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Dalinar meeting the Nightwatcher I don't find much time lately for fanart, but this one just fitted my mood that day. It is based on an old sketch from 2021 which I never fully rendered.

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I've definitely posted this sentiment before BUT being the same age as your blorbos is so insane because Mr kaladin stormblessed is out here leading people into war and becoming a magical demigod figure but he's also never heard of college. never experienced the epic highs and lows of football or whatever. I'm also 20 and depressed but hey I'm getting me my degree and this bitch can't even read.

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wintrow

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at duty’s end

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two men can have straight sex with each other. if they’re homophobic enough.

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the ass quest mountain crew is like if the scooby doo gang was doomed by the narrative

you got:

1. depressed himbo and his talking animal companion

2. everyone’s favourite funky (gnc) guy

3. the literal queen

4. coming to you live from jhaampe, interview with the witted bastard, news reporter: starling birdsong

5. a 300 year old lady fed up with all of them

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Pov: when you look at the authors of your favourite fics and realise that the entire ship you love is being carried by two people

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Do you all ever think about how Fitz must have felt immediately after the Fool's Fate breakup? Like, before he begins properly courting Molly and using that as an escape, back when he still lives in Buckkeep? He largely speeds through this era in his narration, but how was it actually like for him, living through it day by day?

Waking up in the bed of Chade's workroom, expecting to feel the Fool's back against his, but then realizing that no one's there. Listening to nobles and servants gossip about Lord Golden and when asked, having to come up with some sort of an explanation, all the while trying not to show just how much even the mention of him hurts.

Walking past the door to Lord Golden's chambers and resisting the urge to try to pull it open, just in case the Fool might still be there (even if he knows that it would be impossible). Reciting the poem the Fool left him over and over in his mind, searching for any clue that might hint to his return, yet finding nothing. Drinking apricot brandy alone.

For the first time since he was a boy, having to live without either his Wit-bond to Nighteyes, or his Skill-link to the Fool. All by himself, entirely disconnected from the two beings who made him whole.

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Family cuddle

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Cosmere Characters Do Their Taxes

It was just Tax Day in the US! Let's say that Cosmere characters had to pay taxes. How would that go for them?

Sigzil: Knows the tax code inside and out. Saves his receipts. Is basically the IRS's dream guy.

Hoid: Does not pay taxes. This is canon.

Kelsier: Does not pay taxes. This feels canon.

Marasi: Always pays her taxes.

Vivenna: Always pays her taxes.

Denth: Sure talks a lot about how complicated mercenary taxes are but if you listen carefully, he never actually says he did them...

Nale: Rigorously follows the tax code of whatever country he is in.

Wyndle: Claims Lift as a dependent. Reports all illegally acquired income at fair market value, as the tax code requires.

Lightsong: Does not pay taxes because he's, like, a god. But it's always bothered him, somewhere in the back of his mind, for some reason...

Adolin: Cheerfully hires someone else to do his taxes, at least so long as he's single.

Shallan: Does her own taxes, Sebarial's taxes, and Adolin's taxes post-marriage.

Steris & Wax: Do their taxes together. Romantically.

Wayne: Gives so much money to charity that he never owes any taxes. Orders his accountants to find a way for him to pay taxes anyway.

Straff: Does not pay taxes in the way rich people don't pay taxes--through, like, legal loopholes and off-shore accounts and shit

Elend: Rewrites the tax code to pay more taxes.

Lirin: Committed tax fraud. But only once.

Taravangian: Is not allowed to file his taxes when he is too stupid--because he cries about how confusing it is--or when he's too smart--because he's too good at finding all of the super obvious tax loopholes and anyway he's obviously way better than the government at knowing how to spend his own money!

Painter: Got in trouble once for not filing taxes because he knew he didn't make enough to owe any taxes. Seemed kinda stupid to him.

Moash: Makes an ethical argument against taxes, since the tax laws are written to benefit the rich and screw over the poor and he has no control over what the government uses his taxes for.

Kaladin: Is torn between paying his taxes like Dalinar ordered or not paying his taxes since he promised Moash he wouldn't until he finally files his taxes at, like, midnight on tax day

It's a whole thing.

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‘Maybe I’m the better brother,’ said Calder, ‘but you’re the elder.’ He brought his horse up close, and he pulled their father’s chain from his pocket and slipped it over Scale’s neck, arranged it carefully across his shoulders. Patted him on the back and left his hand there, wondering when he got to love this stupid bastard. When he got to love anyone besides himself.

— The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie

Bayaz had been right. You don’t get to be a king without making some sacrifices.

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media: the very serious brooding asshole character is actually super deep and complex

me: ok

media: the dumb joke character is actually super deep and complex

me: ghhogoohhh. ohhhh oh mygod. oh m. oh. are you kidding me. oh i am going to throw the fuck up over this

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he is so unserious

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yknow maybe it's for the best fitzloved never fucked because you KNOW beloved would be laying there after like "i pined after him for SO long, just for that?"

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I watched breathlessly as he stepped lightly into the shallows and then looked straight ahead, directly into my eyes. “I want you to know, Fitz, that I am doing this because you did not even think to ask it of me," he said calmly, and then pulled the shift over his head and let the final barrier between us evaporate like a mist into the darkness.

I stared, transfixed, at my Beloved standing naked before me in the moonlight. By the warm flame of the candles, he’d been loveliness itself, but in the moon’s pale glow he was incredible, unearthly and ethereal, the Fool of my youth, of my childhood and of my manhood both.

✨ Of Cats and Closed Doors, Chapter 22 ✨

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I just knowwwwwww Dalinar has bigass areolas. Brandon Sanderson told me