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Really? It was quite the opposite for me, similarly with the *gags* divergent trilogy.

Never mind.

Well on the one hand, the weather today is absolutely gorgeous. Not sure where it came from but I'm so glad it's here as I got to work out this morning! On the other hand, I've got a massive amount of paperwork to fill out for Boy Scouts for my eagle project. I hate the BSA bureaucracy

During the school year I volunteer at the elementary school, but there aren't a lot of other opportunities that I know of right now. When I get as far as a job interview, than I do bring it up, but for both the Y and Waffle House it was important for them so there wasn't really anything to be done. I've applied to a lot of different places, and I haven't been able to get to an interview most of the time. I do need to find a new hobbie aside from cooking, reading, gaming, and running, but I'm not really sure where to start. Learning some new dance moves is a good idea though, it's something I'd be able to use anyway. I really understand this. I did it for something like five years, and I'm sure it worsened my depression during that time and made it stronger. Learning how to stop bottling, and vent in a good way has been incredibly hard though. I think I lost at least one friend, who had been a really good friend, because I just had no idea how to let go without spewing forth way more than was necessary. Letting things out feels so much better than holding back any/every negative emotion. That's not to say that self control and ruling your emotions instead of them ruling you isn't important, but it's my experience that not letting yourself feel and express them is far worse.

Oh this ones easy, in the great words on Vash the humanoid typhoon, " Love and Peace!!!!"

Thanks I've been learning a balance between toughing it/venting healthily/ venting unhealthily the past year, which is why I decided that I should probably go ahead and use this thread.

I've never used this thread because on bad days, or weeks, I try to tough it out or maybe talk with friends, but I'm too exhausted for the first and the second isn't an option right now. It's not been a good month, and today capitalized it. First, it's just as hot as braize right now. The humidity is awful and our ac's aren't working up to snuff so it's hard to escape it. What with the weather and a general return of my depression, I haven't been running and working out like I should, which would probably help with the depression. I really needed to run today, but I wouldn't make myself with the heat. I've been trying to get a part time job for months, and I almost had one at the Y as a lifeguard, which was my plan J or something after librarian and others. I had to turn the job down though because I was going to have to work Sundays, and I'm not okay working on the sabbath. My mums wanted me to with at the Y for ages because my older sister did, but I really didn't want to because I'm not comfortable having to be in a position where it's my job to keep people's life's safe. So I waited as long as I could before applying, and the Y got a new aquatics director from the one who was my sister's boss, and she changed it so that I'd have to work on Sundays. I'd let that go, but mum said something along the lines of "if you'd just done what I wanted months ago you wouldn't be having any trouble with a job right now" which just really Really was the wrong thing to say. I didn't react very much because making a rude retort wouldn't help much. She sent me out to apply to another place today, and I'm just like Delightful about people, so what with everything else, that was fun. Like I said, I'd normally talk to a friend or something, but none live anywhere close to nearby, Im not super fond of texting, and my list of friends has been getting a little shorter over the past six months. I really miss all of them and wish I could hang out more, or at least call more often, but over an hour drive and them being busy shuts those out a fair amount. I really need to be busy, and the long failure to get a job and the unending summer are leaving me with less and less to do, so I'm just kinda imploding right now with all the stuff that I can't or haven't learned to control raining down on me. It just feels like I do nothing but play video games, even though I try hard to do other things, and when I play I make it a point to always have some kind of literature or non fiction audio book playing. Feels like I'm turning into a basement gamer, even though I know that I'm no where near it and that things'll get better in another week or two. Sorry, that went on waaay longer than I meant it to, but it does say Rant in the title, so I guess it's okay?...

*Rubs hands together in parody of thread theorizing serial killer* Well, knowing now that you're seriously theorizing, I feel much better about critiquing you and don't worry about your lack of knowledge on WoB's or the amount of critiquing you've gotten. Most of us have gone through it, and my early ideas weren't as interesting as yours predominantly. The biggest problem right now, is that the shards did not choose the shard holders. They aren't, as far as we know, Wands choosing wizards. Throughout many WoB's and I think an epigraph or two, as well as Sazed's ascension, we know that people take up the shards. I hold with the traditional view of Intents, and take the meanings of the shards names pretty literally, so I don't have much input on your idea of mandates except that ehh, it's possible. I like your analysis of Devotion/Dominion as it coincides with how I think of them very closely. Especially that you don't associate dominion as Bad shard intent as many sharders have. We're pretty sure that Rayse, or Odium, has almost always been a very bad fellow, so even if the intent or mandate of his shard isn't evil in itself, he could definitely have molded it towards himself just as shardic intents over whelm their holders. Cultivation and Odium /could/ be working in loose concert, but I think the cultivation invested spren's partnership with the KR points against this. The WoB that speaks of the survival shard is pretty clear that it's a shard we haven't ever seem, although I'm afraid I'm on mobile and bad with looking up WoB's anyway so I can't link it right now.

