#Siuan only Moirained Moiraine

[onaperduamedee]

"Moiraine Damodred..." "No, if you have ever loved me, don't do this." "I command you to close the Waygate."

[mulderitsme]

Siuan had that gift, making her smile when she wanted to frown and laugh when she wanted to weep --- Robert Jordan, New Spring

[deeplyridiculouslyinlove]

The way Rosamund narrates the line from Moiraine’s POV “What was Siuan thinking of?” with so much tenderness and wistfulness in Chapter 21 of The Shadow Rising has me in a chokehold. Siuaraine hive rise up, she’s one of usss.

[nalebifrie]

Daughter of the river | Daughter of the night

Mother of the light I Mother of the night

The costume designer knew what she was doing?

[loud-unknown]

I continue to be just so impressed with how Rafe is handling Siuraine. We’re all gay traumatized and terrified that Sophie is gonna be a one episode wonder and their relationship never acknowledged again and Rafe’s like hell no enjoy your fucking NEW SPRING FLASHBACK BBYS

[markantonys]

me thinking about how elayne has a boyfriend who is her half-brother's half-brother and with whom her other brother (who is dating her boyfriend's ex) is in a one-sided homoerotic rivalry, and they all have daddy issues because their dad tried to kill their mom but was killed by their mom's ex-boyfriend who is now dating their aunt whose girlfriend is dating their mom's other ex-boyfriend, and also elayne and her boyfriend are in a polycule with their two other girlfriends (one of whose people have an ancestral feud with elayne's grandfather) and their other boyfriend who is married to the empress in charge of the people who once enslaved elayne's brother's girlfriend

[thatordinaryoddity]

it all started with a kiss 🤍

🍋-version below the cut (nsfw-ish)

This is part 3 of my Siuan x Moiraine wedding AU series, the wedding night 🌝 enjoy, hihi

▫️part 1 - it‘s always been you

▫️part 2 - carry you home

▫️part 4 - at last my love has come along

[wibblyowzah]

#jealous moiraine is my favourite

[wheresmulder]

yes, Mother 😳

[onaperduamedee]

"I'm surprised you remember where your chamber is. How long has it been?"

[ahsokazworld]

So my other obsession of the month is wheel of time and I saw episode 7 and boy o BOY do I have major thoughts and I need to get them out.

Siuan?? What the hell? Following LONG ass post is in defence of Siuan because the general consensus there is right now about Siuan just doesn't rhyme for me.

ONE thing all of Siuan actions did, it brought out SO MUCH .

Liandrin drew out 1 dark friend (Moiraines nephew) and he consequently got locked away (or killed).

One Forsaken showed herself to an entire city, no more hiding or denying (at least not from the Aes Sedai because there were like 14(!) there)

Siuan clearly has doubts about Verin and Verin acted exactly as expected (now I think Verin has a lot more going on but hey 🤷🏼‍♀️)

When Siuan shields Rand, she pushes Moiraine to say all of her intentions with Rand and their decades build plans in front off Rand as if he is not there. Which Moiraine does to protect Rand from Siuan.

Siuan asks Rand if he has channelled carefully and deliberately (not verbatim but this is the general idea), which he hasn't. She scolds him for it and says that he hasn't learned much in 6 months, which is absolutely true.

Which leads to:

Moiraine is shielded (something I do not think Lan figured out on his own) and subsequently released of said shield by Rand when she tells Rand that she trusts him. When last season Moiraine very clearly showed that she doesn't. Rand needed to hear that from Moiraine. It pushed Rand to actually use the one power very DELIBERATELY and CAREFULLY otherwise, Moiraine dead. Now who again scolded Rand about that I wonder hmmm 🤔

Which brings me to the following and perhaps most important point:

Rand now 100% trusts Moiraine, he believes Moiraine does want to protect and guide him to save the world, which previously he didnt. He was confused about what was going on and felt like a toy being played from all sides. Siuan put Moiraine in an impossible situation and Moiraine chose Rand, the dragon reborn because she knows that is the right thing to do. Rand needed to be shown Moiriane will give everything to save the world including turning away from Siuan and being made to do something she does not want (closing the gate).

It is VITAL that he does because Moiraine will be the only one capable of providing Rand the protection and guidance that he needs to save the world. He only does at the end of this episode, which is nearly at the end of this season. They already lost too much time. Drastic extreme measures are unfortunately required because Siuan was right, Moiraines way wasn't working.

