#Secret project 3 spoilers

[shallanspren]

i genuinely don't understand how this man was able to convince jasnah kholin to let him touch her safehand.

look at this loser. he's a fucking coat rack.

[wayward-wren]

I won't lie, when Yumi and Painter first touched each other and got the strange sensation my initial thought was: "is this part of the weird magic shenanigans or are these kids just really touch-starved?"

[koravelliumavast]

OH MY GOD NEVER SHUTTING UP ABOUT THIS BOOK

[oversandalyzer]

Having read Secret Project 3, I started thinking about why SP3 works so well while The Burning Maze felt off.

The reason Yumis ending works so well is that her arc was about learning to live for herself. Had she died, her arc would have been unsatisfying bc she would have started and ended in the same place, sacrificing herself for everyone else. Her arc starts with her sacrificing everything for others. Her arc ends with her choosing to live for herself.

When it comes to Jason's death, it felt more like Yumi's fate ending with her noble sacrifice. He starts off a soldier. Sure, he tries exploring who he is for a bit (through the lens of greek or roman), but post break up, he falls about and falls back on being a soldier. He dies as a soldier fighting for what is right. He is remembered as a hero.

Sure, Jason fought fights, but the one that mattered to him was ignored. No one cares about his struggle to find himself. No one cares about the person underneath the mask. If they do, they don't get any screen time to mourn him properly. Jason is turned into a martyr for that which he tried to avoid and leave. The tragedy isn't that he died. It is never that he never got to live. For me, that's the most unsatisfying part of it all. Even to his author, his self exploration was something easily dismissed. No one mourned who he could be. They had to mourn the only role he was allowed to take.

While his death is a pivotal moment in the series. While Apollo's grief is tangible. It still feels like it misses the mark in terms of what the real tragedy was and thus fails to make it a fulfilling character end.

[goodinthisworldworthfightingfor]

When you’re a teacher and you can tell the author has some strong thoughts about direct instruction

[just--a--bibliophile]

Brandon Sanderson is a Weeb confirmed.

[llsnart]

POV you're Nikaro

I made Yumi in a kind of anime style (hope it looks like 😅) and experiment with certain scene on the book and the world palette color .

What do you think about?

[ultimateinferno]

"My coat rack killed God and now it's everyone's problem."

[i-fucked-your-milkshake]

I think it’s funny when people roll their eyes about all the time Sanderson spends on clothes and fashion, as if it’s not an integral part of the world building and character development. I did my undergrad thesis on fashion semiotics in Mistborn (primarily using Roland Barthes) and there’s a direct correlation between how Vin is dressing and where she’s at on the hero’s journey, but in a way that doesn’t feel obvious at first. So it’s interesting to read Yumi and see how Sanderson is utilizing the language of fashion to explore these worlds and characters. The changing room scene with Akane is more than just a cute romcom scene, it’s about the process of discovery. Which is obvious but I can’t help harkening back to Barthes, who co-opts De Saussure’s thoughts on language for the use of fashion.

De Saussure identifies two aspects of language and communication: langue and parole. Langue is the rules of a particular language (subject verb order, for example) and parole is how an individual uses those rules to express themselves. Barthes applies this idea to fashion. We’re given these arbitrary rules of fashion (even as simple as “one must be dressed in public”) and from there we learn to work within the parameters of those rules to outwardly express ourselves. There’s a difference between your favorite pair of jeans and the pair of slacks you wear to work; there’s a difference between the dress you wear to a job interview and the dress you wear on a date where you’re trying to fuck.

The changing room scene is Yumi shotgunning the concepts of langue and parole all at once. She is learning new rules (you can have your shoulders bare) while learning how to express herself within the parameters of those rules (you can wear a dress with bare shoulders and still cover your shoulders with another garment). It’s cute and sweet but also important. She’s learning not just how to express herself but also that she’s allowed to. There’s nothing frivolous about how Sanderson uses and describes fashion. It’s a direct outgrowth of the journeys he sends his characters on.

[madxmellon]

Yumi and Nikaro watching their little dramas

[warrioreowynofrohan]

….how did Brandon write a story about ChatGPT before the invention of ChatGPT?

[shallanspren]

Yumi and the Nightmare Painter, page 4

further proof that shallan davar, who is veden, would not look like a white girl <3

[wayward-wren]

Painter and Yumi are so New Dream coded

Young girl who spent her life isolated and lied to longing for a taste of freedom

Young man who's given up on people and isolated himself, to the point of giving himself a new name, crashlands in her life

He inspires her to push her boundaries and learn to have fun and actually experience life

She inspires him to grow past his flaws and like himself a little more

I don't even necessarily ship them but the parallels are there.

[koravelliumavast]

SHEDOESNT REMEMENBER hIM HEARTBREAKING HEART BROKEN

[kathhey]

nikaro, after dedicating his whole life to it, realizing he never even stood a chance at joining the dreamwatch 🤝 spensa, after dedicating her whole life to it, realizing that she never even stood a chance at entering the ddf

[ahhfear]

Yumi and the Nightmare Painter Spoilers ⚠️⚠️

it’s hard to emulate with pencil but i imagined their ghost forms with the warrior cats starclan white lines with sparkles on them