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  1. *to be read in an 60s/70s all American commercial accent*

    “this rusting reputation limit!” 
    How many times have you heard yourself thinking these or similar words? Will you support the proposition of moving the rep limit to 40? The number is low enough to hopefully prevent manipulation but high enough we have some more freedom.
    If you read that first statement and thought something along the lines of 

    “*scoff* I’ve never/rarely reach the rep limit” OR “I don’t really use the reputation feature much” OR “I’m confused”

    then why don’t you support this movement also? It will not affect you negatively in any way and for those of you who suffer from “Ican’tgooverthelimit-o-phobia”perhaps you will use the wonderful feature our Mods provided for us without worrying about reaching the end of your point spending abilities!

    reply to this SU with I’m in (or something along those lines) to support this movement today!


    I am going to post a topic in the 17th shard discussion asking the mods about this (politely) it would help if I had supporters, or at least people who were neutral.

    I will quote you in the topic.

    feel free to tell me if you are against this/ think it is a waste of time/ bad idea! I will accept all feedback, and at the moment I don’t even know if anyone cares about this issue. I will quote you also to show that it is not just a thing that everyone wants done.
    PM me if you don’t want your opinion public however be warned I will still mention you in the topic but just as a Sharder who wanted to remain Nameless.

    This SU will most definitely not reach the majority of the shard, if you know any Sharders who are interested in this please refer them to this SU.

    The topic will take a while to construct and it might not be up until Saturday because I will be busy with my moms birthday. If you really don’t think I should post it you probably have until tomorrow morning.

    -Cin

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    2. The Halcyon Girl

      The Halcyon Girl

      This appeals to my taste for complicated but sensible operations.

    3. Thaidakar the Ghostblood

      Thaidakar the Ghostblood

      they used to be regular people?
      I'm of the opinion that mods are still people. Though, it would be interesting if they were cyborgs...

    4. Cinnamon

      Cinnamon

      I meant ‘regular people’ in the sense that they were (and still are) Sharders/Sanderfans just as you and I before the gained the coloured text under their names.
      Sorry, that was poorly worded :P

      But I wouldn’t rule out the cyborg theory…

  2. Did I see a bookstore today? Yes

    Did I decide that I was just going to browse for a couple minutes? Yes

    Did I end up buying The Rithmatist and nearly buying a second copy of TLM? Yes

    Am I sensing a pattern?:ph34r: … yes

    Do I care? No:P

  3. Woooooo first day of school!! 

    I'm not freaking out! You're freaking out!!!

    Also its my birthday. YAY!

  4. Hey, I’m doing Jazz in voice! It’s super fun! I get to improv and I love the sound. It’s awesome! I actually decided to do it because of your enthusiasm about Jazz, so thanks.:) The song I’m doing is a version of ‘Dream a Little Dream of Me’

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    2. Cinnamon

      Cinnamon

      Bastille vs the evil librarians spoilers

      Spoiler

      *makes a sandwich with salted cheese and mails it to Alcatraz and Bastille as a wedding present*

       

    3. Shining Silhouette

      Shining Silhouette

      :D:D:D

      Now that's the way to do it

    4. Telrao

      Telrao

      *sandwich noises* yems indeed!

  5. I just got this little guy and he’s so cute and creepy, I love him!

    (Yes I put him in front of my Warbreaker leatherbound to flex 😅 I’m not ashamed)

    Spoiler

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    I need name ideas!

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    2. Edema Rue

      Edema Rue

      I LOVE THAT SONGGGGGG

    3. Immortal Platypus

      Immortal Platypus

      That's fun.  I've decided that I'm gonna learn "Waterfall" by Jon Schmidt over the summer. It's a really cool song and I'm excited to learn it (even though it's gonna be way over my skill level)

    4. Edema Rue

      Edema Rue

      I LOVE THAT SONG TOOOOO

  6. I have made the decision that I want to join a rp but I have no experience. Do you have any suggestions as to one’s that would be good to join at the moment?

