#JordanCon

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femme Rand al’Thor at JordanCon 2023 by claruspolaris

[ofthebrownajah]

Screaming crying throwing up

[queersoftime]

Every year in April, a little (not so little) convention opens its doors in Atlanta to the Wheel of Time (and other fantasy-verses) nerds. For the first time ever, all of the Queers of Time co-hosts will be there (it'll also be the first time we'll ever meet in person lol). As you can imagine, we are very *hyped* about it - which is the topic of our newly released episode, "Be There or Be Straight".

[batarina-catarina]

Heading to JordanCon in 2 hours!! The convention discord has been the friendliest one I've ever encountered. Ready to revel in an entire weekend surrounded by Jordan & Sanderson fans.

[highladyluck]

I dreamed I was at Jordancon and I stumbled on a discussion around a table (square, basically a seminar table lmao) about Jordan influencees. I was lugging around an enormous- like 2 feet high one foot wide- illustrated book on the subject. At one point somebody made a joke/reference about Usenet WoT fandom that I got (I think it was referencing Piglet). Kinda sad I woke up.

I can’t actually go this year (massive work conflict) but someday! In the meantime, have fun if anyone who sees this is going. You have my permission to sing my WoT filk/parodies, message me if you want links.

[duskt1lldawn]

Convention time‼️

I both don't wanna be here and really wanna be here send help

[taurnachardhin]

Sanderson gave Kaladin Marsh's worldview with Kelsier’s charisma and then gave Moash Kelsier’s worldview with Marsh's charisma and I think that was very funny of him.

[markantonys]

historically jordancon has been a venue for casting announcements - we got aviendha in 2022 and several s2 secondary characters in 2023. do you think we'll get any s3 casting announcements this year (april)? if so, who? my money is on faile, galad*, and GAWYN PLEASE GOD TELL ME WHO'S PLAYING HIM IN APRIL I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE

ahem anyway. my reasoning is that those 3 are in the same bucket as aviendha was in 2022. it's too far away from the new season's release to discuss anything substantial about the season's content or to formally announce the casting of older/better-known actors whose announcements could be saved to help marketing closer to the season's release (i'd put elaida & morgase in this bucket for s3, with the equivalent being verin for s2; and then forsaken castings i'd bet they want to keep secret as long as they can), but the castings of younger/lesser-known actors as major book characters would be a great New Season Treat to drop this early and in this book-fan venue. general audiences wouldn't care much about a few 27-year-old actors they've never heard of being cast as characters whose names don't yet mean anything to them, but book fans would be very excited about it! and that is why i'm putting on my clown shoes and hoping for gawyn casting news in april (or sooner if the leakers take pity on me).

*we do already know faile & galad casting from leaks, but i'm talking official announcements here!

[sadhorsegirl]

[fake-words-of-brandon]

Questioner

You've mentioned that repeated infusions of investiture can change somebody's body into their more idealised inner self.

Brandon Sanderson

Uh-huh.

Questioner

We also know that Knights Radiant are the only group that this really applies to, since they are the main group that routinely absorbs investiture. It fixes their bodies, whoch implies it works off that idealised form.

Brandon Sanderson

Kind of. And so far. I have plans for Mistborn era three.

Questioner

We also know that Knights Radiant have a higher proportion of both mentally ill and neurodivergent people.

Brandon Sanderson

I'm worried about where this is going.

Questioner

Those groups all tend to have larger numbers of furries in them. How long, roughly, will it take before some of the Radiants start to look like their fursonas? And if you RAFO this I'll scream.

Brandon Sanderson

...huh. That's a very interesting question.

Probably not for a while, given that there's a massive war happening, but a Lightweaver or two will probably end up doing it before long.

If you mean how long could a Radiant with a fursona expect to have to wait before seeing changes, it depends on the complexity of the fursona, and wouldn't happen unless that's how they see themselves on a personal level. Six months for cat ears, three years for something on the level of turning into King Shark. That's doing fins and skin and shape, but not stuff like gills, which would take much, much longer, if it's even possible at all.

Mine would probably only take eighteen months.

Questioner

What?

Brandon

Hm?

JordanCon 2021 (July 16, 2021)

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JordanCon cosplay 2024

photos shared by TarValonNet

[ofthebrownajah]

People (the fandom) really should listen to people who actually knows how adaptations work. Watching the adapting s2 panel from JordanCon and Ali says: People say Rand isn't really present in the show when every single plotline even when he's not a part of it is about him.

When the fandom stops calling show Rand a side character I will finally know peace.

[queersoftime]

We had a pre-JordanCon episode, an at-JordanCon episode, turns out we also needed a post-JordanCon episode! Available now on all your podcast apps 🥳

[batarina-catarina]

Just got accepted to the Vendor Hall for Jordancon 2024! Can't wait to be among my people for a whole weekend.

[amemoryofwot]

Arrives at JordanCon wearing a shirt with my icon and the words “ask me about my lesbian Elayne headcanons” on it

[mashiarasedai]

Merry Christmas, @the-honk! I was your WoT secret Santa!

To fulfill a request of Siuan/Moiraine angst, I kinda went in the opposite direction.

This is a crochet corner to corner piece inspired by a pixel form of Aes Sedai my sister and I designed for cross-stitch. We hosted a cross-stitch class at JordanCon this year and shared this pattern with other WoT fans! Cross-stitch and corner to corner are so similar that this seemed a fitting way to show off some Siuan/Moiraine love!

To highlight a few items, I based Siuan’s design off the image of Sophie Okonedo in the golden outfit in the Hall of the Tower. In the show, her Amyrlin stole was more of a hint in the colors of the collar, but I included the actual stole (Red, Gray, Yellow, Green, Blue, Brown, and White).

Moiraine is also sporting her kesiera—a custom observed by Cairhienen nobles.

The piece is rather small so can be a tapestry on a wall, a table runner, a pet blanket, to name a few.

I love how it turned out (though it’s far from perfect). It was such fun to create this piece!

I hope you love it, too!