Flying

I was going to write this as a response to my original status update, but I forgot comment mechanics don't allow many lines 

Also I storming know I'm going to miss some people, so if you don't see your name here, please know I love literally everyone here, and you are amazing, I just happen to be functioning on about three brain cells at the moment 

(Also it seems to not want to @ some people, and others I forgot their shard names, so sorry if it's a bit wonky here for the names/nicknames)

@AonEne you are amazing my goodness, such a good friend and really just such a cool person overall. I really look up to you in many ways, thanks for being such an awesome inspiration

@Mist another true inspiration to me, you're really fun and honestly just very smart, I know everyone jokes about you being the responsible one, but it really is true, you are so appreciated. But you're also super fun and cool outside of that too, and I've enjoyed having you as a friend 

@Chasmessian I cannot begin to describe what an amazing friend you have been to me over the past year or so, thank you, truly. From out random conversations on bagels to our deep life discussions, I have enjoyed every storming minute of it. *virtually ruffles hedgehog*

@FriarFritz/NOAM you are an amazing, lovely, loyal friend who's kind to everyone, you have always cared, you are amazing, and you are the best (platonic) valentine I've ever had (I swear I almost definitly cried that day)

@Channelknight Fadran you are really nice and friendly to everyone, thank you for being you

@DramaQueen of course you and Fadran's names must be close; You are such a wonderful person I've enjoyed every conversation we've had, you are lovely and loyal to everyone, and have taught me a lot

VENNIEEEE  You are the probably the most optimistic supportive happy person I've ever met, and you have truly inspired me as well, I love the way you happily greet everyone, are constantly looking out for everyone's well being, and just generally super super caring. Thank you.

TRUTHIE you are going to run the world some day, you are so storming smart! I have loved getting to know you, and I think you are destined for a wonderful future. 

@Blessing of Potency You are also really cool and confident, you are quite fabulous and lovely

@Doomstick you are so kind and cool!! We really need to get that civ 6 game to happen one of these days, *hisses at life stuff*

DARK you are lovely and kind to everyone! You got this friend!

TAKEN you are amazing and such a thinker! I love the way you are open to new ideas and I have enjoyed every conversation we've had, serious ones and regular ones. I like the way you really value the people around you, you value our opinions, our life, our feelings. You are so cool

CYNI you are amazing and kind!

@Vapor*HUGGSSS* I enjoy being around you and your wonderful personality

@Condensation you are fabulous and loving to everyone around you, I will never forget you were the first ever person I interacted with extensively on the shard, and it was when I realized this forum was really really pog. Thank you for being your amazingly kind and sweet you

@Nathrangking you are an amazing poet and writer, thank you for putting up with me for so long with our rp-ing adventures during my time in FotT, you are truly an inspiration and I learned a lot about poetry from you, thank you friend

@KyL I don't know if you'll ever see this, but you also taught me a lot about writing and invention, I enjoyed getting to know you through rp-ing adventures

also that never ending chess game will always be a special memory for me

@Emi you are amazing and wonderful! I love your quirky wonderful personality, and you are an amazing artist

PUNNY you are actually so hilarious, I aspire to reach that level of punning, but also I have enjoyed our interactions and hope to have more

@Spock I love your personality so much!! You have been a huge help on my twitch and discord, and great friend. You are so nice too, and I really truly enjoy being around you

@KnightofIron I have enjoyed our conversations, and you are also a caring and cool person who I've enjoyed talking too

@revelryintheart I've also enjoyed getting to know you, another person who introduced me to the kind culture of the Shard

@Hen You amazing friend, it's been a hot second, but I have also really enjoyed getting to know you as well, you incredibly kind and loving

Meta, Affie, Dannex, Jester, Flying, Twig, SuperiorCiderCan I've enjoyed y'all as well, you guys are all AMAZING and I literally love ALL of you. 

Reading this back I realize that a decent portion of this doesn't make sense and it's because I'm quite tired and the day after my shardiversery is over in about fifteen minutes, however I hope at the end of the day you all realize what amazing human beings you all are, and that I love you and every moment we've had

Also another thing that happened, fittingly today, is that I GOT A PUPPY AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

*dies in cuteness overload (for the third time, I think)*

Well, it's been a year, and I have loved every storming moment I've been on the Shard. This is my last thank you and it is to Chaos and all of the mods. This place couldn't exist without you, I never would have met all the wonderful people I've met here if y'all didn't make this amazing place, and also keep it safe and uphold the wonderful culture it has. Thank you so so so much, you have helped so many of us so much, and my thankfulness for this place will never end

Out of curiosity, when something is melon-flavored, what melon do you think of? Like, what's the "default" melon in your mind?

