Ember & Ice
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profiterole_readsThe m/m podcast Ember & Ice was a lot of fun! Finn and Dane are fae princes from rival courts.
It's voiced by the lead actors of Heated Rivalry and it's basically a romantasy!AU of Heated Rivalry. With some plot and, of course, some erotica.
Hudson Williams's voice is so dreamy! *happy sigh*
It's voiced by the lead actors of Heated Rivalry and it's basically a romantasy!AU of Heated Rivalry. With some plot and, of course, some erotica.
Hudson Williams's voice is so dreamy! *happy sigh*
Names from Freeman Wills Crofts
Jan. 12th, 2026 06:19 pmcimoreneSgt. Sheepshanks
Superintendent Sheaf
John Weatherup
Alec Quilter
Ebenezer Peabody
Superintendent Goodwilly
Grosvenor Mairs
Superintendent Sheaf
John Weatherup
Alec Quilter
Ebenezer Peabody
Superintendent Goodwilly
Grosvenor Mairs
2026.02.12
Jan. 12th, 2026 10:10 amlsanderson“Minnesota Democratic Sen. Tina Smith said Sunday that the Trump administration was ‘attempting to cover up what happened‘ in the fatal shooting of Renee Good, a U.S. citizen and mother of three, by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday,” ABC News reports. “‘I think what we are seeing here is the federal government — [Department of Homeland Security Secretary] Kristi Noem, Vice President [JD] Vance, [President] Donald Trump — attempting to cover up what happened here in the Twin Cities, and I don’t think that people here and around the country are believing it,’ Smith told ABC News’ ‘This Week’ co-anchor Martha Raddatz.”
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/minnesota-senator-white-house-attempting-cover-good-shooting/story?id=129100690
Four members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe were detained by ICE agents in Minneapolis, according to WCCO. “President Frank Star Comes Out [said] in a Facebook post said the four men are homeless and were living under a bridge near the Little Earth housing complex in the East Phillips neighborhood. Attorneys who represent the tribe were “instructed” [to] reach out to Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan about where they are being detained and what their names are, he said.
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/oglala-sioux-tribe-members-detained-ice-minneapolis/ ( Read more... )
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/minnesota-senator-white-house-attempting-cover-good-shooting/story?id=129100690
Four members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe were detained by ICE agents in Minneapolis, according to WCCO. “President Frank Star Comes Out [said] in a Facebook post said the four men are homeless and were living under a bridge near the Little Earth housing complex in the East Phillips neighborhood. Attorneys who represent the tribe were “instructed” [to] reach out to Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan about where they are being detained and what their names are, he said.
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/oglala-sioux-tribe-members-detained-ice-minneapolis/ ( Read more... )
The Magical, Mystical, Fantastical Cat
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reactor_feedThe Magical, Mystical, Fantastical Cat
We’re opening a new chapter of the SFF Bestiary, focused on our favorite feline friends…
Published on January 12, 2026
“White Cat and Butterflies” by Arthur Heyer (1914)
“White Cat and Butterflies” by Arthur Heyer (1914)
Humans have a thing for companion animals. If it’s alive, breathing, and a human can live with or adjacent to it, swim with it, fly with it, and above all connect with it, someone has probably tried. But logistically and practically, it comes down to the big three: horse, dog, and cat.
The horse is not, as a species, amenable to curling up in the house by the fire. That job is more suited to the dog and the cat. I’ll leave the dog for another day; for now, let’s focus on the cat.
Here is a small furry predator, around ten pounds (4kg) on the average. It’s a mammal like us. It walks on four paws with retractable claws, and true to its nature and heritage, it has sharp fangs. It has a long tail which it uses for balance and to express opinions. It’s quick and reactive. Its eyes are large, round, and slit-pupiled, and reflect light: eyes that can see well in low light, especially the light of dawn and dusk, when it’s most active.
It pings a number of human awwww reflexes. Soft fur, deceptively soft paws, round head and ears that activate the aww cute baby module, little squeaky voice, and the coup de grace: it purrs. Its tropism toward warmth and comfort puts it in a human lap more often than not. It’s small enough to be portable, big enough to be useful as an eliminator of vermin around human habitations (which is probably how it ended up as a companion animal in the first place).
It is not, however, harmless. Cats are poised right on the edge between tame and feral. If they’re not socialized to humans as young kittens, the feral takes over. They’re as wild as a fox or a raccoon, and in some ways more dangerous, because humans don’t always realize how effective a cat’s armament is.
That little ten-pound fuzzy thing can rip a human to shreds with its claws. It’s fast, furious, and absolutely merciless to anything that tries to hold or trap it. Cat rescues handle ferals with Kevlar gloves.
Even a socialized cat has a threshold beyond which a human can’t safely go. Stay on the right side of it and you’ve got a lovely soft purry cuddlebug. Smart humans know what happens if they push their luck.
That’s part of the allure. That edge of danger. The sense that you’re sharing your house and your sleeping place with an animal that can seriously hurt you, but chooses not to. Chooses instead to grace you with its presence, its personality, and its purr.
Humans are storytellers by nature. We make sense of the world by turning it into narrative. We perceive and create patterns. We construct explanations. We invented science to anchor those explanations to the observed and observable world, but before science was story.
In one story, the cat is divine. She’s a goddess; a mystical power. In another, she’s a manifestation of evil. A demon, a creature of the darkness. In yet another, she’s the reason for the existence of the internet, which is, we’re assured, made of cats.
Cat magic is old and powerful, but it’s not only fantasy that celebrates the cat. Science fiction has its own lore of the feline, both the original domestic cat and the felinoid alien. Science fiction authors are well known for their affinity with the species, from Robert Heinlein and Andre Norton and C.J. Cherryh to many a more modern talent. It’s an article of faith in the genre that a writer should, if at all possible, have a Writer’s Cat. Or two. Or three.
Yes, yes, I know many who have Writers’ Dogs instead or too, and then there’s the SFWA Cavalry of song and story, where the horsefolk are. But cats are a mainstay.
I’m starting this chapter of the Bestiary with science fiction because I want to. That’s how a cat does it. A cat makes her own decisions. You can persuade her, but if you try to force her, you’ll need those Kevlar gloves.
Because I want to, and because it’s a roaring good story, I’ll be starting with C.J. Cherryh’s The Pride of Chanur. Do join me in the reread (or the read if it’s new to you), and let me know what else, either written or film, you’d like to see. Especially if it’s been published or aired in this century, and better yet, within the past decade. I’d love to know about newer science-fictional cats and their attendant humans.[end-mark]
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Did John Wayne write inspiring letter to Montana school?
Jan. 12th, 2026 04:00 pmsnopes_feedAccording to the story, "The Duke" once provided a classroom with a projector, several of his films and a $500 check.
Humanz B weerd ('throughout the whole of history', or at least, seldom for the v first time)
Jan. 12th, 2026 03:26 pmoursinThat piece about people having AI spouses is online: As synthetic personas become an increasingly normal part of life, meet the people falling for their chatbot lovers.
NB we note that 'Lamar' says that the breaking point with his actual, RL, girlfriend was when he found her doing the horizontal tango with his best friend, but it's clear that there were Problems already there, about having to relate to another human bean who was not always brightly sunshiny positively reinforcing him....
what would he tell his kids? “I’d tell them that humans aren’t really people who can be trusted …
I'm not entirely persuaded that individuals haven't made up imaginary companions (even way on into adulthood) before - I seem to remember some, was it in Fandomwank back in the day, accounts of people being married on the astral plane to fictional characters?
This is not entirely 'wow, startling news' to Ye Hystorianne of Sexxe: The Phenomenon of ‘Bud Sex’ Between Straight Rural Men.
I am not going to see if I actually have a copy of the work on my shelves, or if I perused it in a library somewhere, but didn't that notorious work of 'participant observation' sociology, Tearoom Trade argue that many of his subjects were not defining themselves as 'homosexual'.
I also invoke, even further back, Helen Smith's Masculinity, Class and Same-Sex Desire in Industrial England, 1895-1957 about men 'messing about' with other men in Yorkshire industrial cities.
And there is a reason people working on the epidemiology and prevention of STIs use the acronym 'MSM' - men who have sex with men - for the significant population at risk who do not identify as gay.
I had, I must admit, a very plus ca change moment when I idly picked up Katharine Whitehorn's Roundabout (1962), and found the piece she wrote on marriage bureaux. In which she mentioned that the two bureaux she interviewed tried to get their subscribers not to be too ultra-specific in their demands - that if they met potential partners in real life they would be more flexible.
Was also amused by the statement that 'Men over thirty are always very anxious to persuade me that they could have all they women they liked, if they bothered'.
KPop Demon Hunters Writers Have Their Next Big (Very Big) Movie Project Lined Up
Jan. 12th, 2026 03:12 pmreactor_feedKPop Demon Hunters Writers Have Their Next Big (Very Big) Movie Project Lined Up
Tim Burton’s Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman remake just got a new writing team
Published on January 12, 2026
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<p>As expected, <em>KPop Demon Hunters</em> won the Golden Globe for the best animated film last night—and also for best original song. The film’s writers don’t need to coast on that win, though; they’ve already got their next high-profile project. <em><a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/kpop-demon-hunters-attack-of-the-fifty-foot-woman-1236468039/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Hollywood Reporter</a></em> brought the news that writers Danya Jimenez and Hannah McMechan have signed on to Tim Burton’s remake of <em>Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman</em>.</p>
<p>The remake was <a href="https://reactormag.com/tim-burton-to-direct-remake-of-attack-of-the-fifty-foot-woman/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">announced in 2024</a>. At that point, <em>Gone Girl</em> author Gillian Flynn was reportedly writing the script. </p>
<p>The original <em>Fifty Foot Woman</em> was written by Mark Hanna and directed by Nathan Juran, and released in 1958. It follows a wealthy socialite who gets very, very big after an alien encounter—and she has some bones to pick with her cheating ex. </p>
<p>“We’re obsessed with the idea of a fifty-foot woman wreaking havoc because a man did her dirty,” the writers said in a statement. “We have a feeling a lot of people will relate.”</p>
<p>Jimenez and McMechan already have a few other projects lined up, including a series called <em>A Really Bad Person</em> and a queer Western feature film. They are also writers on the upcoming Apple TV series <em>Brothers</em>, and they’re working on Comedy Central’s <em>Ren & Stimpy</em> reboot.</p>
<p>No release date has been announced for <em>Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman</em>.[end-mark]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://reactormag.com/kpop-demon-hunters-writers-next-project/"><i>KPop Demon Hunters</i> Writers Have Their Next Big (Very Big) Movie Project Lined Up</a> appeared first on <a href="https://reactormag.com">Reactor</a>.</p><p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="https://reactormag.com/kpop-demon-hunters-writers-next-project/">https://reactormag.com/kpop-demon-hunters-writers-next-project/</a></p><p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="https://reactormag.com/?p=836377">https://reactormag.com/?p=836377</a></p>
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Jan. 12th, 2026 03:00 pmreactor_feedWhy Starfleet Academy Is the Horniest Star Trek Show in Years
Just the recent shows; it doesn’t hold a flame to TOS, TNG’s first season, or Enterprise (and what could, really)
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<p>Having seen the first six installments of the season, I can say that the show’s horniness is balanced with some moving episodes that deal with complicated issues. It’s a nice mix, and in an interview in the lead-up to the show’s premiere, I got to ask co-showrunners Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau how they approached bringing horniness back to <em>Star Trek</em>.</p>
<p>“First and foremost, I would say that as far as the horniness factor goes, I would just mention that <em>Trek</em> does have quite a past with horniness that I would certainly not want to sidestep,” Landau correctly stated. “But this is certainly the first time I think we’re really seeing it in college, we’re seeing it in cadets.”</p>
<p>“You can’t tell stories about young people at that particular moment in time without having a lot of sex in the show. You just can’t,” Kurtzman (also correctly) added. “However, it’s still <em>Star Trek</em>, right? And so what you never want is for it to be gratuitous. I think that would turn everybody off in all the wrong ways.”</p>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1100" height="733" src="https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/SFA_105_JM_1114_0770_RT-1100x733.jpg" alt="L-R, Karim Diané as Jay-Den Kraag, George Hawkins as Darem Reymi, Kerrice Brooks as Sam, Bella Shepard as Genesis Lythe and Sandro Rosta as Caleb Mir in season 1, episode 5 of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy streaming on Paramount+." class="wp-image-836281" srcset="https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/SFA_105_JM_1114_0770_RT-1100x733.jpg 1100w, https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/SFA_105_JM_1114_0770_RT-740x493.jpg 740w, https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/SFA_105_JM_1114_0770_RT-768x512.jpg 768w, https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/SFA_105_JM_1114_0770_RT-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/SFA_105_JM_1114_0770_RT.jpg 2000w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Photo Credit: John Medland/Paramount+</figcaption></figure>
<p>Landau, whose previous credits include creating <em>Nancy Drew</em> and <a href="https://reactormag.com/the-magicians-we-have-brought-you-little-cakes/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">writing on <em>The Magicians</em></a><em>, </em>seemed more comfortable with acknowledging the show’s horny factor (a necessary requirement, as Kurtzman pointed out, given their ages). But again, they both wanted to make sure viewers know that the show isn’t a younger version of <a href="https://reactormag.com/star-trek-the-next-generation-rewatch-qthe-naked-nowq/"><em>The Next Generation </em>season one</a> (which, indeed, it is not).</p>
<p>“You’re also talking about characters who are really deeply in love with each other,” Kurtzman said. “So it has a very different feeling and tone overall.”</p>
<p>“That’s right,” Landau added. “We’re classy about it.”</p>
<p><em>The first two episodes of </em>Star Trek: Starfleet Academy <em>premiere on Paramount+ on January 15, 2026, with new episodes dropping weekly on Thursdays. [end-mark]</em></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://reactormag.com/starfleet-academy-horniest-star-trek-show/">Why <i>Starfleet Academy</i> Is the Horniest <i>Star Trek</i> Show in Years</a> appeared first on <a href="https://reactormag.com">Reactor</a>.</p><p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="https://reactormag.com/starfleet-academy-horniest-star-trek-show/">https://reactormag.com/starfleet-academy-horniest-star-trek-show/</a></p><p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="https://reactormag.com/?p=836283">https://reactormag.com/?p=836283</a></p>
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<p>Well… here we are, Cosmere Chickens: the final article in the <em>Wind and Truth</em> Reread. Paige, Drew, and I hope that you’ve enjoyed this reread as much as we have! We’ll be going over the events of the final few chapters as we usually do, then making some broad comments on the book (and this five-book cycle) as a whole at the end. If you found yourself disappointed by aspects of this book, we highly recommend you check out the final section, where we discuss the overall fan reaction to this book in addition to some of the implications of the ending. And if there’s anything we’ve overlooked or things you’d like us to cover or discuss sometime in the future, please drop a suggestion in the comment section and let us know!</p>
<p><a></a>Please note that this series is intended as a reread rather than a read-along. That means there <em>will</em> be spoilers for the end of the book (as well as <strong>full Cosmere spoilers</strong>, so beware if you aren’t caught up on all Cosmere content).</p>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Paige’s Commentary: Plot Arcs</h3>
<p>Chapter 147 is titled “Light Flickering in the Darkness” and we have a Wit POV. He wakes in a bed in a place with skyscrapers and actual dirt. And guns. Helloooo, Scadrial!</p>
<figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left"><blockquote><p>It had worked. He would continue to exist.</p></blockquote></figure>
<p>Interesting that he wasn’t sure if he’d actually survive would when Odium vaporized him. What I’d have given to read his POV in that scene!</p>
<p>He dresses and starts to tell himself that it’s all going to work out, but then he can’t lie to himself. Because Dalinar made the wrong decision. Just… completely wrong.</p>
<p>Wit can feel his Lightweaver powers but Design is still on Roshar, so he can’t really use them. He had set some protections in place for her, but would be unable to summon her as a sword. I’d have been amazed if he could have!</p>
<p>Someone named Ulaam enters and addresses him as Hoid, and he henceforth thinks of himself as Hoid. He’s apparently been recreated from a cell culture. He demands a seon, stating that he needs to find out what’s happening on Roshar, but Ulaam assures him they are already trying. Time is passing slower on Roshar, and communication is unreliable. There’s a “slowness bubble” (??) around the planet and Ulaam speculates that it will be months before they can learn anything.</p>
<figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left"><blockquote><p>“Months for us. Hours for them.”</p></blockquote></figure>
<p>Hoid says he needs to get back to Roshar immediately. Ulaam warns that if he goes back, he’ll be trapped in the bubble and that in the meantime, things are happening. Autonomy is moving, and Ulaam has a message from Taldain, despite the fact that that particular planet should be unreachable.</p>
<p>Ulaam retreats after leaving some broadsheets and a report on what they knew so far from Roshar.</p>
