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chaos-monkeyy · 23 hours
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Do you ever just think of John Sheppard and
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Rambling ahead:
I actually first found and liked Sanderson when he took over the end of the Wheel of Time, and then out of curiosity I started his books with Mistborn era 1 and really liked the trilogy (also not as a kid, or a teen, or even a young adult 😅). It definitely was enough to get me into the cosmere, as to my knowledge I've now read literally everything he's published except Rithmatist (some of the non-cosmere stuff is great; I keep meaning to get onto the Rithmatist and also shit I just realized I never read the final book in the Alcatraz series whoops).
Anyway. Warbreaker is one of my (admittedly many) favourites, but I'm honestly not sure I'd have gotten into Sanderson or the cosmere if I'd started with that one instead of Mistborn? The first time I read it, I was like ..hm fun. It was alright. Didn't stand out that much to me; in fact, I actually liked Elantris a lot more on a first read than Warbreaker. Where Warbreaker has shone for me is on subsequent re-reads-- every single time I read that damned book, it hits me HARDER.
The Mistborn era 1 trilogy as a whole really gives that typical Sanderson reading experience of like... the scope just keeps fucking building and then ends with a massive sanderlanche that leaves you walking around in a stunned daze for a week while you process it all. (at least, that's what happens to me 😆). It's like, the classic starting point kinda. But I can definitely see book 1 giving people a bit of trouble to get through, I love it but it hasn't stayed up there as a Favourite.
So yeah, for anyone not intimidated by the sheer size and scope of the Stormlight novels, they'd be a great place to start simply because it's such a fantastic fucking series.
If stormlight is Too Daunting, Mistborn or Warbreaker are probably both equally good options depending on the reader, and honestly I would suggest Skyward as a great starter if someone really isn't sure about jumping in with the bigger works and worlds. It's not cosmere, but it's short, fun and well done, and stands well just on its own or as part of the 4 book cytoverse series (note: book 2 is probably the weakest of the four, in my opinion, but the rest is well worth continuing for).
Oooh or one of the novellas, like Shadows for Silence in the Forest of Hell (another top favourite) or the Emperor's Soul. Those are both excellent short reads.
But then, I'm possibly biased. The one and only thing by him I haven't enjoyed is the white sands graphic novels because like.. I don't like graphic novels 🤣 (did read 'em anyway for the sweet sweet Cosmere Lore, though)
What are some good jumping off points for getting into Brandon Sanderson? I've been thinking about it for a while.
Hi there! This is, such a good question and I really hope the Cosmere mutuals chime in because I probably came at it the weirdest way.
So. A poll went around recently that was like "what's the best place to start" and Mistborn won, HOWEVER. As I said when I voted in and reblogged that, just because a lot of people started there, does not make it the best place to start. A lot of people start there because it's nominally Young Adult so they read it when they were younger, and they're a little shorter. I don't think they work for a lot of readers as a Cosmere intro.
Additionally, I think it's a lot to ask people to do what I did, which is jump right into The Stormlight Archive. However! If you are a very specific type of person and reader, this might work for you. That specific type is: accustomed to extensive worldbuilding; undaunted by long books; already involved in fantasy content to a fairly large extent. If you are a Lord of the Rings re-reader, if you actually read Game of Thrones, if you read any of Wheel of Time and enjoyed it, I would recommend starting with The Way of Kings.
My actual, genuine, "read this first" recommendation is Warbreaker. It is currently standalone, although sequels are eventually planned; it's later in his writing than, say, Elantris, and therefore more developed; it has some of his best examples of character development; it demonstrates his type of worldbuilding/magic systems very well; it connects to other Cosmere novels, specifically Stormlight, in ways that are more fun if you read it first and Stormlight later.
I could also see an argument for starting with one or more of the "secret projects" aka the novels that came out during 2023 first to Kickstarter backers and then to everyone else. These are much more standalone even though they still connect to the larger Cosmere in small ways, in that they are intended to be single books and not series. These are Tress and the Emerald Sea, The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter, and The Sunlit Man. Having just finished Yumi, I could see how it would be fun to start there to get a feel for his writing style and tendencies before diving into something longer.
So yeah! Warbreaker probably; Yumi maybe (look up a summary and go for this if it sounds incredibly interesting); Way of Kings if you're a diehard Fantasy Fan™ anyway; if you want my personal advice don't listen to the Mistborn-first suggestions.
I should also put a disclaimer here that I have not yet branched into his non-Cosmere or more "fringe" works like Legion, the middle-grade series Alcatraz vs. The Evil Librarians, the graphic novel White Sand, or others that aren't like, super key Cosmere things, so one of those honestly may be better as a starter and I would not know.
Cosmere folks chime in on this please? Confirm, deny, add? And anon you're welcome to send more questions this way or message me :)
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chaos-monkeyy · 6 days
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Getting close to the end of my Ascendancy trilogy reread and I just-
Thrawn: <getting visibly flustered and awkward about Thrass calling him brother but refusing to explain why>
Thrass: "ah clearly this is because you are Concerned about family politics and status and such"
Me hollering at my book: "it's because he SERIOUSLY wants to fuck you and doesn't know if that's still okay now"
Anyway
Yes it's okay Thrawn, don't worry about it.
