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Awesome field day pride parade today!!!

Dog drawings! Drawn with pencil.

1) Maltese

2) Parson Russell terrier

3) German shepherd

Wrong again, it's definitely Ellista

you: Elend the bookworm is the most relatable character in the Cosmere

me: no it’s Palona

Palona, in the face of the apocalypse: my tbr list won’t read itself

In honor of Oathbringer, here’s a drawing of Kaladin Stormblessed from the Stormlight Archive! I’m reading Oathbringer right now and enjoying it a lot. Kaladin’s got to be my favorite character, although Shallan is a close second.

This is by far the strangest and yet the most amazing Cosmere post I have ever seen.

Legitimate Oathbringer Theories

Dalinar feels the knights radiant has too many bad connotations so renames them the power rangers.

Adolin is excluded from the power rangers and in his anger bonds with the sticks spren creating an 11th order

Renarins shard is an electric guitar

Wayne

Drehys love interest turns out to be every single member of bridge four and also the stormfather

Kaladin is happy

As surgebinding seems to be semihereditary, every single one of lopens cousins becomes a radiant, aka every herdazian alive

Shallan punches odium, very very hard

Vivenna is shalash????

Lift eats her first chicken and her second chasmfiend

Exactly three people die in the cosmere during the course of this book

One of which is waxs great grandma, the oldest person in the cosmere who has not meddled with immortality

Szeth joins renarins band (as drums) though he wants to rename the genre something other than rock

Rysn bonds with the nightwatcher, and the larkin grants her every form of investiture in the cosmere except jindoeese dance

I cry

Shallan is introduced to hot chocolate

Wit reuses a joke (and steals a couple of waynes)

Jasnah and kelsier fight each other over who’s apprentice/ward/daughter figure is better, wax wins despite not being in the contest

Shallan becomes an honour student at the Silverlight university, and is the ace of both the basketball and pokemon team (this may or may not be down to lightweaving)

There is a stick chapter

We find out hoids real name and four new pseudonyms, but not which are which

Wayne joins renarins band and they are called the stone shamans

Szeth is not impressed

Taln goes on holiday to shinovar and the purelake

Galladon meets with vasher and kaladin to form a rival band called the grouches

2+2=pickle

All the death rattles turn into lyrics from the stone shamans

Navani invents a fabrial which is extremely similar to a microwave, and makes billions profit

The stone shamans are the favourites to win roshars got talent, but it is snatched away by eshonai doing contemporary dance

Odium is quelled by the discovery of hot chocolate

This is such a good point!!!

I find it kinda odd how people talk about writing “flawed” characters like the flaws are an afterthought

Like “cool cool we’ve got this perfect hero now to just sprinkle on some Irritability and Trust Issues then microwave for 6 minutes on high until Done”

But I’ve personally found it feels a lot more useful to just… think of the flaws as the Good Traits except bad this time

The protagonist is loyal? Maybe that means they have a hard time recognizing toxic relationships and are easily manipulated by those they want to trust

The hero is compassionate? Maybe they work too hard and overextend themselves trying to help people and then they refuse to ask for help when they need it themselves for fear of burdening others

They’re dedicated to their ideals? Maybe they’re also too stubborn to know when to quit and they have trouble apologizing for their mistakes

If they’re creative, they can also be flighty. If they’re confident, they can be arrogant. If they’re brave, they might be reckless. If they’re smart, they could be condescending. Protective can become controlling, and someone who’s carefree could very well also be emotionally distant

In my opinion, the best “flaws” aren’t just added on afterwards. The best flaws are baked in deep, ‘cause they’re really just virtues turned upside down

Stormlight Archive dates

WoK was released in 2010

WoR was released in 2014

OB was released in 2017

Book 4 is planned to be released in 2020

If Brandon continues at this rate, the 10th book will be released between 2038 and 2045. Brandon Sanderson will be 70 in 2045. I will be 42. So young people reading the series now will end up with a basically lifelong journey with our Rosharan friends.

Martin Luther King Jr. portrait drawn with Prismacolor pencils in 6 hours.

Maui, Moana, Pua and Hei Hei from Disney's Moana. Drawn with colored pencils.

A multi-fandom drawing I made for International Women's Day (March 10). Hermione Granger (Harry Potter), Annabeth Chase (Percy Jackson), Clary Fairchild (Shadowhunters), Tris Prior (Divergent), Katniss Everdeen (Hunger Games), and Teresa Agnes (Maze Runner). Drawn with pencil and smudgers, March 2018