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omg hoidthevoid! you're back! wonderful to see you again in these parts
thank you! wonderful to see you too, and all the old and new pfps I'm seeing these days. happy to be back!
You live! Welcome back!
I do live! Thank you! Glad to be back!
for the purists who dislike seeing misinformation spread by way of meme
it’s very cool how in-depth the physics of the magic systems of the Cosmere are! it’d be cooler if i understood all of it
[ID: the “explaining to my mom” meme. The first panel, where the person is explaining something to their mom, reads: “Brandon Sanderson, explaining why a quarter Lashing makes a Windrunner weightless as opposed to a half Lashing which doesn’t make the Windrunner weightless but in fact starts to pull them in the direction of the Lashing”. The second panel, where the mom is staring at the explainer with a flat, vaguely confused expression, reads: “me, reading Rhythm of War for plot and character development”. end ID]
[ID: a reply from @badwolf109 that reads: “Maybe I’m misremembering, I thought a quarter lashing puts you at half your normal weight (¾ down + ¼ up) and a half lashing makes you weightless (½ down + ½ up)”. end ID]
I thought that as well, and then I read the aforementioned section in Rhythm of War that scrambled my brain on the subject and I can’t remember anymore
[ID: a reply from @zeug-not-zoog that reads: “@hoidthevoid what section? I’m rpetty sure that the first response in correct, and coppermind agrees, do you have page or at least chapter numbers?” end ID.]
nope! this is 100% based off of my vague memory of one paragraph that I read once and very fast. I think it might’ve been in part 1. I don’t doubt or mind that I’m probably wrong, the paragraph in question was likely supposed to elaborate on existing mechanics and instead sent my brain into the frying pan and scrambled it
hello, my fellow non-cis people. how are we feeling about the kinda-sorta representation in RoW (the Sibling and Leshwi)? personally, I feel that it was a very “intro to writing trans people” take--Leshwi is literally a female spirit in a male body, and the Sibling is an otherworldly being that doesn’t define themselves by human genders, and both are not human (as tends to be the case for many non-cis characters)--but not awful, especially since Brandon kinda tries to be slow and delicate about his representation.
still disappointed in myself for not realizing the similarities between hearing the rhythms of metals while burning bronze and the listener/singer Rhythms until RoW practically hit me in the face with it
it’s very cool how in-depth the physics of the magic systems of the Cosmere are! it’d be cooler if i understood all of it
[ID: the “explaining to my mom” meme. The first panel, where the person is explaining something to their mom, reads: “Brandon Sanderson, explaining why a quarter Lashing makes a Windrunner weightless as opposed to a half Lashing which doesn’t make the Windrunner weightless but in fact starts to pull them in the direction of the Lashing”. The second panel, where the mom is staring at the explainer with a flat, vaguely confused expression, reads: “me, reading Rhythm of War for plot and character development”. end ID]
[ID: a reply from @badwolf109 that reads: “Maybe I’m misremembering, I thought a quarter lashing puts you at half your normal weight (3/4 down + 1/4 up) and a half lashing makes you weightless (1/2 down + 1/2 up)”. end ID]
I thought that as well, and then I read the aforementioned section in Rhythm of War that scrambled my brain on the subject and I can’t remember anymore
it’s very cool how in-depth the physics of the magic systems of the Cosmere are! it’d be cooler if i understood all of it
i finally made a Warbreaker shirt! posting very late, since this one was sent off for the quarantine edition of Secret Sazed.
So part of book 5 will be Jasnah, Shallan, and Hoid roasting the Ghostbloods, part will be Szeth, Kal, NB, Syl, and Szeth's spren being Dramatic In Shinovar, and part will be Kholin Family Drama cause of Adolin and Renarin still processing their feelings about Dalinar killing Evi? Oh and end of the world contest, I GUESS THAT'S IMPORTANT
there’s SO MUCH. also, like, it’s really hard to wrap my mind around the fact that a big part of the action in book 5 will be in like. a week. the other four books have taken literal months but this next one has the presumably climactic showdown in TEN DAYS. i suppose everything else could happen after that but like. that’s the big climactic showdown. brandon what’s going on
i filtered rhythm of war spoilers because i won't be getting my copy until christmas..... your blog is so tempting
oh geez pal part of your dash yesterday must've been just a huge chunk of blanked out posts... my bad
where are the ROW Venli & Eshonai posts :(
I'm deeply stressed out that Hoid has decided to go full domestic on Roshar with a partner and two kids and a spren. Like sir. Why. Deeply loving the "??? are we dating? are we best friends with extra smooching??? whatever. you're my Person now." vibes tho
he’s so invested (haha) in Roshar and getting so caught up in all of these events and directly interacting(/interfering?) with so many people and events!! which we’ve never seen from him before! (except maybe in Secret History, but even then he was in and out and didn’t do a lot in the Physical Realm.) he has the motive, it’s been explained, but it still feels so Weird! maybe especially since his character still seems vaguely fuzzy to me. we’re seeing so much of him, and yet so little...
can definitely get behind the vibing of Jasnah and Hoid tho. they do seem to be on a roughly similar wavelength, so to speak
[ID: a reply from @bereasonablerenarin reading: “what I REALLY do not get behind is the hand obsession. like Hoid why do u gotta keep affectioning her hands”. end ID]
self insert oc: worldhopper who follows Hoid around with a spray bottle and sternly spritzes him every time he gets horny about hands
definitely not seeing enough posts about Stargyle the Lightweaver
Fun like, mental image/theory I've had I need to tell someone; so, now that Shallan is actually against the Ghostbloods, it's possible that Jasnah and Shallan will go hunting for them. And Hoid is with Jasnah now, and well, we know who's in charge of that society. So there's all sorts of fun reunion potential where Shallan and Jasnah are like, cautiously infiltrating Ghostblood HQ, and Hoid just barges in like "GUESS WHO'S BACK, DUMBASS"
can’t believe you missed the part where the three most clever and verbally abrasive people on Roshar achieve said barging in just by throwing extremely vicious shade at anyone in their way
I'm deeply stressed out that Hoid has decided to go full domestic on Roshar with a partner and two kids and a spren. Like sir. Why. Deeply loving the "??? are we dating? are we best friends with extra smooching??? whatever. you're my Person now." vibes tho
he’s so invested (haha) in Roshar and getting so caught up in all of these events and directly interacting(/interfering?) with so many people and events!! which we’ve never seen from him before! (except maybe in Secret History, but even then he was in and out and didn’t do a lot in the Physical Realm.) he has the motive, it’s been explained, but it still feels so Weird! maybe especially since his character still seems vaguely fuzzy to me. we’re seeing so much of him, and yet so little...
can definitely get behind the vibing of Jasnah and Hoid tho. they do seem to be on a roughly similar wavelength, so to speak
