#red hoid

[sylibane]

AUtober Day 6: etc.-Punk

Prompt from @autober

Stormlight Archive cyberpunk AU with Kaladin and hologram Sylphrena. Also shout out to whoever put together the page of glyphs on the Coppermind wiki, I got kind of caught up in drawing them out.

[chumsterfire]

wish granted.

70's/80's work out shorts on sexy man Hoid.

thirst trap? tacky? maybe both???

@cosmereplay @kainekron

[teawizardry]

I am making a Hoid Halloween costume from Tress

[cosmerelists]

Cosmere Characters Try to Guess Which of Them Hoid is Imitating

As requested by anon. :)

It's like charades, only it's Hoid alone doing the acting, and also he's allowed to speak. He's gonna be imitating various Cosmere characters, and let's see if the other characters in that novel can guess who he is!

1. Stormlight Archive

Hoid: [face settles into a deep scowl] Hoid: [crosses his arms] Hoid: Bah! Shallan & Adolin (simultaneously): Kaladin!!! Hoid: Correct! Kaladin: H-HEY

2. Mistborn Era 1

Hoid: [smiles] Hoid: [smiles] [Smoke begins to rise up around him, as though everything is burning down. Faintly, in the distance, the sounds of screams] Hoid: [smiles] Vin (already crying): K-Kelsier! Hoid: [motions for her to hold on a second] Hoid: [punches himself square in the face] Vin: ... Hoid: Yup! That's Kelsier!

3. Tress of the Emerald Sea

Hoid: [crouches down, begins speaking to a member of the audience as though already in mid-conversation] ...and anyway, that's why I think we will make very good friends. Hoid: Wait! Hoid: Is that something dangerous I see? Hoid: I simply MUST make it my new hobby! Charlie, delighted: It's Tress!

4. Stormlight Archive

[Hoid, lying very still on the ground] [Hoid, lying very still on the ground] Adolin: Uh...Sadeas? Kaladin: Are you one of the bridges? Syl: You're a rock!! [Hoid, lying very still on the ground] [Gradually, the sound of ocean waves come from...somewhere. The temperature seems to drop. People's breath fog the air. Still, Hoid lies very motionless on the ground] Shallan: [sighs] Shallan: Stick. Hoid: Correct!

5. Elantris

Hoid: O-Oh? Am I not allowed to talk in charades? Hoid: I'm very sorry, Your Majesty! As a simple woman, all I know how to do is eat hot chip and lie. Iadon: Ugh, Sarene. Hoid: [fixes his hair using only the middle fingers on both hands] Hoid: So smart, Your Majesty!

6. Mistborn Era 2

Hoid: [Pulls his hand up from his hip with his fingers making a gun shape] Wax: Well, that could be literally anyone. Wayne: 'Cept me. Wax: Except you. Hoid [Pulls up his other hand from his hip with his fingers making a gun shape. Now he has two guns] Wax: Again, that could be anyone. Hoid: [Mimics putting both guns back. Reaches down as if to pull something from his belt, which he mimics swigging. Grabs the air in front of his forehead as if adjusting a hat] Wax: Okay, okay, we get it! It's me! Steris: No, no, I want him to keep going.

7. Warbreaker

[Hoid lies half reclined, one arm dangling, mimicking the lazy eating of grapes] Siri: Okay! We know it's one of the Returned! Lightsong: That could be literally any of us. [Hoid, slowly pulls up the hem of his skirt until his thighs are exposed. Winks] Blushweaver: Yes! It's ME! Siri: W-Why am *I* blushing??

8. Stormlight Archive

Hoid: [raising both arms to the heavens] SCIENCE! Navani: Raboniel! Raboniel: Navani! [They look at each other] Hoid: ... Hoid: Uh....SCIENCE and LOVING MY DAUGHTER! Navani: Raboniel!! Raboniel: Navani!! [They look at each other] Hoid: Hmmm...SCIENCE and LOVING MY DAUGHTER and KILLING GOD!!! Navani: ...You're doing this on purpose, aren't you?

[Bonus!]

9. ???

