#actual eternal faves!!

[anghraine]

I'm too fried from various things including the dissertation to have very coherent thoughts about anything right now, so instead I'm just having amorphous affectionate feelings about Jyn/Cassian (Rogue One iterations specifically) and Elizabeth/Darcy (book versions specifically). I have other het ships but none that compare tbh

#i know i don't say that much about jyn/cassian any more #or at least lately #but it's been 7 years and i'm still astounded that star wars graced us with them #i love sw for other reasons but it's always so shaky w/ romance imo and then without a kiss or a declaration it DELIVERED #and elizabeth/darcy rules my heart forever obviously #very different ships in some ways but in others it just makes sense that they would reign supreme #actual eternal faves!! #anghraine babbles #otp: welcome home #otp of otps #star wars #austen blogging

[echthr0s]

you know why Durance is the worst character? he's the one guy in RPG history that won't let me exhaust his dialogue trees. LET ME BOTHER YOU

#durance is actually one of my faves. i love a curmudgeonly priest with layers #i love a guy that just puts off everyone around him on purpose. that ploy works the opposite on me. let me in. LET ME INNNN #also the shit he says when he DOES let you bug him for a short period of time always has me like 🤔🤔🤔 #and then he's like ''alright fuck off watcher that's enough yapping'' and i SCREAM 😭 #pillars of eternity

[meticulousfragments]

Excuse me while I start chewing furniture over Abydon and Ondra

#WHEN YOUR FUNDAMENTAL NATURES ARE WHAT DRAW YOU TO EACH OTHER BUT ALSO WHY YOU CAN NEVER BE TOGETHER #PROGRESS REQUIRES BOTH PRESERVATION AND LOSS BUT THEY WILL NEVER SIT COMFORTABLY TOGETHER #THE FORGE AND THE SEA ARE BOTH CENTERS OF DESTRUCTION AND CREATION BUT CANNOT EXIST IN THE SAME PLACE #pillars of eternity #pillars of eternity the white marches #new fave dlc actually

[beatcroc]

been ages but sharing one of these ol' thangs again apropros of updating with the highly controversial move of using one spot for two guys. also never beating the 'there are four fucking sonic characters on here' allegations. feel free to discuss

#i need to stress the sonic ones are all on behalf of their idw comics iterations #cause idw sonic is good as heeelllllllllll #actually thats a lie i love knux in all incarnations. but also hes still REALLY good in idw #ive been back and forth on which peppino to use here for months and ultimately i cannot choose between or separate them #they are a unit to me. joined at the hip. i do love them both independently but i would not love either nearly as much without the other #and they are both peppinos. so they can share a spot #bweeeaaahh #also these aren't ordered MUCH but everyone up through pit is immutable eternal fave #i should probably move the peppinos up there too tbh it's been awhile since i was THIS unwell about some guys #like this is on par with annie at this point #even if they eventually fall from grace they have left a permanent impression on me

[lecliss]

Why is Obito's height and weight listed as 182cm/70.3kg while Tobi is 175cm/55.9kg. THATS THE SAME FUCKING DUDE HOW DID OBITO SHRINK HIMSELF?????

#also idk how different those weights are in pounds but regardless he put on a noticeable amount of weight after the reveal #which like. HOW???? cuz im sure its not counting clothes. SO WTF HAPPENED????? #wait. hold on. theory after its been like. 10 years or whatever. #can we prove that the tobi acting like a moron was not actually guruguru??? and any time the sharingan was used. that was obito in #the tobi disguise???? now theres a lot im forgetting from the final arc. so correct me if thats impossible or already disproven. #but how else could obito do that???? UNLESS IT WASNT ACTUALLY HIM??? cuz the tobi persona is literally based on guruguru anyway #and once again i have to ask. fucking why??? whats the point???? why did he act like a schoolgirl in love with his senpai???? #eternal question. i will die still asking why he fucking DID THAT #dont get me wrong. tobi has always been one of my ultimate faves even before the madara/obito reveal. BUT WHAT WAS THE POINT???? #all the more reason for it to have been guruguru if possible #which is a bit of a sad thought actually. cuz even now i still wish tobi was just some fuckin weirdo with a big secret for how he managed #to join the akatsuki that wasnt 'im secretly the leader claiming to be madara uchiha' #anyway. smaller obito theory i guess like that smaller luke skywalker theory #personal

