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Jed Walker! The boy has been THROUGH it. And while we assume he has the best therapy Unity’s money can buy, he also loved a very special nightmare. (Plus teenage boys love scary movies and such, as a "safe" way to experience scary things, maybe he goes and makes friends with Gault’s coworkers?) I would love to see Jed’s relationship to his nightmares in his healing process.
Ooh I love this! Oh no it ties in to another prompt I was going to write! I’ll ~~start~~ write it here ~~apparently~~.
Jed sighed as the rats began to pour from under the manhole cover again. Oh yeah, this nightmare was getting way too familiar.
The thing was, he wasn’t really afraid of rats. Aunt Despair’s rats were so cute, the way they would climb over his lap and poke their little heads into any hole they could find — into his sleeves, under his knees and elbows, up his pant legs. Sometimes they even climbed up his arm right to his shoulder and walked around the back of his neck! It was so cute! He loved their curiosity and fearlessness and their tiny little hands and feet and intelligent eyes and cute little noses and plump bellies and long tails.
He wasn’t afraid of nightmares, either. After all, his best friend (at least, in the Dreaming) used to be a Nightmare. And now that he was a Knight of the Order of the Dreaming, they even came to him sometimes when they were having problems! Well, him and Gault. At first he had been jealous that Gault took Alice instead to help with the more grown up problems, but then he had realized that grown up just meant boring and complicated, not scary and exciting, so he didn’t mind anymore. He got to help with the fun ones.
But this nightmare was from that time the rat bit him on the ankle in the basement, after he fell sleep crying again that one time. He braced to fight the rats again, but then realized maybe he could try this a different way this time. Instead of attacking or running (it never worked), he stood still and pretended they were Aunt Despair’s rats.
“Hello,” he said calmly as they ran up his legs and climbed his shirt. “Your are my Nightmare, but I’m not afraid of you anymore. I like rats now. Can we play instead?”
The rats paused as one and looked at him curiously. Then they began moving again, but in all different directions, like Aunt Despair’s did. He carefully sat down and laughed and giggled as they explored under, over, around and through him (well through his sleeves, anyway). At the end, one sat on his shoulder and put a tiny little paw on his ear and said, “You know, now that you are not scared anymore, I won’t be able to come back.”
“Oh, that’s too bad! But maybe we can be friends in the Dreaming? You could play with Aunt Despair’s rats, when she comes to visit? I’ll ask Nana Unity for cat food for you?” (Jed had looked up what rats like to eat, in case Rose ever wanted to get him one for a pet.)
The Nightmare Rat rubbed against the side of his face and shivered with pleasure. “I’d like that, Jed!”
“Good, then it’s settled,” Jed said, as the dream faded around him.
@ilya-halfelven you were the one who asked how Jed felt about Despair’s rats.
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bet-on-me-13 · 4 months
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Death, Destruction, and Danny
(disclaimer: I have the barest bones idea of what the Endless are or their personalities, so this is just a quick blub of something I thought of at Work)
So! The JLA have just had an encounter with a member of the Endless, and called in Constantine to explain what exactly they are.
"Okay, so it's like this. Before Existence, before The Universe itself, the Personification of Time had a group of Children. These Children each Represent an Aspect of the Universe, and they are as Immortal as Immortal can get." Constantine explained.
"These children are called the Endless. They are, Dream, Destiny, Despair, Desire, Delirium, Destruction, Death, and Danny."
"...Danny?"
"Oh yeah, Danny's a cool guy. He was adopted later on by Time Itself, and he represents Balance. But that's not a word that starts with D so he just goes by his Mortal Name, Danny, to fit in."
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densewentz · 5 months
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Family Dinner Theater
Sandman Inktober Day 19 (dolls/puppets) gets to see Desire having some fun at Dream's expense 💕
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currentlyonstandbi · 2 years
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writing-for-life · 13 days
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The Endless Escher—David Hitchcock
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illustrations for dream's board book from To Be Brand New by @dsudis for @the-centennial-husbands-bigbang
link to the pictures of the physical book here
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academicblorbo · 4 months
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Welcome to the Sandman fandom
We have:
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(click on pics for better quality)
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metaphorparadox · 11 months
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the long time guys
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alexxuun · 1 year
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He is the endless bicycle.
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Cereal Convention tings 🥰
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lemoneyshipz · 8 months
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The world is not ready for what I’m cooking
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bifrostedgalaxy · 2 years
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I haven’t really seen the Dreamcast being advertised much so I’ll hype it
It’s on apple podcast
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windsweptinred · 9 months
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My Sandman comics themed cosmology chart, finally complete! It was inspired by medieval astrological charts, starting as they often did with the sun and moon in the centre and working outwards.
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It features the seven Endless, Heaven and Michael, Hell and Lucifer, Mother Night, Father Time and the realms of the Endless (eight with the inclusion of Delight for balance). There's a whole lot happening here... So I've taken some close ups so you don't have to keep zooming in.
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rexwrendraws · 6 months
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spotted on the wall behind the white horse theater!!
Happy one year to Bolt in the Blue by @valeriianz ! Truly the best band au fics I've ever read, I am Endless' #2 fan forever (#1 is Hob, of course) 💙🎸✨
+ alt. colors for the flyer & other scans:
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i love taking advantage of my art uni's massive (MASSIVE) scanners for literally anything i can. it's got the most gorgeous grit and scan banding that photoshop trickery cant replicate (though i try lol). so, yes, i literally printed out the b&w flyers, scanned them in, then added color and printed them again to stick on my wall haha.
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when digitally adding color, i wanted it to really feel like black ink on colored paper instead of trying to print on color paper and then scan it again (i have done this before idk). i think the xerox-y look is pretty convincing! the green, pink, and purple are my personal favs.
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an irl friend suggest i try non-black-ink versions to see what i liked. i think they look cool but some of the text gets a bit lost. still, i like the pale yellow+red ink one. (this almost makes me want to try riso printing this to see what it'd look like 👀👀).
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^ this is what the white horse metal barrier edit looked like before I added the Huji Cam filter lol. it wasn't feeling convincing enough like this, so i actually took a photo of my laptop screen with the filter and somehow that looked more real than the actual shot from the show lol. (also, because i've stared at this screenshot for so long, the orange/yellow June 12th poster? is everything on it a reference?? loll)
anyway, had a lot of fun making this!! feel free to print if you want!! READ THE FIC EVERYONE GO READ BOLT IN THE BLUE RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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currentlyonstandbi · 2 years
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writing-for-life · 3 months
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The Endless—Michael Allred
Honestly, I still believe they’re all trying to outslut each other in this one.
Dream tits out as always, Destruction goes, “Yeah, but I’ve got chest hair!” Death is about to pull a Sharon Stone, Desire’s already in the middle of it and just needs to will away their kit, Despair’s like, “Groan, you’re all so complicated, be naked, be free!”
Destiny: “Nope, you’re all doing it wrong, subtle, fully clothed stoicism is way hotter.” But then he proceeds to lean against the pillar as if he’s waiting for someone to buy him a drink and turns out his hip. Just a bit of course.
And Del’s just Del 🤣
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