12. Window!

Me and @kusirotta as muppets!

the goblin king

a present for @iadoremusicals

“Muppet” as a species referring to the stylized puppets made by The Jim Henson Company (or arguably similar enough, such as Bear In The Big Blue House or other Henson productions like Labyrinth).

the world is so beautiful

welcome home has sent me fully spiralling down the hole of puppetry to the point that my housemates and i were watching the first episode of sesame street together (and it was amazing)

Fan theory regarding Muppets as a species (pt. 2)

Link to part 1

Muppets are not true flesh and blood. Their synthetic skin often indicates the material of their forebears, and their organs appear as either crude or detailed replicas of biological ones made of the same material. If either of these are damaged it does pain them, but even catastrophic damage is not inherently fatal (see bottom paragraph).

That said, they do have blood of a sort, but one would hesitate to fully categorize it as such, given its pinkish color and a consistency that is closer to that of water.  It evaporates quickly when removed from their bodies. Their “blood” clots quickly when they’re injured, with a thick pink cotton-y substance forming.  Their bones are usually a very firm foam-like substance, but other material variants exist. If a limb is lost, a new synthetic one can be attached, and will be assimilated by the body within a few days. It will likely be slightly less responsive than the original, but is almost always functional. 

Muppets can both contract and spread any illness that can affect humans, and can suffer the same or similar congenital disorders & chronic health conditions that humans can, though this is admittedly poorly understood by modern science. It would seem that while these conditions could be quite unpleasent for them, Muppets can only actually die when their bodies cannot produce enough energy to repair the damage it sustains (either due to age related conditions or direct damage/resource deprivation). This leads to the hightened longevity of Muppets, but a poor understanding of their biology overall.

Fantasy genre needs to make a comeback outside of television.

Agreed! However a lot of modern superhero films hover over that edge of sci-fi/fantasy territory that I think they count in some capacity. Some are straight-up urban fantasy if you really think about it--honestly a lot of movies coming out these days have fantastical elements in one way or another without fully committing to the genre. It’s interesting.

My biggest wish for the fantasy genre is that they stop trying to recreate GOT years after the show ended. Dark and gritty fantasy is fine, but these days I think a lot of people are longing for that genuine wholesomeness and hope that a lot of the old-school styles of fantasy had.

Also; maybe even explore fantasy stories outside of Medieval Western European-style settings, if possible. Not so-recently saw a Russian film that experimented with some Russian/Viking/Kievan Rus style aesthetics about a girl and her shapeshifting dragon love interest. It’s called On Drakon/He’s a dragon--got a lovely fairytale feel and it’s free on TUBI.

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Erik Grönwall + Jareth! 🔮🦉

“Everything that you wanted I have done. You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me, I was frightening. I have reordered time. I have turned the world upside down, and I have done it all for you! I am exhausted from living up to your expectations. Isn’t that generous?”

hello! i just wanted to thank you for posting about the 1999 alice movie, i loved it so much and i am extremely grateful. thank you ! 💚💚

YES. YES I LOVE YOU FOR WATCHING IT YES also hey you! person reading this! this is my fav Alice in Wonderland adaptation and it's all on youtube. you can watch it. yes you. for free. right now. go do it. it was made by lots of cool people including the Jim Henson Workshop.

anywhere || eddie munson x plus size!reader

cw: angst, talking about drug usage, eddie's in the hospital post-vecna, your mom kinda fuckin sucks, best friend!eddie who likes you more than you realize

a/n: that one line in the muppet babies theme song fucks me up every time. literally every time I hear it I tear up. so thanks for that jim henson.

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"When your world looks kinda weird and you wish you weren't there," Eddie's terrible Kermit impression makes you laugh so hard you almost spill the bowl of cereal you're pouring. You hit him back with your equally terrible baby Miss Piggy voice.

"Just close your eyes and make believe that you could be anywhere!"

Eddie snorts at the way your voice cracks trying to hit notes your voice was not made to hit.

"Shut up, that was flawless and you know it," you hand Eddie his bowl with a grin and plop down on the couch next to him. Were you watching cartoons made for children? Yes, but who didn't love Kermit the Frog and his adorable little muppet friends?

You missed this, being here with Eddie. A lot had changed since you started going to college last year while Eddie stayed behind to be a senior for a third time, but not this. Your friendship never changed. It was something you treasured coming home to, when you could. School was starting to pile up and these visits were becoming few and far between, but Eddie would always be your Eddie. You were sure of it.