[advestager]

I feel like saying Josuke doesn't have any daddy issues whatsoever isn't entirely fair (I've seen some fic and comics go further into how he and his mom might have been treated due to the circumstances of his birth that were pretty compelling) but people who act like he grew up without any father figure are definitely off base imo. Every single adaptation and extra material have always had a focus on his close relationship with his grandpa for a reason!

see, that's precisely the thing. it is literally impossible to be a grown up human without having internalised some sort of illogical Feeling about oneself or the world – but fandom as a whole tends to just assign arbitrary ones to characters based on stereotypes rather than what they actually are like.

i do think josuke feels some sort of way about his lack of a father growing up, but that's as inevitable as joseph himself (or giorno, or jolyne, or even jonathan) having feelings about his own dad, and yet somehow jorge's absence does not get brought up despite joseph and josuke's fairly similar upbringings. the fact is that most of western fandom tends to view the JJBA characters through a (white, usa-centric) lens that simply does not lend itself to a fair or accurate reading when most of the cast is either POC or from an entirely different cultural background. that's why i'm so resistant to label josuke as having 'daddy issues'; the term means something entirely different to me than it seems to do to most of the fandom, based on all the fic, comics, and discussions i've seen (and had) about the topic. it's not exactly like the organised crime aspect of VA, but it fills me with a similar kind of frustration. i don't think one needs a degree in cultural studies or history or whatnot to enjoy a silly series about people punching each other with slutty soul-ghosts, but it's exhausting to see the same thoughtless, very specifically westernised takes being regurgitated over and over as Absolute Truth until the characters are so flanderised they seem nothing as much as a caricature of their original versions. i love transformative works as much as any other fan creator, but i also happen to like the source material. it is infinitely more interesting to me to think about what kind of relationship josuke might have to his heritage as a mixed-race person, or his identity as the son of a single mother or the obviously cherished and spoilt child of a family such as his own (especially in a place and period like canon's late-90s/early 00's japan), than to hear yet another iteration of 'haha, josuke has daddy issues' where the person saying it has no intention of analysing that premise beyond the puddle-depth obvious.

at barely sixteen years old, even as interested in high-end fashion (and as very much part of a working class family who could definitely use the nest egg) as he is, josuke's immediate reaction to being told his missing father is incredibly rich and wants to take care of him is to say that it's not necessary, and he's fine as he is. sixteen. i worked as a teacher with kids as young as a year old and people as old as mid-seventies; that kind of ease of mind is one-in-a-million and not something you'll find on someone who fits fandom's definition of 'daddy issues'. he's not angry at joseph, he's not grasping for money, he hardly even wants to find out more about the missing part of his origins. his only thought is to wish he wouldn't be the reason other people were hurt, and to protect his mother once there is a risk she might find out and be distressed about it. his entire morality system is (from what i remember of canon) mostly based around the question What Would Grandpa Do?, with some leeway allowed for the temper he clearly got from tomoko and for the fact that he is, again, a big and slightly spoilt sixteen year old.

so yeah. it might not sound fair to say he doesn't have daddy issues, but i don't think the terms fandom's operating under are fair to start with, so i'd rather recuse myself (and my interpretation of the character) from it all til we're playing the same game. the sandbox's wide and wild, and the block and mute buttons are there for a reason, so i'll just stay in my corner writing about higashikatas wielding their feelings like sledgehammers til my mum says it's time to go home.

