#season of mists

[rainaeday]

Reposting this here so the Tumblr people can see. Good bye college.

[malice-kingdom]

I really love this scene in season of mists chapter 1.

[ikethetimidbean]

I will never forget you, Nada.

[wolpief]

Sandman🐈‍⬛

Sandman season of mists is best vol to me, also it’s one of my fave comics

[writing-for-life]

Same coat, different looking Murphy, 1/3: "Death: At Death's Door"--Jill Thompson

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[stkittens]

the sandman: season of mists (1992)

[et-in-arkadia]

have we discussed the fact that if they do this scene from season of mists in season 2 of the sandman we will have an entire exchange where dream visits hob in his dream and brings him a good bottle of wine to share because dream thinks he might not be coming back from hell and he wants to say goodbye to his friend

please just picture ferdinand and tom giving the toast scene their all i’m trying to imagine it but i keep spiraling into the abyss

[two-hands-toward-the-sun]

Something that really leapt out at me as I was rereading this issue today is??? This is still a portrait of Delight??? And Destiny doesn’t call her Delight or Delirium, merely addressing her as the “youngest of the Endless.” Oh my god.

I don’t have any coherent thoughts about what this signifies, only that it hurts me in some way.

[vallasrevas]

So in the fourth book, before going to hell dream goes around saying goodbye just in case he doesn't return. Guess who his final stop is?

That's right Hob Gadling. 😭

Also this is the toast they make in dreams

[onehundredandeleventropicalfish]

you know, i can't wait to see season of mists in the show, yes to watch certain pieces fall into place for later story and for one particular dream hob conversation

but also because it really is in so many ways just the funniest volume

and i've seen some of those funny moments get mentioned

i've yet to see anyone list dream's defeat of azazel among them

but like. let's lay this out. so dream already has about 500 problems to deal with, at least 300 of which are queueing up in the dreaming telling him to give them the keys to hell or they're gonna [insert threat here], when all he wants to do is rescue nada and maybe also sulk in his bedroom for a bit

when problem #501 shows up - azazel would like hell back so they can make it even worse, and they've brought nada as a bargaining chip to ensure it. they also throw in choronzon for free, because everyone else has been offering gifts, and dream likes revenge, right? yeah, revenge, that'll definitely get him to like us

azazel mostly behaves themselves during the actual negotiations (mostly), bc they're sure they've won, and no need to cause a scene and make more enemies than they have to. but when they realise that's not the case, they threaten to eat nada if dream can't get them what they want

to which, in a move that made me realise exactly why dream gets along so much better with fey than he does humans, he reminds azazel that everyone who crosses the threshold of his realm is entitled to his hospitality, including nada (thanks for bringing her here for me btw, saves me the trip), so if azazel harms her in any way they'll no longer be entitled to dream's protection

and azazel is like fuck you fuck your hospitality i can eat anyone i goddamn like

so we get that challenge between the two of them taking place inside azazel who is kind of a realm in their own right, which, when dream wins, azazel tries to pull a lucifer "why should i let you leave?"

and yes. dream is currently in azazel's void. azazel could try to eat him from in there, regardless of who won. but see, lucifer had one thing azazel doesn't, which is remembering whose fucking house you're in

azazel's entire realm, entire self, is still inside the dreaming. regardless of where dream's physical manifestation is, demons have no power here.

you really shouldn't have denied my hospitality.

and since dramatic irony is the order of the day, dream's then just like "so, what was it you were promising, again? nada and some, uh, sweet sweet vengeance? yeeeaaaah i think i remember you saying something about that. hey azazel? what are your opinions on glass spheres."

and then he turns to the vast assortment of gods and similar he's been trying to get rid of for two days and is like "any arguments? no? cool, get the fuck out of my house."

[iskander-tm]

Thanks Kneel Gay man for my new favorite dysfunctional family!    

redraw of this legendary panel   

[notallsandmen]

It’s been days and I still can’t get over that Dream’s idea of appropriate banquet entertainment was to cajole Cain into doing impromptu magic tricks

Dream, this is the real reason that Calliope’s sisters didn’t attend your wedding

[anabimelo]

decided to redraw some of my favorite panels

INPRNT

[writing-for-life]

More Sandman S2 Pics

Now, that’s an unholy amount of outdoor lighting, so we’re definitely talking a scene that needs a well-lit outside of a building.

Source

So let’s put it all together:

They only filmed for a few hours (between 2pm and 1am), which pretty much excludes major changes to the outside set-up, which brings us to:

We have snow. Tons of it, not just a tiny scattering

The architecture is Saracenic with onion domes

There’s a balcony that’s lit like a Christmas tree

Murphy wears his long coat he only wears in the Dreaming

The inside of the Royal Pavilion would in theory make for a very good banquet hall, BUT we are on a very, very tight schedule

If you’ve ever done any film acting, you know how painfully long even the shortest scenes are to set up and shoot. While I would love to think they did any of the banquet scenes (esp. the family dinner), I think that won’t have happened, simply because they were only there for less than 12 hours and seemed to have focused on the outside during a lot of that time. But you can certainly take a few inside shots and do the rest in a studio later.

The balcony is useable for both Season of Mists and Brief Lives. Again, the time question comes into play.

And why the snow? That hints very strongly at either The Hunt or A Game of You, although I think the latter makes less sense because of the seeming importance of the building (there is none in that scene in AGoY that remotely looks like it, plus Morpheus isn’t in that bit).

I am slightly confused at this point because there are so many options, so I’m thinking:

Outside for The Hunt because of the snow and the onion domes

Balcony potentially for either SoM or Brief Lives, although I’m leaning strongly towards the former at this stage (did anyone see Kirby or know where she is right now?)

If there’s any time left, they’re going to use the inside for some ambient shots for some banquet scene, but they’ll neither do the full family dinner nor any of the “key of hell” stuff because it would take far longer than a few hours to do all of the inside and outside shots. The schedule is simply too tight.

Also putting the link to the poll back in for the other shots and your vote, because we’re back on our guessing game bullshit and worse than ever 🤣:

So what does everyone think?

[dee-is-for-lots-of-things]

actually its kinda weird to see tv-only fans talk about nada because they either go “oh she must have done something AWFUL” or theyre going “omg theyre still in love after all this time... this is so sweet... wonder what happened...” it’s gonna be interesting to see how the non-comic fandom tries to reconcile the complicated history of these two within a traditional shipping framework

[wordsinhaled]

tell us how you really feel, morpheus