cloudkohv

Hello :) This is blog is part random-interests and part vent-critique/ media analysis.

My current subject of analysis is The Stormlight Archive. I deeply enjoyed a lot about it, and still do. But my main problem with this series that inspired me to make the long posts I do were the messages/morals of the story. There strangely isn't enough discussion of this in a lot of online spaces, and I think it's just because people don't notice the issues. That, or they trust the author's handling on weighty subjects like war, racism, colonization, and genocide.

So, I've been compiling my long held thoughts into essays and not-essays so that hopefully more readers engage with this series and its author critically. And to get this off my chest lol. I'm doing this project out of love and frenzied optimism. I plan to be done with it forever at some point in the future, God willing. I would just like to leave a record for posterity (and for the inevitable reader who, like me, would end up looking for something like this).

Spoilers are tagged #twok spoilers #wor spoilers #ob spoilers #row spoilers #wat spoilers .

An ongoing list of my longer essays (#in this essay i did):

A shortened rant on the chasm scenes because I could go on forever: an essay

Oathbringer: the colonizer's fever dream in novel form

A long rant on the dog and the dragon

Was Kaladin... on purpose?

Anything I write is generally under (#my post). There are a bunch of other posts in line with this theme of critique from other readers under (#sanderson critical). There are some insightful discussions with other readers with similar critiques/questions under the (#a response) tag.

and a second thing ☀️

Another project I've been doing is a long fanfic that is an attempt at addressing the issues I had since the beginning. I came back out of a 14 year long ffn retirement for this looool. I do it because it is therapeutic. And righteous 😌 The working summary for it is:

"Kaladin and Moash have been right the whole time (because let's be serious. They were) and it's time to cause more problems in the Alethi government. The fuel of revolution is building in Alethkar as Bridge Four continues to stoke tension among the highprinces and as class stratification grows among the Alethi people. Unfortunately the apocalypse is happening, and even more unfortunately, Kaladin and Moash have differing ideas on how to fight for justice.

And strangely... everything they've learned about Radiants has been a lie? Perpetuated by the monarchy?"

Anything related to that I keep under #HA/TROS 🌟 (contains redone scenes or posts I've found that remind me of it). I hope to post it eventually, God willing.

I also love and am interested in lot of random stuff that I've already reposted here (art, other books/authors, manga, random essays, media literacy discourse, religion, etc.), but I think that's always tagged.