#tl;dr: everyone's absolutely entitled to their opinion! i just happen to find the most common one the equivalent of soap-flavoured cilantro #i definitely agree with the part about his rship with his grandfather! it's a whole thing in my own writing for them #it's just 'daddy issues' has become shorthand for a combination of takes i quite dislike the past few years #so yeah. i'll just... Not. if y'all don't mind #(i do think Other characters have daddy issues in the traditional sense. and even in the popular modern sense. but not josuke particularly) #anyway i hope this doesn't read as confrontational as i fear it sounds bc that was. so not my intention orz #ty for the ask!!!! i really love discussing character analysis i'm just rly tired rn so i probably sound super Debate Team Mode haha #ps ryohei was 100000% josuke's favourite person in the world growing up and he's still tomoko's special baby gremlin at age 50 pass it on #josuke higashikata #jojo #the funny thing abt my fic is i'm really at ease abt posting my shippy stuff bc it's just like. treating myself to sth nice #and then sharing with everyone as a bonus #but the stuff where i actually talk abt familial and platonic rships for my faves lives in eternal development hell bc i just LOVE it #and never feel like it's perfect enough to share. it's never complete because it's always evolving #which is why i once wrote a novel allegedly about detectives in love but in reality about 100kish of family/friendship character analysis #meaning there was no way this ask could've ever been answered succinctly lol #ask tag #joji.txt #joosk #anonymous

[jitterbugbear]

jitterbugbear i’ve done it. i’ve finally done it. i’m listening to ghost the band and you are 100% to blame. [<3]

GOOD good that is very good to hear >:-)c you're SO welcome!!! i hope you enjoy their music<33

#actually this is the best news of today #hehehehehe<33 #ask #ghost #my fave songs from them are life eternal‚ witch image‚ miasma‚ helvetesfönster & deus in absentia #at the moment anyway i keep changing my faves like every day sjsjsjsbdnd #what are your faves!!! im interested to know if you listen to them some more! no pressure though haha

[radio-volta]

I'm nothing if not predictable

#i saw aurora and porcupine tree live this year and there's nothing like a good gig to make me listen the shit out of something #although actually by far the best gig this year was pendulum even though i'm not even really a fan #it was just insane. the pits were over 50 meters across #bruce sprinsteen is an eternal fave #everything everything's new album is fucking fire #take a wild guess about fleetwood mac. #op

[spentgladiator]

Mr John Darnielle really said "I am going to write the best tripping album you have ever listened to in your life with some of the most beautiful instrumentals you've ever heard and in exchange I just need you to be really really sad for a while" and I just fucking hit play zero hesitation like yes goatdad

#this is about dark in here #it is my fave album actually like of all time #much love to all eternals deck but holy shit that was an EXPERIENCE

[cinnabeat]

when i was in middle school ruby used to be my fave dexholder and its like. why

#hes pathetic actually #i lowkey skimmed oras so i dont remember it well but im positive he did not learn a single thing from rs 💀 #anyways my true fave is black <3 eternally upset he never beat the league #michi tag

[escaronarts]

The Soul Dancer

The Soul Dancer, my 4th time making her, (2:nd time as an ardoll) and my fave result to date. Every time she become a little more grand, (in my opinion at least 😁), wich is fun cause that mean I improve. She is fully handmade and stand 23.6" tall. I took this pic 3 weeks ago, actually the last time I saw the sun. I miss it! ☀️ More pics will come, but until then, have a lovely weekend!

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Soul Dancers, keepers and protectors of life, carrier of souls. Invisible to the human eye they are spirits from a realm very close to our physical reality. Moving like wind and shadows they dance under the moon and stars, leap over the lands as the sun rise, one with nature, happy and free. Sometime you can catch a glimps of them, like a sudden shudder over a still lake, a flicker of light in the dark of the forest, a warm breeze in the middle of winter. They are always there, watching, waiting - for seasons to change, years to pass and souls to depart. When a living being in much pain and/or distress leaves our world a Soul Dancer is there to welcome the soul and gather it up in its cage of energy. There the soul go to slumber in a cocoon of light, safe and protected, healing as time pass by. And when the time is right it hatch into a beautiful butterfly - ready to fly off to get reborn once more. And so the never ending circle of life continues, now as always, for all of eternity.

