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Hellooo! I finished my handmade mistcloak the other week and just threw together some stuff I have collected for Ren faire over the years. My Vin cosplay is about 80% complete, I plan to change out everything that has metal to just leather so I have to craft that myself, and I will be adding some bandages to kind of represent Vin more so in book 2. But overall I am super happy so far with how it looks! In action: https://imgur.com/gallery/ZS2n2cI

We had to make a poem imitating the rhyming scheme and rhythm of The Raven. I made mine about the Cosmere. Also I got to go on The Coppermind for homework. Which was fun.

So, does anyone remember that time I went to a regional science fair and won there and then went to a state science fair and won again and then went to a national conference? Yeah, today's the second iteration of that regional science fair. Except this time I'm present my senior research. Let's see how far up the ladder I get this time.

I have an idea. My dear Sharders, My dear Radiants and Allomancers, and my dear socks and bookies, and writers, and cyborgs, and snake monsters, and hobbits, and Fremen, artists, rangers, writers, and nerds. *Eddie stands up "Not Nerds!"* and nerds. Today is my third shardiversary: I am three years on the Shard today! I hope you are all doing well as much, or perhaps more than, I am. I shall not see you long. I have written this post to bring you all together for a Purpose. Indeed, for Three Purposes! First of all, to tell you that I am immensely fond of you all, and that three years is too short a time to live among such excellent and admirable sharders. I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. Secondly, to celebrate my shardiversary. I should say: OUR shardiversary. For it is a group effort. My time here has been one of joy and fun thanks to all of you. Together we are a community of great people. It is also, if I may be allowed to refer to ancient history, the anniversary of my second Shardiversary post; though the fact that it was my second shardiversary post slipped my memory on that occasion. I was bad at math then, and keeping track of time did not seem so important. Then I said "My third shardiversary and to more to come!" I now repeat it more correctly: thank you very much for collaborating with me on three years of the Shard! I wish to make an ANNOUNCEMENT I regret to announce that - though, as I said, three years is far too short a time to spend among you - this is the END. I am going. I am leaving NOW. GOOD-BYE! Okay, I'm not actually leaving. I don't think it's the right thing right now. It is 100% not the time to leave the Shard. I just really wanted to make that joke. Come on, you gotta admit it: that was funny. I joined the shard 3 years ago. Three years! can you imagine it? I was so much younger then... I hadn't even started MC role-play, I was a smol child, fresh with the opinion that I knew a lot about fantasy when I was and still am clueless. Ahhh, yes, those were the days... I can still remember exactly when I started. I was sitting in my breakfast nook, having just received my mom's permission to get an account. It was bright outside. Ahhh, to go back to that house with the old furniture and sit there while going onto the Shard. My life changed that day. I'd like to think that it was for the better. This community provided me with different perspectives. This community has helped me to realize a fundamental fact. "People think different than I do and that is entirely okay." I thank all of you so much for helping me to realize that and other things about the world and the people who populate it. All of you are wonderful people and I can't name everyone who means a lot to me. I love all of you so much (yes, even you). My PMs are open to anyone who needs to talk! Just know that I may ask that we wait for a little bit before talking because I'm an idiot who has terrible priorities. (Ie, watching strongbad instead of soldiering through Inheritance so I can read more Terry Pratchett and Brandon Mull). *raises jar of Root and slice of pumpkin pie* I have no idea how long I will be on the Shard, nor how long any of you will be, but this I do know. I lost the game. *Eats pie and downs Root*

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When you very nearly start crying because the video for the new secret project won’t load at school …when you have a teacher who loves Brandon and he sees you almost crying in class and asks what’s up and you wordlessly turn around your phone to show the video that won’t load and he says “go to the doors at the end of this hall, that’s where you get the best service” and he suddenly becomes your favorite teacher.

I got my mission call today Brazil Curitiba South Mission, Portuguese speaking! Reporting to the Brazil MTC on July 31. Incredibly excited and grateful

WoK/WoR spoiler

HoA I drew this in like 2021 so big shift in style, I was still using a mouse to draw back then lol

