Cosmere books as bad news headlines

• "Young woman of questionable parentage kills god after eating copious amounts of metal"

• "Apple voice assistant marries mute rainbow god after sister defeats army of undead alongside hobo and talking sword"

• "City of zombies saved by angry man in armor and friendly chef's niece"

• "Depressed people snort lightning, use it to fight lobsters the size of battleships." (idea credit to @Elisabeth_Wheatley on YouTube)

• "Cowboy makes deal with the new god"

• "Girl and mouse boyfriend undo curse on cabin boy"

• "Man cheats death by stabbing his own eye, forms intergalactic gang"

• "Young woman stacks rocks to destroy computer"

• "Dehydrated young man unites senators against himself"

• "Man with PTSD breaks All the Rules, upsets mentor while running from sunrise"

• "Man(??) avoids eternal punishment from several sources while roasting everyone in existence"

Elegy

ADONALSIUM WILL REMEMBER OUR PLIGHT EVENTUALLY

Based on RE Parrish's Nathaniel Hawthorne comic which you should definitely check out and like because it's hilarious (click here for a version with an image description)

Sunlit Man spoilers!

Here's my Brando Sando version:

[ID: A four -panel comic done in the same black and white cartoon outline format. The title reads, "Brandon Sanderson Comics". Panel one shows Emily Sanderson saying, "Good morning darling. You look kinda tired." From offscreen Brandon responds, "I couldn't sleep at all last night."

Panel two shows Brandon rubbing his eye, pushing his glasses askew. From off-screen, Emily says, "Pandemic?" He responds, "I kept imagining fucked up Threnodites."

Panel three is titled, "Last night..." Brandon lays in bed wearing a night cap with a fuzzy ball on the end. He imagines a young woman wearing a black brimmed hat and large white collar over a black dress. She has long straight black hair. She says, "My name is Solemnity Divine." Brandon smiles and says, "Heh heh... Yeah..."

Panel four shows Brandon imagining a thin man with a severe expression, wearing the same kind of clothing. He says, "My name is Adonalsium-Will-Remember-Our-Plight-Eventually." Brandon's eyes pop open and he grins an evil grin. He says, "YES" in big letters. End ID.]

Finished The Sunlit Man and like yeah I fully believe I’d also still be inspired by Kaladin Stormblessed hundreds of years into the future

I’m so thrilled with how my Tress of the Emerald Sea cup came out! I did a photoshoot for it.

Okay but if you support Scadrial please kindly DNI

I don't care what you call it, the way they study less-developed planets is colonialism and that is NOT OKAY!

They literally withhold technology and information that could save hundreds of thousands of lives on EACH PLANET so they can exploit the native people for information and supplies

Let me repeat: they keep a monopoly on life-changing information to fuel their sense of superiority over the "simple-minded natives." (This is genuine language they use. It's sickening to even think about.)

No I don't care if Allomancy is "cool" or that they're so "technologically advanced" or "giving us a better understanding of Investiture"

There are better methods of studying Investiture than invading other worlds. Besides, yall know they're weaponizing their research wherever they can right. It's not some benevolent volunteer group of scientists, it's a literal military operation

TLDR; Scadrial is a colonialist planet and yall need to stop acting like they're so perfect

adding "HAHAHA" authorization card to the list of things that shouldve been in the hoid box

“They called themselves the Alethi, but we knew them as the Tagarut. The breakers, it means. Those who leave only death.”

I expected this to be about the void bringers when Nomad starts his story. It’s actually so refreshing to see non-Alethi Rosharan POVs

How it feels getting to this point of The Sunlit Man

So, in Tress, Hoid has lost his senses to the point where he's running around in socks and sandals. In Yumi, he's a coatrack and Design lovingly painted him. Then in The Sunlit Man, Sigzil told him to fuck off and never apologized afterwards.

People in the cosmere really do get what they deserve.

Questioner: What is the biggest editorial change you have ever made to one of your stories from your arcanists who said, "Oh you can't do this because of *inaudible* or for canon content?"

Brandon Sanderson: I'm not sure if I can come up with the biggest. I can list a couple of them that I did change.

They have a lot of influence over Sunlit Man and my weird little tiny planet, my Little Prince planet, that you're traveling around. Getting me to do that accurately... to the point that, at some points, I'm like, "Yeah, I'm gonna give a magical solution to that." And they're like, "That's fine. Know that physicists will complain." And then they did. But then they got mad... not mad, but they're like, "But there is a magical reason."

I only have a full arcanist team on a couple of books so far. They've been involved in all the Secret Projects. They're working with me on Stormlight Five. This is just me finding the people who ask the questions that make me go, "Huh, I hadn't considered that," and then putting them to work to be doing that on my behalf. Really, most of what they do is not say "no," they say "we would like an explanation; you should make sure that this is included." And once in a while, it makes me pull back on an idea. But they're usually really small things that are gonna cause issues for the future, and things like that. I just met with them on Stormlight Five, for instance, and they gave me a few pointers on things. They'd say, "You probably should explain this. You probably should not use this line, because people are gonna explore that and extrapolate that direction." And I'm like, "you are right."

Most of the cases, they're like, "What is this?" And then I explain it, and they're like, "Great. You have an answer. We can move on." You'd have to ask them, but I'd say that one out of ten times, I don't have an answer. But those one out of ten times are really handy for them to be asking those questions that I don't have answers to. Because I have to go do this for all of you, and I'd better have the answers by then.