Sarene: Well, My Husband's Apparently Dead, So I Have Nothing To Do. Time To Troll People In Power. 

The end of Words of Radiance

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So when Adolin kills Sadeas at the end of Words of Radiance it is so damn satisfying that I actually laughed out loud and said "YES! FINALLY!" while listening to the audiobook. But then...all I can picture is Adolin nonchalantly chucking Oathbringer out the window, "alley-oop!" dusting off his hands and then whistling as he ambles away down the corridor to find his friends "Heeeey guyz, I waz here in this other corridor all along... nothing to see down that way!"

And I'm just dying 🤣☠️

Oathbringer

I have so much to say about this book I don't even know where to begin.

Love

"'Cause love's such an old-fashioned word And love dares you to care for The people on the edge of the night And love dares you to change our way of Caring about ourselves This is our last dance..."

Just saw this for the first time. This is some powerful music; this and his song Sick Boi.

Ren - Hi Ren (Official Music Video)

probably just another mistake

I've been feeling like joining Tumblr was a mistake. Tumblr is for creators, artists, writers. I'm just a wannabe. I have always been and will always be a consumer only. I want to write, to make art and music, to create. But the best I can ever hope to do is to simply imitate what's already been done. My only ability is to share what has touched me. And I am can barely manage to do that.

Oathbringer, again

As eager as I am to read the next book in the Stormlight Archive series, I also find myself wanting to just sit with Oathbringer for a little while.

There was a lot of awesomeness in this one book and I'm still processing it.

Thoughts on Rhythm of War...

(Semi-spoilers? Trying to keep it clean...)

-I cannot believe I just finished Rhythm of War and I'm about to start on Wind and Truth already.

-I cannot believe Taravangian... and that Cultivation thought that would actually work/help/make things better somehow

-Adolin has grown on me so much

-"WE CHOSE!"

-Chapter 85 about Dabbid had me 😭

-Chapter 104 had me screaming MOASH YOU F@#$ING BASTARD TRAITOR NOOOOOOOO that was awful

-It's funny that Lyft had the flute

-So many good quotes and conversations of course, like the one between Noril, Kaladin and Teft in Chapter 25 about darkness

-Navani "Don't let his lies become your truth"

-Syl's assertion that hair is gross because it oozes out of little holes and you just let it sit there 😂

- I'm still not sure how I feel about Venli

-I really liked how they ended things with Eshonai

- LOVED what happened with Rlain and the spren

Please send thoughts and prayers and luck as I start Wind and Truth 😅

RUSH quotes

"Where would you rather be?

Anywhere... anywhere but here

When will the time be right?

Anytime but now

Where would you rather be?

The doubt and the fear I know would all disappear

Anywhere but here

Anywhere but here"

🥺

Santa requiring payment for presents seems to have been a pretty common explanation parents used to explain why Santa might not be able to bring everything children wanted.

Fortunately Babe had a solution.

(source: The Saginaw (Michigan) News, December 20, 1892.)

Tress quotes

Re-reading one of my favorite books of all time, Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson. Actually, I'm listening to it on Audible this time, with the incomparable, amazing Michael Kramer narrating. I'm convinced Hoid is the funniest character narrator ever, but also somehow the most poignant; Sanderson is incredible. The thing that gets me about this book is the quotes. For example:

"One of the great tragedies of life is knowing how many people in the world are made to soar, paint, sing, or steer, except they never get the chance to find out. Whenever one does discover a moment of joy, beauty enters the world. Human beings, we can't create energy; we can only harness it. We can't create matter; we can only shape it. We can't even create life; we can only nurture it. But we can create light. This is one of the ways-the effervescence of purpose discovered."