#i've already written their fics im just waiting to see what's canon before i post them lmao

[nevertheless-moving]

Ahh apologies to @cosmere-mini-bang and my team mates @pekgna and @curlytale (Seriously, go check out their other cosmere art!!) for my extreme lack of timely communication! Mental health kicked my butt on this one a bit, but this is the mental-health-kicking-peoples-butts books series fandom so everyone has been extremely nice about it <3<3<3.

Please enjoy an extremely fluffy reunion between Tarah and Kaladin in a nebulous 'everything works out great' post-canon that can't be definitively considered an AU until at least December 6th.

Idea initially courtesy of @sorchasolas, beta by @cosmereplay. Thank you all!

If you're interested in extra robb lore the initial chat between @sorchasolas and I is below the cut. Screenshots first, followed by text transcription at the bottom:

[regular text is @sorchasolas, indents are @nevertheless-moving]

Someone: you dated. The Highmarshal Stormblessed. Tarah: he wasnt Highmarshal Stormblessed when i dated him. That was his commanding officer.

wait sorry what? his commanding officer was stormblessed? or high marshall? Mar 26 9:21 AM No his commanding officer was amaram and he was highmarshal Mar 26 3:55 PM Man I forgot that was his title

And that is such great fic concept. the windrunners are stopping in town and she's like ok so I used to know a guy named kaladin and it's not a very common name

I love tarah x kaladin its actually my fav shipe ever and i would kill a man to get a fic for it

Let me see if my motivation allows me to make a fic for it wait

So You actually inspired me to start writing for this…but it was as exes on good terms…im sorry i dont have stong tarah x kaladin feelings and started writing before i saw you say that …I gave her a fiancee named rob…hes a good guy, theyree waiting for him to get promoted to get married…he works on ships. He takes kaladin out on a boat and shows him how to sail and it's actually a very nice time.i mean people are like 'Damn man your girl is going to leave you for stormblessed!' But kaladin is happy Tarah is doing well…and he ambiguously references being in a relationship but theyre both public figures and want to keep things private

You could probably cut the Rob parts out of what I've written and have a good tarah x kaladin reuninon…like hes not even there but idk I wanted Tarah to be happy and its only been a couple hours but I've already grown unreasonable attached to the guy You should write the Tarah x kaladin fic if the inspiration spren smile upon ye

Im going to create a spinoff of your fic where i fucking kill rob/j

completely fair again he absolutly reads as a guy who appears once in act one, reappears in act five only to be firmly put on a bus to leave forever

i just love him. he's just some guy! he's literally some guy. his personality is boats.

I cannot get over the fact his name is rob

you love him too now i see

No i fucking love Rob i love mfs that fish theyre my fav

Hes just like kinda in the way

very hallmark boyfriend coded which is my problem

Oh my god what if you What if you ignored canon and made him a therapist like a full blown social worker

you absolutly could cut the rob reference in what i'm writing and have a tarah/kaladin fic. he's not even there.

LMAO??? HES NOT EVEN IN THE FIC???

no

this is about tarah and kaladin. he's working on a boat during the big procession. trying to get the promotion.

Oh my god i thought he appeared in the fic thats

Rlly funny

Also ignore the therapist thing I genuinely forgot u mentioned where he worked

i know i'm actually laughing out loud in a public place abour Rob

no jokes on you the therapy is canon now. he's taking night classes on how to lead mental health sessions.

OHMY FOD

it actually works really well because kaladin's in town as part of the queens big social reform campaign and he's checking in on the mental health programs

I. So wouldnt kaladin KNOW rob

Tarah: my fiances name is rob Kaladin: ROB??? HE GETS BITCHES??

i'm not even lying this is the premise for the fic. it is the reason he's visiting random towns. they meet at work after the first slightly awkward dinner and kaladin's like "oh hey rob" "i didn't know you worked here"

Also. This is perfect bc 9 times out of 10 social workers are… really boring people

Rob, who was trying not to cry that whole dinner:" it. it didn't come up." now they have even more to talk about though!!

WHY WAS ROB CRYING 😭⁉️

(Or trying not to ig ⁉️⁉️)

HE JUST MET KALADIN STORMBLESSED

LMAO ⁉️⁉️⁉️

HE IS COOKING DINNER FOR KALADIN STORMBLESSED WHILE KALADIN AND THE WOMEN HE LOVES MORE THAN LIFE ITSELF ARE HAVING A HEARTFELT REUNION IN THE NEXT ROOM

i have ALSO gotten really attached to Tarah's bitchy coworker who i created specifically for the purpose of being like "You're such a liar, Tarah, There is absolutly no way you — why is Kaladin stormblessed staring at you." she has a heart of gold underneath it all. like she's still a bitch. but tarah and her ARE friends.

He…he has the same name as one of the Windrunners." Mim let out a high pitched noise of delight, waving her hands. "Oh! which one? Pete Mountain Slayer? Lopen the Brilliant? Scar?" Tarah flushed, not answering.

