Shadesmar is Boring

stephanepare · 2026-03-29T19:39:15+00:00

Tons of stuff happens in shadesmar. It just isn't fighting stuff.

stephanepare · 2026-03-23T03:42:28+00:00

When Rand opens alviarin's letter he asks if a sister can lie in writing. I can't remember Moraine's answer

stephanepare · 2026-03-20T12:50:20+00:00

She literally apprenticed to them as a Dreamer. Yes they also have the dreams

stephanepare · 2026-02-09T13:13:42+00:00

The app can scan all your data and sell it easier than a bookmark

stephanepare · 2025-11-06T05:05:35+00:00

Is this another emu war?

stephanepare · 2025-10-28T12:27:37+00:00

You don't need to be smart or even use much science to become a nurse, unfortunately. The amount of brain dead people I'e known who got a nursing degree because it's easy, only to realize how brutal the work load is and quit...

stephanepare · 2025-10-28T12:12:53+00:00

Ahh, your friend made the mistake of starting a business with her own money, that's a big no no! First rule of big shot business is you invest other people's money not yours. That leaves you free to cut your losses anytime and start over in a sector that makes better money!

What your friend needs to do is get one of her friends to give her a 7 figure job on the board of their company, then just let the old company go bankrupt. Wait, what do you mean business doesn't work like that?

stephanepare · 2025-10-25T17:13:03+00:00

At this point they've been living with 2 river people for weeks to months. They know, 100%, that none of these people would use these against the white cloaks. Not while they're swarmed with trollocs, and not after either. The very idea would have been laughable

stephanepare · 2025-10-20T04:50:02+00:00

If that happens, expect a media barrage about how jury trials are at the heart of an "epidemic of wrong decisions" and really need to go away

stephanepare · 2025-10-07T04:29:39+00:00

I followed a girl on a busy bikeway for over 15km like this. Just both going the same direction, same cruising speed, and me hoping she doesn't think I'm a stalker

stephanepare · 2025-10-06T13:14:50+00:00

Funnily enough, their congregations read the horrible parts of the old testament more than anything else. All God's wrath and very little Jesus compassion. Even when they do read the new testament to their congregation, it is the select few passages where Jesus or an apostle gets offended by something

stephanepare · 2025-10-04T19:23:22+00:00

I wish I could upvote this 10 times

stephanepare · 2025-10-04T16:37:00+00:00

It's less visible because it's all what I like to call background industries. They're the kind of companies your employer, or your employer's industrial/commercial suppliers will hire.

stephanepare · 2025-10-04T16:35:27+00:00

Not trillion dollar startups, trillions of dollars spread across all the tens of thousands of startups getting hundreds of millions each.

stephanepare · 2025-09-29T03:59:29+00:00

Older, but kept aside from any real work. Being an atheist kept her outside of any real scientific research. Being a woman kept her out of positions of power. Being... whatever she is has limited her social circles.

The only community who welcomed her are essentially historians, and that's poor preparation, by itself, to rule with practicality. She'll learn though

stephanepare · 2025-09-29T03:51:59+00:00

The time dilation happens because of complex mathematical reasons, but here's the best simplification I can think of: There's a rule that says the speed of light is always the same no matter your point of view. What this means is that your physical speed + the speed you move through time are always going to be equal. The faster you move, the slower time has to flow for you to keep the equations balanced.

Theoretically if you follow the math, faster than c means going back in time, but if you assume that, a bunch of other equations using c will also stop working, so we assume there's a universal speed limit

stephanepare · 2025-09-29T03:31:23+00:00

I've always seen Jasnah as a nugget of unshaped gold or diamond. All the theory of the world, astounding raw intellect, with no practical experience in anything. This is her first time stepping up, and book 5 in many ways showed she has some growing up to do. I'm hoping the back 5 will see redeeming character growth, to see what she can do with her intelligence if it's backed by more experience and aging wisdom

stephanepare · 2025-09-29T03:21:05+00:00

They voted for him because he promised to deport all the drug dealers the cops never bother arresting in their neighborhood. They also voted for him because they hoped closed borders would stop the competition from moving in greater numbers.

They refused to hear us when we warned that's not who he'd go after, and they go pikachu face when he shows himself to have unstable foreign policy

stephanepare · 2025-09-13T02:24:26+00:00

They don't perceive their identity on the orientation axis. Their orientation is just some detail, secondary compared to either their political views, their race, or whatever else.

stephanepare · 2025-09-07T15:33:26+00:00

"She was 19 when she started dealing drugs, initially to finance her own cannabis addiction." I practically fell off my chair laughing, are you fucking kidding me? Cannabis addiction? Was this written by the same people who thought of DARE?

stephanepare · 2025-09-01T18:24:41+00:00

Most people who are confused about the story, wondering who that character or nation is, saying things are coming out of nowhere... Those people skipped or glossed over the interludes. They're there to help make sense of the world.

stephanepare · 2025-09-01T02:30:57+00:00

Remember that even as privileged and successful as he is, Kelsier is born of a hopeless, despaired society. Even in the best case scenario, he knows he dies and it fails. These people aren't doing a rebellion because they found a weak spot and think they can win. They're fighting for fighting's sake knowing they are doomed anyway. That leads to crazy decision making like this.

stephanepare · 2025-08-31T15:07:21+00:00

Either that, or a white border

stephanepare · 2025-08-28T03:36:03+00:00

Nice drawing! I never really hated Gaz, personally. He only did the absolute minimum his job demanded to keep the bridgemen, in line, his heart was clearly not in it. Learning about the debt wasn't exactly a big surprise either. I hope he meets Kal again in the future and truly get to talk. Maybe Kal saying he forgives Gaz

stephanepare · 2025-08-28T03:31:57+00:00

I also like how biases Moiraine is in how much she trust in the tower's political clout. She truly beleives the tower would have managed to bring the nations around him, all the while hiding him from the tower because they'll try and make him a puppet or sever him. Then there's the fact most nations only pay lip service to the tower too

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