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#lego #legos #long live the queue

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TOM STURRIDGE as Morpheus/Dream of the Endless THE SANDMAN (2022—) — “Calliope” (1.11)

#dream of the endless #the sandman #sandman gifset #gotta love the sad wet cat eyes #long live the queue

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Thank you to @sleepnoises for making the original poll & for giving us the idea to to this :)

Sorry if we couldn’t get your favorite on here, we were limited to only 12 options (11 if you don’t include the “other” option).

#there's also this AMAZING bloodweave fic by pepgold #it's called turn on the laugh track #and it's a complete fic! #with a happy ending #but there's lots of sad and violent things in between #but it's sooo good I promise

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So, there's a lot of USians around who are very clearly fucking fed up with their political choices this election cycle, and planning to sit it out.

And I get it! What's the point of voting if there's no one to vote for?

The thing is, I'm Australian. In Australia, voting is compulsory. We don't get to sit out our elections, and I'll be real honest with you - we don't exactly get better choices than you lot. So how do you vote if there's no one to vote for? You find someone to vote against. And there's always someone to vote against.

Now, we have the pleasure of preferential voting in Australia - We get to rank every candidate from 1 to X, and I'll tell you, there's something so cathartic about putting the biggest bastard of the lot at the very bottom of your preferences. I understand that USians don't get that option - you get to mark one person, and that's it.

That means that you get one shot, so aim it at the biggest bastard of the lot. The candidate you most utterly detest. Put your vote in the worst possible place for them. Don't even think about who that vote's going towards, that's not the point. Remember, every vote is a vote against someone. Make sure you fuck up that someone's election day!

#this #like I don't really want to vote for Biden #but I remember going to uni the morning after the angry orange was declared the winner #and I was absolutely WRECKED that whole day #and I remember the 4 years that followed #the past 4 years haven't been the solution I hoped for #not at all #but I would rather have 4 more years of that than 4 more years of turnip hell #might not even just be 4 years if that monster has his way #and I don't even want to THINK about fucking with that possibility #it's why I'm so angry with that one Kennedy running as an independent #if he costs Biden the election I'm gonna scream into the void until I have no voice #because if I give away my voice to the void #it'll be better than having it taken away from me by that cheeto faced ballsack of a man #us politics

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"Hope/Atlas"

I know you need a friend or you will lose it all I know you need my helping hand to get it all Say you want me Say you need me Alone you cannot hold The weight of the world I'm the one who makes you strong Alone you cannot hold The weight of the world [x]

#hob gadling #hope of the endless #the sandman #long live the queue

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some of my favorite tiny love stories

#short stories #to read later #long live the queue

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✨Gale!!✨

#gale #gale dekarios #baldur's gate 3. bg3 #long live the queue

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💜🧡 || Tip Jar

#caleb #caleb widogast #essek #essek thelyss #shadowhand essek thelyss #shadowgast #critical role #long live the queue

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the devotion

nsfw version here

Reference: Idylle by Bouguereau

#dream of the endless #hob gadling #dreamling #the sandman #SOOOO pretty OP #long live the queue

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You keep talking about the origins of AO3 as this group effort by an actual group of people who were friends and who spent time discussing this with each other in person. It's kind of blowing my mind. Is there a post or a journal somewhere that specifically keeps record of this?

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I'm dying.

Nonnie, seriously?

No, that's mean, I know you're serious. It's just flabbergasting how much fandom has expanded and how much there isn't a direct link to the past.

Astolat and Cesperanza floated the idea at Vividcon and various places, I think, though I wasn't going to cons in that era. We were all on LJ in those days, and Astolat made a big post nailing her theses to the door. Discussion in the comments was instant and prolonged.

A LJ com was set up to discuss. It was later renamed to otw_news, but if you go all the way back to the beginning, you can see brainstorming mess instead of official news posts.

Fanlore page linking to Astolat's post and giving a little context.

Early brainstorming: https://otw-news.livejournal.com/2007/05/

For example, here I am collecting links to older archives to look at for research when designing AO3.

Fun fact, we never intended to call it AO3. There was a whole call for name suggestions, but nothing was as evocative as astolat's original post title referencing Virginia Woolf. (For those who haven't thought about it, AO3's name is a reference to A Room of One's Own.)

