#cosmere reread

[deoxys314]

New year, new overambitious project!

I'm going to do a Cosmere re-read in chronological order.

This is a bad idea, really. Publication order is probably better (that's true for a lot of things. Don't do a chronological viewing of Star Wars, please. It just doesn't track the way you want. Plus you get really bogged down in The Clone Wars skipping around) but I've basically read all these in publication order anyway, at least from after I discovered the Brandolarian.

Also I got that a: busy life b: executive dysfunction, so I'll be reading very irregularly. You can try and follow along if you want but I'll probably just drop my notes when I finish them.

Here's the order, grabbed from The Coppermind (if you're going to click that link remember there are two books currently in spoiler period) and augmented with me looking at the list of short stories and novellas and saying "oh yeah, that goes, uh, here?":

White Sand

Elantris

Hope of Elantris

The Emperor's Soul

The Eleventh Metal

Mistborn: The Final Empire

The Well of Ascension

The Hero of Ages

Mistborn: Secret History

Warbreaker

Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell

All the essays in Arcanum Unbounded about the planetary systems

The Way of Kings

Words of Radiance

Edgedancer

Oathbringer

Dawnshard

Rhythm of War

Knights of Wind and Truth (jk, this won't be published by the time I reach this point)

Allomancer Jak

Alloy of Law

Shadows of Self

The Bands of Mourning

The Lost Metal

Sixth of Dusk

Tress of the Emerald Sea

SP3

SP4

#cosmere #reread #cosmere reread #this is a stupid project but oh well

[inolienkiki]

OH MY FUCKING GOD DARK ONE FORGOTTEN im fuckingf sobbing what was that. why arent people talking about that. it was so good and im gonna have a headache tonight because i cried but i don't care because i heard this story. go listen to it now

and I had it in my notes! I had this idea in my notes!! (went and checked and it's not in my notes) ok but at some point I wrote down a character who uses a curse to their advantage, and then I read alcatraz and was like oh that's not what I meant but I guess it's fun, but THIS. THIS DOES IT. SO WELL. and at some other point I wrote a short story about a functionally invisible character and that was before i read the schwa was here and this is actually one of my favorite tropes but this is the best one. this is absolutely the best one. endorsing dark one forgotten as the best functionally invisible story

went on coppermind to find the actors and coppermind forgot about them tooooo chris and sophie don't even have coppermind pages wtaf why did no one listen to this

i think its rachel jacobs and sophie oda and i can't find much info about either of them but they were boht fucking amazing. dear god thank you rachel jacobs. the number of times you said the other actors were really good and then you completely blew them out of the water. you made me tear up at least twice and the other time it was sophie oda so points to all of you

the story. can't even explain waht thsi is. true crime horror mystery fantasy? and I don't even like the first half of that sentence but I don't care because the story punched me in the gut and I didn't even need to understand the worldbuilding. chris asked questions and consulted experts and ran experiments and she got my heart. skeptical about sophie but she was there the entire time. not her project, not her obsession, not her responsibility, but she stayed, and she helped. chris and sophie said they weren't a couple and I was immediately like "yeah if they weren't both women(, bitch) that would be foreshadowing" and IT WAS FUCKIGN FORESHADOWING istg. This. This is also the best romance. And I hate romance I'm arospec lmao but dear god this got me. the sheer dedication to stare at somebody for eight god damn hours straight and then the music box scene. the music box scene. I got to it and I knew it was going to happen as soon as sophie asked but it still blew my mind and broke my heart that she did. because sophie is the best person in the world.

I have not been making sanderson reread update posts, and I read rithmatist and all of reckoners, but I'd already read most of those and there's nothing notable about lux except the plot holes and they didn't hit me hard like fucking dark one forgotten did. i barely knew this existed. It came out during the year of sanderson and yet nobody includes it in the book count. (There were 8 books/stories released, cowards, not 5.) but also I feel the need to mention that I thought dark one was quite good as well, but also that it feels like only the first chapter of a story so I can't say much else as of yet, I guess? I need more dark one. now. anything mirandus. why is nobody talking about this thing

also I feel the need to mention that there were she-ra references? like, references to the reboot, which is hands down my #2 favorite show (can't compete with dark but nothing can lol). and they were good references and they made sense. I started laughing hysterically when sophie said "hey adora". has brandon sanderson watched she-ra and the princesses of power? is this canon? I mean he definitely needs to

#cosmere reread #kiki's reading list #dark one #dark one forgotten #brandon sanderson #you don't need any background. you don't need any context. #just go listen to this now. you won't regret it. #it's an audio drama. fake true crime podcast basically. #you can get it on barnes & noble or probably somewhere else idk

[adolin-is-best-boy]

I’m about to start the stormlight/cosmere reread for the next year!!! this time i got a copy specifically so i could do my own little annotations!! things i’m specifically looking after are general foreshadowing and death rattle foreshadowing, but im also just gonna mark down any thing i think is cool or interesting :) So excited!!

