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Guys I've been having such a lovely time with my partner eueueueu

#cuties!! #so happy for y’all

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Stormlight Characters As Things The Toddlers At My Job Have Done, Part 4

(part 1, part 2, part 3)

Shallan: The other teacher saw him lying on the floor not moving and hurried over to see him intently watching an ant

Syl: Said "hi" to the pigeons in the yard and then screamed indignantly when they didn't say "hi" back

Adolin: Pointed at the other teacher's outfit and said, in the world's clearest voice, "maxi skirt!"

The Unkalaki: Literally just. Eats rocks.

Lift:

Her: *points to her butt* "Butt?" Me: "Yeah, that's your butt." Her: *points at me* "[My name] butt?" Me: "Yeah, I have one too. Everyone has a butt." Her: "[Classmate's name] butt?" Me: "Yup." Her: "[Older brother's name] butt?" Me: "Yup." Her: "...Mama butt?!?"

Renarin: Insisted on keeping a paper napkin in his pocket for a week and would just take it out, look at it, and put it back

Jasnah: One of the other kids asked me for his orange, and she leaned over and said "Clementine. It's a clementine."

Rysn:

Her: "Want eat!" Me: "Snack time is in ten minutes." Her: "One minute." Me: "Sorry, ten." Her: "...Two minutes."

Elhokar: Climbs everything in sight while yelling "Not safe! Don't climb! It's day-na-nous!"

#stormlight archive #SOBBING WHY ARE THESE SO ACCURATE

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Since I am especially happy with how this one here turned out, I thought I share a bit of the process. rough sketch in Procreate | detailed sketch in Photoshop | then Procreate again, layering in some colours | overpainting in the details bit by bit and slowly tugging everything together

also some details 🙂

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Windrunner Pas de Deux

After Skybreaker on ice I somehow ended up with a Windrunner ballet... I was drawing a ballerina for a job, and when I sketched Syl in my free time, once again I thought how I always imagine her with the poise and built of a classical dancer and one thing led to another and here we are. The references for the poses come from a Giselle production of the Wiener Staatsballet and from the Knave of Hearts Pas de deux of the Alice's Adventures in Wonderland of the Royal Opera House. --------------------------- [image description: Syl and Kaladin dancing ballet in four pictures showing them in different poses, it starts with them solemn and melancholic, sparsely lit in front of a dark background that turns lighter and more blue as their moves become playful and joyful. Glowing little joyspren start whirling around them as are windspren as soon they do jumps and just continue their dance floating in the air. In right half of the fourth picture Shallan, Adolin, Liftn, Szeth and a fluffy dog are seen sitting in the audience. From left to right: there is Shallan clinging to Adolin, who has one arm tightly around her shoulder the other over his mouth. Shallan's face is full of excited bewilderment and Adolin is happy-crying. Next to him sits Lift, legs crossed, watching rather unmoved while munching on some popcorn from a bucket in her lap. To her right from her is Szeth. He has one hand to his mount, a knuckle posed against his lower lip and he wears an expression of critical acknowledgement on his face. Next to him sits a giant fluffy dog. It is the dog Kaladin was hugging in my Skybreaker on ice thing.]

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“My father thinks I’m a better man than he is.  Unfortunately for you, he’s wrong.”

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so after the chasm scene in twok, every action kaladin makes afterwards is in spite of being a bridgeman. saving the other men in every sense of the word, leading them, standing up for lopen and rlain, etc. no longer is it about doing anything to survive, it’s about doing everything to stay alive. but you know what? when he’s staring out across those plains at dalinar’s army, survival instinct paid with trauma kick in and cripple him. he’s saying familiar sentiments, trying to convince himself of them. “We owe them nothing,” “I won’t let my men die for you” but it’s the humanity that’s gotten kaladin as far as he’s come that creeps in, one that through him, has infected the men of bridge four

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17 - forest 

Our protagonists hiking through the weird, glassy forests of Shadesmar. :) image description: image of the group travelling shadesmare in Oathbringer, hiking through a forest of weird glassy plants in various spiky and bulbous shapes and with life spren bobbing in the air around them as small green glowing lights. In the back to the left are Pattern and Syl apparently in deep conversations. Syl is carrying a long harpoon over her shoulder. In from if the walks Shallan in her white coat, throwing suspicious and interested glances at the vegetation. In front are Adolin and Kaladin, with Maya packe between them. Adolin holds her hand causally while saying something to Kaladin and looking into the direction they are heading. Kal is in uniform, carrying a second harpoon, and bag strapped over one shoulder and across his chest. Adolin wears fashionably adapted lighteyes clothes and a rucksack on his bag. Both men sport proper beginnings to a beard.

