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flamesong the bringer of chaos

if I get this to 50k+ notes I'll actually try to bake this

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EDIT 1: I'm starting to regret this. - Aug 4

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idc tinkle is your name to me<3

also. WHAT.

my friends have this uncanny ability to find characters with the same name as me and just OBLITERATE both of us by making fun of us

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[that-androgynous-lightweaver]

that's what i'm saying

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I played a oneshot and named my paladin Kaladin

i get my parents into d&d. first thing they do is name themselves respectfully tanavast and koravellium. nerds.

[that-androgynous-lightweaver]

ok tinkle literally who is naming their kids after piss tho

my friends have this uncanny ability to find characters with the same name as me and just OBLITERATE both of us by making fun of us

(@xxlemontartzxx)

[that-androgynous-lightweaver]

wtf is this (i love it)

The problem partner

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interestingly enough, i've tried to read good omens at least twice before and never understood the baby swap scene at the beginning. this is my third try over three years and i finally understand it.

my head hurts.

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OH MY GOD PLEASE DO NOT GET THIS TO 50K NOTES THIS IS A HORRID ABOMINATION OF A CAKE WHAT THE FUCK TUMBLR

if I get this to 50k+ notes I'll actually try to bake this

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[that-androgynous-lightweaver]

queerbait me once. yay!!!!! queerbait me twice. YAYYYYY YIPPEE!!!!!!!!

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rest in peace lift you would have loved puberty blockers

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this is a masterpiece

Kris shipping

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this is genuinely a really good point thank you op

i didn't want to add this to the post because it would add a bit too much seriousness to a good meme, but i do think it raised an interesting point. because obviously kaladin didn't forget that racism existed in that moment, he was confronting one of his primary oppressors, the guy who betrayed him multiple times over specifically because he was darkeyed.

what kaladin does forget in that moment is the pervasiveness of racism, and the extent to which it's baked into his society's institutions. and i think it makes a lot of sense for kaladin specifically to forget that (even though he absolutely knows it intellectually)!

because kaladin has always been an 'exception'. his father was a doctor, much higher nahn than anyone else in the town. kaladin is as close to literate as an alethi man is allowed to be-- more literate than adolin, presumably than elhokar. marrying the child of the citylord and having lighteyed children-- theoretically 'escaping racism', though of course that wouldn't have worked out too well in practice-- was not only thinkable but likely, unlike the false hope of defeating a shardbearer that others cling to.

before roshone, kaladin did suffer from racism-- but less than others, and in a way where he was led to believe that it was escapable and conditional.

and many of the worst things that happened to him went against the rules of alethi society. roshone was corrupt, and should never have been promoted. kaladin was immune to the draft due to his apprenticeship, and tien was young enough that choosing him was taboo if not forbidden.

similarly, tien being sent to the front lines was the sort of tactic that 'honorable' alethi norms like the codes of war would have considered reprehensible.

and of course when he saved amaram and defeated the shardbearer, the rules of society dictated that he be rewarded; i imagine choosing to give the shard to amaram should, from an honorable man, have been rewarded with pay and retirement for his men or something similar.

kaladin's enslavement was not just dishonorable by alethi social norms, but illegal.

and the kholins, up to this point, have signaled commitment both to the law and to those alethi social honor codes. and while they (especially elhokar) have been casually prejudiced, they've also welcomed the idea of kaladin as the captain of the cobalt guard, suggesting that they aren't so racist that they can't sometimes see reason.

kaladin not realizing the boon was only for lighteyes was a little naive of him, but him expecting the legal system to work for him-- when he took the issue directly to someone who knew him, respected him, and owed him the lives of his whole family-- is very understandable in the light of his experiences.

kaladin is the kind of person from a minority who was raised genuinely thinking that if they behave well, they might experience some prejudice, but no door is truly, systemically closed to them. he's had some knocks to that belief (and is kind of a suspicious person), but in the first part of words of radiance the world seems to be trying to reassure him that not all lighteyes are (too) racist, that the system is not (inherently) unjust, that he's simply been the victim of some of the more prejudiced fringes of lighteyed society.

and then the rug gets pulled out from under him.

because no amount of familiarity or respect will make elhokar side with him over one of the good old boys, no accomplishment will allow a darkeyes to challenge a lighteyes, and no amount of good behavior or education will make kaladin white lighteyed.

but a shardblade would.

