#apologies if this makes little sense its like 3am and I'm running on very little sleep

[duchess-of-new-shire]

This particular flavor of internet media taste really speaks to the far reaching and pervasive nature of nuclear family ideals actually

Like if it's not focused on a romantic pair or one half of a romantic pair (specifically a man) than it's seen as inherently "bad" or "boring" or "off topic"

Especially in the case of the sandman I find this fucking ridiculous because like. Telling stories is the point. It's not supposed to be a neat little unit it's a sprawling web of narratives and characters and lives, intersecting and tangling and leaving loose ends.

There are a lot of stories that do gay shippy junk and I really like those stories, but the sandman does something far more interesting and it should not be punished by its audience for daring to give us something exciting

and to be completely honest i don’t even think the majority of the show!sandman fandom on tumblr would even like a game of you! dream barely shows up. there aren’t really any (human) male characters to ship, only—qué horror—canonically queer women. hell, who’s the white dude people are gonna latch onto? fuckin’ george, the asshole whose face gets sliced from his head, brought back to life, and nailed to a wall while the rest of his corpse hangs out in the bathtub? and aside from the tumblr fandom, imdb ratings went down significantly when season 1 pivoted to focus on rose, and reviewers complained about how there wasn’t enough of dream. multiple factors point to the idea that a game of you would have an extremely disappointing audience response, and unfortunately that might reinforce the idea to executives and such that people don’t want to see wlw stories at front and center. and our girls deserve so much better than all of this potential bullshit. so i would in fact prefer for a game of you not to get adapted in full, because it would break my heart a little to see people hate on it.