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nualaofthefaerie · 6 months

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I can talk about these 5 panels for HOURS.

With EVERY word of affection she speaks, he succumbs more and more to the shadows, completely dissociating from her love because he can't afford to return it.

"I wanted you to STAY. I wanted you to LOVE me."

He can't love her if he can't stay. She knows that. She didn't want to make him love her. He did. He hid himself in the shadows out of desperation. So what could he do?

Lie.

Push her away with the SAME words Thessaly left him because he couldn't think of anything better to make her hurt.

"Did you? I didn't notice..."

He did. It was going to be better if he didn't.

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virgo-dream · 1 year

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Death’s stroll with Dream and a chance to mourn Orpheus

I was talking to @ghostboyjules, @littledreamling and @mathomhouse-e on discord, and decided to mention something I’d thought about a while ago: Death brought Dream along to watch her work, which would be an interesting way to humble Dream and show him that even though what happened to him was awful, humanity as a whole wasn’t. What bothered me about that scene was the baby. Why would Death take Dream to see a mother lose a child? Isn’t that a little too cruel, given that Dream himself has lost a son?

Then, Jules said something that made everything click: “yeah I was gonna say, this might be a lil controversial, but I do think it was to show him that humans go through those types of things too and it hurts just as much.. dream can be a little hard headed, so if she was really trying to use it as a lesson maybe she didn't wanna chance him not getting it. cause the ones we saw, they kinda, related to him in ways (some of them).”

Death is the closest to Dream out of all the endless siblings, and she knows that he doesn’t take criticism or advice well. What she does know is that Morpheus communicates better through symbolism.

So: here’s how I think all the deaths Morpheus witnessed are directly related to Orpheus’ story, and give him a chance to grieve, even if just a little.

Just a heads up, I have not read the comics yet. All comic knowledge I have was obtained through osmosis by being here on Tumblr dot com.

The musician: the link with Orpheus is obvious here, and Dream seeing the photo of the band when the man was still young only drove the point father home to me.

The husband: his first thought upon facing death was not of himself, but of his wife and how she would be stranded away from home.

The baby: pretty clear link here too. A parent losing a child. But then Dream looks back as the mother cries for her daughter, and the father is not around. As Morpheus wasn’t around to mourn Orpheus, leaving Calliope to face her pain on her own.

The football player: he was warned by death and then taken by her. He didn’t realise the gravity of what had happened to him. Was doomed from the start.

The man who got shot: taken too soon by violence.

The woman who overdosed: caused her own death by pursuing something past her limits.

The lady in the asylum: died of old age, as Dream expected Orpheus to.

Again, this might not be super accurate in regards to Sandman comic lore, but I think it was an interesting way of showing how Morpheus' detached himself from that grief, and how long he still has to go in relation to it.

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writing-for-life · 7 days

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The Truth of Mankind…

…Is Also Dream’s

These quotes are from episode 5 (24/7):

“Garry dreams of proving his father he was wrong about him.”

“Kate dreams of running away where no one will find her.”

[But you do, and we see your star in so many panels of The Wake 🥺]

“Bette dreams of creating something that matters to people.”

You are the magician who became the man, Morpheus. And you are the king who left his kingdom, but not without making sure everyone else would be okay first--perhaps that is a different definition of a graceful ending, but it is graceful nonetheless.

You’re so painfully human, and yet, you are also not 😭

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tarragonthedragon · 2 months

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so much sandman fic has people having sexy dreams about dream and this being either horrifyingly awkward or gorgeously erotic but realistically this happens all the time and dream would just react like he ran into them in the grocery aisle

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rey-jake-therapist · 5 days

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Reading Overture trying to make sense of it while simultaneously thinking of the best way to make my Sandman fic work with the concept of alternative reality like:

For example I've been bugging a certain time on the Alianora case. Morpheus told Hope about Alianora and their fight with the gods, so we can assume that this story definitely happened in the reality where Morpheus refused to kill the vortex AND the killing star. We know from AGOY and TKO that Alianora still existed in the new reality -the reality where the star died, presumably from Morpheus' hands after he blew up the first Vortex's planet-. I observed a slight discrepancy between the story he tells Hope in Overture, and what Morpheus says about Alianora in TKO. It's about her scar! In Overture, he tells Hope the gods did it to her:

He even says, and I think it's important, "I cut the creature from her face myself, bound her damaged cheek with dreams, and with my love."

