Just Got Out Of The Dentist's For Crowns And Went To The Shop Next To It. Found This Gem And Several

Just got out of the dentist's for crowns and went to the shop next to it. Found this gem and several others. I will be putting on gloves to read it <3

death’s employees are so fucking weird

The Sandman Timeline

As printed in The Annotated Sandman 4 (2015)

As promised, @tickldpnk8 and @ambiently-80s-gay with food for thought and possible additions/corrections for yours. Managed to do this very quickly before running out again, so sorry for the bad photos. It’s all perfectly readable though if you zoom in.

A few thoughts: Overture is largely missing from this one, too, but the events are hinted at, and it’s much more complete than anything else out there, plus it’s official.

You still need to take a few things with a grain of salt though (like the Little Endless ;)).

Killalla is mentioned as “millions of years ago”, but that’s not to be understood as only a few millions. It’s more likely 3 to 4 billion years ago since Sol (our sun) was very young in The Heart of a Star, and our Sun is 4.5 billion years old. So I’d put that closer to 4 billion years.

As we can see here, the first vortex is presumed to have happened after Killalla, not before. What aeons exactly mean in this context, we’ll never know. If it happened before or after Alianora is hard to tell. My hunch is before, but that’s really just a hunch.

Alianora was after Killalla, not before. Delirium is still well and truly Delight in The Heart of a Star, but she can’t help Morpheus when the Old Gods take over the Dreaming because she is changing. Plus, there’s already bad blood between Desire and Dream.

Despair is killed after Delight has changed to Delirium, the date given here is 100,000 BC. This was already visible at Despair’s funeral btw, because it was Delirium attending, not Delight.

There are many, many other really good dates in here, from Calliope/Orpheus to historical events, to Morpheus’ death, which was in January 1994 🥺

Hope it helps out 🙂

mother’s day is a sham and a great evil and none of my children get me anything anyway and i might as well not exist and i still have 100+ years’ worth of mother’s days to make up to my own mother not that she even cares at all. but i don’t complain. im stoic and unflappable. i’m a single mother

Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin on the set of NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (2007).