"So you're leading up Hellfire now, huh?," you asked Eddie as you finished your cereal. He took your bowl and put it on the coffee table with his, not meeting your eyes. Maybe you shouldn't have brought it up. The two of you didn't talk about it much, him still being in school. Like you didn't want to break the spell that everything was normal. The two of you hanging out like normal, like you did since you were kids. It was comfortable, you didn't want to ruin that.

"Yeah the, uh...yeah. It's up to me now I guess. The guys know they can't compete with my campaigns."

He's smiling, all cocky because it's true, they're always amazing. But his smile doesn't quite reach his eyes.

Weren't your just saying nothing had changed? Maybe you a lot had changed and you just weren't paying attention.

"I miss adventuring with you," you sigh, snuggling into Eddie's side until he puts his arm over your shoulder. "And the guys."

"Yeah, they miss you too," Eddie's voice sounds strained. You try to move thinking you're laying on him in a weird way, but he just pulls you closer, tighter.

You spend the rest of the morning watching cartoons. Eventually you forget the weird tension, putting it aside to enjoy your day with your best friend before you have to leave again.

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It's a year before you see Eddie again.

School was tough, taking up so much of your free time you barely saw anyone besides the librarian and the two people you shared a dorm room with. You had tried to join a DnD club at school but your schedule didn't line up well with the rest of the group. And it wasn't the same. You missed Eddie's energy, his frantic dramatics. The guys were cool but sticklers for rules and, to put it nicely, boring.

You couldn't take being away from home any longer, you missed your friend.

So when your mom called one Friday afternoon and told you, in her own bizarre and nonchalant way, that Eddie had been in some trouble recently and, "I'm sure you saw the news about the earthquakes," you came straight home.

"You know, I always thought he was a nice boy. Did you know he was selling... grass," your mom whispered the last word like police officers would be knocking down her door if she spoke too loud.

"I didn't." You did. You also partook, but your mother didn't need to know that.

"Anyway, everyone got all upset when that little cheerleader died, but when they found him, like that, I guess they thought he was a victim too. Can't maul yourself like that, that's for sure."

"Oh my god, mom," you stand up, your chair harshly scraping against the linoleum. You can't sit here and listen to this any more.

"Where are you going? I have a pie in the oven."

Your mom follows you to the door, huffing like you're the one being ridiculous. She never liked Eddie much but the ease with which she talks about your childhood best friend being... mauled...

"I'll be back later."

You don't wait for her to respond, slamming the door as you go. You hop in the hand-me-down car your dad gave you before you left for school, peeling down the drive and heading straight for the hospital like you should've done when you got back. Tears cloud the edges of your vision until they spill over, you don't bother wiping them away.

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"Hey, you're Eddie's girl."

"Excuse me?"

A short, curly haired boy in a baseball cap appears next to you when you ask the receptionist where Eddie's room is located.

"It's okay, Brenda. She's with me." You snort out a laugh when the boy tips his hat to the woman behind the desk. Her smile and the wave of her hand tells you she is in fact used to this.

"I'm Dustin," the kid explains as you follow him through the maze of hallways and elevators. "Eddie's told me a lot about you. Recognized you from the picture he thinks I don't know about in his glove box. Not my fault he just shoves stuff in there. If he didn't want everything to spill out he should organize. Not that I'm great at organizing either-"

"I'm sorry," you stop Dustin's rambling, your head spinning from all that information, narrowing in on the one that stuck. "He keeps my picture in his van?"

"Yeah a few in his room too. He's just down here. You just missed the guys, Jeff had to go to work and he was their ride so they left. Wayne will be in later. He usually stops by after work."

Dustin kept talking and you tried to keep up but the closer you got to Eddie's room the more your ears rang and your chest felt tight. You knew it was bad, he'd been in for a few days and was still heavily sedated after a number of surgeries. Wayne told you the day before you came back on the phone that he might not be awake when you got here. The old man might've been trying to spare you the trip, but you were coming to see him no matter what. You should've come back a long time ago.

Standing outside his room now, the year you were away felt like an eternity now. How had your Eddie changed? Was he your Eddie anymore? Was he ever yours?

"Hey, you comin' in? He's still sleeping."

Steeling yourself with one deep breath, you enter Eddie's room. With one look at Eddie and you're asking Dustin for a minute alone, pulling up a chair by his side.

