Aliroz-The-Confused

This may come as a surprise to many of you, but I truly do like The Stormlight Archive.

What makes me salty about it is worrying that everything else in the Cosmere is going to become nothing but an appendage to it.

What makes me salty about it is that I'm not allowed to love the Mistborn trilogy in the same way that my cousin loves The Stormlight Archive, because everyone always tells me that the Mistborn trilogy is obviously and objectively worse and lesser (note mister Sanderson's casual contempt for his earlier work), that I'm not supposed to see Kelsier as a good person the way that other people see Kaladin and Shallan as good people, that I'm not allowed to find great meaning and comfort in its story the way that other people are allowed to find great meaning and comfort in The Stormlight Archive's themes of redemption and mental health, and that I'm not allowed to feel that I'm represented in it as a Latter-day Saint in the way that other people are allowed to feel that they're represented in Renarin and Rlain.

If I keep pointing out that the protagonists of The Stormlight Archive are, with very few exceptions, at the very least adjacent or a party to or complicit in genocide and other atrocities, it is because every time Kelsier gets mentioned people make the conversation about the morality of the most troubling things he did.

If I focus exclusively on the parts of The Stormlight Archive that I don't like, it is because everyone else on this forum insists on focusing exclusively on the parts of Mistborn that they don't like.

Also, everyone has an incredibly strong urge to prove me wrong at all times and to correct anything I say, so if I praise something, people here will dispute my interpretations until I don't enjoy them any more.  Thus, I don't talk about the things I like in The Stormlight Archive.

But, for real, it's a little bit distressing that I seem to be the only one around rooting for Scadrial...  My cousin worries about Scadrians being mean to Rosharans the way I worry about the opposite.  My cousin worries about my favorite world's inhabitants being mean to the rest of the universe in the way that I worry about my cousin's favorite world's inhabitants being mean to the rest of the universe.

(NO SPOILERS for Isles Of The Emberdark, Yumi And The Nightmare Painter, and The Sunlit Man, those are books I have not read, I BEG YOU)