chasing the thrill i felt reading “he was too busy smashing your head against the wall of your trailer while you apologized for being alive” and “you’re a nasty creep with a disgusting little crush that’s grown on you like rot. Grow the fuck up”
dreaming of an older sexy adam feeding him tomatoes is the gayest thing ronan's ever done. but also sending a "please" to god the first time he saw adam. but ALSO dreaming a watch for adam that tells the time for wherever ronan is. but also manibus. and the cassette. etc etc
lestat being a mother criticizing claudia saying she's an affected self-absorbed nasty little creature who's fooled herself into thinking she's smarter than she is and she is poisoning louis against me literally like mother like daughter lmao
#iwtv
#InterviewWithTheVampire
kaladin is also so funny because his feelings for adolin at first were "this man represents everything i hate i can't stand him" and once he got to know adolin it was like "oh so not only he's really hot he's also a good person? this is the worst thing to ever happen to me"
the only way i would pay 400 bucks in shipping costs would be if brandon himself came to my house to hand me the books and said "you were sooo right queen, kaladin is gay"
when it comes to queer representation in fantasy i've enjoyed both the "only one main character is queer" (like leo in AoM) and the "if you squint you might find one (1) straight man" (like the masquerade or the locked tomb). all i ask is that authors make an effort
imagine becoming a radiant and your spren is a judgemental little bitch that's invisible 90% of the time and makes swearing an ideal sound incredibly boring. skybreakers live like this
📞 hello? brandon sanderson? why did adolin call shallan "deliciously weird" and then kaladin "deliciously naive"? why does he talk to his wife and his best friend the same way? brandon?
he hang up
rewatching my beloved pacific rim i looove that they set up rayleigh as the tortured hero "i can't have anyone in my head again" and then he meets mako and he's like "mako 🥰😄 we're drift compatible 🥹🥹🥹". movie of all time the girls who get it, get it...
i love stormlight archive so much, i can't ever relate to the haters. i love the simple prose, the silly dialogue, i love that 500 pages can feel like 50, i love the rule of cool. i love having fun!!
the fact that these two books have these few ratings is an actual fucking crime i will not rest until i can get some of you to read them and i will be extremely annoying about it because they're worth it!!
people expecting unlikeable, flawed characters to have a disney-like arc where they change for the better or something similar is a very childish way of looking at fiction
there are two wolves inside you one wants to read an epic fantasy series the other wants to read gay shit. the solution would be to read a fantasy series that is both epic AND gay but what where which how
the knights radiant are like:
-szeth killed dalinar's brother
-kaladin killed shallan's brother
-dalinar accidently killed renarin and adolin's mother
-adolin basically killed venli's sister
AND NONE OF THEM TALK ABOUT IT
very funny to me that at first i hesitated to get into branderson because ppl said characters were one of his weaknesses and now im here like *points at adolin* perfect character *points at syl* perfect character *points at kaladin* THE ONLY CHARACTER EVER
moash, who used to be kaladin's closest friend, trying to drag him into the darkness vs adolin, kaladin's current best friend, trying to bring him into the light. poetic gay cinema
the most important piece of information we got from row is that adolin and syl are friends. all the cosmere lore is fine ig but is it as good as adolin giving fashion advice to syl? absolutely not
i was talking to some ppl from class today and one of them was like "i've been reading brandon sanderson" and i GASPED and said "YES HELLO I'M A HUGE FAN" and the first fucking thing he asks me is "did you see the kelsier in fortnite thing"
in wok when kaladin is beaten up by some soldiers and they hang him up to be judged by the highstorm and syl says "i've gotten back at them. i made one of them trip three times today" and kaladin smiles.... 🤧
#rowspoilers
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since kaladin and shallan are both in a better place mentally, i want hoid's story time/therapy session in book 5 to be with adolin. a story about how good it is to prioritize your own feelings for once and open up instead of bottling up everything... yea
someone on r*ddit saying kaladin and adolin are both straight and practically brothers lmao it's so ridiculous i can't even be mad that's the most dudebro tunnel vision thing i've ever read
you know which is the cutest stormlight scene. in wor when adolin is pretending to know kaladin's secret to see if he says anything about it, but he's being so obvious that kaladin can't help but smile... oh my god they're in love
