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[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

I was hoping for one more day to spend with the siblings....and lo and behold, my flight was overbooked. So I'll be leaving tomorrow. 

[Orlion Blight he/him]

14 minutes ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

I was hoping for one more day to spend with the siblings....and lo and behold, my flight was overbooked. So I'll be leaving tomorrow. 

2016 giveth and 2016 taketh away. Blessed be the name of 2016!

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

4 minutes ago, Orlion Determined said:

2016 giveth and 2016 taketh away. Blessed be the name of 2016!

Well I wouldn't go that far.  

[Voidus]

8 hours ago, The Honor Spren said:

But in Writing Excuses, Brandon pronounces in as Vin.  Where did you get your information? (I don't mean this passive aggressively or anything. I actually want to know.)

Brandon has said he doesn't pronounce some names the way people in world do. There's a quote on theoryland about pronunciation but on mobile atm so searching for it is proving difficult 

[Delightful]

So I was just at my friends wedding. After all the serious ceremony is done and dancing has started, she pressed a button on her plain white shoes and the rim of the soles lit up multicoloured. Awesomeness. 

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

8 minutes ago, Deliiiiiightful said:

So I was just at my friends wedding. After all the serious ceremony is done and dancing has started, she pressed a button on her plain white shoes and the rim of the soles lit up multicoloured. Awesomeness. 

Your friend is awesome. 

[Oversleep]

There's something bouncing around in my mind. It's not a theory, more of a project. I feel there's an unexplored angle we could use to analyze Cosmere. I don't know how to approach this; the best I have came up with is a series of discussion threads. Perhaps with appropriate tag.

[marsoupial they/them]

2 hours ago, Oversleep said:

There's something bouncing around in my mind. It's not a theory, more of a project. I feel there's an unexplored angle we could use to analyze Cosmere. I don't know how to approach this; the best I have came up with is a series of discussion threads. Perhaps with appropriate tag.

Give us a short summary then.

[The Honor Spren she/her]

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My brother, Steelborn, is so much cooler than I am. I'm blessed to have such a smart and attractive brother. 

My brother got on my iPad and was about to post this last night.  

Also, some Gravity Falls fanart, courtesy of my 7yo sister:

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[Quiver he/him]

10 minutes ago, The Honor Spren said:

My brother got on my iPad and was about to post this last night.  

Also, some Gravity Falls fanart, courtesy of my 7yo sister:

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You fool. Don't you realize that all depictions of Bill are gateways from his dimension to ours, you've doomed us all. 

[The Honor Spren she/her]

6 minutes ago, Quiver said:

You fool. Don't you realize that all depictions of Bill are gateways from his dimension to ours, you've doomed us all. 

 WHAT HAVE I DONE.

[marsoupial they/them]

I don't want to buy gold, bye!

[Delightful]

18 hours ago, Deliiiiiightful said:

So I was just at my friends wedding. After all the serious ceremony is done and dancing has started, she pressed a button on her plain white shoes and the rim of the soles lit up multicoloured. Awesomeness. 

 

18 hours ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

Your friend is awesome. 

Also the Rabbi kept (gently) saying things like "Guys are you with me?" "Please, this is serious" because the bride and groom were smiling at each other and whispering and being adorable and happy and not entirely attentive to the actual ceremony. 

[Pinnacle-Ferring he/him]

Had a really nice hanukkah evening with my family

[Delightful]

Just now, Pinnacle-Ferring said:

Had a really nice hanukkah evening with my family

 

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All of the pretties!

[Pinnacle-Ferring he/him]

Mine is the second one on the left with the pretty base.

[ShadowLord_Lith he/him]

15 hours ago, Oversleep said:

There's something bouncing around in my mind. It's not a theory, more of a project. I feel there's an unexplored angle we could use to analyze Cosmere. I don't know how to approach this; the best I have came up with is a series of discussion threads. Perhaps with appropriate tag.

Please give us a summary, at least? I really love hearing new things about the Cosmere, even if it's just a new point of view.