@Everyone Wit here, if you want to ping people you think would be interested in seeing this, please do. I simply can't name all the people I am grateful for here. I am taking a break of the shard for a bit. I don’t know how long I’ll be gone. Maybe a few weeks. Maybe longer. Maybe a few months. Maybe forever. I don’t think I will be gone forever though. I’d like to ask these things. @Just-A-Stick, I won’t be there for the therapy rp. Act as if he just hung up randomly. @justice magician, @Invisible, @TheRavenHasLanded, @Scars of Hathsin @RoyalBeeMage, on the Everything and Anything rp, I really want you guys to continue it. I have no claim in any random people besides Dragon. I would say that he had to spontaneously leave to check on something you don’t know about. He said he would be back shortly. Don’t let it die. Do a heist! I look forward to reading it on return. I have no other pans beyond that. Elan, I summoned you, because I hope you can return to do the One of Worlds and all that drama, as we try to lure her there. The room. Piling is currently on the North wall, someone…never mind. TLT, not a ton of action there right now. Yeah. Insanity Clinic. Technically Wit is in there somewhere. Ignore that like it has been for the past months. HG, well, mage, I appreciate you doing that with me. The pirate one is kinda dead… Remember that httyd interest thread? Well, I did fully plan on starting that as soon as HG ended. I didn’t have any specific idea for that, but make it happen! I was going to make a planning doc though. On the topic of planning docs, the one that JM made, the rp, unfortunately I won’t get to participate in. I will be still on the doc. Also, if there is anything new or idk, on docs, I will be active if you want to ask me something I’ll be there. Why? Well, I was thinking. I feel like I am at the point in my life where what I spend my time on now will ultimately be my skills for the rest of my life. I’m the broad spectrum of it, the shard, while great, is not something that I can cultivate into what I want to define me. Things that I have spent my whole life and things that I feel are more substantial are what I want to focus on. The shard is great. A community of tight knit people who will never stop their support. Role plays also are technically helping me be a better writer. However, I want to focus on the real substantial things. Things that I want to be. I am also cutting a lot of my things down in my life. Anyways, I hope you guys continue in your awesomeness. Be good. Stay strong. Anything I forgot… I don’t know. Favorite hymn: A Poor Wafering Man of Grief Favorite scripture: D+C 122: 7-9 Favorite Quote: Well, that's complicated When I made that long list of quotes, I maintained one constant. My favorite quote is this: "Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right." -Brandon Sanderson. But I'd like to ask Brandon if I can alter it. I actually slightly disagree with this century old notion. "Someone has to start. Somebody has to step forward, even when it is hard. Even when all the world is against you. When the popular decision is to be with the unrighteous. When all seems to be lost, when there seems to be no hope, when you are lower that you thought anybody in the world could be. When you feel so unloved, so unknown. When you find yourself stuck in the same place, the same endless circle of sin that you thought you could make it out of. When you lack purpose. When you feel like the world has done nothing but hedge your way to what you feel in your soul to be the things of life. Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, not only because it is right, but because there is a God who knows you. Because, out there, watching and smiling at you, is a God who Loves you. Step forward and do what is right because it is the way of Him. Step forward and do what is right because it is right. Step forward. Do what is right, and carry along those who have yet to find the strength to join you. Step forward." God be with you till we meet again.

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Name the character: Is depressed, can fly, is blue, glows, gets locked up.

“Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.” —Mat Cuathon, Wheel of Time Find the moments of joy, mkay? In a sky of darkness and despair, find the stars. (If you’re @The Bookwyrm, find the giant balls of burning gas and admire the science behind them) I don’t have time to respond to everyone’s SU’s, but I see so many people who are so alone, and so lost, and sad. I see you. I remember you. I hear you. If you need me, I’m here. Keep laughing, ok? Find reasons to smile. Sometimes, we just have to take advice from the Lord of Scars. If we can laugh, we are winning.

Ok ok so last night AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH To those of you who don’t know, my story was chosen to be featured in this years teen anthology (through teen author boot camp and owl hollow press). So last night I got to go to a release party and gala for that. I met all the other authors, which was super cool. BUT the person who wrote the foreword for it is none other than Christopher Paolini. So I got to meet him. And he signed the book. And then we had a very long conversation about books and beautiful prose and he gives Dune 10/10 and then gave me book recommendations And anyway AAAAAAHHHHHHHH that was so cool

For safehand use only

Guys guys guys guys GUYS Hadestown… On Broadway… It was unreal. The Eurydice and Hermes are leaving soon, and it was amazing to see them. And the Persephone was the original one from the concept album when it originally released in 2006. I sobbed through the entire thing AND OH MY SCUDDING CHASMS JORDAN FISHER AS ORPHEUS I LOVE HIM Guys theatre is art. Go see a show. It’s like interactive reading. With music. I saw it two days ago and I’m still emotionally…uh…

Stormlight spoilers up till Oathbringer

Cover concept tease pt 2! It feels kinda muddy to me and it’s driving me absolutely mad

Well, I’m home. NYC was incredible, life changing in some ways. But I missed my mountains. And I don’t know how you big city people do it, I don’t think I could ever live in a city bigger than like…Provo. Nah, Provo’s too big for me. Anyway, it was so fun, and now I have like 4 F’s and I perform Saturday but that’s not important! Life is good ALSO, I decided I wanted a place to put my pins so I did that. I forgot to iron the fabric first though…oh well.

