#Le troisième c'est Barbemolle

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Thinking again about how the gender essentialism in WoT is aggravating not because there is gender essentialism in magic because that's the entire premise of the books but because RJ set to explore that particular premise without fully understanding how gender essentialism and patriarchy affects women differently that it does men. That's how you get Berelain's writing, the internal monologues of Nynaeve in tel'aran'rhiod, groups of women in power often written as petty squabbling fools, practically all the powerful female leaders at the start of the series will be depowered and humiliated by the end, the Aiel warriors being women presented as something foreign...

In RJ world, men are naturally stronger than women in the OP: this rule isn't subverted and permeates every aspect of his worldbuilding. There's a reason only the boys are ta'veren, that Mat ends up taking control of the armies over Elayne, that Perrin is naturally better at tel'aran'rhiod than Egwene, that Nynaeve the strongest channeler we've seen in a thousand years becomes a glorified battery for Rand in the end.

In a way, it's a fascinating psychological phenomenon that the entire premise of his fictional world is based on gender essentialism yet he doubled down on several core elements of gender essentialism instead of subverting them.

When I discuss gender essentialism in his work I do it so because he made it "gender essentialism: the fantasy edition", so while his women challenge gender essentialism in some ways, it's entirely legitimate to question why he didn't expand the subversion in other aspects of his world.

[flo-n-flon]

Artfol seems quite promising as an app dedicated to art, so naturally I made an account!

You can still find me here, as well as on Twitter and Instagram @ radiolaires

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Not maintagging because this is dangerously close to shitposting but her face as Nyn and Egwene walk in cracks me up:

About to indulge in a smidge of rhetoric mastery to persuade twenty-somethings to save the world.

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Happy new year 2023!

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve, but I wish you all sweet wanderings and journeys as far and wide as you wish them to be!

[onaperduamedee]

I am sad to report that I am at a point in my reading where I straight up dislike Lan instead of just not really enjoying him.

While I grew considerably fonder of Rand and ended up enjoying more certain characters in the books (Moiraine, Loial and Perrin to name a few), Lan has gotten more unlikable to me with each interaction he has with other characters and uh, I was not expecting that.

I feel like he's constantly setting others characters up because of his tunnel vision of the world. Which is something you could expect from Aes Sedai. Except everyone distrusts Aes Sedai, yet no one seems to question his biases.

I do hope it gets better as many of my favourite relationships in the show involves him (Moi & Lan, Nyn/Lan) and I don't want my perception of the character to taint my enjoyment.

Thank the light for D. Henney though, because how I adore Lan in the show!

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Nynaeve : Moiraine annoys me so much

Nynaeve, two seconds after: Lan annoys me even more, I don't know why

Nynaeve: Lan's grip on my arm... He is so strong

Nynaeve, two seconds after : Moiraine's grip is almost as strong as Lan's

....

Wisdom...

[onaperduamedee]

Probably, on the Wheel of Time.

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The people in the Disco fandom who are all "you are loving this show wrong; you are doing fandom wrong; you are wrong"... 2021 is the year I am blocking/muting them on sight.

If I wanted such a patronizing lecture, I would go to cram school.

[onaperduamedee]

Me: I still need to do this and that before tomorrow and then I'll have two days to finish...

That Milippa fic about Michael cradling Philippa’s body and reflecting about how much she isn't ready to let go of Philippa and what it means for their relationship:

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and this week on another episode of Star Trek "here are 3 different romantic relationships paralleling each other and Michael & Philippa squeezed in the middle but how very dare you imply there's even a nanometre of subtext between them" Discovery

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I’m probably going to do a set of Disco S3 icons (tumblr/twitter) with transparent background, so if any of you lot have a request for one or two characters, now’s the time!

This is the kind of icon I will be trying:

[Image description: Picture of Michael Burnham from the shoulders up against a semi transparent background showing a blue sphere and stylised stars. She is wearing a dark uniform and a strand escapes her short curly hair. She is turning her head slightly to the side, pensively looking down. End description]

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It didn’t escape me that right after getting a scene where Book teased Michael about her thing for uniforms, in comes Mirrorgiou with admiral stripes.

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When French people are going on lockdown again tonight only two weeks after curfew:

[Image description: gif of Two from Dark Matter, a young Asian woman all dressed in black. She stares at someone in front of her in disbelief, looks away and smirks, clearly annoyed, before laughing and thinning her lips. She looks back at the person and talks, eyebrows raised. The caption reads: “You had me going here.” End description]

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made myself a new icon with Michael’s post-crash hair and I am a little bit in love

[Image description: Picture of Michael Burnham from the shoulders up against a semi transparent background showing a blue sphere and stylised stars. She is wearing a dark uniform and a strand escapes her short curly hair. She is turning her head slightly to the side, pensively looking down. End description]

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Concerning Disco, my spoilers policy is:

- no reblogging gifs from a new episode in the first two days after the episode;

- spoilers for an episode will be tagged "#star trek discovery spoilers" for a week after the episode was released.

(if you do want to scream in my inbox right after the episode, don't hesitate. I don't mind spoilers for myself!)

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“Do you want me to fuck you or not?”

“Why is that the first option on the table?”

“I have many first options on my mind. I contain multitudes.” Her glower wards off any comeback from Ash. “Are you interested? I don’t have time to watch you convince yourself.”

I kinda really want to finish that Mirrorgiou/Ash one-shot.