THE SANDMAN S01E10 - "Lost Hearts"

THE SANDMAN S01E10 - "Lost Hearts"

Okay no one on Tumblr that I've seen has been talking about the wine and cheese thing, but that means no one is reflecting on the absolute weapons-grade hilarity of Boris Johnson trying to inchworm his way out of trouble by claiming that he didn't know about it

Like... that wine and cheese party was the Downing Street works Christmas do. Not just any old social, the Christmas social. There were invitations. There was music. Every single worker in Downing Street was invited, even Debbie from accounts. People who didn't work there but were important to the government got invited.

And Boris is therefore claiming that all his mates got together and had a party and DIDN'T INVITE HIM.

Not only that, but they deliberately kept it a secret from him, because no one wanted him there to ruin the party because no one likes him, and I just...

The key difference between Johnson and Trump always came down to this: Johnson wants to be liked. He genuinely does. Trump wanted to be respected and feared and obeyed, he wanted to be seen as powerful and suave and cool. But he didn't care about how liked he was. Johnson, though, really fucking does. He's a deeply pathetic little twat, and he wants people to like him.

So, his choices currently are

Tell everyone in the country that his own friends and coworkers actually cannot stand him, to the point that they arranged an entire Christmas party without him

Admit that he was there and immediately be hated by literally every single human being in the country, including his own voters (hello North Shropshire), because while the rest of us spent Christmas 2020 in a lockdown and unable to see each other and in many cases literally alone, him and his mates held an illegal Christmas party that the police are refusing to investigate

His popularity is now nosediving in the polls, and it really cannot be stated how much that will be burning him.

Also, pro-Brexit Tories are even pissed off with him now. Which is a bit like someone buying a cake called a pus cake with pictures of pus all over the box and a warning sign that says This Cake Contains Pus and Other Bodily Fluids, and then crying because when they tried to eat the pus cake they found it was filled with pus. But also really funny.

Anyway, I'm placing the bet now: we will see a vote of no confidence, OR he'll jump before he has to experience that (because it would kill him), and our next PM will be Rishi Sunak

Bobby when Buck and Eddie disagree for the first time

Bobby when Hen and Eddie disagree for the first time

It's honestly so funny to me, with Buck he's like ok, Buck isn't happy but he's listening. This could work.

With Hen he's like oh boy Eddie move, she's not kidding. This may have been a mistake.

The thing about Dream of the Endless that I keep NOT seeing people talk about when they say he’s a bit of a jerk is that he is NOT human. Now, I’m a series-only fan, so I’m just working from the show, but I’ve had at least three conversations in the last two days about how Dream drives them crazy but flawed characters are good. This is true, yes, and Dream is flawed, but he is also a being way, way outside of human and this WILL impact his choices and reactions. I loved Tom Sturridge because there were a lot of moments where he was clearly not playing a human. He wasn’t an emo human, he’s an emo ethereal being. Jerk? Maybe. But if you watch the episode with Death you can see how she has learned to embrace humanity and Dream has not learned this at all. Look at how carefully he watched his sister in that episode. He’s learning. That’s his journey and it isn’t about becoming more human but rather embracing and understanding humans, and he’s not there yet. Sturridge portrayed this beautifully.

You could have called me, you know. I didn’t want to worry you. Oh, I don’t believe it. Let me tell you something, Dream. And I’m only gonna say this once, so you better pay attention. You are utterly the stupidest, most self-centered, pathetic excuse for an anthropomorphic personification on this or any other plane. Feeling sorry for yourself because your little game is over and you haven’t got the balls to go out and find a new one. You’re as bad as Desire. No, worse. Did it never occur to you that I would be worried about you?

― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath