Orlion Blight

I've also been watching The Owl House season 2 episodes as they have been released, and frankly I believe I'm getting the vapours! *swoons*

The issue is also, contractually, Black Widow was supposed to get an exclusively theatrical release. By releasing it concurrently on Disney+, Disney opened themselves to a breach of contract suit. The estimated loss of revenue is to demonstrate harm done so the courts will allow the case to move forward. I suspect at that point, it'll get settled out of court for an undisclosed amount that will be less than the estimated loss. 

Basically, by doing it this way, Disney has managed to pay Scarlett Johansson less than if they had renegotiated the contract like her agent was trying to do. Scar-Jo does not want to pay for an expensive lawsuit that she can potentially lose and Disney's legal team has probably all ready done an analysis where Disney stands to gain in this situation. 

4 hours ago, JesterLavorre said:

Oooh. Amphibia is great! There are a lot of filler episodes, but all the characters are so gooood.

I like Anne a lot. The other characters are fine, and growing on me. 

Watched the first couple seasons of Castlevania and am making my way through Amphibia

Time to kick up the weirdness in this here thread! 

3 hours ago, Spren of Kindness said:

Oh, I didn't know it had a sequel.  Neat!

Just came out!

It's part of the High Republic portion of Star Wars that is using different "mediums" to tell stories in a time a few hundred years before Episode 1.

So books ("adult", YA, middle grade and children's),  comics and eventually manga a little later this year. 

Get in on the ground floor on canon that won't be acknowledged anywhere else! *laugh-sobs*

2 hours ago, Spren of Kindness said:

Got through A Crown of Swords, which is probably my least favorite of Wheel of Time book so far, and The Path of Daggers, as well as Ruin and Rising, so now I'm done with Shadow and Bone.  It was okay.  I actually got a little emotional at the end, so I think it was pretty well done.  Probably not going to read Six of Crows.

I got An Ember in the Ashes and Light of the Jedi, both of which I've heard a lot about, so we'll see how good those are.

Light of the Jedi was fun. I'll be reading it's sequel, The Rising Storm, soon

Currently reading The Past is Red by The Catherynne M Valente 

51 minutes ago, Frustration said:

You think that's all the Cosmere he will get done in 25 years?

If you are always looking towards the future, you'll forget to live in the present! 

I imagine it is casual at the moment. Like a couple Zoom calls plus what we know he's doing (i.e. the Mistborn script).

Something of note when you do a weekly update, almost never amounts to anything substantial for fans (it's still good, because it means options monies for Brandon)

If the root beer doesn't give you liver cancer, it isn't REAL root beer!

15 minutes ago, Spren of Kindness said:

Finished The Eye of the World, and am now reading Fires of Heaven.  So far, it's pretty good.  Question: could someone tell me the ages of some of the main characters, specifically the Emond's Fielders?  I'd go on the wiki, but I don't want to spoil myself.

Stolen from Reddit:

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• Egwene al’Vere — b. 981 (17)

• Elayne Trakand — b. 981 (17)

• Lan Mandragoran — b. 953 (45)

• Loial — b. 908 (90)

• Mat Cauthon — b. 978 (19)

• Min Farshaw — b. 975 (23)

• Moiraine Damodred — b. 956 (42)

• Nynaeve al’Maera — b. 974 (24)

• Perrin Aybara — b. 978 (19)

• Rand al'Thor — b. 978 (19)

• Siuan Sanche— b. 958 (40)

• Tam al'Thor — b. 940 NE (58)

• Thom Merrilin — b. after 938 NE (max 60)

• Verin Mathwin — b.849 (149)

• Adeleas Namelle — b. 735 (263)

• Vandene Namelle — b. 737 (261)

Source: https://amp.reddit.com/r/WoT/comments/77lmqr/how_old_are_the_characters_at_the_start_of_the/

6 hours ago, Slowswift said:

Whyyyy was this never released on an album?!

 

 

Because he pronounced the name of the horse wrong 

2 hours ago, Thaidakar the Ghostblood said:

I have to live life, like a normal person 

"..it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all."

-from All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy 

Not implying anything about your age, just read this and seemed suitably melancholic for this occasion 

1 hour ago, Dunkum said:

It's also not really fair because Dragonlance did the same thing a decade and a half earlier

It is quite possible that both Dragonlance and Malazan cause harm to the fantasy genre. 

