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hooid · 1 year ago
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Every moth is a hollow knight reference
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why-is-it-always-autumn · 2 years ago
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shouldprobablybereading · 4 months ago
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I always love whenever the discussion of what cool powers a theoretical Jaswit kid would have pops up. And the answer is just. Really strong allomancer.
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nerd-in-distress · 2 years ago
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cosmereplay · 1 month ago
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Whoever sent that anon ask about the epilogue of SA6 being Hoid wisecracking about Kaladin's flute, please know I thought it was great and I don't know how I managed to accidentally delete it 😭
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kandra-chameleon · 2 years ago
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Myers Briggs and Enneagram are out. The only true personality test is which shard of Adonalsium do you identify with most
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Something just occurred to me if Mistborn Era 2 takes place after Stormlight 5 then Hoid knows what happens the whole time he’s driving a carriage. Why are you driving a carriage for five years my guy is it because Dalinar is dead?? Is there a hint in there somewhere???
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ladyartichokie · 5 months ago
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Do you have a favorite Cosmere character?
(I'm assuming this is for the Yes/No game)
No
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uinferno-art · 1 year ago
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Cosmere Inktober Day 23 — Pitch
If I ever do actually finish a piece this one will be certain. My thoughts of Hoid's potential design whenever he shows up as an NPC in my Cyberpunk Mistborn game. I see him working as a busker in the subway, twanging folk songs on his acoustic. Is that actually Design on his back or did he get her a body in by this time and it's just painted/embroidered/an actual hologram?
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cosmerelists · 6 months ago
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Superpowers That Other Cosmere Fans Seem To Have (That I Do Not)
Inspired by this post, which is also #1 below. :D Basically, this is a post about amazing powers that I've noticed OTHER Cosmere fans seem to have, which I definitely & absolutely do not possess.
1. A Powerful Lack of Secondhand Embarrassment
I start with @lerelene's superpower, which is that they don't get secondhand embarrassment from the "And for MY boon" scene. That is VERY powerful indeed. I can barely reread that scene, and my brain is hiding behind a very large fan the whole time.
2. Recognizing Worldhoppers
I feel like some fans are reading along, when suddenly a character who is "kind of short, really" or who uses some slightly odd idiom is mentioned, and they say, "Ah HA! I see you, Worldhopper!" That could not be me. Unless the Worldhopper is, like, a major character in another book or is explicitly named, I've never recognized one in my life.
3. Understanding the Physics of Investiture
I'm not even sure physics is the right term? But, like, I know that there are underlying principles governing investiture and how it manifests cosmere-wide and I, uh, do not understand much of anything about that. I'm picking up on the fact that investiture turns black and oily (?) when it's wonky, but that's all I got.
4. Asking Sanderson Amazing Questions at Cons
Closely related is the superpower that some fans seem to have of coming up with really wild questions about the inner workings of investiture: like what happens if Nightblood drinks the Dor or how Hemalurgy can steal a Bond or....stuff. Interesting stuff that makes Sanderson hand out a RAFO card or just give a delightedly nerdy answer. I dream sometimes of asking one of those questions but frankly, I wouldn't even know where to begin.
5. Reading Everything Sanderson
I consider myself a pretty serious Sanderson fan, but I haven't even finished the Cosmere! Just missing White Sand, which I feel like isn't super uncommon, but still. There are people who've read all of the Cosmere AND the non-Cosmere books and probably Wheel of Time too. I think that is incredibly impressive. I will probably never do it all.
6. Keeping up with the WOBs
I'm actually not sure if this is a superpower that few have or just something that everyone else is doing that I don't, but....I can't keep up-to-date with all of the Words of Brandon. I don't watch the videos really and I've never been to a con. Every now and then people say things on the internet about, like, a Worldhopper Ball or MLM Renarin Day or something and I gradually pick stuff up. But I am definitely not on top of any of that.
7. Keeping the Timeline Straight
People who can even keep the in-book timelines straight impress me, but even more impressive are people who can keep the Cosmere-wide timeline straight. If you gave me two Cosmere series and asked me which is earlier chronologically, I'd probably shout "OH MY GOD IT'S HOID" and run for it.
So...what's YOUR Cosmere Superpower?
