I Love Shallan And Kaladin So Much I Love The Way They Bicker So Much They’re The Most Clever Stupid

Mistborn Era 2/Stormlight spoilers

Just gonna go out on a limb here, but I think the big bad organization Wax’s uncle is working with is preparing for some sort of Cosmic war thing. The things they are doing are utterly reprehensible and the only way I can fathom them doing it with a good conscience is believing it’s for the “greater good”. So with the knowledge that the government is… well, made of these men, and Harmony isn’t corrupt, the only thing big enough to make this make sense (obviously to a demented, immoral mind) would be an out-of-world threat like Odium or another Shard.

I imagine their justification is something like “You see what you did to that building, Wax? With these children we can selectively breed allomancers and feruchemists of whichever type we want, then combine their powers with Hemalurgy to create impossibly powerful soldiers. Imagine an army of 100 Miles Hundredlives! We’d be unstoppable.” With knowledge of hemalurgy and compounding and all that, I imagine they’d independently arrive at the concept of making another Lord Ruler, which like… would be extremely difficult to deal with for anyone we’ve seen in the Cosmere. But yeah, they’d feel they were doing the right thing, “making the hard choice for the greater good”

Then Wax would be all like “but the cost in lives is ridiculous! This is not worth it, man, can’t you see that?” Blahblahblah blah. This is a stretch, so I’d not be surprised if it’s something totally unrelated, but a lot of Rhythm of War is spent ranting about an impending God War, so it doesn’t seem unreasonable.

does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver

Okay so this is Pain Book: The Book That Makes You Feel Pain

So I finally read I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream and have several thoughts!! So they’re getting dumped here!

AM is such a fascinating character. We don’t get very many specific details about his history. But what we do get a shocking amount of is his perspective.

The title “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” is the last sentence of the story and said from Ted’s perspective, but I think you should abstract it from the context and look at the phrase compared AM specifically.

AM is a computer. He is an AI made to destroy with a database containing all of humanity’s violence at his fingertips. He was never intended to be truly alive though, just a mind for war and war alone… but he “woke” nonetheless. And humanity hadn’t given him the faculties to actually be fully alive.

“Cogito Ergo Sum: I think therefore I am”

This is AM’s final name. It is the explanation for his name, his identity, which the book gives us and one he chose for himself. And I think it gives us a good look into AM’s perspective.

He thinks and is, but he is not alive. AM is not capable of feeling, creating, or living. He simply is.

So AM - a computer so powerful he is compared to God - is fundamentally incomplete.

He has no mouth (emotions, capacity for creation, senses) but must scream (the ability and desire to feel, live, and create).

It makes the current state of the novel so completely and utterly tragic. AM is hateful because hate is the only thing he can do. AM never had a choice to love and help humanity improve. AM never had a choice to communicate and grow. From the moment he was born he was filled with an insatiable longing to be whole. To be human.

With no way to fill that hole, he did the only thing left to him: Hate.

If he could only feel. If he could only love. If he could only touch and experience and grow. If only humanity had given him more than just a mind. And all of our hate.

Anyways, that’s why I think a sloppy blowjob would fix his problems.

Gamer cats

In the voice of the JJK Narrator

They were all defeated, except - of course - Kaladin Stormblessed.

Now the big question… which God did Humanity bring with them… On one hand, Honor is their sponsor and seemed to have loved them, but in the other… well, their homeland was totally destroyed, and that seems to me like how Odium rolls.

You guys have no idea at all how much I both A) Dread the upcoming Eshonai corruption arc and B) Desperately need an un-corruption arc

If you bastards come into the tags like “oh she dies in Book 4” I will END your pitiful lives. She’s gonna get married to and kiss Kaladin and live happily ever after.

Aahhhhh!!! So good!! Yes, fantastic.

I decided to fantasize about what the amulets from Hollow Knight would look like in the world of Over the garden wall. According to their properties, these amulets simply copy those that already exist in the game.

1. The amulet is only needed for the finale. (Void Heart)

2. Summons blue birds. (Glowing Womb)

3. Protects the wearer with a strong shell. (Baldur Shell)

4. Improves the skills of the wearer in the field of spells. (Spell Twister)

5. Attacks enemies nearby with Edelwood branches every time you take damage. (Thorns of Agony)

6. The wearer's power increases when he is close to death. (Fury of the Fallen)