#damned snobs

[pav-anne]

movie: high fidelity

year: 2000

dir: stephen frears

[nitrozem]

He's always in a bored mood lol

[bereft-of-frogs]

with Vernestra being in the new book and seeing some people comment on like 'waiting for the other shoe to drop with her arc' (sorry if you happen to be the person who wrote that on reddit and are reading this haha, I actually really agreed with your review, that line just popped out at me), and my own frustrations with wishing they'd just invented a new character to fill her role in The Acolyte, because speculation on how we make the (kinda big) leap from book characterization to show characterization is overshadowing her character in these last few books, I started wondering like why did they choose Vernestra to be the one book character to bring forward? They had to retcon the Mirialan lifespan for it, didn't they? I know they probably wanted at least one book character to get the book readers on board with the series, but there wasn't anything that jumped out at me to explain why that figure had to be Vernestra. Then I got it.

...I bet they just wanted to use the lightwhip.

I mean first of all it is a cool, unique weapon for the series, even though they only used it in that one shot, fair enough lol. But I bet they had the idea for that shot of Qimir's scar to connect to whatever turned him to the Sith and planned the arc from there, so they had the plot first (Qimir fights his former Jedi master, leaving him with the scar that can be strategically revealed when it is time for #traumatic backstory) and slotted Vernestra into it because the lightwhip makes for a unique enough scar pattern to serve as heavy foreshadowing when it's revealed in episode 6.

But damn, I wish they had just made it like Silandra's shield and had it passed down, I would have been chill with Vernestra being Qimir's master's master, that would have made sense to me. But that's definitely where the 'they needed a character from the books to get the book nerds to watch the show' lol and maybe they already have Burryaga's (the only other character I can think of with a sufficient lifespan) ending planned (#fear). But it still does kind of suck that the ending of the book series has to be viewed through this lens of 'ok well how does this explain what happened between book Vernestra and show Vernestra...'

[sigmastolen]

that dodged-a-bullet feeling when you read a classmate's red-flag-full post on a discussion board and realize you never have to meet them in person bc your program is fully remote

[lindentea]

...yeah, that checks. 😂

[juanitasupreme]

Eddie Murphy the demon that you are

[mightnotfeelrealbutitsok]

hello everyone today i performed very mediocrely as always at two auditions so please pray for my acceptance into an orchestra nevertheless

[chussy]

considering becoming one of those espresso guys that has €30k worth of various espresso machine accessories so. i can make myself 10 shots of it every morning

[duriens]

wow I am. reading the masked empire (yeah I know I'm late to the party) and jesus I hate every single character except briala and felassan. every faction sucks except for the city elves (and the mages)

[bitegore]

I got tea. This was a better choice but it still tastes really bad. I should only ever expect disappointment from campus cafes. My snobbish beverage drinker ass cannot abide this low and embarrassing level of quality

[sigmastolen]

there will come a day when i will not Do The Most for the weekly discussion board post

but it is not this day

[mothsantics]

journal 10: 09/12/2023

listen to hollow eyes by camping in alaska

[bereft-of-frogs]

conclusions from a Thursday morning as I read my own fic in read-only mode on my iPad and drink coffee:

I made a pretty good fic. I am very excited to share it over the next month. 🥳

I did not make a good cup of coffee 🙃

[slothinginorbit]

The whole article is a hate piece on not only sanderson but also SFF fan culture. Jason kehe tries to paint the people in a bad light as much as possible: smelly, man-child, cultish, omg they have sword replicas and the swords have names??? Oh and why is there no sex in sandersons books, apparently that is a big sin. I would like to ask why are you so obsessed with having sex in every book sir? Why is it a must?

Why did they write this bs article? Many people are butt hurt in the industry for sandersons kickstarter being immensely successful and making him a lot of money. And that's the connection to this, me thinks. Publishing couldn't pocket all that money like they usually do.

[metallteeff]

i’m going to say something kind of mean. and that it’s audiences on the internet do not realize they have become so incredibly picky

[spaceyfuckinstar]

Honest to God, I hate apple with every single ounce of my being. They have the worst, most useless operating systems and aren't worth the fucking price you have to pay. I fucking HATEEEEE iphones and ipads and macbooks. And before ANYONE says it's because I don't know how to operate them, I do, and that's why I know they are stupid fucking pieces of shit