You Know You're a Sanderfan When...

[Riino He/Him]

4 hours ago, SpartanBrigade said:

... when you inhale glowing mystery gases 

In the science lab

[SpartanBrigade He/Him]

4 minutes ago, Riino said:

In the science lab

Real (For some reason I ended up in the ER instead of getting superpowers)

[SpartanBrigade He/Him]

... when your computer auto corrects Autonomy to have a capital A
 

[KaladinsSenseOfHumourSpren He/Him]

... when the world feels like its about to end when your teacher writes the words 'Connection' or 'Intent' without a capital letter.

[The Great Wyver She/Her]

When you convince your friends/family to say "My breath to yours, My life become yours" to you.

[ThroughTheLivingIlliterate He/Him]

When you take time to get a little further in your book before your basketball game just to calm down.

[Riino He/Him]

35 minutes ago, Celloist said:

When You read your book on the bike ride to school.

 

Ha, so true. Except I think about it every time I bike.  

Also, when you can't stop thinking about everyday applications of your allomantic abilities.

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

when you see someone getting blown up and ur like [Spoilers for Mistborn era 2]:

Spoiler

ah yeah

wayne

 

[Kansas Stormcursed he/him]

When you hear somebody say "I'll see what I can do" and immediately fill in "Honor is dead, but..."

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

3 hours ago, Celloist said:

When you rage on your non-sanderfan friend who says sonic would beat kaladin in a fight (true story) then explaining to him a million ways why kaladin is greater and he just says sonic can move at the speed of ligth and walks away.

When you memorize the first paragraph of The Way of Kings

Szeth-Son-Son-Vallano Truthless of shinovar wore white the day he was to kill a king...

When you take 3 hours to memorize the aons in the ars arcanum

when you go up to your friend who 'promised' they would read mistborn, with your mistborn copy, force it into their hands, and then its the end of the school year and they haven't yet given it back.

[Riino He/Him]

1 hour ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

when you go up to your friend who 'promised' they would read mistborn, with your mistborn copy, force it into their hands, and then its the end of the school year and they haven't yet given it back.

When you try to get your non-Sanderfan friend to read one of the 25+ Cosmere books you've told them about.

[Kansas Stormcursed he/him]

4 hours ago, Celloist said:

I practically forced my friend to read the way of kings and now he is a huge sanderfan.

I have so far done this to five friends in the last two months

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

4 hours ago, Celloist said:

I practically forced my friend to read the way of kings and now he is a huge sanderfan.

I perfer to... do this:

4 hours ago, Celloist said:

I practically forced my friend to read Mistborn and now he is a huge sanderfan.

Except its more like this:

4 hours ago, Celloist said:

I practically forced my friend to read Mistborn and he still havent given it back, or could even provide proof that he had been reading besides 'I know who Kelsier is'

 

[KaladinsSenseOfHumourSpren He/Him]

4 hours ago, Celloist said:

I practically forced my friend to read the way of kings and now he is a huge sanderfan.

I had briefly met someone a few days ago. He was a reader, but not a Sanderfan. He said he liked worldbuilding, so I told him to read TWoK. 

[Riino He/Him]

5 hours ago, Celloist said:

I practically forced my friend to read the way of kings and now he is a huge sanderfan.

Lucky it worked; I spend all of my days trying to persuade my friends, but he won't  , and so I have no one to talk to.

46 minutes ago, Kaladin Stormcursed said:

I have so far done this to five friends in the last two months

Dang dude, maybe I just don't have the persuasive powers. 

 

Guys, got any tips for ensnaring my one friend who reads?

[KaladinsSenseOfHumourSpren He/Him]

12 minutes ago, Riino said:

Lucky it worked; I spend all of my days trying to persuade my friends, but he won't  , and so I have no one to talk to.

Dang dude, maybe I just don't have the persuasive powers. 

 

Guys, got any tips for ensnaring my one friend who reads?

I've so far only persuaded one (@LordHathsin_Surviv0r), but I feel like it would be best to find out what genres they like and stuff.

Like if they like worldbuilding, TWoK.

Romance, YatNP.

Humour, TotES

Action, TFE

Shorter stuff, maybe ES.

[Riino He/Him]

56 minutes ago, KaladinsSenseOfHumorSpren said:

I've so far only persuaded one (@LordHathsin_Surviv0r), but I feel like it would be best to find out what genres they like and stuff.

Like if they like worldbuilding, TWoK.

Romance, YatNP.

Humour, TotES

Action, TFE

Shorter stuff, maybe ES.

Thanks, but do you guys all have a list of Cosmere book acronyms cause most of them I have to search up.  

please help, im suffereing

[Riino He/Him]

1 minute ago, Celloist said:

Sa: stormlight archive

twok the way of kings

wor words of radiance

o Oathbringer 

row rhythm of war

wat wind and truth

tfe the final empire

twoa the well of ascension

hoa hero of ages

yatnp Yumi and the nightmare painter

totes tress of the emerald sea

es emperors soul

aol alloy of law 

 

 

 

thnx i thought there would be more, but yeah i do know most of these alr, Thanks though

 

[Kansas Stormcursed he/him]

1 hour ago, Riino said:

Lucky it worked; I spend all of my days trying to persuade my friends, but he won't  , and so I have no one to talk to.

Dang dude, maybe I just don't have the persuasive powers. 

 

Guys, got any tips for ensnaring my one friend who reads?

Be a higher rank in martial arts and threaten murderous warmups in your friends' classes if they don't read the book

[Treamayne]

2 hours ago, Riino said:

Thanks, but do you guys all have a list of Cosmere book acronyms cause most of them I have to search up. 

please help, im suffereing

Please see the Sharder FAQ

3 hours ago, Riino said:

Guys, got any tips for ensnaring my one friend who reads?

What are known books they like? 

Techniques I have used:

• Loan a book to try
  • Gift one for Christmas/Birthday
• Print a few sample chapters
• I created a Cosmere Intro epub to give away to help people make informed decisions
• Start by recommending a Sanderson book that best matches something you know they already love
  • Cosmere Informed Decision Reading Theory

Hope that helps

[Riino He/Him]

1 hour ago, Celloist said:

Or strap him to a chair and read the prologue of the way of kings and at that point he will be so enthralled by Szeth that it is impossible for him not to read more.

Perfect, that will do very well.

Thanks Treamayne:)

Edited June 19, 2025 by Riino

[Riino He/Him]

5 minutes ago, Celloist said:

You know your a sander fan when you try to like this post but is doesn’t work and you immediately assume it is coated in aluminum.

Sound more like a skill issue  lols

 

[KaladinsSenseOfHumourSpren He/Him]

... when your friends get annoyed at you for always saying WaT instead of 'What'. 

[TheUnInvestedCremling he/him....]

8 hours ago, Celloist said:

Or strap him to a chair and read the prologue of the way of kings and at that point he will be so enthralled by Szeth that it is impossible for him not to read more.

Or bother him and bother him with random hints and make the book seem like god until they snap and beg you for the book...

I wonder who did that @KaladinsSenseOfHumorSpren?

[al_lan_mandragoran]

...when you join the 17th Shard for the express purpose of reading Aether of Night, and then you find yourself embroiled in all these other random topics