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Lord of the Rings, Cosmere, and Kingkiller Chronicle

do the bridge four windrunners really have those luscious sculpted calves or not lets get into it. theres no way that, even with rocks stew, anyone from bridge four was getting sufficient nutrition for hypertrophy under sadeas' rule. i love Ripped Kal as much as the next girl but bridge running was his stealth build era sorry. and you just KNOW every windrunner is skipping leg day

One time a friend told me that Kaladin actually has the world's most disappointingly flat ass and I think he might be right. It's such a sad headcanon but it's so true. He floats everywhere. What does he need an ass for

I mean, Investiture shapes you into the self you see yourself as so maybe Kaladin sees himself with a fat ass. 🤷

Not to mention, muscles don't disappear that fast. I still have biceps from the packing part of my job before I started doing data entry. That was over a year ago. Hell, I still have biking calves from when I was a kid. They're just fatter. iirc I think the same thing happens to ballet kids, too. When muscles are trained to accommodate a specific movement for a long enough time, it changes the shape of your muscles for life, even if there's muscle atrophy.

It would also be weird if they didn't do ground drills in the case of Stormlight... deficiency?

And FINALLY... my last argument for buff/fatass Kaladin is this: no matter how accustomed one might be, you are ABSOLUTELY clenching that ass while flying.

The Ass Is Fat, Your Honor.

If Non-Scadrial Characters Had Metallurgic Powers...

Let’s say non-Scadrial characters had the metallic arts. And let’s say I, the blogger, worked really hard to match all of the powers to a suitable character, even the kind of useless ones! Who get want which power?

[Note: I skipped the lerasium & malatium, whose feruchemcial powers aren’t known. Also, this list is already ridiculously long.]

1. Allomantic Iron (pulls on nearby metals): Kaladin

Kaladin: I will always choose the power that allows me to fly.
Kaladin: And this sounds like my power, only I’d be using metals not gravitational pull as my anchor!
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thranduil sleeps calmer knowing even if his son married a dwarf at least he married The Supermodel dwarf and singlehandedly crushed the hopes of single dwarves and dwarrowdams everywhere

this is my headcanon and you will never take it from me.

listen, just Listen for a second, okay.

Gimli Gloinul is from the line of Durin okay, he’s from the line of KINGS, his bloodline stands up against Legolas’ perfectly, if the elves and dwarves got their shit together for a hot second they would be like “YES, PERFECT, A DIPLOMATIC MARRIAGE TO BIND OUR HOUSES TOGETHER AND NEVER SHALL THE TWAIN THROW ONE ANOTHER TO DRAGONS…again.”  because you have a king’s son and a king’s nephew which, well, I love Dain but he’s not an EREBOR KING and GIMLI IS FROM THE FAMILY OF EREBOR KINGS.

And Gimli acts like he’s from the line of Erebor kings, too, okay, he’s a diplomat and a warrior and a nobleman, he’s the sort of person who SAYS things like ‘faithless is he who says fairwell when the road darkens’ and stares down Elrond Peredhil in his own home when his strength and faith are questioned.  And he’s the kind of person who swears his allegiance to people he barely knows because it’s Right and Good and Gimli knows it.

And Thorin Oakenshield was handsome, and his sister the lady Dis is beautiful, and Gimli’s cousins Fili and Kili were fine young dwarrows, and Gimli’s mother is a great beauty.

Basically my point here is that Gimli, proud strong gimli with his firebeard hair and bold laugh and mithril tongue and clever fingers, broke the hearts of everyone in Erebor and not a few people outside of Erebor when he married a goddamn elf.  Like.  Not even Arwen Undomiel (WHO MARRIED A GODDAMN HUMAN, it’s been a weird couple of years in Middle-Earth, everyone wonders strongly if they’ve been drinking too much).  Like he’s not even marrying a great beauty of the elves, Legolas isn’t ugly by elvish standards but also he’s nothing particularly special, and he’s not a great diplomat, and he’s BARELY a king’s son because everyone knows that Mirkwood elves are…a little odd.  Legolas is a big cheerful hunter who sings songs he doesn’t remember all of, who chatters to trees and has no sense of the right thing to say even if he’s developed enough self-preservation to know the wrong thing to say, and FOR THE LOVE OF MAHAL HE FIGHTS WITH A BOW.

