My Cosmere

My personal sideblog dedicated to my love of Cosmere. Obviously spoiler warning for specific books (I will do my best to tag). This blog may be posting irregularly or be inactive for long periods of time, depending on my current mood and level of investment in the fandom. #uncovered safehand tag for these rare ocassions when I reblog something naughtier

[mycosmere]

A very loose idea for an AU: Something Bad Happens when Shallan is a child, but she gets saved by Hoid, who because Reasons cannot simply do the Resonable Thing and leave her back with her family or drop her with someone he semi-trusts, thus he takes her along.

So basically “I watched too much Witcher and Mandalorian lately and it gave me IDEAS”AU

[mycosmere]

Were we ever told what Shallan’s original Truths were, before the incident with her mother?

[mycosmere]

A small observation about THAT one scene in the Oathbringer with Moash, Kaladin and Elhokar - I had made it previosly while I read the book, but I had problem putting it into words:

The scene in which Moash kills Elhokar mirrors and contrasts at the same time the scene in WoR in which Kaladin saves Elhokar’s ass.

You have three of the same players: Moash, Elhokar and Kaladin, you have Moash trying to kill the king and a Knight Radiant trying to swear an oath to get a power up in a hopeless situation. The set up is similar.

But the outcome of course is very different. The one scene is the hights of triumph - Kaladin swears the third oath, comes from the brink of death in the glorious desplay of power, saving Elhokar’s life. The other scene is one the most depressing moments in the third book - Moash kills Elhokar A WORD AWAY from swearing his first oath and becoming a Radiant, all while Kaladin watches, right after seeing all his friends kill each other and being unable to save them.

The heavy, heavy emotional weight aside. I find it interesting to see how Moash learnt from his previous experience facing a Radiant. He knows you have to kill them BEFORE they swear an oath and just giving them a lethal wound is not enough because of the Stormlight healing factor. He keeps the blade in Elhokar until the light fades thus ensuring he can’t heal himself. This is something many people facing Radiants, even if they theoretically know about the healing factor, may not take into account.

[mycosmere]

I very much idetify with Shallan “Distracted by Sexy” Davar, because I too have problem staying on track when an attractive person enters my field of vision XD

[mycosmere]

Someone A: Parshemn are the Voidbringers!

Someone B: GASP!

Someone A: They summoned a storm that blows the OTHER way!

Someone B: GASP

Someone A: We found Urithiru!

Someone B: GASP!

Someone A: The Radiants are back! Turns out Renarin Kholin and Shallan Davar were Radiants all along.

Someone B: GASP!

Someone A: And Stormblessed too apparently!

Someone B: GAS.... actually... the last part isn't really suprising.

[mycosmere]

The discussions between Dalinar and Kadash are one of my favourite small moments in the Oarthbringer. Partly because of the perspective and insight they provide, but also I can literally feel how frustated Kadash grows with every argument. I can see in my head Kadash just rubbing his temples in exasperation; the image is hilarious.

We the readers obviously know Dalinar is right, but from Kadsh’s perspective it’s basically:

“Dalinar don’t piss of the chuch.”

Dalinar goes and pisses of the church.

“Ok we can work with that, just don’t do anything else that can piss of the church”

Dalianr does something that pisses the church even more

“Are taking this as a challange? Do you want to get excommunicated?”

Dalinar gets excommunicated.

“Ok, ok. What’s done is done. Let’s come back to pretending everything is ok. We hit the bottom, now it can only get better. It’s not like things can get much worse on that front.”

And then.... Dalinar returns with the Freaking Assassin in White as his bodyguard, Jasnah Kholin becomes the Queen, Dalinar learns to read (GASP!) and all the other terrifying and wierd shit happen. I just have this wonderful mental image of Kadash just bangging his head against the nearest wall and going “you know what? this is above my nonexistant paygrade. maybe we should really just excommunicated the whole freaking family and be done with this shit. XD

[mycosmere]

When I first read Way of Kings for some reason I didn’t register that Shardblades are supposed to be ridiculously huge, so when Szeth’s shardblade was described as smaller than normal I thought it was the size of a dagger not a regular sword. And it kind of made sense in my head at the time, since he was the assassin. I spent two books thinking Szeth fought people with a large kitchen knife.

[littlegreydragon]

Shallan in a B4 uniform.

[botanicaxu]

Stormlight animation test II - Shallan & Renarin as the Illumination duo

This one is tough, but I made it!

[basket-of-radiants]

Icons of Best Boy, requested by @lightweaver-in-shadesmar! I suspected purple backgrounds would be the correct way to go for you, but here are some transparent ones too for anyone who’d like different colors.

[mycosmere]

Shallan: Brightness...I'm dealing with some boy trouble.

Jasnah: The quickest way to a gentleman’s heart is through the fourth and fifth rib.

