You Know You're a Sanderfan When...

[LinkasZelda]

When you verbally insult others by saying they're slower than wounded chulls, while sitting atop a tall stool.

 

Laughing at the Wit reference, then looking down and realizing you were perched on a high stool while reading it. Then you try to share the hilarity with your coworkers, only to have the conversation turn into an awkward rambling where you have to give a bunch of context for a series they've never read.

[Observer]

When people see you in an enormous black trench coat and compare you to some kind of hawk, you immediately start talking like Hoid to make a bad joke, and then realize that not only will they not get the joke, but you already act like Hoid all the time.

[Kobold King he/him]

When you tell your family members "the first rule about White Sand is that we do not talk about White Sand."

[Kasimir he/him]

When, during a round of dice-based RPG (wasn't the Mistborn one, unfortunately), you say, "I summon my Awesomeness."

[Wyndrunner he/him]

When you start playing Skyrim and you wonder why your Bound Sword can't slice right through inanimate objects.

[LinkasZelda]

When you go into a hobby shop and try to convince yourself that every sword is talking into your mind.

[Kobold King he/him]

When you go into a hobby shop and try to convince yourself that every sword is talking into your mind.

When you visit hobby shops and shout "would you like to destroy some evil today" whenever a customer picks up a sword.

They don't let me in hobby shops nowadays...

[TheArcanist he/him]

When you realize that you threatened everyone in a group of nerds with a terrible death during a heated debate, and they have no idea what you're talking about because it's Cosmere-related. You people are bad nerds.

 

When you realize that your dream job would be as a member of the in-Cosmere Seventeenth Shard, and that you'd be much better at it than just about anything else.

[Wyndrunner he/him]

Another video game reference. When you're playing Assassin's Creed and you ask yourself why Szeth hasn't Lashed anything yet.

[Peng the Just he/him]

When you're reading a non-sanderson book, and someone says "I've been in contact with Harmony," and your first thought is "yay! cosmere shenanigans!" then you realize that the book doesn't take place in the cosmere and feel dissapointed and hollow for the rest of the day.

[Kobold King he/him]

When you're reading a non-sanderson book, and someone says "I've been in contact with Harmony," and your first thought is "yay! cosmere shenanigans!" then you realize that the book doesn't take place in the cosmere and feel dissapointed and hollow for the rest of the day.

When you feel disappointed and hollow every day because Stones Unhallowed won't be released anytime soon.

My friends and family tell me I shouldn't get so obsessed. They tell me the books aren't worth that kind of deep-seated emotional commitment.

I scream "I am offend" at them until they either back down or send me to a psychiatrist.

[Peng the Just he/him]

I scream "I am offend" at them until they either back down or send me to a psychiatrist.

or give you their boots.

[TheArcanist he/him]

When your parents tell you that being heavily invested in these books is irrational, because they're just books, and you reply "Mistborn need not make sense."

[Peng the Just he/him]

When your parents tell you that being heavily invested in these books is irrational, because they're just books, and you reply "Mistborn need not make sense."

when it amuses you greatly that he used the word "invested"

[bartbug he/him]

When you can sit during class and daydream about which angle you would lash yourself so that you could perfectly crash through the window and slide across the slightly slanted top of the roof, and when you're mad at someone, you try to lash them straight up, only to give them a pat on the back.

[Claincy he/him]

When you can sit during class and daydream about which angle you would lash yourself so that you could perfectly crash through the window and slide across the slightly slanted top of the roof, and when you're mad at someone, you try to lash them straight up, only to give them a pat on the back.

..Well with that kind of action I doubt you would be a Windrunner, or a Skybreaker for that matter. You sir need to get an honour blade. *nods sagely*

 

Perhaps when you are playing firefalll and you are certain that this is the closest you can get to the feeling of being a Windrunner in any game. Examples of what I mean here and here. Neither of those videos are perfect but they give a rough idea of how amazing it is. I can fly anywhere I want without having a need to touch the ground (except to pickup ammo, that is very difficult to do without touching the ground.) I even have an ability called tether field that sort of fits with Adhesion

This is why I love that game.

[TheArcanist he/him]

When you spend your free time trying to figure out what would happen if two specific Aons were combined, then take the time to try and figure out every Aon combination and its effects.

[Shaggai]

When you realize that Leggatt from The Secret Sharer is obviously a Duralumin Ferring.

[aeromancer he/him]

When you thrust your hand at every door you open, in the hopes you somehow trigger latent Coinshot/Lurcher powers.

[Left he/him]

When you realize that you must have life sense, but you don't know how to get your Breath to work. I figure it's all a conspiracy from the government, making us brush our teeth dampens our powers.

[Kasimir he/him]

Another video game reference:

When you play The Force Unleashed and reckon this must be the closest it gets to being Szeth

Edited April 23, 2014 by Kasimir

[Observer]

When you view maneuvering a debate into a place where you can use the counter "I am a Stick" as an undeniable and crushing auditorial victory.

[Delightful]

So just out of curiosity, what percentage of these, approximately, are real, and how many are made up because it's fun?

[Claincy he/him]

So just out of curiosity, what percentage of these, approximately, are real, and how many are made up because it's fun?

 

Mine are all real. I would figure that most of these are real, though a few might be slightly exaggerated or desired but not yet achieved. Or they could all be real, what do I know.

[Observer]

Most of mine are real. I sit like a bird and wear a trench coat most of the time and do indeed try to make Hoid jokes when I already act like him. I've used the Stick comeback at least twice now and only had it work once, that kind of thing. Don't even get me started on accidentally trying to push and pull things, having Sanderson powers in my dreams has done a number on my muscle memory. Can't speak for everybody else, but I think a lot of these are probably mostly true.