danex

dont mind me just reading oathbringer again and sobbing

i love dalinar so much

so we do a lot of fancasts on this website

like what actor you want to play what character 

but what if we did the reverse?

congratulations, you just got cast in the cosmere adaptation of your choice. What character are you playing and why?

I don’t think i could take any of the main roles. it’s too much pressure and i’m not a good enough actor. i could be a good bridge 4 guy i think. just like a Scar or a Drehy. nobody super unique like Rock or Lopen but still a named member.

the arrogant part of me thinks i’d be a good Hoid. Specifically on Roshar as Wit. i’m definitely knowledgeable enough in the cosmere lol. i think i could strike that balance between “goofy silly little guy” and “insanely somber powerful being of old” pretty well. And while he’s an important character, he’s never a focal character, so i wouldn’t be in the spotlight that much. 

how hard do you think it would be to buy the rights to a cosmere property myself

like if i choose a niche medium and a smaller property, could I convince brandon to let me buy the rights

like what if i try to by the videogame rights to 6th of the Dusk or something

and then i just make like a tiny fishing minigame but it’s officially licensed for no reason

When is brandon going to realize that he can just crowdfund a movie. 

like he made 41 million dollars from the year of sanderson kickstarter alone, and another 23 million from the WoR leatherbound. 64 million dollars for relatively small products.

The LOTR trilogy cost 514 million dollars, adjusted for inflation. That’s not that much more.

Okay sure it’s about 10x as much, but the fandom would be WAY more excited about getting a movie than about the Year of Sanderson. Probably around 10x as excited, by my estimation.

And then Brandon would have COMPLETE creative control. It’s the perfect solution. 

hatsune miku is an honorspren

thats it

that's the post

Do you ever just randomly find a work of art that moves you in a surprisingly deep way

I've been staring at this for like 3 hours

Just a random image found while searching for visual aids for my dnd campaign

inspired me to add an entirely new plot thread.

Anyone have any unique ideas for a cursed weapon

i feel like everything's been done before

in a dnd campaign that im running, i just had a player find a cult hideout, where they picked up a sickle covered in blood that they found lying on an altar.

so like naturally this is gonna be some kind of cursed blade

but i dont actually know what it's effects are gonna be yet

any ideas? all the obvious stuff has been done a million times, "steals its user's life force" and "drives the holder to a murderous rampage" are a bit well worn at this point

631

the numbers mason

what do they mean

So I have been using tumblr a little bit.
as a shard alternative since this place broke.

and it kinda sucks for a multitude of reasons

but i came here today to complain about one thing in particular

CosmereTumblr doesn't care about spoilers at ALL

it makes me so PISSED

like the website is literally built around TAGS. "Tagging" things is the core that the whole site is built around.

and people DONT TAG SPOILERS

saw someone post the most climactic moment of TLM, literally the very end of the book and the very end of the TRILOGY

and there were ZERO spoiler tags. but it was worse than that, they tagged it #cosmere and #brandon_sanderson. The most GENERIC TAGS POSSIBLE FOR COSMERE FANS ON TUMBLR. Someone just getting into the series could be looking through that tag, and just get hit with the very end of a book or a major character death. its terrible. 

i miss this place so much somebody get them to fix notifications so i can come back

Nobody sees these anymore but *things* have been happening with the minecraft server so figured I'd update y'all.

So remember how I said we'd be resetting the server in July
that
did not happen

So long story short, but our server hosting provider, Minehut, absolutely messed up and deleted our server, with our only backup being from over a month ago. Nobody wanted to redo an entire month of work, so we started Sharders Season 1.5.

Brand new world, much more polished serverside, cool discord integrations now, its nice. A world download is available for Season 1 in our discord too, if you're just curious what we've been up to.

So if you want to join a brand new SMP, check it out, now's the time. We're gonna be adding plugins and datapacks and stuff and just generally have fun with this. Season 2 is still scheduled for minecraft 1.21, so this isn't gonna be a super longstanding world. Or maybe we keep this world and just update, not sure yet. 

