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the reason Phineas and Ferb is one of my favorite shows of all time is because adult jokes in other family shows are usually about sex. in Phineas and Ferb they are referencing classic literature and bureaucracy.

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wot doesn't need to be saved

it's already been saved

it was complete as of 2014

Brandon Sanderson already saved it

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The men who are doing "walking challenges" around the world make me so mad. Oh you're casually walking through Iran and Afghanistan and Azerbajdzjan and whatever. Oh the people are so nice? Oh you're happily sharing a room with 3 other male strangers? Oh you got picked up by a nice group of friends who drove you for a couple hours to your next stop with no incident? Fuck you

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I want fanart of Ghost wearing a tie denying the crown a loan

cant stop thinking about how good jon snow was at loan negotiation. i think him vs master of coin littlefinger is the final showdown in the books

He should’ve gotten a quant internship at the iron bank instead of taking the black. I’m sure he’d’ve found a way to be a fantasy protagonist tasked with saving the world through that job too.

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Me, living in CA: Why does my neighbor need 173 individual permits to cover the portal to hell that ate their driveway? You already sent an inspector and a letter saying they need to fix it within 60 days. Wave the damn permits!

Me, visiting ID and AZ: You live in the suburbs. What do you mean the nearest ER/Urgent Care/Hospital is almost an HOUR away? There are FOUR within half an hour from me. WTF is happening?

Me, living in Texas: Have you all considered that Rules and Regulations could help improve our society? That following Rules and Regulations is a good idea? Perhaps?

Me, visiting California: Have you all considered just... letting people live their lives? That not every tiny aspect of existence needs to be regulated? Maybe?

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why do you hate the series? i have not watched it.

Hello, anon Thank you for the question.

The answer is complicated though. Yes, as a bookcloak I should give an easy answer. But being a bookcloak is only given label which doesn’t care for specifics. So as a Wheel of Time fan I can give more detailed answer.

First, I have to establish what I hate. Because I do not “hate” the series out of context. There are reasons. Several.

I hate the division in the fandom inflicted by the series. Of course every adaptation has its own split among fans. It is nothing new. But very, very, very few of them caused such severe damage in the fandom’s psychology.

How many fandoms, like LoTR, Harry Potter or Game of Thrones for example, can say that they got into intense Internet war filled with hatred, gaslighting, blind manipulation and heavy censorship and a ton of deliberate refusal to acknowledge that the other side is allowed to criticize. Not many, I guess.

I hate that people decided that it is open to use everything forbidden to justify their thirst for moral supremacy. Weren’t “the bad guys�� supposed to be the idiots who use censorship en masse?

I hate the gaslighting to tell people how they are wrong to point certain criticisms when it turned that the same people can be factually right.

One famous example is one tweet back in 2019 where someone threated Rafe in fear that he will start turning characters gay. He responded with “jokingly” enforcing that he is the boss and can do whatever he feels like. In 2025 Judkins sat down in an interview and finally admitted that he was reading the books through his personal lens and his goals was to “turn subtext into text” (to make characters gay in the case of question). Ergo the threat motivated by certain fear, which action of threat is still morally wrong, happens to be factually right. Rafe Judkins did try to turn characters gay because he is the boss. For years people pointed that he was trying to do that and they were silenced as “homophobes”. I hate that we cannot have this conversation without getting being accused.

And to be clear I am not saying that such thing to be done in adaption is bad by default. I am not saying that I do not agree characters to be gay. What I am saying is that the production was never honest with the book fans. The production only deflected and mocked such criticisms instead of embracing the consequence of their decisions. Who knows otherwise - it could be successful but people weren’t given a chance to come in terms with it, they were told they were imaging things because they were very horrible.

I hate this dishonesty to people without giving them a chance. The production demanded open mind without any preparation of the audience. Yeah, sure, buddy, that won’t turn people mad at all.

I hate the “1 to 1 adaptation” and the “you do not know how adaptations work” manipulations that treat so many fans as suffering from mass amnesia and to not remember what other adaptations look like.

Second, you ask me for the TV series and for that I can tell what I do not like about it. Notice the difference that I do not use the label “hate”.

What I do not like is that the TV series strays too far from the established lore and character arcs from the books. I think that too many of the changes are confusing or illogical, even for people who are not familiar with the books. I do not like that the characters in the show are not as compelling or well-developed as their book counterparts. I do not like the show's tone for lacking the humor and complexity of the books. I do not like the writing as being clunky, with dialogue that feels unnatural or forced in too many scenes. I am disappointed by the changes made from the source material, the character development, and the show's overall quality.

