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He is a ridiculous man and, as I'm in the UK, I don't feel I have any right to an opinion about him (apart from the fact that he keeps coming over here and trying to buy big chunks of Scotland, seemingly. That's not cool). But, he stops being funny to me when he, and some of his campaign people, make unpleasant remarks about women (in particular about sexual violence). Really not cool. He does look like an angry cabbage. Congratulations!! Have you set a date yet? Sounds fun! I'm just back from my jollybobs with so much to catch up on, it's unreal. But, that job I was applying for - I have an interview this Wednesday. Hurray. (Less hurray is the 4 hours I've spent reading a 78 page government document about working with Parents in preparation for the interview! Still, it'll be worth it if I get the job).

If I could I would give this ALL my upvotes, I love it so much!

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I did, in fact, just log in to share my JRR Tolkien / Sanderson mash-up. I feel there is room for more than one - as awesome as yours is: JRR Tolkien: Kaladin peered out from behind the slate-grey rock. The Parshuk-Hai appeared to be retreating. He could no longer see their fell helms printed with the fell white hand of S-odium. "I think they've gone," he whispered, sinking back in exhaustion. "Oi think you're right, Mr Kaladin, sir", whispered Teftwise from beside him. "We're nearly at the chasm of Doom. Let's go Mr Kaladin, sir." "I can't Teftwise, I can't. I'm exhausted - this quest is too hard for me. I've failed, Teftwise. I always fail." "No you haven't Mr Kaladin, sir. Oi might not be able to carry that stormlight-infused, gem encrusted instrument of evil for you - but I CAN carry you!" Shifting his bridge to his left shoulder, Teftwise hefted his limp master onto his right and set off on sturdy, hairy feet up the fell mountain leading to the chasm of Doom. *** "We're here, Mr Kaladin sir", muttered Teftwise, peering gingerly into the broiling lava beneath them, "We've done it." "No Teftwise. I won't do it. The ring is mine. I deserve it, I have suffered greatly, people have died - all the people have died and its all my fault. That makes me sad and angry and I deserve a present. The ring is mine". Teftwise had never seen his master look like this before; his face leered as he waved the ring aloft and stepped away from the edge of the fell chasm. "A-r-gggh", screamed Kaladin, as a shardblade severed his finger. "Szollum". A pair of large, childlike eyes gleamed behind the giant blade, wielded by the spiderlike creature in a billowing white loincloth. "Stinker," screamed Teftwise, swinging his frying pan wildly at the fell assassin causing him to drop his blade which vanished. "My precious", crooned Szollum, cradling Kaladin's ring-adorned finger. "You Truthless Bridgehobbits stole my precious. It's mine, mine." Stepping backwards, he waved the bloodied finger and teetered on the edge of the precipice as Teftwise, enraged by the hurt done to his master, lifted his bridge and rammed the fell creature into the lava beneath. "We did it, Mr Kaladin, sir", Teftwise yelled crawling towards his master who was lying on the floor, cradling his bloodied hand and attempting to regrow his finger despite the absence of any stormlight. "Let's go home." "No, Teftwise. We can't. See how the land begins to shake. This land belongs to S-odium and, as he falls, so do the rocks. We have saved the Roshire - but not for us. It ends here for us - here at the end of all things." Kaladin lay back, exhausted. "Well, if this the end, Mr Kaladin-sir, it don't seem right to end without a song to mark the occasion" and planting his brave, hairy hobbit-foot on the fell rocks, he began to sing: . . . . Much rustling of pages and sounds of desperate thumbing as thousands [tens] of readers skip the song to the refrain of "Not a song. For the love of Stormlight, not a song, please" . . . As Teftwise finished the 427th verse, he heard the chitinous sound of a chasmfiend apporaching. "Mr Kaladin-sir, we're saved. Look it's Gandalinor, on the back of a chasmfiend. The fiends, they've come to rescue us." "So, they have Teftwise, so they have." Fade to black, in preparation for the twenty 'final' goodbye scenes. (With apologies to anyone who doesn't skip the "epic poetry" in a Tolkien novel. You are a better person that I!)

I'm envisioning him weaving them into a daisy chain coronet that he can wear as his victory crown. Loved this - am, belatedly, off to follow the new one!

That's exactly how I pictured it!

Rereading WoK again and I've realised that the buildings in Kharbranth are multi-coloured (and, indeed colour-coded!). I had been imagining it as pure white.

Well, I was very strongly invested in Kaladin as a character and adored his flashback sequences so, to an extent, my personal feelings about who gets the flashbacks in SA3 is that it doesn't really matter because I won't love them as much as I did WoK. That's not to say I don't like the other characters who are rumoured to be flashback ones - I do, particularly Dalinor. Looking at it dispassionately and considering the way the arc will look by book 5, I'm happy with the choice to explore Dalinor's past rather than Szeth's at this point. Dalinor, as a bondsmith is destined to be a lynchhpin for the Radiants so having his book at the centre or pivot point of a 5 book arc makes sense to me. Also, he's the character, thus far, who knows the most history about the KR through his study of the ancient texts and his flashbacks. Exploring his past and how it ultimately feeds into his interest (obsession) with the eponymous texts means there is scope for a lot more information about the Knights Radiant, their history and how that history will affect the new protoradiants. I agree with pps who have said that having Szeth as the final flashback character feels satisfying from a literary perspective. He opened the whole shebang so rounding off the first arc with him feels right to me.

Granted. You can read but you now suffer from extreme lexophobia and have to lie down in a darkened room after reading more than a few words at a time. I wish I could go travelling.

