#(Except for Rand)

[marzipan-alligator]

Those are some uh. interesting choices for your Father’s Day collection Netflix

[markantonys]

While I still don't think the show has done enough to show why the world despises and fears male channelers (since it really should've been embedded into the world building, so far we only know that the Aes Sedai hate and fear them) and it does kinda lessen the impact of the narrative that none of the EF5 had at least an initial gut reaction to Rand being able to channel. I do wonder how they're gonna handle that topic moving forward, cause it kinda has to be addressed now that Rand is actively channeling. I could see it being expanded more deeply as Rand's madness progresses/tie it into his arc.

the show has made it ABUNDANTLY clear that Male Channelers Are Considered Bad News By All. it IS embedded into the worldbuilding. was the king saying that logain's gone mad and trying to kill him not enough for you? was the people of tar valon jeering and throwing fruit at him not enough for you? was rand and mat saying "hey if i'm a male channeler please kill me" not enough for you? was rand's terror the second he realized selene saw him channel not enough for you? was selene's act of how a normal person would react to finding out her boyfriend can channel not enough for you? was his heartbroken yet unsurprised reaction to her rejection not enough for you? was the whole backstory of a male channeler causing the apocalypse not enough for you? do you think that show-onlys are completely incapable of putting all these pieces together along with aes sedai treatment of male channelers and coming to the conclusion that male channelers are probably not very popular with most people and it's going to be very tough for rand that he is one?

literally what else should they have done that would make sense within the very small world and very early story of the first 2 seasons/3 books that they didn't already do? shown emond's fielders sitting around the dinner table talking about how much they hate and fear male channelers when none of them has ever met one and thus it's not relevant to their lives? wasted time doing a whole sidequest for rand in s2 where his abilities are discovered by some Average Citizens and they react badly? shit all over show!mat's characterization and given him a negative reaction to rand in s2 that would not make sense for his current show headspace, just for the sake of furthering rand's randpain? i'm sick of the rand stans who act like rand is the only character who matters and mat's characterization should be sacrificed just so we can go "oh poor rand uwu even his own best friend is mean to him". portraying mat in 2x06 as the sort of person who bullies and kicks his best friend while he's down would've been beneficial because......? what is so wrong with the show making the ef5 feel like mutually loyal friends instead of "rand is the best and most loyal friend in the world but the rest are little shits who abandon him as soon as the going gets tough"? seeing as in the books, mat continues to be an extremely loyal friend to rand throughout the series but most readers are too stupid to see through his unreliable narration and realize he doesn't mean it when he says that rand channeling is like him eating babies, i'm not surprised the show decided to simplify things in order to convey the true heart of mat's character (loyal and caring friend to rand) in a more obvious manner.

and i guarantee you that no show-only is going "oh, it's only aes sedai who have a problem with male channelers, everyone else thinks they're cool". that's not happening. show-onlys are not stupid, and they understand that male channelers are considered bad news by all; or maybe they haven't thought much yet about how male channelers are viewed by the average public, but in future seasons once we see rand getting shit from the average public, they are not going to be surprised or confused or go "but i thought it was only aes sedai who had a problem with them and everyone else thinks they're cool?", they're going to go "oh, well we've seen how much aes sedai hate them, so it makes sense that everyone else does too". stop. think for 2 seconds about "have i actually seen a large number* of show-onlys misunderstanding X and/or do i think it's plausible that a large number of show-onlys would be likely to misunderstand X, or do show-onlys have enough context clues to figure out X for themselves or to be unsurprised when X is expanded on and made more explicit in future seasons and i'm working myself up into a state over a non-issue?"

*there are always going to be a handful of people incapable of critical thinking who willfully misunderstand what the show is showing us, just like there are readers like that with the books, hence unless a LARGE number of general-population show-onlys are misunderstanding X, as opposed to just 20 idiots on twitter, i do not consider it a failure by the show in portraying X.

[pushing500]

XiaoLiang had a mental break that we didn't feel like dealing with, so we put him in a transport pod and sent him back to Arwell—with Rand to keep an eye on him and also to get her out of our hair as well.

Bonus image of Mechi's intrusive thoughts

This desert is so goddamn crowded...

Komnenos was rescued from the pirates and shooed off our lawn, and probably reminded the lads on her way out that The Empire is still waiting to do Yeoman bestowing ceremonies for the both of them.

We've had our constructoids building a throneroom over the last few days, so after the lads give it a test run with some meditation, maybe we'll have to get them both their new titles...

They didn't really strike me as "royal gossip" types, but at least they're enjoying their throne room, I guess.

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[loveualottie]

I feel like everyone’s agreed on albatrio but what about other jrwi campaign pcs

[asongofstarkandtargaryen]

BISEXUAL COOL KIDS:

[leafatlaw]

Thinking about bitb and how badly it all went. Like not even with the bugs, but just with the reunion. There was ten years of expectations for that reunion, ten years of waiting. Waiting for when they would meet again and everything would be:

The same as it was before, a bitter reunion, a homecoming.

Rand, Rolan, and especially Kian. All had very very different and strong ideas about how it “would” go. For Kian everything would be great again. With his best friends it would be like no time had passed. They could laugh and play dnd and surely they would listen to him about therapy and come visit him in Cali!

