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I'm almost certain this idea has been done before, but I couldn't find anything posted here. Please note that this is a rough chart and not in any way definitive; it is a personal interpretation of how I think Shard Combination would work. All shards within a white box are a combo I see as being plausible. All Shards within a black box are double combos: doesn't count Grey boxes indicate Shards that would have extreme difficulty mixing. Pink boxes indicate Shard combos we know are canon. Green boxes indicate Shard combos that are possibly canon or could become canon. Blue boxes are not real Shards. They are my guess as to the sixteenth Shard and its respective combinations. I am aware that there may be inconsistencies with my logic. This is highly opinionated. However, I thought it would be beneficial to share it. If you have any questions, ask! If you have corrections, also ask! I am here to serve.

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*Sits down* I didn't plan on making this SU. Nor did I plan on coming on here today. I don't plan to do a lot of the major things I decide. They come in quick, decisive moments where every bit of my mind is chanting "Change! Change! Change!" This moment, right here, this is one of those moments. I could not have chosen a better place to spend my time in the past three years than on here and in Minecraft, meeting people. My time has been truly phenomenal, I've learned so much, I've grown, I've changed, I've become a different person in so many different ways. However, there comes a time when you realize that you have to know when to stop. When you realize that the thing that helped you change so much perhaps has only one more change for you. It's time to move on. I... I didn't plan on this. I've already mentioned that, but I feel like it needs to be said again. I did not plan on doing this any time soon. I thought that I could stay on here the way I've been for a couple years, till my mission and all that. Yet... if I am going to actually change, I need to cut things out of my life. Which is why I am leaving the Shard. I'm not leaving the Shard completely, I'll come on like once or twice on a weekend to make an update or look at people's profiles who I especially care about (Hey, I care about all of you, but even I have favorites) for SUs I might be interested. I'll hop on when a new book comes out to see how the discussion is going, maybe chip in some thoughts. It won't be the same. I'm going to put up a few posts on threads I especially care about to wrap up some things, get a few last laughs. That'll prob be the last few times I post in those specific threads for a good long while. If some of you want my phone number or email, shoot me a PM before Sunday. Anytime after and I'll prob have deleted the thing that makes it so I get emails from the Shard, signed out and made it so I can't access the shard on most days. Look at the final two paragraphs in my about me. They're for you. I didn't plan on making this SU, yet here we are. This isn't goodbye, not forever. I'll be back every now and then for a small bit of time on Saturdays, and I won't be leaving till Saturday night. I'll post another SU when I'm leaving, to let y'all know. Until then, yours truly, Thaidakar the Ghostblood. p.s. no, I'm not doing the Bilbo speech again.

Hey guys, sorry in advance for the emotional roller coaster the last couple weeks have been, I don’t know how much of it has bled onto the shard (I know some has, but definitely not all, I kind of tend to hide the bad in secret journals xD) Anyway Ahem There are some moments where the emotions are too powerful to speak. Where the tears falling down your cheeks aren’t enough. Where the screams echoing from your hoarse through aren’t enough. Where you are thumping your chest to try to get to your heart that feels as if it just might burst, and it isn’t enough. Where you’re hugging someone so tight your arms are shaking, and it isn’t enough. Where you laugh at the sky and dance through the rain. Where you need to sing. There are moments when your soul wants to break free from your body and fly its way up to heaven, because this earth cannot possibly understand all that you are feeling. I don’t ever want to lose these moments. I wrote an essay type thing a bit ago about being young, about how you fly and you fall; there is nothing better than flying, and nothing worse than falling. And we get so afraid to fall that we stop flying. Don’t let me ever stop flying. I have fallen, and I will keep falling, and I will shatter and break over and over again. But see how I fly. This is what it means to be alive. The flying, The falling, The feeling. And this feeling, right now… It’s too powerful for any words. Too powerful for a mortal body. Nothing I say can possibly explain it. Because next April, I will be performing in Hadestown, arguably my favorite musical of all time. And it’ll hurt. It’ll be a long, messy, exhausting year. I’ll keep falling. But watch me fly. “To see how the world could be, in spite of the way that it is.” I feel so much more, but there are no more words I can say that will even begin to make you understand all that I feel right now. So… Know that I’ve been screaming for almost 3 hours straight and no longer have a voice. Goodnight, Brothers. Goodnight.

