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THE WHEEL OF TIME AVATARS PACK - UPDATE

By clicking the source link, you’ll find the pack updated with 411 new avatars from The Wheel of Time (s2) briging the total to 808 avatars.

(new) featured: Priyanka Bose, Lindsay Duncan, Ayoola Smart, Ragga Ragnars, Maja Simonsen, Jay Duffy, Abdul Salis, Madeleine Madden, Ceara Coveney, Gary Beadle, Emmanuel Imani, Stuart Graham, Gregg Chilingirian, Fares Fares, Joelle, Daniel Henney, Natasha O'Keeffe, Jennifer Cheon Garcia, Kate Fleetwood, Hammed Animashaun, Álvaro Morte, Taylor Napier, Arnas Fedaravicius, Dónal Finn, Kae Alexander, Rosamund Pike, Zoë Robins, Marcus Rutherford, Josha Stradowski, Rima Te Wiata, Sophie Okonedo, Karima McAdams, Daniel Francis, Guy Roberts and Meera Syal

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[isharaneith]

Whumptober 2023 – No. 30

“It’s okay, just to say, ‘I’m not okay’.”

Borrowed Clothing | Bridal Carry | “Not much longer…”

Like, reblog or comment if you save, please.

[ofthebrownajah]

The other Avatars telling Aang that the Avatar must bear the burden alone and push away his friends. Why are they taking advice from Rand al'Thor and Lews Therin Telamon

[indisden]

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Genuinely fascinated at the showrunners of live-action ATLA misunderstanding the purpose of a character arc so badly. Like, I don't live in that fandom, I'm not super emotionally invested, but it feels rather on the same level as the guys who made Game of Thrones saying "themes are for 8th grade book reports" and Disney trying to shoehorn extra modern feminism into the Beauty and the Beast live action adaptation. In this case, characters need arcs, and sometimes that means a good character does bad things at first so they can learn to do better, because it's REALLY IMPORTANT ACTUALLY that kids get to internalize that doing bad things now doesn't mean you're bad forever.

Meanwhile we've got the Wheel of Time adaptation over here saying "The first books were written with only a loose outline of the series arc and for an audience more than a generation removed from today's sensibilities. We're going to tighten up the story structure, avoid repeating some character beats to death the way the books did, and generally make this a smoother journey than the books are, as well as shorter, but still with all the satisfaction of an arc trajectory well executed. Also make it queerer." Like, legitimately, I'm in Discords with people who Know Their Shit, and even the costume department read the brief and had a professional costumer predicting book 14 plot points just from embroidery on an outfit and a certain camera-cut in episode 1x02. In season 2, some other authors were analyzing the story beats and showing us in full-spoiler channels exactly how the changes being made are setting up the endgame in some ways better than the original author was equipped to when he thought the story was going slightly different places.

Good adaptations are possible, but you need someone at the helm who understands why a story is doing what it's doing. Rafe Judkins's team is doing incredible work on WOT but he also hired a book consultant, who read the series dozens of times, and can help balance the needs of the original story against the needs of the television medium. You can't adapt a story unless you understand the story, and it seems like the ATLA people are doing a lot of the same things that Disney's live action adaptations of their former animated hits have been doing: adapting the superficial layer of the story without understanding its underpinnings and why those resonated so much with audiences.

[tearsofbriseis]

DANIEL HENNEY as Al'Lan Mandragoran

Anything can be a weapon, if the man or woman who holds it has the nerve and will to make it so

[enfantsavvage]

3 avatars (400x640) de Jennifer Cheon Garcia dans la série The Wheel of Time pour la prêtresse implacable sur @ruins-rising-rpg ; signés enfant sauvage.

Ces avatars sont réalisés dans le style de @andthesunrisesagain en utilisant plusieurs de ses textures dans le pack grishaverse avec une colo de @cavalierfou, merci à elleux pour ces somptueuses ressources.

[ladyknight33]

Opinons on the New Style of Live Action Storytelling

Tl:dr: The 8 episode format for the new Live Action stories is too limited for the complex stories of the original source material. Action scenes and Magical displays are not substitutes for building tension and climatic battles. The characters and storytellers deserve better. 

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As much as I am enjoying this new era of small screen scripted fiction through the streaming services, I am a bit disappointed in how rushed every show feels. The six to eight episodes force the story to hit key points without allowing the story to actually breathe and endear itself to the viewers. 

