#POOR DREAM

[windsweptinred]

The fact that Dream had to deal with the Greek Pantheon as his family in law is both horrifying and absolutely hilarious. Did the poor naive soul walk into that thinking it couldn't be any worse then his family? ... There's I'll do anything for my beloved wife to be and dealing with Lord grope first, think never as your father in law. Yeah sure Dream, live separately from your wife to 'keep it special'. I'm pretty sure that's code for, keep your entire family of chaotic neutral rabbits way way... Way over there where I don't have to see, speak or hear them. Ever! Wow, think of the mutual family gatherings. At some point, Desire and Aphrodite shared the same breathing space and yet the world somehow surivied past the hellenistic period. Amazing!

[mollymagician]

was thinking today about the well-loved trope “human Dream is just totally thrown by small things like catching a cold” …but what about human Dream having absolutely no frame of reference for how he should react to any level of bodily distress and just consistently underestimating Real Problems?

Boy’s been locked in a bubble for a century. He’s been tossed into a black hole. He’s experienced on-beyond-zebra levels of sensory hell. So now he’s human, and it’s…an interesting situation. It’s an interesting situation followed by a peculiar sensation followed by a perplexing social interaction repeat repeat repeat and Dream has no context for any of it. Some things that other humans don’t seem especially bothered by, he finds wildly overwhelming but then there are days like-

Dream *chopping vegetables, so proud, Hob is teaching him a Useful Human Skill*

Hob: “Perfect! You’re doing wonderfully, duck.”

Dream: “I am glad.”

Hob: 🥰🥰

Dream: “Although I seem to have cut off the tip of my finger.”

Hob: ……

Hob: “You’ve done what now?????”

Dream: “Hmm. This won’t ruin the recipe will it?”

Hob: “BLOODY HELL”

[orionsangel86]

Do you think Morpheus is a type of character who could be/learn to be content to be single? Or would he always seek out a relationship (if he had to endure eternity and dying wasn't an option)?

The problem with Morpheus is that for him to learn anything he has to actively want to learn it, which he rarely does (cue eyebrows raising all over when Netflix!Morpheus told Lucienne he was learning "or at least trying to"). His not so secret desire for a relationship is basically a primary character trait in the comics. But like with all things in Sandman, its a bit more complicated than it would appear at first glance.

One of the things that is constantly pointed out in the comics regarding Morpheus is that he is lonely. He never actually states this himself, but its been mentioned enough times. The entire point of the Men of Good Fortune story on Morpheus's side is that he needs a friend. Hob points this out directly and Morpheus's reaction to that is heavily tied into his pride and his inability to accept that he is lonely, when loneliness is such a huge part of his story arc. That he comes around and accepts Hob's friendship is a massive step forward and signifier of his change.

His loneliness and need for companionship was even pointed out all the way back during the time of Endless Nights before humans even existed. Desire states it plainly:

and it was clearly a topic of concern for the family since Destruction also states how much they all hoped he would find someone:

which considering we don't see any of the other Endless ever take lovers (other than Destruction once) its clearly a big deal. Even his siblings think he needs a companion, and already thought this about him millions of years ago!

So loneliness is something Dream struggles with, whether he denies it or not. But notice how of all the Endless, he is the only one of them who regularly surrounds himself with other beings? Think about the realms of the other Endless. Destiny has his gardens, and there are his strange ghostly servants who don't appear to be the chatty type. Desire remains alone in the Threshold, Despair has her rats - which aren't likely to be great conversationalists, and Deliriums realm is chaos incarnate. We don't ever see the realms of Death or Destruction but neither of them seem to spend any time there anyway.

So Dream is different here because his realm is a thriving kingdom like something out of a fairytale. He has servants of all kinds, people he can interact with and talk to, who respect him and consider him their Lord. In the comics none of them would probably consider him their "friend" but in the netflix show we can certainly argue that Lucienne is the closest thing he has to a full time companion (which is in itself is a change to the comics to make Lucienne closer to him than Lucien in the comics ever is). He also has his ravens, who were all once mortals who died in their sleep. His ravens can also talk and are close to him. Matthew becomes so close to him that by the time we get to TKO Matthews loyalty to him, refusal to leave his side, and then eventual hurt and anger and grief at his death has me in floods of tears everytime I think about it.

But the point here is that even with all of that, which is far more companionship than any of his siblings seem to have, he is STILL lonely and longs for a lover.

I think one of the reasons he butts heads with Desire so much is because he desires so much and tries so hard to resist those desires (which Desire then takes as a personal insult). The companionship of Lucienne and Matthew, the friendship of Hob Gadling, none of it is enough. He still wants more, hence the lovers. Hence how it is hinted at throughout the comic that Dream takes lovers fairly regularly. How Neil Gaiman has previously said that the former lovers we know about from the comics only scratch the surface. Morpheus is affectionately, a bit of a manwhore. A Casanova if you will, only his weakness is love rather than sex.

