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The national animal of Scotland is the majestic unicorn. A certain character from Rithmatist would be proud. In Power Rangers yellow is female majority but in Super Sentai it's male majority. France has a problem letting go of their overseas territories Toy Story 2 was almost lost forever because of a glitch and was saved because one employee was working at home because of maternity leave Most British shows are lost forever because the Beeb assumed no one would watch old episodes. Because of this policy almost all of season one of The Avengers is gone and about 100 episodes from the Hartnell and Troughton eras of Doctor Who are potentially gone forever, despite how many of the episodes were shipped overseas and still can't be found. Also one recent find became lost after being found by the Beeb because the company in Nigeria sold the episode to someone else meaning that one serial is still incomplete.

State testing started today and yesterday one of the higher ups who thinks he knows best, he's one of those who takes stuff without consulting anyone else about it first, and decided that hall and bathroom monitors couldn't bring a book to read during the lull times. I had forgotten to grab my watch, went back to the house (I'm less than a mile away) and decided 'screw this' and brought Words of Radiance anyway. I got about 5 chapters in, though because I kept having to hide it in the desk just in case I probably would've gotten farther. It was definitely one of those stupid rules that deserved to be broken.

I just watched Digimon Adventure tri. Loss and I can't believe it ended on a big cliffhanger! Coexistence (symbiosis in Japan) can't come fast enough! Edit: Watched something else and I'm split on what to say on what film I watched. It was Mystery Science Theater 3000 The Movie but it's also This Island Earth since that's the film being riffed. Would I say I watched two things at once or just that I was watching MST3K?

That's the one I was referring to when I mentioned Disney. For Disney to give away the home video license of anything they own to anyone else is practically unheard of so I was shocked when I saw Gravity Falls on their website. I'm kind of hoping this means other unreleased Disney shows get released like So Weird and Gargoyles (Disney's released season 1 and half of 2 with the second half being a Disney Movie Club exclusive but not the rest to the public).

Ate my very first Voodoo Doughnuts. It was grape flavored and it was delicious!

Yes his books are amazing... unless you're a late arriver like me since it means in order to catch up with everyone you have to forgo reading anything else. That's the only negative I can give to Brandon. I can't wait to get out of the Sanderson and into another author's mind after reading Oathbringer, which should be the final Sanderson unless I can't finish catching up by the time Legion and Skyward arrive. I loved LC by the time I finished Cinder. I'm not the biggest romance lover, it tends to feel cringey and forced, but I loved the romance between Cinder and Kai and Scarlet and Wolf. It was easy to predict the Cinderella tropes for Cinder, but I did love the changes like Peony loving her as a sister instead of as a 'machine', but I was more curious on how the Red Riding Hood stuff would work for Scarlet and liked the direction Mrs Meyer went, like having the wolf pretty much be two characters and granny being a badass. I also think it's cool that she made the Snow White character Black instead of the predictable pale red lipped girl showing that anyone can be Snow White, and by association beautiful. I really hope Hollywood decides to make movies since this would be a great series of films, though I wonder what race they'd look for for Cinder since I imagined her looking a little Chinese since no one mentioned her looking like a foreigner but knowing Hollywood they'd probably whitewash her.

I hate that as well, but it makes it easy to find them But yes, it's weird seeing the Doctor Who and Star Trek books right next to Middle Earth and Westeros. My next one is Cress. Still need to pick up Winter, Fairest and Stars Above. I started reading Cinder and Scarlet before reading Sanderson's books so I haven't gotten around to finishing yet since I want to catch up before Brandon brings out 20 more books. Luckily I've passed the halfway mark!

Just finished Steelheart. Not my most favorite of Sanderson's stuff but it was still good (honestly I doubt he'd release anything that was a stinker). I don't really have anything to say other than 'Well at least I can start reading Words of Radiance now when the state testing starts on Monday!'

I wasn't sure to count it either but if bookstores like to count sci-fi and fantasy as the same genre then I should on recommendations as well. Volume 2 is already out. The Volumes are longer than White Sand's Volumes so worth the money at least. I'm waiting until I finish reading LC before doing any of her other work

I was taking into account how it takes 1 year of outlining, 1 year of getting the first draft written and 1 year of getting the second draft to release done. I know the outlining and the third year I'm counting probably shouldn't count, because of overlapping with working on other stuff, but since it's a much bigger toll than any of his other books it's probably justified to count it as more than 1 year.

I would recommend Mystic by Jason Denzel. It was pretty good and has two sequels coming soon to boot. These are kind of Fantasy but it's the A Tale of series by Serena Valentine. The books are about the Disney Villains Evil Queen, The Beast, Ursula, Maleficent and Mother Gothel and how they came to be in their situations. The titles are Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen, The Beast Withon: A Tale of Beauty's Prince (mainly focuses on Beast but there's an overarching story that continues into the other books), Poor Unfortunate Soul: A Tale of the Sea Witch, Mistress of All Evil: A Tale of the Dark Fairy and MotherKnows Best: A Tale of the Old Witch. Also on the Disney theme is the A Twisted Tale series with the Princess movies taking dark what if twists (Phillip falls asleep instead of waking Aurora, Jafar gets the lamp, The Enchantress is Belle's mother) and they really empower these young women more than the films did. Apparently there will be ones featuring Mulan and Ariel coming soon. The titles are A Whole New World, Once Upon a Dream and As Old As Time. Theres also the Queen of Hearts series by Colleen Oakes and the Dorothy Must Die series if you want to see dark versions of Wonderland and Oz. This might be stretching it since it's more sci-fi but I'd also recommend the Lunar Chronicles where each book is focused on different young women whose stories are similar to the classic fairy tales of Cinderella, Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel and Snow White. The books of the series are Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, Winter, Fairest (a prequel focusing on the villain) and Stars Above (a short story collection giving more insight to the 'princes', a small Little Mermaid story and an epilogue story). There's also a graphic novel sequel called Wires & Nerves going on now as well. There's also His Dark Materials but it depends if you want a story that's a little on the atheist side of things.

