Let's talk about the Cosmere, shall we?

Read cosmere, write a little, sleep, repeat

[suffersinbald]

The raven familiar’s name is Quothe and nobody has found this as funny as they should, I know the spelling’s off but it’s literally just quothe the raven and I am in tears over this

[menacingscone]

Saw a 17th shard thread that was like “why would Hoid bond a cryptic?”

Are we talking about the same Hoid? What other spren could he possibley mainten a bond with?

[libraryofawesomeness]

Why WOULDN’T Hoid bond a cryptic

[athalwen]

At a signing pre-covid I asked Brando if Hoid was best suited to be a Lightweaver as opposed to something else (cause iirc he’s said you can bond a spren from an order that isn’t your top compatibility as long as you still believe/follow their ideals?) and he said yes (:

[athalwen]

The number of sentient swords I’ve seen that spew black mist and end up trying to consume their wielder has gone up to 3 and at this point I’m starting to think it might not be a good idea to create a sentient sword that spews black mist

[czrenys]

“NO!” VIN SCREAMED.

[rhetoricandlogic]

The Way of Kings- Excerpt Illustration by BeaGifted

[onlycosmere]

[athalwen]

TenSoon, revealing to Vin that he’s a kandra: Vin from Scadrial… I don’t actually have 300 bones

[nomnomroko]

Progress shots on Patreon

[seafoamplant]

I'd add more but that's really all I gotta say about that

[thousandwrecks]

I read The Final Empire on a couple of long flights this week and dang I am upset about Kelsier. :(

[jonroxton]

i can’t believe megamind destroyed mvrvel 7 years ago

[tousleheadedpoet]

#hoid and kelsier in secret history

[littlegreydragon]

A bunch of people said my first painting of Jasnah looked too soft or too nice, so here she is being scary instead.

[athalwen]

The Girl That Looked Up WoB

Sparkle Hearts: The Girl That Looked Up. Is that a real story that happened in Roshar? Or just a metaphor?

Brandon Sanderson: So, Hoid heard it from someone. He did not make it up.

Sparkle Hearts: I'm thinking Shallan told the story...

Brandon Sanderson: Well, he told the story, too. He knew the story, she knew the story. What you're asking is if it's actually historical?

Sparkle Hearts: Yes. Did it happen?

Brandon Sanderson: I'll give you a RAFO. Because there's actually a little bit to it that I can't talk about. That probably tells you more than I even should already.

There are some weird things about that story, particularly the version that Hoid is involved in.

[acertaincritic]

Unpopular opinion: I’d love to see Hoid (The King’s Wit/Cephandrius/Drifter/etc.) sweat for once. See him out of control, facing something he didn’t see coming. Storming anything, I just want him to shiver.

[athalwen]

This aged well

[fyrebeam]

Hey, for the cosmere palette challenge, could we see Wit in #23? Thanks ahead!

aaa thanks for assembling the palette challenge <333 here’s Wit for you!

[athalwen]

Is your novel an original work or is it playing off of stormlight?

It’s original! I have respect for fic but I’ve never been able to write it myself

[athalwen]

As someone who's also working on a novel, do you have any tips for publishing? I've written everything on google docs and I've tried converting it all to a pdf but my test audience says it's not as accessible as it seems

Uhhhh unfortunately the only formats I use for writing are google docs and Microsoft Word. I’ve been able to send word files via email before but when I submit to my writing group I just use docs.

You could try just directly sharing a doc with people, move the part of your work you want to share into a new file so they’re not seeing your new stuff if you don’t want that and set the sharing privileges to comment only so they won’t be able to edit anything? Sorry, that’s the only thing I know 😬