Kaymyth

You might not want to encourage me. The rhyming section of my brain is a dark and mysterious place; that's probably a box left unopened. (Preferably in a box that's chained and locked. And coated in lead and dropped into the deepest part of the ocean.)

Want! *drool* Hah! Therein lies the karmic price.

Then that requires killing Spook's descendents in order to get the spikes. And by the time you concoct an elaborate enough lie to pull the women in, and have gone on a murderous rampage through the high noble families....well, now you've got everyone's attention even more than the Vanishers did.

Do you wanna take a selfie? They sell the sticks down at the mall. Stick a camera onto it with glue And point it at the crew We'll take it standing tall! ... WHAT DID YOU JUST DO TO ME

Exactly. The Set are specifically going after Spook's line. Most of those are noblewomen, who have been raised in a relatively sheltered environment with certain social expectations. Even lying, I can just imagine the conversation: "Hey! We'd like to pay you to have babies for us! Of course, we're trying to breed Allomancers, so this mean that you'll have to get down with some as-yet unknown-to-you man that we have selected." "....what?"

In all honesty, I'm still not convinced 100% that this is even a thing. I've examined the WoB, and I think this could just as easily be a case where he misspoke and switched his terms around as a clue to new powers. Has anyone ever asked him to clarify?

Direct deposit and automatic bill pay are your friends.

I just signed up for an autism walk. I actually dislike the charity involved. All of the adult people I know who are on the autism spectrum have varying levels of issues with it, mostly because they vehemently disagree with the group's classification of autism as a disease. They don't believe that they need "curing". But...this is my brother and his girlfriend, and they are doing it for my nephew. Nephew is four, and far from old enough to form an opinion on things. So I will go and support my family, and someday when he is old enough to start articulating his feelings on things, I'll have a little chat with him and tell him that *I* don't think that there's anything "wrong" with him. His brain is just wired differently, that's all.

Thank you, Orlion. I think we all needed that.

George Takei (Sulu from Star Trek) talks a lot about the Japanese-American internment camps, as he spent several years of his childhood inside one.

It was the golden age of propaganda. Let's hope it stays where it belongs - in history.

I have the book sitting on a table right now, just sitting there, tempting me. But I still have my self-imposed rule to not read anything until I've finished the rough draft of Swift as Steel. Thank GODS I'm almost there, because there's this and we're t-minus 6 days until Shadows of Self.

You caaan dooo eeeeet!

... Might I recommend learning to sew? (That's what I did when I couldn't find what I wanted. I'm now a costuming monster.)

1. How many women do you know of who'd be willing to enter into a creepy breeding program with the purpose of grooming their children to be manipulated and controlled? Even if it's for figurehead leadership, you might get the occasional crazy-ambitious woman who's willing to go through with it, but this is some seriously skeevy stuff here. 2. It's not completely outside the realm of possibility. But again, see #1, plus the added bonus of not really knowing what the effects are going to be on your child. The sort of woman willing to participate in that sort of program is thankfully rare.

Ahh. That sounds more like someone connected the links wrong. You might want to shoot them an e-mail in their "Contact Us" section. They're probably wondering why they haven't gotten any applications.

Have you tried using a different browser? Sometimes certain websites don't work properly. I know in particular, the latest version of Firefox has problems with certain website buttons. I have to use Chrome to order from Pizza Hut.

1. Kidnap women to breed the line. They need children that they have complete control over, and enough of a pool to draw from to select one with the right qualities. 2. The Hemalurgy angle is independent (or just tangential to) the breeding program. There may be multiple factions within the Set who have differing goals and/or preferred methods. I just think that trying to create a figurehead is a much simpler explanation than trying to breed a Mistborn, which may or may not even be possible. They might be using Hemalurgy to bolster their members and consolidate power. We just don't have enough of the pieces yet to see how they all fit together. I'm just trying to stick some things together in another part of the puzzle, but they're all cut so similarly that it's hard to tell if I've got the right ones yet.

He test-drove it on me via Instant Messenger this morning. It took me about 30 seconds to figure out what he was doing.

Yeah, what I saw came across to me as rather vile. I was not impressed.

I think that Wax was making faulty assumptions based on the fact that he doesn't believe (or want to believe) that a Terriswoman like Idashwy would have been involved. Had she been killed before the massacre; well, let's just say that there would be obvious signs of decomposition by the time the boys found her.

Augh! Callback to the part in Alloy of Law where Wax considers that in another time and place, Miles would have been a hero. Like Kelsier was a hero back in FE, but might be the big bad today. The clues were right there in front of us the whole time.

This is...plausible. I agree, it's full of dislike, but it does fit with Kelsier's character. It also might be that floating around as a ghost for 300 years has unhinged him even more than he was already. Well, someone matching her description was in the Prologue at the soiree. I'm actually leaning to the notion that she did indeed kill Winsting, and someone killed her for her power afterwards. Maybe she attracted someone's attention. Maybe someone wanted those nobles out of the way, and wanted to take her out of the equation lest she have a crisis of conscience and decide to turn herself in.