Gotta verify your account in the Discord now, join here: https://discord.gg/w5444SzaXd
And ofc the server IP is still:  sharders.minehut.gg

todays date reads like how i count 5/4 measures

Notifications are broken, site is unusable, prob not gonna be here much anymore except for actual brandon sanderson conversation. i just can't use it as a "social" platform anymore it just doesn't work. 

add me on discord if you wanna stay in touch ig

might go back to using my tumblr (ew cringe) for when i have the "gotta make a status update" thought 

so if you've ever liked any of my quote unquote "poetry" posts or mindless rambles maybe go find me over there idk

i have not gotten a single notification from this website in over a week

Art is Divine.

I do not care what religion you believe in, or if you are religious at all. Art is Divine. Or let me say, Art itself is Divinity. Outside of any other religious mental framework. 

The Act of Creation, in all its forms, is the most noble and glorious thing one can do in this life. 

When you create, you are violating one of the most basic laws of this universe. Taking raw materials and ending up with something more complex than its parts. That's decreasing entropy. Now that's not entirely true, 2nd law of thermodynamics and all that, but in at least a local and not quite literal sense, in that limited system, entropy is decreasing. Complexity arising from simplicity is the most unnatural thing in this universe, and the single most natural thing to humanity. It is ingrained in our deepest instincts to dance and sing and love and create. 

Life itself follows this pattern. Procreation is the exact same thing. Taking raw matter, bunches of atoms, and giving way to consciousness. Do you realize how insane that is? Matter becoming self-aware. In a universe where entropy is meant to increase. Human Consciousness is the single biggest mystery in the entire universe. How are we? Literally? Conscious beings seem to be contrary to every natural physical law, even more than simple biologics already are. 

So we have a group of self-aware monkeys that suddenly popped up on some small planet in some small system in some small corner of the universe, defying entropy by their very existence. And what do they do? They actively defy it even more. We draw and write and compose and paint and sculpt and build and farm and plan and love. Organizing matter into something more complex than its parts is the single most human thing you can do. We create art because we are art. We are complexities creating complexities. Monkey see monkey do. Heh.

It's more than defying physical entropy, we go even further and defy informational entropy too. We give art meaning. The curtains aren't just blue. We try to give our art the same consciousness we have. We create worlds and people. Self-aware beings with no self. 

Are you seeing the pattern yet???? The glory???? The divinity?????

Creations creating creations creating creations. Attempts at eternity in a definitively temporary universe. Finding meaning in the meaning that we are.

I'm lost in the sauce. I don't think I'm making sense any more.
but i am making. and that's the whole point. that's the whole. point.

Just gonna end with this: 

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Make your words fork lightning friends. 

Art is frustrating

One of my core philosophies that I try to live by is that "Art has intrinsic value". Which sounds obvious until you notice that art is nearly exclusively valued proportionally to the amount of attention it receives. The idea that "Art seen only by the artist is just as valuable as art seen by millions" is really rather idealistic. But that's okay because it's my ideal. Ideals are allowed to be idealistic aren't they?

The hard part is staying true to that ideal. Finding the motivation to create when you know nobody else is going to appreciate it is so difficult. The idea that "value = attention" is so corruptly ingrained into me (and probably you all too) that making art exclusively for myself feels like a waste. But it isn't. At least that's what I try to convince myself every day. 

“i want to become a content creator so i can be rich!”

“i want to become a content creator so i can be famous!”

”i want to become a content creator so i can play videogames for my job!”

weak. 

i want to become a content creator so i have an excuse to do a merch drop and make an irl dannex puffball plushie. 

just found out theres a 12 year old 17th Shard steam group

cool

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the word truly should be spelled truely and this is a wrong opinion but it is mine and i stand by it

Y'all know the minecraft server I run

you should, i'm plugging it all the time

well if you'd ever thought about joining it, now would be the time.

we're exactly halfway through the server's lifespan. I started it 233 days ago, and I'll be rebooting it in roughly 233 days on a brand new world for the new update. So if you join now, you can still say you experienced a majority of the entire server lifespan.

