#birgitte silverbow

[the-hills-of-tanchico]

"I am only trying to make up for—" [Nynaeve] began timidly, and jumped when the other woman roared. "Make up? You are trying to make me less!" "No. No, it is not that, truly. I am to blame—" "You take responsibility for my actions," Birgitte broke in fiercely. "I chose to speak to you in Tel'aran'rhiod. I chose to help you. I chose to track Moghedien. And I chose to take you to see her. Me! Not you, Nynaeve, me! I was not your puppet, your pack hound, then, and I will not be now." (TFoH, ch. 37)

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

I need the show to get renewed so I can see Birgitte Silverbow in one of these uniforms.

[moghedien]

I think one of best underrated parts of milf Moghedien was that protagonists and Aes Sedai checked in repeatedly and were forced to admit that 1) Moghedien was telling truth, she didn't like steal kids from families or kill their caretakers, they really were just random homeless orphans she took in 2) kids were traumatized, but it was ''ordinary'' trauma of, again, being homeless orphans, nothing to do with Darkfriend business or Compulsion 3) kids actually liked Moghedien and kept asking after her

Ok I don’t remember #3 being the case. Maybe it is but I don’t remember that I’ll have to reread the entire series to find out I guess no choice

But also another overlooked funny detail is that the kids started getting better after Birgitte started help taking care of them and Birgitte and “Marigan” were also sharing a bed in Salidar, so to everyone who doesn’t know what’s going on, it straight up looks like Elayne’s weird fruity ass Warder got with Nynaeve’s widowed maid and adopted her two kids

I cannot stress enough how all of Salidar must have looked at the Elayne/Nynaeve/Birgitte/Marigan situation in Salidar like that was all some gay ass kinky polycule because that actually makes the more sense than what was actually happening

[kaiartx]

first test print of birgitte is here!

i need to make sure i use more ink next time and fix a couple of details, but preorders are open now here <3

price for now is 12€, with free shipping! depending on how many people buy this i will mail them in a week or two <3

[wot-tidbits]

[pillowfriends]

MAT HOW DOES IT FEEL TO LIVE MY DREAM (getting fucked up on pitchers of wine with Birgitte)

[dream-of-ravens]

Sees Rand: that’s Elayne’s wife!

Sees Avidendha: that’s Elayne’s wife!

Sees Birgitte: that’s Elayne’s wife!

[anira-naeg]

[iliiuan]

“Moghedien sprang the trap, but my neck is not yet snapped. Perhaps I will surprise her before it is done.”

BIRGITTE WAS SUPPOSED TO KILL MOGHEDIEN. I HAVE BEEN DENIED!!

[the-hills-of-tanchico]

"What did you do?" Silence held Elayne long enough for Nynaeve to join her, lowering herself awkwardly onto the bed. "Bonding," Elayne said finally. "I... bonded her. As a Warder." The incredulous stare on the other woman’s face made her rush on. "Healing was doing no good. I had to do something. You know the gifts a Warder gets from being bonded. One is strength, energy. He can keep going when other men would collapse and die, survive wounds that would kill anyone else. It was the only thing I could think of." (TFoH, ch. 35)

And after the highly toxic yuri, the lifesaving subversion of gender roles. Is it any wonder we were all over this in the nineties—?

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

I hope we do get another season of The Wheel of Time just so we can finally see this dynamic on screen.

[moghedien]

please with how much everyone is immediately looking at Elayne and being like "What is the Daughter Heir of Andor doing here?!?!" I really need them to do the thing in the book where Elayne tells someone she's the Daughter Heir in front of Birgitte and Birgitte pulls her aside and tells her to stop telling such stupid obvious lies, that no one would ever believe she's a princess and if she keeps doing that its just gonna make people distrust her

[kaiartx]

working on something

[thelxiepia]

literally screaming BIRGITTE at the tv after seeing a blonde woman with a bow for half a second

[iviarellereads]

The Fires of Heaven, Chapter 54 - To Caemlyn

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(Dragon icon) In which someone's own words come back to haunt her.

PERSPECTIVE: Rand and five hundred Maidens head to the Royal Palace, to meet members of every other society. He repeats to Bael that he doesn't know how many will be able to come, and adds that Moiraine and Egg won't be coming.

