I read stuff

I read stuff. Sometimes I post about it, if I am both inspired and my brain is wording sufficiently. I am rarely actually chill here lol

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Okay Bambleby has Emily's journal now and is writing in it!! This is not a drill!!

I posted my other rambles on my main but now I'm moving them back here. Because I read stuff.

Rant incoming :))))

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I started reading Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries and I now one hundred percent get why at least one of my mutuals was going insane over it some amount of months back. I will now commence posting about it with the title tag. I may or may not spoiler tag. You have been warned.

It's an autistic woman in magical science y'all. And lovely complex flawed people all over the place. And such DELICIOUS- well I'll save it for the other posts lol

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Finished it 😨

Maybe more coherent rambles later (or possibly not) either way AAH!!!!!!!!!

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OH. Oh. That's why Design was able to leave Roshar! All the spren are free to leave now! :0

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WAIT TIME CAN PASS MORE SLOWLY ON ROSHAR RIGHT NOW THAN OTHER PLACES?!!! That is so weird!! Why is it!! I wanna knooowwwww- oh right. A Shard dying

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Omg Hoid regenerated with help from Ulaam?!

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Poor Jasnah :((

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WOOOOOO NIGHTBLOOD REACHING GREATER SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS!!!!!!! MORE NIGHTBLOOD SAPIENCE!!!!!!

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ExCUSE me?! Nohadon is talking DIRECTLY to Dalinar in a vision?! AND REMEMBERING THE PREVIOUS INTERACTION?! Is this Tanavast? No he's the stormfather. Can it be Adonalsium? Or one of the spren of Roshar, such as the Wind or Stone? Surely Nohadon didn't become a cognitive shadow, doesn't seem his style. Why is he in the visions?!! Ah!

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Nin's spren says Szeth's spren had become an auxiliary to him?... 👀

That sheds a bit of possible light on the sunlit man :D 👀

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Pretty sure szeth just obtained the fifth ideal

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I love the armorspren SO MUCH

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Oh, Reason is the one who hid/disappeared from the Cosmere?

No wonder everything is crazy there 😂

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This personal attack on JASNAH is what's going to finally work?! Are you freaking KIDDING me??!!!!

She beat every point! This thing itself isn't even really analogous, it wasn't about protecting self at the cost of allies at all! You're going to somehow jump from her luring people to attack her, to abandoning allies and letting odium rule?!!

You have got to be freaking KIDDING ME.

If this is the thing that gets her I'm going to be MURDEROUS

Rrgh a stupid ad hominem + red herring is gonna defeat Jasnah, after all the other more serious arguments failed??

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Nale moves like a Mistborn burning atium?!

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Nale moves like a Mistborn burning atium?!

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I really like the continued narrative obfuscation of what Sigzil's and Venli"s plan to save the Shattered Plains will be!! Plans that are hidden like that are SO much more likely narratively to be successful. Even if they appear to be failing at first, it usually turns out to be a ploy 😍

HOWEVER. Now Jasnah is returning tired to Thaylenah and I'm SCARED. Odium/Taravangian is already so competent and worrying 😭 and he's so confident, he surely has a masterful plan!

How on EARTH is Jasnah supposed to defeat him? We don't even know what brilliant stroke(s) he's going to apply to turn the city!! AGGGHHH 😭

So the way things look now, in a kind of meta way, is that the Shattered Plains will be saved by the secret last-minute plan, Thaylen City will fall to Odium by stinking PERSUASION, obviously the other pieces of the Azish empire already defected, but Azimir itself will survive with Maya's last-minute help (thoughhhh Adolin might not get that leg back 😬).

We still don't know what this FREAKING challenge will be, and Dalinar's running out of time to get back to the Physical Realm. Fortunately at least Navani and Gav got out.

SPEAKING OF WHICH

I feel so bad for little Gav 😭. And I don't know what Odium's doing exactly but I'm afraid he's manipulating him as well as torturing him. Poor boy's been through way too much already!! Plus... I recall some fan theories that the challenge would involve Dalinar being pitted against Gav in some way, or Gav being in danger or needing to be hurt in order to win or something 😭😭😭 and that is looking... ah... Rather possible with this setup of him seeing all this and thinking Odium is his dad 😭😭😭. Not looking good rn 😬😬

And then Kaladin's supposed to... save the spren or something?? And Ba-Ado-Mishram is still there, and Shallan and Renarin and Rlain are still on their journey. At least I'm confident Kaladin will succeed in helping Szeth, and maybe he can even get Nale (despite the fact that they're about to duel to the death 💀).

I'm early into Day 9 rn and SO scared.

And there's a whole second arc coming 😭 so there's still a SOLID CHANCE OF A DECIDEDLY UNHAPPY ENDING IN AT LEAST SOME RESPECTS AHHH