Here's the name discussion

Here's the poll that came out of it

But also notice how many people voted: 562.

That's how many people cared at the time: a few hundred. Maybe a thousand if you count lurkers, but frankly, that community was not as lurkery as now. It wasn't just ten friends. It was a community effort. But what "our" community looked like at the time was vastly different. It was six degrees of Kevin Bacon astolat, not a vast sea of strangers like fic fandom on AO3 is now.

Here's an early post suggesting we ban the under 18s from the site entirely. Pity we didn't do so, given the rise of antis.

Here's the invite to a fundraising party at astolat's in NYC that following Halloween. I dressed as Amanda from Highlander, not very well.

You can tell we knew each other by looking at those comments on astolat's initial post. You can also tell how discussion-based that part of fandom was back in 2007.

The way my tumblr is now with a ton of text, back and forth, and hopping around between threads of conversation, all featuring a consistent set of faces, is very much like LJ. Most of tumblr is not.

#fandom history #fanfic #fanfiction #ao3 #archive of our own #long live the queue

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I missed drawing in black and white (manga style), so have some more aizawa ✨ ( + ref )

#aizawa #shouta aizawa #mha #bnha #long live the queue

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*siiiiighs*

when i was three or four years old i whacked a fellow preschooler in the head with a half-full plastic mini bucket of sand. (he was fine)

we were playing in the sandbox and in my young child lack of emotional regulation i didn't like how he had decided to play with me. so i hit him with a sandy bucket. i was put in timeout and informed by my teacher that we all had chosen to play together, that this was another variant on the dreaded sharing where you couldn't just control how people played, how you had to make it a fun space for everyone even if someone was playing differently than how i would prefer it. you had to work together, not brain people with buckets.

true story.

anyway when you're an adult and you're in a fandom space and the goal is peace harmony and everyone having fun, you sometimes have to take a step back and remind yourself that you are an adult, this is all for fun, and we. do. not. brain. people. with. buckets.

even if that bucket is looking MIGHTY tempting.

#I love the anecdote here #it's such a good segue for the analogy #perfect form OP #fandom #long live the queue

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it’s time to trace~!

heads up. the charts in the middle are very rough guides. everything about copying is super grey, you need to use your own judgement…also I have more notes

Keep reading

#art #tracing #reference material #honestly a good read #very informative for new/younger artists #sometimes tracing is good! #you just need to know where the limits are #long live the queue

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#*shrugs* #this is why we can't have nice things #ao3

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There is revenge in his eyes

There's an unintelligible delirium in his head

#anders #mage birb #actual feathermage #long live the queue

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An old concept that I'm still feral over, but a Dreamling fic in which the dreamling relationship is chronicled entirely by Yelp reviews of the New Inn.

Reviews are either 5* or 1* with surprisingly little in between, and the business owner replies are always a riot. They start off fairly normal, talking about the food and drink, the couple of guest rooms upstairs, the location and prices etc, but then they start to get weird.

Constantine leaves 3*, beer is shit whiskey is ok not haunted which is more than I can say for most london pubs and the response is Thanks Jo, but you're still banned

4* this place is run by my history professor and it's amazing but he asked me about my overdue essay three times so I can't give it 5* and Hob, who has had multiple students visit the pub for the sole purpose of doing this, is just like you still haven't submitted that, get off yelp and start citing your sources

There are multiple 5* reviews like would give 10* if i could, the owner chased off a neo nazi with a literal sword he pulled out from behind the bar

5* should probably give it less because a couple of times the answers to the history round on the monthly quiz night have been wrong, but otherwise it's a solid little place for a reasonably priced pint and a nice afternoon and Hob's response is just those answers were right

And then Dream comes back and the reviews start... Changing, a bit

One of the 1* reviews is just complaining about the fact that there was a bird at the bar and no one got rid of it and the reply from Hob is that's Matthew, he has a tab. Several of the 5* reviews are also about the fact that sometimes there's a bird in the bar

One of the 5* reviews is saw the most beautiful goth twink in the world, will definitely be going back and Hob nearly deletes that one. The reply instead is that's my boyfriend, unlike Matthew he never pays his tab

