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@lux-lightweaver
This blog's dead now but we've got some other blogs, can find our main at @meadow-dot-7z, Summer's blog is @all-that-summer-had-to-say, and I (Lux) have a sideblog at @normalest-lux-ever
I might do some Cosmereposting on main or on my blog
what is kaladin's favorite color?
Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Purple
Black
White
Grey
Pink
Brown
Another color not listed / results
HIS favorite color if you pick blue just because it's his uniform and you don't have actual reasons I'm coming for you
Stormlight responses to "If you kill a murderer..."
Lirin: If you kill a murderer, the number of murderers in the world remains unchanged.
Nale: Incorrect. "Murder" refers to an unlawful killing, and I AM the Law. Therefore I am incapable of being a murderer.
Szeth: No, the surgeon is right. Killing stains the soul. Even killing a murderer. Even killing in defense of your own life. You are irrevocably broken by the act, so you might as well just keep killing, and killing, and killing, and killing...
Kaladin: I... I can't quite articulate why, but I don't think that's right. Any of you.
Dalinar: Why would I kill a murderer? A murderer is just a man who has yet to take the next step on his journey. *watching Taravangian ascend to evil godhood* Any minute now...
Adolin, a Chad and a King: Alright, fine. If I kill a murderer, the number of murderers remains unchanged. But you know what does drop precipitously? The number of future victims! If that makes me a murderer, then so be it.
Jasnah: A noble sentiment, but you misunderstand the problem. It is not a question of ethics, but of mathematics. I killed four murderers on my way here, thus dropping the total number of murderers by three.
Moash: Oh sure, it's cool and badass when she, a royal, does it. But when I kill a murderer who the law was never going to touch...
Shallan: *looks up from counting on her fingers* Jasnah, how do you account for the new alter you create to cope with the guilt? Wouldn't that still put you at an unchanged number of murderers?
Renarin: ... Why are all of your alters murderers?!
In fairness to Shallan & Co pretty much every main character in Stormlight kills at least someone, at least in their case it was all self-defense
Cosmere Characters React to Famous Paradoxes
As requested by @variaandroise :)
And because it just makes sense, it will be Hoid torturing everyone by confronting them with paradoxes.
1. The Liar Paradox
Hoid: Consider the statement, "This statement is false." Steris: Okay... Steris: If it's true, then it must be false.. Steris: But if it's false, then it must be true! Steris: T-That's horrible! I hate it! Steris: ... Steris: Wax! Come in here; I want to tell you something! Hoid: Now THAT'S a marriage.
2. The "Least Interesting Man in the World" Paradox
Hoid: Imagine if you lined every person up from most interesting to least interesting. Elhokar (suspiciously): Where am I in the line? Hoid: Now imagine the person at the very end of the line: the least interesting person in the world. Elhokar: Is that supposed to be me?? Hoid: That person, merely on the basis of being the least interesting person in the world, must become interesting, right? Elhokar: Kind of a backhanded compliment. I'm a king, you know! Hoid: It's - It's not you. You're not in this story. Elhokar: I'm NOWHERE in a line of EVERY person? Elhokar: Wow. Elhokar: I thought you respected me more than that. Hoid: ...Why do I even try?
3. Crocodile Paradox
Hoid: Imagine a crocodile who has stolen this man's baby, BUT he promises to return the baby if the father can guess whether the crocodile will eat it or return it. Siri: Strangely nice, for a crocodile. Vivenna: It still stole a baby! Hoid: Let's say the dad says, "You'll give my baby back." Well, the crocodile could just say, "You're wrong!" and eat the baby. Hoid: But what if the dad says, "You'll eat my baby." What will the crocodile do? Siri: Yeah, that's probably what Dad would say. Vivenna: Let's be real. He probably offered the baby to the crocodile in the first place. Siri: My husband's actually nice though. Vivenna: Maybe the crocodile is nice. Dad didn't know it, though. Siri: True, true. Hoid: ...I feel like we're getting off topic here.
4. The Burali-Forti Paradox
Shallan: What is that noise?? Hoid: Oh, I told the cryptics about the Burali-Forti Paradox. Hoid: You know, that a set of ordinal numbers would be an ordinal number smaller than itself. Shallan: The hums are deafening! Shallan: Are they pleased or screaming? Pattern: Shallan! Shallan! It turns math is the best lie of all! Hoid: Pleased, I think.
