A bunch of fun cosmere stuff

Literally just here for the cosmere. Spoilers to wherever in Brandon's books I am, sorry!  

[levforfakes-deactivated20260123]

I got today's Cosmeredle in 7 tries:p

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Try and beat me at https://cosmeredle.net/

[a-willshaper]

First cosmeredle

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[highly-invested]

It's kind of crazy but Sanderson accidentally nailed the performative ally thing with Starling. The kind of person that thinks that being a nice person absolves them of unpacking any of their bigotry. To her Chrysalis isn't a girl person, just a bug monster she has to remember to call one. And that's not the same thing! This is fundamentally why she fails to do anything about ZeetZii's horrible bigotry the whole book! You can't Nice your way out of a culturally imposed bigoted worldview, you have to unpack and unlearn it! Now if only it was intentional.

[cosmereplay]

Why do people keep saying it wasn't intentional? It was written so perfectly clearly... The way that people will extend personhood only to a certain extent and then stop. It's so well written. Why on earth wouldn't that be intentional on the author's part?

[a-willshaper]

It was also pointed out when it happened with dusk, the only one she does this to who gets a pov!

[natequarter]

the shards' vessels that we actually know anything about, so far as i can tell:

the tragedy of being consumed by a force of nature, leaving nothing left of who you were (ati)

can't we all just be nice to each other and get along? (leras)

moron (tanavast)

arsehole (bavadin)

being corrupted by a force of nature, leaving nothing left of who you were, but it's not tragic this time he was just kinda like that already (rayse)

earnestly trying his best, not doing very well (sazed)

earnestly trying his worst, doing very well (taravangian)

such a great chessmaster, this five billion part plan is gonna work out so well! *ten minutes later* ABORT ABORT ABORT (koravellium avast)

also:

that FUCKING twink (hoid)

[isdalinarhot]

the facts:

sadeas in all of his povs talks about how much he relies on the thrill to feel any semblance of happiness. he talks about making political decisions that would lead to war and unrest specifically for the purpose of getting to fight on the battlefield and feel the thrill. he's willing to throw away his life's work, unifying alethkar, to do this. he's willing to kill dalinar, his best friend, over it. he's willing to break deathbed promises to gavilar, his other best friend, to do it. everything he does in his life, if it seems nonsensical and stupid, is for the purpose of just one opportunity to feel the thrill again. he is just as addicted to the thrill as dalinar is, it just only started causing problems once alethkar was stable and the wars became less and less naturally politically motivated

in words of radiance (and i think a little bit in the way of kings? it's been awhile) the jah keved civil war is so bad that nergaoul starts moving over there instead. people on the shattered plains are getting less and less of the thrill, its getting less and less strong, and sometimes it straight up cuts out in the middle of a battle

sadeas slowly, subtlely declines throughout the way of kings but especially during words of radiance. in terms of how, uh, coherent and justified his various schemes are. like to the point ive heard it as a complaint from fans. that in the first book sadeas is like a guy who has like an actual definitive goal in mind but in the second book hes just throwing scheme spaghetti at the wall with increasingly dramatic stakes until during his very last pov during the wor sanderlanche he and ialai are trying to put together a coup, even though sadeas doesn't even want the throne

the speculation:

sadeas is essentially going through thrill withdrawals and is trying whatever the hell he can to be able to get another fix

when he was saying all that inflammatory shit to adolin directly to his face in a way that pissed adolin off so bad that he killed sadeas, it wasn't "i can say whatever i want to this rube and he wont do anything! i can just gloat and share my evil schemes!" it was "i need a fight. i need a fight with anyone and everyone. i dont care that he's two and a half decades younger than me, i dont care that he's in his physical prime and im not, i don't care that he hates me super fucking bad and will almost certainly maim me given the chance, i need to fight someone politically important so if i win it causes more war and if i lose at least im fighting". he was being stupid on purpose because he was at rock fucking bottom

[highly-invested]

This is a great explanation for the truly inflammatory shit I forgot he said throughout Words of Radiance.

Like what reason is there to say this if your motivation isn't to start a fight by any means necessary?

[a-willshaper]

This also makes a lot of sense thematically with the stormlight archive, the questions of when it is alright to fight and the conflict between that and the fact that others are fighting for reasons that might be understandable

[natequarter]

shinovar never gets old. so imagine a fantasy world, right, where 90% of the population are not white, and live in a bizarre rocky land, and the tiny fraction that are are sequestered to Knockoff Medieval Fantasy Europe, except the story is primarily told from the perspective of the 90% of the population who are not white, who exclusively live outside of Knockoff Medieval Fantasy Europe, and whenever the 10% of the population who are white come up, the 90% who are not white describe them like they're fucking gollum

[agodamongstmortals]

People talk about Kaladin’s “and for my boom!” As if it’s the cringiest choice a character makes in the Stormlight archives, even though that award CLEARLY goes to Elhokar’s “I defy you!” during the chasmfiend hunt in The Way of Kings.

[a-willshaper]

I defy you is less cringeworthy as a book moment because you would never expect anything different from elokhar. That man is entirely cringe

[to-shards-you-say]

thrown out of elantris for asking the elantrians for a strap you can feel

[to-shards-you-say]

thrown off of beacon for asking the chorus for a strap you can feel

[to-shards-you-say]

no change in my confinement to the grand apparatus for asking it for a strap you can feel

[to-shards-you-say]

[windspeaking]

did we know about this by the way. theyre inventing new kinds of yuri over there

[sapphicspren]

I'm still thinking about this. Friend of Dorothy is out, Friend of Mishinah is in

[pinkpunkpie]

the most fantastical element of the stormlight archive is that people in power would act accordingly to scientists' decades of research to stop a global crisis

[a-willshaper]

To be fair they did have to be pressured into it by a guy with a history of brutal slaughter and magic powers they don't understand

[cam-pteryx]

The Lopen

[calicolen]

Syl's arc is some boomer to zoomer shit I stg

Syl in WoR: I'm intelligent and articulate.

Syl in WaT: CHULL PUSSY LOL 🧚‍♀️🫵😂

[calicolen]

So there I was, chillin in Urithiru. The invasion was successful, might have some nightmares but it went pretty well. All the radiants are passed tf out, so we good.

Nerdy ass underling comes over like: erm, last listener, there's a radiant in the tower that's awake ☝️🤓

No big deal right? All the big hitters should be on campaign away from the tower rn

Nerdy ass underling: they call him stormblessed

Fellalens, how fucked are we?

[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

[knight--error]

my life is so bad I'm gonna [remembers suicide jokes will get me locked up by the Vorin church in a small dark room] form a Radiant bond

[libralita]

Sometimes I think about Ishar's mini-ascension and I wonder what he did when he first got his powers. I think it's pretty safe to say that if he actually ascended Lord Ruler style Roshar would have...been thrown into the sun a thousand years ago. He only drank a little bit of the power.

My top crack theory is that he's responsible for the Thaylen's stupid eyebrows.

[frombraize]

"we need more complex female characters" you couldn't even handle venli

[highly-invested]

As far as I remember the WaT flashbacks don't describe Szeth's hair in any level of detail at all, which is a bold move that all but ensured I was imagining this 11 year old as bald as the goddamn moon