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Wow, havn't looked at this thread in so long. Glad to have found more people!

@TheVillageIdiot Nice ones! I like the one under your username too.

I don't know if this was mentioned anytime, but here's one that was posted a while ago about Adolin and Shallan to Don't Stop Believing.

The Lord gives his toughest battles to his strongest warriors.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him your friend.

43 minutes ago, Alderant said:

religion is not just a thing or trait--it has impact, it profoundly affects the characters' lives, and often has impact on the world at large as well.

The first cosmere books I read were the Mistborn ones and what struck me was how large a roel religion played. In the very first book, the uprising of skaa was lead by the "reappearance" of Kelsier to create the belief system of the Survivor. That whole conversation with Kelsier and Sazed about why faith was such a drive/motivation for people.

Fight a Shardbearer. Get some adrenaline pumping and not just from fear. Being alone on Threnody would just be dark and fear. *shiver*

Would you rather have all memories of a loved one wiped from you mind or watch everyone you've tried to protect die?

6 hours ago, Alderant said:

At the end of Hero of Ages, Sazed takes the information of all the religions of his copperminds and realizes that there is truth in every religion, and uses that knowledge to recreate the world as it was before Rashik messed it up. This is a belief that is a basic tenet of LDS faith--that after the death of Christ and his apostles there was a mass apostasy, where the pure doctrines and beliefs that Christ had taught eventually became corrupted by the plethora of social philosophies and other religions present around them. While there were many well-meaning men who tried to return the doctrine to what it was during Christ's day, LDS followers believe that the authority of God was lost and without that authority men were left to their own devices to worship. Much like we see with the arguments over the Survivorist faith in Hero of Ages and between that book and Alloy of Law.

The reason I took the time to explain this above paragraph is that one of the basic LDS tenets is that while the Priesthood (the authority I mentioned) was gone, the truth still remained. It got buried and crowded in a lot of philosophy, mysticism, and introduction of other cultures and religions, but it still existed. All religions have truth in them, but we believe that there was eventually a Restoration of truth at the hands of Joseph Smith, which is why LDS preach that we have the "fullness of truth," and why we revere him as a prophet.

This was one of the points that made the Ascension at the end of HoA so profound for me.

YES!!!!! That's what I loved about HoA too!

I remember we had to do some hint fiction/iceberg prompts. Like that one: Baby shoes for sale: never used.

9 hours ago, CayJoBla said:

I've always liked Brandon's idea of the three Realms, the physical, cognitive, and spiritual.  I don't know if this came from LDS beliefs at all, but I like how he limits information about the Spiritual Realm to almost leave it to the minds of the readers as the afterlife for his characters.  It is described as a place of absolute truth where connections play an important role, where space and time have little meaning, and where the majority of power resides.  The idea resonates with my beliefs for some reason.

Well, the most that I'm aware of in terms of "realms" with LDS beliefs is that we are made up of a spiritual and temporal(physical) selves and both have the ability to die (spiritual death/temporal death) It's not really three, as it's kind of missing the cognitive part. Guess that could be where the two kind of meet and the space that influences how you act in both spheres.

Can I ask what your beliefs are?

41% Elsecaller

35% Bondsmith

35% Lightweaver

28% Willshaper

28% Stoneward

26% Windrunner

23%Edgedancer

17%Skybreaker

16%Truthcaller

0%Dustbringer

Huh, this seems different than the other quiz, with Skybreaker near the the bottom and Elsecallers, Lightweavers, and Willshapers near the top.

66% Skybreaker

59% Bondsmith

56% Stoneward

53% Windrunner

13%Willshaper

6% Edgedancer

0% Dustbringer, Elsecaller, Lightweaver, Truthwatcher

Yeah, I can see that. It's only a 6% match, but I've still got some Edgedancer in me!

Awesome quiz.

We did one recently in club that was 7 ways to cook a unicorn, written like a blog post (or something else if we had qualms)

Nice title.

I didn't ask for any Sanderson books this year b/c I'd feel obligated to carry them to college and they would weigh so much. I got a pomegranate instead.

Wax: She assumes that our detective style isn't normally the punchy-punchy, stabby-stabby type.

Wayne: To be fair, it's usually a more shooty-shooty, whacky-whacky type.

Or Spook's street slang, that whole conversation where they're making fun of Breeze. Well of Ascension I think

41 minutes ago, Idealistic said:

I am neutral about the movie, I don't think it was bad, I enjoyed it, but there are things I didn't like.I hated Finn's and Rose's plot, I loved Poe's plot and I thought Rei's was ok.I don't like she been so good with the Force with 0 training or how Snoke died, but I like her scenes with Luke and with Kylo.

Also it has too many jokes.

I thought the humor was good, but also weird because some of the previous movies had more dark to humor ratios. The way Snoke dies was interesting because it was comparing Rae to himself and how Kylo saw them. I thought that the scenes with him and Rae were interesting but their trust progressed really quickly.

Ren kind of irks me. He's all FORGET THE PAST RAE!!!!! and then he can't even forget his own.

I'm thinking a loop of jokes. Even though sleeping all the time through lectures wouldn't be too bad...I need to catch up on sleep.

Would you rather be a Dakhor monk or a Bloodsealer?

Huh, I've always said it Sah-zed, and Sah-ze

Mrs. Coulter from His Dark Materials (Golden Compass series). She was all over the place on all sides which really annoyed me. You'd think she was bad, but then she was good so you thought she was good and then she was bad and.... Yeah. Gave me a serious headache.

Haha, I used to get really annoyed by Lucy from Charlie Brown just because she always seemed to be so mean. But she's part of the Peanuts gang, so what can you do.

I also liked the the Thaylen names. Tvlakv, Rysn, Tozbek. Nothing like a bunch of consonants mashed together to make your day.

He's given me good advice (not directly, haha, through his books) about writing styles/habits. Like names and people interactions/developments. I used to think up the craziest names for fantasy stories like, I don't know, Giravoncha. (pulled that out of a hat) but lots of his names are quite simple (that didn't require patterns), like Vin, or Ham or Tien. Short and simple. 

NIce! I got my wisdom teeth out on Tuesday and my creative juices were completely stunted. RIP 40,000 words

@Wayland Stormborn Twelfth Night! My school is putting that on in a few weeks! What did you think of Hamlet? How many languages can you speak now?

Beware of little expenses. A small leak can sink a great ship. - Ben Franklin

A friend of mine used this as a basis for a dwarvish bedtime story, how always giving to the poor can turn on you when they swarm you for more.