Too real.

• When around other people you have to constantly do acts of service, to make it up to them for having to tolerate your presence.

• Friendships take time and effort to maintain or they will fall apart: make sure to regularly stay in touch with your friends, remember their likes and dislikes and organise events to do together. This only applies to you, your friends will never be the ones to reach out. If a friendship ends it's all your fault.

Good taste! Sanderson has shared his playlists that he listens to when he writes, and Two Steps From Hell is on it as well:

https://open.spotify.com/user/mistborn1

Good thought, others have asked the same question but Brandon has said he didn't, he was just a conqueror.

https://wob.coppermind.net/events/431/#e14002

Dutch Rashek would have colonized the south in a heartbeat.

There's this girl I went to college with. I was in biology, she in medicine. She was from a rich family, if she wanted she could have gone her entire life without having to work a single day. She didn't because, and I quote, "I want to help people."

During her final year she took a internship with doctors without borders. Her parents were fine with that. The internship was in [unstable African country]. Her parents were NOT fine with that, but she went anyway because, and I quote, "There are people there who need help."

Three months in her and her team were kidnapped, vanished without a trace. It took the embassy two months to get the ransom and secure their release. I can't imagine what they went through, she never went into detail to me.

We met again after she got back, early December. I asked what she was going to do next. She told be she was going to spend Christmas with her family, and then head back. Because, and I quote, "There are still people who need help."

Here is someone who could have spent her entire life living in luxury but instead chose to put herself in danger to help those in the most dire need. And when the worst case scenario happened, she didn't even flinch and went right back to it. She's easily the biggest hero I have ever met.

Don't forget Car Brand!

Elantrians be like: "Be our guest, be our guest, put your pain tolerance to the test!"

Fuck marry kill: Kaladin, Elhokar, Teft

I get the same thing. It's like I have to do multiple tasks (put on a new video, get something to drink, book a new appointment) and for some reason my brain wants to do all of that in one action. And there is no one action that does all those things. So it gets stuck.

I feel so stupid getting out of it. I'll start by moving one finger, tapping or twirling it. Then my hand, then my arm, until I reach some sort of tipping point, and I'm no longer "sitting" but "moving" and then I can get up and get that drink.

Bots tweeting trending search terms for engagement? I have no idea.

This year, the town where I live organized a new year's drink in the town square. Free for everyone who lives here. I wanted to be more social this year, so it seemed like a perfect opportunity. Turns out everybody arrived with their friends or family and I was the only one there alone. I didn't know anybody despite having lived here for 30 years.

I didn't want to stay and stand around awkwardly all alone. Joining a group of people who all knew each other was waaay too intimidating. And I didn't want to leave because I decided I was going to come here dammit!

I "solved" this dilemma by grabbing an empty serving platter and helping the staff retrieve peoples' empty glasses. That way, I had something to do. I returned a few loads, and they gave me a full serving platter soooo... I went around and gave people drinks. Finally one of the staff went "Hang on, do you even work with us?" and I fled the scene in embarrassment.

That was my socializing attempt for this year.

Ah shit that sucks. I need a new case and haven't bought one because it's all online these days and you can't tell the texture from a picture. I'll either have to risk it or take a 45 minute bus drive to the only shop nearby that still sells them in person. And then pay more than online. And then wait an hour for the next bus back.

Tape is a clever solution, though. My sister does car wrapping and she always had odds and ends laying around. She wrapped our fridge with it once. Maybe I'll see if she can wrap a phone case...

I wasn't convinced until I saw the art, and learned about the concept of the plane: a demon bound to never leave a house, so it expanded the house until it devoured the whole plane. That's rad.

That makes complete sense to me!

There's a very good book called Thinking fast and slow by Daniel Khaneman that talks about this (among other things, he won a Nobel prize for his reasearch)

He talks about two systems in the brain.

System 1 is your "gut feeling". It learns from your personal experiences and is fantastic at pattern matching and picking up subtle clues. It makes quick judgements and decisions and is always running in the back of your mind. It's not conscious thought, it just presents you with its conclusions. Its downside is that it's vulnerable to all sorts of biases, advertisements, etc.

System 2 is your "rational thought". It has to trained by studying, etc. It can tackle complex and long-term problems. Its downside is that it's very energy intensive, so our brain doesn't run it all the time. You have to consciously engage it.

As autistic people, we're taught to largely ignore our System 1 because our instincts don't match NT's, so we're told ours are wrong. But that doesn't mean our system 1 doesn't work!

You've had bad experiences with men hitting on you. Your System 1 learned from that. Now, when other men hit on you and subtle details of how they act match those others, your System 1 does its pattern matching thing, and tells you something is off. It's the exact same acquired instinct that tells an experienced firefighter to get the f out of a burning building two minutes before the whole thing collapses.

People often dismiss their gut feelings, and it's true they are often wrong and can be tricked. But gut feelings based on actual experiences are a huge strength. You just gotta know when to trust them and when not to.

Those Herald portraits were only in Oathbringer and Rhythm of War, not in Way of Kings or Words of Radiance. There was extra art added in the leather-bound.

All interior art can be found here:

Way of Kings

Words of Radiance

Oathbringer

Rhythm of War

Way of Kings. The first few are the prologues, order 66 the Sadeas betrayal, hand clasping is Dalinar and Kaladin meeting.

Only if they first eat Taco Bell, so their insides become as hot and toxic as the inside of Mount Doom.

Could they put a lightweaving over their spren to make them invisible and inaudible? Heck, put an image on the inside of the lightweaving and they shouldn't be able to see out of it.

Well yeah, it's in the book. This is directly from chapter 58:

Vivenna started as Vasher increased in size. He opened his eyes and adjusted the wrap at his waist, making room for his growth.

It's going to be hard to repair the HVAC system: the series' only Ahu (Air Handling Unit), a key component in HVAC's, got killed by Moash at the end of Oathbringer.

Remember how Ishar Connected those Windrunners to Roshar, and they lost all of their stormlight because it saw the planet as part of their body and dispersed evenly throughout? Imagine doing that to a mistborn, only for them to burn duralumin and then every metal deposit on the entire planet.

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QA and testing, soooo much better.

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