NO STORMING WAY IMADEITINIMADEITINIMADEITIN TO BOTH CLASSES MUSICAL THEATRE 2 (20 PEOPLE) AND SHAKESPEARE (15 PEOPLE) My heart is beating so fast How- Why- Thank- Blood and bloody ashes. I actually made it in. Something about failing so often makes the success so much better. Don’t stop trying, okay guys? It hurts to lose today, but when you win tomorrow… Oh, it tastes so sweet.

HoA (original art)

Hey, y'all, sorry for the SUs in so close of proximity. I didn't realize I was gonna be doing this till literally just now. For the past while, I've been on screens faaaaaarrrr too much for my own good and there are two major reasons for this. YouTube and the Shard. Now, neither are problems. I still want to go on these things. However, I also want to write more regularly and establish the habit of taking aside time each day to write. And, to do that, I'm going to need space away from both. Now, this means I will not be on the Shard for at least until Saturday. I'm going to write a post for the insanity clinic tonight at some point. I'm sorry hunger games people too, hopefully the hunger games is still going on when I come back. If you need to message me or talk to me after I post that thing in the insanity clinic, then pm me and I'll check my email for shard stuff every day at some point. Whether I respond or not will depend on how important it looks from the email I get from it. So we'll see. For now, this'll be goodbye! I won't be gone long, hopefully, but I will be gone. I'll come back on in a few hours to write that post, then I'll be off. Y'all are awesome, don't forget that. I'll miss y'all. From your friend, Thaidakar the Ghostblood. P.S. remember: Thaidakar from TLT was a hamster and his father smelt of elderberries. His mother was a gerbil. P.P.S. also, someone post an inspirational SU for me while I'm gone. P.P.P.S. may the memes be with you. P.P.P.P.S. always.

Happy Mother's Day!! Made this for my Mama

There is only one unnamed Shard and evidence is mounting that it is something along the lines of Wisdom or Prudence or a similar concept. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/535/#e16590 The Shards we've encountered in the books get a flowery description of their intent "it was a perfect musical note held forever" "it was the most intimate embrace of lovers" etc. That got me thinking how Prudence / Wisdom might be a little lame in a funny way and that it would be fun to riff on what the unmet shards like Whimsy's flowery descriptions are. Prudence: I am the knowledge gleaned from the mistakes of others, I am the meditating hermit on the mountain top, I am looking both ways before crossing the street, I am waiting an hour after eating before getting in the pool! Whimsy: I am commitment to the bit ... until I don't feel like it anymore, I am every shout of "YOLO" ever uttered, I am the sock that catches the wind, I am the flower that waters you, I am so EXTRA!! Invention: I am the curiosity of every scholar, I am the urge to tinker just a little more, I am boredom with the same old thing, I am always in the garage working you know this is my "me" time how am I supposed to get any work done with these constant interruptions I am on the verge a breakthrough here I can feel it. No that's not a colander on my head it's a special device!!! Btw in my head these are all read by Don Pardo the longtime SNL opening credits guy https://youtu.be/_6YXwShVi04?si=m7-GEQeFD2PeiEnf

I did art today

Hello, my spirit brothers and sisters of God! As it is the most efficient and certain way to gain heavenly knowledge in this mortal sphere, I was converted to this glorious gospel my merit of its truth long ago! My mission approaches, and I will be unable to speak to you during that duration, but regardless, it heartens me to see such strong identities remaining true to their faith even online! Truly, your sharing spirit and love for others will bring many more people to the work! Ress forwards, Saints, with steadfast faith in Christ! Let the Love of Christ light your lives! The Ultimate Archivist, Foremost of scholars among mortal men, but utterly insignificant before the glory of God and his Christ.

