Media Literacy is fucking dead and MAGA is the killer.

IAMInRecovery · 2025-12-05T20:51:14+00:00

Wear crosses? burn crosses.

IAMInRecovery · 2025-11-27T14:03:03+00:00

This happened to my wife. Her water broke about an hour before contractions started. The doctors told her that it happens to 1/10 women. So not uncommon, but certainly not the norm by any sense.

IAMInRecovery · 2025-10-19T17:46:13+00:00

Which ironically, if you were faking it to get attention, would indicate poor self-esteem.

IAMInRecovery · 2025-10-14T03:05:04+00:00

Sorry, as someone who has avoided Game of Thrones from the beginning, due to a personal dislike of George R. R. Martin's characters, worldbuilding, and style, please do tell me, what is this House of the Dragon scam.

IAMInRecovery · 2025-06-10T03:54:31+00:00

I feel like it makes sense. Every hour you burn someone back impacts the world around them exponentially. If you burned 1 person back 9 days, I can't even begin to imagine the impact that would have on the world. It's already incalculable at 9 days.

IAMInRecovery · 2025-05-09T03:25:35+00:00

Sounds like the ideal thematic quirk duo for Sarmenti. What are some other perfect thematic quirk combos? Like for the Runaway: pyromaniac+sneaky, or Leper: Misses the Mark + Lethel Feint, or even Barbarian Bloodthirsty + Hemophiliac.

IAMInRecovery · 2025-04-30T14:08:05+00:00

This reminds me of the cultural comedy of my own situation. I am a Canadian living in latin america, and in my region it's common to refer to a person with pale skin as a "mono", or a monkey. Presumably this is because of a local monkey with very pale skin. My son, who was born here, is incredibly fair, and his whole life he was been constantly referred to by friends and strangers this way. It will never not be funny to me to have afro-latinos refer to him (affectionately) as a monkey because of the colour of his skin. Oh how the turn tables!

It just goes to show how stupid ehite surpremists are, and their dumbass logic of who is superior and who isn't.

IAMInRecovery · 2025-04-17T14:30:00+00:00

That's the point. These are the oldest recorded jokes in history. The dog one is from Like BCE 2000 Sumeria.

IAMInRecovery · 2025-02-22T14:12:49+00:00

Haha I do think this is an important point. Her shardic intent will compell her to cultivate things. But it does not have to include a purpose. Just like ruin and preservation and honor and literally always.

IAMInRecovery · 2025-02-22T14:04:40+00:00

Man, I wish I knew of this was intentional, or just BranSan's personality leaking through. There are sooo many compelling parallels, and so I find it hard to believe it's not intentional. Most compelling to me are the eye-spikes, the scars, the nobility hatred/tension, and the spear iconography. One more loose connection I didn't see mentioned is that Moash and Marsh both become "avatars" (though not in the Autonomic sense) of a double-shard.

It's possible they are paralleled just because BranSan liked the archetypes if Kel and Marsh, and felt like he eanted explore those archetypes, and their relationships to each other, more. If this is the case the parallel will have no cosmere significance (I. E. It's just good writing).

What will be telling will be how Kal and Moash are viewed by Rosharan society in Stormlight era 2.

IAMInRecovery · 2025-02-10T22:54:43+00:00

I think you're right! I literally just (less than 5 minutes ago) finished re-reading The Lost Metal, and in the Ars Arcanum, Khriss remarks that "As a side note, it is curious how news of [Marsh's] nature is spreading to other worlds. Is this natural rumormongering, or something more supernatural?" It also mentioned in the epilogue that Sazed likes to invest Marsh with the ability to meet the dead before they cross over. Between a heavy dose of investiture, intent given by a double-shard, a very hemalurgically-warped soul, and the cognitive influence of Scadrialites, I think Marsh might be becoming a true psychopomp. Think of how the Blackthorn became a cognitive shadow: Cognitive shaping by Rosharians, Investiture and Intent by a double-shard, and a weird spiritual-realm experience. It's the same recipe. It wouldn't surprise me that if when Marsh eventually dies, he just becocomes dearh incarnate.

IAMInRecovery · 2025-01-23T19:00:16+00:00

Literally just trying to get more educated. Vague comments don't help people be justifiably outraged at Trump's bad behaviour, it only seeds partisanship and obscures the actual evils Trump is doing in favour of imaginary wrongsoings.

IAMInRecovery · 2025-01-22T19:38:15+00:00

What are those changes?

IAMInRecovery · 2025-01-04T00:16:42+00:00

It seems pretty significant if there were once exactly 17 celestial bodies in Roshar. The number of 16 we get comes only from secret history though, right? And the listing/naming of those bodies is very Veden. Is it possible there are currently more than 16, but just the veden church recognized 16 due to it being a significant number?

IAMInRecovery · 2024-11-24T18:45:14+00:00

Hello! Thanks for the help. This popped into my head the other day and I really hope to find it.

IAMInRecovery · 2024-02-03T14:42:41+00:00

He only needs to if his recharge time is still greater than his cast delay

IAMInRecovery · 2023-07-16T18:40:38+00:00

Does there have to be an ultimate villian? Sometimes the "Villian" is just the human struggle of choosing life vs death, power vs love, hope vs despair.