5. The Liar Paradox (again)
Hoid: Consider the statement, "This statement is false." Yumi: Oooh, yeah. That doesn't work at all, does it? Hoid: Does it bother your brain? Yumi: Not really. Hoid: Really? It does for most people. Yumi: Consider my life. Hoid: ... Hoid: Okay. Fair.
6. The Crab & the Arrow
Hoid: If you fire an arrow at a tort--I mean, at a crab, the arrow has to get halfway to the target before it reaches it, right? Kaladin (suspiciously): Yes? Hoid: And then it has to reach the halfway point of the distance that remains, right? Kaladin (more suspiciously): Yes? Hoid: And then it has to reach the halfway point of the distance that remains again! And again! And again! Every time the distance halves, it has to reach the halfway point again! Hoid: So logically, the arrow will never reach the crab. Kaladin: Well, of course not. Hoid: Really? Kaladin: You've been talking so long that the crab has definitely scuttled away by now. Kaladin: Crabs aren't idiots, you know.
7. Penrose Stairs (link to picture)
Hoid: Look at these impossible stairs! Lightsong: Yes, yes. Artistic representation of the futility of life. We've all seen it. Llarimar: [Dutifully writing this down]
8. God paradox
Hoid: Can God create a boulder too heavy for him to lift? Harmony: Yeah. Harmony: It's actually easier than you might think to create a situation that you, a god, can't deal with. Harmony: Being a god is actually really hard! Hoid: ... Hoid: Maybe this would work better in a place where gods are omnipotent.
9. Sorites Paradox
Hoid: Imagine you have a heap of sand. Kenton: Super easy. I am crushing this. Hoid: Now imagine you take one grain of sand from the heap. Kenton: You're not even challenging me here. Hoid: It's still a heap of sand, right? Kenton: Yes, of course. Hoid: Well, imagine you keep taking single grains of sand away. Eventually--all the sand will be gone. No more heap. So at some moment, a single grain being removed changed it from a heap to not-a-heap. But when? Kenton: Never. As long as it BELIEVES it is a heap and WANTS it badly enough, it will always be a heap! Hoid: ...What about when all the sand is gone? Kenton: Who cares if there's no sand? I say, it is still a heap! Hoid: Is there someone else I can talk to?
10. Barber Paradox
Hoid: Imagine a barber who declares that he will shave only and all men who do not shave themselves. The question is: Does he shave himself? Kelsier: No. Hoid: Well, then he must be a man who doesn't shave himself, which means the barber must shave him! But once he does, then he's a man who shaves himself, so he can't! Hoid: Paradox! Kelsier [arms folded]: When does he become a man who doesn't shave himself? Hoid: What? Kelsier: Sure, once he shaves himself, then he's a man who shaves himself. But if he doesn't, he still might be a man who is going to shave himself at some point, but he hasn't. Kelsier: I don't see why he can't exist in that quantum state forever, neither shaving himself nor definitively becoming a man who doesn't, hence delaying the paradox. Forever. Hoid: ...You would say that. Kelsier: Bite me.
📝Kelsier's response in the final entry is positively delightful. Kudos to you, this list was a fantastic read.
Whenever I write spiritual realm there is like a 40% I did actually mean cognitive realm
When you think you got the name of the realm right, but only got the spirit of it...
Rrrrrrrrrysn!!
Kaladin, Shallan, and Adolin, in that order
Ditch having Hogwarts houses in your bio, normalize having your Knights Radiant Order instead
https://www.brandonsanderson.com/pages/official-knights-radiant-order-quiz
☀️Lux is a Lightweaver, and maybe you could collectively consider us one too, but I'm more of an Edgedancer! ^^
I have Thoughts and Analysis about Odium and specifically Rayse hopefully I remember to elaborate after work
Alright analysis time (beneath the cut because it is long)
So we tend to view Rayse as, well Rayse; he's crafty, he wants to be on top, he doesn't want more Shards because he doesn't want to be changed... but he has been shaped by Odium, hasn't he?
