Karger

So... It's my Shardversary! I've been here for two years already. Huh. 

I thought of utilizing the collision of my 999th post with my Shardversary to post an essay about my history with books in general and with Brandon's ones specifically, but I'm still unsure of where to put it. Until I come to a decision on that, I'll post this status update. I planned on doing it anyway.

So, umm, people use those to thank people they interacted with. And I can either copy them, or try to actually be creative for a change, and say something interesting. Like maybe asking some of you why you're still following me, or ramble about a random thing. Like what else I can do here, say.

Let's try both copying the concept and being creative, then!

I first joined here two years ago. It was in the middle of quarantine, I already read probably the whole published Cosmere, and my brother wannted me to stop bothering him with those stuff. I was congratulated by a couple of people, like @Honorless (among others who I'm too scared to tag/will tag later), who appears to go over introductions a lot, and is quite welcoming. Sadly, I didn't interact with him much besides that. Thanks for welcoming me, anyway! I was a little active in the Mistborn portion of the forum after that - I'm no theorizer like @Karger or @Frustration (why am I tagging people... I interacted with the former on a theory or two, and he also welcomed me here, while I didn't see the latter much on theories, actually), but I have a few ideas I like to share. Plus, I have a nice memory, which works best with random small tidbits from books. I also read the RoW preview chapters, and had a thing or two to say in its spoiler board.

By that time, I started commenting on Forum Games, too, apparently (The Person Below Me, to be specific), which got me invited to the 1000000th post celebration thread, and led to me getting involved in the Truthless dispute. Well, semi involved. I stated my opinions loud and clear, whether or not they had any point whatsoever. I could tag Experience here, but I already tagged too many people I hardly interacted with, so...

I did some stuff! Tried to get people to see my magic system, didn't work, tried to learn how to write from @Channelknight Fadran and how not to from Frustration - can't say how much it helped. Anyway, the RightingWrite with Fadran thread was nice, though most of my interaction with him sums up to the RP I was in with him. That one started during Ookla season, and would've been confusing, though I think I recognized some of the players that I knew in their original names, like @Condensation, and probably Fadran. It was @Tesh's own LGFaD RP, and playing it was... Amazing. Thank you for that, Tesh, it was great RPing, worldbuilding and generally discussing with you. It was there I met awesome people like @Knight of Iron, @JesterLavorre, @The Awakened Salad, and more, who I sadly didn't interact with much. I enjoyed turning the world of the RP to a near-apocalypse world with Knight (I mean, we all helped, but I blame Knight for adding the whole cataclysm part. He can't disprove it!), building the Ideal Realm stuff with both him and Jester (and getting on Knight's nerves sometimes, too, with illogical ideas). And Salad and Tesh... They were the Dragons enthusiastics. They helped in building the world, and were extremely excited on everything dragon-related. As anyone should be. At the same time I joined the Socially Awkward Bookworms cult club, and the Vampire one. I enjoyed interacting with people there, and if I don't tag them it's because there are a lot, and I... Don't really remember everyone. Sorry!

Around this time, I think, it was that I started discussing with @Ixthos about religion. It was a great conversation that's still ongoing, in it's own way. It also includes more people now - I'm happy to see a religious discussion thread, I started in PMs due to a fear of... Uncivilized discussion. Which it did not! In that respect (you could say), I enjoyed interacting with @Nathrangking, @Silva and @Kingsdaughter613, three more Jews I got to know here. אני שמח שיצא לי להכיר אתכם! ולהטריל אנשים כאן עם עברית באמצע פיסקה... סליחה שניצלתי אתכם ככה. It was nice to also RP with Kingsdaughter in @Random Bystander's RP! (Welcome back, BTW. I know I welcomed you already but still.) I played there with a handful of other people - like @Goob (who is still amazing, even without it staying in his nickname), @The Unknown Novel (who has another name back then, and I didn't really interact with, but hopefully I'll get to know better in the RP we currently play together) and more! The RP idea was amazing, it's a bit sad that it died though.

Moving on, and I realize I forgot to mention my crew! It was nice while it lasted, claiming that there are nine colors in the rainbow, discussing the Secret Evil Fantasy Book Mafia with @Tacitus, @Bearer of all agonies (where is he nowadays, anyway?) And a handful of people I already mentioned. I interact with a small circle of people, apparently. Unsurprising.

