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I made a new blog, its called mostly-morpheus-and-myths, follow me there for more Sandman imagines
The Sandman + text posts Part I'm Going Down with This Ship
Text posts meme collection
When I get a nice AO3 comment or Tumblr reblog I have to force myself not to say "I LOVE YOU PLEASE MARRY ME CAN WE BE BEST FRIENDS FOREVER I'M OBSESSED WITH YOU" and instead say "thanks"
Did you eat? (I love you) I bought the bread you like (I love you) I noticed you were upset so I brought you tea (I love you) I made this for you (I love you) I know you have a lot of work and can't talk now so I will leave this thing you like around (I love you) I did your chores (I love you) I will sit by in case you need anything (I love you. I love you. I love you)
Not sure what to do with this thought, but I bet Schrödinger's cat exists somewhere in the Dreaming
Cannot stop thinking about the idea of it being not the Corinthian who goes rogue, but Lucienne. Perhaps Rose's vortex powers activate before Dream gets out of the fishbowl. Perhaps Lucienne, desperate to find her beloved lord, uses this power For Good, where For Good is to take control of the Dreaming herself so she can finally find Lord Morpheus. Perhaps she does find him. Perhaps it leaves a smouldering crater where Fawney Rig used to be.
Perhaps she takes a weakened Dream back to the Dreaming and promises herself that she's just acting as regent while the king (now significantly weakened) recovers. Maybe she stares down Lucifer, maybe she obliterates John Dee, maybe she brings the Corinthian back in chains because she knows he can't be trusted. Maybe she's still angry at humanity for what they've done to her lord and master, who has only ever been good and kind and caring for them.
And then maybe as his strength begins to return she's afraid he'll leave again. Maybe it would be better if she took care of the Dreaming and Lord Morpheus would always be safe there. She'll take care of him. She's a good librarian, she was a good raven. She loves him.
She loves him.
I love when Destruction speaks of the Endless shaping the opposite of their function, aka Death - Life/ Dream - Reality. Their duel nature that, possibly with the exception of Death and Destruction...They're all still remarkably un-self aware about. I honestly think the key to them being happy, well rounded anthropomorphic personifications is the acceptance of their opposing role. But that's a headcannon for another day.
When it's discussed, Desire always gets hatred as their opposing function... And it's just never sat right with me. I get it, the opposite of to Desire something can be distaste, unwanted vereses want. Thus hatred of a thing. But... Hatred is more then that, it's deeper than to not want. It's the all encompassing opposite of to Love. So either Desire does have dominion over all areas of the heart and is both Love and Desire....
"Love is stronger then desire."
But Desire shook their head. "They are the same thing."
The Sandman Book of Dreams
"For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel."
The Sandman Vol. 2: The Doll's House
But I don't think that's it. I think the answer may lay with Despair. The Twins are connected, one being split into two. Despair feeds Desire, Desire feeds Despair. Their functions intertwine in an inseparable way. The same should be true then of their reverse nature's. Hatred and Hope... Nice repeating Hs but there's no natural flow. I'd argue Desire's opposite is the lack of want, fulfillment. Essentially, to be at peace with what you have.
In Buddhist teachings by achieving a mental state where you can detach from all the passions, needs and wants of life, you free yourself and achieve a state of transcendent bliss and well-being. Aka... You shift from Desire, to Peace.
Now Hope and Peace, they go hand in hand. A natural flow from one to the other. With Hope comes Peace, with Peace comes Hope. They could be one golden, glowing, angelic being split down the middle.
So they're you have it, the Endless Twins...
Despair - Hope
Desire - Peace
Ps: I love the fandoms creation of Hope!Hob. But god do I love so much more the notion that Despair not only has the capacity within her to be Hope, but could one day reach a point where she could embody Hope of the Endless too.
Here is the design for the tarot deck's tuck box -- and the link for the launch page! Please feel free to let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!
PRE-LAUNCH KICKSTARTER PAGE
What would be better, Dream's family reacting to Dream introducing them to his younger sugar baby boyfriend Hob, or young Dream bringing home his older sugar daddy Hob?
I'm gonna subvert what seems like the obvious answer and say... older Dream heading off to his family dinner with all his middle aged siblings (even Delirium is in her 30s at this point). He casually mentions that he's bringing a plus one and all his siblings assume it'll be some boring colleague from Dream’s work.
Imagine their surprise when Dream shows up with Hob on his arm. Hob, who is barely even 20. Who is dressed immaculately in a lovely cream coloured Armarni cashmere suit. Who says "Dream, you didn't tell me we were having dinner in a castle!" In an obviously flirty way.
Hob is so sweet! So charming and earnest! When Desire smiles slyly over cocktails and asks how on earth Dream is keeping up with such a pretty young thing, Hob giggles and grabs hold of Dream’s arm. "Honestly, I'm the one who has trouble keeping up! He keeps me up all night sometimes. And you wouldn't believe his stamina..."
He keeps talking until Desire actually blushes. Which no one has ever seen before.
Hob doesn't have a clue how to act around posh people and he obviously doesn't care. He talks to the staff, uses the wrong cutlery, eats more than the "polite" amount. Delirium is absolutely taken with him and at one point they break out into a Disney song medley duet right there at the table together.
Dream keeps looking at Hob with major heart eyes, always refilling his champagne glass and giving him little kisses, feeding him chocolate and dessert off his own spoon. When Hob compliments one of Despair's piercings, Dream makes a note on his phone of the precise gemstone that Hob liked so he can buy it for him.
Hob ends up tipsy and drapes himself all over Dream, whispering to him and pouting when he doesn't get 100% of Dream’s attention. The family are split down the middle - scandalised (Destiny, Desire, Despair doesn't really care but sides with Desire anyway) or charmed (Delirium and Death).