<p>Hoid is extremely worried about Roshar. He really cares about the planet and those on it, especially Jasnah, Sigzil, his spren, dear friends as well as young people he’d mentored. He has previously said he’d sacrifice Roshar if it were what the cosmere needed, but now he’s not so certain—and it seems it might be sacrificed anyway, for no good whatsoever.</p>
<p>He knows that if he goes back, the greater cosmere will suffer because Retribution is something that would rival even Harmony in sheer power. Hoid realizes that he can’t go back; he has to protect Scadrial first; they can’t afford to lose this planet, too.</p>
<figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left"><blockquote><p>What had Dalinar been thinking? Why had he …<br><br>Wait.<br><br>Hoid’s eyes opened.<br><br>Could it be…</p></blockquote></figure>
<p>He takes up his bone and reaches out to the “meditative realm of the dragons” to seek the wisdom of the ancient dead—and in doing so, he comes to a revelation: “Dalinar Kholin had been an absolute <em>storming</em> genius.”</p>
<p>How, Hoid?? HOW was he a genius?? Elaborate!</p>
<p>POV Shift!</p>
<p>Adolin is in Azimir, of course, a month and a half after the contest. It’s been steadily raining, and he’s finally grown used to the sound of rain hitting the metal rooftop. Noura and most of the nine other Unoathed are sitting at a table lit with actual candles. Ugh, so primitive… They have enough Blades and Plate for thirty-seven more people to join them and, fortunately, they work without Stormlight. Radiants can still summon Blades and Plate, though they have no access to Surges.</p>
<p>Adolin is apparently still Connected and can understand Azish, but it slips, and in the mornings, it takes a few minutes before he starts to understand. I’m guessing this Connection given him by his father will fade with time, so Adolin best start learning Azish in earnest! Maya had gone to Urithiru and has just returned; Adolin announces to the others that his father is dead. Poor Adolin. He had wanted to see Dalinar again so badly, to reconcile and forgive… to resolve their issues. It’s so damn sad that he didn’t get that opportunity.</p>
<p>He continues relaying the information that Maya had learned from the spren gathered at the tower. I’m so glad that Maya can travel back and forth; otherwise, they’d have zero information without spanreeds. Jasnah can look into Shadesmar and speak with spren, so they can, in a roundabout way, communicate.</p>
<p>They talk of their spren, the spren of their Blades, who are recovering. Maya mentions that she has eyes again. There are scars, but she has eyes. They think that Renarin and Rlain releasing Mishram has something to do with that.</p>
<p>Adolin thinks of the storm again, how it’s always raining, though the lightning is less. There had been earthquakes—the landscape has apparently been rearranged in places, though Azimir didn’t experience any of the changes. The storm will strangle the world.</p>
<figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left"><blockquote><p>No spanreeds for communication. No Oathgates. No…<br><br>No healing. He looked at the missing portion of his leg, where he wore the single piece of plate that grew a metal kind of leg and foot, with three large toe-like portions.</p></blockquote></figure>
<p>Don’t accept that this is how things will always be, Adolin! Don’t accept it! Think of it as temporarily missing, and then you can be healed if you can ever get back to Urithiru! Until then, you have the Plate.</p>
<p>He thinks again of his father, who had failed to protect them. (If only Adolin could know what Hoid knows…) Adolin had felt the love and apology of his father but will never be able to look him in the eyes again.</p>
<p>Kushkam says that they are not beaten. They are Shardbearers and can grow their ranks. May also mentions that the Radiants at Urithiru still have their powers, though they can’t leave the tower… so what good are they, really?</p>
<p>Adolin thinks of Shallan. He knows she’s alive, but fears he won’t see her again given that the Oathgates don’t work. He doesn’t know if she’ll ever be able to return to the Physical Realm with no Stormlight.</p>
<p>The door slams open and Zabra enters, bidding everyone to come outside. Noura doesn’t like the fact that Zabra and even Gezamal are friends with Yanagawn… but the emperor considers each one of the Unoathed to be of a rank which are allowed to speak directly to him.</p>
<p>Zabra says the rain is ending and they all rush outside to see the sun. Adolin trails behind, picking up a copy of his father’s book, which he’s learning to read. In the coming weeks, we’re told that they’ll discover that the clouds have dissipated only over Azir; the rest of Roshar will remains cloaked in darkness, beset by the Everstorm.</p>
<figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left"><blockquote><p>Small though it might seem, a light <em>would</em> remain in Roshar.</p></blockquote></figure>
<p>Shallan is in Shadesmar, months after Retribution’s rise, and she, along with other spren and humans, approaches what used to be Cultivation’s Perpendicularity. It’s an empty hole. People camp there, awaiting Cultivation’s possible return, and Shallan will stay with them for the sense of community. She doesn’t know if she’ll ever see Adolin again.</p>
<p>At this thought, she touches her belly, and we (or at least <em>I</em>) assume that she’s with child. A child Adolin may never meet. It’s storming heartbreaking!</p>
<p>The part of her that was Radiant assesses the situation. Food and water from offworld, shipping lanes were planned to Urithiru, which still had Towerlight. She <em>would</em> survive, for more than herself.</p>
<p>She figures there has to be a way back into the Physical Realm. Perhaps Jasnah will figure out how to transfer people from Shadesmar. Shallan has hope.</p>
<p>She heads back to where she left Pattern and Testament. There are Fused here, as they ultimately rule, but they allow the “locals” to function independently. Shallan thinks that they might present an opportunity to make a perpendicularity.</p>
<figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left"><blockquote><p><em>I </em>will <em>find my way back to him.</em></p></blockquote></figure>
<p>Ow, my feels!</p>
<p>She approaches some tents and Felt stands up. When she takes off her hood, he turns white and looks as though he’ll pass out. She tells him she just wants to talk to Thaidakar if the seons still work. She says she needs to use his; he owes her, and she has news that he might find relevant.</p>
<p>POV Shift</p>
<p>Sigzil is walking in Shadesmar, thirsty, but the power of the Dawnshard he carries has started to sustain him. He doesn’t need to sleep anymore but he’s tired. He’s also set on redeeming himself by protecting and caring for the Dawnshard.</p>
<p>At long last, he encounters a caravan of Iriali. He’d heard about it from some spren who knew they were traveling offworld, so he’s going to tag along.</p>
<p>Travelers of other nationalities are pushed to the back of the caravan and here Sig finds a family that takes pity on him and gives him a ride in their wagon. And then he meets 12124, though he doesn’t want to use that name anymore. Sig realizes he was Szeth’s spren, but the highspren is ashamed of being rejected. But he is eager to talk, and begins telling Kaladin and Szeth’s story to Sigzil as they travel.</p>
<p>POV Shift!</p>
<p>Shallan speaks with Thaidakar, who explains the weird time-slowing bubble that is enveloping Roshar. Apparently, if she were to leave the planet, even if she returned after just a few years, everyone else will have aged a great deal. Thaidakar guesses that the situation will resolve in 70 or 80 years, which would be about 10 years on Roshar. He goes on to say that he has little interest in what’s happening on her world at the time since he has pressing concerns on his own planet to deal with.</p>
<p>Shallan demands that he give her the seon, and amazingly enough, he allows her to take it—provided the seon, Ala, can continue to report back to him about events on Roshar. Shallan returns with the seon to Pattern and Testament, who is looking much better since the final day. Ala tells Shallan that she’s been in communication with another seon on Roshar, and Shallan has plans to get that other seon to go to Azimir so she can speak with Adolin.</p>
<p>Here’s hoping that works out for her.</p>
<p>POV Shift!</p>
<p>Some months later, but years later for the rest of the cosmere, Retribution finally has a moment to turn his eye back to Roshar.</p>
<p>He visits the Spiritual Realm where, as Taravangian, he enters the vision that he’d created of Karbranth. He’d rescued the people of the city rather than destroying them, and tucked them away in the Spiritual Realm, inside a vision. They have no idea what’s happened in the world, and to them, Taravangian never died.</p>
<figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left"><blockquote><p>He embraced his grandchildren, weeping, and the power simmered. Hating Dalinar Kholin.<br><br>For having been right.</p></blockquote></figure>
<p>The epilogue is titled “Majestic Improvisation.” Hoid is waxing poetic about how art is improvisation, speaking to a group of people waiting to interview to work for House Ladrian, who are doing their best to ignore him.</p>
<p>He thinks of what Dalinar did in encouraging Honor to go to Taravangian.</p>
<figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left"><blockquote><p>It had taken Hoid weeks to grasp what that wonderful, belligerent, spectacular man had done.</p></blockquote></figure>
<p>Dalinar had made Retribution a target of the rest of the Shards in the cosmere who had been ignoring him up to that point, but were forced to pay attention the second he’d taken up a second Shard. And with Retribution in hiding, maybe Roshar had a chance…</p>