Can we just acknowledge for a moment how much of a good song Pigstep is? Like, genuinely. It's good writing music, it's good gaming music, it's just good music in general. Imo, it is the best Minecraft disc we have gotten, though not necessarily the best Minecraft music as a whole. It's good music, but not necessarily good Minecraft music. That's a whole other thing though.

chat what do i do if it’s all becoming Too Much? if im dissociating and the world just feels Off like why is everything just Agh like why do i want to go to sleep and never Wake Up Again like bro everything is just No right now

You guys. You guys. THERE'S ONLY 39 DAYS UNTIL SUMMER. THAT'S 29 SCHOOL DAYS. I'M SOOOOOOOO READYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Also, story time! My little sister told me earlier today that she's concerned for me, because apparently I say a lot of my intrusive thoughts out loud. And I get a lot of those. She also said that she doesn't want me around her while I'm holding potentially dangerous objects, which I guess is valid because I was chopping some branches earlier with a giant pruner and I told her that if there was ever an intruder in the house to grab it and go for the jugular. -- "Boom, dead. And if that doesn't work, you can always go for the other major arteries. Femoral, brachial... basically any of those will make them bleed to death." She looks at me with mild confusion, mixed with slight horror. "...Why do you know this??" "A girl's gotta be prepared, [name]. You never know when you might need to kill someone out of self defense, or at least mortally wound them. Also," I add hastily, noticing the expression on her face, "I write fantasy books. With sword fights. You know this." My sister pauses, studying me, then reaches for the pruners, which I immediately pull away. "Okay, true. But maybe I should..." "No! ...Hey, do you think if I threw these hard enough, I could shatter the window?" "Honey, that's called an intrusive thought. We don't say those. Just give me the--" "No, Dad gave me these! It's my job! Give me that branch." She begrudgingly obliges, and I cut the branch into a few different pieces so they fit in our black trash can, then I pack them down into the tangle of other branches using the long wood scraps my dad left for us. -- Random comments like these aren't rare from me, but I probably have extra today due to the fact that I got less than five hours of rest. I couldn't fall asleep until about 5:45 (am) and woke up around 10. It was rough. Terrible, actually, but whatever. Hakuna Matata, right? Lol. Anyways, I'm gonna go eat a snack and then do my homework that I totally neglected for the whole of spring break. Wish me luck

WHOS EXCITED FOR REN SEASON?? I AM!!! so, here’s some REN FAIRE FIT PICS!!!! piece-by-piece walkthrough with info on each part, in case you’re curious: the outfit :3 i’m literally so obsessed i can’t— is it possibly slightly overkill? yeah, maybe a little bit. do i care? absolutely not. *ob* *sessed.*

*SIGH* I'm back after almost an entire week when I wasn't caught up enough on schoolwork to be online. *cues sobbing noises* Anyway! I'm back! I'm alive! I'M GOING TO THE NATIONAL ZOO SOON!!! WITH VEILLL No idea what else to say... I'm failing school so that's fun... I have a bunch of quotes to dump so ima go do that. Love Y'all! ~ Stick

Help I just listened to a recording of me singing two years ago and I’m dead. Absolutely dead. ain’t no way I’m posting it but like you guys you can improve on anything SO MUCH in two years. Stick with it, because you’re amazing and you can do it!!!!!!

GUYS please read this I’m in love with it and I don’t know why. Between:

A little over 2 years ago I posted a "Roshar Reimagined" HD map that I created in Photoshop and it was really well received. The 17th Shard even went on to use it in their Interactive Map of Roshar project, which was really cool to be a part of even in a small way. I got to looking at the old map a month ago though and I felt like perhaps I could do a bit better... so I gave it a fresh coat of paint using some new graphic design tricks I'd picked up in the past 2 years, and I was really happy with the newest version! So I wanted to share it with the rest of the fanbase, and I hope that you enjoy it as much as I do. I love to hear feedback as well, so lay it on me

When your teacher starts talking about cattle branding and you uncomfortably turn your shash phone case over to hide it

Well, it took a lil bit for me to decide what I wanted my "I'm back" post to be... But! I decided to post more Watercolor Art So, here we go! I did 3 trout for an environmental science thingy for school. IT TOOK HOURS- BUT I DID IT!! (yes, i KNOW the brookie doesn't look right! i was rushed and I messed up a bunch) And, my Mom's birthday is on Saturday so I painted her a flower. It's supposed to be a ranunculus, but it looks more like a rose. Not the best, but it was okay. Anyway, I'm still alive, even if I don't feel like it. Love y'all, Stay safe, My PMs are always open. ~ Stick

Huzzah! Please excuse my excitement. I've just recently been caught up enough on Cosmere to hazard a guess at something coming so I'm happy I got it It may not be exact if we're being pedantic, but I'm counting it as a win!

