I am so sorry to have to ask for help. I'm finding myself in a financial crisis with my rent due in 2 weeks and no way to pay it. I need a minimum of $900 in order to stay in my home. Any help would be incredible! Thank you so much!

Venmo: @Tanva-Ramsey-2 Papal: www.paypal.me/nanwriter

Oh, my dear, so sorry! I tried the email above for Paypal but it didn't recognize it, so I used your business email--hope that still works. And hope so much that things turn around SOON!

Oh gosh thank you, love!!

Please message me for my email to access Paypal

I remain beyond overwhelmed by how much help friends and family have sent my way. My bills and rent were fully covered for this month and I also have enough for rent for November.

I'm still unemployed and the little bit I get each week won't cover more than bills. I've looked locally for work but this town is all manufacturing and physically demanding - something out of reach for me due to disability. I've also been applying to a lot of remote jobs but so far have only received back rejection emails. I should be okay with food despite EBT benefits being axed. There's one small food pantry locally if things get tight.

All in all - if anyone has any leads on possible jobs for a graphic designer/illustrator please let me know. I currently am searching via Indeed, ZipRecruiter, Zippia, and LinkedIn.

And, if you are able to help financially, my GoFundMe link is above.

Again, so much thanks for the immense help I've received so far! You guys have kept me housed and that's amazing!!

A Study in Making Your flatmate Diss Your Writing so You Could Reveal You Wrote It

Hey everyone! We’re about two weeks into the event - we hope you’re all having fun making art and leaving comments! We thought we’d check in with some statistics, share what’s coming up in the second half of the event, and answer some of the questions we’ve been getting.

Stats

Total participants: Over 1230 people received bingo cards via official sign ups, and we’ve picked up a few stragglers with our extra cards!

How much art has been made so far:

Fandoms: So far, art and fic recs cover around 125 different fandoms, including Star Trek, Coroika, Once Upon a Time, Cookie Run, Hockey RPF, and more!

Haven’t posted yet? No worries, we’ve got over two weeks left, and we’ll keep reblogging your work after Jan 31st, so don’t stress about the deadline! We can’t wait to see what you’re working on!

What’s coming up?

Stuff You May Have Missed:

Recent FAQ:

Here are a few answers to questions we’ve been getting a lot lately! Check 'em out below the cut!

A commission for lovely @sherlockwho-itsme . The scene is from their fic Dear Reader

Thank you for commissioning me and thank you for your patience! ^^;

And for his next trick, Sherlock will tell John that the word ‘Gullible’ isn’t in the dictionary.

can u tell that i like jc leyendecker🤤

4 dabloons

Death makes love eternal

sim·i·lar·i·ty.

Resemblance. Equivalence.

Anyone for very late Christmas shopping?

(i just made this account, not sure how it really works, let me know if something goes squirrely)

Posting this again, because whatever!

I just got my shirt in the mail, and if you are looking to get one of these, CHECK THE SIZING. The size and type I got was a 3xL because I wanted something loose and comfy.

It is like a women's medium-large with no stretch.

If anyone out there wants it, I have a black "All I want for Christmas is Clues" shirt that I will send you! All I need is for you to cover shipping.

First come first serve, I only have one.

To make it clear:

I have a medium-large women's "All I Want for Christmas is Clues" shirt in black up for grabs, just pay shipping and it is yours.

Headcanon that Hob was illiterate until he got into the printing business

drew morpheus again!! including the idea of little star freckles <3

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commissions open!!

2016 Summary of Art

COMPLETELY HETEROSEXUAL FRIENDSHIP

saticoy: You know when Sherlock throws a little fit on the couch and then just flip over away from John? What if John didn’t storm outside and instead laid on Sherlock’s back, trying to placate him?

Beginning to See Nuala

Agency Across Comics and Screen

[Before I took a break, I’d kept my meta on track with our community reread. And while that reread has officially stopped, I still want to base my topics at least loosely around reading the comics in sequence, and maybe also feed in the show where it fits. The last issue we discussed was #34 (“Bad Moon Rising”)—I will still post a little recap with all the related “A Game of You”-stuff, but you’ll also find some of it here.]

It might be surprising that my main focus for issue #35 is Nuala, because she only appears in a few panels. But it ties in so well with the themes that are central to A Game of You, and The Sandman in general:

“Beginning to See the Light” isn’t just a title. It’s a motto. It’s about declaration of self and Barbie’s (proverbial and ultimately real) awakening, and how she reclaims agency even though it initially doesn’t look like it. The whole of The Sandman is based around the theme that growth requires change/destroying parts of who we once were. And that’s true for Barbie (and literally everyone else in A Game of You, at least to a degree), it’s true for Dream/Morpheus, and it’s also true for Nuala. So forgive me for my choice of header, but I couldn’t resist, because we begin to see Nuala’s growth in A Game of You.

Hey, told you I would end up responding to this at some point ;)

First, I want to say I agree with pretty much everything you said about comics!Nuala. I was never fond of this storyline tbh, for reasons I'll explain later, but I also agree with you that comics!Nuala is generally misunderstood, first by the fans, and I'd dare say, by the show writers as well (or why would they have changed her story so much?).

Even after rewatching The Sandman for the... I don't even know, I still can't quite come to terms with Girlboss Nuala. Don't get me wrong, I love season 2 despite its flaws, and I actually liked this character a lot thanks to Anne Skelly, who was truly delightful, but I still can't see a reason why she was made a warrior. I mean, I may be stupid, but I don't see what it brought to the story in the end... She didn't accomplish more being a girlboss type of woman than she did in the comics, did she? Sure, it was glorious to see her chop Lyta's head off, apparently just in time to save Morpheus' life, but it didn't, because he WANTED to die and chose to even while he probably felt that Lyta was dead. Even the "let's build an army and a big wall to protect the Dreaming" seemed a bit contrived, because everyone should have known that it would have been useless against the Fates. So, I guess I just fail to see the point of this plot, and it may be my fault. You won't see me screaming "bad writing!"... I just don't get it.

