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It's not just one person who teaches Rand unhealthy coping mechanisms, it's multiple people.

Moiraine: You're being too nice, feeding the poor isn't gonna win you Tarmon Gai'don. Also presents herself with cool Aes Sedai serenity, shows little emotion (which he emulates)

Lan: Death is lighter than a feather, duty is heavier than a mountain

The Aiel: You must be harder than the Three-Fold Land itself

Rand internalizes all of these ideologies and forges them into this mask he hides his true authentic self behind cause he's convinced himself that he can't be who he truly is as a person to save the world, that his authentic self wouldn't be someone people can rally behind. He suppresses his entire identity behind this mask in a desperate attempt to be what the world expects him to be

#wheel of time #wot book spoilers #it's being sad about rand al'thor hours #rand al'thor #wot

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I've been having Asmodean thoughts and need to inflict them on someone else. With seeing Moghedien having cool looking weaves I'm hoping Asmo gets to have at least 1 scene with cool ass performance weaves, like something out of trans-siberean orchestra. Probably like a cold open showing why he turned to the shadow.

That's be really cool! I think it would also be interesting to see him maybe fight with sound, or manipulate it in some fashion? We know the One Power can be used to effect sound waves in interesting ways (the ability to block out eavesdroppers or project a voice), seeing Asmodean maybe specialize in something like that would be cool.

#wot #wheel of time #asmodean

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"I used to be an adventurer like you. Then I took an arrow in the knee"

#wheel of time #wot memes

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i got my grandma into wheel of time and she keeps calling me at like 10pm yelling into the phone about “those fucking trollocs” 

also i think she has a crush on perrin which is disturbing because she is 68 

#reblog #wheel of time #funny

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"I don't know how human the Dragon Reborn can afford to be."

#wheel of time #rand al'thor #it gets so much worse for you rand #book quotes

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Awwww

#wheel of time #todd draws on twitter #igloo #winky wink

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thom merrilin teaching rand and mat gleeman skills as they travel together is kind of hilarious to me. like yeah, we’re running for our lives from the forces of the dark. yeah all your friends are probably dead. what about it. do a flip

#wot #wheel of time

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So I’ve mentioned in the past my love of Min and I wanted to more properly articulate why I think a lot of the criticisms of her are kinda- bad. So I see the idea that Min is somehow Less of her own character because her primary focus for a lot of the series is in helping Rand, that her relationship with Rand is unhealthy because of her attention towards him. So I wanted to explain why that’s not really a valid argument.

So as far as these characters know, Rand is going to die at tarmengedon. To Min, Rand has two years left to live, she’s in love with him, and currently the most important thing is stopping the end of the world which also happens to coincide with Rand’s mental health.

Let’s put it this way, if a doctor told you that your partner had a terminal illness and had two years to live, would you not drop everything, set aside your personal goals and desires, to focus on loving and caring for your partner for those remaining two years. Cause I would.

Some times, it’s okay to have your romantic relationship be a priority. Sometimes there’ll be times where you have to put aside your personal goals to care for another person. Sometimes what you want in life, isn’t going to be the most important thing to you. And that’s okay. You’re allowed to prioritize others for periods of time. We see that Min’s life doesn’t end once Rand isn’t around, she has a life and goals and desires outside of him. There’s things she wants to pursue, changes to the world she wants to make, but for that period of time, her wants didn’t need to be the number one priority. Rand needed her support, the world needed someone to keep the dragon reborn grounded and human. It’s the same type of theme that all the characters emphasize, the idea that sometimes what you want isn’t as important as the greater needs of the world. After Tarmengedon we see her moving on to her next priority, which is guiding Tuon to be a good ruler. Rand was her priority for a small portion of her life, a blip in time where the needs of the world and her desires aligned. Rand was not her everything, and losing him did not destroy her, Rand was simply someone she loved and she wanted to love him to the fullest while she still had the chance.

#wot #wheel of time #min farshaw #romance #books

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I couldn't stop thinking about the little painting inside the ter'angreal that Siuan and Moiraine have, so i just had to draw them within it <3

(click images for optimal quality)

print available here!

