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What We Choose to Carry by shadow_faye
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
18 Sep 2026
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Dream has spent centuries believing that love inevitably becomes another form of loss.
Hob Gadling has spent nearly as long proving that some things can survive.
As their friendship deepens into something neither of them quite knows how to name, old wounds refuse to remain buried. A son Dream abandoned still waits for him. A child of Faerie remains trapped in Hell. And the sanctuary built around the New Inn has drawn the attention of powers who know exactly where to look for weakness.
For Dream, caring has always meant having something to lose.
He is beginning to learn that it can also mean trusting someone enough to let them choose to stay.
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- Part 11 of The Grace of Being Known
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Sharing really sucks, but deep down, Grace knows he’s not the priority. And he shouldn’t be, either. Adrian was there first, waited for Rocky longer than Grace even knew him for. They’re his mate. A mate is always more important than a friend, and that’s fine.
It doesn’t make Grace feel better. He gives up on his physical therapy, deciding instead to crawl back into bed. His muscles hurt anyways. The heart is a muscle too, he supposes.
He feels worse with each second, and he allows himself to sob over a pain he’s not sure he understands.
On Erid, there's no greater honour than to be song-bearer.
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After finally escaping The Cage together with Michael, dying again, and then being brought back by Jack with the rest of humanity, Adam should have been able to finally be happy. He should have woken up with his angel inside his head, but reality was not that kind.
He just can't accept that Michael is gone. With little choice but to live with Sam and Dean now that everything and everyone he loved has been ripped out of his hands, Adam devises a plan to get Michael out of the Empty so they can be together again.
Of course, nothing is ever that easy with the Winchesters around, and things don't quite go according to plan.
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Set after canon, with some canonical differences. An overall "fix it" focused on Michael and Adam.
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18 Sep 2026
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Part 3 of The Evans Boy
Deathly Hallows stuff
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- Part 3 of The Evans Boy
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The Grace of Being Known by shadow_faye
Fandom The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
18 Sep 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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