#Sandman for ts

[hauntedfalcon]

now how the hell am I supposed to watch an episode where two uncanny fuckers meet in a London pub every hundred years, and not think about the AU where it’s Andromache and Booker

[imironstark]

Morpheus kneeling to speak with Matthew

THE SANDMAN (2022– ) 1.03 | 1.04

[kamwashere]

hey. uh. what the fuck does this mean.

[why-i-love-comics]

DC's I Know What You Did Last Crisis #1 - "At the Point of Vanishing" (2024)

written by Matthew Levine art by Jordi Tarragona & Luis Guerrero

[sarcasticorgasms]

@banjosandmoonlight your museum mini fic has me in a fucking chokehold. accidental museum date my beloved ♥️

[qqueenofhades]

SCREECH!

(With big big thanks to @fishfingersandscarves, who designed the gorgeous cover and arranged for it to be printed into a book!)

[hellsbellschime]

notice how a certain creep didn't appear at all in this even tho he did for s1 promotion

https://x.com/netflix_sandman/status/1836924486722916710?s=46&t=7Sjc1ccizuvSI7djpXsxQA

I'm just glad the actions of one scrub didn't kill a show that I love.

[windsweptinred]

*snicker* I was just musing over some of your lovely Sandman 'verses, and I realized - from a certain perspective, you have George 'Lord of Misrule' Byron and Bernard 'Defiance of the Endless' Black as siblings. (Oh, the CHAOS.)

@hamelin-born, I adore you for noticing this 😆👊 And I consider it my proudest achievement of the 2022. 🤣 I noticed the same thing back in December and thought, what have I done! It's monstrous, it's horrific...It's fabulous and I want to write the niechest set of mini fics ever posted about these two being disaster half siblings.... That possibly five people will get. 😆

Ironically both failed plots by Desire...So everytime Desire has a cunning plan. Dream gets a new chaos baby. Why can't I headcannon Sandman like normal people. 🤣

[orionsangel86]

OMG your tags... glad I'm not the only one that gets Folgers Coffee Commercial vibes from a lot of art of Dream with his sisters 😂

My guess is that it's a result of three tendencies: 1) "they're hot, who cares if they're related", 2) "well the only 'equal' pairing for an Endless is another Endless" and 3) "mythology sure has a lot of incest, and this *is* a mythology series so..."

Or, I guess, 4) it's as accidental as the coffee commercial allegedly was 🤣

Oh i totally missed this ask the other day! Sorry lovely!

Haha I KNOW RIGHT?!?

Its actually amusing how much "official" Sandman art has some really... ahem *interesting* vibes.

None of us are gonna forget the Beefy Dream/Lady Bast softcore furry porn anytime soon now are we?!

But yeah maybe its a whole "mythology is basically all incest so its fiiiine" thing? (Side note: im currently listening to Stephen Fry read Mythos on Audible and its so SO good but yeah Greek Mythology is alllllll incest!).

Remember that art of Delirium basically sitting in Dreams lap with her legs over his shoulders? Dream was shirtless (as per usual) and Delirium had been drawn uber sexy?

Or just how many times Death and Dream have been drawn wrapped in each others arms (yeah yeah I'm sure there is poetry there about Dream being "in the embrace of Death" but STILL).

I think I even saw a Dream/Desire art piece where Desire is draped across Dream (though I can't recall if that was "official" art or fanart).

Honestly I think baring in mind the interview with Mason and Kirby where they joked that Dream is so shippable he even has sexual chemistry with their characters I guess we should maybe take a deep breath and accept that for any of the reasons mentioned above, we are in the legitimate incest fandom. Lmao!

Oh the scandal!

I'll be honest with you, I have wondered at times if maybe all Dream and Desire need to sort out their issues with each other is to fuck it out and use that as inspiration to create the horniest most feral sexual dreams possible.

Ahem.

Sorry.

I'm really not advocating for incest here, but I guess if the "siblings" in question are primordial eldritch abominations its not SO bad?

God help me if any puriteens find this ask... ah well. I've been cancelled before for moronic reasons I'm sure I'll be cancelled again. Bring it on.

I wonder how Neil Gaiman feels about his characters being drawn in such folgers coffee commercial ways? Haha! Though tbh I'm sure Neil is too busy trying to avoid the semi-explicit Aziracrow asks he gets in his inbox from feral Good Omens fans to care too much if the Endless get a little incesty...

😂

[suede-moon]

The Sandman really took TS Eliot's "Prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet" literally. It was heartbreaking, I love it.

[hauntedfalcon]

is this Constantine still bi though

[imironstark]

I think it's you that's changed. How so? I think I know why we still meet here, century after century. It's not because you want to see whether or not I'm ready to seek death. I don't think I'll ever seek death. By now, you know that about me. So, I think you're here for something else. And what might that be? Friendship.

How's he faring up after all this time? Who? Hob Gadling? Hmm. I don't know. I was forced to miss our last appointment. Well, I'm sure he'd love to see you.

