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@tenebrius-excellium
They caught me singing at my funeral, and dancing to my dirge,
They caught me heckling my eulogy, and joy-riding my hearse.
They caught me spray-painting my tomb stone and teasing the mortician,
They caught me at all sorts of mischief, in grand Christian tradition.
They scolded me, I put my face into my hands to hide
The smiles and the giggles I couldn’t keep inside.
They didn’t want to hear the joke that I had learned so well,
That death has no dominion: my God has rattled hell.
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Head in the Clouds☁️✨
A small tribute (one of many) to the franchise that started my journey on the path of ✨Animation✨
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I've very much begun struggling with the emphasis of mental health over physical health in Stormlight Archive... like ok, I get that everybody lived through horrible stuff...wars and such.
And everybody deserves to heal from it, in detail.
I LOVED so much about it, truly. I think I cried more than once. I also LOVED Adolin's ending in WaT, and Shallan's reintegration of herself, and Kaladin being able to let go.
However, I feel like the physical horror gets starkly neglected.
You don't just regrow an arm which you had lost years ago and walk it off like Lopen???
You don't just lose a leg and walk it off, even going to battle and defending front lines with that, only to discover later that it can't be magically healed and just accepting it like Adolin????
And you don't just fight your way back into life, defeating crippling depression and feelings of failure, only to then dump the same body which you so struggled to keep, to become immortal, like Kaladin???
While the mental health stuff gets deeply explored in Stormlight Archive, physical injuries are treated almost with flippancy.
This is NOT justified by the available healing abilities of stormlight.
Losing, or regaining a limb, must be equally traumatic to process as a mental loss, especially when you've never gone through it before???
All I'm saying is Adolin is NOT simply "walking that off". Especially as a duelist.
And Kaladin died. Szeth buried him. Syl tells him, "Kaladin! Your eyes are brown again!" Brown meaning dark-eyed, human, instead of magically enhanced... but his real brown eyes have been burned out.
It's not... like, this struck me as very wrong.
adolin with the horsie spren … cries
It's been a while...
Drawing again. No idea where this is going, but I still wanted to make something for toa.
thats a lot to take in...
My favorite part of WaT is when Hoid turns directly to the camera and says, "Chat am i cooked?" Right before todium obliterates his ass
taravangian odium is like “i plan for all eventualities. none of you people could ever outsmart me” but then dalinar outsmarts him by giving up honor and putting the rest of the universe on high alert, adolin bests him with the power of friendship, sigzil and venli outsmart him using legal documents (very on brand for both of them btw i love my scholars), kaladin kinda accidentally beats him by becoming a fucking herald, renarin and rlain defeat him through the power of being gay, the fucking mink definitely got one over him via his incredible get out of jail free abilities. the only one who doesn’t outsmart him is jasnah. my cringefail queen
The thing is, I think I had a logical argument ready for Jasnah after she lost Fen to Odium?? And it's fairly simple, too?
Fen chose Odium over Alethkar because Odium proved to her that when in doubt, Jasnah would lie to her and betray her.
However. We do know that Taravangian's Odium does that too. Rayse's Odium did not exploit loopholes in agreements. He stuck to the honor of contracts once they were made. T'Odium on the other hand CHEATS. Jasnah is aware of this when she, Fen, and Odium talk.
So my argument for Fen to choose Alethkar would basically have been: Yes, it is now evident that when in doubt, Jasnah will be selfish. But that is something which Fen can now count on to happen. She will KNOW. And so, in knowing Jasnah's human selfishness, she can make the according preparations to combat it.
In choosing Odium, however, Fen still seems to think that her contract with him will be honored when it WON'T. T'Odium may promise her relative safety, countless riches, and the world now, but Jasnah already KNOWS he will cheat her out of it eventually, and in ways that Fen won't be able to foresee because she is meddling with the power of a God.
If Fen wants to be on the safe side, she should know that she will be betrayed by either party, but she has the capacity to choose whether she will be betrayed by a human that she knows, or by a god-like entity whose extent of shrewdness she can never comprehend, plan for, or outmatch.
The argument is to choose humanity over Odium because at least with humanity's betrayal, Fen can know what to expect. A God's betrayal will come out of nowhere. It is unknowable.
So if I were Fen, I'd have stuck with Jasnah, simply because it's humanity against a wannabe God.
AND THE CROWD GOES ABSOLUTELY FUCKING WILD!!!!!!!!!
Kaladin "I choose to protect other people again but this time the healthy way" Stormblessed *dies immediately*
This stunned me tbh
Like maybe I missed something extremely vital here but it should have been Szeth. Szeth, who was trained for this. Szeth, who was prepared to die in all the evil ways, and who expected it to be by his own hand. Szeth, who went to therapy and learned "I am not a thing". I think he should have grown on to be The Healthiest Herald because that was what his journey was about. To be an assassin, and to be a creature of no kin and extended lifespan, because he was MADE that, but to then put it to a good use because Kaladin taught him choice. He could still have been raising sheep as a Herald too.
Instead Kaladin, the I-must-help-others-and-it's-breaking-me-but-I-can't-die guy... the guy who learned about the preciousness and fragility of his humanity and how to respect and properly balance it... the one who stopped trying to save everyone because it was a false expectation to be able to... they guy with relationships, like parents and a brother and a squad for life commits suicide to become immortal?
He KNEW. He was told before the act of becoming a Herald that his earthly, natural body would die. And he shrugged it off.
Kaladin lost the very same body - which he defended for so long against depression - to becoming a Herald, a highly unnatural, warped, inhumanly tainted state of being. It doesn't make any sense to me.
Kaladin and Szeth both deserved better. Why the inversion?
I think Szeth deserved to know that his backstory and the kills he had to perform weren't wasted, but could take a more purpose-filled, life-adding course now that he knew choice.
And I think Kaladin, the superhuman, deserved to appreciate his hard-won humanity.
Why was it inverted? It feels decidedly WRONG. It's like Kal and Szeth both discovered something holy and then ruined it. I don't know.
Meeting the Light Furies from the concept with the original Light Fury from the cartoon
Kaladin "I choose to protect other people again but this time the healthy way" Stormblessed *dies immediately*
This stunned me tbh
New poster design
This is my most detailed piece ever and I was drunk making it
