The Endless were not the first entities to come into existence at the dawn of the cosmos, of everything known. Yes, Father Time and Mother Night were there, but also someone else. Known to the Greeks as Talos, to others the Writer, or even the First Writer, giver of purpose to everything that breathed and sometimes to things that did not. For the sake of many, it would be easier to call this being simply Purpose, with whom Morpheus, the Lord of Dreams, came into close connection at the beginning of his reign, for men tend to ponder their purpose in their dreams. In front of each other, they can allow themselves to be open, and most of their secrets shared. Soon the two of the most potent creations started to depend on each other's friendship and eventually, Morpheus caught feelings he shouldn't have.
This is his story through Talos' eyes.
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Chapter I.
“I need you to go back to my realm, you shall rule over it while I’m away.”
Chapter II.
“This universe will proceed to exist for eons to come, I’m sure of it. However, everything will cease to exist one day, as this is how things go, as nothing is forever. Except for maybe you. Dreams don’t die so easily.”
Chapter III.
“Some say that the only person he would accept help from is himself. I might be able to change that, at least for today. Tomorrow is another question. But I can always try to win him over twice.”
Chapter IV.
"Then all I ask from you is to give me this boon, just this time and I will carry it throughout the ages, love-mine who never was.”
Chapter V.
“I remember each of his ravens, Matthew.”
Chapter VI.
"You have made a quick return, dear Writer.”
Chapter VII.
"My heart will be with you Dream, as promised."
Chapter VIII.
"How can sentiments such as yours be piercing and cherished at the same time?"
Interlude
"Each one of us lies, are we not? There comes a time when a promise is not kept, Lucienne. I was too naïve to think Talos different."
Chapter IX.
"Nothing lives forever Hob Gadling. Not even you. We just live longer than others."
Interlude II.
"You know well Morpheus that the Writer's orders are above mine. I did not ask why."
Chapter X.
“I’m terrified.” A tremor runs down my spine. “But loving someone is always terrifying.”
Chapter XI.
“You called me.” For a moment I wish he wouldn’t turn so that I don’t have to face his blazing eyes, but then he does. His pupils are two effervescent pits, muddled with anger, yet there is so much pain that he tries to cover, but it bubbles to the surface.
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How very depressing that Neil Gaiman had trended not even a tiny bit for demonstrating what a fucking horrific person he is.
As a reminder, he's suing Caroline Wallner, one of his accusers, for breaking her NDA. Not for libel. He's saying she shouldn't have told anyone about it, not that she lied.
The author says Wallner broke her NDA by sharing her story with the media, including with New York Magazine.
He doesn't need the money. He's risking the Streisand effect. He is punishing Caroline, he's trying to intimidate other victims who have signed NDAs to scare them into continued silence.
He is no friend to women, to the LGBTQIA+ community, to anyone quite frankly unless he thinks they are of value to him.
Share the story. Put it on Facebook and bluesky and whatever else you're on. Make it clear what a horrifying person he is. Tell your friends. He's paying Edendale a fortune to try and cover this up. Make this hard for him. Make it cost him money.
How very depressing that Neil Gaiman had trended not even a tiny bit for demonstrating what a fucking horrific person he is.
As a reminder, he's suing Caroline Wallner, one of his accusers, for breaking her NDA. Not for libel. He's saying she shouldn't have told anyone about it, not that she lied.
The author says Wallner broke her NDA by sharing her story with the media, including with New York Magazine.
He doesn't need the money. He's risking the Streisand effect. He is punishing Caroline, he's trying to intimidate other victims who have signed NDAs to scare them into continued silence.
He is no friend to women, to the LGBTQIA+ community, to anyone quite frankly unless he thinks they are of value to him.
Share the story. Put it on Facebook and bluesky and whatever else you're on. Make it clear what a horrifying person he is. Tell your friends. He's paying Edendale a fortune to try and cover this up. Make this hard for him. Make it cost him money.
what the fuck. theres not even a fucking joke here. its just the fucking alphabet. i was expecting some kind of fucking meme like “gun” or “john cena” or something like that but no its just the fucking alphabet. here. on tumblr.com. 26 users just fucking banded together to write the alphabet. what the fuck, man.
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Guys, please repost this it would be a huge help for me and my theatre company! Currently making my dreams come true and you can help me achieve that for completely free! (Also you can make big brands donate to us, and I mean they could really give us some of their money bc they have plenty of it)
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As promised, @tickldpnk8 and @ambiently-80s-gay with food for thought and possible additions/corrections for yours. Managed to do this very quickly before running out again, so sorry for the bad photos. It’s all perfectly readable though if you zoom in.
