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Yumi and Nikaro watching their little dramas
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….how did Brandon write a story about ChatGPT before the invention of ChatGPT?
#sanderson secret project 3 spoilers#sanderson secret project 3#ssp3#yumi and the nightmare painter#brandon sanderson#cosmere#yes the question of automation and art predates chat gpt#it was pribably around with the first invention of the camera#but this feels weirdly topical
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That’s where hion comes from???
I didn’t think Sanderson could make another magic system as horrific as hemalurgy but DAMN this one might do it
#hion lines#hemalurgy#investiture#yumi and the nightmare painter#mistborn#cosmere#sanderson secret projects#sanderson secret project 3#secret project 3#ssp3#brandon sanderson#ssp3 spoilers
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When Sanderson planted that bit about some stories needing sad endings, I was a bit afraid this was going to be one of them (and I would actually have been okay with that, because this was definitely the sort of story for which a sad ending could have been fitting), but I was also secretly counting on this not being that sort of book, taking what I knew about Brandon's intentions with these books as a gift to his wife and me just trusting he wouldn't actually crush my heart like that.
So it was that when I read this bit in the epilogue that I started laughing and crying and kind of cursing Sanderson for playing with my feelings that way. It was brilliant. I loved this book.
#MAJOR#ssp3 spoilers#ssp3#ssp#sanderson secret project 3#yumi and the nightmare painter#cosmere#brandon sanderson
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"Time lost meaning to her. This was her meditation. This was her purpose. This was creation. Hundreds of stacks, born from a sublime flow. Sculptures working together on the grandest scale, yet still fascinating in the smallest detail.
This was art. Something the machine, however capable in the technical details, could never understand. Because art is, and always has been, about what it does to us. To the one shaping it and the one experiencing it."
- Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
If I didn't know any better, I'd think this was meant to be a pushback from Brandon against AI art and its cheerleaders. It can't be, because the Secret Projects were written before the AI art boom of 2022, but this sums up the way I feel about it pretty well.
Machines can create works that are technically very good, but they're not art. They have no soul, they'll never be art, only a rough approximation of what the human artists who came before the machines created.
#ssp3#ssp3 spoilers#sanderson secret project 3#yumi and the nightmare painter#cosmere#brandon sanderson#anti ai art#robophobia#<- stealing greater-than-the-sword's tag there
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So, since I consumed Nimona and Yumi and the Nightmare Painter so soon I think it's kinda make sense that my brain runs comparisons
I think there's a lot to compare.
For a start, both of those things are gorgeous works of art. Nimona have incredible animation that's so expressive and unique, while YATNP's illustrations are just beautiful. Both of those are creations done with love and enthusiasm and it SHOWS.
Both stories are about two people getting stuck in a situation and bonding while trying to figure it out. And I know I just described half the stories EVER but hey, what can I say, it works and I love it.
Both of those speak of a rotten system. While in Yumi it's much less of the focus and is only gradually discovered, it's a huge blow for Painter and a huge reason he's acting and thinking the way he is.
I also kinda wanted to talk about was the Director and Liyun. Both women who manipulated and hurt the person they raised from childhood, both because of fear and tradition. Both antagonistic in the story. Yet the Director choose to stick to her way until literally dying for it, while Liyun, even not knowing what she's doing and not remembering, choose to do what's good for Yumi.
Obviously the nightmares and Nimona's final form are comparable
Oh, and the traditional/cyberpunk aesthetic in both of those! Ahhhhaaaa both were so fun and distinctive ahhhaaaaaaaaaa
TDLR: both of those are great stories, go watch Nimona if you haven't and go read Yumi and the Nightmare Painter if you, uh... feel like getting into a 30-books commitment because the cosmere is huge. Yumi is a standalone though. It's weird.
#cosmere#yumi and the nightmare painter#ssp3#ssp3 spoilers#sanderson secret project 3#nimona#the director#liyun#those are both incredible (highly) stories#i've been blessed but now my mind wants to draw too many things
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Some thoughts on Brandon Sanderson books because they consume so much of my brain. Spoilers for secret project three if you’re trying to be surprised about it!!
This is the second time branderson has made a magic system that involves drawing/art, with the first one being the Rithmatist (STILL WAITING ON THAT SEQUEL BRANDON BUT ITS FINE I GUESS). I’m curious about the fact that both the painters’ magic and the mechanics of Rithmatics are closely linked to math. Whatever Yumi’s got going on is all Fibonacci numbers, and rithmatics don’t work without geometry.
Not saying anything actually profound here, just thought it was interesting and I’m curious if anyone has thoughts :)
#cosmere#ssp3#yumi and the nightmare painter#sanderson secret project 3#ssp 3#and yes I know math and art are closely related because proportions and all kinds of other things#but WHY is he choosing to connect them like this??#also something about two fields being so distinct and opposite but are connected in ways that aren’t obvious#kind of seems a bit like Yumi and Painter#dawn speaks
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secret project 3 art my beloved
#sanderson secret project 3#secret project 3 spoilers#the interior art is way better than tress tbh#no i have not read anything beyond what preview chapters we got last year#not yet#but the art eruohiwe'qjropwk#cosmere
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POV you're Nikaro
I made Yumi in a kind of anime style (hope it looks like 😅) and experiment with certain scene on the book and the world palette color .
