aaahhhhhhh

i love adolin. at the start of the series he's the pinnacle of modern power. he's a full shardbearer, the best duellist in alethkar, a trained soldier, a dutiful son. and then... it all gets stripped away from him. the war he's known for all his adult life ends, and turns into an unwinnable conflict with a god that one man can't possibly stand against. his relationship with his father sours, and he takes matters into his own hands when he realises the legal system can never protect him. he watches as he becomes part of the old order, as ancient magic returns and everyone around him - including the people in his life who would traditionally be barred from conflict, like women or his brother - becomes more useful than he is. and still, he defines himself by his existence as a duellist. as a soldier. he sees himself as nothing more than a thing which wields a sword, the whitespine uncaged, so wedded to his sword that he bonds a deadeyed spren. and then, as he's finally coming to accept himself as a relic of an old world, he loses his leg, and loses even that fundamental pillar of his identity. he's a failure of a soldier. he can't fight. his father's dead. he's in exile from his home, totally isolated from his wife and what little remains of his family. but still. he's adolin, and he's not going to let a little thing like losing his leg or the end of the world keep him down.

shallan and adolin's marriage just gets funnier the longer you think about it. shallan's family is on the verge of bankruptcy because she Murdered Her Father so she decides to Rob A Princess instead of just asking for help like a normal person. she's not sure if she should go through with the robbery until the princess, now her teacher, murders several people in front of her in a live action trolley problem. the robbery succeeds, because jasnah has been hiding magic powers from the world via fake jewellery for the past six years. however, the guilt and shallan's own magical powers, as well as her doomed romance with an assassin, disturb her so badly that she fakes a suicide attempt to avoid talking things out. she ultimately admits to robbing jasnah, who had no idea she'd been robbed, and nearly dies again at the hands of her assassin boyfriend. jasnah is wary of her, but ultimately decides she's not too dangerous, so it's only right to help out this poor idiot girl who she definitely does not care about what are you talking about. how to help her? firstly, fix the damn soulcaster. secondly, get her mother to arrange a betrothal between shallan and her cousin. why her cousin? because adolin has managed to piss off literally every single woman in alethkar, and shallan is so ignorant of red flags that she, as previously mentioned, fell for an assassin. the betrothal goes ahead, minus the stumbling block of jasnah seemingly being assassinated mid-journey. shallan ultimately makes it to the shattered plains. on her first date with adolin she asks him if he's ever shat himself in battle. true love.

The ultimate Cosmere crossover would be Vin "why would a tree be green" Venture and Kaladin "what do you mean this grass doesn't move" Stormblessed together in a normal park, weirded out by regular Earth flora together

Imagine Asterid resenting Haymitch for how he cut everyone he loved off after Lenore dove died, only to understand him when Burdock died.

the difference between Haymitch and Katniss's narration is so funny. Haymitch would give us everyone's social security number if he knew them, while Katniss wouldn't even tell us her mom's name.

“sotr is mid because you already know how it ends” shut the fuck up, the point of the book is that despite knowing how it ends you would have never known what actually went down because that’s the point of propaganda, the whole book is about the power of propaganda