Dont Mind Me Just A Lurker

[notable-blowfish]

Stormlight is so fun because you start reading and go “God hates this man” as a joke. Then you keep reading and realize God does, in fact, hate that man

[pukicho]

Handled raw chicken. Now I can't touch anything ever again until I forget that I did that.

[notable-blowfish]

Hey puki, you forget about it yet?

[notable-blowfish]

“Love languages” are ableist.

No, I will not explain.

[notable-blowfish]

You know, I probably should have realized I was autistic sooner. I used to cry at fireworks because they were too loud. I never wear my hearing aids because it makes things too loud, which is actually just “normal” volume.

This is just one example.

[notable-blowfish]

About 2 years ago my job made it mandatory to hang an American flag outside. In all that time we never lowered it to half-mast. It is today, was ordered by higher-up. All for a douchebag.

[notable-blowfish]

So without getting too spoilery (but Stormlight spoilers ahead anyway, just in case). Kaladin is going to become Honor, right?

The amount of times that someone has said “Where is Honor?” Only for Kaladin to step up beside them.

“Honor wouldn’t allow this!” Smash-cut to Kaladin literally fighting against that very thing.

Any mention of Honor somehow also involving Kaladin.

It’s giving MAJOR foreshadowing vibes, Sanderson.

Then we have the events of WaT, which I won’t spoil, but, like, come on! That’s how Stormlight has to end, right? Kaladin becoming Honor?

[sweetestoday]

I saw someone say that Rhythm of War was kind of like Kaladin's second book bc it had him going through so many deeply personal struggles and I feel like he also had lot of chapters.

And suddenly I understood one reason why I liked and connected with this part of the series so much...

I'm never escaping him

[notable-blowfish]

I struggle with depression so when I started reading I immediately latched on to him and most of Bridge 4.

That being said, there are very few books that have made me cry. Rhythm of War is one of them.

“Kaladin felt good” being the first line in Wind and Truth was so cathartic in a way I have a hard time explaining.

[natavinsmoke06]

I'm glad Gavilar Kholin was put down like a dog.

[notable-blowfish]

What’s your favorite Gavilar death? Mines gotta be from Jasnah’s POV. Her having deals with assassins only for him to be killed and her to go “Well, at least I don’t have to marry now” is perfection.

[notable-blowfish]

I feel bad for the young kids on the internet. They get such crap relationship advice from people and don’t even realize it. TikTok is especially bad at this; basically every time someone has a complaint about something their partner does everybody jumps to divorce.

It’ll be a post like: “my partner is doing something clearly indicative of an anxiety disorder but they aren’t diagnosed with one.”

And instead of offering support or urging for their partner to go to therapy all of the comments will just say: “I’d divorce them if I were you.”

Like, do any of y’all actually love your partners and want to see them be better people? Why are so many people so quick to end a relationship?

Maybe I’m just an old man yelling at clouds but damn I never thought I’d see so many “I hate my wife”-style Boomer posts from younger generations.

[fangirl-nadir]

I'm gonna have a petty bitch moment about the Tien Singularity, don't mind me.

A lot of people talk about "the king was Dalinar's Tien" as being a bad writing decision. And maybe it was but I never read it that way. To me, that line wasn't trying to say that Elhokar was an innocent victim, or that Moash was wrong to hate the king. I always understood that line to be Kaladin realizing that everyone has someone in their life who they would drop everything to protect, who they love unconditionally even if they make bad decisions.

Also the reason Moash's drive for vengeance is framed as bad by the narrative is because he was building to be a Windrunner, and that sort of thing goes against the oaths of a Windrunner. If Moash wasn't part of Bridge 4, if he had belonged to any other order, his rage likely would have been justified by the narrative. I don't believe the story is saying that Moash is evil for hating the king, but that he's evil for putting his personal goals above his oaths.

At least that's how I took that story arc. Maybe I'm overthinking it and it really is just shitty writing. I dunno.

[notable-blowfish]

The main problem with the “*Whoever* was *whoevers* Tien* thing is that Kaladin has that realization a number of times about different people. It isn’t particularly bad writing at any point but its overuse became clunky and repetitive. Especially considering that Kaladin should’ve learned after the first time or two that EVERYONE had their own Tien.

I would also like to add that Moash isn’t just bad because of his hatred for the King. Kaladin talks with Dalinar about what happened to Moash and figures out that Roshone is actually responsible for what happened, but Moash doesn’t care. He isn’t trying to get justice. He’s trying to get revenge. He’s picked a person to blame for what happened and is sticking to that.

