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Wheel of Time 3x06 has reinforced my longing for a fantasy TV show that's just entirely about bards. All the bards, all the time. Gimme.

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In that dream, when Hopper is jumping for the embers, Perrin says: "Hopper, stay down."

Excuse me, Perrin, but Hopper's gonna hop! If you want an animal companion who stays down, you'll have to find one named Stayer or something.

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Since I started going to metal concerts as a hobby after the pandemic, I've been accumulating an ever-growing list of small-time bands that I am laborously trying to keep track on. It is hard work to care for the obscure!!

Anyway, this band had a new song out two weeks ago and the video immediately made me go: THAT'S MOIRAINE'S GLOWY BALL THING!!!

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New drinking game: Drink every time Dain Bornhald drinks.

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Well, now you've done it, Wheel of Time. You've made me cry.

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Me, naming characters: The names of each major character should start with different letters. But even minor characters should have unique names. It would be too confusing if two names looked the same at a glance, rhymed or used the same syllables. Especially if they appear in the same scene. Robert Jordan: And I introduced Elayne and Elaida in the same chapter. Me: Yeah, I'm not taking tips from you on this. RJ: Tam, Thom. Me: Stop. RJ: Karede, Kadere. Me: RJ: Masema, Mesaana. RJ: Demandred, Damodred! RJ: Callandor, Tallanvor!! RJ: Melaine, Lelaine, Leane!!! RJ: SAERIN, SEAINE, SIUAN, SUANA! SHEMARI, SHEMERIN, SHERIAM!!!!

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A while ago at the bookstore, I saw a book titled "Puck and Prejudice" and for a second I got really excited!!! ... but then I noticed that there was a hockey player on the cover, and I remembered two sobering facts: that hockey romance is a whole literary genre ... and that I'm probably the only person on the planet who finds Puck from A Midsummer Night's Dream hot. :(

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I am fascinated by the idea that ~the song~ that the Tuatha'an are forever searching is in fact a harvest song. Because the Tuatha'an are nomadic. Even if they found the song now, they would not have a use for it. D:

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I bought knitting needles on a whim, but will never be able to learn this. I've been watching a few beginners tutorials, which usually start out very slow and detailed, only to zip through all the stuff that's actually tricky! No, you do not have to show me three times how to do a slipknot, but please do show me how to get the loops on the needle again, especially if your method involves very specific finger positions. Oh, and do bother explaining the lingo you are using, maybe?

I'm just going to stick to crochet.

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Last week was especially good for me as far as fandom was concerned: Not only did Season 3 of The Wheel of Time premiere with three episodes, I also finally went to my first two metal concerts of the year. Two concerts, six bands and I am happy to report they were all good! One band (Trick or Treat) even played a brand-new song about Monkey Island! I felt truly among my people. Power metal is the best musical genre.

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I know I should be writing an elaborate and intelligent review/analysis of this episode, but I am still just kind of enjoying the vibes!

Oh, but one thing: This episode proved that Rand should have longer hair. Pretty curls! Grow it out!! :D

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Season 3, Episode 4 "The Road to the Spear" THE WHEEL OF TIME (2021–)

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I've seen multiple Wheel of Time show haters on Reddit say that they want the show to get canceled so that the production company can start over and make a new adaptation at once. This is absolutely wild. This is toddler logic: If I break the toy my mommy just bought me, she will immediately drive back to the store and buy me a cooler, more expensive toy. No, she is not. You're going back to playing with sticks in the garden!

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Reblogging this post from 2023 because I'm feeling petty! (And curious.)

Brandon hasn't seen any of the scripts for s3. Watch it be the best season because of that

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I don't really like to speculate too much or too seriously because going with the flow is best, but it is also fun to come up with theories, especially when you don't take them seriously but just try to come up with wild ideas. So this post is in that vein: not something I actually believe or consider likely, but something that's remotely possible and would be kinda interesting.

All the spoilers for the books. Beware.

Is it possible that wouldn't it be funny if we were doing Melindhra=Isam? Slayer=Luc/Melindhra?

In the books, Melindhra is just a regular darkfriend, and she is also Mat's first steady girlfriend until she tries to kill him on orders of one of the Forsaken. I forgot which. Sammy I think? Maybe they are just doing this with Lan in Mat's place, and without the girlfriend angle. Making her a Malkieri survivor may just be a way to have her form a meaningful connection with Lan without making it romantic. They will form a friendship, then she will try to murder him and he has to kill her in self-defence, and it will be sad and tragic, and there's nothing more to it.

But what if it's crazier than that and she is not just a darkfriend, but Slayer?

In the books, Slayer was one of the strangest and most intriguing ideas for an enemy, and never really explored to its full potential. He was a darkfriend created by merging two different people, Luc and Isam, able to travel via tel'aran'rhiod and switch between his two bodies as he exits and enters. Luc being Rand's maternal uncle who got lost in the Blight, Isam being Lan's cousin who was also lost in the Blight and raised as a darkfriend from babyhood - neither of which is used for character drama in the books, much to my chagrin! RJ had such neat ideas and then didn't know what to do with them sometimes ... :(

I generally expect the show to just leave out characters or storylines that RJ never gave their proper due - but Luc is in the show. He hasn't been given any focus, so at this point it's impossible to say what angle they are taking with him. But he is there, and there is no Isam but there is another Malkieri character, who was not Malkieri in the books but was a darkfriend, and we will also be getting more tel'aran'rhiod this season ...

Maybe (likely!) the concept of Slayer is too ambitious for too little payoff and has been scrapped, and Luc will be a regular darkfriend, or not even that but just some guy, or maybe Luc is the final missing Forsaken, although I don't know if this would make any sense and I'm actually very anxious about Asmodean and should not even be thinking about this. Maybe Luc is a red hering for book fans.

But iffffff Slayer is in this, and if Luc is one half of him, then my insane opinion is that it would make some sense for Melindhra to be the other half.

The more I think about it, the more I realize it's a terrible idea with absolutely no basis in established canon, but the more I am also in love with it, lol.

(BTW: Ever since Daniel Henney was cast as Lan, my ideal Isam fancast has been Ian Anthony Dale. That would have been the dream.)

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I love the Forsaken meeting because it's like

Rahvin: Hey, maybe we should stop infighting because this is what got us defeated the last time! Anyway, what's this meeting about? Lanfear: I was thinking that we should gang up on Moghedien.

And it turns out Rahvin is already conspiring with Moghedien.

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Can you guys believe how good Lord Gaebril’s actor is?

I mean, he was great in seasons 1 & 2, don’t get me wrong, but he really stepped up his game this season