This is what shallan and adolin look like, desperate and sweaty, trying to convince kaladin to join the polycule as kaladin denies them for the 8th time
[Image description: Three drawings, all drawn in black pen on white paper. The linework is sketchy, and some parts of the drawings have been hatched in.The first image shows Adolin Kholin, seen from the chest up, standing in front of a horse who is much taller than him - likely Sureblood. The horse’s head is hovering above his shoulder, and we can see part of its neck and back. Adolin’s hair is jaw-length and darker at the roots, and he wears a plain shirt and simple dangly earrings. He’s looking to the right, and has his left hand up, gesturing. There’s two speech bubbles associated with him, connected by thin lines. The text reads: “He doesn’t hate you. He’s just a horse."The second image shows Kaladin, grimacing with narrowed eyes. His shoulders are raised, and he looks to the left. His curly hair has been pulled back into a messy ponytail, and he wears a uniform coat. He has two speech bubbles, with text that reads, "No. He hates me. I can tell."The third image shows Adolin and Sureblood again, seen from the left side. Adolin is frowning, looking to the right, and his left arm is up patting the side of Sureblood’s face. The horse has tilted his head down, and he’s smiling. Adolin has a speech bubble with text that reads, "You just think that all horses hate you.” Coming from Kaladin, out-of-frame, is a speech bubble with lines coming from it, indicating volume. The text is larger and slightly italicized, and it reads, “Because they do!!!” In the bottom right hand corner of the image, there’s a small signature that reads, “MW.” End ID.]
words of radiance chapter 25 was deeply fundamental to my understanding of kaladin as a character
Every other character in Stormlight: *searches desperately for scraps of info and gets cryptic responses, information conveyed too late, or answers they misinterpret* If only we’d known [plot critical info] sooner, the world may have been saved from itself!
Lift: *in her debut chapter has a spren trying to infodump the entire plot of the Knights Radiant to her* shut up shut up shut up, im slippy that’s all i need know
Theres a novel by Poul Anderson called The High Crusade, which has an alien spacecraft land in rural England in 1345 during the Hundred Year’s War. The local baron has been raising an army to help King Edward against the French, and immediately assumes this must be some kind of enemy trick.
In a way, he’s correct: the aliens are scouts for a brutal and repressive interstellar empire, which has dominated numerous planets through their devastating technology.
Unfortunately, this reliance on advanced weapons means they’ve completely forgotten all forms of melee combat and Sir Roger of Tourneville leads his militia to defeat the aliens easily.
They spare a single enemy, forcing him to fly the ship at spearpoint. They intend to raid behind enemy lines, capture the king of France to end the war, and then go onward to reclaim the Holy Land using the same tactic.
In an attempt to outwit the knights, the alien pilot actually travels to the nearest Imperial planet, where he expects the occupying military forces to save him.
I won’t spoil the details, but the knights accept this as a challenge and declare the launch of the “high crusade”.
That last picture is so stupidly badass I might tattoo that next to my dick cause it ain’t getting any better after that
You know, it’s kinda funny how much of high fantasy centers around kings and nobility and courtly intrigue considering that the archetypal high fantasy, Lord of the Rings, had the rather explicit moral of “saving the world is up to this backwater hick and his gardener because no politician, least of all inherited nobility, would have the ability to see past their own ambition and throw away a weapon”. Oh sure, Aragorn is a great king and all, but there’s a reason he’s over there running a distraction ring while the hobbits do the real work. Sauron loses because he gets distracted by kings and armies and great battles (i.e. typical high fantasy stuff) letting Frodo and Sam sneak through his back door and blow it all to hell.
Just saying, maybe old Jirt knew what he was saying when he said that the small folk doing their best and holding to each other was more powerful than a dozen alliances and superweapons and we should respect him for it.
Tbh I think fandom generally needs to get better at sitting with the uncomfortable fact that a story/fanwork/meme/whatever can hurt one person and help another
This is why I think “tag warning” culture is kinder and more constructive than cancel culture / “no problematic content” culture. One size does not fit all, but if we learn to be more aware of the fact that the same thing can be emotionally validating or cathartic to one person and upsetting to another, and pick up a general mindset of thinking before we post, “what might people need a heads up for in this content?”, we grow more compassionate, more thoughtful, and more understanding of the differences in people’s experiences.
nothing has changed from 2020 im still a kalmoash casual at best but its not my fault every cosmere artist who ventures into kalmoash territory produces sistine chapel ass works of art
literally my second biggest flex is that the guy behind osha official is my mutual. first biggest flex is that there’s a discord server dedicated to hating on me
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