#Corinthian/Orpheus

[contrael]

Merry Christmas, Sandman fandom!!

[writing-for-life]

Sandman Supporting Characters—Jeremy Haun

I can’t get over dumping Orpheus on the ground. Ouch 😩

[virgo-dream]

gay ass lil stickies hehe

[yourgaydads]

wrote a miserable orpheus/corinthian non-con fic for the new year!

[killingdoll]

Orpheus *generally miserable*: I never got to call him ‘Daddy’.

The Corinthian *smug*: Well, I do. Generally on weekends and holidays. Every holiday in every culture.

Orpheus *seething in misery*: I hate you.

[olansamuelle]

Second Six Fanarts challenge I’ve drawn this year with twitter prompts.

First one in this link.

Third one here.

Fourth one (The Good Place) here.

Fifth one here.

Sixth one here.

Seventh (Warrior Nun themed) here.

[light-miracles]

Gault: Obviously I'm his favorite. He turned me into a dream.

Corinthian: Duh, he chased after me for longer. Obviously I'M his favorite.

Fiddlers Green: He didn't even ground me. Sorry guys. Why don't we just ask him? My Lord, who's your favorite?

Dream: Merv.

Everyone:

Dream: He is hilarious.

Merv: ❤️

[gabessquishytum]

theres this person on twitter who ships orpheus with the corinthian and it’s very much so the dynamic of like.. young son dating dads older friend behind his back and i cannot get enough of it. like they definitely twinkified orpheus but the dynamic is so juicy 2 me i wish i had a way to make it dreamling (no offense to orpheus i simply do not care abt him)

I also uhmmmm enjoy this dynamic a lot so please let me have this for a second.

Hob is Death's bestie and he's been hearing about her little brother for aaaages. Death is basically his mother at this point, she has custody of him because their family sucks and she's about 15 years older than him anyways! So eventually Hob meets the famous baby brother - he was imagining an emo teen but instead he comes face to face with Dream, who just turned 18 and is the most beautiful little waif he's ever seen.

Cue Hob covertly fucking Dream every time he pops over to Death's house for dinner. Death legit has no idea, and she would actually murder Hob if she knew. But she's not going to find out, because Dream can be a good, quiet boy. Hob knows that he should stop, but Dream won't let him. He's grown very fond of his 40-something year old fuck buddy, and he has every intention of making the relationship permanent.

And just an extra bit of horny because I can, for the original Cori/Orpheus thing - consider Cori is dating Dream. Coming over to dinner and then having sensual, soft sex with him while Orpheus plays video games upstairs. And then fucking Orpheus in his car around the block afterwards, while Dream is asleep. "Don't scream so loud, baby. You don't want your dad to hear." <33

[ibrithir-was-here]

(So this one ended up having pretty much nothing to do with the prompt, and almost everything for setting up the background of this AU xD

But i hope ya'll like it anyway as it's what will likely start bringing in some plot sporadically between the fluff)

Languid

Golden eyes, bright with a hunter's focus, followed  the small bright spark that was Daniel Hall as he toddled along after the tall dark shadow of the Lord of Dreams. The eyes narrowed as Dream bent to pull the child up into his arms, and blazed with fury as they observed a languid smile slowly stole across  the pale face, the stars in Dream's dark eyes sparkling with that most appalling of all emotions--

Contentment.

Desire withdrew from their clandestine viewing of the pair with a hiss of contempt.  It wasn't fair. How could their plans have backfired so utterly?! 

Burgess had failed to break Dream's spirit,  Rose had failed to make him spill family blood, and--while it hadn't been their own machinations that set Dream's latest brush with their sister's gift into motion--that thrice cursed enameled nightmare had returned the bouncy baby brat to its mother whole and unharmed, before her mind could be broken down into a fury of vengeance by The Kindly Ones and unleashed them upon Desire's insufferable sibling. 

Not only had all these events failed to permanently cut Dream down to size, they'd actually ended up benefitting him-- by robbing Desire of what should have been rightfully theirs.

Like Rose and Jed Walker, Desire's own flesh and blood. True they'd never taken much interest in them outside of the role the two played in Desire's plans, but they were still Desire's. What right did Dream have to lay claim to their affections, to the point they called him "uncle", and sought his advice and attention and not their great grand parent's? 

And Hob Gadling, the mortal who'd been pining for literal decades after Dream; ice-cold untouchable Dream, who hadn't even graced the immortal with his name. His frustrated desire so many centuries  had aged into the finest of wines, ripe for Desire to savor for the rest of eternity--until Dream, apparently moved by his imprisonment, had finally reached out and not only deigned to give Gadling his name but eventually returned his adoration as well!