You should all join at least once, just to take a look around. we've got some insanely talented builders over here and they need to be appreciated more <3

just got a new phone

tell me what i should set my wallpaper to, and i’ll take all the replies and put them in a rotating playlist

I would like yalls thoughts on this question that our resident channelknight posed to me in DMs earlier 

A single star destroyer from the galactic empire at its peak suddenly appears in orbit around earth, with the intent to occupy the planet for the empire. Can the united forces of earth defeat it?

If you think we can defeat one, what about 2? how many of the empire’s forces can we withstand?

the empire’s goal here is occupation, not annihilation, so no need to worry about a death star or anything. 

heres a thing I made a thing last week and forgot to share it

its basically a really complicated pair of dice. and it took like 6 hours. but i think its cool so there.

its a writing prompt generator based on inktober, coded in python.

here's the .exe i threw together with pyinstaller. it'll probably give you a bunch of security warnings because its a brand new file that nobody has ever downloaded before and also i dont know how to do proper signature handling. but i promise its not malware.

inkprompt.exe

and if you don't like downloading things, here's the entire source code, if you know how python works you can just copy and paste and run it yourself:

import random

ink16 = ['Fast', 'Noisy', 'Collect', 'Hungry', 'Sad', 'Hidden', 'Lost', 'Rock', 'Broken', 'Jump', 'Transport', 'Worried', 'Scared', 'Tree', 'Relax', 'Wet', 'Battle', 'Escape', 'Flight', 'Squeeze', 'Big', 'Little', 'Slow', 'Onedozen', 'Tired', 'Box', 'Creepy', 'Burn', 'Surprise', 'Wreck', 'Friend']
ink17 = ['Swift', 'Divided', 'Poison', 'Underwater', 'Long', 'Sword', 'Shy', 'Crooked', 'Screech', 'Gigantic', 'Run', 'Shattered', 'Teeming', 'Fierce', 'Mysterious', 'Fat', 'Graceful', 'Filthy', 'Cloud', 'Deep', 'Furious', 'Trail', 'Juicy', 'Blind', 'Ship', 'Squeak', 'Climb', 'Fall', 'United', 'Found', 'Mask']
ink18 = ['Poisonous', 'Tranquil', 'Roasted', 'Spell', 'Chicken', 'Drooling', 'Exhausted', 'Star', 'Precious', 'Flowing', 'Cruel', 'Whale', 'Guarded', 'Clock', 'Weak', 'Angular', 'Swollen', 'Bottle', 'Scorched', 'Breakable', 'Drain', 'Expensive', 'Muddy', 'Chop', 'Prickly', 'Stretch', 'Thunder', 'Gift', 'Double', 'Jolt', 'Slice']
ink19 = ['Ring', 'Mindless', 'Bait', 'Freeze', 'Build', 'Husky', 'Enchanted', 'Frail', 'Swing', 'Pattern', 'Snow', 'Dragon', 'Ash', 'Overgrown', 'Legend', 'Wild', 'Ornament', 'Misfit', 'Sling', 'Tread', 'Treasure', 'Ghost', 'Ancient', 'Dizzy', 'Tasty', 'Dark', 'Coat', 'Ride', 'Injured', 'Catch', 'Ripe']
ink20 = ['Fish', 'Wisp', 'Bulky', 'Radio', 'Blade', 'Rodent', 'Fancy', 'Teeth', 'Throw', 'Hope', 'Disgusting', 'Slippery', 'Dune', 'Armor', 'Outpost', 'Rocket', 'Storm', 'Trap', 'Dizzy', 'Coral', 'Sleep', 'Chef', 'Rip', 'Dig', 'Buddy', 'Hide', 'Music', 'Float', 'Shoes', 'Ominous', 'Crawl']
ink21 = ['Crystal', 'Suit', 'Vessel', 'Knot', 'Raven', 'Spirit', 'Fan', 'Watch', 'Pressure', 'Pick', 'Sour', 'Stuck', 'Roof', 'Tick', 'Helmet', 'Compass', 'Collide', 'Moon', 'Loop', 'Sprout', 'Fuzzy', 'Open', 'Leak', 'Extinct', 'Splat', 'Connect', 'Spark', 'Crispy', 'Patch', 'Slither', 'Risk']
ink22 = ['Gargoyle', 'Scurry', 'Bat', 'Scallop', 'Flame', 'Bouquet', 'Trip', 'Match', 'Nest', 'Crabby', 'Eagle', 'Forget', 'Kind', 'Empty', 'Armadillo', 'Fowl', 'Salty', 'Scrape', 'Ponytail', 'Bluff', 'Bad Dog', 'Heist', 'Booger', 'Fairy', 'Tempting', 'Ego', 'Snack', 'Camping', 'Uh-oh', 'Gear', 'Farm']
ink23 = ['Spiders', 'Dream', 'Path', 'Dodge', 'Map', 'Golden', 'Drip', 'Toad', 'Bounce', 'Fortune', 'Wander', 'Spicey', 'Rise', 'Castle', 'Dagger', 'Angel', 'Demon', 'Saddle', 'Plump', 'Frost', 'Chains', 'Scratchy', 'Celestial', 'Shallow', 'Dangerous', 'Remove', 'Beast', 'Sparkle', 'Massive', 'Rush', 'Fire']

