Willshaper

They/she/it Avid stormlight fan and critic The image is from the Stormlight Call to Adventure and the artist is Nastya Lehn ( nastyalehn.com )

[nooneinnportant]

During his wedding ceremony, instead of wearing the countless other swords that people had sent him, including one from his own wife, Adolin chose to wear Kaladin's sword.

Which could mean nothing.

[arienai]

Like a person who lives without eating... [x]

[willshaperguerilla]

I am so glad that tumblr and social media is so curatable. Being able to block people for fan casting white people in stormlight, being sexist against shallan or being antimoash is great.

The small glimpses I see of the outside stormlight fan world seem scary. I much prefer my small community that wants every mistborn character to be a woman and seeing every character as queer (WHICH THEY ARE).

[starling-illu]

Cosmere Prompt 1: Invested

[cuubism]

i feel like we kind of knew even before WaT that the contest of champions wouldn't end up being just a traditional duel, like there was always going to be some trick or secret or psychological game to it, not just two warriors beating the crap out of each other until one of them perishes. however i can't lie i kind of want to see the straightforward beating the crap out of each other until someone perishes version. having this 8000 year long war end with just brutal one on one violence is so simple of a plot that it kind of circles back around to being subversive. like yeah, rip each other's heads off, see how good you feel about winning after that.

[lightweaver-naeuri]

Diabolically chained to the tags

[cuubism]

I’m having serious thoughts about the contest of champions being Kaladin vs Moash bc like… it kind of brings everything full circle, right back around to Way of Kings. It brings back all of the questions that book raised that the rest of the series tried to sidestep. Can you actually protect by killing? What if that death that protects your people then means an entire other race of people gets subjugated— is Kaladin finally forced to confront his unease with slaughtering the Parshendi that he’s been sidestepping for 5 books? How good does he really feel to be letting someone he cared about die to protect people like Dalinar, to uphold the Alethi government that’s still taken almost no steps to rectify the abuse and injustice the darkeyes face every day, the government that will assuredly maintain the exact same caste system if it retains power?

Then, how do the Singers feel that Odium’s chosen Moash, a human, to fight for their freedom? (Assuming this is a timeline where Rayse is still Odium, since Taravangian basically lost interest in Moash entirely). Presumably Odium picked Moash partly because he knew Dalinar would pick Kaladin, and imagine the Singers like… hang on, is this a fucking game to you? We’ve been oppressed for thousands of years and you’re playing mind games with the humans?

And the thing is, Moash could actually maybe win, but not, I think, if he keeps letting Odium take all of his emotions away. He could win if he harnesses the energy he had in Oathbringer, when he protected the Singers in the caravan. He could win if he finds the part of him that’s capable of caring about others, that actually cares about real justice. But of course, feeling all that might also give him the space to wonder, is Odium justice?

The great irony is the fight brings them all the way back around to how they met, running bridges. Fighting on the front line of a war they had no part in starting, meant to die to protect everyone else. Because even after everything, the only solution Alethkar has to this war that it caused by relentlessly pursuing genocide against the Parshendi, by enslaving the Parshmen, by refusing to consider an ending without full dominion for the ‘forces of honor’, the only solution Alethkar has after everything that’s happened is the same solution it always has: feeding its darkeyed young men to the war. At the end of the day, no matter what you try to do, the Alethi war machine will take possession of you, will pit you against each other, will destroy your friendships, destroy your solidarity, kill your empathy, covet your righteousness, make you into someone you don’t recognize and tell you the fall of your blade is honorable. And then it will eat you.

[cuubism]

Two darkeyed boys who love each other get destroyed by the war while the lighteyed leadership walks away unscathed… hang on a second… where have I heard this story before?

[willshaperguerilla]

This is so much better. We'd actually have a good conversation between the two that didn't have moash sounding like the emperor from star wars

[natavinsmoke06]

I'm shocked I don't see Warbreaker being discussed much here. If anything. I don't see fanarts. Comments. Memes like obviously we discuss the characters that are in Stormlight. But how tf have I never seen people discuss Susebron or Sondeluz

Where are the memes and fanarts of Sondeluz???? He's the best part of that book and I have never seen not a crumb of him.

[dalenthas]

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and assume by Sondeluz you mean Lightsong. I'm guessing you didn't read the book in English?

[jochi-the-veristithaylen-baker]

Apologies for taking this on a tangent, but Sondeluz is a fascinating translation of Lightsong.