“GIMLI” Gloin bellows “YOU TURNED DOWN THIRTY-TWO SUITORS FROM FINE DWARVISH LINES FOR THIS”

“Ignore him, amrâlime, he’ll get over it” Gimli says in amusement as he beckons Legolas over to his forge, where he’s carefully smithing mithril-inlaid gold marriage clasps that will grip fine elvish hair.  It’s too hot in the forge to wear shirts, if you’re working.  Every dwarf in twenty feet stops what they’re doing to watch Gimli’s biceps flex as he holds up a jewel for Legolas’ inspection.

“YOU COULD HAVE HAD A HAREM” Gloin wails from down the hall.

#a headcanon I never knew I needed until this very moment

I love the art but now I love the headcanon just as much

Additional headcanon:

All of his suitors have been lamenting for a while that he found someone and have been trying to guess based on his descriptions of his partner. And Gimli, poet that he is, can make goblin sound beautiful if he really wanted. Everyone is trying to figure out just who this rare, golden beauty he constantly goes on about even is, because there’s no dwarf or human that quite fits.

And then he brings home Legolas, a flighty wild Murkwood elf, and they are absolutely gobsmacked. This is the golden sun that lights his halls? The rare jewel of no equal? The ringing song that no forged mithral can match? This slight country bumpkin with gangly limbs stole their fair and perfect Gimli??

It’s a scandal that is talked about for ages to come.

As tense and hard as Adolin's trial chapters are, I just LOVE how it leads up to Mayas outburst.

"We chose"

"You cannot have my sacrifice"

And it just rings so strongly to me of what so much of this book/series touches on with its many themes. Ugh. I love Maya and Adolins friendship so much and how they reciprocate a bond without Maya being a full spren anymore.

Idk, I just really enjoy this part of the book.

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Just started reading Flatland and dvsnsbjanzjwnjsbsjs THE SQUARE IS SEXIST???????

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Ayo? 👀👀😳😳😳 [joking]

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Preface: My square friend would like to apologize for his comments about Women and polygons, he had had time to think on it and realizes it may have been a bit harsh :)

Square:

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AYO?????

(For a tiny bit of context: Women are actually lines while Men are shapes but like????? One door would have been fine tf???)(Also this brings up the thought of a trans masc poly group of lines forming a square or triangle👀👀)

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Femboy Isosceles real????? 😳😳😳😳

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Edit: 3 reblogs ago I said "polygons" but ment "triangles"

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What The Fuck

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Me when Women 😳😳😳❤️❤️

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Women can turn sideways and be basically invisible and murder with just a single touch ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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I support women's rights AND wrongs <3<3<3<3

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AND im back! Hello flatblur I didnt know you existed, but Im happy im not alone on this journey :)

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PERCHANCE SPOTTED

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PERCHANCE FORGOTTEN. THE SQUARE IS TALKING ABOUT CONFUSING HIS DAD FOR A WOMAN

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Wait hold up he's talking about his GRANDsons this square FUCKS??

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Square: We go to university and study polygons

Me, who learned about polygons in 5th grade:

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PROGRESSIVE statesmen want to kill polygons for flunking out of college. Bruh

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...Aight that tracks

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Adult women feet 👀👀👀😳😳😳🥵🥵

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Ok these guys are WEIRD about Irregular shapes. I think being a triangle with a polygon ass would FUCK SUPREMELY but thats just me ig 🙄

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Square: Color did exist but an Irregular Circle wanted to pass this bill that would force lines and circles to have the same colors, which might make people confuse Women and Circles D:

Me: im not seeing the downside here

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Circles SUCK all my homies hate circles