[Ulaam walks onto the stage. He waves. He's wearing bedazzled, tiny red shorts, a flowered shirt, and mismatched socks with sandals] Ulaam: [opens his mouth to speak] Hoid: [tackles him off the stage]

[lamaery]

22 - afflicted

Ulaam being a real friend by making sure that Hoid‘s inspirational bouts of poetry don’t get lost for future generation.  ------------------- image description: a digital illustrationdepicting Hoid and Ulaam seated next to each other. Hoid sits on the floor, the soles of his feet placed against each other. He is in the process of putting an old shoe on top of his mulleted head. His legs, arms and tummy are bare, but he wears his glittering, red, short, short pants and a light blue, semi transparent crop top, with a lacy border and small polka dots. A brown shoelace is tied around his right biceps and a green gift ribbon with golden stripes hangs loosely tied into a bow from his neck. His eyes are closed and his demeanor is relaxed as he seems to talk or recite something. Ulaam sits to his right on a chair. He wears a sharp black suit with a tailed coat. Its collar and the ascot Ulaam is wearing around his neck are made from a shiny black material. One of his legs is crossing the other and on his knee he balances a notepad into which he currently writes down the poetic waxing of his cursed friend. Ulaam's hair is slicked back into a small ponytail and his features are unnaturally sharp-edged – especially his cheekbones and nose. Red irises look down at what he is writing, the tiniest of smirks formed by his mouth.

[niirjuana]

Okay, I might be stupid but I associate colors with each Stormlight character and I want to know if other people do the same:

Kaladin: Navy blue

Adolin: Sky blue

Dalinar: Cobalt

Renarin: Dark green or blue?? But like not a saturated one

Shallan: Aquamarine

Jasnah: Indigo (purple)

Navani: Carmine or wine red

Elhokar: Gold or canary yellow (and Idk why)

Lift: Forest green (maybe lighter)

Szeth: White or Ivory white

Hoid: black or a very dark tone of blue

I can't associate colors so clearly with other characters from other Branderson books, and what makes me feel confused is the fact that it's logical with every character but Elhokar, but I know several people who associate him with yellow

Help

[scienter]

WIND AND TRUTH CHAPTER 31

Epigraph: “So think, my dear reader. As a soldier retreats from a battle he cannot win. As a woman rejects a home that shows her only violence. As a family finds hope in walking away from dying fields during a season of too much rain.” – From The Way of Kings, Fourth parable

🤔 So, the implication is that Nohadon and/or Tanavast walked away from power?

Both he and Breteh were former bridgemen from Bridge Thirteen, the group that had become Teft’s squires. She thought that was why they wore red glyphwards on their arms—something about a pact relating to Moash and vengeance.

A lot of people are lining up to kill Moash. FAFO

“Well, that’s a storming big secret,” Rlain said to a very pronounced rhythm, which Radiant couldn’t place. Renarin just met her eyes, then nodded. Damnation. He understood. She now felt infinitely more guilty for finding him weird when they first met.

Glad to see Shallan finally acknowledge this. I kept cringing during my re-read whenever Shallan was impatient with Renarin or thought he was weird.

“And yet,” Rlain said, “every single member of Bridge Four now has an honorspren—except me. Curious, how people’s decisions are an individual matter when they’re confronted about them—but those decisions form blatant patterns.” They did, many of them vanishing and the others moving to the very top of the corridor. Gav relaxed. The spren that had tormented him in the Kholinar palace had been of a completely different variety, but that didn’t matter in the face of trauma.

Gav dealing with his trauma must be a subplot in the back half of Stormlight considering how much attention Brandon is giving it in this book.

“All things are,” she said. “Whether it’s the cup you drink from, the home you live in, or the air you breathe. All of it is part of this world given us by the Almighty, and everything in this world is alive. It is one of the ways we know God loves us.” And surely He did. Even if the person who had held the power was dead, that was merely an avatar, a Vessel—not God. It was that Vessel Dalinar hoped to replace. If he did, would he then return to conventional belief as she hoped? His new ways, new teachings, weren’t strictly blasphemous, but things about them did make her uncomfortable.

