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janyasedai.bsky.social
Yellow-Fringed Shawl
@janyasedai.bsky.social
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Here for #TheWheelOfTime, #BattlestarGalactica, cats and general nerdery.
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Incredible! I spent a week in the Himalayan foothills (photo below) and now am off tiger-spotting to a national park for a week. It does help making life hurt a little less.
A photo of rolling green tree-covered hills fading into a misty horizon.
June 9, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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In the middle of #SaveWoT and the world generally being a dumpster fire, it's nice to have a cat who reminds me of the only things that are REALLY important - butt smacks, tuna and naps.
#WoTPetFriday #TheWheelOfTime
#PetsOfTime
A black cat seen from behind, in loaf position, butt perfectly positioned to demand spanks. A black cat fast asleep on his back, belly exposed and legs splayed, an expression of absolute unbothered bliss on his face.
June 6, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Photo of said idiot enjoying the best nap of his life shortly afterwards, completely unbothered.
May 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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#WoTSkies I just read a WONDERFUL book that made me realise: as painful as it is to be here and be reminded of what we've lost, it would be more painful to lose this community too. So I'll be around. Signing, sharing, maybe not posting much for a while, but I'll be here.❤️🫂
#TheWheelOfTime #SaveWoT
A screenshot of text from the chapter 'Bubbles' in the book 'Poets Square: A Memoir In Thirty Cats' by Courtney Gustafson, in which the author talks about community: "...the precarity made it feel impossible to be generous. What did I even have to give? I wanted belonging to be something I could inherit, something I could step into fully formed. I imagined community as a space I could passively inhabit. It would be so many years before I learned that community was an action, something we build and rebuild and contribute to. That belonging is something we invent."
May 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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#WoTSkies does anyone know if this Q&A is being streamed anywhere? Sharon Gilham just posted about it on her Insta.
#TheWheelOfTime
www.instagram.com/p/DJbju0zCi3...
A screenshot of Sharon Gilham's Insta post announcing a screening of S3E8 of WoT, followed by a Q&A with Rafe Judkins, Rosamund Pike, Sharon Gilham, Davina Lamony and Ondrej Nekvasil, , at 5 pm on Monday 9th May, moderated by Perrin Nemiroff of Collider
May 9, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Good morning, #WoTSkies!
We've got a combo deal today!
Here's a sexist, racist, homophobic Bookcloak who crawled into my replies to tell me why #TheWheelOfTime show is BAD, ACKSHUALLY.
Handle @/socialaria.bsky.social
You know what to do with that Block button!
Screenshot of a post from the Bookcloak's page. Text as follows: In #thewheeloftime show, Are the constant book changes made in the show out of political motivation? I just do not understand some of these choices. Siaun and Moraine don't have romance in the books and neither does Elyane or Aviendha. I understand sex on tv sells but is that the motive or? Post from Bookcloak saying, The wheel of time show is a disaster. Contains a shared screenshot with text as follows: Book fans: "hey, this book series about sheltered kids exploring the diverse world probably should have different people looking different in different places to help with telling different settings apart and add to the overall anti-racism message," Showrunners and their Darkfriends: "I always knew you were racists" Book fans: "why are so many male characters POS now and why did you undercut Lan's tragic struggle with masculinity/honour by making him have a cry tantrum in episode 3 over a buddy? And hey, why are all the women in this sheltered village cliff jumping badasses from day 1? It kinda seems like your anti-sexist messaging is a little sexist." Showrunners and their Darfriends: "Ah, so you're misogynistic too, I knew it!" Me: well, now I'm sad whenever I watch your show, AND you made my boy Brando sad. Thanks I guess, sorry for being a sexist racist who wanted my anti sexism and racism book to be anti sexism and racism.
May 2, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Here, have a shrimp-cat enjoying the best nap of his life 😆
A black cat curled up fast asleep on a pillow, front paws over his eyes, hind legs extended straight out so his overall position is what cat people refer to as "Shrimp".
May 1, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn't a selfie.
A cartoon painting (acrylic on canvas) of a black cat with a white snout, head and shoulder peeking out from behind a blue wall, yellow eyes narrowed in an expression that clearly says "FED UP OF LIFE", holding a glass of red wine by the stem in one paw. The caption just by the cat's head is "FUCK THAT SHIT".
April 29, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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A girl cries hysterically and points and accusatory finger at someone off camera.
April 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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If we're going for pretty, then this is Shubham Saraf, my pick 😆
An beautiful Indian man with golden brown skin, big green eyes, sculpted features, slight stubble and soft dark brown hair.
April 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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And Michael Hudson
Another gorgeous Native American Man, with delicate but finely defined facial features, long black hair in two braids, wearing a white t shirt and black leather jacket.
April 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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These are the other two!
Martin Sensmeier
A gorgeous native American man with long black hair falling over his shoulder, shirtless, with a beautifully sculpted face.
April 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Here you go!
A screen grab from WoT s3e8. Mat hanging from the ashandarei (circled in red), which is driven point first into the red stone doorway in Tanchico.
April 23, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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What are you talking about? Look at the ashandarei right there in the show!!
Still from s3e8 of wheel of time showing Mat hanging from the ashandarei, circled in red
April 23, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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#WoTSkies Nikhil Koparkar is doing a AMA on r/WoTShow on Thursday 24th April, 12 pm PT/3pm ET! Go show him some love!
#TheWheelOfTime
A screenshot of Nikhil Koparkar's Twitter post announcing his Reddit AMA. He is wearing a Hills Of Tanchico fanmade t shirt and smiling and holding up a paper with the details of his AMA.