So it seems that not only Morpheus wasn't responsible for Alianora's scar, but this scar couldn't be associated in Alianora's mind with the heartbreak caused by Morpheus when he abandoned her.

But in TKO, he says that HE left the scar on Alianora's cheek. And clearly, in Alianora's mind it's associated with heartbreak.

And now I'm wondering how much the story become different after Morpheus pulled that ship into reality. In both realities, his love affair with Alianora ended with a heartbreak for her and a world created just for her. But how crazy would that be if, for example, he had met her in totally different circumstances? And this scar thing really intrigues me: why would have Morpheus left a scar on her cheek? I can't see him as a wife beater but what the heck happened? It must have been significant enough for Alianora to predict he would have his own scar one day, and for Morpheus to remember she said that.

And the even craziest thing to think is that if Morpheus and Desire hadn't done anything to prevent the star from destroying the world, Morpheus would have probably not gotten this scar, maybe he wouldn't have killed his son and he wouldn't have died, at least not this way... I mean.... 🙉🙊🙈

Requiring once again the big brains of @writing-for-life, @tickldpnk8, @marlowe-zara and @poobtato on this one... Whenever you want ☺️

#The sandman #the sandman overture #The sandman meta #Alianora #Dream of the endless #Lord Morpheus

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notallsandmen · 1 year

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If you think that Dream takes a tactless tone with Lyta in the series, I can tell you that it is even worse in the comics

Dream, why are you like this

Dream, I love you and you are only hurting yourself

#Dream my baby stop hurting yourself #dream of the endless #morpheus #lyta hall #hector hall #daniel hall #the sandman comics #sandman comics #the sandman spoilers #the sandman meta #sandman meta #neil gaiman #the sandman neil gaiman #the sandman

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questing-wulfstan · 2 years

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Listen, I can't blame y'all when His Excellence Neil Gaiman hisself compared it to Dream walking out on his date with Hob to hit it off with Shaxberd upon learning about Eleanor and Robyn, but I feel like fixating on this interpretation only of the scene is a disservice to Morpheus' overall characterisation over the season.

Have you noticed how Hob calls "his friend" over to his table and that doesn't phase Morpheus at all then Dream doesn't even ask him whether he still wants to live before putting an end to their meeting ? It's unexpected from someone otherwise so strict and set on protocols ー even when he storms out in 1889, he already had Hob's answer to that question. Yet he leaves 1589 Hob without having formally asked the one question that justifies their centennial meetings.

That is because Dream knows, oh he knows what Hob's Heaven is like. He's had a wife and a son of his own once, and he knew what eternity by their side would be like, once. And he knows Hob has everything but Death on his mind then. He also knows ー or so he thinks ー what Hob's answer will be the next century. For Hob Gadling alone was granted immortality, not Eleanor, nor Robyn. And Morpheus knows what outliving one's son is like.

Morpheus' work in this tavern of the White Horse is done, but he's also taken back to the most traumatic event of his existence, one he won't recover from in two millennia and he can't look Hob in the eyes anymore, he needs a distraction, something, anything but having to confront his revenant grief. And there's that playwright loudly willing to strike a bargain with higher entities for the ability to create timeless dreams for humanity and there's his distraction, there's an escape ...

Comes 1689, Morpheus is certain of the outcome of this meeting. Sure, it will have taken the bugger three time the hundred years Dream had predicted Death, but no matter because it is true : nobody can bear an endless existence.

Then Morpheus learns about not only the expected death of Hob's son, but that it happened much earlier than it should have, devoid of a fulfilling lifetime for Robyn and of psychological preparation for Hob. Scythed in the prime of life, much like Orpheus. And within a close time frame to his wife's departure, too. Hob is holding up a mirror to Morpheus' own misery and the King of Dreams finds himself on the verge of tears. He is no longer smug as he offers Hob what he thinks of as an eventual relief.

Yet ... Hob doesn't take it. Somehow, somewhere, Hob Gadling finds it in himself to resist the tragedy of his life, to chose tomorrow, to decide that whatever the future holds, it is worth being there to see it.

And that is really when something kindles within Morpheus. No longer mere curiosity but a devouring fascination for Hob Gadling, his hopefulness and his resilience. He latches onto that man who shares his misery yet seem to have overcome it, or anyhow accommodated himself to it.

