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ok so I don’t think szeth should be in the back six because his arc wrapped up beautifully and all that and please just let this man be happy with his wife on their sheep farm together. However, if he is to be in the rest of the books then I would like it to just cut jump to them from time to time (bonus points if it’s always in the middle of some epic fight scene) tending their sheep and narrating their life like some little National Geographic documentary about sustainable farming or somthin.

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first dance 🧡💙

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WaT Day 1 Spoiler! Adolin and Sureblood

I drew Adolin meeting Sureblood's musicspren on day 1. I even colored this one!

Img ID: color drawing in a Disney-esque style. Adolin Kholin stares in a mix of awe, hope, and sadness as he reaches up to stroke the muzzle of a musicspren, which looks like a glowing, swirling, translucent white horse. Adolin wears a dark blue military uniform with gold trim and gold buttons, and a scarlet scarf around his waist.

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A Bridge Too Far - Completed

This fic is officially done! Sequels are coming - one similarly dramatic, one angsty smut, and one a combination of the two. They will probably not be released chronologically, but they are on the way!

Mind the archive warnings, seriously!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/60121084/chapters/153408073

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I just found a 1-star book review featuring my all-time favorite piece of literary criticism:

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Do you have a fun cosmere fandom memory from this year? Could be art you saw or fic you read, a funny interaction on tumblr or reddit, something that happened at Dragonsteel Nexus if you happened to be able to go... Whatever comes to you!

*pinging off the walls with excitement* Hey friend!!!

My fun cosmere memory this year is actually - finally - getting involved with the cosmere fandom!

I was browsing Reddit, saw someone requesting a betareader for a Stormlight fic, and I reached out. @stormscience is now family

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New Bridge Chapters!

5 new chapters!

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Stormlight Archive Character Sketches 4: Kaladin

here he is, cute as a button and sad as a wet cat!

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Stormlight Archive Character Sketches 3: Adolin

here's my blorbo! Yes, he is wearing suspenders. No, I will not explain how.

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Stormlight Archive Character Sketches 2: Lift

more character sketches, this time Lift! She came out much more cartoony, but she is super fun to draw!

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Stormlight Archive Character Sketches: Renarin

hi! Been trying to figure out the Stormlight Archive characters lately, messing with finding a style I like. Here is sketchdump 1, Renarin!

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Kaladin in the entryway to the Taln's Monastery watching Szeth fight the Stoneward Honorbearer while they do some truly biblical shit

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Brandon i might shoot myself if syladin becomes canon

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Seons are Sel phones.

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Dalinar said softly. “I see your hatred still. Hopefully not for anyone specific—but for what has been done to you. In the last years, I’ve been forced to accept that the distinction between lighteyes and dark is one of pure social construction. Nobility is not of the blood, but of the heart. But it must go the other way too. You don’t like what we represent, but to continue feeling as you do… it will eat you from the inside.”

Once again, Kaladin is the only one specifically asked by the narrative to put aside his prejudices 🙄

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Wind and Truth and Disappointment

i am just deeply disappointed in this book. When he was writing at his best, and really conveying the emotions of his characters, he did brilliant work. But so much felt flat, and forced, and upended so much of what I would expect the characters we knew to do in this sort of scenario.

Kaladin disappointed me most.

He seemed like an entirely different person. I understand that his 4th ideal freed him from some of his trauma around feeling responsible for everyone else's safety. But he just seemed so removed from his friends and family. Like leaving right before a potential world ending conflict while his loved ones are at the epicenter of the fight is no big deal.

I just can't see this as the same character. If he had to leave, he would have been riddled with worry for his brother and parents. Wondered about Bridge Four and whether they were safe. Struggled with all of this.

It just didn't feel like him. And the ending he had severs most of the bonds he had permanently.

The whole reason I loved this series was the connection between characters, found family, emotions as a form of strength. Wind and Truth had so little of this, outside of Adolin's chapters.

I am going to try to accept all of this, but it will take some time. I just don't think I will enjoy the series nearly as much without these aspects.

Kaladin died for me, sometime after RoW. The character he was was just so profoundly different. Not the suffering and depression, but the intensity of his love and loyalty. Now, he seems fine, but hollow.