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We have different definitions of plot I remember that lol (as do we, soul-of-the-moon ) NO GO BACK IN THE CREEPY CORNER OF MY HEAD *calmly finishes wrestling the eyes back into their place* You could always have asked us. Though I should note that the plot is relatively minor in there, it’s mostly character interaction, yum. Whenever I read realistic fiction, it’s something that I can’t experience myself, like someone who tried to commit suicide or a transgender person or something. And something like this I don’t consider reality much at all, since there’s magic and stuff. But of course it’s fine if you just didn’t like the setting, happens to everyone sometimes! At least now you don’t have to go through the OOC debacle...

*stops shipping* TLPW has it occasionally too

Cause it was irrelevant to the meme all it is is the rest of an intro post and the date, basically. Nothing weird.

Other people have RPed it, you should be fine using Division.

DND podcast that Archer, Lith, Per, and Eluvianii like? Well that’s enough of a recommendation for me. I’ll add it to the increasingly long list of things I must watch.

“Oh,” Myriad said, surprised. “Sure.” She’d been behind on all the wonderful discoveries so far; one of the last to enter the mushroom cave, sitting aimlessly while the worm rampaged. If she was going to find interesting things for the Scholar’s Guild and learn about the world, she had to step up her game.

“Well, I won’t be able to do that,” Cassie said with a chuckle.

How much do I read into this?

Kaladin

Please don’t strike me down for double-posting! I have a good reason! Edit for clarification - these forums gave out cake to newcomers as a tradition.

Uh...Pillage, Obert Skye? Edit: No, Menagerie by Tui T. Sutherland

*recreates endless cycle out of Luna breaking the previous endless cycle and throwing cookie dough at her* (Also, *eats cookie dough*)

Cassie tried a sample and handed the bag back, savoring the bite of cake. “You are scarily good at this,” she said when she had swallowed, pointing at Leona. “And...” Her earlier thoughts returned to her: why do something when she knew she wouldn’t be good at it? She had tried baking once or twice as a kid and not found much pleasure in it. There was no reason to waste her time. But she’d never done it with someone else before. And she’d never tried to bake a cake. And this was later on in her life. And...wasn’t being a Willshaper about trying new things? Continuing forward into new places, even when the quest seemed doomed? “Sure, thanks. That’d be fun.”

*wins by nuking Llstml as they are distracted by winning by stabbing Salad in the back while they are distracted by winning while everyone else is distracted by the competition*

Closer to the truth than I thought it’d be, lol This repeats several times; it’s not wrong. ...unexpected. Summer is back?! The AI went simple. (Po, she’s getting meta on me) @Blessing of Potency

You're fine, I'm just bantering! We can make it war if you want.

This is a peaceful discussion among friends

Clearly I'm the winner here.

Karata My guess is Kelsier.

You know it

Well, thank the Shards for that. You guys sound like me trying to get people to watch RWBY

Which one is that?

Thank goodness, because if he’d actually tried to seriously write that the shipper in me would’ve had to rebel. Yep, I keep hearing I’ve just gotta Stick it out. (YKYASW you’re typing something completely unrelated and your autocorrect won’t stop capitalizing Stick XD) I haven’t touched EOTW in months though, there’s so much better content that I actually want to read...

“Sure, I’ll try some,” Cassie said amiably, trying to hide the fact that she didn’t know what half those terms were. Seeing the cake, she let out an involuntary Wow; it was huge and complicated and purely awesome. “That is huge and complicated and purely awesome,” she whispered to Leona. Her eyes flitted up to the top of the cake, automatically expecting to see Joy inspecting the decorations, but she wasn’t there.

Yeah, basically this. The pacing sucks, making everything boring to read. There’s nothing hooking me, nothing making me interested in the story, nothing making me care if the characters live or die. The worldbuilding is never explained - people say Sanderson has a sharp learning curve, but his was fine. You learn names and stuff, the narration gives you explanations without it seeming like an infodump or too sparse; meanwhile Robert Jordan just throws names and stuff at you and expects you to understand and care. The characters aren’t characterized well, nobody has any depth to them except maybe Moriaine (might’ve spelled her wrong) and what’s-her-face the village leader lady. Even they aren’t written very well. Rand’s crush on Egwene is, so far, a joke; I have seen literally zero bonding moments between the two of them, they either vaguely agonize over the other’s safety or are blushing, embarrassed about an interest that seems to be based on nothing, since they don’t think about what they like about each other. I think Rand admires her beauty at one point, but that being the only thing I can think of is not good. There is one moment when he worries about her becoming an Aes Sedai, but it read like a shallow worry that wasn’t much dwelled on. I could sum up the plot in two sentences, and I’m like halfway through the book. That is a bad sign. The dream attacks aren’t explained well and also came out of nowhere. Mat is a whiny jerk who either is easily completely wiped out by a spell on a knife or has a personality that’s a mixture between actual bully and uncaring fool. There wasn’t much character depth or development given to Thom, except for a haphazard paragraph thrown in five minutes before his death, which is laughably unclear because RJ doesn’t know how to do drama, I guess. Also his old-timey writing style annoys me, I don’t like those. RJ was also writing way too many main characters way too quickly; it can be done well, but this is not a good example of it. There are long breaks before you see any set of characters again, while the plot still somehow doesn’t progress on either end. I was ecstatic when Perrin and Egwene were captured, because it was an actual change of pace from “everyone runs around the wild, some people pass through cities that are all the same, nothing much happens”, which had been going on for way too long - but then of course we instantly go back to more of the same. (I don’t think I’ve gotten back to P&E yet, sadly. Their viewpoints were mildly more interesting than the rest, and I could see a ship between them more than Rand and Egwene. Also wolf telepathy.) I can’t think of many creative or unique characters, maybe Perrin and what’s-her-face, who deny their magic. And all that’s just off the top of my head. Edit: Sorry my opinions are so all over the place and discordant, I just wrote as I thought of it.