching out to teen-thief-number-one in an attempt to get his glass back, before the boy snatched it away quickly.
“No, don’t touch it!” He cried, cradling it in his gloved hands. “It’s cursed.”
“It’s what now?”
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OR: Hob Gadling meets our favourite dead boys. Chaos and a surprising amount of parental love ensue.
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the work of words that hands and mouths will do by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
23 Sep 2024
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Dream--or, Morpheus technically now, as it seems everyone except Hob is required to call him--newly human and newly showing any sort of interest in what being human has to offer (so Hob thought), makes an earnest attempt, which Hob regrets ever suggesting, to meet new people. It goes slightly too well. And there's far too many of them for Hob's liking.
Caught between a few centuries of yearning and the risk hanging over Hob's head like a noose that his dearest friend will decide to call upon his former sister after all, and that it'll all be Hob's fault for upsetting the delicate balance they'd struck since Dream's retirement, tensions comes to a tipping point when Dream presses the issue.
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- Part 1 of Retired!Dream AU
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The elevator doors open, and who should be waiting on the other side, but Morpheus Infinito himself. Hob tries not to groan too loudly as Morpheus enters the elevator and turns his back to him, standing perfectly straight, and looking directly in front of him. Hob should have expected this, Morpheus really gave it to him the last time they saw each other— nearly a week ago. Since then he’d completely avoided him, barring him from being on his surgeries. Hob couldn’t say for sure if this was Morpheus needing space to think (he did seem like the type), or if this was Morpheus deciding that he wanted nothing to do with him.
A loud, screeching noise startles Hob out of his thoughts. He looks up to see that Morpheus had grabbed a hold of the emergency stop, yanking it to momentarily stop the elevator from moving. Hob frowns, unsure if this is actually allowed, and if they’ll be able to get the elevators working again.
“Robert,” he says, hand still squeezing the knob. “It appears I owe you an apology.”
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- Part 5 of cosy in the rocket - A Grey's Anatomy AU
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Over The Line by notallsandmen (notallmaenads)
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
01 Sep 2024
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1889. A few hours after their fight, Dream of the Endless uses his orb to call Hob Gadling’s telephone to apologise.
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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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It happened, someone found out about Hob's immortality, and promptly entrapped him with a dark ritual. His only escape - following Matthew the raven into the realm of the Dreaming. There he meets the mysterious king and finds himself inexplicably drawn towards the powerful man.
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'Oh someone tell me why I'm alive, I don't even pray And yet, I have been saved' by Maelstrom22
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
08 Jun 2024
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On the 7th of June in 1389, a man drunkenly mocks Death, and for some reason known only to her, she grants his wish to never die.
This is how Hob Gadling found out he was immortal.
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Where Everybody Knows Your Name by LinzOd
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
07 Jun 2024
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Matthew laughs, a crowing, gleeful sound. “You got it, friend. But, true lucid dreaming is something only the boss of this place can make happen.”
Hob nods. ”Oh well. It’s been fun to learn about.”
”Why did you decide to try to learn more about your dreams?”
“It was my friend. He told me he would meet me in his dreams, and I guess I took that literally?”
Matthew snorts. “Your friend? I mean, they were obviously flirting with you, my man, because that sounds like a come on in every sense of the world,” Matthew says with what would be a smile, if he had lips.
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After an off handed comment from his Stranger, Hob decides to learn to lucid dream. He dreams up a pub, and imagines some very strange customers: a talking Raven, a Pumpkin headed man, and a beautiful winged woman. Acting as bartender, he advises his dream friends about how to cheer up their boss, while they also advise him on how to approach his oldest friend, who he just might be in love with. But when the king of the dream realm decides to visit this peculiar institution, Hob might be in for more than he ever dreamed of… -
Hob and the Haunted Inn by the Sea by polymona
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), Our Flag Means Death (TV)
04 Jun 2024
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When Dream finally got around to introducing Matthew—a talking raven, Hob suddenly recalled an incident back in the 1700s of his attempt to stay at a seaside inn— involving two ex-pirates, a pissed off ghost, and seagull with a thick Scottish accent.
The Sandman/Our Flag Means Death Crossover.
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- Part 2 of Hob's Hazardous Holidays
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History, Hunters, and Hob by polymona
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), Supernatural (TV 2005)
02 Jun 2024
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All Hob Gadling wanted was to attend an international academic conference in America and make a nice holiday out of the experience.
What he got instead was attacked by supernatural forces in the same vicinity as the Winchesters and their angel.
But at least he got an interesting tale for his Stranger out of the ordeal.
The Sandman/Supernatural Crossover.
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- Part 1 of Hob's Hazardous Holidays
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When Hob Gadling made a drunken deal with a mysterious man in a pub, he didn’t expect anything to come of it. Waking up the following morning with a golden mark on his wrist was a shock, though less than finding out that he couldn’t die. Who had he made a deal with, and what did he want? His Stranger was far from forthcoming, so he’d have to figure it out himself. That his mark was not just a passkey to an underworld of supernatural beings but the sign that he wasn’t meant to spend eternity alone was enough to send him down paths he never knew existed and ask more questions than were answered. Who, or more importantly what was his Stranger, and did the mysterious man know who Hob was destined for?
(An AU where only immortals have soulmarks that mark their species/type as well as their partner, and Hob has something no one has seen before)
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Hob Gadling is recently divorced and not in a good mental place when Dream walks into the New Inn over thirty years late for their appointment.
So, instead of warmly welcoming Dream, Hob decides to finally give him a piece of his mind. As far as he's concerned, it's Dream's turn to be the good friend if he wants Hob back in his life.
He was not expecting Dream to take him up on that challenge.
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Swim For Brighter Days by BazzyBelle for KydrogenDragon
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
11 May 2024
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“You do not write with the others?” she finally asked him after three days of Hob reading the books in the house.
“Sadly, I am not much of a writer. I print books and I read them. The goddess herself neglected to bless me with her words,” he’d responded, smiling up at her. She was wearing a beautiful, white gown, flowing gracefully down to the floor. Elegant white gloves covered her hands and arms, while her hair was intricately braided in what Hob assumed was inspired by the women of Ancient Greece.
“Have you never tried before?”
“A few times, when I was younger and far more arrogant. Wrote a poem for a—” Hob stopped short, not knowing how exactly to refer to his stranger. Was he a friend? A casual acquaintance?
“A special person,” she finished for him.
“A special person,” Hob said.