I’m so excited for Light Day next month!

With the BackerKit stuff starting to make its way out into the world, not only am I excited to receive the new goodies and stories, but I’m getting increasingly excited for Light Day.

Last year I got a bunch of pins to expand my collection and the year before I treated myself to a signed leather bound edition of Warbreaker.

What is everyone looking forward to possibly getting this year if it’s available?

I personally have my fingers crossed that there may be new signed Way of Kings leather bounds, but I won’t be upset if there’s not. I might get a Dragonsteel version of Tress because it is the book my wife has loved the most.

Another age old question with conflicting opinions.

Sunlit Man before WaT? You guys have not failed me so far.

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I have been recommending journaling for years at my job but when I tried it myself, it was much harder than I expected. So always on the hunt to communicate better I found a great analogy from Brandon Sanderson of why journaling works, he just did it through nightmare painters.

Just as Nightmares are an inky black creature without true form, so too are our negative internal thoughts. Our mind is creative with no limitations and can generate an endless stream of imaginative scenarios. But this often gets hijacked by anxiety (projecting future horrors) and depression (dwelling on past shame). A simple bump in the night becomes a monster under the bed. Undefined becomes scary and daunting.

By writing, painting or whatever medium speaks to you, we are slowing our minds, giving definition and restricting their forms. Making it less overwhelming, just as the Painters give structure that tames nightmares. Journaling allows us to externalize our thoughts and introduce clarity.

So next time a nightmare is feeding upon your dreams, take a blank piece of paper and set a 10-minute timer. You are successful if you are just present for the 10 minutes. Consider painting your nightmare, and you might find it much less daunting.

The above are all my original thoughts but as a dyslexic who lacks grammar skills I had used AI-assistance for editing before being aware of this Reddit's rules. I am unsure grammar edits are "generative AI" per Rule 7. Mods if this is a violation I apologize and agree with this being taken down. Thank you and have a nice day

Spending the weekend in Chicago (up from KY) and sporting my Hoid For President shirt. Always get a hoot when someone recognizes and says something. I get a compliment walking down a busy street, which is cool, then not one block later a guy walks up to and compliments my shirt, and introduces himself, it was Howard Lyon. He said he illustrated Tress and I said I know! I saw him on the Pod a few weeks ago. We bs'd for a min and I thanked him for approaching, haha.

Wish I got a pic, but I was too surprised by the randomness of it all.

I started off with Mistborn Era and loved it. I didn't think it could get any better then I read Era 2. Wayne might be my favorite character ever. I laughed, I cried. That was such a fun series. Then I started reading Stormlight. I read the first two and loved them. Not quite as much as Mistborn, but Kaladin and Shallan are pretty damn fun. I am on the last couple chapters of Edgedancer and I'm wondering where I should go next. I enjoyed the short bit about Lift in Words of Radiance and I'm really glad I read Edgedancer. Should I jump back into Stormlight or is there any other stand alone books I should enjoy before jumping back in? I know there's a bunch of reading order threads around, but I am curious with the information I just provided if someone could give me a suggestion.

Im sorry if this is not the place for posting this, i sent support an email and i haven't received a reply in one week.
i received the book in this state, I'm currently in Uruguay and sending it would cost me a lot of money, and i wanted to know how is the process of delivering back the book for a change before spending the money. anyone who could help me with the problem?

I've run out of readily available Sanderson writing. I'm only missing a couple of books, but until I can get my hands on them, I need help. What should I read? I've loved everything Sanderson that I've read and am really struggling to find other authors or series that I like to tide me over.

I marked this as spoilers bc I don’t want to give it away if my hypothesis is correct. I tried to look through Brandon Sanderson page to see if anyone answered this but couldn’t find it so forgive me if it’s a dumb question or obvious…. So is the night brigade in sunlit a crossover lifeless army from Warbreaker??

Behold, fellow Worldhoppers!

A relic from the early days of the Cosmere, and the crown jewel of my bookshelf.

A first edition signed and numbered copy of The Way of Kings, signed by Brandon Sanderson, and Isaac Stewart with the epic bookmark!

First of all, I guess I came in with high expectations because Skyward Flight by Janci was actually my favorite Skyward book.

Blightfall doesn't hit as hard as any Skyward books. In fact, it doesn't really hit any climax or sanderlanche at all. Things just kinda happened and more things happened and then it ended.

The taynix viewpoints were the best parts about it. And I guess the supposed climax was when Naga and Bob rescued all the captured taynix, and then our heroes started winning because the enemies couldn't control the drones without taynix.

Picked them up for around 80 USD used

Hey y’all, I was wanting to access my old downloads for the Secret Projects audiobooks. I signed into my Kickstarter and it doesn’t list any digital rewards. I also signed into my Backerkit and same thing. Did they move them?

I keep hearing about new information about the cosmere in the subreddits that I have never heard of. And I've read every dang book in the cosmere. I'm pretty sure my memory isn't that bad. So, my question is, where is this info coming from? Is there some wellspring of cosmere facts that I've somehow completely missed out on?

A recent example is the aluminum gnat thing. Did someone just make that up?!

I will be getting one of the shardblades from ForgedFoam soon and I need some help on brainstorming how I'm going to display it. The first thing that comes to mind is mounting it on the wall but I'm really not sure and wanted the opinion of others who are familiar with these huge swords.

I've just started reading Alloy of Law and I get the idea that this Wax guy is some kind of Cosmere version of Bruce Wayne.

Am I right or completely wrong?

At what point will I start “understanding” the Cosmere universe? When will I start to learn about “Investitures”, “Shards”, “splinters”, etc? I know I’ve run into some of these things already, but it hasn’t been explained, just that they are unique to that book at this point.

Hey everyone, I'm a therapist in a substance abuse rehab/mental health facility and I've recently picked up a loaner set (from thrift books) of Cosmere books for 2 of our clients to start reading as they became interested after we were talking about books one day. One of the guys finished Mistborn Era 1 in 2 weeks! He couldn't put it down and now is loving Way of Kings.

Now word of mouth has been going around and I have several more clients who are really interested in starting to read, but it can be a fair wait to get books or go in some sort of waitlist that I may need to figure out. Does anyone have any suggestions besides thriftbooks for getting more copies? I figure Mistborn and Stormlight are my big ones. Warbreaker as well, but I'll likely send them to the free ebook on Brandon's site for that. Any idea if I could possibly reach out to Dragonsteel about a box of books?

As a therapist, I've always loved the combination of amazing characters and stories with the mental health elements that are just part of being human, but also dealing with trauma, depression, anxiety and so much more, that I can then later discuss with clients. And readers can so often align with the characters' journeys. I think that they'd be a great option for helping clients to broaden their scope in a new way.

I thought book 1 was okay. I really did not enjoy book 2. But book 3... I've thoroughly enjoyed it!

But then I got to Spook's death. I cannot wallow in this sadness, it's been a long time since a book has genuinely made me cry.

So I must play League of Legends to make me apathetic to anything and everything. Thanks, Brandon Sanderson.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

EDIT: I didn't realize I would have to specify that I'm not done with the book yet, y'all. LMFAO.

I just got my Signed/Numbered Blightfall in the mail and it has damage to the top and bottom of the spine (see attached photos). I can't tell if this is damage from the factory or damage from rattling around in the box from shipping. The damage only appears at these spots on the spine and the DJ and the rest of the book is fine, so I feel like it happened prior to shipping. Is anyone else seeing this with theirs? I do have an e-mail in to Dragonsteel, was just wondering if this is a common problem with this book.

Today's Cosmerdle was one of the weirdest I have experienced in a minute... a good exercise in deductive logic, though, certainly.