And when they meet again in 1789, and fortune has smiled upon Hob Gadling once again, Morpheus is much more open, much more attentive, much more interested. Who knows if he might not have given Hob his name even, hadn't lady Johanna Constantine interrupted him ?

By all means, Morpheus doesn't process their blooming bond. He's the anthropomorphic incarnation of the human or really, the living unconscious : there are numerous things passing through his mind at all time that he does not process. To him, he's merely monitoring the puzzling glitch that is Robert Gadling's will to live still, and waiting for him to eventually, inevitably renounce his immortality.

So when another century has passed and Hob asserts that their meetings are unnecessary for he won't ever renounce being alive but proposes his friendship, Morpheus is left reeling, faced with how much he has in common with this 'mortal' and his envy for Hob's resilience and capacity to forge ahead.

Naturally he takes flight and makes for an escape, lest he finds himself ensnared by his own grief ...

#sandman #netflix the sandman #dreamling #morpheus #dream of the endless #hob gadling #hob x morpheus #hob x dream #this is such a mess does it even makes sense ??#anywho I've spent way too long writing this out #meta #which admittedly slid towards poetic flourish but meta nonetheless #sandman meta #userlyde

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aarkose · 2 years

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Everyone calls Dream a pathetic petty little baby girl and like, yeah he is - but

And the characters themselves are like Morpheus is cold, unfeeling, harsh, cruel and yeah he can be and he holds intense grudges - but

I haven't really seen anyone talk about the scene where he's facing the Corinthian, who Morpheus admits was his masterpiece. And our favourite nightmare pointedly says that Dream doesn't care about humanity. He only cares about himself, and his realm and his rules.

Morpheus sort of gets exasperated here, like really dude? And tells us he contains the entire collective unconscious, without his rules it would consume him and humanity. Like maybe he's been there before, or close to it. He admitted he lost an entire universe before because he didn't take out their vortex.

His voice trembles on the word consume, like its always there, ready to crush him, like he's constantly battling, like he's tired, like no one's ever really asked, understood or comprehended that before and he's admitting it for maybe the first time or it's one of the very few. And of all the beings he's admitting it to the Corinthian who throws it in his face.

Death more or less says dream mopes and he should get over it. Fiddler's Green insinuates he's almost incapable of apology or empathy. Lucienne believes he dismisses their efforts and that he's harsh with his punishments. Gault in their defiance tries to make him see that things should be capable of change and wanting something different.

No one seems to get the truth of him? Or part of it. Or if they do it's not apparent and it seems a great tragedy to me. When he says the entire collective unconscious, I'm assuming he means entire, as in not just human - as in all life including other species we don't know of, that are otherwise 'alien'. It seems almost unfathomable to me no one stops to think he's the way he is for a reason.

Every single unconscious thought, decision, fear, nightmare, dream, hope - anything and everything that can manifest in dreams from the nonsensical and absurd to disturbing and whimsical, including concepts we don't even understand as humans. That is what Morpheus is made of. The screams dying in throats as people wake from horrors, the reoccurring scenes of falling, being chased, being late, the grief from loved ones dying, flying, school, sex - the ones that don't make any sense.

The nightmares that are so real and strong you can't get back to sleep. The dreams that are so sweet or fantastic you wake up mourning their loss. Day dreams, dreams that pick up where they left off, lucid dreams, depraved and disturbing dreams. The little thoughts we have about others we'd never say out loud or tell another living soul but they exist. It's all real, part of what makes us who we are and every other being that can dream - no wonder Morpheus' voice trembles on the word consume. That has to be near maddening? Like he's riding the line between insanity at any given moment because dreams can be entirely bizarre as much as they can hold significant meaning.

So he mopes? He's distant? He's cruel or uncaring. Unfeeling in how he operates - I feel like I would be too if I contained the concepts of the entirety of existence - everything his siblings govern exists in his realm in the form of dreams. You can dream about desire, death, destruction, delirium, destiny, despair, all of it. He doesn't feel enough? Distant? Ungrateful?

