Aikisenshi she/her Posted December 1, 2020 Report Share Posted December 1, 2020 (edited) Finally finished RoW, and started listening to the Shardcast recently, so thought I'd jump in here. Hi, I'm Stephanie, a Utah native now living near St. Louis. Geeky mom of 3 little kids and one grown stepkid. I first met Brandon when he was just "another Utah fantasy author" coming to the convention I helped run (Conduit), and the symposium I attended and once or twice presented fan stuff at (BYU's Life, the Universe & Everything). I kept meaning to get around to reading his books (he was one of multiple "smallish time" authors who were semi-regulars at the Con whose books I intended to read). And then, it was announced that he had been chosen to finish the Wheel of Time... His books immediately went to the top of my list. When The Gathering Storm came out, I was lucky enough to get to be a "Stormguard" for the book signing at Sam Weller's bookstore in Salt Lake City. We had dinner with Brandon (he had the fancy Mac n Cheese, because he's Brandon, lol) and spent an evening helping run the signing. Funny story from that night: I was listening to the Hero of Ages audiobook at the time and got to be the first one who told Brandon that they'd given Demoux a French accent... How it happened: The character's namesake came through the signing line, and Brandon introduced him to everyone. I asked the guy how he liked his character's accent in the audiobook. Brandon said something like "Accent? What kind of accent?" Me: "Very French" B: "Really? Do any of the others?" Me: "Not really." B: *laughing* "Why would they give just him an accent?" Me: *Shrug* "His name is French? Demoux?" B: "They're ALL French... Kelsier? Vin? The whole book is French inspired. But they only gave Demoux an accent?" Me: "Pretty much" B: *chuckles* Later that evening I queued up my iPod Mini and played a clip so he could hear it. More chuckles. Anyway. I'm known across the 'net by the same username above, look me up at your own risk. If you want to know a bit about my personality... Well, if I were a Knight Radiant I'd be a Lightweaver who uses the written word to plan her illusions. After meeting Pattern, Pattern, Pattern, and Pattern in RoW this week, I decided my Cryptic would be called Tesselation, or Tess for short, and would look something like the eye-bending picture on the left here, but, you know, moving: https://d2jv9003bew7ag.cloudfront.net/uploads/Left-Hyperbolic-tesselation-via-plus.google-com-Right-Hyperbolic-tesselation-via-cgl.uwaterloo-ca.jpg Anyway, hello! Edited December 1, 2020 by Aikisenshi 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aikisenshi she/her Posted December 1, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2020 (edited) Haven't thought that one completely through, but probably a Soother. Too many overblown emotions in the world right now. Edited December 1, 2020 by Aikisenshi 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honorless he/him Posted December 2, 2020 Report Share Posted December 2, 2020 Welcome to the Shard, Stephanie! Wow, you're an old fan of Brandon's! Which Order of the Knights Radiant are you according to the official quiz? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scout_Fox he/him Posted December 2, 2020 Report Share Posted December 2, 2020 Welcome to the Shard Stephanie! That is quite the story you have there that is absolutely awesome! That is so cool how you sorta knew Brandon before it was cool (lol ) and have stuck with it and started reading his stuff now! That is so funny about the Mac n' Cheese too but honestly I don't think I can blame him, that's what I'd be eating that sounds perfect! So cool to be able to tip him off to that accent as well, that must have been quite the startling thing for an author to be like "waiittt... whattttt???" Is that iPod Mini still running strong? Those things are little tanks. If you'd like to get your RoW discussion on would be sure to head over to the RoW section (super-ultra-max-red-alert spoiler lockdown everywhere else for it!). Hope you enjoy the Shard! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aikisenshi she/her Posted December 2, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2020 16 hours ago, Honorless said: Welcome to the Shard, Stephanie! Wow, you're an old fan of Brandon's! Which Order of the Knights Radiant are you according to the official quiz? I wanted to be one of the orders that had Progression, because I've always been drawn to healers, but I tested 70-something % Lightweaver. I was miffed, I didn't think a Lightweaver fit because I'm horrible at drawing. While looking at the personalities for Edgedancers and Truthwatchers, though, I realized I didn't really fit with them. When I told my husband, he said: "Of course you're a Lightweaver. You know there's a reason I like Shallan so much. It's because she reminds me of you. Well, minus the disassociative identity disorder." "But I can't draw." I replied. "It doesn't say they were all visual artists, they were musicians and other creatives too, so maybe you'd write or sing to make your illusions." Then I thought about the oaths, and how Radiant oaths are things that are important to you, but become progressively difficult. Being true to myself seems easy, but speaking my truths to myself is a trial. Lightweaver "oaths" suddenly really resonated. Then, I found out Tien was a Lightweaver, and how his abilities were manifesting in making people feel better. Healing by lifting people's souls and soothing their minds, rather than fixing their bodies. The quiz was right. I embrace my truth. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aikisenshi she/her Posted December 2, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2020 13 hours ago, Scout_Fox said: Is that iPod Mini still running strong? Those things are little tanks. It was already 5 or 6 years old then, it's battery died out a year or two later, stopped holding a charge. But yeah, tough little things. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scout_Fox he/him Posted December 3, 2020 Report Share Posted December 3, 2020 (edited) 3 hours ago, Aikisenshi said: It was already 5 or 6 years old then, it's battery died out a year or two later, stopped holding a charge. But yeah, tough little things. Ooh yeah that's a pretty long run at it! I was just fixing up my iPod Classics not too long ago, one with a broken screen and one with a dead drive so I did a little smooshy smooshy and combined them to get one working one in business. Something about the feel of the old iPods just makes them perfect to hold Oh and our final welcome step says "thou shalt inform of corrections to bring about maximum warm welcomeness energy" Lols no biggie but mods prefer no double posts. You can tap the plus icon next to Quote on multiple peoples posts to quote them all at once in one mega post! Hope you enjoy the Shard! Edited December 3, 2020 by Scout_Fox 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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