First of all, I do not believe all stories must be done in the Live Action format because locks the world into the physics we understand within our own physical world. This limits much of the imaginative qualities a work of fiction inspires. 

Example: when watching an animated Star Wars Jedi do amazing feats accredited to the Force, it is spectacular and defies the known laws of physic. When a live action Jedi attempts the same feats, the action is dulled down to fit the current CGI limitations. This holds true for any magic or anything non-real. 

This leads into a second issue live action formats fall victim to: intense focus on special effects.  Storytelling is forced to take a backseat to the long sequences of beautiful CGI images or fight scenes. T.V. and Film are visual media and they thrive on fantastic imagery. These scenes are necessary when trying to tell a visual story, but not when it takes away from character development and slows the pace of the story. 

Example: The epic fantasy series I grew up reading, The Wheel of TimeI, was long due for a visual adaptation. I have accepted that the show is not the book, but there are pacing issues that could have been avoided if the limited time had not been spent on the intense focus of weaving magic or on action sequences that took the majority of the episode.

The pacing issues are found when significant plot points must be achieved within a limited time, to the detriment of character development, dialogue, and space for the viewer to absorb what is happening. Plot points are the anchors of the story. They are what pulls characters across continents to fulfill destinies. But the story is what happens along the way. 

The plot points of Lord of the Rings are how Frodo gets the ring, is told to destroy it, and finally destroying it. The story is the emotional and physical toll it takes on Frodo and his companions on the way to destroy the ring. The pacing must allow for this internal conflict to which is so central to Frodo’s development. Action scenes are the point where all the built up tension must break. Jumping from action to action, fight to fight, gives no time for the conflict to build. 

Example: Avatar: The Last Airbender is an epic tale of young teens trying to save the world. But they encounter so much during their journey that it takes 20 episodes to tell the first part of the story. The live action is only allowed 8 episodes to introduce the four main characters and the many important secondary characters, and then take them across the four nations, improve their talents, create love interests (Sokka really has two women fall in love with him on two separate occasions in under a day? Really?), and every episode must have an epic fight scene which does little but show the impressive powers of Bending. 

It doesn’t seem fair. 

Why does a book that requires nearly a thousand page to tell a complex story get reduced to 8 episodes. Why does an animated series that required 20 episodes to tell a complex story get reduced to 8 episodes. Why does a manga which required a hundred  chapters or 50 episodes to tell a complex story get reduced to 8 episodes.

Who decided 8 episodes was the new standard? Even at almost an hour long, 8 episodes constrain the story and leave the audience annoyed and how much potential was wasted. 

The anime One Piece is another epic story I grew up with and am still thoroughly enjoying. It doesn’t seem fair that it was reduced to 8 episodes. The series still had the same trouble as all live action remakes, but they embraced the new format and retold the story with the limited time. It cut many scenes I personally enjoyed and believed to be integral to character development (I’m looking at Zoro’s fight with Arlong and Sanji rescuing Luffy from drowning) but it allowed time for the characters to interact and find a balance. The special effects are blended into the story telling and not showcased in their own long, though pretty, sequences. 

Even the shows created with the 8 episode limited series in mind have trouble getting the right blend of character development and epic fight scenes. 

Obi-wan Kenobi had great potential but left viewers unsatisfied. Ahsoka fell into the same pattern of long silent solo scenes or abrupt violent clashes. For me Ahsoka at least felt like a very long movie if watched in one sitting. Kenobi left me wanting to know more about the new character, Reva, but she was stuck as a one dimensional villain in favor of a Darth Vader Kenobi duel. Ahsoka spent much of its time trying to introduce the characters and plot of Star Wars: Rebels and revisiting Ahsoka’s past that they almost forgot that they were trying to tell a new story. 

Each of these shows have great scenes and showcase wonderful characters. The creators of these shows have wonderful shows that came before. 

The 8 episode choice is a poor one. It must be longer than a movie but shorter than a stander T.V. series. The stories chosen are far more complicated than what a movie can handle but need more time to truly develop into an epic story that is revered by audiences long after its conclusion. Yes, I’m referring to Avatar: The Last Airbender Animated Series. 

A story as complex as The Wheel of Time or One Piece deserves a T.V. soap opera treatment. The Live Action Avatar: The Last Airbender needs at least twice as many episodes to follow the characters and show their development without everything feeling cramped and rushed. Ahsoka could have been a two night event. A two hour movie on each night, one before Peridia and one after. Kenobi would have benefited from at least two more episodes to allow Reva to really shine as a new villain or to have removed the character all together.