#the stormlight archive #stormlight archive reread #cosmere reread

[kingjasnah]

Dalinar turned his attention to Sadeas, speaking very softly, very pointedly. “Sadeas. Surely I did not just hear you openly—before the king—call my son useless. Surely you would not say that, as such an insult would demand that I summon my Blade and seek your blood. Shatter the Vengeance Pact. Cause the king’s two greatest allies to kill one another. Surely you would not have been that foolish. Surely I misheard.”

wok era dalinar had such a particular swag i must admit but also me if anyone says anything bad about renarin ever

#stormlight reread 2024 #also adolin straight up going for his blade when sadeas said that LOL let him kill!!!!!!!!!!! #cosmere #wok

[autisticslp]

It’s shocking Kelsier blends in so well in his mistcloak considering it’s made up of nothing but red flags

#mistborn #kelsier #cosmere #words of wisdom from the spouse #I’m rereading mistborn and I did not remember Kelsier being so Concerning from the very beginning #that man is so very stable

[hahahahawk]

“Some people, like a festering finger or a leg shattered beyond repair, just needed to be removed”

Having wild thoughts about Kaladin’s arc. He has this constant tension between surgeon and soldier, healer and killer. At once he’s determining to go to medical school, but also feeling conviction that sometimes killing someone is the best way to deal with them.

Doubly interesting that this duality is crystallized when Roshone is injured and at Lirin’s mercy. Kaladin is certain that if he were in charge, he would let Roshone die.

Later, when its Moash vs Kaladin over Elhokar, which just a different branch of the Roshone situation, I can imagine the same argument being made—a member of the community who is (morally) beyond repair needs to be removed.

I doubt Kaladin was thinking about this (Lirin/Roshone) moment during the confrontation with Moash, but I wonder what he would say to his younger self if he could. The situation with Moash isn’t quiet a copy of this one—Kal has more compassion for Elhokar that he would ever be able to muster for Roshone—but it’s still two people debating whether a third has the right to keep living.

#cosmere #way of kings reread #stormlight archive

[starryarchitect]

okay yeah yeah villain but the diagram is so cool you guys

Wall I made for this (featuring: Russian, Spanish, toki pona, DNA code, women's script, a few alphabets, some geometry and arithmetic, and a language that I invented, among other things. I had fun with this)

#what is composition anyway #ugh this is such poor spacing. COMPOSITION AAAA #but hey! it's the only thing I've drawn that looks BETTER when you zoom in! #you know. except for the image quality. um. I'm sure there's a solution to that and I just don't know it #oh well. here have crazy guy #but anyway yeah I've been rereading and I just couldn't resist #maybe more coming? maybe? MAYBE. #brandon sanderson #words of radiance #arts arcanum #rhythm of war #stormlight #my art #way of kings #cosmere #cosmere fanart #taravangian #stormlight archive #wok #wor #oathbringer #idiot king #is that a tag? #the diagram

[radiantmists]

Fascinating that 'bearer of agonies' is the name of a chapter about taravangian, who uses it to describe the duty of kingship-- but mraize uses it later to refer to taln, who we're told in a previous book was the only one of the heralds who wasn't a king or great leader.

#stormlight archive #cosmere #roshar #stormlight reread

[rotheninth]

i regret reading oathbringer in a two day feral daze. i can’t remember anything from it except it was REALLY good

#i really need to reread it #oathbringer #cosmere #stormlight archive

[morb22]

I took a break from my Stormlight Archive re-read. So I’ve started WOR again.

I will never be normal about Kaladin. He’s the best. Pictured is me beginning the Bridge Four chapter.

#cosmere #stormlight archive #kaladin stormblessed #stormlight #reread #kaladin my beloved

[dicaeopolis]

looking up something about Hoid on the Coppermind and I couldn't find what I was looking for but it DOES clarify that he isn't a bastard. with four citations

#.txt #cosmere #cfsbf #this was from tsh right. I read it in a fugue state when it first dropped but haven't gotten to it in my reread yet #0.1k #mistakes

[lizlovespace]

It is actually canon that Dalinar Kholin didnt even get through like his second conversation with Kaladin before handing him basically the Alethi equivalent to adoption papers

#rereading twok rn and totally forgot about this scene #canon #Dalinar is the type of guy to say “is anyone going to be this young mentally ill persons father figure?” And then not wait for an answer #the stormlight archive #dalinar kholin #kaladin stormblessed #the way of kings #cosmere #cremposting

[itmakesssenseincontext]

Lmao Hoid has the Unkalaki thinking he is a god. Kelsier is probably pissed

#cosmere #stormlight archive #the stormlight archive #mistborn #hoid cosmere #hoid #kelsier #these books are so damn good on reread

[kainekron]

Stormlight reread: 11 droplets

Man syl's gesture of getting Kaladin the blackbane always hits me like a sack of bricks it's so Ernest and naive and just AAAAAA!

#cosmere #brandon sanderson #stormlight archive #the stormlight archive #The way of kings #Twok #Kowt reread

[kingjasnah]

the epic highs and lows of a stormlight reread is that the majority of the 4500 pages in the series are pages i really enjoy. but now i have to read 4500 pages.

#literally i was bemoaning the reread cause I've been real tired of modern fantasy recently and then it's like #wait i get to reread wok. i love wok. #if you've started your reread already lmk lol i need to know how behind i am #cosmere

[swagspren]

Crazy to me that Brandon introduces the single dopest animal (sky eel) and then employs its presence pretty much never. You mean to tell me that Lopen can fly and he hasn’t befriended a sky eel??? No Sky eels smacking someone in the face at an opportune moment?? Or my personal favorite The Bridge getting into a Sully (2016) situation with the sky eels??!

#rereading twok and encountered sky eels 2 seconds of fame #twok #cosmere #stormlight archive