#the stormlight archive

[onlycosmere]

Dustbringer by Steve Argyle

Steve Argyle: Thanks everyone! This was a really fun piece to do. It started as one of my concept sketches for the Dustbringer reward for the WoK Kickstarter. While it wouldn't have worked for that, I liked it so much that I mounted the drawing to a board, oil painted it, and gave it to Isaac Stewart, one of my personal heroes. I love doing Stormlight artwork, so you'll be seeing more of these!

[moash]

hello don't mind me i was just mass liking your posts! i hope you're having a great day i hope you don't mind this ramble but i feel you'd understand :)

so basically i've had a super long .... beef with the series so far about how it's handling racism/classism and their roles in the story so i was like hey, let me do a little fix it project! because after reading OB i was just disappointed with how it handled kaladin's arc (he's my favorite so i want to see him done justice) but also moash's arc.

anyway, i was rereading parts of WOR to get the details right, and re-reading Moash talk about what happened to his family and how he just returned and they were all gone BROKE MY HEARTTTT. i also noticed how he was so ready to put in the work during training to get good at using swords and shardblades. like he had CONVICTION to succeed and i loved that about him.

so moash literally went from a character i didn't mind on my first read to becoming one of my favorites and now i just get so upset thinking about like how the series is painting him so far. i bring this up because i was like dang, if i'm this pressed about it, i can't imagine tumblr-user-moash's feelings about it. anyway here's to hoping that SA5 does him justice. also moash for bondsmith is brilliant. also thank you for defending him 😌 sorry if this is repetitive but do you feel optimistic that a redemption arc could happen for him in SA5?

mass likers are like being visited by angels, i love youuu 💕 and i would love to read your fix-it if you ever post it 👀

as for sa5. haha. i try to keep really optimistic about it. i am a writer myself and everything that i believe about writing good stories tells me that he basically has to be redeemed, even if it’s right before his death (cliche, but it would at least still fulfill the assignment). right? because the themes of redemption for the entire story would be just completely thrown out in a major way if he wasn’t, not to mention that every moash pov chapter that revealed his complex feelings about his choices and his current situation would have been made essentially pointless and time-wasting. like i don’t see from an objective writing standpoint how the story could be good if he wasn’t redeemed, and that keeps me going more than anything else, because while i have a lot of issues with sanderson’s writing, i don’t think he’s just plain stupid, right? so yea, that’s what keeps me going.

however!!! he has really dropped the ball with regards to racism/classism/etc in stormlight, so while this would i think be his biggest fumble yet, it’s not entirely impossible to see some truly bad stuff happen in moash’s arc in sa5. but i try to keep optimistic and keep my expectations relatively low (like death bed redemption would suck but i guess i would ultimately be ok with it, sigh)

sorry that i forgot to answer this for so long, and thank you for stopping by!! 🥰💕

[solidwont]

SO sorry but as an artist. Taravangian having his silly little spectrum of intellect is so??? like I, too, get really art-stupid sometimes and the next day I could be popping out masterpieces. anyways I'll relate to any character don't test me

[emily-e-draws]

sylphrena!💙 this has been in my wips for too long.. I’m always meaning to do more cosmere art but I’ve gotta catch up on the books first 😭 most of the way through rhythm of war rn, I’m nearly there!!

[n0brainjustvibes]

[viridializard]

rhythm of war timeskip deleted scene

[milieumarch]

I hate when I'm getting into a new fandom and I meet The Blorbo and I have to grudgingly concede that they are great. Like, yeah, y'all were right about Kaladin Stormblessed.

[nic-cage-incognito]

Took these from my shit posting TikTok, maybe they'll be better appreciated here

[kosher-toasty]

My dumbass brain visualizing The Stormfather whenever he talks to Dalinar in Oathbringer

[onlycosmere]

Questioner: We've seen Renarin do some pretty *inaudible* things both in Oathbringer and in Rhythm of War.

And my question was, are Truthwatchers able to use aspects of the Progression and Lightweaving surge to have someone or something become a different version of itself?

Brandon Sanderson: They can't make that happen, but they can certainly invite.

[madxmellon]

Please take my random Stormlight memes while I wait for KOWT

[sorchasolas]

Kaladin is my favorite character because hes 6’8, hopelessly heroic, probably one of the strongest characters in the story that isnt a deity, is always looked up to and seen as an AMAZING dude

But he reads as a teenage girl

Same man nicknamed “stormblessed” in a world where storms are holy.

[emily-e-draws]

Shallan Davar is a disaster and I love her (audio from Tom Cardy)

[lilaeleaf]

Kaladin is not a horsegirl :’)

[virtualtear00]

Brightlord Master Highmarshal Stormface himself

link

[viridializard]