THE SANDMAN 1.06: “The Sound of Her Wings"

[kamwashere]

happy birthday, william shakespeare! in another unrelated news, wishing hob gadling speedy recovery in these trying times x

[griefbringers]

“Is it good when I touch you here? Or maybe here?” ( for johnny or graves, whichever likes the prompt from dear ol' Destruction most >:3 )

The best thing about being touched by an Endless: it almost made him feel human. A nightmare like him couldn't influence something as powerful as Destruction; there was no risk of reminding them of any grief they carried, whether it was for lost loves or past selves or a childhood home or a frightening ever-changing future. When he touched Destruction he only touched him. It was freeing.

"Mhm," he hummed distractedly, letting the Endless run their hands up Johnny's thighs, his hips and sides, wherever they wanted. Johnny couldn't stop kissing him: when Destruction paused to laugh or breathe or smile affectionately at him all Johnny wanted to do was claw his way closer again, grinning like a fool, thrilled by the heat and the closeness between them. "You can touch me wherever you want, it's all good. Just don't tickle me," he teased, and poked Destruction gently in the ribs just to mess with him.

[qqueenofhades]

You people reading AITWW (which is, uh, literally a quarter of a million words long) without even being in the Sandman fandom are the real MVPs. Damn.

[orionsangel86]

I’m really sorry people are being dicks in your inbox.

Curious if you have thoughts you’d like to share on Facade (the story from Dream Country). I don’t think it’s going to get adapted: the show is sticking closer to Morpheus’s story and I feel like that would be incredibly difficult to adapt well both from the perspective of Rainie’s character design as well as handling the difficult subject matter. But that was a story that got very lodged in my brain and I returned to mulling it over for years and years after I read it.

Thanks! I was very touched by the number of lovely asks I received that day following the weirdness in my inbox!

Facade is a delicate issue, that covers some very delicate topics. I have read that a lot of people view it as one of their favourite Sandman comic issues, which I guess makes sense if you relate heavily to concepts like isolation, loneliness, suicide ideation and putting on masks to hide your true identity... I'm not sure if the show will adapt it or not, but seeing as I view it as an early foreshadowing of the end of the Kindly Ones I would be interested to see if they DO adapt it. I agree that Rainie's character design will be difficult to bring into live action - but then I think the same thing about the entirety of Orpheus' arc, as well as quite a lot of A Game of You, so I doubt its impossible and they will figure out some way to do it if they truly want to.

I can't say that I personally enjoyed Facade all that much. I struggle with the topics mentioned above, and I'm very much of the view that life is always worth living and can always improve (aka the Hob Gadling outlook of life). Unless you are in constant agony all the time and have absolutely zero quality of life... but I don't want to turn this post into a debate about assisted suicide. I didn't view Rainie's situation as one that was worth dying over. She wasn't in agony, she was just lonely. She clearly didn't have a support network and even her only friend was more interested in talking about her own predicament as the pregnant mistress of a married man than to take any time to find out how Rainie was doing - partially because Rainie would not remove her masks (metaphorical and literal) to reveal just how badly she was struggling... anyone who has read through to the end of the Kindly Ones now may start to see the similarities.

There are so many themes to explore in this issue that tie into the wider themes of the overall story. She did not want the power she received, instead it was thrust upon her by an ancient god as part of some ancient battle that was already long since over. So the role she was literally created for was already redundant. Ra not realising this - because the old gods are still so set in their ways and in the Sandman universe this is partially the reason why they are slowly dying out (take characters like Pharamond for example who learned to adapt and change with the times therefore ensuring his own survival) - is just another example of how change and accepting the changing times of the world benefits everyone. Rainie was just another victim in the chaotic world of gods and monsters and powerful entities that care so little about the lives of the mortals they affect. So now she is stuck with a power she did not want or ask for, for a purpose that was over 3000 years before she was born.

I also found this issue to be the best example of how Death is not an entirely good character (as people often attempt to make her). She is completely and utterly neutral in all ways (the true neutral on the alignment chart should always go to Death imo). Whilst Death does try at first to get Rainie to see a brighter side, she doesn't exactly put in much effort, and in the end she gives her the information she needs to get what she wants, though I note that Rainie does NOT ask Ra to kill her, she asks him to make her normal again, though I think the point of it is to show that deep down her wish was just to die at that point, but I guess that's up for interpretation. Death is just that. Death. She is not the person to talk you off the ledge. She is the person who will be there for you after you jump. She saw that Rainie was in a terrible place, and she decided to be there for her whilst she made those decisions. But Death isn't really going to convince you either way. "your life is your own Rainie, so is your death."

I also note that the show used some of Death's speech in this episode in episode 6 when she is talking with Dream, so that's also worth considering when speculating on whether they will adapt Facade or not.

I think for the comic its an important issue and ties in heavily with the comic themes, but as I have often said, the show appears to be taking a different direction, and I don't think Facade fits with the more hopeful, optimistic route that they are taking. But we shall see.