Yeah so, apparently I lied. (I mean, to be fair, my username should really be a red flag for that sort of thing!) It's very short, so if you feel like being emotionally destroyed right now, hopefully this does it :) (And make sure to keep an eye on @shipwrecked-event because I'm sure there will be a lot more of that going on in the next two months 🌝🌞)
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This is a post for people who have never used ao3 before, and would like to learn! Long post below. Please save it for reference, and share it with your friends!
Archive Of Our Own, aka ao3, is an online repository of fanfiction, and a place where you can find fic, art, and podfic/music for the Cosmere fandom. There are other websites, too, like fanfiction.net, but ao3 is the most commonly used site. Ao3 has no ads and no apps; it's just a browser experience, and it looks good on both phones and desktops.
Imagine it like a library, except that instead of one standard Dewey Decimal system, there's a very small pool of Standard tags, but mostly the tagging system is a loose collaboration. Fic authors add tags to their works to help you find (or avoid!) them. Volunteer tag wranglers at ao3 then gather similar tags together so you can find what you want more easily. The idea is for authors to tag what's in the fic and ONLY what's in the fic. If an author tag spams for "reach" they are in breach of the Terms of Service and will get their wrist slapped! (metaphorically)
There are two ways to find fics: browsing and searching.
Browsing
The link above will take you to the browsing page for the Cosmere metatag on ao3. Fics that have been tagged Cosmere, Stormlight, Mistborn, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter, etc etc, should all show up under that metatag. Browsing allows you to narrow down the appx 4000 Cosmere fics (as of 2026) to a more manageable number for looking through.
Browsing is best when you've already searched for the things you're specifically interested in, and now you're "checking the fridge" to see what's been updated lately. That's because the fics are listed by chronological order by most recently updated, newest at the top. You are most likely to see fics that are actively being written and updated.
Filtering is your friend here! On desktop, on the right side of the page, there is a section called Sort and Filter. On a phone, you must click a button called Filters to access the filtering area.
The three sections are called Include, Exclude, and More Options. Please note that with Ratings you only get one option with Include but multiple options with Exclude. So if you only want General-rated fics, hit Include->Ratings->General. But if you want to find Gen AND Teen fics, go to Exclude->Ratings->Explicit AND Mature.
Every other category, you can choose multiple options. When you click on Warnings it will give you the six standard warnings that every author has to disclose--UNLESS they choose "Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings". So be aware that if a fic has the "Author Chose not to Use", there may be a significant and potentially unpleasant surprise in the story, especially if you are sensitive to any of the standard Warning topics.
"Categories" means relationship categories. If you're looking for a fic with a romantic relationship, you can choose M/M, F/F, M/F, Multi, or Other. If you don't want a romantic relationship in the fic, choose "Gen" (and Other if you're adventurous! There's lots of fun stuff under Other).
When it comes to the Fandoms, Characters, Relationships, and Additional Tags, what will show are the top ten most popular tags under those categories. Yes, right now under Fandoms, "Boku no Hero Academia" shows up and "Isles of the Emberdark" doesn't. It's simply due to the fact that there are more BNHA crossover fics than there are Emberdark fics. But you can still find them! Same with characters, relationships, etc. If you don't see what you're looking for in those checkboxes, do not fear.
"Other tags to Include" will help you on your way. If you are looking FOR a romantic relationship between Evi Kholin and Ialai Sadeas, write "Evi/Ialai" into the box, wait a second, and the wrangled tag "Evi Kholin/Ialai Sadeas" will show up and you can select it. If you're not sure about a spelling, the prompts will likely help you.
Note the slash (/). That denotes a romantic relationship. If you're looking for Evi and Ialai friendship, use the ampersand (&) to search "Evi & Ialai". The wrangled tag "Evi Kholin & Ialai Sadeas" will pop up for you to click on.
Or maybe you're really not into Evi and Ialai. Type the same thing(s) into the Exclude area, and every fic except those ones will show up.
More Options gives you the choice to include or exclude crossovers with other fandoms, include or exclude whether or not a fic is completed, sort fics by length and by date updated. Note: If you really want to avoid spoilers for, say, Wind and Truth, sorting by "Date Updated->from 2010 to (date Wind and Truth preview chapters started coming out)" will GUARANTEE no spoilers. You can also sort by excluding "Spoilers for Book 05: Wind and Truth" but because tags are author-submitted, there can be errors.
Search Within Results will get you results pulled from author names, tags, and summaries (not from the fics themselves).
Search
Search is great if you know exactly what you're looking for. The link above will take you to the general Search area. It's very similar to the Filter area in Browse, except it doesn't have an Exclude option. So, it works best when you are looking for something.
