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I've always imagined Shallan's hair to be a bit wavy, but that's mostly because my hair is a bit wavy.
There's a fun writing anecdote that talks about this; I think it was Asimov who someone came up to and complained that he didn't write enough character details into his book. He told the person to ask four or five different women what they thought the character in question looked like, and they each described someone that looked a lot like themselves.
So, basically, I think my perception of myself influences how I imagine the character. I have never imagined any of the Stormlight characters as looking Asian, except maybe Jasnah, but I think that's mainly because I am not Asian. My natural inclination is to imagine characters as looking closer to the way I do. Just because I know that Kaladin and Adolin and Shallan and such look Asian doesn't mean I see them in my head that way.
However, I don't often imagine faces. Most of these characters are just vague figures in my head anyway. I do think it's really up to the reader to decide what the story looks like to them.
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Welcome!
If you could have any Cosmere character to be your room mate, who would you choose and why?
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Depends on the gender of the musicians. If male--Heresy! If female--Curious music style....
WWRTO ice cream?
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On 12/23/2023 at 4:20 PM, IcaroRibeiro said:
Curious, I left this forum for almost a year and came back just a couple of days after your response
I understand why you think Shallan is a 4, but I argue she's not. Many traits and personality structures of a 4 are lacking here. First, she'seager to conform to society's standards and feels genuinely comfortable following them in a very vorin fashion. She's quite extroverted and not at all moody. Shallan didn't display vices types 4 often exhibits such as a tendency to melancholy, self-pity, and unhealthy levels of jealousy.
4 core fear is to have a lack of identity or significance. While she sometimes wonders who she genuinely is (partially because of her multiple personality disorder) her main fear looks to be deprived, in despair, or in pain. When she starts observing there will be a painful experience she shuts down her mind and tries to distract herself with hobbies, jokes and lies.
Huh. This makes Shallan sound more like a 7. You're absolutely right, though.
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1 hour ago, Slowswift said:
Ooh, I love Stardew. I really should get back into it. I played it 8 hours a day for a week back in 2020 (thanks, quarantine!) and then off and on since then.
My first game I married Leah (no, I don't have a type, what are you talking about) but the second time through I went with Haley, who is surprisingly wonderful if you can be patient with her. (I understand this is a tall order.)
So is being patient with Shane, but I'm stubborn. I'm not surprised that Haley gets better with time.
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15 minutes ago, Kasimir said:
I use the desktop icon to launch Stardew, rather than going through my Steam so that's why I don't see my hours
Good for my SAN!
Huh. I also go through the desktop icon, but it makes a point of opening Steam every time and it drives me nuts. Is there a way to stop it from doing that?
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3 minutes ago, Kasimir said:
Oh, this. I've taken to giving myself a themed farm challenge each run just for the fun of it: stuff like there will be categories of produce or skillsets my farmer can't use, and things I'll focus on, and I try to stick to it and still clear Grandfather's check in two years. It's more for RP than genuine challenge.
I also actually picked up a Retroid Pocket 2s just so I could install Stardew on it and play it while commuting. (There were some other reasons for it but Stardew was a big reason.) I really liked the idea of having Stardew on the go, even if I mostly just get a day or so done each run.
I'm currently playing the Beach Farm and aiming for an Elliot run on the 2s and a Sebastian run with the River Farm (and the new update) on the PC. I haven't played since the Ginger Island update so I've got so much good content to catch up with. My best farm was still a Forest Farm run with Leah (always my fav
) where I focused on strawberries, melons, and artichokes.
Tell me about it... I daren't check my hours. I stopped Stardew for a while because I made my own mods and was too lazy to check if they needed patching, but also got distracted on other games. It's nice to come back to it though.
I got Stardew through Steam, and am therefore confronted with my hourage every time I boot up the game. I don't know if there are other ways to get it or not that don't have the hours Right There; I'm not a well-versed gamer in any sense.
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35 minutes ago, Kasimir said:
It's so chill. Probably no accident I racked up the most hours on it while procrastinating from thesis.
Yeah... I've gotten almost 160 hours in this one game since I got it last Fall. Which may not be a lot, compared to the people who get thousands of hours in a game, but for me who plays very few video games overall, it's quite a lot.