I think he feels too much, way too much and he can only push it down so far, or hold it back just enough. It makes him seem so delicate in my mind, like those who bottle and bottle. Pushing everything down or back just to keep functioning and then one little thing makes them snap. Suddenly you've damned your former lover to ten thousand years in hell because that amount of time and processing doesn't seem unreasonable against the impossibly incomprehensible thing that is existences unconscious. Let's not forget the souls in hell or every other afterlife, if they also dream, the concept of dreams as goals, the act of dreaming, creation and destruction, every nasty little thought, every fucked up thing anyone has ever comprehended and every joy.

Maybe that's why everyone's harsh on him in my eyes, that he should have all this perspective but seemingly doesn't? But he believes what he does because he has that perspective and some things within that spectrum do not change, they repeat because there's only so much that can exist, and that has to be tiresome.

But honestly, the other Endless, dreams and nightmares should realise what he's dealing with? Especially those close to him, or orbiting because no one is ever really close, and if dreams and nightmares can dream then Morpheus should know those too. I'd probs keep everyone away from me if I was a scrambled construct of emotions.

Fuck me up honestly. My tiny human brain is snapping trying to even comprehend the inner workings of Dream. None of this even makes sense. Just let the man rest, give the baby girl some slack. He's got both feet off the edge and no one's got his back. I'm tired now.

TLDR: Dream probably is the way he is because being who he is, is a lot.

#the sandman #lord of dreams #dream of the endless #useless ramblings #the sandman meta #meta #netflix the sandman #the sandman spoilers #the sandman netflix #morpheus #lord morpheus #i'm sorry about this but I had to get it out #for safe keeping #my ramblings #neil gaiman #bunch of bullshit I word vomited for no reason

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mayhaps-a-blog · 2 years

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I have seen much speculation on the high quality of Dream of the Endless as a romantic partner, and I have seen many refute such speculations, mainly citing Nada as proof that Dream is a terrible, capricious lover doomed to failure.

Personally, I think it would fall somewhere in the middle. Dream is, by most accounts, a passionate and considerate lover.

Consider Calliope’s words from the comics: “He was the most gallant of lovers... He delighted in sharing his knowledge. He had a castle filled with treasures, and took such pleasure in showing them, giving them to me. He was so gentle, and his skin felt like white silk against my skin... when we made love, it was like a flame: I felt utterly engulfed, utterly loved. Treasured.”

Or words from another former lover: “...we began a conversation, which stretched over many weeks. And, at the end, he invited me to remain in the Dreaming, as a guest... He began, rather nervously, to court me. And I began, also rather nervously, to be courted. And we were both, initially, extremely happy. He loved me. I do not doubt that.”

In summary, as a lover, Dream is, in essence, a dream :)

And like a dream, it fades.

His first and foremost priority is, and always has been, his duty. Once he’s settled into a relationship, once the shine has worn off, he goes back to work, and his lover is left for when he feels like stopping by.

Both mentioned relationships end this way. A slow drifting away...

And once the drift begins, well. Nada was an extreme example, but reject him, insult him, even if it’s just a loss of temper, and a lover will find themselves shown the door and banned from returning. His anger, his hurt, is cold and sharp and cutting, like the nightmares he rules, and he holds grudges for millennia.

Dating Dream would be a dream, but the breakup is a nightmare.

Enjoy!

#just some thoughts :)#i hope this gives all you lovely fans ~ideas~#:)#ship away!#and be informed #dream #dream of the endless #morpheus #sandman #netflix's sandman #analysis #nada #calliope #i won't tag the other because spoilers :)#shippy #meta #dream x reader meta #shipping

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talktolwt · 10 months

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I would like to focus on the music chosen for Hob Gadling's 80s sequence.

I'm extremely late to the world of The Sandman (finally binged it two weeks ago after my mother had been begging me to watch it with her and now I'm more obsessed than her) Bottom line: I'm unbelievably glad I finally watched this beautiful piece of television.

I have yet to read the comics but as for the first season, I have to say, without a doubt, my favorite episode is Chapter 6: The Sound of Her Wings. Death's 20-min segment is a beauty unto itself, but I'll be focusing on Hob's segment today. Specifically, his 80s scenes.

Considering I'm so late to this fandom and exploring all of its wondrous details and themes, excuse me if this has already been noted. I've been thinking about these details over and over but I need to get it out there in the Sandman world and hear everyone else's thoughts.

*Also excuse the terrible photos - Netflix doesn't let you screenshot and I was too lazy to get another app to let me bypass it. Please bear with my photos of my laptop screen.*

There are three songs that play throughout this sequence.

