mfw when i've understood the anon — understood them well enough to defeat them with a QT — but in that very moment also come to love them, knowing that i must press send on the QT nonetheless

- w/ the Cryptics, you'd be able to soulcast, which becomes much more potent w/ modern knowledge of shit like U-235. you'd be immensely wealthy, & w/ lightweaving, you could leverage that wealth w/ all kinds of illusory deception for whatever goals you might have.

- the Highspren might have the raddest aesthetic of the ten orders. their system of oaths is structured and appealing, even if a lot of their radiants are insufferable. their surges, tho not OP like the Bondsmiths, are still fun w/ ctrl over gravitation and being able to rust/ decay/ burn matter

i realized that in just those maneuvers, He had delivered my answer

and reflecting upon his appearance, thinking back to the moment he'd apparated before me, i realized that i hadn't needed anything but His Image, for in it alone was so clearly the answer i sought

my question is Resolved at last

i was Kvothe and he was Felurian, he haptically communed with me as he taught to me Thousand Hands and then Ivy On the Oak — it lasted both an infinity and the merest of moments

and then, just as suddenly as he appeared, he left and i crashed back down to the earth and awoke among the trees

in the Seventh Sky, as i traipsed among the clouds in despondence, fearing that my journey was soon to lead back down to the earthly realm still without answer,

the Sensory Homunculus appeared to me. He said nothing, forgoing words and leaping into a language deeper than text, older than speech

after much scientific pondering and no resolution to this question, i went out into the woods and partook in mushrooms the earth there offered up to me

as my two eyes drew shut and the Third began to See, i wandered the astral plains and long did i roam the many heavens in search of an answer

going in RAW

"𝙱𝚎𝚑𝚘𝚕𝚍 ! 𝙸 ha𝚟𝚎 𝚋𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚊 𝚖𝚊𝚗 !"

please share something beautiful for the timeline

here's my contribution

a random stop from an oceanside roadtrip in the holy land a year back

it's just getting started, what came before is a pale shadow of what is yet to come