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    2. Cinnamon

      Cinnamon

      Me too! Good luck with your quest! Perhaps at some point you’ll make your way back to the Mishmash inn. :D

    3. Telrao

      Telrao

      (Or we can find our way to him! You never know :D)

    4. Cinnamon

      Cinnamon

      ooohhh dun dun duuuuun!!!

  7. Well, I watched the Star Wars sequel movies for the first time this week ._. 

    I just finished The Rise of Skywalker and I have... opinions.

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    2. Wits instant noodles
    3. Wittles

      Wittles

      The sequels literally just take everything that the previous movies did and say: "well what if we completely ignored that?"

    4. Immortal Platypus
  8. Wooo! I’m on a plane to LAX. I’m visiting family for Christmas and I’m super excited. It is a 16 1/2 hour flight (with transfer) but I have four fresh books to tide me over, two of which are Sanderson.

    I am so tired because we got up at 4 am to get to the airport but I am super duper excited!:D

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    2. Cinnamon

      Cinnamon

      I landed! ( actually I landed at 5am PST, but I only got service now)

    3. Szeth's Facepalm

      Szeth's Facepalm

      ooooooo yay! have an AMAZING time!

    4. The Aspiring Archivist

      The Aspiring Archivist

      Have fun! Hope all goes well.

  9. Sup folks.

    sooooo I've kind of just disappeared and been lurking since May and I thought its high time I'm active again! A bunch of stuff has happened in my life in my break so I will try and condense them for you into  dot points.

    • EXAMMSS and hence bad mental health
    • Rehearsals, rehearsals and more rehearsals for my school musical (its opening in 6 days) 
    • I sign up for a charity event called the Worlds Greatest Shave to raise money for blood cancer and donate my lucious locks
    • More EXAMMS
    • More bad mental health
    • Gets to do JAZZ at a soiree. 
    • HYPERFIXATION ON STAR TREK
    • reading slump. literally cannot read. was freaking out
    • Reconnect with friend who I've known since I was 9
    • They helps me with my mental health by basically just being awesome.
    • Performance for Drama at school.
    • I discover the Big Bang Theory TV show. become obsessed
    • all the rehearsals for all the things
    • Become like bffs with aforementioned friend
    • OH NO I HAVE A HUGE CRUSH ON THEM AND HAVE FOR YEARS BUT HAVE BEEN SUPRESSING IT AHHHHH SCUD SCUD SCUD. I HATE FEELINGS
    • Get invited to a DnD group
    • Squeals with excitement because I was invited to a DnD group 
    • Does a mini Guys and Dolls and gets to do an awesome accent.
    • Has raised over $2,600 for blood cancer! (YAYYY)
    • The Worlds Greatest Shave happens, my previously crazy curly hair is no longer.
    • My head freezes in the Aussie winter :P
    • School holidays.
    • Youth Camp
    • A bunch of holiday homework
    • Best friend continues to be the best person I know, is adorable.
    • Work experience at my drama studio is very informative and awesome
    • Rehearsal, rehearsal, rehearsal.
    • Back to school
    • school work 
    • aaaaaaand nowww Its tech week. 
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    2. Veledsier

      Veledsier

      Awesome!!!!!! Ya, I have 3 musicals coming up this school year, so Ima have to buckle up!

    3. Cash67

      Cash67

      Theater + DND + School will do that to you… I’ve been there. Glad you’re back!!

    4. Hutch

      Hutch

      That's a wild ride there mate. I remember when I was at school and uni, I had myriad extra-curricular activities on the go and my academic performance took a hit. 

      Be careful to set aside enough time for yourself to get your work done to a good standard and also to just relax. 

  10. I’m scared…

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    2. Cinnamon

      Cinnamon

      Sorry this took so long, my internet went kaput :P

      Anecdote time!

      Okay so mini me was very nervous. It was my first day of secondary school (it’s an Aussie thing). We had done some icebreakers in the morning, your usual orientation stuff, but we still needed to meet our core subject teachers. We had English next and everyone was worried because we knew that there were some really mean strict English teachers. We all stood behind our chairs and in walks this young man with a curly manbun, and a very vibey outfit (full three piece suit with a fun tie and sweater, 100% eccentric English teacher vibes) there is not a hair on his face, walks in and puts his stuff on the desk. Everyone is like ‘who is this? He can’t be our English teacher can he?’ then one kid (his name was Josh, we had three joshes in my class that year) says ”who are you?” THIS MAN jumps on the spinny chair (on his knees) spins around until he is level with Josh, stands up, puts one arm up like he is holding a fencing foil and exclaims “I am Inigo Montoya, you killed my father! Prepare to die!”. That was the best introduction I have heard to this day. It immediately killed the tension in the room.

      But Cin! This has nothing to do with hyperbole! Ah yes, but I thought it was important you were introduced to the man who tells this story so you can understand the style and flair with which he told it (he also did voices, he was great at accents and one time we managed to convince the primary kids that he was a French exchange teacher that didn’t speak English, but that is a story for another time)

      So the class went on, everybody loved him and we were learning about persuasive language techniques and Mr. – writes “HYPERBOLE” on the board. Then a boy named Jonah goes “hyper-bowl, huh?” Mr. -  swings around and says in the most nasal-y old man voice “It’s Hi-per-bo-lee”. Then he goes, well, I suppose I owe you the story now I say “What story?” and he goes “Well, when I went to high school I did Latin, honestly I only took it for the extra marks and because it was nearly the only time I could see [insert his now wife’s name] because our school was divided into boy/girl sections, anyway, my Latin teacher HATED when people said hyperbole wrong so we would always do it just to annoy him, the people in my class would always ask him if things were ‘an example of hyper-bowl’ etcetera and he would always respond ‘It’s Hi-per-bo-lee’ ” he went to recreate a scene of him being a rowdy student abd asking the teacher about “hyper-bowl” it was HILARIOUS

      So that is what I forever associate the word hyperbole with. This guy and our drama teacher are the best teachers in the whole school (that I’ve had). Mr. – was the one who introduced me to Sanderson and lent me his Stormlight books when I finished Mistborn. He is he reason I love English as much as I do.

    3. Robin Sedai

      Robin Sedai

      Hah, that's such a great story! Thanks for sharing!

    4. Cinnamon

      Cinnamon

      Yeah, he's such a great teacher, and I got him again this year! I hope he teaches my lit or English language conventions class next year!

  11. Guys please check out this person’s blog, I just found it and wow, her cosplay costumes are sick.

    https://kayleemakes.com/

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    2. Immortal Platypus

      Immortal Platypus

      I'm definitely yoinking this and being a mistborn next halloween. Maybe I'll even paint some of my pocket knives black to pretend they're obsidian

    3. Cinnamon

      Cinnamon

      Quote

      She's the one who's mistcloak tutorial i used when i made mine :D

      OHH THAT REMINDS ME I HAVEN'T SHOWN YOU GUYS MY MISTCLOAK YET

      We need to see this!

    4. Edema Rue

      Edema Rue

      Yes please, I want to see cool mistcloaks

  12. May the 4th be with you.

    Happy Star Wars day peeps!

  13. I just borrowed The Eye of the World from the library. Wish me luck!

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    2. Cinnamon

      Cinnamon

      I’ll try guys :P 

    3. Edema Rue

      Edema Rue

      *sigh*

      The last books are the best ones though!

    4. Morningtide

      Morningtide

      I tried so hard to like it :( Good luck! I hope it goes better for you than me!

  14. I just hit the rep limit for the first time in months and I got to hang at school with my best friend today, life is good ^_^

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    2. Cinnamon

      Cinnamon

      We actually did a petition thing to move it up a while ago 

      :P 

    3. Thaidakar the Ghostblood
    4. Veledsier

      Veledsier

      That was beautiful!

  15. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!
    I put in an order for the Warbreaker Leatherbound!!!!! 
    How did this come to be?
    Thanks for asking, I’ll tell you. :P So I was at the Grand Canyon and then I had to go back to my Grandparents house. We got in the car and my dad said “[my name] if you don’t talk for the entire drive I will give you 100 bucks” 

    See I am a very talkative person and he didn’t think I would make it ten minutes, but  I was determined. You see I really really wanted a Leatherbound. You should not come between a bibliophile and their books, besides I can be very stubborn.

