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People not okay with decision aren't automatically overracting & it's fair if they feel they can no longer engage with the show or fandom. Representation means everything to marginalized people, in a way that people who are not marginalized couldn't possibly understand.
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People who are okay with the decision aren't automatically heartless assholes who hate queer joy, that's an unfair (and hurtful) generalization.
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I can count on one finger the times I've felt represented in a show I didn't specifically seek out (even then, one half was only racially 'coded', and it couldn't be explicit until the very end without facing cancellation).
Appreciate anyone who can listen with an open mind and heart ❤️
that's what i been saying 😂
it's literally nynaeve
like the first search result 🤡
What gets me too is the final speech feels like a vanity/showcase thing because obviously the actor can deliver. It's like let's speedrun this for a stunning moment that is (sadly) hollow and unearned given the characterization so far lol. Emotional, but not for meaningful reasons. "Shock value"🙄
I saw that update! I still need to get back to BG3. I'm stuck trying to figure out combat and just cheesing my way through it 🤣 it works for now... but I *know* there are more strategic ways to do it and I want to figure them out!!
Those laughs are very needed 😭
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True. She could flash those at me and I'd just hand her the sakarnen no questions asked.
With only the show as context, I might agree. At first, I assumed it'd be better not to hope because that rarely works out well. It was more the way things were discussed and promoted in interviews, leveraging difficult life experiences, that made a lot of us who are upset feel like we were misled
Oh my god this is so funny I wouldn't even be mad at this as a 'solution' lol.
(Sorry for the triple post - I forgot to link the article screencapped above: www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur... ) 😅
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To over emphasize, I think there could've been a way in which we had the same result but with a better character journey. I think I could've lived with that. I personally would've taken a badass noromo Siuan over the missed attempt at representation Siuan. (Am I a traitor lol).
I was coming to terms with the fact that I was gay at the same time. So as we were both reading these books, we saw ourselves in them. That was different for me than what I’d seen before in fantasy. I loved being able to go away to a world that I didn’t know anything about and that I could escape from, but I never met or saw myself in those worlds until I read Wheel of Time. A lot of it also — this is the ’90s and early 2000s — was very coded. It’s always, women are pillow friends. They’re not lesbians. But it’s all there. When you’re reading it, it felt like big billboard signs of: These are queer stories; these are queer characters, especially in comparison to all the other fantasy I’d been reading. For me, it was very important to find that in the show today. I feel like part of our job as artists who are adapting something is to bring it to life, not just word-for-word but to also bring its context to life. And the context of Wheel of Time in the ’90s is very different from the context of reading the books today. I wanted to infuse that into the show and hopefully let people who weren’t seeing themselves in other fantasy shows see themselves in Wheel of Time.
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Yep, the bait 🪝🐟. I don't believe that queer/poc characters should never be killed/be evil, but it's hard being told by someone, "I've been there and I see you," just to get the rug pulled. The show might be pretend, but experiencing this message over and over brings real pain.
speaking for myself, i would've preferred that they not if this was always the end plan. i would expect this of someone who hasn't lived it, but when someone's giving interviews saying how meaningful it was to them in a hard time (common experience) it gives false hope and leaves me feeling baited
Gonna need some angry tags lol (Tumblr sounds good for this). I'm also sad over the creations we’ll miss out on now from those leaving and those who would've joined. Whatever you feel right about sharing, whenever and wherever it is, I hope to have the chance to see it and shower it with ❤️🫂
(because unfortunately it had to be). So, in that aspect, I suppose nothing has changed 🙄. But I do also feel some kind of way about the thought of the happy fluff I wanted to put out there given….
The unnecessary brutality I just can’t get over it. Barf.
I feel lost about it. I’m finishing my fics because fuck it no one can take that from me (they already assume my preferred reality anyway 🥲 ) but drawing feels so bitter right now. Even though for me it’s also always been about imagining something that we were teased with but didn’t actually get
Right? Lol. I don’t even have the will to finish the books now. I have ignored their ending for this long so I guess I just keep ignoring all canon now 😀. Not anything we’re not used to … (unfortunately). Just disgusted.
Same 🫂😭
Staring blankly into space lolol 🫂💔
#WoTShowSpoillers Yeah, I hate to say this cuz I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings or discount all the other good things, but I also feel a little relief now that if there’s no renewal it will not hurt so much. I’m just gonna keep living in my head canon verse where we live for once 😅
Exactly. I suppose I do have many words but I don’t feel safe to say it. So I’ll just say I feel foolish too.
No words 😞
HOW CAN YOU JUST WANT TO GET ON THE INTERNET AND BE MEAN TO STRANGERS????
THERE ARE SO MANY COOL THINGS I WANT TO DO RIGHT NOW!
the lost song 😆
