#nae.ask

[lightweaver-naeuri]

13, 14, and 27 for the cosmere fanfic ask game!

Thank you for the ask (I really should add more variation to this part of the message augh i sound like a robot). Here's the game in question! If y'all haven't already, I highly recommend going to the tags and dropping asks to people who reblogged the post!

13. What fic would you recommend to someone who wants to cry?

*Begrudgingly hands over my "#1 Kadolin Hater" trophy*... Go Read My Darling, My Love, My Light by kiminsocks (whose username on here is evading me please tag Kim if you know?) right now! It's Kadolin-centric—with my absolute favorite throuple ever Tien/Renarin/Laral—enabled by Dalinar being assigned Citylord of Hearthstone instead of Roshone. It seriously goes from sweet to kicking you and kicking you and kicking you and kicking you and—you get the point, right? And the brilliant thing about it is that it would NOT have hurt as much as it did without the sweetness and that preceeded it. Fuck. Jesus. Damn it. If you're seeing this, you're a really amazing author and you made me fucking FEEL.

14. What fic would you recommend to someone who wants to laugh?

It's an explicit fic, so forewarning there, but Another Rlain Dishwasher Nap Fic by Axehound aka @cosmereplay (Sorry for tagging you a billion times today lol). I dont know what to tell you about this fic. Rlain has a dishwasher nap kink.

27. Is there a fic author you'd like to shout out? Why do they stand out to you?

This is another case of "Just One?!?" But fiiiine.

I somehow rarely mention @trishyeves even though Self-Soulcasting was the first Stormlight fic I ever read. Her works are probably my favorite portrayals of transness, non-monogamy, and plurality in the fandom. I legit would not have gotten into Stormlight fic, and by extension Cosmere Tumblr as a whole without their work. Plus, I think she was the one of the first authors to post ShalVin??? Big, big, big shoutout all around. Please go give their stuff a read ASAP if you haven't already!!!

[naeurisblog]

YOU'VE READ THE EDGE CHRONICLES?

I did when I was a kid!!! Twig was my favorite character in any book ever when i was in gradeschool! I've been trying to collect the first eight books again, because that's all I read back in the day (I had no idea the series went farther until last year), and in the past two years I've managed to track down 4-8 at local book stores! I need to give them a reread to refresh my memory on the plot but that was far and away one of my favorites as a kid

[lightweaver-naeuri]

Oooo I would love to hear about "but with you id dance in a storm in my best dress" please and thank you!

Oooo okay so I'm GENERALLY not a big shakadolin shipper, but a couple other fics inspired me to write the trio as yuri, specifically with Kaladin as transfem and established relationship Shadolin.

The premise is Kaladin thinks no one knows about her gender OR her crush on the princess and her fiancé, but The Lopen was the first one to figure both of those things out and has about as much subtlety as a caffeinated chasmfiend in the Elendel Basin, and basically everyone is trying to get Kaladin to realize how desperately the engaged Shadolin want her as their girlfriend, not their boyfriend.

Aaaand for a snippet:

"“You see, at first I thought you might have been wearing gloves to turn a new look because of your being a lighteyes and everything now. But I got to thinking, I had this cousin who was with this proper Vorin lady, wore a safehand glove all her life. Well one day, she refuses to put on a glove and my cousin drops her like a bridge in a chasm!”

“Okay. Is there a reason you’re telling me this?”

“I’m getting to that! Two years later, turns out his lady was actually a man and now they’re drinking buddies! There are these herbs and surgeries that the buddy's been getting and he’s much happier now! He’s even got himself a super fine lady of his own!” "

[lightweaver-naeuri]

Can I have Shalvin for the ship ask game?

AUGH hi thank you for this in particular!!!

1) What made you ship it?

@mayaeatsbooks. Like I don't think there's more to say about it. Objectively I hadn't so much as considered it until she started talking about it and now I'm #Team ShalVin for life.

2) What are your favorite things about the ship?

How they portray themselves in public is ABSOLUTELY exactly the other's type early in their series. Shallan is a somewhat snarky, intelligent aristocrat like Elend, and Vin is rough-around-the-edges and extremely competent, while also having a kind exterior if you get through the layers and layers and layers and layers of trauma like Kaladin!

3) Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

Can you have an unpopular opinion on a ship with 6 works? I honestly don't know so I'll just give a general fandom opinion that I think applies here: You don't have to make it make sense within the framework of canon. ShalVin does not need to make sense—it only needs be made.

[lightweaver-naeuri]

Mistblåhaj

Okay but why go anon for this? It's literally pride month.

[lightweaver-naeuri]

For the Cosmere ask game 1, 7 & 27!

Thanks for the ask Vea!!! Here's the ask game in question!

1. When did you start the cosmere?

Augh it was a little before I came out, I only remember because the first name I tried was Valette... So maybe late 2020? I binged Mistborn book 1 and then didn't touch Well of Ascension until like 2023, after I'd read the first four Stormlight books.