After a long drought of scripted sci/fi and fantasy, I am thrilled to see the development of all of these stories. I can’t wait for more. But I am terrified that this 8 episode format is going to kill the movement because none of these stories have the staying power or time to draw in new audiences. 

Remakes are lovely, but if they are only done as fan-service or fulfillment of a single person’s desire to have their name on it, then don’t. Live action has some how become synonymous with legitimacy. As if animation is not simply a method of storytelling, but as a child only form. Live action should bring in new audiences to beloved stories, not infuriate the old. The pace of storytelling should be of prime importance, not constrained to an arbitrary number of episodes. 

So I am saying farewell to the many scenes I wished could be recreated in this world of live actions remakes. We each have them. And I retain hope that new seasons and series will do better. 

[mudwerks]

(via All eyes on Avatar to save struggling box office)

am I the only that could care less about Avatar? or a sequel or whatever. 

does everybody else love this?

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[behindfairytales]

THE WITCHER AVATARS PACK - UPDATE

By clicking the source link, you'll find the pack updated with 482 new avatars from The Witcher (s3) bringing the total to 873 avatars.

(new) featured: Eamon Farren, Freya Allan, Wilson Mbomio, Bart Edwards, Mecia Simson, Mimî M. Khayisa, Henry Cavill, Royce Pierreson, Joey Batey, Cassie Clare, Therica Wilson-Read, Graham McTavish, Lars Mikkelsen, Frances Pooley, MyAnna Buring, Anna Shaffer, Mahesh Jadu, Jeremy Crawford and Anya Chalotra

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[ravencromwell]

Op, I hope you don't mind me piggy-backing off this to further elucidate your point about changed contexts between book and show. In the books, Tear was undeniably an unfriendly city for those with the One Power. But that translated, in practical terms, to Aes Sedai keeping their stays there brief, and girls who could touch The Source being quickly bustled off to the Tower. There were no Aes Sedai advisers, as in other kingdoms etc., but neither was there the virulent hostility of the show.

Siuan left Tear quickly in the books—the first day she was discovered to have the Power, but only because a sister was traveling through and didn't wish to delay returning to The Tower for such pesky things as sentimental goodbyes. Was that harsh? Absolutely. But the world of the books is exceedingly harsh in some respects, giving girls little to no choice about becoming Sisters, should they be discovered harboring abilities. (Much of Nynaeve's back-story involved hiding her powers precisely because she didn't fancy being ripped from The Two Rivers.)

Siuan faces a much different harshness in the show. The show doesn't do a great job explaining this, but The Dragon's Fang, which is etched onto Siuan's door before her house is unceremoniously torched, is a sign of immense contempt for Dark Friends. Within show Tear, a wary mistrust of Aes Sedai has curdled into something much more dangerous. All use of The Power is suspect, because if men's half was tainted, there's nothing to say women won't go suddenly mad, too.

It's worth remembering as well here that book Siuan was roughly fifteen when she went to The Tower. Now, I'm totally blind, and audio description doesn't give me an age for tiny show-Siuan, but if she's anywhere near puberty, I'll eat my metaphorical hat. And instead of being shepherded to The Tower, she had to flee for her life.

In her family's only means of support, I might ad. Book Siuan was by no means well-to-do, but she was firmly in the middling ranks of the working poor. Show Siuan's family are on the fucking destitution brink y'all. And she took her father's livelihood. Dying destitute ain't fuckin pretty.

Siuan is not a stupid kid, and she clearly adores the shit out of her dad. The first thing that little girl did the millisecond she got any privileges? Wrote to her daddy.

And more than likely, daddy never wrote back. It wouldn't take her long to figure out what'd happened. Moiraine is at great pains to tell Alana Jenny was not "her" support dog, and we laugh it off as oh, look at Moiraine being all adorably prim. Which in one sense, it totally is. But I'd almost guarantee you there's a deeper layer there: it wasn't "hers"; it was "theirs" because once Siuan found out her beloved dad was dead, they both needed something to cuddle.

This may seem like somewhat of a digression, but I'm maundering on because in the books yes, Dark Friends are evil. But they're evil because they caused a terrible cataclysm many thousands of years that killed lots of people, and they                     do it again. There's no personal skin in the game for our beloved ladies, except they get thrust into the job through a convergence of some very complicated circumstances—I'd recommend any show-only watchers read "New Spring" because while I love almost all the changes the show has made ferociously, the way Siuan and Moiraine undertake the search is vastly more plausible as presented by Jordan there.

For Siuan in the show, by contrast, Dark Friend has _very personal ramifications. Dark Friends caused the corrosive mistrust that got her dad _killed! And Moiraine, better than _anyone, knows how that broke her.

Now, here's a woman who knows she could be deposed simply for having a relationship with Moiraine. The sensible thing to keep all the awful people from committing terrible crimes that will reverberate down the centuries to impact a little girl just as she was impacted would be to keep both their noses clean. And yet, she loves Moiraine so much that she'll take that risk to maintain not only an alliance about Rand, but a romantic relationship which could, realistically, be discovered much more easily.

And now, Moiraine, the woman who parroted back her beloved father's words of farewell about how Siuan was as strong and clever as the tides seemingly willfully lied; seemingly became a _Dark _Friend. Even her admonition that Lanfear is "too strong" must bring up so many awful questions: just how long have they been working together for her to know that? Because from Siuan's perspective, what it looks like is Lanfear coming in, guns blazing, to save her accomplice, Moiraine.

When Siuan says that there are rules and they have to abide by them, it's reflecting profoundly deep fears—not only about what Rand could do, but the kind of hatred toward those with The Power it could foster. For twenty years, she's put those fears aside. And now it appears that her going against Tower Law has lost her Moiraine to the Forsaken, and made terrible outcomes nigh on inevitable. And people are really confused about why she looks beaten?

Hell, from her perspective, forget Lanfear's entrance. The very fact Moiraine seemingly lied to her and is now talking about love must seem such a cruel mockery: laughing at Siuan's weakness; just as, perhaps, she was laughing at her with that parting comment in The Tower: an Amyrlin Seat still so swayed by what her daddy told her so many years ago. (Yeah, we know it was as close as she could come to an I love you, but how the hell is Siuan supposed to know that, given everything?) This was not willful emotional abuse on someone she knew to be acting in good faith, but a reaction to the person she loved enough to risk the fucking Amyrlin Seat for becoming a monster! When she says "Moiraine, please!" it's as much please this can't actually fucking be happening! as anything else. And to me, this, much more than the physical ramifications, is what Lanfear means by a "broken Amyrlin". The entire bedrock of her life's certainties are unmoored, and she's in a riptide.

Do I wish they'd picked _any other direction for their relationship? Yes, yes I damn well do. There was plenty to play with for angst factor by having the coup go down as it does in the books: Moiraine not being there to save her when all Siuan wanted was more time together, for one thing. Moiraine needlessly obfuscating in front of Siuan and  the other Sisters in S1, when Leandrin already knew! about the Two Rivers folk. Thinking she was being canny, when all she did was get herself pointlessly exiled so she couldn't protect Siuan? Quite enough of an angst sandwich, thanks ever so, without this new development. But! if they were going to include this, Siuan reacted precisely as I would expect her to, given the context I've outlined above, not in some madly ooc fashion worthy of the tags descending into emotional abuse discourse.

People can say what Siuan did to Moiraine was abusive or character assassination, but people need to realize that just because you don't like something doesn't make it out of character, and it doesn't make the characters wrong.

Between siuan and moiraine went down, I get that for people who ship, them it was rough to see but I don't think siuan was in the wrong. The biggest problem is that siuan is a character in a TV series, she is not privy to everything the audience and other characters know. She knows that moraine has been keeping secrets from her, huge secrets, disobeyed her by breaking rand out, and and from siuans perspective lied to her, something only the black ajah can do.

Aes sedai cannot go against the 3 oaths, not its hard to do, or it hurts to do but can be pushed through, they cannot. I don't believe compulsion can force an aes sedai to go against their oaths, but I know in the books even an aes sedai collared by an a'dam can't be used as a weapon like other women who can channel. Moiraine truely believes she was stilled, which is why it isn't a lie, just a tied off shield by one of the most powerful channelers in existence, which doesn't seem to be a thing outside of the age of legends and women can't see male weaves so why would she assume that's what it was. unfortunately that means to Siuan, it looks like Moiraine is a liar something only the black ajah can do, which means the only logical explanation while Cairhien is being assaulted by a woman channeler more powerful than herself, is that the woman she loves is a dark friend and has been for at least 6 months since the eye of the world.