I've seen more on Discord, that's where a lot of memeing (with, well, activity in general) has migrated these days. There are also some on Reddit. Here's a favorite of mine from AdoWillRemOurPlightEventually:

One of the things that bothered me about The Hero of Ages was Elend’s duralumin-atium burst. It’s iconic but it always annoyed me why Elend could do what Ruin couldn’t - foresee Preservation’s plan and Ruin’s death. However, now that Secret History has given insight into precognition I finally understand Elend’s sacrifice. Elend never knew for certain if his sacrifice would be guaranteed to drive Vin to murder-suicide Ruin. But he aimed to protect the world and trusted Vin, so he sacrificed himself to help her. This is something Ruin - an unaware Vessel filled with the contextless embodiment of decay - was unwilling to do. Before heading west to the Ire’s fortress, Preservation showed Kelsier a future vision that starts from him heading west. The future vision held Connections between Kelsier and his soul to Preservation, Kelsier to everything and everyone on Scadrial, Preservation to the ground and air and metals. And in the vision, it held a path of future possibilities - many, thousands upon thousands, infinite, tangled with each other. Kelsier could only glean vague, general impressions because his mind isn’t expanded to sort through or understand the sensation, the information, or the individual possibilities. Elend saw into the future the same way Kelsier did - through glimpsing Connections. But he could understand all the possibilities because Atium expands the mind. When burning duralumin+atium, Elend became temporarily Connected to Kelsier, Vin, Ruin’s essence, the future, the past, everything and everyone in the battlefield. Those Connections are the blue lines pointing from his chest in the Physical Realm and the white lines in the Cognitive Realm. Seeing the future possibilities within those Connections, but understanding them all because of Atium’s mind expansion. Judging from regular Atium and Kelsier’s vision, he probably saw the ”thousands upon thousands” of possibilities that could result from his current action - the fight against Marsh. “I see now” is when Elend liked the general implication of the future vision - that he could drive Vin to sacrifice her life if it meant defeating Ruin. So he let Marsh kill him and hoped it would come true. But even the Shards of Adonalsium - those who foresee infinite possibilities and infinite actions - can be wrong about the possibilities they see as unlikely, likely, or thread towards. All he could do was trust Vin and hope for the best outcome. But where does this fit into the futures seen by the Shards surrounding these events - Ruin and Preservation? Ruin, the essence which fuels Elend’s future vision and the God whom foresaw what Elend saw. Preservation, the God Sanderson implies incorporated Elend’s death into his plan. I believe for Ruin, his inability to acknowledge Elend’s future vision was not a matter of seeing the possibilities. But rather, it was a matter of seeing them as likely possibilities. Ati the Vessel basically didn’t exist anymore. Ati didn't even remember what planet he was working on, virtually a shell filled with Ruin's Investiture. Ruin the God foresaw the possibilities within Elend's future vision, but either saw them as unlikely or dismissed them entirely. You could even say he was a god that no longer understood or acknowledged the loving sacrifice that existed within his foreseen future possibilities. Ruin the God didn’t embrace life or acknowledge that life needs to persist. Ruin didn’t sacrifice. He said he was life, and yet Leras/Fuzz comforted life when Ruin did not. And for this, he dismissed Elend’s futures and paid the price. Preservation protects. Preservation listens to the hearts of men, for it hears all thoughts of all Scadrians. Leras understands sacrifice, for the divinity sacrificed his mind and equal pedestal to Ruin. This was for the sake of protecting in the long run. This is why he wanted Elend to have the lerasium bead. Leras chose a successor who could live a life highly Connected to Preservation’s attributes, and might sacrifice her life for the greater good. He foresaw someone might use one lerasium bead for the pieces of the plan to fall together. And when the time came, He saw Vin’s lover as someone who might sacrifice his life for the greater good. Someone who could use the bead. Leras bet those possibilities would come into play at the last moment, did whatever he could to thread towards them, and hoped it paid off.

Alright so today, I’m wearing the Harmony hat (check Sanderson’s store if you don’t know what I’m talking about), my denim jacket, a t-shirt, and sweatpants, and my mom says bye to me by telling me: “You look like you’re gonna go catch Pokémon.” I cannot tell y'all how great my mom is.

