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Cosmere Characters Do Their Taxes
It was just Tax Day in the US! Let's say that Cosmere characters had to pay taxes. How would that go for them?
Sigzil: Knows the tax code inside and out. Saves his receipts. Is basically the IRS's dream guy.
Hoid: Does not pay taxes. This is canon.
Kelsier: Does not pay taxes. This feels canon.
Marasi: Always pays her taxes.
Vivenna: Always pays her taxes.
Denth: Sure talks a lot about how complicated mercenary taxes are but if you listen carefully, he never actually says he did them...
Nale: Rigorously follows the tax code of whatever country he is in.
Wyndle: Claims Lift as a dependent. Reports all illegally acquired income at fair market value, as the tax code requires.
Lightsong: Does not pay taxes because he's, like, a god. But it's always bothered him, somewhere in the back of his mind, for some reason...
Adolin: Cheerfully hires someone else to do his taxes, at least so long as he's single.
Shallan: Does her own taxes, Sebarial's taxes, and Adolin's taxes post-marriage.
Steris & Wax: Do their taxes together. Romantically.
Wayne: Gives so much money to charity that he never owes any taxes. Orders his accountants to find a way for him to pay taxes anyway.
Straff: Does not pay taxes in the way rich people don't pay taxes--through, like, legal loopholes and off-shore accounts and shit
Elend: Rewrites the tax code to pay more taxes.
Lirin: Committed tax fraud. But only once.
Taravangian: Is not allowed to file his taxes when he is too stupid--because he cries about how confusing it is--or when he's too smart--because he's too good at finding all of the super obvious tax loopholes and anyway he's obviously way better than the government at knowing how to spend his own money!
Painter: Got in trouble once for not filing taxes because he knew he didn't make enough to owe any taxes. Seemed kinda stupid to him.
Moash: Makes an ethical argument against taxes, since the tax laws are written to benefit the rich and screw over the poor and he has no control over what the government uses his taxes for.
Kaladin: Is torn between paying his taxes like Dalinar ordered or not paying his taxes since he promised Moash he wouldn't until he finally files his taxes at, like, midnight on tax day
It's a whole thing.
#cosmere#cosmerelists#Sigzil#Hoid#Kelsier#Marasi#Vivenna#Denth#nale#Wyndle#Lightsong#Adolin#Shallan#Steris#Wax#Wayne#Straff#Elend#Lirin#Taravangian#Painter#Moash#Kaladin
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Felt inspired tonight lmao
#order of the stick#oots#the order of the stick#o chul#lien#xykon#oona#soon kim#girard draketooth#vaarsuvius#nale#haley starshine#celia#roy greenhilt#durkon thundershield#elan the bard
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#stormlight archive#cosmere#cosmemes#the way of kings#words of radiance#oathbringer#rhythm of war#stormlight memes#stormlight archive memes#cosmere memes#nale#nale the herald#roshar#knights radiant#crempost#cremposting
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MY MAGNUM OPUS
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Okay, so here’s a funny little thing I realized recently…
So Elan’s original outfit includes a chain shirt.
As a reference to the rule update from 3.0 to 3.5 that allowed Bards to wear Light Armor without an Arcane Spell Failure Chance. Unlike every other type of Arcane Spellcaster (like Wizards and Sorcerers) who not only lack proficiency in armors but are gonna risk their spell fizzing out.
And Nale’s first outfit is a palate swap of Elan’s, including the Chain Shirt.
But Nale’s not a Bard. Nale is a multi-classed Rogue/Fighter/Sorcerer.
Now, there are probably Feats to lower Arcane Spell Failure Chance in some sourcebook or other, but let’s be real - it’s equally plausible that Nale just ran around with a 20% chance for total spell failure for the sake of the Aesthetic.
