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My question is if we don't get to see the Wise Ones all sitting on Lan to keep him from chasing after Moiraine into Rhuidean...WHAT EVEN IS THE POINT?!!
I hate the show, but even I'd see a clip of that if it was done properly.
Moiraine showing up at the White Tower with three Taveren and two of the most powerful Aei Sedai Novices since the Breaking of the World after being gone 20 years:
Show only please. Mind your tags, because that never happened in the books.
There’s a Twitter account made like 16 hours ago that’s just trolling recent WoT posts to say stuff like the Maidens’ haircuts are wrong and he’s made the same post like ten times but no one’s responding to him it’s so funny
Also asked “how tall” they are like 1) RJs seven foot gingers are a reasonable thing for a real human to be and 2) Ragga isn’t 6’2” lmao
Currently reading book four. The maiden hairstyle is shaved on the sides, with a ponytail in the back, and is similar to the men's hairstyle. Also, the woman are in the tall 5' range whereas the rest of randland is average to low 5' range. However there are a few shorter aiel too, so height doesn't matter all that much. And as a female martial artist myself, long hair is either tied back or cut short, as it can be grabbed in a fight. The police also have those restrictions.
I hope this helps clarify a few things for you. Also, if you don't want answers like mine, don't forget to tag your post properly. Most of us Bookcloaks have the show tags blacklisted so we don't have to be reminded of the show still not adapting anything but one scene properly. We also avoid Showfriends as much as we can, except a few of us who are still hoping to be heard and not ridiculed by people who obviously never listen. Or we don't want to see people torturing themselves by clinging onto the hope the show will turn out okay.
Seriously though, you guys really need to stop being bigoted. You claim that us Bookcloaks are bigots, racist, or just lunatics. Yet you will actively attack any of us at any turn, like what you're doing now. Stop pushing other fans away and making the factions bigger. Not all of us Bookcloaks are right wing. Actually, most of us are left wing.
Leave a dead man's legacy alone and take your show for what it is. Something that has nothing in common with the books except for a name.
Not a book update, just a personal rant. Warning, if you love the show, you will hate me. I am a Bookcloak. Although that name is pretty ironic.
Also tdlr: me ranting about the fandom of wheel of time breaking and how it broke my heart at the same time. Also, issues with the show and issues with the head of the Showfriend faction of the fans. I wish the show never existed because of what it did to the fans.
Like many Wheel of Time fans, I was ecstatic when the show was announced. Casting came out, and I'll admit I was a bit disappointed. But it would be worth it if the show was good. I got past the disappointment and was still just as excited.
I heard a few leaks, and some did concern me, like the budget for a wig, and covid slowing production. But, a Wheel of Time show was finally being made. It didn't matter if it was perfect. As long as it was good. I kept waiting.
Then the actor for Mat left. The producer claims it was because he didn't want to get a vaccine, but he left far before the vaccine was given out. I still kept waiting and hoping. Finally it was September 2021. The producer was doing an interview. One thing Rafe Judkins said stuck with me. Not in a good way either. "Sometimes I'll send Sarah an email with a fake script, then call her. I then threaten her with Thoms death, and love to hear her cry." Okay, maybe it was a joke, I told myself. So I kept hoping.
Then the big day came. You know most of us were watching prime, waiting for it to let us watch the show, poised on that play button for those first three episodes. Finally I could watch it. The show adaptation for my favorite book series. I could... okay those three episodes kinda sucked. But there's eight in a season, so it can improve right? Wrong. I couldn't watch past episode 5. I nearly threw up, and I wish that was an exaggeration.
I felt like I had been gang beaten. I was in denial, but I should've known from episode 2, when Moiraine killed with the one power. But that scene with Logaine and Loial were so well written, the rest had to be like that, or half right? No, no it wasn't. I had to keep watching through Steppin killing himself after denying a bond with a polygamous Green, or even Lan doing the mourning. I should have stopped when Mat and Rand were chased through the streets by serving girl, even if she was a Darkfriend. Or when Nynaeve pushed Egwene off a cliff. But I tried to keep watching.
I was in a rage, and I was in tears. I was in denial. That atrocity could have just changed its title and character names and it wouldn't be recognized as Wheel of Time. The character design, the scenery and the props were fine. The script... the script was the only thing wrong.
Then it made me remember another quote from the interview. "I tell the writing room what happened next in the books, they exclaim 'don't spoil us' because most don't want to read the books in fear of spoilers." I wish he was joking. Light, I wish I was joking. But watching that thing... I don't think he was.
