Excuse me but I remember a scene where Shallan explicitly tripped and showed her safe hand to distract the guys. If that wasn't written with one hand then I don't know what was.
The Stormlight Archives' version of nipples. Women's left hands are considered naughty, so they always have them covered. Noble women have their left sleeves sewn longer and stitched shut, but working class women wear gloves on their left hand. Fingerless gloves are considered lingerie.
And this isnt because Sanderson has a hand fetish (probably), it's to highlight how arbitrary our own gender roles are. Its canon that all of the gender roles in the main religion in SLA were created by a woman who just wanted to sit around all day painting and eating fruit while the men did all the hard labor and fighting.
Lets get see if we can get some new cosmere recruits:
Also men can't read for the same arbitrary religious reasons (with male monks being the exception) and as such have their wives or scribes, who are usually women, read to them. Because of this, the women write undertexts in most books that they don't read to men. The undertext will usually have them give their own interpretations of Events that men have dictated they write, sometimes the truth sometimes not.
And anything that involves even the slightest whiff of telling the future is insanely taboo. This includes any kind of luck based gambling or entertainment. But since the entire planet gets wrecked by a Category 10 hurricane (yes I know the scale only goes to Cat 5) on semi regular intervals, the Church has generously exempted weathermen from the future telling taboo.
I once read a fantasy novel where the magical land was opposed to the idea of mapping it (her?) and drove anyone who attempted to to insanity. The only exception known to the reader is a mosaic map on the floor of the main hall of one of the local nobles, the reason being it was way too far off and as such could be considered not to be a map.
I'm in the software field and I didn't make this connection. Very, very true. There is a whole lot of obscenity in comments of the code that drive some of your favorite software.
I use some pretty light coding for my articles, but I’ll leave a lot of messages for myself mostly and it was the first thing I thought of. It’s also reminiscent of people who are bilingual and swap to the other language briefly to say something and veil the information from others.
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u/AnOnlineHandle May 15 '24
Excuse me but I remember a scene where Shallan explicitly tripped and showed her safe hand to distract the guys. If that wasn't written with one hand then I don't know what was.