#silver reads the stormlight archives

[silvercaptain24]

YOU/angry

Why did I forget he’s such a big part

I mean I knew but

I forgot how big

[silvercaptain24]

I FORGOT ABOUT HIM TRYING TO SPEEDRUN HIS HORSEGIRL ARC

Kaladin is not a horsegirl :’)

[janeways-coffees]

Hold on so taln didn't break???? Shallan killed chanarach and sent her back to braize where she insta-broke and THATS what restarted the desolations? Losing mY FUCKING MARBLES

[shiroxix]

Cosmere Mini-Bang art!! My partner was @stew4 and I got to make art for their very touching college/human AU Rlainarin fic! I had a lot of fun working on this one! Any time I get to humanize Rlain is a delight. Image ID: An illustration of Rlain and Renarin in a kitchen. The characters are cell shaded, and the background is painterly. The entire image is in sepia tone. In the foreground, Renarin sits slumped at a bar over his laptop, leaning his face in his hand. He wears an expression of despondence as he stares at the screen, which depicts a vague representation of Gmail. He is dressed in a t-shirt, the back of which reads "Kholinar Highschool Mathletes 1171", and a pair of sweatpants. He is a thin young man with a middling skin tone and soft, rounded features, with messy, curly dark hair streaked with blonde. He wears a single silver stud earring. Across the bar on the other side of the counter stands Rlain, represented here as a young black man with vitiligo in almost a butterfly pattern around his eyes. He has chest-length dreadlocks that are pulled partially up into a bun on the back of his head. He has stronger features than Renarin, but soft, kind eyes that stare at him with concern, his brows arched. His lips are parted as if in the middle of saying something. He is leaning with one arm on the counter, the other holding a coffee mug that reads "Don't talk to me until I've eaten this mug". He is dressed in a white button up shirt, the first few buttons of which are undone, and he has a heavy silver ring on the middle finger of the hand holding the mug. An oblong window on the wall behind Renarin puts a long swath of white space between the two, separating them. While Renarin's head is mostly framed by the window, Rlain stands among the stove's hood and cabinets, looking more set into the scene that Renarin who is removed from it by the framing. (End ID)

[sweetlywingedcreation]

got tagged by @aaitwo Nine People I'd Like to Know Better:

last song: I am literally in the middle of rewatching "The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals" so "What do you want Paul?" :}

fave colours: Used to be the biggest yellow lover but now I'm an orange lover 5ever

currently watching: At this very moment? The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals. Show wise? rewatching Final Space before its taken down forever, Heaven Official's Blessing Season 2 (the moment i can get my lil hands on it. I need it so bad but Crunchyroll spensive)

currently reading: The Way of Kings (Stormlight Archive B1), too much fanfiction to name :}

sweet/savory/spicy: Savory, I can and WILL fuck up an entire plate of fries. I like a lil mild spice (love Sweet Chili Thai sauce) but mostly savoury.

relationship status: Very recently single :/ Both from a relationship AND a flirtationship.

current obsession: The Hatchetfield Trilogy/Universe (Starkid musicals), Baldur's Gate 3 (Specifically Astarion), Ensemble Stars!! (Mostly Valkyrie :})

last thing googled: When does Ghastly spawn in Pokemon Soul Silver (Spoilers. Someone lied to me saying it was 6pm. it is in fact 8pm >:{ )

currently working on: My novels Time and Again and Strange Souls, an Astarion/Tav fic, a few fanart pieces for Nerdy Prudes Must Die, and a Pokemon SoulSilver Nuzlocke with accompanying fic

tagging (no pressure!): @raining-anonymously @magicalnursekomugi @zethetta @asexualautistic @amare-luna @chosenbap @lateuponarrival @chthonic-clown @sunnymatsu

[silvercaptain24]

Hhhhhiiiimmmmmbbbbbbb

had to draw him, even as a quick sketch. It's been too long.

[oldmancarrot]

Books I’ve read (2024) - 32

American Prometheus: Oppenheimer, by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, by Herbert P. Bix

Personal Politics: Sexuality, Gender, and the Remaking of Citizenship in Australia, by Leigh Boucher et. al.

