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Death and her parasol. I couldn't resist. This is just a little, quick(ish) something I did in Procreate. No background again, because my spoons... They are no longer with me.
Promptarchive: Little Daniel Hall loves his weird Uncle Dream and doesn't understand why he's not married. Matthew tries to change the subject to Dream's friend Hob, who has been a real life Robin Hood and that's working. Until Daniel, while sleeping, imagines a love story for his Uncle Dream. A story like Robin & Marian. No luck, the only one he vaguely remembers is the Mel Brook's movie. Then, they're all trapped into a dream until the story end.
Additional ideas: Hob as Robin, Dream as Marianne, Lucienne as Broomhilde, Alex Burgess as Prince John, Madoc as Rottingham, Corinthian as Blinkin, Gault as Little John, Jed as Ahchoo, Matthew as Will Scarlett, Mad Hettie as Latrine, Gilbert as Rabbi Tuckman
all goofing aside I genuinely don't understand the urge to reimagine Taylor Allison Swift as a secretly queer icon when the pop music scene(TM) is like. literally overflowing with women who actually like women. Gaga and Kesha and Miley and Halsey are right there. Rina Sawayama and Hayley Kiyoko and Rebecca Black and Kehlani and Victoria Monét and Miya Folick if you're willing to get slightly less top 100. Janelle and Demi for them nonbinary takes on liking girls. like what are we doing here. like I'm not even saying you can't enjoy Taylor but why would you hang all your little gay hopes on her.
So I got into Sandman with the release of the Audiobooks, but it's my husband's favourite comic book series. He's loved it since first reading it 20 years ago.
He's also not one to get overly excited about adaptations. However, when he first saw that overhead shot of Dream in the binding circle, he was like a little kid.
"ITS EXACTLY LIKE THE COMIC!"
As big a fan as he is, he was also super excited about the little things they changed (like Lytas story in Dollhouse).
That being said, the casting choices, the set design, the costuming, the CGI... all of it was perfect. As someone who got into Sandman late (but really... I was 2 when it first came out... there's no such thing as Too Late to get into Sandman) it was VERY accessible and easy to get lost in the story.
If you've never read the comics, TRUST ME, it's fine! Watch the series and just dive into this beautiful world.
This isn't (or shouldn't be) anything notable
...but what @neil-gaiman did in series 1 of Sandman, with his assembled team, is just some of the most *amazing* work.
I've been rewatching it over the past/couple few days, and in terms of the look and feel of the series—and the script that underlies it—it's some of the best TV ever done.
(shrug) I'm privileged to be in the same decade with it.
...Anybody want to argue the point with me? Go out and get yourself half a century or so's experience or so.
Published as part of the Vertigo: Winter's Edge series in 1999 this short story was written by Neil Gaiman and inked by Jeff Jones. Some Sandman fans may have missed this story as it isn't part of the Sandman comic original run and isn't included in the Sandman boxset like certain other specials are, and yet it may seem very familiar to any fans of the Netflix show...