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hoid 🤝 jasnah

being kept out of the narrative in absurd ways so that they don't resolve the plot too quickly and reveal their secrets

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kaladin: i swear on my life

syl: bitch you re suicidal swear on something else

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this community needs more memes. you're welcome.

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Just finished Will of the Many and yes I loved it and yes I'm baffled and confused and waiting on the edge of my seat for the next one

But I have to say my absolute favorite part was when this kid Confidently said "I used to climb cliffs back home and they were super steep and scary i can EASILY scale this wall" and then proceeded to IMMEDIATELY fall out of Ulcsicor's window

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Imagine your Caeror and you're the pride of your family, even though you have an older brother. So, getting stuck in the other dimension lowkey makes you feel guilty, even though you're doing more important work, saving the known world, or whatever. 

One day your college roommate successfully punts a particularly smart teenager over dimensional lines. Which is good because you’re saving the universe, or whatever.

But the kid is like, Hi, I’m your surprise nephew :) Why are you carving a message into my flesh like a wax tablet? Veridius sent me? No. Actually your brother sent me to investigate your death, uncle.

And it’s pretty fucking obvious your older brother black mailed a random teenager so hard he dimension travelled.

Ulciscor you fucking clown.

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bro was like: "You have done. No. Such. Thing" after Vis literally went through the most harrowing experiences - witnessing AND stopping a genocide, almost leaving his tooth while trying to get to and out of the ruins where spiked eyeless guys are hanged on walls????

Like, sir?

Ulciscor had weirdly high expectations, for his extremely mid plan to: blackmail a random teenager into figuring out how his brother died. His success was thanks to his parents, arrange marrying him off to his problematic-age-gap-terrorist-wife (because he was making the family broke) who happened to be the talent scout of all time.

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I think it's very funny how basically everyone who matters knows Vis is a lying liar but they're all just dead wrong in guessing the truth

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Me every second of the last 20 pages of The Will of the Many

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vis telimus i am so fond of u. my favorite lying liar who lies

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me: *reading the way of kings for the first time*

*the king dies in the prologue*

me: oh well, i guess he didn’t get his way

(not embarrassed to say i laughed out loud at my own lame joke)

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I am less than a quarter of the way through the first Dungeon Crawler Carl book and I am READY to evangelize you all into reading this series with me. I have laughed out loud no less than 12 times in the first two and a half hours and I'm already emotionally invested in these characters, despite that it's a very non-serious book so far. It's funny, it's charming, it's a joy to listen to the book, and I think you'd all like it very much. Also, there's a very cute cat in it.

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every time i read a sanderson book i feel the same way, i fear i will never be able to find stories that make me so emotionally attached, mentally and morally challenged.

i fear i will be chasing the high that mistborn gave me forever bc nothing will ever live up to it

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wait kids need ai to make their favorite characters talk??? they can't just do that in their heads normal style?? what happened to making your favorite characters kiss by making little videos in your head and projecting it into your psyche cinema style before bedtime

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Dalinar writing Oathbringer

Jasnah: Uncle, a good scholar always cites their sources, for the benefit of the reader and other scholars.

Dalinar:

Dalinar:

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!!IM BACK!!!

I SURVIVED FINALS SEASON!!!!! with a result of 98%, mind you.

did i just flex my academic flair on you? maybe.

however.

i have to admit to the crime i've committed during finals.

i did - inevitably - start and finish a book during finals, even though i set a rule for myself i would not.

(because i tend to stick my nose into the book instead of my university work)

so be ready for approaching rants. i will not be mercyful. you've been warned.

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Most likely every living and dead human, singer, fused, spren, animal, species and god in all of the three realms in Roshar:

"Stormblessed? Kaladin Stormblessed? Oh yeah, he is the most amazing human being to ever exist. I fell in love the moment I saw him."

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i'm explaining this poorly i know, but still...

"shallan's humor makes me cringe" maybe...that's the point? it's not supposed to be funny, it's supposed to be a coping mechanism.

"shallan makes people treat her like a victim, even if they've been through worse" or, hear me out, that's the point. it's a survival instinct which arises from growing up in the unsafe Davar household. she is constantly making herself seem as physically nonthreatening as possible so people won't hurt her. In dangerous situations, she shrinks back into herself and grows quiet, or she overcompensates with a show of confidence she doesn't really have. Having this disregulation is a result of being forced to always sit down and shut her mouth as a kid...

Shallan is more selfish than kaladin. she has much less of a desire to help others, focusing on herself, and can be insensitive." erm actually her not knowing how to deal with other people's problems IS THE POINT. Kaladin is empathetic to a degree almost destructive to himself. she's a realistic mess, and has to fix herself first. and that is okay. she might hurt people who don't deserve it on her journey to healing, but that's just what happens. to a lot of characters.

"shallan acts like she's smart and always right and it's so annoying" yeah, okay. sanderson loves making his 'naturally gifted prodigy' characters (cough cough Vin) and readers are always a little jealous at how perfect re: unrealistic they are. It's a little annoying. But the intrigue isn't whether or not she's actually right, it's that she thinks it's all a facade, which causes a lot, and I mean a lot, of anxiety for her. She aspires to be as cool/collected/strong as jasnah...and of course shallan is faking it til she makes it...the best way to do that is to trick (delude) herself into thinking she's someone who is always right. Usually this is solved by just gaining a little confidence and seeing reality, but we all see how 'seeing reality' is a little hard for her...so it's an interesting struggle to witness.

"shallan only got interesting once her backstory/trauma was revealed. before, she was boring and spoiled" please... i saw it in way of kings...i clocked immediately how she avoids issues...clocked immediately how growing up in an unsafe home environment affected her...the humor to cope, the distractions from life, the dedication to science, the confusion of her faith and gender roles, the reversion to be seen as a child by the eyes of authority because that's how she feels safe, oscillation of her own capabilities leading to self-doubt, ravenous curiosity conflicting with the fear of venturing outside the safety of what she knows...it's all in way of kings. the fact that she was so traumatized, avoidant, and capable was not a surprise

"i hate shallan for x y z" huh! actually maybe she hates herself too for these things and that's what makes her interesting and flawed! now we get to see her grow!!