PETE MPUNTAIN SLAYER

LOPENT EH BRILLIANT

his name is SKAR not Scar you FAKE. ASS. FANS. /j

everyone calls him scar now :/ price of fame. he can HEAR the difference the way spiderman can hear the hyphen

Sketch page for the Cosmere Mini Bang!

Sadly the fic won't be posted, but for context; Tarah (and her friends) meet Highmarshal Kaladin, now that he's a sort of hero and celebrity, and it's VERY awkward, from all angles.

[aashiqeddiediaz]

I have a lot of thoughts on the new promo lmao, but I’ll put the specific ones all under the cut, under what each one is about.

Promo general thoughts:

What's really weird about that new promo is that FOX and in general, everyone, kind of...avoids the topic of Buddie as a unit, whether platonic or not. I mean news articles ask because it would obviously be a great scoop given how many people ship it, but FOX promos and actors and all have just kind of....skimmed the surface of whatever Buck and Eddie are because no one really knows. This promo was so explicit about all of it, which is the weirdest.

Also, the idea of having an entire promo focused on Eddie’s recap and what the road ahead kind of looks like, and in that same breath bring up Buck and Eddie without even mentioning “they’re best friends/their bromance is amazing.” They say things like...they feed off each other, and they bring out the best in each other, and that’s soulmate/romantic partner stuff to say. It’s not something you say just...casually? 

Also I heard “I’ve fallen in love with Eddie” and it didn’t click it was Ryan’s voice so I nearly died of a heart attack today.

Onto the specific ones:

"I’m still not over it." 

(gif by @cinematicnomad​)

It's clearly after the crossover, though no one knows how soon after. There's a lot of things Eddie could be referring to here, and I'm absolutely not refuting the idea of Shannon being the thing he’s not over because they did a number on each other, evidently. 

But there's also...two of their team members get thrown into danger back-to-back. Buck with the supposed warehouse fire, and Hen with the helicopter. 

Now.....Eddie's helicopter went down with him in it, too. He knows how that works/feels/what it does to you, but maybe seeing one of his friends in that situation dredges back up things he's been trying to push down, maybe for himself or for his family. From the promo, it looks like they watch the helicopter go down, so Eddie could be feeling lots of things here. Also, in a short period of time, both Buck and Hen (again, large assumption) nearly die (again, even though this is still an assumption). 

Sometimes....it just hits you how fragile the idea of life really is. Despite being in a profession like this one, watching members of your team, of your found family, nearly die places the fear of mortality in yourself, but also the fear of losing any more people than you have to, or already have.

This talk with Bobby can come from a bunch of different ways: 

Eddie's sitting, pensive at the table when Bobby joins him 

Eddie's quiet and withdrawn all day and Bobby pulls him aside to ask if he's okay 

Something doesn't go right during the last call because of unnecessary risks taken? 

Eddie's distracted on call, which is beyond unusual 

He's clearly struggling with something, which could be anger or fear or grief, and Bobby pulls him aside to check in (probably not this one because this already happened)

He's staring blankly outside or whatever, and Bobby joins him

Eddie can't sleep during a late shift and Bobby spots him, joining him

Could be a regular ol’ check in (highly-doubt this one)

General thoughts on the smiles you can see in the linked gifset by @cinematicnomad​:

Somehow...Eddie seems a lot more open and softer to me in a sense. It’s usually Buck who’s passing these smiles towards Eddie, but the role reversal is something I’ve been looking forward to. I could be completely overthinking this (I’m clearly not), but if you take a look at the second gif in that set where he has his adorable fangs out then you know that in both these, he’s looking at Buck. The wider shot of this shows someone that looks uncannily like Buck does (this isn’t clowning, it’s in the ears).

I genuinely think that Eddie’s arc for this season (even if it hasn’t started yet) will have to do with Buck in a large way. Buck’s 3A arc had a lot to do with Eddie and Christopher, in many ways, and now...I think we might be on track to see an arc for Eddie Diaz that includes one Evan Buckley, however that may be. 

Angst Headcanons (most are Buddie):

Eddie’s put in a situation where he struggles to retain the control he usually keeps on himself, which is different from the ladder truck only in the fact that...they weren't as close and Eddie wasn't in any frame of mind to be thinking about anything else. also there was a bomb but y'know

Basically we need a parallel to Buck in Eddie Begins

Don't imagine Buck going home after the fire only to find like fifteen million texts from Eddie to check in. 

Alternatively, don't imagine Buck going home after the fire to find an unusual silence from Eddie who normally texts after a rough shift to check in 

Alternatively to that, don't imagine Buck trying to go home and Eddie coercing him into coming back to the Diaz household and then they check in with Chris together and goodbye

Whatever you do, don't imagine Eddie going home, already wired and restless from the events of the warehouse fire (insert equal emergency here), and he's all out of sorts and can't exactly figure out why because buck nearly dies everywhere but this time it was different and whatever you do, don't imagine him standing blankly in the middle of his room, mind racing far enough that he tangles himself up in "oh. oh."