#tPoD

[shitpostingkats]

On the heights, all paths are paved with memes.

[yournewlodger]

if the master had any sense, he wouldn't need to put his own face in all those paintings. he would only have to steal one of them - van gogh's sunflowers. because if there's one thing that would have hurt the doctor, it wouldn't be rasputin's face on the mona lisa. it would be writing over two words. "For Amy"

[angels-in-overcoats]

[randalwhore]

robert jordan picked up his pen to write path of daggers and said I want to make yuri history. And that’s what this is

[birodactyloftheblog]

Concept art ☀️🌙✨

[sazernac]

I have a thing for rhaenyra undoing mysaria’s silk robe and then using the tie to bind mysaria’s wrists bc the idea just comes to her

Mysaria feels Rhaenyra’s heated gaze like flames licking across her skin. She shudders in anticipation of her queen’s touch, nearly moaning at the slight graze of Rhaenyra’s fingers as she slowly undoes the tie of her robe.

“Do you trust me?” Rhaenyra asks softly, her breath ghosting teasingly over Mysaria’s lips.

“Yes.” She replies without hesitation.

The garment slips fluidly from her shoulders, pooling into a silken pile at her feet while Rhaenyra stands in front of her, looking contemplative, still holding the tie as she rakes her eyes appreciatively down Mysaria’s body.

She’s wet, achingly so, and she can tell by the hungry way Rhaenyra bites her bottom lip that she knows it too.

“Turn around.” The queen growls, both a dare and a command. Mysaria does as bid, completely helpless at denying her, gasping softly when she feels Rhaenyra’s calloused palms guiding her wrists across one another before binding them with the tie. She weaves the fabric into an intricate pattern, effectively restraining her, placing Mysaria completely at her mercy.

Rhaenyra’s next words drip with the promise of sin coating each letter, her voice husky and lush as it falls on Mysaria’s waiting ears. “On your knees, sweet lover.”

[the-five-deadly-venoms]

It's good to see you back, even if it's not at all under circumstances we want it to be.

aww omg thank you fire !! what a sweet thing to send me :3c

dreamworks really just swept the five away all in favour of tai lung..........................

[asha-mage]

I have exerted an unreasonable amount of energy to determine if Elena Kotab is a book reference or not, and I have managed to determine that she is not.

As near as I can tell Cadsuane's most important pre-series relationships that we are aware of are Myriam Copan and Sereille Bagand, both of whom come up in Egwene's Amyrlin Crash Course.

I find the idea that Cadsuane apparently had a lover/best friend so important to her that Elayne recalls their relationship as a defining part of Cadsaune's legend DEEPLY interesting. Elayne is a White Tower Fangirl so obviously she's a bit more familiar with these things, and she might be exaggerating a bit, but if she isn't.....My brain ITCHES to fill in the blank here, and to uncover new Cadsuane dimensions/lore.

[birgittesilverbae]

feral about this 24/7. Aviendha immediately searching for Elayne. Elayne doing everything in her power to reach Aviendha's side. Elayne's realization that Aviendha risked everything to stay by her side to the last. (something something we could be killed or worse stilled something something sort out your priorities).

The face touching, the kisses on cheeks, Aviendha breaking custom to return the gestures of love. The devotion to each other bursting out in what is essentially a marriage proposal.

[zenballmaster]

i wonder if this movie will pull me back into shipping mr ping and li squints

at least maybe with more. idk. Care?? more depth

[alectology-archive]

well remember when I reread the shaido side of the plot in tfoh. I’m… going to try that with perrin’s side of the plot for the sake of the girlies (berelain, faile, alliandre, seonid) so wish me luck I guess

[the-path-of-dreamers]

You can now read TPOD on Comicfury! And also here's the cover & the first arc cover.

[angels-in-overcoats]

Did you have a visceral emotional reaction to seeing Ian Chesterton again or are you a freak who hasn’t watched any Classic Who?

[markantonys]

rotating potential Mat Show Structures in my brain...........assuming that ebou dar is cut (which feels likely if mat is indeed already having a southwestern coastal roadtrip with elayne and nynaeve in s3), what if:

s3: gets his marriage prophecy, tanchico trip with the girls, meets tuon (without knowing she's Prophecy Wife) but they go their separate ways by the end of the season

s4: returns to rand's side, forms the band, leads the band as part of the dumai's wells rescue mission because dumai's wells needs to involve as many main characters as possible goddammit (and because i need the romance of mat helping rescue rand)

s5: leads a campaign against the seanchan with rand and/or on rand's behalf (depending on what else rand has going on this season), reencounters tuon and kidnaps her (but may or may not yet know she's Prophecy Wife; either way, kidnapping motive is instead something calculating like taking a high-ranking seanchan as a prisoner of war, or something morally righteous like rescuing her from her own people's assassins and taking her off with him to keep her safe)

this would be adding mat into rand's TPOD storyline, of course, but at the same time it would ALSO be mat absorbing ituralde's storyline from the next few books. i remember talking once with @butterflydm about how ituralde is basically Knockoff Mat in that he's getting a whole spotlit Clever General storyline while mat, who's supposed to be our main Clever General, is off fucking around in the circus.