What do you think about?
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"My coat rack killed God and now it's everyone's problem."
#cosmere#cfsbf#yumi and the nightmare painter#ssp3#ssp3 spoilers#sanderson secret project#secret project 3#yumi and the nightmare painter spoilers
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PoV: You just finished reading Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
#great book pls read it it's standalone#cosmere#yumi and the nightmare painter#ssp3#secret project 3#sp3#brandon sanderson#nym's posts
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I think it’s funny when people roll their eyes about all the time Sanderson spends on clothes and fashion, as if it’s not an integral part of the world building and character development. I did my undergrad thesis on fashion semiotics in Mistborn (primarily using Roland Barthes) and there’s a direct correlation between how Vin is dressing and where she’s at on the hero’s journey, but in a way that doesn’t feel obvious at first. So it’s interesting to read Yumi and see how Sanderson is utilizing the language of fashion to explore these worlds and characters. The changing room scene with Akane is more than just a cute romcom scene, it’s about the process of discovery. Which is obvious but I can’t help harkening back to Barthes, who co-opts De Saussure’s thoughts on language for the use of fashion.
De Saussure identifies two aspects of language and communication: langue and parole. Langue is the rules of a particular language (subject verb order, for example) and parole is how an individual uses those rules to express themselves. Barthes applies this idea to fashion. We’re given these arbitrary rules of fashion (even as simple as “one must be dressed in public”) and from there we learn to work within the parameters of those rules to outwardly express ourselves. There’s a difference between your favorite pair of jeans and the pair of slacks you wear to work; there’s a difference between the dress you wear to a job interview and the dress you wear on a date where you’re trying to fuck.
The changing room scene is Yumi shotgunning the concepts of langue and parole all at once. She is learning new rules (you can have your shoulders bare) while learning how to express herself within the parameters of those rules (you can wear a dress with bare shoulders and still cover your shoulders with another garment). It’s cute and sweet but also important. She’s learning not just how to express herself but also that she’s allowed to. There’s nothing frivolous about how Sanderson uses and describes fashion. It’s a direct outgrowth of the journeys he sends his characters on.
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In anticipation of Secret Project 3 - here is my single least favourite person in the Cosmere. It isn’t Gavilar. It isn’t Sadeas. It isn’t Amaram. It isn’t someone who’s killed thousands - or killed anyone - or committed a single act of physical violence.
It’s effing Liyun.
“How did I do today, Liyun?” Yumi finally asked.
“You did your duty,” Liyun replied, voice soft, yet rasping. Like ripping paper.
“I…have never heard of a yoki-hijo summoning thirty-seven spirits in one day before,” Yumi said, hopeful. It wasn’t her warden’s job to compliment her. But…it would feel good…to hear the words nonetheless.
“Yes,” Liyun said. “It will make people question. Were you always capable of this? Were you holding back in other cities, refusing to bless them as you did this one?”
“I…”
“I’m certain it is wisdom in you, Chosen,” Liyun said. “To do as you did. I am certain it is not you working too hard, so that the next town in line gets a much smaller blessing, and therefore thinks themselves less worthy also.”
Yumi felt sick at the very thought. Her arms dangled at her sides, because moving them was painful. “I will work hard tomorrow.”
“I am sure you will.” Liyun paused. “I would hate to think that I trained a yoki-hijo who did not know how to properly pace herself. I would also hate to think that I was such a poor teacher that my student thought it wise to pretend to be unable of reaching her full potential, in order to have an easier time of her job.”
Yumi shrank down further, wincing at the throbs of pain from muscles in her arms and back. It seemed that even in great success, she did not do enough.
“Neither is true, fortunately.”
“I will tell Gongsha Town,” Liyun said. “They can look forward to a visit from a strong yoki-hijo tomorrow.”
“Thank you.”
“May I offer a reminder, Chosen?”
Yumi glanced up, and kneeling where she was, the perspective made Liyun seemed to be ten feet tall. A silhouette against the night, like a cutout with blank space in the middle.
“Yes,” Yumi said, “please.”
“You must remember,” Liyun said, “that you are a resource to the land. Like the water of the steamwell. Like the plants, the sunlight, and the spirits themselves. If you do not take care of yourself, you will squander the great position and opportunity you have been given.”
“Thank you,” Yumi whispered.
“Sleep now, if it pleases you. Chosen.”
It takes real talent to use an honorific as an insult. I’ll give Liyun that much; it’s professional courtesy, from one hideous bastard to another.
The worst freaking person in the Cosmere.
#yumi and the nightmare painter#sanderson secret project 3#sanderson secret project 3 spoilers#brandon sanderson#cosmere#ssp3#ssp3 spoilers
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“I don’t want to be a girl,” he said.
“Oh hush,” Design said, quickly mopping the floor. “I’ve been pretending to be one for years now, so I’m an authority—and it’s really quite nice. Except for the sexism. But it’s hard to blame that on being a woman instead of on, you know, morons.”
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Art is about intent.
My daughter!! I lover her!! Third in this art noveau experiment.
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Someone found the cover for Tor edition of Yumi and the Nightmare Painter and I cannot live without this.
#brandon sanderson#cosmere#yumi and the nightmare painter#secret project 3#sp3#sanderson secret projects#ssp
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