You Know You're a Sanderfan When...

[Dankworth he/him]

[...] if a girl attempted that on me, and i recognized she's drawing Aons, and recognized the one she's drawing when consulting my copy of Elantris, then there's a good chance I'd reciprocate her just for that.

 

Me too. I'd recognize Omi (love), Rao (spirit), maybe a couple others, but I think I'd be interested the moment I saw Aons, never mind being able to read them.

[Mistrunner]

On the bright side, buying the book a second time means getting Brandon just a little more money.

 

I like to think I've financed one of his books. Probably not true, but if it is, it'd be as awesome as Lift.

[Mistrunner]

When you waste your time highlighting entire pages of text looking for hidden messages.

[Kobold King he/him]

When you waste your time highlighting entire pages of text looking for hidden messages.

 

Heh.

 

He he hee.

 

Heh ha hee hee.

 

HAA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

 

That's funny.

[Kestrel she/her]

Whenever you have four copies of Way of Kings. Where did they even come from? You really have no idea.

[Nicroburst he/him]

When your profile picture is an Aon, your online alias is made up of Aons, and the idea of Aon poetry excites you just a little too much

[Kobold King he/him]

When you spend your day creating and posting Sanderson-inspired memes.

Edited April 11, 2015 by Kobold King

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

When you find it mildly offensive that a children's show named a self-proclaimed "anti-fun" villain Sanderson. 

[Sarcasm she/her]

When you begin to debate which fictional character you'll name your future children after.

[Nicroburst he/him]

When you talk about the death of characters in a way that people who haven't read Mistborn feel sad about their passing.....

[king of nowhere]

When you read the following quote from carl sagan

 

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insights and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all of our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. Public libraries depend on voluntary contributions. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries

 

And you immediately think

He's one of them! He's making propaganda for the librarian conspiracy!

 

[Sarcasm she/her]

When someone says "storms" and you gasp at their profanity 

[Screwloose]

When Stormlight Archive gets mentioned in a Yogscast video and you practically squeal with delight.

[gjustice99 she/her]

when you have a notebook that simply details the functions of different types of investure

[Mistrunner]

When you spend 17 hours trying to think up things to post on a page called "You Know You're a Sanderfan When."

 

When you automatically think of the 17th Shard every time you hear the number 17.

 

When for a Civil War reenactment you're in the Stonewall Brigade but all you can remember it as is Stormwall Brigade.

 

It actually took my friend and me a while to get to what it was actually named. Stormwall? Stormlight? Might as well give up and call it Bridge Four.

[Xaladin he/him]

When you play all Ten Fools.

[Left he/him]

I got my new Mistborn hoodie

 

[Queen Elsa Steelheart she/her]

When you're going on a trip soon and you're already thinking of which Sanderson books to take

[Queen Elsa Steelheart she/her]

I got my new Mistborn hoodie

 

 From where?

[Sarcasm she/her]

When you sprain your wrist punching the wall after reading the death of a favorite character. And a concussion. From slamming your head into a wall.

[Zas678 he/him]

When you're in a conversation with your extended family and ask which fictional character you would like to meet up with and 2/3 of your family replies with a person from the Cosmere. 

[Xaladin he/him]

When you misspell "grooveshark" "grooveshard"

The funny thing is I made that error just now too.

[gjustice99 she/her]

when you start making a comic for english of the prologue of Mistborn but then decide to try to make a graphic novel of the whole book, which will probably end up frustrating me into quitting because im not that great of an artist

[+Slowswift]

As has probably been pointed out before, when Sanderson's books all but ruined the rest of the genre for you.

 

Who was it that mentioned doodling Cosmeric symbols? 'Cause, yeah, that's a thing.

[Dankworth he/him]

Who was it that mentioned doodling Cosmeric symbols? 'Cause, yeah, that's a thing.

 

You know you're a Sanderfan when you entertain yourself during the speeches at a school dinner by doodling Allomantic and Feruchemical symbols in coffee on the event schedule--along with the odd Aon--and are ashamed to see, upon consulting the metal charts at home, that you drew one of the lines backward on the Allomantic atium symbol and your attempt at the Feruchemical iron symbol only vaguely resembles the real thing. (My Aons were almost perfect, though.)