#handmade #art #ooak #sculpture #original #fantasy #originalart #artdoll #posable #artist #Souldancer #Arttoy #Nature #Magical #Magic #Creature #creature design #creature art

[just-jordie-things]

since your asking for blurbs here you gooooo

how about jjk men (at this point i think you know my faves) with the lipstick trend on tiktok? yk the one where they mess up the lipstick and then the camera pans to the bf with lipstick marks:)) -🌿

ofc i love this trend <3

GOJO SATORU

has not seen the trend, and does not know that filming a tiktok is your intention when you sit on his desk right in front of him and cover his face with kisses. he knows that you're leaving lipstick stains all over his lips, cheeks, nose, jaw, and even on his neck, but he doesn't think twice about it.

this behavior isn't exactly out of character for either one of you. and it' honestly a miracle you're allowed to work together because you were both nothing but distractions to each other.

like right now, satoru is leaning in to steal another kiss from your red smeared lips, only to find that you're applying more lipstick in the camera reflection on your phone.

unbeknownst to him, he actually perfectly imitates the trend as his hand curls around the back of your neck and pulls you back in for more. ___

FUSHIGURO MEGUMI

has seen the trend because you showed him the other night. but when you suggest filming a tiktok for it, he flusters.

nonetheless, he watches as you perfectly apply a layer of pink on your lips. he's always liked when you wore lipstick, and he definitely likes to watch you do it.

you cap the makeup when you're done, spinning away from the bathroom mirror to smile at him prettily. his hands find your hips as he helps you onto the bathroom counter and you're already peppering his face with smooches. you kiss everywhere your lips can reach. your hands are playing with his hair while you drag your mouth down his neck, and megumi definitely forgets the purpose of this makeup session.

(in his defense, your makeup sessions haven't really had a goal before. besides, well, ;) you know)

all too soon, you're pulling away with a giggle, grabbing your phone to hit record as you reapply your lipstick. however when you accidentally smear it, megumi doesn't reach to wipe it away like he's supposed to. you turn the camera towards him, capturing the perfect lovesick and stunned look on his face.

he ends your video and lifts you off the counter, whisking you away. he's not a fan of social media usually, but maybe he should finally get an account. ___

OKKOTSU YUUTA

doesn't have the time to follow tiktok trends but an excuse to make out with his girlfriend??? shit he'd plop you onto his lap as soon as you asked!

he actually does, much to your surprise and you have to explain that you have to go put the lipstick on first. you kiss for a little while anyways because he was already excited.

when you come back with a bold red lip, yuuta's only more excited, and is grinning and giggling as your lips scatter lipstick stains all over his face. his palms are rubbing eager circles into your hips, hoping this moment could last for an eternity.

pouts when you pull away to grab your phone for the video, but honestly is just as eager to make the tiktok with you.

you reapply your lipstick, purposefully smudging it at the corner. and with a gentle hand, yuuta thumbs away the mistake, smiling at you lovingly.

the video is so cute that your friends that follow you comment about how you make them want to throw up :) success! ___

INUMAKI TOGE

actually saw the trend before you did, and went out the very same day to pick out a dark red lipstick for you to do it yourselves. you might think it's a little cheesy but you can't say no when he gives you puppy dog eyes.

so you apply the bold lip and give him so many kisses you worry he's going to faint. he's smiling and humming and enjoying every kiss you bestow upon him to the fullest. he thinks it's the cutest when you kiss the tip of his nose. by the end of it, his face is so covered in red that there's some parts you can't even make out the print of your lips.

when you go to film the tiktok, you're the one blushing like crazy as toge precisely fixes your purposeful mistake, the pad of his finger soft as he wipes away the red stain on your cheek. as you turn the camera to face him, he grins, proud to show off all the lipstick marks you'd given him.

after recording the tiktok, you really have to convince him to wash the lipstick off his face. he pouts, upset to wash away the hard work and proof of your affections. you promise to make more cute tiktoks with him in the future if he agrees to let you wish his face.

