You Know You're a Sanderfan When...

[The Invested Beard]

So you request White Sand and Aether! Mine finally came today, and I pretty much chucked my homework out a window

 

Requested both, got and read White Sands but still no Aether.

[Stormgate he/him]

Requested both, got and read White Sands but still no Aether.

I had that. Ask the person who sent you White Sand nicely and you will probably get it.

[Moonskin she/her]

Who doesn't use AM and PM? What do they use then? How do they measure time?

 

In French speaking countries, we mostly use the 24 hour clock, although in Switzerland we also often say "8 heures du soir/du matin (8 in the afternoon/in the morning" to avoid confusion

 

And you know you're a Sanderfan when you're dead jealous because a friend has read Secret History and you cannot, because you don't have a Kindle 

[Alfa he/him]

i read SH (and most other Sanderson works) on my phone. Kobo and Google are offering SH too.

[Moonskin she/her]

Oh my, I did not even know that we could buy and read e-books on Google!

 

Thanks for mentionning it, I am going to do my shopping right away

[Stormgate he/him]

You know you're a Sanderfan when your first use of an iTunes gift card saved "for a rainy day" is to buy Mistborn: Secret History on e-book.

[Pinnacle-Ferring he/him]

When you watch Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and all you can think is...Mistborn. They're definitely Mistborn.

How else do you explain their gravity-defying abilities?

[Espella]

When you hear someone to tell you spike a ball in volleyball and you get really confused about what investiture you could possibly steal from a ball (and then miss)

 

When you try to read/watch Star Wars media and end up thinking of all the force usage as different types of allomancy. Moving stuff around is Iron and Steel, mind tricks are Brass, sensing the presence of other force users is brass, it all makes too much sense. Yoda and Obi-Wan must have been Copper savants.

[Bowiespoon he/him]

Whenever I read a fantasy book and groan at the Godlike powers and generic character the protagonist has, and fail to be invested (see what I did there?) at all.....

 

Seriously, I really have trouble going back to that drivel these days........

 

Also, cosmere puns

Edited March 27, 2016 by Bowiespoon

[Bugsy he/him]

Whenever I read a fantasy book and groan at the Godlike powers and generic character the protagonist has, and fail to be invested (see what I did there?) at all.....

 

Seriously, I really have trouble going back to that drivel these days........

 

Also, cosmere puns

Try Red Rising, it's a pretty good book

Back on topic:

When you're sitting through church on Easter, and you suddenly think that if RL were the cosmere, G-d and Satan would each be shards who counterbalance each other and Jesus would be the physical embodiment of the Cognitive aspect of G-d who was placed on earth so he could act without being countered by Satan. Then you go on to think that Satan must have "walled off" the cognitive realm around earth, trapping cognitive aspects from reaching the G-d beyond and leaving them aimless cognitive shadows who are subject to the intense pull of beyond but are unable to submit to it, and that when Jesus died the sudden transfer of G-d's investiture into the walled-off cognitive burst through the dam, resulting in the freeing of the cognitive shadows and return to heaven with the G-d beyond, and that because he was a cognitive aspect, Jesus was able to create another physical avatar through investiture, allowing him to return to life

NOTE: Sincere apologies to whom my post may offend, this is purely a hypothetical discussion, and as a Christian myself, is in no way intended to mock any religion

[Bowiespoon he/him]

Try Red Rising, it's a pretty good book

 

I read that, and it was okay - a great book by regular standards. I liked parts were they were discussing the history of the solar system. I could kinda guess the plot, but until I discovered Sanderson's works I've always been able to do that.....

 

but once again back on topic:

 

When you must repress the urge to throw the nearest heavy object for talking about how the Hunger games/divergent/maze runner is/are the best book(s) ever written.

[Espella]

When you must repress the urge to throw the nearest heavy object for talking about how the Hunger games/divergent/maze runner is/are the best book(s) ever written.

Isn't that just most people?

[Bowiespoon he/him]

Isn't that just most people?

