#stormlight archive minis

[gikairan]

If I'm a blessing, Father, how can we reject the others? How can we condemn the one who made them? Sja-anat isn’t human, and doesn’t think like one, but I believe she is trying to find a path toward peace between singers and humans. In her own way.

[duckngk]

my piece for the cosmere mini bang! posted really late but hey its okay

i got to work on a lovely Kaleshwi fic called An Understanding of Shadows by if_one_of_us_falls on Ao3!

[blogfromthehill]

I can finally show off my illustration for @cosmere-mini-bang! I've been working alongside the wonderful author, Rose, to bring their fic, The Fibonacci Sequence, to life. I mostly do character portraits so it was a fun challenge to figure out how to create a full composition with backgrounds and all. It took a little over a month to finish the illustration. 33 hours in total. Illustration progression below! Please read Rose's The Fibonacci Sequence and the rest of the Cosmere Mini Bang entries at the Mini Bang Gallery.

[meipossum]

Finally the day is here! Here's the collab I've been working on alongside with @truthwatcher-vez and @havens.end (insta) for the @cosmere-mini-bang

Haven and I did ilustrations for Progression. A beautiful fanfic by @truthwatcher-vez starring Renarin and Rysn and a moment of truly understanding between them. Such lovely characters I've loved since the first time I met them reading the stormlight archive.

You can read the fic here

I think this is the first time I can say I am living something as big in terms of fandom. I am really happy about finding the cosmere and people with the same love and interest in it. 💕

[offonaherosjourney]

[leiththebard]

utterly befuddled... my brother thinks chulls in stormlight look like cows. and doesn't think that the canonical depictions of chasmfiends is right. brother dearest did you LOOK at the pictures Shallan drew??? Did you READ WoK???? He really hears chiton and thinks COWS????

[botanicaxu]

Here's my entry for this year's Cosmere Mini Bang!

Collab fic writer is the amazing YourLocalTiredTruthwatcher @localtiredtruthwatcher

The fic is titled "I'll Keep You Out of the Dark (If I Only Could)", featuring Jasnah & Elhokar, the underappreciated siblings, with their behind-the-main-screen stories (which I'm really intrigued to read but hasn't been much covered in the canon text).

The fic is well-constructed and we also have some baby Gavinor. Read it to the end and you might find yourself cry hard 😭

It's quite fun to do fic art. Thanks so much for the opportunity!

[emily-e-draws]

lil guy with a big scarf

[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)

[frombraize]

moash redemption arc and adolin corruption arc would fix me

[cosmere-mini-bang]

Welcome to the Cosmere Mini Bang!

Event Info | Guidelines/FAQ | Timeline | Ask

What is a Big Bang/Mini Bang?

From Fanlore:

A Big Bang (or “Bang” for short) is a specific type of challenge usually involving long fics and accompanying artwork. This type of challenge is a reprise of the old zine tradition of collaboration between artists and writers for internet fandoms. Most Big Bangs have a similar format: Writers sign up to take part in the challenge and begin writing stories. When the early drafts of the stories are available, each one is assigned one or more artists, or artists might claim stories from posted summaries. Artists create fanart to go along with the story. This art can take the form of illustrations, manips, photo collages, vids, icon sets, etc.

Mini bangs are similar to big bangs, but are smaller in scope, with a smaller word count requirement than traditional big bangs.

So, what exactly is the word minimum?

We’ve set up two tracks for this event: the Mini Bang and the Petite Bang.

For the Mini track: writers are expected to write a minimum of 3k words. Artists should create one simple piece to accompany their writer’s fic—the definition of a “simple” piece is up to artist discretion, but should approximately match the amount of work writers put into their fic.

For the Petite track: writers are expected to write a minimum of 10k words. Artists should create one complex piece OR two simple pieces—again, definitions are up to artist discretion.

How long do I have to do this? 

Writer sign-ups are open from Wednesday, May 1 to Wednesday, June 12, and are expected to have 50% of their work done by Sunday, August 4, at which point they will be asked to provide a summary and excerpt of their fic for artist claims. 

Artist sign-ups are open from Wednesday, May 1 to Wednesday, July 31. Claims happen a few days later, and artists will receive their assignments a few days after that.

Fics and art are to be posted beginning on Wednesday, October 16. This gives writers four months total to work on their fic, and artists a little over two months to create their art. 

Sounds good! How do I sign up? 

Sign-ups open on Wednesday, May 1. The form for writers is HERE, and for artists is HERE. Please be sure to read the Event Guidelines/FAQ before signing up!

[janlandsminis]

Highprince Dalinar Kholin, Blackthorn

“The most important words a man can say are ‘I will do better.’ These are not the most important words any man can say; I am a man, and they are what I needed to say.”

Hand-painted tabletop figure of Dalinar Kholin, made by Brotherwise Games. 1:34mm scale

[tictacpbandai]

Finally back working on my stormlight minis now with Adolin

[chiricocuvie]

Here’s my drawing for this lovely fic! It’s so nice to participate in something like this.

[sniffanimal]

My fill for the @cosmere-mini-bang!! This is art for In Which Rysn Meets Some Friends, by AlyLily! Go check it, and the other works in this bang out!

[gnecroticart]

My Cosmere mini bang piece for @hazekiller16 's fic "Next Time, My Songling"! It's a very well-written fic and I had a great time illustrating a scene from it, I highly recommend checking it out! Here's baby Eshonai making flower crowns with her dad 😊

Image description: a young eshonai and her father sitting outside. Eshonai is wearing a flower crown and is looking up at her father with a broad smile, and her face is clearly illuminated. Her father's face is turned away from the viewer and is partially in shadow, and he is holding out a piece of green fabric to his daughter, and his other hand is partially behind her shoulder. He has gemstones in his beard. The lighting indicates that this scene takes place in late afternoon, and most of the light is centered on Eshonai.