I'm applying for a job! To be fair, I've been doing that all year since my youngest started full-time school but they've mostly been very low-paid jobs that had no potential to lead to a career and, because I have a degree and a post-graduate qualification I seemed to be over-qualified for most of them. This one, though, has the potential to be perfect. A Parent Support Adviser, working with a cluster of schools all very close by. Part time with child-friendly hours and actually using my degree, my post-grad and my previous work. And something I feel passionate about - making a difference in the lives of disadvantaged children and their parents. Having a hard time writing my personal statement. I think I want it so much that I'm frightened of saying the wrong thing and blowing my chances at an interview. But, finding something that fits, feels good.

I am envisaging Wayne singing dirges, wearing Adolin's shardhelmet in honour of their too brief relationship. That's brilliant! I love it.

Quite the bloodbath for Day 5. Although I am quite tickled by Blushweaver chasing Wayne ... I'm not sure the poor guy will know what has hit him if she catches him. And, as much as I love Hoid, I'm worried that triumphantly killing people isn't entirely OOC for him.

That's so sad. How could anyone do that to a child?

Well ... there's this stick and it's being pretty hardcore about the whole not-soulcasting into fire thing. I mean, the lightweavers might have it covered, but if you want to give it a try, it would be excellent intern-type training (and probably beats cleaning up after botched assassination/strawberry jam attempts - maybe. It's quite a stubborn stick!) Won't they know that anyway since they ..... seeeeeee ? (Edited to sort out formatting.)

You're very welcome. So, what does an Elsecaller squire do? Can I ask you to carry things for me when I'm trekking through Shadesmar?

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Shallan would freak out at all these weird Truthwatchers turning up!

Thank you, it does help.

I'm sorry too, Kaymyth.

I'm going to try and tread very carefully because my faith is very personal to me and I try, wherever possible to avoid causing offense to other people. But I wanted to try and explain this a little. If this upsets or offends you, please let me know and I'll delete it. My perspective (and I'm also from a 'faith alone' version of Christianity) is that God didn't set up humanity to fail - rather He intended humanity to be perfect and to live in a loving, cherished relationship with Him, just as He, himself, is a relationship (I believe that God is a Trinity - God, the Father, God, the Son and God, the Holy Spirit). But, a true relationship cannot be formed from a position of coercion so God's greatest gift to us was free will: the ability to consider Him and then reject or accept Him. Humans have had a mixed reaction to free will over the years - we have, as a species, been responsible for some of the most sublime acts of self-sacrifice. We have also been guilty of heinous crimes. Which is why works do matter to a Christian. As someone here has said, faith without works is merely lip-service. "Works" alone can't save but no Christian should be affirming their belief in a loving, compassionate God and not trying to act out a representation of that. I have a very personal reason for not believing that works alone can grant entrance to an afterlife. It's sensitive and personal so I'll put in spoiler tags so people can choose not to read it, if they don't like to be confronted by sensitive topics (and please be gentle in responding to this - I'm risking it because the discussion has been so respectful so far). Also, I recognise that I'm moving far, far away from some of the empirical discussions that have been occurring on this thread. I'm sorry for that but, for me, faith is as much a feeling and a compulsion as it a rational weighing of the evidence around me:

I'm: 63% Elsecaller 59% Truthwatcher 50% Bondsmith 31% Skybreaker 3% Windrunner and 0% everything else! I might have been more Windrunner but I rejected my squires .

If you want to fully experience the ultimate frisson of excitement in a museum - here is my handy guide : First choose a museum that has lots of ye olde, not-to-be touched stuff. Our museum of choice was a medieval castle in the north of England which is still owned by a private, landed family meaning lots of the exhibits are their own personal things. Secondly, acquire a small child (Handily, I had my very own then 2 year old for my version of this experiment). It helps if said small child is appropriately mad and quick like a whippet. Thirdly, make sure you let said small child out of whatever appropriate restraint you had on hand. We were not allowed to take strollers and didn't have a sling with us so were relying on small child meekly holding a parent's hand ... Fourthly, linger at the display of very sharp, ancient pikes and swords which are sensibly stored behind a portcullis-type affair. Fail to notice that portcullis has a gap at the bottom. A gap that just happens to be a perfect size for a child ... say, a 2 year old child ... say, a feisty, escapologist-type of child. Watch in horror as small child escapes and rolls under the portcullis and spends the next five minutes amongst very sharp weapons, cackling maniacally at her audience on the other side. Fifthly, get down on your hands and knees and plead in increasing desperation with small child to return to you before being impaled. Consider learning to be a contortionist in order to make it to the other side. Finally, manage to grasp the leg of small child and (gently) perform an extraction. Agree NEVER to do museums with small children EVER AGAIN. This, my friends, will guarantee you a never-to-be-forgotten museum experience. (Oh, and she's 10 now and, despite several other acts of derring-do, is still unimpaled. Thank goodness!>

Don't be disillusioned! As you can see, lots of us say the names in a plethora of different ways. I say SHALL-an, exactly as you do. As someone (maybe more) has already said on this thread, Sanderson has said he is very relaxed about pronunciation. He has no problem with fans riffing/mangling (*delete as applicable) his creations. Just as well, really, as this thread proves!

Ah. Got it now. I was reading it as Dory = Sadeas' internal monologue about Adolin not Twi's internal monologue about Sadeas thinking about Adolin. That's what I get for reading memes after midnight! I should probably not do that. It's like feeding a Mogwai. Yeah. I do too. Not as much as Kaladin. Adolin is a little too chipper to be my favourite but I enjoy his chapters too, I like a healthy does of angst for my favourite characters! (Whoops, sorry to turn the meme thread into a SA discussion. Please feel free to resume entertaining and reputation garnering pictures with clever/humorous/baffling taglines)

Well, as this thread runs to ten pages, I'd say you're certainly not the only one. Between us all, we have lots of unusual ideas about Sanderson's worlds!