You Know You're a Sanderfan When...

[Calderis he/him]

When you discover that 10% of the messages sent in the OB_Spoilers Discord channel are from you... 

[+ElephantEarwax he/him]

Geez man.

[The Voiceless One he/him]

Today I found a small steel pin in my sweater, and my first thought was that it must have been the cookie I ate earlier.  My next thought was "Do I get to be a coinshot now?"

[Tesh Any pronouns]

When you realize you have eaten (...) six cookies today. 

When you're learning about mitosis in science, and all you can think of is the Reconers trilogy.

When you're listening to someone who served their mission in Samoa, and you keep on thinking of it a Mokia. 

When the only reason you want to write a book report, is so you can write one on tWoK. It would be amazing. 

Edited March 22, 2018 by Tesh

[Flying she/her]

When people at your school start shipping you with your Sanderfan best friend and asking you which character you're going to name your future children after.  

This isn't even as embarrassing as the time in 7th grade when people heard me talking about Brandon's books and just assumed that I had a crush on this guy named Brandon Sanderson because I said his name a lot when I was explaining the plot of Mistborn to someone who asked what it was about.

[Tesh Any pronouns]

2 minutes ago, Warbreaker_Weiss said:

When people at your school start shipping you with your Sanderfan best friend and asking you which character you're going to name your future children after.  

This isn't even as embarrassing as the time in 7th grade when people heard me talking about Brandon's books and just assumed that I had a crush on this guy named Brandon Sanderson because I said his name a lot when I was explaining the plot of Mistborn to someone who asked what it was about.

I'm so sorry.

When people see you reading a WoT book, (tGH) and automatically assume it's by Sanderson. And then you have to say, "No, it's not. He wrote the last three books in the series. There's fourteen books, and this is only the second."

[Podman]

45 minutes ago, Tesh said:

I'm so sorry.

When people see you reading a WoT book, (tGH) and automatically assume it's by Sanderson. And then you have to say, "No, it's not. He wrote the last three books in the series. There's fourteen books, and this is only the second."

Obviously. 

[Wyndlerunner he/him]

8 hours ago, Warbreaker_Weiss said:

When people at your school start shipping you with your Sanderfan best friend and asking you which character you're going to name your future children after.  

This isn't even as embarrassing as the time in 7th grade when people heard me talking about Brandon's books and just assumed that I had a crush on this guy named Brandon Sanderson because I said his name a lot when I was explaining the plot of Mistborn to someone who asked what it was about.

Honestly, I kind of want to name my future daughter Shallan. (What? It's a pretty name!)

[Rebecca she/her]

So today, my friend picked up my copy of Oathbringer as I was reading it, and started reading it aloud, and she kept saying everything wrong especially the names. And when I would correct her, she’d say “whatever” then keep saying it as she had said it before. Like, she kept calling Adrotagia Agitation. It was kind of annoying, but I wasn’t mad or anything.

But then she messed up Kaladin’s name. I corrected her, and she reacted as she had before. I took the book and said, “Kaladin is my favorite character, so say his name right, or I take my book back.” She said his name right after that.

Edited March 22, 2018 by Rebecca

[Penumbra]

When you talk with your non-cosmere-reading friend about being inconsistent in your quality of art and you write "haha yeah my art is going full taravangian on me."

Would've made sense if she had any idea who taravangian is i guess.

[Calderis he/him]

When a nearly 70 year old man you work with starts reading Mistborn because of you talking about it (I did not know this til today), and then asks if there are more, and you get to explain the premise of AoL, and he excitedly tells you he's going to pick it up on his way home. 

[Mistspren she/her]

When you finally convince your mom to read Mistborn and she randomly sends you a text saying: “Kelsier gave Spook pewter?????!?????”

Also whenever someone says the word Honor, getting a compulsion to say “Honor is dead.”

[flying_shadow she/her]

When you want to contribute to the amateur translation of OB into your native language.

When your friend becomes your best friend just because she is the only other person you know who reads the SA.

[AonEne he/him]

When you pick up a Sanderson book.

When you convert your science teacher.

[Tesh Any pronouns]

2 hours ago, AonEne said:

When you convert your science teacher.

@Cel's science teacher almost ran us over. True story.

 

[TNTman20 he/him]

When you start calling your friends Gancho and make one armed Herdazian jokes all the time.

[King Cole he/him]

Whenever you finally get your friend to join the Shard @FeruchemicalBreath

[AonEne he/him]

11 hours ago, Tesh said:

@Cel's science teacher almost ran us over. True story.

 

A true story that I now want to hear!

When your teacher asks a question and you feel the urge to scream, "RAFO!"

When you know that ONE DAY, one of the strangers you say "I am a stick" to in the hallways will say "But you could be fire" back.

When your friend writes a Mistborn fanfiction, and you leave so many comments the page count doubles. Possibly more than doubles. I have a thing about editing.

[Tesh Any pronouns]

3 hours ago, AonEne said:

A true story that I now want to hear!.

We were walking through her neighborhood one day, and we had been messing around in a tree that is in a park. (It involved her saying, "Kal, to the East!" and I thought she had said, "Kally East!") Then we walked across the street, and someone almost ran us over. When we cwerre on the side walk, she said, " That was my science teacher!" I still bring it up in normal conversation. Except... None of our conversations are normal. We can burst out laughing if we see a stack of plates.

[AonEne he/him]

2 hours ago, Tesh said:

Except... None of our conversations are normal. We can burst out laughing if we see a stack of plates.

The first sentence sounds like me. I can't relate to the second, but it's hilarious. :-{)

[+Slowswift]

When you get excited whenever people buy Sanderson books and you chat about how great he is, either to convert them or just to geek out with them, while you're ringing up their stuff (for context, I am a cashier at a thrift store).

[Stormblessed Dolphin he/him]

On ‎3‎/‎25‎/‎2018 at 1:19 PM, AonEne said:

When you know that ONE DAY, one of the strangers you say "I am a stick" to in the hallways will say "But you could be fire" back.

Don't give up hope! It shall happen eventually my friend!

[MountainKing]

@AonEne Is that a Wings of Fire cover

[Quickbronze he/him]

Indeed it is 

[Truthweaver she/her]

When you're asked to bring your favorite book to a meeting with your library staff co-workers, and you know undoubtedly that yours will be the biggest one there.

When the meeting facilitator tells you to explain to a partner why that book is your favorite in three minutes, and you think, I have three minutes to make this person a Sanderfan.

When the person who processes purchased library books calls you out on how many Sanderson books you've ordered for the library.