#no spoilers for sandman

[stormboundstars]

I absolutely adore that Niko Sasaki's contribution to the Dead Boy Detective Agency isn't any kind of special powers she could've gotten from being possessed by parasitic little gods, but rather it's just her— with her innate curiosity and kindness, her love of love, and the earnestness and sincerity in which she says or does something.... ooooh I love her so much my best girl !!!!

#i have to make a niko sasaki appreciation post i HAVE to #niko sasaki #dead boy detectives #dead boy detectives spoilers #yuyu kitamura #dead boy detective agency #the sandman universe #newt's notes

[soundsfaebutokay]

It's utterly magnetic when a character's rage is quiet and precise. When they don't scream and throw things but they just b r e a t h e and very very calmly aim their fury like an arrow shooting inexorably towards the target of their wrath. It captures my attention, I lean in close, I wait for the hit. It never disappoints.

#yes yes of course this is about #Dream of the Endless #to no one's surprise I'm still not over the Calliope episode #that confrontation with Richard Madoc sure was Something #Morpheus is Furious #and I have Feelings about that #Calliope #The Sandman #The Sandman spoilers #my faves

[buildoblivionthenwewilltalk]

ch-ch-changes

#okay THIS time I’m happy #I promise I won’t delete it now lol #the sandman #dead boy detectives has reawakened something in me (pun intended) #dream of the endless #Daniel hall #minsart #my art #fanart #Neil gaiman #the sandman spoilers #the wake

[nualaofthefaerie]

Completely smitten, down horrendous, lost to the rizz sauce. You open the dictionary to check the words "pathetic meow meow" and he is there.

Child of Bast and Desire. Prince of secrets and lust. Imprisoned in his little town away from prying eyes for the other Endless can never know.

But then a skinny British tease popped up and he had to be a DIVA

#dead boy detectives #the cat king #catwin #dbd #dead boy detectives spoiler #desire of the endless #sandman #sandman universe

[raggedy-spaceman]

Hob could have simply written the new address here but no, he decided to spray paint an arrow all the way from the old tavern to the New Inn just in case because it’s been 700 years, he knows how dense Morpheus is.

And he literally named the new place The New Inn to be extra sure

I love them

#the sandman #the sandman spoilers #hob gadling #dream of the endless #morpheus #hob being like my friend is an all powerful being but he's also very stupid i need to make sure #bless #mine

[lukotacon]

The Sandman + Onion Headlines

#Desire’s actor is actually 27 😭 #onion headlines #memes #photo post #the sandman netflix #the sandman dream #the sandman #desire #Dream #matthew the raven #hob gadling #mine #sandman #sandman spoilers

[maarigolds]

Dream + his rare, tiny, precious smile

#(click for better quality) #so basically the people that make him smile are #his coworker/bff #his sis #his boyfriend #his ravens #and some kid cosplaying as him #checks out #the sandman #sandman #dream #morpheus #netflix #dc comics #tom sturridge #neil gaiman #the sandman spoilers #dream of the endless #my gifs

[katyjane91]

Imagine Death comes to collect your mortal soul and her emo brother is just standing there like 🧍‍♂️

#me personally I wouldn’t tolerate it #the sandman #sandman #sandman season 1 spoilers #sandman spoilers #death of the endless #dream of the endless

[dee-is-for-lots-of-things]

yes pathetic little man thats exactly how u should sit

#sandman #the sandman #sandman spoilers #dream of the endless #tv #dream #lily liveblogs

[mayhemspreadingguy]

Him 🧍

They finally gave him something interesting to wear! dramatic, draped translucent fabrics flowing in the wind, shadowy, ethereal..... Just what I wanted to see!

#I'm scared of season 2 but kudos to the wardrobe team xD #no one is surprised that I like this outfit xD. i mean fair ig - it's right up my alley #very inspiring i had to draw him ok? ok. #sandman season 2 #sandman #the sandman #dream of the endless #morpheus #mayhem art #sandman season 2 spoilers #?? ig

[stormboundstars]

will forever be thinking about Kashi, the man in the belly of the giant angler. one of my favorite dialogues in Dead Boy Detectives is him saying: “I do not think I have any trauma. Life has been fair.” the Night Nurse then going, incredulously: “You were swallowed by a gigantic fish.”

what an interesting fellow. to be both incredibly unfazed by and fascinated with every terrible and lovely thing happening to him. maybe when I'm going through a tough time, I'll think of Kashi. “It's an adventure! Let's make a home out of a fish.”

#i love the side stories in the sandman universe. so weird. so beautiful #dead boy detectives #dead boy detective agency #dead boy detectives netflix #the sandman #the sandman universe #neil gaiman #dead boy detectives spoilers #important to me as someone who is always so anxious about everything #newt's notes

[writing-for-life]

The Endless Are Not Their Opposite--They Only Define It

I read quite often, on here and elsewhere, that the Endless are also their opposite (@tickldpnk8 and I were just talking about an interesting thread on Reddit), so I just decided to speed-complete this one and get it out of my drafts before it dies in there (so not as much in-depth as originally planned, but sometimes, you just need to run with it 🤣).

The Endless are not their opposite. They define it. It’s a (in my mind, and I’d love to hear what you think) massive difference. And they define their opposite by their absence. If they truly were their opposite, it would give very different meaning to canon, and if we were to do so, a lot of it wouldn't make sense in my view.

Dream is not also reality. He defines it. He is, and forever will be, unreality. It is his absence that defines reality. A dream that becomes real isn't a dream anymore--it's real. That’s the main reason why pulling the ship into reality in Overture weakens him. If he were reality, he could have just snapped his fingers and make it happen. If he were reality, a lot of his problems wouldn't be... well, problems. The fact he is (a) D/dream is pretty much why all his relationships are doomed to fail. Dreams don't last. Dreams are forever strange and can't be truly known.

