Kaymyth

Ahh, but can it be used to cut down the mightiest tree in the forest?

So here's what you do. Every time she goes on a rampage, think back to the scene in First Contact where the Borg Queen is trying to get Data to turn. Try and imagine it as ridiculously as possible, too, like the full weird baldhead thing and everything. If you can start throwing your mother into satirical roles, it will help. Keeping your sense of humor is vital.

Translation: "You are no longer a perfect little clone of everything I think and feel, and therefore you are doing something wrong. Clearly, you are making yourself miserable in your attempt to actually be a sovereign thinking, feeling being, and if you'd just give in and conform everything would be all right." Your mother is the Borg.

Your mother is full of a whole load of rotten dead fish. And this kind of makes me wonder what her relationship is/was like with her mother, that she thinks this is acceptable behavior...

We also know that Harmony tinkered with the Snapping threshold; I wonder if it's possible that this has also had an expansion effect on how many people are capable of Snapping period.

Actually, what was stated in the book that Harmony was pressuring her really hard to do something she didn't want to do. He never forced her to do anything, and it's ambiguous as to whether she actually did the thing, whether her death was actually planned or just foreseen, and/or Tan came along at the right time to render the entire thing moot. There are still a lot of details about what went down that we just don't know.

Wow, really? Only 3 upvotes (mine included) for Kobold's fic? That's a travesty! I didn't respond before, but I upvoted it because it was good. So good.

You get stabbed! *inserts the Abyss* (Flufflepuff is a non-canon MLP character. Go YouTube Fluffepuff Tales. You probably won't regret it.)

Actually, I think it can sense Feruchemy, it's just a lot harder to do and takes practice. Bronze, when trained to savant levels, should be able to sense any sort of Shardic investiture. This is a popular theory to explain why Vin spooked out on Hoid.

You get Pinkie Pie's one-pony band set that she used to distract the Parasprites! *inserts Flufflepuff*

The cooling fan in my work computer sounds like raspberries coming from Flufflepuff's theoretical older brother.

So. ThirdGen brought forth this gem of an idea. You know, if we're talking about possibly casting Era 2... Andrew-Lee Potts as Wayne. I..um..y-yes. Yes, please? So much yes. I'll be in my bunk

And don't forget the language barrier here. Your English is fantastic, Morzathoth, but sometimes things don't quite come across properly when getting into philosophically heavy conversations with a non-native speaker. And now I think that everybody needs some baby otters:

It never works for me, either. I'm not sure why. Popcorn?

Well, see, I had all this popcorn, and I can't stand the stuff myself... Nah. I'm totally profiting off of the spectator sport of watching people philosophize at each other.

*opens up a popcorn stand and starts selling bags*

Admittedly, you've hit on the weakest point in the theory. Harmony has a limited amount of foresight from Preservation. I think he saw the probability of her death coming and chose to let it happen because he couldn't persuade her to persuade Wax to go back to Elendel. But I also think that, depending on how much Autonomy knew about Harmony's plans, it's not outside the realm of possibility that he took advantage of that weakness. Specifically, he used Tan to outwardly give Harmony what he wanted whilst getting his spike into Paalm right under Harmony's nose. That takes "suspicious coincidence" and turns it into a conspiracy. Wheels within wheels.

OK, so there's been a lot of debate going back and forth about who's really influencing Scadrial. I've read through them all and have organized my own thoughts on the matter, putting together a cohesive timeline of events that places Autonomy firmly into the picture as Trell. Known: Bleeder's spikes were made of an unknown godmetal. I personally find it highly unlikely that a sliver of Ruin could possibly create a godmetal unknown to Harmony. This would mean that evidence suggests that another Shard is getting involved with Scadrial. Known: Odium is terrified of Harmony. Supposition from extant evidence: Autonomy is, if not aligned with Odium, at least not at odds with him, and possibly in contact with him. He believes that Odium is safely contained and not a threat to the Cosmere. Theory: Odium has convinced Autonomy to drink the 'Harmony is a threat' kool-aid. This is plausible, as Harmony is the first dual Shardholder (that we know of, at least) since the Shattering. This could lead Autonomy to believe that Harmony is a threat to the balance in the Cosmere itself, so he sent agents to the planet to start sussing out the situation. What he learns is that Harmony is actively meddling in his world's development directly, which would be anathema to Autonomy's Intent. (And yes, Harmony does advocate that the people should make their own choices, but he also has been taking as active a role as he can with warring Intents to influence things. In Autonomy's book, this would be a big heaping pile of hypocritical horse doo-doo.) So. Autonomy puts his agents into position, studying the lay of the land and gathering intelligence on Harmony and his followers. We have a WoB that states that other Shards can communicate through spikes, even if they aren't all as clear as Ruin. Autonomy spikes his agents in order to directly influence them (though some of them may not realize they're being influenced). Bloody Tan is one of those agents. Autonomy was specifically using him to study Hemalurgy. Tan had basically outright admitted that the entire show was specifically for Wax's benefit; Autonomy had learned that Wax was one of Harmony's prime agents and that there were plans in place for him, and so derailing those plans are part of his overarching scheme to undermine Harmony's influence. Bloody Tan spikes Lessie/Paalm, opening her up to Autonomy's influence, and then "killing" her in order to break Wax. (We know that Harmony wanted Wax back in Elendel, but there's no hard evidence that he orchestrated Lessie's death. SoS specifically states that he was pushing Paalm to do something that she didn't want to do, but not that she ever actually did it. I think he saw her "death" coming and knew that one way or another, he was getting Wax to Elendel. He didn't tell her what was going to happen, though, hoping that she would ultimately make a better choice. He was so, so wrong.) Paalm now has Autonomy whispering in her ear; how long it takes her to realize what's going on is up for debate, but there is some evidence in SoS that she is in active communication with her godmetal Shard. It's possible that being kandra, she's better able to "listen" through the spike than humans would be. But with a Shard's Intent influencing her, she is convinced to pull her Blessing spikes and go rogue (and completely bugnuts). Autonomy sets her into motion causing mayhem with Wax as the ultimate target. Ultimately, Autonomy wins this round, sacrificing Paalm for the reward of pushing Wax close to breakdown and rejecting Harmony. His endgame, then, would be to completely disassemble Harmony's network and break his influence on Scadrial. There may even be an ultimate goal of taking Harmony out and re-breaking his Shard into Preservation and Ruin. *edited because the bleeping text editor killed all my paragraph breaks

I prefer the nonviolent "make the gits cry" method. ...there's probably a reason I've never been accused of the Fake Geek Girl thing. I have an air of dangerous nerdiness about me.

Yes, because those regions have the tenderest skin. *shudder*

What your mother doesn't seem to get is that these people fled because their lives were in danger. Does she really think that sending them back would actually fix things? No! It would just get innocent people killed! These aren't poverty-stricken third world people - these are well-educated, middle class folks who took their families and ran away from the people trying to kill them. They left for a rusting good reason!

It's a BIC brand, but I don't know what kind/size of inkwell it takes. It was a freebie pen that was being given out by clients. I should've known that a free pen that wrote so beautifully would have a tiny ink reservoir and run out in the space of a few months. I've been stoically ignoring the branch of my family that agrees with this nonsense. Come on, people, the terrorists are the thing that these people are running away from. "Oh, no, these people are a different color from us! We can't possibly have compassion for them!"

Stupid small rant: My favorite work pen just ran out of ink. It was the BEST pen. The ink flowed out of it so smoothly! And now, alas, it is empty.