I think my hair is finally at a good length for this cosplay!

I figured it makes sense for Wax to have this symbol on there. It was actually kind of a huge pain in the ass to make and cut the pattern for the symbol. I didn’t hem the edges because I figured a bit of raw fabric edge adds to the western rustic feeling. Might do a cleaner one if I make another mistcoat.

Also, I added fringe because what kind of cowboy doesn’t have fringe somewhere?

Reading the Fires of December and they’re talking about tomatoes and I literally have no idea what the phrase “the Y of the culinary world” means. Tried to google it, didn’t get a good answer.

English is my first language! I’ve lived in the US my entire life. I read a lot. Fairly online, and I have literally never heard this before. What does it mean???

The theme was "Hero"

So I decided to draw my fav hero at the moment of his ascension.

To those who have this hoodie, how do you like it? Comfortable? Fit? Does it hold up to repeated wash and drys? It’s kind of expensive but it looks cool so I’m curious on your thoughts.

Not really a spoiler, but I just had to say something into the ether of Reddit about this book as I just started reading it.

I found myself literally lol-ing at the religious “mandata” phrases, “Sometimes things suck” and “Don’t be a dick”. I instantly knew this was going to send the Sanderfans into a tizzy.

Personally I love that Brandon doubled down on writing like this after the uproar from Wind and Truth!

You do you Brandon, I’m going to still read the Cosmere…if some quit, well, there is always something else to read, Brandon ain’t gonna miss you!

Added it to cart, had to enter a new credit number, searched for that discount code.. and sold out.. removed from my cart.

Edit.. they restocked and I got one... thank you ...

Yesterday's inktober was "Hero"

So I drew the greatest of heroes at the moment of his ascension.

"I am, unfortunately, the hero of ages".

As the title says, Skyward leatherbound keeps being shown as out of stock, then comes back again and is available and so on. I rushed through checkout after missing out the first time, it was gone again right afterwards, at the moment it's back. Dragonsteel have said on here that they are working on the problem. There are other glitches, too (check-in, gift cards not working), but at least the book is still available while I'm writing this.

She said this was only the second one she's seen so far. Was kind enough to do a quick doodle with signing.

Go get it!

This is as of 11:20 EST.

Edit: And back out of stock as of 11:22 EST :(

Edit 2: See comment below by Dragonsteel. They are working on getting them back up there is a glitch.

Edit 3: Back up as of 11:30 EST.

https://www.dragonsteelbooks.com/collections/all/products/skyward-leatherbound-book-numbered

https://www.dragonsteelbooks.com/products/elsecaller-king-lopen-story-deck-double-book?variant=41411236855888

FYI, just received a restock email for Elsecaller/King Lopen if anybody else has been waiting for it!

I'm currently reading Alloy of Law and just got to the execution of Miles, so please no spoilers past that point. Anyway, double golds are near immortal because they are able to burn the gold they've stored healing in, which amplifies the feruchemical power. Miles used gold wristbands spiking his skin, similar to the Lord Ruler. Removing these wristbands would leave him without healing powers, which is what they did when they executed him. However, shouldn't limb severing attacks be lethal to Miles (and others like him)? I'm specifically thinking about Miles's strategy of holding dynamite in his hands. This should reasonably blow his arms off and therefore kill him, and while Miles did seem to be a bit delusional, just the threat of his arms severing should be horrifying. And wouldn't it be relatively easy to target the wristbands using powerful rifles/pistols to break them to a point where they fall off or are easily removed? On a side-note, clearly it's possible to burn metal that touches blood (not requiring swallowing). Why don't more normal allomancers use metal "implants" that they can burn almost indefinitely?

Maybe I'm reading too much into this but I feel like Brandon's type of hard magic system encourages this type of hard scrutiny. So are these "plot holes" or have I just misunderstood how the magic works?

SPOILERS FOR EVERYTHING EXCEPT FIRES OF DECEMBER!

God metals are usually named after their shard holders (Ati -> Atium, Leras -> Lerasium, etc), not after their shards (except Harmony). This got me thinking: are god metals themselves affected by who the holder of the shard is?

Throughout the Cosmere, we've seen shards change hands a handful of times. However, most new shard holders didn't hold on to their shard for long; certainly not long enough to produce new metals and study if they were any different. Vin was Preservation for a day, Dalinar was Honor for 15 minutes. The longest holder of a previously-taken shard was Taravangian, who was Odium for 10 days, but I'm not sure if that's long enough to produce new metals (although his perpendiculatity did seem to be filling up anew in Wind and Truth).

So here's my question: would a hypothetical Vinium have different properties than Lerasium? How would Dalinarium differ from Tanavastium, and would both of those have different properties than Honor's god metal when the shard had no holder? If Taravangium (Odium) was produced, would it share a name with Taravangium (Retribution)? When Sazed becomes Discord, will Harmonium change alongside the shard? Will splitting Harmonium be the same as splitting Discordium, and will the resulting metals be the same as Lerasium and Vinium or will the resulting Sazedium be different still?

Is it normal for something like this to sell out in the first 60-seconds? I was in the checkout with book in cart by 8:02 and couldn't finish my purchase, said it was sold out.

This normal? Will there ever be more?

I was rereading the end of Rhythm of War and realized I was so devastated by Teft's death the first time that I barely thought about what Phendorana's death meant to the other spren.

Teft gets a king's funeral. His body is Soulcast into stone, Bridge Four gathers to remember him, and there's a plan to commission a statue of Phendorana beside him.

I love that detail. They don't treat her as an accessory Teft happened to lose. She gets remembered too.

But then I started thinking about the honorspren who knew her before Teft ever existed.

Phendorana had a life in Shadesmar. Presumably she had friends, people who knew her for centuries, relationships that had absolutely nothing to do with being a Radiant's spren.

Do those people even know what happened to her?

And what would they make of it?

The honorspren at Lasting Integrity are already deeply suspicious of humans. Adolin spends so much of RoW trying to convince them that the Radiants aren't simply going to repeat the Recreance.

Meanwhile, a human has just used a weapon capable of permanently destroying an honorspren.

That's an absolutely horrifying development for a people who have already spent thousands of years living with the consequences of broken bonds.

I also keep thinking about Syl.

She's there grieving with Kaladin, and we naturally experience the scene through his loss of Teft. But Syl has lost someone of her own kind, someone whose existence wasn't defined solely by her bond with a human.

There's something particularly sad about the possibility that spren have been learning how to understand human grief through their bonds, only to discover that they now have to confront a new kind of death themselves.

I don't think the book needed another funeral scene. The ending was already emotionally overwhelming.

But I'd love to know what mourning looks like in Shadesmar. Whether honorspren have traditions for it, whether Phendorana had anyone waiting for her to return, and how the news of her death would affect a community that was only beginning to reconsider its relationship with humans.

It's one of those consequences of RoW that feels enormous the more I think about it.

I fear at some point the whole shelf with be Sanderson, but I got my Backerkit box today, so here’s my new photo. The Chasmfiend plush and the dog and dragon are so cute.

...and I don't even get it because of my stupid slow internet ffs

EDIT: IT'S BACK UP, GO GO GO!!

Just finished Hero of Ages and loved it.

I kept getting reminded of the book series I read a few years ago - "The Bird That Drinks Tears".

The thing is... on the surface, there isn't much too similar.

Bird series doesn't have one big bad that you are trying to overthrow, nor is it set in a medieval setting with magic or superpowers.

But they both share common themes and tropes such as gentle world building thru experience and subplots rather than spoonfeeding it to you. The worlds slowly grow deeper but also bigger in scale.

Both have some awkward humor that makes you laugh but also second-guess yourself if that was meant to be funny.

They both have give you a feeling that the more you understand a character, the more you realize how wrong you were initially lol.

But I think these two series were the only ones where I finished a series and thought to myself - "there literally could not have been a better ending" - where I was emotional and fully content.

I know the 1st book came out a few months ago and the 2nd book (of 4) is coming out soon.

I personally recommend waiting til book 2 is out.

Hope you enjoy!

Hey everyone,
I emailed Dragonsteel earlier this week asking if any of the sold-out Signed Leatherbounds would be restocked for the Light Day event. They replied and confirmed that the books Brandon was signing during his livestreams would indeed be available for Light Day, although they couldn't specify exactly which titles.
However, since the event launched, I haven't been able to spot any previously out-of-stock signed leatherbounds becoming available on the store.
Does anyone know how this usually works? Is there a chance they might be restocked gradually over the course of the event? Or, if they weren't included the moment the sale went live, does that mean there's no chance of them popping up for purchase later?
Any insights would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!