A few thoughts: Overture is largely missing from this one, too, but the events are hinted at, and it’s much more complete than anything else out there, plus it’s official.
You still need to take a few things with a grain of salt though (like the Little Endless ;)).
Killalla is mentioned as “millions of years ago”, but that’s not to be understood as only a few millions. It’s more likely 3 to 4 billion years ago since Sol (our sun) was very young in The Heart of a Star, and our Sun is 4.5 billion years old. So I’d put that closer to 4 billion years.
As we can see here, the first vortex is presumed to have happened after Killalla, not before. What aeons exactly mean in this context, we’ll never know. If it happened before or after Alianora is hard to tell. My hunch is before, but that’s really just a hunch.
Alianora was after Killalla, not before. Delirium is still well and truly Delight in The Heart of a Star, but she can’t help Morpheus when the Old Gods take over the Dreaming because she is changing. Plus, there’s already bad blood between Desire and Dream.
Despair is killed after Delight has changed to Delirium, the date given here is 100,000 BC. This was already visible at Despair’s funeral btw, because it was Delirium attending, not Delight.
There are many, many other really good dates in here, from Calliope/Orpheus to historical events, to Morpheus’ death, which was in January 1994 🥺
I'm a YA author from Hungary. We have new anti-lgbt laws in my country, and they affect books as well. I spoke up against these laws a couple of months ago, and some people threatened to spit on me at my book signings.
I've always turned to your works and words of encouragement in hard times, but lately I feel I need a real pick-me-up as an author. And sadly, I feel like some of my childhood favorites, whom I always looked up to, have taken the wrong turn somewhere, and that breakes my heart. I wish I could turn to them for comfort as well.
Can you give us authors some advice how to tune out the noise of those who try and bring us down, when we stand up for and write about queer people, women's and minority rights? I always try to look within, to reevaluate my moral compass, to check if I'm still doing or writing the good thing, and fighting the good fight. It's getting harder. Sometimes I'm even afraid to write.
Write your books. Write the stories you need to write. Be brave.
I'm also Hungarian and a couple years ago I asked Neil whether Sandman will continue against all the backlash it recieved for it's wide vareity of amazing characters. People simply didn't understand why I asked such a question, but at the time I was still living near Budapest and it was so hard to see all the negative comments directed towards a show that gave me so much comfort before leaving my country to start a new life. People thought it was strange I asked such a question and now that I live somewhere else I can understand why. It's hard to think that the rest of the world is different when you grew up in such an enviroment. At least it was for me.
Thought I'll reblog this because it made me happy to see a fellow Hungarian writer speak up about the censorship that is happening. I do think a lot about moving back, but then I remember when I saw my favourite books foiled up in shops so children can't open them or they were completely taken off the shelves. I'm following the news about the censorship and trying to spread the word and I really hope one day things will change, because I want to write something at home. It's home after all. My own language.
Again, went on quite long with this, point is as a Hungarian it's great to see someone speaking about this.
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Never heard of or read season of mists. Though I look forward to seeing what happens next and hope they are able to get their happy ending or as close to one as possible when all is said and done where at least the Reader is finally free and go to the Dreaming.
Season of Mists is the Sandman comics from issues #21-#28. It wasn't adapted in the first season, since it's a bit deeper into the Sandman series, but it's expected to debut on screen in the next season. I highly recommend it, I think it's the best Volume of Sandman and one of the greatest stories Neil Gaiman wrote.
Just read the new chapter for Assorodus. It was good. Hope the Reader will be freed soon and her and Morpheus can be together without interference from anyone.
Hopefully they'll manage to do that, there is still a bit of struggle ahead. Can't say how they will get over them, but I hope you will like it <3
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Hope the Reader and Morpheus will stick it to the demons soon, for what they have done and continue to do. And, find some way to break Lucifer's power and destroy the collar and leash soon, and find a way to ensure it doesn't happen again. Can't stand Lucifer or the other demon lords. Good chapter.
There are a few interesting chapters coming up (I hope you guys will feel the same way about it). If you've read season of mists before you might have an idea what to expect, but I'm planning on changing things up a bit :P
I apologize for the last post I sent where I said fem reader, I pressed the wrong button before I could fix it. Next time I send in a message for Assorodus in this case, I will make sure to just keep it as Talos or Reader. Again, I apologize.
Oh my gosh dear don't even worry about that! <3 The exact reason why Talos' gender is not mentioned is that you can associate to anything when reading. I have multiple people writing she on other platforms and it's totally fine :3
