You Know You're a Sanderfan When...

[Soulbinder she/her]

I carved the Bridge Four symbol a while back!

YKYASFW you make a presentation for a school project educating your classmates on the Librarian conspiracy

[XaliaStormblessed she/her]

When you only think about having kids so you can name them after Cosmere characters (*cough Navani, Kaladin, Dalinar) 

When all you want for Christmas is Cosmere books...

[The Sibling she/her]

12 hours ago, XaliaStormblessed said:

When all you want for Christmas is Cosmere books...

The one thing I've asked for so far...

YKYASF when you can name more Rosharan countries than real ones

[The Stormfather He/Him]

When your dad asks if you want anything for christmas and you say 'Any new sanderson things recently?

[Edema Rue she/her]

When you're playing signs and everyone's going around the circle saying what their sign is, and one guy goes "Bridge 4" and you, him, and one other guy all do the salute in sync, leaving the rest of the cast concerned and afraid.

When you notice scars on your arm and go "WOAH I LOOK LIKE THE FREAKING SURVIVOR" and start giggling in class.

[Through The Living Grub He/Him]

YKYASF when you cry inside because you just thought of a great joke!...But no one would have any idea what the heck you mean and it would be fruitless

[Edema Rue she/her]

3 hours ago, Xiahida said:

YKYASF when you cry inside because you just thought of a great joke!...But no one would have any idea what the heck you mean and it would be fruitless

I WANT TO HEAR YOUR JOKE

[Through The Living Grub He/Him]

2 hours ago, Edema Rue said:

I WANT TO HEAR YOUR JOKE

A lot of these were months ago and spur of the moment. The one I can remember is someone said something about a stick and I wanted to say "I am a stick." where can I post them?

Edited November 15, 2023 by Xiahida

[The Stormfather He/Him]

when your friend asks if they could get you some water, and you desperately want to say "Could you get ANYONE else, a glass of wine?"

Secrets in stained glass joke.

Edited November 15, 2023 by The stormfather

[Forts Board]

YKYASF When you start reading Machievelli and you scream, "No! Journey before destination, you fool!"

[Fezzik]

@Forts Board, here spoilered for length.

Spoiler

AndrewHB (paraphrased)

Is Niccolò Machiavelli's political theory--the ends justify the means--incompatible with the Knights Radiant's First Oath?

Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)

No. Although many of the Orders of Knights Radiant would find Machiavelli's theory, that the ends justify the means, incompatible with additional oaths and/or values of that Order, there are some Orders who could accept a Machiavellian. (Brandon said that the Skybreakers are where a Machiavellian could find a home.)

Footnote: A follow up question was asked in the signing line.
Arcanum Unbounded Hoboken signing (Dec. 3, 2016)

Spoiler

AndrewHB

I wondered if I could follow up to that Machiavelli question. Would Elsecallers be a-- one of those other, uh-- one of those...

Brandon Sanderson

So, yeah. Elsecallers are fairly compatible. Like, Elsecallers feel like the journey is... the journey is the entire species, right? And that the journey is the destination. *inaudible*

Footnote: Referenced question was asked in the General Q&A.
Arcanum Unbounded Hoboken signing (Dec. 3, 2016)

 

[Authorspren]

YKYASF when you make a Sanderson reference only for no one to understand what you're talking about.

[NerdyAarakocra They/Them]

YKYASF when your Mycotyrant EDH deck you built for a friend is called "The Fungal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving in Medieval Ixalan."

[Edema Rue she/her]

YKYASF when you’re walking down a hallway wearing a bridge four shirt and a guy wearing a Szeth hoodie nods at you and you nod back and keep walking feeling infinitely cooler.

EDIT: the guy happens to be in one of my theatre classes. So I got to hear him give a monologue as King Hamlet (the ghost). He was still wearing the hoodie. My brain decided Gavilar. 

Edited November 30, 2023 by Ookla the Believer

[Ookla she/her]

Probably has been done before in some way, but: YKYASFW you join the 17th Shard for the sole purpose of being an Ookla. For one thing, why on earth would you join the Shard if you weren't a Sanderfan? There's WAY too many geeks 'round here for most normal people! For another, you have to understand what Ookla Season is to really appreciate being an Ookla, which requires that you spend a lot of time on the 17th Shard.

Also, YKYASFW one of the top criteria for a future spouse is that they must at least have read the Cosmere and tolerate it, because it would be misery to make a whole lot of Cosmere jokes to someone who can't understand them.

[Ψιτιsτηε Βεsτ]

2 hours ago, Ookla the Ookla said:

Probably has been done before in some way, but: YKYASFW you join the 17th Shard for the sole purpose of being an Ookla. For one thing, why on earth would you join the Shard if you weren't a Sanderfan? There's WAY too many geeks 'round here for most normal people! For another, you have to understand what Ookla Season is to really appreciate being an Ookla, which requires that you spend a lot of time on the 17th Shard.

Also, YKYASFW one of the top criteria for a future spouse is that they must at least have read the Cosmere and tolerate it, because it would be misery to make a whole lot of Cosmere jokes to someone who can't understand them.

Factual though.

YKYASFW you send weekly Sanderson email to your brother on an lds mission.

[Longshot97 he/him]

YKYASFW you cite Dalinar Kholin as an example of "Leadership" for your National Honor Society entrance essay.

Not that...I would know anything about that...

[Ookla she/her]

YKYASFW 2% progress from the author of a book makes you want to jump up and down and cheer.

[Aredor]

YKYASFW you hear people singing "Feliz Navidad" and interpret it as "Failise Navidad."

[Ookla she/her]

YKYASFW you check to see how many pages are left in your book and are sad because there's only 300 more, so the book isn't going to last much longer.

Also, YKYASFW you're more excited for Christmas next year than you were for it this year because SA 5 comes out next year and not this year. 

[Blondiez78]

On 4/20/2015 at 3:38 PM, natc said:

When you see talking weapons in other stories and start wondering why they have fully developed senses of morality.

Encountering stories with talking weapons prompts a curious reflection on the intricacies of morality imbued in these inanimate objects.

[Banana_assassin she/her]

YKYASFW you see a stick on the ground and play out the “I am a stick” convo and now your friends think you’re delusional

[Edema Rue she/her]

When you sometimes sit on the floor at 3 am and act out a similar conversation to "I am a stick" but with a bead of metal...

I shouldn't eat this

But you could be an allomancer

But I shouldn't eat this

But magic

But I might die

BUT YOU COULD BE MAGIC

[Ravenclawjedi42]

YKYASFW your device autocorrects things to Zu and Mistspren.

Edited January 4, 2024 by Ravenclawjedi42
Wrong your

[Pineap-spider Pineapple/Spider]

YKYASFW your math teacher is insistent you bring your "fancy leather bound books" into the class to present them, and then do an unboxing of your new secret project