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The weirdest LotR gets with their elves is a dude was named Teleporno one time.

where else but the wheel of time would you find fae that are weird alien fox furries with human skin leather vests and platform gogo boots, every other fantasy wishes it could chomp wot’s flavor

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And then when Egwene says "What if you just make the two places the same?" and he's all "Pretty sure the pattern would eat me alive if I tried that"

Obsessed with Rand doing the classic science fiction pen through folded paper demonstration to Egwene to try and explain Travelling. “does that help?”/ “not even a little bit”

He was really just like “idk man I just punch a hole in the fabric of reality” lmao

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Any of the other cast can also leave. It literally happened in season 1.

If the actor can’t commit to the arc don’t hire them in the first place 🙃

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Expecting people to commit 10ish (or more!) years of their career to a job that can end at any time is unreasonable.

If the actor can’t commit to the arc don’t hire them in the first place 🙃

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Mat doesn't have to go because Moiraine is there. Mat had his own reasons for going.

So who’s rescuing Moiraine from Finnland now? The folks who do it in the books have very little connection to Moiraine and have spent no or very little time with her, so it doesn’t feel particularly emotionally resonant for them to do it. And Rand and Egwene, who she has strong relationships with, are too busy.

Obviously I assume Mat will go because they wouldn’t and shouldn’t change that, but he needs someone with a deeper connection to Moiraine to go too. Maybe it’s Lan instead of Thom? If I remember correctly, Lan doesn’t actually have that much to do if we aren’t doing his super troubling Myrelle arc and Nynaeve has unblocked herself. Eventually he’ll have to golden crane but we’re pretty far from that, so I feel like he would have time to go on this adventure with Mat? Am I forgetting something? I’m only on book 7 in my reread so the later books are a bit of a blur.

I will forever mourn not getting Siuan on the Ghenjei mission instead of Thom since I 100% think it would have been the best emotional arc for her and Moiraine’s relationship - not to mention comedic as hell - but I love Lan and his relationship to Moiraine and I think they could do something beautiful with him rescuing Moiraine even after he’s mourned her and bonded to Nynaeve etc. and what that means for them as platonic soulmates. Lord knows they have to change Mo and Lan’s book ending anyway.

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Fuck that scene was amazing. Egwene has really finally internalized that Rand is not the man she knows anymore, and she's on the outside looking in and she doesn't understand how he's thinking anymore. And there's so many ways Rand could be going right now (if not all of them at once ;) )

Lanfear said that in Rand's last life she was the only one who didn't kneel to him and the last shot of Egwene this season is her being the last person standing while everyone else kneels. In this essay I will-

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I don't want to be mean to them, on the other hand how far a lot of them are going off the deep end really makes me want to poke fun with some memes at them.

trying so hard rn not to be a huge cunt to people who are just upset because their fave died but it sucks to be one of apparently only a handful of people who loved the finale while everyone else is insisting the show is trash now because of it.

just like what happened when season two ended ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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I really really hope we don't. Moiraine is dedicated to her mission. And as cathartic as it might be to see this, it would be wildly out of character. Mo knows what the real stakes are, and harring off to go get Vengeance because Elaida killed her wife isn't it. Moiraine is saving the world. Yes that world has Elaida in it, but it's also the world that gave her Suian.

this is a message for rafe judkins and rafe judkins only: we need to see moiraine kill elaida for this. and i don’t mean with the one power. i want it to be brutal. physical. i want moiraine to go feral. i want elaida to look at moiraine and realise what she did. i want moiraine to literally rip elaida’s heart out with her bare hands. thanks x

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First watch: Vibes Second watch: Logic

Gonna watch the episode with my partner when she gets home, we’ll see how it hits me on watch 2.

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WoT 308 deaths

I have thought about it all day, obviously, and I have different concerns that I actually haven't seen addressed anywhere.

Melindhra dies because she refused her dark oaths and we watched her soul get pulled from her body and destroyed.

“No man can walk so long in the Shadow that he cannot come again to the Light.”

So, I guess that's not true anymore? If so that really fuckin sucks. That was always one of my favorite parts. A lot of the evil people can literally just stop. All it takes is the decision to not be evil anymore. Darkfriends can absolutely safeword their way out of damnation. And some do! Very wonderfully and beautifully!

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Watching my favorite mutuals go batshit while live posting is why I will always feel vindicated staying up late on a school night to watch the episode as it drops.

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I did reblog my own post to say basically this.

Me: I’m DONE talking about this

Me: ………and you know what else man

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Also you know what i'm not done.

"She was killed so brutally" Her beheading is one of the least brutal deaths this season. It happened off screen. Amico's wasn't. Aedelle Baryn got throat stabbed while in tight frame and bled out on the floor. Balefire, which in the books was quite quick, was a slow burn. In addition to that, after all the cries of "How is loial back for s2 when he clearly died (even though he's still moving) at the end of s1?" and "Oh I guess death can be healed if you're Egwene" back in s1 they have certainly made efforts to make it VERY CLEAR when people are dead.

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Possibly unpopular opinion after the cut, spoilers for 308 of Wheel of time.

Suian died because Elaida is a petty tyrant. Suian died because even stilled, she is a threat to Elaida. Suian died because of who she is. The people who are stripping her of her characterization are the people who are reducing her to an appendage of Moiraine, and those aren't the people who wrote the episode. It's the ones who see this seen and only see it as a manipulation. She stood defiant in the hall, broken and bloody, and spoke truth. Quite literally she spoke Truth To Power.

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Wheel of Time 308

Possibly unpopular opinion after the cut, spoilers for 308 of Wheel of time.

Suian died because Elaida is a petty tyrant. Suian died because even stilled, she is a threat to Elaida. Suian died because of who she is. The people who are stripping her of her characterization are the people who are reducing her to an appendage of Moiraine, and those aren't the people who wrote the episode. It's the ones who see this seen and only see it as a manipulation. She stood defiant in the hall, broken and bloody, and spoke truth. Quite literally she spoke Truth To Power.

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They managed to get something recognizable without being too on the nose. Amazing.