so i feel like involving mat in the seanchan campaigns could be an elegant solution all around. mat actually gets to fulfill his narrative role of leading armies on rand's behalf, the seanchan campaign storyline is in the hands of a main character (vs. rand doing it only briefly and then ituralde taking over the bulk of it), mat gets involved with the seanchan in a manner more organic than "author drops a wall on him to force him to encounter them", and it lends a huge amount of much-needed enemies-to-lovers narrative tension to the mat/tuon relationship if he is actively leading military campaigns against her forces (like he did for about.......5 pages in the books).

now wandering off into very-hypothetical ship-related territory thinking of what mat/tuon would look like in this scenario.

i'm thinking mat never finds out during s3 that tuon is a high-ranking seanchan and thinks she's just His Good Buddy Tuon (because she's disguised and undercover). but as the s3 finale stinger, the audience finds out that tuon is mat's Prophecy Wife AND is the heir to the seanchan throne, so we've got some tasty dramatic irony. s4 has tuon doing a solo storyline of seanchan political intrigue, either still in the western westlands or back in the actual court in seanchan (the latter would be sooooo cool, but it depends on how many times they want her zipping back and forth between continents). but her time spent with mat, elayne, and nynaeve (two marath'damane who are in fact people!) in s3 has got the gears turning, and in s4 we get to see tuon in her natural habitat but we also see that she's starting to question and doubt some Seanchan Ways because our kids have expanded her worldview.

in s5, tuon is tasked with heading up the next wave of military efforts in the westlands. so when mat crosses her path again, she is decked out in full seanchan regalia and he realizes that His Good Buddy Tuon is a high-ranking seanchan and must have been using him in s3 when she acted like his friend, so he's all hurt and betrayed (alternately, this reveal could happen as their final scene in s3 and mat is still feeling betrayed when they reunite in s5), but tuon genuinely did like him in s3 so she's hurt that he now hates her but she also can't reveal any of this weakness because he's the enemy general and her people would think she's a traitor if she shows any hints of non-hostile feelings towards him, and despite his anger mat can't help holding onto some non-hostile feelings for her which makes him even more angry with himself, and it's all very delicious.

kidnapping happens, and for s6 they embark on a roadtrip back across the continent (maybe with mat intending to deliver tuon as a hostage to rand; we could even mix the 2 motives i brainstormed, where he impulsively saves her life out of feelings but Then justifies it as taking her with him as a hostage), and all this prior development means several good things for the show being able to sell their relationship as a bona fide romance (and tuon as a dynamic, complex character).

1) tuon having spent time with westlanders and free channelers already in s3 and having spent s4-5 questioning Seanchan Ways on her own means she is now primed for a final push over the edge of unlearning seanchan conditioning and admitting that slavery is wrong (which she has to do IF the show wants mat/tuon to be a bona fide romance rather than a political marriage; a political marriage with an unrepentant tuon would also be a viable route, but show!mat would never ever ever fall in love with an unrepentant slaver so if it's going to be a bona fide romance then she has to repent) and ideally admitting that she herself can channel (feat. tasty scene early in the season of her accidentally channeling for the first time to protect mat). now tuon is a complex character who grows and develops over the course of the story, and it does not defy all reason, credibility, and established characterization that mat could fall for her. improvement!

2) if mat is feeling angry and betrayed by the discovery of tuon's seanchan identity, and if tuon is hurt by this because she genuinely likes him and wasn't faking friendship in s3 and wishes he would believe her, now mat has the "upper hand" in their roadtrip dynamic, so to speak, and tuon is in the position of needing to work to earn mat's trust. so rather than mat nonsensically handing over his loyalty and protectiveness at the drop of a hat to tuon who's used to being worshipped and takes mat doing so as her due and walks all over him with no pushback, now it's a more equal dynamic and a better power balance because tuon has to work hard to give mat (and the audience) a reason to believe she's Better Than Other Seanchan. improvement!

imagine how hard the "you're not my enemy, but your empire is" line would go in this context!

and i haven't even thought about when mat would find out tuon is Prophecy Wife in this structure. i would love for it to be not until after he's already falling for her naturally, but if he's fighting against a seanchan army that she's leading in s5, he might not be able to go very long without hearing the "daughter of the nine moons" title. idk! even if he does find out fairly early, i know that show!mat would not let this information immediately remove his spine from his body, so i have faith either way.

[dragon-of-the-soutn]

Hot take but I love Mazrim Taim.

Is he obvious evil and plotting? Yes. Is he going to betray Rand? Absolutely!

But my god is he having a ball doing all these things and I can’t help but love him for it!

Just got to the end of TPOD and this man strolls into the actively on fire Sun Palace after just being menacingly in the background of the last book and a half and finds his boss and his bosses girlfriend in an absolute state in said palace basement and is just like: What’s this, some of my Ash’aman betrayed you?! What a coincidence! I never saw this coming. Don’t worry my Lord Dragon, I the man who doesn’t even bow to you, will totally sort this out don’t even worry about it!

And then Rand just doesn’t worry about it and dips with Min.

It’s insane and I need a book of Mazrim Taim’s shady Black Tower shenanigans ft. Logain ‘apparently his workplace worstie’ Ablar just being very petty with one another. Or kissing. I think either seems feasible and very funny.

[birodactyloftheblog]

Did some concept art for a (relatively)new character of mine!