Really. 😏
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TOM HIDDLESTON in KONG: SKULL ISLAND
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chaos-monkeyy · 6 days
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✅ house to self
✅ working from home
✅ no morning meetings
✅ LOTS of coffee and water
✅ irredeemably tiny bladder
It's, ah... It's been a good Friday morning, gang 💦
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chaos-monkeyy · 7 days
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✨ Accidental essay time ✨
As a smut writer who loves hearing that my porn gets people off, and as a horny fucking gremlin who gets off about my porn and other people's on a very regular basis, well...it's nuanced, folks. C'mon.
On one extreme, smut readers really shouldn't assume that just because someone writes explicit fanfic, they must also be totally fine with getting unsolicited and equally-explicit details of strangers' personal masturbatory practices in their fic comments. We all choose to click into Explicit fic knowing what we're likely to find in there, authors don't get an E warning when they open a comment email. And for some people, there is a big difference between imagining what fictional characters get up to vs. real people in real life.
The other extreme, on fully equal footing to the first one, is for the writers... if you're writing smut and you didn't know this... Yes, very often people are out there reading porn on AO3 for the purpose of getting off about it. If this is shocking or icky to you even if mentioned only in the vaguest of terms, then yeah you really should put a note or a tag saying you don't want to hear about it at all. Cause like. It's porn, my friends. People get horny about sex.
For everything in between, just... Use a little judgement.
Anyway. On my end, please do continue telling me and asking me overly personal things in AO3 comments and tumblr asks because I love it 😂 😏
PORN WRITERS OF AO3
the #author wants to hear about dead batteries tag has always kinda bugged me, in part because i suspect porn writers who don't want comments about readers getting off to their porn are a small minority of porn writers, which would mean that the norm should be it's cool to comment "do you know how much i masturbate to this", and authors who don't want those comments can have their own tag instead.
but i am speculating wildly, so please reblog and give me some data!
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chaos-monkeyy · 8 days
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.........wait how the fuck are we nearly one quarter of a century OUT of the 1900s 💀
please be patient with me im from the 1900s
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chaos-monkeyy · 9 days
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so like
...wetting your pants commando really is its very own special kind of Good, god damn
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chaos-monkeyy · 9 days
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I've just started act three of BG3 and I keep wanting to write more fic for the game, but then being like "nooo but I must finish the game and know the Lore and gain a deep understanding of all the companions or I'll mess up my characterizations 😱🧐"
Meanwhile, the fic ideas are like
--Halsin gets lovingly gangbanged by the entire camp one night--
--Inappropriate Use of Hold Person, Entangle, or Enlarge/Reduce spells--
--Tav and Abdirak get extra worked up and do something about it while Astarion thoroughly enjoys watching his lover get Fucking Wrecked--
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chaos-monkeyy · 9 days
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hot things to say during sex
cursed to put my hands on everything
hells. something just woke up down here
shouldn't have wished to live in more interesting times
all's well that ends... not as bad as it could have
these boots have seen everything
ALL IS ASH AND MEAT
no one back home will ever believe this
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chaos-monkeyy · 9 days
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op on the version of this I saw has turned off reblogs while posting lots of frustrated messages about how they don't care about people's actual responses. I'm adding some things they didn't think of.
I care about y'all's actual responses.
I wanna hear all about your writing in the tags. do tell.
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chaos-monkeyy · 9 days
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I've really only ever done it once, but it was like... Brief one-line descriptions of a key scene or story point that I wanted to hit, each written onto its own small sticky note, and then I sat on the floor and moved them around into an order that made sense.
People who do story outlines before you start writing... how? Serious question. How do you do your outlines? Is it like a bullet point list, do you write descriptive previews...?
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chaos-monkeyy · 10 days
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Well that's a pretty solid fucking response eh 🙃
I'm sure there's a million of these around right now, but I'm doing one anyway
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chaos-monkeyy · 10 days
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Finished that solo Captain Pike fic I've been poking at for awhile 😏
nice (mostly) wholesome PWP: With or Without Company
Explicit, full fic and tags on AO3, opening teaser below!
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“Captain! Gaming night is my pick this evening, you in? It’s gonna be a gooood one.”
Pike stopped and turned at Ortegas’s call to see his pilot grinning at him expectantly from down the corridor. It was… tempting, the idea of relaxing, sharing a few drinks and laughs with a decent-size chunk of the crew. And he was just coming off-duty. But… He already had other plans, in truth. 
Just not ones he was about to share with anyone.
“Appreciate the offer, Lieutenant,” Pike answered with a smile and nod of thanks. “But I think I’m gonna make it an early night. Catch up on some sleep.”
Ortegas shrugged. “Suit yourself,” she said, with that little head tilt of polite disbelief.