While Hob is sleepily wandering off to the car, Dream tells the family he's thinking of proposing. He leaves that particular morsel of information to sink in, and goes after Hob. He mutes the family group chat for a while, because he has much more pleasant things to think about. Like having Hob in his bed, hopefully forever.
sometimes i say things on twitter and then make a little graph about it
I wish kinky sex ed wasn't so stigmatized even among left-leaning "sex positive" circles. Everyone's all "uwu I'm a sub I'll do anything you ask" okay mommy wants you to read The New Bottoming Book so you learn how to sub without hurting yourself since your sex ed up to this point is porn and your ex boyfriend Jared who liked to choke you incorrectly
I’m so glad you asked! Let me list off what I’ve got for you:
Books I personally recommend:
- The New Topping Book and The New Bottoming Book, by Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy
If you’re having kinky sex at all, you need to read at least one of these two books. Point blank. They’ll teach you the very basics of negotiating properly (which is critical!), and help you identify what you are and aren’t into.
- Mindfucking Mindfully, by Sir Ezra Where this book really shines isn’t actually in helping you “mindfuck” people, it’s in taking a close look at how to do so ethically. It’s a great answer to the question “how do I get someone to consent to something and still surprise and shock them with it?”
- Real Service by Raven Kaldera and Joshua Tenpenny This is a slightly niche pick but there simply isn’t a better book on the subject. It’s written from a 24/7 M/s perspective, which is not what I do, but the book itself is an indispensable guide to giving and receiving service. The phrase “if the Master doesn’t want it, it isn’t service” will be burned into my psyche for quite some time. I love this book a lot. Maybe my favorite out of all of these.
- Enough To Make You Blush: Exploring Erotic Humiliation, by Princess Kali This one’s high on my reading list; I’ve heard it recommended by a number of people whose opinions on these things I trust.
- Pretty Much Anything Midori Has Ever Done Midori is a great resource for this stuff - I haven’t personally read much of her work, but she’s a well known sex educator and great at what she does. She’s known for bondage, but has a lot of range beyond that.
- This Negotiations Worksheet from Bex Talks Sex This is what I default to using a lot of the time for negotiations. Forget BDSMtest, you don’t need that, it’s no good. Just look through this worksheet’s wordbank with your partner. Big fan especially of the “how do you want to feel?” section.
Books I can kind of recommend:
- The Ultimate Guide to Kink, edited by Tristan Taormino This book is weird. There’s a lot of good info for experienced players, but some of what’s written here skeeves me out. I think if I had a top that thought the way some of the tops in here think, they would not be topping me for long. But there’s some good techniques and so on to pick up that I wouldn’t have otherwise. I liked the distinction one of the authors makes between being sadistic in the sense of inflicting pain and being sadistic in the sense of doing something your sub doesn’t “enjoy.”
- The Ritual of Dominance and Submission, by David English Man, this book fucking sucks. The writing and editing are garbage, and the fear and protocol play described need way more careful negotiation than he ever lets on, let alone recommends. This is some 50 Shades bullshit. The only time I recommend this book is to tops like me who tend to be very affirming to their partners and need a guide on how to really scare them - when their partner consents and when you negotiate it, which this book sucks at teaching you. Really good content on fear, punishment, and protocol play, really terrible presentation of the topic though. Don’t read this if you don’t already know what you’re doing.
- Paradigms of Power, by Raven Kaldera I love this book. Great book. Very focused on 24/7 M/s play though, and, being an anthology, some chapters are better than others. If you can’t read something and pick out what is and isn’t for you, don’t bother. But some really great inspiration, and generally pretty well written. Big fan of the discussion of leather throughout the book.
Hope some of these are helpful for people ^-^ for the average person reading this I recommend New Bottoming/Topping, but they’re all important parts of my library and I’ve recommended all of them to friends at some point or another.
— Franz Kafka, The Blue Octavo Notebooks
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Meowpheus x gn!human!reader
Summary: that huge dark cat came to your house every night for two years. Then came in a morning for the first time; showing who he really was, also, for the first time.
Fluff, fluff, fluff
“And I've been meaning to tell you, I think your house is haunted”
Sandman text posts (part 19)
How do fanfic writers feel knowing that people might have been masturbating to their work?
If you're not masturbating to my stories, what's the fn poINT
If my shit does not make you drip, gtfo
like wtf do people really think smut authors are out here like gee there is such a huge audience of people with an ~aesthetic appreciation~ of erotica isn't that nice jfc
Fucking seriously lmao. Who is out there publishing fucknasty sex while simultaneously assuming that all of their readers are engaging with that content with some type of puritan intellectual detachment as the unspoken rule? That's absolutely absurd.
Of course, there's plenty of ways to enjoy smut. Of course people can also read or write smut with intellectual detachment as a creative exercise or a character study or for any other number of reasons. That's not wrong, and all of that happens in fandom, which is great! I just find it bizarre when people seem positively vibrated out of their breeches about the idea that it's not the only thing that happens.
I write porn. Of course some people are going to use it as porn! That's why it's there (in addition to me just having so many emotions about characters that I have to write about them getting together so I don't collapse into myself like a dying star) !
Honestly, if no one has cranked one out at least once to something I wrote, then I have FAILED as a smut writer lmfao. Truly, that would be depressing.
I am here to implore you to remember that horny is a valid emotion.
Art creates feelings. Horny is a feeling.
There are few things as satisfying in the world as, “I’m gonna need more batteries” or “I’ll be in my bunk” responses to my smut. Enjoy, darlings. You earned it!
"vibrating out of their breeches" is goddamn poetry
Hob knows what's up
Idiots in love...