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thenightling · 4 years

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The Bullshit I had to deal with on Tumblr Tonight

Okay, buckle up. This is a long ride, folks.

Some months ago someone posted about having a Discord about The Dreaming (Sandman Universe comic). I reblogged it as a fellow Sandman fan. I noticed in the rules there was an anti-Incest rule. I joked “Whoops, I mentioned Daniel and Ivy. Guess I broke that rule.” Daniel and Ivy are canonically a couple in The Dreaming. Unfortunately they are also technically related as Ivy is the great-grand-daughter of Desire (Daniel’s brother).

Well, the person who created the post blocked me and started to tell people I was pro-incest. Figuring this was a big misunderstanding I tried to reach out to their friends to set the record straight. I don’t even LIKE Ivy!

Then they decided to keep me on block (supposedly) because they felt I was “reblogging everything they post” and “stalking” them. Honestly, I just follow the “Sandman” tag and hadn’t noticed who I was reblogging from.

I let it be for a long time. Then tonight I saw a funny post on sandman-headcanons page that jokingly called Morpheus “Grandpa.” I realized quickly that I couldn’t reblog it. This had happened to me a lot in recent months because the posts in question had passed through the person who had blocked me or originated from them.

I publicly posted about this frustration tonight. That was my mistake. Next thing I know I find out that person was now telling people I ship a “Three-year-old” with an “old man” and they were saying this, out-of-context, to people unfamiliar with Sandman who took the statement at face value. Needless to say, I was horrified.

Here’s the thing Daniel and Morpheus are technically both “aspects” of Dream of The Endless. That means they are two facets or shards of a greater being who is essentially a great big, divine crystal or jewel. They are fragment pieces from the same soul. And I was always speaking of adult Daniel. Daniel hasn’t been depicted as a toddler since the mid-90s.

And here’s what followed after that...

https://thenightling.tumblr.com/post/189892817243/thenightling-thenightling-thenightling

I was given the ultimatum to delete any posts where I “ship” Morpheus and Daniel and they would consider unblocking me. As one of those posts had been liked by Neil Gaiman, himself, (author of The Sandman) I did not want to do that. And I was told “Oh, they already have Neilman on block too.”

(Neilman is a derogatory term used by those who think Neil Gaiman is a homophobe who “doesn’t deserve the ‘gai’ in his name.”)

So I was to choose them or the author of Sandman, Neil Gaiman. Hmm?

I got flustered and tried to explain further (suspecting this person I was talking to in direct mesage was the original person on an alt, based on how they wrote) telling me what my ultimatum was.

And in the process of defending myself and Neil Gaiman I accidentally typed “She” when the person’s pronoun of choice is Xe. I tried to correct myself but it was too late, that became a new subject of their anger toward me. They were convinced I had typed “She” on purpose. I had been using They / them as the pronoun up until that moment and I would never, ever misgender on purpose, even when angry. They refused to accept it was a typo.

Still, I was very upset at the misconception that I “ship a three-year-old with an old man.” That bothers me to no end.

Realizing there was another “misunderstanding” (and this time an exceptionally gross one) I made a post explaining who and what Daniel Hall actually is in great detail. I also provided evidence directly from the comics to confirm what I said in that he is no three-year-old. Not physically, nor mentally.

https://thenightling.tumblr.com/post/189895590768/what-the-hell-is-daniel-hall

They clearly didn’t read this post because they were still referring to Daniel as Morpheus’ “Son” and “heir.” Claiming that Morpheus “groomed” Daniel. And they referred to Morpheus as Daniel’s “predecessor” (which is something literally corrected as being wrong IN the very story that this person said is their “special interest” that they’ve read multiple times...)

Then the “ask” messages started rolling in...

https://thenightling.tumblr.com/post/189895724368/why-are-you-so-damn-obsessed-with-an-18-year-old

https://thenightling.tumblr.com/post/189895819008/just-because-someone-is-bisexual-and-supports

This above one you HAVE to read the notes to get the whole thing. Yet again they accuse me of being obsessed with them, without giving me a chance to even answer. No, I was never obsessed with them (this person). I was just bothered tonight when I couldn’t reblog a post I thought was funny.

I had lost interest in them possibly unblocking me when I found out they had Neil Gaiman blocked too. I realized I was in good company on that blocked list. But I will not stomach being accused of shipping a three-year-old. Especially when that character in canon wouldn’t even be three-years-old right now if he was human. If he was human he’d be thirty-years-old right now. He does not look, nor act three-years-old.

(Does that look like a three-year-old to you!?)

https://thenightling.tumblr.com/post/189895950763/yeah-well-you-are-a-dense-motherfucker-answer-my

https://thenightling.tumblr.com/post/189896055598/im-so-fucking-sick-of-you-youre-so-sure-that-youre

Ironic that they accuse me of bullying while lying about me. Or they were “misunderstanding the lore” (again...) and shaming me for posts the author had liked and trying to force me to delete and renounce those posts...

Here is the post Neil Gaiman had liked on the subject that they were trying to demand I delete.

https://thenightling.tumblr.com/post/171750432893/why-ive-started-the-crackship-of-morpheus-and

You may also notice the post is two-years-old. But this became this person’s new excuse for how they were treating me.

So yeah. @sorry-for-the-chocolate @zal001 @missghostlymoonshadow @endlessemptynight @deathlyendless @watertribe-enya @bazpik @hasturlavista @jr4cats @vagaryhexxx @sunagirl @iknowwheremytowelis

This is what happened to me tonight. If you’re wondering why I’m being so antisocial tonight.

Edit: I just realized the most obvious and laughable part in all of this. “Neil Gaiman is a homophobe!” Followed by “Take down that gay ship post that he liked!” ...And they, as well as their friends, don’t notice anything odd about that?! That’s rhetorical.

Not to mention I never physically shipped Morpheus and Daniel in any erotic way. I’m not some horny teenager. To me it was always about emotional / intellectual connection as equals. Also in the lore I use, it’s required that Daniel had re-created Morpheus posthumously as a dream entity (See Hob’s dream in Sandman: The Wake), which means technically, in that form Daniel would be the older of the two though both possess over eight billion years of knowledge and memory in their adult minds and bodies.

#The Sandman Fandom #Fandumb #Fan dumb #The Sandman Universe fan dumb #The Dreaming fan dumb #Daniel Hall fandumb #Dream of The Endless fan dumb

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