i saw this and immediately knew what must be done. f in chat for matthew 😔

Dream babe that's on you

I don't know the details of decision making in production of The Sandman on Netflix, obviously, but it feels like some of these good changes were like...

'Hey maybe now that Constantine's ex girlfriend is a queer Black woman, she shouldn't also be a thief and an addict. Let's not fall into that stereotype.'

'And maybe the nonbinary Desire could get, like, quasi-dream-consent from Unity Kinkaid instead of just flat out raping her in her sleep...especially now that Unity is a Black woman. Actually, wouldn't Desire want Unity to...desire...them before fathering the child anyway.'

'And what if The Corinthian fucks a guy and doesn't kill him because, like, maybe let's separate his queerness from the fact that he's a nightmare & serial killer.'

Some folks might claim these kinds of changes are 'sanitizing' the story...and maybe so. But really, it feels like adjusting some of the 'edgy' 'grimdark' remnants from it's 90s origin.

damn netflix’s sandman killed it on the gay rep, there’s really something for everyone! they got

annoying gay

mean bisexual

overdramatic nb

Slutty gay

2000’s emo queer

Our fav Dream being annoyed at work :3

Look at all these colours, pretty proud ngl- Also Mr. Corinthian pls stop annoying Lucienne.

Another pic from your favourite nightmare at pride😎🏳️‍🌈

Edit:

Update from another pride🏳️‍🌈

so here’s something i never figured out when i first read the sandman comics as a teenage girl, but which consuming the netflix show as a grown man is making extremely clear:

why the Corinthian is like that.

and it’s brilliant! it’s really cool. so in a series absolutely crammed full of very realistic queer representation– lesbians and bisexuals and trans people of all kinds!– you have morpheus stating outright that nightmares are meant to teach and challenge dreamers, by bringing subconscious fears to light, where they can be faced and overcome.

and the Corinthian has mouths for eyes. he devours eyes. he eats what people use to look at him like that, and what he used to look at people consumes them.

and he’s gay, he is a creature made by and for gay men, by personal preference all his victims are gay men, and being gay can be fucking terrifying. his eyes are mouths that eat those eyes that don’t look away from him in time, because he is the absolute mortal terror of knowing that the gender you’re attracted to–your own gender!–is extremely likely to kill you for looking at them. decades, centuries, of men looking at men and knowing this could kill them. eyes meeting eyes and wondering if this ends with the man you can’t stop looking at coming and kissing you or coming and killing you. in the eighties there was AIDS and there were more queers than ever coming out and saying ‘no, we’re here, look at us, we’re dying, look at us, we’re alive anyway, look at us.’

you’re gay in a world where that’s not okay. do you close your eyes? do you pull them out? you like to look at men. you can’t stop looking at men. you love them and they scare the hell out of you. some of them might love you. some of them will kill you. you keep looking. who’s looking back at you? can you survive it?

the Corinthian is that nightmare. and he’s perfect.

"Do you take constructive criticism my Lord?"

Lucienne's first meeting with Dream's "masterpiece".

THIS IS TOO GOOD

Herb Ritts for Valentino, 1995

Joelle Jones, variant cover for The Sandman Universe Nightmare Country The Glass House #2

i’d like to personally thank boyd holbrook for how slutty his performance as the corinthian is. the director said “one more!” but he heard “more whore” and went with it.

Teeth

random teenager, posting an unhinged shitpost ab sandman/good omens/etc at 3 am

neil gaiman, reblogging at 4 am

The Corinthian - art by David Mack

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A Good Omens repaint of “Les Deux Amies” by Toulouse-Lautrec