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natuart · 5 months

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Happy Birthday Neil Gaiman! ♡

@neil-gaiman If you see this I hope you have a beautiful day!! ♡

I share this sketch that I did in 2019 because I didn't have time to make a drawing today hahahaha

So after waking up, I was drinking tea and enjoying the rain. I left the house to walk through the garden, soon joined by my cat, Vampi, although it wasn't long before he ran to hide when the rain came back a little harder. At that moment, for some reason I remembered that it was November 10th and I hadn't done the birthday drawing as I had planned. Luckily, I remembered drawing Neil in a sketchbook back in 2019. And here he is. I present to you a drawing that I made before the pandemic, it is strange that those drawings come to light.

My English is bad, so this is all Google Translate, I hope it's not bad xD

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the-cloudy-dreamer · 7 months

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Sandman Inktober 2023, Day 5 Sigils

“My siblings I stand not in my gallery and I don’t hold your sigils but I need your help”

So for this one I was inspired by this panel of Sandman Overture:

Art wise Sandman Overture is my favorite Sandman volume ( with Sandman Dream Hunters not very far behind) and this was one of my favorite scenes in the comic so it felt appropriate for today’s prompt 🖤

#the sandman #sandman fanart #sandman overture #sandman comics #sandtober2023 #inktober #inktober 2023 #dream of the endless #lord morpheus #cloudy illustrates #illustration #art #neil gaiman

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ml-nolan · 8 months

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[Spoilers for Sandman Overture]

I finished Overture last night and I feel like you might when you clean out a recently deceased relative's house and find all their diaries. I feel like I understand Morpheus's character so much better now, and I can't focus on anything else.

I'm thinking about how it must feel to have everyone give you shit about how cold you are, when you're the only one who remembers the catastrophe that came from your softness and mercy.

How little you'd want to reach out for help to people who, the last time you saw them, rejected you when you needed them the most, even when you begged them. People who are your family. Who are supposed to fucking care about you and the things you care about.

And how you might think that whatever terrible thing is happening to you might be deserved anyway because of how badly you've fucked up.

How agonizing it must be to just barely have a taste of freedom and realize that the very thing that fucked you up last time is happening all over again.

How close you'd be to the end of your rope, and how good it would sound for someone else to take over for you.

The line during his battle with Lucifer, "I am hope," which seemed so fucking corny to me before, absolutely breaks me now.

And don't get me started on how much more fascinated I am by Desire, how heart-wrenching that whole relationship is to me, and how when everyone says, "You two are so similar," to Dream, they probably have no idea how right they are.

Everything in the Sandman is cast in such a different light, I feel like I need to tear down everything I thought before and start over.

#sandman overture #sandman meta #sandman comic spoilers #desire of the endless #dream of the endless #my obsessive cycle is renewed #halp #overture spoilers

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ibrithir-was-here · 4 months

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Tada! Merry Christmas to @andtheirlovewasrenewed !

I hope you enjoy this Christmas card from the Lots O Kids Dreamling AU (per your request of "Dreamling Being Dads") and that you have a wonderful holiday!

#my art #dreamling #lots o kids au #hob gadling #dream of the endless #daniel hall #robyn gadling #orpheus sandman #hope beautiful lost nebula #sandman overture #sandman au #hob x dream #hob x morpheus #morpheus #Christmas #christmas cards

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neil-gaiman · 2 years

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Was there ever a plan to have the series open in away that could allow for Overture?

Like Dream floating through space weakened before the spell can bind him. I feel like a battle ready Dream shouldn’t be able to be bound by hedgemagic.

Still enjoyed the show

Overture happened. We see Morpheus setting out to confront the Corinthian fully dressed and with his helm in pristine condition. When he is captured he is naked beneath his robe and his helm is battered and flaking. We just didn't get to see it. If we get that far, And we reach Overture we'll see the story. In the Sandman saga you don't see him returning naked and exhausted until Brief Lives.

#sandman #sandman overture

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astromechdroid-r2d2 · 1 year

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I might be the luckiest girl in the world. My friends pooled for my birthday and got me the amazing Sandman Overture statue that I was admiring from afar for at least 5 years. The level of details is amazing. It's based on the wonderful art of J.H. William III from the comic Sandman: Overture by Neil Gaiman.

#sandman #sandman overture #neil gaiman #jh williams iii #dc collectibles

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beobhcm · 7 months

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[Work in progress] Desire fan art inspired from Sandman Overture

#the sandman #desire of the endless #digital art #sandman overture #the sandman fanart

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rey-jake-therapist · 6 months

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Overture: is Dream the only one to remember?

