#ssp3 spoilers

[to-shards-you-say]

moash killed elhokar so design could get a boob job and open her own business btw. he did that for the girlies

#yumi and the nightmare painter spoilers #ssp3 spoilers #oathbringer spoilers

[why-is-it-always-autumn]

#hoid #cosmere #ssp3 spoilers #ssp1 spoilers #mistborn secret history spoilers #obviously the correct answer is 'all of the above' #but you have to pick one

[ahhfear]

Yumi and the nightmare Painter Spoilers ⚠️

this came to me in a vision

#it’s a damn good bamboo painting #ssp3 spoilers #yumi and the nightmare painter #yoki hijo yumi #nikaro painter #yumi #nikaro #cosmere #sanderson secret projects #my art #The bamboo in the picture is from the book #yatnp

[ultimateinferno]

Yumi and the Nightmare Painter illustrations by Aliya Chen, 1-8 ☆9-16☆ 17-23

#books #fantasy #illustration #art #cosmere #cfsbf #brandon sanderson #yumi and the nightmare painter #ssp3 #ssp3 spoilers #yumi and the nightmare painter spoilers #sanderson secret project #cool art

[lamaery]

Another one for Yumi :D

The illustrations in the book are wonderful and fit the story very well, I was just longing for more exciting stacks. 😆

#cosmere #brandon sanderson #stormlight archive #procreate #yumi and the nightmare painter #stone stacks #cosmere fanart #ssp3 #ssp3 spoilers #yumi spoilers #id in alt text #described

[its-your-mind]

Me (very powerful immortal dude, but currently a literal living statue, alive and aware but unable to move or interact with the world at all due to a poorly implemented failsafe) and the bad bitch (a fragment of a god, the embodiment of the structure inherent in all creation, for whom I have created a fake body out of magic and vibes that has fuckin AMAZING tits bc she wants to study how humans react to tits while she runs a noodle restaurant and uses my unmoving body as a coatrack) I pulled by being artsy

#cosmere #hoid #design #ssp3 #yatnp #yumi and the nightmare painter #ssp3 spoilers #yumi spoilers #yumi and the nightmare painter spoilers #yatnp spoilers

[cabinetcreature]

brandon sanderson wants to say fuck so (lowly) bad

#brandon sanderson #cosmere #ssp3 #yumi and the nightmare painter #ssp3 spoilers

[willshaper]

I just want a whole legion of stories where hoid is in a Situation and two teenagers have to Get Him Out (and also be in love at the same time)

#ssp3 spoilers #yumi and the nightmare painter #tress of the emerald sea

[cosmereplay]

Design's big naturals CANON

#yuri and the nightmare painter for real #Design and WHOMST #yumi and the nightmare painter #yatnp #ssp3 #ssp3 spoilers

[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

[botanicaxu]

All the painter gang!

#cosmere #brandon sanderson #yumi and the nightmare painter #cfsbf #fanart #ssp3 #ssp3 spoilers #cosmere spoilers

[madxmellon]

Yumi and Nikaro watching their little dramas

#cosmere #my art #ssp #ssp3 spoilers #ssp3 #yumi and the nightmare painter #Yumi and the nightmare painter spoilers #ssp 3 #sanderson secret projects #Sanderson secret project 3 #cosmere fanart #Yumi fanart #nikaro fanart #arts arcanum

[kingjasnah]

the coatrack thing is still so funny but the ssps are setting such a precedent. at this point im not accepting any future cosmere books that DON'T have some kind of rube goldbergian horrible clown mishap that falls upon hoid. if things keep going the way they are going he's going to fall into a giant vat of custard in stormlight 5 and be unable to get out for the entire mid series time skip

#ssp3 #ssp3 spoilers #yumi and the nightmare painter #cosmere

[not-a-mawmouth]

Yumi is the fucking boss

She is the strongest Yoki-hijo, more invested than Elantrians (who are so powerful they can be major villains that shift the politics of entire planets by themselves) and Returned (who can heal any wound and are literally worshipped as gods by some on the planet they hail from). She can force Nightmares to heel and destroy a machine that entrapped an entire planet all by herself. She canonically had her soul sucked out of her body and went “actually, dying is cringe” and came back to life and there was nothing the machine could do about it. She stacks rocks so accurately and with such great precision that she can make them taller than buildings. She can force Painter to confront the parts of himself he refuses to face.

I love her so much

#Yumi! #and fucking Liyun had her feeling worthless! #God that woman is awful #yumi #yumi and the nightmare painter #ssp3 #ssp3 spoilers

[ultimateinferno]

"My coat rack killed God and now it's everyone's problem."

#cosmere #cfsbf #yumi and the nightmare painter #ssp3 #ssp3 spoilers #sanderson secret project #secret project 3 #yumi and the nightmare painter spoilers

[lamaery]

Some sketches for Yumi :D

#cosmere #brandon sanderson #procreate #yumi and the nightmare painter #spoilers #yumi spoilers #ssp3 spoilers #sp3 spoilers #Yumi #painter #nekaro #akane #design #character art #sketches #cosmere fanart #described #described in alt text #id in alt