    8 1/2 hours later I’m 96 (long story) AUD richer. 

    I wonder if you can guess what I did with that money? Was I responsible? No. Did I put it in the bank? No.vDid I donate it to our church? ( well 10 percent but no)

    I bought a $159.26 book.  I’m so happy!!!!!!!!:D

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    2. justice magician

      justice magician

      It was your first time seeing snow?? thats insane! I'm glad you enjoyed it :D

      (as someone who has grown up with lots of snow)

    3. Cinnamon

      Cinnamon

      thank you very much! And yes, I live in a place where it never snows and none of my family do either so, I’ve just never seen it. ^_^ I’m more excited about the leatherbound though …:ph34r: 

      eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

    4. justice magician

      justice magician

      I'm glad you're so happy! Books are definitely a priority ;)

  16. My best friend laser cut me this

    Spoiler

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    It’s a Harmonium coaster! I love him so freaking much and l this shows how well he knows me :P he hasn’t even read anything Brandon Sanderson but he knew this was from “those books liked”

    ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

    :D 

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    2. Immortal Platypus

      Immortal Platypus

      get the mission impossible theme going

    3. Cinnamon

      Cinnamon

      :P You can certainly try…

    4. Immortal Platypus

      Immortal Platypus

      Time to assemble a team. Ocean's 11 music anyone?

  17. Well I am proud to say that I have temporarily relieved the ElDorado public library of all its Brandon Sanderson books. I borrowed the WoK audiobook, books 2,3 and 4 of Alcatraz, (everyone needs a good dose of middle grade in their lives) , and Arcanum Unbounded. I just returned the first Alcatraz book and Skyward, the latter of which I have not read yet because I got it for Christmas.

    I am quite appalled in the few Sanderson books they had, it’s a tragedy (just channeling my inner Melody:P)

    A kid has to be prepared if they are going on a road trip to Texas is my only defence. Besides I can’t get the Alcatraz books (barring the sixth) in my country, if I’m in the US I may as well make the most of it! 

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    2. Thaidakar the Ghostblood

      Thaidakar the Ghostblood

      My family does the same thing with libby xD

    3. Cinnamon

      Cinnamon

      I’m going to Texas soon and the only thing on my agenda is signing up for libraries (oh and family) it feels illegal

    4. Thaidakar the Ghostblood

      Thaidakar the Ghostblood

      books are quite important.

  18. Actual thing that happened today.
    My former friend: *does the Vulcan salute* May the fourth be with you
    Me: *short squeal of unbridled nerdy rage*

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    2. Cinnamon

      Cinnamon

      Do you get it?

    3. Wittles

      Wittles

      That is a legitimately amazing joke XD

    4. Cinnamon

      Cinnamon

      Thanks! It’s kinda hard to tell over text though… :P 

  19. I have many thoughts:

    1. The update is tripping me out huhhhhhh? (Its cool though)

    2. I want a Mervin plushy

    3. I REALLY want a Mervin Plushie

    4. Would a Mervin plushy help my anxiety? Probably

    Huh, I guess I didn't have that many thoughts

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    2. Edema Rue

      Edema Rue

      I WANT ONE TOOOO

    3. Thaidakar the Ghostblood

      Thaidakar the Ghostblood

      It looks epic, but what I really want is the Tress Cup and the Noodle Princess bowl.

    4. Ravenclawjedi42

      Ravenclawjedi42

      The cup! I want the cup a lot.

  20. Exams are over for meeee. YAYYYYYYY :DDDD also, I just reread Yumi and I really want noodles :P 

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    2. Cinnamon

      Cinnamon

      Yeah, Australia. Christmas Holidays are in a few weeks for us and its nearly Summer :P 

    3. Cash67

      Cash67

      meanwhile over here it's getting colder. Still want noodles though

    4. Ravenclawjedi42
  21. ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I'm a Scadrian Waffle Cook!! no one give me rep :P !!!