He makes a gateway as big as he can, about four paces wide, and makes the platform on the other side a square as big as the one behind him with the Aiel gathered in. The people start moving through, and eventually it fills up with only half the people through. He closes the gateway, and they start moving through the darkness, though there's no sensation of movement. The platform eventually stops, and Rand opens another gateway on this side, opening it to the street by the wall he climbed into the garden where he first met El.

Trollocs quickly meet them, and then lightnings strike, seeming to not care if they hit Trolloc or human. Rand evades them, but Mat's boots are empty and smoking a few feet away from his smokin' dead bod, Asmo is a twist of char, and Avi is unmarked but unmoving.(1)

Rand screams for Rahvin, as they fight forward. Eventually he finds an open gateway and follows what must surely be Rahvin into the palace.

PERSPECTIVE: Nyn is teaching Siuan to access TAR, and has no trouble staying angry enough to channel into one of the ter'angreal. She and El alternate teaching the Salidar Six, as well, and she's hardly had time to study Siuan, Leane, or Logain. Also, Faolain has been raised, not to Aes Sedai but to something more than Accepted, and given extra rank over Nyn, meaning Nyn has had to run her little errands and fetch quests on demand.

The worst is that Theodrin has been assigned to break Nyn's block. Theodrin is kind and good-humoured, and Nyn is embarrassed that she cried in her arms when she realized she wasn't going to break the block in a night.(2)

Nyn and Siuan poke at each other's sore spots until they're wrestling on the ground in TAR, and Siuan breaks it up with laughter at realizing their foolishness. Nyn thinks she spotted Moggy watching them, and suggests they go back, reminding Siuan that time works differently here. Siuan refuses, but Nyn snaps the cord on the necklace holding the ter'angreal to her, and Siuan disappears.

Nyn freaks out, hoping she hasn't sent Siuan into some purgatory, and flees to Jurene, the little village where the wondergirls had stopped on their way to Tear. She wonders why she jumped here and not out of the dream, but shortly Moggy finds her either way, and implies she knows what Nyn's been up to in the waking world.

They face down, but Bir shows up and Moggy is shocked into giving up the weave she was just building. Nyn uses the opportunity to visualize, to create in TAR, an a'dam, already around Moggy's neck. Horror overcomes Moggy's rage quickly when she realizes she is now well and truly trapped, and can no longer channel or move in TAR.(3)

Bir explains that she took the stone ring from Siuan, and came, when it became clear Nyn wasn't waking up simultaneously with her. So, what do they do now?

Nyn can feel Moggy's fear through the a'dam, even though she's working hard to put on a calm and superior face. Moggy offers that she's seen some of the others scheming, she knows valuable information, they're trying to draw Rand to attack Sammael, and he'll find Graendal and Rahvin as well, and Lanfear is playing her own game on top of it.

Nyn tells her that she won't allow hinting at things. If she tries to keep anything back, she will do to Moggy everything Moggy has dreamed of doing to her. Moggy fills with dread, and says Rahvin set wards around Caemlyn to sense when a man channels, and Rand intended to leave Cairhien after sunrise so he's probably already walked into them, chasing Rahvin because he thinks he killed Morgase.

Nyn makes Moggy weave her own gag and earmuffs, and asks Bir what she thinks, which is that Moggy was never very brave unless she thought she had the upper hand, she did seem genuine. Nyn says she wants to take Moggy to Caemlyn, Bir says she can't affect the waking world from here, then wakes up as the sleep tea wears off.

Nyn unweaves Moggy's earmuffs and says they're going to take a trip, and if anything sneaks up on her, well, what the bracelet wearer feels, the collar wearer feels tenfold. She pictures the palace in Caemlyn in her mind, and they move through TAR.

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(1) WELL! That was sudden and uncalled for! Three (well, two and a half) fairly major characters gone in one fell swoop. (2) It's not that she hates Theodrin, because she's really nice. It's that Nyn became Wisdom so early, she had to maintain full control of herself, she had to be capital-r Respectable to the other women in particular, so that they would uphold her authority with the men. She has never felt comfortable showing weakness, she's never been allowed to show weakness (remember how shocked Rand was to see her dancing in Baerlon?), and it embarrasses her so thoroughly to have done so, despite that Theodrin will certainly not tell anyone about it, that it makes her feel angry and weak in retrospect. Poor Nynaeve. (3) Now who's bridled for riding, Moggy?

[pillowfriends]

Elayne: Birgitte, what do you think of my circus pants?

Birgitte: it’s a good thing your ass isn’t any bigger or I wouldn’t be able to stop staring at it

Elayne: what

Birgitte: what