All that beautiful aching want, both physical and emotional, suddenly satisfied. It was like having that fine wine go sour while you were still drinking it.

And now there was Daniel. 

Daniel, whose death at the hands of the Tricksters would have granted Desire and dear Despair and even poor Delirium an excellent toy in the form of a grieving, vengeance craving Lyta Hall, who's thirst for Morpheus's blood would have at least done some beautiful damage to his precious Dreaming. 

And imagine, if Dream hadn't allowed his new immortal lover to end poor Orpheus, if he'd done it himself, like the prideful king he'd been of old, and then Lyta Hall in her madness had called down the Kindly Ones on him with his own son's blood soaking his hands…oh the thwarted possibilities sent Desire nearly into a swoon of want.

But instead the boy had been rescued, amends and understanding had been made between Lyta Hall and the being whose realm had made her son's existence even possible; and now, now after all Dream's millenia of mourning the loss of his son, of wading through an unending deluge of wishing, wanting, desiring so much that things could have been different, that he could have a second chance -- now Dream had one. 

Orpheus was at peace, and Dream could finally begin to heal from the loss, surrounded by new family and friends, a lover who adored him and could never die, and a new child to cherish and guide, protect and love. His realm was more vibrant and overflowing than it had been even before his imprisonment, a reflection of the Dream Lord's new found happiness. 

It. Wasn't. Fair.

And it most certainly wasn't over.

[contrael]

May as well post gift for @olgertushka here - oricori for wonderful person who introduced me to that wonderful pairing✨️✨️

[olgertushka]

you know. you tumblr people don't know it yet but twitter people know me as orpheus/corithian ambassador so hello i drew this today

[virgo-dream]

dreamling nation's pride emojis 🏳️‍🌈✨

I am sooooo happy to finally post these! This was my big project for the 1st week of pride! There are a total of 96 emojis, with 16 flags for each character. This took me 3~ish days to make, and I'm so happy to finally be able to share them!

you can:

add them to your discord server, tumblr bio and/or pinned post

you cannot:

claim as your own, alter or use them for other purposes without asking first

✨ download here ✨

previews + small tutorial for bio under the cut

emoji previews ✨

bio tutorial ✨

unfortunately, we can't add images to the bio on mobile. however, with a bit of html magic we can add them to the sidebar bio on our blogs! this tutorial depends on what desktop theme you use for your blog, and if it has a sidebar or anything of the sort. for this tutorial, I used the dreamling nation blog theme as an exemple.

add the html code to your sidebar

add this code to your sidebar to be able to paste the emoji url onto it!

<img src="emoji flag url goes here" alt="emoji flag alt text goes here" width="30" height="30">

30 by 30 pixels is the size I recommend for the emojis, but they can go up to 200 by 200 without a major loss of quality in resizing

2. choose your emoji

go to the emoji directory on our blog to pick which emoji you like best! then, hover over the image and right click to open a dropdown menu. copy the image url from there.

3. paste the emoji url onto the designated space

it should look something like this!

...aaaand you're done! 💖🏳️‍🌈✨

[mischiefs-hawk]

Reincarnation au idea thing

So I've had this idea running around in my head. It happens prior to Dream's escape from the fishbowl when the Corinthian is still running around like a whore and killing people.

He's post-killed someone and resting when a voice he hadn't heard in literal centuries starts echoing in his head.

"Cori!" The voice- that voice still just as musical but not the same as when he died. This one was younger- much younger. Just like the little boy he'd chase around the dreaming.

"Cori- Where are you? I can't find Father or Mother! Please Cori!" The Corinthian had no idea how the Dreaming's Prince could possibly be back- and a basic sense of the Dreaming let the Corinthian know that the voice was using the Dreaming as a messenger. He was in the Waking- and close by.

If it had been literally anyone else- anyone the nightmare wouldn't have bothered. Simply gotten out of the dead guy's apartment and kept on living. Except this wasn't anyone. This was Orpheus.

The very being he had been created to protect, the only person who ever truly loved him and respected him- which was more then Dream ever did for either of them.

"Fuck it," the nightmare muttered to himself- letting the tie between the voice through the dreaming pull him through to wherever Orpheus was in the Waking. He didn't know how the boy had returned- Death wasn't known for such things- but that didn't mean Cori was just going to let Orpheus be out in the world, vulnerable to every dark thing humanity was capable of.

[xenone16]

TW eye horror

corintheus without Morpheus, but with Orpheus, who lost his eye in a battle. Cori can't help but take revenge for his young master

[korinthiakos]

Something something, the Corinthian has seen Orpheus grow up over the years until his death.

[shop5]

There are so many good performances in the Sandman Audio drama but Aidan Turner as Cluracan kills me