Moash could have easily listened to what Kal said and went after Roshone. He was even given a Blade, turned Lighteyed, and was one of the few people with direct access to the King. He could have easily pulled Elohkar aside and talked to him about what happened, about wanting justice for his family. He could have went after the person directly responsible.

What’s even worse is that, at the time of Moash’s grandparents imprisonment and death, Elohkar would’ve been a child. Dalinar blames himself for those deaths because he left the Kingdom in the hands of a child who didn’t know any better.

[notable-blowfish]

Give me bad art any day of the week.

Give me a half-assed sketch of something you’ve never even seen or barely remember.

Give me graffiti that had once been painted over but that paint has now faded from rain and has left the art underneath barely noticeable.

Give me a photograph where your thumb was accidentally in front of the lens.

Give me smears of ink and graphite because you brushed against the paper too quickly.

Give me music with an out of tune instrument.

I want you all to create and enjoy and live because that’s the point of it all. We exist to exist.

[notable-blowfish]

I need a scene where Kaladin and Taln are just sitting around talking about life before being Radiants/Heralds. Both of them making fun of the rest of the Heralds for being royalty or high-ranking members of their society. The surgeons son and stablehand bonding over just being regular people.

[notable-blowfish]

Do you think Adolin is going to have a “Kal isn’t dead” moment? Like, all of Bridge 4 has had multiple at this point, so has Dalinar. Adolin is next, right?

Adolin, learning about the bones Szeth buried: “Nah, wasn’t him.”

Szeth: “He was the only one there, who else could it be?”

Adolin: “Wasn’t him.”

[notable-blowfish]

Tumblr is cool because I can see drawings of a girl made out of a strawberry, a swearing bird, stick figure memes, and find my new favorite artist all in the #art tag.

Reddit is cool because I can ask a question and be directed to a conversation from 8 years ago that has more detail than a doctoral level thesis on the most niche subject I could think of.

[natequarter]

would that stormlight archive character care about your worldbuilding project:

kaladin: no. it all goes straight over his head and the only bit he cares about is if people get to fly. can you fly in this world? yes? then it rules. if not then he's going back to bed

moash: yes. delights in plotting out elaborate political schemes which end in revolution Every Single Time, and you know what? they're pretty engaging revolutions which helped you flesh out the internal politics of your world a lot. fair enough

shallan: uninterested in the actual workings of your world, but she is absolutely thrilled to draw all the weird creatures that inhabit it

nightblood: thinks it would be greatly improved if there was a talking sword that destroyed evil. is there evil in your world? well there should be a talking sword there to destroy it, because what every world needs is a talking sword. that can destroy evil.

renarin: he's been dreaming up imaginary worlds in his head since he was six. yes.

lift: exclusively interested in your made-up fantasy swears

jasnah: ...is this even a question? you give her half an hour with your worldbuilding and next thing you know she's compiled multiple reference books, some trade network maps (courtesy of her brother), a collection of in-world texts, a workable currency, and a dictionary on it

adolin: exclusively interested in the swords, the horses, and the fashion

wit: currently dreaming up several never-before-heard puns about your fantasy world as we speak

dalinar: no, it does not need a noble king who learns humility and writes a book about his experiences as a beggar, please stop

sigzil: until now, you hadn't thought about how taxes would work. now? now, you have.

navani: yes, but you keep having to tell her that it's too early for central heating to be invented yet. maybe in three hundred years?

szeth: the world as it is is already far too depressing. another invented land where people continue to suffer unjustly? no thank you...

nale: excited to introduce capital punishment to your lawless invented society. you're slightly disturbed by his eagerness

bonus:

amaram: yes, also he invented a conlang for your world and devised a script for it because he's just Like That

[notable-blowfish]

Counterpoint:

Kaladin: only interested if the people are traumatized and in need of help. If everything’s A-Okay then he just zones out and lets you explain it while occasionally nodding his head. Syl *will* yell at him for this.

[notable-blowfish]

You know, it’s crazy to me that *female pop star of the month* did *relatively mundane thing* and people are annoyed at it especially when there’s other things that they did/do that actively affect people.

Can’t wait to repost this the next time *other female pop star* does something.

[hay-bails]

and then it hit me. I can’t make a tien post better than the ones already out there

[notable-blowfish]

And then it hit you. Tien posts are your Tien.