you also promise to go back to what you were up to before ;) that always does the trick. ___

xoxo ~ jordie

#jujutsu kaisen x reader #jjk x reader #jujutsu kaisen #jjk #gojo satoru #gojo satoru x reader #fushiguro megumi #fushiguro megumi x reader #megumi brainrot #satoru brainrot #okkotsu yuuta #okkotsu yuuta x reader #yuuta brainrot #inumaki toge #inumaki toge x reader #toge brainrot #inumaki toge x you #gojo satoru x you #fushiguro megumi x you #okkotsu yuuta x you

[wisellamawerewolf]

Heaven has a point and it's ruining the show's entire premise

*rant under the cut*

It has probably been said before by other people who can articulate their thoughts better, but considering the way VivziePop chose to tell her story, Hazbin Hotel's premise just doesn't work.

At first the show's main idea was presumably about how it's never too late to become a better person. The themes of Hotel and providing redemption to damned souls if they CHOSE to become better was fitting for that concept and it could've worked well without much involvement from Heaven. Yearly extermination (although arguably not necessary) added stakes and a sense of emergency, but making Heaven fully involved in the situation was a very questionable choice. Now the main theme of the show is less about "self-improvement" and more about "Heaven is hypocritical", and it just doesn't work well for one (main) reason: every single sinner we have encountered are absolutely horrible.

I already sense some that people might bring up the "They're in Hell" argument, but here's the thing: it would've worked fine with the initial premise, but you can't say "Heaven is bad for exterminating souls" when these souls a.) killed, hurt and ruined people's lives when they were alive; and b.) kept killing, hurting and ruining people's lives in the afterlife. Is there a better solution than just killing these people? Probably. But that doesn't make Heaven seem hypocritical and unjustified. At worst it makes them look stupid, because if they knew most people would find extermination of souls abhorrent, they could've just send someone to rearrange hell and completely isolate the most vile sinners from others in order to prevent them from hurting people, instead of just letting them continue doing their shit but in a slightly worse place.

Another argument that comes in mind probably sounds something like "well obviously not EVERYONE is irredeemably bad in this place, and Heaven is surely unjustifiably sends people Hell for stupid reasons if it's overpopulated". And if this statement is true, I have a couple of questions:

Why then literally none of these people are in the Hotel? Surely Charlie could've find at least some of such people and convince them to participate in her experiment. This is probably better to live under the protection of one of the strongest beings in hell than being potentially killed in the streets, so what do they have to lose? If none of these people believe in Charlie's idea, why every time we meet a non-resident, they are always murderous assholes, with almost no exceptions? If Hell is full of wrongfully condemned souls, why doesn't Charlie address them in the seventh episode, instead of going to the cannibal town to ask for help?

I think I've said it somewhere before, but VivziePop wants to criticize religion for scaring people with eternal punishment for doing arbitrary and harmless stuff, but also wants to treat said punishment as a playground for her edgy OCs most of whom are the exact people who by all logic should be in hell.

She wants her story to be about redemption but then turns around and says "actually, my homicidal OC's did nothing wrong, the SOCIETY that condems them is a true villain. Please ignore corpses my faves piled up in the corner". Viv wants to have her cake and eat it too, which results in a sloppy writing.

The most frustrating thing about this that it could theoretically work if handled more carefully: Charlie is already naive and Vaggie is a freshly exiled angel so just make them believe that all sinners have a legitimate reason to be in hell and need to be "fixed". Let them run into Angel Dust and try to make him improve, only to later learn that better people were turned down in heaven and send to hell because of the arbitrary reasons.

It could've both drived the message of "you can always chose to be better" and provide a valid critique to the religion in regards to what counts as a "sin" and wether it deserves such a hursh punishment or not, but ut VivziePop just can't decide what she wants to do and talk about so she just throws in everything at the same time.

#hazbin hotel critical #hazbin hotel critique #thanks tumblr for posting my half-baked post again because of “bad connection”. geez. #i was full of tequila yesterday and my Spotify decided to “bless” me with “You didn't know” #and the lyrics were so stupid I made another rant. So enjoy i guess?