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Honestly, I want to wait till SA5 is out and get Tay's thoughts on Warbreaker during the wait. I'm really curious to see her take on Lightsong/Blushweaver.
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1 hour ago, liverthescourge said:
Shane superiority
Shane was the first NPC I romanced. Now I'm after Elliott, since he and I have aligning interests in writing.
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Anybody else love Stardew Valley? Come join me! We can chat about our favorite NPCs to romance and why, the quests we love/hate the most, and anyhhing else Stardew that strikes our fancy!
I know for a fact that when my brother introduced me to this game, I was not expecting to love it as much as I do. It's entertaining enough to keep me going for hours, but the combat doesn't freak me out like Minecraft, and it's super fun to design my farm!
Why do you love Stardew?
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6 minutes ago, Quantus said:
Old Theory: I posted the Quadrant theory of Shards years ago before I started participating here, and Dawnshard seems to have confirmed a lot of it.
Current Theory: The Stormfaker is the Everstorm's spren, who was trying to steal the Stormfather's Bondsmith Candidate.
Current Theory: The Deadeye spren did what they did because they wanted to put control of the Surges in the hands of Bonded Spren instead of Bonded Humans; Maya and Adolin are the first to start down that Path, which his role being to Metabolize Lifelight and give it to Maya to power her own LifeBinder Radiant power package. (Inspired by the Mage & Source relationship of Fionavar skymagic).
Wait... so it would be the spren being the Knoghts Radiant and not the humans? Sort of like
SpoilerAux and Nomad seem to be in TSM?
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14 hours ago, YouKnowYuno said:
Thank you! I've been considering using wood stains to make the Blade really look like Sunraiser, but have been conflicted on what to use. do you have any ideas or if I should even stain the Blade at all?
I would just varnish it/stain it some nice, natural color. Highlight the wood, rather than hiding it, if you know what I mean. I think it's really pretty as-is, so just touching that up and bringing out the grain would be my preferred choice, if I were the craftsman.
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Wow! That's beautiful! Well done!
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10 hours ago, Custodis said:
Hi guys
My name is Marcin, but all fandom friends call me Custo.
My fiancée showed me Brandon's work three years ago. Since then, I've been a big fan. I've completed Mistborn both eras, Elantris, Warbreaker and I'm halfway through the second part of the Archive. Also, there is a lot ahead of me and I absolutely have to catch up because I browse your site with baked goods where there is a lot to discover.
I hope to contribute more to the forum. It's a good time to stop using the translator and start polishing my English
Welcome welcome!
If you could have any Cosmere character to be your college room mate, who would you choose and why?
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2 hours ago, Cash67 said:
I do be the one writing
Ahhh. Well, what instruments are you looking for? I'm pretty good with piano, passable with violin, and have a little experience with the organ and tin whistle--though I can't promise that I'll actually have time to contribute...
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1 hour ago, SmilingPanda19 said:
Please check my most recent status update. We could really use your help!
@Cash67
I see. Considering that I've never seen the original and don't write music all that well, I'm not sure I'm going to be much help.
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I have been called?
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Hello and welcome!
I don't have a favorite Hoid quote, but I have got a favorite Hoid moment--when Shallan and Kaladin bump into him on the Shattered Plains and Shallan runs up to give him a big hug.
If you could have any Cosmere character to be your roommate, who would you choose and why?
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Welcome! If you could have any Cosmere character to be your roommate, who would you choose and why?
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12 minutes ago, The Assassin In Red said:
I haven't been here long, and I'm not sure if I'm doing this wrong, but how am I imagined?
Like the picture of Szeth in the WoK prologue, but red.
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I'm back!
This is from a project titled Savage:
SpoilerPrologue
To DieBernadette clawed her way up the steep mountain slope, eyes squeezed shut against the burning light of the sun, finding her way by the keenness of her nose and the rocky trail beneath her paws.This would be so much easier as a human, with a rope and grappling hook.
But she wasn't human, and hadn't been so in a long time.
Just... keep... going, she snarled at herself.
She swore violently as a rock slipped away from the trail at her grasping paw and almost sent her tumbling back downslope. But there wasn't time to wait for nightfall. The Turning was taking her, ever more swiftly. By nightfall she would be dead, and she had to hide this last journal.
Felina needs to know.
Bernadette howled as she reached the top of the climb, a triumphant sound from deep within her chest. She hauled herself to her feet and stumbled onward, up a slight rise, and into the cool depths of a cave. Here I am! She would have shouted the words if she could have, but only a few spoken human words remained to her. She would prefer to speak not at all than to use the guttural, beastly speech her body wanted to force her to use.
She shook herself as she stepped into the cave and slung her pack off her shoulder. Not much time. Not much time. The Turning sought her heart, and she had one more journal entry to write. One more. The one where she revealed all. Only Felina could receive this information, only Felina could stop the horrible crimes that had been committed against them all.
Bernadette tore her pack open with one swipe of her claws. There wasn't time to fiddle with the buttons, for all she'd done so closing the blasted thing up this morning. She dug out the journal, a sheaf of pages she'd pressed herself, bound in leather she'd tanned with her own hands, written in with quill and ink she'd trimmed and mixed alone.
She tossed the journal on the ground and dug for her pen and ink.
The trembling returned in a fit, and Bernadette fumbled with the inkpot, then swore again when it slipped between her clawed fingers and crashed to the floor.
Whatever. She'd write out of the puddle. There wasn't time to worry about more than that, not with the Turning so close. It would kill her before she completed her mission, if it could. But as fast as the Turning was, Bernadette had been faster so far. She could outrun it one last time.
But with the trembling in her paws so strong, the quill was unusable. She tossed it aside and dipped a claw into the ink, pressed it to the paper, and wrote. It was an untidy scrawl, so different from what she'd done up till now, but it would have to do.
This is my final entry, she wrote. One I must write swiftly, before the Turning finishes what it has started. I have learned the truth, Felina. The full truth.
The Turning is no disease. It is a parasite. A worm, spread by the sages themselves at the Inspection, placed into the body through the forehead when they place the Mark in lines of fire...
Bernadette growled as the trembling took her again, turning one of her letters into a wobbly, diagonal line instead of the script it was supposed to be. The cure, she thought, gripping her wrist with the other paw to try and hold her hand steady. I must record the cure. The only way I could have saved myself. But it's too late now.
The cure is here, she wrote. Look into the water. Use my other clues.
No time left.
I love you.
Bernadette allowed the ink a few seconds to dry, then snapped the journal shut and scooped it up in one arm. She tore her pack open with her free hand and whipped out the waxed canvas she'd brought, wrapped it around the journal as best she could, and tied it with a piece of twine wrapped round it a few dozen times.
Then she got to her feet and rushed to the back of the cave. She could feel the Turning inside her chest, eating its way to her heart.
Cursed parasite.
Bernadette stowed the package in a small crevice in the back wall of the cave, where it would be visible only to the eyes of someone who already knew to look for it.
A spike of pain shot through her, from her heart down to her toes, and she roared her pain in a series of infuriated expletives. You take my life from me, Turning! She thought. But now I set my plan in motion, to take yours from you! I will have my revenge on you!
The pain intensified, and Bernadette's vision grew blurry. Her knees buckled beneath her, and she clawed at the wall, desperately trying to stay upright.
But it was of no use, and Bernadette sank to the floor.
At least after I die the worm inside me will die, if not the full Turning. This one knows its end is near.
She closed her eyes, breathing through the pain, ignoring the dizziness that came as the worm devoured her heart and stopped all bloodflow through her body.
A few moments later, she was dead.
Dead as anyone could be.Let me know what you think!
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Hello, hello!
If you could have any Cosmere character to be your room mate, who would you choose and why?
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4 minutes ago, BlueWildRye said:
You have long, red or at least reddish hair. You like small fuzzy things. I'm not getting more specific than that because then there'll be more errors.
This would have been accurate if it were still June 22nd, since I cut my hair short that day. But I do have natural red highlights in my hair and I do like small fuzzy things.
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Good for my SAN!
Stardew Valley!
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You can look them up on the wiki. That way you can learn about the cutscenes before you reach them. That's what I did, and it makes it a lot easier to know which answer the NPC is looking for.