[mycosmere]

Enemy: *insults Kaladin*

Kaladin: *sighs* Yeah, that's true.

Enemy: *insults Dalinar*

Kaladin: Now listen here, you useless sack of shit--

[reiyeka]

Brother-piece to this guy. Killin’ my art block with that look…don’t know if I’ll work on him more or just let him be.

[suchbluesky]

Vin watching over Elend

(actually did this somewhat for class, which was fun!)

[rowyndodendron]

Autistic!Jasnah: Masterpost

Okaaay, so, as you might have guessed from the title, this post is a long list of reasons Jasnah Kholin is autistic af.  

The short version: Jasnah is autistic because I, a Known Autism, say so. Have a nice day.

The long version (format): A long series of chronological quotes that all follow this pattern: Quote. *Insert ramble about why this is an Autistic Thing* *Possible and probable further ramble about why I’m emotional about that.

That’s literally it, people. Buckle up, I’ve picked through all three books (yes all three) to compose this post for y’all. It’s not going to be short.

To business:

The Way of Kings:

 Jasnah glanced at Shallan, noting her, then returned to her conversation.

Introducing Jasnah ‘I don’t have time for social niceties I’m busy’ Kholin. From the first interaction she’s…Bad at interacting. Iconic.

“Then we shall do an evaluation. Answer truthfully and do not exaggerate, as I will soon discover your lies. Feign no false modesty, either. I haven’t the patience for a simperer.”

Jasnah is both blunt, direct, and honest in her speech as she is in her expectations from others. She doesn’t have the energy to deal with manipulation/lying/tarting up the truth to make it more socially acceptable bc she is a busy autistic lady with shit to do. (really, though, what she’s literally demanding here is the first rule of the autistic’s guide to easy conversation. Clear. Simple. To the point. To frills, no fuss.)

 Jasnah didn’t argue further, and Shallan could see from her eyes that it was of no consequence to her if the king risked his life. The same apparently went for Shallan, for Jasnah didn’t order her away.

People do what people want to do and Jasnah doesn’t waste any time pretending she cares/that it matters to her for the sake of appearances. Again, this woman has a vendetta against typical social niceties and I love it.

“Now?” the king said, cradling his granddaughter. “But we are going to have a feast—”

“I appreciate the offer,” Jasnah said, “but I find myself with an abundance of everything but time.”

Do I need to point out the lack of social niceties again or are y’all sensing a pattern at this point? *King lovingly embraces his darling granddaughter that Jasnah just saved and orders a feast prepared in her honour* Jasnah: ‘Thanks but no I’m too busy to socialise.’

Jasnah was also a rationalist, a woman with the audacity to deny the existence of the Almighty himself based on her own reasoning. Jasnah would appreciate strength, but only if it was shaped by logic.

Jasnah feelings>>>>>>logic. This is a fairly common theme, of Jasnah being ruled less by emotions/sentiment/societal pressures/expectations and much more by logic/her own reasoning. She has her own way of looking at the world, her own rules for how it works, and she won’t be swayed by anyone else’s opinions on how she should feel/behave.

Jasnah turned to look out of the balcony into the dark space of the Veil. “I know what people say of me. I should hope that I am not as harsh as some say, though a woman could have far worse than a reputation for sternness. It can serve one well.”

Jasnah not being very self-aware in how people actually perceive her is also an autistic thing. Shallan notes several times that Jasnah is actually nowhere near as harsh/stern as she’s reputed to me, and, more importantly, she’s nowhere near as harsh/stern as she perceives herself to be. She also fails to note that Shallan actually enjoys the work/the challenge. This also implies that she takes what people say about her at face value and doesn’t have the necessary social skills to refute them.

Shallan tried to judge Jasnah’s mood, but the older woman’s emotions were impossible to read. 

Again, this is a fairly common autistic trait. We struggle to read other people’s body language, but they often struggle to read ours as well. A part of this is probably Jasnah deliberately cultivating this kind of persona, but even so, she’s too unsure of how she comes across to have completely mastered this.

Jasnah carefully removed its contents, neatly lining up the brushes, pencils, pens, jar of lacquer, ink, and solvent. She placed the stacks of paper, the notebooks, and the finished pictures in a line.

Oh look, it’s one of the world’s biggest Autism Stereotypes (which I’m totally guilty of too): lining all the things up neatly, and making them Orderly.

At least with Jasnah one knew where one stood.

Jasnah of the straightforward, blunt honesty and ‘what you see is what you get’ strikes again.

When Jasnah was deeply immersed in one of her projects, she often ignored all else.

And here we see the Autistic Jasnah in her natural habitat: hyperfixating on her special interest.

The rest is under the cut for length! 

Czytaj dalej

[hartteart]

kaladin bb

[mycosmere]

Kabsal: How you hate to be wrong.

Jasnah: I wouldn't know. I'm not familiar with the sensation.