Are you a morning or a night person? When meeting someone for the first time, after basic introductions, what question do you normally ask first? What is your favorite non fiction book? or author.

Giving Kaladin and the rest of the Alethi the proper colored skin in my head took a little bit of work, but I did get it, giving them the correct eyes though....Still having a hard time changing that part.

I guess I want to clarify, is this you throwing out a well conceived idea you came up with? or some serious theorizing? Another member, I think either Skaa or Only Joe, as well as myself have theorized fairly in-depthly about the nature of void binding in relation to the other Rosharan magic systems, and we concluded that we just didn't have enough information about it except that it was probably a magic system resulting from a combination of either Cultivation/Odium or Honor/Odiums powers. Do you have any evidence that void binding is from the honor/odium and is found in the honor blades? While its possible Sadeas's wife finds out about Adolin and presses some kind of charge, what makes you think that she would have the political clout to get the Kholins to give up shards? Given the still Huge value of shards, I have a very hard time seeing it. Apologizes if I'm being a stick in the mud, especially if you're just spinning ideas, because they are good ideas. If you are theorizing seriously, which it kinda came off like you were, I was wondering about some of your jumps.

It's so hot at night I've started putting my head at the end of the bed so that the majority of my body is closer to the fan.

Aaaahhhh! Thanks

The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss, unfortunately only two books and a novella at the moment, but they're definitely different. The Imager Portfolio and Corean Chronicles are both good, and very un-tolkien fantasy, by L. E. Modesitt.

As far as I know, absolutely nothing. I'm somewhat good with names, and it seemed to fit.

Lai'vre perhaps?

So how does one use the blogs feature? I've known it's existed for ages, but I've never figured out how to even open it.( or however it functions)

Just finished Archform: Beauty, by L.E. Modesitt. Easily one of his best books, maybe not one of my absolute favorites of his, but as a book, it was far stronger than many of his. I'm looking forward to reading Flash, which is based in the same book-verse as Archform: Beauty.

Whoah! They got John Rys Davies!?!! Dang, they're serious about this.

I have a fake full name, spam email, birthdate, and half formed personality for internet accounts that I'm not sure I'll use. Aside from the fact that the fake identity has no proper documentation and is twenty years older than me, I could totally slip into it if I needed to go into hiding

I'd personally prefer her staying evil at this point in the game so that we at least have a familiar pov for void binding. I'm really rooting for Rlain to become the Listener radiant, I'm a huge fan of his.

I thought that Szeths death and revival was a little cheap, but it didn't bother me too much. I would have preferred if he hasn't died at all really. Jasnah and Syl were fine as well. Eshonai....I want her to be dead really. I don't really like the idea of her getting a redemption story arc, and so far she doesn't make a very interesting villain either in my opinion.

That's not entirely accurate to my understanding, although in gist it's true. Expecting a follow up to Mockingbird will definitely leave you dissapointed, I mean, a fair amount of background details were rewritten so it's fairly obvious that it's not meant to be. I think my biggest problem with the book is actually just that it doesn't tell a story really. It's also very.....meander ish....but not in a good way like Mockingbird, or another favorite of mine, Way Down Yonder by Richard Peck.

I just finished Harper Lee's new book, Go Set a Watchman. It didn't make me feel like to Kill a Mockingbird did, and it wasn't very intellectually engaging for me. I thought that a lot of the pre-release buzz really focused on the wrong things, and I feel like this books going to be interpreted in so many different ways that the good parts of it, might get sunk under other criticisms. I'm really not sure whether I liked the book or not.

I think that a lot of the points you make about the culture and ecology of Shinovar being so drastically different from the rest of the Roshar have a simpler solution. Their geographic region with the mountains and more earthlike weather enable the ecology to be more Yolen ish. Why the Shin have such an odd culture by any measure, I would definitely be willing to go along with a shard intervening there.