“Kick some butt, Erica,” Pike said mock-solemnly and Ortegas laughed, her grin taking on a slightly alarming tinge of predatory glee.
“Oh, I plan to,” she answered. “Have a good night, sir!”
“Goodnight, Lieutenant.”
A few minutes later saw Pike finally entering his quarters and locking the door behind him with a sigh of relief. It had been a long day, wrapping up the end of a long mission, one that the Enterprise was now heading back from. None of it had gone badly, at least; though the boredom was, in some ways, more tiring than tense bouts of excitement or even danger.
But— though it was a little embarrassing to admit, even just in the privacy of his own head— Pike found the most difficult aspect of these long-haul missions, especially the quiet ones, was, well… Not getting laid for so long.
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chaos-monkeyy · 11 days
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Finished that solo Captain Pike fic I've been poking at for awhile 😏
nice (mostly) wholesome PWP: With or Without Company
Explicit, full fic and tags on AO3, opening teaser below!
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“Captain! Gaming night is my pick this evening, you in? It’s gonna be a gooood one.”
Pike stopped and turned at Ortegas’s call to see his pilot grinning at him expectantly from down the corridor. It was… tempting, the idea of relaxing, sharing a few drinks and laughs with a decent-size chunk of the crew. And he was just coming off-duty. But… He already had other plans, in truth. 
Just not ones he was about to share with anyone.
“Appreciate the offer, Lieutenant,” Pike answered with a smile and nod of thanks. “But I think I’m gonna make it an early night. Catch up on some sleep.”
Ortegas shrugged. “Suit yourself,” she said, with that little head tilt of polite disbelief.
“Kick some butt, Erica,” Pike said mock-solemnly and Ortegas laughed, her grin taking on a slightly alarming tinge of predatory glee.
“Oh, I plan to,” she answered. “Have a good night, sir!”
“Goodnight, Lieutenant.”
A few minutes later saw Pike finally entering his quarters and locking the door behind him with a sigh of relief. It had been a long day, wrapping up the end of a long mission, one that the Enterprise was now heading back from. None of it had gone badly, at least; though the boredom was, in some ways, more tiring than tense bouts of excitement or even danger.
But— though it was a little embarrassing to admit, even just in the privacy of his own head— Pike found the most difficult aspect of these long-haul missions, especially the quiet ones, was, well… Not getting laid for so long.
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chaos-monkeyy · 11 days
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Hugh Jackman
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chaos-monkeyy · 11 days
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[ID: screenshot of a post titled "Stormlight Fans in the Wild - saw the name of this local farm and had to ask. Sure enough - Bridge Four 💪. The image is a photograph of a person in a farmer's market type of stall, adjusting produce on the table. Behind them is a banner proclaiming "Wind Runner Farm" in block letters. /end ID]
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I love Brandon Sanderson
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BlackCoffeeBulb: you'll get him sued for copyright infringement for a few useless internet points, congrats
mpkeith :  It's free advertising...
"Where did the name Wind Runner come from?"
"Well, there are these amazing books..."
So far (to my knowledge) nobody has been sued for Bridge Four homemade stuff, fan art, 3D printed shard blades and so on.
I really don't think Brandon Sanderson is that kind of guy. Seems to me he's happy to share with all of us his work.
Brandon Sanderson: I have expressly permitted it, in fact. I had a lawyer draw up as liberal a fanart policy as I could make, and not scare away people like film companies. Basically, you can create whatever you want for your personal use, and can even sell some form of fanart so long as you're not using me or implied relationship with me in the marketing.
Do look at the official language in my FAQ, though, as opposed to taking my (flawed) memory on how it works. Either way, no, I'm not going to ever be bothered by individual fan creations, and instead encourage them. And something like this far is a huge mark of respect from the owner, toward me.
gsauce8:  So essentially as long as you're not saying something along the lines of "Officially licensed" or anything close to that, you're good to go? That's freaking awesome.
Brandon Sanderson: It's a little more tricky than that--I let the lawyers hash it out. But basically, you can't use our artwork, our branding, and can't say it's official. But you CAN sell art prints of art you made of characters/scenes from the books, even if they include things like Kaladin's scars or a Bridge Four patch. You don't need a license, and you don't owe us anything.
It's a legal grey area that I want to make less grey. I like fanart, and want to encourage it--and in so doing, feel like an artist making something transformative like this should be able to profit from their art. Yes, my books inspired that art--but other books inspired me to write, as did films and artwork. This is how art is created.
Mostly, this applies to thinks like prints right now. (We haven't authorized T-shirts, for example, as that kind of thing gets really tricky with movie deals wanting merchandising rights.) Again, read the exact language on the FAQ, but we've tried to be as lenient here as we can be.
Also, I have no problem with fanfic, so long as it remains in the fan realm, rather than being sold. (But if you write something awesome, and readers like it, I'd encourage you to change the names/setting and rebrand it as your own so you could sell it.)
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