#order of the stick#elan#nale#dungeons & dragons#Dungeons and Dragons#D&D#and since Elan's chain shirt only popped into existance after the 3.5 edition update#that implies he at least had enough common sense to NOT do that sort of shit
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What your favorite Szeth ship says about you (some friends helped me out with this, and I appreciate them a lot)
Szeth/Rushu: You love to see two neurodivergent nerds learning to be neurodivergent nerds together, in the most queerplatonic way possible
Szeth/Nightblood: No one person can fix him. You know this. So you’ve decided that the answer is to ship him with a morally questionable sentient object instead. You are me, and I respect you
Szeth/Jasnah: You love it when a couple lives in separate houses in different countries
Szeth/Kaladin: You think they could fix each other and also be so weird and awkward about it
Szeth/Nale: You know that they’d only make each other worse, but you’re still watching on the sidelines with a bucket of popcorn
Szeth/Dalinar: You’re an honorsexual
Szeth/Gavilar: You enjoy it when lovers write letters in each other’s blood. You also take “the little death” literally
Szeth/ Taravangian : You want to see what happens when two people have very different solutions to the trolley problem
Szeth/ Rlain : You want to see two hurt people make things grow, and that’s beautiful
Szeth/ Moash : Who can yell “I hate myself” the loudest? You want to find out
#Stormlight Archive#cremposting#shipping#Szethposting#Szeth-son-son-Vallano#Rushu Stormlight#Nightblood#Kaladin Stormblessed#Nale#Dalinar Kholin#Jasnah Kholin#Gavilar Kholin#Rlain#Moash#Taravangian
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Trying to make character designs for the first chapter of WoK I experimented a bit style wise and tried a shape based approach. I quite like what came of it. So I added Kaladin and Shallan as they appear first in the books for good measure. :)
Ardent asked why Kalak turned out such a gremlin / igor and the obvious answer is that a little, paranoid gremlin is what i see when I try to imagine him... 😅
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[ID: Character line-up depicting the Herald Kalak, Nale, Elhokar, Dalinar, Szeth, Kaladin and Shallan, all standing in front of a neutral grey background. The style is based on shapes of flat colours with lines and shading here and there to convey depth and details.
Kalak is a small man with tan skin, hunched shoulders, nervously looking to the side. He has a very high forehead, his black hair coming from what might be a hairline starting to recede. He wears a long, purple light-eyes vest that comes down to his knees, where is wide pants end and his boots begin. Under it he wears a dress short in a pale violet with wide sleeves and a high collar.
Nale has dark skin, is bald and stands upright with both his hands behind his back. He wears a dark black-purple-bluish coat over a light-eyed vest of similar colour belted with a scarf of a lighter shade. The coat ends in sharp, triangular angles both on the back- and the front side. Nale’s crescent shaped scar is very visible on his right cheek.
Elhokar is wearing a light-eyes coat of a deep blue, with silver ornamentation especially on the shoulders and the front. The lower part of his flares out a bit.
His right hand hesitantly raised to his chest, he looks to the side with big green eyes, dark eyebrows, a big curved nose and full lips. His expression speaking of a youthful insecurity.
Dalinar is taller of them all, and very broad in his shoulders, chest and arms. He wears a traditional takama, a skirt-like garment of a dark blue cloth folded many times around his waist. His blue jacket his open on the front, showing strongly developed chest muscles and some greying chest hair. Under the takama he wear very big boots of a matching colour. He looks pretty grumpy. The area under his eyebrows in shadow with his blue eyes looking intense. There is a flush in his cheeks and arrows his nose. In his left hand he holds an empty glass bottle.
Szeth is small, he barely comes up to Dalinar’s and Kaladin’s shoulder. He wears his white, flowing assassins attire. A long loose vest over a white short and pants, with soft grey shoes. His sleeves are wide bit reined in at the wrists. A white scarf forms a hood around his head, from which is face glowers with a morose expression. His left hand is stretched to his side as if in the process of summoning a shardblade.
