#yumi and the nightmare painter spoilers

[jochi-the-veristithaylen-baker]

Kelsier: *solves everything by killing noblemen*

Everyone on Scadrial: If only Kelsier was here, he'd have a great way to solve this problem.

Every nobleman on Roshar when they meet an assassin: I bet Kelsier planned this, it feels like something he'd do.

[to-shards-you-say]

moash killed elhokar so design could get a boob job and open her own business btw. he did that for the girlies

[brothermouse-skeleton]

Imagine being the space ship captain from Yumi and the Nightmare Painter.

You just spent all this time and effort making the impossible possible, stretching the limits of technology, going farther than any before you has. You achieve your goal, meet an entirely new alien race, beginning a new era of discovery and wonder for both worlds and then you get back and... people already forgot about all of that because, somehow, the entire environment of the world shifted while you were gone. And you can't even get mad at them for it because the entire (lowly) sky has changed colors and yeah, that's a pretty big deal!

So to cheer yourself up you go to this great noodle place you know, the one with the hostess who has mathematically incredible curves (highly) and that delightfully quirky coat rack. Turns out it's now run by some punk (lowly) kid and his girlfriend who got rid of the coat rack are now talking about putting in an art museum?!?!

Unfair (lowest).

[lamaery]

14 nightmare 

Yes, yes, basically what almost everyone is drawing for this… :D  image description: digitally colored pencil drawing of Painter kneeling on the ground, big brush in had, paper in front of him, while a very stylized, stiffly drawn black, wolfish creature bares his pointy fangs at him. The scene cast in bright turquoise and pink lights, which have a chalky texture to them. A tiny bright pink and bluish flame is the glowing eye of the black nightmare.

[ultimateinferno]

Yumi and the Nightmare Painter illustrations by Aliya Chen, 1-8 ☆9-16☆ 17-23

[starling-illu]

Painter 💫

[i-fucked-your-milkshake]

I think it’s funny when people roll their eyes about all the time Sanderson spends on clothes and fashion, as if it’s not an integral part of the world building and character development. I did my undergrad thesis on fashion semiotics in Mistborn (primarily using Roland Barthes) and there’s a direct correlation between how Vin is dressing and where she’s at on the hero’s journey, but in a way that doesn’t feel obvious at first. So it’s interesting to read Yumi and see how Sanderson is utilizing the language of fashion to explore these worlds and characters. The changing room scene with Akane is more than just a cute romcom scene, it’s about the process of discovery. Which is obvious but I can’t help harkening back to Barthes, who co-opts De Saussure’s thoughts on language for the use of fashion.

De Saussure identifies two aspects of language and communication: langue and parole. Langue is the rules of a particular language (subject verb order, for example) and parole is how an individual uses those rules to express themselves. Barthes applies this idea to fashion. We’re given these arbitrary rules of fashion (even as simple as “one must be dressed in public”) and from there we learn to work within the parameters of those rules to outwardly express ourselves. There’s a difference between your favorite pair of jeans and the pair of slacks you wear to work; there’s a difference between the dress you wear to a job interview and the dress you wear on a date where you’re trying to fuck.

The changing room scene is Yumi shotgunning the concepts of langue and parole all at once. She is learning new rules (you can have your shoulders bare) while learning how to express herself within the parameters of those rules (you can wear a dress with bare shoulders and still cover your shoulders with another garment). It’s cute and sweet but also important. She’s learning not just how to express herself but also that she’s allowed to. There’s nothing frivolous about how Sanderson uses and describes fashion. It’s a direct outgrowth of the journeys he sends his characters on.

[its-your-mind]

Me (very powerful immortal dude, but currently a literal living statue, alive and aware but unable to move or interact with the world at all due to a poorly implemented failsafe) and the bad bitch (a fragment of a god, the embodiment of the structure inherent in all creation, for whom I have created a fake body out of magic and vibes that has fuckin AMAZING tits bc she wants to study how humans react to tits while she runs a noodle restaurant and uses my unmoving body as a coatrack) I pulled by being artsy

[madxmellon]

Yumi and Nikaro watching their little dramas

[supreme-leader-stoat]

Cosmere fans having a normal one over Chapter 34.

[shewhodoesnotexist]

offworlders in most cosmere books: use uncommon words and expressions, hard to place ethnically, maybe unusually short or tall

offworlders in Yumi and the Nightmare Painter: a Cryptic, a Sleepless and four-armed aliens?!

(and, you know, Hoid)

[just-cosmere-fan]

Yumi and the Nightmare Painter seems like a huge "fuck you" from Brandon to AI art

[knightsgaydiant]

I love the trope of supernatural entity who inherently exists outside of gender nevertheless strongly identifies with a binary gender. It just makes my little trans heart so happy. (This post is about Masaka. I love you, Masaka.)

[ultimateinferno]

"My coat rack killed God and now it's everyone's problem."

[kathhey]

nikaro, after dedicating his whole life to it, realizing he never even stood a chance at joining the dreamwatch 🤝 spensa, after dedicating her whole life to it, realizing that she never even stood a chance at entering the ddf

[dawn-the-rithmatist]

Okay so there is no heterosexual explanation for the way Yumi first describes Akane