Say you want a fic where Szeth and Rushu are friends, or maybe in a QPR, but not romantic. You would search Fandom: "Stormlight Archive - Brandon Sanderson", Categories: "Gen, Other", and Relationships: "Rushu (Stormlight Archive) & Szeth-son-son-Vallano". Remember you can start typing in a character name, and wrangled options will appear.
The Additional Tags field is the perfect place to enter your favourite tropes, situations, and AUs. "There was only one bed" is a tag. So is "Kaladin (Stormlight Archive) needs a hug". So is "Alternate Universe - Sports"!
Secret Ways of Finding Great Fics
What if you've already read all of the Rlainarin fics? What if you know you like rarepairs but you don't know who to search for next?
Here's a secret - find an author that you like (let's say Rhythm_of_Lesbianism for example). Click on their name, and there will be a list of the fandoms they've written for. Click on Cosmere and there will a list of all the fics they've written for the Cosmere! If you click "Works" at the left side, you will get a list of fics plus filtering options. You can also click "Gifts" to read the gift fics that others have written for them, and "Bookmarks" for the fics that they've saved. Travelling through one writer's bookmarks and gifts to discover another great writer is a fun experience and I highly recommend you try it out!
One more tip - Browsing "Cosmere" as a metatag will get every fic in the Cosmere; however, searching "Cosmere" will only get fics that have specifically tagged "Cosmere". If the author tagged Stormlight but not Cosmere it won't show up.
Go have fun reading some Cosmere fanfic!
That's the basics, and hopefully it'll get you started. If you want more info about searching and browsing, click here for ao3's own help topic.
For more advanced searchers: did you know ao3 has hidden search operators?
If you have any questions, or want help with a specific search, feel free to send me an ask or a DM! I'm happy to help you find a fic you'll love.
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”Perhaps Preservation – or the remnants of what he had been – wanted to get Elend alone. Or perhaps he saw Elend kneeling in that field, and knew that the emperor of men was very close to lying down in the ash, never to rise again.
By the time Elend saw the “mist spirit,” Preservation must have been barely coherent. I wonder what Elend would have done, had he known that he was in the presence of a dying god – that on that night, he had been the last witness of Preservation’s passing. If Elend had waited a few more minutes on that ashen field, he would have seen a body – short of stature, black hair, prominent nose – fall from the mists and slump dead onto the ground.
As it was, the corpse was left alone to be buried in ash. The
world was dying. Its gods had to die with it.”
Kelsier: I learned a valuable lesson from this.
Dockson: I’m guessing they are all horrible distortions on the lesson you actually should’ve taken away…
Kelsier: DEATH ISN’T REAL AND I AM BASICALLY GOD!
Valette/Radiant: Radiant is chivalrous in such a genuine and sapphic way, it makes Valette's heart do flips. Valette is Radiant's princess, Radiant is Valette's knight.
Shallan/Valette: Shallan can tell that Valette is unfamiliar with court functions instantly. She strikes the perfect balance of incessant teasing and gentle guidance, and Valette is glued to her side the instant any ball begins.
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Here is my evil shard plan. I invest in a planet. I better get used to it. This planet is a farm of people and I shape them as I want them practically puppets. Free will ? What's that? So then I , let's assume that's how they work. Take a dawnshard and I split another shard and again and again and again, as the shards have infinite power I should be able to make infinite mini shards. So then I take the people of the planet I've invested and make them take the shards. If the newly formed shards are still puppets then I would have an infinite army of shard puppets so then plan is to send a pair of them to every shard located system and make the pair of puppet shards collide and then a slowness bubble happens basically slowing the important parts of the Cosmere. When everyone is too slow to act that's when I nuke them so that's the point where the shards are left without a playing field and I'm the only one who has a living system. That's probably where they all kill me but whatever they are just crybabies at that point.
Cryptics (Liespren) are really interesting to me because they seem like they'd more reasonably be called Understandingspren or Sciencespren. Pattern calls anything that's even somewhat subjectively false to him a "lie," and Design makes herself massive boobs just because she can. Like these folks are obsessed with finding the bounds of what is real and doeable and classifying them into a binary. Binaryspren??? Idk I just think they're super fuckin neat.
It's been a while since I've made an actual Cosmere post, so here we go.
Ok, so we know that shards can merge to create shard duo esc things, and they merge the power, so theoretically, could somebody take up all 16 shards and recreate Adonalsium?
I would say yes, but there are a few problems.
1. The fact that the Shardic identities may be too much and you'll be unable to do anything
2. So much investiture may destroy even a shard/shardic vessel
3. You would have to be able to get all the powers in the first place. I imagine that some of the powers wouldn't want to go back to Adonalsium (like autonomy for one), so it may be impossible to absorb them all in the first place.
Although I could definitely see Brandon making that happen and having the final arc be to stop somebody from getting every shard
My fellow cosmere tumblrs, what do you guys think?
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