<p>When he can make it back to Roshar, Hoid plans to make sure everyone knows of Dalinar’s brilliance in his final act.</p>
<p>As he’s being interviewed for the position of coachman in the Ladrian household, he quips and jests with the very businesslike house steward, playing the fool as only Hoid can.</p>
<p>As he leaves, having somehow gotten himself hired, he thinks to himself that he needs allies who can fight a god and plans to find Valor.</p>
<figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left"><blockquote><p>“Brilliant job, my friend,” he said, striding out onto the street. “Brilliant <em>storming</em> job. You’ve given us a chance. Let’s hope we can live up to it.”</p></blockquote></figure>
<p>And finally, we get to the Postlude, where we find Kalak on a ridge near a beach. He doesn’t know where he is, and then Kaladin is there, explaining. He’s taking Jezrien’s place as king of the Heralds, there is a new Oathpact, and Ishar has protected their minds from the Fused in order to give them all time to heal.</p>
<p>Kalak is skeptical and says that everyone on Roshar is as good as dead.</p>
<figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left"><blockquote><p>“Then what harm is there,” Kaladin said, “in trying one more time? If everything is already doomed?”<br><br>“I…”<br><br>“One more try,” Kaladin whispered. “Just once more.”<br><br>“Once more,” Kalak said. “A… final Return?”<br><br>“We heal,” Kaladin said.</p></blockquote></figure>
<p>And then Kalak sees Taln. He asks if the Herald they abandoned has said anything, and Kaladin replies that he also needs time to heal but that he has spoken once, to say that he forgives them all.</p>
<figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left"><blockquote><p>Taln was back.<br><br>Taln… forgave them.<br><br>Kalak reached up and took Kaladin’s hand.</p></blockquote></figure>
<p>I’m not crying, you’re crying! And thus ends <em>Wind and Truth</em> (though I’ll see you at the end of the article for our final wrap-up).</p>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><a></a>Lyndsey’s Commentary: Character Arcs</h3>
<h4 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Overall notes:</strong></h4>
<figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left"><blockquote><p>Months for us. Hours for them.</p></blockquote></figure>
<p>I’m certain that Drew will be covering this in-depth below, but I wanted to take note of this in regards to character growth as well. <a href="https://wob.coppermind.net/events/475-fanx-2021/#e14998" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Brandon has stated</a> that we’re going to have a ten-year time-skip between book five and six of Stormlight. Time will be passing for our characters slower than it will be for the rest of the Cosmere, but even so… there’s going to be some unaccounted time here. Time for some characters to come to terms with loss (looking at you, Adolin, Renarin, Jasnah), time for healing (Kaladin and the Heralds), and time for longing to grow (Adolin and Shallan), despite their seon-phone.</p>
<p>Also… Whoa! Is that Herald on the new arch for the epilogue KALADIN? ::<em>looks closer</em>:: OH MY STORMS, IT IS! That’s incredible. Hello, Mr. McHottie-Herald-Face!</p>
<h4 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Szeth</strong></h4>
<figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left"><blockquote><p>[…] <em>from the witness of my husband, Szeth </em>[…]</p></blockquote></figure>
<p>I’m sorry, WHAT? Szeth GETS MARRIED?! AMAZING. YES. NO NOTES. (We didn’t get these little snippets in the beta version so this is entirely new to me, apologies for the excitement.)</p>
<h4 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Hoid</strong></h4>
<figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left"><blockquote><p>He’d told himself he would sacrifice Roshar for the good of the cosmere, but at the end he hadn’t been so certain. And now it seemed it was going to be sacrificed anyway, just not for the good of anyone or anything.</p></blockquote></figure>
<p>It can be hard to comment on Hoid in regards to his character arc, because we know <em>so little</em> about him, in comparison with the other characters. He plays things incredibly close to the vest, even when we have access to his POV, and not really knowing his full motivations, plans, or backstory hinders our ability to comment decisively about what he’s up to. However, I will say this: watching him grow closer to the characters on Roshar and come to <em>truly </em>care for them has been very endearing. Despite his bitching about Kaladin, he clearly does care about him. He has a particular soft spot for Shallan, and we all know how his relationship with Jasnah turned out. To see a practically immortal being grow so close to mortals (well, mostly) is… sad, in a way. He knows that their lives are transient—but he can’t help feeling for them anyway. He cares a lot more for people than he lets on, and that’s… incredibly sweet, that the millennia haven’t completely deadened him. (Despite him trying desperately to prove to everyone, including himself, that that’s the case.)</p>
<h4 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Adolin</strong></h4>
<figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left"><blockquote><p>“My father is dead.”<br><br>He braced himself as he said it. The pain was still raw, and anguishspren congregated at his feet.</p></blockquote></figure>
<p>Having someone die like that without getting closure for the distance between you is <em>hard,</em> even with that last little message that Dalinar sent:</p>
<figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left"><blockquote><p>[…] he’d felt a surreal sense of love and apology from his father.</p></blockquote></figure>
<p>It’s nice to know that Adolin got that, at least. Many people don’t get even that much from estranged family before they pass.</p>
<figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left"><blockquote><p>Book snug under his arm, he felt like somewhere his father was smiling at him.</p></blockquote></figure>
<p>Aww. Well… Adolin’s arc in regards to his father is over with, or so it seems. He still has a way to go, and several different paths his character might take—he’s a husband, separated from his wife. A soon-to-be father, who has no prospect of meeting his child or even knowing that they exist. A warrior, a leader, a friend, and a mentor.</p>
<figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left"><blockquote><p>No healing. He looked at the missing portion of his leg, where he wore the single piece of Plate that grew a metal kind of leg and foot, with three large toe-like portions. He was getting quite proficient with it, but still had been hoping to have his actual foot back.</p></blockquote></figure>
<p>I’m… actually happy to see this.</p>
<p>Let me explain.</p>
<p>I’m not disabled in this way, but I try to pay a <em>lot</em> of attention to disabled folx and how they feel about being portrayed in fiction. (I have a blind character in a book I’m working on, and want to be sure I’m portraying them as sensitively and as accurately as possible.) As such, I see a lot of discourse around the dislike of disabled people being “fixed” magically. This is a sensitive subject and it’s worth noting that there’s not one perspective that’s universally accepted. But one viewpoint that comes up quite often is that people don’t see their disabilities as something that <em>needs</em> fixing. They are a part of that person, and having those things magically taken away so often in books is frustrating. Especially when that’s not an option for most people in real life.</p>
<p>Seeing people in books (or other media) who rely on disability aids (like the one Adolin has here) is a type of representation that’s just as important as the “wish fulfillment fantasy” of having a disability magically healed or removed. Both have their places, and I think Sanderson does a great job of showing <em>both.</em> Characters like Adolin and Rysn are perfectly capable of being amazing while relying on their disability aids. Characters like Lopen have had their disabilities magically healed, because they never came to view that disability as a part of their personality and identity, and so the Stormlight returned them to “factory settings.” It’s a nice way to acknowledge that both things can be valid, and I know that Sanderson has reached out to disabled folx to get their opinions on this matter as well.</p>
<p>If you’re disabled and have an opinion on this one way or the other, we’d love to listen. Please chime in in the comments below!</p>
<h4 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Shallan</strong></h4>
<figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left"><blockquote><p>She might never see Adolin again.<br><br>Her hands went to her stomach, cradling it. Oh… oh <em>storms</em>.</p></blockquote></figure>
<p>It’s subtle, but if this <em>isn’t</em> telling us that she’s pregnant, I’ll eat all of Wayne’s hats.</p>
<figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left"><blockquote><p>She could survive. She had to. Not just for herself.</p></blockquote></figure>
<p><a href="https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExYTFxYTVmbWIyMWo2aWxlbTF6YjFsNTRnYjhtdzUxZ3k5YzloZXFteSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/BIZkwFtu2xDlS/giphy.gif">I’m telling you</a>…</p>
<p>Anyway. We’re leaving Shallan in a bad place <em>physically,</em> but mentally, she’s probably the best she’s been since the trauma of killing her mother and father. She’s somewhat stable for the first time in a long time, and she’s one of the most capable and resilient of the main characters thanks to everything she’s gone through. She’ll be all right… and her reaching out to Kelsier means we might be seeing her sooner than everyone else…</p>
<figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left"><blockquote><p>“Yes, if you left and traveled to another world, decades might pass for you. I don’t recommend it, unless there is nobody you care about—because when you return, you will be much older than they are.”</p></blockquote></figure>
<p>…Or will we?</p>
<figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left"><blockquote><p>[…] if this worked, she’d at least be able to talk to Adolin.</p></blockquote></figure>
<p>Well, at least there’s that! A long-distance relationship is certainly better than no communication at all.</p>
<h4 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Sigzil / Vienta / 12124</strong></h4>
<figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left"><blockquote><p>He’d consigned her—both had believed—to a painful half existence. He had done it to save her, and the note she’d sent acknowledged that, but she still didn’t want to see him.</p></blockquote></figure>
<p>You know what? That’s valid. I’m glad to see that she acknowledged the reasoning, but I can’t entirely blame her for not wanting to see him again, either.</p>
<figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left"><blockquote><p>“I’m a failure,” the spren confessed.</p></blockquote></figure>
<p>I’m happy to see these two find one another. We know where they end up, of course (if you don’t, go and pick up a copy of <em>The Sunlit Man</em> to find out) but it’s nice to see that the spren who was rejected and the man who rejected his spren in order to save her have managed to find one another, and can work together to heal.</p>
<h4 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Kaladin</strong></h4>
<p>I’d like to point at Brandon’s quote <a href="https://wob.coppermind.net/events/543/#e16879" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">here </a>to sort of sum up my thoughts on Kaladin’s arc. The relevant part, as I see it, is thus:</p>
<figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left"><blockquote><p>I am pretty proud across the entire five books of what I did with Kaladin. Kaladin’s arc across the five books is when I was building it—you know you are never quite sure when something is going to work. And I am like: is it right, like, if i am going to have Kaladin in book four be PTSD Kaladin and book five be recovery Kaladin, is that actually [going to] work in the book? You only get a couple of books of Kaladin being on his A-game before it crushes him and as a writer, the way the arc looks and comes together and having a book where he is dealing with it and recovering, was really satisfying to write. You don’t get to do that as a writer very often. You usually have to have someone go through an arc in a book and then kinda come to a catharsis by the end of the book and that is their arc. What you don’t get to do is spend fifteen years, you know, cracking a person and then having them figure out how to put themselves back together and it is something I have never really done before.</p></blockquote></figure>
<figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left"><blockquote><p>“Then what harm is there,” Kaladin said, “in trying one more time? If everything is already doomed?”</p></blockquote></figure>
<p>Gods, I love this man. Kaladin is such a great character. His growth is one of the most fascinating character arcs I’ve seen in all my time reading fantasy (which is not an inconsiderable bit, as I’m 43). Usually, we’d see the character growing more and more badass, learning more cool fight skills and getting more powerful until they can eventually face off against gods. This evolution of warrior to healer is pretty revolutionary. While Rand al’Thor in The Wheel of Time had some PTSD to work through, he still spends the last book a fighter. Usually we see this shift once the battle is done—having a main character step back into a support role partway through the series is pretty rare. I’m having trouble thinking of any other instances… sound off in the comments if you know of any I’ve forgotten, or maybe have never heard of! (I need to add to my TBR anyway.)</p>
<h4 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Retribution/Odium/Taravangian</strong></h4>
<p>How many names is this guy going to collect? Ugh. Anyway.</p>
<figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left"><blockquote><p>Kharbranth was dead, but in the moment that Cultivation had looked away, Taravangian had summoned his power and taken the people.</p></blockquote></figure>
<p>Lovely. I mean, we knew this, and we’ve commented on it before in this reread, but it still annoys me that he played all high and mighty and “Oh, look at me, I’m willing to sacrifice all I hold most dear” when he was really just a huge hypocrite.</p>
<figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left"><blockquote><p>He embraced his grandchildren, weeping, and the power simmered. Hating Dalinar Kholin.<br><br>For having been right.</p></blockquote></figure>
<p>HA! Well… at least he admits it, not that it did poor Dalinar any good. Still, a small part of me is happy to see that Dalinar was <em>right.</em></p>
<figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left"><blockquote><p>So far as she now remembered, he had not died.</p></blockquote></figure>
<p>There are <em>so</em> many troubling implications here regarding consent and the ethics of <em>literally changing someone’s memories</em>, but I mean…</p>
<p>He <em>is</em> the bad guy.</p>
<h4 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Kalak</strong></h4>
<figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left"><blockquote><p>He was a wretch, and always would be.</p></blockquote></figure>
<p>That word choice <em>has</em> to be deliberate. It’s the same word that Kaladin always used to refer to himself in his worst moments, thinking of himself as “the wretch.”</p>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><a></a>Drew’s Commentary: Invested Arts & Theories</h3>
<figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left"><blockquote><p>Wit woke in a bed somewhere far from Roshar. A place with soil, budding skyscrapers, and firearms.</p></blockquote></figure>
<p>When I look back at the progression of the Cosmere as an institution, I realize I’ve said on a few different occasions that “this is where the gloves come off.” I said it way back in 2014, when Nightblood showed up at the end of <em>Words of Radiance</em>. I said it when I first read <em>The Lost Metal</em>, and again when I read <em>Tress of the Emerald Sea</em> a short while later.</p>
<p>There are pretty clear stages to how Sanderson has rolled out the interconnectedness of things. The early books—<em>Mistborn</em> Era 1, <em>Elantris</em>, <em>Warbreaker</em>—had Hoid puttering around in the background and that was pretty much it. <em>The Way of Kings</em> dropped in some other worldhoppers, but there was very little context to figure out who they were. <em>Words of Radiance</em> was the first overt crossover (with another, less overt crossover in Vasher/Zahel).</p>
<p>That felt like a demarcation to me. Subsequent releases, like <em>Oathbringer</em> and <em>The Bands of Mourning</em>, also had obvious worldhoppers show up. It’s hard to miss Khriss at the New Seran party or Riino in the Shadesmar lighthouse, especially if you’ve read everything else up to that point.</p>
<p><em>The Lost Metal</em> and the secret projects again marked a new stage, with worldhoppers and off-world Invested Arts playing key roles in the climaxes of different stories. So what was the new threshold going to be for a book as massive as <em>Wind and Truth</em>? This is, after all, essentially the halfway point of the Cosmere.</p>
<p>Well, this scene is it. For the first time in a Cosmere book, we get a scene set on <em>a different mainline Cosmere world</em>. Hoid wakes up on Scadrial, has a conversation with a kandra, ruminates over Shardic fallout, and then uses a tamukek to contact the minds of long-dead dragons.</p>
<p>I mean, <em>what?</em></p>
<p>It’s no wonder that this book got the reception it did, especially from the readers who are Stormlight-only. If you’ve never read <em>Mistborn</em> or <em>Elantris</em> or <em>Arcanum Unbounded</em> or… well, pretty much everything else in the Cosmere? This scene probably feels like a fever dream. Like Brandon completely jumped the shark.</p>
<p>Now I’m obviously a big fan of the interconnected nature of the Cosmere, and I’ve been on board from basically the very start. I’ve known where this is heading since the mid-2000s. I love this kind of stuff. But I totally get why so many people were frustrated with this book.</p>
<p>I’ll talk more about the reception later on in this article, but for now we have to talk about some other developments in the story.</p>
<figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left"><blockquote><p>Her hands went to her stomach, cradling it. Oh… oh <em>storms.</em></p></blockquote></figure>
<figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left"><blockquote><p>She could survive. She had to. Not just for herself.</p></blockquote></figure>
<p>Sanderson doesn’t come straight out and say it, but as both Paige and Lyn have noted above, these two lines are plenty for implication: Shallan is pregnant.</p>
<p>She’s also stuck in Shadesmar, and while she says she plans on hanging around near Cultivation’s old perpendicularity, I have to wonder how far she’ll end up traveling and how much the time dilation will affect her.</p>
<p>It’s very possible that the next book will open with a young child or even teen in Shallan’s company. I know I’m not alone in thinking that we may get a sort of “next generation” cast going on, with Lift, Gavinor, Oroden, and Shallan and Adolin’s child.</p>
<figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left"><blockquote><p>“I’m sure we’ll think of something,” Sigzil said, leaning back. And he listened to the spren’s story, sitting in a daze and trying not to be frightened of the way his very body seemed to be changing to adapt to the power he held.</p></blockquote></figure>
