shadow_faye
Fandoms
- Fairy Tail (10)
- The Sandman (Comics) (7)
- The Sandman (TV 2022) (7)
- Free! (2)
- Original Work (1)
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The Price of Honesty by shadow_faye
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
09 Jul 2026
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"Even if I were inclined to grant his demands, I could not," Dream informed him, choosing his words carefully as he met Hob's gaze. "Immortality is not my gift to give."
Dream has something he should have told Hob centuries ago.
As the truth about Hob's immortality comes to light, old assumptions are shattered, painful choices are laid bare, and Dream is forced to confront a possibility he has never truly understood. That friendship might survive honesty.
Or: Hob discovers he became immortal because of a wager between Dream and Death, and spends the evening teaching an Endless what it means to be forgiven and what it means to stay.
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- Part 7 of The Grace of Being Known
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The Ghosts of Fawney Rig by shadow_faye
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
07 Jul 2026
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“I need your help. And I think you’re going to want to give it.” She leaned forward, dropping her voice. “I want to break into Fawney Rig.”
Johanna Constantine asks Hob Gadling to help her break into Fawney Rig and recover the Grimoire that once bound Dream of the Endless to keep it from falling into the wrong hands.
Hob agrees on one condition: Dream must be given the choice.
Even if that means returning to the place that broke him.
Even if it means confronting the ghosts of Fawney Rig together.
After six centuries of friendship, Hob knows one thing with absolute certainty: caring for someone means trusting them with their own choices, even when it hurts.
A story about trust, consent, and the ghosts that linger long after the prison door opens.
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- Part 6 of The Grace of Being Known
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“Hob is a friend.”
Johanna Constantine didn’t believe it. The Endless don’t have mortal friends.
But there Hob was, making Dream hot cocoa and threatening to give Alexander Burgess a good punch, and Dream was watching him with an expression that suggested he had absolutely no idea what to do with someone who looked at the King of Nightmares and said good.
Dream has never celebrated Christmas before. Hob is determined to give him a proper one.
Featuring: Dream’s first Christmas, Hob learning some truth about the Endless, and the moment Dream realizes that Hob Gadling was never going to be afraid of him
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- Part 5 of The Grace of Being Known
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When Hob Gadling hesitates to attend the birthday party of a mortal child who's family he has grown too fond of, Dream shows up on the porch with an unexpected perspective on the kindness of fond memories. Hob finds himself pulled back into the warmth of the living.
What follows is an afternoon of sugar-fueled chaos, a crash course in the mechanics of "show-and-tell," and a powerful cosmic entity deeply confused by simple human kindness.
Featuring an Endless who is surprisingly gentle with children, a birthday girl absolutely convinced her Uncle Robbie's new friend is a vampire, and a small, shivering dreamer who just wants a warm place to stay.
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- Part 4 of The Grace of Being Known
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The Weight of Ordinary Things by shadow_faye
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
02 Jul 2026
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“You were not wrong,” Dream said after a moment. “I was lonely. I simply... did not understand it then.”
Until a century of glass and cold and silence.
“And now?” he finally asked.
Dream was silent for a moment, looking down at the sidewalk. “I am... less so.”
A century of glass, cold, and silence taught Dream what loneliness is. Hob Gadling has known it far longer.
When Hob takes him to a winter market for cider, food, and the simple rhythms of human life, Dream begins to learn that loneliness is not a fixed state. It can lessen. It can shift. And in the space where “less” begins, something new may quietly take root.
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- Part 3 of The Grace of Being Known
Recent series
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The Grace of Being Known by shadow_faye
Fandom The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
10 Jul 2026
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Understand this is a slow burn in every sense of the word. Hob doesn't want to scare Dream off and Dream is still healing.
Centuries after a wager became a friendship, Dream and Hob Gadling are learning how to become something more. A slow burn about learning casual intimacy and how to let yourself be loved.
After Dream's imprisonment, the Lord of Dreams finds himself pulled into the messy, ordinary business of living: birthday parties, found families, music, kittens, existential revelations, and children who insist he must be a vampire.
As Hob introduces Dream to the emotional language of humanity, their bond deepens into something quiet, intimate, and transformative. Funny, tender, and occasionally complicated by unicorns, this series is about immortality meeting domesticity, and an Endless being discovering that love is not about changing who you are. It is about finally being understood.
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Even When I Had Nothing by shadow_faye
Fandom Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
28 Jun 2018
- Words:
- 5,974
- Works:
- 1
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The Raijinshuu wasn't always the strongest team in Fairy Tail. Their early days were marked by pain and tears. However, that pain helped form bonds that could never be broken.
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I'm Morpheus, Please Dance With Me by Picture_Yourself
Fandoms: The Sandman (Comics), Coraline (2009), Good Omens (TV), Hellblazer, The Sandman (TV 2022)
21 Jan 2022
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Set during and after Preludes & Nocturnes when Morpheus is left drained of his power by his ruby and left for dead in a Justice League storage. Thankfully Hob finds him and helps him back to his feet.
Set also in the now still hypothetical universe of The Sandman Netflix show where Morpheus has been imprisoned for 105 years, hence he misses a VERY important meeting.
Series
- Part 1 of More Than Friends
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 31,010
- Chapters:
- 5/5
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Bookmarked by shadow_faye
16 Mar 2026
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The day after Jessamy’s failed rescue attempt, Dream had a visitor.
Or,
Getting a single Dream Lord out of the basement should not be this hard.
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- Part 1 of (In)vulnerable
Bookmarked by shadow_faye
09 Mar 2026
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Magnus Bane receives orders to investigate what is a trapped warlock (or something demonic) in the basement of one Roderick Burgess. He isn't expecting to come across two creatures already planning a rescue of said captive. Even more than that - he isn't expecting the captive to be an Endless, of all things.
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Hob Gadling, when a talking raven (named Jessamy) shows up to tell him that his oldest friend has been captured and needs his help, isn't expecting to get plunged into a world of magical beings, time travel, and more than his fair share of violence, but. For his Stranger? He would do anything.
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- English
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- 51,299
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- 13/13
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Bookmarked by shadow_faye
09 Mar 2026
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Goldfish Guardian by Fyoex
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types, Super Sons (Comics), DCU
24 Jan 2026
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Jon's soul is hurled through time and space, where he meets a young, League of Assassins version of Damian. Naturally, Jon takes the lonely child under his wing.
Meanwhile, the people back home are forced to grapple with the awful truth: There is nothing they can do to save Jon.
Bookmarked by shadow_faye
25 Jan 2026
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Cassettes are about thirty years after Alastor’s time, he knows. Lucifer’s lips pull into a wobbly smile, thinking of Alastor, of how he must have thought CDs were just a bit too far in terms of technological advancement. Hell, Alastor would have loved cassettes had he been a radio host during their heyday. Cutting off some poor teenage boy’s mixtape in the middle of a titular love song to shout out the name of the radio station?
Yeah.
Yeah, he would have loved that.
Lucifer finishes collecting the fallen cassettes and putting them back into their box, picking up the whole thing and bringing it over to the desk. Tonight's a night of indulgences, anyway. What’s one more?
Lucifer idly wonders just where going back to his old lover’s place of work to record himself talking through the feelings of betrayal and abandonment on the old equipment falls on his list of sub-par coping mechanisms.
Series
- Part 1 of Your Misfortunes Could Touch the Sky
Bookmarked by shadow_faye
04 May 2024