Son de luz (spanish, if that isn't clear) means "tone/sound of light" or "light's tone" or "tone from light". In a religion centered about the "Iridescent Tones" a god figure named "tone of light" sounds pretty important.

I don't know why Lightsong feels less impactful than Sondeluz. Possibly because I'm not fluent in Spanish. (English is not my native tongue, so it's not that)

[willshaperguerilla]

Another aspect is that the book is much more about tones, hues, and shade than about compositions, songs, or paintings.

It may also just be the language difference but sounds and tones are much more fitting to the themes.

[zadrinz]

Kelsier Rule 63

[cosmereplay]

[ID: A digital illustration of fem!Kelsier by @zadrinz. She has chin-length straight blonde hair that dangles in her face. She has light skin with scars along her forearms, partially hidden by her white shirt. She is slim with a small waist and an hourglass figure. She has dark, tight pants with thigh straps to hold vials of metal, and over her shoulders she wears a mistcloak that reaches halfway to her waist, then breaks into strips of cloth. Her clothes are bloody and torn, and her cheek is spotted with blood. She poses with her back to the viewer, one hand cocked on her hip and the fingertips of her other hand touching her shoulder, elbow up. Her head is turned to the side as though she’s heard you sneaking up on her. She looks back at you and smiles in excitement. End ID.]

[lightweaver-naeuri]

@alana-jb

[taravangians-storming-balls]

anyway, indulgent moadolin sketches. happy pride or whatever (uncensored version here)

[natavinsmoke06]

I'm gonna make a confession. I've never discussed Warbreaker in here because I'm very lazy to search the translation of the names in English of the gods... Like I want to discuss everything and everyone but compared to the Spanish translation is hard to remember which is which

[novaraptorus]

Just use the spanish names, coward. Speak thy mind.

[willshaperguerilla]

I am so glad that tumblr and social media is so curatable. Being able to block people for fan casting white people in stormlight, being sexist against shallan or being antimoash is great.

The small glimpses I see of the outside stormlight fan world seem scary. I much prefer my small community that wants every mistborn character to be a woman and seeing every character as queer (WHICH THEY ARE).

[willshaperguerilla]

I am so glad that tumblr and social media is so curatable. Being able to block people for fan casting white people in stormlight, being sexist against shallan or being antimoash is great.

The small glimpses I see of the outside stormlight fan world seem scary. I much prefer my small community that wants every mistborn character to be a woman and seeing every character as queer (WHICH THEY ARE).

[lamaery]

I have not posted this one here? How have I not posted this one here, yet? I posted it during inktober last year on instagram but shamefully not here, it seems. Ah, well... it fits pride month. Hooray to all you bisexuals (and aces, because we know how Kal is...) out there! Sandra has something for you, too!

Young, handsome people on a daring mission. Will they find their way through a besieged city and a dark strange world (and into each other‘s heart)?

We lovingly refer to October 10th as „Shakadolin Day,“ as it’s the six-year anniversary of Brandon tweeting „I could see a world where Shallan and Adolin would go for it, but Kaladin is as prudish as I am, so I doubt you’d persuade him. 🙂 For now, we’ll have to leave that to the imaginations of the fanfic writers.“ 

Prompting many to ask „Wait, is this confirmation that Adolin is Bi?,“ „So Kaladin’s obstacle is his prudishness, not his orientation?,“ and „What do you mean ‚for now‘???“

And in Sandra’s series being prudish is just a challenge not an obstacle 😉

Cheers to all of you! And extra cheers as always to the amazing @priscellie who created the beautiful cover mock up with my illustration 🩷🩷🩷 ID by the wonderful @cosmereplay with additions by me

[rspixart]

Hey all! I had a few asks about this being turned into a poster. Good news! I’ve touched it up and you can now get a print on my redbubble account here! 

As always, thanks for supporting me! 

Also use the code  FINDYOURTHING at checkout for up to 60% off!

https://www.redbubble.com/i/poster/Kholins-and-Spren-Reversable-Print-by-rspixart/79113512.LVTDI

[that-androgynous-lightweaver]

If Zane has no haters I'm fucking dead.

[cosmere-fans-out-of-context]

[that-androgynous-lightweaver]

No wait I'm in the cosmere fandom and I need an explanation for this one

[willshaperguerilla]

This is what odium does which I found an exception to the usual ways shards work.

[starling-illu]

[pekgna]

Femslash February!

4/2: Ialai & Jasnah

[nooneinnportant]

FUUUCKKKKKK.... THIS IS AMAZING HOLLY HELL.