I can try and keep following the timeline, but it's already getting to Discord interactions and I can't really keep up; I could maybe go back in time to observe, I'm sure @theTruthshaper will agree that all systems allow that (worse case scenario, I see a slightly alternate universe. The timeline will be similar enough, I'm sure). Sadly, I don't have a time machine, so I'll have to just keep going; mention @AonEne, the mod I never found intimidating and that I find even less so after interacting with her and listening to the Magnus Archives due to her reccomendation; @Ed Venture, who is an amazing and nice person who I mostly interacted with on Discord; @Elf who I interacted with on Discord and still failed to explain why she is following me; @Flying, who I failed to mention earlier but writes great stories that I, sadly, didn't read enough of yet; Tesh again, to mention her pushing everyone to listen to songs from, and watch, the musical Hadestown, for great conversations, for amazing stories and starting the Sharder Writing group, and for being surprisingly social for a Socially Awkward Bookworm; @DramaQueen for musical recommendations (I didn't know that Daddy Long Legs has a musical/or Shelly was a poet...) and for (apparently) welcoming me here; @Emery the Steelrunner, Knight of Iron, the Unknown Novel, Channelknight Fadran, DramaQueen, JesterLavorre, @Isabelle6060, Random Bystander, @NerdyAarakocra, @Eluvianii and maybe someone else I forget with whom I currently RP; and all of you in general, who found a reason to want to visit my profile, for some reason. It's probably because I've tagged you. sorry for that. Also, I may have forgotten some people or didn't find a point to mention them. Sorry for that, if you'll remind me I may add a sentence or two for you.

Well. That was a wall of text. Hopefully it was enough to overshadow my following anouncement: I'm going to go abroad for the first time in my life next week, to France, with the rest of my family. I had... reasons not to want to go before, but I decided to go in the end. So, yay!

Thank you for reading, and have a good afternoon/evening/night/morning/day/whatever portion of the day you're at while reading this!

Yours, loyally (it's a figure of speech, don't take it literally),

Trutharchivist/TA/Arch/Ookla the Questioning (I still own that name! It's not Ookla season only).

Hey everyone! I'm New. 

Well, ladies and gentlemen, here we are. Today is my 2 year Shardiversary! 2 years since I finally threw myself into this community, and I don't know if I've ever made a better decision in my internet life. While he won't see this for the next year and a half, I want to thank @Firerust, for basically pestering me into signing up for the Shard, and for just being an all around good friend to me. Since this is a momentous occasion, I wanted to highlight some threads, that have really stood out to me.

First things first: The Knights Next Door. My goodness this thread is a fun time when we set our minds to actually RP'ing. I want to thank everybody involved for helping to make it the fun RP that it is. I feel like writing James Freeman has helped me improve my prose skills, which is awesome.

The Cosmere Roast Battle Tournament: Gosh, this thread really had traction for a while there didn't it? While it has slowed down significantly to near-death recently, this thread was so much fun to participate in, even if I never made it past the first round ever.

Sanderson Memes: This thread is ubiquitous, and I love it,  so much so that I panicked when it disappeared for a while a couple months back. It's always a good laugh to see the memes there.

The Borio Singaldi Writing Anthology: Writing a couple of stories for this one was an absolute blast, and really helped me work out my short form writing style, and for the utter absurdity of it all.

(Note: this was supposed to go up yesterday, but I've been somewhat ill and forgot to post it)

Are you ever going to come back to TKND? 

Are you ever going to come back to TKND? 

Lurking?

11 minutes ago, Ookla the Prolific said:

What was Queen Fen told by Honor's voice at the end of the first vision Dalinar showed her?

Do we know this for certain? I was not able to find confirmation.

11 minutes ago, Ookla the Prolific said:

What was Queen Fen told by Honor's voice at the end of the first vision Dalinar showed her?

Do we know this for certain? I was not able to find confirmation.

11 minutes ago, Ookla the Prolific said:

What was Queen Fen told by Honor's voice at the end of the first vision Dalinar showed her?

Do we know this for certain? I was not able to find confirmation.

11 minutes ago, Ookla the Prolific said:

What was Queen Fen told by Honor's voice at the end of the first vision Dalinar showed her?

Do we know this for certain? I was not able to find confirmation.

(this may seem a little random, but I applaud you for it)

@Karger, as of September 29, 2019, you have 3,186 posts. That means that you have an average of 14 posts A DAY.

That's the sign of a true SanderFan.

On 9/23/2019 at 6:26 PM, chef_inspector said:

Does the Set have a practical use for silver that has been 'spent' repelling Threnody's shades or reversing withering?

The set is on Threnody?

15 minutes ago, Hakedohn said:

a question I have had for a while is about lifts gift for investiture. In my reading of SLA and edgedancer, I think lifts ability to convert food into investiture as a wonder gift with alot of distinct advantages ( For example, having access to her powers when there is not an available source of investiture . However, am I correct in assuming that it would also dramatically limit the level of investiture mastery she will be able to achieve. It seems that the level of investiture she is granted by eating is dramatically less than that of other Radiants. 

Why do you think that it is less?  We have seen her grow trees and heal large groups of people and slide around for hours.

15 minutes ago, Hakedohn said:

a question I have had for a while is about lifts gift for investiture. In my reading of SLA and edgedancer, I think lifts ability to convert food into investiture as a wonder gift with alot of distinct advantages ( For example, having access to her powers when there is not an available source of investiture . However, am I correct in assuming that it would also dramatically limit the level of investiture mastery she will be able to achieve. It seems that the level of investiture she is granted by eating is dramatically less than that of other Radiants. 

Why do you think that it is less?  We have seen her grow trees and heal large groups of people and slide around for hours.

Yay!! I reached darkeyes level.

Actually I'm brown-eyed anyway, so...

...perhaps this is as far as I'll get in life 

does obeisance to the lighteyes around me