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@priscellie this is my all time favorite Rlainarin fanart. Them. Together. Being Radiant. For your dash. Feel better! ♥️
mY bOOOIIIIIS
As someone who’s grandma passed because of Alzheimer’s, I cried during the scene where Venli saw her mother again. I can’t imagine how it felt for her to finally hear her mother speak, and to be able to be the one who helped her. It was such a beautiful scene
RIP to gavilars reputation. As in. REST IN PIECES
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.
Spoiler for Stormlight Archive 4 under the cut
TEFT WHYYYY 😢😢😢😭😭😭😔
It’s a typical reaction people have when they find out he stops being a soldier.
this is infuriating i know mental health matters but i'd just like kaladin to start murdering people please
this all the time
thinking about how alethi doorframes and stuff are made for taller people since theyre just a taller race generally.. but shinovar is a different story i need kaladin to be hitting his head on EVERYTHING in stormlight 5
kaladin and hesina reunited at hearthstone
Honestly as long as kaladin doesn't come out of WaT with a canon love interest I'll be happy. Just leave it open for me to write my shakadolin fanfic that's all I'm asking
Once again letting the fandom know I'm not dead yet
Imagine if you came home to your beautiful wife and your beautiful house only to find that your wife had turned the house into a living being (a simplification), killed her wlw situationship, and invented antimatter bombs. And it barely breaks the top 5 craziest things that happened that week.
a tango with the enemy (…?)
when you're scientific genius enemies turned doomed toxic old woman yuri by the narrative, which is literally named after the musical manifestation of your lesbian gay love for one another
Out of all the scenes in rhythm of war this one lives in my head rent free because it scared me SO BAD
Anyway I’ll hopefully finish this someday but until then I need everyone to share in my fear at least a bit.
Ladies is it gay to hold hands and sing in such perfect harmony as to mix the divine powers of two disparate gods into something new and unprecedented
inktober day 3 but i skip over to navanieltober: putting ointment on a wound
Just thinking about the fact that Shallan had bonded a spren BEFORE she ever killed her mother... what kind of childhood did that poor girl have that she was already admiting hard enough truths as such a small child to be able to reach (at least) the third ideal?