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Winterlight (#7), by Kristen Britain

Spirit of the Woods (7.5), by Kristen Britain

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll

Campaign: Austerlitz 1805, by Ian Castle

Scarlet (#1), by Genevieve Cogman

Rubicon, by J. S. Dewes

Elite: Napoleon’s Commanders (1) c.1792-1809, by Philip Haythornthwaite

Ship of Magic (#1), by Robin Hobb

Song of the Huntress, by Lucy Holland

Pax, by Tom Holland

The French Revolution and Napoleon: Crucible of the Modern World, by Lynn Hunt and Jack R. Censer

Babel, by R. F. Kuang

The First Book of Lankhmar (#1), by Fritz Leiber

The Mirror and the Light (#3), by Hilary Mantel

Teixcalaan Duology: A Desolation Called Peace (#2), by Arkady Martine

The Stranger Times (#1), by C. K. McDonnell

Unruly, by David Mitchell

Gideon the Ninth (#1), by Tamsyn Muir

Harrow the Ninth (#2), by Tamsyn Muir

Nona the Ninth (#3), by Tamsyn Muir

Anno Dracula, by Kim Newman

A Deadly Education (#1), by Naomi Novik

Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch, by Rhianna Pratchett and Gabrielle Kent

A Stroke of the Pen, by Terry Pratchett

Napoleon the Great, by Andrew Roberts

Shogun (The Life and Times of Tokugawa Ieyasu: Japan’s Greatest Ruler): by A. L. Sadler

Hyperion (#1), by Dan Simmons

The Dawnhounds, by Sascha Stronach

Currently Reading

Stormlight Archive: Word of Radiance (#2), by Brandon Sanderson

I’ll get to these someday

Liberating France: 3rd Edition, by Judy Anderson, and Allan Kerr

Foundation (#1), by Isaac Asimov

Against All Gods, by Miles Cameron

Shanghai Immortal, by A.Y. Chao

The Storm Before the Storm, by Mike Duncan

The Silk Roads, by Peter Frankopan

I, Claudius (#1), by Robert Graves

Campaign: Gallipoli 1915, by Phillip J. Haythornthwaite

The Creeper, by Margaret Hickey

The Mad Ship (#2), by Robin Hobb

Ship of Destiny (#3), by Robin Hobb

Fool’s Errand (#1), by Robin Hobb

The Golden Fool (#2), by Robin Hobb

Istanbul, by Bettany Hughes

The Rise of Kyoshi (#1), by F. C. Lee

The Shadow of Kyoshi (#2), by F. C. Lee

The Penguin Book of Classical Myths, by Jenny March

The Romanovs, by Simon Sebag Montefiore

The Deed of Paksenarrion, by Elizabeth Moon

36 Streets (#1), by T. R. Napper

Ghost of the Neon God (#2), by T. R. Napper

Spinning Silver, by Naomi Novik

Buried Deep and other short stories, by Naomi Novik

Velocity Weapon (#1), by Megan O’Keefe

The Blighted Stars (#1), by Megan O’Keefe

Saevus Corvax Deals with the Dead (#1), by K. J. Parker

She Who Became The Sun, by Shelly Parker-Chan

The Gormenghast trilogy, by Mervyn Peake

Howling Dark (#2), by Christopher Ruocchio

Mistborn: The Lost Metal (#7), by Brandon Sanderson

The Stormlight Archive: Edgedancer (#2.5), by Brandon Sanderson

The Stormlight Archive: Oathbringer (#3), by Brandon Sanderson

The Stormlight Archive: Rhythm of War (#4), by Brandon Sanderson

The Bone Season (#1), by Samantha Shannon

A Day of Fallen Night, by Samantha Shannon

The Bone Shard War (#3), by Andrea Stewart

The Book of Witches, by various authors, edited by Jonathan Strahan

City of Last Chances (#1), by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Service Model, by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon, by Wole Talabi

Early Modern Japan, by Conrad Totman

Wild Dogs, by Michael Trant

Heroic Fantasy Short Stories (Anthology), by various authors

[meltotheany]