[novapark]

Sapphire Post

An old colonial listening post in the heart of a crater lake.

Okay so while I'm in CAW how about a new world download? I actually made it about a year ago because I wanted to try out @chojrak-making-things and @simaddix's CAW resources. So this does require a bit of CC (107 mb) . I've included it because simsfileshare was being a bitch about downloading them today and I didn't want ya'll to deal with that. Hopefully Chojrak and Simsaddix don't hate me too much for it.

Details: 1280x1280 map size 33 lots total Small lot sizes as that is my preference these days. Probably requires most EP's Lots of collectable spawners Includes CAWfiles for personal edits Requires CC (included) Heavily Playtested with my eternal faves Sunny and Ollie.

Download here: -Sapphire Post-

#ts3 #the sims 3 #s3cc #dl:worlds #novaparkdownloads #world:sapphirepost #sims 3 worlds

[eurydia]

Inferna Victoria (Portrait of the Archdevil and Archduchess Supreme of the Nine) a royal portrait of Raphael and Tav in the style of a Van Dyck for my fic, The Lover's Gambit. it's now my most popular fic, thank you so much for your support! you all have exquisite taste ❤️

Raphael's outfit was inspired by a beautiful gifset by @cherriesandsulphur

details, context below

[Solo Raph painting]

Baroque is one of my fave art movements. the in-game art looked inspired by it, and I wanted to do a piece that combined my love for it and royal portraiture. this was inspired by the works of Flemish Baroque master Anthony Van Dyck.

this is one of the most ambitious and detailed pieces I've done so far: the fullsize is 22 x 32in, and it took over 50+ hrs. royal portraiture usually has extensive detail, so I wanted to make it as detailed as possible. it was challenging and time consuming, but a lot of fun!

framed version (Cassetta frame from the Met website:)

process

spoiler details (for the game + fic)

- their ship came about because I wanted to give Raph a chaotic evil counterpart to his lawful evil. basically he’s the “mansplain, manipulate, malewife” to her “gaslight, (Baldur’s)gatekeep, girlboss” lol.

- I hc this Tav’s ending is the “In my name” one. though I hc she says “In our name” instead ;)

- visually, it looks like Raphael has more power but I hc it’s actually Tav for several reasons: many elements of the composition lead to her (Raph’s sash, arms, the curtains), she’s wearing her crown and is seated, and is also foremost while Raph is in the back.

- Raph’s crown is ceremonial/for vanity only while Tav’s tiara has enough fragments of the stone to be fully functional.

- The crown’s design is based on concept art, and if you look closely it kinda looks like it has hearts on the sides. I added the red gems.

I hc that Raph is a romantic and some of his lines seem to allude to this (code phrase of “my heart’s desire”, the Amulet of Greater Health, which Tav is wearing here, in a prominent place in his house, and his words to Hope in a transcript: “…serve me with your whole heart”)

- I hc they’re married at this point. Tav’s ring has two additional gems, and her outfit in general was inspired by the canon design of the Crown of Karsus.

- there’s a lot of red because according to Hope, Raph’s favorite color is “blood”. my hc for the painting overall is that it was done by his personal painter, maybe a debtor who has to paint for him for all eternity (not a bad deal right? /s) so it reflects his and Tav’s requests.

- I picture this hanging either above Raph’s fireplace in the dining room. or bedroom - much to Haarlep’s dismay 🤣

#bg3 #bg3 fanart #raphael x tav #bg3 raphael #raphael the cambion #tav x raphael #raphael/tav #baldurs gate 3 #baldur's gate 3 #oc: leilana #inferna victoria = 'delusions won' in latin #fun fact - i had an easier time drawing raph than my own Tav lol (been staring at his smarmy face too much probably) #really proud of this one and thank you again for all the love on the fic <3 #please check out cherries' other edits!! they're amazing!!

[cosmerelists]

Do the Cosmere Secret Projects Follow the Rules of the Cosmere?

