#The time I've spent on these is embarrassing

[enormousbutterpies]

Need help finding this batman memory loss fic

iirc:

• main thing is Bruce loses his memories temporarily (forgets he's batman if I'm not wrong or just a general memory loss)

• in general, he ends up sweeter/more chill with his kids and Clark (BUT also possible it was just batfam lol im not sure if Clark was there)

• afterwards, he regains his memory (this is oddly specific but I rmb smt like 'Bruce could feel his eyes hardening/sharpening' <- and the kids see this and realise he rmbs everything)

-> Bruce was a bit saddened atp as he didn't want to be so uptight/strict & was worried abt compromising his bettered r/s with his kids

-> I think he tries to hide it at first? Because, in a way, he doesn't want to go back to being so harsh/uptight in general. (Particulary, I think there was a scene whr he's with Clark where he continues to pretend he still does not rmb anything.) EDIT: this pt was from another fic, my bad

-> some of the kids are kinda disappointed aft noticing he rmbs because they think he'll revert to his old ways (but it was unfounded because the fic ends with Bruce making a concerted effort to be more open and affectionate)

• this fic was definitely on ao3

• it is not 'yesterday's voices'

[kbookblurbs]

Wind and Truth - Brandon Sanderson (Stormlight Archive #5)

4/5 - midseason-finale ass book; he needs to scrap this editor; this book simply never ends

MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW!! LIKE FIRST LINE!!!

We finally come to the end of the first arc of the Stormlight Archives and they are going to need a new name. Before we dive in, I want to clarify that I did enjoy this book! I think it tackled a series of very hard-to-conclude plotlines in a relatively good way, and I think it sets Sanderson up for success in the latter half of this series. With that said, I'll be splitting this review into four parts:

Kaladin, Szeth, & therapy speak

The Spiritual Realm plot

Azir

Book mechanics

Kaladin, Szeth, & Therapy Speak

Now first of all, anyone who's read anything I've written knows I love Kaladin - he's one of my favorite characters of all time and his journey through depression is one of my favorite parts of this series. That said. I find the whole timeline of this healing to be highly suspect, and his attempts at therapizing embarrassing at best and deeply annoying at worst. What context is there for him to go from literally attempting suicide in the last book to semi-competent therapist in no time at all? Need I remind Sanderson myself that there is no time skip between the end of RoW and WaT?

The language is also just bafflingly modern in a way that nothing in this series has been before, but we'll get to more on that later.

The flip side of this criticism is that Szeth's plotline was easily my favorite of the book. His completed arc might rise to rivaling Kaladin's (thus far) in terms of how much I enjoyed it. His backstory is so tragic (slay for the almost successful military coup though?) and I truly believed he wasn't going to make it through the book until the very last page. His moments with his father, in the past and present, brought me to tears more than once.

The Spiritual Realm Plot

This whole plotline took too long and frankly, it was boring. Watching Shallan slay her demons for the umpteenth time and deal with Formless again and kill her mother again was, and this may be controversial, not a very interesting plot point to me. She's done all this before. I feel that this book, as a whole, gave diminishing returns on her pagetime to character development ratio. I also don't feel that Shallan, with all her everything else, needed a Herald as a mother as another twist, but maybe that will be more relevant in the future. For that reason, and that reason only, I'll bite my tongue on criticizing it unnecessarily

While it was nice to see Renarin and Rlain get together, I have to admit that Renarin's POV didn't add much for me. I think Sanderson could have written the entire plotline for these two from Rlain's perspective and it would've been far more interesting since he is, in my opinion, the more interesting character between the two of them. Renarin's POV does not reveal anything that isn't already clear from other POVs.

I also just wanted more of Ba-Ado-Mishram. She was haunting the story but not present. I understand that's likely for later plot reasons, but it did make this section drag. Dalinar contributed to that but  we don't have time to get into that right now. I was happy he died though (long overdue, in my opinion).

Azir

Adolin #1 character of all time? The only one to save their assigned city and did it with 0 Radiants and the power of friendships? Nobody is doing it like him.

I loved the founding of the Unoathed and, particularly, Yanagawn's development. I'm really hoping that Yanagawn becomes a more important character in next major arc, since he was so sweet here.

I did not love that we spent probably 25% of the book in Azir fighting battles. Contrary to the opinion of Sanderson many fantasy authors, there is an upper limit on how many battles you can include before I get tired of reading them. There's only so many ways you can swing a sword or block a pike etc etc before I'm bored.

Book Mechanics

Overall, I find this concluding book to be much weaker than the other 4 in the series. Whereas it had seemed that the pacing was improving in Oathbreaker and Rhythm of War, here we were back to all over the place. While I liked that he split the plot into each day leading up to the contest, the timeline genuinely made no sense.

