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dumbhero · 6 days

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sorry for making my "male" character also a woman i literally like women so much i cannot help myself

#diary #padan

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carsthatnevermadeitetc · 5 months

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Stutz Blackhawk I, 1971, by Carrozzeria Padane. After Virgil Exner left Chrysler he worked on a series of “Revival Cars,” which were his interpretations of defunct classic-era automobiles including Stutz. With backing from Mr. James O’Donnell, a wealthy investor with a particular fondness for Stutz automobiles, Exner's vision was made real. The first prototype was built by Ghia, with whom Exner had had a long association during his time at Chrysler. However a change of ownership at Ghia led Exner to Modena and coachbuilders Padane who took complete Pontiac Grand Prix and created entirely new bodywork. The cars cost $35,000, equivalent of nearly $225,000 today and were bought by, among others Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Lucille Ball, and Elvis Presley. Only 25 of the split-windshield “Series I” Blackhawks were built, later cars used more of the Pontiac's bodywork to reduce costs.

#Stutz Blackhawk I #Stutz Blackhawk #1971 #coachbuilt #Virgil Exner #Pontiac Grand Prix #Carrozzeria Padane #Padane #retro style #Revival Car #dead brands

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toastandjamie · 7 months

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The shadows first mistake was telling Mat what to do. Because the only thing stronger than his self hatred is his capacity for spite

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Mat, about to touch an evil dagger:

Faine: you’re totally going to touch it and become evil, it’s in your soul

Mat, leaning away from the dagger: actually, you know what fuck you

#wheel of time #wheel of time spoilers #mat cauthon #wheel of time meme #wot on prime spoilers #wot on prime #incorrect wheel of time #padan fain #mat cauthon my beloved

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apocalypticavolition · 3 months

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Let's (re)Read The Great Hunt! Chapter 34: The Wheel Weaves

What's in the box? Some people already know and some people don't. As a general rule, if you're in the "don't" category and you hate spoilers, you shouldn't keep reading. If you only know cause you're reading The Great Hunt or you've seen season 2 of the show but you don't want spoilers past that point, you also shouldn't keep reading. I spoil everything.

This chapter begins with the Wheel icon because big things are happening, like assassinations and discovery of the Horn.

He had meant the choices to be a private comment on their stupidity, never dreaming any of them might listen, much less be intrigued. Intrigued in a way. They had demanded more of the same, but they had laughed in the wrong places, at the wrong things. They had laughed at him, too, apparently thinking he would not notice, or else that a full purse stuffed in his pocket would heal any wounds.

Another sign of how divorced the nobility in this country is from the commonfolk and by extension reality. They have two very different storytelling cultures and little overlap on anything. And yet Thom's bitterness about this has a hint of hypocrisy - he complains they thought he wouldn't notice their mockery even as he had thought they wouldn't notice his.

He was still not sure what he had intended to say. Rand was gone with his friends, and the Aes Sedai. It left a feeling of something not done.

The important thing is that you tried, and of course that now you can be extra angry at yourself for what happened because you delayed.

She rolled limply onto her back, staring up at him, glazed eyes open wide above the gash across her throat. The side of the bed that had been hidden by her body was dark and sodden.

I mean, what is there to say? Girl had great potential as a person and as a character and all that matters, to the point where she certainly stops getting mentioned after only a book or two, is that she spurs Thom to act now.

“The Game? I’m not mixed up in Daes Dae’mar! Who would want to kill me for the Great Game?”

Thom's protestations ring even more hollow. Where Rand's naivety is excusable, Thom's speaks only to how out of practice he is. Dude met with someone everyone thought was a lord, is performing for other lords, and thinks he's out of the Game? He basically chose to keep playing.

And there has been a woman, a lady, I have seen more than once while asking after him.

Lanfear meanwhile is so contemptuous of the Third Agers that she doesn't even care to disguise herself properly among them, I guess. I'm surprised she doesn't just spy herself though.

“If you mean Barthanes, you’re too late. Everybody’s talking about it already. He is dead. His servants found him this morning, torn to pieces in his bedchamber. The only way they knew it was him was his head stuck on a spike over the fireplace.”

Forget who killed Asmodean, who the heck killed Barthanes? It probably wasn't Galldrian; killing a random is one thing but having his rival brutally eviscerated is another. It couldn't have been Fain, he was already gone. Ishamael or Lanfear might have done it by way of the gholam, but what would piss either of them off enough? The Horn going to Toman Head is hardly Barthanes' mistake and doesn't really interfere with Lanfear's desired outcomes at all. Plus if they did use the gholam, what did it get up to all this time between now and its first appearance?

