#firefight

Oh to write like Taizi and Remrose…

Honestly the “people are like sunsets” simile that’s in the Reckoners is so potent and wonderful. I think it might be my favorite Sanderson quote

David being forced to become an Epic and just saying no thanks is really funny to me. He’s (to use his own metaphor) a washing machine at a gun show. Its kinda similar to Kaladin shaking off the depression beam

You know what, I’m headcannoning that the alternate Firefight that Megan pulls on for her illusions is a trans dude and that’s why he’s a guy in that reality.

Honestly the Reckoners trilogy truly has some of Sanderson’s best setting work. Newcago is a city made entirely out of steel, from what used to be glass in windows to a large chunk of Lake Michigan, bathed in eternal starless night. Babylon Restored is manhattan but sunk so that only the tops of skyscrapers peek out from water, lit by glowing spraypaint and fruit. Ildithia is Atlanta turned into a city of moving salt (honestly it has a similar idea to canticle in that everybody has to move frequently). It’s just such good evocative work!