#rock

[skybridge-sound]

SKYBRIDGE PRESENTS: 

“ILLUSORY OBSTACLE” 

Crank it up and MAKE IT HAPPEN!

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[loveinhereyes-flowersinherhair]

JIMMY LET ME IN!

[boycarofchilladelphia]

i loved this the first time I read it, but then I tried to read it out loud and, toy surprise, years started coming out. Love that man.

WaitUntilTheHighway: Why did Sanderson just get rid of this great character? 

I feel like Rock was one of the best characters in Kaladin's world, and it seems like he was 'sent off' for literally no plot-relevant reason. It's like it's a TV show and the actor died so they had to get rid of the character. I'm bummed because I'm almost done with RoW now and there's just no more fun camaraderie among bridge four, largely thanks to Rock being gone. He was one of my faves.

Brandon Sanderson: As others have said, Rock will get his own novella--but that's not why I sent him off. Even if there had been no time for a novella, or no plot-relevant things for him to do, he would have left.

I need Bridge Four to be alive. Their time together, as a cohesive unit, was a powerful moment in time--and you can always reread the first few books to experience it again. However, in life, nothing remains the same, and time draws people apart. Rock has a family, a people, and responsibilities. He has to be about those, now that he's free from Alethi slavery.

Bridge Four, as it stood in books one and two, had to eventually evolve, and some members had to go their own way. That's life. For all Kaladin wanted to grasp for it, hold it together by force, he couldn't--just as we can't keep rigidly hold of the friends and family we love. Time inevitably divides us.

Each book of the Stormlight Archive must be something new. New tone, new feeling, evolved from the previous volume. They are too big, too weighty, to be allowed to repeat the same plot cycles, same emotional beats, or to allow the characters to stagnate into repetitive playacting of the people they were in the first few volumes. As readers travel through the series, I intend for them to realize this, though it may take a while for it to really click.

Anyway, I'm glad to see your post, /u/WaitUntilTheHighway ! If you miss Rock, I did something right in this specific case. Please don't see my response here as a recrimination, merely an explanation of my philosophy for the series. I hope that the insight helps a little.

Cherish what you have--even if that includes memories of a once warm relationship, now become embers cooled by time or distance. Try not to be sorrowful for the parting, but grateful for the experience while it lasted. Journey before Destination can apply even after that destination has been reached, so long as it doesn't cause us to fixate so much on the past that we overlook the new journeys ever opening before us.

Thanks for reading.

[l0serdust]

courtney love

[kulturegroupie]

David Bowie by Masayoshi Sukita | 1973

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

The Clash - Straight To Hell

[specialkaytk]

ZAYUM!!😍😍 Felt cute might delete later ahh

@jhomiesam

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[anstar-drawing-smths]

You know, I have this silly running request (kinda) thing in my telegram channel when I ask my subs to give me some of the famous rock musicians and then I draw them as parrots from time to time... I guess I've already made like seven (?) arts with this concept, but didn't show any of them here

So, now I'm showing... Let's start with Ringo as an indian ringneck parakeet (I have one as a pet bird btw!) and John as a blue-throated macaw

[omg-hellgirl]

During the filming of the 1975 Doctor Who episode "Pyramids of Mars", Stargroves, Mick Jagger’s countryside mansion, was used as a key location. Permission was granted by Mick, though he was away at the time, with only his parents staying at the estate during production.

[loveinhereyes-flowersinherhair]

i’m just going to leave this here before i say anything very inappropriate 😇

[l0serdust]

courtney love & donatella versace, 1999

[kulturegroupie]

David Bowie by Mick Rock | 1972

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Led Zeppelin – Over The Hills And Far Away