"Sorry I'm late, Eddie. Traffic coming out of the city is crazy." You laugh at your stupid joke because you'll cry if you do anything else. You don't think about the air tube in his nose or the beeping heart monitor, the bandages on his arms or how hollow, how fragile he looks.

"My mom said you've been selling 'grass'," you chuckle as you twist one of his curls around your finger. "Should I tell her how many times I snuck out to smoke with you? She's already mad at me for taking time off from school to be here."

Eddie lays there as you talk, sleeping softly as you compliment the cards and flowers on the window sill. You tell him how the past two semesters of school have been, how miserable you've been without him, how guilty you've felt for "missing" his calls, not reading his letters because you've been too exhausted to do anything that wasn't surviving and work.

You're holding his weirdly ring-less fingers, contemplating leaving instead of holding out hope that he'll wake up while you're here, when you hear a familiar theme song on the television.

"When your world looks kind of weird,"

Your gaze falls from the TV to your friend in his hospital bed.

"And you wish you weren't there,"

Your eyes close wishing you were back in Eddie's house, stoned out of your mind doing muppet impressions.

A tear falls down your cheek as you close your eyes and sing along with Miss Piggy, not caring how ridiculous you sound.

"Just close your eyes and make believe and you can be anywhere."

You choke on a sob, suddenly angry at this stupid kids show for making you lose it when you were holding yourself together so well.

"Still sounds awful."

You open your eyes, wiping your tears away with your hand not in Eddie's at the groggy sound of his voice. He's holding the other one tight, almost too tight, like you'll run if he lets go.

"That was a perfect impression," the words stutter on a heaving breath but you're smiling through it.

"I'm on so many drugs."

"I'll go get the nurse," you laugh, trying to pull yourself together.

"No," Eddie just barely tugs on your hand, not yet strong enough to pull you close. "Don't leave."

"I'm not, I won't. I'm here, Eddie. I'm sorry."

Eddie's eyes flutter shut, too tired yet for a full conversation, but he won't let your hand go. You find the call button next to the bed to call the nurse and wait.

"I'm not going anywhere."

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“I want to see a real life actor have a threesome on a dinner table with Kermit and Miss Piggy” MAYA YOU CAN’T JUST SAY THINGS LIKE THAT. MY GOSH HOW DO YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT.

Thank you for asking! <3 The answer is nestled all snug in my bed, while visions of muppetsex dance in my head

For real tho, share in my vision: Miss Piggy, mouth open full on chewing on John's face, tossing her hair like she's mauling him while Kermit goes at his neck like the world's most ineffectual felted toothless vampire. Even more traumatized than we are, Harrow flees the room, accompanied by Ianthe (played by Janice) who is gearing up to subject us to another Muppet sexual overture before sending her off to lob a frag grenade at Rowlf

Finally, Jim Henson's vision for "The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence" is realised

Today, we celebrate our friend Jim Henson and his legacy of joy and creativity. Jim reinvented the way we view monsters, making them uniquely lovable and fun. We will always have a furry monster handprint on our hearts thanks to you, Jim.❤️ #JimHensonBirthday #JimHensonMonsters (Via Sesame Street)

Tell me funfact ?

ehehehe fun fact time >:) I have been Obsessed with this story since I first heard it so today I will tell you about how Caroll Spinney (the man who puppeteered Big Bird and Oscar on Sesame Street until 2018) met his wife Debra, a story which is simultaneously the cutest and dumbest story I have ever heard.

It's a long one so under the cut it goes!

In the late 70s, Caroll saw a woman with a pixie haircut working at her desk at the Children's Television Workshop (the group that makes Sesame Street and that is now known as the Sesame Workshop), and was immediately taken with her. Right then and there, he decided to screw up his courage and ask her on a dinner date, which she politely refused - while she appreciated the gesture, she was already married and expected at home to cook dinner for her husband. When recalling the event in his autobiography, The Wisdom of Big Bird, Caroll says that he was upset but not surprised; a woman as beautiful as her had to have already been taken.

Several months later at the CTW's Christmas party, Caroll ran into a woman with a "Dutch Boy" haircut (essentially another name for a pageboy haircut, reference picture below). Once again, he was taken, and spent the night chatting with her and eventually asking if she wanted to sit with him when they started serving dinner - and once again, the woman politely refused, explaining that she couldn't stay at the party due to husband expecting her at home. Caroll was once again respectful, but internally lamented the fact that all the woman he was interested in were apparently married.