<p>And so we see the beginning of a new bond for Sigzil and Aux, one which will have a bittersweet ending in <em>The Sunlit Man</em>.</p>
<p>I do wonder about the timeline, though. Does Sigzil bond Aux <em>before</em> he gives the Dawnshard back to Hoid? I hope we see more from their adventures, and get more details about what the Dawnshard does to Sigzil, how it interacts with a potential Nahel bond, and how/when Hoid comes to get it back.</p>
<figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left"><blockquote><p>“We’ve been calculating. Seems like the time dilation <em>is</em> slowing around Roshar, and the worst was at the start, but it’s going to be a while yet. Maybe… seventy or eighty years from now, you’ll realign with cosmere standard? That will seem like a decade or so for you.”</p></blockquote></figure>
<p>Well, isn’t <em>that</em> convenient? This allows for the ten-year gap between books 5 and 6 <em>and</em> allows for Mistborn Era 3 (presumably) to take place around the same time as the Voidlight Archive. Neatly managed, Brandon. Sneaky. And I’ll leave things off with one final bit of evidence in making my case that the back five books will be the Voidlight Archive:</p>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Closing Discussion</h3>
<p><strong>Lyn: </strong>The fan reactions over <em>Wind and Truth</em> have been decidedly mixed, with many people seeming to be disappointed that they didn’t get the closure they expected. It’s worth noting that this <em>isn’t</em> the end of the series—just the end of this five-book cycle. I find it helpful to look at this ending like <em>The Empire Strikes Back</em>; things aren’t resolved, we’re left with characters in terrible situations, and the main bad guy is still at large. Han’s encased in carbonite. Luke’s hand has been cut off. Luke’s just learned that Vader is his <em>father</em>, and Cloud City has fallen. The prospects for our characters seem pretty dire! But we all know that <em>Return of the Jedi</em> turns things around. I have every faith that Sanderson will deliver us a <em>Return of the Jedi</em> ending to this series in the back five. He hasn’t let us down yet, in my opinion. The endings to both eras of <em>Mistborn</em> were incredibly satisfying, after all (not to mention the endings to the <em>Reckoners</em> and <em>Skyward </em>series, which take place outside of the Cosmere).</p>
<p>So if you’re one of those who was disappointed by this ending, my advice is to have faith. I know it’s frustrating that we won’t be returning to this world and these characters for quite a long while, but when we do, the ending’s going to be spectacular. I can feel it.</p>
<p><strong>Paige: </strong>I can feel it, too! I’m so bummed about the wait but it will be so great to get to the second arc! We’ll get reunions and communication and, in the end, I’m confident that Taravangian is going <em>down</em>! Maybe I’m just too rabid a fan, but I wasn’t beset with doubts and didn’t find myself getting frustrated or annoyed with parts of this book as many of the more vocal critics seemed to be. I enjoyed the journey for what it was. I also didn’t feel that the book was overlong, though the beta read certainly was. Oi.</p>
<p><strong>Drew:</strong> I have tried throughout this read-along to just stick to analyzing the lore/Investiture/magic revelations and theorizing about where things might be going, but I’m sure some slip-ups happened along the way. That is to say: I don’t really like this book.</p>
<p>I mentioned in my lore section about how crazy the crossovers got in this novel, and while I like them, I can understand how Stormlight-only readers would be frustrated by them. As Lyn noted, too, other readers don’t like the down note it ended on. Personally, I have more issues with the pacing of the book; the ten-day structure was really cool in theory, but in execution, it ended up feeling like a lot of characters were just spinning wheels while waiting for the important stuff to happen on Day Ten.</p>
<p><strong>Lyn</strong>: You make a good point. This certainly isn’t my favorite Cosmere novel (<em>Shadows of Self)</em>, or even my favorite Stormlight book (<em>Words of Radiance)</em>, and part of that <em>is</em> the interconnectedness of things. It’s <em>really</em> cool to have another huge new speculative fiction interconnected world (looking at you, Discworld<em> </em>and The Dark Tower), and the Marvel Cinematic Universe absolutely set the Cosmere up for success in this regard. But in a way, it’s also hard to keep up with everything, and that can result in readers (even readers like us who are <em>very</em> up on their broader Cosmere theories and knowledge) left in the dark. I liken this to comic books or (amusingly) professional wrestling storylines; it can be intimidating to even step into a world like this, knowing how much of a time investment there is to understanding everything!</p>
<p><strong>Paige:</strong><em> Painfully</em> intimidating! But then I’m not as up on the in-depth cosmere lore as some of the other betas, and fans, so I tend to get a little overwhelmed with the stuff that Drew writes so well about. But even with my relatively elementary understanding of the cosmere as a whole, I’ve read everything but <em>White Sand</em> and I didn’t feel like anything was over my head at all during this book. Though I can’t speak to what it might have been like for readers who only show up for the Stormlight books.</p>
<p><strong>Lyn: </strong>I’m in agreement with Drew on the pacing, too. It did feel a little… uneven, at times.</p>
<p><strong>Drew:</strong> One thing I’ll say that I did like is that Brandon took a shot with the end of this book. I almost wish he’d let things get <em>even darker</em>. In some ways, it feels like he went for the <em>Empire Strikes Back</em>-style ending but also tried to keep it light. I wish Taravangian had <em>actually</em> gotten Dalinar, not this Blackthorn spren deal. I wish Gavinor had <em>actually</em> been a little kid. It’s like if Han Solo got encased in carbonite, but then shows up on the medical frigate in the final scene because *gasp* it was actually a clone that got captured!</p>
<p>I dunno. If we’re gonna go dark, let’s go dark, yeah?</p>
<p><strong>Lyn:</strong> You know, usually I like dark stuff. I did read the entirety of A Song of Fire and Ice that’s been released so far, after all! But I’m glad for this ending. In my opinion, this was just the right level of dark for a Stormlight book.</p>
<p><strong>Paige:</strong> I’m all for going dark now and then, yes. But I’m super happy that Taravangian didn’t get actual Dalinar. The man died with his honor intact and, for that, I’m thankful to Brandon. And I hope this Blackthorn abomination of Taravangian’s is ineffective and impotent in the long run.</p>
<p>In closing, I want to say what an honor it has been to travel this journey with Lyndsey and Drew, and with all of you, Sanderfans. Thank you for being here, for your support not just of us, but of Brandon. You’re all amazing, Radiants. See you soon.</p>
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RIP, M. Christian 😢
Jan. 12th, 2026 09:29 amcatherineldfThis is a heartbreaker of a post to write. I don’t remember when I first met Chris online, but we were all part of a fairly large community of erotica writers who also crossed over into other genres from the late 1980s to the early 2010s, by which point the literary erotica markets largely disintegrated. Everyone knew everyone else to some extent or another. We all shared TOCs, appeared in each other’s publications and socialized in person, if we lived close enough. Since I am in the Midwest, I didn’t get to do much socializing in person, but I did meet Chris and a bunch of other folks at an erotica writers conference in Vegas in the mid2000s.
In my experience, Chris was kind and genial, loved to write, wrote very well and enjoyed supporting other writers. Their body of work, between erotica, horror, science fiction and nonfiction, was enormous and well worth reading. I appeared in at least 3 of the anthologies that they edited and they sent me a great lesbian ghost for one of mine. I also had a short essay in Chris’s nonfiction book about writing and selling erotica. I have no idea how many TOCs we shared, but it was a lot. I blurbed a couple of his/their books along the way, as well. Most recently, I released a new edition of Chris’s terrific gay vampire novel, Running Dry through Queen of Swords Press.
Chris’s fiction ranged from the smoking hot to the atmospheric and suspenseful. While they finaled for multiple awards, they never really got the wins and recognition outside the erotica writing community that they deserved, which is a damn shame. I was reaching out to Chris to tell them that I had just nominated Running Dry for the SSBA Awards in the Horror category when I got the bad news. 😢
As I’ve posted elsewhere, I’m trying to track down an estate contact. In the meantime, I plan to keep their book in print until I hear otherwise. Author royalties will be set aside until I have a designee or will be donated to some of the organizations they cared deeply about. In the meantime, remember them for their work. Read it, enjoy it and pass it along to your friends. Chris would like that.
https://books2read.com/runningdry
And their website: http://www.mchristian.com
UPDATE: I have spoken with Chris's brother and have gotten permission to keep Running Dry in print and to pay him the royalties. In the meantime, Samuel needs help getting to Eugene, covering associated expenses, etc. If you're in a position to help, his Venmo is @Samuel-AddisonMuncy
I've Already Started my Taxes for Next Year
Jan. 12th, 2026 07:25 amcanyonwalkerI had a pretty quiet weekend again this past weekend. Boring, too. How boring? So boring that I started my taxes. ...And I don't mean my taxes that are due April 15. I started next year's taxes. The ones for 2026 that aren't due for another 15 months!
