Sententia Abundans

Neil Gaiman and Jill Thompson, Sandman #43

share your favourite pairing (non dreamling only)!

Hands down my favorite sandman non-dreamling and non-romantic pairing is this two:

To elaborate a bit further, Brief Lives is my favorite Sandman arc and I think a good part of why it’s my favorite it’s because of the dynamic between this two!

If you want proof that Dream has a much softer and patient side then you won’t have to look further than Brief Lives and how kind he is to his little sister.

Alternatively Delirium is peak baby sister energy! she’s sweet and cares so much about her brother and trying in her own way to keep her family together.

She’s also very insightful and seems to see through Dream and understands him with the sort of childish wisdom that she seems to possess.

Link without paywall here: https://archive.is/W1arC

I was a Neil Gaiman fan.

I’m mourning his worlds today. He had so many characters that spoke to me—Richard Mayhew and Door, Coraline and her cat, the Endless, Wanda and Thessaly. Across hundreds of worlds, you get to know a writer…or at least what they produce and exhibit.

I went to book signings. I thought it would be cool to know him.

And now I’m glad I didn’t.

I’m sad that he was broken in childhood and never got therapy. I’m sorry no one taught him how important consent is.

Or, if he did know, I’m so disappointed that he willfully harmed all those women. It’s crazy that he didn’t find someone somewhere who was into what he needed.

And his wife enabled the abuse.

And then he apparently exposed his own son to it.

I have an old poster of the Sandman sitting on a stone wall against a background of autumn leaves. It’s in a nice frame. Bought it in the 90s, it’s one of my prized possessions.

It’s coming down.

I wish there was a clear line in his art, a mark that would separate the creator from the demon. There probably won’t be.

Reading the article, I’m reminded of the scene in one of the Sandman comics where Destruction of the Endless sits with Delight as she slowly slips into the madness of humanity and becomes Delirium.

Writers take from their own lives.

Neil Gaiman probably assaulted multiple women.

Minor spoilers for the comic book ahead.

It's happening again I'm being kidnapped again there's no hope left for me god I'm so in love with Dream he's such a cutiepie uh right this post okay. I'm uh the Good Omens Mascot and I'm losing my mind here have part two based on whatever I have understood from y'all's replies to my first post.

It's Neil's baby and a lot of amazing artists are involved. One of whom made Dream look like a gooey pile of sad adorableness in volume 1.

Dream is a sad wet lonely repressed cat of a man. No I do not have one type.

There's this dude whom I think is named the Corinthian. He's a dream (but not Dream) and he can see things.

His eyes are mouths and his teeth are apparently Very White and any dental hygienist would orgasm at the sight.

Dream was kept prisoner for a century. Where? I don't fucking know. Why? I don't fucking know. How? Er there was some kind of. Glass (?) case.

There's a sleeping sickness while he's gone coz things got weird.

His raven is killed by someone and maybe he should have forgiven him but he could not.

Something happens at the end of Volume 7 that people need to recover from.

There's someone with glasses who keeps telling Dream stuff and they're Very Important and I have no fucking clue who they are.

There's someone named Freddie and people are feral for him and I don't know who he is.

Dream is just constantly on the verge of tears. Always. Just fucking always. Poor baby.

Sandman more like Sadman amirite.

He thinks everything ever is his fault. Mood.

EVERYONE KEEPS REASSURING ME THERE IS NO CANONICAL INCEST BUT APPARENTLY BOTH DREAM AND DESIRE HAVE SEXUAL TENSION WITH EVERYONE INCLUDING THEIR FAMILY AND EACH OTHER AND THEY ARE SIBLINGS AND AAAAAAAAA.

The family is Endless btw and I don't know what that means but they are.

Dream has a boyfriend (long distance? idk they keep meeting each other every 100 years) named after a cooking stove who calls Dream out for being lonely and Dream doesn't like that and they fight and then they go into the rain etc etc.

Hob is immortal because he does not want to die and he is convinced that humans only die because they uh think there's no other option. It's giving just think positive thoughts.

Dream almost stands him up but then doesn't some bar is moved.

There are keys to Hell and Dream doesn't know what to do with them.

There are tools and they make you weak.

Desire has all the genders.

I am apparently exactly like Delirium.

Dream is a sad wet cat at one point and then he turns into a shadowy being with cute bright eyes.

Dream is fucking pretty in every single fucking century like oh my fuckING GOD I AM SO GAY

Tom Sturridge (?) is Dream's actor and he has chemistry with everyone on screen apparently which leads to incest vibes

There's some kind of fucking Grape Incest scene

Despair is played by Mrs Sandwich

Death is kind and cuddles a dead baby at one point

It's gay but I do not know HOW it is gay but I am assured it is Gay

The Sandman: Book One (Barnes & Noble Variant) (2022)