me: lezian is such a good addition to row. he's a pathetic, one-note villain, but also a perfect contrast to raboniel who's so complex and sympathetic that it's hard to call her a villain
me, being honest with myself: lezian is good because kaladin was very hot when he fought him
book ratings really mean nothing... i have 4 star books that i haven't thought about once since finishing them and 4 star books that i really love and think about often. and they're both represented by 4 little ★★★★ on gr. whoever see that can't tell the difference
kaladin is so relaxed when he's with adolin that he starts fooling around... which he doesn't normally do with other characters? it's very sweet. this scene just makes me happy
lirin said there's two kinds of help: my kind (good) and your kind (bad), and dalinar said there's two ways of doing things: my way (good) or taravangian's way (bad). and kaladin and adolin proved them both wrong!! MY BOYS
top 10 sexiest stormlight scenes: adolin just beating the SHIT out of that one dude on his first duel in wor and when the judge tells him he needs to break 3 pieces of the plate he just grabs the pauldron, smashes it, and says "done"
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how anyone can read jade city and not understand why anden doesn't want to wear jade by the end, or even say he's betraying his family?? is beyond me
that same person who insulted adolin also said navani deserved to be called a gold digger because it's true like. i'm manifesting snakes in your home rn
pawn in frankincense (1969) by dorothy dunnett... altered my brain chemistry. haunts my dreams and my every waking moment. also punched me in the face and kicked my ass. truly an unforgettable experience
why can't people accept it when their favourite characters are terrible, horrible people. why are you trying to justify every little thing they've done. own up to it. say "my fave is a bitch and i love them so much". i promise you it's fine
anyway now that i'm done i would like to announce i'm part of the 0.0000001% of the population who loves niccolò as much as lymond. thank you to my brain for having such excellent taste
it's really funny seeing pattern so high up on everyone's lists but i think it makes sense. i've never seen anyone hate on pattern, and i've seen hate for basically every other character. that's our emotional support cryptic
making a thread with my final thoughts on the lymond chronicles is so hard because how do i talk about what this series means to me without sounding deranged. how do i find the right words when this series left me speechless
kaladin is canon gay and canon in love with adolin and he canonically loves men i don't need to give anyone any explanation or write essays about it. if brandon says he's straight he's wrong. and that's it
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i always think that if i were kaladin i'd be SO SAD for not being able to hug syl and syl gets it because when they're in shadesmar she won't let go of him :( my babies
adolin: i'm going to lock myself up until they let kaladin go, and then i'll give him shards so he doesn't have to suffer an injustice like this ever again
renarin:
saw a post like "i read sanderson and i'm underwhelmed" that was basically like "characters shallow, prose bland, dialogue terrible, plot just ok". this person read mistborn era 1 and the first three stormlight books. HOW do you read that much by an author you enjoy so little
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anyone else pissed that anden got stuck with the "*straight person voice* oh i know a gay! i can introduce you and i'm sure you'll like each other because you're both gay :)" romance plotline or is it just me lol
“Oddly, I do. Trust you, I mean. It’s a very strange sensation.”
“Yeah, well, I’ll try to hold myself back from going skipping across the plateau in joy.”
Adolin grinned. “I’d pay to see that.”
“Me skipping?”
“You happy,” Adolin said, laughing.
Always your sword, my umbral sovereign; in life, in death, in anything beyond life or death that they want to throw at thee and me. I died knowing you'd hate me for dying; but Nonagesimus, you hating me always meant more than anyone else in this hot and stupid universe loving me.
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god like. adolin wishing kaladin good luck with the bridge 4 salute, a gesture that is familiar and comforting to him, and moash using that same gesture mockingly after killing elhokar. there's layers to this
scrolling down a post on r*ddit asking people's "best book of all time" and the answers are so boring... if the best book you've ever read is don quixote there's something wrong with you i'm sorry
thinking about how dalinar thinks multiple times about how being in shardplate feels more natural to him than being without it & that someone else touching oathbringer is unthinkable, and at the end he gives his shardplate to renarin and gives up oathbringer to save the bridgemen