all_inks = [ink16, ink17, ink18, ink19, ink20, ink21, ink22, ink23]
#all of this just to remove the one duplicate word:
mega_ink = []
for prompt_list in all_inks:
    for prompt in prompt_list:
        if prompt not in mega_ink:
            mega_ink.append(prompt)
        
#these 3 functions were just used during development and I figured I'd leave them in:
def make_list(string):
    string = str(string)
    list = string.split()
    final_list = []
    for i in list:
        final_list.append(i.title())
    return final_list

def test_length():
    for prompt_list in all_inks:
        if len(prompt_list) == 31:
            print('passed.')
        else:
            print('failed.')

def test_unique():
    all_prompts = []
    duplicate_prompts = []
    for prompt_list in all_inks:
        for prompt in prompt_list:
            if prompt not in all_prompts:
                all_prompts.append(prompt)
            else:
                duplicate_prompts.append(prompt)

    for dupe in duplicate_prompts:
        original_list = None
        duplicates_present=  []
        for prompt_list in all_inks:
            if dupe in prompt_list:
                if original_list is None:
                    original_list = all_inks.index(prompt_list) + 1
                else:
                    duplicates_present.append(all_inks.index(prompt_list) + 1)
        print(f'{dupe} is present multiple times. The original is in list {original_list}, and the duplicates are present in list(s) {duplicates_present}.')


#actual program starts here:
def random_writing_prompt_by_day(number_of_prompts, day_of_month):
    day_index = day_of_month - 1
    included_lists = random.sample(all_inks, number_of_prompts)
    final_prompt = ''
    for list in included_lists:
        final_prompt += list[day_index] + ' + '
    return(f'Your prompt is: {final_prompt.rstrip(" + ")}.')

def random_writing_prompt_same_list(inktober_year, number_of_prompts):
    inktober_year_list = [2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023]
    prompt_list_index = inktober_year_list.index(inktober_year)
    prompt_list = all_inks[prompt_list_index]
    prompts = random.sample(prompt_list, number_of_prompts)
    final_prompt = ''
    for prompt in prompts:
        final_prompt += prompt + ' + '
    return(f'Your prompt is: {final_prompt.rstrip(" + ")}.')

def random_writing_prompt_mega_list(number_of_prompts):
    prompts = random.sample(mega_ink, number_of_prompts)
    final_prompt = ''
    for prompt in prompts:
        final_prompt += prompt + ' + '
    return(f'Your prompt is: {final_prompt.rstrip(" + ")}.')