Huh. Though it makes sense, I never considered that Dalinar’s heretical beliefs would bother Navani. She still burns prayers in case someone is listening although she knows Honor is dead. Still, she hopes that Dalinar will regain faith in God.

Dalinar’s plan to Ascend to Honor must be surreal to her.

“Rock from Ashyn,” Wit said lightly. “Like those carried by your ancestors to this world during their migration. They were fragments of a holy site on your homeworld, but stones themselves took on a kind of mystical lore by association. Some seven thousand years later, everyone in Shinovar worships rocks, and has no idea why.”

Oh, that’s why the Shin consider stone holy. It’s a holdover from Ashyn. That makes sense. I wondered if the stone on Roshar was sentient like The Wind and that’s why they worshipped it or if it was an ancient religious myth.

Okay since we got the stone settled; can we get some answers about The Wind?

“You were there?” Again Wit shrugged. “Look, I can’t be expected to tell you everything that has happened in the last ten thousand years, all right? Yes, I was there. Can we focus on the experiment?”

Think about all the important shit Hoid knows about from first-hand experience but hasn’t bothered telling anyone. He’s such a little shit sometimes. lol

Although in his defense he probably doesn’t know which important events are worth disclosing.

“Specifically,” Wit said, “you will eventually need to be able to find the history I missed in order to determine what led to Honor’s demise, and see if you can find why the power refuses Vessels now."

Wait, what? The Stormfather said Dalinar couldn't take up the power, but I didn't interpret that as Honor will refuse ALL vessels. 🤨

So why does Hoid think the shard is refusing all potential vessels? 🤔

 “I warned you of the danger. There are few paths in this universe I fear to walk. This is one of them.”

Ominous words.

There was so much to be studied about the symbiosis between spren and human. Someday when all this was done, that would be her project. Jasnah thought her a whimsical artist, and that was part of her. But so was the scientist. She dreamed of creating a grand illustrated tome explaining the intricate details of the bond. Shallan’s ultimate triumph in proving that art and science were actually one.

This is an aspect of Shallan’s character I want to explore more. She’s a naturalist. I feel like that’s been pushed aside for the spy plots. I’d like to get back to the scholarly roots of her character.

…and he kept going, despite knowing he was trapped in a Shallan flood. Because if he turned back, then Rlain probably would too, which would mean leaving Shallan completely without access to common sense.

😂 Renarin, I love you.

Otherwise, the room was empty… Wait. What were those two souls over at the side, in the walls?

. . . Lift?

“Good,” Rlain said. “That gives us something to prepare for.” He knelt beside the wall. “These two souls… they seem to be hiding in an air duct. And what is that green spot…” “Mmm…” Pattern said. “Cultivationspren. That is Lift.”

Called it. 😊

CHAPTER 32

Epigraph: “As a king leaves a people with the gift of his absence, so that they may grow and solve their own problems, without his hand to always guide them.” – From The Way of Kings, fourth parable

That's Cultivation and Sazed's philosophy of Godhood, which is diametrically opposed to Taravangian's philosphy.

Seriously, though – are Nohadon and Tanavast the same person? Is that theory correct?

“Mraize,” Shallan said, suddenly filled with dread. “Mraize, what are you doing?” “Have you ever seen a perpendicularity collapse on itself, little knife?” he asked. “Mraize…” “I haven’t either,” he said. “But it’s reportedly spectacular.” He threw the dagger.

Oh, no. 😬

Images began to form around him from swirling light. Visions of places, people—ephemeral, winking away in seconds. The tones thrummed through him. It was working. He looked at Navani, grinning. Then, behind them, something snapped. Their Connection to the Physical Realm vanished, and something came rushing toward them: power, wind, and screams.

Oh, shit.

[madxmellon]

I just finished Tress, and let me just say Dr. Ulaam was definitely a favorite (I love imagining how insufferable he was to Hoid with those quotes post-curse-breaking)

ID: We see Dr. Ulaam and Hoid standing together in front of a green, sporeish background. Dr. Ulaam has greyed skin, and wears a tight black suit with no buttons. His eyes are red, and staring down at an open blue book he holds in his right hand. His left hand is spread across his chest, with 6 fingers showing, 2 of which wear rings. He’s smiling with many teeth showing, saying “This is one of my favorites” to a frustrated looking Hoid. Hoid has tan skin and white hair, and is wearing an orange, flowery hawaiian shirt over a grey cotton shirt that says “I survived the crimson sea and all I got was this t-shirt”, this shirt is tucked into a pair of sequined red briefs.