Why start so soon?
As I've mentioned before, I start my taxes a year in advance. Obviously I can't fill out forms yet. I mean, I won't have the numbers for at least another 12 months... and even the forms won't be available until around this time next year! But what I do start a year in advance are estimates.
I like to know in advance approximately what I'm going to owe for taxes. With that knowledge I can adjust my withholding rates, if necessary, and also pay quarterly estimated taxes accurately. My goal is not to be surprised by a big balance due or refund come April— whether that's April 2026 or April 2027. A big balance due can mean penalties owed to the IRS... and a big refund means I've lent them money at 0% interest! Either way, ugh.
Working on these estimates now for the tax return I'll file 15 months from now already has proven worthwhile. As I plan to retire soon this year I'll be shifting from earning significant amounts of money in wages to getting most of my taxable income from dividends and capital gains. That has tax implications. Dividends and capital gains are taxed lower than wages. There's an interesting edge case where some dividends and cap gains can be taxed at 0%. That provision never applied to me before because my wages were always too high. I worked through that edge case in my planning this weekend. It lowered the tax I expect I'll owe by several thousand dollars. Hooray! And by knowing that now I know not to overpay on quarterly estimated taxes and give Uncle Sam a big, interest-free loan. That makes my advanced preparation a double win.
Why start so soon?As I've mentioned before, I start my taxes a year in advance. Obviously I can't fill out forms yet. I mean, I won't have the numbers for at least another 12 months... and even the forms won't be available until around this time next year! But what I do start a year in advance are estimates.
I like to know in advance approximately what I'm going to owe for taxes. With that knowledge I can adjust my withholding rates, if necessary, and also pay quarterly estimated taxes accurately. My goal is not to be surprised by a big balance due or refund come April— whether that's April 2026 or April 2027. A big balance due can mean penalties owed to the IRS... and a big refund means I've lent them money at 0% interest! Either way, ugh.
Working on these estimates now for the tax return I'll file 15 months from now already has proven worthwhile. As I plan to retire soon this year I'll be shifting from earning significant amounts of money in wages to getting most of my taxable income from dividends and capital gains. That has tax implications. Dividends and capital gains are taxed lower than wages. There's an interesting edge case where some dividends and cap gains can be taxed at 0%. That provision never applied to me before because my wages were always too high. I worked through that edge case in my planning this weekend. It lowered the tax I expect I'll owe by several thousand dollars. Hooray! And by knowing that now I know not to overpay on quarterly estimated taxes and give Uncle Sam a big, interest-free loan. That makes my advanced preparation a double win.
Inspecting claim about Brigitte Bardot's reported racial hatred convictions
Jan. 12th, 2026 02:00 pmsnopes_feedBardot's history of making racist comments resurfaced online after her death in December 2025.
mai tai
Jan. 12th, 2026 07:25 amprettygoodwordA second week of words from Polynesian languages, though this one is arguably an edge case:
mai tai (MAI-tai) - n., a cocktail containing rum, curaçao, orgeat, and lime, and sometimes other fruit juices.
Thanks, WikiMedia!
One of the characteristic drinks of tiki culture and thus, entirely typically, has nothing whatsoever to do with Polynesian culture. The drink was invented by Victor J. Bergeron in 1944 for Trader Vic’s, the original Oakland, California, location for his chain of tiki bars — though Donn Beach of the rival chain Don’s Beachcomber (later Don the Beachcomber) claimed Bergeron simplified one of his earlier drinks. The name is supposed to be from Tahitian maitaʻi, good (note that’s three syllables), and the story is that one of the first taste testers exclaimed “Maitaʻi!” (or “Maitai!”?) when sampling it. I am … dubious, and some dictionaries go with “origin unknown.” [Sidebar: Mai tais were not introduced to Hawaii till 1953, which I mention solely to have a hook to add that the Hawaiian cognate of maitaʻi is maikaʻi and the Maori cognate is maitai (two syllables). Which last … hmmm.]
---L.
mai tai (MAI-tai) - n., a cocktail containing rum, curaçao, orgeat, and lime, and sometimes other fruit juices.
Thanks, WikiMedia!
One of the characteristic drinks of tiki culture and thus, entirely typically, has nothing whatsoever to do with Polynesian culture. The drink was invented by Victor J. Bergeron in 1944 for Trader Vic’s, the original Oakland, California, location for his chain of tiki bars — though Donn Beach of the rival chain Don’s Beachcomber (later Don the Beachcomber) claimed Bergeron simplified one of his earlier drinks. The name is supposed to be from Tahitian maitaʻi, good (note that’s three syllables), and the story is that one of the first taste testers exclaimed “Maitaʻi!” (or “Maitai!”?) when sampling it. I am … dubious, and some dictionaries go with “origin unknown.” [Sidebar: Mai tais were not introduced to Hawaii till 1953, which I mention solely to have a hook to add that the Hawaiian cognate of maitaʻi is maikaʻi and the Maori cognate is maitai (two syllables). Which last … hmmm.]
---L.
Subscription tidy up
Jan. 12th, 2026 09:45 pmfred_mouseI've done my approximately-annual tidy up of dreamwidth subscriptions. I've stopped following a set of blogs that haven't updated in ~2 years, left roughly half the communities I was in, and changed a few other details. The main exceptions on keeping people who don't post are people who comment often enough that I remember; at least one of those I've left their access but unsubscribed. The other exception is people who I'm very much hoping will turn up again one day (and one who, sadly, will never be back, but whose name makes me smile to see it in the list).
If, as happens with this, I've managed to remove your access and you are someone who does actually want to see the occasional locked post, please comment on this post. I'll put a locked post up shortly; it will read 'test' or some equally inane thing.
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The Day in Spikedluv (Sunday, Jan 11)
Jan. 12th, 2026 08:40 amspikedluvI did two loads of laundry, hand-washed dishes, went for a couple walks with Pip and the dogs, hard-boiled more eggs, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, and changed kitty litter (my favorite Sunday chore!).
I went with the Cinnamon Orange tea again, and this time I didn’t let it steep too long. Much better! I watched the Bills game. It was another close one, but they pulled it out in the end, thankfully. That interception at the end was the icing on the cake.
I finished the Amelia Peabody book and wrote ~500 words on a new fic for Fandom Trees. *fingers crossed*
Temps started out at 32.4(F) and reached 39.9. We had sun in the morning and snow showers in the afternoon, followed by the snow squalls we were warned about. With the wind and the snow, I’m guessing I’ll be leaving late in the morning because the roads won’t be great.
Mom Update:
Mom sounded good when I talked to her. She’d had all the visits today! First my brother, then Niece L with Toddler A, followed by Sister A, followed by Sister S. The three (four) of them were there all at the same time. Mom agreed that having visitors makes the day go by faster.
I went with the Cinnamon Orange tea again, and this time I didn’t let it steep too long. Much better! I watched the Bills game. It was another close one, but they pulled it out in the end, thankfully. That interception at the end was the icing on the cake.
I finished the Amelia Peabody book and wrote ~500 words on a new fic for Fandom Trees. *fingers crossed*
Temps started out at 32.4(F) and reached 39.9. We had sun in the morning and snow showers in the afternoon, followed by the snow squalls we were warned about. With the wind and the snow, I’m guessing I’ll be leaving late in the morning because the roads won’t be great.
Mom Update:
Mom sounded good when I talked to her. She’d had all the visits today! First my brother, then Niece L with Toddler A, followed by Sister A, followed by Sister S. The three (four) of them were there all at the same time. Mom agreed that having visitors makes the day go by faster.