“These aren’t Barthanes’s men, Thom. At least, that one isn’t.” She nodded toward the fat man. “It’s the worst kept secret in Cairhien that he works for House Riatin. For Galldrian.”

This vaguely points at Galldrian being responsible for Barthanes' death as well I suppose, but like I said the method seems entirely out of character.

“Perhaps you had better think about leaving, too. It looks as if someone is firing the granaries.”

I'm also going to rule out the rioters as an unlikely suspect on the grounds that Barthanes' death is probably the inciting incident for them, not the first, implausbly well-hidden step. But seriously. Who did it?

*considers Verin for a moment*

Nah. She's the least suspicious person alive.

The pack horse bearing his precious burden bumped his leg, and he kicked it in the ribs without looking; the animal snorted and jerked back to the end of the lead he had tied to his saddle.

So obviously the part that immediately follows this about how Fain fed the horse's previous owner to the Trollocs is way, way eviler, but let's just appreciate exactly how dedicated to unpleasantness Fain has become.

Men gathered more information on the invaders, as if they actually believed they would eventually do something with what they knew, but they sometimes tried to hold back. Women, by and large, seemed interested in going on with their lives whoever their rulers were, yet they noted details men did not, and they talked more quickly once they stopped screaming.

I kind of don't buy this? Random women from every village are being taken away and never seen again. I'm not a woman myself but I don't think it's a stretch to say that such actions would put most women on edge for fear of the Seanchan coming back and taking more tribute, since they don't know about the damane selection process yet.

The people hurried about their business with eyes down, bowing whenever soldiers passed, but the Seanchan paid them no mind. It all seemed peaceful on the surface, despite the armored Seanchan in the streets and the ships in the harbor, but Fain could sense the tension underneath. He always did well where men were tense and afraid.

1) I'm very sad that this element of the occupation disappears in later books it rings a lot truer; everyone should be afraid.

2) Is Fain saying thinking this in the sense of looking back over his career as a Darkfriend and how he always did better scaring them with peddler's tales, or is this the sum total of his evil reflecting on Aridhol, the Ways, and more? Both?

Women went in and out of a house across the street, women linked by silver leashes, but he ignored them. He knew about damane from the villagers. They might be of some use later, but not now.

Seriously: what use can Fain be imagining for damane, considering his current power set?

He was always confident, but never more than where lords feared an assassin’s knife from their own followers.

This is definitely more all of the evil within Fain than his own experiences, as we have no reason to think he was ever an assassin in his backstory.

“I have seen chests such as this, chests from the Age of Legends,” the High Lord said, “though none so fine. They are meant to be opened only by those who know the pattern, but I—ah!”

Major points to Turak who easily sidesteps Fain's plans entirely by accident. As much as I loathe the Seanchan, I despise Fain more.

Still holding the Horn and the dagger, Turak looked at the cabinet, then away. He said nothing, but the other Seanchan snapped quick orders, and in moments men in plain woolen robes appeared through a door behind the screens bearing another small table.

For all the shit I've given the Cairhienien nobility, I suppose I also need to offer them some credit for at least not expecting their servants to interpret their every facial gesture. Rich people on every continent desperately need to get over themselves.

Fain could stand it no longer. He reached for the dagger.

Fain isn't anywhere near as slick as he thinks he is, considering he went about thirty seconds without trying to nab his precious. Fucking Gollum does better about this stuff bro, learn from him.

“I am to sound it.” Turak’s tone was flat. “And break the White Tower. Again, why? You claim to obey, await, and serve, but this is a land of oath-breakers. Why do you give your land to me? Do you have some private quarrel with these . . . women?”

And again, we see that Fain's schemes immediately crash and burn when given the briefest exposure to people who know what schemes are. He's just like all these nobles in his own twisted way: he's gotten so used to having the Darkfriends jump when he says jump (or die) that he doesn't understand why no one else will willingly be his puppets.

Turak was silent so long that Fain began to wonder if he needed further convincing; he was ready with more, as much as was required.

Pro-tip for those of you who find themselves in situations where you need to lie: less is actually much better than more. We can thus conclude that Fain isn't even good at lying, despite the fact that he's spent his whole career as a liar!

