Ember

Mostly stormlight but also sometimes other fandoms and interests. Same name on AO3

[rocket-sith]

Reblog if you write fic and people can inbox you random-ass questions about your stories, itemized number lists be damned.

[shipwrecked-event]

Welcome to the 2026 Shipwrecked event!

Do you like destruction? Whump? Angst? Passion turned to pain? The Cosmere is the perfect place for it. Come join us in ruining relationships, destroying mental health, and rending apart flesh and bone!

To participate, create a Cosmere fanwork to break hearts--written, art, music, craft, all are welcome.

The Shipwrecked Collection on ao3 will open on August 1, 2026 and close two months later on Sep 30. Add your work to the Collection at any point during that time. You can also post it on tumblr and tag @shipwrecked-event or submit it here!

Is this event shippy or not shippy?

Both! You can wreck a ship, but it doesn't have to be shippy.

What rating?

All ratings from G to E are welcome! If you are making explicit art, you can upload it to a site like imgchest.com and link to ao3 and tumblr.

Can I write my favourite shipwreck Ati/Leras?

Of course! This isn't just about Stormlight. You can draw from Mistborn, Warbreaker, even Isles of the Emberdark for your inspiration!

Other questions? Ask here!

[embersonawind]

The utter crash out my various family members are having in the group chat over what the fuck a half time show is will now be eclipsing anything else I pay attention to in this match.

[cuubism]

Kaladin is so funny, this man is ALWAYS scheming, but all of his plots are like, planning how to be nice to people and encourage them 😂

Asking Bridge Four 10 hours in advance to cheer for the other bridgemen at dinner so they would feel included… smh

[itheginger]

i love the linguistic trend of expressing something difficult to describe by just not including an adjective where there usually would be one. “i had a day today,” or “he’s definitely one of the characters of all time.”

it’s like i can’t describe this so i just won’t. you get it tho.

[leiraofthevalley]

Legit obsessed with Cassian's treehouse

[heavilycaffeinatedmuffin]

when you think about it andor is really just about cassian having the worst week of his life over and over again until rogue one

[lucentcosmos]

happy andor finale my girls vel and cinta are fine!! all good and happy!

[maliwart]

Been wanting to try some limited value portraits forever and this duo ended up being perfect for what I wanted.

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[rameiixo]

how nice for you.

[chronicowboy]

i love andor's refusal to be subtle in the face of rising fascism. it's not complex metaphors for the audience to unpick. it's a kick in the fucking teeth. a banner and blaring alarms. THIS IS WHERE WE ARE. THIS IS WHERE WE'RE HEADING. it's knowing there's a time and place to be gentle and knowing the here and now needs us shouting from the rooftops. it's using energy independence, that thing tr*mp harps on about, as a cover for building the death star. it's a bunch of powerful empire officials brainstorming ways to colonise a planet for capitalist gains. it's the pomp and circumstance of the upper classes used to distract from the grit and ruin of the everyday. it's the visa inspection of harvest workers. it's the brutal abuse of power over "illegals" to the point of dehumanisation. but more than that. more than that. it's people working together against these forces of tyranny. it's kellen running around trying to keep them from the troopers. it's mon mothma trying to save her daughter. it's talia putting her legal status on the line to help them. it's brasso trying to save wilmon. it's wilmon running all the way home to help bix. it's cassian choosing home over orders. it's bix fighting for her fucking life rather than giving in. it's the fight. it's the people.

[embersonawind]

Cassian telling Jyn 'they were never going to believe you' about the death star plans in Rouge one is so much worse after finishing andor, I don't know how I'm going to recover from this show.

[fractally]

To Americans who might feel inclined to scoff at Europeans talking about the heat: I know you’ve heard this before but maybe you’ll listen to an American who spent many years of her life dealing with 115F / 46C summers out in the American west and now lives in France.

THIS IS WORSE. It’s so much worse.

When you hear “there’s no AC” you probably are thinking like…oh that’s rough, but still I’ve dealt with those temps. My old place didn’t have AC. It can’t be that bad.

NO. The lack of AC trickles down into every facet of dealing with the heat in a way that slowly and quite literally boils you alive. It’s not just “oh my apartment is hot this sucks”, it’s “there is nowhere you can go to cool down and if you overheat there is no help available”

For most there’s no AC anywhere. Anywhere. The coolest place available is maybe your local church, or a shopping center. Both will kick you out around 8pm, the hottest part of the day. In France and Spain in particular, the time zone is wrong (Hitler’s fault—we’re still aligned with Germany instead of the UK) and the sun doesn’t set until 10-11pm. Heat is still being actively pumped into your living spaces at 10pm.

And the temps do not meaningfully drop overnight. (Which you might expect if you’re from the American west. Southerners do understand this.) Many people live in stone walled buildings that just keep heating up. This is very literally the experience of being in a stone oven. And there’s no way to drop the temperature. You can’t escape it.

If your body temp climbs to unmanageable levels and you start experiencing heat exhaustion, you can call the hospital…most of which also do not have AC. I’m not sure how they’re treating people, I guess with ice packs? There’s already been a handful of deaths in my city, and that’s before any kind of post-wave reporting. These are real time reported deaths.

Anyway I want you to really, really internalize the sense of panic that starts to set in when you’re in these circumstances. The animal brain really starts to go wild when there’s no options and no escape. That’s why Europeans are posting about suffering.

(And no—leaving isn’t possible either. Many people don’t have cars, and the trains are down due to track over heating. And also don’t have AC. These conditions are frankly genuinely scary.)

[nondelphic]

editing is just you vs. past-you in a duel of questionable comma placement and emotional instability

[cosmereplay]

One of the things I've learned about fandom, which shows up especially well in fanfic, is that there generally isn't a small group of people who write a broad variety of fics based on what people express an interest in reading; rather, there's a wide variety of people who have a specific interest in a character or topic and write that.

The conclusion that I want you to draw from this is that if you see a gap in the fanfic oeuvre, it's not because those fanfic writers haven't gotten around to it, it's because the person who's going to write it hasn't gathered the courage to start writing--and that person might be you!

[sonzorya]

and when kaladin is back after the timeskip bridge four's collective "I STORMING TOLD YOU SO" will be heard all across roshar

[extrawitchy]

Kaladin Stormblessed

──done by gatito3s