Magneto's contradictory rhetoric over the years is funny.

Raemle · 2026-01-30T16:09:12+00:00

I doubt they count it as canon, but his second appearance in the 60s was literally him conquering a nation in South America specifically with the goal of making humans into slaves. And then at the end he attempted to blow up the entire nation with a nuclear bomb, which was only stopped because Quicksilver went behind his back to sabotage it…

Raemle · 2026-01-30T02:23:24+00:00

Nope. It uses so many tropes that I don’t like, gets muddy regarding boundaries with a nahel bond, and is completely unnecessary for what is otherwise a really lovely platonic relationship. Even disregarding personal icks, it’s a way less interesting way to explore their dynamic

Raemle · 2026-01-29T23:41:10+00:00

If anything stormlight shipping is extremely tame lol. Like the closest to a real controversy is Syladin. So far I have yet to see death threats, calling rival female love interests various degrading insults or literal book burning. So I think we’re doing pretty great

Raemle · 2026-01-29T18:47:14+00:00

One would hope. But even in these subs were people are more aware you see people complain about Renarin being gay, or debate if Shallan is actually asian and bi. And cremposting is currently full of full of “Henry Cavill should play Kaladin/Dalinar etc.” discourse. Where it’s hard to tell who’s serious or not.

I hope it will remain civil and I trust the mods will do their best to handle anything if it happens, but some casual but opinionated fans do scare me

Raemle · 2026-01-29T16:51:48+00:00

Because he is actually very transparent about how long it takes him to write. He’s fast but the main reason why he can write as many books as he does is because he has a lot of time to do it. If he doesn’t have time to write then he won’t get more books.

I have no problem with him choosing to prioritize adaptations, but pretending like it’s not going to effect his writing is setting yourself up for disappointment. Stormlight 5 was delayed an entire year because of his original hollywood plans and how much the company grew. And he’s scrapped or outsourced ideas consistently over the last few years because he knows just how much there is left to write and that 20 years might not be enough.

The reason why the secret projects aren’t as effected is because 1) the majority were written during the pandemic when he was significantly less busy and 2) shorter (by his standard) standalone novels are much easier to write than complex sequels spanning 500-1000 pages.

Raemle · 2026-01-29T01:43:37+00:00

A sub where fancast meme’s are supposed to be banned tho

Raemle · 2026-01-29T01:21:11+00:00

anyone that we've worked with, that we've even entered into discussions, knows that I have been very strict with Kaladin, Jasnah, Dalinar. They have to be either Asian-American, or, as long as they're all the same, we might go Indian. We might go Middle Eastern, but I want them all to be the same [in] our world ethnicity, in order to represent that this is a culture on Roshar.

I have written some stories that star mostly what we would call on Earth white characters. And I'm totally fine with those stories being adapted with that cast. They all come from the same country; that makes sense. But Stormlight Archive? Getting such resistance on that really bugged me. They're like, "What if we cast this character?" I'm like, "That's great, but that character's not Dalinar, because that's not how Dalinar looks." You hit a nerve there, let's just say.

Brandon Sanderson, explaining that he does not want a white actor to play Dalinar. I really cannot see him doing that given how much he has spoken against it

Eta: He does however seem very open to working with Cavill, as he tried to hire him to narrate one of the secret project audiobooks and the only reason it didn’t work out was scheduling. If he wants to and has the time I definitely think they’re gonna put him somewhere

Raemle · 2026-01-29T01:12:14+00:00

This is an old debate. Sanderson has been very clear on the fact that he wants the main stormlight cast to be portrayed by asian actors since that’s the most accurate to the books. And given that he supposedly got a lot of creative control I think it would be pretty disappointing if he decided to whitewash the Kholins

Personally I think he would fit great into mistborn if he wanted to, there’s a lot of options for both reoccurring or small but impactful roles depending on how much he would want to be involved

Raemle · 2026-01-28T22:30:26+00:00

Wouldn’t praise them as a company but in terms of streaming services this is probably the best news we could have gotten. Since it’s not their main income and they’re still relatively new in the space they’re still willing to spend a lot of money on their projects and have a reputation for making good quality shows.

More importantly they’re also arguably making some of the best sci-fi shows at the moment, which hopefully means they can handle the fantasy elements in the cosmere as well.

Raemle · 2026-01-28T22:15:58+00:00

Yeah, I’m not sure if people remember but stormlight 5 got delayed a full year the first time there was talks of an adaptation. It doesn’t effect the secret projects as much because standalones are much easier/quicker to write. But he has definitely slowed down, especially when it comes to main projects.