So I'm thinking if Stormlight heals you based on your self image then there should be no upper limit to how muscular a Knight Radiant can get. I'm talking straight meat diesel. Here's my case in point: the pump. When your muscles are having a pump you experience a feeling of... euphoria. And your muscles look physically bigger because they're swollen and flooded with blood. With this in mind, we can assume that anyone with Stormlight Healing could get catastrophically storming huge. Here's how we do it. Kaladin and the boys suck down a load of stormlight and rock up to the gym. They then work out till they hit a pump and stare at themselves shirtless while the euphoric feeling of the pump brainwashes them into thinking they actually look like this. Stormlight healing reinforces their self image and it doesn't have to actually do all that much work because their muscles are already that big. Rinse and repeat. It goes without saying this would work best on The Lopen. Within the week we have to give Bridge Four new names. Kaladin Stormblessed - Kaladin Swoleblessed Rock - Block Teft - Chest The Lopen - The Yokeden Skar - Bar Sigzyl - Squatzyl Dabbid - Lattib Drehy - Wheyhy

Sorry I know I just posted-

Ok ok ok I think I mentioned that I was going to a pottery painting place today And you guys know how obsessed I am with Hadestown So this is what I made, it’ll look better once they put the glaze on it and cook it, which’ll change the color a ton, but I’m actually so proud of it, I’m not an artist and I have terrible handwriting so I think it turned out awesome!! To those who aren’t familiar with Hadestown, those are quotes and song lyrics all around it, and the thing in the middle is the rose that Orpheus gives Eurydice and is like a huge symbol throughout the show. Anyway I’ve had a lovely day, and I hope you all have to!!

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last night i went to the Austin stop on AJRs The Maybe Man Tour. Floor seats. Great view, great sound, i cried three times. Shared the evening with my beloved @Crowstavern, and i was screaming all the words. it was a night to remember, i’ll never forget it. the whole show was a work of art. i wish i was me, whoever that is. i could just be, and not give a sh*t hey, ill be whatever makes you a fan cause i dont know who the hell i am i think its too late to figure this out if i could be me i would’ve been it by now maybe im a stone or big as my house it looks like our time is running out so if this is me, then ill do my best ill take all the sh*t, so you never have to you can be you and i’ll be the rest yeah, maybe that’s who the hell i am

Ok so I went to my cousin's graduation today, some highlights include: 1. I have this list of names to use in various writing, because I'm bad at coming up with names...and then I started writing down graduates' names that I thought sounded cool...so now my list is considerably longer and I love the names people have, they'll be appearing in stories for quite a while. 2. We went to Costco and my older brother and I ran around and found all the best samples, I felt like a five year old again (especially since I haven't been in a Costco for literally years) 3. We went to a park for a picnic after and some of my cousins were playing spikeball...they got the spikeball stuck in a pine tree. So they threw their second spikeball up, and it got stuck. So my cousin threw his shoe up, and it got stuck. Next was a volleyball, then a frisbee, then several water bottles and then finally stuff started falling...then my cousin got stuck in the tree. Then my other cousin stood on her dad's shoulders and tried to reach the spikeball. After about 15 minutes, they finally got it down. Anyway, I'm about to go to my school's Morp, hope y'all are doing well!!

Welcome back for this weeks update on my life!! (imagine it in a radio voice) ON TODAYS UPDATE! everything sucks but hey I got Cal

Here's some rapid fire life updates: Feeling somewhat agoraphobic as of late. I'm pretty sure that's the right word. Tired. I am also that. I'm learning piano! It's going pretty well, I'm not too bad at picking up on new pieces. And then the biggest one, which some of you know already: I have a girlfriend! So that's pretty great.

Guys! I went to dinner and wrote a poem this is how I write when I'm literally dying. my heart great was 106 bpm the ENTIRE time T-T I love restaurants guys-

I'm sure many of you have heard about the refiner's fire and how we are being refined in the refiner's fire and that we need to go through intense heat to become purified and all that awesome stuff. But today I learned something crazy! It has to do when silver is purified. It goes through all the heat and pounding and all that, but the way that they know that the silver has been purified is when they can see their own reflection in the silver. So literally He is refining us, and we will be completely purified once God looks at us and sees in us a reflection of himself, of course not literally, but in every other way. And man that just hit me. Like He is refining us so that we can become like Him. That's all.

ok guys stop wait this is crazy im actually in like genuine shock right now so basically lately i’ve been feeling like i’m in an art block and just not making any progress abd then i looked back to a piece i did a year ago and— and— and i literally was dying and i’m gonna publicly embarrass myself and post them here (even though most of y’all have already seen them) they’re actually of the same character this was april 1st 2023 this was april 8th 2024 the iMpRoVeMeNt like BRUH

song idea maybe????: bay blue baby blue sky blue eyes my girl, my love with eyes like stars, could never tell me lies

Storm it y'all made me cry...

Mother’s Day walk highlights! I’m pretty tired of a lot of things. But we’re making it through. The sooner school gets out, I think, the better. Also, @Spark of Hope because I feel like you’re the best person to ask, is stuff still crazy in the clinic? Also what’s happened? I didn’t mean to disappear, and I wanna come back in but I can’t be crazy active right now

oh my gosh. So basically I have this character who was named Braxton. The name did not fit whatsoever to what I wanted him to be, and it was really hindering how I pictured him and how I was outlining. I finally figured out the solution. His name is Laurie and he's gonna be the John Wick of villains except with eldritch powers.

What follows is not what I believe will happen in Wind & Truth, here I intend to outline what I believe to be the most likely worst case scenario. The Empire Strikes Back ending for Wind and Truth. Pooling all my knowledge about The Cosmere and throwing a massive wrench in the works, applying Murphy's Law to Roshar. I have not read any preview chapters because I'm a big brain Stoneward and have no need to provide a basis for my theories. Let's start with Odiums loophole. The terms that I believe are important are laid out as follows: * Two willing champions selected * They meet atop Urithuru * Fight to the death * Should Dalinars champion win, all Odium-motivated hostility ceases between Singers and Humans, Alethkar and Herdaz are returned to the coalition of Urithiru, and Odium remains bound to Roshar * Should Odiums' champion win, hostilities still cease, Odium retains his territory, and Dalinar becomes a fused for Odium A lot of people seem to believe Odiums loophole involves stopping the fight by putting in a champion that the opponent will refuse to kill, or putting an immortal in the ring. I will not argue that this is nog compelling, however it's not Darkest Timeline. In my Darkest Timeline, Odiums loophole is to win and then force Fused Dalinar through such a heinous order that he refuses to do it, violating the contract and thus negating the clause binding him to the Rosharan system. It is for this reason I believe Odiums champion will be El, an El who swallowed the stone containing Yelig Nar. Now as for Dalinars champion? I believe it will be Szeth. I believe Dalinar already admits this will not be a simple duel, surges will be important. I believe Szeth will bond four honorblades in Shinovar, then upon opening the Shin oathgate and returning to Urithiru will say he only needs a blade with Tension to have all surges. He will either get Talns blade from wherever Hoid stashed it, or Ishars because Dalinar thinks it would possibly maybe perhaps be wise to disarm an active beligerent with mental health issues but not so unwise to arm an active ally with mental health issues. And Szeth-Son-Neturo will wear a farmers robe on the day he is to kill a champion because I'm catching a lot of coat of many colours symbolism from Szeth. He will still die, though. Now, Darkest Timeline for other characters. Shallan is pretty clearly foreshadowed as a worldhopper. I believe at some point Adolin will die, along with her brothers, probably a Ghostblood attack. This will free her from any kind of responsibility she feels on Roshar and maybe induce a desire to get away from the planet where everything she ever cared about died and find where these Ghostbloods are at. Then she's gonna go hunting. The Cosmere will be a lot more empty when Shallan is done. She'll at least be a problem the Ghostbloods feel a deep need to solve. Kaladin. Well, what's the most realistic Darkest Timeline for him? He dies? No. Moash will attack Kaladin and Szeth in Shinovar, during this attack Kaladin will swear his final ideal. "I accept that I need to be protected." Moash swings for him with the anti-stormlight dagger, and Syl dives in front of it. She is killed, and Kaladin is proved right that a lighteyes would take his power from him. Szeth manages to kill Moash and then they have a Batman/Superman conversation about how "Wow if my life had been different I would have turned out just like you." This conversation is what inspires Szeth to get all surges from the Hoborblades and volunteer as champion. Kaladin instead serves the Windrunners as a battlefield medic, only feeling useful when his friends are low on stormlight, and has to watch in agony as everyone from Bridge Four takes to the skies without him. Another honorspren will attempt to bond him and he will firmly but politely ask it to leave. Jasnah doesn't have a lot of personal stakes for the Darkest Timeline. She breaks up with Hoid, I guess. She's already a queen in exile, it can't get much worse for her outside of that. Renarin, separated from Rlain as he's with the New Listeners. Adolin dead. Dalinar as a Fused. He's left to lead the Kholin Highprincedom, and he's storming awful at it. Boy's not cut out for Alethi politics, he's gentle, his mind tends to wander, and his fashion sense is whack. The New Listeners and Willshapers, actually kind of looking to them as a little immune to a lot of my Darkest Timeline nonsense. The worst "real" scenario I can see for them is being discovered by one side or another and culturally enriched (read: forcibly assimilated.) Hoid: Everything is stormed. Just as planned. And the Darkest Timine for Dalinar. Upon losing the Contest of Champions, Odium takes him as a Fused. This makes the Stormfather a deadeye, Odiums last "Storm you" to Honour. The consequence of this will be the Highstorm stops moving. Roshar will have an ever-stationary storm like Jupiter. It will be in a place that's near impossible to reach, therefore the Tower will be the only source of Stormlight. Cultivation will have one of two moods in response to this. "Oh rust." Or "Just as planned." Possibly both. Odium eventually breaks Dalinar by forcing him to do something. Massacring innocents. Dalinar refuses and Odiums imprisonment on Roshar is broken. He's now free to save the whole cosmere, whether they need it or not. And he'll do this by eliminating all other Shards. I will now wait patiently for Wind and Truth, to see how Dark the Rimeline is and hope that my Timeline is the Darkest Timeline that conforms to realistically where the series is going