[echoes-lighthouse]

F/O Introductions (#26): Hoid

Hoid is a worldtraveller, a story teller, and a self-acclaimed pain in the ass. A jack of many trades, he visits different worlds and picks up new magic systems with ridiculous speed and curiosity. He is known by a few different names throughout the cosmere, including Wit, but my self-insert knows him primarily as Hoid. (Source: Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere books) 

Echo is a twenty-six year old who is officially done with adventure. They did the whole saving the world thing, lost almost their entire friend group in the process, managed to duck under the radar during the celebrations, and is now trying to run a tea shop and enjoy their evenings with their favourite book series. Their world is populated with people and their animal companions, and Echo’s animal companion is a red weasel named Jester who regularly leaves inky pawprints on Echo’s clothes and cheeks. 

Echo and Hoid literally run into each other while both sneaking into the University library after hours, in search of different books. After establishing that neither of them is a guard or a snitch, Echo helps Hoid with the eldritch library system the University uses and he helps them get out an easier way through the wards. Echo is immediately enchanted with both Hoid and the spirit pretending to be his animal companion, who goes by Design. Design and Jester are also  immediate best friends, and both hassle Echo and Hoid into constantly hanging out so that they can be together. 

(selfship tag: #like attracts like)

[eleilinnrallin]

I got to be the funniest person in the polling place this election day (<- wore my "Hoid for President" shirt, which now features an "I voted!" sticker and some pronoun pins I considered unwise to wear in the actual polling place [<- lives in a red state])

[jester-showdown]

Jester showdown: Round 4

[ID: Pictures of Cicero and Hoid on a split blue and red background. Between them it says "VS" in flaming text /end ID]

reasons submitters gave for why you should vote for each of the contestants

Cicero

The reason why Cicero was forced to retire from assassinations, was because he was appointed as The Keeper of The Night Mother's corpse.Who is a religious figure within the assassin's guild, The Dark Brotherhood.

The Dark Brotherhood was falling, and Cicero ended up alone with two other living people. During said years, Cicero was desperate to hear The Night Mother's voice, but only ended up with laughter instead.Cicero recognised the laughter as the jester's, and accept it as his friend and gift from The Night Mother. Is still hesitant though, and wants to hear The Night Mother's voice.

After the final member aside from Cicero dies, he fully embraces the laughter and becomes a jester himself.

Hoid/Wit

He's a dimension hopping demigod whose favorite pastime is tormenting the local nobles as a part of his job as King's Wit

[onaslansside]

We finally watched Alice (2009) after seeing the mutuals yell about it for years and. oh. such a good decision. Thank you to @as-dreamers-do, @taleweaver-ramblings and everyone else who insisted on yelling repeatedly about how much they loved this movie. I have a stash of DVDs for movie nights that no one has ever heard of but everyone winds up loving, and this movie is about to go in that stash. After watching, we both dived for our phones to see what all the other liveblog reviews said, so assume we yelled about all the normal things, and please enjoy this list of a few more unique/underappreciated reactions.

Alice is an A+ street smart heroine, love her. Every time we'd yell at the screen, "BAD VIBES, NO" she was also aware of the red flag and doing something about it. I feel as delighted about this as Hoid was about Tress requesting parental assistance/advice.

"Oh this is very Between." "Yeah."

Why does she run like that. I get that the blue dress, half updo, and mincing steps into the unknown are a homage, but SHE IS A BLACK BELT, WHY DOES SHE RUN SO BADLY.

I can't tell what's up with Hatter, every single description everyone has given of his possible motivations doesn't quite match. Like, he does think Alice is pretty, and he does want to help the resistance, and he does want to make money while doing so, but it feels like there's another more consistent reason lurking in his eyes and I have NO IDEA what it is, not even after watching Gen and Athelas for years.