Then, a few months after the Christmas party, Caroll was approached by a long-haired woman while recording a Sesame Street album. The two of them immediately hit it off, and while Caroll didn't remember having ever met the woman, he felt as if she knew him. They talked for a while about their personal lives, with the woman (who's name was Debra) mentioning at one point that she'd recently ended her marriage, and while Caroll had to go on tour for Sesame Street and was thus unable to see her for three months, the two met back up after he got back and very quickly fell in love.

AND WHEN I SAY QUICKLY I MEAN "CAROLL PROPOSED 13 DAYS AFTER THEIR FIRST DATE AND SHE IMMEDIATELY SAID YES" QUICKLY.

(years later in the aforementioned Wisdom of Big Bird autobiography, Caroll would say that on the day he proposed he was "more in love than [he'd] ever been in his life" and that there was never a moment he regretted proposing so soon, claiming that he "could have proposed the first night - almost two weeks was too long a wait." if you'll forgive my inner sappy hopeless romantic, WAUGHHH)

Debra and Caroll were together until Caroll passed away in December of 2019, with one of his last on-screen appearances being a cameo in Sesame Street's 50th anniversary celebration with his wife by his side.

The two cared for each other deeply and were nigh-inseparable - a performance done during Caroll's retirement party titled "Great Moments in Spinney History," which walked through the entirety of Caroll's career and highlighted such notable events as the first time he met Jim Henson, even went so far as to make a Debra Muppet (pictured below hugging the man playing Caroll in the performance, Alan Muraoka) to emphasize the impact she'd had on his life. It had taken a while for Caroll to find love, but if he hadn't been rejected by the two women he'd previously met at the CTW, he never would have met Debra, a woman with whom he'd form a relationship filled to the brim with love.

OR AT LEAST THAT'S WHAT HE THOUGHT.

On a trip to Switzerland that Debra had won on a game show a few months after his proposal, she toasted him and thanked him for never giving up on her. Confused by the phrasing of the toast, he asked her what she meant, at which point she stated that if he'd stopped talking to her after their first meeting back when she was still married, they never would have gotten together.

Yes, in a twist you might have seen coming a mile away, DEBRA HAD BEEN ALL THREE WOMEN CAROLL HAD MET AT THE CTW, AND WHAT HE'D MISTAKEN FOR THREE WOMAN WITH DIFFERENT HAIRCUTS HAD BEEN ONE WOMAN WHO'S HAIR HAD GRADUALLY GROWN OUT BECAUSE THAT'S HOW THE PASSAGE OF TIME WORKS. While he'd thought that he had fallen for three separate women, he'd actually fallen for the same woman - his future wife - three times over, a story that's incredibly sweet but also incredibly, incredibly dumb. truly the cringefail romance rep we deserved <3

(pictured above: a man who won a lifetime achievement award but somehow DIDN'T REALIZE THAT HAIR GROWS)

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Miss Piggy from The Muppet Show could kill Macbeth!

Being a woman, as well as a muppet designed and created by Jim Henson, she falls under all three criteria (Gender Clause, Unconventional Birth Clause, and Birth Parent Clause)!

EDIT: I have been informed that Miss Piggy was not in fact created by Jim Henson, but instead Bonnie Erickson, who identifies as a woman, which disqualifies Miss Piggy for the Birth Parent Clause. Thank you @madamegemknight for the correction, and apologies for the incorrect information! Don't worry, though, Miss Piggy does still qualify to kill Macbeth.

Morpheus’s known lovers

SPOILERS FOR PLOT POINTS OF THE SANDMAN COMICS!

Killala of the Glow: Before Earth sustained life Morpheus was lovers with an alien woman named Killala.  Killala was one of the founding members of what would become The Green Lantern Corp.  She had the power to manipulate and shape green light into tactile forms, which her people called The Glow.

Morpheus asks her to accompany him to a sort of convention where The Endless and several stars (in anthropomorphic form) gather for a meeting. Morpheus neglected to tell Killala that he is the living embodiment of dreams. She thought he was just an alien with the power to manipulate dreams.

