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"Adaine will outlive her friends" "Fig as an Archdevils will outlive her friends" wrong, all their friends die and they demand to go to hell. They spend their afterlives in the Bottomless Pit surrounded by moshpits. Adaine swings by once a week for movie nights. She livestreams their funerals and they rank their eulogies.

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straight cis white man who was raised on compassion and has nothing but love for all the little creatures (LGBTQ+'s) around him

(Brennan Lee Mulligan)

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Hey fellas, what's the equivalent of a silky, loose floral dress but for men

I need to know so I can go frolicking in a field but I don't feel comfortable in dresses

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I discovered an artist whose music does things to my brain and I can't stop listening to her music

Liana Flores, specifically two of her songs: Rises The Moon, and Recently

Highly recommended, great for late night driving and listening to while you work

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the trolley problem vs. systemic oppression: a comic.

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hehe

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My toxic trait is that I put cheese on the most random things with no consistency.

I just put two large handfuls or Colby Jack cheese on my homemade Thai curry.

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Bear in mind that this is the first time Maylaran has spoken in thousands of years, and she had only just come out of a catatonic state! She wanted to say something significant, and that's what she could manage!

Sometime it feels like I'm the only fan of the Stormlight Archive that finds the "You cannot have my sacrifice" line horribley awkward. I loved Dalinars similar moment in Oathbringer but the phrasing feels stilted and the similarity that the two bear just makes the second feel like a cheap cash in to get cheers from the audience that recognizes the parallel. I know its likely got to do with spiritual nonsense and the immortal words but it keeps that scene from hitting as hard as it could have.

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Reading through Words of Radiance and I love Pattern because on the one hand he's an ancient Eldritch being that cannot be understood by any sane human mind and to even look at him too closely is to fall into the maddening detail of his visage...

But on the other hand he Baby. He jus baby. He so goddam baby.

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DND party battling the BBEG

The bard casts Vicious Mockery

BBEG succeeds on the save and says "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never harm me!" Or something along those lines

Warlock's turn next

He says "Wrong!" And casts Power Word: Kill

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Is it bad I read "chaos" as "chads"

the silly triangle i love crossover with utdr YAY + doodles of just him

glad hes back ive missed him

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YES GIRL WE LOVE OUR UNRELIABLE NARRATOR GIRLBOSS YESSSS

Our FAVORITE pathological liar princess

I was so shocked when I discovered that a lot of people dislike shallan, like what else you hate? Happiness? Puppies? Laughter? Sunshine?

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I'm legitimately pissed, someone was posting about the released chapters of WaT and Im pretty sure they revealed a very important piece of information. They did NOT warn about spoilers in their post and I'm actually SO mad. I've been intentionally keeping all preview content away from my eyes until the book comes out and now it's ruined.

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I can mostly accept this as a good argument, but I can't agree with your inclusion of book 4's reveal in the pile of mistakes. There was plenty of foreshadowing and hinting that something was wrong with Shallan's bond to Pattern through the first three books (i.e. Pattern saying that he had been with Shallan as a child, despite having only just bonded to her recently, Shallan having a Blade despite only having spoken 1-2 ideals).

Shallan is an unreliable narrator, and we have to take almost everything we see from her perspective with a grain of salt, sometimes even if those things are seemingly confirmed by other perspectives. Personally, I enjoy a lot of her storyline. Her struggles are relatable to me, and I enjoy her as a character, despite the stupid mistakes she might make.

Thoughts on Brandon Sanderson and people who accuse him of writting "slop"?

that they are not entierly wrong.

Sanderson is a writer who writes both great, and bad things, but above everything else, he might be the most "Technical" writer alive.

He is capable of writing characters such as Wit, Kaladin, Raboniel... But he is also capable of writing characters such as Shalan, who in book 1 was boring beyond belief, book 2 was great but had one of the most headbanging moments of the franchise to let her win an argument, book 3 made tons of mistakes but only got called out on the ones she made because of good intentions(and not the ones like almost blowing an entire military operation due to a bad and spiteful joke), and book 4 was having a total mental breakdown that was not really earned from a story perspective.

The point im leading up to here, is that Shallan is technically, looking at her from exclusively a mechanical, story beat perspective, a perfectly functioning character... But other than book 2, i REALLY dont care about her storyline.

And that sums up Sanderson's bad qualities as a writer in a nutshell.

Brandon always understands how something works, how to mechanically set up a story, and then later pay it off, and that along with a pretty good writing capacity is usually enough to carry his stories to amazing heights... But when he fails to do that, when a story needed a bit more omph, than his decent but not brilliant writing was capable of mustering, it REALLY shows.

Shallan is the best overall example from the Stormlight archives, but it's not the only example, as i could list tons of others, but i would very much agree that when Sanderson doesnt manage to stick the landing on something, Slop is the PERFECT analogy for how to describe it.

Another example is mysteries.

Sanderson is not good as writing mysteries.

He LIKES mysteries, and it's clear he understands the technical spects of writing them, but he is not martin, where you can go back to book 1 and see how already at this early stage he is setting Bran up as the magical god-king of Westeros, and Dany as a woman with severe mental problems that probably should not be anywhere near a crown.

Sanderson's mysteries often boils down to us being told something new and interesting that recontextualises something old, rather than wondering about a question, then getting foreshadowing, and then a payoff.

Shallan is again a perfect example.

book 1. reveals at the end she killed a certain person. Came out of nowhere.

book 2. ending reveals how she did it, but also that she killed someone else.

book 3. she does a good thing, but this thing horribly backfires, but we get no hint of it doing so before the very ending of that storyline when there were plenty of space to hint at the twist before the reveals comes.

book 4. reveals she Killed ANOTHER person in her backstory.

None of these events are illogical... but NONE of them are handled with the kind of care to make the spectacular twists where you can go back and see how her backstory twists flows into another the way Martin might have.

Brandon's mysteries and reveals often work... but they are rarely outstanding. and when they are bad... They feel like Slop you gulp down to get to the much tastier desert(The character bits where he actually shines).

He has other problems as a writer as well, such as clear lack of confidence in many things(Shallan book 1 wouldnt be half as bad if he didnt constantly have characters tell us how witty she is, and her argument with Kalading during the Chasm period needs him to lose, so the man loses 20 IQ points or more to let her dominate him in debate), an ultimate lack of resolve of keeping Stormlight a medieval dark fantasy story with heroic characters(The same kind of dynamic that Dragon Age Origins, best RPG ever made had) and instead is slowly losing a lot of elements that kept it dark, while making it feel a lot more contemporary, but as these dont relate to the slop argument, i wont get too into those here.

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They might use his house name instead, Kholinilokh or Kholilokh, something like that

If Dalinar does become a herald or something I wanna see how they make his name symmetrical

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Who the fuck posted the two blind men story in Pukicho's asks

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If Dalinar dies in WaT I'm legitimately going to cry because there is absolutely no situation in which Dalinar dies and I do not cry. Sanderson writes it in a satisfying way? Crying. He writes it in the most infuriating way possible? Crying and probably shouting.