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So it does come up again in the chasm, but and Shallan does admit fault, the story definitely could have focused on it more tho

Listen I love Adolin and his character development but the way he calls Kaladin “bridge boy” in WoR makes my skin crawl. It reminds me of that very specific brand of condescending racism that has led to white people calling my father (a man in his 50s!!) “boy” or talking down to him like a child. I don’t know if Brandon Sanderson even intended it, but it’s so jarring for me. Also, Adolin and Shallan’s general lack of empathy for Kaladin drives me absolutely insane. Like Shallan just brands Kal as “grumpy” as if he doesn’t have a world of things to be grumpy about and Adolin dismisses Kaladin, despite (even before the duel) his proven track record of competency. Such a subtle depiction of micro aggressions, and it reminds me of sooo many white people I’ve interacted with who just dismiss me bc of my race

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Also I'd like to add that while a very apt metaphor it's not exactly one to one. Adolin calling Kaladin bridgeboy specifically isn't racist, that's just being a dick, it was the attitude around him being called that which made it one, so I think the term was fine, the context isn't

Listen I love Adolin and his character development but the way he calls Kaladin “bridge boy” in WoR makes my skin crawl. It reminds me of that very specific brand of condescending racism that has led to white people calling my father (a man in his 50s!!) “boy” or talking down to him like a child. I don’t know if Brandon Sanderson even intended it, but it’s so jarring for me. Also, Adolin and Shallan’s general lack of empathy for Kaladin drives me absolutely insane. Like Shallan just brands Kal as “grumpy” as if he doesn’t have a world of things to be grumpy about and Adolin dismisses Kaladin, despite (even before the duel) his proven track record of competency. Such a subtle depiction of micro aggressions, and it reminds me of sooo many white people I’ve interacted with who just dismiss me bc of my race

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Yeah I do think it was intentional. In WoR it *was* a micro aggression kinda sorta but it grows into a term of endearment. Shallan isn't wrong, obviously his depression plays into it, but before thes chasm they interacted like 3 times all of which were negative, and she acknowledges she was in the wrong for the boots. I also really like the moment where she opens up to Kal about the feelings of her abused childhood and they bond over the empty feeling, it feels very real.

Listen I love Adolin and his character development but the way he calls Kaladin “bridge boy” in WoR makes my skin crawl. It reminds me of that very specific brand of condescending racism that has led to white people calling my father (a man in his 50s!!) “boy” or talking down to him like a child. I don’t know if Brandon Sanderson even intended it, but it’s so jarring for me. Also, Adolin and Shallan’s general lack of empathy for Kaladin drives me absolutely insane. Like Shallan just brands Kal as “grumpy” as if he doesn’t have a world of things to be grumpy about and Adolin dismisses Kaladin, despite (even before the duel) his proven track record of competency. Such a subtle depiction of micro aggressions, and it reminds me of sooo many white people I’ve interacted with who just dismiss me bc of my race

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Mass effect fans are REELING

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Guy who's going to Utah for just completly unrelated reasons in a month

Picture this: you are just some guy, taking a flight and then like, half, the people on the plane whip out the same hilariously long book and read it the entire flight. Because this is gonna happen to people post Dragonsteel

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Always the ones you least expect lol

This was me when I first started reading The Way of Kings for the first time. I remember being midway through the book and being asked who my favourite characters were. I had a deep conversation about how I felt everyone misunderstood Sadeas and that he's actually a really good dude.

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It's not over. Things don't end, from the death of this universe to the next nothing ends, the players just change.

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november 1 mood

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The recreance was perhaps the best thing the old knights radiants could do to humanity. The centuries maybe even millennia they were stagnent, relying on their powers and shards instead of actual skill because there was no time and not enough people to actually train. But since the 2000 years since then, ironically, the constant wars on Roshar meant that there was no shortage of skilled fighters, scholars, tacticians, and leaders. That's why the pursuer could kill every other radiant in the old days but sucked ass against Kaladin, because Kaladin was *trained* to really fight. Perhaps Honor or some other person, maybe a secret corrupted Radiant, had forseen this, or maybe things just worked out like they did. The old Radiants were heroes, even in their shame

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We’ll have to do dinner Thursday night instead.

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Navani *is* fantasy Oppenheimer. Raboniel is fantasy truman

Navani ending up in a homoerotic rivalry with fantasy Oppenheimer was not on my Rythm of War bingo card

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I'll say this here because I don't want to go to Twitter but I feel like most anime fans need to read a fucking book. Or learn what the three act structure and character arc are.

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There is no force in the universe that will have you question your straightness than a character in a Sanderlanch.

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wherever kaladin goes a labor union follows

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These reposts have wildly different definitions of the word cringe

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So I'm doing what's basically tradition at this point and catching up on DC comics for the first time in months thanks to wanting to be there for the start of the Absolute Universe with like 50-60 issues to read since I haven't really touched anything since Dark Crisis. So far caught back up on Nightwing(was only a few issues behind) beast world, and going to restart and catch up to the Zdarsky Batman run and then the new Superman and Wonder woman runs which both look good. But I just want to say, if you've been out of the loop Titans and Beast world are 100% worth catching up on, great books and the current arc (completely separate from absolute power) has Trigon get his ass molly whopped in a fight that's no where near close.

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WHAT HAPPENED TO VASHER

- chapter 81, Words of Radiance

More words to live by.