made it through the workday, had some nice takeout as a treat, did a lovely call with my girlfriend and now that I had had my shower and am starting to wind down for bed I can finally process how I learned today that Brandon Sanderson has three houses all right next to each other.
it was very funny to finally read that article with Kim after hearing rumblings about it all day bc i could write a way meaner profile on Brandon in like five minutes, check this out:
Brandon Sanderson is one of the most popular fiction writers today because he's managed to monetize his borderline non-functionality into churning out absurd amount of the most popular type of narrative media today: nonthreatening wiki bait fantasy. The books are long enough and come out fast enough that you can turn the act of consuming them into part of your personality, which he and his business team take shrewd advantage of by making his youtube channel, podcasts, and blog posts feel like cute fandom content and not further marketing.
He's writing the MCU of books. It's all about the content mill and stretching his franchises as far as they can possibly go. If Sanderson has anything resembling an artistic project it's maybe a desire to one day make a book that's as close to a video game as humanly possible. He doesn't even have any interesting fetishes but he DOES have a very obvious fixation on the spunky but emotionally wounded teenage daughter figure that I'm honestly shocked hasn't gotten him in trouble yet.
