The days are long and the years are short

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My opinion on adaptations: A lot of fans of ANY book series get very emotional, negatively, with live action adaptations. I think this happens because they get too invested in the idea. The adaptation becomes personal on an astonishing level.

Don't get me wrong -- I have some series that are so foundational to my life that I have very strong feelings for them, but when I'm looking at someone else's adaptation of them, it's not MY book experience that is being shown. It's the showrunner/ producer/ whomever's.

And, as such, I emotionally look at these things almost like a gift someone has given me. I might like it. I might hate it. I might be utterly baffled why they bothered. But it doesn't affect my experience of the foundational book. They are separate things entirely.

Now, on to THIS cancellation: Dammit.

"For whatever reason, Amazon has renewed Rings Of Power despite its massive decline in viewership, while cancelling the wildly superior Wheel Of Time. Truly, I will never understand the decisions these streaming executives make." ...Sure, there are many ways that Wheel Of Time could have been better. While there was no feasible way to stick to the letter of the source material, a lot of the changes were definitely questionable, even in Season 3..."

[If you watched all of the first season and were baffled by the ending, that's because one of the main characters quit entirely after covid lockdown with no warning. They had to take out all his plot points with zero time for adjusting to the change.]

"Some Very Bad News For ‘Wheel Of Time’ Season 4 As Amazon Does The Unthinkable" https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2025/05/23/some-very-bad-news-for-wheel-of-time-season-4-as-amazon-does-the-unthinkable/

After years... decades... of making pretend stained glass (with colored cellophane, with gooey Plaid paints, with Pebeo alcohol paints....) I am finally taking a stained glass class with actual glass.

And of course, I found fault with the pattern provided by the instructor because it looked like it was symmetrical and it was not. It also looked like it was intersecting circles, and it was not. So I had to redraw it because it was going to drive me bonkers.

At any rate, the class is now at the foiling of the edges stage. I'm planning to edge paint the yellow sections medievally, design TBD. The tiny clear bits near the center are dichro.

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