#cryptics

[notieni]

Shllan speaks to my extremely dramatic 14 old self in the best ways

[jochi-the-veristithaylen-baker]

Re-listening to Oathbringer, it strikes me that cryptics ("lie-spren") aren't interested in lies per se.

It's fiction they're after.

The non-truths that describes and circumscribes truths.

The patterns in the stories that reveal the real world that tells them.

The repeated motifs that distract and misdirect by omitting the truth and letting the audience assume untruths.

The beats and twists that weave truths and untruths into a tapestry of emotion.

They move people with dazzling lights; the surges of transportation and illumination. [It's transformation, not transportation. That's why they change people's souls with their almost-truths]

[cmchill]

I REALLY WANT a story about a Windrunner and a Lightweaver building a strong relationship!! Platonic, professional, romantic or otherwise!!

Gonna preface this with: NO WINDS OF TRUTH SPOILERS PLEASE! A WoR & Oathbringer spoiler or two present in the next two paragraphs:

When I read Words of Radiance for the first time, I was *fascinated* by Shallan and Kaladin's dynamic (aside from the boots thing 😅) and enthusiastically shipped them for a little while. I no longer think their specific traumas and journeys complement each other's as well as I thought... (as a pair at least...) But!

The point is, while I no longer ship those two specifically, I still want what I loved about the idea at first. One of the things I found most exciting and compelling about a hypothetical close relationship was the worldview challenges they'd provide each other through the contrast of Windrunner + honorspren and Lightweaver + cryptic. One spren who hates lies and sees the world through honor and paths and protecting people (and a knight a little prone to black-and-white thinking at times too), and another spren who loves lies and their interplay with truth, with a knight who weaves between various darker and lighter greys of "truth" with alacrity.

The steadfastness/courage/strength integrity of the Windrunner, meeting the nuance and insight and creativity of the Lightweaver! Delightful!!

The Lightweaver would force the Windrunner to reckon with shades of grey in morality, others, and themself and think in a more nuanced way, while the Windrunner would encourage the Lightweaver to face up to the world more, to do the harder bolder thing and take a stand when they need to.

The Windrunner could ground the Lightweaver, providing a safe place to return to where they know what's real and steady and true, while the Lightweaver could bring more spontaneity and wonder and variety to the Windrunner!

Ohhh and the cryptic and honorspren having to get through centuries of built-up tension between their groups to gain more understanding and respect for each other's ways of functioning?? Mwah chef's kiss!

I'm no writer just a reader, are any of y'all picking up what I'm putting down? Has anybody done something like this that you know of? I honestly haven't looked much yet bc I didn't even know what to search (making tags for this post gave me ideas to try though! 😂) It took me waayy too long just to write this post, writing is like trudging though sludge for me so don't tell me to be the change I wanna see, I'll just daydream concepts here and there if that's my options 😝 my imagination can quite suffice if needed.

Ahh I just wanna see Characters in Situations that make them Question their Worldview and find themselves Changed through Relationship!!

Question the nature of morality! Work through centuries-long conflicts and prejudices! Meet each other's emotional needs through complementary character traits and styles! Go!

Yeah that's my vision

[onlycosmere]

Questioner: Do the spren that we know of as the Cryptics exist before Honor and Cultivation came to Roshar?

Brandon Sanderson: Ah, good question! No. Cryptics would be one of the forms of spren that were a later creation. Creation is the wrong term, but yeah. 

Billy Todd, Moderator: Later development? Evolution?

Brandon Sanderson: All of the sapient spren are later developments. 

Billy Todd, Moderator: Are they evolved from the earlier spren?

Brandon Sanderson: Evolution doesn't work the same way on the spren, right? The spren were created more than evolved, I would say.

Billy Todd, Moderator: Maybe cultivated?

Brandon Sanderson: Yeah, cultivated. *laughter*

[cosmere-powers-tourney]

Six more days left to vote for the first tournament! As that poll runs, here's a bonus one:

I mean, they're made of Investiture, after all.

This entire tournament was inspired by a friend asking me which invested art I'd most want to have— and I haven't decided yet, but said maybe I'd want to be a Cultivationspren. This was not the answer they were expecting.

Follow this blog to make sure you see the upcoming tournament polls, and if you'd like to, reblog this post and the other post to encourage more Cosmere fans to participate!

Askbox is open for real this time—ask questions, tell me your favorite use of Investiture, or just come say hi :)

[jalekandthestarbook]

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[dracanthropic]

The cryptics have spirograph heads. You will not convince me otherwise.

[littoral-marshmallow]

Ugh why is it so hard to cyberstalk published crossword authors it's making networking very difficult

[mintbrownieangelfish]

I feel like there's something here about cryptics lol

“Let me get this straight. I, a Fae, have spent LITERAL CENTURIES studying the subtle arts of deception, glamour, deceit, and misdirection, and you, a mere human, can just stand there and say things that are untrue?!” “Yeah, that’s about right.”

[cryptic-forge]

t h e f i s h

fish is a minor npc from my dnd campaign. she is a nixie who appears as a school of fish underwater, and humanoid on land.

this mini diorama is made of clear & blue plastic sheets and 3d printed fish. the plastic box is empty inside; the fish are all glued to each other and to the top of the box.

[wellensittich01]

Dick 9 times out of 10 failing to hide a severe injury from the rest of the batfam because without fail when he’s tired or drugged or generally not firing on all cylinders his native accent comes out as thick as the day he met Bruce.

- - -

Bruce: Dick come down for a check up I saw you take that hit for Tim.

Dick, halfway towards the cave exit and still going, in the quietest voice possible: im fine

Bruce: Say squirrel and you can leave.

Dick:

Bruce:

Jason:

Tim:

Damien:

Dick: …skweeerrehl.

Jason: Get him boys.

[saltavenegar]

So who do YOU think did it 🤨⁉️

[hinamie]

subject, specimen, spectacle;

should i say that you're dead?

[chloesimaginationthings]

What do yall think the FNAF Faztalker is for,,

(Original post @/Dawko on Twitter)

[chialattea]

POV: it’s 4AM. You’re the crew’s chef and you hear noise in the kitchen