Journey Before Pancakes

maybe THE honor moment of all time?

(Cosmere Inktober day #13 - Honor)

I don't care if it rains or freezes

As long as I got my kaladin figure

Sitting on the dashboard of my car

Rhythm of Affirmation (part one of two, part two is here) The time felt right for some more Rlainarin fluff, so please excuse (or join me in) my indulgence 😄 image description:

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hi dalinar

that being said it's disappointing that this note that I've had in my phone since 2021 will no longer be of use. i really thought it would be a szeth one 😔

“my head is bloody but unbowed”

-william ernest henley

how I’m going to sleep tonight knowing Gavilar dies again tomorrow

Pleaseee tell me somebody gets it

Our favorite storm boy

I followed @qrbits video study of dynamic poses, which was a huge help! I'm planning on doing more stormlight characters in the same manner, so stay tuned!

One thing I absolutely love about the way Sanderson wrote Gavilar is how the reader's perception of him slowly changes as the books go along.

In The Way of Kings we are under the impression Gavilar was not only a great king, but a great person as well. The highprinces respected him where they don't respect Elhokar. Dalinar talks about him as a perfect brother, Elhokar talks about him as a perfect father and even Jasnah misses him. Only Navani seems to be a little glad he's gone, but we can easily disregard that knowing she's in love with Dalinar.

This perception of him stays mostly unchanged in Words of Radiance, but by Oathbringer this picture of the perfect king and good person starts to crumble. We have confirmation in the prologue that he wanted to bring back the Desolations and that was the only reason he had made the deal with the Listeners in the first place.

In Dalinar's falshbacks we see how he used Dalinar as his war machine, how his conquest turned Dalinar into a man that could not live without a war, and didn't give him a purpose beyond that once the fighting was over. We see how Dalinar gave up everything for his brother but got very little in return. Gavilar wouldn't even let Dalinar finally relax and spend time with his first son, he had to imidiately give him a war to fight lest him find that he could live without being the Blackthorn. We see how he didn't try to help his brother when he was a drunk and let him destroy himself.

At this point it's clear that Gavilar was not really a good person, even if Dalinar doesn't see it that way. But he's not tha bad, right? Dalinar did most of these things because he wanted to, Gavilar only pointed him in the direction he wanted to.

And then we get to Rhythm of War, where we find out that Navani's imposter symdrome, that has been so prevelant in the books since the beginning is all Gavilar's fault. He made her feel she wasn't really an artifabrian, that she wasn't intellegent, made her feel like she was a cheater despite the fact that she always remained loyal to him. He made it clear he didn't care about Jasnah's feelings when it came to marrying Amaram and how he didn't see Elhokar as a fit heir. Gavilar's family all cared about him so much, and yet, here we see how little he cared about them.

By this time we're all cheering Szeth when he kills this man because he didn't deserve a single good thing that was said about him throughout the entire series. Gavilar dying was the best thing that happened to all these characters and that realization is amazing.

This is how Wind and Truth will end btw

HE CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS

I hope if the stormlight archive gets adapted Kaladin's "the sky and the winds are mine" line sounds really cringe. He's allowed to be a little cringe. He'd listen to angel with a shotgun (Nightcore) while flying around and you can't change my mind.

Would you take ibuprofen with him?

Jump on the bandwagon and do this with Kaladin XD

look i know the szeth prologue carries a lot of introductory information as to the magic system and how it can be used (and if there is one thing the cosmere in general excels at it is using the rules of a hard magic system in interesting ways for fight scenes) but it is so crazy that his internal monologue is so full of grief for what he is about to do and his first spoken line is "what am i? i'm sorry" and then he starts killing people in such an overcomplicated rube goldbergian way. why'd he lash a guy to the ceiling above an upright spear and just wait (fearspren spawning up around them) until the lashing broke and he impaled himself. you didnt have to do that man no one was around to see it

sh. shacatolin. is this anything.