fuck you *unstorms your light*

sanderson sideblog of felagund-fiollaigean. all art will be described

[makanidotdot]

Started reading (listening to) the Stormlight Archive series cos husband is a sando simp and male human paladin fan. luckily as a Bitch Enjoyer there are at least a couple things in here i can enjoy too

I'm about a 3rd of the way through book 3, pls no spoils 😭

[tazetta]

Vorinism goes so crazy as a stand-in for/critique of christianity and empire (obviously that's not all it is but that's a part of its significance as the dominant religion of the colonial project that is current human society on Roshar) it really does Go All The Way There. like a predominant and accepted belief is that you can quite literally reach heaven through violence. in a way that's very fascistic too, with fighting in the Tranquiline Halls always framed as "reclaiming something that humanity lost" - especially when we know for a fact by Oathbringer that Roshar was very much something humans took. the way that the more peaceful human societies (Iri, Rira, Reshi Isles) tend to have religious beliefs that are denounced by the church as heretical, and conversely Alethkar in particular uses Vorinism and Callings as a tool for recruitment into the war machine. the way that several characters say they expected the Heralds to "look more Alethi". like yes keep talking

[shouldprobablybereading]

The bullshittiest gender rule on roshar is not the safehand but the tea drinking rules from prime. In order to drink tea as a man you need to use a masculine mug and it needs to be smoking hot, while the women drink lukewarm tea from feminine mugs.

[shouldprobablybereading]

Should maybe be clear, the reason why I find this more ridiculous than the food flavors is that sweet and spicy food is at least cooked differently and does not have the same ingredients. Hot tea and lukewarm tea on the other hand are both just tea, it’s the same thing!!!

[vorinism]

excuse me while i masculinely sear off my taste buds with this manly 211 degree F tea because I am a Man

[elhokher]

rip vin you would have loved jambalaya

[wafflelovingbatgirl]

Shallan’s 4th truth being “I caused the new Desolation by killing my Herald mother” would be amazing and horrible.

[taravangians-storming-balls]

If the alethi had proper sports they wouldn't have done all that

[gh0stfellow]

Kaladin should be allowed to be a little evil occasionally

[magenta-somethings]

holy shit. shallan could totally be a trans woman and not even know it until post-RoW. like. she was a radiant as a kid, right. and being a radiant is canonically free gender affirming surgery & hrt in one, right. and then the trauma happened and she repressed a bunch of memories, right. so she could just have forgotten she was trans. and then for her family it just wasn't important in the wake of all the murder and everything, and look her father just made the active choice to Not Question It anyway, shallan is canonically a trans woman and the only reason we don't know about is because shallan doesn't know about it either. post now

[uinferno]

People act like they know what "Life Before Death" and "I will protect those I hate" means, but at the mere thought of someone who actually makes the pain personal that shit is out the window and they'll string together excuses as to why this instance actually means the death penalty is okay (because they're uniquely qualified at identifying who's deserving/capable of life/redemption and no one else has every mistakenly thought their violent vendettas weren't unjustified).

Yes this is about Moash.

[fieldoflavcav]

I love Stormlight because you can like make stupid news article titles from the events of them (light spoilers nothing too major)

Man Shatters Gender Norms - Learns to Read

Doctors discover that locking mentally unstable people in a dark room is bad!

Dead Sword Speaks to Man

Mentally Ill Soldier invents group therapy - does not attend

[taravangians-storming-balls]

Thinking about teenage moash doing little things to help take care of his 70 year old grandparents. I bet there are medications hes familiar with because he would pick them up from the apothecary for them. maybe he's used to talking a little bit louder because their hearing started to go. "sending a seventy-five-year-old couple to the palace dungeons is a death sentence" how often did you think about how fragile they were moash

[whatthymeizzit]

I really can't get over the image of Kaladin looking over to see a full size Syl staring back hauntedly at the dying army on the plateau. The whole time she's been so flighty and wispy but in this moment, the honor at stake gives her so much weight, and her being full size made me do a mental double take. It's almost cinematic, it feels so real. Incredible.

[lucydoodlessometimes]

a loose Evi Kholin to help me practice rendering. Its more stormlight surpriseeeee

[cosmere-described]

ID: A digital portrait of Evi. She stands against a blue background, shown from the chest up. She is wearing a red havah with gold trimming and gold swirling decoration down the front. She has brown skin, light yellow eyes and long blonde hair that sits half in a bun at the back of her head and the rest laying down her back and shoulders. The hair bun is held together with two sticks. Evi is turned slightly to the side but is looking the other way, a small but pleasant smile on her face, her expression soft and happy. /end ID

[rubiscodisco]

Shallan getting excited about getting matched with Adolin as if every other highborn woman hasn't already been before her. It's not a betrothal girl, at this point it's jury duty.

[nevertheless-moving]

when the pov starts shifting back and forth faster and faster and you know shit is getting real

[rainbowfractals]

fic idea. Kaladin's old slavemaster the one he rebelled against with 20 armed slaves and caught him branded him 'shash' called him 'intriguing' them sold him, is Mraize. And this linked as to why Tvlakv seems to know that Kaladin isn't actually a deserter and that he was wronged by Amaram though idk how much he knows of the specifics.

[cosmereplay]

The way Dalinar loves and the way Evi fights

This feels like it's too long for a reblog so I'm making a new post. I'm thinking about that awesome post about the way Dalinar fights and the way Evi loves and rotating it around in my head like it's in the microwave...

I wanna see this from the other side too because I think the Kholin bros also fight like their mother and love like their father.

Dalinar loves from beneath a person, putting them on a pedestal. He loves by saying, “I don’t deserve you.” He loves by saying, “I’ll try harder." He witnesses himself fail to live up to what he feels they should get, but he never stops trying. He holds onto the pain of falling short as a way of dedicating himself to that person.

Adolin does this when he idolizes his father, and when Dalinar notices, "When the boy gets chastised, he just tries harder." He does this with Shallan when he says he doesn't understand her but he'll keep trying. He does it with Maya!

Renarin does this as he tries so hard to serve his father, to live up to his expectations, knowing he'll fail and trying again anyway. He does this when he serves Bridge Four, even though he feels like he isn't worthy of them. The way he loves through humility and service will make him an excellent leader, but without the influence of his mother, he could become gullible like Dalinar.

Now the way Evi fights. She fights from a place of knowing herself deeply and respecting her values. She doesn't fight just because she knows she can win, she fights because it's right. She fights by seeing the truth of the situation and then courageously going forward anyway. She fights even when she knows she can't win. She is afraid, and she still separates herself from her homeland for an uncertain future. She is afraid, and she still speaks her mind. She will tell the truth as she sees it, despite her very real fear for the consequences. 

Adolin does this, too. He chooses his fights based on his values. He fights by getting to know the enemy first, and he stays aware of what's going on around him. He knows himself and his capabilities. He can stay calm during the fight. He doesn't just go where he's pointed, he needs to know why and he needs to agree with it.

Renarin is still learning this way of fighting, I think. He is still learning to respect himself. He is seeing the truth, and learning to speak it. For me, this is when he is the most exciting - when he is finding his voice. As much as he wants to be like his father, he will be most powerful when he learns to fight like his mother.