Jonathan Sims Realized That He Couldn't Be Accused Of The "bury Your Gays" Trope If All His Characters

Quick Stormlight theory from a conversation with a friend

(WaT chapter 29)

This scene finally confirmed that Shallan actually went to Shadesmar physically in WoK, during the scene where she asks to be Jasnah's ward for real. At the time, Shallan explains this as her two spren pulling her into shadesmar, but later, after talking to her mother, Shallan thinks

(Wat chapter 118)

The heralds were all Surgebinders on Ashyn. We don't know how Ashyn surgebinding works, but we know that it tended to run in families (see: Shalash and Jezrien, Makibak and Nale). Lots of invested powers in the cosmere are inherited (see: allomancy, ferucmhemy, the royal locks of nalthis, whatever the fuck is happening on Threnody), so it's reasonable to guess that Ashyn surgebinding might've been inherited too. What if Shallan inherited the surge of Transportation from her mother, in the same way that a mistborn might have a misting child? The descriptions of her looking and falling into shadesmar are very similar to descriptions of Venli using Transportation.

If that's the case, then she'd likely have a resonance between Transportation and Lightweaving. That resonance would be something radiants can't normally do, because there is no radiant order with both of those surges. We know from her conversation with Kelek that Shallan's ability to see the Spiritual is not commonly found among radiants

(WaT chapter 7) I think that Shallan's ability to see the Spiritual might be a resonance between Lightweaving and Transportation. Lightweaving has a spiritual component (best seen in how Truthwatchers use it), and Transportation is used to see into Shadesmar as well as visit it. The ability to see into (and perhaps even visit) the Spiritual realm seems like a possible resonance for those two abilities, and it would fully explain all the weird unexplained shit we've seen Shallan do if that's the case. It also makes sense that, when Honor was picking the surges to grant his heralds, he'd avoid this particular combination -- Tanavast fears the Spiritual Realm (see the vorin prohibition on future sight, and Stormfather's objection to Dalinar's journey during the final 10 days), so when organizing the Oathpact, he would not have wanted heralds having this resonance.

“hmmm Shallan has been looking kinda bored lately, maybe I should take her to a dark scary street tonight and kill some guys in front of her to spice things up” -Jasnah probably

Kaladin, to Lirin: so I asked about the - yes, I'm alive, stop screaming - so I asked about the whole wisdom of the heralds thing and get this, Palah says there are these tiny invisible creatures - no they're not rotspren, they're way smaller than rotspren, but they are what attracts rotspren. I know right? Mindblowing

rough painting/sketch?? thing from my characters + environments class! we did a quick prompt for villains based on fears (the one i ended up getting was megalophobia/the fear of things that are Too Big)

weather and severe storms (and tornadoes specifically) have been a special interest of mine since childhood and it just so happened that many of the images you get when searching that fear were tornadoes so 100% used this as an excuse to draw a tornado… person? thing? sure yea. 

 this is real messy and i dont plan on revisiting this anytime soon but it works for what i needed it for!

For anyone who wants a reference, this is where the anglerfish was down the old fishmarket close!

Hypothetical question - if you could choose one allomantic and one feruchemical metal, which are you picking and why?

I think the fact that Endowment gives divine Breath to people who seemingly don’t have significant Return purposes - such as Calmseer sacrificing her divine Breath to heal her daughter - adds a particularly dangerous layer to her Intent, future sight, and planning

I believe her Intent, future sight, and planning isn’t only covering the greater scale purposes of the Five Scholars (especially Vasher), Lightsong, and Blushweaver… but it can also cover the lesser scale scope of just blessing the gift of spending one more week with family, or blessing the gift of living a few more years then healing a dying daughter.

Which… is particularly scary to me when you look at how Preservation was able to one up Ruin so often. Which I know doesn’t mean too much since Ruin’s future sight is between zero and abysmal but…

With that Ruin’s problem was ignoring sacrifice, selfessness, and “less significant individuals.”

If we assume that Ruin’s abysmal future sight encompasses the possibilities seen by atium+duralumin, then it seems Ruin foresaw the possibility of Elend’s death/sacrifice driving Vin to murder-suicide Ruin. But, this would mean he underestimated the possibility. Because he understimated the selflessness and love behind Vin and Elend’s sacrifices.

We see this trend with how he was screwed by over Preservation’s roles for Rashek, Elend, possibly the kandra, and Sazed.

He was too focused on Alendi and warping the prophecies, that he ignored the hateful Terrisman and (possibly) the Feruchemist with perfect memory. And that got Rashek to where Preservation wanted him to be.

He wanted to spike Elend, but ignored the importance of his loving sacrifice.

He used Sazed to get Vin to believe she was the Hero, and then tried to enflame Sazed’s depression. However, Ruin had absolutely no idea that Sazed is the Hero.

He knew the kandra existed, and they were sentient via his power. But he ignored them until the last minute because they weren’t destructive. And he paid the price for it.

Endowment has better future sight than Ruin by orders than magnitude. Much closer to Preservation, it appears. And she understands that some people just want to live a little more, and understands the potential of someone sacrificing their lives so someone else may live. But she also understands the importance of murder or destruction, and of plans spanning decades or centuries.

It seems her plans have involved Blushweaver’s murder, the Manywar happening, and the second Manywar almost happening. She was more involved than usual in the creation of Nightblood. Yesteel and Vasher don’t know this, but Yesteel’s experiments wouldn’t make another Nightblood.

“Before I ended up in Amphibia, I didn't care about right or wrong. I just did what was easy. I let people walk all over me and I think that's because I didn't love myself. Not really. But meeting you three has changed all of that, and these months we've spent together have shown me the person I really want to be. Trapped or not, I have to do this.”

I’ve been on vacation for the past week so it’s been hard to work on this but it’s finally done!! This is probably my favorite out of the three tarot cards and I’m really happy how it turned out

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I want to have deep thoughts about WaT but my brain is just going ✨💖Adolin!!!💖✨ on repeat

Like. Finally got a fashionable badass cape. Got called a slut by his own sword. Cares about everyone he meets so so much and is an incredibly successful leader because he’s genuinely just friends with everyone. Brilliant strategist. Older brother extraordinaire. Lost a leg and remained one of the best swordsmen on the planet. Fought a Fused with nothing but a candelabra and sheer willpower. Had an identity crisis the entire time. Brought his sword bestie and literal dozens of other spren back to life with nothing but the power of love and friendship. I love him so much 💖