I love how Kaladin can just Say things like “You sent him into the sky, assassin, but the sky and the winds are mine. I claim them, as I now claim your life,” and “Honor is dead, but I’ll see what I can do” off the cuff, not because he’s trying to be dramatic but just because he’s Like That. He can do a superhero landing or cause a glowing glyph to extend behind his glowing form, sometimes both, hitting the ground like a falling star and proceeding to turn the tide of a battle just by being there. Kaladin is literally the walking embodiment of the trope of “the cavalry has arrived”. Whenever he shows up people are certain in that moment that everything is gonna be alright, and the bad guys who’ve been paying attention know they’re fucked, and they’re both right every time. It is an unspoken rule that he must have at least one Dramatic Entrance per book, but sometimes he gets like, two or three depending on your definition. It is also a spoken rule that literally nothing and no one can kill Kaladin Stormblessed. People on both sides are always like “that can’t possibly be true” but then the people who Know are like “oh, but it is.” And they’re right every time. This depressed med school dropout is a force of nature! He can just like, casually drop kick a guy in shardplate so hard that it breaks. He just does shit like that. And then everyone proceeds to be in awe at all the stuff he does and says, as they should, and Kaladin proceeds to continue just being Like That. I’m love him.

How Stormlight Characters Would Solve the Trolley Problem

Ah, the Trolley Problem. In this classic thought experiment, you are a trolley operator who suddenly sees that there are people tied to the train tracks in front of you for some reason! You can pull a lever to switch the train to a different track, but there are ALSO people tied to THAT track! It’s fewer people, though. So the question becomes: do you do nothing, allowing the train to kill a greater number of people but taking no direct action yourself to kill them? Or do you kill a smaller number of people but through your own direct action? 

Well, how would Stormlight characters approach this problem?

1. Jasnah: Pulls the lever

Jasnah: Taking action to save the greatest number of people is always right–even if it involves killing others.
Shallan: C-couldn’t you have soulcast the train to smoke or something?
Jasnah: You still don’t understand philosophy, do you?

2. Amaram: Does not pull the lever

Amaram: As the (former) leader of the Knights Radiant, it is important that I not choose a side.
Amaram: I must stay above it all.

3. Rlain: Pulls the lever

Rlain: More survivors is simply better.
Rlain: Even if it’s not always great for me.

4. Lirin: Takes a principled stance against pulling the lever

Lirin: It is impossible to save through killing.
Lirin: If I pull this lever and condemn those people to death, then I am no better than the person who tied them there to begin with!
Hapless trolley victim: WE DISAGREEEEEE
Lirin (wincing): I-I’m pretty sure I can sew that back on!

5. Sadeas: Pulls the lever

Sadeas: Wow I can’t believe Dalinar did that!

6. Shallan: Does not pull the lever (but Radiant does)

Shallan: Wait! What happened??
Radiant (coughs): N-Nothing!
Veil: …Smooth.

7. Renarin: Does not pull the lever

(But miraculously, a third track appears out of nowhere and the trolley barrels down that instead!)
Renarin: Yeah, those sorts of things just sort of happen around me.

8. Taravangian: Depends on where he is on the intelligence/empathy scale today

Smart Taravangian: I shall of course deliberately allow the trolley to kill the greater number of people.
Smart Taravangian: The more we eliminate people who allow themselves to be tied to trolley tracks, the better humanity will be overall.
Smart Taravangian: The trolley victims themselves would understand–if I had time to explain it to them.
Emotional Taravangian: [weeping too hard to pull the lever]
Smart Taravangian: Ugh, pull yourself together, man.

9. Stormfather: Creates a second trolley to come barreling toward the first one

Stormfather: I will destroy all of the people tied to the tracks.
Stormfather: It is the only mercy I can offer.
Hapless trolley victim: THIS IS SO MUCH WORSE 
Hapless trolley victim: WHYYYYYY

10. Kaladin: Wrenches out the lever and throws it onto the tracks, causing the train to derail and fly through the air, missing everyone

Kaladin: The sky trolley is mine!
Kaladin: I claim it–as I now claim these tracks!
Hapless (former) trolley victim: Does anyone else have a throbbing boner right now?