I want a story about a king whose son is prophesied to kill him so the king is like “whatever what am I supposed to do, kill my own kid wtf is wrong with you” so he just raises him as normal, doesn’t even tell him about the prophecy, and instead of some convoluted twist of events that leads to the king’s murder the son grows up and when the king is very old and dying and in excruciating pain the kid is just like alright I'mma put him out of his misery.

The king’s son becomes the new king, and is prophesied to defeat evil and bring an age of prosperity. His generals and knights all crack their knuckles but he pretty much ignores them and focuses on strengthening the infrastructure of his kingdom. Forty years later he is old and sick but still hearing his subjects’ grievances, and a general’s like “how will you defeat the prophesied evil now? You’re old and weak.” Another visitor, a teenager fresh out of the kingdom’s public education system, looks at the general like he is an ignoramus. The king eradicated poverty, housed the homeless, taught the ignorant, ended class exploitation by abolishing the nobility and imprisoning the corrupt, and established a highly respected guild of doctors that recently figured out how to cure the plague. There are no brigands because there is enough wealth for everyone to live comfortably; hiding in the woods and taking trinkets from people simply doesn’t make any sense for anyone but the desperate, and the people are not desperate. Evil is a weed, explains the teenager. It grows in cracked roads and crumbling houses and forgotten corners, rooted in indifference and watered by suffering. But the king demands that broken things be mended and suffering people be made well.

No evil lives in this kingdom, says the teenager. It starved to death before I was born.

Every once in a while, when I’m feeling down, I go and look at the notes on this post and they make me feel a lot better. This is the energy I want to carry into 2018.

For those who need to carry it into 2019.

And on to 2022

And into 2025

lien

Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

Oooh, I never realised I could post videos here! 🥰 Witness my feeble stop-motion skills. (My daughter already promised to show me how to do it properly.)

My Stormlight prints My Procreate brushes

a watched nut never busts. or something. i dont fucking know what you people find funny anymore. 9/11.

why is this the one

The rest of the queers aren't allowed to exclude asexuals anymore; we've got the JK Rowling Seal of Disapproval! It's official, we belong!

Now that's some positive thinking right there! I love it!

this video sends me every time. the lip syncing. the source material. iconic

I reblogged this one time and someone else who reblogged it from me tagged it with #violence

Its the polycule again because I love them

i need feminism because when jesus does a magic trick it’s a goddamn miracle but when a woman does a magic trick she gets burned at the stake

fabulous 

i mean they did also kill jesus. that was a pretty significant thing that happened. like i understand where you’re coming from here but they very much did kill jesus.

#HAPPY GOOD FRIDAY

internet politics and real-world politics have gotten so separated, and pretty soon all this internet weirdness is gonna come crashing into real life and politicians are gonna start throwing around words like “SJW” and “anime communist” and “dark enlightenment” and it’s just gonna be the most ridiculous fucking thing

date of origin: 13th of april, 2015.

happy 10 year anniversary!

Polycule but it’s just two people in a romantic relationship with each other and their third who’s pretty obviously aroace but also somehow so deeply intertwined in their lives that it’d just be wrong to not count them as involved. Is this anything.

This is adolin and shallan with their resident ace kaladin tbh

Do a little dance. Make a little love. Get the FUCK down tonight.

people werent ready for this post in 2011. what about now

poob is rolling back its DEI initiatives. poob fired all of its employees after they tried to unionize. poob's ceo was recently on david sperm's podcast saying that he thinks women are the same as dogs to him. but poob is the only service that has candyworld chronicles on it so its really hard to just stop using it :/

This is not gonna be eloquent, but do you guys ever think about how much Lirin simply existing in the narrative changes the whole perspective of the story?? Like we can assume that there are people Roshar who hold the same beliefs as Lirin (closest main character I can think of is maybe Rlain??? And Hesina obv), but he’s not just some guy in the world; he is one of our main protagonist’s father!!! And- when he is not around- the main characters (though certainly not the narrative itself) have pretty much all normalized the war and their culture of violence. It especially hits for me bc Kaladin is so entrenched in it when we meet him and then we meet Lirin LATER and it changes everything!!! It changes your expectations for both Kaladin and characters in the world (specifically alethkar, but also much of the world we are primarily introduced to) in general.

Like the whole story repeatedly lands at the conclusion of ‘this culture is destroying the individual and it is destroying everything around it’ and yet every (human) in the story you are rooting for is fighting to uphold it (no time for more nuance on this sorry) except for this one guy who is adamantly not. I’m not saying he is correct, but ​I am thinking about how as a reader you adjust your expectations of character’s morals and ideas based on the context you are given and he changes the context!!!! And he’s Kaladins Dad!!! Idk idk I wish I was articulate

Renarin Kholin😘

Nora said "You already drew Dalinar, which means that it’s time for his sons!"

this is a gift for a friends birthdayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy