allo! I go by kiwi online and use they/them. this is my main blog, where I ramble about the cosmere. you may know me for my....
plethora of singularity related posts + general cremposting
blatant favoritism for vin, leras and tensoon (and mistborn as a whole, but that's neither here nor there)
incoherent keyboard smashing on the subject of lerati
rambles about the film/tv adaptions
occasional posts about vastly unrelated books (the cosmere is the main subject of conversation over here), BUT -
sci fi is for all intents and purposes my favorite genre. so if you want to see me not talk about that, you can also find me @murderhealion! (disclaimer: that blog was originally meant to be TMBD specific, but is now also where most of my live reading posts end up.)
here are some of my blog-specific tags:
#absolutely edible art, because. it's chompable okay. I am not always good at words. sometimes this is the best I have
#rebonk, which I use for my misc non-art reblogs
#sheets of steel, which is where the asks people send me and the tag games I reblog go
#kiwi's notebook, which is for writing i post. .......i never post my writing. there are literally two entries here. shh, it still counts
#kiwi's reading log, which is again way more active over on my sci fi blog, but is for anything I post relating to what I'm currently reading.
okay and FINALLY. keyboard smashing is very common over here. so if you want to see more coherent and serious thoughts on the books I read, I also have a goodreads. why so few books rated, you ask? well, dear Tumbler, it may or may not be my third account. please do not judge my organizational issues. and I bid you a warm welcome to my personal hell š
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[ID: A digital illustration of Kaladin by @pekgna. The portrait, lovingly detailed and almost realistic, shows him from the collarbones up, facing left. Heās holding his right hand to his face, thumb to his jaw, two fingertips on his forehead and two across his nose, as if he has a headache and also needs to hide his blush. He looks forward, brown eyes focused on the distance, and his lips are toying with the idea of smiling. His hair is pulled back in a low tail, and two wisps of hair fall to the sides of his face, caressing his cheek. Surprise, itās a gif! Little chibi Adolin and Shallan hop and skip adorably around Kaladinās head, either unknowing, uncaring, or possibly even revelling in the psychic damage theyāre causing Kaladin as he canāt help but think of them. End ID.]
roommates approach unloading the dishwasher with what i can only describe as a surrealist sensibility. putting dishes in places not even god himself would think to put them
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I think that part of what irks me about AI being used even for "small" stuff like meme graphics (aside from all the larger problems obviously) is like.... the time spent on it was part of the humor. "this is a silly inconsequential joke but I had to stop everything and spend 5 minutes making it" was, at least for me, part of the joke. Someone really took time out of their day to make me look at something silly they took time out of their day to make. Now it's like someone took time out of my day to make me look at something no one even made. Stop wasting my time if you aren't wasting yours too.
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There's this one specific interaction on reddit that I wouldn't call "infamous" but I also know that everyone who knows it knows it by the punchline, so in order to not ruin it for the ones who haven't, I'm just going to talk all of you through it as I'm saying this.
The beauty of it is that you could place that exact same dialogue into any time and place in human history and it would make just as much sense, you could have it as a conversation between sailors in a 1600s ship, a group of bronze-age warriors cleaning their weapons, stone age hunters walking home from a hunt, or a bunch of 21st century redditors on the internet, and it would hit just as splendidly.
There was this conversation about if you could have sex with any specific person from any time through human history, which one would you choose? Famous legendary lovers were brought up, queens, emperors and such were popular, might as well fuck Rasputin just to see what the hype was all about, the kind of answers one would expect.
Then some guy said he would choose his own late wife. He went on to talk about how brutal it is, that you might find the love of your life, but there's no promise that this life couldn't be suddenly cut short. That his body aches for hers and how there isn't much he wouldn't do for one more opportunity to make love to her one last time.
Now, I'd like you to imagine a pause in the conversation. A solemn, contemplative moment of silence, with several of the people present nodding in agreement that this is indeed the finest answer - it wasn't a competition, but there's no doing better than that.
