#Jed Walker

[euzede]

weird-ass uncles

[thoughtsfromlayla]

A few bts Sandman pics I've never seen before!

Bonus picture of Morpheus and his: I'm just a dude standing here stance

The giant face mask/barrier he's wearing in the second photo is cracking me up. The initial stages of Covid still feel like a fever dream (haha get it?)

[cookiekate-art]

Gravity Falls x Sandman!!!

Part 1~~

I am holding everyone’s hands ever so gently as I propose my ULTIMATE idea for a Gravity Falls Sandman AU 🥺🤲

[boricori]

[writing-for-life]

The Mother Wound…

…or what if one of your major arcana was possibly created in the image of the parent who emotionally abandoned you over and over

We recently discussed episode 8 (Playing House) and Dream’s relationship with Gault. And I can’t even begin to tell you how happy I was to see that someone else had the thought that there’s an eerie resemblance between Gault and Mother Night. So far, I always thought I’m the only one who might have had the fleeting thought that Dream has created Gault in the image of his mother (but that’s possibly because not everyone has read the comics).

And if I think about it a bit deeper, all sorts of feelings come up…

Mother Night in Overture, design by JH Williams III

There is a shared motif here—Night promises Morpheus a dreamworld in her realm. It’s the ultimate escape, the ultimate laying down of his responsibilities and letting it all end…

Gault builds Jed a dreamworld he can also escape to—from the pain of his abuse and loneliness. The only difference is that Gault is benevolent. Night—not so much, but as a cosmic force, she isn’t truly malevolent either. She just is. As a mother, she is an emotionally distant, manipulative and cold catastrophe though, and we have reason to believe she was always like this, and that her emotional unavailability hurt several of her children. Dream and Delirium most from what we can gather, but it’s probably not unreasonable to say they all suffered in one way or another—what does it say about you if you didn’t even know, or at least didn’t care, that one of your children died and grieves for her lost brother to top it all off, or that you have no clue that said brother walked out on his duties? The only one who always seems to get off lightly is Destiny (also with Father Time btw):

That mother wound is deep, people. There’s also a father wound—on top of emotional unavailability and manipulation, it’s one of constantly being told that nothing you do will ever be good enough, that you’re useless. But maybe that’s for another time. And said mother wound could also explain why Morpheus initially reacts so badly on Gault “overstepping”. Because funnily enough, he starts out quite calm and only gets truly angry when Gault says that none of the dream folk came back because they loved him, but only because they’re afraid of him.

And I believe that’s the sentence that truly set him off—not that Gault left or wanted to be something other than she is (even if that’s at the very core of his own conflict and will certainly sting):

It’s the deep rejection he has felt throughout his existence, and possibly even sought out and replicated subconsciously [all his relationships replay a pattern of rejection or being the rejected over and over], because that’s what people with attachment issues do 😩. The same rejection and coldness he took on himself, began to wear like a shield, showed towards others—because if you reject someone first, they can’t hurt you, right?

But it still hurts…

So you proceed to inflict the exact pain on others that has been inflicted upon you, and you send them to the darkness and abandonment just like you have been sent to the darkness and abandoned (and he doesn’t just do it to Gault—he has done it to his own son, just like his mother and father did it to him several times over)…

But what if the seed of who Gault wanted to be and was (someone who is caring and nurturing) had already been subconsciously planted by her creator, without him being aware he was doing it? Was she not always who she was, and wouldn’t she always be that way? Maybe that’s the most interesting question…

Maybe some truths are buried so deep inside of us that they just need the right environment to come to the surface. But they are always there, and they just need space, and sometimes pain, to lead to transformation. And then I start to think of another repeating motif, and I guess we all know what that one is…

[itsmeaxumii]

Jed and Rose Walker!! the beloved siblings 🥺✨

commission for @bovivinator ✨✨

[evenmyhivemindisempty]

[dreamytfw]

Girl, don't lie to me. That's Shaggy from Scooby-Doo

[tryan-a-bex]

(What to do with them is in the reblog, wait for it…)

[sweet-like-cinnamon-5]

Jed Walker and a tale of two car rides

The end of The Sandman S01E07 The Doll's House

The end of The Sandman S01E08 Playing House

In which Jed Walker goes for a car ride with two men. One is a horrifying nightmare monster of violence, terror, and abuse. The other is The Corinthian.

[euzede]

"Uncle Hob is nothing like Uncle Dream, but that's good too. He has strong arms, and hair that's both silver and brown. On Fridays we have movie nights at his house. He insists I choose the film we're watching - I think it's because he knows I didn't get to watch telly much."

[deconstructthesoup]

If the headcanon that the Cat King is Desire's son turns out to be true... that would make him Rose and Jed's great-uncle.

There is a dynamic here to be had that I fully cannot put into words

[b-plot-butch]

Interest Check for Appreciation Event of The Sandman’s Black Characters

Hello! A few of us are trying to put together a fandom appreciation event for the Black characters of The Sandman. It would most likely run for about two weeks. We’re planning on making it a very broad sort of appreciation event, so as to include as many people as possible. So, participation is not limited to just fics and art (although those are extremely welcome!!). Participation can look like metas, headcanons, even memes—anything that centres around this beautiful cast of characters we’re so lucky to see on our screens.

We currently do not have any Black fans on our organisation team, but it’s important to us that we change that! If you’re Black and interested in helping run this event, please feel free to reach out to @tryan-a-bex or @wordsinhaled.

[windsweptinred]

I've seen so many wonderful headcannons and fics about Rose forming a bond with Dream following the events of Lost Hearts. Even a few about her building a realtionship with Desire and Death.

But one I haven't seen and would adore to see explored further, is Rose reaching out to Gault.

Gault who genuinely cared for Jed and offered him as much comfort and protection as she was able. Who was there for him when Rose couldn't be.

Rose's number one priority is her little brother. If there was one being in the entire cosmos I can see her openly trying to connect with, it's Gault.

[lord-morpheus-ravens]

Illustration from the first chapter of my new fic My love will testify with married Dreamling. And bonus proud Uncle Dream and Jed wearing matching space shirts!

[bludpudding]

jed telling newborn danny as long as he doesn’t have a name he can’t get into any trouble OOOHHHHHH LORD