But there is something that I hate. That there was no one to supervise the script. Brandon Sanderson explained the process of writing in the show – how they write at the same time and filming at the same time and this approach turned to be a disaster. I am easily accused of “nitpicking” and caring for “stupid details”. But this kind of nitpicking only shows how nobody wants to do their job there. My stupid nitpicking can be so easily dealt with if there was someone who look over the scripts and ask questions. I thought that such is the job of Sarah Nakamura as book consultant, but nope, her job was to deflect, gaslight and give false answers to fair critical points on the Internet. So many mistakes in the script could be easily avoided.

For example we have two similar scenes in two episodes about how two non-Aiel characters forgive toh towards Aiel. In one case the character is being praised (despite that such answer is disaster for the Aiel culture and ji'e'toh system but it is not like a hired book consultant was right there to point it out) but in the next scene another character was told that the very same thing is offensive and unacceptable. No one professional in multimillion production was capable to catch these two scenes on the spot? You get the picture I won’t continue too much with examples. But I can play this game loooong time.

Also the writers often try to push the production’s agenda without thinking of consequence – there is a specific line how the Women’s Circle and only the women dig a tunnel through stone. While the healthy strong men are right there in the village. We have to assume that the men were incapable of doing such extremely harsh labour, I guess. The writers do not want to think.

This is getting long. I hope that I was coherent enough to make the distinction.

tldr What I mostly hate in the TV series is the production was acting dishonest, big part of the fandom played as gods of censorship and I didn’t like that the writers were completely incompetent to tell a coherent story (with good help by having no supervision on scripts).

Let the Light keep you safe. LightOne

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in a better world we'd be able to talk to whales. we'd have giant whale cleaning facilities where we get rid of parasites and treat illnesses for them and in exchange marine biologists would get to interview them about their lives during the cleaning

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Thinking about the way Jordan gave Mat his skills as a general again.

Because, like...Hypothetically, he could've just given Mat the literal knowledge and been done with it. It might not make sense, but it doesn't actually make that much sense for him to be given other people's memories either. But it coming from memories means he knows war, not tactics.

Yes, he remembers being a general, he remembers making the calls and why and how they resulted in wins or losses, and this gives him a scope of detailed strategic knowledge impossible to get through mundane means.

But he also remembers being a soldier (and probably a civilian). He remembers fighting, killing, taking people prisoner and being captured himself. He remembers dying many times over.

His impossible level of experience applies just as much to the pain, fear, revulsion, and general trauma of war. It haunts him. He does his best to bury it, and he tries to run from battle so he won't have to go through it again. But as much as he doesn't want to be involved, he can't let it happen to others.

And the Band knows it. Every single one of them knows he will not send them into battle if it's not called for (though a few don't seem to fully understand what that means). They also know that when they do battle he will do everything possible to get them out alive. Not because he needs soldiers, but because he cares.

And that's just as important as his technical knowledge.

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4th Age Aes Sedai are NOT gonna keep using the Oath Rod once they realize the Asha'man are living 3x as long without it.

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i noticed we usually saw our new beaver neighbors around the same time every night so i jokingly referred to it as "the beaving hour" and now everyone in the house is referring to it as such and i get texts from my stepdad like this

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As a preschool teacher, the struggle between practicing sounds to help speech and encouraging them to say things wrong because it’s funny is real

so i wore a pride flag pin to work the other day and the kids were all interested (obviously) (find me a classroom of preschoolers who are not obsessed with rainbows) (i'll wait) so they crowded around to see.

"aww!" they said, "it's a flag!!"

but the thing is: they're little. a lot of them don't really have a handle on all their mouth sounds yet.

such as, notably, that tricky tricky "L" sound.

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Same at least the girlies ARE reading.

The men who make snide YouTube videos about women who ready “spicy” books are so healthy for me spiritually because they keep me intellectually humble. Yes, I am sometimes scornful of women who read exclusively hetero omegaverse style explicit books. But when I’m exposed to the commentary coming from some dude who hasn’t cracked a book in the past decade and who spends all his disposable income on onlyfans, I remember whose side I’m on.

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Poor baby needs all the therapy

Poor baby knows he’s messed up but he doesn’t have time to fix himself

Rand is the only fictional man where I'm like "I could fix him"

I COULD GET HIM IN THERAPY

I could fix him up so good 😭😭😭😭

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Derailing my GM when they try to do a gazebo bit by having my character pipe up "actually, I think that's a rotunda".

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Lots to say about the Yuta-Kris segment but mostly I just think it's really cute how obviously close to breaking he was when Kris started yelling at him. Like. They're friends! They're friends playing pretend that one of them hates the other and he's struggling to keep a straight face! It's very cute

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Yeah that’s about when I’m shivering too

I'm drenched in the siren call of the Pacific. Feeling a very strong desire to move to Southern California.