You Know You're a Sanderfan When...

[Ashspren]

When your friend has perfect pitch, so you tell everyone that they’re Second Heightening.

 

When you are playing ping pong with a non-Sanderfan friend, and they say: “You’re going down!”

Response: “I knew the end was near... the Final Desolation is coming.”

 

When instead of cursing, you say “storms,” “rusts,” “colors,” “by the Lord Ruler,” etc...

 

Whenever there’s a storm, you resist the urge to put all of your money outside.

 

When you are trying to come up with original story ideas, but you keep on thinking about ways they could be tied into the Cosmere.

 

When you’re super sick, so you just start drawing little spots all over you so that the “Shaod” has come, and eventually Raoden will fix the Dor and save you.

 

When you just aspire to BE the Sanderson characters.

 

When you trying to roast someone, and they make a comment about their (insert some sort of self-compliment here)...

“You (insert compliment) is like Taravangian’s sense of honor and friendship. NONEXISTENT.”

“You (insert compliment)... and Lift isn’t awesome.

 

When you get an account on the 17th Shard...

 

When you and a Sanderfan friend make a list of where all of your friends would live in the Cosmere, and what their lives and powers would be like. (For anyone who might be curious, I would be a steel compounder on Scadrial, living during Era 2.)

 

When you listen to the radio, and apply each song to a Cosmere character. A little story unfolds in your head.

 

(Oathbringer spoiler below)

Spoiler

When you can give the remember the exact page of Shallan’s “if he can’t fly” speech... it’s page 1200 of Oathbringer...

 

When you assign each one of your friends to an order of the Knights Radiant.

 

When you read other books, you catch yourself wondering how the other worlds fit into the Cosmere.

 

When you’ve memorized the order of the Knights Radiant, and their surges— in order.

 

When you’ve taken 30 minutes to think of these and type them out...

Edited April 25, 2018 by Ashspren
Got the Heightening wrong for perfect pitch— thanks, @Apollyon!

[Apollyon he/him]

@Ashspren Correction, perfect pitch is Second Heightening. Third is Perfect Color Differentiation. 

When you know all of the Heightenings...

Edited April 25, 2018 by Apollyon

[Ashspren]

1 minute ago, Apollyon said:

@Ashspren Correction, perfect pitch is Second Heightening. Third is Perfect Color Differentiation. 

When you know all of the Heightenings...

Thanks, @Apollyon!

[Tesh Any pronouns]

10 hours ago, Apollyon said:

@Ashspren Correction, perfect pitch is Second Heightening. Third is Perfect Color Differentiation. 

When you know all of the Heightenings...

When you have a sign in your room that you made laying them. Just in case you lose internet. Our you're too lazy to go look at the Coppermind. 

11 hours ago, Ashspren said:

When your friend has perfect pitch, so you tell everyone that they’re Second Heightening.

 

When you are playing ping pong with a non-Sanderfan friend, and they say: “You’re going down!”

Response: “I knew the end was near... the Final Desolation is coming.”

 

When instead of cursing, you say “storms,” “rusts,” “colors,” “by the Lord Ruler,” etc...

 

Whenever there’s a storm, you resist the urge to put all of your money outside.

 

When you are trying to come up with original story ideas, but you keep on thinking about ways they could be tied into the Cosmere.

 

When you’re super sick, so you just start drawing little spots all over you so that the “Shaod” has come, and eventually Raoden will fix the Dor and save you.

 

When you just aspire to BE the Sanderson characters.

 

When you trying to roast someone, and they make a comment about their (insert some sort of self-compliment here)...

“You (insert compliment) is like Taravangian’s sense of honor and friendship. NONEXISTENT.”

“You (insert compliment)... and Lift isn’t awesome.

 

When you get an account on the 17th Shard...

 

When you and a Sanderfan friend make a list of where all of your friends would live in the Cosmere, and what their lives and powers would be like. (For anyone who might be curious, I would be a steel compounder on Scadrial, living during Era 2.)

 

When you listen to the radio, and apply each song to a Cosmere character. A little story unfolds in your head.

 

(Oathbringer spoiler below)

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When you can give the remember the exact page of Shallan’s “if he can’t fly” speech... it’s page 1200 of Oathbringer...

 

When you assign each one of your friends to an order of the Knights Radiant.

 

When you read other books, you catch yourself wondering how the other worlds fit into the Cosmere.

 

When you’ve memorized the order of the Knights Radiant, and their surges— in order.

 

When you’ve taken 30 minutes to think of these and type them out...

I can relate to almost every single one of those.

When you name your little stuffed kiwi bird Tein after your profile pic, and your sloth Lirin. 

[Mistspren she/her]

When you try to upvote things, and when it doesn’t work automatically assume that the post must be aluminum cloaked.

[Tesh Any pronouns]

Just now, Mistspren said:

When you try to upvote things, and when it doesn’t work automatically assume that the post must be aluminum cloaked.

Hey, it worked! No aluminum there!

