Hey Guys. Iredomi Posts Their Cosmere Fanstuff Over On Sebrukiscrossbow And This Includes A Collection

Recess: That's right. They'd break recess and turn it into a session of advanced algebra instead. (Note: The same thing happens when you go to middle school or junior high. Sorry.)

Alcatraz Smedry (in The Shattered Lens)

From Alcatraz’s handy list of things Librarians would break if they could.

Badger and I were contemplating what color axehounds should be and then they said there should be sparkle axehounds and that reminded me of My Little Pony and then Badger drew this and it is EXCELLENT. 

my little axehound, my little axehound ~

Ok.  Completely new post because the other one keeps reverting to the cut off version.  This is my interpretation of Shallan's Lullaby from Words of Radiance. So far as I am aware the tune doesn't belong to anything else.

For the Blad design, wouldn't another good idea be to put stabilizing lines of forbidding between the tips of the ellipses, so they are outside the defense? They would stabilize and anchor it, not restrict movement, and also protect from incoming attacks.

That would be great, but unfortunately it won't quite work.  If you connect the tips of the ellipses, this is what will happen:

You could decrease the size of the portion that is cut off by playing with the dimensions of the ellipses, but you are never going to get the tip of the ellipse to stay inside that sharp angle at the top.  The only Line of Forbiddance that touches the bind point at the tip and doesn't intersect the rest of the ellipse is the tangent line, which would be perpendicular to the major axis and thus never reach the second ellipse.  You could contain the entire diagram in a square, but then you also can't attack.

If we could get bind points in places other than the tips, then a variation on your idea might work well.  I have ideas for how we might be able to construct elliptic defenses with more bind points, but writing that up will require more coherence than I have this time of night ;-)

Because Syl would be fascinated by lava lamps and try to emulate them.  Clearly.

I’m in the choir at First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta. We performed the Vivaldi Gloria with our orchestra. Merry Christmas! (I think I have it set to start about 6 minutes into the video where the concert actually begins)

Monica Dewey, soprano Matthew Reese, countertenor Rolando Salazar, conductor

Hey y’all, it’s Kaly reads a poem time again.  This one is called Entropy’s Embrace.  It isn’t quite a cosmere specific poem, but it is a great poem, was written by our friend worldsingers and it does have some lovely cosmere evoking imagery.  You can find the text and a review of the poem here.

Ok, so after the skyeel came out yesterday, I decided to try a chull today.  I'm not entirely happy with it, but here, have it anyway.

Rithmatics: Part 8, Intro to Lines of Vigor

Let's start with what we know for sure from the books:

Lines of Vigor can only affect chalk creations

You have to draw at least two waveforms to shoot a Line of Vigor

Lines of Vigor can damage or move Lines of Warding (and other chalk creations)

"smaller curves" are stronger [1]

A "large arc" lets them move other lines [2]

Lines of Vigor can bounce off of Lines of Forbiddance

We have previously established that the source of the illustrations in the book is playing fast and loose with the definition of curvature, so the notions of "smaller" and "larger" in the above are not entirely clear.  I know what I want them to mean though...

Theory Time

You know what this sounds like to me?  This sounds like electromagnetic waves.  EM waves are often modeled with transverse waves (the sine curves all of our examples of LoV look like are transverse waves). Higher frequency radiation, such as UV rays is better at penetration than lower frequency radiation, like infrared.  Infrared, on the other hand, is much better at transferring energy, which could very reasonably lead to a transfer of momentum here and thus lead to things moving.  As long as velocity is constant, frequency and wavelength are inversely proportional.  This means that the tighter the curve is the higher the frequency. Theory: Lines of Vigor are based on EM waves.

Possible Implications:

A EM wave with a larger amplitude has more energy.  This would suggest that a Line of Vigor with a short wave length and high amplitude would be better at punching through things and one with the same wavelength and small amplitude.  The effect could be even more pronounced with high amplitude long wave length waves that are trying to push things around

EM waves follow the law of superposition - if you stack two on top of each other you can add them at every point to get a new wave.  This would suggest that there might be more interesting LoV. Instead of just sin(x), we could get things like sin(x)+sin(x/2).  The more complicated ones could be tricky to get right, but might be able to do interesting things.

Related to the previous point, you could get interesting effects if LoV could have interference patterns like EM waves do...

EM waves travel with different speeds through different materials and you get refraction when they move between materials.  Since LoV only affect chalk, it is possible they are only affected by chalk, but if the material they move across affects their velocity, you could get refracted LoV when they move from the sidewalk to the asphalt.

Lines of Forbiddance would be playing the role of mirrors. I have lots of ideas here, but those are for a future post or this one will end up ridiculous.

Hey guys, let's think about bendalloy ferrings, aka Subsumers, for a minute.

We know they can store nutrition and calories in a metalmind which means they can eat as much as they want when there is lots of food and then tap it later.  

Think about a Subsumer at a Scadrial eating competition.  "Sure, I can scarf away as many hot-dogs as you want. No problem."

Think about a Subsumer at an all-you-can-eat buffet.  They get to try everything and then go back for as much more as they want of everything they like. Such restaurants would have to have special rules for subsumers...maybe a pay by the hour thing?

Imagine if Lift gets a hemalurgic spike that lets her become a bendalloy ferring. She would have the best stormlight storage system.   She could eat loads, store most of it in her metalmind(s), and then tap into it whenever she needs stormlight.  Unlike spheres, it wouldn't leak away and if she is tapping it from the metalmind she isn't sucking the energy out of her body.

On the darker side of things, you probably also get the occasional Subsumer who is desperately afraid of gaining weight and always stores everything they eat in their metal minds and never taps them.  Most people don't know that they are a ferring and everyone sees them eating, so people don't realize there is a problem until it has gotten really bad.