Hello Tumblr Cosmere Fandom!

PSA: Brandon Sanderson is holding a T-shirt design contest for the release of The Lost Metal. 

There are 3 design prompts to choose from:

*  Wayne’s Haberdashery 

* Take anything from the books and give us an Art-Deco design 

* An in-world product (you can also make up your own in-world product for Mistborn)

More details on Sanderson’s site at: https://www.brandonsanderson.com/design-contest/

F is for Frillbloom.  For more on frillbloom, visit the coppermind!

Pixely critters from hanging out in the Steel Ministry on iscribble.

My immediate thought was of the sarpenthyn Shallan saw at the not-a-zoo that one time! These critters: https://coppermind.net/wiki/Sarpenthyn

I haven’t heard anyone talking about the land octopi yet

Gunnerkrigg Stormlight Mashup

Because I saw the first panel of today's Gunnerkrigg Court update and my reaction was "Dude!  When did Paz become a Windrunner?" I don't think Paz is actually a windrunner though.  She would hang out with Shallan and they would go meet all of the creatures.  Paz would absolutely be up for tracking down a chasmfiend for a chat. (Oh man, Shallan in Gillitie Wood.  She would be so excited.) 

More below the cut, but it kinda got long.

Eglamore, on the other hand, would totally be a Windrunner. Parley might be as well, but she also might be a Willshaper.  I'm not sure. 

Kat would hang out with Navani and they would be awesome engineers turning magic things into technology together.

Annie is half Horneater and inherited the ability to see and interact with all of the spren.  She discovers she is a Lightweaver (I guess, unless she finds a way to get transportation and illumination, but that doesn't appear to be a thing) and quickly learns to navigate Shadesmar.  (Blinker stones are totally infused spheres).

Zimmy is a Lightweaver who didn't have a mentor to teach her to navigate Shadesmar and sometimes she gets sucked in unintentionally and sometimes she accidentally pulls other people in with her and sometimes she managages to only get partway pulled in and accidentally projects an image of Shadesmar into the physical realm.  The whole situation is a mess. She finds it relaxing to stand out in the riddens after each highstorm. It helps to ground her.

Ysegrin would be one of the Parshendi leaders.

Coyote is Wit. Or...no... maybe Jones is Wit and Coyote is the Stormfather.  Yes, I think that works better.

I can't decide where Reynard would fit in and it's bugging me.

EDIT: I figured Reynard out.  He is totally a Kandra.  

I used fallenwithstyle's chart to knit myself a Pattern hat! The brown is KnitPicks City Tweed DK and the purple is KnitPicks Wool of the Andes sport. They were both sitting in my stash of yarn waiting to be right for something. I need to work on my consistency with keeping the floats loose enough in stranded knitting, but it isn't bad enough to be a problem.The hat also came out slightly longer than I usually prefer, but I'm super happy with it anyway :-). While I was knitting it, it occurred to me that there is potential for an amazing Pattern hat done with cables rather than colorwork. I'm not sure when I will get to it, but designing that pattern has gone in my "projects I will get to at some point" file. 

Sprenhead!

Here’s my finished Pattern hat! I’m really happy with how it came out not just as fanart but as a hat in general (and I said I didn’t need any more hats…).

I changed the chart sightly from the original version I posted, so here is the final version (it doesn’t include instructions for the flared brim or picot hem though, just the colorwork). 

allmycraziness:

allmycraziness:

The first oath of the Knights Radiant at the request of sprenborn :D I kinda went all out for this one and I really like how it turned out

kalynaanne made a much needed edit to this photo and I can’t thank her enough 

Hey guys, let's think about bendalloy ferrings, aka Subsumers, for a minute.

We know they can store nutrition and calories in a metalmind which means they can eat as much as they want when there is lots of food and then tap it later.  

Think about a Subsumer at a Scadrial eating competition.  "Sure, I can scarf away as many hot-dogs as you want. No problem."

Think about a Subsumer at an all-you-can-eat buffet.  They get to try everything and then go back for as much more as they want of everything they like. Such restaurants would have to have special rules for subsumers...maybe a pay by the hour thing?

Imagine if Lift gets a hemalurgic spike that lets her become a bendalloy ferring. She would have the best stormlight storage system.   She could eat loads, store most of it in her metalmind(s), and then tap into it whenever she needs stormlight.  Unlike spheres, it wouldn't leak away and if she is tapping it from the metalmind she isn't sucking the energy out of her body.

On the darker side of things, you probably also get the occasional Subsumer who is desperately afraid of gaining weight and always stores everything they eat in their metal minds and never taps them.  Most people don't know that they are a ferring and everyone sees them eating, so people don't realize there is a problem until it has gotten really bad.

Because Syl would be fascinated by lava lamps and try to emulate them.  Clearly.

I’m in the choir at First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta. We performed the Vivaldi Gloria with our orchestra. Merry Christmas! (I think I have it set to start about 6 minutes into the video where the concert actually begins)

Monica Dewey, soprano Matthew Reese, countertenor Rolando Salazar, conductor