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Moiraine after spinning around in the rings at rhuidean

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i just wanted to let you all know that i am normal

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One of my favorite bits in Wheel of Time which I'm sure plenty of people hated (a thing you could say about almost any aspect of the series) is how each of the main three Two Rivers guys have love lives that often fail to even walk the line between hilarious and horrifying, let alone be functional and healthy; but every time they're doing really poorly, each one thinks, independently, "Man, I bet [one of the other Two Rivers guys] would know exactly what to do. He's so good with women." And then you mentally smash cut to that other guy, who is having a somehow worse time, even though that should be impossible.

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*Aiel Chieftain who’s ancestors were kinda boring and not involved in any interesting history*: hey so does anyone know why we stopped using wagons?

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sorry but this is SO funny. at first it reads like Gaebril, loving step-dad, playfulling joking about Galad. But it's actually Rahvin, Forsaken of the light, who has known Galad for one (1) month and is already like "I can't stand this guy help." Galad is pissing off Forsaken through sheer force of personality that's my boy

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Oops, they did it again!

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From Jen Cheon IG

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i love them. and i love this show. and i love this little community on tumblr. and i am so happy to have discovered this hidden gem of a show.

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it’s called femme top realness

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Are we not going to talk about this? Moiraine Amyrlin Seat and Siuan Keeper of the Chronicles.

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(I know many of these storylines will overlap but whatever)

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There’s probably more I could have included idk. Please explain your reasoning if you like.

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Something else that really works about the opening battle is what a sharp contrast the way the Aes Sedai fight vs the way the damane fought last season.

Cause the thing is the Seanchan use the damane as living artillery. There's no skill to it. No individuality. No creativity. It's all simple, blunt horrific acts: blow up this street, set this enemy line on fire, destroy that fortification. The damane are instruments of violence, without active agency in their own power, and the sul'dam are so focused on exerting control that they never seem to consider the possibilities of that power- the extent to which it might be wielded. In the books this subtly manifests in that their are damane capable of making a'dam but no other ter'angreal. It's not because the damane are incapable of that- an a'dam is just a kind of ter'angreal like any other. It's because the act of creation requires skill and creativity, the freedom to experiment, fail, and try again. That is exact the kind of freedom that is anathema to the Empire and would threaten their control over the damane. So those damane with the Talent for making ter'angreal are confined to simply reproducing the a'dam over and over again- replicating something already proven, and the instrument of their own confinement- not because they have too but because neither they nor their captors consider the possibility they could do anything else. It's the same with how they fight- every fireball is exactly the same as every other, because the freedom to do anything else would risk the damane taking possession of her own power again.

But the Aes Sedai fight? The Aes Sedai fight is full of incredible skill and individuality. There is no uniformity, no blunt regular attacks. Every one of the Aes Sedai is clearly the master of her own power, with won sharpened skills and inclinations and perfected talents- from Ispan's razor blades of air, to Nyomi's mental stun attack, to the way Leane uses her staff to conjure barriers and deflect strikes. It's still brutal and horrific and violent- but their is artistry there, in the way there is artistry in watching professional martial artists wail on each other. Tsutama instantly kills two men with a flick of her wrist by precisely inflicting blunt force trauma that shatters their skulls and doesn't miss a beat. Siuan is ready to roast Liandrin alive in a orb of spinning fire in an effort to break her. Joyia redirects attacks back at a pair of Blue Sitters attempting to kill her while Alanna uses the opening to nail her from behind. Every woman is fighting differently and fighting with everything she has. It could not be more of a stark contrast with the detached, dead eyed way the damane fight.

The Aes Sedai as an institution undoubtedly have their flaws, but I think fight show cases one of their strengths: they train these women not just to own their power, but to master it. In the books most of the White Tower training is about locating each girl's specific skills and talents, and helping her to hone them, and that ethos soaks into the way they fight. Not like soldiers but like samurai or knights- with violence and elegance and skill all blended together.

The White Tower wants every Aes Sedai to be scholar, and a warrior, a diplomat and a queen and a master mage all rolled into one. They want the idea of the Aes Sedai to mean something more. More then human, more then mortal, more then even just powerful.

And just watching this fight....you can feel that aspiration and for a moment, believe in it's truth.

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help me settle a roommate dispute

please put your reasoning in reblogs or tags if you feel so inclined. I have Opinions but I will wait to share them until the poll is over.

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SEASON THREE IS IMMINENT

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Faile’s just a girl who found out she did want to go into the family business after all, but not in her hometown, and not till she’d joined a motorcycle gang.