[Oversleep]

10 minutes ago, ShadowLord_Lith said:

Please give us a summary, at least? I really love hearing new things about the Cosmere, even if it's just a new point of view.

It's something I'm calling Meta-Realmatics. I think that instead of focusing on how things work we could think about how would they work: How would Metallic Arts work if instead of Preservation it was Cultivation who ended up with Ruin? It's making a step back to see the whole picture: So far we can't directly compare different magic systems as each one has unique twists. Dominion and Devotion is in Cognitive instead of Spiritual and is Splintered. How did it work before all that? Also, Dor is a mixture of two Shards and so far we haven't seen any system powered by two Shards at once (well, it depends on what exactly Stormlight is).

Given what we know about each system, how would it work should another Shard invest in the planet? What if we switch Shards, what would change and how?

There's a whole section about fueling the magics - each case is unique and hard to compare as result. A fun exercise is to imagine what would happen if a Shard was directly fueling its magic like mist-burning or Vin fueling Elend's Allomancy. Ruin would be the weirdest but there's nothing to fuel in Hemalurgy (Hemalurgy is in my terminology one of the Passive systems). But if Endowment were to fuel Awakening... Or fueling Feruchemy (or any end-neutral system, really).

Another thing I'm interested in is secondary focuses... I mean, Scadrial's focus is metal. But it also has the mist thing going on. Focus of Nalthis is Command but there is that thing with colors.

Yet another is secondary boosts you get along with the magic: why do Elantrians have augmented bodies while other Selians (presumably) do not? Having a lot of Breath augments you in specific ways which are vividly different from what Stormlight offers and yet it's also different from what Elantrians have. Meanwhile Scadrian or Taldain magic offers no augmentations just by virtue of having power.

I'm very interested in Sand Mastery so yesterday I sent a request to get the prose version

[ShadowLord_Lith he/him]

Thank you @Oversleep! That is an amazing theory, can you link me to some more of your theories? 

Also, I've been curious about this for a while. What in Harmonies name does "iirc" mean?

[Exalted]

IIRC, it's "If I Recall Correctly".

[ShadowLord_Lith he/him]

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... suddenly about 19% of what I have read on the shard makes sense. Thank you.

[Quiver he/him]

...okay, um. So...

My new year resolution for 2017 is... I want to make something. Something I can look at and be proud of and say "Yes, I did that thing."

Writing something would be the obvious thing, but I know I'm...not the greatest in that field, quality or productivity wise. What I'd thought was...

This is silly.  But a thing I've been batting around in my head for a little while now; a screencap comic in the style of Darths and Droids, DM of the Ring or Friendship is Dragons, using RWBY. So...

Four friends roll up characters for an RPG set in a fairytale inspired setting. Shenanigans ensue.

Just...not sure if that's a good idea or not...

[Zathoth]

2 hours ago, Quiver said:

...okay, um. So...

My new year resolution for 2017 is... I want to make something. Something I can look at and be proud of and say "Yes, I did that thing."

Writing something would be the obvious thing, but I know I'm...not the greatest in that field, quality or productivity wise. What I'd thought was...

This is silly.  But a thing I've been batting around in my head for a little while now; a screencap comic in the style of Darths and Droids, DM of the Ring or Friendship is Dragons, using RWBY. So...

Four friends roll up characters for an RPG set in a fairytale inspired setting. Shenanigans ensue.

Just...not sure if that's a good idea or not...

Quiver... I was going to give you a motivating speech, but then I realized who I was, so Im going to give you a very pessimistic speech that will somehow be motivating.

You are going to die, so what if it might be a bad idea? Why does it matter? Do it.

Or to paraphrase a fantastic show: "Nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, everyones going to die. Go make a screencap comic."

[Quiver he/him]

Thanks, um...

Wow. 2016 is almost over. In the spirit of that, um...apologies to everyone fir all the annoyances and whining I've done twister, and annoying people and...you know. Stuffs.

[Sunbird she/her]

@Quiver I think a screencap comic is a great idea. I'm a big fan of Darths and Droids, and I'd love to see what you come up with for your own comic of RWBY.