"The decor of this casino is excellently stupid, this place would have Thumb Thumbs- *spots the Ten of Clubs* THERE'S ONE!"

LOVE a fight scene that understands that a gun within lunging range is no longer a particular advantage!!! Was NOT expecting Hatter to step between Alice and the threat with that little hesitation, that brings him up several points in my estimation.

That Jabberwock is so stupid. I love it. The design reminds me of the two-headed dragon in HTTYD.

I'm no film nerd, but the camera work is so good even I keep noticing it. The Scooby Doo chase with the Jabberwock, the focus shifting between Charlie and Hatter, the sliver of light when Alice opens the study door... *chefkiss*

I have known this knight for five seconds and I love him.

I need to rewatch this entire thing already, because the body language of EVERYONE is so good and so detailed that you can't get it all, especially when paying attention to the lines being spoken.

Every single shot of Hatter's reactions to Charlie are so funny.

Love both Hatter and Ten of Clubs doing beautiful sliding halts on the casino floors.

Wait, did the King just rescue not one but two of the clubs from the consequences of the Queen's temper tantrum?? I think he did. Hmmmmmmmmmmm. Is he figuring out he's not okay with this situation? Is he secretly undermining her?

Somewhere in the middle of Jack explaining that Alice's father was being brought to the city, I suddenly began to wonder if he might be the Carpenter, because he'd been shown onscreen an awful lot so far...

"Hatter's going to follow her, isn't he. ISN'T HE? ... oh look, so is Charlie, that's great."

We made identical little sad sympathetic sounds when the explosion knocked Charlie over, but we were both very unconcerned for his safety.

I said, "That can be arranged," at the same moment as Alice and I'm very smug about it.

"YOU BETTER NOT GIVE ME THAT 'IT WAS ALL JUST A DREAM' NONSENSE!! >:(" Melwa smirked very loudly because A) that's canon for the original Alice, and B) she'd already seen spoiler gifsets of the end.

And T_T she flings herself at him before we can see if its like in Wizard of Oz and he just was glimpsed and got into her dreams vs he's real, and then we turn around and he DOES know her T_T, and THE POOR MOM who is cropped out of all the gifsets ajghksjfbfbk

[cosmere-cosmeme]

If you take submissions:

Riina: "So, you've finally arrived- what the hell are you wearing?"

Hoid, in an orange shirt with Marewill flowers on it, red short shorts, and flip-flops and socks: "It's my ass kicking outfit, bitch!"

Original source: "picking RPG clothes based on maxing stats instead of whether they match or not" by ProZD.

(i do take them)

[nightskylonging]

My reactions from reading Wind and Truth

Spoilers for the whole book under here! Also for The Sunlit Man!

Post-reading notes added in red.

Day one: Prologue through chapter 61

Kaladin has come so far. I’m so proud of him.

Kaladin Renarin and Adolin brothers? Official? Please?

'He had not given up his right to take Moash to task.' Kaladin really said ‘it wasn’t my fault, and I’m going to kick his rear’ I think he can still do this? Because the Windrunners didn't get him. So when we get down to brass tacks in the back half, I think Kaladin still has a shot at facing him down.

Oh my goshhhhhh Szeth needs so much therapy. His spren needs so much therapy. Can Knights Radiant do like. A relationship break? I think they need it? This is not healthy? Well. Didn't expect it to shake out like that, but I was still right!

Gavinor is having nightmares… Branderson this had better just be the trauma, if you go the child champion route, I swear… Ha. Hahaha. This poor boy.

Wait. Kaladin has a rock in his pack. Szeth’s oathstone??? Maybe?

Aladar does make me wonder. Stakes can’t really get higher for the back half… is the second half of Stormlight societal revolution? Never mind! Stakes can get higher!

Szeth’s flashback. It kinda makes my heart hurt. Already you can see the seeds of the older version, the beginnings of that obsessiveness. But I also think it’s interesting how Szeth is living a classic fantasy story: farmboy, cast out, caught up in strange affairs in alien lands…

Ba-Ado-Mishram… the 17th Shard forum (chaos specifically) must be having a field week with this

I love that Lopen is the one to lay it all out practically. And that he’s picking up on Lift’s intensifiers

‘Dai-Gonarthis! The Black Fisher holds my pain, and consumes it!’ That’s the quote in TWOK’s death rattles, I think. Is that what happened to El I wonder? Did she consume his rhythms? I don’t know how that would work, but it might be something.

