spilling the (forkroot) tea

unofficial blog of the Black Ajah Supreme Council || FULL SHOW AND BOOK SPOILERS WARNING (Darkfriends also welcome) 

[imacone]

decades

[anattmar]

Commission for @dykemaedhros

[imgonnaeditstuff]

the wheel of time meme → two locations → two rivers→ “I doubt there is another place men live that is more isolated from the rest of the world”

[follow-your-heartstone]

ok not to be obsessed with her or anything but like... look at these fucking shots??

where they just all out of everything but gasoline to cook with? Like yea sorry but we're just gonna have to pop the fuck off with the cinematography hope that's ok

[ofthebrownajah]

Weave Weeks - Music Monday

[ofthebrownajah]

[wheel-of-time80]

I just know they would've had a banger soundtrack... do it for them... save wot...

Art by Jeremy Saliba

[nadyanight]

The way we could have saw Natasha O'Keeffe as Lanfear in this....

📷 Sharon Gilham on Instagram

[behindfairytales]

Madeleine Madden in The Wheel of Time (s3) as Egwene al'Vere

[seeamericawrong]

There isn’t any hope. You’re trapped. The whole sky has fallen on you, and all you can do is shout.

Agamemnon, Aiskhylos (trans. Anne Carson) // Antigone, Jean Anouilh (trans. Lewis Galantière) // Eight, Sleeping at Last // The Wheel of Time, 3x04 The Road to the Spear // Autobiography of red, Anne Carson // The passion according to G.H., Clarice Lispector // H of h playbook, Anne Carson // Agamemnon, Aiskhylos (trans. Anne Carson) // Spoon river anthology, Edgar Lee Masters // The farthest shore, Ursula K. Le Guin // H of h playbook, Anne Carson // Antigone (translator’s note), Anne Carson

[black-ajah-hq]

I really just want to hear something from Rafe or Rosamund at this point 😭😭 They've been so vocal with the fans throughout the development of the show, it just feels bizarre to just hear radio silence now that the show's cancellation has been announced

[femaledaily]

Natasha O'Keeffe as Lanfear THE WHEEL OF TIME 3.08 | He Who Comes with the Dawn

[blacksheepcolorfulskin]

The costumes in this show alone. What a fucking loss.

[clearancecreedwatersurvival]

So Prime wants to focus on their other fantasy show, especially given their contract with the Tolkien estate. Fine.

It would make a lot of sense for Sony, the actual rights holders, to still want to make use of their ip especially since the show has momentum and a following right now, and take the show to a different streamer. And Apple TV does make a lot of sense as the best option, given their catalog of originals that are currently very sci fi heavy, to pick up a fantasy that can compete with house of the dragon and the rings of power.

So here’s hoping Sony and Apple TV agree. And we can help that process along and POLITELY ask them to consider it through every medium we can (such as socials like YouTube, Bluesky, and Instagram).

There may be hope for a Wheel of Time season 4+ yet! Don’t give up just yet y’all. Make your voices heard to #SaveTheWheelOfTime!!

[black-ajah-hq]

Sadly, I believe WOT being cancelled was done to make away, and money, for Amazon's adaptation of The Empyrean Series. It's a 5 book fantasy show that's already got a large and very active fan base - Talking early Harry Potter fandom days - when book 3 came out back in January this year, people were coming to midnight releases. Now they are waiting for books 3 and 4.

Amazon snatched up the rights very quickly, this is likely going to bomb ROP out of the water and be a giant hit for Amazon. WOT likely had to go, in Amazon's eyes it wasn't the giant hit they had hoped for. This was meant to be their answer to Harry Potter, but now they really do have that. Empyrean Series has a college, magic, dragons and a giant fanbase. You only have to see the casting wars going on to see how big this show will be. Theres two actors who are fanning the flames, gaining hype. The show is still ironing out the scripts for now, but both its writer and Amazon are very pleased.

This show will need a BIG budget. With ROP getting the lease sold to non streaming channels and WOT being cancelled, its going to open up the funds Empyrean Series will need.

When I saw the news that WOT has been cancelled and how we all agree the reason doesn't add up with the viewing figures at all, it sort of clicked in my head. The reason it doesn't make sense is because it doesn't, its an excuse. They are swealing Rand and the others away because once this was their big hope, now a guaranteed TV show hit is on their cards.

When WOT came out back in 2020/21 (?) The Empyrean Series wasn't even published.

Season 2 came out in 2023, it was this year the firdt Empyrean Series book came out, made a big impact in book world. It was followed by book 2. Amazon grabbed the TV Show rights before anybody else could.

2025, Wot returns and its going creat. It feels like WOT, sounds like WOT, fans are loving it, 97% approval and... cancelled.

Its believed the Empyrean Series is about to start casting soon, then shooting. We're maybe looking at a early 2027 release.

Coincidence or has WOT been earmarked for cancellation since season 2 as Amazon now own something that's technically able to head to head with Harry Potter's own TV show. Empyrean is just 3 out of 5 books in and the fandom is massive already.

You know what, I wanna talk about this. I didn't even know Fourth Wing (The Empyrean Series) got picked up by Prime Video.

If Amazon is still looking for their cultural phenomenon tv series, why not buy the rights to the already-a-cultural-phenomenon book series that is still fresh in everyone's minds? The Romantasy genre is sooooo hot right now. This totally makes sense to me.

Perhaps you're right, maybe Amazon did cancel WoT to conserve budget for the sheer amount of dragon CGI that's gonna be needed to adapt Fourth Wing. Though, I will personally be very sad if that's the case.

[thebeardedsoliloquy]

[clearancecreedwatersurvival]

Every time a streaming service puts out a new show with deliberate focus on diverse casting and featuring queer characters, refuses to devote any marketing budget to the show at all, and then cancels it for not getting enough hype, we should be allowed to ritually sacrifice an entertainment executive.

[butterflydm]

Cancelations of great shows always hurts, but this one really sucks, because this adaptation & cast were amazing. And I doubt anyone else is going to want to take on the task of translating 14 long books to screen, so probably no future attempts will be made.

And also this specific one was fantastic, so losing it in particular is just heartbreaking.