April 22, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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#TheWheelOfTime
#WoTSkies
So basically Sophie wasn't interested in playing the mentor storyline. And Siuan's death was NOT planned just for shock value. Rather, once it was decided, they played up the Moiraine/Lanfear thing more.
collider.com/the-wheel-of...
A screenshot from the linked article, text as follows: JUDKINS: I had a long conversation with Sophie Okonedo, who plays Siuan, early in the process, and was like, “This is the story that continues in the later books.” To be honest, for both of us, it felt like that wasn't a story that we needed an Academy Award nominee playing, necessarily, in the show. It's just hard to have an actress at Sophie Okonedo’s level sidelined to that degree, but still being present throughout the show. She has a great storyline with Egwene that we do lose, which is really the biggest loss to losing Siuan, but we have a plan for how we're going to still tell that story with a different character. A screenshot from the linked article, text as follows: We're always thinking. It's never like, “Oh, you know what would be shocking? Kill Siuan.” Five billion conversations have gone into it. We know exactly what we're doing with every storyline Siuan has in the books and who's taking over those and which ones are getting cut. Anytime we make a change like that, we have a plan for how that's going to flutter through into the rest of the series. For us, it ultimately came down to the fall of the Tower as the peak of drama and tension for the White Tower and for Siuan, and so to continue her story as a washerwoman, after that... it just didn't feel like our version of Siuan made as much sense in that story.
April 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Here you go!
Tam's/Rand's sword which Moiraine used in S2 was probably not power-wrought. Lan's sword is.
www.thegreatblight.com/post/the-her...
A screenshot from The Great Blight website's page about heron-marked blades: It is important to note that not all heron-mark blades are Power-wrought, and not all Power-wrought swords have a heron mark.22 As mentioned previously, the Power-forged sword of the Malkieri kings has no marks.13 The Big White Book also says, “Because the number of blademasters exceeds the number of swords that survived the war [of Power], many of the current [Third Age] heron-marked swords are not Aes Sedai work. They are, however, the finest steel that men can temper.”23
April 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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In the books, she had to 'surrender' to break the block. I LOVED that in the show, it was about fearing something uncontrollable, trying to calm the fear through control, and finally realising that the only way to conquer the fear is to stop trying to control it.
This poem sums it up perfectly:
"FEAR" by Kahlil Gibran "It is said that before entering the sea a river trembles with fear. She looks back at the path she has traveled, from the peaks of the mountains, the long winding road crossing forests and villages. And in front of her, she sees an ocean so vast, that to enter there seems nothing more than to disappear forever. But there is no other way. The river can not go back. Nobody can go back. To go back is impossible in existence. The river needs to take the risk of entering the ocean because only then will fear disappear, because that's where the river will know it's not about disappearing into the ocean, but of becoming the ocean."
April 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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#TheWheelOfTime season 3 is tied with Game of Thrones season 4 (which was absolute peak GoT) for first place among the best fantasy show seasons on Rotten Tomatoes, with both having a 97% Fresh critics rating.
Let that sink in!😃🥳🎉
#RenewWoT #WoTSkies
A screenshot showing the top seasons of fantasy with their Rotten Tomatoes critic ratings. Game of Thrones season 4 and Wheel Of Time season 1 are tied at 1st place with 97% Fresh.
April 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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#TheWheelOfTime had slipped to No. 8 overall and No. 2 in tv in India last week.
After today's episode it's back to No. 2 overall and No. 1 in tv.
Love it or hate it, clearly the showrunner and writing team know what to do to get the maximum number of people watching.
#WoTSkies
A screenshot of my Prime Video android app, showing WoT at No. 2 overall in the top 10 in India. A screenshot of my Prime Video android app, showing WoT at No. 1 among tv shows in the top 10 in India.
April 17, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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🧵1/n #TheWheelOfTime
#WoTSkies
#WoTShowSpoilers
It looks like the decision re. Siuan also involved Sophie in large part. She's an incredibly on-demand, talented & expensive actor. With contracts being renegotiated, she may not have wanted to continue in a supporting role for another 5 yrs minimum.
A screenshot from Rafe Judkins' AMA on his Insta stories: Question: What is your excuse my guy for killing siuan and not giving her the story she deserves? Rafe's answer: Sophie and I discussed it a lot and felt this was the best time for the character to leave us. We have plans for who will take on her other main story as the books move forward. But also... it's not the last time we will see Siuan if the show continues👀. A screenshot from Rafe Judkins' AMA on his Insta stories: Question: Are we ever gonna be able to see the magnificent Sophie Okonedo again? Rafe's answer: Hopefully. You can probably already tell from how we set it up, but we've got plans for the Moiraine/Siuan endgame that I'd love to put on screen as it's something we can only do in the Wheel of Time.
April 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Also have you seen Priyanka's latest Insta post?
www.instagram.com/p/DIhJ8PPo0s...
A screenshot of Priyanka Bose's latest Insta post. It shows a photograph of the Wheel Of Time Billboard in Times Square and is captioned, "Times Square is a portal to another dimension. The last episode drops and then it's over. Or is it...."
April 16, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Curtains if written by Robert Jordan:
A pair of green curtains knotted at the base and billowing out in the wind the shape of bikini-clad breasts.
April 12, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Theoden raising a toast to the fallen after the Battle of Hell's Deep and saying "Hail the victorious dead."
April 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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I have my own personal void who screams at me. 😆
A black cat with green eyes lying on his side inside a white paper bag.
April 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM