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#The Vortex Rose Walker
burnt-scone · 1 year
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The Vortex
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Rose is wearing the outfit she wore in the comic, bestie was just in her night gown ready for bed.
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azi-sings-calliope · 7 months
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Something that I'm discovering about myself is that if I set a specific list of things to draw I will never draw them. Just gotta wait for an idea to come I guess. Anyway here's Rose Walker!!
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I was struck by how unbearably kind Dream is to Rose. Ever since her introduction he’s being told by his allies—by characters who both love and hate him—how he should not allow her existence, how he should hurt her out of self preservation. And every time he has contact with her, he is nothing but gentle and understanding. There’s none of the “you’re a human you wouldn’t get it” sort of derision he’s used with others. He answers each of her questions with compassion and honesty. He gives her genuine advice when she asks for help. He doesn’t have to be good or nice to her. He truly doesn’t. But he is anyway.
I think it’s because he sympathizes with her. She didn’t choose to be made into something that hurts others, and he knows very deeply how that feels. She looks at him with those eager, kind eyes and always has a selfless question for him, always simply wishes to understand. And Morpheus, who’s personally seen the worst of what humanity has to offer for the last hundred years, can’t find it within himself to hate her. He knows she didn’t ask for this. He didn’t either.
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horrorcrypt12 · 5 months
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Now Watching:
The Sandman S1.E8 ∙ "Playing House"
As Morpheus closes in on one of his missing creations, Rose ramps up efforts to locate her brother - and unwittingly makes a friend's dream come true.
Stay Spooky!
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hieronymph · 2 years
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What I really like about the Sandman is the route they chose with Rose Walker.
We see Rose Walker, a POC orphan, struggling to get her family together.
She doesn't have a job nor money to hire a private investigator. It would have been so easy to show us trauma porn.
But they gave her a wish-fulfilling grandma. I have seen this shit happen so many time with white characters. Getting help in unexpected places. Have someone save the day or rescue them.
Sometimes even when it was illogical, it happened. I like that they had a safety net but I have seen that same safety net not being provided to POC characters.
I am glad we got to see this young, brilliant woman actually have a chance at a cozy almost fairytale like life. I am glad Rose Walker found allies who helped her.
I am glad a woman of colour had a safety net, was well loved and supported even if it was in a show.
I am glad she wasn't treated as this scary phenomenon by Dream. That she was afforded respect. I am the most glad that she didn't have to sacrifice herself in the end.
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merinsedai · 7 months
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Day 10- Fate
From the sandtober prompts by @orionsangel86 thank you!
‘Unity Kincaid should have been the vortex of this era’. Unity accepts her fate.
Silly little sketch featuring Unity, Lucienne and Rose.
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One thing I never got about the TV show or comics is the vortex and while Dream says they are naturally reoccurring and have nothing to do with him in that regard I find that confusing since Unity didn't become the vortex due to the sole reason of Dream being trapped and Rose didn't become the vortex until Dream was free. It feels like a huge plothole to me and also another thing I don't understand is why wasn't Unity's and Desire's family line dream children like Daniel.
to answer the second question first, since that's the one i can give a concrete answer for! daniel was a very unique situation
the show and the comic have two different explanations for what made daniel half dream, i think the show was a lot simpler and easier to grasp, but both are explainable
in show canon, daniel is half dream because his father straight up was a dream - hector was already dead by the time daniel was conceived. lyta is the only physical parent here, the rest is dreamstuff
in comic canon, lyta was pregnant before hector died, but she then spent years and years in that dream, extending her pregnancy far beyond the nine months it should normally take, and that much exposure to the dreaming while being formed (in an unnatural way bc it was so drawn out) made daniel half dream
as far as unity and desire's daughter goes, that's more of a demigod situation? she was conceived in a dream because unity was asleep, but desire isn't just a regular parent, and conception when it concerns the endless is a weird topic altogether (desire doesn't really have dna this is canonically a thought baby sort of situation). given how the endless interact with each others' realms, i'd imagine just desire being part of the equation cancelled out any influence dream might have had here. and aside from that, it was a normal pregnancy that took place in the waking world, for a normal duration of time - the walkers aren't 100% human but they aren't really any % dream
and then we get to the next part of this - being half dream isn't the only thing that made daniel daniel. dream chose daniel for this, appointed him as successor when he visited lyta in season of mists
and daniel as a toddler trailed dream sand behind him and had the ability to walk into the dreaming, but he was still half human, and still not yet a perfect successor to dream of the endless
until kindly ones, when loki stole him and killed him. daniel-dream tells lyta in the wake that that fire burned away his human half, leaving only the immortal dream
and for a final piece, morpheus gave him the emerald. granted, this probably wasn't a necessary step, i think it was a gesture to help him control his powers a bit better when first ascending. but it was yet another thing that made the universe mark him as the person to ascend if the original incarnation of dream died
which are all things that set him apart from miranda walker (or her mother, in show canon)
as far as vortexes go, honestly that's something i wish either the show or the comics told us more about, there's so little lore or explanation on it
but if you want my educated guess - there's a difference between dream not making the vortexes and dream having nothing to do with them
vortexes are naturally occuring, yes, but in a healthy dreaming, a living dreamscape. they are an inevitable consequence of the way the dreaming works - an entire universe of minds, all forming a dimension together, with no knowledge that they are doing it together, the natural push and pull and chaos of such a place, somewhere you're going to find a place where it's the most concentrated, the eye of the storm that everything else is swirling around. part of dream's job is to keep that great ocean relatively level, so you don't end up with whirlpools - and since he doesn't make them and doesn't know how they're formed, sometimes that means you just need to manually get rid of them whenever they show up
but you also won't get whirlpools if you drain the ocean of water
which is what cutting dream off from the dreaming did. the endless and their realms aren't wholly separate entities, a part of dream is the dreaming and a part of the dreaming is dream. when you cut a being in half like that, by keeping dream magically shut out from the realm, they've both lost vital functions, and they'll both be weaker and hurting for it. and we see, in both the comics and the show, the effect that dream's imprisonment for that long had on the dreaming - it's broken and dead. and dream himself is equally lacking in power and life (show dream especially, he is visibly starving)
and the doll's house arc doesn't begin until dream breaks the ruby, and gets back all the power contained within it. even with dream physically back in the dreaming, they both needed time to recover fully before anything like a vortex could form
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audhd-nightwing · 2 years
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sometimes a family is a cheery grim reaper, her brother (a goth twink that puts people into comas), said brothers himbo bf that she made immortal, their chaotic neutral & hypersexual sibling, said siblings daughter that has the potential to destroy reality and her little brother that accidentally befriended multiple serial killers
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Okay so i just finished Sandman, and am i the only one wondering why there was a picture of Judy In Rose's apartment????
Like. How are they related??
For those who confused Judy is the woman who had a fight with her gf(Donna) in ep 5 24×7 (the diner one)
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asexualarkhamknight · 2 years
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I think they did the Rose Walker dream vortex arc justice. Pleasantly surprised that they dedicated most of the 2nd half of the season to it to avoid rushing it
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inkandarsenic · 2 years
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Did anyone else notice that in the diner episode, Judy was FaceTiming Rose Walker?
Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but I just thought it was really interesting that the Dream Vortex was friends with someone who died because of Dream’s ruby
I’m not really one for writing analyses of things like that but I would love to read one.
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hiraya-sa-dilim · 2 years
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i hope rose and jed are still with lyta in time for the kindly ones. i want to see how they're written deeper into the mesh of things, especially jed!
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orchisailsa · 2 years
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The quality of Sandman content I’ve been seeing is much too high, honestly, so I'm here to balance the equation, as usual, with text post memes.
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I think my favorite thing about the Corinthian is how he’s sort of the opposite of the “genius serial killer” trope. This dude operates on a combination of luck and spontaneity and dogged resiliency, he’s phenomenal at recognizing opportunities and seizing them to his advantage, but he is not a long term planner in the slightest.
When he finds out Rose Walker is a vortex, he literally goes out to find her without having figured out any part of his plan. The stuff with Jed and the serial killer convention and the new Dreaming comes later… this bitch literally just figured he’d approach Rose, and I guess be like, “Hey, got any interest in usurping my Daddy and becoming the new Queen of the Dreaming for me?🙂”
10/10 we stan a blond disaster gay idiot with daddy issues in this house
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thoujou · 2 years
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Dreamtober Day 9. Rose Walker.
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lunasonoma · 2 years
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hello again my wonderful friends and readers, that oneshot i mentioned about rose and dream will be published this weekend! it’s been a joy to write and i can’t wait to give it to you <3
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