We haven't seen him pre-Ascension yet, but that's how it works; much the same as a Cognitive Shadow becomes more and more single-minded over time, so too does a Shard mold its Vessel to resemble it over time
So where can we see that? Well, Odium is all about hatred and disgust, so let's see what Rayse has to say about other people
First, we have his meeting with Dalinar in the vision:
"Tell me you've never found yourself in conflict with someone you respect. Tell me you've never killed a man because you had to, even if—in a better world—he shouldn't deserve it?"
"Honor cared only for bonds. Not the meaning of bonds and oaths, merely that they were kept. Cultivation only wants to see transformation. Growth. It can be good or bad, for all she cares. The pain of men is nothing to her. Only I understand it. Only I care, Dalinar."
"If you could see the result of Honor's influence, you would not be so quick to name me a god of anger. Separate the emotion from men, and you have creatures like Nale and his Skybreakers. That is what Honor would have given you."
"Ask that of Cultivation, next time you see her. Ask what she'd want for Roshar. I think you'll find me to be the better choice." [...] "Her touch is not how I would have helped you. It stole a part of you away, and left you like a blind man who can't remember that he once had sight."
There's also a line in his initial meeting with Taravangian that stuck out to me:
"Our word is the contract. I am not some spren of Honor, who seeks to obey only the strictest letter of a promise."
Moving on to Rhythm of War, the Sja-anat interlude gives us some interesting tidbits about Rayse/Odium:
You will not go the the tower, Odium said. He hated how she referred to the Sibling—the slumbering child of Honor and Cultivation—as her cousin.
The mind did not like being questioned, but the power... It liked questions. It liked arguments. It was passion. There was a weakness here. In the division between the Vessel and the Shard.
Then there's Interlude 6, which doesn't have too much of relevance to this analysis, aside from one line:
"Resplendent, isn't it? I've wondered why she would give you a taste of what we can do. In some ways, you're the only one I can talk to. The only one who understands, in a limited way, the burden I bear."
There's a clear pattern of Rayse expressing disdain for the other Shards, in a way that goes far beyond just wanting to be on top; he hates Honor, he hates Cultivation, he hates how they do everything, and he hates anything associated with them
When he talks to Taravangian in Interlude 6, he calls him "the only one who understands" him, as if he's the only other being in the cosmere with that level of future sight, as if the other Shards are nothing to him
Rayse always carries this attitude that seems to scream "I'm better than you," but it especially shows with the Shards; he doesn't just want to be above everything, he thinks he already is
He hates everything that he sees as beneath him, which to him is everything that isn't part of him; he trusted Dalinar to turn to him because he saw him as an extension of himself; a man who was, effectively, already his
He doesn't want to take another Shard and become something else because he's disgusted with the idea of anything that isn't himself as he is right now
And, ironically enough, this very attitude is the source of the conflict between the Vessel Rayse and the Shard Odium; Rayse hates, but the Shard is hatred itself; Rayse hates anyone who would defy him, but the Shard loves the act of defiance
Rayse claims to embody passion, yet he gets so caught up in his own passions at the same time, which ultimately kills him
In a fit of his own passions, he confronts Taravangian; blinded by fury, he lets the Karbranthian king, in a state of pure passion, get the better of him, with the very blade delivered by Szeth's own fury
That's what I was able to gather, anyway, I'm curious if there's any other ways of viewing it that I may have failed to consider
Reblogging this because I just realized how relevant it is post-WaT lol
That Shard/Vessel conflict huh
metallurgy wizard be like "I cast: lost wax!"
Allomancers be like
ID:
Screenshot of a discord conversation.
Kitty: it's storming outside but I kinda want to go get something to eat
Sylphrene: language
Kitty: it's fucking outside but I kinda want to go get something to eat
My odes to Brando Sando so far 🫡
just had a huge splinter in the ball of my FOOT from simply performing OFFICE WORK. removing it was (unfortunately) reverse acupuncture, and I'm evil now.
Funnier as a Hemalurgist
Reading Bands of Mourning.... art happened.
GIVE ME A CHARACTER;
and I’ll break their ass down:
How I feel about this character
All the people I ship romantically with this character
My non-romantic OTP for this character
My unpopular opinion about this character
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.
PREETTY PREETTY PLEASE
Okay that is literally SO CUTE
They're using each other's metaphors ☺️🥺🥰
Jasnah today