So my honest answer to the question of whether he will ever be content to be single is a resounding no.

It's far too ingrained in him throughout the comics and at the end of the day, what is he if not a Dream? He is nothing but romantic notions and idle fantasies and love has such a huge place in such things, even if the comics make clear that love is actually the domain of Desire - and Desire is always cruel.

Hence Dream's many many problems stem from it.

[thereisnoaccount]

[roguelov]

Okay, this is not a prompt, I swear...

But, I showed my cousins a picture of Morpheus and told them that he's one of my crushes.

They said "He looks creepy."

🌹

CREEPY?!? NOOOOOOO HES THE HANDSOMEST LIL MAN

[bleue-flora]

yeah i always thought it like ruining cdream's life was a team work bewteen him and everyone else and they went for a A+

Lol… for once a group project where everyone participated… A+s all around. ;D

[seiya-starsniper]

Ides of Smurch filth for @staroftheendless

Day 15 - “Right here. Right now” | Toys | Touch

Teasing Dream during sex is one of Hob’s favorite activities.

There is just something ethereally lovely about seeing the Endless splayed out on his bed, fists twisted in the sheets, and gasping at every probe of Hob’s tongue inside his hole. 

“Hob,” Dream whines from underneath him. “If you don’t fuck me right here, right now…” 

“Patience duck,” Hob whispers. He kisses the swollen rim, then easily slides a finger inside. “You can be patient for me, right?”

As soon as he says that, Hob crooks his finger just right, sending a shudder through Dream’s entire body. The other man gasps and tries to move his hips against Hob’s finger, but the immortal withdraws it and closes his lips over Dream’s cock instead. 

Dream tries to buck his into Hob’s mouth, but Hob pins his hips down and moves his mouth at a glacial pace up and down the dream king’s cock.

“Hob, please,” Dream cries, openly sobbing now. “Don’t toy with me. Fuck me now.”

Hob grins and withdraws his mouth. “As you wish, my lord.”

Speaking of toys, Hob thinks as he finally slides into Dream. Maybe he’ll pick up a few vibrators on his next trip out.

[420pogpills]

so george just passed his illness over to a certain someone and is now fine and dandy huh 😌

[winnccc]

NO WAY THAT'S JUST PLAIN WRONG

this is cannibalism btw.

[ghostdnfie]

that damn immune system of his cant catch a break 😭

[windsweptinred]

The more I learn about Destiny of the Endless. The more I think the 'RULES' were made specifically to keep 'him' in check....And he just managed to cleverly deflect all of the blame onto Dream. Tricksy little blighter. 😆

No kissy/heart emoji thoughts for mortals please

Dream: Has a passionate romance with a mortal... Her city gets destroyed by a random meteor. Asks her to be his queen, deals reeeaaaalllllyyyy badly with being told the word no. Fallout: One city and one really unfortunate ex.

Destiny: Leaves his realm for five minutes to to tell (not ask) a mortal woman she's going to have his kid. Which leads to the creation of Pestilence, one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse ... Oh, and the added bonus of the arrival of global pandemics. Cheers mate! Fallout: Humanity as we know it.

Don't mess with each others stuff/ have at each other

Dream: Desire has a child, as a back up plan... To f*ck up Dream's realm. And maybe, you know.. Kill him. Possibly... A little. Dream proceeds to posture aggressively at them. Response to aggravating siblings: We are not amused.

Destiny: Directly defies his own mother's wishes and the destiny his book dictates (Aka absolute Destiny unholy of unholies) to pull Dream from a Black Hole. Just so he can get his sh*t off his backyard because it's messing up his zen. Response to aggravating siblings: I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.

Don't pick on the mortals unless it's to give them a good telling or warn them off strenuously

Dream looses his temper. Tends to go all Storm from Xmen on the local weather system. Can occasionally do something really frikkin stupid.. Like send his ex to hell. Tantrum level: Eldritch Toddler

Destiny looses his temper... Wiped an entire city, population, buildings... Men, women, children.. Dust bunnies... OFF THE MAP. Permanently! Tantrum level: Old Testament. God Level.

Little bonus... Try not to fill the world with baby Endless . It's not good for the environment

Orpheus: Brings the world beautiful song and a tragic tale of romance.

John: Brings the world... Plague, all the types.

....

The Fates: Right that's it! We'll be seeing no more of these shinnanigans! We are implementing rules. And they WILL be followed!!

Destiny: (Tutting) Honestly little brother

Dream: Wait... Me!??

[midnight-stormm]

Milo still peeing in dreams bad😭😭 they babies, they still learning.

[4typercent]

So umm

👉👈

Touch starved.

[lobotomye]

tangled wires ..

[flooffydergen]

Ahhh more of this shit... WHAT HAVE I DONE 🤣🤣🤣

Again warning You may find shit triggering or offensive proceed with Extreme caution or don't I don't care

Heh. Heh. Poor dream.

[tagerrkix]

Eden was their ✨disney princess era✨