Ada's Labyrinth

"my son is fine" your son is seeing forbidden visions of the future and scratching ominous countdowns on the walls

Skybreakers are the funniest Radiant Order because they have actual procedures and continuity and they know what Ideals they’re going to say more than ten seconds before they say them while everyone else is just randomly discovering what they can do as it happens like “Huh, I can recover from Shardblade injuries”  “I hung out with Kaladin a lot and now I’m glowing”  “My friend can turn into a fork I guess”

Dustbringers/Releasers are the funniest Radiant Order because they ran the most unsuccessful propaganda campaign on Roshar trying to get their names changed but the new name doesn’t fit the schema of every other order so everyone still calls them Dustbringers

Edgedancers are the funniest Radiant Order because the Cultivationspren actually prepared and planned before going off to bond humans but the face of their Order is still a teenage girl who gets her powers from food and refers to Surges as “awesomeness”

Truthwatchers are the funniest Radiant Order because half of them are touched by and working for/with one of the Unmade, possessing powers forbidden to humans and derived from Odium himself, but other than than one aborted assassination attempt everyone is largely chill with it

Lightweavers are the funniest Radiant Order because most of the other Greater Spren are super wary about bonding with humans and getting killed but the Cryptics are just diving into the Physical Realm willy-nilly like “You get a nahel bond!”  “Your brother gets a nahel bond!” “Hoid gets a nahel bond!” “You killed your first spren?  That’s okay there’s more where she came from!”

Elsecallers are the funniest Radiant Order because it’s literally just Jasnah but she’s more competent and useful than all the Stonewards and Dustbringers combined.  I wouldn’t be at all surprised if she’d spoken the Fifth Ideal off-page

Willshapers are the funniest Radiant Order because Timbre and her friends just said “The problem isn’t the bond, the problem is humans” and ran off to go bond Listeners, so now there’s an entire Order of Radiants just off in the middle of nowhere being Conscientious Objectors to the apocalypse

Stonewards are the funniest Radiant Order because they’ve managed to completely avoid any fragment of plot relevance, despite their patron being the single most relevant Cognitive Shadow in the entire system.  They’re not missing or anything they just never do anything important over the course of almost 5000 pages somehow

Bondsmiths are the funniest Radiant Order because they just bully gods into giving them powers and then argue with said gods about how the gods should do their jobs

Windrunners are the funniest Radiant Order, but only because they have The Lopen.

Mistborn wasn't my first cosmere book, but i read most of it while on a camping trip, and one day after it rained this thick heavy fog started rolling in from the forest. and i just sat there in the mist reading my book, and it was absolutely magical

it was 2011 winter and i was at my grandma’s. while the whole family was watching tv together, i was reading the final empire and falling deeper and deeper in the cosmere by the page. truly a life-changing moment

My first book wasn’t even part of the cosmere, being Alcatraz versus the Scrivener’s Bones. While it’s not exactly the best idea to start on book 3 of a series, that one’s early books seem kinda detached and incoherent from eachother. Later, my cousin recommended mistborn to me and I haven’t looked back since.

I started on the last three Wheel of Time books and decided that anyone who could wrestle that series into a satisfying conclusion deserved my attention.

First series I read was Mistborn Era 1. I remember getting to the end, and I just thought it was the mostly profoundly beautiful thing, and it was so crystal clear I could not believe I'd ever believed differently. Given the story and the pain that had led up to it, it was a also beautifully sad. I just read it with tears running down my face, I could hardly read. It was probably the first time I'd cried from that sort of heartache and empathy for a character.

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