Who saw that they are making a Wheel of Time SERIES on AMAZON?! I haven’t even gotten halfway through the first book and I’m already pumped!!!!!!

Hi!!! It's my Shardiversary! Guess that means I get to tell a bunch of awesome people how much I love them! (Yes, it's numbered, but they are in no particular order. Except Fadran. He's eleventh, of course.)

1: @Vapor!!!! Happy birthday, you fabulous human!!!!!!!! Ain't it cool that my Shardiversary is on your birthday? Makes it easy for me to draw more attention to your awesomeness. EVERYONE BETTER WISH VAPOR A HAPPY BIRTHDAY CUZ SHE'S THE ABSOLUTE BESTEST AND SO WE GOTTA CELEBRATE THE DAY SHE CAME INTO THE WORLD BECAUSE SHE'S SO SCUDDING EPIC OKAY? OKAY. *HUGE BIRTHDAY HUGSSS*

2: @Mist!! I seriously have so much respect for you, you are SO COOL and amazing and you may or may not intimidate me a lot sometimes because you're SO FREAKING AWESOME

3: @Condensation!! Hi Connie!!!! You were one of my very first friends here and you're still one of my absolute best friends!!!! I love RPing and chatting with you!

4: @theTruthshaper!!! Truthie, I'm sure you know this, but I FREAKING LOVE YOU! Thanks for chatting with me from across the world when I'd stay up all night on the Shard after I first joined! You're seriously one of my favorite humans and bestest frens EVER

5: @Darkfinder!!! My other late-night, across the world fren!! You are so incredible and I seriously love you so scudding much!!!!

6: @Dannex!! Yet another late-night fren, but not quite across the world. Thanks for obsessing over Tuck Everlasting wth me :). Also, you'll always be Danex to me, no matter how many Ns you add to your username. I don't like those extra Ns...

7: @revelryintheart YOU ARE SO SCUDDING TALENTED IN SO MANY WAYS your drawing of Queen is absolutely one of my favorite arts OF ALL TIME and also you have an INCREDIBLE voice. Also thanks for obsessing over Daddy Long Legs with me :).

8: @Hentient why the scud were we not good friends sooner?? You are seriously so amazing and gorgeous and talented and you have a PHENOMENAL voice and I love you :).

9: @Doomstick Hi stick. How ya doin'? Good? Good. That's good.

10: @Emi hiiiiiiiiiiii!!!! I love you so so much! Your doodles are THE CUTEST THINGS EVER and I seriously love every second I spend chatting with you! *hugsssssssssss!*

11: @Channelknight Fadran there is SO MUCH I appreciate about you that I don't think you know. You are seriously my bestest fren EVER and honestly the main reason I didn't let myself not come back to the Shard. Sure, the RPing is great and I definitely wanted to keep doing that, but it was probably you that I missed the most. Is this getting too cheesy? Probably. I don't care.

More people that I absolutely love and am SO grateful for include, but are not limited to: @Nathrangking, @Zephrun's Imperium, @xinoehp512, @Scarletfox, @Spren of Kindness, @Flying, @JesterLavorre, @AFtermath (dunno your name on the Shard...or if you're actually on the Shard...), @Shard of Reading, @Mystic Syn, @Matrim's Dice, @LukeWasTaken, @AmazingGoob, @Spock, @MetaTerminal, @Knight of Iron, @The Awakened Salad, @Tesh (Thanks for screaming Hunchback songs with me), @AonEne, @Ed Venture (same as Affie...), @More Cynical Than Funny, @FriarFritz, @Truthless of Shinovar, @Rosharan A.C., @Chasmgoat, @Chinkoln, @Ghanderflaffle, and @Lunamor

I probably forgot a lot of people and that makes me feel terrible. If you expected to be mentioned but you  weren't, you probably were supposed to be mentioned and I'm a terrible idiot person.

I think it's very fitting that I happened to join the Shard on Independence Day cuz this place helped give me freedom. I was not exactly living my best life in quarantine and I was missing human interaction a lot, so it was incredible to find this fansite and find new amazing friends to talk to. So, thanks, guys!! Love you all!

(Also I won't see any responses until tomorrow because I gotta disappear immediately after I post this.)

About an hour and a half ago, my mom came home from B&N and handed me a copy of The Dark One.

Done.

Huh. Well that was interesting.