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    2. Veledsier

      Veledsier

      Lift and Lopen would be proud!

    3. Shining Silhouette

      Shining Silhouette

      YAY!

      Can I have some strawberry waffles...?

    4. Cinnamon

      Cinnamon

      Of course!

      *cooking noises*

      ta da! Enjoy!

  22. I take a breath. The air is hot and stuffy. It feels like less oxygen and more sweat. There are bodies pressing up against me. I take another breath quick and shallow. I can no longer feel the bodies, it is just one hot mass squeezing me on all sides. The mass is jumping now, up and down. It forces me with it my head hurts with the noise pounding it my skull. I can feel the bodies again. I am shoved from one person to another ricocheting like a pinball. My toes are trampled and my shins scraped and kicked by legs from the bouncing mass. I try again to breathe but the moist hotness in the atmosphere is overwhelming now. The air won’t fill my lungs. I panic as I continue to be buffeted around. An elbow to my ear stings and the pain pushes me over the edge. My breath won’t come now I open and close my mouth but now even the hot air won’t come. I squeeze my eyes shut. My head pounds and the screaming mass seems to writhe and squirm around me, everything feeling rancid. It feels like this oppressive feeling will never end. Then the music and yelling fades, I open my eyes and think the mass sinks down around me and I am left standing isolated. I try to breathe again, I am relieved at the tiny raged gasp of hot air that greets me. That’s when the hand reaches out. It grabs me and tries to pull me down again. I feel the panic start to steal my breath again. I steel myself, tears coming to my eyes as I strain against the cold gripof those fingers. I strain to keep myself upright, pulling with all my strength. My breath is gone again. I am completely and utterly alone all I know is the deafening silence and my struggle with that cold hand. Then, it breaks. The hand’s hold on me is severed and the mass around my ankles fizzles into nothingness. The next breath I take is cool and clear, my headache fading, I blink. It’s gone. I am safe.

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    2. Wittles

      Wittles

      That's pretty scary

    3. Cinnamon

      Cinnamon

      Yeah it was. It was over pretty quickly so that’s good but my feet, shins and mind bear the marks of my terror, fleeting though it was. I think I might have anxiety but idk. Anywayyy happier stuff… puppies , kittens, the smell of old books, a warm fire in winter, the cold adrenaline you feel when you’re on a stage about to perform, sunshine, dew in the morning grass. 

      im all good :]

    4. Wittles
  23. I got tap shoes :DDDD I tried them on and I felt like gene kelly :P 

    Soo for context my drama studio wants to do a big tap number and none of us know how to tap so their going to teach us!

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    2. Veledsier

      Veledsier

      mmmhhhh... I just got back from rehearsal..... We may get the director to let us do a tap kick line:ph34r:

    3. Cinnamon

      Cinnamon

      Oooooohh that’s be pretty cool if you get the timing right!

    4. Veledsier

      Veledsier

      That's what we are working on lol

  24. There are a few things I have to say today:

    1. My Biology SAC (the thing that has been giving me grief for the last two weeks) is done so ... Booyah!!

    2. Today is the first day of the Australian spring school holidays so … Booyah!

    3. Oh and of course, last but not least: TODAY IS MA SHARDIVERSRY!!! Woooooooo!!!!!!!!!! I’ve officially been in the Shard for a year (and a day because tIMezOnEs) … Booyah!

    I’m so incredibly grateful for the time that I’ve spent here so far and the people I’ve met! The shard is a wonderful place full of incredible people and art and theories and RPs (sometimes when I’m bored so just read through a RP like it’s a book) You guys have helped me so much with stress, life and everything and I really hope I’ve helped some of you guys a fraction as much. 

    Thank you for an amazing year, Here’s to many more!!!!

    Love you all <3

    - Cinnamon

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    2. Robin Sedai

      Robin Sedai

      Happy shardiversay Cin! You're awesome!

    3. justice magician

      justice magician

      Happy shardiversary!!!!!! 

      I wish it was spring where I live ;-;

    4. Cash67

      Cash67

      Happy (late) shardiversary!!! You bring so much chaotic happiness here

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