The difference between God and Miguel from the spider verse movies is that one cares about the individual and one doesn’t give a crap about the individual. that movie is so thought provoking though.

My creative process

guys the drawing skills the drawing skills are skilling

there is pain and there is sorrow but nothing compares to watching the light leave somebody’s eyes when they say, ”you know, i don’t think i ever loved you.” there is pain behind that. because not even a month ago you said to them, ”look into my eyes, see my pain. my sins. my horrors. look there, into my eyes, and love me.” and they said, ”i will.” and now they see you with contempt with hatred with regret and animosity and they just want you gone.

I had a house in Rathalas once.

It also confirms to me, 90% sure, that Shallan will go to the Spiritual Realm and experience it. Infact theory time, since spiritual realm has both the past and the future, this will be how Brandon gives us info about shallan's past without dedicated flashbacks. She will have a set of quick visions of the past and the future , like Rey touching the lightsaber in the Force Awakens, and we will have a bunch of theory fodder for the next 5 years. Chana can be revealed as shallan's mom, while also teasing about future Shallan and ghostblood fights in the cosmere.

so uh we got bored and decided to become an elven princess turned pirate type thing uh yeah i considered doing my bedazzled fishnets instead of the snake ones but those are more silvery than gold and also they’re like kinda dirty so

okay so i found out last night that my school's fall play for next year is Romeo and Juliet and if i don't make it i will cry (im shooting for tybalt) and now i shall go practice the audition material. EN GUARDE! *draws sword with a flourish but runs the opposite direction, papers flying out of leather satchel like leaves in the wind*

Another opn’n another show, everyone. We’re 20 minutes in. I love theatre.

just took the english map test got a 255 was curious so i looked up the average for my grade

They're ADORABLE, I love them. YKYASW you have spent hundreds of dollars on your Sanderson collection and it's theoretically worth thousands?? (Book collecting is wild, man.) When there has been a magnet of Shallan saying "I am plotting tax evasion" on your whiteboard for like a year. When you met some of the people most dear to you in the world on this website.

