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went to the beach with some friends and then ordered dinner and watched clue and i am feeling very warm and happy and content and safe and loved
can't believe chapter two of way of kings is titled "honor is dead." sir what the fuck.
okay so i know you are a sanderson fan and i wonder if you have opinions on the order in which to get into his books, series to start with etc.
what a delightful question! wlecome to the cosmere - it's a wonderful, wonderful world!
for reference, i have read:
- mistborn era 1
- most of mistborn era 2 (have started, but not finished, #4)
- stormlight 1-4 (i've read the lift novella but not dawnshard)
- warbreaker
- most of elantris
- most of arcanum unbounded
the easiest answer is that bransan himself has a recommended reading order here, although i don't think it's super up to date
warbreaker and elantris are standalones (as of right now), although i don't think anyone (himself included) consider them his best work. but, if you don't want to commit to thousands of pages, they're good examples of his writing, and i did enjoy them quite a bit (warbreaker more than elantris, but i liked them both just fine). they're also good to read before stormlight - a lot of warbreaker has started to make its way into stormlight.
i started with mistborn era 1, which i recommend - it's really accessible even if you haven't read any fantasy before and introduces you to his magic systems and his writing style (the famous sanderlanche, the truly insane plot twists). if you're comfortable reading a trilogy of approximately 600-800 page books, i'd start there (and honestly final empire is so good and is worth reading on its own imo). mistborn era 2 is less good and should be read after era 1 - it has less cosmere wide importance at this point. this is what i've read most recently.
i would recommend reading stormlight last. it's hefty (currently four books are out, totaling around 4500 pages), but i also think it's some of his best work and it's true high fantasy at its finest (way of kings is so fucking good and it's literally 1000+ pages of setup and also words of radiance is maybe my favorite book of all time). it is a huge commitment and is the series that draws most on the cosmere universe at large so i recommend reading it after most of his other cosmere related books. however, it's a great time to hop on the stormlight train because #5 comes out this year and you can experience that live. stormlight is slated to be 10 books, but there will be a significant timeskip after 5 and he envisions them as two halves, so this arc will be complete come december.
i haven't gotten to any of last year's secret projects yet (tress, yumi, sunlit man, frugal wizard). reviews are that they're not his best work, but they may be good introductions to his writing (with the exception of sunlit man which should be read after stormlight) and are again less commitment than his other series .
i also haven't read white sand, but that's a completely different medium and also they're apparently impossible to get ahold of (although it sounds like there's new editions in the works).
as for non-cosmere, i haven't read either the cytoverse or alcatraz and the evil librarians, but i've heard good things about both! they're both written for a younger audience, though, so will feel distinctly different than his other writing.
so, long story short i'd recommend starting with either one of the standalones (warbreaker, elantris) or mistborn (but really if you're up for it i'd strongly, strongly recommend starting with mistborn - it's really really good), then turning to stormlight.
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.
8am incest study
12pm cannibalism debate
12:30 tea break
1pm necrophilia discussion
3pm eroticism
6pm dinner + beer
for april fools we’re deleting this entire site sayonara you weeaboo shits
just on a random information kick i love knowing things i'll forget within seconds that people most likely lie about anyway
OLIVIA RODRIGO in the 'obsessed' Spotify Canvas
why is emailing my faculty asking them for things that are part of their job and are good for me professionally so humiliating
got a response and somehow this is almost worse
why is emailing my faculty asking them for things that are part of their job and are good for me professionally so humiliating
this is sort of a stupid thing but. my father's death really did manage to kill two incredible holidays (pi day and the ides of march).
no one ever lets me be friends with their mom 😔
friend’s mom checking up on me bc she adores me? i get a text from friend saying “STOP TEXTING MY MOTHER”. sister’s partner’s mom has similar interests as me? we have to play telephone through our respective family members bc asking for phone numbers gets an “absolutely not.” coworker’s mom is obsessed with all the shows that i am and is a chronic rewatcher as well? “no. NO. you are not gonna be tv watch buddies with my mom. that’s NOT happening.”
no one lets me have any fun
this is still so funny to me
i’ve been left unsupervised with a mom’s phone number
count everything, including dorms, moving between houses on a single campus/compound, etc.
if you were/are homeless/couch surfing, count each location where you stayed at least a week.
need a 250 word essay describing why i need travel funding for the summer (stupid! i hate it!) but it has to be physically signed by my advisor (clown shit considering i have to upload this document as a fucking pdf) but also it's due on friday and it is spring break and also my advisor is traveling and i'm not sure i'll be able to get a signature from her
i've been journaling the past couple of days but didn't have time to get to it tonight. it feels important to say something, though.
one year ago today, i saw my father alive for the last time. we had lunch together - i ordered from one of my favorite mexican restaurants, and i accidentally got him the wrong thing (it was probably the last full meal he ate before he died, and i think about it often). i don't remember much of lunch (in the way that you don't remember things when you don't expect them to be the last time), but i know it was good, and i'm glad i have the one semi-positive memory to hold on to.
one year ago today, my dad and younger sister got into an argument. hours later, i left for the airport. i don't remember what his last words to me were exactly: i think it was "i'm going to walk the dogs, have a good flight." i'm certain it wasn't "i love you." immediately upon arriving home from getting me dinner and dropping me off at the airport, my mom and sister would find him gone. i got on a plane back to philly, completely unaware. i often think about what his last hours were like. what did he do? how did he say goodbye? how did he get everything ready so quickly? what did he think about? how long did it take for him to die?
i hope, despite everything, that he's at peace.
So many idiots have masters degrees maybe I could be the next