greetings you mysteriously absent lamenters

[kainekron]

list of things to ask Brandon Sanderson if I ever get a chance

1. can a Nicroboost affect other types of magic and can durluimn do the same?

2. can multiple Kandra control a very large body like an elephant

3. hoid once said he was born as "words on a page" does this mean he is the product of an arranged marriage? as in was he stipulated on a contract at some point and stole himself? [reference to this comment on reddit]

4. does playing the flute have any thematic or magical significance in the cosmere: because all of the people who are predominant characters and play the flute all fall into morally grey to dark so it just feels like it's important

5. do you intentionally start blinding moash more and more throughout the series?

6. can a dead blade link up with an occupied ruby like one with a flame spren or stormlight in it and would that effect anything?

7. does opening up a perpendicularity on an uninhabited planet make it gain a subastral?

8. could they have stuck jezrien's soul back into a body through hemalurgy

9. what Original shard holders are you planning on using as the main Cast for dragon steel?

10. can Edgedancers and Dustbringers use Abrasion to increase friction, also will we get more dustbringers in book 5?

11. can Living blades form into mechanical contraptions like levers or locks?

12. what cosmere character would have the easiest time reaching the 5th ideal, and in which order?

13. do the sleepless have any Shard blades or plates of their own?

14. does Elendle have Metal-born specific sports?

15. has Hoid ever bumped into someone pretending to be Hoid?

16. Does Zellion like instant noodles?

17. can a Skaze bond a person the same as a Seon?

18. who would you say is the freest person in the cosmere?

19. could Raoden have united the Alethi high princes in the same time frame dalinar had?

20. on the voidbinding chart bondsmiths and truthwatchers are not attached to any surges. why?

21. how much help would Steris have been in solving the diagram?

22. can you give us other types of aether spores I assume their was a type that glowed that was part of the flare

23. what is Khriss's opinion on the existence of bone spores

24. who was hoid telling the story too

25. Is a rubik's cube and other puzzles more feminine or masculine to Vorin culture

26. do you do any specific research/worldbuilding on your flora

27. what elements are the crimson spores

28. if Re-Shephir had bonded shallan like she wanted would Shallan have become a midnight Aether born

29. is Maben one of the members of the diagram the kandra?

30. Does Kelsier still have a spiritual aspect?

31. is Zahel being affected by the use of stormlight instead of breath?

32. Glys Tumi and the other enlightened spren were dead eyes right?

33. what do the people of era 2 use as fuel from the fossil that Vasher showed Kal I got the notion that it most worlds of the cosmere haven't had the time to develop that kind of stuff so is it artificial like inedible talo oil? or did harmony use magic to give them petroleum? [answer]

[nooneinnportant]

It's so funny reading Hoid’s entry in the coppermind, specifically the part about his origins and all its says is stuff like:

Well, we know that he... has parents, umm... and the parents were married and he was born, that's a thing that happened to him and umm... the oldest being in the cosmere is older than him, aaaand that's pretty much it.

Like thanks guys thats super useful information I would not have been able to guess that at all.

[spineless-lobster]

The em dash is a type of phallus that authors use to jerk off sentences

[mikeyangel0]

The truth is both of them used to be cry babies, but only one can lie about it. [ luzo | ルゾ ]

( luffy x zoro seraphim :P )

[its-cosmerely-an-obsesh-wound]

[apricops]

Stranger Things season 1: beneath the superficial image of “peace and prosperity” in 1980s small-town America, there was the painful legacy of countless atrocities committed by the American government in the name of ‘freedom.’

Stranger Things season 4: evil Russians (not Soviets) have sent our All-American Hero to the gulags which apparently still exist in the 1980s and it’s up to us to save him 🇺🇸🦅🫡

[apricops]

There’s probably a term that already exists for this but if there isn’t I’m gonna call it ‘Rambofication’ in honor of its probably most well known instance: Rambo First Blood was about a soldier, John Rambo (that’s his actual name I’m not doing a bit), returning home from the Vietnam war, so traumatized by war that he brought the war home with him to a small town, unable to adapt to life without strict military discipline and hierarchy. Subsequent Rambo movies were about how John Rambo was the only supersoldier tough enough and patriotic enough to kill faceless hordes of dastardly foreign commies.

