Kaymyth

The more ridiculous the thing, the less surprising about Wayne it would be.

I lived various parts of my childhood in Milwaukee, Chicago, Las Vegas, Bullhead City (AZ), Phoenix (if you count my summers at my dad's), and northeast howmuchmoreruralcanyouget Missouri. I sound like I'm from none of them. I have the standard generic American "neutral" accent. It gives me a very good phone voice for answering calls at work, since we have folks calling from all over the place. I can slide into a more drawly midwestern accent on occasion, usually if I'm talking to someone with a more rural accent. I can mirror reasonably well, if I know the accent. A childhood spent obsessed with Doctor Who had me very good at imitating an English accent by my teens, though I've not practiced in long enough it's probably dismal now.

Bah, I get accused of being a ninja at work, why not here, too? I like my plan. It's reasonable, and gives me time to adjust things as needed while still getting it out in a decent timeframe. Fortunately, my story starts about a decade before Alloy of Law, so I don't have to worry about events getting mucked up, but I do want to try and get as many mechanics and world details right as I can. Canon-but-not-canon. ish.

Nicely done. I ran out of juice at about that point; pushing further could have caused a rhyming singularity. (Says the woman who got bored working on editing training documents at work and snuck a limerick about fonts into the notes.)

Current plan: 1) Finish rough draft. 2) Read Shadows of Self. Re-read it, noting down updates to canon. (There should be some primo stuff in here, mechanics-wise.) 3) Print draft, mark the crap out of it with highlighters and notes. 4) Use NaNoWriMo to do the re-write. 5) December is Beta Reader month! 6) January happens; read Bands of Mourning. Re-read to note down new canon updates. 7) Do the final rewrite of Swift as Steel and put it up on teh internets by February. From there, the thing to figure out is exactly how I'm going to put it up. Length-wise, even once I've done the trimming, it's still liable to be novel-length. Because I'm insane and I don't do things by halves, apparently. So, what do I do? Do I post it up in entirety on someplace like AO3 and put a link up on the Shard on the Fanfic forum? Or do I use the thread to post it up chapter by chapter? Or is there some third option that I haven't figured out yet?

Honestly, that sounds more like Groundhog Day than the Twilight Zone.

You really are evil. It's almost like you don't care about the story featuring the non-pony version of my avatar ever being finished at all.

Huh. I'd think that diesel would be a more logical fuel source. Refinable from a multitude of methods, including biodiesel.

My copy is arriving in today's mail. Ironically, I won't be able to read it yet, as I still have a climactic fight scene to finish writing before I'm allowed to read again. ...drat.

Welcome to where the rest of us are, clicking on the site multiple times a day, waiting for the next update.

Sharing a piece of an IM conversation from this morning between myself and ThirdGen (slight editing to remove real names; I don't care, but he's a bit more secretive with his online persona): Me: I...I think I literally have no non-geek interests. ThirdGen: Oh, come now, I'm sure you like.... uhh... bread? Me: Seafood. I like seafood. ThirdGen: Seabread? Me: Eating calamari is like devouring Cthulhu before he devours y-...dangit. This conversation may have culminated in me expressing a desire to go out in ubergeeky costume, find a cluster of rabid sports, fans, point at them, and shout, "NERDS!"

Actually, there is a WoB out there that explicitly states that Hemalurgy can be used to steal other Shardworlds' Investiture powers from people. So it's definitely possible, even if we don't have the finer details worked out.

You'd have to use a visual form of communication, as it's established that time bubbles mess with sound transfer over the barrier.

Though he has also said that Hemalurgy could be used to steal powers from other magic systems in the Cosmere. Of course, good luck trying to figure out the right metals for them all.

Maybe you should start giving her stuff the Handerwym treatment. Start writing footnotes for your own amusement, and save them up for us. There's also the fact that Rumple is directly responsible for her turn to darkness. And I imagine that the more dark magic she used, the more it corrupted her; her redemption is possible because she didn't use it for so long, and because of the Light that Henry introduced into her heart. For that matter, I'd like to start seeing Regina use Light magic more. She has the capability.

Yes, how dare you act like a normal teenager with opinions who still has limited life experience. And now you're compounding the issue by acting like an abnormal teenager and listening to the wisdom of people older than you! Learning from experence? What is this madness? Seriously, I know theoretically fully-functional adults who can't take constructive criticism half as well as you just did.

Yep. It's super-sweet, like mead. Mead is delicious.

For the record, I don't think it's necessary for Kelsier to be carrying a piece of Ruin for this theory to be true. It's too much in line with his past actions. He sees the nobility getting corrupt and the common folk suffering for it...yeah, he's going to take action. At this point, I'm honestly going to be surprised if it isn't Kell. Or not. There's no guarantee that the Big Bad will be revealed in this book. There are, after all, two more after it!

I don't think so. Two reasons: 1) Nicrosil works basically the same way Duralumin does, which means it compresses the power into one short burst. It doesn't create any extra power from the metal, it just condenses it into one big power shot. So forcing Nicrosil into a Nicroburst still wouldn't give the final target any power from nowhere. 2) I'm not sure that actually know the math behind how much Nicrosil/Duralumin enhances things. And even if it were something as simple as doubling the power, doubling a double is quadrupling, not tripling.

Because randomness is cool, just like fezzes.

I'm not sure that "awesomeness" is the right word, but here you go: I...don't think that was an issue.

OK, lame off-the-shelf banana costume - Check! Buckled leather boots - Check! Bustle - Check! Schmancy top hat w/ hat band that matches bustle fabric - Check! Flask - Check! Pocketwatch - Check! Goggles - Check! Feathered hair fascinator (clipped to the goggles) - Check! Lacy Victorian gloves - Check! Wooden rubber band gun - Check! Holy crap guys, I might just be the most ridiculous-looking human being on the planet right now! XD EDIT: Oh, wait! I almost forgot my lace-trimmed bolero that matches my bustle! NOW I am ready for the party! EDIT the second: AND the silver-handled walking cane!

Well, the birthday girl specifically wants people to wear ridiculous costumes. She said she wanted to see a banana. OK, Lizzy, you want a banana? I'm going to give you a banana like you have never seen before! (There are allegedly prizes involved, probably silly ones.)

I am preparing to go to a costume-themed birthday party dressed as a steampunk banana.