#mishim

[paintweaver-art]

Despite all the trauma, there must be happier childhood memories as well…

My idea here was that Jasnah is taking care of them and that’s why Adolin and Renarin are up that late at night. She‘s either too distracted from her studies (albeit she might be secretly reading adventure stories) or she simply doesn’t care.

[calliemori234]

so you loved J huh?

💚he💚said i could be a real girl💔

[butwhybother]

"No, no." He took a deep breath. There had to be a way to explain this. What would his master do?

"Now," Sigzil said, scrambling at an idea, "everybody knows that Mishim--the third moon--is the most clever and wily of the moons."

"All right... And this is relevant, why?"

"Because of a story," Sigzil said. "Hush. Uh, I mean, please listen, sir. You see, there are three moons, and the third moon is the cleverest. And she doesn't want to be in the sky, sir. She wants to escape.

"So one night, she tricked the queen of the Natan people--this was a long time ago, so they were still around. I mean, they're still around now, but they were more around then, sir. And the moon tricked her, and then they traded places until they stopped. And now the Natan people have blue skin. Does that make sense?"

Kaladin blinked. "I have no idea what you just said."

"Um, well," Sigzil said. "It's obviously fanciful. Not the real reason that the Natan people have blush skin. And, um..."

"It was supposed to explain something?"

"It's how my master always did things," Sigzil said, looking at his feet. "He'd tell a story anytime someone was confused, or when people were angry at him. And, well, it changed everything. Somehow." He looked to Kaladin.

"I suppose," Kaladin said slowly, "that maybe you feel... like a moon...."

"No, not really." It was about responsibility, but he had really not explained it well. Storms. Master Hoid had named him a full Worldsinger, and here he couldn't even tell a story straight.

-Oathbringer, chapter 35.

[aquayurufuwatraveler]

2022.3.6 静岡 函南　かんなみの桜

[pavlovasmess]

I spent my sixth birthday frolicking out in the April sun. When I came back home, the walls were decorated with balloons, ostensibly put up by my mother. But to the newly six-year-old me it seemed fantastical; a few dozen pale shiny balloons summoned for me in my absence. Almost a decade later, this came to me while reading my first Murakami—serendipitously titled “Birthday Girl”—the acute banality of my mother putting up balloons and the magical effect it had on me, like modern Japanese literature has on its readers.

Banality is a curious theme. It comes with an expected tone of offhandedness, of unceremoniously viewing from a distance, but it evokes a completely different set of feelings: of intimacy, of living in an alternate world where you watch strangers do gracefully what you might do clumsily. And while it evidently stands in sharp contrast to richly imaginative writing of, say, fantasy fiction, the banality in Japanese literature is just as much or at times, even more evocative. It isn’t far-reaching by any standards, and perhaps this is why modern Japanese fiction comes off as carefully collected and delicately written despite the abrupt endings and the free-flowing writing style.

Woman Admiring Plum Blossoms at Night

Suzuki Harunobu

[butwhybother]

Here's an idea that that I would like to draw, but I'm not sure I can do it well.

Chibi Odium, Honor, and Cultivation are each holding a helium balloon. The balloons look like Roshar's moons: Salas, Nomon, and Mishim.

[paintweaver-art]

Cosmere Inktober Day 11: Beautiful Hoid ’s Storytelling/ Mishim

The stories Hoid/ Wit tells are big highlights for me in every book and Mishim has so far been my favorite story by him. I will probably also do a colored version of this later!

[butwhybother]

There are three Shards on Roshar. Their theme colors are gold, blue, and green.

There are gold people on Roshar (Iri). There are blue people on Roshar (Natan). Unfortunately there are no green people on Roshar, as far as I know. (Somebody please tell me if you spot green people!)

Let's try that again.

There are three Shards on Roshar. Their theme colors are gold, blue, and green.

There are three moons on Roshar. Their colors are purple, blue, and green. Blue for Honor, green for Cultivation, and... technically, purple is a theme color for Odium too (voidlight), so yes purple for Odium. Salas, Nomon, and Mishim to Odium, Honor, and Cultivation. Yes!

I like it when theme colors work out.