You Know You're a Sanderfan When...

[Thaidakar the Ghostblood he/him]

3 hours ago, Child of Hodor said:

When you dream that as part of the new kickstarter you got to meet Brandon and ask him questions. This being a dream you don't actually have any coherent questions and you panic. You just said "Dawnshards" and Brandon silently slide a card across the table then you're was whisked away by his assistants.  

You got dream RAFO'd. 

haha, yeah that sounds like a nightmare.

[JungleFiend she/her]

When you have a dream that your house is burning down, and all you can think is that you can’t save your Sanderson books.

6 hours ago, Child of Hodor said:

When you dream that as part of the new kickstarter you got to meet Brandon and ask him questions. This being a dream you don't actually have any coherent questions and you panic. You just said "Dawnshards" and Brandon silently slide a card across the table then you're was whisked away by his assistants.  

You got dream RAFO'd. 

Yeah, that's terrifying. 

[Use the Falchion]

When you turn a mild thought about what the next Kickstarter could look like (it was about the Apocalypse Guard being made into a trilogy and being released throughout 2024) into an evening theorizing about how that can be turned into something even more awesome. And then you planned out a hypothetical release schedule for 2025 as well. (2026 is looking to be a quiet year, but 2027 will be the best year for the Cosmere after 2023, looking at my incredibly optimistic and supremely naive estimates.) 

Edited March 6, 2022 by Use the Falchion

[Thaidakar the Ghostblood he/him]

when you call a nice looking nail a hemalurgic spike. (what? it looked like one!)

[Lego Mistborn he/him]

When you start using RAFO in your vocabulary

[Liahona]

When you see a shape and immediately compare it to Brandon's signature.

[Quivil]

On 3/13/2022 at 1:31 PM, Ta'veren Kaladin said:

When you start using RAFO in your vocabulary

This has happened for all of my siblings and some of them have never read a Sanderson book. (Don't blame them. They're not old enough to take on that big of a reading project yet.)

We've also started using various variations like Wafo and Lafo. (watch, listen.)

[Nathrangking he/him]

When you make bets how high the kickstarter will go.

When one of the highlights of your year is getting a shout out from brandon on a livestream!

[Morningtide she/her]

When your music teacher, the day of the secret project announcement, asks what one of the best days of your life has been, and you say today. And then go on a looooooong explanation about who Brandon really is.

[The Sibling she/her]

When you are working on spreadsheets and your teacher tells you to put in five random names, and you put Shallan, Szeth, Kaladin, Adolin, and Jasnah.

Then he tells you to put in their imagined salaries, and you try and think of when did Szeth have a job, and then you remember the Oathstone and put his salary as $0.

[Morningtide she/her]

When you have to make a screen name for something and can't use your real name and end up agonizing over which cosmere thing to put. (I ended up doing Elsecaller)

[Mage he/him]

When you are going through your fridge and see a package of Swiss cheese labeled “sliced Swiss” and somehow (I have no idea) read it as “sliced Lews Therin”. 

[The Bookwyrm he/him]

I'm new here, and I have a whole list.

When people at your school who are complete non-Sanderfans know what Shardblades are.

When you spend $200 on the Secret Projects.

When you have a dream where you hover slightly without realizing it, and attribute the ability to Windrunner powers.

When you have another dream where you summon a Shardblade when you're attacked.

When the white board at your work always has a stick drawn on it saying "I am a stick." 

When you're writing a persuasive speech in oral comm about why people should read Brandon Sanderson's books, then get distracted and spend half the class period looking at quotes by Brandon Sanderson.

When you stay up till midnight finishing Rhythm of War, then spend another hour and a half reading articles on the Coppermind.

When you daydream about meeting someone who is just as big a Sanderfan as you, because you seem to be all alone in your Sanderfan-ness.

And I'm sure there are more I'm forgetting, and more that will come in the future.

[Radiant-Twinborn he/him]

.... you can turn yourself into a ceiling fan, and hide in Brandon's house. 

[Frustration]

34 minutes ago, The Bookwyrm said:

When you daydream about meeting someone who is just as big a Sanderfan as you, because you seem to be all alone in your Sanderfan-ness.

Well you've come to the right place for that.

[Zephrun’s Imperium they/he]

47 minutes ago, The Bookwyrm said:

When you daydream about meeting someone who is just as big a Sanderfan as you, because you seem to be all alone in your Sanderfan-ness.

Well you’re definitely not alone anymore! Welcome to the Shard! 

[The Bookwyrm he/him]

19 minutes ago, Frustration said:

Well you've come to the right place for that.

 

5 minutes ago, Zephrun's Imperium said:

Well you’re definitely not alone anymore! Welcome to the Shard! 

Thank you! I'm happy to be here. 

I'm happy that I can talk about things here like Cognitive aspects, Spiritwebs, Surgebinding, and supposed gravitational time dilation due to massive amounts of Investiture, and people won't look at me weird. The Shard is a great place.

There's another one: You know you're a Sanderfan when you can talk about things like Cognitive aspects, Spiritwebs, Surgebinding, and supposed gravitational time dilation due to massive amounts of Investiture and people look at you weird.

Edited April 26, 2022 by The Bookwyrm

[Kvothe the Bloodless he/him]

On 3/2/2022 at 7:37 PM, JungleFiend said:

When you call people cremlings as an insult. 

 

Don't we all though?

[Use the Falchion]

When you go into a Barnes & Noble store just to organize their Sanderson section. Not even as an employee, just as a fan. (Although I did work at a B&N for a short time, so I know about face-outs and how, when, and why to implement them.) And not just the SFF section, but the YA section too. 

[Kvothe the Bloodless he/him]

When you suddenly realize it's 1 AM and that you've been reading WoK for six hours

[EmulatonStromenkiin he/him]

When you wake up and realize that you managed to go to sleep with the first two books of SA under your pillow

[Frustration]

15 minutes ago, EmulatonStromenkiin said:

When you wake up and realize that you managed to go to sleep with the first two books of SA under your pillow

How did you sleep with your neck at a 90 degree angle?

[EmulatonStromenkiin he/him]

21 minutes ago, Frustration said:

How did you sleep with your neck at a 90 degree angle?

pillow functions as ramp

[The Unknown Medallion he/him]

1 hour ago, Frustration said:

How did you sleep with your neck at a 90 degree angle?

Through the power of neck pain.

[The Bookwyrm he/him]

When your friend who you got to read TWoK keeps asking about Shallan, and you keep answering their questions with "RAFO".