RestingStormFace

I post Spicy Stormlight Fantics on AO3 as RestingStormFace

[cosmere-cosmeme]

Kaladin: Alright Princeling, and how many hours of sleep did YOU get last night?

Adolin: A full seven hours.

Kaladin: Straight?

Adolin: No, bisexual.

Kaladin: That’s not what I-

Shallan: Wow Kaladin, you act so concerned about his sleep and then you proposition him?

Kaladin, somewhat flustered: Storms I hate hanging out with you two.

Pattern: Mmmmmmmmmmmm

[lazulir]

My wife with his wife

[hoidianslips]

Palona, you icon.

[au-academy]

No self-indulging fanfic can improve upon the first time canon Kaladin and Adolin exchanged a smile

"Wait. Are you wearing cologne? In prison?"

"Well, there was no need to be barbaric, just because I was incarcerated."

"Storms, you're spoiled," Kaladin said, smiling.

"I'm refined, you insolent farmer," Adolin said. Then he grinned. "Besides, I'll have you know that I had to use cold water for my baths while here."

"Poor boy."

"I know."

[raspberryzingaaa]

I haven't seen my favorite new stormlight meme on here yet, so I present r/cremposting's new meme, Pibu

[restingstormface]

Here's my hot-take: Moash and Vyre are two different characters sharing one arc. Pre-Odium (Moash) was a man drowning in pain. Post-Odium (Vyre) is what happens when you drain the ocean and leave just the wreckage at the bottom. No feelings, just function. A tool.

And here's what fascinates me. Odium saw the opportunity *immediately*. Moash was tailor-made for this. His entire existence was vengeance-shaped. But here's the thing, when Odium stripped his emotions, he didn't make Moash happy. He made him numb. Look at his reaction after the Tower. When the numbness breaks and he flees, feeling the crushing weight of *everything* he's done. He's completely destroyed. And he begs to have it taken away again. That's not peace. That's addiction to emotional death.

Now here’s my headcanon and what I'm running with in my fic: That "mostly unchained" part of Moash, it knows Odium wants Kaladin dead. And it doesn't want that. Not really. Not the way Odium wants it. So in his numb, delusional state, Moash cooks up a logic: I'll claim Kal as my project. I'll be the one to break him and "free" him into the numbness. Turn him or kill him. He genuinely thinks he's offering Kaladin mercy when he pushes him toward s****de or the void of numbness alongside him (essentially the same thing). Join me in nothing. Isn't that better than feeling everything?

And Odium? He sees right through it. But he lets Moash play his little games because the byproduct is *chef's kiss* either a dead Radiant or a tormented one, and either way the pain is delicious. Odium's immortal. He can wait.

Here's what gets me: Moash was Kaladin's biggest hater because he truly resented him. His hope was gnawing at the part of Moash that knew better. Hope was a trap. Then he became his biggest sidekick because he thought finally, *finally* someone who gets it. He saw Kal’s pain as a mirror of his own. Their arcs up until this point are similar. But when Kaladin chose to save Elhokar instead of letting him die? That shattered Moash. Not just the betrayal but the proof that they'd never be on the same page about their fundamental view on the world.

And Moash had been pining for that lost possibility ever since, in the only way someone with no feelings can: coldly, obsessively, delusionally.

He wants Kaladin as broken as he is. He calls it freedom. He calls it mercy. But underneath the numbness, underneath Odium's leash, there's still that Bridge Four kid who just wanted one person to stay on his side.

Does this excuse anything? Absolutely not. Moash is as bad as everyone thinks and worse. But from a mental illness angle, Odium's influence as a form of emotional lobotomy, antisocial patterning, the way pain can curdle instead of heal, it's sooo fascinating. And yeah, I feel pity. The same pity Kaladin would feel it if he let himself: grief for a person who could have been something else. Something good.

[fairyplam]

Read the new chapter of; Of Riran Gold and Alethi Black by @akorah

And had to sketch something inspired by it hehehe

Them ❤️

[blacksheepcolorfulskin]

WHY IS THIS SO GOOD?!

[the-ladyrae]

They put drugs in this show, and this edit is the closest I've come to being able to snort it like cocaine. Excluding binging the entire show in 6 hours after first turning on episode one to see what all the fuss was about.

[jennydolfen]

👀 I’ve never actually drawn Kaladin in enough detail to show off his eyes or his brands clearly. (I googled „healed brandings“ for more accuracy and don’t recommend it.) 😆 Then Adolin and Shallan demanded their share in the fun, too.

Painted in Procreate with my watercolour brushes.

Commissions Etsy Procreate brushes Patreon Prints

[lamaery]

I just finished the Mistborn era 1 series for the first time and I am WRECKED!!!!! Your art… especially the collection of thumbnails you painted are truly amazing. 😭😭😭 I’m going to have to attempt some fanart of my own just to process these books haha.

What’s your favorite portrait of Vin you’ve done??

Thank you so much! ❤️ The thumbnails I made to practice shapes and layout and it really helped in how I approach composition now. (maybe this is a wrong impression, but it feels like the effects of the practice diminished over time, so perhaps I need to do it again for another book 😊) I hope you have fun making your own mistborn fanart!

My favorite portrait of Vin? ... Still this one from 2022, I think. :)

[restingstormface]

Of Logic & Levity

Of Logic & Levity

RestingStormFace Yes, you read that correctly. This is, indeed, a Jasnah/Lopen fic. My brain demanded it, now it's your problem. You're welcome ☺️

Jasnah's 'Queenly Eyebrow of Doom' meets Lopen's unshakable grin. The resulting laughter changes everything.

Welcome to the strangely perfect and oddly compelling world of Jopen, the Stormlight rare-pair nobody asked for, but everybody needs.

[emily-e-draws]

Jasnah Kholin, queen of my heart

[emily-e-draws]

midnight creature 🌑

I am still in the middle of Oathbringer but I simply could not get this scene out of my head..!! I love Shallan so much (though she is also perhaps the character who stresses me out the most.. help)

[emily-e-draws]

sylphrena!💙 this has been in my wips for too long.. I’m always meaning to do more cosmere art but I’ve gotta catch up on the books first 😭 most of the way through rhythm of war rn, I’m nearly there!!

[emily-e-draws]

another silly Stormlight animatic.. more cosmere vines coming soon :-)c

[emily-e-draws]

a tiny compilation of stormlight vines :-) finished my way of kings reread and now I can't draw anything else

[emily-e-draws]

another small compilation of stormlight animatics (based on vines)