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Hob Galding spends century after century, in happiness or hate, wanting more of life, of wonder, of change, wanting one more sunrise; Hob spends century after century thinking of his Stranger, wanting an answer, wanting one more meeting, wanting something more than brief conversations in a tavern every hundred years.
[Hob Gadling's 600+ years of life]
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02 Jun 2026
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Dream's trip to the beach to recharge in solitude does not go exactly as planned.
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07 May 2026
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“You were loud,” he says, whispering the words through his teeth. “Sloppy.”
“And you let me do it,” Hob shoots back, dipping his chin, mouth almost a caress over Dream’s. The scent of him, of them, sparks like wildfire, and Hob wants to dig his teeth into it. “Didn’t stop me. Didn’t say a word. Just held my hair and took it.”
Dream’s breath catches. It’s quick, but Hob sees it.
“I think you liked coming apart in my hands,” Hob says, voice edged with challenge. “Tell me I’m wrong.”
Dream’s eyes flash with something too bright and too furious, a beautiful crack in that perfect, cold face of his.
(Or: The horrible ordeal of falling for the one person who always manages to get under your skin.)
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06 May 2026
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"Does it bother you? The—" Hob gestured vaguely towards the front door, encompassing Max and, by extension, the entire catalogue of bodies that had preceded him through it. "All of them. Does it bother you?"
Yes, Dream thought, with a force and immediacy that startled him. Yes, it bothers me. Every face, every mark on every throat, every time I arrive to find the space around you already occupied by someone whose presence I must accommodate before I can have you to myself—
"No," he said. "Why would it?"
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03 May 2026
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When Hob Gadling needs a plus-one for a colleague's wedding, he does what any reasonable six-hundred-year-old immortal would do: he asks the anthropomorphic personification of dreams to pretend to be his boyfriend.
What could go wrong?
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16 Apr 2026
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Greedy by Jennistar
Fandoms: Young Sherlock (TV 2026), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
19 Mar 2026
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Sherlock Holmes talks in his sleep. It’s James Moriarty’s new favourite thing about him.
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13 Apr 2026
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“You know what kept me going, century after century?” Hob is angry enough, desperate enough, that his voice drops low, quiet. “Even when I had nothing?”
The music around them crests, waves crashing against the unyielding shores of time –
“Chimneys,” Morpheus answers, bland.
Oh, what a bastard.
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Or, dreams are memories, Hob reflects about life, and Morpheus learns a thing or two about what it means to be saved, and to be loved.
UPDATED: with art for chapters 1 and 4!
and with formatted epub version || pdf / printable version || cover art by the wonderful Holly (@redhothollyberries)Series
- Part 1 of when that piano sang again
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12 Mar 2026
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how strange it is, that after all of that, we are strangers again by Thranduilland
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
18 Feb 2023
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“I am hope,” his Stranger says, almost breathless. “What kills hope , Hob Gadling?” his Stranger asks, but Hob knows what kills hope, he knew in 1689 and he knew in 1889, and he knew in 1989.
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- Part 5 of Thran's 2023 Dreamling Bingo Fills
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02 Mar 2026
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Dream is given a second chance. Terrified by loneliness and drowning in humanity, he goes to find the only fixed point he has ever known. Hob Gadling.
Dream found himself explaining everything, the words tumbling out of him in a halting confession. The Kindly Ones, the choice to end or change. His siblings’ intervention.
“They… found a compromise. This form, it is mortal-adjacent. I must eat, sleep and breathe. I feel the cold. I grow weary.” He looked down at his own hands, pale against the dark fabric of his trousers. “I am, in all ways that matter now, very much like you, Hob Gadling. My body will not age. It cannot die. Unless I choose to accept my sister’s gift. I am… suspended. Between what I was and what men are.”
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21 Feb 2026
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AM, or Andrew as he is this evening, is on a dinner date when he catches sight of Jake behind the bar. His date gets sent home in a cab, and the night gets considerably more interesting. What should have been one night becomes something considerably more for both of them.
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20 Feb 2026
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Dragons don't share. But Jules of Stonemount is used to getting what they want, and one dragon for a husband simply isn't enough.
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09 Feb 2026
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Young and Rush. Sex pollen. Post-1.10 'Justice'.
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27 Jan 2026
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“You were trying to discourage me… from propositioning you?” Dream repeats, bewildered.
Hob sighs, and spreads out his hands. “I think we need a little background, here.”
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Basically, my 1489-Hob-made-himself-look-unfuckable-on-purpose magnum opus. Inspired by the great Tumblr Hob fuckability debates of 2022.
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11 Jan 2026
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"Dream?"
The name falls off the man’s lips, hushed and breathless, and it stirs an answering feeling in Morpheus’ chest, something tugging deep behind the cage of his ribs, an incomprehensible yearning to be this man’s Dream.
"I fear you mistake me for another,” he says, at last.
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Or, retired Morpheus tries to navigate human life without the foundation of his memories, and a chance encounter is the catalyst he needs to find himself.
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07 Jan 2026
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When Dreams Become Reality by Cheshyr, starsniper
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), Inception (2010)
31 Dec 2025
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It was supposed to be a simple job. All they had to do was enter Alexander Burgess’s dreams and convince him to go away with his lover Paul and leave behind Fawney Rig for good. Simpler than Inception. Safer than Extraction.
Yet when Hob Gadling and Arthur Freeman get inside the head of their mark, they realize that not everything is as it seems. Alexander Burgess is hiding a much darker secret, one that is deeply hidden within the basement not just at Fawney Rig, but also inside of Alex’s mind. And Paul refuses to tell them what it is.
Or: What happens when Dream is set free after a hundred years and he discovers that humans have created the technology to infiltrate dreams?
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01 Jan 2026
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Victor thinks he killed his Creature in the fire and regrets it deeply. Months later, when he returns to Victor to demand a companion, their argument causes havoc, and a guest of the wedding shoots the Creature. Victor saves him, taking the bullet instead.
Victor survives, and the Creature and his Maker allow themselves to know each other at last. As their companionship develops, Victor is troubled by a new feeling.
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18 Nov 2025
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17 Nov 2025
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The Creature desires a companion.
Victor will try his best to fill the role.
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16 Nov 2025
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and God said, eye for an eye by distortopia
Fandoms: Frankenstein (2025), Frankenstein & Related Fandoms
13 Nov 2025
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During a hunt that feels as if it's neverending, something attracts his Maker's ire, and the creature finds himself trying to weather a completely different kind of storm.
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16 Nov 2025
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“You speak of companionship, yet do you know what that means?”
“I know it as a blade of grass would know dew,” the creature says. “As a fish would know water. I know only I need it, and it is denied to me. And in this world, there is no other who could offer it.”
Or, the scene where the creature visits Victor ends a lot more horny than it’s intended to.
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15 Nov 2025