Yes, siuan compelling moiraine into obedience with her oath is a bad thing, especially to someone u love. But moiraine is trying to manipulate her just as much by using their love for each other as a shield for justice. Siuan is going to feel awful when she finds out the truth, but as the Amyrlin she did what she thought right and forced a dark friend and member of the black Ajah to obey. we know darkfriends in the show and in the books, they can be insidious, they can even be kind people who were forced into a bad situation or fell into a bad crowd. But they can be tricky and yes, as we can see since Moiraine's own nephew is a darkfriend who almost became the king of a country, they can be the people you least suspect.

Siuan did what she thought was right even though she was incorrect, it's not going to be the last time she does this, it's going to be from the last time any character in the Wheel of Time does it. And look, if they go through the whole series, hopefully the two of them can be together in the end and work through this. I can't believe I'm defending Siuan this much, I'm not even a big fan of her character, but I think fair is fair. (also found out I've been spelling moiraine's name wrong this whole time, which doesn't have much to do with the post, just something that happened to me and will happen in the future)

[ofthebrownajah]

"It's amazing how far we'll go to hide our true selves from the world. I suppose it must be scary to admit you need people. Some might see that as a weakness, a liability. I guess that's why we feel the need to hide away and protect ourselves. So we put on a mask. It's not hard to understand why. What's hard is knowing that sometimes the mask is who you really are." I swear this quote could be about Rand but it's a quote from Avatar live action

[thescarletnargacuga]

RACEWAY AU REACTS TO Y/N HUGGING THEM

A/N: when I reopen the inbox, I plan to allow y/n SFW requests! This is the kind of post you could expect!

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CAINE: "Oh! Hello there, new racer! My, you are a friendly one!" He'll hug back because he loves the attention.

POMNI: "Um-!? Please let go." She'll gently push you away.

RAGATHA: "Awwwww thank youuuuu!" She'll give you the warmest hug in return. Poor woman is touch starved.

JAX: Will grab your whole face and shove you away. "Gross."

GANGLE: Don't hug her too tight, she's fragile. She'll happily, if lightly, return the hug.

ZOOBLE: They'll silently give you a pat on the back and wait for you to let go.

KINGER: "Hug? Hug. I'm being hugged. How nice!" Pats you on the head.

GUMMIGOO: "Wot-?? Oh, aren't you adorable." Strong hug, big gator hug.

LOO: She'll pick you up, because I guarantee she's taller than you, and hold you gently in a soft embrace. She gives the best uppies.

SETH: Will disappear before you can wrap your arms around him, only to reappear behind you. "Eager little thing, aren't you?"

ABEL: Whether you hug his chosen avatar or his real body, he'll react the same way. He won't move. It's been too long since he's felt affection, he doesn't know what to do. He won't thank you, but he won't push you away either.

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A/N: absolutely using this as an excuse to exercise character traits

[helloimamistake]

Kyoshi Novels Thoughts

The Rise of Kyoshi: (8/10)

• Its very Enjoyable and have a way interesting lore than the Yangchen Novels in my opinion.

• I did not expect rangshi to be that quick to be canon

• and i also did not expect lek to be died quickly in the books

• My only complains is that i wanna see more lore between the flying opera company and especially the members like Kirima and Wong since there's not a lot of backstory that we know of them.. But at the same time, im fine with it since this book is not really based on them anyways

• i want more backstory of kyoshi and kelsang or kyoshi and her parents before they left her to get the milk

• oh yeah nevermind i have more complains.... Why the fact did Jianzu and Kelsang not realize that kyoshi is the avatar after she fucking stole the turtle relics?????? Wot?

• I lowkey want to see rangi and kyoshi discussing of their relationship.. Like they just kissed but like.. They didn't say anything that they should be in a official relationship?? Like imagine my surprise when i found out kyoshi still calls rangi a "friend" wot

The Shadow of Kyoshi: (6/10)

• To be honest this book did not made me interested of binge reading it at all

• Like i could finish the yangchen novels in a single day but for some reason this book does not made me that interested

• its not too bad but its not too good either

• The embarrassment that i felt towards kyoshi meeting the firelord and his half brother (cry internally) but at the same time it kinda made sense for her to be acting like a fool and not have a single clue of what to do since she wasn't announced as the avatar at an early age and wasn't trained early enough

• The angst between Yun and Kyoshi is my Roman Empire.. I don't ship them but like.. Their so damm interesting to think about.. Their like Roku and Sozin if that even make sense?

• Anyways Jinpa is best boy

• Kyoshi for fuck sake stop calling rangi your friend after you guys literally made out in front of jinpa