One thing I loved, however, is that they changed her to make her at least as much in love with the Dreaming as she was with Morpheus. And I say "at least as much" because, unlike most viewers, I know, I found her feelings towards HIM more ambiguous than they were in the comics. If I didn't know that Nuala was in love with Morpheus in the comics, I wouldn't have necessarily believed that she was in love with him in the show. I saw admiration. I saw a woman who was fangirling over Dream because of the way she had seen him handling his situationship with Titania centuries ago, and for the way he had repaired what was broken between their realms. But I didn't necessarily see romantic love. Please don't throw rocks at me, I'm a person who often mistakes romantic cues as friendliness even in real life, so my judgment is probably not the best lol, but that's how I felt about show!Nuala anyway.

The irony is that I would have understood more if show!Nuala had been explicitly in love with Morpheus as she was in the comics... My problem with the comics was never that Nuala was portrayed as a young woman in love with Dream, because there's nothing wrong or anti-feminist for a woman to romantically love a man; but I never managed to grasp *why* she felt that way for him. He was generally aloof and distant with her as he was with, well, most people. I didn't see them share any special moment like they did in the show... What was it in him that she fell in love with? It was the big question mark for me.

And one last thing... I'm not a fan of making Titania the villain who called Morpheus. On one hand, I was relieved they did that because there was no doubt Nuala would have gotten all the hate that Titania received for calling Dream into her realm. On the other hand, I thought it took away from her character to portray her as a flawless character who didn't make a single bad decision, even if in her case it would have been for a good reason and would have come from a place of love, whether romantic or not. I must say it made things easy: Titania was already an unsympathetic character, so why not make her even worse by rendering her responsible for Morpheus' demise? But that's the thing: it seemed TOO easy to me. Comics!Nuala was, as you say, stronger than she seemed, but her love for Morpheus weakened her just like Morpheus' love for his son weakened him; it wasn't a flaw, but it gave them complexity, and it caused them to make irreparable mistakes, as so does love, very often.

Love caused Morpheus' demise because, without this love, he understandably lost the wish to live. Nuala, on the other hand, seemed to have become stronger thanks to it, in the end. She found the strength to acknowledge she couldn't live in Faerie anymore, because she couldn't keep pretending to be the person Titania and her brother wanted her to be. She felt terribly guilty for what she did, but she didn't let this guilt eat her alive like it did for Morpheus, and she went on to find herself at last and live her own life, on her own terms. They both paralleled each other in that they were both reborn at the end of the story, the difference being that Nuala didn't have to die to manage it. In the show, we lost this...

She had no difficulties cutting her ties with Faerie because, apparently, she hated the place for a long time, even before Titania gifted her to Dream. She said that she agreed to return there with Cluracan only so she could get help to save the Dreaming, so it wasn't even her broken heart or a form of weird attachment to a place she knew she didn't belong in that convinced her. And so, we lost this parallel with Morpheus!Dream. Again, I liked show!Nuala very much, but I think it was a miss.

I hope it doesn't make me sound like a hater... I love this show, and I'm grateful that we got a beautiful 2nd season, with a perfect cast for every character.

I agree with so much of this on a personal level. I guess it ultimately all boils down to preference in terms of portrayal.

I can see why some people think Nuala is more empowered in the show, it’s just that I, like you, think it’s just empowerment “on paper”, if that makes any sense? Because as you say: It changes nothing. I feel they wanted to create a flawless sweetheart for the audience to like (no matter if she now has a “tougher” background—she still reads very lovable and sweet to me), hence transferring anything that might “tarnish” her to Titania. And I’ll be brutally honest now while at the same time not expecting people to share that opinion (it’s just how I see it):

I feels contrived to me and a bit tryhard. Because on the one hand, it seems like they wanted to avoid any whiff of misogyny by making her “strong” and saying “she doesn’t just exist to love Morpheus” (I didn’t read their show!arc as romantic either btw, while their comics!arc was, and even after decades, I’m still on the fence about how comics!Morpheus truly felt about her. Let’s say I think his feelings for her were complicated. I do think he really loved her, whether platonically or romantically is a question of interpretation, because saying he didn’t at that point in time doesn’t mean he truly didn’t. It would have complicated things and probably made matters worse for her. But whichever way people want to read it, and I think both readings are legit: One type of love isn’t worse than the other. They’re both love, and they both mean equally much. It’s just that fandom focuses more on romantic love, nothing new I guess).

On the other hand, and for exactly the reason I shoved into paraphrases in my usual rambling way above 🤣, the show also lost a lot of what was so truly tragic about their comics!arc. I’m not saying I liked all about the latter, but I felt it made sense for what it was. And while their show arc also made sense in certain ways, I don’t feel it was better. It felt… flatter? To me, it lacked a lot of the nuance and depth their relationship (and how it influenced them) had in the comics. They were mirrors in a certain way. They weren’t in the show. Again, not saying everyone has to share that view, it’s just mine.

But as you say: I also liked the show. Criticising elements of it, or even just discussing differences between comics and show and why we think one makes more sense to us on a personal level, can often sound like we hated it, and I really didn’t. Yes, I scratched my head about a lot of stuff, and I definitely would have written certain things differently, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t like the show, because I did.

My first entry for @fanartfrenzy! For the square "Create a moodboard for any fic".

For the Dreamling fic would you let me know?/ I could make some time if you wanted by @beatnikfreakiswriting <3 It's one of my favourites, and making this moodboard made me wanna reread it~