The Isochronism

The end of The Dark Talent, (book) Open arms by Journey (song) and Onward (movie) are among the many things that have made me cry. (They're what I remember right now.)

I hope you don't mind if I piggyback off of your rant a little, because I agree with you wholeheartedly. This book wasn't a disaster... but it was the closest to a disaster I've ever seen a Brandon Sanderson book get. I second everything you said in your rant, but I noticed some other problems that annoyed me. 1st) The Worldspire is supposed to be huge. Like actually, it goes from the core of the earth to the atmosphere. Yet in BvtEL they literally walk to the top. On a spiral staircase. Then they can still breathe and everything, and it's never even a thing. (I know, I know. The air doesn't get thinner as the atmosphere goes up, that's a librarian lie. I actually have a response to this. Shut up. Oh come on, if JRR Tolkien can give it as his response to people who ask why the eagles didn't take the ring to mount doom, I can use it here. So there. Seriously though, this felt like a bad way of explaining anything, and even if air isn't the problem, I never got the sense of SCALE that we are supposed to get from the worldspire.) 2nd) The ending undid everything I loved about book five. Literally. Now I don't love watching people suffer, but I LOVED the ending of the dark talent. I loved it because it made me cry, and it made me understand exactly WHO Alcatraz was. beneath his hilarious exterior, he was one of the most well-developed characters I've ever seen. He really believed himself to be a failure. And Attica scarified himself for the greater good, even though he was also kind of a messed up guy. Bastile undid that, by making Attica's s sacrifice worth nothing. They just made him "live on through the lens" and whatnot. It made me so sad. (With Grampa Smedry I was okay having him live, but Attica's death is what made the whole series feel real to me.) 3rd) This is a continuation of the previous issue. The foreshadowing in the previous books all amounted to nothing. For example: I LOVED the moment when we realize that Alcatraz's talent is alive. It tells him how unfair it is to be blamed for everything wrong with Alcatraz's life, how unfair it is to be made a thing to be CONTROLLED instead of listened to. Then BvtEL undoes that by passing the whole thing off as a joke. (When Bastile is like "did you try apologizing to your talent?" and then he's just like, oh let me try that, and it works. As if that undoes the anger that the talent should have at him, after being used, even ABUSED because of what it is.) The other bit of foreshadowing that I loved was when we see Kaz's talent BREAK space is book 4. It implied that every talent was a variation of the breaking talent, and I wanted that to be explored, because it was surprising and AWESOME! (I'm sure there's more stuff in this category, so let me know if you guys remember anything.) I will note here that Bastile temporarily became an Oculator because of the Smedry energy being transmitted into every human being to make them be reduced to nothing. But I agree that that wasn't as clear as it needed to be. I'm sure I made mistakes in my criticism too though, so please let me know if any of my issues with the book are invalid or wrong for whatever reason. Anyway, I'm a bit heartbroken that BvtEL wasn't better, but whatever. The series as a whole is still great. And if anyone loved it, please don't let me issues with that book ruin it for you, I hope you'll continue to enjoy the book.

Hide it in my car, then drive right behind a policeman and turn it on. What would you do if you found a Shardblade in your pocket? (Sorry if this one has been done before.)

The Kandra homeland?

Prompt: Write a story in the format of a commercial advertising the story itself. (Go wherever you want with that, it just was a funny idea I had that sounded extremely hard to pull off.)

I personally am not a huge fan of Harry Potter, mostly because the writing-style feels childish and juvenile. (To me at least, I know that some people love that style, or think ti fits the books really well, but it's never worked for me.)

I just found the perfect publisher, and anyone who ever wants to submit a book should totally submit to these guys! I've already submitted a few things my self in fact. https://www.universalrejection.org/

I just found perhaps the greatest song every written. Not just because of the music, though that is fantastic, but the music video gives my chills every time.

What do you do on Sundays? Is this a trick question?

What did your first cat look like? Not the future, that's for sure.

I prefer Civilization VI personally. I think civ VI is the greatest game ever created. I think it's great that you're playing stuff like this instead of lesser games like Minecraft or battlefront. (Nothing against those games, but I prefer something with a bit more strategy.)

Can I go home now?

Can I hire you to break up with Zelda for me for 2 rupees? Look! A rock!

I need advice. I'm eating my cat, is there anything I should it it with? That's just a theory.

Alright, nobody's said anything here for a while, So I'll just agree. Life isn't the greatest. But I also sort of have some advice. A lot of you have said stuff, about how you don't really belong, or that you're an imposter, and you're not as great as people think. Don't get me wrong, I totally feel these things to, but feel like either we're all imposters... or none of us are. I don't feel qualified to be giving advice because I know for a fact that I'm no better then you guys are but I wrote a speech a while back for a contest, and I kinda feel like it applies. I would post the link to it here... but I'm not that great and it smells a bit of self-promotion, but I have heard lots of good advice in my day and I feel like I've learned a lot about how to feel like you belong and are worth something and whatnot. So my invitation is please DM me if you want advice, or just to see my take on some of this world's issues. (like the fact that life sucks.) You all are awesome!

How was your day? Maybe if you stole the metalminds he keeps hidden behind his dresser.

Wait... is that the murder weopon? How did you get that banana? I just googled it, and it's the white one.

So, you sent us to find the magical crystal that was hidden under the drowned volcano, but it was scary down there so can we just bring you some Lava? NOT THE LAST OF MARISIO'S SECRET SAUCE!

I guess it'd depend who's answering. Maybe I'd ask who I'm going to marry, or how I can achieve a successful career. It's hard though, because some of these things are probably things I should figure out myself... If you could force Brandon Sanderson answer one question that's been RAFO'd, which question would you have him answer?

How exactly am I supposed to use this "bottled lightning?" Is that what I think it is?

Perfect. (There's a story behind that answer, but this seems like the wrong place to go into it, so we'll just leave it at that.) What's one thing you wish you'd done 2 weeks ago.

I'll just say I agree completely with what @Philomath and @Use the Falchion said, so you guys don't have to put up with more of my ranting. It was a great show, and I especially loved how they didn't go into the other dimension doing stuff like I thought they would, instead keeping the story smaller. (The DODC were cartoonishly evil, but I thought the Jihn were even more cartoonishly evil, so it was better.)

Thor: Ragnarok; Knives Out What's the negative equivalent of a sphere?

How long does it take for mountains to form? It was rhetorical.

13.001 What's the weirdest spam/prank call/email you've ever gotten.