...right?

i think this and the immediate aftermath, with adolin giving kaladin a blade and him giving it to moash, could have been a really interesting examination of that idea, because i don't think that lighteyed society would have smoothly accepted either of them. even by rhythm of war, we get hints that kaladin occupies a weird social place where he technically has a lighteyed rank but he seems to have a complicated relationship with 'other' lighteyes (obviously made particularly weird by him being a radiant and because most of the lighteyes he interacts with heavily are also royalty, but he doesn't quite seem to be equals with most of them).

but i don't think sanderson quite understood the experience he was writing about with kaladin, and he set out to write a series about an apocalypse. and so kaladin's complicated-- but not unrealistic-- perspective on alethi casteism will go unexamined.

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nah cuz he totally would

Genuine question he had mid-curse

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"didnt know she was based like that"

i recently got a cashier job and i love projecting onto me favorite pookies and putting them in casual everyday circumstances <3

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trust me i totally get it. just hate the phrase "no platonic explanation for this" because like 99% of the time there is, people just prefer to think of it as a ship :/

i think a lot of allos really need to learn the difference between "there's no platonic explanation for this" and "there is a platonic explanation for this, but i want them to make out."

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actually I'd like to clarify something. some trans people feel that they were born in the wrong body and that's what causes their gender dysphoria. some trans people don't experience physical gender dysphoria. even though I know others who experience dysphoria the way I do, I'm only really speaking from my personal experience. all trans umbrella people are different. I just firmly believe that these stereotypes are really harmful, no matter how your dysphoria manifests.

I don't dislike the transfem Ralsei theory. It makes sense especially for his character as to break free from his role within the game and the prophecy.

However – a lot of "proof" I've seen on this Theory is just; "oh, ralsei likes to be called cute, and fluffy and wear dresses." As if those aren't things men can do as well???? 😭

Like, correct me if I'm wrong, but last time I checked clothes don't have gender, and the words "cute" and "fluffy" are extremely gender neutral. So yeah, basically we are still trying to fit this kid into a box somehow.

But anyway gender-fluid/agender ralsei when?

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oh my god you fucking said it. thank you so much. it's so much worse added onto the whole trend of putting Kris in skirts so people will stop misgendering them. yes, Kris is nonbinary and we need to respect their pronouns, and they totally would slay a skirt. but MEN CAN WEAR SKIRTS TOO - and using Kris wearing a skirt as a tactic to make more people aware of their gender perpetuates the idea that wearing skirts erases masc identity. which makes things incredibly complicated for trans people of all sorts.

this is frustrating for me especially because for me, gender dysphoria isn't about my feminine body parts, it's about people seeing thinking of me as a girl. I couldn't wear skirts for three years after coming out without feeling sick. that's not because I hate my body. it's because people see a skirt and think "girl". I'm not a girl. I'm a person who likes wearing jeans and skirts and baggy pants and dresses.

point is, gender identity is NOT the same as gender expression. spreading awareness of a queer/trans character (headcanon or otherwise) is awesome, but stop perpetuating stereotypes about what clothes or words can be used for certain people. we need to be better than this. not just for us, but for the trans people who will grow up believing that in a heteronormative world they can't wear what they want to without being perceived a certain way.

I don't dislike the transfem Ralsei theory. It makes sense especially for his character as to break free from his role within the game and the prophecy.

However – a lot of "proof" I've seen on this Theory is just; "oh, ralsei likes to be called cute, and fluffy and wear dresses." As if those aren't things men can do as well???? 😭

Like, correct me if I'm wrong, but last time I checked clothes don't have gender, and the words "cute" and "fluffy" are extremely gender neutral. So yeah, basically we are still trying to fit this kid into a box somehow.

But anyway gender-fluid/agender ralsei when?