https://www.wotseries.com/2024/04/26/thandi-sebe-joins-season-3-of-the-wheel-of-time/ LIGHT BE PRAISED!!! Can't wait to see this episode, I re-read those Rhuidean columns chapters just on their own like 20 times. "Actor Thandi Sebe joins the cast of The Wheel of Time for its third season. According to the actor’s resume, she will play the role of Solinda, an Aes Sedai from the time of the Breaking of the World." Spoiler for those who haven't read The Shadow Rising

I think it was a pretty powerful depiction of what losing the power feels like. Setting up as a point of comparison for actual stilling, which we’ve yet to see. It also gave the viewers a true sense of the level of Moiraine’s dedication. I can understand why people feel like it was underwhelming or boring, but I do think it contributed to the show.

The contracts I have been part too all include non-disparagement clauses. I think Sanderson has been very political in how he criticized the show. He also has more resources than Harriet. I am not saying that any positive statements she has made have been forced. I am not making that argument; however, Harriet has not really made a lot of comments either. She may love the show but she is not a routine supporter that regularly defends it. I do think that this discussion detracts on the core theme of why they do not follow the books more closely. For instance, Moraine losing her powers did nothing for the show. It was weak and took away from screen time that could have been used for storylines that were actually used in the books.

Nielsen, March 11 – 17

Throughout my life art has been the constant space in which I’ve been able to deal, to process. Expressing feelings into pages, letting my line work speak the words I can’t. For a time even that had been taken from me. That joy and release because I’d been made to feel inadequate, lacking. And perhaps unironically my skill had dropped in tune with my mental state. Something I hadn’t realized until I began to miss it. Began to miss the confidence I had before. drawing, still provides part of my mental therapy, though more so for me, it’s storytelling. Writing, sequential art, expressing what I bottle up vicariously. I cant tell you how many times I’ve cried over my paper because what I was drawing allowed me to feel, allowed me to open that dam. The space between my hand, pencil and paper is sacred to me. aside from that, especially in recent years, I’ve come to cherish what few close friends I’ve kept through the years. My sister, my best friend, my cousin and my church family. People who genuinely care for me. (Which I still struggle with. Believing that people genuinely care) but I’m learning to lean on that, and open up to them more. It’s been a wealth for my mental health and strength. Privately also I’ve found that if I neglect my prayer life, my mental health begins to suffer. I need those quiet moments alone with God. also i make a point to spend one 24 hour period a week to not work. To disengage from that aspect of life and let my brain refresh oh also…my dog. Stupid awesome for my mental health.

I can completely relate to this. I also tend to shut the world out and even my closest friends will start to loose touch. I would love to say when I withdraw I am doing something productive but honestly I think I just shut down. And that is at the best of times. I think it has something to do with my adrenal disease. When I get stressed it also shuts my body down, so I become poorly as well. Not always in an identifiable way, but more subtle things like not being able to eat and sleeping almost constantly to the point of being unable to wake up. These are of course signs I am heading towards an Adrenal Crises and need additional doses of my medicine but I often don't see what is happening unless some one intervenes. I have had steady friends over the years that have helped to pull me out and eventually I realized that I needed to be sure to maintain my friendships, as they were the only things that seem to counter act it. It's why I returned to DM after so many years away. The connections and playing about on the boards, the deeper, more thoughtful conversations we have here together remind me of who I am as a person. It's a bit ironic that the very thing that tends to help me is the very thing I pull away from but the energy just stops being there. I am also not much of an abreactor. Challenging me won't get a response. But if something or some I love or care about is hurting or being hurt I will set aside everything to try and fight for them. Unfortunately, even that will exhaust me physically again until I just don't have it in me to even do that sometimes. I have come to the idea that I have to have some sort of support network that helps me feel alive again and then I start looking for fragments of who I had been prior to the depression starting (usually started by an event or series of events). Then when I find them, I try to start putting the pieces of whats left of the person I remember back in place. 🤍❄️

I can totally relate too especially in my line of work. I have seen births and also seen tons of death. For me, I usually play video games, read manga/watch anime, and talk to my husband. I also have some close friends that I can talk to about things. I know some people go to therapy to help with depression and burnout. I am also here if anybody need to talk or vent. I am here with an open ear and a good listener as well.

It is a long way from being obligated not to say anything negative to being required to endorse something one does not support.

Haven't seen it- so how about this: Eye of the world- Matrim Cauthon's eye Please discuss

The unfortunate thing about that implication is that the only negative things the person in question says can be truthful. Anything positive or neutral becomes contractually obligated.

That is interesting. It's somewhat unclear to what degree the warder bond is capable of conscious communication. In the early stages of pregnancy, pregnancy is not necessarily something that dominates a woman's physical state of being. While a woman might be able to intellectually "know" that she is pregnant, that doesn't necessarily mean that her entire body "feels" pregnant. Also, there is the more RJ answer that men and women don't understand each other and so a man wouldn't recognize what being pregnant feels like even if he felt it.

I think it is fantastic that you take care of yourself. Everyone needs periods where they recharge the batteries so to speak. I kinda wish I had something similar. I just find myself withdrawing and then getting to a place where I cannot concentrate on or enjoy what I am doing as it is not productive enough, or well enough done, or I don't take it seriously enough, or I spend too long on it, or I'm not being friendly enough, or being too clingy; preferably where I can beat myself up for being too much or too little and bonus points for being able to do both. Then eventually I get enough rest and fed up enough of my own **** that I get out of the pit I was in. I'd love to be productive in there, like write a novel while tripping like Hunter S Thomson, but as of yet I most do stupid stuff because I'm too busy to start anything or too tired to commit to anything but have hours to read comment sections on the Internet. So in short, even though I'm fantastically bad at it, I fully support and encourage people to take time to look after themselves.

So Harriet has that in her contract, but Brandon does not?

Also, I will start flooding the WT/W with the results of my latest project soon 😛

Is this something any of you think about, and or do something about? It's not something that's ever really been in my lexicon, but long story short I've been going through a tough phase mentally and emotionally. I haven't even wanted to be on DM, even though I want to be on DM. Can't explain that contradiction, really. My world has just grown more insular by the day. Classic burnout / depression, I suppose? Anyhoo, I've always loved artwork and pictures, and I'm sure most of you are aware that I love posting pretty pictures at the various sections of the WT/W. Lately I've been messing around with an AI app type thing called Smile (don't hate me, Cross). I've found it soothing and even energising mentally. Never really thought about it but there was mention on the radio news of some tennis player who took a 2 year mental health break and then it dawned on me - that is what I do for mental health. I withdraw from everything except 1 or 2 things that bring me pleasure. That helps me to ride the wave until I come out at the top again. It also dawned on me that I should stop feeling bad and guilty about this. If it's necessary for other people to take mental health breaks, then why not for me? So ... who can relate?

To be fair, I think that is the implication and most contracts do carry those types of clauses to prevent people from damaging the product.

Yeppppppp! Though our service has just changed roster and I am glad - not much makes a 14hr night shift go 'fast'!!!

This is my favorite exchange between Perrin and Egwene. Eggs is so confident as Amerlyn, Wise Woman and Dreamwalker. Then, much like Mat earlier, Perrin tries to protect her and does t consider she has the strength herself. However this time, Perrin backs it up by bending balefire!!

HOPE. "Hope" is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the Gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm. I 've heard it in the chillest land, And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me. - Emily Dickinson

I am reading. In context. By all means, explain how your comments about Harriet’s contract has anything to do with the conversation unless you’re trying to say that it prevents her from offering criticism. As for the motte and bailey style of argument, look it up.

Thanks, I am excited for it 🙂

Simply amazing!

I am on my second read of the series and on the last book. I had a random thought occur to me about the nature of the warder bond. I had always assumed that the bond made the individuals acutely aware of everything that the other was feeling, not just emotionally but in their physical body as well. With that in mind, it was surprising to me that Rand had no idea Elayne was pregnant until she told him. That’s all, just a thought I felt compelled to share.

It's not me trying to have it both ways. You are not reading or not understanding. I really don't feel like dumbing it down this far. In fact I don't have time now I'm back at work. I'll do it later, maybe. Oh WTF is "the motte and bailey game" ?????