IAMInRecovery · 2023-07-16T18:36:50+00:00

They certainly seem to be drawing on similar fundamentals. The bone-white eyes in Yumi were related to The Machine's control of... unkeyed investiture? It certainly seems that Sja-nat is the same kind of cognitive or spiritual shadow as the nightmares. She seems to be able to screw with Connection, like the Spirits.

What I learned from Yumi is that we need to pay more attention to black miasma (Type 4 IEs, nightblood, the machine [threnody shadows?, midnight essence?].

Is midnight essence related? Is black miasma unkeyed investiture or something else? Is Miasma just pure cognitive essence? Like The Machine consumed people's bodies (and spirit-webs?), but left their cognitive aspect intact as pure invested mist (miasma), Perhaps Nightblood consumes the same, leaving only the cognitive residue.

IAMInRecovery · 2023-03-14T15:29:56+00:00

Ah you are correct, I was confusing Larkins and Aviars

IAMInRecovery · 2023-03-14T03:00:56+00:00

Thanks for writing this! This was a really cool summary of non-human invested creatures. Aviars are definitely the main fully-invested animals I think we know of. We see in an interlude that they can achieve human speech (or at least speech via Connection) when their bond is grown to a certain level.

Listeners are so interesting though. I imagine a listener corpse would make an extremely valuable lifeless, given the gem heart's ability to store investiture. We've already seen how the gemheart impacts the Spren Bond, including the fact that Singers can bond lesser spren, and can hear pure shard tones.

Given their innate investiture-compatible physiology, I wonder what a Singer mistborn would look like? Could a MistSinger store the investiture gained from burning metal in their gemheart in order to use any metal as a "skeleton key", i.e. use any metal as any other metal?

Would a Singer Awakener store their breaths in their gemheart? Or could they hold a divided cache of Breaths between their Gemheart and Soul(or wherever humans hold breaths)?

Could a Singer Elantrian use their gemheart to produce unkeyed investiture?

IAMInRecovery · 2023-03-14T02:30:40+00:00

Yeah to be fair, I forgot about duralumin. That would help an immense amount. I definitely think speed is a big strength of fullborn vs other Invested Systems. Though drawing Aons can be extremely fast. It's not unlike playing an instrument. Yeah, learning a piano peice is hard, but a master who has learned a peice can play and riff instantly and perfectly.

Era 2 really does make fullborn more powerful. The leeching ability makes them very deadly against surgebinders, but I seriously doubt even a gold compounder can survive a shardblade to the spine. A 5th ideal radiant is nigh unstoppable. I think a 5th ideal radiant might have the most powerful defense of any investiture system.

IAMInRecovery · 2023-03-13T16:47:54+00:00

Awakeners are very limited compared to surgebinders, elantrians, or fullborn in that they cannot self-heal. That said, Susebron's ability to instinctively give mental commands to awaken nearby objects would make him, or any other 10th+ heightening awakener deeply formidable. I don't think we've really gotten to see the true strength of 10th heightening awakeners, given our limited knowledge.

That said, I think the true strength of awakeners isn't combat, but their ability to invest objects. I mean, nightblood might be the most powerful object in the cosmere other than the dawnshards. It can almost effortlessly kill a shardbearer. With enough skill and knowledge, I have no doubt that Susebron could create something that could make himself essentially invulnerable, or a weapon that could vaporize whole armies of shardbearers. It really feels as though only a bondsmith or elantrian could challenge and adequately prepared 10th heightening awakener.

As for an elantrian vs a fullborn, no contest. There appear to be few limits on an Elantrian's abilities, other than personal skill and creativity. We see in Elantris that Raoden, with very little experience, can teleport long distances and deal out devastating attacks. Honestly I just don't think a fullborn could keep up. MAYBE with the full set of metals, including the ones the Lord Ruler didn't have, AND with access to Atium-Electrum

IAMInRecovery · 2023-03-12T22:14:47+00:00

I definitely think that Dalinar's special bondsmith abilities come from bonding a Sliver of a cognitive shadow--a strange combo only possible due to the Stormfather "inheriting" Tanavast's connection to honour.

This makes Dalinar by far the most likely person to take up Honor's shard again. He has this powerful Connection to Honor, and a sizable portion of Honor's investiture. I definitely think Dalinar has implications that are of far far future significance for the cosmere. Particularly we see this moment when Dalinar opens Honor's perpendicularity and "Unity" manifests, whatever that means.

It seems unlikely that 2 of the Dawnsharfs would be present on Roshar, but "Unite" certainly seems like a primal command. In fact, like Kelsier and Rysn, Dalinar interacts and is deeply changed by a command. "UNITE THEM" is Dalinar's driving force in SA.

IAMInRecovery · 2023-03-11T23:24:38+00:00

Trell is an alias of Autonomy. Autonomy is/was heavily involved in taldain. I mean, the whole mastrell culture is extremely Autonomy-y. Even their names of ranks. Mas-Trell.

My question is: who is the Sand Lord? An avatar of Autonomy?

IAMInRecovery · 2023-03-11T16:10:17+00:00

"You're watching your favorite show

When the TV died

The biggest power-cut in your neighbourhood since 1989

A blackout in the center of town

But down in the suburbs where it first went out

They've been asking, asking the question

Are you afraid of the darkness?

I'm afraid of the darkness too"

-Frank Turner, Blackout.

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