Extesian

Happy Mutual Shardversary Hivemate 

Your username is the greatest. I just aspirated an entire mouthful of coffee when I saw it. Thank you.

Doing my monthly WoB catchup and noticed this. (Basic Mistborn/Stormlight spoiler I s'pose?)

K I'll see you in another few months or next time a WoB supports my longstanding opposition to one of your longstanding theories 

Today marks my one year Shardversary! I want to thank everyone here for not just making a wonderful, friendly, welcoming and intellectually remarkable community. Discovering Sanderson changed my life but it could  have never been as significant without this community! I've learned things about the cosmere i could never have discovered alone. I've had wonderfully times theorizing. But more than that I've found my people, the only online community I could need. 

From finally joining and wanting to be a WoB Master, being the most prolific poster of the first few months of the year, to almost never posting now due to time constraints and spending most of that time on Discord, to having the honor and privilege to help establish Arcanum (one of the single greatest innovations this community has done - of which I was a regretfully tiny part), its been just an amazing part of my life and will remain so for a very long time. 

I want to particularly thank @Chaos for the incredible work he does here, serving and building this community and never thinking he's done enough. I want to thank all the admins and mods but there are too many, you know I love you, so I'll single out again @WeiryWriter and @Mestiv for their unbelievable work on Arcanum. And of course I want to thank my man @Calderis for the early months we spent theorizing together and basically mirroring each other through our cosmere journey (until he went mad and posted at 10 times my rate :')). This place wouldn't have been quite the same without you Cal. And for those who don't know, it is also his Shardversary

Bless all of you, I'll try to be a more regular contributor again.

Dance with the wind.

My friends. IT IS HERE.

I love you. You're my people. You're my community. But this is where Extesian, for the first time, really leaves you. I will do a long, slow read, savoring this thing. I shall cast my eyes upon no forum page, no Discord post, no reddit not Twitter, until the last word is read.

Enjoy your reads Sharders. I will see you all on the other side of this amazing time

Ordered mah signed, numbered, personalized copy of OB! Which means I'll soon own my first Brandon (physical) book! In fact, I own it now, realmatically! Tra la lala la ti ta! A happy Extesian. And soon you'll all have the answer to the question - what DOES an Extesian ask his lord, when given the chance. And which Sharder is personally mentioned in said personalization?!? Stay tooned

I'm not sure where to put this, but it's one of my favorite bits of Stormlight art I've seen. Someone on reddit had it commissioned. Beautiful. 

My 500^th post! My my posts fly when you’re having fun. May not have my target of reputation matching post numbers but 2 out of 3 ain’t bad. But God of Colors that’s more posts than I expected to do in under 4 months. 4.17 posts per day. A post every 5.76 hours. Every 345.6 minutes. Every 20,736 seconds. Now I just have to improve my upvote frequency to better than one every 8 hours. Perhaps by doing less public self-centred numerical analysis and more useful analysis. Me me me me me. (Or perhaps by being too cool to care about my sweet sweeeeeet internet points).

It’s been a good four months Sharders, thanks for letting me get my nerd on, to the neglect of all else J