Mel Hawthorne

Sometimes I write things Shades of Magic, Cosmere, Shepherd King My Ao3

[melodywritesstuff]

Hi! I'm Mel and sometimes I write stuff. :)

I've got a handful of fics up on Ao3 now, so I figured it was time for a compilation post.

I tend to write relatively short missing scenes and one-shots, usually with a combination of hurt/comfort and fluff or friendship.

Here's a list of everything I've written with links to my Ao3!

Shades of Magic

Awakening (Holland, A Conjuring of Light Epilogue add-on) To Be Whole (Kell/Lila, Post-Threads of Power Missing Scene) In the silence, things unsaid (Kell/Lila, Post-A Conjuring of Light)

The Stormlight Archive

A Calm Before the Storm (Kaladin/Lyn, Post-Oathbringer/Pre-RoW)

Wax & Wayne (Mistborn)

Worrying (Wax/Steris, Post-Bands of Mourning/Pre-Lost Metal)

The Shepherd King (One Dark Window)

Nothing more than a relic (Elm & Ravyn, Epilogue add-on) Only a Dream (Elm/Ione, Post-Two Twisted Crowns)

[thevalkyriesshadow]

Where my Chaol Westfall stans at? 🙋‍♀️

[berryzxx]

Things I cried about in tog and need to confirm it wasn't just me: spoilers ahead ofc

(this list is making me realise i cried way too much)

"It was all borrowed time" "Tell rowan it was borrowed time" NO BECAUSE. THIS WAS JUST. DOWNRIGHT AWFUL.

The last half of assassin's blade....do i need any FURTHER ELABORATION??

Rowan and Aelin meeting in Rifthold GODD I SCREAMEDD IN HAPPINESS AND CRIED WITH JOY

Dorian and the collar around his neck :(

CHAOL SACRIFICING HIMSELF i fr thought he died and sobbed until i found it he survived with an injury (i found out recently people hate chaol like...why guys 😭🙏🏼)

THE THIRTEEN. THAT WAS JUST. NO WORDS. NONE.

"Live Manon.....live"

"WHAT IS YOUR VOTE AELIN." "IT DOESN'T MATTER" . IT DOES MATTER AELIN IT DOES MY POOR BABY

Don't get me started on Aelins two months, 3 days and 7 hours. that was downright awful and i could barely read that without SOBBING

"You do not yield"

Abraxos almost dying because of that stupid iskra and then watching his mate die

Fenrys after the two months, 3 days and 7 hours, he was just empty. 😔 he deserves sm AND WATCHING HIS TWIN DIE??

"close the gate, aedion" I WAS FINISHED. I REFUSE TO BELIEVE HE'S GONE

"my boy" ......................im just an empty shell CAUSE WDYM he remembered his name the first time he looked at dorian 🙏🏼😭

Aelin thinking rowan was no longer coming for her 😔

Aelin, chaol and dorians last hug in KOA. UGHH MY HEART.

The whole of Asterins story. I love her

I thought sartaq died and cried when he was stuck between the rocks makes me realise i should read on a little

Lorcan thinking no one would care if he didn't step off the battle field. UHM. I CARE.

KALTAINS SACRIFICE. NDLKSNKJDNNSD.

Dorians father telling aelin that her parents loved her very much while they forged the lock :(

AND WHEN aelin swung around the canon or wtv it was and rowan was like that's what sam did and maybe he would be smiling down LIKE NDFKGKJDNFDN UGHHHHHHH

Aelin giving the blood oath to gavriel. I wanted him to have it so bad and a few chapters later she did it and i was LIKE GOD YESS.

"In a land long since burned to ash there lived a young princess who loved her kingdom very much" UGHH. esp in koa when this was mentioned

Nehemia my poor girl

actually just finishing the whole series. made me wonder what to do with life now

guys i fear i'm never getting over this. close the gates keeps coming to haunt me. i'll probably keep adding to this because i've forgotten half the things i cried about after spamming people

[kathy-god-of-chaos]

Chaol Westfall, they could never make me hate you

[alaraowo]

I don't think we give ToG enough credit for showing us that deep connections don't have to be romantic

Yes, the series technically classifies as romantasy, and yes, there is a lot of romance in there, but not only.

There is Manon and the Thirteen, who teach us that the family we build for ourselves is so much more important than the one we're born into.

Aelin, Dorian, and Chaol, who show us that sometimes you just need a hand to pull you out of the dark hell you wound up in.

Aelin and Ansel who teach us that sometimes we make mistakes, and those mistakes hurt the people around us, but that doesn't make them unforgivable.

My personal favorite, Fenrys and Aelin, who had a bond so deep they were the only things that kept each other sane through months of torture, so deep Fenrys broke the unbreakable blood oath and SURVIVED for Aelin's sake.

There is so much love in ToG. Platonic, romantic, between all genders.

Fuck I love this series so much

[queenofheartsdeservedbetter]

I really, REALLY, don't know what I would do without books.

[beaofterresan]

forever chasing this high…

[jochi-the-veristithaylen-baker]

According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way that Kaladin Stormblessed should be able to fly. His wings are too small to get his tall muscular body off the ground. Kaladin Stormblessed, of course, flies anyway. Because Honor is dead and Kaladin Stormblessed will see what he can do.