Day three’s only Adolin, Szeth, and Kaladin’s POVs… aghhh

Kaladin: the murder was bad. You can get better Szeth: ah, of course. I should feel nothing when I kill. Kaladin: *sighing*

The Well of Control? Shroud of the fragments of the dead moon??? That goes hard, but what does it mean?

Wait. What do the Shin think about sand? Is that sacred? I don’t think so, based on an earlier pebble comment.

Szeth. Nooooooo. Suicide is not the way. Bad for you. Bad for Kaladin.

OH MY GOSH I JUST REALIZED THE CHAPTER ARCHES ARE COLLAPSING

Ashyn. Something that shook even Hoid. More and more we wonder at his story…

New chapter header! A pen and a spear… interesting. Maybe Syl? She mentioned wanting to learn to scribe. Oh, Sigzil!

Oh no. I just had a horrid thought. Is this battle why Nomad is so wrecked in The Sunlit Man? Yes and no, I guess.

Okay, new thought. It’s been 460 pages and nary hide nor hair of Moash. Where is he? Is he out for this book? He did finish the last one in… spectacular fashion.

Adolin has some very deeply buried resentment to deal with methinks. Either that or he’s going to burn out. Maybe both.

Oh, Kaladin… ‘Tonight, he wrote a different story for himself. Of a man who loved music.’ This genuinely brought a tear to my eye, this and his kata dance with Syl. He made it. I made it. We made it. It’s still hard, but there is music.

… well, there’s Moash.

Did they hemalurgy him??? Because in my cosmere experience, spikes = hemalurgy

Okay. I’ve got to say, we are coming back to the roots with this book. This feels like a proper fantasy novel. Which may sound weird, but Stormlight, especially Rhythm of War, was feeling a lot more sciencey. Not a bad thing, but we’re fully back in fantasy now.

Ima be honest, I completely forgot about Venli.

A fourth moon??? That… that has to be a metaphor, right? Current theory: someone tried a satellite, and Honor smote it. Tower of Babel esque. Well, wrong about that. I still don't get this fourth moon stuff. Time to go visit the 17th Shard?

Day two: chapter 62 through epilogue

He still has the stuffed sheep…

The chapter arches are still crumbling. And now the faces are getting mixed up, usually they’re symmetrical, but 70 just has one of Wit’s faces. Opposite him is… maybe Chanarach? I went and checked the Coppermind Wiki: definitely Chana. Didn't spare time to try and figure out if the mismatched faces meant anything, though. Though this is also how I accidentally spoiled what would happen to Kaladin, which fair. Coppermind updates fast. And we all had a feeling about that, no?

Shallan doesn’t want to look at Chanarach. Are the theories right? Chana was her mother? Wait. In Gavilar’s prologue the Stormfather says a Herald died. Does the timeline match up? It might… Shallan was… twelve or so then? I’d have to go check her flashbacks.

And the Iriali are leaving. Interesting… there’s another story. A lot of stories in these interludes. Are they off to Tress's planet?

I am developing a theory. Adolin is becoming what I call a deadeye knight – a partnership with a deadeye, maybe the armor too. Doesn’t come with powers. Bang on, past me.

TALNNNNN!

The highspren names are numbers. Huh. Okay. Immediate instinct is That’s Bad, but spren are like that. Thought about it. Still don't like it.

Lift is growing! And she found Zahel!

Ah, we were all right. Shallan is Chana’s daughter. She was the Herald the Stormfather felt die the night of Gavilar’s assassination. And she was the one who broke, not Taln. Taln never broke.

Oh. We knew Ashyn was bad, that they essentially nuked the place. But. Oh.

Szeth is figuring it out! Good on him!

Full circle. The Wandersail.

I’m on chapter 116, and folks? I am stressed.

I should have known it was Ishar, with those tortured spren.

Oh, so that fourth moon stuff was pre-Honor weirdness? Seriously, what is up with this fourth moon?