But that wasn't the worst part. The worst part of the show wasn't its content. It was it's effect on the fans. I could honestly forget the show except the fans won't let me. I literally joined social media because I was looking for wheel of time fans. I got what I wanted, for about 4 months. The 4 best months of my life too.
We fucking shattered into 4 groups. The Bookcloaks, the Showfriends/ shills, the Hopefuls and the selfdeniers. The first two groups partly existed before the release due to issues with the casting. Some of the Bookcloaks were racist towards it at the time, others were concerned with the deviation from the plot. I was the latter, and certainly didn't support the former. But we were lumped together all the same, called racists and bigots. But that was only a drop in the bowl of pain to come. Ironically tho, that diversity shield worked well, although it didn't do jack for that Velma show.
The show came out, and the divides solidified within episode 5. Two weeks is all it took. The Hopefuls and the Deniers grew smaller, but still exist. The Bookcloaks in all are still called racist and bigots, and are outright banned if we even say something positive about that show.
A certain show subreddit moderator spearheaded this campaign. TheNewPoetLawrette (I forgot the exact spelling) as she was named is a SJW Karen. I say that as someone who's very much on the left. And she is the only person I have ever called either name. I had an unfortunate run-in with her on a discord server called The Queers Blessing (still love that name Sarah). A debate had started up about rings of power casting, when a Showfriend started a discussion about people complaining about the casting. I asked for the discussion to end there, because I didn't want the last haven I had to be destroyed. Of course they didn't come back online until after the drama ensued.
Miss NewPoet took it upon herself to go into a rant about how bigoted I was for not wanting to talk about it. And when I explained my reasons why (I'll admit right here my autistic brain didn't word it well) she lobbied to get me banned from the server. She outright called me racist, misogynistic and a homophob. Funny, because I'm a lesbian who's dating a beautiful trans woman, but she didn't need to know that. Also, why would you judge people by race? It's their actions that matter, and Miss NewPoets actions label her as a terrible person.
She also failed to get me banned on discord. Unfortunately The Queers Blessing went silent after that, most of us just wanting nothing to do with her. I feel sorry for Sara, as she did create that server.
There is no head of faction for the Bookcloaks or the other two factions. And quite a few of the Showfriends have joined the Bookcloaks in the past couple years. Even advocators of the show have joined. Well, they officially joined until a certain mod spearheaded another assault and got the Bookcloak subreddits banned from reddit.
Honestly, just for what it did to the fans, I wish the Wheel of Time show never existed.
Capitalists are always saying that capitalism is about employees voluntarily exchanging their labor for money.
But if that were true, they'd have literally zero objection to an applicant wanting to know their salary. It would be pretty much obvious that any applicant would expect to know that.
Capitalism isn't really about voluntarism or freedom. It's about authoritarianism. Some people own everything, and everyone else exists for the sole purpose of making them own even more. Employees are literally expected to prioritize making rich people richer over their own financial stability.
This is your warning.
This is an excellent rounding up of the issues of red states (the only kind of state I know) and it’s very excellent content EXCEPT for one glaring issue in the first tweet.
PLENTY of people are and have always been talking about these issues. They just are in red states, poor, people of color, queer, disabled, etc. so people in blue states who live lives wholly removed from their realities haven’t been listening.
Great observation OP but why feel the need to see something wrong in the US and immediately compare it to West Africa?
Americans are so fucking willfully ignorant about the condition of people from other countries that they think the condition of gay people in the USA today is anything compared to the gay people in RUSSIA where they're literally executed. You can't go a day without comparing yourself to someone who has been through something 10x times worse.
Look at this bullshit-
And imagine thinking the condition of American South is anything or will ever be anything close to a religiously conservative developing country as long as you control the world's economy and politics. FYI, a developing country refers to countries in the global south. My country is on the edge of being controlled by total fascism. The only thing standing in between is the SC. And even the SC is fucking shit up because of postmodernist ideologies America has created and that you guys still support vehemently-
https://m.timesofindia.com/india/theres-no-absolute-concept-of-man-or-woman-says-cji-chandrachud/amp_articleshow/99597591.cms
Because of you, I can't fucking marry someone I am attracted for at least the next decade when several of you are already married happily.
And it's just a stupid comparison. The kind of countries that this person is describing are doing even worse than countries like mine. The women's right to education and basic freedom stripped away. The government carrying out actual genocides like in Myanmar. Total authoritarian countries that the USA helps in supporting and has even created some of those.
The "child labour" thing took me aback too. The restrictions were loosened because the public had an outcry about migrant child workers in the meat packing factory and other dangerous places.
Why is the average white American acting like their condition will be reduced to what child labour looks like in a third world autocratic country?