As I'm writing a piece for Inktober that related to pre-Overture events, I'm having an Overture brainrot again!

We know from Overture that Desire and Despair lost any memory of the events of Overture that changed the past and thus, the present and future, and if they forgot then surely all the other Endless did as well. We also know, thanks to Desire, that Dream didn't since he's the one who caused said changes.

But what about the inhabitants of the Dreaming? Should we assume that they lost these memories as well? Or as being parts of Dream's realm, so parts of him in a way, did they keep their memories intact? For example I wonder if Lucienne knows what Dream did, and if her library contains books related to a past, present and future that don't exist anymore... 🤔

Calling @writing-for-life, @tickldpnk8 and everyone else interested in brainrotting on Overture with me!

#the sandman #sandman meta #sandman overture #Sandman brainrot

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merinsedai · 6 months

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Day 24- hope

From the sandtober prompts by @orionsangel86 😁

Dream and Hope from Sandman: Overture.

I’m rather pleased with myself with this one, because I managed to draw Hope without copying directly from a photo. Dream, obviously I copied that pose 😅 but it was a splicing together of different shots. This is about as creative as I can be.

#sandtober2023 #inktober #day 24: hope #sandman overture #dream of the endless #hope #the sandman fanart #silly little sketches

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writing-for-life · 5 months

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Just putting this on here in case anyone wants to spend ~1,100 USD/890 GBP on a statue. Jeez…

#the sandman #dream of the endless #morpheus #sandman #sandman overture #dc collectibles

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the-cloudy-dreamer · 7 months

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Sandman Inktober 2023, Day 6 Gold

“I am a creature of light, this is like all the stories isn’t it?

Once again I was inspired by Sandman overture to do this one! Alianora is a being of light that Desire created to help out Dream when The Dreaming was invaded:

I’ve always have a soft spot for this character even when her appearances in the comics have been very brief Dream clearly holds her in high esteem since she’s the only person ( that we know of) who he gives a Dream Stone to.

I also die a little inside everytime he calls her “old love”this man holds on to what he loves for lifetimes *cries* somebody please hold him

#the sandman #sandman fanart #sandman comics #sandman comic spoilers #dream of the endless #alianora sandman #sandman overture #sandtober2023 #inktober #art #illustration #cloudy illustrates #neil gaiman #can you tell i was watching crimson peaks while doing this lol

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ibrithir-was-here · 10 months

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Tried to do a fancier picture but ended up just with a little Modern Day Dreamling AU doodle, one where they’re married and happy and crawling with kiddos x) Orpheus and Robyn from their mutual first marriages, then they adopt little Hope (Beautiful Lost Nebula from Overture) and Daniel comes along…somehow 😅

#not sure how I’d put Danny in a modern AU #but he’s gotta be in there #dreamling #my art #hob gadling #dream of the endless #orpheus sandman #robyn gadling #hope beautiful lost nebula #sandman overture #daniel hall #sandman #sandman au #lots o kids AU

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orionsangel86 · 1 year

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Dream of the Endless - A Romantic Fool

After talking to @so-i-grudgingly-joined-this-site @duckland and @notallsandmen over on this post I have been thinking about the reasons why I personally interpret Dream as a romantic and think that later Sandman stories have made a mistake claiming that romance and erotic fiction are all the work of Desire alone and not the actual Prince of Stories (and thank GOD Neil Gaiman confirmed those Sandman stories were not canon eh?)

Under the cut because as always it got long. Why I think Dream of the Endless is an old fashioned romantic with a soft spot for love stories.

I mentioned in the linked post that I don’t see how Dream and Desire can keep themselves completely separated when their realms blur so much and when they are canonically probably the two most similar of the Endless even above Desire and Despair (which I think is the reason they clash so much). It’s also worth mentioning that when it comes to influences over mortals, I don’t think any particular Endless sibling has more of a sway than any other, they all influence us all the time such is their nature and I think it would be very difficult to claim only one Endless was totally responsible for certain things. This is the reason why they like to compete and play games with each other like they did in Three Septembers and a January with the Emperor of the United States (side note: this is one of my all time favourite comic issues and my absolute favourite of the stand alone stories).

So even if Desire does have influence over the romance genre and erotica, I don’t think that would make Dream particularly averse to them, because he is also very much responsible for love stories and stories about love and seems to have inspired more than his own fair share over time.