original tag created by readlikewildfire + earl grey books! oh hello, friends! i hope you’re doing well! this is my eighth year doing this book tag, and that feels very wild to type (and to think about), but this is such a book community staple and i really love doing it each and every year! and i will also add some statistics to the end, that will encompass my reading for the first half of 2024! so far, i have read 44 books this year! okay, let’s get into it! please click on any of the book titles down below for my full reviews with thoughts and feelings and in depth content and trigger warnings! 💗 ♡ 1. best book you’ve read so far in 2024 ☆ The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez + A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1) by Arkady Martine ⤷ my two favorites being backlist space operas? very insane dot. both also focusing on colonization and the generational impact of the horrors that come from it. also both also celebrating queer love, while also having some morally questionable sapphic relationships? wow, the dots are really dotting on this day whew! but i truly loved both of these with my whole heart and highly recommend them! ♡ 2. best sequel you’ve read so far in 2024 ☆ The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5) by Nghi Vo ⤷ please, tor, give me cleric chih stories forever. but this fifth installment really resonated with me on a personal level and i just loved reading it so very much. ♡ 3. new release you haven’t read yet, but want to ☆ Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3) by Abby Jimenez ⤷ after Part of Your World becoming one of my favorite romance books of all time, and also completely adoring Yours Truly, i know i am going to love this one too. i just want to make sure i am in a good headspace for it, because even though everyone is loving this, they are also saying its her heaviest book yet. but i can’t wait to pick this up, hopefully soon! ♡ 4. most anticipated release for the second half of the year ☆ Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5) by Brandon Sanderson (december 6th) ⤷ i feel like this fifth (and final for this era) stormlight book is going to be all the sff girlies answers, but here i am to make it mine, too! i cannot wait for this book and for this conclusion, and will be reading it immediately at midnight when it hits my kindle! ♡ 5. biggest disappointment ☆ Wild Love (Rose Hill, #1) by Elsie Silver ⤷ well, even cowgirls get the blues (this is a d20 joke, i am so sorry but i could not resist) !! this is the first one star i have given out in years, because this was truly a mess in almost every way. disappointment is an understatement, actually. ♡ 6. biggest surprise ☆ Heir of Fire (Throne of Glass, #3) by Sarah J. Maas ⤷ it had been almost ten years since i read this book for the first time! but over the last year, i have been rereading all of sjm’s books/universe with my friend penny, and loving tog more than i did a decade ago has for sure been the biggest surprise in my reading year, so far! (but i expect this surprise to keep getting stronger and stronger throughout this year and reread!) ♡ 7. favorite new author (debut or new to you) ☆ Jade Song ⤷ Chlorine was such an amazing debut, with some of the most beautiful writing. i immediately knew i wanted to follow and read everything this author will create in the future. but then i also found this article that they wrote on inspiration, and they are just so cool –  On BTS, Writing, and What Makes an Artist. ♡ 8. newest fictional crush ☆ Funny Story by Emily Henry ⤷ miles kind of truly swept me completely off my feet. truly the best love interest i have read in years. (bonus michigan points too, wow) ♡ 9. newest favorite character ☆ The Crimson Moth (The Crimson Moth, #1) by Kristen Ciccarelli ⤷ rune completely won me over, even though i only gave this story three stars (a very high three stars) !! also, i just really enjoyed the magic system in this book and rune using the blood from her cycles was just really uniq...

[lightspren]

WELP I don’t use goodreads so. I’m posting it here lol. list of books i read in 2023!! i’ll say my faves at the end

Italics were rereads. bold were faves, strikethrough I did not like. if anyone wants author names i’ll go find them, I just hadn’t bothered putting them directly on my list

1. Stormlight Archive - Oathbringer

2. Stormlight Archive - Rhythm of War

3. Tress of the Emerald Sea

4. Dark Shores

5. Dark Shores - Dark Skies

6. Dark Shores - Gilded Serpent

7. Starchaser Saga - Darkwind

8. Starchaser Saga - Dawnstar

9. Starchaser Saga - Nightwing

10. Starchaser Saga - Lightfall

11. Starchaser Saga - Bloodsinger

12. Starchaser Saga - Dragonblood

13. Starchaser Saga - Wildheart

14. Hunger Pangs

15. Legends & Lattes

16. The Saltwater Heir

17. The Phoenix Priest

18. A Court of Thorns and Roses

19. A Court of Mist and Fury

20. A Court of Wings and Ruin

21. A Court of Silver Flames

22. The Jasmine Throne

23. Forging Silver into Stars

24. A Curse so Dark and Lonely

25. A Heart so Fierce and Broken

26. A Vow so Bold and Deadly

27. Defy the Night

28. Defend the Dawn

29. Ash Princess

30. So This Is Ever After

31. The Broken Earth - The Fifth Season

32. The Broken Earth - The Obelisk Gate

33. The Broken Earth - The Stone Sky

34. The Prison Healer

35. In Deeper Waters

36. Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

37. Moonrise Exile/Deception/Alliances

38. Fourth Wing

39. The Fae King’s Assassian

40. Mistborn

41. The Sunlit Man

42. Well of Ascension

43. Hero of Ages

44. Tress of the Emerald Sea

45. Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

Novellas

1. Dawnshard

2. Sixth of Dusk

3. A Court of Frost and Starlight

All in all a good reading year. Esp since I spent a lot of time from July-Dec writing. Yumi and Tress were I think my top fave new reads, I loved them so so much (as evidenced by reading them again in the same year LOL). i’m putting my reading to do list for 2024 below (again italics are ones i wanna reread)

