Wind and Truth apolgist

Someone who's complex and has realistic motivations and desires? I didn't give any reasons why she was a good character I just gave reasons that people think she's a bad character and said that they don't make her a bad character. I also don't think she's a mary sue or unrealistic or anything like that.

Can't a guy want to type more than one question mark???? <-- like right there I really have no idea what you even want from me here? I just said that shallan as a person isn't good but as a character she is? Like people are confusing being a good person with being a good character? Like they read her and hate her and think that's a bad thing? What even do you want me to say?

What??? No???? Most of the characters are likable?????? Why do you think I said that??????

I was saying she’s a good character??? She’s complex and even if she’s written to be annoying and unlikable that’s not anything bad, that’s who she is. She’s like Cersei, a bad person who is a really good character.

Exactly!! She’s such a good character!! Sure she’s a bad person, but so many of the best characters are. I love Cersei as a character too even if she’s literally evil I didn’t think so, I thought kaladin was just being clinical. We SOOO need more trans rep in the main cast. I was so sad when I read that Lift wasn’t trans, and we really need more trans stories in fiction. I just hope Brandon makes it clear that trans people aren’t ever mentally ill and we’re different. I hope he makes a way to see male and female and nonbinary spiritwebs so trans characters can be different from hypnotized people and having a main trans character would be such a good way to do that. maybe your right, after Elon bought twitter I started seeing so much right wing evil stuff….i had to delete my account

Look, we all have seen it. Everyone from youtube to goodreads to twitter to even here has been saying Wind and Truth is bad, or at least not as good as the previous four books in the series. And most of their arguments are easily dismissed, but you can see where they're coming from. "Bad pacing"? This book is a literal countdown to destruction where some people are having a nice walk in the countryside with occasional fights, some people are fighting an all-out war against a suicidally aggressive enemy, and some people are having a completely hallucinatory experience. "Shallan sucks"? She's a cruel, narcissistic, melodramatic, vindictive bully whose definition of accountability for herself is "forgiving and accepting myself". She's liked only by Hoid, who she hugged once, and by Adolin, who managed to offend every single woman in the warcamps despite being the heir to Kholinar which you might think would make girls pretty tolerant of him, and who has such a hard time saying "no" to women that when he had to tell a girl she couldn't fight on the front lines, he all but adopted her. "Modern prose"? This book is a translation into English. Complain about the puns if you will, and nobody did that before, but if you think the slang and words they're using are too "modern", look at the Pompei graffiti and tell me if you think that, translated to english and rephrased in modern syntax, they wouldn't sound insanely modern. "I don't like the ending"? This is the Empire Strikes Back, of course it doesn't have a happy ending with roses and flowers. And anyone who thinks Dalinar's death was in any way anticlimactic or lame or not true to his character really needs to rethink life. But I keep seeing "this is woke" or "the lgbt scenes were shoehorned in" and...I don't get it?? Like sure, the pacing isn't like a standard novel. Shallan is annoying, as she was written to be. Some of the prose is jarring, like when Maya called Adolin a slut, even if the Alethi would naturally have words for that. And the ending isn't nearly as warm and fuzzy as some people wanted. But the point of the scene with Adolin and the transgender-paperwork-filing soldier was Adolin dealing with an unusual person, not some kind of social message. And sure Renarin and Rlain's romance was a little drawn-out and I wanted to get back to the more dangerous and actiony chapters, but what else were they doing in the Spiritual Realm? Of course they'd have a heart-to-heart, that's what the place is for. And I've seen a dozen posts or more, especially on Reddit and twitter, about how the whole "trans radiant" thing is so woke and I just don't get it???? It's literally the opposite, my one gripe with Brandon is how right-wing he is about trans people. Like radiants have mental illnesses, that's how the magic gets into their souls. And Brandon said that the healing that does gender affirmation on trans people would also work on people who are mentally ill and people who are even hypnotized into thinking of themselves in a different way. Like to Brandon, trans people aren't any different from people who are mentally ill. Or even people who are hypnotized. I get that of course if a woman who is hypnotized into thinking she's a man is going to have her body turn male from being a radiant, of course I as a trans man would also have my body change, but it's still gross to think of us being treated the same. And I love the fantasy of becoming radiant and finding that I'm finally physically who I am spiritually, but I don't like how that's no different from someone who got hypnotized. So how is this "woke"??? How????? I don't get it?????????? Do people really see any trans character, no matter how they're treated, and freak out????????????????