You Know You're a Sanderfan When... Part 2

[NerdyAarakocra King's Wit]

You know you're a sanderfan when you force your Latin teacher to read Stormlight. By the way, Odium means 'hatred' and Notum means 'famous' in Latin.

 

[The Known Novel King's Tester]

14 minutes ago, NerdyAarakocra said:

You know you're a sanderfan when you force your Latin teacher to read Stormlight. By the way, Odium means 'hatred' and Notum means 'famous' in Latin.

 

Odium is technically an English word, but unlike most others it was stolen wholesale from Latin without any changes.

[Shallan Stormblessed Kandra]

YKYASW you're learning about the Sons of Liberty in History and you can't stop thinking about the Sons of Honor.

[Odiumiumium Arbiter]

YKYASW your entire bookmarks bar is just vital 17th shard threads.

[Cinnamon Cryptic]

YKYASW you are reading a non-Cosmere book (not Brandon, not even fantasy or sci-fi) and you start looking for Hoid.

[Telrao Full Feruchemist]

You know you're a Sanderfan when you:

1) Read SteelHeart in one night

2) Your computer doesn't bother to correct "Brando Sando" anymore

3) When you almost squeal every time you think of a certain scene or character from one of Brando Sando's books. (Literally, I almost exploded in class one time when I thought about Raoden and Sarene)

[Shadowed Arbiter]

I have 15-ish tabs open on my phone. 

- 4 are 17th Shard threads/subforums

- 2 are Coppermind

- 1 is Arcanum (I guess that kinda counts as Coppermind but whatever)

- 2 are Brandon’s website

- the others are just boring stuff like emails and schoolwork and stuff. 

Does that qualify me as a fully-fledged Sanderfan?

[Tani Lord Prelan]

4 hours ago, MysticalShadows said:

I have 15-ish tabs open on my phone. 

- 4 are 17th Shard threads/subforums

- 2 are Coppermind

- 1 is Arcanum (I guess that kinda counts as Coppermind but whatever)

- 2 are Brandon’s website

- the others are just boring stuff like emails and schoolwork and stuff. 

Does that qualify me as a fully-fledged Sanderfan?

Yes.

 

YKYASW you see "Ishi" in the Bible (Daniel 2:16 iirc) and get distracted from your Seminary class thinking of Ishar

[Shallan Stormblessed Kandra]

YKYASWY do your Color Guard routine and decide it's a spear kata.

[rosharian_cat Oldblood]

You know you’re a Sanderfan when you hear loud thumping and immediately brace yourself, thinking “where’s the thunderclast?”

Bonus: 

YKYASWY are consistently distracted during church imagining a dark force appearing behind the pulpit and your immediate reaction is to then imagine yourself in full Shardplate fighting it.

[The Voiceless One Lighteyes]

6 hours ago, rosharian_cat said:

You know you’re a Sanderfan when you hear loud thumping and immediately brace yourself, thinking “where’s the thunderclast?”

As soon as I read "loud thumping" I thought "mistwraiths", soon followed by "mistborn".

[Shallan Stormblessed Kandra]

YKYASWY see "Tension" and read it as TenSoon.

[NerdyAarakocra King's Wit]

YKYASAW when you read Broken Earth and decide that Hoa is Hoid.

[Just a Silvereye Forescout]

YKYAASFW you read the message above and you think NerdyAaracokra is talking about HoA. As in, Hero of Ages. 

[Lego Mistborn Silent Gatherer]

On 11/4/2022 at 5:03 PM, Tani said:

Yes.

 

YKYASW you see "Ishi" in the Bible (Daniel 2:16 iirc) and get distracted from your Seminary class thinking of Ishar

That and when someone reads from the book of Nahum and you think of a spren getting beaten up instead of listening to their devotional...

[Boomslug Bridgeman]

On 7/8/2022 at 7:32 AM, SymphonianBookworm said:

When you in your debate camp preach for 15 minutes on why people should read Branderson and play D&D and everyone else is like: 
And then the debate coach says, "Oh, I've heard of him! I've seen some of his books around."
.........

Just imagine a Brandon Sanderson D&D! Cytonics, Epics, Mistborn, Stormlight, etc.

[Boomslug Bridgeman]

When you're eating lunch and you randomly start thinking about whether FM is cytonic or not

[Shallan Stormblessed Kandra]

When you memorize the story of Fleet. And want to find somewhere to perform it.

 

EDIT: I have PROOF:

Spoiler

What do you see?

I...

Close your eyes, idiot. What do you see?

That's the song of a man who is running.

In the driest part of the brightest day

The man set off from the eastern sea

And where he went or why he ran 

The answer comes from you to me.

He ran from the storm.

The man was Fleet, whose name you know!

He's spoken of in song and lore

The fastest man e'er known to live,

The surest feet e'er known to roam!

In times long past, in times I've known 

He raced the Herald Chan-a-rach.

 

He won that race as he did each one 

But now the time for defeat had come 

For Fleet so sure, and Fleet the quick 

To all that heard he yelled his goal

To beat the wind and race a storm 

A claim so brash, a claim too bold 

To race the wind? It can't be done 

Undaunted, Fleet was set to run

 

So to the east, there went our Fleet 

Upon the shore his mark was set

The storm grew strong, the storm grew wild

Who was this man all set to dash?

No man should tempt the God of Storms

No fool had ever been so rash

 

At first, Fleet did well.

 

O’er rock and grass, our Fleet did run 

He leaped the stones and dodged the trees 

His feet a blur, his soul a sun

The storm so grand, it raged and spun

But away from it our Fleet did run

The lead was his, the wind behind

Did man now prove that storms could lose?

 

Through land he ran so quick and sure 

And Alethkar he left behind

But now the test he saw ahead 

For mountains he would have to climb 

 

The storm surged on, released a howl

It saw its chance might now approach

So to the highest mounts and the coldest peaks 

Our hero Fleet did make his way. 

The slopes were steep and paths unsure

Could he maintain his mighty lead?

 

 Obviously not. You can never stay ahead. Not for long.

 

 No! The storm grew close, till it chewed his heels.

Upon his neck, Fleet felt its chill

Its breath of ice was all around

A mouth of night and wings of frost

Its voice was of the breaking rocks 

Its song was of the crashing rain 

 

Then the tip he reached!

The point he found!

Fleet climbed no more, but crossed the peak 

And down the side, his speed returned!

Outside the storm, Fleet found the sun 

Azir’s plains were now his path

He sprinted west, more broad his stride

 

But he was growing weak. No man can run that far without getting tired. Even Fleet.

 

Yet soon the race its toll did claim, 

His feet like bricks, his legs like cloth

In gasps our runner drew his breath 

The end approached, the storm outdone 

But slowly did our hero run. 

 

 More mountains. Shinovar. 

 

A final challenge raised its head,

A final shadow to his dread

The land did rise up once again,

The Misted Mountains guarding Shin. 

To leave the storming winds behind,

Our Fleet again began to climb.

 

 The storm caught up.

 

The storm again came to his back,

The wind again did spin around!

The time was short, the ending near

As through those mounts our Fleet did dash

 

It was right upon him. Even going down the other side, he was unable to stay very far ahead.

 

He crossed the peak, but lost his lead.

The last paths lay before his feet,

But strength he’d spent

And might he’d lost.

Each step was toil, each breath in pain.

A sunken land he crossed with grief,

The grass so dead it did not move.

 

Ahead, the sea, the race’s end.

Eyes barely saw, legs barely walked, 

But on he went to destiny.

The end you know, the end must live 

A shock for men to me you'll give 

 

He died. He didn’t make it. The end.

 

So you do know this story.

 

I thought you were making it up.

 

No, you were.

 

Then what is there to know?

 

All stories have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were and all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.

 

So... Fleet. Was he real?

 

As real as I am.

 

And he died?

 

He died.

 

What?

 

Upon that land of dirt and soil

Our hero fell and did not stir!

His body spent, his strength undone,

Fleet the hero was no more.

The storm approached and found him there.

It stilled and stopped upon its course!

The rains they fell, the winds they blew,

But forward they could not progress.

 

For glory lit, and life alive, 

For goals unreached and aims to strive

All men must try, the wind did see.

It is the test, it is the dream

 

So in that land of dirt and soil, 

Our hero stopped the storm itself!

And while the rain came down like tears,

Our Fleet refused to end this race.

His body dead but not his will,

Within those winds his soul did rise.

 

It flew upon the day’s last song

To win the race and claim the dawn.

Past the sea and past the waves, 

Our Fleet no longer lost his breath.

Forever strong, forever fast, 

Forever free to race the wind.

 

What does it mean?

 

It’s your story. You decide.

 

The storm caught him.

 

The storm catches everyone, eventually. Does it matter?

 

I don’t know.

 

Good. Then you have something to think about.

 

The End

 

Typed/voice typed. From memory.

*mic drop*

Edited November 16, 2022 by Shallan Stormblessed
ADDING MEMORIZATION

[Friendly Cremling Cobalt Guard]

When your class was sharing good books, and when someone mentioned Cytonic you jumped like three feet, and were very happy for the rest of class.

and when you spent like an hour trying to convince your dad to go to Barnes & Noble to get the Lost Metal tomorrow. And you’re very sad that you can’t go today because you have plans. 
 

Okay apparently my parents got me The Lost Metal early yesterday morning as a surprise. And we didn’t even pre-order it or something. My dad just went to the bookstore and got the one remaining copy. 

Edited November 16, 2022 by Friendly Cremling

[Shard of Reading Twinborn]

When the first thing you do this morning is go and buy the e-book of TLM. 

[Tani Lord Prelan]

10 hours ago, Shard of Reading said:

When the first thing you do this morning is go and buy the e-book of TLM. 

You. Lucky. Ducky.

[Shallan Stormblessed Kandra]

My teacher just said, "It was wasing."

As far as I know, she doesn't speak High Imperial.

[The Wandering Wizard Rambleman]

When you see a group of kids surrounding a single penny on the ground.

[Boomslug Bridgeman]

YKYASFW you are a coder and write down a bunch of pages at midnight on how to make a Sanderson game if you ever got the chance to

[Casual Elantris Enjoyer Darkeyes]

When you have been secretly stalking the gallery channel for the past 6 months  

All of you people's art is AWESOME