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we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

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Here are his key direct quotes:

“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 😇”

(Instagram AMA + multiple outlets including Winter Is Coming and wotseries.com)

“…if the show continues, it’s not the final scene we intend to have between the two of them.”

(The Hollywood Reporter, April 17, 2025 — referring to Moiraine and Siuan)

On Salidar and future plans:

“We have a lot planned for Salidar. There’s a cut scene we will hopefully get to show someday of Ryma, Verin and Leane leaving the White Tower with a group of Aes Sedai to ‘gather on the shores of the river where Siuan was born’.”

On the Moiraine/Siuan endgame:

“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.”

All that hate in the direction of Rafe for nothing!

Our fandom decided for nothing.

What we could have had, had we stood united.

anyways the tension in the story comes not from the toxic hyper masculine locker room homophobia but rather the pressures on rose to be a wife/“role model” (read: straight, feminine, white) madonna whore complex figure in the american psyche. the other side of the tension is sveta’s great hockey polycule and rose being obsessed with being svetlana’s Special Girl and also svetlana’s obsession with her.

anyways publicly everyone thinks svetlana is dating noted model and bond villain actor ilya rozanov (yes he is typecast) and shane hollander is an ex-OHL player who either got injured or had a mental breakdown because of the intense racism/homophobia in the leagues and works in women’s hockey. he is also rose’s first gay boyfriend, and i think he is to rose what sveta is to ilya in canon, as like a hockey guru.

both rose and sveta have the same misunderstanding that the lesbian sex they’re both regularly having is just a fling/sex thing/fantasy for the other and the other will go back to their real boyfriends/future husband. lesbian comphet is about the expectation for women to be Wife so they’re both yearning like we will never be together For Real because my situationship will marry a man when she goes back to Real Life.

anyways shane is a little bit obsessed with svetlana because of how good she is at hockey and they probably know each other as colleagues and that’s how shane and ilya meet, and ilya is trying to get sveta to leverage her connection to meet with shane so to rose it looks like sveta wants to sleep with shane and ilya’s playboy persona makes it so shane thinks ilya wants to cheat on sveta with rose and ilya is also jealous of shane’s attention on sveta and maybe ilya has a photoshoot with rose that stokes their respective lover’s jealousy and so on and so forth. MESSY MESSY MESSY!!!!!

[36/?] The chips are set to fall

by icopythefax

There are so many reasons a person may choose not to come out and there is no reason a person would owe the public or a stranger that information. Certainly it's not owed simply because someone is famous.

The whole team settles in with rapt attention, ready to roast the shit out of Roz over it via group chat, only to see. Well. It's a series of interview clips over the years. It's made up exclusively of three things. One, clips of Hollander "stealing" linguistically challenging questions that the whole team knows Rozanov hates. Two, clips of Rozanov derailing questions that are about Hollander's "representation of his community," which gossip on the street says makes Hollander uncomfortable. Three, Hollander and Rozanov commenting individually on the rivalry, with vicious comments such as. "He's of course a great player, but he'll find us difficult to beat." Such fire in Rozanov's comments are especially damning, given his whole chirp-king-schtick. The video editor, with all the obsession and perception of a true fangirl, makes sure to circle every instance where you can see the shadow of Hollander and Rozanov pressing their feet together - and in one instance holding hands - beneath the interview table. (You wouldn't see it unless you're looking for it - or unless someone circles it in red for you.)

The video finishes, and the team sits in a kind of shocked silence as the next video auto-plays. This one is a compilation of Rozanov chirping Hollander on the ice. Here, the editor has helpfully drawn an arrow to Hollander's face whenever he blushes. The editor has also inserted text overlays with comments like. "Look at how fiercely Rozanov insults his rival." And then puts smaller arrows pointing to Roz's body language, with helpful texts like "excited wiggle indicating absolute fury," and "besotted grin indicating deep hatred." The sarcasm is distressingly accurate in its point.

(Listen, the whole team knows what Roz looks like when he's chirping someone. This - this is not it. This is not it at all. This is him when he's being silly with people he really likes. What is going on.)

The video finishes, and this time someone has the presence of mind to stop the auto-play before another mind-breaking thing comes up.

Someone else, trying to lighten the silence with a joke, and maybe dismiss it all as a fever dream, says, "Montreal Jane? More like Montreal Shane, am I right?"

And. Well.

Once it's out there, there's no coming back from it.

@munsons-mutiny It is a crime to leave this in the tags. I would give my firstborn to see your ideas in fic form.

Mr the Mung Bean celebrates his 3rd birthday this month.

He growed up good. <3

• holding ilya’s hand while they cross a busy street full of hazards (potholes, roadworks, etc)

• rescuing ilya from kidnappers (he kicks down the door)

• rescuing ilya from a burning building (bridal carry)

• fighting in a gladiatorial ice hockey arena for ilya’s hand in marriage

• massaging ilya’s bad knee and ilya says with wonderment “wowww wow. shane you’re so good at this… you are better than every physical therapist on earth probably”

• saying “he asked for no pickles” to the mcdonalds cashier

• carrying ilya’s bags

• washing ilya’s hair

• applying o’keefes working hands cream to ilya’s calluses