The Blue Front

Some thoughts I have <22>

[thefrontofnuthing]

My Way of the Kings progression

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God. Tien. Tien in the army?? No. Nope. Not that lil guy he’ll be safe right 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲

Like obviously we get foreshadowing that he dies, but… what if he’s still alive somewhere??? I don’t think I can deal with it when he dies dude

[thefrontofnuthing]

Realm of the Elderlings has infected me. The Wit from Stormlight Archive is literally the Fool and so instead of imagining a tan, black haired, blue eyed dude, I imagine a scrawny teenager year old with dandelion fluff hair UGH

[thefrontofnuthing]

I’m reading a dark romance book for the first time (it’s Sea of Ruin if that means anything to you), and I both get and don’t get the genre.

Not to yuck anyone’s yum but GOD both of the MMCs are fucking awful Jesus Christ. They need to CALM DOWN and stop completely ruining this poor girls life and giving her more trauma than when her parents died.

And like,,, girl turn the horny down. Choose the other guys brother. Do something that doesn’t make you end up with either Pure Violence Incarnate or Pure Sadistic Evil Incarnate.

I will be finishing this book tho so. Yeah. I’m addicted.

[thefrontofnuthing]

I’m really liking Stormlight archive so far but the juxtaposition is killing me

Shallan: I need to impress Jasnah to save my family!!! I’m going to draw pictures and show her my tenacity!

Kaladin: death bridge.

[bonesjaunst]

Of course my favorite is the middle aged solicitor having the weirdest week of their life

[emcart]

verity + kettricken 😭

[thefrontofnuthing]

I’m trying so hard to begin Stormlight archive/the way of kings but like… I don’t understand most of the nouns bro

Fearspren? Voidbringers? Parshmen? Truthless? Bro what is going ON

[thefrontofnuthing]

Ramy and Robin mirroring Patroclus and Achilles…

falling into the roles that they were taught through learning Greek and Latin… but like in a cooler, queer-er way.

-The scene where Robin notices the bodies in the Old Library were just left there… (similar to Achilles seeing Patroclus’s body)

-Ramy’s death is what FINALLY motivates Robin to want to destroy the silver industry. Not the death of his brother (he chooses to keep the photo rather than the letter, for Ramy’s visage), not when he learned what happened to his mom, not even 100% visiting Canton. It was Ramy’s death that changed Robin from being nervous and questioning to only focusing on the destruction of the silver industry and colonization and then his own impending death.

-They mirror the not so subtle queerness that so many classicists try to erase

[thefrontofnuthing]

Oh? You’re saying that some people don’t read the footnotes when novels have footnotes?? You mean the best fucking part?? And people??? Skip them?????

[agustdispunk]

i find it funny how most of the criticism around r.f. kuang books is people saying she's too smart or that she puts too much knowledge in her books. and i don't know about y'all, but i never heard people saying these comments about a male author.

[thefrontofnuthing]

GOD

MOTHER FUCKER

PERFECT ENDINGS OF ALL LITERARY PERFECT FUCKING ENDINGS I COULD WRITE SONNETS OR TED TALKS ABOUT IT

I am currently sobbing tho so. That epilogue did me in.

[thelittlebantamrooster]

I've been wanting to do this scene for a while, and @that-one-enby-ranger-2000 suggested I do this back in my word blog. Here it is. I'm back to my old background-hating ways, because there's so much more I could have included in the picture, but I didn't want to detract from Will and Halt in the infamous Boar Scene.

[thefrontofnuthing]

The loss I feel at Preservation’s death and I literally don’t know why… and the foreboding the following chapter’s entry has about Elend?? Like I feel like homeboy is NOT gonna make it :(

[itsrahb-deactivated20260522]

Fitz writing, talking or thinking about Verity for decades hence: "He was the most perfect and noble king we could have ever hoped for, it is only just that he now lives within a body with a chest like the hull of the finest galley and wings of purest cerulean to bear ever aloft his noble soul."

Verity in life: i'm a giant psychic leech and my favourite snack is young boys num num num

[thefrontofnuthing]

So I just finished Well of Ascension. OH MY GOD IT MADE ME LAUGH. Like I was traumatized for a sec there when I thought elend was gonna die and then… just just gets powers 😭

Like he spends the whole book not understanding Vin and now hey guess what! There is an unknown evil that just got released and now our two faves can bond.

Also RIP Dockson and Clubs. Dockson was one of my fave characters in book 1 AND OH MY GOD I JUST REALIZED WHO ZANE’S GOD WAS OH AND MARCH HAD THE SAME ONE GET IT NOW POOR SAZED

[2129888]

imagine having your own personal hater who's been assigned to you by fate and he is a tiny little clown who won't stop following you around and yammering about your imminent demise and worst of all you love him dearly