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That's odd, I never got the impression that it was moving slowly. I guess I was busy pondering the world and examining all the characters. Or maybe it's just that I read most of it in one sitting. Or because you can control how quickly you read something when you're reading it yourself, but not when you're listening to an audiobook. I wonder if there's a sort of inherent optimal pace to read various chunks of writing at, and if you try to make the reading speed constant across every passage, it doesn't work quite as well?

Just in case you've overlooked her, I think our resident pink puff Allrianne is one of the best female characters you can talk about in a presentation like this. Allrianne isn't the most representative of the female characters in Mistborn - that would be Vin, of course - but I think it would be easier and quite interesting to talk about her. She conforms to female stereotypes, yes, with her love of pretty dresses and her girlish cheer, but (and this is important, so go ahead and emphasise it) it makes her no weaker. In fact, it forms a good portion of her strength. We know that she's strong-willed and very capable; this implies that she conforms to stereotypes not because that is what she is told to do, but because that is what she enjoys anyway and because she can use it to her advantage. It would be good, I think, to discuss a character who can show people that being girly is not a bad thing. Allrianne may be relatively weak on her own, but she doesn't live in isolation; at any given moment, her strength is equal to the sum total of the strength of everyone who she can bring to fight for her sake. She has this strength because of her girlish mannerisms, because she can present herself as someone worthy of protection. ...And this would be a good place to cut to a discussion of the social advantages given to women, or a contrast of male and female leadership styles, or how unfair it is that men aren't allowed to wear pretty dresses or whatever.

I think some of the most interesting parts are about the decisions the people made, back at the beginning of the system - that everyone should choose for themselves who to have children with, for instance, or that everyone should have the truth revealed to them once they reach a certain age. ...In fact, I'd expect some of these rules to become outdated. The one about procreation, or example, has become sort of obsolete - you can see it in Kai's reaction, at least. It would, however, seem more important to us, as we are.

What's with people disliking seafood? (Okay, I was sort of raised on it, so there's that.) Steamed clams with vermicelli, lobster noodles, sea urchin, sea cucumber, big heaps of spicy crayfish, fried mantis shrimp, salmon sashimi... They're like 90% of my favourite foods. And seaweed is the best snack. I always thought it had near-universal popularity, and then it turned out I was mistaken, and it still confuses me.

I'm going to go against the grain slightly and recommend starting with Legion. It depends on who you're recommending to, of course, but while it's less Brandon-typical, it's short and does a good job of showing off his creativity, maybe with the highest things-happening-to-word-count ratio. The Emperor's Soul is kind of the exact opposite, so the combined volume might provide a good sample.

Atium. Okay, okay. I can't remember which exact ones they were, but seafood was popular in Hallandren. So, fish?

Welcome! All those twists in Mistborn So much fun. Do you have a favourite character, by the way? Also, ahem. It is my duty as a responsible citizen to inform you about the dangers of cookie consumption. These include (but are not limited to) heavy metal contamination, mind control effects, and possible breaking of teeth. Please take care to verify that a cookie originated from a certified supplier before consumption.

Pssh, Warbreaker wins. Anyway, welcome! I am glad to see that you have already been informed about the Cookie Conspiracy. Be on your toes at all times!

Nah, we should totally all meet Zane. It's clearly the best possible idea in all possible possibilities. /thread ...More seriously, I think I'd like to meet Sazed, or maybe early Elend. Someone who likes to learn, so we can talk about our worlds and compare them, and look at things that don't seem to change no matter where you are and why they don't, and speculate on whether they're fundamental laws of the multiverse or just coincidence, and stuff like that.

For that highly cryptic signature that mysteriously matches your username, and for your avatar that fails to complete the set.

The next thing we know, there'll be mysterious black flakes drifting down the screen, and if you try to get rid of it then your laptop overheats.

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For being praised to the heavens on the compliments thread.

Brave New World is the only one of these I've personally read. I think it's worth reading - it's interesting, and looking through some dystopian fiction is probably good for your health somehow. Whether or not it's enjoyable is a separate matter that depends largely on you and your tastes - I didn't dislike it, myself, but there are few books that I dislike in the first place. (Actually, I liked everything that we read in class during school, which probably means I'm a bit of a freak. )

This sounds like it should work quite well, really. In any situation where there's a collection of emotions likely to be present in the people, you get to choose which of them they're actually feeling, and that should simplify things. Maybe it works better with Soothing, because you can just carefully get rid of everything that isn't part of your designated Optimum Emotion Blend, slowly enough for the gaps to fill themselves in.