Dawn of the final day. 24 hours remain. I think my timing is technically off on putting this here, but it felt wrong to put it on the beginning of day nine.

They say it’s always darkest before the dawn, but this does feel pretty hopeless.

Wit’s story! At last!

That wasn’t much of a story, Hoid.

The Wind keeps telling Kaladin ‘I’m sorry’, and that is freakin’ ominous

Sebarial and Palona got married! ¡Finalmente!

Ooh, Branderson. You went and did it. Curses. Poor Gavinor.

Heck. It’s the trolley problem

Adolin gets a Shardleg? I was right! Deadeye Knight!

Unoathed? Now that’s a name!

Ten people with Shardblades alight. The suckling child. The burdens of nine (become mine… oh Almighty release me). These are all from the TWOK death rattles.

It’s all the death rattles. Gosh, rereading those will be a punch in the gut.

From 144 on, my commentary is only screaming.

Kaladin has a herald stone. I. *screams*

Okay, some more thoughts! Not at all cohesive. I. Need to reread some stuff. The Lost Metal, for Hoid. The Way of Kings, at least the death rattles, for the gut punch. The Sunlit Man, to see what clues were there.

I love the reveal that the in-world book was written by Szeth's wife. He really does get to heal. (Way to meet your future wife though. 'hello. can you help me bury a body.')

All the pieces will come into play now. This book just expands like crazy. The back half is definitely going to require High Cosmere Knowledge, and we're moving steadily into the more sciencey side.

I uphold my mid-read statement that W&T does feel more like a fantasy novel than ROW.

My two quibbles: The writing feels a bit modern. I'm willing to excuse that as we move into the more tech-magic fusion stage of the Cosmere. Plus, that modernity will fade a bit with time, I would assume. In the future it won't read the same. I wouldn't have written it that way, but there were only a few places where my mental editor's pen came out where I really wanted to change what was written. I know a lot of other people feel this way too, and a lot more strongly than I do. The second is the overall length of the book. And this is something that I think happens to a lot of bigger authors as they go on, so it's definitely not just Sanderson. Some of this could have been trimmed down. But that's pretty common, you can see it with a lot of authors once they get big and can go back and forth with their editors more.

This sure was a conclusion, but it definitely isn't the end.

[cosmerelists]

Cosmere Characters React to Finding Fanfic/Fanart of Themselves: A Collab with Cosmereplay

As requested by anon :)

I asked @cosmereplay to collab with me on this anon's request, and happily, she agreed! Basically, I've written the fanart parts of this, and Cosmereplay has taken care of the fanfic parts since I, ah, don't read fanfic and wouldn't know the really good jokes.

1. Shallan, Adolin, & Kaladin Read Fanfic

Shallan (reading tags): Hmmm...ace Kaladin, aromantic Kaladin, bisexual Kaladin, bottom Kaladin (I'll have to look into that one later...), demisexual Kaladin, demiromantic Kaladin, dom Kaladin... Adolin: What are the relationship tags like? Shallan: Let's see... blushes thoroughly OH LOOK KALADIN/SLEEP! THAT'S SO SWEET! Oooh...Kaladin/Happiness! Kaladin: Everybody's a critic. Adolin: They just want you to be happy, Kal! Kaladin: I-I'm fine most of the time!

2. Elend & Vin Look at Fanart

Elend: Wow! Stunning! Magnificent! Vin (peering over his shoulder): Uh, Elend, I think you're supposed to be looking at art of yourself. Those are all pictures of me. Elend: Can you blame me?? I mean look at you here! Vin: I suppose I look...somewhat cool there. Elend: Ascendent, I'd say!

3. Ellista and Pai Read "Covenant" by liesmyth

Ardent Ellista: Oh you HAVE to read this one, it's the most popular Cosmere fic by kudos! Kaladin Stormblessed and Highprince Adolin are soulmates, it's so sad yet hopeful! Ardent Pai: I bet it doesn't even mention their class differences. Ardent Ellista: No it totally does! And it really gets in the way of them kissing!! Ardent Pai: Well maybe I'll take a look then.

