#rereading stormlight.

[shallanspren]

kaladin stormblessed get his fuckin ass!!!!!

#rereading way of kings. #stormlight archive #kaladin stormblessed

[hahahahawk]

“Some people, like a festering finger or a leg shattered beyond repair, just needed to be removed”

Having wild thoughts about Kaladin’s arc. He has this constant tension between surgeon and soldier, healer and killer. At once he’s determining to go to medical school, but also feeling conviction that sometimes killing someone is the best way to deal with them.

Doubly interesting that this duality is crystallized when Roshone is injured and at Lirin’s mercy. Kaladin is certain that if he were in charge, he would let Roshone die.

Later, when its Moash vs Kaladin over Elhokar, which just a different branch of the Roshone situation, I can imagine the same argument being made—a member of the community who is (morally) beyond repair needs to be removed.

I doubt Kaladin was thinking about this (Lirin/Roshone) moment during the confrontation with Moash, but I wonder what he would say to his younger self if he could. The situation with Moash isn’t quiet a copy of this one—Kal has more compassion for Elhokar that he would ever be able to muster for Roshone—but it’s still two people debating whether a third has the right to keep living.

#cosmere #way of kings reread #stormlight archive

[starryarchitect]

okay yeah yeah villain but the diagram is so cool you guys

Wall I made for this (featuring: Russian, Spanish, toki pona, DNA code, women's script, a few alphabets, some geometry and arithmetic, and a language that I invented, among other things. I had fun with this)

#what is composition anyway #ugh this is such poor spacing. COMPOSITION AAAA #but hey! it's the only thing I've drawn that looks BETTER when you zoom in! #you know. except for the image quality. um. I'm sure there's a solution to that and I just don't know it #oh well. here have crazy guy #but anyway yeah I've been rereading and I just couldn't resist #maybe more coming? maybe? MAYBE. #brandon sanderson #words of radiance #arts arcanum #rhythm of war #stormlight #my art #way of kings #cosmere #cosmere fanart #taravangian #stormlight archive #wok #wor #oathbringer #idiot king #is that a tag? #the diagram

[radiantmists]

Fascinating that 'bearer of agonies' is the name of a chapter about taravangian, who uses it to describe the duty of kingship-- but mraize uses it later to refer to taln, who we're told in a previous book was the only one of the heralds who wasn't a king or great leader.

#stormlight archive #cosmere #roshar #stormlight reread

[lordgolden]

Navani served a nuclear level of cunt when Sadeas explained to her that their armies were overwhelmed at the tower and Dalinar was killed and had his Shardplate carried away and her response was to use 4 jars of ink to paint the glyph for justice 20 paces long in public and SET IT ON FIRE!!!! And then they get a messenger that the army is coming back…. I’m surprised sadeas didn’t just drop dead then. girlboss

#i just love her sm I’m so glad I’m rereading and appreciating her earlier on #Navani kholin #Stormlight archive #the way of kings

[moash]

i don’t want to do discourse about moash’s character, but i do want to talk about how the suicide baiting is used in the narrative

when moash confronts kaladin in roshone’s basement, this is expected to be the classic darth vader “luke, join me” moment, right? you’re expecting moash to say something like, join the dark side we can offer you more than the heroes can etc. but he doesn’t!!! to have moash stand there and say, “you can’t join us on the cool kid team, and since life sucks forever and you can’t join us where everything is awesome, you should kill yourself,” is wild!!! it throws you off!!! and it’s specifically so much harder for a hero to rebuff than “join me.” because “join me” is weak in this scenario, what can they really offer kaladin? nothing. it would be really abundantly easy to say no to. and from the writer’s perspective, join me is very Done, right? telling kaladin to kill himself and throwing back all of this personal information that kaladin told him in confidence when they were friends is a really cruel and unexpected twist that makes you feel the stakes so much more than if he’d just given kaladin the whole dark side spiel and called it a day.

it’s made even more interesting later on when you realize that moash is defying direct orders from odium to do this. odium DOES want moash to be giving the classic dark side spiel, and this is moash refusing to do that. and the reason he’s refusing to do that is because he hates what and where he is, and he loves kaladin, and he doesn’t want kaladin to be here, but the only other option in his broken mind is that kaladin dies. and when you learn all that and look back on the scene, it’s doubly interesting because now everything he’s saying about how life is worthless is him pushing all his own suicidal thoughts on kaladin. it’s moash who wants to kill himself, but he can’t.

to me this is all really fascinating for the peek into moash’s mental state, but also from a writing perspective as a novel twist on the villainous “join me” speech. it’s truly jarring to read the first time and succeeds on like every level as a piece of writing, personally, imo.

#suicide mention #as always with brandon writing moash it’s hard to tell how on purpose this all was #but the first time i read that preview chapter i was like holy shit this chapter was soooo good #and i maintain that #it’s only made BETTER on rereads when you know why he’s saying everything #but the first time reading when you don’t know why he’s saying that it’s just like holy shit omg i can’t believe this #and you want to keep reading to see what’s UP with all that!!!!!! #the stormlight archive #moash #rhythm of war

[karidley]

The problem with Stormlight Archive is that every book contains like ten scenes I want to animate so bad

#stormlight archive #doin a reread #goddammit brando sando

[7loveneverfails]

Shallan: I need Kaladin to smile.