Kaladin is in bridgeman attire from Way of Kings, with dark blue pants that go a bit below his knees, sandals on his feet, a white loose shirt, sleeves rolled up, under a bridgeman vest of dirty rough cloth with some old bloodstains and padded shoulder parts. His shapes are exaggerated, very gangly, a narrow face with framed by wavy black hair and a similarly wavy dark, full beard. His skin is a tan colour, his nose long and curved and his eyes slighty slanted under strong eyebrows.
Shallan wears a light blue havah ornamented with thin golden stripes and broad golden bands on the shoulders, the bottom line of her dress and the end of her sleeves. Her full, wavy hair of a dark orange falls around her round face onto her shoulders, a small section on the top forming a top-knot. In her hands she holds the straps of a brown Messanger bag.]
#cosmere#character art#character design#kelek#kalak#nale#elhokar#dalinar#szeth#kaladin#shallan#fanart#stormlight archive#brandon sanderson#style exploration#cfsbf
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A bunch of reasons why I have a soft spot for Sabine:
1) I like her understated comradery with Vaarsuvius.
2) Her interaction with Miko was comedy gold.
3) I hugely enjoy the way she keeps getting used to subvert traditional narratives around women's attitudes to romance/sex (the revelation in strip 394 that she's mad that Nale was trying to kill Haley, rather than sleep with her; strip 794 "women like me swoon for a hero, but that's only because deep down, we think we can change them.")
4) She may be a self-confessed "incarnation of illicit sex", but the story isn't usually interested in condemning her for her sexual proclivities (except for those occasions where she uses vengeful murder as an aphrodisiac, which: fair). The moral condemnation implied by the narrative is generally in reference to all of the aforementioned murder and also literally working for the forces of evil.
5) I also really like Sabine and Nale's relationship. This isn't because I'm particularly fond of Nale (I'm really not) but I do think it gives them both a bit of depth. I also like the fact that a non-monogamous relationship is treated as pretty non-sensational and valid (even if it did initially come as quite a shock to Nale; casually announcing you've had sex 4 times while off on a business trip and you don't care who he sleeps with is probably not the best way of handling such things in real life). Anyway, if anything they are closer than ever in Blood Runs in the Family (despite a little insecurity on Nale's part regarding Sabine's attraction to Elan and all those edgy "good boys"). The occasionally-sleeping-with-other-people thing doesn't actually disrupt their emotional bond at all. And basically, as a polyamorous person, it is pretty refreshing to see non-monogamy depicted in a way that doesn’t try to imply it is inherently inferior, and in the context of a relationship that is actually quite healthy (even if the rest of their behavior isn't).
6) She helped V to thwart Tarquin, which is kind of covered in point 1, but I think it deserves a separate bullet point and quite probably it's own separate post one day simply because I love the significance of this narratively. (In fact I hope she has a hand in Tarquin's eventual downfall, though that doesn't seem overly likely.)
7) She’s hot. (My husband suggested I add this one, and on consideration I realised it probably is a contributory factor so I agreed).
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we also got Nale, Teft, and Rlain miniature reveals.
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Cosmere Characters in Costco
The title says it all, really.
[Previously: Cosmere characters in Ikea]
1. Wayne & Marasi
Marasi: Wayne...is that another new hat?
Wayne: Why yes, dearie. I'm now Egrid Sternsberger, a little old lady who simply must try one of those mini hamburgers!
Marasi: ...I think they'll give you multiple samples if you just ask. You don't have to keep switching hats.
Wayne: Now, where would be the fun in that?
2. Shallan, Veil, Radiant
Radiant: Now, remember--it requires a majority vote before we make any big impulse purchases.
Shallan: This vodka bottle is the size of my torso and will therefore last a long time.
Veil: That's a good reason.
Radiant: ...I'll just get another cart.
3. Ham and Dockson
Ham: Hey, do you know where Kelsier went off to? For that matter, where's Vin?
Dockson: [Points silently upwards, to where Vin & Kelsier crouch on top of those big, metal, Costco warehouse shelves, mistcloaks rippling]
Dockson: They like to be high.