Delirium is not also sanity/clarity. She defines it through her absence. And when she pulls herself together like in Brief Lives, it hurts her "muchly". It is immeasurable pain for her because it is what she is not and cannot be for any extended period of time without hurting herself.

Despair is not also hope. She defines it via her absence. As long as you hope, you don’t despair. If Despair were also hope, we would not have 6 issues of Overture very clearly showing us who and what H/hope is. If Despair were also hope, we wouldn't need a little girl called Hope reach out her hand and touch Dream—he would have a sister who could do it. But the only time Despair shows up for him, so to speak, is after he killed Orpheus—make of that what you will.

Death is not also life. She defines it. The fact that she is there at your beginning does not mean she is the one who gives you life. She is there so you will remember her, always (and especially when she takes your hand), hence you will cherish life. She does not directly give life to immortals either--they are immortal because of her absence, because she withholds her gift, like she does with Orpheus and Hob (the Eblis-situation has nothing to do with anything in my mind and is linked to a funeral rite, and we are clearly told it is not something she usually does [“it’s been so long”], or is remotely comfortable doing. It is just that she is the Endless that is most life-adjacent and hence the one who will have to do it. Just like Dream is the most reality-adjacent and hence the one who has to pull the ship).

Destruction is not also creation. He defines it. He is what gives us the blank slate, he is what makes creation possible, he is what starts the cycle and ends it, but he is not creation himself. Keeping on destroying makes creation impossible. There needs to be a pause, a break for creation to come to fruition—the absence of destruction. If he were also creation, he wouldn't create so badly (to the extent that it is canonically turned into a running gag), and being around him and seeking him out wouldn't be an issue. But it is.

Desire is not also hatred (I’m still not sure if hatred is really the opposite of desire, but I’ll run with it because that’s what Gaiman chose). They define it via their absence. You know how Dream doesn’t want Desire in his life anymore after one major spat (whether he had reason to or overreacted isn’t really the issue). And what feelings are often left in the absence of Desire? And what does Desire feel and gets themselves tangled up in because they are pushed away and are basically not acknowledged/desired by their own sibling despite constantly trying to show him they are important (desire is not just a sexual thing, people, get your mind out of the gutter 🤣)? Yeah, about that one… There is definitely a different type of enmeshment here which sometimes seems a bit plot-hole-y to me, but I think that might be down to the fact that Desire is the chosen antagonist (and even that, only to a degree until they aren’t). Even so, it still makes sense.

Destiny is not also freedom. He is the absence of it. All paths lead to the same end. Or a decision you make was the decision you were going to make all along, and what looks like a different ending was the ending that would have happened anyway. And even if you choose, the book will start to make that choice destiny again. Only Delirium knows what’s not in his book, and in this universe, the only true freedom is not bound by any rules, logic or sanity…

#the sandman #sandman #dream of the endless #death of the endless #sandman meta #sandman bookclub #desire of the endless #delirium of the endless #despair of the endless #destruction of the endless #destiny of the endless #sandman spoilers #I’ve been Gaiman’d

[neil-gaiman]

In Brief Lives, Delirium told a homeless man that she had no parents. Was it because Night and Time weren't made yet for the story or does Delirium hold a grudge against her parents and reject them as her parents?

It was because she doesn't consider herself to be Delight any longer, and they were Delight's parents. But also because they were pretty awful.

#sandman spoilers #delirium

[nualaofthefaerie]

A call for attention!!

Guys, the numbers for "Dead Boy Detectives" are bad, which puts us in the threat of cancelation.

This is a show with primarily non-white cast, of various identities with explicitly queer storylines. No queerbaiting or "maybe we can hc them as x or y". Real stories.

It's a fun show, too, to say the least. I know it is discouraging to keep talking about numbers, but the reality is that we need them.

Binge the show, tell your friends, tell your family, play it in the background as noise, let's rack up those numbers.

We and every queer kid after us deserve to see stories about them told in the most fantastical, spooky setting.

It would also be a wonderful plus to see Desire and the Cat King together, would it not?

+ look at them. Why would you disappoint them?

#dead boy detectives spoiler #dead boy detectives #the sandman #netflix #the sandman netflix #dream of the endless #death of the endless #desire of the endless #neil gaiman #charles rowland #edwin paine #do not let the queer little show die

[onehundredandeleventropicalfish]

so the netflix show has already shown us two of dream's other aspects, kai'ckul and the king of cats, but one of my favourite things about the endless in the comics is that they have a different incarnation for every single species and culture that has ever experienced them, in this case, if your people dream, you have a personalised Dream

and the comics are also part of the dcu, which means there are a LOT of other species out there to dream

many of these screenshots were taken from one issue which involves a meeting in dream's head between all of his different incarnations, some are just from other places in the comic, but my personal favourites include:

l'zoril, dream god of the green martians

to fill out the superheroes requirement, kryptonian dream

fish dream

flower dream, and tree dream

femme dream, with just as much dedication to not wearing a shirt as her masculine counterpart

bird dream, insect dream, and robotic insect dream

two different kinds of cat person

these funky lil guys

whatever is going on here with the tentacle robot, the teen titans looking motherfucker, the dragon, and the guy in the witch hat (all equally dream of the endless)

a literal stone statue that speaks mostly in egyptian hieroglyphs

and then there's this guy

#this is half just me going look at the pretty art!! but also. so many dreams of the endless. i wanna meet all of them #or at the very least see fanart of some of the other variations #sandman comic spoilers #the sandman #dream of the endless #overture #mine

[ormymarius]

obsessed with him just sitting there with his coat sprawled all over the steps

#idk what it is but #the vibes are exquisite #the sandman #the sandman spoilers #dream of the endless #tom sturridge