The entire Fandom: Girl, same.

#rereading the stormlight archives #kaladin stormblessed #captain kaladin #shallan davar #Oathbringer

[swagspren]

Crazy to me that Brandon introduces the single dopest animal (sky eel) and then employs its presence pretty much never. You mean to tell me that Lopen can fly and he hasn’t befriended a sky eel??? No Sky eels smacking someone in the face at an opportune moment?? Or my personal favorite The Bridge getting into a Sully (2016) situation with the sky eels??!

#rereading twok and encountered sky eels 2 seconds of fame #twok #cosmere #stormlight archive

[a-dux]

SADEAS'S BETRAYAL AT THE END OF WOK GOT ME FOR A SECOND TIME?????? I'm rereading and I was like "wow I'm surprised Sadeas is having such a change of heart :) he's an awful person and that's an understatement but I didn't expect him to consider Dalinar's ideas." I vaguely recalled Sadeas betraying them at some point but I thought that was way later. I thought they were gonna win the Tower fight. Then he just LEAVES. AAAAHHHH. I GOT BAMBOOZLED! AGAIN!!!

#being forgetful and bad at reading between the lines is wild #rereading the amaram stuff was also quite the experience #i was so angry i almost had to put the book down #i forgot he killed the remainder of the squad!! :( #cosmere #the stormlight archive #the way of kings #charlie reads way of kings

[cosmere-cat]

Adolin twisted his head to find Pattern standing behind them, giving both of them a hug. His clothing was stiff, like it was made out of glass, and his collar pressed uncomfortably against Adolin’s ear.

“Mmm…” Pattern said. “I like having arms. If Maya does not speak, and you want to hear someone speak, I am very good at talking. I can say words about many kinds of things.”

“Um, thanks?” Adolin said.

“You are welcome. Should we not walk? On our feet? The ones I now have again? I do like my feet. They are befittingly perambulatory.” He held up his leg, and showed bare feet beneath his robe.

I love him ❤️ 💖

#pattern my beloved #the stormlight archive #row reread #rhythm of War

[old-man-hobb]

Kaladin finding Hobber still alive after the assassin's attack is one of the most bittersweet scenes in the series so far. Kaladin carrying Hobber back despite his exhaustion is peak windrunner.

#words of radiance spoilers #stormlight reread 4 #kaladin stormblessed #peak windrunner

[hahahahawk]

A detail that escaped me until now is that the real first contact between Adolin and Shallan was during the first (depicted) spanreed conversation between Dalinar and Jasnah.

Dalinar was recounting to Jasnah (at her request) the first time he and Gavilar met Parshendi. Jasnah asked if they mentioned Voidbringers, then sent a sketch from a library book. A sketch… rendered in detail to fine and lines to clean and confident to be by Jasnah’s hand.

For the first couple beats, we only hear about Adolin following Dalinar around the room. It’s Dalinar’s scene, but as we’re starting to imagine Shallan sitting in the room with Jasnah on the other end of the spanreed, we’re reminded of Adolin’s presence as well.

These two rooms, virtually linked, bringing Adolin and Shallan into the same mental space so early on. Do you think that later on, the two ever reminisced about that event? They were both participating and surely have clear memories about the occasion from their very different perspectives.

I wonder if they ever realized they met like that, unknowingly crossing paths before either knew the other existed.

… aw crud, right after that Jasnah writes to say “my ward drew that”, which flips the mental-game scenario. Now Adolin knows Shallan exists (in the abstract), but Shallan doesn’t know that Adolin’s part of her distant audience (though she certainly knows he exists (in the abstract))

Anyway, that’s enough thinking too deeply and reading to closely for today.

When I started this post I honestly didn’t remember the sketch faxed over to Dalinar, so each new line was like a new revelation

#cosmere #stormlight archive #way of kings reread

[scienter]

Words of Radiance, Ch. 62:

"Anyway, do not blame Elhokar. He was taking the advice of someone he trusted. Roshone, however, sought his own interests instead of those of the throne. He owned several silversmith shops . . . well, the details are not important. Suffice it to say that Roshone led the prince to make some errors. I cleared it up when I returned." "You saw this Roshone punished?" Kaladin asked, voice soft, feeling numb. "Exiled," Dalinar said, nodding. "Elhokar moved the man to a place where he couldn't do any more harm."

Me:

#my god this book #as a kaladin stan wor is always hard for me to read #words of radiance #the stormlight archive #reread #random musings #kaladin stormblessed #dalinar kholin

[ridetheluck]

Warbreaker is a comedy

#warbreaker #cosmere #sisirinah #vivenna #rereading wor got me in my feels about warbreaker so I had to take a break from stormlight archive

[sunshineandchemistry]

#stormlight archive #cosmere #cfsbf #polls #I tried to just pick one per character. but we all know some of these guys have quotes for days #and some quotes are part of too long a phrase to be represented #and the first ideal doesn’t belong to any one character so I didn’t include that either #but man I love these books. time for a reread.