#death as a dream au

[lightdancer1]

That said I'm also expanding work on the whole idea of 'Death as a Dream'

And in particular both the backstory and the way this one ends up working out. An obvious challenge with this narrative would be that if Death was a dream, when Dream was captured and the Dreaming fell apart and Dreams were weakening with them (which is IMO exactly why Jessamy died to begin with) then Death would see her powers fall apart too. This could either create a greater crisis if it went for the bad route where actual Endless Death died a long time ago and the being people think is the Endless is just a dream created in her memory.

Or it becomes a twisted kind of Kafka comedy where the Endless is actually living retired and was the first one to retire long, long before Destruction....who runs into her on a beach and the two set out to enjoy the post-titles life together. The dream has her power as essentially a Wizard of Oz illusion.....but the flip side of that is that in this case in a technical sense Burgess did get the right figure for the last 3.5 billion years of the universe's history......and that Desire's motivations are slightly broader.

Due to Death essentially faking her own demise and sodding off to live her own life, the other Endless believe Dream orchestrated their sister's death to hijack her realm and add it to his own. They walk on eggshells around him and even Destruction believes it until he finds his actual sister on that beach and then has a moment of rage 251 million years ago that leads, on Earth, to the event called the Great Dying....and then 300 years ago he joins Death after all that time.

And then Desire and Despair have a gift-wrapped opportunity to get vengeance for the sister they think is murdered.....and as the faux Endless's powers fall apart and dying doesn't they realize Death was never dead the entire time, and thus they end up being the ones stuck in a 'what the fuck just happened' while Dream-Death goes to find the genuine article, who decides she's going to rescue her brother after he's spent 20 years in the fishbowl and meaning she might have to retake her title after all.

And THAT is the basis of the family dramas and clashes here, as Death's ability to hide from Destiny means even HE thought she was genuinely murdered and usurped and her resurrection, in a sense, creates as many problems as it solves.

[bamsara]

Some doodled scenes for chapter of trod, maybe chapter 21-ish so far. Soft songs and angsty dreams incoming

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I traumatized a friend by showing him a sonic AU where Tails accidentally killed Sonic by blowing up a robot he was trapped in, then Sonic possessed the remains of the robot and started tormenting his friends.

[signanothername]

A never ending game of manipulation and spite

[sunnymainecoonx]

Been thinking 'bout Fresh lately

If you guys didn't notice I got high on crack through the middle of this

[neverniko101]

What may I get for you today?

Help my baking addiction has infiltrated my tumblr account

I’m curious, though, which would you pick?

If this gets enough attention I’ll make one of them in real life /hj

Update: I made Reaper’s Death by Chocolate!

Ink by Comyet

Dream & Nightmare by Joku

Reaper by Renrink

Underswap sans by P0pc0rnPr1nce

[ryssbelle]

N2 Floyd in the first movie

Sad little man got himself captured :(

He also gets punched in the face, but that's neither here nor there lmao

Also sorry for not posting for a fat minute I've been busy XD

Bonus: What John and Branch be doing

RIP in pieces John Dory, you were a brave troll and will be missed

I've got some more doodles of them going through it in the first movie, maybe we will see them soon teehee .

[surreal-duck]

es rarepair week 2024 day 1 | AU/future

lil ghostic au of mine!!! yuzuru and the rest of fine are long since trapped souls in an abandoned mansion of which rst come across while looking for shelter during a storm :] it doesnt um. particularly end well

[cryptidclownz]

sequel to my last post but trod version muahahaha

[lightdancer1]

As far as the bad path of the Death as a Dream AU:

It ultimately hinges on a deconstruction of the Sandman's cosmology and two of its more nightmarish principles. If enough mortals can dream a thing into being, then Dream could get mortals to dream a version of his sister into being that would take her place. In the good AU it works out in one way, in the bad one the dream that thought herself an Endless begins to reforge herself not as the being Dream imagined in the perfect abstract ideal of what he believed his sister to be, but in the image of dreams about death and dying.

And those are not pleasant, or good dreams. It also hinges on the aspects of the Nightmare wanting a specific thing (to reanimate the dead Endless with no idea of just how many ways this can backfire, as after all, both nature and supernature abhor a vacuum) and how much the lines between various places becoming blurred is a very, very bad thing.

So the first deconstruction ultimately hinges on 'if X number of dreamers make a thing real, so it is, but then who makes the Dream? Dream or the Dreamers?'

The second deconstruction is that of the idea of identity, and the question of how much a thing can change from their nature before breaking and becoming something else. That, ultimately, is the thing that doomed Morpheus in canon. Creations emulate their creator and even if Morpheus might dodge it for himself that might not mean everything else can avoid that same path.

[bamsara]

hey man thats a lil fucked up

[marragurl]

Look. This ain’t true. Like at all. This is so not the dynamic of this ship-

BUT

It’s fucking hilarious

So I made this on a google doc on my phone and I’m heading back to my sleep because of course, this came to me in a dream

[iknowicanbutwhy]

too eepy after work to have a life, stardust? smh

[izzystizzys]

clone wars au where fives survives because fox is a disaster and people care about him (derogatory)

aka he hasn‘t slept in 72 hours and while every corrie understands why, that doesn’t mean they have to like it. plus, he already has borderline braindamage from not getting more than five hours’ sleep a night the whole duration of the war, and all the strange injuries and electrostaff burns he keeps showing up with, stabby the clone medic reasons. also bone density is a concern with the half-rations the guard is consistently on, so really this is all a very reasonable emergency measure, he says and cuffs fox to a cot.

yes of course, meathook and rabid nod, who pounced on the commander and pinned him for stabby and his sedation hypo the second he came through the door. very reasonable.

hnngfnhfjfj, fox grunts in the corner, already halfway to insensate. thorn, who knows better than to protest lest he become the next target of stabby’s ire, nods along while switching to fox’s armour.

which is also how palpatine gets himself caught, because of course ‘cc-1010’ activates exactly nothing in thorn’s brain except maybe alarm bells for rancid kriffing vibes, and by the time the chancellor orders him to switch off his blaster’s stun setting and terminate the ‘faulty unit’ at all costs, he’s already recording the interaction and sending it as an attachment to the whole guard command staff as well as the jedi temple.

[gahellhimself-blog]

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[skumhuu]

✨👑 Throne 👑✨ pages 11-12

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