Ergo, ‘Rambofication’ is the process of a series starting with a relatively nuanced or subversive narrative before its sequels become a shallow embrace of the very narrative it originally subverted. It happens surprisingly often!

[storm-and-starlight]

Brandon Sanderson is so weird sometimes, like he'll set up a system of class oppression in which each level up is still oppressed in a different way and have people of all different walks of life comment on how they dislike the people over them and how useless they are, and he'll have someone else jump in to be like "actually, you might be surprised if you just talked to some of them, I bet they're pretty nice", which, okay, fine, that's a half-decent sentiment, but then it will be strongly implied that the ultimate conclusion is that the entire highly-stratified social order is Fine, Actually, because the people at the top are Nice, and it's like Hang On A Minute There Bud

[cam-pteryx]

ok @2shards said what if crab colors and im obsessed

[2shards]

thank you for your incredible work, together we will change the world

[basket-of-radiants]

Szeth, Venli, and Moash eating ice cream.

[moash]

Can we get a rant about Laral? Thank you

remember in oathbringer how kaladin was like “roshone killed my baby brother” and she was like “um actually your dad embarrassed my husband by being an uppity darkeyes so you gotta hear both sides”? everything that needs to be said about her tbh

[moash]

laral is a character i actually enjoy because i think brandon captured white feminism so well in her, perhaps on accident. i think she’s pretty awful, and so he also captured the experience of seeing an old childhood friend and they are not recognizable anymore. modern au laral would be a victim of aesudan’s multi level marketing scheme.

[opbackgrounds]

On Whitebeard not liking to rely on Luffy, for some reason your post made me think of that time during the Arlong fight where Luffy admitted that he needs help for a lot of things besides beating Arlong.

sure. And similarly during Enies Lobby Luffy sent Franky ahead of him to save Robin while he was busy with Lucci and didn’t care. Old Man Whitebeard does have a lot of pride that Luffy simply does not.

[opbackgrounds]

On Whitebeard not liking to rely on Luffy, for some reason your post made me think of that time during the Arlong fight where Luffy admitted that he needs help for a lot of things besides beating Arlong.

sure. And similarly during Enies Lobby Luffy sent Franky ahead of him to save Robin while he was busy with Lucci and didn’t care. Old Man Whitebeard does have a lot of pride that Luffy simply does not.

[ogrepoppenangleaksofficial]

HHHMMMM .. . . AA NEW VIDEO COMING OUT SOON TODAY??? TODAY FOR SURE???

[kabaks]

[kabaks]

[capstellium]

sorry i’m reblogging this again but this just makes me so fucking angry. this reminds me of those dudes running game of thrones who had virtually no experience and were allowed to just. treat a multimillion dollar franchise as their little fuck-around-and-learn-about-tv sandbox. why are white men with no credentials allowed to get away with this over and over again while the rest of us have to fight tooth and nail for literal crumbs. i fucking hate the entertainment industry

[mrspockomakeitso]

tfw you realize you put more thought into your self indulgent fanfic in middle school than someone in charge of a multimillion dollar franchise that employs thousands of people and is watched by millions.

[guerrillatech]

[revelware]

[vampirecatprince]

[nova-39]

I feel like something this fandom sleeps on about the Skybreakers is that for their third ideal they can chose to follow any belief system. Like, there is so much potential in that which I feel gets overlooked.

Like I get it. They are mostly portrayed as Roshar’s cops and everyone hates them for that. (Which is valid as hell btw ACAB). But just take one second with me to consider the other possibilities.

A philosopher who becomes a skybreaker and follows one particular philosophy like Utillitarianism or consequentialism or Deontology.

A knight or bodyguard who becomes a skybreaker and swears to obey their one charge. (I know Seth basically did this but I feel like with different characters that relationship could be a romantic tension gold mine)

A thief with some kind of thief’s code who uses that as a Skybreaker ideal. Real honor among thieves Robin Hood type shit.

Finally, what about a skybreaker who uses another Radiant order’s philosophy as their skybreaker ideal. This is what I headcannon Sigzil did until it’s proven otherwise. A skybreaker who has sworn to follow the philosophy of a Windrunner or edgedancer or something.

Idk, I feel like there is so much potential behind this order if you don’t feel like you have to stick with how Nale’s order is characterised. They can be so much more interesting than just cops.

[shencomix]