You Know You're a Sanderfan When...

[Paragrin she/her]

When you correct people on the spelling of fantasy languages. 

 

It's kolo, kolo?

[Titan Arum]

When you're visiting San Francisco and while riding the bus you're reading the 17th Shard forums instead of enjoying the view.

When you see a 1 year old kid playing with a stick in an SF parklet and he immediately is drawn to you because he must subconsciously know that I belong to the Church of the Stick.

[Kasimir he/him]

When you believe that it's totally acceptable to put "The Church of the Stick" as your religion on Facebook.

[gjustice99 she/her]

When, on Evony (the wargame I play) you name yourself Slyphrena and name your city Elantris (though I may change it to Luthadel)

[Vision he/him]

You create magic systems based on things you see during your day. And then either alter them or discard them because they don't follow Sanderson's First Law well enough to be implemented heavily in a story someday.

 

You think of how useful those stained glass windows would be to Vin every time you go to church...  >_>

 

You see a shuriken/throwing star and think it's a good freaking thing allomancers use coins instead.

 

You're in physics class talking about elastic collisions and can't think of anything but that allomantic physics theory the whole class period.

 

You blame spren for certain things. Or everything.

An app crashes? Storming techspren!

Feet and shoes smell awful? It's the stinkspren, I swear by the Stormfather!

[gjustice99 she/her]

When someone's username (not here) is Soon and you think of TenSoon.

 

When this thread has 65 pages.

Edited November 25, 2014 by gjustice99

[Kobold King he/him]

When this thread has 65 pages.

 

When there's a planning thread for the local Steelheart RP with easily seven times as many pages.

[Kobold King he/him]

When you imagine making a cooking TV show which is based on the premise of creating the most delicious drink ever to suspend allomantic metals in, with an expert panel of Mistborn taste-testers.

 

Can we call it "Iron Barkeep"?

[king of nowhere]

i guess the drink would depend on the exact metal used, and its form: powdered would give a different flavor than in flakes, or in a bead, and you'd have to find the right taste to go with each of those options.

Also, now that I think of it, even alchoolic beverages are mostly water. the purpose of an alcohol solution is to keep oxygen away and suppress water autoprotolysis, but in a 60% water 40% alcohol solution (should be a good estimate for the whisky wax uses) that's not optimal.

Now, I have no idea what would be the dissociation constant for water in 40% alcohol is, what the redox potential of the hydronium ion would therefore be, and what's the solubility of oxygen in such a medium, and its redox potential too, so I cannot say if the steel dust in wax's vials would be stable over time. I'm pretty sure I could find the answer from the university, but it would take hours, and I'm not motivated enough for it.

 

You know you're a sanderfan when you feel slightly guilty over not being motivated enough to spend some hours into researching whether wax's vials should have rusted or not.

[SmurfAquamarineBodies he/him]

When you are writing an essay and you use a Cosmere term inadvertently.

 

E.g. "The eruptions, lasting 24 days, were heralded."

 

Then laughing quietly to yourself thinking, "I wish."

[Paragrin she/her]

When you contemplate using slap bracelets as anti-Allomancer weapons.

[Kasimir he/him]

When, in frustration, you find yourself reflexively writing, "Chull, chull, chull" on the rough paper used for working in an exam, and wishing you had a coppermind.

[gjustice99 she/her]

When you are writing an essay and you use a Cosmere term inadvertently.

 

E.g. "The eruptions, lasting 24 days, were heralded."

 

Then laughing quietly to yourself thinking, "I wish."

If only it had been 16!

 

when you realize the cheating potential you could achieve with copperminds

[Crystin Radiant]

When yu read about Novarupa, a volcanic eruption in 1912 that spewed seven cubic miles of ash into the air, and wonder if this was inspiration for Mistborn.

When autocorrect suggests Mistborn and Stormlight.

[Oudeis he/him]

...when you try to find six letter versions of the names from Stormlight Archive to make the characters in your video game.

...when your new phone doesn't yet have ask the common swear words manually added to the onboard dictionary, but has chull, anticipationspren, duraluminmind, pre-Reod, BioChroma, and worldhopped.

[gjustice99 she/her]

When the movie "Mockingjay: Part 1" makes you angry because Peeta is unworthy of wearing a white suit.

[Fatebreaker he/him]

When you really want to see Lift in the Hunger games, because she would be Awesome. She'd be representing District 17.

Or Vin. Or Kaladin.

Or any of Brandon's teenage heroes, despite it being astronomically unfair to the other competitors.

 

When you pretend you're an Dustbringer when skateboarding or surfing.

 

When you realize Dustbringers would be great at hockey.

[Khyrindor he/him]

When you really want to see Lift in the Hunger games, because she would be Awesome. She'd be representing District 17.

Or Vin. Or Kaladin.

Or any of Brandon's teenage heroes, despite it being astronomically unfair to the other competitors.

 

When you pretend you're an Dustbringer when skateboarding or surfing.

 

When you realize Dustbringers would be great at hockey.

I think you mean Edgedancers, we don't know what the Dustbringer powers do yet.

When you consider Friction in pool.

When you wonder if you can increase friction too...That would be great.

[Fatebreaker he/him]

Nope, I meant Dustbringer. Like Edgedancers they have the Surge of Friction, but instead of also having the Surge of Regrowth, they have the Surge of Destruction. 

[Zas678 he/him]

You know that you're a Sanderfan when the christening event of getting a new laptop is listening to a Brandon Sanderson interview.

[Delightful]

When you name your Pokemon character Shallan, and then become surprisingly emotional when Mum greets you.....and says you definitely take after your father.....

Edit: I was gonna call the rival Kabsal except I'm not playing a version you get to name him. Interestingly though, it's Brendan.....

Edited December 1, 2014 by Delightful

[TheArcanist he/him]

When you use Sanderson to support the view that high fantasy is a valid genre of literature to a curmudgeon of an English prof.. and win.

 

When learning to write Alethi and Thaylen is on your to-do list right behind learning Dothraki and High Valyrian.

[luckat she/her]

When the highlight of your Thanksgiving break is that you convinced both your grandmother and your sister to start reading Mistborn.

[sanderfan she/her]

When you finally get one of your friends to read Mistborn and as soon as they've finished they tackle you in the library to let you know. My friend was really excited.

[Jo and the Bush all/any]

When you have enough Mistborn stuff on you that random Woman approach you just to tell you how much they love Brandon Sanderson.