Two pieces of good news! 1: My father remembered something I said months and months ago, and surprised me with a denim jacket! I am now filled with an insatiable desire to fill it with Sanderson and other nerd patches. Pic below Secondly: my PhD is now paid for! I can go to grad school without worrying about tuition. So praise the Lord! That is all. Anyone else got good news?

*inhale* Hi guysssss How's it going?? I'm mostly alive I thinkkkkkkkk so that's funnnnnnnn I wrote a poem and I reallllllly wanna post it but I'm not supposed to because I'm trying to get it published in a magazineeeee but it's really goooooooddddd Oh my brain is in a WEIRD place not gunna lie... Uhmmmmmmmmmm Yeah I have no idea what I'm doin anymore so that's fun I won't be on at all this weekend cause I have a youth retreat thingy I'm doing Anyway... I don't know what the point of any of this was, but life is lifeing right now so this happened. See y'all around... Love, Stick

MY FINALS ARE OVERR I HAVE TWO MONTHS NOW TWO MONTHS TO READ AND LISTEN TO THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES (and others, cause let's be honest I'll finish magnus archives within the week) TO WATCH MOVIES AND INDULGE IN MY HOBBIES

Morning everyone. I'm not okay. The last kitten died.

Just saw that they add this in the project update: All his life, Sixth of the Dusk has been a traditional trapper of Aviar—the supernatural birds his people bond with—on the deadly island of Patji. Then one fateful night he propels his people into a race to modernize before they can be conquered by the Ones Above, invaders from the stars who want to exploit the Aviar. But it’s a race they’re losing, and Dusk fears his people will lose themselves in the effort. When a chance comes to sail into the expanse of the emberdark beyond a mystical portal, Dusk sets off to find his people’s salvation with only a canoe, his birds, and all the grit and canniness of a Patji trapper. Elsewhere in the emberdark is a young dragon chained in human form: Starling of the starship Dynamic. She and her ragtag crew of exiles are deep in debt and on the brink of losing their freedom. So when she finds an ancient map to a hidden portal between the emberdark and the physical realm, she seizes the chance at a lucrative discovery. These unlikely allies might just be the solution to each other’s crisis. In their search for independence, Dusk and Starling face perilous bargains, poisonous politics, and the destructive echo of a dead god. I guess this would explain why Xisis is in such a bad situation.

Shadow of self

My little brother is the sweetest little thing so as most of you know I’ve been pretty sick over the past couple of days (started feeling bad on Wednesday, it was the worst on Saturday and Sunday and I’m still feeling under the weather), so I took school off yesterday and didn’t have it at all today cuz reasons. So my mom and lil bro and I (he’s preschool age) just chilled for most of the day, which isn’t really important. Anyways, everyone’s home from school and work now, and we went out to the chiropractor and picked up some groceries, but my mom didn’t want to make a whole dinner for seven people when we got home tonight (which is totally understandable) so we just went and grabbed some McDonald’s and took it home to eat. I got a McChicken but somehow ended up with two (my older brother was the one who ordered so uh that’s prolly what happened—) and I ate the first one fine and ate the second one partway and halfway through I just started to feel pretty gross so I laid down across my chair and my older brother’s (he’d left at this point) because it would help me feel better blah blah blah. And then I see this little 3.5 year old ADORABLE face with big blue eyes and rosy cheeks and aaaah he’s adorable just pop over the corner of the table which means he’s laying across it so obviously I’m like “hey buddy can you sit in your chair please? I want you to be safe because you could fall and get hurt” And my dad’s tryna get him off the table lol and he just reaches out his arms and says my name and I realize he’s tryna hug me so I give him and hug and he sits back down lol and it made me feel so much better not less sick but like I was totally overstimulated today and it just was like awesome. GO HUG SOMEONE! It increases dopamine. True fact.

One thought that I'm most likely wrong about but I can't get out of my head and I won't give up until it's confirmed that I'm 100% wrong is that Star is related to Hoid, as soon as it was mentioned that she has white hair and I remembered that Brandon said that hoid has dated a dragon was the first thing that came to my mind

THERE WAS WATER LEAK IN MY CRAFT ROOM!!! WATER EVERYWHERE!! By some miracle we caught it early enough that nothing was ruined besides maybe the rug. We still had to take everything out and are waiting for tomorrow for the plumbers to come Enjoy the the cameo of my grandfather who help save my stuff

WOW LIFE HIT ME IN THE FACE. i'm so so sorry for being afk w/o warning the last few days have been so rough i'm sorry