What a way to begin a year! Thank you for The Stormlight Archive!

[SallyA she/her]

Whew!! . . It was astonishing, your vision is lovely and captivating.  . . I was holding my breath to see if the truth would out!  Good job on that!

Could you run a Kindle Countdown Deal every now and again for those of us who are not flush with spheres?  Please?

I am reading Arcanum Unbound, and will try on the Mistborn Trilogy after.

Having a little time on one's hands can lead to all kinds of astonishing things, perhaps even infuse my languid Muse to pick up the keyboard again.

I am on Kindle as Alabaster Danse. ...

Perhaps I will attend one of Brandon's classes some day.

[+ElephantEarwax he/him]

Welcome to the Shard. Have a cookie and an upvote. 

What is your favorite book so far?

For initiation could you say, "My life to yours, My breath become yours."

[SallyA she/her]

Thank you, but I must decline the cookie, being on the Paleo Dier (87.6% of the time):  I must defer foods with sugars, flours, deep fat cooking and a host of other items which are making a mockery of good and healthy eating! 

Really, one can become adapted to eggs, beans, nut butters, seed butters and honey, with copious additions of coffee!!  I allow the infrequent bran muffin, wine and various members of the edible produce sector, while circling the antipatso bar, olives, pickled onions, marinated mushrooms, and occassional slices of protein from the deli . . . . I fail terribly at self (negating) moderation, that discipline which would enforce emotional angst and cognitive hardship . . . I simply drop the required foods and upgrade my options!  We live in such luxurious times!!

No breath stealing, good, I can relax the ward on Siamese hunting partners.

As for spreading items .... I'll defer that to a later time as well.  Considering the repercussions of bread and jam in the Cosmere!!  No soulcasting power here, nor surgebinding, nor any other ability.  I do crave Photoshop, having been without since June of 2015.  Art and Wordsmithing have powers of their own, of this I have little (actually not any) doubt.  Culture protects and rewards those who serve the common Universe through their connection with the Cognitive Realm, but it might be thought magicl or some kind of Luck.

Favorite book .... I think the middle one, Storming Bridgeman Kaladin and the issues of the Shattered Plains.  The first book kind of brought me out of a winter stupor . . living in the car is not fun, and winter bit early and hard this year.  I am thinking 5.7 weeks of winter remaining, you can get through this, spring bulbs are not so far away.  Winter in a vehicle is a bit daunting, unless you have spheres like the royal vault ... a cold night can cost $17.50 in gasoline, but foods, stuff and person do not freeze!

Why?  Ah, because I am one very stubborn Irish Lass who will not take up residence nor find work (it seems), on the front range ... to my view a huge spider nest of un-named forces of destructive power degrading people for profit.  And the Iron House of Sirius (woof, woof), has an incredible vested self interest here, which I have tried twice to run from, but found mind control dragging me back, after I've  gone! ,... "huh"?  ... true story. . . .  you may now think nut case, but I will offer that am of the Cognitive Realm, have always been . . The Irish call them the girls on the Black Stairs .... I refer you to YouTube. 

To the Russians we are the dolls in the center of the nest . . Swift, silent, fragile, but in corruption's house, victims. 

So, when I read in this Universe ... I imagine other, currently nameless things .... but I know, I spent many years as a Spren!  It is my point of honor, my reason for rebellion, that that much of my life was stolen from me.  Perhaps all spren are victims?

Could the "original sin" have been the words "let there be light"? . . . Have you found Meru dot org, ot Tenen's book . . Mind informing ideas!

Have you read Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson -- by G I Gurdjieff . . . Totally Awesome (no, I am not a follower of Lift). . . this book is a treasure!

 

OK, much rambling, I need to apply my image, if I can find board settings, and my tag line, and perhaps I will explore a bit, since I've just finished Arcanum Unbound.

Sally

 

[Toaster Retribution he/him]

Welcome! Hope you enjoy it here!

[SallyA she/her]

Thanks for the welcome.

I found my settings, but did not discover a way to apply an image, ot tag lines . .

Are these things possible for a shard level poster?

I guess my next read is Elantris.  Very interesting Universe!  (.. so jonesing for Photoshop).

Seriously, I am so sphere-less I wish Brandon would engage in the Kindle Count Down Deal on Amazon !... Maybe a book each month? . . So I could afford them all? . . . Would be nice, I will have to go to work in March, and not have all this time to read!

 

[SallyA she/her]

Recurring theme discovered and APPRECIATED!!

Elantris has a Storming Bridgeman in it's lost prince!

Any help on uploading image & tag lines?

[The Allomantic Metalhead he/him]

@SallyA welcome to the shard. It's really crazy here, but we manage. Try to avoid strangers who try to tempt you down dark alleys with cookies, the cookies contain soul-altering ingerdients!

Anyways, which books/short stories by Brandon Sanderson have you read? I've read all (published) Cosmere stories (well, listened to them. I have Audible), The Reckoners Trilogy, all of the Alcatraz books that have already been written (can't wait for #6!), and The Rithmatist. I started Wheel of Time, but got distracted around book 11. I mostly post in the Creator's Corner, but I have a decent amount of theories to my name (three or so).

[SallyA she/her]

Brandon's work does have appeal!!  . . . Unlike so much media which is only a visceral excitement play.

Have read The Stormlught Archive, Arcanum Unbound and working through Elantrus.

Speaking of theories (I love theories, I'm basically a mental affectionado!) . . . Have you read Patrick Rothfuss' book The Name of the Wind?  He speaks about the dangers of the FAYEN realm, Fairy, or the Sidhe if you are of the Isles.  He speaks of its creation: " And the greatest among them wove it from whole cloth."  ( might be slightly miss quoted).

I was very taken with this book, but the conceptual Universe of Brandon's work is why I am here, and I can't help but wonder if the two realms are related ... that this space of consciousness called the Dreaming, sometimes, is that Fayen Realm.  that its creation was the time when the Sky Gods walked the Earth, both in Mayan codicies and in the book YORRO YORRO about the coming of the Dreamtime in the Australian Kimberlues ... awesome read, also tells how a Shaman xan visit death, but insure his return to the living, if you are a shaman, or Banman, as they call them.  Our home grown dimension hoppers!

Wheel of Time ... a Sanderson Save?

CREATION CORNER .. will look fot that.

I love art, cannot yet draw, my neat handedness has not progressed beyond the cow milking stage!  but Photoshop offers hope, though CREATIVE CLOUD is more like adopting a child, the cash flow is endless.

I see you are a gamer ... something I strictly avoid.  Someday I will show you the epitomie of game-mind as envisioned on Devian Art.  Terrifying in implication.

My first ventures into art are on DA wcsallysally .. . . Maturing slowly.

Yes, I will go check out Wishbound ... I have always thought wises were like dealing wkth th Nightwatcher, and have always avoided them as well.

I am on Kindle with my first, and thinly clothed fiction ... it goes on sale each month for 99cents .... wish Brandon wou,d participate in the Kindle Cound Down deal, I could read more!

 

[SallyA she/her]

Horay, success, ... without Photoshop a bit of a hollow victory, but it will do for now!

To lurk the boards, or go back to reading Elantris . . .  hmmm?