Rand scores our first ever bingo! Great job buddy!

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been having a lot of thoughts about mazrim rand and logain

rings of power had a budget of half a billion dollars and yet wheel of time with a FRACTION of that is out here giving us unparalleled artistry and costuming that hasn't been seen since in this entire decade of television

if they don't win an Emmy for this i'm rioting

pov you’re on a nice relaxing trip with your bestie traveling the world

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MOIRAINE channeling in "What Was Meant to Be"

3,000 years pass and I'm back to this.

My siuaraine greatest hits compilation ahead of the s2 premiere

Moiraine looking at Siuan

"We all stand with you."

I haven't had the chance to watch as far as Aviendha's first appearance, but I am excited for my girl.

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it's interesting that in the coup it's framed largely as the young trainees taking elaida's side vs. the older warders taking siuan's (though i'm sure there was some mixing and it wasn't a 100% clear-cut division, especially since plenty of older warders would've sided with elaida because their aes sedai did). the ages feel significant to me, because it feels like the kind of thing where the younglings are doing what's right in a by-the-book way (upholding tower law by preventing the jailbreak of a legally-deposed* amyrlin) because they are too young and too inexperienced with the world to be ready to question authority or see potential nuance in a situation. it's the older warders who are able to think "hmmm, this may technically be legal but it still doesn't feel right" because they have the life experience to know that tower law and aes sedai are not infallible and can make mistakes or act out of shady motives. whereas the younglings are still in the early phase of trusting the tower as an institution 100% no matter the situation (which we see later on too, when gawyn is growing disillusioned with elaida/the tower but knows he can't voice this to any of the other younglings because they'd kill him for being a traitor to the tower).

this makes me curious about the novices and accepted. i think some fled with the rebels since i remember nynaeve and elayne needing to teach classes in salidar, but how did that happen? was it only a small minority of blue-leaning students who went, or was it a more even split? i suppose that aes sedai students may have had more direct interaction with siuan and/or elaida and more opinions on the blue and red ajahs than warder trainees and so maybe they were more likely to have personal reasons for choosing one side over the other, while the warder trainees kinda defaulted to Tower Law As Written since they were pretty far removed from the politics & emotions of elaida deposing siuan (bar gawyn who did have plenty of direct interaction with both, which made him predisposed to trust elaida and distrust siuan).

*siuan was not legally deposed, but i don't think anybody fully realizes that until much later when they find out that some of the sitters who voted against her were black ajah. on the day of the coup, most inhabitants of the white tower have little to no reason to doubt the legality of the deposition; at most they would have a Bad Feeling about it but no real evidence that it was illegal.

me everyday

Alanna: Why do you need to see the Amrylin?

Lan: ...

Me: DON'T TELL HER MOIRAINE AND SIUAN ARE IN LOVE DON'T TELL THEIR SPECIAL SECRET

Lan: We found the dragon reborn

Me: Oh. Right. That minor side plot.

the happy novice days :')

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The only reason that I was able to say that you're not my equal is that I've known one thing to be true since the day we met. You have always been my better.