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Quick comic because I'm in Bilewaters. And the next bench location is even worse than in Sinners' road or in Mount Fay... Also also also I so much love how you get, like, little side dialogues with her from time to time, and here if you approach her while covered in maggots she will tell you that it was a bad idea to swim in it like if she believes we are experimental enough to try this water out

zenala-art

girl you don't have to hold her like that she aint going anywhere

shinesurge

thank you team cherry

jochi-the-veristithaylen-baker

Dawnshard naming speculation. Wind and Truth spoilers. Long.

In Dawnshard ("Stormlight 3.5") we learned the name of one of the four Dawnshards. And that one is Change.

In Wind and Truth (Stormlight 5) we learn the name of a second Dawnshard, Exist.

The Shards of Adonalsium are named after concepts (Preservation not Preserve, Cultivation not Cultivate). But the Dawnshards are named after actions. Specifically verbs that are imperative. They express Intent directly.

And now is when I bring in a parallel to make guesses at the last two Dawnshards.

In Computer Science there's a model of interaction called "CRUD". It's an abbreviation for "Create, Read, Update, Delete" and are the primary four actions of interacting with a system.

Exist and Change could be seen as synonyms of Create and Update, when taken as verbs. That implies the last two are equivalents of Read and Delete.

The last one, Delete, would be easy to rename "Destroy".

In that phrasing it sounds ominously related to Nightblood and whatever is going on there.

But it doesn't quite fit. Destroy has an external grammatical object. Someone destroys something even if it is unspecified in a sentence. The two know Dawnshards don't have grammatical objects. You exist. You change. Delete and Destroy translated into a parallel of that could be Die.

The second action, Read, is a bit more of a challenge. I will suggest that the Iriali people have a central religious tenet of Experience. Their religious duty is to experience the cosmere from as many viewpoints as possible so the memories can be collected back into "The One" that they believe everything (or at least every Iriali person) originates from.

And the Iriali feel way more important than the impact they have had on cosmere politics so far

Thus we end on four dawnshards named

Exist • Experience • Change • Die

It feels like a complete set and very much like four commands that could create a living universe. Or kill a god.

As a post-script, let me just state that if I am right and one of the Dawnshards is the command Die, I am already really storming scared of it.

skipsjack

INCREDIBLE news on the Hornet lore everyone

tomfoolerytotality

Looking back on 2020, I think it's hilarious that Wellerman of all shanties is the one that blew up online. It's not a song about life on the high seas or adventuring

It's the "Where the fuck is my delivery" song

stevishabitat

savethelifeofmychild

lets hang out and look ugly and act stupid

cheaphalloweencostume

i want all my friends and followers and mutuals and acquaintances to know from the bottom of my heart: i don’t respond to your messages because i’m an insane person, i am insane medieval hermit software running inappropriately on modern queer hardware and social media scares me. it is not your fault

cheaphalloweencostume

when i get a notifications on my phone i try to kill my phone with a rock

contemptible-scoundrel

my gaming setup ignore the beast

boomer-mythology-destroyer

c3po

it’s so nutty watching urself develop like catching urself react differently than u previously would’ve and be like woah.. cunts maturing? go on then

takenbtwind

So I wrote a ketek for my brother's wedding

(and I’m going to make you read the whole story about it before I show it)

When my now sibling-in-law was first trying to flirt with my brother, they started reading Brandon Sanderson because it’s my brother’s favorite author (they had to read a lot of Brandon Sanderson before my brother noticed they were flirting lol)

So actually, the main reason I started reading the Stormlight Archive last year was that I was asked to officiate their wedding ceremony, and I thought I could get some good inspiration from reading my brother’s favorite book series (I acquired a new blorbo and read so much slash fic entirely as a byproduct of wedding ceremony prep. Ha.). I decided to close the ceremony with a ketek.

Writing keteks is HARD. Exploring the subtle different meanings words can have when they’re used twice in a sentence, having to use articles and prepositions sparingly because it’s hard to make them fit both ways, etc.

But my brother and his spouse are people who a) acknowledge that relationships require a lot of effort and celebrate the work they put in, and b) talk about how they find the presence of the other very calming, which I hope I captured in the ketek. I really wanted to add more bird imagery, because they both like birds, but I couldn’t quite make it fit.

Here it is:

Home calmly alight, we will together build love for all time, all for love built together, will we alight calmly home

petshopbutch

submissive in the way a livestock guardian dog is submissive to the sheep it kills wolves for

petshopbutch

love how much attention this post is getting i knew the gay people in my phone would understand me. btw here's the picture that inspired me to make this post in the first place: