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[writing-for-life]

The Self-Love, Sex and Pursuit of the Helm Novels

Today is crack-fic day for the @sandman-rarepair-fest

I had intended to finish part 3 of “The Self-Love, Sex and Pursuit of the Helm Novels”, alas life is life, and it didn’t happen this year. But I see it as my duty to promote the monster I (and my fellow chaos gremlins) created and spread the gospel of Murphy and his Cool Hat (and yes, I even instigated a democratic voting process for the official ship name—it’s Muhulhu, and I know no one’s asking 🤣). So here are instalments 1 & 2 (the latter can also be found in last year’s Sandman Rarepair Fest Collection).

Part 1

By the Sea, I Mean in the Dreaming: A Comedy Prelude (2168 words) by Writing-for-Life Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Dream of the Endless | Morpheus/The Helm, Dream of the Endless/The Helm Characters: Dream of the Endless | Morpheus, Dream of the Endless, Lucien | Lucienne (The Sandman), The Helm (The Sandman) Additional Tags: Crack, Crack Treated Seriously, Muhulhu, Drat! A HelmLord Story, Morpheus and the Helm, I Blame Tumblr, Murphy and his Cool Hat, What happens if fandom crack ships find their way into Lucienne’s Library, Breaking the Fourth Wall, Sexual Tension, with the Helm, and it’s all the fandom’s fault, Swearing, Mild Language Series: Part 1 of The Self-Love, Sex and Pursuit of the Helm Novels: A Tragicomedy in Three Movements Summary:

… where crack ships find their way into Dream’s Library, and absolutely everyone is left stranded.

Part 2

Bully For You: An Unhinged Interlude (2321 words) by Writing-for-Life Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Dream of the Endless | Morpheus/The Helm, Dream of the Endless/The Helm Characters: Dream of the Endless | Morpheus, Dream of the Endless, Desire of the Endless, The Helm (The Sandman) Additional Tags: I Blame Tumblr, Crack, Crack Treated Seriously, Or Is It?, Muhulhu, Drat! A HelmLord Story, Murphy and his Cool Hat, Breaking the Fourth Wall, Swearing, Masturbation, Anal Something, Because I have no clue what they are doing honestly, helm fucking, Monsterfucking of sorts, It's a Dream of a Thousand Cats Situation, At least a thousand fanfic writers were thinking of the same thing, but he actually enjoyed it, although he would never admit to it, Dream and the Helm finally get it on, About Time, tags what tags they make no sense, Anal Sex, but don't get your hopes up, this is not really smut, it has all the marks of being explicit, but somehow it's really not Series: Part 2 of The Self-Love, Sex and Pursuit of the Helm Novels: A Tragicomedy in Three Movements Summary:

Where we witness how the Lord of Dreams loses his bearings (no, not those ones), and even Desire needs a stiff drink...

[writing-for-life]

Tell me about your Sandman crack ships!

Not the canon ones. Not the popular ones. The complete and utter crack.

I am generally not a shipper, but I and a few other unhinged people created a monster on here, and it’s still my… favourite 🙈

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And there’s a whole background story that you can also find via the above link, from naming it via democratic process, to the first post that kicked it off, to deep psychological essays why it can only be the Helm, and the Helm only 🙈🤣

There are meanwhile two parts (a third is still in the making, but I just don’t get round to finishing it). They’re both on Ao3, but you’ll need an account.

So after that complete and utter chaos: What’s yours?

[writing-for-life]

The Self-Love, Sex, and Pursuit of the Helm Novels: A Tragicomedy in Three Movements

Part 1~~By the Sea, I Mean in the Dreaming: A Comedy Prelude, where crack ships find their way into Dream’s Library, and absolutely everyone is left stranded.

People, I’ve done it, and I’m scared. This… erm… short trilogy has been sitting in my drafts for ages, and the unhinged Muhulhu post has finally kicked my arse into editing part 1. So here it is without further ado: fourth-wall-breaking madness, secrets about Merv and Matthew you never wanted to know, and the unholy beginning of that relationship (titles inspired by “The Love, Sex, and Pursuit of Happiness Novels” by Steven Paul Leiva).

Here’s a little excerpt, link to full story on Ao3.

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And next when it’s edited: Part 2~~Bully For You (Is it sarcastic, or an expression of praise, or something else entirely? Who will ever know…): An Unhinged Interlude, where the Lord of Dreams loses his bearings (no, not those ones), and even Desire needs a stiff drink.

I am tagging the Muhulhu inception crew, but I will need to start with the founding members of the cult: @so-i-grudgingly-joined-this-site for indulging my silly ask that kicked this whole thing off, @marlowe-zara who also gave us her deep psychological insight from the get-go and @roguelov who created the first bit of fanart for this monster (and said fanart gets hinted at in the fic—Murphy is desperately trying to figure out which way up to hold that thing to make sense of it. He is a bit slow sometimes).

Further honourable mentions: @tickldpnk8 (whom we have to thank for the HelmLord) , @ginoeh , @rriavian , @4typercent , @windsweptinred , @throwingbread , @tryan-a-bex (for the best drabble ever—now you’ll understand what I wrote about the similar premise, and Lucienne indeed needs a raise 🤣), @zzoomacroom

I also dare to tag @safeuphigh because you know my more serious stuff, and this is definitely not that, and a writer who takes herself too seriously is not a serious writer. Or something like that 🤣

And @rey-jake-therapist because you always get tagged, and just because I can 😜

New weirdos and Muhulhu enjoyers are warmly welcome in our midst!