1. Cytonic

2. cytoverse Novellas

3. Defiant

4. Hunger Pangs novella

5. Howl’s Moving Castle

6. Jules Kelley’s book

7. percy jackson

8. the other percy jackson books

9. the Watch discworld books

10. Witches discworld books

11. find more sci fi and post apoc

[fyeahsmokinhot]

I have to thank Shadow & Bone, yes the TV-show, for dragging me back into reading fiction again.

After binging the show I ordered the full set of Grishaverse, Six of Crows and King of Scars. Finished in a week or so (on a roll)....and moved on to V.E.Schwab’s Villain’s, Roshani Chokshi’s The Gilded Wolves series.

I have now started the Gentlemen Bastards with The Fifth Season, Ninth House and The Stormlight Archives waiting to go next.

It’s been years since I have been able to sustain my attention on books for this long. Yes I would read a book periodically, but that’d be twice a year, while I would binge fanfiction for instant gratification.

It bugged me so much, as I used to read tons (!!!) up to like age 18/19. I never really understood why I left reading and became much more invested in TV/films. I mean I guess I grasp the concept of fatigue and evolution/circumstance, but really I JUST MISSED BOOKS SO MUCH.

What I am trying to say is if someone happens to read this and wants to invite me into their book club, wants to rant about any books, etc hit me up.

Also thanks Grishaverse for existing and igniting my love of reading and imagination once again. You may have caused me to miss a ton of essay deadlines, but the hell I am enjoying this ride.

(Yes, yes... I agree the Grishaverse books are B+/C tier, Six Of Crows (duology) is Masterful, but King of Scars has all my favs <3.)

[captain-noir]

trying to come up with a coherent and organized sorting system for my fav characters across different mediums and genres is the worst and i’ve been struggling with for ages. like there’s very much ‘vibes’ involved i.e writing style, structure, performance but also its boils down to:

women who transcend their assigned station (both in the story and whatever the author mandates)

women who are angry and nasty and incorrigible

women who do whatever they want and are active in the narrative (do you know how fucking rare that is, even in romcoms and romance novels, most of them devolve into passive receptacles of the men’s desires and/or get swallowed up by their story). 

as for men, i oscillate from the stoic, chivalric ones that are considered too straitlaced and boring ( still-waters run deep) or the extreme opposite i.e compelling villains that would have people writing think-pieces about them. there’s no middle ground for men. idk why but im less tolerant of mediocre male characters (i almost always hate the charming rogue/ranger types on principle alone) than i am of female characters. 

[silvercaptain24]

Okay! Non-spoiler memes above the cut! Below the cut are spoilers for everything up to the end of Oathbringer, so you have been warned.

[fandom]

Books

Think of this as Tumblr’s “To Be Read” pile. 

The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

The Six of Crows Duology +8 by Leigh Bardugo

Percy Jackson & the Olympians -1 by Rick Riordan

The Warrior Cats series -1 by Erin Hunter

The All for the Game series -1 by Nora Sakavic

Pride and Prejudice -1 by Jane Austen

A Court of Thorns and Roses series +11 by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas

The Secret History -2 by Donna Tartt

The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir

The Silmarillion +5 by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Folk of the Air series by Holly Black

A Song of Ice and Fire -2 by George R.R. Martin

The Trials of Apollo series +6 by Rick Riordan

The Song of Achilles +7 by Madeline Miller

The Raven Cycle series -8 by Maggie Stiefvater

Chain of Iron by Cassandra Clare

Red, White, and Royal Blue -5 by Casey McQuiston

Captive Prince -5 by C.S. Pacat

The Discworld series +6 by Terry Pratchett

The Simon Snow series by Rainbow Rowell

The Shadowhunter Chronicles +2 by Cassandra Clare

The Stormlight Archive series +17 by Brandon Sanderson

The Picture of Dorian Gray +1 by Oscar Wilde

Wings of Fire +7 by Tui T. Sutherland

The Great Gatsby +3 by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

The Throne of Glass series +5 by Sarah J. Maas

Call Down the Hawk -9 by Maggie Stiefvater

Mister Impossible by Maggie Stiefvater

The Twilight Saga -13 by Stephenie Meyer

Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard by Rick Riordan

Artemis Fowl -19 by Eoin Colfer

The Grisha Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo

The Animorphs series +5 by K.A. Applegate

The Dark Artifices series -1 by Cassandra Clare

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

The Infernal Devices -8 by Cassandra Clare

The Iliad by Homer

1984 by George Orwell

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Midnight Sun -37 by Stephenie Meyer

