You Know You're a Sanderfan When...

[+Slowswift]

To be fair, Rock has a proper Horneater name while Tyn sounded like she just spat out random syllables. 

[thegatorgirl00 she/her]

When you always look at Sanderson's books first thing after entering a library even though you own them all, because you feel the need to check and see how they are doing. 

[Eccentric Hero he/him]

39 minutes ago, thegatorgirl00 said:

When you always look at Sanderson's books first thing after entering a library even though you own them all, because you feel the need to check and see how they are doing. 

Yes. And to check if there are any potential future sharders.

Today, I found out that my university has less Sanderson books that my old high school.

[KnightRadiant she/her]

When you're on the Shard instead doing your homework that's due tomorrow...

[Sunbird she/her]

When you find out about the amazing eyes of a mantis shrimp and your reaction is, "Whoa. Mantis shrimps are born with the Fifth Heightening!"

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

3 hours ago, Sunbird said:

When you find out about the amazing eyes of a mantis shrimp and your reaction is, "Whoa. Mantis shrimps are born with the Fifth Heightening!"

That made my day XD

When there's a kid at your school, and he made a badass carboard bow, and you think "it's time to make a cardboard shardblade"

[Brightness Enna she/her]

9 hours ago, Darkness Ascendant said:

"it's time to make a cardboard shardblade"

It's totally time.  

[thegatorgirl00 she/her]

The following is a true story. It is a warning to all of you. 

So, there I was reading the fourth Alcatraz book in a library. Two librarians were with me. We were eating cookies and talking about books. One (who knew I was a Sanderfan and has read many Sanderson books herself) told me I should volunteer at the library. They left the room momentarily and I realized they were trying to bring me into their cult. I asked them about it when they returned and one confirmed that it was true. The fact that they both wear horn-rimmed glasses should have given it away sooner… 

Rutabega 

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

6 hours ago, thegatorgirl00 said:

Rutabega 

Rutabaga*

[PantsForSquares he/him]

You know you're a Sanderfan when you draw Aons with condiments. I've had an Aon Rao burger and an Aon Mai bowl of ramen already.

[Nashan’Elin he/him]

You know you're a Sanderfan when you're sitting in Chemistry class and the teacher begins talking about alloys and all you can think about is Mistborn. 

[PantsForSquares he/him]

7 minutes ago, Nashan'Elin said:

You know you're a Sanderfan when you're sitting in Chemistry class and the teacher begins talking about alloys and all you can think about is Mistborn. 

You know you're a materials science fan when you started reading Mistborn because METALS!!!!!

You know you're a Sanderfan when someone asks you to name an alloy of a metal, and you give an Allomantic alloy.

[Eccentric Hero he/him]

1 hour ago, Nashan'Elin said:

You know you're a Sanderfan when you're sitting in Chemistry class and the teacher begins talking about alloys and all you can think about is Mistborn. 

My GenChem class has Metallurgy as a chapter. Mistborn was my first thought too.

[PantsForSquares he/him]

I'm jealous that your GenChem class has a metallurgy section.

You know you're a Sanderfan when Words of Radiance is used to test load bearing capacities of scale models.

[Sunbird she/her]

You know you're a Sanderfan when @PantsForSquares's post makes you think of Alcatraz's assertion that Brandon's massive fantasy novels are only good for hitting oneself in the head.

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

You know your not a Sanderfan when you use WoK and Wor merely as paperweights.

EDIT(see what I did there)

Edited September 4, 2016 by Darkness Ascendant

[Elenion he/him]

3 hours ago, Darkness Ascendant said:

You know your not a Sanderfan when you use WoK and Wor merely as paperweights.

EDIT(see what I did there)

Paper weights or paper-weights? 

[Alfa he/him]

2 hours ago, Elenion said:

Paper weights or paper-weights? 

Or paper-wights? Like the ones in Alcatraz 1.

[Sunbird she/her]

When you go to a presentation about ancient writings at your university's library and all you can think of when they bring out the metal plates with writing etched in them is "I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted."

[Elsecaller3414 she/her]

When you REALLY want an Aviar as a pet bird, even though they are not real and they have magical powers... Maybe because of that, actually.

[Sunbird she/her]

1 hour ago, Sunbird said:

When you go to a presentation about ancient writings at your university's library and all you can think of when they bring out the metal plates with writing etched in them is "I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted."

When you go look up this quote on GoodReads and get annoyed that it has the wording wrong, so you ask one of the site librarians to fix it.

[KnightRadiant she/her]

When you see a peacock feather and have an epiphany.
(Not a spoiler. Just put into a spoiler tag for size.)

Spoiler

It's the Double-Eye of the Almighty, people.

 

Edited September 8, 2016 by KnightRadiant
Stuff

[Sunbird she/her]

When you quote the ideal "Journey before destination" in a class at BYU and are disappointed that apparently nobody gets the reference.

[Laryna she/her]

When every time you see a beautiful sunset, you imagine that you're on the Shattered Plains, desperately thinking "I've got glowing that needs to be done".

 

Spoiler

Spoiler

 

Edited September 17, 2016 by Laryna
Added photos from my potato phone

[Brightness Enna she/her]

A storm hit just now. The early evening light had been lower than usual, even considering that this morning was the first with frost on the car windows. I was finding my track lighting unsatisfactory, and so I opened the blinds. There's nothing in the lower half of the window - just the metal window well. I can see purple and yellow flowers and lots of bushes, but I have a clear view to the street when a car isn't parked on the driveway.

With the blinds parallel to the ground, I saw that the sky was a lovely warm gray, the kind that signals rain must be coming. The air conditioner is on constantly down in the basement, making the entire thing an icebox, but I imagined it was warm. There was more light than you might expect, cloud cover notwithstanding, and no shadows seemed to exist. Just light. Growing trees with copious supplies of barely-orange fall leaves were glowing and swaying in the strengthening wind. It was the kind of weather you wish would stay.

The wind began to blow harder, making the delicate flowers with their heavy blooms and thin stalks dance wildly. A few of the weaker leaves on the trees snapped off and traveled east along the road, joining more leaves as they passed more trees. The flowers were suddenly flattened by a gust of wind I couldn't help but imagine as playful, in a giant puppy dog sort of way. I think the wind did more damage than it meant to. A few plastic chairs were blown over, but the wind definitely restrained itself. In the past it has flipped over trampolines, crushed fences, and tossed entire hay bales around. As the sky darkened, splatters of rain were tossed against my window. It really needed a cleaning, as rain doesn't normally travel this close to the wall. I suppose I'm grateful it doesn't - the view might be obstructed by crem icicles before too long, but I do miss the sound of storms that surrounded me when I slept on the top floor.

All too suddenly, it was over. The puppy-dog wind found something else to distract it, and the leash of rain it had dragged away followed. The sky stayed monotonously gray, but began to lighten at the edges. Before too long, I suspect the clouds will disperse and the sky will return to its normal fall blue. Perhaps the wind was a runaway from Roshar, and perhaps it wasn't, but I swear my lights brightened as it passed.

 

Sorry about the size of these.

(Sorry, I really felt like I needed a break from calc... blah)

UPDATE:

The sky indeed did get lighter. At sunset, the sun shone through a small break in the clouds, but then it was gone. And the clouds returned. We are now in the thrall of the first fall storm - lightning, leaves, rain and all. It's been so long, I forgot how my car's windshield wipers worked. I didn't have to drive far, thankfully. However, unhappily, the wind refuses to murder the clouds and spill the sweet rain across my windows. I suppose they are too close to living plants. These don't pull in as I always expect them to.

Edited September 14, 2016 by Brightness Enna
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