For Rand, it was a chance to get everything out in the open. To rip into Rolan for leaving him for so long. To show Rolan and Kian how fine he was, and how okay he was doing. They were going to regret leaving him.

And for Rolan, it was a goodbye. He didn’t want to be here, it would be quick. He would go to his parents funeral (and wish his friends would join him). He would play one last game of dnd and then never come back to this rotting town ever again. Maybe he would tell Rand off for being such a dick about him leaving. But that was it, it was going to be in and out.

And of course no one got what they wanted.

[spacedustmantis]

ok nbr/meddling kids queer hcs

rand is gay, demiromantic & gray ace. he's also deeply repressed about his attraction to men and justifies his attraction to kian with "well he's basically a girl". he completely ignores his feelings for rolan. he's also a virgin bc he never found anyone besides kian and rolan that he's interested in even in the slightest. also he's a loser. in theory he's polyam bc he could never settle for just one dedicated romantic partner for the rest of his life

rolan is somewhere between male leaning biromantic and gay. also sex repulsed ace though it's not quite clear whether he had been ace or if that's a consequence of the buggification. he's always been into rand but he's also a massive homophobe so he's never acted on it and feels quite panicky about his own feelings. he isn't necessarily supportive of kian, but he's his friend so he lets the whole gay thing slide. sometimes while in chicago he forced himself into flirts and hookups with women he met at bars or at work, but it always ended in disaster

kian self identifies as bi, but i think if he had today's understanding of orientation and gender he would id as pan. he's been sexually attracted to rand for ages and they kissed twice, once before kian had even figured out his sexuality and he'd been drinking and sad and kissed rand in broad daylight behind the school and immediately had a panic attack about it, and once a few months before he left galloway when the three of them were smoking weed together and rand brought up their first kiss. they never talked about it again. also had he the vocabulary for it he'd definitely describe his feelings for rand as queerplatonic. he's been in love with rolan and aware of it since he's been 16 or something, but nothing ever came of it, and since he was with becky and really really into her the pining didn't hurt as much as it could have. definitely polyam, big fan of relationship anarchy, big into the drag scene in california and had he had more freedom and time to figure himself out (and had the resources necessary) eventually he would've come to the realization that he's bigender/genderfluid

becky is confidently bisexual and technically monogamous, but if it had ever come to it she would not have minded sharing kian. she also helped kian figure himself out a lot, even before they started officially dating. she taught him how to do makeup and gave him the whole "however you wanna look, whatever you wanna wear, you can" talk

[moghedien]

It is actually so important to me that all of the Forsaken get called by their government names at some point in the show

Like ideally I want Rand to be the first one to say the name “Mierin” to Lanfear’s face, but after that I want them to just get mad at each other in a meeting and start aggressively referring to each other by their first names just piss each other off

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

The Fremen about Paul: He's our messiah! The Aiel about Rand: He's our messiah?

[dipyronegirl]

thinking (and rewatching..) inside job again and i dont think rand is that bad of a father? i mean, he made a lot of mistakes and he doesn’t even feel bad ab it, even tho he traumatized reagan and a lot, but he was never absent. he acts like he cared ab reagan’s career just bc it could help his career, but that’s not true. he pushes her to be the best all the time and it’s bad, but he genuinely cares ab her so much. and the whole ‘creating crises to force her to hang out w him’ thing is fucked up, but it’s cute that he just wants to hang out w her that bad. most fathers literally don’t care enough ab their kids to do any of that. most fathers don’t even know their kids as much as he knows her. maybe my standards are just insanely low, probably, but he’s a better parent than 90% of the parents i know

[oblako]

absolutely obsessed with the visual execution of this part like are we all seeing this...

also these two panels:

[christophernolan]

The fact that it has been 4 episodes and Rand has done nothing but sleep with Lanfear like?? Have you ever seen a main character made SO BORING?

[lorepossum]

Look I’ve heard a lot of talk about people being annoyed at the changes between WoT book and show and I get that.

But also at least I like most of these people 10x more post Ep 1 of the show than I do after listening to 10 hours of the Eye of the World. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[phantom-does-a-thing]

Kian claims to be so confident and cool and collected and is such a flirty person. He sits down on Rand or Rolan’s laps, leans in super close to fix their hair n stuff or constantly gives them compliments because he loves them and thinks it’s a little silly to make them flustered. And he pretends to be soooooooo confident about it.

Anyway the moment that any of them flirt back, he’s a mess. Rolan compliments him and he absolutely forgets how to function. He’s trying to be funny silly and flirt w them forgetting that they also can flirt back (bc they love him back just as much) and he immediately blue screens face completely red.

[queen-scribbles]

Another thing that was real fun with Kenda last night, aside from Guss companion shenanigans: I used her to get the Ace of the Armada weekly and she's the first toon I've used for that who finished the destroying frigate turrets bonus mission in Fondor Escort without any ship upgrades. :D (I've gotten p close before; 16 or 17 out of 20, I think Kina had 19/20 and it drove me NUTS)

But ofc she's a good pilot and a good shot, there's a reason she's the one who gets to use the Antilles Legacy name. :P

[everydayiworryallday]

Just finished A Memory of Light and...

...if anyone deserves to be made a Hero of the Horn, it's Bela.