The opinions got too loud to keep to myself

You never know what you're gonna get

[doomsbury]

to all of those people who don't like boromir i'd like to remind you that boromir died with his honour intact. unlike isildur, face down in a river with arrows piercing through his back, corrupted and afraid. he fought as a son of gondor, protected what he knew was pure and died with the blessing of the king of men. he died laying in the arms of a king. his king. he may have been swayed by the power of the ring but in the end he fought and faced it. in the end his heart was true to his people. those of gondor—his home. and those of the fellowship—his friends. he died as a brother, a friend, and a hero.

[isdalinarhot]

the facts:

sadeas in all of his povs talks about how much he relies on the thrill to feel any semblance of happiness. he talks about making political decisions that would lead to war and unrest specifically for the purpose of getting to fight on the battlefield and feel the thrill. he's willing to throw away his life's work, unifying alethkar, to do this. he's willing to kill dalinar, his best friend, over it. he's willing to break deathbed promises to gavilar, his other best friend, to do it. everything he does in his life, if it seems nonsensical and stupid, is for the purpose of just one opportunity to feel the thrill again. he is just as addicted to the thrill as dalinar is, it just only started causing problems once alethkar was stable and the wars became less and less naturally politically motivated

in words of radiance (and i think a little bit in the way of kings? it's been awhile) the jah keved civil war is so bad that nergaoul starts moving over there instead. people on the shattered plains are getting less and less of the thrill, its getting less and less strong, and sometimes it straight up cuts out in the middle of a battle

sadeas slowly, subtlely declines throughout the way of kings but especially during words of radiance. in terms of how, uh, coherent and justified his various schemes are. like to the point ive heard it as a complaint from fans. that in the first book sadeas is like a guy who has like an actual definitive goal in mind but in the second book hes just throwing scheme spaghetti at the wall with increasingly dramatic stakes until during his very last pov during the wor sanderlanche he and ialai are trying to put together a coup, even though sadeas doesn't even want the throne

the speculation:

sadeas is essentially going through thrill withdrawals and is trying whatever the hell he can to be able to get another fix

when he was saying all that inflammatory shit to adolin directly to his face in a way that pissed adolin off so bad that he killed sadeas, it wasn't "i can say whatever i want to this rube and he wont do anything! i can just gloat and share my evil schemes!" it was "i need a fight. i need a fight with anyone and everyone. i dont care that he's two and a half decades younger than me, i dont care that he's in his physical prime and im not, i don't care that he hates me super fucking bad and will almost certainly maim me given the chance, i need to fight someone politically important so if i win it causes more war and if i lose at least im fighting". he was being stupid on purpose because he was at rock fucking bottom

[highly-invested]

This is a great explanation for the truly inflammatory shit I forgot he said throughout Words of Radiance.

Like what reason is there to say this if your motivation isn't to start a fight by any means necessary?

[awishwee]

I am by NO MEANS a professional artist, nor am I good at replicating styles, but it was such a fun idea. Luthadel is such a cool aesthetic.

[adolins-heart]

"rejected his advances" I DONT THINK KALADIN MADE A SINGLE ADVANCE ON SHALLAN????? WHEN WAS HE REJECTED???

As someone who has reread every book of the Stormlight Archive in less than a month. I do not remember a single conversation Kaladin and Shallan had abt any potential feelings for one another, much less advances to be rejected.

Syl and others made comments pushing Kaladin towards Shallan. And Jasnah and Shallan had conversations or at least implications abt the attention she paid Kaladin. And Adolin noticed the odd moments.

But I don't think Kaladin and Shallan ever once addressed it, they just both came to the same conclusion after the Battle of Thaylen Field. Shallan was better w Adolin and Kaladin wasn't actually that interested.

[braaaaain]

Kelsier is a great iteration of the Came Back Wrong trope because we got to see firsthand that he was already Wrong, dying and then clawing his way back to life just exaggerated things.

[agapantoblu]

Day 1

Dear Hunith,

your son has safely reached Camelot, which I think is most unfortunate. I am plagued with questions over your reasoning for sending him here. He's betrayed his secret with me five seconds through the door of my apartments; had there been a patient there, I would be writing you for arrangements for his remains. He also seems, from bits of our conversation, unaware of his father's identity but that seems too odd to be true to me, considering you of all people should know very well what sleeps underneath the castle.

I shall try to keep his as safe as possible, but please, call him back home. My heart could hardly take much more of this,

Gaius

Day 2

Dear Hunith,

Your menace of a son is in jail.

[etiennelux]

when everyone was moving into urithiru, renarin suddenly had a vision of adolin killing sadeas and he was like “aww good for him 🥰” and then just continued whatever he was doing

[etiennelux]

#he hears that his father has put Adolin himself on the case and is like ‘not my division’ via @irithyllians​

im obsessed w one line in wok where adolin says renarin teases him, so i imagine renarin throughout ob being like “oh hey adolin how’s the investigation going? no leads, huh? that’s wild" just to see his reaction

[deadinarussianelevator]

*Takes Navani Kholin by the shoulders* You are smart!! You are a scholar!! You bring value to the world of science!! to all of Roshar!!!

[lamaery]

The Final Empire read-through thumbnails 19 - 40 Vin bonding with Kelsier over Mare's drawing of a flower, talking to Marsh and Ham about Allomancy, rumors at Fellise and at balls, the secret army and the pewter drag (ending with Vin's hangover)

[mecommentating]

The line between serious literary analysis and analysis for the bit is a line that I liked to use as a jump rope

[kariberrycupcake]

Ellie: Navani should show up in 99% of YA novels until they start getting better

Ellie: I’d loose Jasnah, but she’d solve the plot, kill the romantic interest, and leave.

[sebarial-the-economist]

Was going to reblog as is but then I saw this gem hidden in the comments: moon-light-and-shadow:

“Oh my…crack fiction.  What happens if you randomly drop Jasnah into Twilight?” Okay here goes. 

 Jasnah teaches English and History at Forks High School. (It’s a small school, so she does both, but only the advanced classes.)  She discovers the whole vampire thing because it’s kinda obvious.  Cue some ethical debates with Carlysle (I know I spelled that wrong.  Not worth googling.  Or fiddling around until the red line disappears… anywho).  She doesn’t like Alice, but she’s cool with Rosalie.  She grades Edward’s essays super harshly.  “Mr. Cullen, I have freshmen who are more capable of coherent thoughts about literature than you.  I expected better from someone who was actually alive when Hemingway wrote For Whom The Bell Tolls.”   Enter Bella. “I’m told you were in AP Literature and Composition at your old school.  I’m disappointed that your teacher let you get away with such a childish interpretation of Romeo and Juliet.  I’m going to give you a second chance, because you are clearly intelligent, and this time, I’d like you to focus on the prompt: ‘How does Romeo and Juliet’ hold up against modern ideals of feminism?’  Your argument that ‘Juliet was willing to sacrifice everything for Romeo because she loved him.’ is terrifyingly naive, off topic, and anti-feminist.  I know you have a brain.  Please do women everywhere a favor and use it.” 

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[sebarial-the-economist]

Scheduling this for six months from now when I’m (hopefully) done writing No Matter How the Wind Howls and need a new writing project.

[meganofavonlea]

I truly think that the strongest thing a Sanderson fan can do is to decide to close the book and go the fuck to sleep when you reach the 75ish percent mark.

Because like I know the sanderlanch is just around the corner. I know that I only have a couple of hours left until I finish the book. I know that the most mind-boggling ending is just a few chapters further. But girl is it 12:45 AM and your sleep schedule is already fucked and you have shit to do tomorrow. Go to sleep.

[hoidianslips]

I was stuck on a 3 hour plane ride for the sanderlanche of Words of Radiance and it was HELL. Like glass case of emotion/conceal don't feel/hold your breath till you pass out type shit.

I was fighting demons. But GAWDAMN that shit was awesome.

[papayafromtv]

the funniest part about merlin is the fact that he’s even around for most of the show. like what the fuck is he doing there. no other person with a personal servant is tailed like arthur is. and yet nobody fucking blinks an eye at his presence.

like there are at least three separate occasions where the plot for an episode is uther sending arthur on a super secret confidential mission with the fate of the kingdom at stake, and they have a whole conversation like ‘i need you to understand the importance of the secrecy of this mission.’ ‘understood father, i will take only my most trusted men.’ ‘no arthur, you and YOU ALONE must go.’ ‘i understand.’ and then it cuts to the super secret mission and fucking merlin is just there. like. road trip with my best buddy. what a view. love this horse. like ARTHUR?

everyone always forgets he exists the second a fight happens, too. every goddamn time the knights go on a short patrol that god forbid merlin not tag along for they get attacked by bandits or whatever and merlin doesn’t even carry a fucking sword and after the fight arthur always turns around and merlin is just kinda standing there in the middle of the fight picking at a hang nail. nobody considers it wild that he’s there for all of this. the one time he actually bothered taking a sword off a dead guy to defend himself with arthur saw him holding it and he mocked it like ‘lol the fuck are you of all people gonna do with that’ THEY FULLY EXPECT HIM TO JUST STAND AND WAIT FOR THE FIGHT TO END

[brothermouse-skeleton]

yOu HaVe tO rEaD tHe cOsMeRe BoOkS iN tHe RiGhT oRdEr Or YoU wOn'T kNoW wHaT's GoiNg On!

Gancho, Doug, my brother in Adonalsium (Highly), I'm going to hold your hand when I say this:

Not knowing what's going on is the default state for Cosmere protagonists.

Even Wit, who's whole deal is standing over there in the corner smirking like he knows what's going on, doesn't have a single rusting clue.

Read the whole Stormlight Archive backwards for all I care, you'll still find yourself better informed than Kaladin Stormface

[realclaramorrow]

cannot stop thinking about "Ati, perhaps kindliest among us, who had boldly taken up Ruin." the mistborn brainrot never stops. he was the kindliest among them. the man that became the ruin we know, that the final empire crew had to defeat, was the kindliest of the sixteen Vessels. hello is anyone out there

[rhythm-of-lesbianism]

i wish i could read the in-world Oathbringer because i find it hilarious that Jasnah wrote the undertext. Dalinar talks about failing his sons and she’s like “failure is an understatement. do you know how many pep talks i had to give renarin”. he writes about how Evi was a kind woman and not as politically savvy as Navani and she adds “maybe you just didn’t know her well enough. this is why arranged marriages are pointless”. he says something about the God Beyond saving and forgiving him and she comments “he can believe what he wants about the god beyond but the greatest miracle was that my mother forgave him. also, he should probably have talked to his sons about this”

[mecommentating]

Somehow managed to get all my coworkers hooked on Sanderson

It's great cause I just sit at my desk and they'll all cycle through to tell me where they are in whichever book they're reading and I get to sit there hearing people talk about the thing I love

I am the Sanderson High Priestess and they must all come to me with their hopes and dreams for their favorite characters. Begging for confirmation that their beloved protagonists will get happy endings. While I sit here on my throne of knowledge, cackling at their suffering. I hand out hollow promises of redemption all the while knowing death lurks around the corner.