Argent

I also feel like there is a difference between relating subjects in Brandon's works to historical events vs. contemporary ones. It's much harder to make both an informed and objective claim about something that's currently going on, or has happened in recent history, which makes it easier for tensions to flare up.

Ah, it hasn't been quite 10 years for me because I didn't immediately jump ship from TWG. If memory serves, I didn't make the transition to 17S until TWG announced that it would shut down (or maybe that the Brandon section will shut down? or will move here? I don't remember the ancient days very well), but I am sitting pretty at just over 9 years on the Shard - even I wasn't super active during the early ones, and even if I am not super active right now (though I mostly make up for it a little bit with Discord and Shardcast!). I feel like my favorite memories tend to revolve less around this community and more about my interactions with Brandon at signings - and then around my interactions with the community. I think I started gathering steam... a little before the Steelheart release? It established a tradition of me workshopping the questions I would bring to the signing, something I keep up with (mostly) to this day. Oh, and I participated in the Steelhunt - does anyone remember that? It was great community fun. But yeah, that's around that time I started getting more engaged in theory work, contributing, poking holes, coming up with my own, and asking questions. It helped that I got a lot of Brandon time during some of his earlier Chicago signings; didn't quite have him all for myself, but I feel like some of those signings had fewer than 200 people. Oh, how nice those were... I think I remained active until around the time Oathbringer came out, at which point it kind of felt like the fandom had gotten too big for me to keep up with (and I was also working, so that ate into my forum time). At some point I moved to Discord, in part because of the more casual nature of it. I could more easily accept that I won't keep up with all the talk. Oh, and I became a mod around that time, I guess. By that time I had somehow become known as the WoB guy, and had some reasonable theories under my belt, and I've been riding that fame since. Oh, JordanCon 2018 was also a big fandom moment for me. It was that first JordanCon (or any con) I had gone to, I met with a bunch of wonderful people - many of which were Sharders - got randomly recognized by some people for my Shardcast appearance (which was pretty neat, you guys; if you have the opportunity to become a celebrity for a small group of people, I recommend doing that, feels nice), got trolled by both Brandon and Peter, hung out with Isaac and Kara, and got to shoot a bunch of questions at Brandon on/for my birthday. All in all, a very productive couple of days

This is literally my Imgur album where I uploaded my screenshots from the livestream They are pretty reasonable quality but still just screenshots (and would need to get cropped for the wiki), but I am not comfortable with using this as a source unless we absolutely have to. I'll try to get the artist to share the illustration on its own.

Let's hold off on this until we have a proper source for the canonicity of these images (and, ideally, an upload that's not just my screenshot of a livestream :P)

I know for a fact that one of his assistants, Adam, handles most of his social media presence. I don't think another stream has been officially scheduled, but if his schedule holds it should be another week or two.

Guys. Can we make this easier for everyone involved and stick to the original point of the thread - Brandon's silence so far and how people feel about it? Discussing the actual details of what's going on lately, the actions of various police departments and individuals, the actions against the various police departments and individuals, what the government is or isn't doing, the historical context behind all of this, the protests - none of this belongs in this thread (or, I would argue, in this forum at all; these subjects turn into fires faster than we can put them out). We don't want to lock this thread, because there are valid things that can be said and have been said, but if you can't keep your posts civil, constructive, and on topic, that'll be the only thing we can do. And on that note, let's also keep humor and sarcasm out of our replies because they are very easy to misinterpret, and that's the last thing we need. EDIT: Quick follow-up, we'll keep this locked for a little bit to give everyone a chance to cool down and take a breather. I imagine we'll unlock this within the hour.

Yeah, yeah, we are working around the clock here, we'll get to that

I feel like emotions are running a little hot in this thread. COVID-19 is a pretty big deal on a global scale, and it has impacted all of our lives, so we are a little more irritable than normal, which is why I would like us all to take extra care to be nice to one another, and to dial dial down our argumentative side several notches down. I'll be honest, I don't think much good can come out of this thread, and I am afraid it's going to devolve into either a general conversation about COVID-19, or into a shouting match. I am not going to lock it just yet, but I'll keep a close eye on it and any reports that come out of it. Be good, y'all.

No rails!

Nope. I am not going to bother them until the summer though.

I believe they confirmed on Reddit that Dragonsteel themselves recorded this (and other panels), and they'll be putting it up on Brandon's YouTube channel sometime soon.

Imagine having such clear audio in Arcanum...

Heh, a lot of us have been in this for a decade and more. I get that it feels kind of crummy to finish all these books and still feel like you are behind, and I hope we'll be able to do a few episodes geared specifically towards people in your position - people who just want to catch up without spending years of reading wiki pages, WoBs, and forum threads. Just... not sure when we'll get to those.

I feel like the last page or so has devolved into extensive and unnecessarily pedantic discussion on what (a)theism is, to the point where I feel it bears very little relevance to the thread's original intent. Maybe I can refocus this by sharing my view, which I've always thought is super obvious, and you can all tell me why it is so wrong that it requires thousand+ words essays? I've always thought that Jasnah's reaction to Honor's existence would be to 1) readily recognize his existence, 2) acknowledge that he was a Shard, and therefore incredibly powerful, but 3) not accept him (or any of the other Shards) as a god.

This seems like a solid foundation. It's not much of a theory just yet, most observations, but I think they tie in nicely and could lead to something. Whether that something is real(matic) or thematic remains to be seen.

Isaac S would make sense since, you know, Isaac Stewart.

I know how this fandom can be, I felt it prudent to emphasize that not everything is a hidden connection

The word you are missing is "created", if I recall correctly my conversation with Dan from earlier this year. Created by Dandos the Oilsworn. Don't read too much into it, Dandos is not a worldhopper or anything, it's just an Easter egg. ST as a single letter feels really weird to me. At a quick glance everything checks out, so I don't think there could be an alternative translation - not after this one fits so well... So I don't know. I might dig more into this at another time.

Did he randomly sit at your table at a party, reading Mistborn and ignoring you?

There is some more of that script on the back endpages, but the image is not super clear here...