#1 - "She Drives Me Crazy" by Fine Young Cannibals

I accidentally deleted half my post mid-writing this but here I go again.

As we can see, after the breakup scene, we open up on Hob Gadling (he looks amazing in his 80s look, by the way) and this song plays.

Here are the lyrics:

I mean - where do I even start LMAO.

*Let me just give another note - regardless if you ship Dreamling romantically or not, I will be merely analyzing these lyrics as they are and how they convey Hob's feelings for Dream in general. But, I mean, the songs are THERE, the text is THERE. So do with that what you will.*

This will go for the following two songs as well, but these songs are placed with meaningful intention. Each of these offer a unique lens and dive into Hob's feelings.

I won't be annoying and over-explain anything, but the lyrics are clear I feel:

"She drives me crazy" - cough

"Things you do don't seem real" - in Hob's view, Dream literally is an enigma. Hob has no idea the capacities, the limits, and even the name of this being he meets every century.

"This waiting 'round's killing me" - well.

"Everything you say is lies" - now I wouldn't say particularly lies, but Dream does keep and omit things from Hob. Understandably, Hob would find himself in a confused limbo with Dream.

Here's the kicker:

"I won't make it on my own/No one likes to be alone." - HELLO. I mean, if this isn't the core message and pinnacle of Dream and Hob's lesson to immortality.

As Death mentions earlier in the episode, around 18:10, "Most of us will be glad for the company of a friend."

I feel I could go on forever and ever about the beauty of this episode and how well The Sound of Her Wings and Men of Good Fortune intertwine. They beautifully complement each other as stories lamenting the dichotomy of life and death, and the joys of humanity.

But essentially, Death reteaches Dream how beautiful humans can truly be, and in this pivotal moment, she says this zinger of a line. The camera was initially on Death but for THIS line, it cuts to Dream.

BECAUSE - poor Dream is definitely in need a friend.

Which is then shown to the audience by the 30-min long Hob Gadling sequence that ensues, and we see Dream's aversion to needing someone, to needing a friend.

But I digress - back to the song, and that one line about not wanting to be alone.

That is such a poignant line, because as much as Dream felt alone and needed company, so does Hob? An immortal, constantly seeing the death of others around him, his companions and family long gone, he needs someone.

Considering this 80s sequence ruminates so heavily on post-breakup feelings, Hob is missing Dream dearly. His constant in life.

I'm rambling too much, onto the next one!

#2 - "Shattered Dreams" by Johnny Hates Jazz

Time skip to perhaps a few hours later, who knows. We see Hob still waiting for Dream, alone in the pub.

Hm.

Literally what else could I say. I'm being slapped in the face with pining and angst and longing.

Here are the lyrics:

Some noteworthy lyrics:

"So much for your promises/They died the day you let me go" - this breakup man

"Caught up in a web of lies" - another lie motif

"I thought it was you/Who would stand by my side" - the theme of Dream and Hob being constants in each other's lives

"Shattered dreams" - I could scream. The title of the song. SHATTERED. DREAMS. giggling rn.

"Woke up to reality" - I think that's a very interesting line toeing between the constant references of the Waking and the Dreaming

Basically, I've been noting these evident similarities within the songs to align themselves to Dream and Hob's situation, and it's clear that the director/writers chose these songs with intent of it paralleling Dreamling.

So that makes it even more insane when lines like "From this empty heart" are meant to parallel Hob. Like.

Okay, last song.

#3 - "Keep On Moving" by Soul II Soul

This song plays as the night progresses. It's late, it's clear Dream isn't showing up, and Hob is feeling pretty final about that, and perhaps he's accepted it at this point. Dream isn't coming.

So this is where he speaks to the bartender and that scene ensues.

Here are the lyrics:

The themes of time and clocks are super prevalent within this song, and again it's once more clear how heavily this reflects and represents Hob.

Noteworthy lyrics:

"Why do people choose to live their lives this way?" - I think this also uniquely touches on the general aspect of humanity and one's reason to live/love life. Dream battles with his confusion/slight disappointment for humanity at the beginning, as he asks Death, "Why would any sensible creature crave an eternity of this?" And then Hob helps Dream realize why there's so much to live for. (24:30)

"I know the time will come today/The time will come one day"

"Walking alone in my own way" - Again this idea of walking alone and needing company.

