#The wheel 2021

[firespirited]

Today's ramblings

Watched The Wheel 2021 ($3 to rent on amazon) featuring Amber Midhunter. It's best to go in knowing that it's a slow burn personal drama. The music choices and editing took away slightly from the story. I thought there was a plot point about a txt message I couldn't read (not being able to make out phone and computer messages in media is a pet peeve) but I went back after finishing the film and it wasn't really that important.

The film is mostly carried by the luminous acting. These people feel very real despite the cliché setups.

I found it touching. The hedgehog problem but hurt adults.

Watched some YouTube and got annoyed because folks could have made a 10 minute video that said it better than 100 mins but I guess youtube doesn't reward 10 minutes like it used to. I'll happily watch your three hour video if there's three hours of subject matter. But really no need to dance around the point just doing filler. It's painful.

Then I ended up on a channel with some great social analysis that segued into some "very close to getting it but also so far from getting it" christian content. I hope to see her in five years having broken off from her church and/or founded or joined one that's inclusive, egalitarian, decolonized with tithes going to direct social action. She has all the systemic analysis tools she needs and one big blindspot. But I had to nope out and not engage, I don't think she's ready to hear from any exians, not yet.

Tw: covid, I had a sudden realisation that if tweens and teens weren't carriers during the pandemic, we would have put them to work. Emergency anti child labour law exemptions would have been passed.

Tw: transphobia and terfs. A woman who used to read or watch every interview with JK Rowling out of fascination wrote a small essay in a comment section where she dissects what she understands of Joanne's complex relationship to gender. A father who wanted a son and made her wear blue, being a tomboy and rejecting feminity for approval. Feeling fragile when she got trapped in an abusive marriage. The books, written from the point of a boy then a man under a male pen name. Massive areas of unexamined internalised misogyny and gender resentment. She said herself she thought changing gender could have been a way to that better life with more respect. Except she never sat with that thought and followed through to find out if she actually wants to be a woman (I realised i'd be dysphoric as a boy then later as a man when I revisited the concept) or wouldn't mind the change if it wasn't socially costly. It'd been the first time i'd seen someone who had studied her as a personal hero do a full read on where her trans masc issues come from. Her trans femme issues come from feeling powerless and hurt by men this is something the Gender Essential cults are experts at exploiting by presenting trans feminity as a flavour of male entitlement (which is wild when you consider even most drag queens won't go out in drag unless it's for an event because it's dangerous and also a performance). Jk's flavour of trans phobia tends to skew anti masc because that's her real fear: she already spent time "as a man" when she published the Strike books, I think she quite probably hasn't mulled it over at all: i imagine she thinks men don't love their children in the way women do so there's that 'contradiction' in the way. Maybe someday she'll have a breakthrough in therapy. She's got a window of about 5 years to change before mainstream society has moved passed this reactionary blip and she's regarded by even centrists and center right as a nutjob. After that any change of heart will be seen as phony.

I have good days and bad days in the depresh and some flip half way through. We're wading into deeper water. I can feel other mutuals in the same terrible headspace. I don't want to make things worse or put a thought out there that is like an ear worm for the blues. My default used to be hermit mode who emerges with nice happy clappy mood once a day to not hurt anyone through contagious sads or neglect.

Finding the right balance is hard.

[lgbtpopcult]

Best WLW TV of 2023

The last of us

Harley Quinn the animated series

Lucky My Love

NCIS Hawaii

wtFock

Special ops lioness

The Morning Show

Station 19

Everything now

Love Senior

Las Pelotaris 1926

Fall of the house of Usher

Stupid Wife

Wheel of Time

XO Kitty

Yellowjackets

The Owl House

4 Estrellas

Deadloch

Disenchantment

[booasaur]

The Wheel of Time - Season 2 - Official Trailer

[theladyofbloodshed]

SJM has slowed down her output which could be due to having children. The second looks a bit chaotic but it shows which editors have worked with SJM - thank you to this reddit post for the info. You can also see how their good reads ratings compare and the number of ratings each book has.

[lovelyy-moonlight]

[flyingfabio]

EMILIA ROMAGNA GP 2021 - Fabio Quartararo & Marc Márquez celebrate their respective World Championship and Grand Prix win with a burnout

[estebunny]

esteban ocon's race engineer shared stories of their first win in hungary 2021

via alpine f1 team news

[veliseraptor]

trying to disentangle what's brandon sanderson stuff from what's robert jordan stuff in the last three wheel of time books in terms of plot/story beats is both a fool's errand and not ultimately very interesting, but I have come to the conclusion that one of my issues with specifically the way branderson writes wheel of time characters is the fact that several of them are at least 1.5x quippier than they are in the rest of the series.

also i maintain that androl's outsize importance still really bugs me, the last two books does not feel like the time to introduce a majorly important and hitherto unknown character who then takes up a not insubstantial amount of page space, but.

although maybe that's just me being kind of bitter about the missed opportunities I see in the entire black tower arc. less malden kidnapping arc, more black tower corruption arc

[hot-hot-wheels]

Muscle and Blown

[dreamsuvivor]

and there we have it folks… Max is still the same shitty wheel-to-wheel driver as he was in 2021, he just didn’t have to race anyone when he was in a rocketship 20s ahead of everyone

[lonelyisthe]

Daredevil | Fiona Apple | The Idler Wheel... | 2012 Caught in the Middle | Paramore | After Laughter | 2017 Lilith | Halsey | If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power | 2021

[artemispt]

carlos liking mclaren's post about lando's overtake on him in imola 😖🥹

Of course he did 🥺🥹😭

[gameofthunder66]

The Wheel of Time (2021- ) tv series

-(started) watchin' Season 2- 9/5/2023- on Amazon Prime

[muhammadgiovanni]

Ryusuke Hamaguchi's "偶然と想像" (Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy) December 17, 2021.

[milkweedman]

Genuinely spending 2 hours a day just prepping the fiber, RIP

To be fair at least a third of that time is pushing the executive function button so I can start the next nest. They're unfortunately one of those activities that has enough steps that each one feels like it's own separate thing, so I have to Start Task each damn time. So there's a 5-10 minute cooldown between them.

Got 9 nests, I think (on top), middle is some fleece that's already had a lot of locks picked out so it's kind of jumbled, bottom is combing waste.

[thelandswemadeofpaper]

What change in a book adaptation made it 100% better?