Starting with the obvious - he was Shakespeare’s patron. No matter what else you say about Dream, he is responsible for inspiring and effectively being the muse for the greatest playwrite who ever lived. Shakespeare’s repertoire includes a whole list of plays with romance and love at their hearts not least of all being:

A Midsummer Nights Dream

What is the one thing you remember most about AMND? The fairies yes? Titania, Puck, Oberon, etc. But the central theme and story of AMND is specifically about love. It is a very sweet story about four mortals who are caught in a love “square” and get lost in a magical forest where the fairies decide to get involved and fix their love problems (with some confusing mess ups in between) and at the same time, it is a story about how the King and Queen of Fairie are having a bit of a falling out and the King decides to play some tricks on his stubborn wife, before ultimately reconcilling with her. The play ends with a triple wedding.

In the Sandman issue A Midsummer Nights Dream. It is revealled that Dream commissioned this play from Shakespeare to be a retelling of events which happened long ago, as a gift from him to Titania and Oberon so that mortals may never forget the fae once they leave the realm of Earth forever. It is also revealled that Dream and Titania were once lovers themselves, though we have no other details about when this was, as Titania refuses to talk about it at The Wake. It is clear however that they are still on extremely good terms, care for each other deeply, and had a very close relationship even after they were lovers before the fae left Earth. Throughout the comics, whenever the fae are mentioned, it is clear that Dream is closer to them than any of the other Gods, Goddesses, or various pantheons we meet. Even though at one point he states that he does not trust fairie magic.

At the end of the day, whatever else you want to believe about Dream, Titania is the only lover of his that he remains on good terms with. So much so that even though she clearly has a husband, he is still gifting her love stories. There is an argument here that AMND is quite mocking towards Titania, who falls in love with a man with the head of an ass, and spends most of the play having sex with him and swooning over him whilst the other fairies look on in horror. I know some people have interpreted this as Dream being mocking and cruel towards her, but I didn’t get this impression at all from reading this issue. Titania appears to be delighted at the play and Dream explains clearly his reasons for commissioning it:

The short version is that Dream commissioned a romantic and magical love story for his ex lover, so that the mortal world would never forget her when she left Earth for good.

Pretty romantic in my opinion.

The Tempest

Keeping to the Shakespeare theme, the other play commissioned directly by Dream is The Tempest. Now, there is probably a whole other meta essay to be written about Dream’s reasons for commissioning the Tempest, not least of all how fitting Prospero’s final monologue is when viewing it as a closing statement on Dream’s own endgame. But this is a meta about romance, and Dream couldn’t even keep romance out of his self-insert human!au original fiction. Like AMND, The Tempest is also a comedy (interesting how both plays commissioned by Dream were comedies when he is so clearly living in a tragedy *sigh*) and like AMND The Tempest includes young lovers who fall in love throughout the course of the play. Whilst romance and love isn’t a central theme in The Tempest, it is still a big part of the story.

I just find it impossible to take a view that Dream would shun romance when he personally commissioned two romantic stories from Shakespeare himself.

The Sandman: Overture - Dream’s Personal Love Story

But this isn’t the only evidence of Dream’s romantic inclinations. The Sandman: Overture also includes some interesting clues to Dream’s views on love stories.

Hope asks for a story. She does NOT request a love story. She simply asks for a story with Dream, that also includes a princess. Given that Dream is the Prince of Stories, and has most definitely had interactions with many princesses over his long life, he chose to instead tell a personal story, a love story, and so we finally get the full love story of Dream and Alianora.

Even though it must hurt to relive it, even though the Cat of Dreams (not gonna spoil the twist) specifically states that they NEVER tell that story, he chooses to tell it to Hope. Not only does he tell her that story, but he ends it with a happy ending - not “happy for always” but “happy for a goodly while”.

The fact that the Netflix show chose to adapt on this love story further, by having it be canon that Dream carved their love story into the gates of his own kingdom - well, that only further emphasises how much he cares for love stories, even his own, even when the truth is it ended badly, and hurt him greatly. Would a non romantic person carve their own love story into the gates of their kingdom? I don’t think so somehow. Because even after all this time, even though it pains him to relive it, he is still a romantic at heart, and cared about Alianora and their love enough to carve it into the gates of the Dreaming.

