#Koloss

[birdletss]

tw: body horror, blood

vin and human

[crellanstein]

Rushu is definetly Melaan.

I will be taking no questions.

[spooklestibournes]

Jastes & the koloss

[thepermanentrainpress]

Gallery: Meshuggah @ Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre - Vancouver, BC Date: November 25, 2023 Photographed by: Danielle Costelo

[sharpenededges]

Its resonance grinding to dust our souls

[imonlyhereforcrem]

I’ve learned that bloodhound puppies work like koloss having to grow into their skin

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[butwhybother]

Breeze always insists that he is not controlling people when he Soothes them, yet it is by powerful Push on their emotions that koloss can be controlled.

Strong emotion seems to have been a key to Koloss escaping control, as well as a vulnerability that would make them open to being controlled:

"Only in the throes of a blood frenzy did they have any form of autonomy. [....] Koloss, however, could be taken by a determined regular Push, particularly when they are frenzied." (The Hero of Ages Chapter 66 epigraph)

Emotion & freedom & control are linked.

[solitary-shell]

Strive, strive, surmount the obstacles Become the essence of your goals, hereditary dream Pray that you may attain that destiny Fall into the coveted line Where life is but a theme of pretense in lustrous guise

Claims and values, charts of means and status Plaques to show your strife Do your neighbor clones approve? Picture perfect illustration, imitation of life Where the path is evened out, all obstructions removed

Great, viable citizen Are you happy now? Then praise your god and bow

Meshuggah really does have the best lyrics IMO

[marvelousmagicalaura]

Elend Venture, Last Emperor of Scadrial, wore white on the day he was to burn a god.

Mistborn illustrations by Gaga Turmanishvili

[captainimbatmanus]

[gutachter]

Bau-Boom am Münchner Hauptbahnhof: Der neue Glaswürfel und andere Baustellen

München: „…Eine Baustelle reiht sich an die nächste: Das Bahnhofsviertel ist im Wandel. Wir erklären die Pläne für einen neuen Glaswürfel in der Bayerstraße – und wie der Stand bei anderen Projekten ist. Wie ein gläserner Koloss aus der Zukunft ragt der neue Münchner Hauptbahnhof im Hintergrund hervor. Diesen Blick wird man aus einem Konferenzraum eines Gebäudes haben, das ebenfalls zum…

[bonesofchaos]

"i've met a lot of you, quite a few of you seem to like witches, always sniffing about." dahlia shrugs, attention momentarily stolen by the large komodo dragon lumbering to his side, her muzzle covered in blood. she's rewarded with scratching fingers atop her head, affection spared always for his darling familiar.

"i got a personal visit from him a few years ago. after, well apparently when a witch does to their soul what i did to mine, it tends to cause shit downstairs 'cause none of you have dibs on it anymore."

"Lucifer tends to be quite vain. Must have done something to look more youthful ... " Koloss was clearly humored by the conversation. "Oh no no. I'm not passing as him but I'm definitely the human view of what a typical devil should look like." There were far more variations in the different kind of creatures that roamed the underworld. Humans tend to be more simple about it.

"So, you've met Lucifer, huh? How did that come about?"

[wanderingmadscientist]

Happy Koloss Head Munching Day, and Brandon's birthday too, I suppose.

[sarahshoots1st]

"Gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss."

-Vin, during the Siege of Luthadel (probably)

(art credit: Jemma M. Young, from the Coppermind)

[obeetlebeetle]

Genuinely super curious as someone whos read a few sandersons and never had anything stand out to me as religious/propagandistic: what is the underlying Message he is getting to? I don’t doubt the claim at all I just would love to hear more (and am generally unfamiliar with a lot of Mormon beliefs which is maybe why I missed it)

i think it would be hard to say that sanderson is getting at a specific *message* so much as he has very mormon ideas about how religion functions, about how men and women should conduct relationships, and about "right" and "wrong" ways of being in the world. i think the core romantic attractions in the latter part of the mistborn series pretty much state my point:

waxillium and lessie -- devoted heterosexual marriage which can only end in the spouse's death. later on, when we bring lessie back, she has to be both evil and directly religiously opposed to wax/harmony in order to fully cement his attachment to steris.

waxillium and steris -- a man resenting his legal attachment to a woman he has no romantic (read: spiritual) attraction to, who eventually relents bc his strong moral (read: spiritual) and noble attitudes uh. "thaw her frozen heart" or whatthefuckever sanderson says abt it. which he can only do after resisting the threat posed by marasi.

waxillium and marasi -- the young naive woman who is a danger to wax bc of her incursion on his feelings for lessie and on his agreement with steris? who would be an ideal partner but cannot be accepted bc he only knows her outside the bond of marriage? cmon.

in general, all of sanderson's romantic relationships prop up his belief in mormon ideals for romance: highly codified, necessarily recognized by religious/legal authorities, socially agreed upon by men, directed and facilitated by men, often if not entirely driven by the man's need (duty!) to tame or domesticate the woman by taking control of her spiritual world/growth, and, whenever possible, ending in death of one or both partners. this is important bc of the mormon attitude towards celestial marriage. u can probably just google that and get the gist. and then go think abt vin and elend for twenty minutes. 👍