At the end of this episode due to Siuans actions, he doesn't trust any Aes Sedai, which is good because you know Black Ajah and doesnt trust the Forsaken, but he very clearly does trust Moiraine, and that WILL set him on the right path.

If I can trust book readers, Siuan is a very powerful channeler. However, like Egwene, it's her intelligence that is actually her greatest power. She is a crazy smart woman and nowhere near as impulsive, brash and stubborn as Moiraine, aka Pufferfish.

Something that stuck by me is that Siuan said "you have given everything, Im going to row beside you now". Siuan knows Moiraine will absolutely not let her. Moiraine is like Nyneave in that way. She would rather die than let anyone she loves do that.

Siuan has given up a lot this episode and put power back with Moiraine, leaving herself incredibly vulnerable, having lost her one true ally, Moiraine. Going back to a tower filled with enemies, she's f*cked, and she knows it, but she needs Moiraine focused on her mission, not on Siuans' potential downfall. Because that will definitely be a distraction for Moiraine.

There is no way in hell a Master chess player like Siuan would move her pawns so early and openly like she seems to be doing in this episode. That is not Siuan. Everyone in WOT world, though, needs to believe that she is (including Moiraine).

[deeplyridiculouslyinlove]

Wait this line is directly from New Spring?! I’m obsessed.

[utilitycaster]

Sort of a distant tangent off my post about Ashton, but I'm growing more and more suspicious of the fandom claim that there's no time for small RP moments in Campaign 3. I do think that it's been challenging to get deeper party bonding or serious conversations that aren't about the big philosophical questions they're facing, since those do take much more time; but then I think about Calamity, or Candela Obscura. I can genuinely give you at least a couple paragraphs about pretty much every relationship in the two Circles, or in the Ring of Brass. I can also point to no shortage of small moments between characters in the Mighty Nein Aeor or Vox Machina Vecna endgame episodes, which were all extremely plot-heavy and fast-paced, and D20 consistently nails character relationships in a fraction of the time.

I think it really does come down to, as Brennan Lee Mulligan always says, the character creation phase. Laying down a solid groundwork in which everyone has a detailed, rich backstory and sense of personality and relationship history (in the case of characters who knew each other prior to the start of the series) is absolutely crucial, and even in the case of characters who don't know each other before going in, a good amount of time spent in character creation ensures that it's easier for them to develop those interpersonal relationships on the fly. I know in actual play there's some degree of finding the character as you play, but there are games for which there is a very short runway, and I don't think it ever hurts to do more extensive character prep than the bare minimum. And if there are gaps, I think it also helps to go back and fill those in mid-way, away from the table - Travis clarifying Chetney's backstory being a great example that allowed the history of Chetney and Deanna to feel realized and full, despite only a few episodes.

I'll also be blunt: most of the time when people complain that there aren't moments because the plot keeps moving...they're mad about shipping. Which has always rung hollow to me. It was a common complaint in C2, that no time was taken for character relationships, despite them taking an entire half of an episode for the Beauyasha date and despite no shortage of moments for all three of the other couples (and plenty of platonic moments between friends). The issue was never a lack of time; it was that the characters they wanted to talk to each other didn't actually have the relationship in canon that the fans had dreamed up, and so, when the chips were down, they went to other people.

It takes two seconds to say something like "I hold their hand", even in the middle of plot-heavy adventuring. If someone doesn't say it, it's rarely the GM rushing them; it's the player either choosing not to do so, or not remembering to do so, and either of those is quite revealing regarding how the player feels about that relationship and where it stands in their priorities.

[chipthekeeper]

wait fuck. oh my god. okay. rhaenicent star wars au, jedi padawans during the clone wars who are kind of probably definitely in love but alicent chooses the Order and rhaenyra leaves it but then they both somehow survive order 66 and years later they meet again and alicent wants to start over together but rhaenyra's already dedicated to the rebellion

[sapphiccharacterstournament]

Canon Sapphic Characters Tournament Round 4/Semifinals (Bracket 5)

[thatordinaryoddity]

nobody talk to me, nobody touch me! i. am. not. well.

in fact, i‘ll never be normal again. this altered my dna and changed my personality and made me a brand new person.

i‘m going to live with the fishwives in their new spring flashback and bamboo fuck hut until i get further notice that the wives are fucking again (fucking each other and not fucking each other over).