“But, High Lord,” Fain protested, “you must—” He found himself lying on his side, his head ringing. Only when his eyes cleared did he see the man with the pale braid rubbing his knuckles and realize what had happened. “Some words,” the fellow said softly, “are never used to the High Lord.” Fain decided how the man was going to die.

I myself am rooting for neither of these fellows, both so awful in their own right. And note again how the Seanchan veneer of civility disappears at a moment's notice without warning. There's no way a populace can happily adopt the Seanchan customs as a whole, not without rebellion after rebellion breaking out.

He had not even known of the existence of an Empress until Turak mentioned her, but access to a ruler again . . . that opened new paths, new plans. Access to a ruler with the might of the Seanchan beneath her and the Horn of Valere in her hands. Much better than making this Turak a Great King.

It's funny that he thinks this is an option for him, when his best case scenario is that he ends up doing exactly what Semirhage will do and thus completely destroys his advantage and his worst case scenario is that Semirhage shows up and starts experimenting with an absolutely fascinating case study.

If I kept the Horn of Valere, all between myself and the throne would think I meant to be first hereafter, and while the Empress, of course, wishes that we contend with one another so that the strongest and most cunning will follow her, she currently favors her second daughter, and she would not look well on any threat to Tuon.

I'm sure that name won't be relevant later!

“The Empress’s Listeners may be anywhere,” Turak continued. “They may be anyone. Huan was born and raised in the House of Aladon, and his family for eleven generations before him, yet even he could be a Listener.”

Secret police: a surefire sign that your civilization is doing just great for itself and won't collapse under its own bloodlust in fifty years or less.

At the Court of the Nine Moons, in Seandar, one such as you could be given to the Seekers for a shift of your eye, for a misspoken word, for a whim. Are you still eager?

I'm sure that Nine Moons thing won't come up again anytime soon either.

And again we see more evidence that the only reason the Empire is holding itself up is its consistent expansionary policies that consistently deliver it new victims to burn through. If the Empire's borders were ever truly stable it would collapse immediately under the tyranny of Seandar.

A young man, but vile in the Shadow beyond belief, with a lying, devious tongue. In many places he has claimed to be many things, but always the Trollocs come when he is there, High Lord. Always the Trollocs come . . . and kill.

Fain is not even a good Aes Sedai liar, since Caemlyn is still doing just great for itself at the moment, as are a variety of the places he passed on the road to it.

Fain let the grimacing Huan pull him out of the room, hardly even listening to the snarled lecture on what would happen if he ever again failed to leave Lord Turak’s presence when given permission to do so.

Considering that Fain was allegedly giving good information about a coming threat, this seems like another really shitty policy on the part of the Seanchan. The illusion of order that is easily cleared away by chaos.

Sadly, the illusion of time is less easily cleared away and ours is up because the chapter is done. Next time: Steddings!

#let's read #wheel of time #wot #robert jordan #wheel of time spoilers #wot spoilers #thom merrilin #dena #zera #padan fain #turak aladon #huan

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ilikaicalie · 4 months

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Because i can't get enough Jared through Tumblr alone, I often look through Pinterest too. Look at this gorgeous picture of Jared as he was transitioning from Sam to Cordell. THE HAIRCUT. I was so sad to see his beautiful hair being cut off. But look how gorgeous and serene he looks. There's no regret there, just confidence and anticipation. Good job Jared.

#jared padalecki #padanation

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wot-tidbits · 3 months

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Padan Fain by artbygosch

#wheel of time #padan fain #artwork #fanart

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wizardfiend · 7 months

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i didn't originally intend to post Padan's ref sheet but i like it :)

#digital art #paint tool sai 2 #padan #9/28/2023 #the silly #cringetober 2023 #i have no idea what to call anything he's wearing <3 #qunari #dragon age #2023

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dumbhero · 6 days

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if padan were in our world he would be a 6'4 albino women's basketball player who uses any/all pronouns and wears circular transition lenses. hairless from the neck down. probably looks blue if the light hits him just right and you can see his veins. wears the strongest sunscreen money can buy. ran away from home (one of those really religious communes in the mountains) by accident. THICK valley girl accent. doesn't know what gender is and people just call him whatever. doesn't have an ID or a birth certificate. talks like the bible (he's not christian and that's not the religion he was raised with) and doesn't know anything. people point to him and say women shouldn't be muscular and men shouldn't have long hair at the same time n he's like idk what either of those are i'm a point guard. he joins a gay rugby team and has the time of his life. has never had sex and probably never will. someone asks his bodycount and he's like probably 3? and they're like oh damn we thought you didn't like sex n he's like huh? what's bodycount got to do with sex? and nobody ever talks about it again

#padan

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carsthatnevermadeitetc · 5 months

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Stutz Duplex, 1971, by Carrozzeria Padane. The Italian coachbuilder built the Virgil Exner-designed Stutz Blackhawk I 2-door in a series of 25 cars but only 2 Duplex 4-door models were made, based on the Blackhawk. It used Pontiac Grand Prix running gear

#Stutz #Stutz Duplex #coachbuilt #Carrozzeria Padane #Padane #retro style #Virgil Exner #Pontiac Grand Prix #1971 #1970s #dead brands

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luckhissoul · 8 months

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i rarely post ooc on here but here's my long winded rambling about something that i keep seeing in regards to the show. like i've seen these different takes that somehow in the show mat's been given more layers and depth. but like i can't see where or how tbh all the show's given me so far is

his "gritty" backstory. supposedly to "explain" why he's the way he is. even though in the show he's not at all the way he is supposed to be ---

his disloyalty. abandoning his friends to possible death, abandoning egwene in the tower. they took one of his biggest driving points and just erased it entirely. this is not the mat that chased an assassin all the way to tear to save the wondergirls. this is not the mat that turned back towards a literal war when he had never fought in one before.

his innate darkness that drew him to the dagger. no mat couldn't just want gold, he couldn't even be greedy. he needs to have a darkness that made moiraine so sure he'd choose the dark. and apparently ishamael saying he belonged to him since birth ? like uhm did i hear that right?

these are literally the only traits he's been given. -- how does one do a more complex mat than the one robert jordan wrote anyways? he's confusing af - no one understands what's going on with him not even himself. like i always see sando getting flack about how he wrote mat. like he did better than anything the shows done so far tbh.

but this leads me to the whole 'the show did it better than the books' or that "the show fixed things" about every single little or major change that the show makes. like prefer one over the other, love one hate the other. cool nbd. but -- i've never seen the source material of an adaptation so -- idk hated by the fandom? it confuses me how much flack robert jordan gets for writing a certain thing or a certain character but the show gets praised for a basically hollowed out poorly done adaptation. like i can enjoy the show, there are good things ( hello josha ) and there are bad ( the over the top age drops of the aes sedai. alanna's lowkey creepy with much young warders - they do know they don't get the same life span right? - and moiraine didn't give up her life for the search for the dragon. how long did she live before his birth ?? etc etc ). but i don't know how one could "understand" the characters or world better than the person that wrote it. i don't get how anyone could be interested in a world or characters from a book series that they seemingly hate ? by an author they basically hate, too? that's just my take i guess. i for one love the books. so ---

i'll go crawl back into my corner now ---

#;ooc #wot show spoilers #wot books #wheel of time #mat cauthon #robert jordan #wot on prime #wot show critical #this could've been an essay #sometimes i ahve a lot to say and nowhere to put them #one could not pry the books from ym cold dead hands fml #am i a bookcloak?#long post for ts #i didn't even address half of the things that just grate on me tbh #but remember siuan's confusion about why the dagger's taint didn't utterly consume mat like it later does to padan fain...#remember mat nearly breaking down after the portal stones bcause he sees himself betray rand and then from then on #regardless of what he may or may not want hes completely loyal to him. he'll do pretty much anything rand needs him to --#my tags wont become an essay

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anira-naeg · 2 months

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Art by @wern1c

#padan fain #Alviarin Freidhen #wot art #wheel of time art #wheel of time

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all-about-the-tea-parties · 7 months

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I was almost a little put off by Perrin’s hair this season, the only thing really stopping me was that his hair wasn’t actually bad last season so is the mess suggesting his lack of time/centred ness or is it suggesting somebody else usually did his hair for him?

I’d like it to be the latter bc the two rivers is pretty community focused when it comes to hair, and thinking maybe Laila used to do Perrin’s hair and now that he’s lived six months without her he can’t bring himself to do it up anymore

Maybe when a certain character shows up his hair will improve…?

#idk #it feels intentional and not like the show neglected the actor #bc all the other black characters have braided hair #only him and Padan Fain have unkempt hair #wheel of time #wot on prime #the wheel of time #wot spoilers #perrin aybara

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