Well considering what he has to finish here's a rough estimate: Elantris sequels -~4 months each Nightblood- ~4 months ~7 Mistborn books (depends on if he sticks to the current known ones)- ~4-5 months each Threnody book?- I'll give him about 4 months if it's roughly the size of a Mistborn 7 Stormlight books- ~2-3 years each Dragonsteel 4-7 books- This is the tricky one since we don't know if these will be Stormlight big or Mistborn big so it could be anywhere from ~4 months to ~3 years each If my calculations are correct then we're looking at a rough estimate of 3 years 8 months for everything before Stormlight, 14-21 years for Stormlight and anywhere between 16 months to 21 years for Dragonsteel. At the absolute shortest we have 19 years and at the longest we have 44 years 8 months. All this though is assuming Brandon wrote only these books, no short stories and forgoes his non-Cosmere stories. I mean with these estimates I'll be 48 on the low end and 61 on the high end so either it's going to be a long while before any of us finish. I'm just going to feel sorry for those who are 40+ right now for obvious reasons.

It's amazing what licenses they've been able to get from Power Rangers to Super Sentai (something that was deemed impossible in years past) to getting something from Disney (since Disney is usually a pain to get a license from apparently)

Shout Factory had a march madness sale this past weekend. Decided to take advantage by getting the final Power Rangers set I don't own yet, grab MST3K The Movie to see if I like the show before buying the volume sets, Digimon Adventure tri. Loss since I've liked the previous three so far, Body of Evidence since the plot sounded interesting, Gravity Falls for obvious reasons (never got the chance to actually see it on tv by the time I actually heard about it) and MST3K The Singles Collection just in case I do like the movie.

If the United States became a bunch of islands on this earth I could see the Nazca Lines being chalk, maybe dormant?, instead of stone/dirt

You're mostly correct, I'd split Stormlight in two with Mistborn Era 2 in between them, switch Era 4 and Sixth of the Dusk since that's confirmed to be happening during that era but before the actual events of what will be happening and do a ~ on Silence and the Essays since we know where they might be but not as exact as the other stories.

Just finished The Rithmatist and all I really need to say is Brandon, hurry up with the sequel! I have to know what the deal with Nalizar and the Forgotten is, why the Shadowblaze appeared to Joel but not binding with him and if Joel will eventually achieve his dream of becoming a Rithmatist. Also a strange curiosity here. Normally when a main character doesn't get much in the way of descriptions I picture them similar to me, but with Joel I pictured him as being dark skinned and somehow it fit. I know from other things about him he probably is supposed to be European in appearance but I couldn't imagine him that way at all. This mental image wasn't something I imagined by the end of the first couple chapters, it was how I imagined him since the first paragraph. I guess I was influenced by some of my favorite Sanderson characters who just happened to be dark skinned Welp, next up is Steelheart. I'm hoping to finish this before the state testing starts so that I can demolish Words of Radiance at that point.

It'd be pretty funny if they just kept getting longer and didn't do what happened with Harry Potter having two shorter books after the fifth. At this rate I think we can expect the final book to be over 2000 pages, one meaty monster to be sure.

@StormingTexan I think that list is a good 'starting' point. I don't have all of them but I got through reading just Everything's Eventual, especially the connected stories in the collection, and Salem's Lot beforehand, but I was just starting reading his books at the time so I didn't grab everything just to understand all the connections and references in the series. I started The Stand afterwards but found it pretty dull. I think there's other stories but it gets more into 'oh, so that explains that' territory along with small connections like the character Mordred from the final books having a form connected to It. Overall it's tricky saying what needs to be read and what should be read since it changes depending on who you ask. Me personally I'd say anything that has Flagg, Salem's Lot (because of Callahan being a major player later), stories concerning the Low Men and The Talisman and The Black House because of one character getting their story finished in DT. Any others I think would be considered fluff or just marginally connected because of the Five Degrees method (one example is all the psychic characters like Carrie and Charlie having a tiny connection but it's just barely there and all the Derry stories being connected just because of It and it's small connection so the ones connected to It have nothing to do with DT but It does)

I don't remember any specific Fantasy book that started it for me unless one wants to count fairy tales. If not then the earliest ones I can recall is the Harry Potter books. I'm sure I read other Fantasy stories before that but I don't quite remember what books I read as a kid before that.

Unless there's a part in the story that's on a planet...

Rule 52. Don't be a parent. Your chances of being killed have exploded by 50%.

If it is Magic wouldn't the bar be further along unless he only did an outline and is waiting for approval to move along?

I'm guessing they'll go away once he starts on his next project and W&W4 since Oathbringer and Legion are the oldest ones here. But I'm more interested in why the secret project is still 2% and we've gotten updates on Skyward

It'd be neat if it was a story that needed to be visual to work properly. Unless it's a previously seen Shardworld, maybe it could be a world that only makes sense in the visual medium. Also it'd be nice if this and other future GN were more one-shot instead of splitting a story up. If they ever do anything that's White Sand long they should just have it be a bigger comic, after all I have comic collections that could easily fit all three parts of White Sand and still have room for other stories and an Ars Arcunum at the end.