[au-academy]

The fact that Sigzil could probably have sworn his Fourth Ideal right there in the Shattered Plains by accepting he couldn't protect Vienta, subsequently getting a burst of Stormlight and stopping Vyre from hurting Vienta and instead was unable to accept it and destroyed both himself and her in his split-second, desperate attempt to save her...

The Fourth Ideal of the Windrunners is diabolical. And I firmly believe Kaladin would never have been able to swear it unless he got a situation like at the end of the Rhythm of War, when the person in question, Teft, has already died. Kaladin, even after swearing the Ideal, would not be able to accept someone he loves dying in front of him and him unable to protect them.

Diabolical.

[tyresw]

[nonameformesorry]

Good side of having characters that live rent free in your brain: Always something to do, never bored.

Bad side of having characters that live rent free in your brain: Standing in the middle of the room, vacuum in hand, explaining to the Dean Winchster/Castiel/Kaladin Stormblessed/Samwise Gamgee in your brain, that either he helps, or he leaves, but I do NOT have time to consider the Horrors™, I gotta CLEAN.

[thelostdeadeye]

Something that is crazy to me is that there are people out there who have read stormlight archives and just. Gone about their lives. Like no lasting effects. Just some books they read that they are normal about. It scares me knowing they're out there

[the-text-doctor]

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[philomurphy-deactivated20230323]

in case you wanted your sword to be a different colour other than purple:

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[chaos-canary]

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☆Rainbow Sword☆

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[the-arcade-doctor]

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[13thsinnr]

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[blairpuffs]

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bisexual sword

[surdus-magus]

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A lightsaber

[gayvampyr]

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lesbian sword

[gracebeth3604]

this has probably already been done but:

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minecraft :3

[dogin8]

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for the dagger users amongus

[pippins-place]

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CHAINSAW

[raccoon-hybrid]

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[brain-empty-deactivated20241210]

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[summerblademoontime]

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BIG ASS SWORD

[the-purple-painter]

This post has been purpled!

[level-1-slime]

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Woe, slime sword be upon thee!

[pnkq]

Alright fucking Slimecicle jesus christ

[threeeyedharemp3]

FLAMING SWORD

[glyndekari]

what the fuck do I do with all these swords

[lovi23]

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FUCK YEAH LETS GOOOOOO (I stole the other guy's chainsaw it's mine now >:3)

[asexual-offical]

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NOT ANYMORE ITS NOT!!

[no-one-offical]

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[goldenbunny30]

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BIG ASS DAGGER

[artistformerlyknownasbutttrumpet]

i bring a "technically i could do this tomorrow" energy to things that tomorrow me really resents

[sarahshoots1st]

The way Dalinar is presented to us over the course of the series is wild if you consider it.

In book 1, we're mostly given Kaladin's pov, training us to distrust him simply because he's a lighteyes. We know from dalinar's chapters he's genuinely trying to be honorable, but after we learn what Amaram did it's hard to fault Kaladin for distrusting someone with that reputation.

Then in book 2 we come to realize that he genuinely is an honest man - he lives up to the "one noble lighteyes" reputation that Kaladin had previously ascribed to Amaram. We begin to see him as a moral paragon for the budding Radiants.

Then Oathbringer slaps us in the face with young Dalinar speed-running the Geneva convention, and we realize that he *was* trying to cover up the skeletons in his closet. He was more earnest in his repentance than Amaram, but his misdeeds made Amaram's pale in comparison. He was actually so much worse than anything Kaladin could have imagined.

But he's a changed man - or rather, a *changing* man. The climax of Oathbringer is a powerful affirmation of the ability for people to become better versions of themselves. Dalinar overcomes his past, embracing his guilt without letting it destroy him. He is able move forward because of where his journey has taken him.

And *then,* when you think the roller-coaster must finally be over, in RoW we get to see him from the perspective of his family, and how despite his triumph over Odium he is still a flawed person. He butts heads with Jasnah, showing how he still clings to power even as he has renounced his Alethi title. He takes it for granted that Navani would allow him to take the airship on a military mission. And of course, his insistence that Adolin follow the Codes - specifically, *his* interpretation of them - creates tension that the two are never able to fully resolve before their final parting. Dalinar's implicit hope that Adolin could become a Radiant seems to reflect how he expects his son to live up to the ideals Dalinar himself failed to as a youth. Adolin is reduced to an extension of Dalinar's legacy, and Dalinar is conflated into an impossible paragon whom Adolin can't forgive. It's not until they are both respectively on death's door that they are able to forgive each other, seeing the other as a person rather than a failed ideal.

I love that Sanderson refuses to glaze Dalinar in the wake of his triumph at the end of Oathbringer. It would have been very easy to idealize him the way people in-universe have begun to, but I appreciate the way his flaws continue to humanize him. As Adolin discovered, it's easier to live up to your heroes when you see them as regular people, not superhuman paragons.

[thickness-protection-program]

we're in a group project and our task is to design a set of stairs

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Voting ended onMar 10

[potassiumarizona]

A Darker Shade of Magic color coded based on which London that page takes place in