I love what the show is doing with Egwene. Her journey intrigues me to no end. One thread from her arc in season 2 so far is the fallout of not being chosen. Think about it. You're Egwene, you live in a village in the middle of no where. Why should you expect more from life than what you are given? Only you do. You believe it so badly. You apprentice to be a wisdom, the highest mantle available to you. Then an Aes Sedai comes to take you away. She says you might be the dragon, the saviour of the world. And think about it, among the candidates you are the best. Briefly, you are magnificent. And then you are not. Rand is the dragon. And Nynaeve is the sun. This is what you are told. So, you can channel? That just makes you a fancy sort of ordinary. 'The Dragon Reborn', 'the most powerful channeler in a 1,000 years', none of this was earned, it was just given to them. And what do you get? You get what you have always had. What you make for yourself.
I'm getting so sick of major female characters in historical media being incredibly feisty, outspoken and public defenders of women's rights with little to no realistic repercussions. Yes it feels like pandering, yes it's unrealistic and takes me out of the story, yes the dialogue almost always rings false - but beyond all that I think it does such a disservice to the women who lived during those periods. I'm not embarrassed of the women in history who didn't use every chance they had to Stick It To The Man. I'm not ashamed of women who were resigned to or enjoyed their lot in life. They weren't letting the side down by not having and representing modern gender ideals. It says a lot about how you view average ordinary women if the idea of one of your main characters behaving like one makes them seem lame and uninteresting to you.
for some of y'all the problem is genuinely that you're stupid enough to think that any president can and will be able to do everything they campaigned on lol
Bird identification is so fucked up in a really fun way you can’t understand until you get into it. For example, there is a type of goose called the cackling goose that looks exactly like a Canada goose except smaller and “cuter”. The cackling goose is way, way, more rare in most places than its relatively common cousin, so it’s on tons of birders life lists. Everyone wants to see a cackling (look in any bird ID group to see lots of hopeful people posting petite Canada geese). The two species regularly commingle, so sometimes a flock of those common parking lot birds will have the equivalent of a Pokémon shiny just hanging out in the middle of them.
How ridiculous and fun is that? I can never look at a big group of Canada geese without scrutinizing their ranks for an adorable little extremely rare cutie pie cackling goose. It reminds me a bit of mushroom harvesting minus the risk of death if you get it wrong