Finished the mist born trilogy

Hoooolyyyyyy fuuuckk????

This last book was a Triumph HOIUGHHHHH

Myers Briggs and Enneagram are out. The only true personality test is which shard of Adonalsium do you identify with most

Hrathen: Oh no, I'm in love--

Me: No you're not. You're just dying. You've lost a lot of blood and it's got you all emotional.

the only reason im not a kalmoash stan is that when i was in high school i had a boyfriend that i met on. god i think it was discord but we knew of each other on bpd tumblr. you know. the shit show that was 2017 bpd tumblr. anyway long story short he tried very hard to get me to join in a suicide pact with him and said all sorts of edgy emo depressed teen nonsense like "youre the only one that makes me feel anything :(" and shit like that. so vyre hits a little bit too close to home for me lmao like i know when brandon sanderson wrote vyre he probably was drawing inspiration from input from suicidal people talking about what negative self-talk they used to justify killing themselves but the thing is that he accidentally made my stupid ass ex boyfriend and thus i lack the capacity to get really into him and kaladin kissing with tongue

Forcibly taking a break from WoK now that Kaladin survived the Highstorm to catch up on uni literature and I am SUFFERING because Jane Eyre is actually really cool and interesting but I'm just thinking of my wet pathetic loser blorbo

Nevermind. Sadeas isn’t just horny for Oathbringer, dude is just fucking horny.

if Marsh looked like wolfie from the new puss in boots when he put the coins on his eyes he woulda gotten Mare. in this essay i will…

I have made the horrible mistake of finishing a book. there are no more theories to ponder, lore to wonder, endings to muse, simply only emptiness that all is well. it was pleasant, to waltz into this new universe, to root for the heroes, to watch character after character sacrifice themselves for the good of all. and now it’s over. and I am left with nothing but “the end.” how awful it is to have the whole story within your hands. to have your questions answered. there is nothing more.

Ok, does Shallan have superpowers? I understand that is not like...a thing here in the sense of the word, but her "memories" sound too much like mental photos who might end up being something more dangerous and I'm just...maybe there're some kind of weird superpowers in game now?

Ugh, popped on Twitter to geek out about the Wheel of Time S2 and immediately find a bunch of WoT dudebro fans complaining that a 15 book series of 800+ pages each isn’t getting the exact word for word adaption that exists inside their heads when they read the books. And let me remind you all, these books were my life, my first fandom, and basically my personality pretty much from when I first read them in 1999 until Robert Jordan died (alas, I read to the end but Brandon Sanderson never quite captured the magic of RJ’s writing for me again, even if I think he did the best job anyone possibly could.)

So let me just say from a place of deep respect and obsession with these books that any hate for the show based on it not being a page for page adaptation is patently insane. Much of Wheel of Time relies on the strengths of prose which are untranslatable to a visual medium. Stuff like how magic (or the One Power) feels to cast makes up a huge proportion of the book. You can externally portray a feeling, sure, but there are still limits.

They forget that Book 1 was written to be standalone and has a ton of inconsistencies with later books that need to be shored up. That means logistical changes which cause necessary alterations almost all of which have actually been massive improvements in my mind. For all my love of Wheel of Time, its pacing is atrocious and I think even RJ would agree that if he could go back with the whole story in mind and edit it to be more streamlined, he absolutely would have. The show HAS to do that or we’d still be in the goddamn Two Rivers with the book pacing.

Centering the first season on the White Tower and Moiraine’s POV makes sense. The book relied on Moiraine being a Gandalf figure that gave information away at the pace of reader reveals, in tiny drips meant to tantalize a slow-paced book’s reader. That would be immensely frustrating for a tv show viewer of a story set in a sprawling fantasy world that needs tons of explanation and world building up front to have any idea what’s going on. Focusing on Moiraine, who has the answers, instead of sticking to the ignorance of the kids isn’t just a good choice it’s very nearly the only choice you can make. The White Tower is one of the most complex and interesting parts of that world. Centering it and introducing it earlier was an incredibly wise choice.

Other smaller choices make sense too if people thought about it for two seconds. Aging up the kids makes sense. They’re teens in the books and it would be incredibly awkward on screen. But once you age them up, it makes sense that at least ONE of them has been married before. Perrin makes SENSE to have been married if he left Two Rivers later. He’s a responsible guy with a good trade and a level head on his shoulders. He’s sweet and caring and mature. Of course he got married, he’s from a small farming community in a medieval-esque world with shorter life expectancies. Furthermore, I love Perrin to death but his obsessive fear of hurting Faile later is frankly ungrounded in anything that isn’t benign misogyny on some level. It doesn’t update and translate well on its own. Giving him Laila, giving him the manner of Laila’s death grounds his later attitudes towards Faile so well I literally gasped when I put it all together.

Other changes like in S2 having Min and Mat meet the way they do in Tar Valon was genius. It matters more that Mat and Min have rapport than that they meet in the same circumstances as the book (and Mat wouldn’t even remember that meeting anyway lol). The rapport set up and the way it showed Mat’s genius and con artistry was brilliant. Showing these characters LIKE each other was incredibly engaging and endearing which is so important because the adaptation has to be enjoyable to non book readers too, especially since the 15, 800+ page books of meandering pacing are pretty much impenetrable to new readers. Book readers simply can’t make up the majority of the audience, there’s not enough of them to sustain a show with any kind of budget which WOT requires. Thus, it needs to be an enjoyable show in its own right, not just a meandering exact adaptation ffs.

I can literally point to any show change and say it was either logical, practical, thematic, or simply genius. Wheel of Time desperately needs an edit to be accessible to modern audiences. What an adaptation prioritizes is always a risk that’s going to be run for a fan of the original material but so far I’ve been wildly impressed by every choice made in how logical or thoughtful and most of all loving it was to the actual important emotions and themes of the book. Any complainers are seriously missing the point of what an adaptation even is.

BRANDON SANDERSON YOU CANNOT DROP HOID'S APPRENTICE IN A GODDAMN KICKSTARTER TEASER

the book from the tiktok looks like Way of Kings or the sequel ? a brandon sanderson book :]

Anon, I love you. You are a goddamn genius <3

It must be the version with one of those stupid ass stickers on it (I am sorry but I absolutely detest those stickers)

I don't read a lot of high fantasy (I do LOVE fantasy, high fantasy is just always so heavy and I carry my books with me wherever I go so it's more of a logistical decision to not read high fantasy than anything else) so I am not familiar with this series, but it does sound interesting!

i'm finally reading defiant by brandon sanderson and goddamn i really must say spensa is soooo adhd like. just

Spensa Nightshade 10000% has ADHD and no one can convince me otherwise.

there we go that's it that's the post send post

How about 🍒 and 💕?

💕 - What inspires your writing most?

I think I'd explode if I didn't, tbh. More recent stylistic influences have been Brandon Sanderson (of course) and Joe Abercrombie. It was Patrick Rothfuss's Name of the Wind that really showed me what prose can do

🍒 - What fruit matches the aesthetic of your writing the most?

A mango, maybe? A sweet taste, but a hard core that might hurt your teeth if you bite too hard, and an outer skin that takes some effort to peel. A little exotic, but present in many other things. Also, mangos are just my favorite fruit. They can actually give you a poison ivy-like rash if you eat too many. I know this because I did that as a kid and had a goddamn Joker scar of mango rash around my mouth because I couldn't stop eating it. I guess I'm like that about my writing too, in a way. So yeah, mango.

Thanks for the asks!

brandon sanderson better tell us via wob what the 16th shard is called or else im gonna lose my goddamn mind

Brandon Sanderson's "Secret Projects" were secret simply because he's a maniac (affectionate) who transparently posts his writing progress and projects on his website with a tracker. That's all! We don't need to make a fuss over goddamn title names which only become relevant with context learned from reading the books