7. What’s your favorite cosmere theory?

That the thing that Sazed performed between Mistborn Era 2 and Isles of the Emberdark is the reassignment of Shardic Intent. Whether that means splitting Harmony into new components or turning "Harmony" fully into Discord or Discord back into Harmony, I am unsure.

27. What do you want from the next stormlight book?

An explanation of Old Magic!!! Considering it's the Lift book I am assuming we will get that explanation!!! I'm just hyped for Lift in general because she's a Radiant who burns Lifelight, who exists partially in the cognitive realm, and very likely is bonded to an Aviar, and WaT seemed to be foreshadowing she's going to get a Vasher-mentorship!

[lightweaver-naeuri]

HI HI HELLO can I have 31 for the fic ask game please?

Thank you for the ask! Here's the game in question! If y'all haven't already, I highly recommend going to the tags and dropping asks to people who reblogged the post!

31. Which fic crawled into your brain and lives there rent free?

Fic? FIC??? Where's the "(s)" in this prompt @cosmereplay?! How's anyone supposed to pick just one?!?

Fuck it. Kiwi I know you only chose one number but I'm gonna give a handful of answers because HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO PICK JUST ONE?!?!

I already mentioned Devotion, Head Over Feet, and Wikihow How to Kiss (With Pictures) in a previous ask, but boy fuckin howdy when I tell you these three are up there? I mean it. Go read them right now and leave nice comments they're so fucking good. Maya is the reason I write Shalvin (and yes, for all two of you that remember me mentioning it last year, Vin-daughter-Hesina is being written I'm just focusing on my main fic,) and Devotion and Wikihow are SUCH big inspirations for my queer Stormlight fics. You. Have. No. Idea.

Then there's Show me the place where he inserted the blade by @arborplasm. Jasnah/Evi is such an inspired ship. It honestly feels like the lesbian equivalent of all of the Kadolin arranged marriage fics. If I knew more about Evi I would probably write for this ship because it's so fuckin good. And Arbor's execution of it is really enjoyable and I think the fic deserves more appreciation!!!

Additionally Oaths of True Fiction by TheBlackthornsFavouriteSon is a crossover reverse Isekai where Kaladin and Syl end up on the Earth of My Hero Academia... It's fucking amazing? Kaladin exasperatedly being like "It's surgebinding" every time someone asks about his quirk(s) is amusing and it's just really really good.

And this will be the last one but holy moly I have been LOOKING for an excuse to gush about Army Adolescence by @foiazoli! This is another one that's inspiring a WIP of mine, but in essence Kaladin adopts Oroden in Urithiru. Kaladad is just absolutely precious to me. For all the ship fic out there of Kaladin... I am SORRY that man does not need sex or romance, he needs a child or a pet or even a damn plant. Like obviously not all people with depression and PTSD are the same, but having someone or something depending on you for sustinance can help people overcome hopelessness. While Kaladin is a soldier and effectively a battlefield-medic, those are high-adrenaline situations that caused his PTSD. Taking care of the cutest lil baby Oroden? That's how you start to feel alive again!

[lightweaver-naeuri]

For the cosmere fanfic ask game 2 & 8 with some good old-fashioned Shasnah! (or any ship of your choosing)

Thank you for the ask! Here's the game in question! If y'all haven't already, I highly recommend going to the tags and dropping asks to people who reblogged the post!

2. What's an underappreciated (low kudos or comments) fic with this ship/trope?

Every Shasnah fic deserves more appreciation there are only 49 of them—I MEAN!!! Well, actually that was a genuine answer, if I were to shoutout one in particular it'd be In The Gemlight by leafhands. I'm a bit of a hypocrite insofar as I haven't commented on this one but it's still super cute and worth a read, kudo, and comment! And yes, I am going to reread it today and comment :)

8. Do you have any ideas for fic with this ship/trope?

Augh!!!! Yes!!! Other than the Shasnah half of my soulmate AU fic Blossoming Souls (rare self plug lmao) I have a few more Shasnah stories in the brain.

One of them is an E-rated T4T take on the bath scene that might honestly end up reworked and included as a chapter of Blossoming Souls??? Haven't decided. It was originally called "Kiss From a Rose" but I couldnt figure out how to end it... But it would be immensely entertaining to me if I were to include it in the Soul Flower AU, what with its title.

Then I have an idea for a cis!Jasnah x trans!Shallan modern AU fic with Jasnah as a professor at a university and Shallan as the broke art-school dropout barista who serves her coffee every morning.

And someone somewhere mentioned Shallan/Vin/Jasnah at some point yesterday or the day before and that has been like a damn fire alarm blaring in my brain. That won't be worked on until I finish my two more works for @stormlight-queer-a-thon (which you should totally consider writing a fic for btw!) and after I finish and upload Blossoming Souls chapter 5 & 6!