4. The Kholin Family Look at Fanart: Part 1 (Dalinar & Navani)

Jasnah (slamming a large tome onto the table): All right, everyone. I've finished my extensive research into the fanart of our family. Jasnah: Dalinar, according to my findings, people on the internet find you (a) extremely sexy and (b) wish you to be shirtless on the beach. Jasnah: There is also extensive interest in you being strong but vulnerable in the face of Odium, which I believe goes back to point (a), your assumed sexiness. Dalinar: ... Dalinar: I see. Jasnah: Navani, the residents of the internet desperately wish to see you explore women as romantic/sexual options. Navani: ...In general, or specific women? Jasnah: Mostly Ialai and Raboniel, from what I have seen. You can see here, and here. Navani: Sure, makes sense. Dalinar: (Does it??)

5. Sigzil & Lopen Read Fanfic

Sigzil: Bridge Fourgy? Ohhh... oh no... Lopen: Well now you GOTTA read it, gancho! Sigzil: I will burn it is what I will do.

6. Hoid & Design Look at Fanart

Hoid: (huffing and harumphing) Design: Well, I think the art is nice! Hoid: (harumphing and huffing) Design: The colors are spot-on, there's some symmetry... Hoid: (muttering) I've been involved in practically every Cosmere-significant event...I tell stories with colors and magic imagery...I beat up Kelsier that one time... Hoid: But nooooo they only want to draw me in the Mare shirt with mismatching socks and sandals!!! AND TINY RED SHORTS Design: Wow, look at my boobs in this one! They're so round and shiny! Hoid: ...I feel like you are not sympathizing with me here.

7. Rushu & Jasnah read "The Princess and the Captain" by ailvara

Rushu: Your Majesty I looked into the most popular fanfic by hits and discovered it's an ongoing slowburn romance between you and, uh... well... Jasnah: Out with it, Rushu. Rushu: You and Kaladin Stormblessed. Jasnah: Me? And Kaladin?? But he's half my age! And we've done nothing but argue! Rushu (blushing): I think that's part of the appeal, Your Majesty. Jasnah: Give me that. (reading) Well if he said THAT then maybe I wouldn't have... hm... Rushu, cancel my appointments for the next hour, I need to finish this. Rushu: Of course, Your Majesty! (sotto voice) Thank goodness she still doesn't know about the Hoid foot fics...

8. The Kholin Family: Part 2 (Adolin & Renarin)

Jasnah (continuing to leaf through her large book of findings): Adolin, according to my research, the internet thinks that you are a handsome, sweet man who wishes to be with his friends. For example, here. Jasnah: It is mostly you, Shallan, and Kaladin, however you want to read that. Adolin: As...reality? Jasnah: Renarin, if you are not suffering emotionally alongside a stained glass motif, or suffering emotionally as a child alongside Dalinar, then you are with Rlain. Renarin: With him as in...? Jasnah: Yes. Renarin: ... Renarin: I thought we were being fairly subtle! Jasnah: You were not.

9. Moash & Leshwi Read Fanfic

Moash: What are the fics about me like? Leshwi: Well, you either die a violent, horrible death or you make tender love to... Leshwi: ... Leshwi: ...Kaladin Stormblessed? You know him? Moash: Ok so here's the thing

10. Moash & Kaladin Look at Fanart

Moash: Okay...I should definitely get my ears pierced, right? Moash: I mean...look at me. Look at me, Kal! Hot, right? Moash: ...Kal? Kaladin: ... Kaladin: [silently pushing this art toward Moash] Kaladin: There are a lot like this. Moash: What, of you standing? Kaladin: Smiling. Kaladin: People want me to smile, I guess. Moash: ... Moash: Well, I bet you'd smile more if I was always looking hot in earrings, huh? Kaladin: Heh, yeah, probably.

[lamaery]

10 - Outfit

time to catch up...

ID: coloure4d sketch of Hoid and Design in human form. Both sporting a white mullet, an orange Hawaii short with a purple Marewill flower pattern (Hoid with a loose white vest underneath and Design with the lower end of the shirt tight into a bow over her bare stomach), gloriously short red shorts and fancy red roller-skates