[Big spoilers for Sanderson Secret Projects #1, #3, and #4!]

A while ago, I wrote a list proposing some Rules of the Cosmere--aka, trends or themes that tended to crop up in most Cosmere works. Now that I've read all of the Secret Projects, though, I had to wonder: do they also follow the definitely ironclad rules that I once proposed? Let's consider!

1. Don’t feed the children

Summary of Rule: If you try to feed a hungry child in a Cosmere book, something terrible will happen.

Off to a bad start! I don't think this rule came up at all. I don't recall any children being fed, really.

2. Once Marriage is On The Table, Breakups Don’t Really Happen

Summary of Rule: Once characters get to the point of marriage, be they engaged or in an arranged marriage or just solidly A Thing, it is rare for them to break up.

Yes, the secret projects did adhere to this rule, I think! The best example is from Tress--I remember how SHOCKED I was when word came that the Duke's son really had gotten married. I was like, "How is that possible? Sanderson would NEVER allow a couple like Tress and Charlie to be broken up by Charlie marrying someone else!" And then, of course, it wasn't Charlie at all. Charlie stayed single...until he could get back together with Tress. In Yumi and the Nightmare Painter, the romance was pretty much between Yumi and Painter--not even death could prevent that. Sigzil sadly did not have a lot of time for romance in The Sunlit Man, so the rule didn't really come into play there.

3. Your enemy will save you...if the sexual tension is high enough

Summary of Rule: An enemy with enough sexual tension will often sacrifice themself to save the other person.

Honestly, I don't think we really had this in any of the Cosmere Secret projects? The only fierce enemies I can think of would be Tress & Crow or Sigzil & the Ember King...but there wasn't any sacrifice-to-save-the-other going on there.

4. Your fave is (accidentally) queer

Summary of Rule: Sanderson loves to write characters who are deeply deeply queer without seeming to realize it.

Oh yes--this rule is eternal, and the Secret Projects did not disappoint. There's Yumi herself, Miss "Oh-my-god-I-just-saw-a-goddess," our (second?) favorite bisexual queen (does Sanderson know he made a lady bi again?). And then in the Sunlit Man, there's an exchange that I'm not sure is actually an accidental queering since it seemed so blatant, when Rebeke was asked if she was now "The Sunlit Woman" and replied "No, the Sunlit One." Is there a way to read that other than as nobinary/genderqueer?

5. Don’t trust the underling priest!

Summary of Rule: If betrayal is happening, it's probably the fault of the nearest underling priest.

Honestly, I think the only "priests" we had were in Yumi, and if anything, this was a deconstruction. The "head priestess" would be Liyun, I think, and she was horrible and abusive. The "underlings," Chaeyung and Hwanji were actually far more supportive and actually told Yumi some about what was really going on. So I guess in these books you should trust the underling priest(esses).

6. (per @twitcherpated) If there are same gender siblings, there will be a romantic triangle involving them.

Summary of Role: If there are two brothers and two sisters, they will inevitably be romantically linked to the same person.

I agree with this rule addition proposed by twitcherpated, which does crop up over and over again in the Cosmere. But in the Secret Projects, I think the only same-gender siblings we had were Rebeke and Elegy, and I don't think it works with them. Like, I suppose you could imagine a love triangle with Sigzil...but I don't really buy it. Rebeke was interested in Sigzil, but he didn't reciprocate, and Elegy was too busy loving the thrill of murder to have a romantic interest in Sigzil herself. I guess they both did want Sigzil to themselves, in a way. So maybe it does kinda work?

7. Hoid is there

Summary of Rule: Hoid likes to show up wherever plot is happening

Yes! The Secret Projects 100% adhere to this rule. Hoid is the narrator in Tress and Yumi, and he shows up briefly in The Sunlit Man. Hoid will not be stopped.

#cosmere #cosmerelists #ssp1 #ssp3 #ssp4 #ssp1 spoilers #ssp3 spoilers #ssp4 spoilers