#Sandman

[simonemalec]

why you should watch dead boy detectives on netflix

#dead boy detectives #ghost files #sherlock #good omens #the magicians #supernatural #destiel #sandman #wwdits #what we do in the shadows

[thenightling]

The Truth about Lockwood & Co.'s Cancelation and The Dead Boy Detectives!

The Truth about Lockwood & Co.'s cancelation and The Dead Boy Detectives! Well, now that I have your attention, the truth is... And brace yourselves. It's a doozy. They're not related. They just coincidentally deal with teens solving supernatural themed mysteries. This isn't the first time Netflix has had such a show. In 2021 The Irregulars was a Sherlock Holmes story about the street urchins who often helped him solve crimes, with a supernatural twist.

Lockwood & Co. was NOT canceled to make room for The Dead Boy Detectives. The Dead Boy Detectives had been in development since September 2021 when the characters (played by two different actors) appeared in Doom Patrol. The show was originally going to be on HBO Max but after a big shake up at HBO Max (now Max) The Dead Boy Detectives was moved to Netflix to better connect it with The Sandman since they started as characters in The Sandman comics. Yes, the shows are both about supernatural themed mysteries (particularly ghosts) and teens but The Dead Boy Detectives are... well, dead. And it's a spin-off of The Sandman. The Dead Boy Detectives are NOT why Lockwood & Company was canceled. The show was in production before Lockwood was even canceled. Boycotting The Dead Boy Detectives will NOT bring back Lockwood. This is deja vu of when Lucifer finally, properly, ended at season 6 with a grand finale. There were some fans convinced that Lucifer was canceled (a second time) to make room for The Sandman since Lucifer started as a character in The Sandman and in The Sandman Lucifer was to be played by Gwendoline Christie instead of Tom Ellis. Some Lucifer fans boycotted The Sandman out of spite or believed that if they could get The Sandman canceled it would somehow bring back Lucifer. Thankfully nothing ever came of this misguided behavior and the behavior from some Lockwood fans is equally misguided. The Sandman did not cause Lucifer to get canceled. And The Dead Boy Detectives did not cause Lockwood & Co. from getting canceled. The plot similarities are coincidence. The Dead Boy Detectives first appeared in The Sandman in 1991. No one at Netflix said "These shows are too similar, let's axe one to install the other." Do you have any idea how many similar shows are on Fox or on the CW? "Too similar to a show we would rather do" is not a common reason for a show being canceled.

#Dead Boy Detectives #The Dead Boy Detectives #Sandman #The Sandman #Neil Gaiman #Lucifer

[bad-comic-art]

what a normal way to eat a sandwich

from the sandman #54

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submitted by @lil-chuckle

#sandman #DC #DC comics #comics #comic books

[gendernutralghost]

the dead boy/ sandman universe has such insane cat lore and I love it

#dead boy detectives #sandman #like i totally would believe that cats can talk but are just pissy and sont talk to humans

[kaiju-groot]

Why you should watch the Dead Boy Detectives

#dead boy detectives #edwin payne #charles rowland #Payneland #good omens #Neil gaiman #Sandman

[milfzatannaz]

my final death appreciation piece! I’ve loved making all these pieces to honor my fav girl!

#yes I know it’s technically over #death of the endless #sandman #kirby howell baptiste #the sandman #dead boy detectives #my artwork #sandmancentral

[mattzerella-sticks]

Truly think Death knows about the Edwin and Charles she just lets them be because they make her job easier by skirting around the bureaucratic nightmare the afterlife has become.

#dead boy detectives #dead boy detectives netflix #edwin payne #charles rowland #death of the endless #sandman

[martybaker]

Meowpheus curling up on Hob’s chest and purring, that’s all that’s the post

#you know what this work even if he’s not in his cat form #just morpheus curling up on hob’s chest and purring #the sandman #dreamling #sandman #dream of the endless #hob gadling #dream x hob

[echoesdaffodil]

Dead boy detectives fandom, can we just call the ship of Charles and Edwin, dead boyfriends? I am tired of name combinations.

#dead boy detectives show #dead boy detectives #sandman #sandman universe #edwin payne #edwin paine #charles rowland

[dawn-the-rithmatist]

COOL dead boy detectives made me cry before the opening theme even played for the first time

How does this version of Death hit my emotions SO HARD? First sandman now this??? I have so many feelings what the fuck

#dead boy detectives #sandman #neil gaiman #Gaiman if you see this. what the fuck bro (positive)

[business-wrong]

#theo raeken #tw disordered eating #early 1900s #hailey baldwin #edgy moodboard #marceline #star butterfly #sandman #bdsmslave #gaypride #antique #cameron monaghan #kim sunoo

[tj-dragonblade]

popping my head in to ask about Mer Hob 👀 from the WIP title ask game

Finally popping my head back up to answer, my apologies for the wait! Mer-Hob came out of server conversations about mer-Dreamling fish assignments and aquatic mating displays, but he kind of fizzled out with the scene I tried to write. Dusting him off for this, though, I think I can breathe the spark back into it. Take it past where I meant to before, so it will have a more satisfactory conclusion. I have scrapped the lackluster 'how did they meet' that was stalling me out and given them new backstory and now I'm unsure how exactly I want to structure this. Start where I've started and then jump back to the meeting, then bring them back to the present? Make the backstory a separate fic? Rearrange the whole thing chronologically, which would require a lot of rework and shortening of the current opening bit? IDK but I'll figure it out. In the meantime, here is a chunky chunk of drafting for their meet-cute (sfw but cut for length):

Dream is not surprised to find a waterline-level cave out on the rock formation in the bay, on the side not visible from shore. Nor is he overly surprised to find someone stretched out in the handsbreadth of water covering the floor with their eyes closed, as the morning light fills the first several feet of the cave brightly in a way that is conducive to sunbathing.

