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ibrithir-was-here · 6 months

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Silly little personal headcanons for Sandmanverse I thought I'd throw out here for any other lovers of early 20th century Weird Fiction.

Clark Ashton Smith totally got fairy-godfathered by Dream as a baby, and totally wandered around the Dreaming proper as a kid, and that's why he's got so many fantastic poems about the Land of Dreams and its ruler, and also why his health and creativity took a steep dive around the time Dream was captured.

His creative drive starts to come back when he makes friends with Lovecraft, who also managed to get into the Dreaming proper as a kid (inspiring his Dream Cycle)

#i know all the discourse about Lovecraft and yes the man had So Many Problems #but darn it #i really like the Dream Cycle #im probably the only person who likes it more then the Chthulu mythos #like eldritch aliens yeah whatever its just a big space Octopus when it comes down to it #give me that parallel dream realm #anyway go check out Smith's Castle of Dreams and some of his other dream poems #clark ashton smith #dream of the endless #the sandman #hp lovecraft #the dream cycle #weird fiction #sandman crossover #i need more Dream as Patron things darn it xD

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