When she learns his true power and identity she is frightened.  And thanks to Desire’s machinations she falls in love with the star / sun of her own world.            At this very same meeting we see Glory of the First Circle (probably an aspect of The Presence AKA God) talking about the creation of Faerie.  Despair is also talking to Rao (The sun / God of the planet Krypton) as Rao is reluctant to sustain life. Despair tells him how “beautiful” it would be if the unstable planet eventually died and one survivor was left to grieve.  She did not know it yet but she accidentally set into motion the creation of Superman, DC’s ultimate symbol of Hope.  Destruction always had a theory that each Endless was really a thing and its opposite.  Death is also present at births and her sigil is the Egyptian symbol of life. 

When Morpheus sees Killala in the arms of her new would-be lover he is very hurt.  He goes to confront Desire who taunts him that by saying that by now they have done a lot more than just kiss and that he (the star) now probably knows every crevasse of her body.  This causes the first falling out with Morpheus and Desire as ironically, at the start of this story, Morpheus was very happy and praised Desire for bringing him love.

Source: The Sandman: Endless Nights.

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Alainora:

Thousands of years ago some Lovecraftian old Gods invaded The Dreaming. Morpheus was captured and chained up in his own dungeon.   He tried to scratch his siblings sigils into the wall to call to them for help. One by one they refused as they were much prouder and meaner back then.  He was reluctant to call on Desire so he tried Delight first only to find out she is in the middle of “changing.” (Becoming Delirium).  Morpheus reluctantly calls to Desire who sends him a lover.  This is a being of light that Morpheus calls Alianora (She had no name). Alianora rescues Morpheus from the dungeon and helps him fight the invading entities.  She gets a scar on her cheek from the battle.  From the bones of these entities (Lovecraftian style Old Ones) Morpheus made his helm and the gates of horn and ivory.  In the new Sandman TV show you can see the Alianora story from The Sandman: Overture carved into the gates.  For a while Morpheus and Alianora were happy but eventually Morpheus started to neglect her because he was distracted with his work. She decided to leave him but her previous life was long over. She could not return to where she came from.  So Morpheus gave her a skerry (a fairly large island) in The Dreaming that would later be called “The Land.” And he gave her a dreamstone made of rose quartz, enabling her the power to govern the island as her own.  Like her own mini-Dreaming within The Dreaming.  This dreamstone is what Barbie calls The Porpentine. In The Sandman A Game of You the Rose quartz Dreamstone is finally destroyed and Morpheus re-absorbs all of The Land and its characters back into himself.  He meets up with Alainora’s ghost and he tells her that long after she left The Land became the creative domain of many young women.  This indicates that The Land was also Oz, Alice’s Wonderland, perhaps even The Labyrinth from Jim Henson’s The Labyrinth, etc.  She bows to him and then leaves in peace.  Alianora’s ghost again appears during The Sandman The Wake to speak at Morpheus’s Wake.

Source: The Sandman: A Game of you, The Sandman: Overture, and The Sandman: The Wake.  _____________________________  

Nada:

It's not a very good story.   That is to say, it's not a kind story.  The show didn't establish very well that Morpheus's form changes based on if a person has a different cultural view on their Dream deity.  In Nada's culture Morpheus was Kai'ckul.   It has roughly the same meaning as Morpheus.  Nada was the Queen of an ancient African people 10,000 years ago and she had never seen a white man so that is the form he took for her.   The Endless have no true forms. They just take human-like form for us mortals. Nada had seen Kai'ckul (Morpheus) looking up at her one night and "fell in love with him."  She went on a quest to find him like out of a fairy tale.  She even runs into Cain killing Abel, who also appear as black men to her.  And she eventually made her way to Morpheus. All seems Happily Ever After until she realizes he's an Endless and her people believe it is forbidden for a mortal to be with an Endless.  She flees from him and (This part's gross) uses a rock to de-virgin herself, thinking it would ruin his attraction to her.  When he finds her he tells her that her physical body does not matter to him.  He heals her and they end up making love.   At first they are very happy but then disaster strikes.  A meteorite apparently hits her kingdom, destroying it.   She believes this is punishment because a mortal is not supposed to love an Endless.  Weirdly though we never see anything like this happen to any of Morpheus's other lovers (He's had six lovers that we know of).So she tries to flee him, deciding they cannot be together.  He doesn't take no for an answer.  He wants her as his queen.  She throws herself off a cliff but dying does not stop him.  He's hurt and angry that she would kill herself rather than be with him and he tells her ghost that he will ask her three times to be his queen and if she refuses the third time he could condemn her soul to eternal torment.   She begs him not to do that, because she believes she has to say no. That's the back story.  This is perhaps the worst thing Morpheus has ever done.  In The Sandman Season of Mists Death makes him realize he was in the wrong and he goes on a quest to rescue Nada and apologize to her.   I think the show is delaying on revealing the details of this story so the audience doesn't hate him out right.   Until his "Time Out bubble" Morpheus used to be something of an asshole.  The majority of The Sandman is watching him grow and become more and more human, compassionate, and setting right the wrongs of his past. Nada's story is the issue called "Tales in the Sand."  Morpheus making amends is in The Sandman: Season of Mists.   I hope the show still lets her accept his apology.  Modern audiences might not go for her forgiving him after what he did but her forgiving him is necessary because it teaches him to accept being forgiven.  And leads to him apologizing for other wrong-doings. In the audio drama her story is in The Sandman: Act 1.  In the trade paperbacks it is The Sandman: Volume 1, Preludes and Nocturnes.  It used to be in Volume 2 back in the early 90s but has been in Volume 1 for over twenty years now. Later when Morpheus learns he was wrong he goes to try to rescue Nada but Lucifer is shutting down Hell and leaves Morpheus the key to Hell just to mess with him.  Morpheus ultimately gives the key to two angels, Duma and Ramiel. Azazel had Nada and Morpheus rescues her and Choronzon (despite previously challenging him) from Azazel.  Morpheus apologizes to Nada for how he treated her (after a well deserved slap from her) and he helps her to reincarnate into a Chinese baby boy.

Source: The Sandman: Tales in the Sand, The Sandman: Season of Mists, The Sandman: The Wake.  

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Calliope:

Calliope is one of the Greek muses who inspire creativity.  Morpheus loved her enough to marry her and they had a son, Orpheus.  

Orpheus is the musician who went down into The Underworld to rescue his wife from the afterlife. Hades said he could take her but only if he did not look back at her until after he was back in the land of the living.  Orpheus got nervous and worried that he was tricked so when he neared the exit of The Underworld he looked back and his wife was pulled back from him for his lack of faith in Hades’ word and distrust.

Later Orpheus was ripped apart by worshipers of Dionysus.  Immortal and just a severed head, Morpheus sent some priests to look after Orpheus.  Morpheus would not directly contact his son because after Orpheus’s wife died he had lashed out his father for not helping bring her back and Morpheus (being an asshole at the time) pride was wounded.   Morpheus would not reconcile with his son until The Sandman: Brief lives where he would help euthanize Orpheus who has wanted to die for several thousand years now.

Morpheus and Calliope’s falling out was over how he treated Orpheus during the entire saga of Orpheus trying to get his wife back.  Thousands of years later, much like Morpheus, Calliope was captured by mortals.  Morpheus, fresh from his own captivity, actually came to her rescue and tormented her captor with a curse of obsessive creativity until he let her go. The man was so obsessive in his writing that he ruined his own hands.  Once the man freed Calliope Morpheus removed all of the man’s creativity, leaving him ruined.

Source: The Sandman: Calliope, The Sandman: Song of Orpheus, The Sandman: The Wake.   

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Titania:       

Titania is the queen of the faeries and married to Auberon (Oberon).  Apparently she and Morpheus had an affair.  

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Thessaly:

Thessaly is a two-thousand-year-old (or so) ancient Greek witch.  She looks like a roughly college age young woman but is actually quite ancient.   She was one of the famous Thessalian witches.

Thessaly accompanied Barbie and her friends on the adventure that lead to the destruction of the rose quartz dreamstone.  Thessaly is kind of cold hearted and may represent who Morpheus was before his captivity.  She’s powerful and selfish. She even dumps Morpheus and tells him that he cares too much about people.  Morpheus was so upset about this relationship that he caused it to rain for weeks in The Dreaming when she left him. But he was being over dramatic and having a bit of a tantrum. 

Later Thessaly betrays him to The Kindly Ones for some of her own sins to be overlooked and to extend her already very long life.

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Lucifer:

Maybe?!??!?

He knew him when he was still an angel.

Lucifer is the now-former ruler of Hell

__________________________  Bast: Crushed on Morpheus but they were never lovers.   She is an Egyptian Cat Goddess. 

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Nuala: Crushed on Morpheus but they were never lovers.  Nuala is a faery who was given to Morpheus as a present. Though Morpheus is opposed to slavery he had no choice but to accept the “gift” lest he offend the fae court.  Eventually he paid her with a boon.