Ham: W-We're inside! How is there a breeze?!
4. Lift & Wyndle
Lift: Man, that was great!
Lift: I stole food from every one of those little stands and nobody caught me!
Wyndle: Mistress, like I keep telling you, those stands are giving away the free samples! There was no need to--
Lift: I am the greatest thief of all time!
5. Painter and Yumi
Painter: Please let me get another cart.
Yumi: I said we don't need another cart!
Painter: Y-You've stacked the cart so high that people are afraid to come within six feet of us!
Yumi: Who do you think you're talking to? I can go way higher than this!
Painter: Yumi please
6. Adolin & Kaladin
Adolin: Ta-da! What do you think?
Kaladin: About your...clothes?
Adolin: Yeah! It's all from here!
Adolin: I got shorts with lots of pockets, this colorful buttoned shirt, this big hat, these sunglasses--even these cool plastic shoes with holes for airflow AND these socks!
Adolin: I am going to revolutionize fashion.
Kaladin: ...
Adolin: What? Even Wit liked it!
Kaladin: I'll be going now.
Adolin: Wait! I got a matching outfit for you too! Kaladin come baaaack!
7. Tress & Charlie
Tress: Wow, this one is amazing too!
Tress: It's a bit bent and a bit stained, but you can really see that it's been on a journey.
Tress: Oooh! This one's an interesting shape! I think it was for strawberries!
Charlie: Man, and to think they just give all of these cardboard boxes away for free!
8. Navani & Rushu
Navani: That is...quite the tower of toilet paper.
Rushu: How do you suppose they get the top ones down? Some kind of machine, presumably? Do you think it's stacked for space efficiency or is it meant to inspire awe, as well?
Rushu: ...Should I take one from the bottom to see what happens?
Navani: ...Just grab one of the ones with the bear on it, for now.
Rushu: Later then?
9. Rock & Skar
Rock: I love this place! All the food is sized for a while squad!
Rock: Look at this! It's a cooked chicken the size of my HEAD!
Skar: I found a rack of ribs that would take two men to carry!
Rock: Tonight's stew will be a true wonder.
10. Nale and Szeth
Nale: And here is what I wanted to show you--this icon of justice.
Szeth: ...A hotdog the size of my forearm?
Nale: Yes.
Nale: Do you understand what I am trying to teach you?
Szeth: Hotdogs are...justice?
Nale: This one is.
Nale: The owner declared that the price would remain in stone, and that no change would be permitted while he yet lived.
Nale: Lack of change? An enduring ruling? A man willing to stake his life on it?
Nale: It is a hotdog of justice indeed, Szeth.
#cosmere#cosmerelists#Wayne#Marasi#Lift#Wyndle#Dockson#Kelsier#Vin#Nale#Szeth#Rock#Skar#Navani#Rushu#Ham#Tress#Charlie#Adolin#Kaladin#Veil#Radiant#Shallan#Yumi#Painter
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My storyboard / animatic for The Stormlight Archive: Edgedancer.
I reallly liked this book!! Especially this chapter, and wanted to make a storyboard for it. It was good practice and I would like to make more like this :D
Music: Kingslayer - Ramin Djawadi
#The Stormlight Archive#stormlight archive#nale#lift#storyboard#animatic#roshar#cosmere#arts arcanum#edgedancer#skybreaker#sla#lift stormlight
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Official Nale/Darkness Design
#arts arcanum#the stormlight archive#oathbringer#nale#nalan#cosmere#Brandon Sanderson#cosmere merch#cfsbf#root
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Thinking up parallels between the rivalry/enemies brotherhood of Elan and Nale in Order of the Stick, to the cousins/rivalry/enmity of Adrien Agreste and Felix Fathom.
Both are identical copies of each other. The evil/enemy twin poses as the good guy twin in both cases. There's less love lost between Elan and Nale, but like... idk, it's a similar dynamic.
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