#Tress of the Emerald Sea (The Cosmere) by Brandon Sanderson

[fippydarkpaw]

[brothermouse-skeleton]

yOu HaVe tO rEaD tHe cOsMeRe BoOkS iN tHe RiGhT oRdEr Or YoU wOn'T kNoW wHaT's GoiNg On!

Gancho, Doug, my brother in Adonalsium (Highly), I'm going to hold your hand when I say this:

Not knowing what's going on is the default state for Cosmere protagonists.

Even Wit, who's whole deal is standing over there in the corner smirking like he knows what's going on, doesn't have a single rusting clue.

Read the whole Stormlight Archive backwards for all I care, you'll still find yourself better informed than Kaladin Stormface

[emily-e-draws]

verdant vines 🌱

[es-3]

[onlycosmere]

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

[cosmiciaria]

So far all of my bookmark designs in art nouveauish style. I like some more than others but for an experiment I think I'm doing a good job. I still love Syl as my favourite and she was the first I drew. I hope to keep drawing more cosmere characters from different books!

You can see Elend here! The maximum per post seems to be ten pictures so I can't add him here 💔

[humanfox030]

I have just the story for you! ✨

[wanderer-42]

The amount of joy and happiness I get whenever Hoid pops up in a Cosmere book is incredible

[lamaery]

I had the incredible pleasure of making @dragonsteelbooks Christmas card this year. The prompt for it was bringing all the secret projects into it, with the idea for Tress and Huck making and decorating a vine spore tree. More details and quick video of the process here on instagram I wish you all some splendid holidays and good times between the years and hope you all are able to stay healthy and if not, have lovely people who take care of you. 💕

[addictedtowords16]

That is probably the craziest, most reckless thing I've ever heard someone say--and I was literally part of a secret plot to kill God.

Tress of the Emerald Sea

[renarines]

its a day of the week in a month in a year which means im thinking about tress (of the emerald sea, of course!) !!!

ft. my first ever little rat doodle !!!

[darthmatthewtwihard]

“That is one of the great mistakes people make: assuming that someone who does menial work does not like thinking. Physical labor is great for the mind, as it leaves all kinds of time to consider the world. Other work, like accounting or scribing, demands little of the body—but siphons energy from the mind. If you wish to become a storyteller, here is a hint: sell your labor, but not your mind. Give me ten hours a day scrubbing a deck, and oh the stories I could imagine. Give me ten hours adding sums, and all you’ll have me imagining at the end is a warm bed and a thought-free evening.” ― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

[brothermouse-skeleton]

Say what you will about Brandon Sanderson, but he knows what women want*.

*to eat metal and kill giants while their trophy husband grows sexier by the day

*to make earth shaking scientific discoveries while in a toxic relationship with a beautiful, immortal crab woman

*pirate time with rat friend

*to possess their boyfriend so hard he swaps gender

*to solve crime with their two zany sidekicks

[magnusbae]

Brandon Sanderson || art: Karl Gussow // Jean Claude Kabongo // George Frederic Watts

[piano-hoarder]

Cosmere books as bad news headlines

• "Young woman of questionable parentage kills god after eating copious amounts of metal"

• "Apple voice assistant marries mute rainbow god after sister defeats army of undead alongside hobo and talking sword"

• "City of zombies saved by angry man in armor and friendly chef's niece"

• "Depressed people snort lightning, use it to fight lobsters the size of battleships." (idea credit to @Elisabeth_Wheatley on YouTube)

• "Cowboy makes deal with the new god"

• "Girl and mouse boyfriend undo curse on cabin boy"

• "Man cheats death by stabbing his own eye, forms intergalactic gang"

• "Young woman stacks rocks to destroy computer"

• "Dehydrated young man unites senators against himself"

• "Man with PTSD breaks All the Rules, upsets mentor while running from sunrise"

• "Man(??) avoids eternal punishment from several sources while roasting everyone in existence"

[harmony-discord-pipeline]

Sometimes you learn something that makes you so happy. I recently learned two things:

1. Hoid not having a mullet in the art of Tress of the Emerald Sea depicting his confrontation with the sorceress was a mistake, an oversight that Howard Lyon, Brandon Sanderson, and the art continuity team all managed to miss.

2. Howard Lyon decided, in either a great move or a terrible one, to demonstrate what would have happened had they not made that mistake.

Together, these led to learning something that makes me so so happy: the existence of Hoid, mullet edition!