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Hey, welcome to the shard! Don't listen to @Tesh Kholin, have a cookie! It's spiked delicious!

Yeah, I agree with you about how awesome tFE is. That was my first Cosmere book, too! My first Brandon Sanderson book was Steelheart, I believe, and I'm so glad my middle school librarian recommended that book to me. I wouldn't discover the rest of the awesomeness that is Sanderson until a couple years later (around last December), which happened because I was searching stuff up about The Reckoners and discovered this site, but that librarian helped me discover my favorite author. I wish she still worked at my old middle school so I could go back and thank her. As for my favorite, it's probably either HoA or WoK, followed very, very closely by Warbreaker. There hasn't been a single book by Sanderson I haven't loved, though those three are my special favorites.

Heyo, welcome to the Shard! Have an upvote (because Bionicle is awesome and I love your profile picture) and a perfectly spiked safe and delicious cookie! DISCLAIMER: Side effects of eating this cookie include, but are not limited to, gaining supernatural powers, such as physical strength or a strange urge to eat metal, voices in your head, strange urges to kill everyone (except that one person, they're important), and/or complete loss of control of your body. The Dark Alley claims no responsibilty of damage done to or around a person who eats this cookie. Hey, which book of Brandon's is your favorite? I assume you know what the Cosmere is? Have fun here at the Shard, and don't die!

So...is he coming to Dallas? Just kidding. I'll just wait and see if he's coming anywhere near here, and then I'll force my parents to take me there (hopefully) if he's close enough. I'd actually be so excited if I got to meet Brandon. He's probably my favorite author, so this would be awesome for me.

Today has been a good day. Nothing really exciting happened, but nothing absolutely horrible happened! So, I got to just wake up and laze around for a little bit before I went to clarinet sectionals for a little over an hour, then I got to come home, eat, and sit around and do nothing! Like I said, it's been a good day indeed.

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Hey, welcome to the Shard! Have an upvote and another spiked delicious cookie! Don't mind the voices or the sudden urge to kill everyone, that's normal. Also, that sucks about your Mistborn book. I don't own very many books, so that kind of stuff doesn't usually happen to me, but I can imagine that sucks. Which Cosmere book is your favorite?

Hey, we all get nervous whenever we have to deal with strangers like that. Just take deep breaths and try to stay calm before you start talking to him.

Hey, calm down. It can't possibly be that bad. Stuff like this happens all the time, and people are usually okay with helping others out when this happens. If this new owner of the house doesn't act nicely about it or I should rude to you, then that's his fault and definitely NOT yours. I don't think that'll happen, so just don't be afraid, got it? The worse that could happen is that they've already returned it, and you don't have to deal with them at all.

#everyonedefinitelyneedsone #pleaseupvoteme

Ditto. Well, except for a couple times, but still. I'd like to be tagged in these as well.

Um...I didn't? Anyway, it wasn't that bad. I just avoided the Stormlight section and skipped over anything that seemed even slightly spoiler-y.

Hey, welcome to the Shard! Have an upvote and a perfectly spiked safe cookie! It's high in iron!

Has it already been two weeks? Feels a lot longer than that.

Wait, what? No way! Also, I meant more like a word I could use as an -ing verb.

I love this. I wish I could give more than one upvote.

True. I just didn't think of it that way.

I'd actually Ben really happy to ask him that question. If he ever comes to the Dallas/Fort Worth area and I get to go, I'll need to remember that question. Also, if I got a RAFO from him, I'd be so happy.

Yeah, I've always figured that most world names are just names that the author comes up with that sound cool or interesting, I just think that, knowing Brandon, there could also possibly be some sort of hidden meaning behind the names. Probably not, though it never hurts to try. If I ever get to go to a Brandon Q&A, I'll probably ask him that during the signing portion, along with any other, more important questions I come up with.

Now I'm even more confused...there's so many meanings you could be implying....

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So, I think we should stop using w-t-h (what-the-h-e-double-hockey-stick). From now on, I'm only gonna use wzh. What Za hel.

I'm not sure why, but I read that as kinky instead of inky. Whoops.

Okay, so one thing that's always bothered me about the names of the planets in the Cosmere has been how (mostly) unrelated the names seem to the planet itself. I guess the one exception of this is that Roshar is both the in-world name of the continent and the entire planet. And Threnody works because of that whole, sad songs/weird name thing going on. We know from a WoB (can't remember which one-help finding it would be appreciated) that the planets' names come from Cosmere-aware people. I just wanna know where they got the names from. Sel: I have no idea what this even has to do with the planet, so I'm not gonna bother with this one. Scadrial: Okay, I've never really decided how this is supposed to be pronounced, though I've usually pronounced it Scah-drial or Scaw-drial. And I've always pronounced skaa as scaw. So, I had this crazy idea, what if Scadrial gets its name from the skaa? So, it would've been Skaadrial, but that looks dumb, so Scadrial became more widely used. Of course, that still leaves where the 'drial' came from, but whatever. Nalthis: I have no idea. Threnody: Again, this fits with the strange naming system that goes with that planet. Roshar: Already explained. First of the Sun: This is easy, as it is the first planet in orbit around the sun of the system. This isn't a huge, groundbreaking theory, but I couldn't get the idea out of my head.

Hey, I'm at the top of ministry guys! I'm not sure how that happened, but look at all my tattoos!