5* i have no idea how i got there or found the place because i swaer i was halfway across london from where google maps says it is but anyway the bartender was really great and understandig when I started crying on him, will defiantely go back if reality ever warps like that again. Response from owner: yeah sorry about the reality warping, we don't get it either

1* I only wish I could have given this establishment a glowing review – fabulous service, lovely food and a sumptuous wine I hadn't expected, but unfortunately I had to see my brother's face. Response from owner: Desire get off the internet, it doesn’t need your help

#fic idea #dream of the endless #hob gadling #dreamling #the sandman #long live the queue

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The other day I was rewatching The Sandman with a friend and as I was watching Roderick Burgess summon Dream, I had a theory. In Overture, Dream talks about the two old gods that overpowered him in the Dreaming, imprisoned him, and then declared themselves the lords of the Dreaming.

Now, in the spell that Roderick Burgess uses to summon Dream, he calls upon the names of "the old Lords" and then names a bunch of random names that don't seem to ever be relevant to anything other than Dream being summoned by Burgess.

My theory is that Burgess, completely unknowingly, calls upon the long dead gods that had once imprisoned Dream to once again imprison Dream.

I got a lot of the information on these deities from this article which I found rather interesting to read, with some further google searching for some more information

Namtar is an ancient Mesopotamian god of death and disease and also means "fate" in Sumerian

Allatu is the Sumerian goddess of the underworld

Morax is a president of Hell, and it's worth noting that he's depicted as either having the head of a bull with the body of a man or the body of a bull and the head of a man

Naberius is a Marquis of Hell and is basically an equivalent of Cerberus, so is often depicted as having three dog heads, though he's also depicted as a raven

Klesh I cannot seem to find a deity that this figure was based off of, but in Hindi it means tribulation, so whatever this deity is, it's probably not a friendly one, it also means snake in Navajo

Vepar is a duke of Hell and is often shown as a mermaid, he controls water and can make ghost-ships appear

Maymon is the King of the spirits of Saturn, he can create snow and ice, and is associated with the direction north

Ashema-Deva I can't seem to find anything about, however Aeshma is a Zoroastrian demon of wrath

Maborym I cannot find anything about

Horvendile is the name of a character from the story that Shakespeare took a lot of inspiration for Hamlet from, it is also spelled as Ørvendil. Yet another spelling is Aurvandill, who is a figure from old Norse mythology. The name seems to mean something along the lines of "rising light" or "morning star"

So in summary, most or all of these figures are from various mythologies, but which ones may have been the ones that imprisoned Dream the first time?

I think that one of them is probably Morax, mostly because he is often depicted as a bull, which is probably the closest thing that someone can say that one of the gods shown in Overture looks like (though the god that attacked had both horns and tusks, which I'm not sure there is an animal with both horns and tusks, if there is please tell me).

The second one, the one the helm was crafted from, is a bit more difficult because none of these figures from mythologies look even remotely similar to the helm (I guess that makes sense considering the design for the helm came from gas masks rather than a creature from mythology). But I suspect that it would be one of the names that I can't find any information on, so probably Klesh, Ashema-Deva (if we're assuming that this is a different deity than Aeshma), or Maborym.

Now from a symbolism perspective, Dream crafted the helm as a reminder to himself of his failure, but then later triumph. The helm is sort of an emotional support for him and a reminder of what he is capable of and a reminder of what he has at stake at all times. So I think to say that the helm is a symbol of tribulation is fair. Therefore, my best guess as to who the helm was crafted from, is Klesh.

So my running theory is that the Dreaming was invaded by Morax and Klesh. Now Roderick Burgess calling upon them probably wouldn't have done much to summon Dream because they're long dead, however, Dream is the Prince of Stories, so the fact that it would be poetic for his second captor to call upon his first captors to aid in capturing Dream (although he wanted Death), would make some sense.

Of course, this whole rabbit hole could be just that: a rabbit hole. but I think it's a plausible and interesting theory and definitely adds some complexity to Dream's relationship with his own helm.

#dream of the endless #the sandman #sandman meta #meta post #long live the queue