The fact that the sunbather has a bright orange tail with brilliant yellow fins and blue-black leopard-like spots is rather less expected, however, and Dream gasps his surprise.

The sound startles the man—the merman—surely not?—who sits bolt upright, eyes wide and panicking as he locks gazes with Dream not an arm's length away.

Dream's heart skips a beat. He's beautiful—

"Oh, fuck!" The merman—there is no other explanation, no mistaking the flurry of fins and scales as he moves—the merman twists and flops and dives past Dream, a less-than-graceful plunge off the rock and into the sea and then he is gone.

"Wait!" Dream cries, to the bright flick of yellow vanishing into the depths, but of course it is no use.

He could swim back to the boat, could don his diving gear and follow—but no. The merman is already gone, and will be more so by the time Dream could be equipped to give chase.

He swallows back his disappointment, his disbelief, and tells himself resolutely that he surely imagined the entire thing.

But he did not imagine it, he knows this; the knowledge lodges in his mind, burrows down into his consciousness and curls around his common sense, stokes his curiosity.

He saw a merman.

Merpeople do not exist.

But he saw one.

He returns the next day, hoping perhaps to repeat the discovery, but he is the only visitor to the cave in the hours that he spends there. When the tide has gone out and come back in, high enough once more to cover the floor of the cave, when he has spent all day waiting with nothing to show for it, he admits defeat and swims back to his boat.

He returns again, and again, later each day with the drift of the tide, diving to explore beneath the surface when the cave remains empty. He finds nothing of note, nothing to hint at the existence of merfolk, nothing at all out of the ordinary; by day six, he is trying to convince himself to make peace with the likelihood that he will never find any trace of the merman he knows he had seen.

On day seven, the merman is back, sunbathing at the front of the cave again.

Only this time, he has human legs, is wearing swim trunks, is sitting further away from where Dream is treading water, stunned.

"…Hello," Dream manages.

"Hi," the man says, warmly polite. He is cross-legged with his knees drawn up and his arms wrapped around them, one hand holding the other wrist; he is meant to look casual and relaxed, Dream is certain, but the tension and the nervousness coming off of him are palpable.

He is still beautiful.

"You're. I saw you here, before?" His thoughts are still trying to catch up; he hoists himself into the cave, doesn't move closer.

The man's shoulders drop a tiny fraction. "Yeah, yep! Startled me good, you did!" He chuckles lightly, a carefree and casual sound; the fingers of his dangling hand wriggle, a nervous and distracted sort of gesture that draws Dream's attention to the profusion of hair on his bare legs, and arms, and what Dream can see of his chest.

"You had a. A tail, last time," Dream says, somewhat awkwardly, tearing his gaze from the sprinkling of hair on the man's bare toes.

"Oh, that, yes!" The man grins, bright and disarming. "I'm a mermaid performer, with the, ah, the local carnival."

Dream is convinced this is a lie even as the logical part of his brain points out that this explanation makes far more sense than believing in merfolk. He knows what he saw, the flexing of muscle and the fanning of fins, the bending and twisting that did not match up to the way that human legs would move in that configuration. The merman speaks with casual confidence, but the tension in his frame and the nervous fidget of his clasped hand are easy to read.

"…No, I don't think you are," Dream says, and the man's bright smile dips before returning to full wattage.

"Calling me a liar, are you?" He laughs, a light and enchanting sound that Dream immediately wants to hear more of. "Merfolk, they don't actually exist, I'll have you know."

~ The wip tag has a tiiiny bit more of this one, also.

#TJs Writing #askmemes #Sandman #Dreamling #wip: merhob #merfolk

[yourself-nor-sing-structure21]

#tyler oakley #one tree hill #theo raeken #tw disordered eating #early 1900s #hailey baldwin #edgy moodboard #marceline #star butterfly #sandman #bdsmslave

[writing-for-life]

Destiny—Bobby Breed

#the sandman #sandman #destiny of the endless #bobby breed #sandman art #queue crew

[jewishraypalmer]

Ads for Dead Boy Detectives like hey do you love Sandman, Doom Patrol, Lockwood and Co, and Julie and the Phantoms? Well HBO/Netflix canceled almost all of those shows but here is something else you might like.

#I remember when the dead boy detective ep of doom patrol dropped #bc it was right after jatp #and I was like wow look at all of these lil gay ghosts #and now life is sadder #sandman #dead boy detectives #jatp #julie and the phantoms #doom patrol #netflix #hbo max #lockwood and co

[batwynn]

A little pen test with the endless Death and Delirium based on the Sandman comics.

#sandman #the sandman #sandman comics #Death #delirium #doodle #sketch #I have not seen the show sorry #although #I just started the dead boy detectives and love everyone so far #just not super interested in the sandman show itself sorry ; u ; #not to ick anyone’s yum of course #wait why is the Death actress only in one episode of Sandman #and only one episode of dead boys? #that’s all we get???