#Cosmere

[anatoly-kun]

your son's wife falls at you from the sky holding this huge sword, wyd??

[that-androgynous-lightweaver]

I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST ME WHO WAS VISUALIZING THIS CREM

My dumbass brain visualizing The Stormfather whenever he talks to Dalinar in Oathbringer

[natequarter]

tanavast: haha! hahaha! godlike power! i am become a fragment of adonalsium! sick, time to go break a bunch of promises

honour: *only cares about keeping promises*

tanavast: well this fucking sucks. what the fuck

[explodingkitten492]

Naming my proper Vorin daughter "Huzzah"

[awishwee]

I am by NO MEANS a professional artist, nor am I good at replicating styles, but it was such a fun idea. Luthadel is such a cool aesthetic.

[hay-bails]

kindness is the new punk rock!!!

based on this superman art

[third-doctor]

I think Rhythm of War is my favorite Stormlight book but man. Oathbringer has so may moments that just stick with me.

Moments that live rent free in my brain, in no particular order:

Veil basically being like "yes I would like to buy an alcohol" and then chugging horneater white. then when someone puts a hand on hers she stabs them through both their hands

"he's learning to read? isn't that kinda... feminine?" "Drehy you are literally courting another man" "and? what does that have to do with it" "yeah don't be homophobic Kal ://"

Kaladin being unable to think about sex without imagining Syl giving him pointers and being so disturbed by it that when someone asks what's wrong he passes it off as reliving a traumatic memory

no mating!!!

"what'd you do, punch a lighteyes?" "yes" *punches the brightlord*

Shallan doing the family guy death pose and flashing everyone for science

Shallan getting stabbed through the chest and Kaladin frantically trying to tear her shirt off without thinking to see where the blood was coming from because he forgot about tits existing

Adolin managing to acquire a nice outfit in Shadesmar and Kaladin's complete bafflement

Dalinar: Adolin, I am putting you in charge of finding who killed that guy. Adolin, who killed that guy: what

Shallan: another murder done exactly the same way! the murderer must've struck again! Adolin, who did not kill this one: what

Lift just appearing in visions when Dalinar tried to talk to Yanagawn and talking about his butt

the Assassin in White joining the final battle and everyone just going okay this might as well happen. everything about this is already so damn weird

Dalinar's solution to EVERYTHING being challenge someone to a fight. this is how everyone communicates they engage in combat. what better strategy could there be than making it clear to someone that I could destroy them by force at any time it worked great on my nephew

young Dalinar walking out into the highstorm to get his knife, stabbing an assassin with it, then rinsing it off in his wine and using it to cut his meat

"stormfather!" "what?" "that was a curse"

[nauti-ca]

what’s on your mind, kal?

[that-androgynous-lightweaver]

I'm rooming with Jasnah, Kelsier and Rock. Cooking is set, the place will be really organized and one of the most "my beloved" 'd cosmere characters on this blog will be there. I'm living the life

Spin this wheel of stormlight characters three times. They are your new roommates.

[razielim]

kaladin wins against nale not bc of physical aptitude, not bc wit armed him with a flute, not bc of inventing therapy, not bc of strength of will and being able to tank damage long enough to find a solution

kaladin wins against nale bc he was raised and tutored by lirin and as stubborn and bitter as kaladin can be, it is nevertheless instilled in him very very deeply, on a level he can only occasionally consciously access but informs his actions subconsciously throughout all five books, that all sick people are equally worthy of kaladin's HELP

kaladin's greatest strength is lirin's strength, which was lovingly invested in him even when it was difficult for lirin to do so

[hyoukanee]

Yumi and Nikaro sketch 🌺

[natequarter]

vorin societies are so gendered it's insane. if i were vasher and rolled up in alethkar and suddenly everyone expected me to be illiterate i would also be cranky all the time. imagine. you're just a normal worldhopper or even just a normal foreigner and just because you're a man and you write/play an instrument/like sweet foods you're suddenly an anomaly and every vorin in sight will treat you like a certified freak. like jesus christ you people are genuinely unhinged. can you even blame szeth for thinking stonewalkers are heathen idiots at this point

[purple-egg-yolk]

I fully agree with this!! It’s also why I don’t like Jasnah and wit as a ship in row but I could maybe see it in the future after character development happens.

Ace and allo people can have shitty sex without anyone being the "bad guy", a Stormlight Archive hot take

References spoilers for RoW and WaT

So, Hoid and Jasnah are were an item. And their relationship is kind of sucky. And Jasnah is ace. She doesn't experience sexual attraction, but she also doesn't seem all that excited about any sexual activity. So, naturally, a lot of people are coming to the conclusion that Hoid is extremely selfish and an absolute asshole for having sex with her.

However that's not the vibe I'm getting from them, as an ace reader. Jasnah seems to find sex uninteresting in a way that reads as sex neutral rather than sex-repulsed, or even averse. It doesn't excite her, but she'd do it for her partner's pleasure, which a perfectly acceptable thing for an ace person to do, if they chose so. However, she doesn't have the words to communicate these ideas - she doesn't know asexuality is a thing, she doesn't even have any relationship models that aren't allonormative.

Meanwhile, Hoid is seeing this - her not being excited by the sex they're having - and wants to make it good for her. He also doesn't have those models and understandings of sexuality, so he thinks her disinterest in sex is because he's doing something wrong. So, naturally, he's getting a bit insecure about it because how does he have millenia of experience and can't make her feel good in the way she's making him feel good?? The worst thing you can say about him in that regard is that he's a bit clingy.

They have incomatible desires when it comes to sex that they struggle to communicate because of amatonormative ideas of how relationships need to look like. And I don't see that as bad asexual representation. Especially since Sanderson emphasises that what failed the relationship wasn't the sex but Hoid's dishonesty.

In conclusion, incompatible desires don't make anyone the bad guy. Especially when those desires are situated in a allonormative society and not fully understood by both characters.

[writingmia]

TEFT???? TEFT. TEFT? TEFT! TEFT NOOOOOOOO TEFT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NONONON

[little-cute-pink-horrible-being]

One thing I really love about Brandon Sanderson's books is that they're fundamentally full of hope. Hope that the good guys win, hope that mentally ill character gets better, hope that the person who was wrong realises that. "You will be warm again" and all that.