haven’t bought comics in ages but i’m going thru a thing

finished dead boy detectives!!! (spoilers ahead!)

quick disclaimer: i haven’t gotten around to the comics yet but i’ve been very interested since the sandman came out and i do plan on reading them eventually lol.

- edwin is my new blorbo cutie and i too would go to hell for him. also, his style is immaculate, exactly how i want to dress all the time.

- i am SO sad about niko. but i’m glad that it seems like she’s not totally gone? i hope she’s not an antagonist in the next series (the ending was a touch ominous), but i’ll honestly be happy either way. it’s so rare to find good western-japanese characters. it made me incredibly happy when she switched into a japanese accent when saying “osaka” because it’s something i recognise in my family and in me. i know people from lots of different backgrounds do that with words from their own languages, but i’d never seen a japanese character do it before so i was very tickled.

- charles. man. please fall in love with edwin. how tf are you quite literally dragging him out of hell and he confesses to you and you look him in the eyes and say that you love him but you’re not in love with him. i mean that’s the best possible way he could’ve gone about it, but if i were edwin i might just have gone back down to the doll face spider thing.

- i hope that crystal’s past doesn’t land her in jail or anything. i really like her dynamic with the others but i’m not sold on her and charles romantically, mostly because edwin is so fucking sweet and i don’t want his heart to be broken. he’ll be happy if charles is happy, but i cannot stand see him get hurt even the tiniest bit.

- jenny is amazing. she’s literally me fr. also i love how she just hands people cleavers.

- i found the night nurse’s breakdown when she was in angie’s stomach very relatable. i feel like that a lot lmao. and i love her accent. i will go to bat for my own weird ass culchie irish/valley girl hybrid, but if had to pick another accent…

- i need a wise and eternal south asian man to talk me down from the ledge. it’s almost finals week and a ring from kashina would be a big help.

- tragic mick (top tier wordplay name) is a sweetheart and i hope he gets to be a walrus again eventually. my first reaction when i saw the cat king was “oh my god, it’s the piss kink guy from You!” but that aside, he was ok in the end. so was monty. i hope the night nurse can help crystal drag david the demon back down to hell.

Oh so this is how it happened!

Prettyloserboy (insp.)

✨blorbo wrapped✨ except I’ve been fixated on the same character for a whole year

Thank you @virgo-dream for this cute and fun template! If you guys want to do this here’s the link to Virgo’s blank template for your blorbo wrapped

i dont blame doc for being a little hesitant

Hob really out here living life to the fullest

Hob, very tired: oh I wish for the sweet embrace of sleep.

Morpheus: *emotionally repressed blush*

Then curl up by the fire and sleep for awhile It’s the perfect dream

more early September unposted Sandman art

Do you ever think about the chaotic posibilities of Hob inocently slidding Dream a cup of coffee and saying its a gift😄 only for Dream to blue screen because oh shit a gift??? From Hob??? Hob Gadling is courting me?!!! I must reciprocate!!!! At once!!!!

Cue Hob being drowned in gifts from Dream of the Endless and being incredibly confused but he’s not really complaining

Oh my god I LOVE this, the potential of totally harmless, actually really sweet miscommunication would be so goddamn on brand for them like. Dream stressing for a week straight over returning the gift but it supposedly being something of equal value so that he doesn't come on too strong, but coffee being. kind of hard?? To estimate?? Cause on the one hand yeah, sure, it's just coffee!! On the other, Hob clearly means something by it, it means something to Dream, and he simply cannot just return that by like, either crown jewels or a bouquet of poppies, Matthew, it must be approppriate!! Meanwhile Hob's just confused as all fuck when there's suddenly a feast laid out on his kitchen table one random Thursday morning in May with Dream being the equivalent of an overly-excited-and-also-super-repressed-puppy standing in the corner like 🧍🧍🧍

oh my god??

love how every dreamling fic there’s a scene where dream throws a tantrum and gets mad at desire for making him ~feels things~ then desire just goes “no i didnt do anything brother you’re just horny af”

glad to see all the fic writers are all on the same page about this

Gothic Romance Dreamling AU (General Plot)

“Robert Gadling is a professional appraiser who’s being offered a job cataloguing the contents of an old, abandoned family estate.

The former owner Lord Morpheus Endelas, a infamously mercurial painter, went missing months after his only son’s death.

After formal investigation decides to classify Morpheus’s disappearance as a cold case, the remaining Endelas family hires an auctioning house to sell out their brother’s estate.

Through cataloguing the estate Robert begins to know Morpheus and to piece together the last months of his life, particularly the late man’s obsession with something called the “the ancient order of mysteries”.

What does this order have to do with Lord Endelas , late son Orpheus Endelas and Lord Endelas own disappearance?

More importantly why can’t Robert stop having dreams about this man he’s never met before?”

Okay but what if Dream appears to be constantly on the verge of tears because he is the collective unconsciousness of humanity, and for the past hundred years in his absence, human dreams have become dark and twisted. So once he gets out of the fishbowl and is reconnected to the Dreaming, all of that dark twistiness hits him continuously, and it just...hurts? The whole of humanity’s emotional trauma carried into the Dreaming over the 21st century, compounding, on top of his own personal traumas that he’s got going on.