Kaymyth

Fruit flavored candy canes. It wouldn't be so bad if they weren't somehow taking over the market. It's getting harder and harder to find properly minty ones. I are distress.

Traditionally, when the State of the Sanderson comes out is the absolute latest. Many people will choose to revert earlier than that.

I am going to shock you all now... I identify deeply with Lift here, because I dislike bacon. (The food, not the Sharder.)

But where's the fun? The adventure? The joy of discovery!

I would also point out that these hints were dropped well after those two had made it into the stratosphere. The ranks don't have to be attainable to exist.

I failed NaNo this year. Too many irons in the fire. On the bright side, I have an MLP fic that is now almost ready for beta, and I am gonna force myself to finish the final revision of Swift as Steel in December. It's gonna start going up in January ready or not so I'd better rusting well be ready.

I imagine you'll see that even out considerably once the Oathbringer activity settles down.

Somewhat similar, though I imagine to a lesser extent.

However she's doing it, touching sapient spren may be opening her up to corruption by Honor/Cultivation's power in return. This would go a long way toward explaining why she's starting to help the other side; she's starting to look at the world in a new way, thanks to the "contamination" by other Shardic Investiture. The Unmade in general seem to have a very strong drive to understand/connect with humans. They have twisted ways of doing it because their nature is programmed by Odium, but that drive seems to remain consistent. The introduction of bits of new Investiture into her psychological makeup may be giving her new insights, which she is now acting upon.

I think we don't have enough data points regarding all of the KR spren, as each of them has demonstrated differing behaviors. We'd need to have another Truthspren to observe and compare him to, and even then we're not sure what corruption does to a spren's nature. Disclaimer: I do not ascribe to the theory of Glys being a Voidspren. I believe that he's a corrupted Truthspren who doesn't really understand what's happened to him. (And I also think that messing with him and the Kholinar Oathgate spren have in turn corrupted Sja-anat enough to turn her from Odium.)

Chaos has dropped hints here and there that there may be one or more ranks past God Beyond.

Here is your dose of random weirdness for today:

Run free, little dragon Ookla, run freeee!

Precisely. It's bacon. Ew. I AM NOT ALONE

I object! You have clearly spoiled the fact that butts exist on Roshar!

Peanut butter is gross. Bacon is a crime against nature. Anne Rice is the most overrated author in the SF/F/H genre cluster. Rats are adorable.

I'm on the Kansas side of the Kansas City metro area. Just a 3-hour shot down I-29 from Omaha.

My experiences tell me otherwise. Oh, you darling non-Midwesterners and your lack of experience. You've never had the joy of getting lost in a corn maze!

You will never know. (I've used it multiple times, and it doesn't always mean the same thing. They're just convenient stand-ins.) Amusingly, even @ThirdGen doesn't know what the heck I'm talking about, and he works in the same office as me. That is definitely the flu. Get thee to a doctor if you haven't already.

Hey, cats and kittens! It's been a while, but here we are, back with a new installment in the saga of A Life Working For Redacted, Inc! [Background: my job is horrendously mundane, but I'm cagey about it. My caginess led to certain individuals deciding that I work for a secret government agency that protects us from supernatural and otherworldly threats. I run with it because it's entertaining.] So, Redacted Inc maintains landing pads for different types of flying saucers - blue, red, and yellow. We'll say that the Blue saucers are our best allies - they give us lots of intel. Red saucers are okay, but not as cool as Blue. Yellow we don't really have any control over at all, they answer to a different department, but they get to use our landing pads anyway, cause we're cool like that. This nomenclature has been in place for more years than I have worked here. A couple years ago, some things got shaken up around here, splitting some of our flying saucer knowledge between two teams. My team works heavily with saucers, while the other team focuses more on cryptid sightings, but do a bit of saucers on the side. Except that recently, they've started referring to the Red saucers internally as "Yellow" because they don't know the Yellow ones exist at all, and Red was I guess a bit too close to Blue for them to get it straight. Cause this morning, I got an email from one of our clients' providers of landing lights; different patterns of lights are needed for different types of saucer landings. And they're having problems with Yellow light patterns not working properly. I actually had to ask and verify if they really meant Yellow and not Red. This confusion is annoying the rust out of me and I'm going to start correcting coworkers about Red vs. Yellow flying saucers, and I don't care whose toes I step on when I do it. I am Captain Sassypants today. Fear me.

Pattern is Best Pony. Shallan really need to work through her crem, though, because this avoiding thinking about problems thing is going to magnify fallout like whoa. Kaladin has a new little brother to protect! <3 But...Dalinar. Oh, Dalinar. Unpopular opinion time: I find him tedious, and his flashbacks aren't helping. It's all fine and well to be badchull in your youth, but he was really...something else. Something bad else. I knew going in that the book would be pretty Dalinar-centric, but his POVs are a bit of a slog for me except when the Stormfather is involved.

*snerk* A cousin of mine used to tell this joke when I was a kid. Except it was green golf balls, not pink ping-pong balls.

It's simply meant to be a motivation tool. Some of us work best with a looming deadline breathing down our necks.

If you miss us so badly, perhaps you could try Discord? It's not the same as the forums, but it would get you a nice Sharder fix without needing a browser.

Hi guys! I'm around. Just sneaky. I appear to be a lot more active on Discord these days than the Shard proper (and I don't have the bandwidth to do a lot of both). My dog has arthritis, and it's kicking in pretty hard now that the weather has turned cold. So we trucked to the vet a couple weeks ago and came home with supplements and meds. Except, of course, Leia is a Jedi master at finding pills in anything so we have to get creative. We are now crushing things up and rolling them into a liver paste called Braunschweiger. It's rather smelly and she loves it, but she's also a stubborn idiot. So every morning now goes like this: Me: *gets meds crushed up and mixed into liver paste* Me: *goes to give treat to dog* Leia: *refuses treat* Me: *offers again* Leia: *turns away* Me: *shoves the first bit into her mouth* Leia: *remembers* "Oh, yes, this is tasty!" And then I give it to her a bite at a time and she happily licks off my fingers. Every. Single. Morning. Dude that is evil.