the most important step a man can take is the next

I'm Casper and this is my Cosmere blog, a grab bag of literary analysis and awful memes. I do liveblogs and queer headcanons; I'm currently working through Rhythm of War!

[stormtide-leviathan]

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST MAN

[sunshineandchemistry]

Hi my name is Hoid Wit Cephandrius Midius Roamer Dust and I have dark black hair but sometimes it’s white and sharp cheekbones and keen blue eyes like limpid tears and people tell me I look like Lunu’anaki (AN: if u don’t know who he is get da hell out of here!). [[I’m not related to Frost but I wish I was because he’s a major fucking hottie. I’m an awakener but I have no aura cause I can suppress it. I’m also a worldhopper, and I go to all the planets in the cosmere cause I’m immortal (I’m twelve million and six). I’m a goth (in case you couldn’t tell) and I wear mostly black. I love Scadrial and I buy all my instant noodles from there. I was walking outside The Well of Ascension in the Cognitive Realm. It was misty and dreary so there was no sun, which I was very happy about. A prep stared at me. I put up my middle finger at him.

—leaked intro from Hoid’s first person book

[preservationandruin]

Long Time No See

Or, well, write. I’m sorry for how utterly dead this blog has been, gang, and I suppose it’s no surprise that the recent news drop is what it took to jolt me back into awareness. In all honesty, I kind of burnt myself out. I was trying to work a customer service job during covid, read RoW, and compile my reactions--and I couldn’t do all of them, so the reactions died so I could finish the book. Which I loved, but then I felt bad about not finishing my liveblog, and, well, one thing led to another. That said, I am planning on waking this back up, getting back into the swing of things here, gearing up for 2023--because of course I’m going to be trying to work with the Year of Sanderson. I’m going to figure out how to tag things to prolong the surprise for people who want to keep it, as well--if anyone has suggestions, please let me know. Will I ever get to liveblogging the rest of RoW? I don’t know. I might do a stormlight reread to gear up for stormlight 5, when it comes out, and in that case I’d touch on it, but I don’t see it happening in the near future at the moment.

If anyone is still following here, though, thanks for your continued interest, and i look forward to talking to yall about everything coming! To start out with, what the fuck, Brandon?!?

[beetleandfox]

how is that even possible

[onlycosmere]

(By Kisaoda)

[jedidragonwarriorqueen]

Hey quick question did the Diagram predict this

[kingjasnah]

seriously i don't think anything cosmere has ever trended on here (even when everyone was liveblogging rhythm!) but i can't believe THIS was how it happened. the cultural impact of fortnite kelsier

[adolins-smile]

Alright, I claim one spot. Where are the other 14 people who know mistborn?

[pizzazzterbi]

Dibs!

[elseweaver]

[ID: a tweet replying to @FortniteGame. It says: "Who the fuck is this and what the fuck is mistborn. I think a total of 15 people on this planet have heard of this shit. Kinda sad cause it goes to show how low they're willing to go to add shit collabs. Adding shit no ones ever head of"]

[onlycosmere]

And we are trending

[onlycosmere]

[rspixart]

Just because I love the idea of Rlain being the shroud between Odium and Renarin

[transkelsier-m-deactivated20211]

modern au vin texts this to kelsier

[transkelsier-m-deactivated20211]

>on kelsier’s phone >check out his iTunes library >literally only one song >Jimmy Buffett - Margaritaville >almost 30,000 plays

[kingjasnah]

mistborn modern au but every time kelsier gets the crew together to talk crimes they have to be in uniform

[rspixart]

mY bOOOIIIIIS

[preservationandruin]

Lirin: My sweet, sensitive son Kal couldn't hurt a cremling.

Kaladin: My calm, gentle father never has the slightest desire to fight.

Anyone else upon first meeting either of them: Intense! Commanding! Angry! Intimidating!

[worldwithinworld]

One of my very favorite Kaladin lines is in Chapter 39 of Oathbringer when he and Jasnah are arguing about fighting the parshmen. Dalinar tries to calm them both down and says that, unfortunately, wars always end up hurting some people on both sides who don't even want to fight, "nothing new."

And then comes the line!

"Maybe," Kaladin said, "that should make you reconsider those other wars, rather than using them to justify this one."

He said that. To Dalinar Kholin! And other assorted Kholins!

The first time I got to this part, I had to pause for a minute to absorb the awesomeness. If only Kaladin's dad could have seen him in that moment.

[tiensrocks]

based of of this

[onlycosmere]

Mistborn: The Final Empire

[brechtian]

Potential songs to play after Kaladin says "honor is dead, but I'll see what I can do" and jumps into the arena in a live action remake:

Britney Spears' Gimme More

Miike Snow's Genghis Khan

MCR's Teenagers

Britney Spears' Circus

Ke$ha's Take It Off

ABBA's Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!

Britney Spears' Toxic