No one has ever stopped Americans from talking about their issues and highlighting how things are getting worse. But imagine comparing yourself to the global south, from the oppression of whom you benefit.
Did you know your country coaxed mine to give away our own vaccines for you when my country had the worst highest rates of mortality during the pandemic and your people threw a fit when asked to wear a mask?
Your disease, mortality and poverty rates will never be near to ours so don't you dare compare your shit to ours.
Both the GOP and the Dems are united in exploiting the global south and that's not going to change anytime soon.
This genuinely pissed me off. Keep us out of your mouth when you don't even care about adding to our cause and then talk about your problems as much as you want.
Fucking yes thank you
I have lived in a developing country and currently live the US AND LET ME FUCKING TELL YOU americans have no right to compare themselves to developing countries in any way. Yes, its screwed up here but I know people from my home country would give anything to live in the states that are apparently becoming Nazi Germany.
The absolute fucking self centered entitlement of these people.
Stfu you dense pos
Why? Because @everything-is-crab and I called out your privilege?
I’m autistic and black you dense pos. Seriously, you guys talk about privilege but it’s just an excuse to be a toxic pos who snubs their nose and justify your persecution complex.
And I'm a South Asian bisexual. I'm not going to argue over IdPol with you.
Persecution complex? Tell me, how many cases of fgm does the US face every day? How many cases of child marriage occur in the US? Gay marriage has never even BEEN legal in my country (gay sex has been decriminalized less than a decade ago). Compare your economy and resources to that of ANY fucking developing country. Hell, my country doesn't even have paved roads, running water, or electricity in MANY places. My country criminalized marital rape less than a decade ago. Actual genocides and mass murdering occur. Go fucking reread what @/everything-is-crab posted and understand that America has it bad, but is in no way comparable to developing countries.
Yes, you face discrimination for being black and autistic, but it's really fucking dense of you to not recognize that you have privilege over many people in the world for being American. I faced more discrimination in my country simply for being a female than I do in America based on my race, sexuality, and gender COMBINED.
Both issues should be cared about. Although I wouldn't move to the states, perhaps Canada or elsewhere. However the states is turning into nazi germany, and as I recall that wasn't a good time for people who weren't white.
One of the reasons the states is getting so much attention is because it was the "role model" (or so it says) for years after ww2. However a young lady was dragged back to the country she escaped, and died after being forced out of the usa.
I understand you are upset, especially when people compare pain. And your pain is worse in some ways. However an eye for an eye makes the world blind, when we should be using those eyes to see the issues and causes of the issues. We live too short to fight like this, and root causes should be removed. The causes shouldn't dictate what we do anyway.
I do wish you luck on leaving your country, but please don't go to the country that feels like it's gonna erupt into civil war.
I live in the US. I left my country over a year ago. I will never go back to live there. I never implied that the issues in the US shouldn't be cared about, I think it's incredibly self centered and willfully ignorant to continuously compare the US to Nazi Germany and to developing countries. It's insensitive and careless. Show me one instance of an entire demographic being sent to concentration camps, forced to wear symbols to differentiate them from the "normals," and being killed by the thousands on a daily basis.
My point was that the US has its issues, but it's incredibly insensitive to compare it to countries that are still in economic shambles and to a dictatorship.
Look at Florida, and other states like it. They've decided on the death penalty for any adult who doesn't wear clothing that suits their sex in front of children. That isn't so dissimilar from the start of separation and camps. Also, there is camps starting. Conversion "therapy" camps. I said it's turning into a fascist state, not fully turned. Also, they just cut food stamps and welfare for the people who work 3 minimum wage jobs.
No tyranny is right. It is unavoidable in history and is disgusting. An economy in shambles is also never a good thing, as it leads to lawlessness and much higher rates of crime. I am not at all denying that where you escaped from was awful. And is worse than the states. However when people start making comparisons en-mass, there is definitely something very not right. Not to mention, crime against the lgbtq and POC has been increasing in the states, with the police even pitching in to those numbers.
I'm sorry to say, you hopped from a large fire into a barely smaller one. I wish you luck, in both living there and being able to afford college.
This is your warning.
This is an excellent rounding up of the issues of red states (the only kind of state I know) and it’s very excellent content EXCEPT for one glaring issue in the first tweet.
PLENTY of people are and have always been talking about these issues. They just are in red states, poor, people of color, queer, disabled, etc. so people in blue states who live lives wholly removed from their realities haven’t been listening.
Great observation OP but why feel the need to see something wrong in the US and immediately compare it to West Africa?