BEGIN LOG If love is so fragile, then why continue to repair it after it cracks? Once it has filled its surface with this many cracks, wouldn’t it be easier to leave it be and let it decay and shatter and fall apart over time? Yes. It would be easier. But that doesn’t mean it’s the correct thing to do. Love is so fragile because it needs to be constantly repaired. It is an essential part of love, that need for constant repair, for maintenance, for reassurance of devotion. Some may wonder why to keep that lamp on, to keep its ornate ceramic looking beautiful, despite the cracks. “Look at your lamp,” They say, “It is cracked and flawed. Shouldn’t you discard it and put a new flawless copy in its place?” And I say to them, “You know nothing of this. This lamp has seen much. Endured much. It’s stories are nestled in the cracks spreading across its ceramic. It’s journey is weaved into the stone it is made of as if a testament of all it has seen and heard. Is this not a sign of flawless and perfect existence? Perfection in imperfection?” This lamp, this love.. It will dim. It will brighten. Sometimes the power will blink out, leaving us in the dark. But the lights will come back on. And we will fight to love. We will choose to love, and to live, and we will nurture the cracks. Let them settle. And when someone asks about them, we will tell that story. I will engrave bluebirds into our lamp. I will stamp ravens to the surface, let crows flutter onto the stone. I will put roses, and chrysanthemums, and moonflowers and sunflowers, and I will sprinkle it in color so that when it is finished, it will be colorful in ways you only could have dreamed of. I have made mistakes. I have cracked our lamp. I will mend the crack. I will transform it into something beautiful. I will build on it, and build into a future with you. This is my vow to you.

nobody: literally nobody: every single worksheet/page of notes i own, for actually no reason:

guys help i'm so burnt out i can't even like write a poem about it i'm so done i just want school to go away and never come back LIKE WHY DO I HAVE TO MAKE 85 ANNOTATIONS ON THIS 8 PAGE PACKET?!?!?! i got it today it's due tomorrow and it's a *test grade* like WHUT ugh i'm so done but yeah i'm feeling burnt out and stuck and empty

that was INCREDIBLE i have never had so much fun in my ENTIRE LIFE im just sad i couldn’t afford this dagger it was slightly over how much money i had and i wanted to cry but i did get cute celtic knot earrings also the ice cream guy asked me if my scars (see below) were real hehehe i was like “nah they’re fake” (it’s literally just lip liner, eyeshadow, and concealer. that’s all it is) and he was like “oh. i was like ‘were you in iraq too’ cuz that was some gnarly [bleep]” and i was like “nope” and he gave me my ice cream and asked if it was enough lol and it was PLENTY and he was just super chill a bunch of other people said they liked my makeup/outfit too this little girl came up to me and was like “i like your cosplay ma’am” and it was maybe the cutest thing ever i also shot a bow and arrow and got stuck in a castle built for little children and saw SO MANY THINGS I WANTED TO BUY BUT COULDNT. GRR. also it has been confirmed that i spotted cheesie (@The cheeseman) across the way huzzah! god save the queen, and Sir Jacob—my one and only, always and forever—for life

DEATH YOUR DEATH MY DEATH EVERYBODYS DEATH DEATH death… So yeah. Sledding. Wheeee…. I LEFT NO RING WITH HER WHAT MEANS- I AM THE MAN SHE LOVES ME I willlll be heeeerrrreeeeeeeeeeeeee even if you decide to get rid of my favorite sweater This has been a small section of my brain as it fails to memorize everything and then some. Thank you for listening, please come again.

update: the elbow is not, in fact, broken. hooray! it still hurts, but i have a fair range of motion and was even able to wash my hair in the shower! also, my head injury is feeling better as well. it only hurts to the touch, and ive stopped getting headaches from it yay!

GUYS!!! THE DUCKS ARE DUCKING!!!!

Eleven twenty five, on a Saturday night. Careful white blossoms that are almost sickly sweet are strewn upon the ground, beautiful in their carelessness. There’s laughter. And singing. So much noise, Followed by a perfect quiet. The quiet is the eye of a storm. A place where emotions, And thoughts, And words fade away. The world crumbles beyond it but here, Here All is well. For a moment, There is no terror, No desperation, No longing, And no exhaustion. A single ball, A single night of glittering dresses and earnest gentlemen. A single night where reality is gone, And we have stepped into wonderland. And oh, It is beauriful. Eleven twenty nine, on a Saturday night, and I am home in the eye of the storm. One family… No mourners.

Oathbringer: