so it's come to my attention that i have drawn a reasonable amount of manfred in the last 5 months

There are nine U of T students - all men - in this booth. 1978 [TPL Archives]

Germany really couldn’t choose just two of them to recreate the titanic scene huh

All I want rn is to write more fic but I have to do my bpd research for class like a good boy all the meanwhile I am chewing my hands off

But Caitie, why are you so pressed about bad faith criticism from book fans about the wheel of time show? Great question I’m glad you asked.

From what I have observed book fans who are saying that it’s a bad adaptation and not worth watching have criticisms that usually boil down to one or all of these three objections.

1. They’re spending time in the show on characters who aren’t the ta’veren boys/Rand

2. Any changes have been made at all in order to adapt the story to film

3. There are too many queer characters and actors of color

All three of these talking points became a common refrain during season one, largely driven by the hilariously un-self aware manpilled alt-right shitheads in the /r/whitecloaks subreddit which got shut down for harassing other subreddits in 2022. It should be obvious that a lot of the motivation there was a misogynistic and racist misreading of a deliberately feminist and multicultural book series. If you think RJ would find this diverse show full of badass and well fleshed out women a poor adaptation of his work you are kidding yourself.

And regarding the other less obviously white supremacist complaints: Rand is not the only important character. Anyone who has read past like book two should be well aware that every main character’s point of view is important to the overall narrative. There are only 8 seasons in which to get through all of those main characters’ arcs. Of course they are starting them all now. Are the boys getting less screen time than they get pov chapters early in the books? Sure. This is necessary because once again, the ta’veren boys are Not the only characters that matter. I don’t know why people are so surprised that ALL of the main characters of a book series with over a dozen recurring pov characters are going to have character arcs.

And again if you’re just mad that it’s more queer and polyamorous. Fuck off.

There are valid criticisms to be made about this show if you engage with the show in good faith and judge it by its own merit instead of just comparing it scene by scene to the books. For instance I think it’s fairly obvious that the first season suffered as a result of late stage rewrites made to account for a shortened episode count, and Perrin’s arc in particular was off to a rough start.

But in season 2 I think they are doing a lot of things right, and the change of speeding up his acceptance of his wolfkin powers is a Very good one I think.

And the rest of this season rules to be totally honest. All of the Moiraine and Lan stuff is Great and really sets up for later events so well. And I am enjoying Everything about how the show is handling the Forsaken so far. Episode 4 was my favorite yet, Lanfear is fucking Perfect. This season is absolutely nailing character beats for all the most important characters, and doing excellent character work around the major themes of the book series and setting up for future key events. Every scene with any of the Aes Sedai is my favorite. And some things have been markedly improved by the show over the books. I cannot get over how good the team up of Mat and Min is so far. And the normalization of polyamory in the culture of randland is Brilliant for the long term series.

If this show gets cancelled because so many of the book fans refuse to even try to engage with it for what it is instead of what isn’t, it will be a goddamn tragedy. And if you’re just really disappointed that you can’t as easily skip the scenes with the girls the way you skipped the POV chapters of all the women when reading the books then please take a big step back and ask yourself if unchecked misogyny is a good look in 2023.

Manpilled sogmaxxer

thats me :)

manpilled bedmaxxer

Hey at least youre the opposite of a manpilled ratfucker

i could see people using that one too

Trans men are literally manpilled so whats your fucking damnage Brent

Martin posted it!!! He’s wearing a lil artsy sweater :)

martin: the one man in that entire fucking group of white men that will come thru for us the way we deserve :')

Three Seans (Shawns/Seáns?), two Michaels, and an Alistair. Video soon! #ncl #ftrbratpack #ftrlive #choirofman #manpile #bermuda #graveyard #erectedbytheirshipmates (at Bermuda)

Awake and manpilled. The only man in the universe rn who has experienced some great feeling and is alone in his thoughts. Dwelling in it really! Totally and entirely absorbed by it

There will be many more mornings like this fr

A whet pile of Santas. . . . . . #chrimbo #cribmess #santard #whetness #manpile #eroticart

Yandere Junko Enoshima

Tw:Yandere themes, unhealthy mindset, unhealthy relationship, possessiveness, obsessiveness, overprotective behavior, paranoia, delusions, aged up characters, mentions of kidnapping

The first time she sees her darling she expects her to be ordinary she analyzed a lot about her and what her actions might be.

When that didn't happen she was in shock, how come that didn't happen? How? Why?

She immediatly knew that the darling was not ordinary instead extraordinay. She couldn't analyze what they can do sometimes and thus her obessission started.

She started as sweet and her model like persona, then she manpilated her. She wanted to know more and more about her darling. She also didn't want the darling to die very easily, after all where is the despair in that?

She did plan her darling's death, but decided she was too interesting for her darling to die so she ditched her plans.

Though she did make them watch the video which would turn them into Ultimate Despair.

Now they shared the same mind and heart. How wonderful.

Junko is also a yandere who would love to put her darling through pain, for them to feel despair of pain.

England trying to go for the manpile... Excuse y'all, that's been copyrighted by the Italian NT