def main():
    running = True
    print('''
Welcome to Dannnnnex's Inktober Writing Prompt Assembler Thing™!
The idea behind this program is that drawing is stupid and writing is fun and I want to participate in Inktober.
However, the one-word inktober prompts aren't really specific enough to make a good writing prompt.
So I simply decided to spend a few hours coding a program to randomly assemble a more detailed prompt by combining Inktober prompts together.
If I only used the current year however, I'd obviously run out of words. So this program uses prompts from EVERY Inktober, 2016-2023, all 8 lists.
''')
    while running == True:
        print('''
To start off, we've gotta choose how to assemble your prompt. You can do it in one of 3 ways:
    1. Input the current day of the month, and your prompt will be randomly assembled from the different list's prompts for this day.
    2. Choose the year of the prompt list you want (or leave it random), and your prompt will be assembled randomly from that list.
    3. Your prompt will be randomly assembled from a pool of every single Inktober prompt.
''')
        while True:
            try:
                menu_input = int(input('>> '))
                if menu_input in (1, 2, 3):
                    break
            except:
                pass
            print("\nEnter a valid menu option (1-3).")
        
        if menu_input == 1:
            number_of_prompts = None
            print('\nChoose how long you\'d like your prompt to be. (1-8)')
            while True:
                try:
                    number_of_prompts = int(input('>> '))
                    if number_of_prompts in range(1,9):
                        break
                except:
                    pass
                print('\nYour prompt must be 1-8 words in length, as there are currently 8 Inktober prompt lists. Please try again.')
            day_of_inktober = None
            print('\nAlright, what day of October would you like to generate your prompt for? (1-31)')
            while True:
                try:
                    day_of_inktober = int(input('>> '))
                    if day_of_inktober in range(1,32):
                        break
                except:
                    pass
                print('\nThere are 31 days in October. Please try again.')
            print(random_writing_prompt_by_day(number_of_prompts, day_of_inktober))

        elif menu_input == 2:
            number_of_prompts = None
            print('\nChoose how long you\'d like your prompt to be. (1-31)')
            while True:
                try:
                    number_of_prompts = int(input('>> '))
                    if number_of_prompts in range(1,32):
                        break
                except:
                    pass
                print('\nYour prompt must be 1-31 words in length, since each Inktober prompt list only has 31 words. Please try again.')
            selected_year = None
            print('\nOkay, now choose an Inktober Year. (2016-2023)')
            while True:
                try:
                    selected_year = int(input('>> '))
                    if selected_year in range(2016,2024):
                        break
                except:
                    pass
                print('\nYou must select a year between 2016 and 2023, since those are the years with existing Inktober Prompt Lists.')
            print(random_writing_prompt_same_list(selected_year, number_of_prompts))


        elif menu_input == 3:
            number_of_prompts = None
            print('\nChoose how long you\'d like your prompt to be. (1-247)')
            while True:
                try:
                    number_of_prompts = int(input('>> '))
                    if number_of_prompts in range(1,248):
                        break
                except:
                    pass
                print('\nYour prompt must be 1-247 words in length, since there are only 247 total Inktober prompts in existence. Please try again.')
            print(random_writing_prompt_mega_list(number_of_prompts))

        another = None
        print('\nCreate another prompt?')
        while True:
            another = input('>> ')
            if another.lower() in ('y', 'n'):
                break
            else:
                print('\nPlease enter either \'y\' or \'n\'.')
        if another.lower() == 'y':
            running = True
        elif another.lower() == 'n':
            running = False
            print('Thanks for using!')    

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()
    

anyway, do you know the one single inktober prompt across all 8 lists that has been repeated? because I do now. 

THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Dannex Alert System. The purpose is to maintain and improve alert and warning capabilities at the danex, dannex, dannnex, dannnnex and dannnnnnex levels and to evaluate the nation’s public alert and warning capabilities. No action is required by the public. 

hello i posted a Brandon-related topic for the first time in literally forever you should check it out

spoilers for SP4 and also just the entire Cosmere

link: