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Not enough brother content in the Stormlight Archive so we have to invent it for ourselves

sooo funny that Sigzil's inability to fight back is just called the Torment in Sunlit Man. Yeah my blorbo is literally canonically in the text experiencing the Torment. yeah its terminal

being a Sigzil fan also turned me into a Hoid hater like I'm sorry but he took this poor Azish man as an apprentice, somehow lost or dropped him so that he ended up being enslaved in the Alethi army while Hoid was the King's Wit. Then Sigzil got to become a Radiant and finally started to have confidence in himself and had to go through the traumatic experience of severing his own Nahel bond. And Hoid, as his former teacher/master, temporarily gavbe him the eternal weapon that he WASN'T EVEN SUPPOSED TO HAVE IN THE FIRST PLACE for just long enough that Sigzil accidentally used it to rip apart the second spren he bonds with, made it so he can't fight back and must experience the Torment, and then Hoid just watches Sigzil get chased across the universe by a mystery badevil group. 0/10. you'd think a 10,000 year old would be smarter than this

@17th-shard commission done back in February of Yanagawn and Adolin playing Towers.

The shardplate was referenced from the book illustrations, and Adolin's outfit is referenced from the mini figures that were released!

kind of bugs me when people are like estrogen would fix her about kaladin, not because im against transfem kaladin (fucking love transfem kaladin so much. kaleshwi where getting with leshwi is one of the first steps in cracking kaladin's egg you are everything to me) but because a huge chunk of kaladin's mental health struggles are very much Not about gender. i mean if kaladin was was an egg dealing with dysphoria that would of course make all her mental health struggles Worse but kaladin has Tons Of Issues And Baggage completely unrelated to gender. going on e wont bring tien back, you know? now, elhokar? literally all elhokar's issues are about having to be a man and having to be a king and sucking ass at being a man and sucking ass at being a king. estrogen would 100% fix elhokar

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You’re married to your phone background/lockscreen how fucked are you

At the contest of champions, Taravangian!Odium tells Dalinar that Rayse!Odium planned to use Moash as his champion, but those plans changed when Taravangian saw he could take Gavinor instead.

So from the moment that became viable, Moash ceased to matter to him.

Cue Moash showing up at Narak to act like a parody of his former self without a real directive — because he doesn't have a real directive. He's been ghosted without explanation by the god-figure to whom he was entirely devoted. And for that devotion, he was rewarded with cold-turkey detox from his emotional numbness, and the chronic agony of two crystal spikes growing straight through his brain.

So Moash play-acts his glory days as Odium's special boy because he wants them back. He's trying to regain Odium's favour by following obsolete orders — because he's not getting new ones. By now, Odium's attention is on grooming Gavinor, with Moash none the wiser. Moash's mind, body and soul were irreparably violated in service of being Odium's champion, and he was abandoned in favour of a Kholin again.

I don’t think the actual Dalinar that existed in the first five books is in any way a woman. But I DO think you could fix the Blackthorn homunculus through forcefem. It’s a subtle distinction but you see my vision I’m sure

A lot of people analyze Rlain and Renarins relationship in WaT through the lense of a queer couple, and while I do love that it's a gay romance front and center in a cosmere book, I feel like distilling it to only a queer romance does a disservice to how important it is to the themes of the story.

When Rlain and Renarin decide to stand by eachother despite the ire society may show them it isn't a stand against homophobia (though that is undoubtedly a parallel). Rlain and Renarin represent the common ground between singer and human. They're an interracial couple between two groups who have been forced in an eternal blood fued by the gods themselves. When they hold hands they stand in defiance of a conflict forced upon them.

Without the presence of Odium, Honor, or Cultivation, the initial wars between the humans and the singers would've ended, with peace reached and grievances heard. Once Odium no longer held direct power, peace was once again almost found until Honor trapped Mishram. The singers and the humans are destined to find peace, the only thing stopping them is divine intervention.

Rlain and Renarin stand in defiance of the gods themselves when they decide to create a world for both of them. They represent how the world will ultimately overcome Retribution, in the hearts of Roshars children.

what brave soul is going to tell brandon sanderson that elhokar is trans. it worked for bisexual shallan i bet we can do it again.

I don’t think there’s anything in canon that DISPROVES that Sadeas would use manosphere slang but it doesn’t. It doesn’t feel right to me. If *i* were to give Sadeas slang from an internet group of Bigoted Men i would teach him the word “trender” and then Rushu would never know peace for the rest of their life