Americans are so fucking willfully ignorant about the condition of people from other countries that they think the condition of gay people in the USA today is anything compared to the gay people in RUSSIA where they're literally executed. You can't go a day without comparing yourself to someone who has been through something 10x times worse.
Look at this bullshit-
And imagine thinking the condition of American South is anything or will ever be anything close to a religiously conservative developing country as long as you control the world's economy and politics. FYI, a developing country refers to countries in the global south. My country is on the edge of being controlled by total fascism. The only thing standing in between is the SC. And even the SC is fucking shit up because of postmodernist ideologies America has created and that you guys still support vehemently-
https://m.timesofindia.com/india/theres-no-absolute-concept-of-man-or-woman-says-cji-chandrachud/amp_articleshow/99597591.cms
Because of you, I can't fucking marry someone I am attracted for at least the next decade when several of you are already married happily.
And it's just a stupid comparison. The kind of countries that this person is describing are doing even worse than countries like mine. The women's right to education and basic freedom stripped away. The government carrying out actual genocides like in Myanmar. Total authoritarian countries that the USA helps in supporting and has even created some of those.
The "child labour" thing took me aback too. The restrictions were loosened because the public had an outcry about migrant child workers in the meat packing factory and other dangerous places.
Why is the average white American acting like their condition will be reduced to what child labour looks like in a third world autocratic country?
No one has ever stopped Americans from talking about their issues and highlighting how things are getting worse. But imagine comparing yourself to the global south, from the oppression of whom you benefit.
Did you know your country coaxed mine to give away our own vaccines for you when my country had the worst highest rates of mortality during the pandemic and your people threw a fit when asked to wear a mask?
Your disease, mortality and poverty rates will never be near to ours so don't you dare compare your shit to ours.
Both the GOP and the Dems are united in exploiting the global south and that's not going to change anytime soon.
This genuinely pissed me off. Keep us out of your mouth when you don't even care about adding to our cause and then talk about your problems as much as you want.
Fucking yes thank you
I have lived in a developing country and currently live the US AND LET ME FUCKING TELL YOU americans have no right to compare themselves to developing countries in any way. Yes, its screwed up here but I know people from my home country would give anything to live in the states that are apparently becoming Nazi Germany.
The absolute fucking self centered entitlement of these people.
Stfu you dense pos
Why? Because @everything-is-crab and I called out your privilege?
I’m autistic and black you dense pos. Seriously, you guys talk about privilege but it’s just an excuse to be a toxic pos who snubs their nose and justify your persecution complex.
Autistic and a lesbian dating a trans woman here. Fuck off. Yes, racism is an issue that should have been killed off so many years ago. But you should look at what you said, then look in a mirror.
Third world countries have people starve to death daily, lgbt people murdered when they come out, and the racism is more rampant there then the states. As in you'd be killed on sight there.
I'm not saying your issues are invalid, but you should really stop comparing your issues to people who have it worse. Yes, being autistic sucks. Being discriminated against also sucks. But for the most part it ends there on this side of the ocean. For the most part, it'd be fixed with some gun misfire coincidences. In the countries with worse issues it wouldn't fix much.
You aren't the only one suffering. You're human, so you can learn. Learn to understand others problems while not lessening your own.
This is your warning.
This is an excellent rounding up of the issues of red states (the only kind of state I know) and it’s very excellent content EXCEPT for one glaring issue in the first tweet.
PLENTY of people are and have always been talking about these issues. They just are in red states, poor, people of color, queer, disabled, etc. so people in blue states who live lives wholly removed from their realities haven’t been listening.
Great observation OP but why feel the need to see something wrong in the US and immediately compare it to West Africa?
Americans are so fucking willfully ignorant about the condition of people from other countries that they think the condition of gay people in the USA today is anything compared to the gay people in RUSSIA where they're literally executed. You can't go a day without comparing yourself to someone who has been through something 10x times worse.
Look at this bullshit-
And imagine thinking the condition of American South is anything or will ever be anything close to a religiously conservative developing country as long as you control the world's economy and politics. FYI, a developing country refers to countries in the global south. My country is on the edge of being controlled by total fascism. The only thing standing in between is the SC. And even the SC is fucking shit up because of postmodernist ideologies America has created and that you guys still support vehemently-
https://m.timesofindia.com/india/theres-no-absolute-concept-of-man-or-woman-says-cji-chandrachud/amp_articleshow/99597591.cms
Because of you, I can't fucking marry someone I am attracted for at least the next decade when several of you are already married happily.
And it's just a stupid comparison. The kind of countries that this person is describing are doing even worse than countries like mine. The women's right to education and basic freedom stripped away. The government carrying out actual genocides like in Myanmar. Total authoritarian countries that the USA helps in supporting and has even created some of those.
