#cryptics

[notieni]

Shllan speaks to my extremely dramatic 14 old self in the best ways

[jochi-the-veristithaylen-baker]

Re-listening to Oathbringer, it strikes me that cryptics ("lie-spren") aren't interested in lies per se.

It's fiction they're after.

The non-truths that describes and circumscribes truths.

The patterns in the stories that reveal the real world that tells them.

The repeated motifs that distract and misdirect by omitting the truth and letting the audience assume untruths.

The beats and twists that weave truths and untruths into a tapestry of emotion.

They move people with dazzling lights; the surges of transportation and illumination. [It's transformation, not transportation. That's why they change people's souls with their almost-truths]

[amysky21]

My friend made this edit and it’s so right

Cryptics are literally autism creatures. Honestly I think all spren are neurodivergent. I will stand by this

[twobitsandanibble]

she honestly thought those lil goobers were gonna try to kill her

[onlycosmere]

Questioner: Do the spren that we know of as the Cryptics exist before Honor and Cultivation came to Roshar?

Brandon Sanderson: Ah, good question! No. Cryptics would be one of the forms of spren that were a later creation. Creation is the wrong term, but yeah. 

Billy Todd, Moderator: Later development? Evolution?

Brandon Sanderson: All of the sapient spren are later developments. 

Billy Todd, Moderator: Are they evolved from the earlier spren?

Brandon Sanderson: Evolution doesn't work the same way on the spren, right? The spren were created more than evolved, I would say.

Billy Todd, Moderator: Maybe cultivated?

Brandon Sanderson: Yeah, cultivated. *laughter*

[knight-of-skyloft]

Stormlight Characters As Stuff the Toddlers At My Job Have Done, Part 3

(part 1, part 2, part 4)

Syl:

Him: *walks over to me while I'm changing a kid's diaper* Me: "Hey, can you take a step back and give him some privacy?" Syl, plaintively: "I wanna see the tushie!"

Elhokar:

Her: *sees one of the other kids crying, starts crying in a very obviously fake way* Me: "Aww, are you sad because no one's paying attention to you?" Her: *sniffles* "Yeah."

Lift: took a running jump onto the table, slid across on her stomach, and started hoovering up another kid's Cheerios with her mouth

The Mink: the new playground fence was specifically built to be her-proof; she escaped four times before it had been up for two days

Gavilar: Asked another kid "[name], can I hit you please?" in the sweetest most polite voice and then hit them before they could answer

Renarin: *extremely matter of fact and adult voice* "I'm going to bring my blankie to shul so I don't get scared by the loud noises."

Wyndle: Pointed at a wooden rocking chair, gasped, and said "whoa, that chair is beautiful!"

Gavinor: His mom came in to pick him up and he ran away, climbed on the table, and yelled "NO MOMMY! GRANDMA GRANDPA UP!"

Cryptics: Dragged some chairs over to the rug, sat down, and went "MMMMMMMM" for several minutes for no discernible reason

[bluerockoffice]

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[sapphellroan]

zelda being a true cryptic in totk during the quests while being wholesome/heartbreaking in the tear memories has given me trust issues when i see her throughout game play

[littoral-marshmallow]

Ugh why is it so hard to cyberstalk published crossword authors it's making networking very difficult

[mintbrownieangelfish]

I feel like there's something here about cryptics lol

“Let me get this straight. I, a Fae, have spent LITERAL CENTURIES studying the subtle arts of deception, glamour, deceit, and misdirection, and you, a mere human, can just stand there and say things that are untrue?!” “Yeah, that’s about right.”

[red-velvet-0w0]

utterly terrifying: person youre following who doesnt follow you back randomly reblogged a few of your posts without explanation

[koddlet]

personal rules for winter ❄

[chialattea]

POV: it’s 4AM. You’re the crew’s chef and you hear noise in the kitchen

[kenchann]

alexa play im not okay by my chemical romance

[cryptic-symbols]

mountain goats litany for survival: I am gonna make it through this year it it kills me

mountain goats litany for divorce: hand in unlovable hand

mountain goats litany for justice: I’m gonna bribe the officials, I’m gonna kill all the judges

mountain goats litany for revenge: I will personally stab you in the eye with a foreign object

mountain goats litany for weird kid pride: wearing my lizard suit to the party

mountain goats litany for meeting word count: the most remarkable thing about you standing in the doorway is that it’s you and you are standing in the doorway

mountain goats litany against nonsense and also handball: I did not come to play handball

mountain goats litany against anti-intellectualism: I use the term advisedly according to Webster's 9th New Collegiate, definition 4b

amen

[onlycosmere]

Cryptic by noutsa.kh