January Meme: Favourite Show to watch in 2025
Jan. 12th, 2026 01:48 pmselenakThere were severa new onesl I enjoyed a lot, like Alien: Earth and Pluribus, with the later being hands down the best new series I saw in 2025. And Andor, some minor (for me) nitpicks aside, ended superbly, plus unfortunately more current day politically relevant than ever. But my favourite series in 2025 was Foundation, season 3. And here are some reasons why:
For the third time, this show managed to present a new ensemble of characters per season (plus the few recurring ones) and made me care about them. Now I remember several shows that were originally intended to be "anthology" shows - the one that immediately comes to mind is Heroes - i.e. where the idea was to present a new cast of characters every season - and which when the first season was a success changed their mind because the audience had fallen in love with these characters. Unfortunately, this also meant that the subsequent seasons showed there had been no plan, not even a vague character arc kind of plan, for those characters, and the show quality rapidly diminished, making me wish they'd stuck to the anthology concept. Now Foundation, to me, found a happy medium between the "anthology" concept which its intended huge time spam demands and the fact that most viewers do want some characters to remain attached to, or at least interested in, who are around for more than one season. And they manage it twofold: courtesy of in-universe plot devices, there are in fact some characters around through all three seasons so far - Gail Dornick, Demerzel and sort, kinda, Hari Seldon ( in a spoilery fashion ). And there are three more actors araound through all three seasons playing different characters who are at the same time variations of the same character, i.e. the Cleonic Dynasty exponents, clones in different stages of aging. (It's not unimportant that they play clones because the stories and developments each Cleon takes in each season are richer and more interesting if you have other Cleons to compare them to.)
But, and this is an important but: the show also offers characters who are around only in one season/era the show takes place. (Or two at most, sob.) And manages to make them interesting and different from each other. Here I would argue the show grew from season 1 - where there were some interesting, memorable characters around, like the Luminarian priestess, but also some which for me didn't work in the way they were intended (the Huntress) - to season 2, where basically every single new character was interesting - Constant, Hober Mallow, Space!Belisarius etc.. In fact, I was so attached to the s2 newbies that I kept wondering whether the show would manage to do it again after the next time jump, and the first s3 episode or two left me a bit sceptical on that count - but then I changed my mind. Granted, I still am lukewarm about Pritcher, but Toran and Bayta were great (not just due to the spoilery thing at the end of the season, though it makes the rewatch of s3 I just finished even more rewarding), I loved Ambassador Quent, and the First Speaker as well.
Another reason: s3 offered the pay off to several long term mysteries and developments - from who was responsible for the destruction of the Star Bridge (and why) to why ( a spoilery for s2 thing happened ) - , wrapped up one of THE major storylines of the show ( which is spoilery for s3 ), and did it in a way that was both unepected yet made perfect character sense, and set up enough new questions and storylines which make glad there is a season 4 already secured: ( For example, Spoilery Questions asked )
And then there's the superb long term character development.bimo commented s1 Gaal would be horrified by s3 Gaal's actions, and yet they are perfecty ic due to the development in between and bring things full circle, in a way. Rewatching s3, I noticed ( spoilery things about Demerzel in particular. ) And the Cleons! That Lee Pace is excellent is almost a given, and s3's Day's development went from seeming comic relief to absolutely shattering, but s3's Dusk and Dawn both got more to do than in previous seasons, and both Terence Mann and Cassian Bilton ran with it. In fact, when I find the time I'll do a poll asking about everyone's favourites Day, Dawn and Dusk, if such a thing exists, taking all three seasons into account. Speaking of things paying off even more upon rewatch, Dusk's first scene in s3 is watching the recording of other Dusks becoming Brother Darkness and "ascending", which, yeah. S3 does a lot not just with the confrontation with mortality, but also the search for meaning especially for the long term characters. ( Hari Seldon related spoilery observation )
And there's the way the show asks questions the books couldn't, lacking the concept of the Cleonic Dynasty. ( Demerzel and the Cleons: A Tale in Three Seasons )
Lastly: I loved s3 for the way it gave us new combinations of long term characters. ( Which are spoilery. ) And for being such an acting showcase for both recurring actors - Terence Mann certainly owned those last three episodes when he was on screen - and new to the show ones: Synnøve Karlsen as Bayta first and foremost, with again rewatching letting me additionally admire what she does there. (Though this time around I knew she was the same actress who had played Clarice Orsini in I Medici and young Cassandra Austen in Miss Austen, I forgot all about it again when watching her on screen. "We're good at making people love us, you and I", as she says to Magnifico. Indeed.
The other days
For the third time, this show managed to present a new ensemble of characters per season (plus the few recurring ones) and made me care about them. Now I remember several shows that were originally intended to be "anthology" shows - the one that immediately comes to mind is Heroes - i.e. where the idea was to present a new cast of characters every season - and which when the first season was a success changed their mind because the audience had fallen in love with these characters. Unfortunately, this also meant that the subsequent seasons showed there had been no plan, not even a vague character arc kind of plan, for those characters, and the show quality rapidly diminished, making me wish they'd stuck to the anthology concept. Now Foundation, to me, found a happy medium between the "anthology" concept which its intended huge time spam demands and the fact that most viewers do want some characters to remain attached to, or at least interested in, who are around for more than one season. And they manage it twofold: courtesy of in-universe plot devices, there are in fact some characters around through all three seasons so far - Gail Dornick, Demerzel and sort, kinda, Hari Seldon ( in a spoilery fashion ). And there are three more actors araound through all three seasons playing different characters who are at the same time variations of the same character, i.e. the Cleonic Dynasty exponents, clones in different stages of aging. (It's not unimportant that they play clones because the stories and developments each Cleon takes in each season are richer and more interesting if you have other Cleons to compare them to.)
But, and this is an important but: the show also offers characters who are around only in one season/era the show takes place. (Or two at most, sob.) And manages to make them interesting and different from each other. Here I would argue the show grew from season 1 - where there were some interesting, memorable characters around, like the Luminarian priestess, but also some which for me didn't work in the way they were intended (the Huntress) - to season 2, where basically every single new character was interesting - Constant, Hober Mallow, Space!Belisarius etc.. In fact, I was so attached to the s2 newbies that I kept wondering whether the show would manage to do it again after the next time jump, and the first s3 episode or two left me a bit sceptical on that count - but then I changed my mind. Granted, I still am lukewarm about Pritcher, but Toran and Bayta were great (not just due to the spoilery thing at the end of the season, though it makes the rewatch of s3 I just finished even more rewarding), I loved Ambassador Quent, and the First Speaker as well.
Another reason: s3 offered the pay off to several long term mysteries and developments - from who was responsible for the destruction of the Star Bridge (and why) to why ( a spoilery for s2 thing happened ) - , wrapped up one of THE major storylines of the show ( which is spoilery for s3 ), and did it in a way that was both unepected yet made perfect character sense, and set up enough new questions and storylines which make glad there is a season 4 already secured: ( For example, Spoilery Questions asked )
And then there's the superb long term character development.
bimo commented s1 Gaal would be horrified by s3 Gaal's actions, and yet they are perfecty ic due to the development in between and bring things full circle, in a way. Rewatching s3, I noticed ( spoilery things about Demerzel in particular. ) And the Cleons! That Lee Pace is excellent is almost a given, and s3's Day's development went from seeming comic relief to absolutely shattering, but s3's Dusk and Dawn both got more to do than in previous seasons, and both Terence Mann and Cassian Bilton ran with it. In fact, when I find the time I'll do a poll asking about everyone's favourites Day, Dawn and Dusk, if such a thing exists, taking all three seasons into account. Speaking of things paying off even more upon rewatch, Dusk's first scene in s3 is watching the recording of other Dusks becoming Brother Darkness and "ascending", which, yeah. S3 does a lot not just with the confrontation with mortality, but also the search for meaning especially for the long term characters. ( Hari Seldon related spoilery observation )And there's the way the show asks questions the books couldn't, lacking the concept of the Cleonic Dynasty. ( Demerzel and the Cleons: A Tale in Three Seasons )
Lastly: I loved s3 for the way it gave us new combinations of long term characters. ( Which are spoilery. ) And for being such an acting showcase for both recurring actors - Terence Mann certainly owned those last three episodes when he was on screen - and new to the show ones: Synnøve Karlsen as Bayta first and foremost, with again rewatching letting me additionally admire what she does there. (Though this time around I knew she was the same actress who had played Clarice Orsini in I Medici and young Cassandra Austen in Miss Austen, I forgot all about it again when watching her on screen. "We're good at making people love us, you and I", as she says to Magnifico. Indeed.
The other days
Korean practice
Jan. 12th, 2026 01:38 pmprofiterole_readsHere's the new Korean practice post! As usual now, it's an open chat.
You can write about whatever you want. If you're uninspired, tell us the story of what you're currently watching/reading/playing...
You can talk to one another.
You can also correct one another. Or just indicate "No corrections, please" in your comment if you prefer.
화이팅! <3
You can write about whatever you want. If you're uninspired, tell us the story of what you're currently watching/reading/playing...
You can talk to one another.
You can also correct one another. Or just indicate "No corrections, please" in your comment if you prefer.
화이팅! <3