"You'll be in my life, my life always" - Dream and Hob being constants again.

This all goes to say - Hob cares. He cares for Dream.

And I just think that's very beautiful. The magnitude with which Dream's absence means to him and how much their friendship/companionship both means to each of them. I just think their connection is a beautiful thing that I love seeing and rewatching. Wonderfully, these songs give the audience even more layered insight into this connection.

This was super long, and I apologize if I went on some tangents. But I also just couldn't help it, The Sandman is so incredibly rich in its storytelling and its connections and dynamics that I had to write this all down. I also just very much appreciate the amount of care and detail that goes into every aspect of television, and needle drops such as these three songs are no exception.

Thank you for sticking with me through this! Can't wait for season 2!

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thecarnivorousmuffinmeta · 2 months

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If Morpheus from the Matrix films showed up in Twilight to tell Bella that, actually, vampires aren't real, none of this is real, and she's just living a fantasy inside the Matrix... but he believes she might be "The One" destined to save humanity...

Does she leave the matrix and fight machines on the off-chance she has a super special destiny... or does she go back to the matrix? And does the timing of when Morpheus shows up matter?

TL;DR - would Bella pick the red pill or the blue pill?

You know, this is a very interesting ask, because Bella is hands down a "red pill" kind of person, no questions asked, no hesitation. She doesn't doubt herself, ever, and is all too willing to reject her presumed reality even when it may not make 'sense'. She goes beyond that, even, and dives headfirst into engaging with and dating man eating monsters who are especially dangerous to her personally. "Turn me into a crystal demon, I'm ready". If Bella was given the Morpheus tour ordinarily she'd go "yup, the world isn't real, I'm going to the real world".

However, this is a Bella who's firmly in love with Edward...

You know.

I think to this Bella she'd have a very large "oh" moment. Edward is so perfect, so wonderful, because he's her programmed boyfriend by evil machines who know exactly what she wants to keep her happy. Bella's probably so clumsy/weird because the machines fucked up in her programming and she's not wired in her tube correctly.

Bella concludes Edward's not real.

(Morpheus tries to explain this isn't really how it works but Bella's not listening to that).

Bella's extremely depressed but accepts the reality that her reality was so perfect it isn't reality (Morpheus also tries to explain that her reality is explicitly not perfect because the machines tried that and it didn't work, but she's not listening).

Now, she can continue to live the dream that isn't real, or she can face reality. And I think Bella would choose to face reality here, actually. The dream was wonderful, but it's a product of evil machines, and if Morpheus is to be believed they'll probably kill Edward at any moment because he's too perfect and Bella's too happy (this also isn't how it works but Morpheus is done at this point). So, to save Edward and the wonderful dream, she has to face the real world. (Also not how it works).

Bella lives the Matrix (and is quite happy she can mind whammy herself into being whatever she wants so she can be a crystal, vampire, hot princess in the Matrix who knows Kung-Fu because she is The One).

#twilight #twilight meta #twilight headcanon #twilight renaissance #the matrix #the matrix meta #the matrix headcanon #bella swan #morpheus #meta #headcanon #opinion

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jamesttiberius · 2 years

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anyway neil making the dream lord one entity, making it one (1) being for both dreams and nightmares is SO brilliant and sexy and peak character creation and storytelling actually like taking the bits of humanity's absolute best and absolute worst, their highest hopes and deepest fears, and rolling that into one single character just gives endless (ha) depth for him and the ways he exists and interacts with and is viewed by others and I feel like this is best captured in the bit where he's talking with death and "but they enter your realm each night without fear" and dream says "and I am far more terrible than you, my sister"

#im literally OBSESSED with that exchange #cannot stop thinking abt how perfect and nuanced it is #anyway we're not surprised neils always been so chef kiss with unexpected and layered characters #sandman #the sandman #dream of the endless #morpheus #is this meta? maybe #brahe speaks #dream and death

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the-cloudy-dreamer · 1 year

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sandman fandom i need your help with something! so quick back story I bought the individual issues of the whole brief lives arc! the thing is this are from an original 1995 run and from an editorial in my country that no longer exists ——>

i realized that in the back of the final issue there’s a collection of illustrations by various sandman artists which is pretty cool! BUT here’s the rub who is this guy???

caption for this is “ aesthetic gentleman” artist unknow mixed media 1889 which leads me to believe that —- this is Hob Gadling???? I’m pretty sure too that this is an illustration by Michael Zulli who did the art for A Men of Good Fortune??? And in so happens that this particular artists loves adding a lot of symbolism for his work and it’s responsible for this two infamous pieces THAT ALSO have flowers/ roses symbolism in them??

