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Small-Scale Question Sunday for February 8, 2026

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

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I may draw a lot of flak for this, but I’ll slot a bunch of Brandon Sanderson in that category.

No, I owe a lot to Brandon Sanderson. As a very withdrawn teenager, Mistborn's message of

'Trust people, even when you can't prove they deserve that trust. Sometimes it works out.'

was exactly what I needed, exactly when I needed it.

In general Sanderson was part of a wave of stuff (mostly Japanese) that made me realise how absolutely infested my usual media was with irony and nihilism, and I appreciate that a lot.