A Specter Haunting Urithiru

Fused apologist. Raboniel(EverythingNothing) on AO3.

[lamaery]

Comic tiiiiime!!! The amazing @2shards donated an incredible generous amount for an art in the @fandomtrumpshate auction this year. So I offered to draw a small scene of their choice and that was Moash catching a whip with his bare hand in Oathbringer chapter 48. Very heroic! Very cool. I redrew that stupid punch so many times. But I am so happy that it all worked out, since I managed to hand 2shards a printed (and by happenstance bound) and signed copy of this at MCM in London! I hope (and am sure) we will see many more cool fanworks popping up over the year from the FTH auction, so keep your eyes peeled and perhaps consider joining next year ;) The beautiful alt-texts are written by @2shards with small additions and changes by me. :)

[snevlaxs]

i read this one fic by blindradiant and i love the concept of szeth having a crush on dalinar and writing self insert yaoi fanfics about it 🥹🥹🥹🥹 Ok? ok

[cosmereplay]

[ID: A sketch of Szeth, angling himself away from the viewer with his arms impossibly tight to his sides and an embarrassed expression on his face. Nevertheless this sketch of Szeth is graceful and smooth!! Anyway he's imagining Dalinar with a square jaw and a distant, thoughtful expression. End ID]

[gh0stfellow]

those alethi style uniforms really get in the way

(click here to view the full uncensored nsfw image)

[lightweaver-naeuri]

I'm not great at using GIMP but spite fueled me. Thanks to @that-androgynous-lightweaver for informing me that this WoB said that he pictured Skai aka Dominion to use she/her pronouns. (Though he did say that was subject to change).

While I think it would be amazing if the canon, big bearded Skai that was revealed in the card game used she/her, I'm not getting my hopes up lmao. Until then, I've feminized Dominion (fem!Dom, if you will) and spent a whole ass day learning GIMP stuff.

Original art by Medusa Dollmaker.

[cosmereplay]

“I have something to say,” Cosmereplay announced. “During last few months, how many of you have come to me, saying your favourites feel unpopular compared to the rest of Cosmere ao3?”

Tumblr fell silent. Finally, the Mistborn authors raised their hands. “We only make up 20% of Cosmere fic. It’s depressing how everything is so Stormlight-focused.” Then the gen-only authors raised their hands. “65% of all Cosmere fic is shipfic,” they added sadly. Then several others raised their hands, including the kadolin authors. “We only have 500 fics, just 13% of Cosmere fic. It’s so few compared to Supernatural, or Heated Rivalry.”

“Kadolin authors, I didn't know you felt this way,” Cosmereplay noted.

“Oh. Yeah, but we do. We feel it too, Cosmereplay.” They glanced down at their hands, calloused from writing 100k fics for each other. “There’s so much pressure. We don’t know if we can keep this up.”

“I still have nightmares,” the Kaladin/reader authors said softly, “about the way Reddit treats slash reader and slash OC fic, and how they treat female fans generally. We’re so ostracized. Anyone else?”

“Nobody cares about female characters, either,” the femslash authors added. “Femslash makes up less than 10% of Cosmere fics despite having so many female characters. It’s hard to get people to care.”

“Я пишу по-русски,” the Russian authors said. “Меня это раздражает, потому что английский доминирует в фандоме.”

A few glanced at the Moashfuckers.

“What?” the Moashfuckers demanded. “You expect this to be a feeling-sharing party because the storming fandom-old gave you a sour eye? Storm off. It’s a miracle I haven’t ragequit this fandom entirely, having to deal with all the #FuckMoash from everyone.”

The Elantris lovers patted them on the shoulder.

“And I write kink fics,” Cosmereplay said. “I know some of you do not like this. It makes me feel different. Not only because I am the only one with 111 fics.” He leaned forward and winked. “Not counting BlindRadiant of course. We all feel alone and unpopular because of these things, right? Ha! Perhaps we can feel alone together.”

[cosmereplay]

All this to say: when you compare up, also compare down. This counts in any community, and is good for your mental health. If you only pay attention to the ways in which others are getting more attention, more fics than you, then you will miss the ways in which still others are struggling.

And if you try some things and you’re still discouraged and you’re not having a good time in the fandom, it’s totally okay to take a break and focus on some stuff in your 3D world. Read a different book, do a different hobby for a while. This is supposed to be fun, so it’s sad, but not bad, if you discover that this fandom isn’t working for you right now.

So how to keep it fun? The way we grow and thrive as a community is by supporting each other. The only way we keep each other buoyed is to lift each other up! Here’s some ideas:

If you’ve run out of Mistborn fic, why not try a crossover with one of your favourite characters in it?

If you’re yearning for a specific ship, why not browse and open your heart to a different rarepair with some similar qualities?

If you’re an artist struggling to get your favourite ship seen, why not reach out to a fic writer and offer an exchange?

If you see fans complaining about racism in the fandom, why not take some time to follow @writing-with-color and expand your understanding?

If you see your favourite pairing in a language you don’t read, why not read it through google translate?

If you have a favourite fic, why not go back and comment on it (again) to encourage the authors of the things you like?

If you don't know what might interest you, why not check the bookmarks of authors you like, and see what their favourite fics are?

If there’s only a couple other people active right now who share your OTP, why not invite them into a 5 person discord and giggle with each other?

Or join the #Cosmere RP revolution that’s happening, and jump in with your favourite overlooked character!

[awoooniper]

*three shots deep*: i need…. i need to… what do i need… i need…. another shot.

*four shots deep, inexplicably more coherent*: i need to master the blade.

[lightweaver-naeuri]

So on some level the Stormlight show will be categorically a musical right?

[dontworryaboutdeath]

The Singer-focused parts will <3

[stormlight-queer-a-thon]

[suddenly bolts upright in bed] Oh shit, I kinda forgot about the event I'm supposed to be running. I guess it's fine.

You have 13 (13!!!) days until the beginning of June, at which point the collection (https://archiveofourown.org/collections/StormlightQueerathon2026) will open! It will stay open for the entire duration of June.

I considered making prompts or similar for this year, but I don't think I will. Anyone is free to write what they wish (as long as it's sufficiently queer), any length, any style. Just as long as it has some amount of effort put into it.

So.. better start planning!! The event starts soon!!

[kingoffantasy516]

Finally watched Transformers One

[echoingcave]

One thing I would have liked to see is a meeting between the Scardian and Rosharan Ghostbloods

The Scadrian ones are actually fairly sane and are like "yay teamwork" and just want to protect the planet. That really isn't that bad.

Meanwhile the Rosharan branch is addicted to Stormlight and can't stop attempting murder (and failing because Shallan exists). These guys suck, honestly.

Like how exactly are these guys the same organization again?

[dontworryaboutdeath]

Clever commentary about how hard it is to run organizations once they get too big.

[virtualtear00]

whose maid is this

[highly-invested]

[moash]

it’s just so crazy that there’s two main metaphors for racism in the stormlight archive, lighteyes/darkeyes and humans/singers, and brandon fumbled both of them like. dude you could have just decided not to talk about racism at all if you didn’t have anything to say about it.

[jasnahkholin]

stormlight is so fundamentally about being a white american man that you can read into brandon's metatextual arc into the politics of the series.

kaladin and shallan have two ends of the 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps' story within a corrupt system while dalinar realizes from his position as an embodiment of the system that corruption exists. there are good moments here and good themes, hope and perseverance and don't kill yourself etc. (neoliberal slop)

then we get moash and the parshmen are people reveal. the ambiguity of the moash storyline is what makes it compelling. if there wasn't a case to be made from both sides then it doesn't work. the audience needs to be with kaladin all the way through even as he helps and then ultimately betrays moash. parshmen slaves being full sentient beings is a slight subversion of a sort of house elf trope, but not unexpected. we have had rlain the whole time as a tease that things are not what they seem.

oathbringer is where it all comes together to get to the point where reality and fantasy are almost merging. humans conquered the continent and subjugated and exterminated the natives and their culture. your way of life, even if you can't abandon it was built on genocide and slave labor. can you still participate in that and consider yourself a good person?

and then RoW shows that Brandon isn't ready to write these books. he regresses back into fantasy, dropping the ball on the moral rolling stone that has been building momentum since minute one. all nuance is written out and it becomes a straightforward fight between good and evil.

the way odium and the fused were written means that any doylist critique can be given a watsonian answer.

q: should the land of the continent that was violently conquered be given back to its original inhabitants?

a: no because they worship an evil god.

q: when, if ever, is revolutionary violence justified?

a: never, he told his best friend to kill himself.

this is the frustration. brandon sanderson is not ready to reckon with the answers to the questions that made the first books so compelling. he is not ready to admit some systems might need to be overthrown. he set up for a grand slam and then bunted.

[dontworryaboutdeath]

“Men ride the storms no longer” says Stormfather to a man who has just ridden the storms. I don’t understand either Kaladin!

[to-shards-you-say]

literally the most chained man you’ve ever seen in your fucking life

[rhythm-of-lesbianism]

alert alert psa for all stormlight fans

Jasnah is described as having tight curls. Jasnah has very curly hair

Jasnah was nothing like that. She was tall and slender, with clear skin, narrow black eyebrows, and thick, deep onyx hair. She wore part of it up, wrapped around a small, scroll-shaped golden ornament with two long hairpins holding it in place. The rest tumbled down behind her neck in small, tight curls.

– The Way of Kings, Chapter 5

do with this what you will

[basket-of-radiants]

Little Lirin/Hesina/Szeth snippet from the au where Tien finds Szeth's oathstone. This is absolutely not their dynamic in my comic, but the ship is cute.