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when u move out you can go to a living room and use your phone there instead of being in your bedroom. it's allowed

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just remembered shows used to have 20-25 eps per season

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I made myself a new header image of The Dynamic.

This image is not spoilers for book 5, this image is Oathbringer, you are welcome to rb but if you tag this as spoilers I WILL laugh at you.

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“You can’t taste a memory without tainting it with who you have become.”

Hoid stop being insufferably insightful for one godforsaken moment.

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i know gavilar was a real piece of work, but also his personality right at the end of his reign really does just read like this:

navani: gavilar... what have you got there?

gavilar (hastily hiding several anti-stormlight spheres behind his back): a smoothie!

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the awful thing is that gavilar actually is someone's tien. in fact i think he might be the most genuine parallel/contrast to tien in the series: like tien, he's the dead relative of a major character who not only died but more importantly died in front of said relative whilst they were helpless to do anything to stop his death. said relative is, of course, jasnah. jasnah and kaladin have a surprising amount in common; in this case, it's that one of their greatest priorities is protecting their families - often from a distance - internalising this as their responsibility and nobody else's, and this is the one scenario in which their ability to do that betrays them. as a consequence, they'll spend the rest of their lives blaming themselves for a death they hold no responsibility for, a debt that can never be repaid, and idealising said dead relative - unless they can finally accept that it wasn't their fault. the irony, then, is that gavilar and tien are almost exact opposites; tien is an innocent child killed by the callousness of war and oppression (much of it started by gavilar himself!), whereas gavilar is an arrogant idiot struck down for meddling in affairs far beyond his comprehension. but neither of their relatives can see past the fact of their deaths.

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the way people react to the stupidity of safehands for left-handed women in the stormlight archive is... very revealing of how 90% of the population is right-handed.

"isn't that stupid?" yes

"wouldn't that mess you up?" yes

"so they're just... forced to use their non-dominant hand?" we used to get beaten for this in schools, guys

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MMC is traumatized, then discovers empathy, but only sometimes and under very specific circumstances that mirror his own lived experiences.

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I don’t love the idea of the blackthorn being a completely different person from Dalinar, but if they are going hard on the aspect of him being a spren then it would be interesting to see if or how that perception would change over the years as Dalinar’s image changes

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T-shirt that says “I am Tienough”

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Still, the picture was marvellous. This isn’t Jasnah, Dalinar realised. Whoever was doing the drawing was far, far more talented than his niece.

this isn't jasnah, dalinar realised, because my niece can't fucking draw

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The current state of the cosmere fandom

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and then it hit kaladin. and he went OW THAT HURTS

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An attempt at a Kaladin doodle because I’m teaching myself a new art program

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Thinking about it, the king (Gavilar) actually WAS Dalinar's Tien