kalmoash best ship

undeniable!!!!

kalmoash best ship

undeniable!!!!

hello don't mind me i was just mass liking your posts! i hope you're having a great day i hope you don't mind this ramble but i feel you'd understand :)

so basically i've had a super long .... beef with the series so far about how it's handling racism/classism and their roles in the story so i was like hey, let me do a little fix it project! because after reading OB i was just disappointed with how it handled kaladin's arc (he's my favorite so i want to see him done justice) but also moash's arc.

anyway, i was rereading parts of WOR to get the details right, and re-reading Moash talk about what happened to his family and how he just returned and they were all gone BROKE MY HEARTTTT. i also noticed how he was so ready to put in the work during training to get good at using swords and shardblades. like he had CONVICTION to succeed and i loved that about him.

so moash literally went from a character i didn't mind on my first read to becoming one of my favorites and now i just get so upset thinking about like how the series is painting him so far. i bring this up because i was like dang, if i'm this pressed about it, i can't imagine tumblr-user-moash's feelings about it. anyway here's to hoping that SA5 does him justice. also moash for bondsmith is brilliant. also thank you for defending him 😌 sorry if this is repetitive but do you feel optimistic that a redemption arc could happen for him in SA5?

mass likers are like being visited by angels, i love youuu 💕 and i would love to read your fix-it if you ever post it 👀

as for sa5. haha. i try to keep really optimistic about it. i am a writer myself and everything that i believe about writing good stories tells me that he basically has to be redeemed, even if it’s right before his death (cliche, but it would at least still fulfill the assignment). right? because the themes of redemption for the entire story would be just completely thrown out in a major way if he wasn’t, not to mention that every moash pov chapter that revealed his complex feelings about his choices and his current situation would have been made essentially pointless and time-wasting. like i don’t see from an objective writing standpoint how the story could be good if he wasn’t redeemed, and that keeps me going more than anything else, because while i have a lot of issues with sanderson’s writing, i don’t think he’s just plain stupid, right? so yea, that’s what keeps me going.

however!!! he has really dropped the ball with regards to racism/classism/etc in stormlight, so while this would i think be his biggest fumble yet, it’s not entirely impossible to see some truly bad stuff happen in moash’s arc in sa5. but i try to keep optimistic and keep my expectations relatively low (like death bed redemption would suck but i guess i would ultimately be ok with it, sigh)

sorry that i forgot to answer this for so long, and thank you for stopping by!! 🥰💕

before you ship something stop and ask yourself... Is this otp material? Make sure your characters are:

Obstinate and inflexible in their actions

Terrible for each other in most circumstances

Poor communicators

Wait!!! Have you remembered to sexualise and lust after a morally repugnant fictional character today??

Questioner: Does Kaladin eat cereal?

Brandon Sanderson: Not really a thing on Roshar, but I bet he would, because he would enjoy that it's quick and nutritious (depending on what you're getting).

i just know hockey players feel the thrill

moash

Smug jug moodboard

Far worse, in my opinion, than the famous “he wouldn’t fucking say that” is “he WOULD fucking say that, as part of his facade, but you seem to think he would mean it genuinely”

The LIBling

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Kaladin StormSECULAR

ShalLIBERAL Davar

DaliNONBINARY Kholin

GAYdolin Kholin

TRANSnah Kholin

Renarin Kholin

NaVACCINE Kholin

The StormPARENT

Urithiru (SAFE SPACE)

The LoPRONOUNS

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Moash

LIBERAL stormlight archive

Kaladin StormSECULAR

ShalLIBERAL Davar

DaliNONBINARY Kholin

GAYdolin Kholin

TRANSnah Kholin

Renarin Kholin

NaVACCINE Kholin

The StormPARENT

Urithiru (SAFE SPACE)

The LoPRONOUNS

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Moash

this is such a good post and highlights something i find really interesting about brandon’s writing! this is a really good example of a writing technique brandon likes to employ called “bad writing.” writers typically use bad writing when they are incapable or unwilling to write something better. though the relationship was underdeveloped in wor, several characters in oathbringer comment on it being deeper and more intimate than any of the others that kaladin had. this is a brilliant subversion of the traditional writing advice “show, don’t tell,” where instead of showing us the relationship, brandon simply tells us it was there and mattered. he employs this subversion in a similar fashion when he states that moash was the only member of bridge four to treat kaladin as a man not a god, but he takes it a step further in this instance by having moash’s feelings later devolve into idolatry. since the previous treatment this change is meant to contrast is “told” instead of “shown,” we end up with another incredible example of “bad writing.” i find brandon’s use of bad writing to be really thoughtful and unique since he employs just enough “good writing” to keep your expectations up, so the full force of the “bad writing” moments hit to full effect! :)

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actually thinking moash is going to die a villain before he has any sort of crisis of character is literally so stupid. it’s beyond just hating moash, you literally think so little of brandon as a writer that you think he would write all that moash pov just to have moash die without ever examining his thinking further? like that’s objectively bad writing, you know that right? but hey maybe i’ll look back on this post and be like “you guys were right, brandon IS a bad writer” but it’s just insane to me that people hate moash so much they can’t see like the objective narrative movements in his writing. you guys piss me off so much.