A Mother’s Insight

Also in The Sandman: Overture, Dream’s time with his mother is particularly insightful. She is the one to point out how alike he and Desire truly are, even though he dismisses the very concept and takes offense (obviously). It seems clear to me that we are supposed to agree with Mother Night on this. She also raises two other interesting points - the first is when she realises Dream’s scheme to get his parents back together in the hopes that it will save the universe. She laughs at him, and mocks him, calling it “one of his stories”. Because even if Dream isn’t exactly the most self aware of creatures (understatement), she is exactly right. Dream, being a romantic, had hoped that his parents love could save the universe. A true epic love story for the ages. It is his romantic ideations that sent him to meet with his parents. Dream’s romantic nature is integral to the story of Overture working. If he wasn’t such a romantic, he never would have sought out his parents, he would have been more grounded in realism, and known that they would disappoint him.

The second point Mother Night points out, is Dream’s desire for a lover, as she offers to make him one so that he might stay in her realm with her. He declines of course, since Mother is simply manipulating him to keep him with her, but that doesn’t mean what she says isn’t true. Dream very much desires a lover. His whole family is aware of this. His love story with Alianora began with Desire sending Alianora to Dream after all. Dream’s wish for love and also romance is an integral part of his character.

Brief Lives - Motivations and Comparisons

Dream’s romantic ideations are also central to the story in Brief Lives since the only reason he agrees to go to the Waking World with Delirium is because he hopes that he may find and reconcile with Thessaly. His fantasies of reconciling with her are strong enough for Destiny to call him out and bring him once again back down to Earth.

Knowing what we do about Thessaly, it is very easy to interpret Dream’s feelings about her, and his romantic ideations about reuniting with her, as not rooted in reality. I find it very difficult to view Dream as anything other than a romantic fool when he is taking road trips across Earth on the small chance he may lock eyes with his ex lover across a street and they may fall back into each others arms like in some fluffy romance novel. He is ridiculous, and this is made clear throughout Brief Lives.

In fact, Destruction definitely agrees with me as well. He calls Dream a romantic fool directly.

Orpheus’s very existence is also a good example of Dream being a romantic. Who else could father a child who becomes famous for his poetry, his songs, and his epic tragic love story. In The Sandman, it is at least implied that part of the reason Orpheus meets his tragic end is because he is too much like his father, and the one thing that is made very clear about Orpheus, is that he is a romantic, with love being one of his main motivations.

I think adding all this together with the comments made about Dream by his own creations, the residents of the Dreaming, as well as his ex lovers at The Wake, it is clear that he is a romantic character, a character who is driven in many ways by his desire for love, and who rather fancies himself as the broody romantic hero (I just KNOW Dream was somehow involved with Lord Byron lmao). Throughout the comic, Dream often denies that he has any needs, any desires, to the extent that he denies that he is even a person, who has a life. He also adamantly denies that he has a story. Yet, throughout the comic, it is made clear that none of this is true. The reason Dream is so often at odds with Desire is because he desires so strongly - moreso than any of the other Endless siblings. It’s because of this that I think he would enjoy the romance genre possibly more than anything else. Romance is a core component of his personality. In comic canon, Dream has been directly or indirectly responsible for the creation of at least five love stories - two Shakespeare plays, the Song of Orpheus, the love story of Dream and Alianora, as well as the story that the African tribe tell their children when they come of age - the love story of Dream and Nada, the tale where their love was so passionate that every living thing that could dream dreamed of their love making.

So whilst the comics never directly state whether or not Dream is a fan of romance novels, his desire for love and romance indicates to me that he holds love stories in high regard, regardless of whether or not his annoying younger sibling has anything to do with them.

Also, not that it really counts for anything, but Tom Sturridge agrees with me. ;-)

#The sandman #sandman meta #dream of the endless #the sandman comics #sandman comic spoilers #sandman overture #morpheus #i should note that dream being a romantic doesnt absolve him from sometimes being a bit of a misogynist #though I do have some conflicting opinions on that part #Ishtar accusing dream of not liking women doesn't automatically make him a misogynist #it just means she thinks he is #but looking at it from dreams pov #isn't it obvious why he wouldn't trust a goddess of love?#since she falls under the domain of desire?#but thats another conversation #i wanted to mention it but couldn't fit it in smoothly in the post #but its been on my mind since I relistened to brief lives on audible recently #about the importance of that line and its implications #anyway #please feel free to add on any thoughts #i love discussing this stuff with other sandman fans #all opinions are welcome so long as everything remains civil and kind

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bludotpng · 1 year

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I’ve never read a character more exhausting than Night from Overture.

I can deal with Time and his “I brought you into this world” trump card that he has as a mentality, but Night is just- *audible uncomfortable sigh*

I don’t know how Dream did it, but if I went to my mother and she didn’t even know about one of her daughters death, didn’t know that her son left and then compared me to my younger sibling all while sitting at a table with dick shaped foods on it, I’d probably crack.