And then someone breaks this solemn silence and says:
For the sake of letting the full story be known: you have to imagine that after another moment of horrified silence, Dead Wife giy bursts out laughing and says, with a bittersweet smile "yeah, that was her sense of humor..."
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And so it came to pass that 5 years later, I redrew Rafo Ramen Hoid
Whoa. This artwork was/is
1. long overdue for a redraw
2. quite possibly still the dumbest thing Iāve done in this fandom up until today.
Some of you might remember this post from quite a while back. The story behind it is that my bestie got me interested in the Cosmere by sharing fun facts about Hoid out of context. I drew the original version for her as a gift, then not long afterwards proceeded to get obsessed with Moash midway through WoK, and the rest is history. But before then, I had this Hoid.
Iāve been meaning to redraw this for months (years), and include some new stuff that got revealed in the meantime. 5 years ago Design didnāt have her Ramen restaurant, and kazoos were yet to be canon in the Cosmere. Hoid still had his sense and good style, which I, of course, had to strip away from him the first chance I got. I also changed the bowl he is holding to be a version modelled after the official merch from the Dragonsteel store.
The greatest change is definitely the map in the background. iirc the OG version was a map of the travels of worldhoppers and Shards ā well, to an extent it still is. Please welcome Hoid clowning his colleagues, and also including a very detailedTM drawing of himself as a coat rack next to Komashi. As well as a few doodles, and a diss aimed at Kelsier.
More yapping and the OG Under the cut.
The 2026 version of my friend called this pair drawings "Hoid after I read the Cosmere" and "Hoid before I read the Cosmere".
And now, here are all the original info crumbs I was working with back then, copy-pasted from the OG post.
āShe also told me to post this here and to spoiler tag it, just in case. (Again, I have no idea what I am spoiling)
I am planning to read the books in the near future, so please do not spoil anything for me - thank you in advance.
Information I have received:
(Comments added by the person (from here on referred to as āsheā) who read the books will be listed between [these] parentheses)
He has white hair but dyes it - we donāt actually know why his hair is white
He once showed up with a full beard, and, after I visualised him looking like a Mall Santa (fake beard held in place by a string, all that stuff), I was promptly told that he put actual effort into the whole look, and grew it out himself (probably) [I can neither confirm nor deny that that is a real beard, or an illusion]
He is a Worldhopper, which basically means Local Cryptid (Edit: Foreign Cryptid. Interdimensional Cryptid? Intergalactical? Planetary?)
He was buddies with God
He loves playing music and telling stories (He does that too while the world is about to end apparently, in a clearing or smth? Idk, she is being extremely vague when describing these bits of info to me)
I imagine him sitting on a rock in the woods, playing a jolly little kazoo tune into the stormy night
He gave his flute to Kaladin (to cheer him up or something), but Kaladin lost it because stuff happened in his life, and apparently Hoid was not too thrilled about that fact. (Kaladin is the depressed guy who walked back to camp without his footwear, and who called a parrot a chicken, and thatās all I know about him) [There is a piece of misinformation in that sentence, but I am not willing to correct it]
He loves instant noodles
āPut that pattern on his hoodie - Donāt ask, just do itā
āRead and find out is an actual shirt, and I want you to make him wear thatā
He is a Lightweaver, so, illusions?
He has a pet (?) dragon. I saw the flute, saw the dragon, and, based on those two singular bits of information about the guy, promptly decided that he is now my favourite character - even though I barely know him.
āPut that map in the background.ā
He has these gold (?) dust/dirt/particles in his pockets, that he just... throws at people?? Like... sprinkles it the way one would throw spices into a bowl of soup?
Thatās all there is to it, really.
Edit: The remaining bits of info I have include Adolin, The heir to the Kholin Princedom, shitting himself three times, all on purpose, crabs, and a talking sword who wants to destroy evil.
Edit 1.5: How could I forget to say that Iāve also heard about the āYou could be fireā āI am a stickā exchange. Legendary."