The "child labour" thing took me aback too. The restrictions were loosened because the public had an outcry about migrant child workers in the meat packing factory and other dangerous places.
Why is the average white American acting like their condition will be reduced to what child labour looks like in a third world autocratic country?
No one has ever stopped Americans from talking about their issues and highlighting how things are getting worse. But imagine comparing yourself to the global south, from the oppression of whom you benefit.
Did you know your country coaxed mine to give away our own vaccines for you when my country had the worst highest rates of mortality during the pandemic and your people threw a fit when asked to wear a mask?
Your disease, mortality and poverty rates will never be near to ours so don't you dare compare your shit to ours.
Both the GOP and the Dems are united in exploiting the global south and that's not going to change anytime soon.
This genuinely pissed me off. Keep us out of your mouth when you don't even care about adding to our cause and then talk about your problems as much as you want.
Fucking yes thank you
I have lived in a developing country and currently live the US AND LET ME FUCKING TELL YOU americans have no right to compare themselves to developing countries in any way. Yes, its screwed up here but I know people from my home country would give anything to live in the states that are apparently becoming Nazi Germany.
The absolute fucking self centered entitlement of these people.
Stfu you dense pos
Why? Because @everything-is-crab and I called out your privilege?
I’m autistic and black you dense pos. Seriously, you guys talk about privilege but it’s just an excuse to be a toxic pos who snubs their nose and justify your persecution complex.
And I'm a South Asian bisexual. I'm not going to argue over IdPol with you.
Persecution complex? Tell me, how many cases of fgm does the US face every day? How many cases of child marriage occur in the US? Gay marriage has never even BEEN legal in my country (gay sex has been decriminalized less than a decade ago). Compare your economy and resources to that of ANY fucking developing country. Hell, my country doesn't even have paved roads, running water, or electricity in MANY places. My country criminalized marital rape less than a decade ago. Actual genocides and mass murdering occur. Go fucking reread what @/everything-is-crab posted and understand that America has it bad, but is in no way comparable to developing countries.
Yes, you face discrimination for being black and autistic, but it's really fucking dense of you to not recognize that you have privilege over many people in the world for being American. I faced more discrimination in my country simply for being a female than I do in America based on my race, sexuality, and gender COMBINED.
Both issues should be cared about. Although I wouldn't move to the states, perhaps Canada or elsewhere. However the states is turning into nazi germany, and as I recall that wasn't a good time for people who weren't white.
One of the reasons the states is getting so much attention is because it was the "role model" (or so it says) for years after ww2. However a young lady was dragged back to the country she escaped, and died after being forced out of the usa.
I understand you are upset, especially when people compare pain. And your pain is worse in some ways. However an eye for an eye makes the world blind, when we should be using those eyes to see the issues and causes of the issues. We live too short to fight like this, and root causes should be removed. The causes shouldn't dictate what we do anyway.
I do wish you luck on leaving your country, but please don't go to the country that feels like it's gonna erupt into civil war.
Spare me the Republican bullshit.
Are you a real human being? The porn bots got me a little cautious.
Don't worry, I am!
Yay! Someone I don't block!
tumblr needs a “not for you” page where it just has things that you disagree with and make you angry
@staffs-secret-blog isnt this a wonderful idea?
Brilliant idea
That's my for you page.
One thing I've just been thinking about is that I've heard some autistic people say that their sensory issues with food like fruits is that they aren't reliable- each fruit can have a different texture or taste even if eaten from the same batch. So I've been wondering... would replicators eradicate that problem? Or would they try to replicate food to taste the same as it would normally?
That's actually a really good idea. But it's not just texture and stuff. There's also taste, smell and a few other things.
I happen to be cursed with the opposite infliction. I can't have the exact same thing over and over. My body will reject it constantly. Which is good cause I'm not picky, but bad for things that have only a consistent texture and taste.
So, perhaps a replicator that has a setting to lightly adjust texture and taste when manually inputted?
Tumblr should have a public 'blocked by' count. just to generate drama. still no follower count though just how many people have your ass blocked
Nah, you can usually tell when they say something snarky as a reply, but you don't get to see it cause their blocking deleted it. That's also usually an argument they lose too.
What is your Hogwarts house?
It was gryffindor when Rowling could keep her mouth shut. Now it's no house because she's calling lgbt+ people nazis and "deatheaters". Hope that helps.
Hehehehe... I'm diagnosed with both... both suck
Wait... what did I miss about the scouts? I know I live under a rock, but I used to be a scout. Would anyone please tell me what happened?