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kingjasnah · 1 month ago
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idk if this has been discussed but i do wonder if there was a way jasnah could have won over fen. jasnah calls her very emotionally intelligent and she only started responding positively to dalinar in ob once he got truthfully frustrated with her and did some yelling and idk i wonder if jasnah had set aside all her philosophical talk and made a passionate and emotional plea if fen would have been more receptive. but of course jasnah wouldn't do that
short answer: agreed. long answer: ive been wanting to talk about this for weeks. so you're getting kinda a long one.
jasnah is obviously one of my favorite characters and that's almost why i was clapping and cheering during the taravangian takedown--like all of her flaws and everything that makes her compelling was completely cracked open. if jasnah cares about anything at all, it's how she is perceived. we dont know what happened to her when she was a child and we dont know why it seems that she was institutionalized or at least in confinement for a period of her youth but we do know that every single thing she does is a measure to keep her from never going back to the kind of powerlessness she felt back then. i remember shallan commented on her perfect her hair and makeup and clothing was waaay back in book 1/2 and thought how interesting it was for a self professed heretic to still take care to make sure the darkeyed sailors on their ship to the shattered plains never saw her out of makeup. jasnah has been vulnerable in this series, sure, but only to her family. or maybe shallan. or maybe hoid? persumably. every single page she has appeared on in this entire series has reinforced that to her a huge part of the way she does her job (and im considering hiring a spy to follow her sister in law her job too, not just being queen. i mean what she considers her role to be in her family) of statecraft is in the perception that she is perfect. and yeah, that's why it was never going to work with fen
dalinar did have a hard time cracking fen because i think that in the beginning of their interactions they both made fundamental misinterpretations of each other based on where they came from. fen only thought of dalinar as a warmonger who would walk all over her country in the name of conquest, and dalinar straight up did not understand that fen's perspective was so heavily influenced by the thaylen mercantile culture. they still found common ground and yeah it was a frank conversation and an abandoment of diplomat speak that did it. jasnah's made emotional pleas before but i think the crux of her error with fen is that she DID know how important the mercantile culture was but she interpreted it as "fen is going to leave the alliance if she gets a better deal for her country so i need to prove that im her best option" instead of "fen values exchange of commerce but she really values relationships. fen's culture involves building relationships with other merchants so that they can trade with each other and understand each other" (please see the original two rysn interludes). fen didn't need a perfect argument from jasnah but she also didn't need dalinar's approach either. all she needed was for jasnah to TRUST her enough to treat her like an equal partner in their alliance instead of a marker to be moved around a war map.
cause let's be honest. fen is an extremely capable ruler. she's smart and she's been in power for a long time. i do not think for a second that she was genuinely aghast that jasnah sent spies after aesudan or well, the kharbrath murders were pretty bad but im certain that a middle aged to senior member of ruling nobility has seen worse. it's not a bad thing for jasnah to put her people first. i am convinced that fen felt betrayed because jasnah had already set the parameters of their relationship by even engaging in this debate with taravangian. fen saw her logic backfire on herself and went "oh. okay. you are putting YOUR people first because you do not see the thaylen people as having the kind of relationship to you as, for example, vstim had with the shin or with the reshi king. you see us as an argument to be won over, as numbers on a map, as a thought excersize. not onyl withh you walk all over my country in the name of conquest (like dalinar might have) but you'd do it for the sake of what, rhetoric??" in that way, at least taravodium was honest.
but yes. jasnah would never do that. jasnah put on a full face of makeup every morning in her cabin just in case a handful of sailors that she never learned the names of would see her. of course she would never let a queen that she respected see her worry for her kingdom on purpose but it's over now. the mask has cracked, she lost, and she knows that the trap she fell into only closed around her because of her own hubris/the kind of love you have for winning that you'd have to have in order to spend your pre-apocalypse time actively arguing about heresy with every scholar and ardent out there. taravangian's arguments would not have worked on fen if jasnah had never put her in the position to be won over in the first place. i cannot stress enough that jasnah was my first love in this series and watching her finally crack and expose what i have always considered to be the most interesting thing about her was easily one of my favorite moments in the book. insane shit. i can't wait to see how she builds herself back up.
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hooid · 1 year ago
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yes???? it is?????? like???? go make yourself a fucking grilled cheese???
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eziocauthon89 · 2 months ago
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I've Had A Realization
We've all been wrong about the Narrators for the Cosmere audiobooks
There's a running joke that men don't read the Stormlight Archive, they have it read to them, like proper Vorin men
This is all well and good, but for some, it's raised the question, how can Mr. Michael Kramer read it? The obvious answer is that he's in the ardentia, or even that he's simply from Azimir or another similar Western nation, where men can read and write
However, I would like to propose another theory, one perhaps more outlandish, but I think certainly within the realm of possibility
Who do we know who loves to tell stories?
Who do we know who likes to get involved in events that wind up making stories?
Who do we know who now has access to the Lightweaving surge, which, with sufficient practice, can allow a surgebinder to alter their very voice?
That's right, ladies and gentlemen, it's not two people narrating the Cosmere for us, it's one, and he goes by many names: Cephandrius, Lunu'anaki, Whitehair, The King's Wit, none other than Hoid himself!
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lord-of-hollows · 2 months ago
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Thoughts on Wind and Truth
NO SPOILERS
If you want my thoughts in as few words possible. Good book, good characters, long boy but a good boy, few problems.
I have a problem, not with the accurate portrayal of mental health, but the modern medical language used. There was a point early on where Kaladin refers to himself as trying to become (paraphrased) "a surgeon who heals the mind, who makes incisions with words instead of scalpels" and I thought wow, what an accurate portrayal of a therapist for someone who doesn't know what therapy is because he invented it and refused to go in the last book.
This is ruined, however, when Hoid calls him a therapist and Kaladin just runs with it. I wish he kept that word surgeon bit going.
The dialogue in general skews a little bit too Marvel Movie for me at times "Let's kick some ass" being a prime example.
And apologies to Venli fans, but there is very little that can be done to make me excited for a Venli chapter. I was more happy to read Moash chapters in Oathbringer. It was like getting to a Shallan chapter in TWoK, I don't *care* that you're trying to steal from the most powerful woman in the world, I would like to go back to the Shattered Plains, please.
Sanderson said in the lead up that the last 200 pages might be career ending for him. I don't feel as extremely about it as he does. I find his decisions interesting and exciting. However, I do wish he'd linger on the state of the world after the contest of champions. He fundamentally shakes up the setting in some very interesting and exciting ways that I would very much like to see more of. I have many unanswered questions that I would like to not wait and see to find answers to.
Things happen on a societal scale that can't be walked back from in Stormlight 5. To find out how characters are going to live in this new society, we will have to wait for the following projects on Sandersons table
Mistborn 8
Elantris 2
Mistborn 9
Elantris 3
Mistborn 10
I don't mind a wait, I do mind the fact that several questions are raised about the sociological, religious and ecological status of Roshar could have been answered by a few extra chapters.
Beyond that, 9/10. Beyond good.
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valerieofavonlea · 11 months ago
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Let's talk about this one for a moment, because Brandon's reaction is incredibly interesting.
We have what the question would have been, but I don't think it's the question Brandon assumed it was. I just don't know that the name/intent of the last shard would warrant such a hard rafo.
So, what do we think the importance of Hoid's monologue could possibly be? Here it is in full:
“Well?” Wit asked, pausing the music. “What do you think? If a man or woman were to have a talent, which would be the most revered, best regarded, considered of the most worth?” “Er … music?” one of the men finally said. “Yes, a common answer,” Wit said, plucking at a few low notes. “I once asked this question of some very wise scholars. What do men consider the most valuable of talents? One mentioned artistic ability, as you so keenly guessed. Another chose great intellect. The final chose the talent to invent, the ability to design and create marvelous devices.” He didn’t play a specific tune on the enthir, just plucks here and there, an occasional scale or fifth. Like chitchat in string form. “Aesthetic genius,” Wit said, “invention, acumen, creativity. Noble ideals indeed. Most men would pick one of those, if given the choice, and name them the greatest of talents.” He plucked a string. “What beautiful liars we are.” The guards glanced at each other; the torches burning in brackets on the wall painted them with orange light. “You think I’m a cynic,” Wit said. “You think I’m going to tell you that men claim to value these ideals, but secretly prefer base talents. The ability to gather coin or to charm women. Well, I am a cynic, but in this case, I actually think those scholars were honest. Their answers speak for the souls of men. In our hearts, we want to believe in—and would choose—great accomplishment and virtue. That’s why our lies, particularly to ourselves, are so beautiful.”
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cosmereplay · 1 year ago
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ask game! jasnah/wit ⛵️😠
⛵ How I would sail this ship
I have a firm headcanon that Jasnah needs a Lightweaver in her life at all times. Through her mentorship of Shallan she started to really understand the value of the arts, and I think she needs someone in her life who can keep her connected to that fledgling part of herself.
I picture Jasnah as a classic scholar: someone who so values ideas that they have neglected the embodied aspect of themselves, making it harder to recognize their own emotions and values and needs. So Wit is someone who is more than capable of helping her into that vulnerable place where she recognizes her own human needs. And Jasnah, with her experience with liars of many kinds, is more than capable of calling out Wit on his bullshit, which would help him too.
😠 What annoys me about this ship
So what annoys me about this ship is that there is no fucking time for that because PLOT. I've said it once and I'll say it again, there's too much goddamn plot in these books. Wit is preoccupied. Jasnah is just grasping the reins of a country in turmoil. They can't fully trust each other. That makes the ship interesting, but it also makes it frustrating because I know there won't be enough time for them to really meet each other in a way that would benefit them both.
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