[Apollyon he/him]

When you have always instinctively known what kind of misting you are and all the quizzes agree with you...

Lurcher by the way, Lurchers for life!

[Lord Meeker he/him]

When you mess up a game of telephone, instituting the phrase "Journey before pancakes."

[Kidpen he/him]

58 minutes ago, Apollyon said:

When you have always instinctively known what kind of misting you are and all the quizzes agree with you...

Lurcher by the way, Lurchers for life!

I am, apparently, a rioter.

Edit: When you mean to type library, and accidentally type Liebrary. I didn't even notice until after I posted it.

Edited April 26, 2018 by Kidpen

[Jehoiada he/him]

When your little sister tells you she has an imaginary friend and you frantically start asking questions about It trying to figure out what type of spren it could be, and what type of raidient she would be....

[Ashspren]

When this happens...

 

Friend A: “I actually really don’t like Sanderson’s books. Seriously, how do you even read them?”

Me: (mutters angrily) “Airsick lowlander.”

Friend A: “What?...”

 

— —LINE BREAK— —

 

Friend B: “Yeah, I was reading the Way of Kings. It really wasn’t that good.”

Me: “Did you have your brain coated in aluminum or something? That can’t be healthy.”

Friend B: “I... I’m sorry?”

Me: “I mean, obviously. The aluminum must block the Investiture of Sanderson’s incredible writing.”

Friend B: “I don’t understand.”

Me: “Well, you would if you read Cosmere books! Storms, you have a lot to learn.”

Edited April 26, 2018 by Ashspren

[LittleGreyDragon]

On 25/04/2018 at 8:53 AM, Ashspren said:

When you are trying to come up with original story ideas, but you keep on thinking about ways they could be tied into the Cosmere.

This. This is the bane of my existence.

[Wyndlerunner he/him]

1 hour ago, Ashspren said:

When this happens...

 

Friend A: “I actually really don’t like Sanderson’s books. Seriously, how do you even read them?”

Me: (mutters angrily) “Airsick lowlander.”

Friend A: “What?...”

 

— —LINE BREAK— —

 

Friend B: “Yeah, I was reading the Way of Kings. It really wasn’t that good.”

Me: “Did you have your brain coated in aluminum or something? That can’t be healthy.”

Friend B: “I... I’m sorry?”

Me: “I mean, obviously. The aluminum must block the Investiture of Sanderson’s incredible writing.”

Friend B: “I don’t understand.”

Me: “Well, you would if you read Cosmere books! Storms, you have a lot to learn.”

These kinds of conversations break my Sanderfan heart. You know you're a Sanderfan when you make friends with someone simply because you were in the Sanderson section of the library at the same time, and they make a comment about OB

[Ashspren]

23 minutes ago, LittleGreyDragon said:

This. This is the bane of my existence.

I am trying to write a story right now, and I showed it to a friend. I promptly asked what Shard should exist on that world, because the Cosmere just takes up my entire brain.

Their response: "You aren't storming Brandon Sanderson. As much as you would like to be, your rusting story ideas will never be a part of the Cosmere. Colors, Ashspren, you are obsessed."

I immediately started to freak out over the Cosmere references they made, while they shook their head laughing.

[Ashspren]

26 minutes ago, Wyndlerunner said:

These kinds of conversations break my Sanderfan heart. You know you're a Sanderfan when you make friends with someone simply because you were in the Sanderson section of the library at the same time, and they make a comment about OB

Or possibly more than friends… lol.

I should write a fanfiction about this… a love story to last the ages.

 

Edit-- I just realized that I double posted. How do you merge posts?

Edited April 26, 2018 by Ashspren

[Apollyon he/him]

42 minutes ago, LittleGreyDragon said:

This. This is the bane of my existence.

Very much so. I was working on a magic system for months before realizing they were just spren...

[AonEne he/him]

When someone says something obvious and you mutter "It's like you can see the future...VOIDBRINGERS" 

When you're doing an art thing and you say unity and pattern, then realize what you said. 

When you literally cannot stop making Connections between Remnant and the Cosmere. Qrow is Hoid because he uses Yolish Lightweaving; Oz is Harmony; etc, etc. 

When you see emboldened PM titles out of the corner of your eye and think, "I need to click on - oh. Wait." Because it was actually a hallucination. 

When you see some guy who looks at a city skyline once and draws it all exactly on CNN, and your first thought is 'Lightweaver'. 

When you get bored and just start writing down every Cosmere place you can think of. 

When you write a double-sided page of Wayne quotes and still aren't all the way through SOS. 

When you have three whole pages, double-sided, of questions for Brandon...and are nowhere near done writing them all. (Not even taking any from here or the Google Docs.) 

Then my non-Sanderfan friend saw the pages while I was writing one. I'd abbreviated Questions for Brandon to QFB, and she saw the acronym and at once said "Does that stand for Questions for Brandon?" 

When everyone is talking about Wayde from RPO and you, having not seen it, just think of Wayne every time and get confused. 

Edited April 26, 2018 by AonEne

[Wyndlerunner he/him]

3 hours ago, Ashspren said:

Or possibly more than friends… lol.

I should write a fanfiction about this… a love story to last the ages.

 

Edit-- I just realized that I double posted. How do you merge posts?

Actually it was @Firerust, who actually got me to sign up for the Shard. Also not sure whether I should be honored or terrified at being the subject of a fanfiction.

[Ashspren]

27 minutes ago, Wyndlerunner said:

Actually it was @Firerust, who actually got me to sign up for the Shard. Also not sure whether I should be honored or terrified at being the subject of a fanfiction.

I was kidding about the fanfiction... it takes valuable time to write that stuff. That’s time I could be using on the Shard, or reading Sanderson books. 

[Wyndlerunner he/him]

3 minutes ago, Ashspren said:

I was kidding about the fanfiction... it takes valuable time to write that stuff. That’s time I could be using on the Shard, or reading Sanderson books. 

I was primarily joking as well

[Ashspren]

Just now, Wyndlerunner said:

I was primarily joking as well

Lol.

 

Also, more of the “You Know You’re A Sanderfan” Scenarios... 

When you literally have a group chat called “I am a Stick.”

When you have an entire document full of Cosmere theories.

When you talk to your friends about what Rosharan ethnicity each person you see would be. (Blonde hair for that person over there? Iri. That dude next to her is so pale... Shin? Maybe? Oh look, that girl over there has dark/tan skin and dark hair... is she Alethi? Or Reshi? This is an actual problem... Alethi or Reshi?!)

When the main problem circulating through your head is whether or not someone would be Alethi or Reshi...

When you play “Where’s Hoid?” in other books besides the Cosmere... (There’s some random, insightful man who only appears briefly! It’s Hoid! Oh wait, wrong fandom...)

When you search up “gold ability to burn” because of chemistry reasons, and Mistborn is the first thing that pops up. You internally freak out. (Okay, scratch that— it’s both internal and external. You scream and send pictures to all of your Sanderfan friends.)

When your friend says that they’re bored, so you pick up the stack of Sanderson books you just reread and throw it at them. “This is Mistborn Era 1, Mistborn Era 2, Warbreaker, Elantris, the Stormlight Archive, and Arcanum Unbounded” you say. “Read them all. Then, get an account on the 17th Shard, and get the manuscript of Aether of Night. Now go. Leave me to my fan forums.”

When almost every tab open on your device is Cosmere or Sanderson related.

When you have no drawing abilities but you still want to be like Shallan, so you draw a bunch of random scribbles and call it “Pattern.”

When your friend says that you’re lying, so you just scream “LIES. DELICIOUS LIES” in their face. Then, your friend, who is a Sanderfan, follows up with “SUCH INTERESTING TRUTHS.”

When you  say “kolo, sule?” or “got it, Gancho?” instead of “okay, guys?”

When you make up ways to put the orders of the Knights Radiant on a license plate, and vow to use it one day.

When after you finished Words of Radiance, you saw a projector and thought about freeing the poor Cryptic from the inside of the vile machine. They were obviously helping with Lightweaving the image...

When you scream because Sanderson just released another book, and people literally have to ask you to shut up and calm down... 

When you can’t carry the amount of Sanderson books you want from a bookstore.

Whenever you finish a different book, and someone asks how it was, you respond: “Oh, it was really good. It wasn’t as good as Sanderson’s work, but still good.”

When a friend says “YOLO” and you immediately think: “Life before death. Strength before weakness. Journey before destination.”

When you start a “Save the Chasmfiends Fund,” the “Chull Rights Organization,” and the “Chickens are People Too Association.”

When you dream about the Cosmere.

When you start to see spren around you, because spren are everywhere. Duh.

[Kidpen he/him]

When you think of the Alleyverse every time you here the word roundabout.

[Podman]

2 hours ago, Ashspren said:

When you talk to your friends about what Rosharan ethnicity each person you see would be. (Blonde hair for that person over there? Iri. That dude next to her is so pale... Shin? Maybe? Oh look, that girl over there has dark/tan skin and dark hair... is she Alethi? Or Reshi? This is an actual problem... Alethi or Reshi?!)

I'm pretty sure that Shin's aren't that unusually pale. They're probably closer to just being white.

 

 

And I vote the girl to be Reshi. Because Lift.

[Rebecca she/her]

So we had two guys from the Elders Quorum come over to our house (because we just switched ward boundaries) and they trying to get to know us, right. So one guys asks me my hobbies and I say reading. He then asked me what the last book I had read was. It was Oathbringer.  So me and my dad started recommending they read Sanderson books, and my dad gave them a super rough explanation of the cosmere, and we both sat there obsessing over Sanderson the whole time. It was fun. Having another Sanderfan in the family is pretty awesome.

[Ashspren]

3 hours ago, podman36 said:

And I vote the girl to be Reshi. Because Lift.

That’s what I was thinking, but at the same time... Jasnah.