Mistborn +5 by Brandon Sanderson

The Wicked Powers by Cassandra Clare

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Lunar Chronicles -3 by Marissa Meyer

Crescent City -13 by Sarah J. Maas

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel

The number in italics indicates how many spots a title moved up or down from the previous year. Bolded titles weren’t on the list last year.

[astreamoflight]

My shortest book of the year was Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh (112p), and my longest was Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson (1087p). I enjoyed Words of Radiance more! The Stormlight Archives is an awesome series that I highly recommend. Brandon Sanderson is amazing at creating unique fantasy settings and taking tropes and turning them on their heads.

That being said, Silver in the Wood was pretty good too and fans of Uprooted would probably really like it.

Weekly Bookish Question #191 (July 26th - August 1st):

Mid-year check-in: What’s been the shortest and the longest book you’ve read so far this year? Which one did you enjoy more?

[janeways-coffees]

Man i just- what if fitz had kaladin inventing therapy for him. Kaladin please save assassins across the sci fi universes. Beloved needs it.

[meadowlarkx]

Lark, tell us about bridge 4 courting traditions 👀

Ahahaha

This is a crack-taken-half-seriously wip for Stormlight Archive where everyone in Kaladin's squad (Bridge Four) is trying to court Kaladin (their leader/now-captain) with their various (fantasy & bullshitted by me) cultural dating traditions. It's based on the verifiable fact that all those dudes in the og ragtag squad are 100% in love with Kaladin in canon (somewhere I have a list of screenshots for Evidence Bridge Four Wants To Date Kaladin & Vice Versa). If you don't know Stormlight Archive suffice to say they've been through HELL together and Kaladin gave them hope and meaning in spite of his own crushing depression. In the fic I was going to eventually let them all get together in some kind of polycule situation but in the meantime it's sort of a comedy of errors:

If Kaladin were a woman it would have been a courting gift--a silver flute or mirror or paintbrush case. Given by a darkeyed craftsman to another and made by that craftsman’s own hands--Kaladin eyed Leyten’s callused, scarred hands: how had they done such fine work?--it would have almost certainly been an engagement gift.

Kaladin felt a chill as he took the beautiful thing. He wasn’t any girl, but Leyten’s captain. It had to be a parting gift. Didn’t it?

(...)

He’s trying to find a way to say he’ll leave. To ask for leave.

“Of course,” he said brusquely, clutching the fine breastplate to his chest as if it could protect his crushed heart. “Just speak to Sigzil and I’m sure it can all be arranged.”

“Sigzil?” Leyten looked confused.

Was that a painspren? Kaladin squashed it under his boot. “For the paperwork.”

“We don’t need any paperwork,” Leyten said. “We’re Alethi.”

“Yeah, but--” What?

“I understand,” Leyten said quickly. The blond man’s face was very red. “It’s alright, sir. You needn’t say anything.”

Kaladin is an idiot but he's not the only one (also Brandon Sanderson did Rock's dialogue like this not I):

“You court him then,” Teft said gruffly, stirring the fire. He tried not to think of Kaladin with Rock, lean and lovely to the Horneater’s redheaded bulk--of Kaladin with the men--without him. “I can’t.”

“You think I have not been trying?” Rock laughed. “I was wrong. You are as airsick as him. I have been cooking [WORD] here for weeks.”

“[WORD, BADLY]?”

“Special stew,” Rock said, as if that explained it. “For joining hands.” Then he stopped, looking at Teft. Storms, what did he see there? Teft felt like a cremling running for a rock crevice. “It would not be such a hard thing to court you, you know."

Btw if you've read this far in this post please know anyone has blanket permission to write this idea or a version of this idea (just let me know tho so I could see it)!! I still love this cracky premise so much and I have a fair amount written but at the moment I have no idea if a finished story will ever see the light of day. The best part of it right now is "Kaladin floundered in distressed confusion like a lurg in crem"

Thank you for the ask ❤️