 

@Brandon Sanderson if you follow through with this I will TAKE ALL YOUR BOOKS AND BURN THEM AT THE STAKE.

https://www.polygon.com/fortnite/22457365/fortnite-mistborn-season-teaser-brandon-sanderson-cosmere

@Brandon Sanderson if you follow through with this I will TAKE ALL YOUR BOOKS AND BURN THEM AT THE STAKE.

https://www.polygon.com/fortnite/22457365/fortnite-mistborn-season-teaser-brandon-sanderson-cosmere

@Brandon Sanderson if you follow through with this I will TAKE ALL YOUR BOOKS AND BURN THEM AT THE STAKE.

https://www.polygon.com/fortnite/22457365/fortnite-mistborn-season-teaser-brandon-sanderson-cosmere

Thanks for the follow!

So, my Shardiversery is tomorrow, but tomorrow I'm probably going to be too busy freaking out about my AP world history test that's on Monday to write this, so I'm doing it now.

Over the last year, a lot has happened. I have made some really good friends on here through Discord, and a few other things. I discovered there was a really good chance I was on the autism spectrum (I still don't have a diagnosis, but we'll see what the future holds), and I realized the stress of life goes down tenfold if you don't have to worry about friendships you were single-handedly holding up. I started taking AP world history, as well as two other history classes, with the best teacher ever, and my view of the world has completely shifted. It's awesome, and I'd happily discuss anything from the Abbasid Caliphate to tsarist Russia to human rights with anyone who wants to join in that conversation. I also am now a proud Nerdfighter!

As I mentioned earlier, I got on Discord a while back, and through that, I got to know a lot of people. To all of you Discord people, you're all incredible. You're some of the most amazing human beings I know. Thank you all for putting up with all my weirdness.

And here are some notes to individual people. I apologize to everyone I forgot. There are too many awesome people on here to remember everyone off the top of my head. 

@The Awakened Salad You are such an awesome person, and such a good friend. I am so grateful for your willingness to talk about anything, and for being there for me. Long live The Awakened Salad Co! Also STAELSAHD! (We need to figure out the overlap between those two things...) 

@Channelknight Fadran It's been so great getting to know you over the last few months. In all honesty, when I first started seeing you around on Discord and stuff, you really didn't seem like the type of person I would really get along with, but now you get frequent Kaladin pictures and we're writing buddies, and I am so glad that I can call you a friend. 

@Hentient Hennnnnnnn! Thank you for sending me bird pictures! Toto is such a pretty little bird and she brightens my day like almost nothing else.

@FriarFritz Fritz, you are one of the kindest people I know. The world is so much the better for having you in it.

@Shard of Thought You are a fantastic human with incredible talent, and your drawing of Kaladin is still one of my favorite things ever.

@Knight of Iron Koi, keep on pulling teeth and being awesome. You're fantastic.  

@Chasmgoat I thoroughly appreciate your weirdness and just... You. Every conversation with you is fun.

@Flying Flying, you're also amazing. I'm so glad I've been able to get to know you better over the last few months.

@AonEne I remember back when you were a young child just getting involved in TUBA... Hehe. Ene, you're awesome. I don't know how you do it all. I mean... Being a mod and maintaining your sheer levels of awesomeness alone... 

@Emi Emi, you are such a talented artist, and everything you draw is amazing. Keep being awesome.

@Vapor You are an amazing person, and I'm so glad I've had the opportunity to get to know you. 

@Mist Mist, you are so kind, and it's always a pleasure to talk with you.

@Doomstick Thanks for talking about books and Nerdfighter stuff! I'm so glad I've had the opportunity to get to know you. DFTBA!

@DramaQueen Thank you for screaming Hunchback lyrics with me! It's always a ton of fun.

@Onimur It's so great that you joined the Shard! Thanks for joining this cult of weirdness.  

@S4S You are such a talented writer, and it's been such a joy to have the opportunity to rp with you for so long.

@theTruthshaper Truth, you're awesome. Thank you for always being willing to talk and just be awesome.

@JesterLavorre You are such a kind human, and I've thurougly enjoyed every conversation I've been able to have with you. Thanks you. 

Everyone in Knights of the Cosmere- You guys were my first friends on here, and, for the three-ish years that was going, it was a blast to rp with you all. Thanks for making the Shard awesome.

Everyone in Let's Go Find a Dragon- Thanks for making my really random rp a huge complex thingy with stuff I still can't remember! Thanks for keeping it going and keeping it fun. (If anyone wants to join, there's a link in my sig.)

And also I want to give a huge thank you to everyone I forgot, as well as everyone else. There are too many people to name, but you all are what makes the Shard the place that it is and I will forever be grateful to all of you for that. Thanks for being so willing to put up with me and my weirdness.

Also thanks to the mods for keeping this place going and keeping it great. None of this would have been possible without you guys.

Thanks again to everyone for being awesome!

 

This is a Skyward artwork I made based on my theory of delivers being deceased cytonics. It started out as a depiction my interpretation of Detritus’s surface. The three bright “stars” (actually delvers) represent Chaser, Gran Gran, and Spensa’s great grandmother. Yes, this is supposed to take place after Gran Gran dies 

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Here's a bunch of life updates because I haven't posted here in forever.

1st:

For my final project I had to interview a professional scientist. It was in a Zoom meeting and was with a marine biologist. This normally would be something fun and exciting. The problem is...I'M STORMING AWKWARD. I ran out of questions within five minutes and had no idea how to carry on the conversation. He was really nice about it though, but I'm looking over the video recordings and there's multiple parts that make me facepalm. I can already tell this is going to be something that haunts me for the next few weeks.

2nd:

A few days ago I posted a draft of a prologue I wrote to a writing feedback subreddit. I was kind of dared to do it by my friend, but I was like "Eh, whatever. Most posts don't get read unless they blow up; I'll just do this and see what happens." Anyways, it kind of became one of the top posts on the subreddit for a few days. That still meant that only 150 people read it, but... that seems like a lot. Especially because most posts only get 10 to 30 upvotes.

I wasn't expecting anything, but somehow I ended up with private messages from people telling me they enjoyed it and wanted more. I feel slightly bad because it was a random decision and I know I could've put more work into it, but I didn't actually think anyone would read it in the first place. So now I learned that there's an audience of people out there who want the rest of the story. I'm excited but also slightly terrified because most of my writing is just me being a weirdo and having absolutely no idea what I'm doing.

3rd: 

Uhh. My AP Lang test is tomorrow. I'm going to have to hand write three essays in two hours. Pray for my poor left hand because during the mock exam it was in PAIN 

I made a short test so you could see how much you are like Kaladin.

Because I am putting off doing homework.

https://forms.gle/PADCM99HFQzTKg8f8

Eleven million thanks to @Dannex, @Aspiring Writer, @Spren of Kindness, @Experience, @revelryintheart, @Emi, @Doomstick, @The Storming Stormfather!!!

Last year, when I turned 16, I posted a status update for my birthday and didn't get a single response. I didn't exactly expect any, but it was still kinda depressing.

And now here you guys are posting the statuses for me! Thanks a ton, guys!

I just remembered April is autism awareness month!

So... Happy autism awareness month!

Next month is mental health awareness month, and for the past few years I have been doing a post on May 1st about that, so I'll also post an update when I get that up.

I play chess. I consider myself pretty good at it. So I decided to do something cool. I sent a friend request to Magnus Carlsen. If you don't know who that is, he is the Chess World Champion. He is known to some as the greatest chess player to ever live.
Now, If he accepts this friend request, (which is more likely than you would think as some of his friends have low ELO ranking and are not very active), then I will challenge him to a match. I will put it on daily so we each have 1 day per turn. 
My goal is not to win, but merely to put him in check. I don't know if that's possible. but I want to be able to say that I played the World Chess Champion and put him in check. Because that would be epic.

I just really hope this works

Do you ever feel...........................like a plastic bag?

 

I'm sitting in the hallway of my school and it's lunch and this guy is walking past and he suddenly goes into this pose with a knee bent and his head slightly down and one hand tipping his hat like he's in a superhero movie and then someone asks "you good" and he goes "yeah" and flips around and does the pose in the other direction and then gets up and goes on his way like nothing happened 

Do I smell a Zelda fan?

Everyone needs to read The Body, by Stephen King. It's a short story.

No, it's not horror.

Yes, it's one of the best short stories I have ever read.

And you need to read it.

It's very relevant to my own personal situation (no, I'm not walking through the woods with some friends trying to find a body; it's relevant in other ways), but it also makes you think, and it's just... It's really good. 

You should all go and read it. You can probably just find it online.

I'm now off to go stare at a wall and try to go about the rest of my day.

One of my chickens just died. 
A neighborhood cat snuck into the coop and ripped its head off. 
I will be leaving the Shard, maybe permanently. Because of many reasons. Bye. I love y’all. 

Okay so

I'm going to be travelling to college tomorrow. And that's really exciting and really scary.

uhh...

I guess prayers please, if you pray?

Thanks!

I'm doing my science homework right now and...