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Shallan Davar is a disaster and I love her (audio from Tom Cardy)

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Dalinar meeting the Nightwatcher I don't find much time lately for fanart, but this one just fitted my mood that day. It is based on an old sketch from 2021 which I never fully rendered.

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I know that they have definitely already met but it would be so ideal to me if adolin met hesina in urithiru just bc she is like someone to sew with or just bc she is basically the coolest guy around and one day adolin is like “kal there is this woman you have to meet. you would love her” and kal is like “my MOM???”

#stormlight archive #CRYING

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@labyrinthofdreams I am slightly embarrassed about my bad reading capabilities yesterday. Only this morning I realized you wrote Kadolin instead of Kaladin and I don't have much for that to offer, but here is a redo of a litte RoW moment I had to illustrate after my first read of the book in 2021.

#stormlight archive #THE BEST SCENE EVER

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I'm on Words of Radiance right now and I gotta say,

I just love Kaladin, like he has a mysterious past that he isn't interested in talking about, and he has like no respect for anyone who hasn't personally earned it, and clearly wants to be left alone forever. But he sucks at getting people to ignore him.

Like first of all, he looks everyone in the eyes, even people so far above his station. He has an impeccable posture and presence at all times, even without considering the whole stormlight thing which apparently can make you look prettier/more saturated in the world. He has slave scars marking him as dangerous and just pretends that he's basically of a station to light-eyes. And he barely even remembers to call the King 'your majesty', it's an afterthought at best and if the King believed that he actually had authority Kaladin would probably be dead. (Of course if the King was a stronger personality than maybe Kaladin would have shown him respect).

He wants to be left alone to die but has such strong sense of honor and empathy that he ends up caring about anyone that ends up in his vicinity for more than 5 min if they need help in any way. He adopts Renarin, grudgingly likes/respects Adolin even when Adolin drives him absolutely insane. He does his absolute best at any job he is given no matter how hard it makes his life or how many toes he steps on.

And he cannot hide his skills to save his life. So far, about half way through the book he's not terrible at hiding the stormlight, except that he is and the people around him just have more to worry about (like dying) when he has to use it.

He's a very very good surgeon even though he didn't actually have the chance to formally study, and when literally anyone calls him on it, he's just like 'I learned field medicine' - sir, you think field medicine is a good excuse for knowing more about epilepsy than the light-eyed noble that HAS the epilepsy??? Really?? Like are you even trying anymore? You're using words that no one else has ever heard of and you are teaching everyone around you field medicine.

He will literally never be able to blend in ever in his life.

I love him.

#stormlight archive

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Kaladin’s journey in ROW is just so dear to me

#stormlight archive #can i genuinely hug him

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One of the things I love most about the Stormlight Archive’s main trio is that their vibes and attitudes are in almost total contrast.

Like, to look at them, one is a sweet-looking blonde guy with a huge smile, and his cute redheaded wife who’s always making jokes. And then, a few metres off to the side, is this six-foot-four gloomy-looking dude with a severe case of angry eyes. 

But then you read the books, you find out that Adolin and Shallan would both 100% murder someone in a shady back alley, meanwhile Kaladin is probably helping save a child stuck in a tree whilst on the way to his nightly stew dinner and therapy session with his 30 best friends. 

#stormlight archive #LMAOOOOO

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I've reached the part of Rhythm of War where Kaladin invents group therapy but also refuses to go to group therapy

Kaladin: I think it would be helpful to get a group of people who have been through similar trauma together in a safe calm environment where they could talk to each other. They could support each other and won't feel judged because they've had similar experiences. I think this will work because I've been through some traumatic events and I would benefit from something like that

Kaladin's friends: so you'll be joining this group too right?

Kaladin: Oh. No.

#stormlight archive #GIGGLIGN

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Imagine, you are going about your everyday life, attending meetings, socializing with friends, going on dates with your girlfriend, all the while a 6'4 brooding goth scowls from the shadowy corner. This is your life. You are Adolin Kholin.

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The other day someone I’ve spoken to maybe twice saw the wip of this over my shoulder and said “Shallan?” so ig I’ve got the vibes right

EDIT Kaladin's up

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