Along with Forgotten Realms! 

Anyhow, today's controversial opinion: 

Critical Role is ruining Tabletop Gaming 

Sounds like it's a missed deadline/ rescheduling issue. 

16 minutes ago, Moonsilver said:

I know I'm late to the game, but I'm currently watching Invincible and The Boys S2 on Netflix. Both are pretty great, and both have involvement with Seth Rogen, I've found.

I'm interested to see what Seth does with Darkwing Duck! 

I mean, Sanderson is all ready a household name. You do not need a Netflix adaptation to be one or to make obscene amounts of money. 

Here's the thing: Brandon has written YA because, he claims, it helps refresh him and keep him from burning out. That's fine. It's part of the process to reliably get Cosmere books (which most Sanderfans are here for. Sorry/not sorry) so people shouldn't be too upset with them because they aren't really causing a delay. 

You know what does cause delays? Failed projects (Apocalypse Guard) and "offical branded stories" (Magic: the Gathering novella). Those two were the principle reasons for the delay in the Lost Metal.

Skyward isn't causing delays. It allowed him to fulfill contractual obligations when Apocalypse Guard failed and he's been able to write each installment at his typical pace. 

But we don't know if that'll be the case with future YA series. We also don't know if his other side projects are going to impact his writing speed (currently, it does not look like it. But if he keeps gathering side projects, something will have to give).

It does seem like he's aware of this, so hopefully after Skward is finished, his breather project will be Rithmatist 2 and not something new. Because if we are talking business sense, the longer it takes for that book to appear, the less business sense it makes to write or publish (and that assumes the current publisher of Rithmatist doesn't fold, get reorganized or bought complicating the fate of that book and any potential sequel).

But...a pizza with pineapple, ham, cinnamon and slivered almonds? It's soooo good! 

1 hour ago, Thaidakar the Ghostblood said:

well, I have only read one of the 14 history of middle earth books so yeah, I am still not the ultimate fan.

But it might make you the biggest fan on the Shard!

15 hours ago, TheCruelSadist said:

We gonna get real vulnerable in here now: anyone else feel like they have no right to talk about pride?  I never really "came out" because 1) I don't share anything with my family [they're sincerely some of the worst, most toxic people I've ever known - at least if they were clinical sociopaths they'd have an excuse, but nope] and 2) When I started making friends as an adult I already knew, so that's all they've known about me.  I've never had to risk losing someone or something, so I don't feel like I've had to do anything difficult enough to be proud of.

I mean, I'm a hetero giving advice in a Pride topic, so you'll always have more right to talk about it than me! 

On 6/18/2021 at 9:01 AM, Draginon said:

Anyone still trying to figure their status out? I’m for sure asexual but the romance side is the part I keep struggling with. I’m not really heteroromantic, homoromantic, biromantic or aromantic and I’m not sure which of panromantic, demiromantic or grey romantic fit best for me since the meanings are so similar. Like I’m more interested in women for romance but if a man happens to be the one for me I’ll go with him since I’d rather be with someone who I’ll be happy with than being with a gender preference and being miserable.

At a certain point, I wouldn't worry about labeling every granule aspect of your identity. 

Start off first with what you know. Than, using the various other terms, you can formulate a description of what you would want in a relationship. The key is to communicate clearly your wants and needs, and even if you eventually find another term that fits you, you will likely have to provide a description anyway. So "I am asexual, and I look for so-on-and-so-forth in a relationship" would be very useful to you while you lack a term for the "so-on-and-so-forth" part.

49 minutes ago, Dannex said:

Why wouldn’t it be Rothfuss? It’s his series, just because it’s taking forever doesn’t mean he’s gonna give it to someone else.

I just don't think he'll ever write it 

And of course Brandon would never agree to write it. It's waaaaay outside his wheel(of time)house and he has too much stuff he wants to do. I can't imagine him putting everything on hold again to agree to write the final book in another series which will end up being 3 books. 

The Ken Burns Hemingway Documentary! 

@BenduLuke Lord of the Flies was written by William Golding, one of my favorites. 

It's kinda a shame. He wrote a lot more and, as a result, won the Nobel Prize in literature. Though not exceedingly difficult to find, his other works outside of Lord of the Flies are not widely available. I don't think my school even mentioned any of the above, it was just focused on the one book. 

He even wrote an alternative history story that debut in a collection alongside a Mervyn Peake story!