Cosmerekats

We have reached the end of the Final Empire in more ways than one. In this episode, we debrief the twists and turns from the whole novel and look forward to where the series is headed.

We reach the end, but there are still twists!

Dockson gets to be the hero now. Thanks Kelsier for leaving another mess!

Vin has a mission and she is ready to face whatever comes. Also, our world of Allomancy is growing even bigger here at the end of the book.

In this episode, Vin finds her purpose and her courage to face it.

The black moment is upon us and never has an f-bomb felt more appropriate.

In this week's rabbit trail, Marvel v Mistborn fantasy grudge match: Scarlet Witch v Kelsier?

The story takes a dark turn on the path toward the Sanderlanche, and we get another glimpse into Kelsier's love for his brother, Marsh.

Vin lays down some truth to Kelsier - both hard truths about his attitude and kind truths about his past.

In this chapter, Vin shows herself to be the super hero she is when all hell breaks loose. 

Vin takes a deep breath and assesses her future - something she never quite believed she would get. We discuss how living life in survival mode has distorted her concept of luck, hope, and expectation.

Between Straff Venture's brutal truths, Vin's lies, and Elend's blissful naiveté, this chapter digs into the question of what it means to be an honest person.

In this episode Kelsier, once again proves himself to be a terrible therapist.

The Lord Ruler's casual cruelty is on full display in this chapter, giving our favorite thieving crew a cold dose of reality. They are once again forced to decide if they are willing to risk everything to take down the Final Empire.

Between a really long run and the horrors of war, Vin and Kelsier move past the mentor/apprentice relationship and into equality.

This chapter gives us a little calm before the Sanderstorm.

Once again we say, Elend Venture, your privilege is showing. Also in this chapter, Vin is back to navigating the young love, court politics, and systemic oppression.

This chapter is all about young love and hard facts.

In this episode Kelsier flexes his allomancy all over the place, but this time his goal is to encourage and inspire the troops.

In this chapter, Vin and Marsh bond over allomancy and brothers -- as much as anyone can bond with Marsh.

In this episode, Kelsier gets sneaking tips from Hoid, we meet Elend's jackass of a father, and we, hosts, go on a long, winding tangent about D&D alignments. As one does...

She wore the red dress. This chapter hits some hight points including Vin's rom-com flirtation with Elend and her mean-girls face-off with Shan.

In this somewhat expositional chapter, Vin admires pretty things, Kelsier continues to learn he has to give more than one damn at a time, and Sanderson plays with the superhero mythos.

In this episode, characters are in recovery mode, and we take a little look into Spook's origins.

Fight scene! Vin engages in her first face-to-face battle with a Steel Inquisitor, and she learns from that experience that she is way out-gunned. Then, Kelsier learns from experience that he doesn't just get a pass whenever he does something Cosmerically stupid.

In this bridge chapter, we get to see even more of Vin's epic stubbornness in the face of Kelsier's control freak nature.

It's Vin's first ball - Let the cutest of all meet-cutes begin!

In this chapter, we get a deeper look into how Vin, Kelsier, and Sazed each weigh empathy with practicality in the face of a bloodbath.

Aside from discussing Breeze being an ass, we run off on a lovely tangent about the tactical uses of Luthadel fashion.

In this episode, we get more fun with Sazed. There might be some fangirling over him. Also, Kelsier appears to have a BIT of a god complex...

In this chapter, we get a first glimpse into the friendship that Vin and Sazed are going to forge.

In this chapter, Kelsier puts on his teacher hat and we get a lesson in allomantic physics!

In this chapter, Kelsier gleefully leads the brainstorming session of all brainstorming sessions. He only needs multi-colored post-it notes and he'd be golden.

Drama llama Kelsier shows why his reputation is not overblown in this, our first real allomantic fight scene.

Kelsier, the man, the myth, the drama llama. In this episode, we meet the rest of the crew and Kelsier explains his ideas for taking down the Final Empire and the Lord Ruler.

We dig into the oh so fun(?) topic of Vin's complex PTSD, and Kelsier's deft care for her in that head space.

This episode gets a bit (a lot) sociological as we discuss the ways cultures enforce social stratification.

We've entered the Luthadel underbelly and get to meet Vin in all her bad ass, paranoid, complex PTSD glory.

Welcome to season 2! In this first episode of our Mistborn: The Final Empire read along, we get a feel for our new dusty planet, Scadrial, and meet the ever-grinning, oh, so enigmatic Kelsier.

Shades, silver, and bandits, oh my! In this special episode, Chris and Rose dig into Sanderson's fun and creepy Cosmere novella, Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell, which can be found in Arcanum Unbounded. The

We wrap up our first Cosmere book with a lot of gushing over how far the characters have come since that first episode. We hope you enjoyed the ride as much as we did and we'll see you in Season 2 when we dig into book 1 of the Mistborn series.

In this penultimate episode of our Warbreaker read-through, Siri faces betrayal, Larimar confesses the truth about Lightsong's death, Vasher and Nightblood destroy a lot of evil, and Vivenna finally claims a place for herself in the halls of epic bad-assery.

As we continue the Sanderslide, we run down Sandertangents about a few Sanderthemes and gush over the Sanderskill for writing.

Welcome to the Sanderslide - ambushes, imprisonments, half-hearted flirting! And in the middle of so much action, we get a nice glimpse into Vasher and Nightblood's backstory as well as the nature of Cosmeric morality.

This week is packed with characters stepping up to take responsibility for their futures and their mistakes. Also, the Cosmere's lack of therapists sends Chris and Rose into a rant-session on trauma processing.

In this episode, Siri and Susi finally get sexy, Vasher goes into lecture mode, and Rose and Chris tackle the biggest question of all: Is Vivenna a Ravenclaw or a Slytherin?

More delicious realmatic theory comes into play while we watch Lightsong try one more time to push his responsibility onto someone else, and Vivenna faces down her biggest paradigm shift, yet.

In these chapters, Vivenna survives moment to moment through fear, illness, and starvation, while Siri flexes her political muscles against Treledees.

Siri and Susi flirt, while Vivenna hits an even deeper rock bottom, and Lightsong figures out a bit more of who he is. In our f-bomb moment, Rose dreams a fairytale of wielding Nightblood against abusers.

In this special episode we dig into the nasty techniques emotional abusers use to control their victims. It goes dark, so we removed our standard f-bombing limits and let them fly. We end by celebrating the true badassery of survivors who escape abusive brainwashing and move toward freedom and wholeness.

This weeks chapters are all about the girls. Vivenna has yet another identity crisis (that's kinda her thing) and Blushweaver projects her insecurities onto the newest Disney Princess, Siri.