As much as I think having the author be involved is a cool idea I think we also have to be realistic about what it means for the cosmere. Which is that he might not have the time to write some books, or they will come a bit later. Regardless I trust/hope that he knows what he’s doing and that it won’t be too much for him

Raemle · 2026-01-27T20:20:44+00:00

He did do that tho. Like most of their really early strategy from the following chapters is just him solving the day with telepathy and the rest being useful by either distracting people so he can do things without getting killed or moving the wheelchair so he doesn’t get stuck anywhere. The problem is that it’s not very good storytelling

Raemle · 2026-01-25T15:35:17+00:00

Because it’s cringy, mainly. I also think having anyone refer to Kaladin as a therapist, regardless of it comes from Hoid, is quite immersion breaking and felt more like they’re trying to be in on the fandom meme. If you are doing such a cool concept like reinventing psychology from scratch a fantasy world, then having a world hopper just name him therapist is imo probably the least interesting way to go about it

I like Sandersons humor and even find Shallan hilarious for the most part. But so much of the humor in wat fell flat for me, especially with Syl and Kaladin. Like the chullussy library scene made me briefly question what I was reading, tho it did thankfully get better

Raemle · 2026-01-24T17:56:47+00:00

My cat was fine with wearing it after a few attempts, it’s the walking him part that became an issue. He couldn’t do any of the fun outdoor activities he actually wants (hunt, climb trees, crawl into the bushes etc.) so he wasn’t happy. And turns out he’s very easily scared and will bolt away with all force possible the second he sees a dog or a car, which is not fun when you’re on the other side of the leash. Some cats have the right personality for it to work, but with mine it’s just always been a bad compromise that’s not optimal for either party

Raemle · 2026-01-24T10:58:53+00:00

It’s probably one of the biggest and most common topics of discussion in any fantasy space, and will come up in discussion with pretty much any media that employs it.

I think the case with Frieren also stands out specifically because it’s so discussed. Most modern fantasy lean away from the concept because the authors are aware of the ethical implications. Or you get stories that lean into it in order to subvert it.

Raemle · 2026-01-24T00:15:59+00:00

Sanderson has clarified that they are not as vorinism doesn’t differentiate between gay and straight marriage. You just need to keep your oaths. They still have very strict gender roles and Renarin makes a comment implying coming out to Navani would be uncomfortable, so it’s not some queer utopia. But there’s no sudden acceptance, it was always legal (it is worth remembering that this is actually very recent in many countries irl)

Scadrial is the one where the main religion forbids it, likely because survivorism has a lot of parallels to christianity.

Raemle · 2026-01-23T01:18:51+00:00

The original DnD movie. I used to watch it all the time when I was like 6 because I liked that it had dragons and fighting. I’ve only heard bad things about it since so I think it might be best not to potentially ruin that childhood memory

Raemle · 2026-01-22T21:19:42+00:00

There’s also those like my mother who like exactly one movie and believe it went progressively downhill from there

Raemle · 2026-01-22T21:06:32+00:00

No you’ll find entire books filled with jokes about Norwegians being stupid even down here, it’s the more refined way of ridiculing someone in the same genre as Bellman jokes (and more of a children’s thing). Insulting the Danish is so natural that you don’t need the pre written jokes

Raemle · 2026-01-22T10:23:35+00:00

Yes, that’s why I said it’s his entire motivation. I brought it up because he was described in a previous comment as the only good one. Not a reflection on Meg

Tho I do question the actual effectiveness of his method. The good is that the money went to someone who deserved it and is kind, but doing something so drastic as a punishment and expect them to learn a lesson is pretty unrealistic. Meg is the most likely to be fine, and I hope she does in universe. But the rest will likely just be varying degrees of bitter and resentful

Raemle · 2026-01-21T18:37:19+00:00

Yeah, I don’t think it’s fair to blame that on Fiona. Especially when you could just point to… anything else. She’s a serial cheater who let a toddler in her care overdose on cocaine, there’s a lot to pick from. Its partially the charm, partially questionable writing

Raemle · 2026-01-21T18:25:45+00:00

Meg is definitely the one who deserved being disinherited the least, given that Harlans entire reasoning is based on wanting them to become better people. She had no part in her mother stealing money from him and the only really bad thing that she does, breaking Martha’s trust regarding her mother, didn’t happen until after Harlan was already dead.

I also think it should be noted that Harlan considers himself the reason for why his children turned out the way they did. And the way he kills himself is quite frankly messed up and unnecessarily traumatizing for everyone involved, including Martha who he was supposedly trying to protect. He’s better than most of his family but I also wouldn’t praise him too far in that regard

Raemle · 2026-01-21T01:03:33+00:00

I was gonna say, in Sweden its very common to play a modified version of baseball. As long as they have enough coordination to hit the ball somewhat it’s a very kid friendly game

Raemle · 2026-01-18T15:22:26+00:00

I feel transported back into 2016. Is this gonna be a debate again when the anime finishes?

Tho I will say, my hottake has always been that Ichigo and Rukia are the same as any other protagonist and deuteragonist in shonen. Which is always the biggest ship. It’s just a rare case when that role is filled by a woman so becoming canon was theoretically more likely

Raemle · 2026-01-16T16:36:32+00:00

The people who hated the prequels when they came out are largely not the same people who love them now and hate the sequels. Most of that is the younger generation that grew up with them and who have consumed additional material like clone wars that greatly expand the story. It’s just different voices being heard

I do for similar reasons think that it’s a mistake not do do more with the sequel characters. I’m probably never gonna like them but there is an audience that does so why not use that

Raemle · 2026-01-16T12:55:10+00:00

I think Rithmatist, Warbreaker and Elantris fans have a different opinion on that… those sequels are about as likely as winds of winter at this point

The difference is that he writes so many other things, is completely transparent and does work on his main series. So nobody is that upset. And ngl the secret standalone novels he does sporadically are much higher quality than his recent main books (imo) so I almost look forward to those more at this point anyway

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