Am I crazy? What do you guys think? Does anybody can confirm if this is Hob? I’ve asked other people if their copies of Brief Lives have this illustration but nobody seems to know anything about it!

#the sandman #sandman comics #sandman netflix #the sandman comics spoilers #neil gaiman #michael Zulli #sandman meta #dream of the endless #lord morpheus #morpheus #Dreamling #dream x hob #is this Dreamling sort of confirmed??#listen I’ve never had reason to ship comic Dream and Hob BUT THIS?#blue rose for unrequited love?#in a man’s lapel a la Oscar Wilde style?#somebody help

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writing-for-life · 11 days

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Only Hope (!) calls you out like that…

Since I’m currently in the process of writing the mother of all “H/hope in the Sandman”-metas, just a couple of random panels about Hope, Dream and Desire. This one, obviously everyone talks about quite often…

And this is doubly important since this happens after a certain 1889 meeting, but before the fishbowl. So Dream didn’t have the experience of being captured yet that furthered his change. And yet, his reaction to her is very different than the reaction to Hob (also: Can we talk about the symbolism in Hope reaching out her hand, touching him and his allowing it?). Because she is Hope.

(And innocence I dare say—she is a child for a reason.)

But the panel hardly anyone ever talks about is this one:

That’s Hope saying the exact same thing to Desire. And they have the same reaction. And she calls them out on their bullshit in exactly the same way. (And again, can we talk about the symbolism in asking Hope to join you and her replying she will come with you? That’s more than just the obvious “We’re saving the universe and you stand for the afterlife”, which is also a biggie, but that’s for the other meta). Because she is Hope.

Both Dream and Desire are so lonely (I’d hazard a guess she could say this to all the Endless btw). And they both cope with it in such maladjusted ways. But they let a child call them out like no one else is allowed to call them out. They bristle, but they don’t overreact like they do with others (especially Dream). Because she is Hope.

(And all of that’s to say: She is the personification of H/hope, not any of the other side-characters that commonly get hope projected on them. And D/dream(s) are hopes and always will be because she touches/d them.)

#the sandman #sandman #dream of the endless #desire of the endless #morpheus #hope beautiful lost nebula #sandman overture #overture sandman #sandman spoilers #sandman meta #I’ve been Gaiman’d #sandman analysis #sandman character analysis #sandman bookclub #queue crew

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virgo-dream · 10 months

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Thinking about the effect that Hob had on Dream after they met in 2022 like…. even though his apology was somewhat humorous (and very charming), Dream did say he owed Hob an apology. He also smiled from the moment he realised Hob was happy to see him. After that, Dream does fuck up many times, but he apologises to Lucienne and is willing to admit to his shortcomings.

He’d been depleted of hope and felt like no one cared about him. He returned to his realm to find only Lucienne had stayed. He went on a quest for his tools and refused help at every turn, but the moment those big brown eyes crinkled at the corners it was over for him and the spark inside his own eyes lit up again

#this was meant to mean something or make sense idk I’m just putting my feelings about these idiots here #the sandman #dream of the endless #morpheus #dreamling #hob gadling #the sandman meta #dreamling meta

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nualaofthefaerie · 2 months

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Dear everyone,

This will be the first year of #Nualaday, and we are so excited to come to you with this year prompts!

Nuala has always been connected to Audrey Hepburn's charm, so for the art prompt, we stopped on Audrey's iconic look in "War and Peace".

In order to help with the process, we have prepared a Pintrest board:

For the writing prompt, we stopped on: "We are asleep until we fall in love!" Again a quote from "War and Peace"

Feel free to interpret and relate the prompts in ways that represent your artistic visions! 🪷🩷

Can't wait to share all beautiful stories for the most beautiful girl 🪷

#the sandman #nuala #nuala of the faerie #nuala the sandman #the sandman netflix #sandflower #morpheus #dream of the endless #the sandman comics #nuala sandman #nuala fanart #the sandman art #writing prompt #art prompt #Nuala Day 2024 #sandman meta #sandman prompt

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