Beyond that, this entire book was filled with oddly YA-style prose that has never appeared in the Stormlight Archive until now. I think whoever edited this book must be different from the other four because, in my opinion, it was much too modern, not as tight, and frankly, not as good. And I know this might be controversial, but I did not think Maya calling Adolin a slut was funny. Why would she even use that word? Whore or prostitute would've been acceptable because they've been referenced here before but I found that example and others like it to be jarring.

Conclusion

I liked this book, but it's by a longshot my least favorite in the series. It was too long and frankly, some of the characters didn't even sound like themselves. I know that Sanderson can do better than this, but it leaves me a little wary for the next arc.

There's lots here I didn't cover (Jasnah my beloved, Sigzil! I'm in mourning) but this was already quite long. DMs / ask box are always open if you'd like to chat more.

[haryuusart]

✨ MASTERPOST of my "Do you think we love each other in every universe" series ✨

This was one of the longest projects I've ever worked on, but damnit, I'm proud of it!! 🥰 It was challenging at times, but I've learned so much!

In order, the alternate universes:

1) "Normal" (they're not paladins)

2) Canon

3) Space caterpillars

4) College

5) Soulmates

6) Childhood friends

I'll post each one by itself with zoom ins in the next few days, so please be on the lookout for that ✨

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Thank you 🥰

[beif0ngs]

C'mon heart, beat loudly again! 💓

[kisracora]

my playthrough of the re4 remake has been going well

[spirk-trek]

pov: you're about to die in the gayest way imaginable

[sylenth-l]

Sun over the mountains

[egghead1337]

Terzo's TumTum appreciation post because I am now down bad to nibble at it 🥺.

LOOK AT HIM DAMMIT.

This one 🥺🥺🥺🥺

He's so damn fine not to be all skin and bones.

I hope this isn't too weird to post, but I feel like alot of you would appreciate this.

[ph7soy]

exhibit A: what nathan wrote on his dorm slate (episode 4)

exhibit B: unknown graffiti in the boys’ gym showers (episode 3)

case in point: observe the handwriting. both are in tall, narrow letters with close spacing. the similarities are uncanny………

grahamscott confirmed⁉️⁉️

[hualian]

"Do it scared this, do it stupid that" do it out of SPITE. Do it out of vengeance. Do it out of love. Want to prove others wrong? Do it to prove a point and be victorious. You're your own biggest enemy? Do it to prove YOURSELF wrong. In the end, you're the one to do it, so choose one motivator (or none!), and get out there and DO IT

[ryusaidate]

quick redraw of this from last year because i needed to feel good about myself :V

[beesinspades]

happy pride month from vash the stampede!!!! 💜 seeing all the ace vash art makes me so happy I wanted to contribute!

[thelonelyshore-if]

hey! i love your if, this is mostly just a curiosity, but i was wondering if there would be any mention of the consequences of mc being stuck in town if they take medications? like obviously im sure most things will be found in a pharmacy and theres prob some. system? for when this happens. but what about hormones? does croft take them? can we get them in town? i was curious because cricket talked about pronouns like theyre a new and wild thing so taking hormones might also be that?

was just something i was playing around with in my head! i love your if so much its my favorite horror one! youre so talented

Hey! Tysm for your kind words, as well as the ask!!

This is a great question, and it's actually something I'm planning to address in-canon. The logistics of Easthaven and how the town all works is something I'm like...minorly obsessed with lmao it takes up so much of my brain space.

What I'll say now is that Croft is on hrt, and there will be a way for trans&nonbinary MCs to access it if they want to...but, like you suspect, hormones might be a fairly new addition to town.

[dsntwrk]

help me i've gotten so deep into the steddie rabbit hole i haven't gotten this stuck on something since destiel

this really isn't good for my health

THESE ARE THE FICS THAT I SUBSCRIBED TO / LIKED READING (I'VE BASICALLY READ 1/5 WORTH OF STEDDIE FICS COMPARED TO DESTIEL FICS - I GOT INTO DESTIEL 4 YRS AGO, I ONLY STARTED READING STEDDIE FICS SOME TIME LAST MONTH WTF)

tbf, i have taken breaks from destiel to read other fandoms/fics so, ig the timing works out? if you think about it?

[mechahero]

LIFE'S A KILLER.

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[thedreadvampy]

think I figured out why I've been in a full trauma trigger state for the last week+ and iiiiiiit is embarrassing

it's because I went on a nice date that I enjoyed

and in the background without even TALKING TO ME ABOUT IT my brain decided to start freaking the fuck out about the inevitability of abuse and the essential harm I do by existing in the world. but like. in the background. to the degree that I have at most been vaguely aware that that's even a thought process I was having let alone that it was what was distressing me.

but I have laid out some timelines of when I entered 24/7-panic-attack mode and it lines up precisely to going home after a nice date. for fuck's sake.

trauma is stupid and emotions are dumb. and if trauma shit is going to fuck up my whole week my brain could at least have the good grace to tell me what I'm upset about.