If they have a good titanium skeleton, they could plausibly build a pretty huge body in porportion. It's fine since they can scale the bone diameter to their target body size, as long as the self-weight of the bone doesn't get in the way. And then they have trouble squeezing themselves into the Homeland.

The Final Empire: Tips for Tourists The most dangerous creature in the Empire is the Angry Mistborn. Angry Mistborns are bad. Very, very bad. Avoid them at all costs. The mists are not dangerous in themselves. However, they sometimes contain the aforementioned Angry Mistborns, and they can see you long before you can see them. Stay indoors! Leave any metals other than aluminium at home. This is not the place to show off your brand new solid gold smartwatch. If you cross paths with an Angry Mistborn, your loved ones may find it buried in your skull. People with large metal spikes embedded in them - particularly in their eyes - are known as Steel Inquisitors. You may regard them as Permanently Angry Mistborns. Never attract their attention! All nobles, especially paraplegic ones, may be Mistborn! Aim to prevent them from becoming Angry Mistborns in your vicinity. If you see a coin on the ground, that may mean there is an Angry Mistborn nearby. Stay safe and stay clear! Do not approach anyone who appears to be injured or dead. There may be an Angry Mistborn nearby! They themselves may be an Angry Mistborn! Mistborn may not die when killed. Do not be fooled! With all this in mind, the Luthadel Travel Agency would like to wish you a safe and enjoyable holiday.

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It's all a conspiracy! A delicious baked goods conspiracy. Like the Elaborate, Time-Sensitive Cake Heist, but more conspiracy-ey. Conspiracyful? Conspiralicious? Anyway, welcome. Do you have a favourite Sanderbrand™ character?

In other crossover shipping news... Vin stood alone, watching the mist curl about the rooftops, when suddenly a man tumbled out of the sky and out of narrative convenience. She started, daggers leaping to her hands. The man wore no mistcloak and showed no allomantic pulses, even when she flared bronze. The space around him, however, looked... different. More vivid. Her instincts told her that the man was powerful but unlikely to be a threat, and that for some mysterious reason, he wasn't completely doomed to become a splatter on the ground. She readied herself to fight, just in case. As she watched, a rope snapped out from his hands to wrap around some convenient architectural feature, and he jerked to a stop. ...But who cares about that. The important part is, a sword fell out of his hand and clattered to the ground. It was the most suspicious-looking sword Vin had ever seen. Hi, a voice said. I think you're pretty.

A pretty good rule of thumb is that when a character does something incomprehensible, precognition is probably involved. I wonder, actually, whether those discs can slowly generate new beads of lerasium like the atium geodes do.

I know, right? It's awful. It's like, you have this perfectly good living thing but there's investiture all over it and stuffed into it and as much a you try to squeeze it out or rinse it off or scratch or scrape or dissolve it away, even if it looks like you finally managed to get all of it, the next time you look, bam, yet another flake of investiture right there where you could swear there wasn't any until a second ago. Now that I think of it, what happens if you try to make something that has no colour in it into a Lifeless? Like, say, a jellyfish? Does it work, and if so, where will it draw colour from?

Welcome! That book cover... I have no idea what that's meant to represent. ??? What. Pssh, just because Naruto is the main reason for English-speakers to know that "sasori" is an actual word in Japanese. /it's quite justified actually Hope you have fun here. And beware of the cookies.

My favourites are Serial Experiments Lain, Haibane Renmei, Fate/zero (the best adaptation I've ever seen), Revolutionary Girl Utena, and maybe Durarara. ...I think it represents a good spread of genres. The best single episode I've seen is the first episode of Mouryou no Hako. It was absolutely stunning and represented quite remarkably what rose-tinted glasses might look like to the wearer. I mean, seriously, it was a one-episode romance arc that managed to make more of an impression than entire series of romance plots and subplots. With time to foreshadow and be creepy, since the series is technically horror. I've been thinking of giving Jigoku Shoujo another try - I dropped it about three episodes in, last time.

I remember that happening, but I thought it had long since dried up. Now that I think of it, though, is it possible to draw colour from, say, a freshly plucked flower (the cells would still be alive), or to make Lifeless plants (although I don't know why anyone would want to)?