I will forever thankfull to the universe for putting @nualaofthefaerie and my own path together, so I'm not going to shup up when someone hurts and harase one of my dearest friends. Is it that hard to create a safe space here in the fandom, respecting everyone's ships, and just enjoying this beautiful universe?
Anyways sandflower still wins🎀🩷🪷
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I will post this once.
This is the 5th ask of this kind only this week. I deleted all the hurtful words, hoping they would stop. They didn't. So now I am forced to write this.
Don't be that person.
This is very hurtful to me as a creator who loves one character so deeply, I dedicate hours of my life every day to her.
This is very disrespectful to the community Neil Gaiman has built, and it goes against every principle in his body.
Lastly, Sandflower is not a cishet ship. I have said and shared that multiple times.
I am really starting to feel like I'm not wanted... and I don't know what to do anymore. I simply exist in my corner. Don't treat me like that because I don't like something you do.
I am sorry for the sudden post, but I love what I do, and this type of asks really hurts me.
Still Love,
Li 🪷
Small Update: I did turn off the anon asks, and I see all the love pouring my way. It's so much it's overwhelming! Thank you, everyone 🪷🩷
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About Love As The Catalyst For Change
Okay, so while I was going through all the panels for March Mania, I also stumbled over these ones again:
And although I’ve read it all a million times and had all these feelings before, I just need to blurt them out:
Love Is What Changes Him
It’s such a central message of The Sandman, but I feel it often gets lost in a million other things. And they’re all important, but so is this one.
Because yes, Dream went with Delirium and found Destruction (and Despair found him btw), and his Destiny was Death. And that whole Desire thing… ‘nuff said. BUT… (major spoilers ahead)
Those panels above are basically the turning point in a nutshell. No, well, the turning point is actually the moment he kisses (and then kills) Orpheus, but those panels are the essence:
He set out with Delirium in hopes to find Thessaly (the pendant Nuala wears here used to be hers, and she gave it to her when she left the Dreaming and him. And I can’t even begin to tell you how I feel about him letting Nuala keep a gift of his ex, who betrays him later by protecting the woman he hurt, and then making it the item that holds the power with which Nuala can call in her boon. One could spin that very far in all sorts of different directions).
But when he comes back after killing Orpheus, it doesn’t really matter anymore. Thessaly was the usual romanticised dream that could never be real. But he finally did find love. For his son. The unconditional kind. The one that doesn’t need anything in return because it just is. And he was loved back, if for a brief moment. But it was real, not a dream. And that love stays real (that’s why it initiates the turn, 3rd act and all that).
I’m reminded again of the words of Frank McConnell in his intro to The Kindly Ones:
“And with [killing Orpheus], Dream has entered time, choice, guilt and regret—has entered the sphere of the human.”
(Side note at this point: With all of this in mind, read Dream Hunters [again], and look at all THREE main characters—that includes the onmyōji, not just the monk and the fox.)
And it would be so easy to say, “Well, love killed him then, what’s the fucking point?” Not just the love for his son, but also the love of a maiden who called in her boon (Nuala), the love of a mother for her child (Lyta), the love of a crone for no one but herself (Thessaly).
But we all know that “change or die” was never an “either or”, because it’s an “and both”. And it’s ultimately love, in all its shapes and forms, four times over, that changed him (while it was also part of the death knell, but that’s a complicated one. In any case, it also led to change: To be(come) a new, better, kinder Dream).
Yes, call me romantic or hopeless (although I think that’s the wrong word in this context, because I feel it’s the opposite), I don’t care.
Because that story is about catharsis. And that means Dream is a vessel for our feelings. And the feelings won’t be the same if we change any of this, for better, for worse. Because truthfully: That story is about me. And you. And you.
About allowing love, of whatever kind (this is very clearly not just about romantic love), to change us. And that ultimately means letting go (of control). Just like he did.
Bleurgh, I’m crying. Catharsis 🤣
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It's the Mr. Sadman National Librarian Day and to celebrate I have rounded up the Lucien commissions I've gotten over the past couple years and posted them to Dreamwidth! The poor nerd activates cute aggression in me.
Mix of Lucien alone, Lucien/Nuala, Lucien/Daniel, and Lucien/Corinthian. Very NSFW! Featuring T4T content as well.
For your enjoyment here!
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