#tv moiraine #tv siuan #tv wot #moiraine #siuan #wot #fan art

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#wot #wot meme #hilarious #funny #a memory of light

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Elyas saying that what typically happens with Wolfbrothers is that the wolves just find you. Can you imagine you're just minding your own business and then all of a sudden there's a pack of wolves staring at you.

imagine Perrin was still in Emond's Field when he found out he was a Wolfbrother. He's just at the forge doing some blacksmithing and then all of a sudden there's a pack of wolves staring at him like "Hello brother!"

#wheel of time #wot #perrin

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Having been reading a series set in the antebellum American South, it occurs to me that Tuon's response to learning the Big Sul'dam Secret is actually, psychologically speaking, entirely on point. Of course she goes straight to rationalisation - she has to, to protect herself from immense mental distress. And as the story plays out, nothing ever really happens to force her to confront this rationalisation as a coping strategy rather than the truth of the world. So she continues in it...and it's all perfectly in character and logical.

What's frustrating from a reader perspective is this psychologically realistic response is happening in the context of a narrative which has been promising for many books that this secret and its revelation will have consequences. It's the failure of the narrative to place any additional pressure on Tuon to reconsider her worldview that strikes a sour note. You can see the authorial hand of protection - and it's clumsy.

#wheel of time #wot #book analysis #tuon

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#wot #wheel of time #funny #wot memes

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Aes Sedai Misogyny

Robert Jordan has written the Wheel of Time (around 11 000 pages) to explain and emphasize the theme how Aes Sedai are powerful organization in Randland but they still do not control the whole world.

Robert Jordan showed us many examples how several groups of people distrust, hate and fear Aes Sedai.

Robert Jordan was very specific and always pointing out that these examples of distrust, hate and fear are based only - "only" like in there is literally no possible reason for - on the distrust and hate of the One Power itself.

It was never mentioned in the books how these "haters" are envious because women hold the power/magic in the world.

On the contrary, it is mentioned again and again how these people hate and fear the One Power regardless of the channeler's gender.

Robert Jordan played with the theme of poor information, myths and legends. How some people are taught that the Breaking of the World is done by the One Power without caring for whose gender is at fault. These people hate the magic, not the channelers. They will hate that magic with the same passion if the channelers in question were males or females.

And also they hate it for legitimate reason - they have the Breaking which happenned for real. It is completely normal behaviour to fear the magic as you know the horrible consequences of it. These people don't know the truth about the Breaking but still never in their mind they make the assumption - the channelers are evil because they are female.

Not. a. single. time.

Channelers are evil because The One Power is evil.

That is very clear take in the books and Robert Jordan did very good job to show us the reasons and source for that hate/fear mentality towards Aes Sedai. Over and over.

So imagine the following scenario.

You have read the books and you know all of the above. But when you are asked the question why there are people who hate Aes Sedai around the world, your answer is "anti-Aes Sedai sentiment comes across as fear and distrust of powerful women/cultural misogyny."

o.O

It was never about Aes Sedai's gender.

#wheel of time #analysis #aes sedai #wot #misoginy #interesting points to consider #yes and...

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Thom fanart by @juliacarl_art

#wheel of time #thom merrilin #fanart

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The Tinkers drive me crazy bc they’re so peaceful and incredibly likable on a personal level. Non-violence seems like a great way to live. But it’s so damn strict that if these people actually existed, they’d be a cult. Perrin asks what happens to people who can’t/won’t follow the Way of the Leaf, and the response is like, “Oh, we call them the Lost. They leave us and go live elsewhere. They can never be happy.”

Like. Shit, dude. So if your loved one decides they have different beliefs than you, they basically can no longer be part of your community and you genuinely believe they’ll never be as happy as if they’d kept your beliefs? Yeah. That’s culty.

And yet. I love their colorful wagons, and their singing and dancing, and how welcoming they are. They’re just nice. They’re nice lovely people! And yet you know there’s some ex-Tinker support group somewhere full of young people figuring out how to exist in normal society and learning to overcome the ingrained belief that they are not allowed to defend themselves and that doing so is a bad thing.

#wheel of time #Tuatha'an

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hey. hey. I don’t think we can sit down and have a proper conversation about wot’s themes if you don’t acknowledge that aes sedai are realistically flawed, and no more and no less than any other body of power or institution in the continent. they’re not by and large horrible people.

#wheel of time #this #book analysis