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Mallory

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  1. Gonna go with the painfully obvious choice (and also the only one I can think of right now.) Shallan?
  2. As someone who was born blind, I just want to thank you for writing this letter. It provided some much-needed insight and really made me think. I haven't had much experience with Brandon's books beyond Stormlight, Elantris and a little bit of Mistborn, but I do think that, in general, it would be great to see more well written characters with disability. The tropes you mentioned are things I hadn't even realized were there, but I now realize that characters often get their disabilities healed or forgotten somehow, when that's usually not how it works. Disabilities shouldn't be something that people feel the need to apologize for, pity or try to fix/overcome in books, and they don't just magically go away, though I suppose it would make sense for this to happen in a place like Roshar. Still, I think disabilities should be handled in a better way, as things that we live with and that are a part of us, not things that must be fixed by the end of the book. I'm not saying disabilities don't suck, because they do. But they also shouldn't be something that people are desperate to change or erase. Oftentimes, I just want to be validated and treated normally, and it makes me feel guilty or embarrassed when people apologize or pray for me to be healed. This is just my "thing," and it's not anyone's responsibility to make it better. And in relation to the stereotypes you mentioned, I definitely agree that disabled people shouldn't constantly be portrayed as weak, villainous, tragic, or different in some way. I do understand that disabilities must be crazy hard to write (I can't even write blind characters...), so it's a mistake that I can understand. (Note that I am not speaking for anyone else but myself. I have no idea what most other people with disabilities are feeling; this is just my outlook and experience. I hope that I haven't offended anyone by saying these things, as that wasn't my intention at all.) Anyway, that stretched longer than I intended. Thank you so much for bringing up this point, I enjoyed reading it and I wish you the best.
  3. Welcome, welcome! Great to have you here.
  4. This made me smile, thank you! I love the details you put in, and the incorporating of the names was so clever.
  5. Because of the sacrificial Radiants, the bloodthirsty SanderFans went outside and tribal danced to screeching cries of being flipped.
  6. It almost sounds like Sarene to me but I could be wrong. I don't know what scene, I know I've read it somewhere though.
  7. Has someone already guessed Kaladin?
  8. Storms alight, this is a beautiful masterpiece. I especially loved the part about the 5th floor right side window precisely 3 feet above the- darn it! Anyway, I'm in desperate need of Shardbuddies and would love to be in your story, although I'm sure you won't have much trouble putting my name in lool, it's hardly complicated.
  9. This is beautiful, I love the Stormlight crossovers! I hope you continue this, I love the idea and I'm dying to know what comes next.
  10. @Scout_Fox It does! That's good to know.
  11. Oh gotcha, thanks. Welll I can't see a list so it could just be the restriction you mentioned or something else. But thanks for letting me know.
  12. Oh thanks, how do you do that?
  13. Ahhh you caught me lol. Well, hopefully I'm doing this right, let me know if this isn't how you play. @Scout_Fox on Two Truths and a Lie. (Ummm it didn't work for some reason lool, is there a certain format I have to use? Sorry!)
  14. Wellll... Lots of people have these, and I figured it would be nice for people to get to know me since I'm new, so here goes nothing! Ask me anything ridiculous, insightful or entirely random. Just don't ask how much time I spend reading Sanderson books, because you don't want to know...
  15. Oh my gosh, this is a genius idea and all of these are amazing. Here are a few ideas for those with the gift of poetry lool. I haven't read through this whole thing so apologies if they've already been mentioned. Once again, I'm loving all these parodies and I'm trying to think up one of my own, but for now here are my ideas: Seize The Day from Newsies, sung by Bridge Four; Speechless from Aladdin, sung by Jasnah or Shallan; Waving Through A Window from Dear Evan Hansen, sung by Renarin.
  16. Thanks so much, great to meet you
  17. Sorry, I use a Braille device so that could've caused it, sometimes it doesn't convert to print correctly.
  18. Sorry, that bold didn't work for some reason lol. Ignore
  19. Gotcha, thanks to both of you. I've been looking and the guilds seem like a blast, I'll brainstorm some ideas and hopefully create a character soon. Thanks for the advice.
  20. Okay, that makes sense! Well I might wait a little bit and get some more knowledge on the other worlds before I jump in. Thank you.
  21. Hey! I just had a quick question, hopefully this is the right place for it. So I've only read The Stormlight Archive and not the other Cosmere books, I'm hoping to start them soon but it might take me a while... Would it be best to make a character and join the RP after I read all the books (I'd be totally fine to wait), or would I be fine to start now without an understanding of the entire Cosmere? I've been reading the new players guide and from what I understand, there are separate guilds that you join, is that correct? Thank you so much!
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