I was like that before I started reading Sanderson's books, so yes, you are correct.

 

To be fair, for 90% of people who read the hunger divergent runner trilogy, it is the best book ever, because It's the only book they've ever read.

[Nashan’Elin he/him]

I was like that before I started reading Sanderson's books, so yes, you are correct.

 

To be fair, for 90% of people who read the hunger divergent runner trilogy, it is the best book ever, because It's the only book they've ever read.

This made me crack up. Because it's so true. And at least in my case, Sanderson books trained me to foretell plots, basically Ruining most other books and movies I see.

[Bowiespoon he/him]

This made me crack up. Because it's so true. And at least in my case, Sanderson books trained me to foretell plots, basically Ruining most other books and movies I see.

We should be careful, we're starting to derail the thread.

 

But with anything that isn't sanderson, you can predict the plot like this:

 

Step 1: Evaluate the situation, NOT the characters in said situation

Step 2: What emotion clouded choice does every 'hero' make? (do I save my girlfriend, or the world?) (side note: this is why I like Vin)

Step 3: Sigh in boredom.

 

OR, we have the edgy fantasy version

 

Step 1: How can we make our cast do the most graphic sexual acts physically possible.

Step 2: Alternatively, how can we kill off every character who can be considered a decent human being.

[Sunbird she/her]

When you try to talk yourself out of using Sanderson profanity in texts to your non-Sanderfan family members.

[Delightful]

Off topic replies

I was like that before I started reading Sanderson's books, so yes, you are correct.

To be fair, for 90% of people who read the hunger divergent runner trilogy, it is the best book ever, because It's the only book they've ever read.

I liked the (first) Hunger Games and Maze Runner books when I read them. And I had read a lot of books by then. I read HG years ago and I can't remember if MR was after I read Sanderson or not, but still. Just because it's not your cup of tea doesn't mean it's nonsense.

Step 1: How can we make our cast do the most graphic sexual acts physically possible.

Step 2: Alternatively, how can we kill off every character who can be considered a decent human being.

Just Song of Ice and Fire, or are there others?

Edited March 29, 2016 by Delightful

[natc]

Ruby Rose forum avatar. Approved.

They're far from the best thing ever, but it was somewhat entertaining watching Katniss be the subject of excessive hype then everyone dying anyway.

[Delightful]

Why thank you.

 

Both those trilogies got successively worse, and Divergent wasn't great to begin with.

You mean in-world hype or IRL hype? 

Edited March 29, 2016 by Delightful

[natc]

In-world hype. She's not actually that amazing of a person. She just made the right impression at the wrong time and people ran with it to get things done.

Divergent. That was plain weird.

[Bugsy he/him]

In-world hype. She's not actually that amazing of a person. She just made the right impression at the wrong time and people ran with it to get things done.

Divergent. That was plain weird.

Hated the flaws in the science aspect of it, too. If you have a population of any organism that share a common genetic disorder, inbreeding within those affected would only worsen the problem, not "cure them over time". Also, if the damaged traits were genetic, then in theory why would anyone choose to change factions in the first place? Both of their parents passed on the gene that gave the skewed outlook on life, so they should all belong to whichever "faction" their parents did. On top of that, it talked about how the factionless were largely divergent. I didn't really see why this is true, because just having unmarred DNA doesn't mean you're inept and unable to assimilate into a given society under the pressure of herd mentality

[king of nowhere]

when you see a friend playing the last missions of the starcraft 2 campaign, where kerrigan became a "goddess", and you are disappointed that she's nowhere near comparable to a shard and possibly even weaker than the lord ruler.

[Sunbird she/her]

When your professor uses the word "preservation" and you laugh out loud because the first think you think of is Mistborn.

[Stormgate he/him]

When you are immensely disappointed when you learn that touching cadmium can be toxic, swallowing it more so.

[Nashan’Elin he/him]

When you're listening to a religion talk (I'm getting confirmed) and the speaker says "the Spiritual realm" and you immediately think of Realmatics