#i love liandrin

[alverelover]

[emillungs]

some unfinished moiraine x liandrin art

[aflawedfashion]

Liandrin & Leane | The Wheel of Time 2x04

[tiredmoonslut]

Can we talk about the sheer understanding in Liandrin's voice when Nynaeve said she lost her daughter in the Arches? Can we talk about how it's one of the only moments we hear her speak without any condescension or manipulation in her voice? Can we talk about how in two words Kate Fleetwood managed to underline the way in which the show turned a very textbook antagonist into someone extremely interesting and daresay relatable? Can we talk about the sheer grief and shared pain that was in that "I'm sorry" because I genuinely can't stop thinking about it

[tempest-ghoulette]

look at this face she has done nothing wrong ever in her life

(this is a lie, she’s a dark friend and has kidnapped and most likely murdered someone)

[liandrinmoiraine]

why do i watch wheel of time? not the milfs wdym.

[girlonthelasttrain]

Lanfear-with-popcorn watch: oh girl you really pick them out

[hahnspoetry]

thinkin about being in the middle of a lianfear cuddle sandwich... it'd be so warm and cosy and nice.

it's soft hours in my head so i want cuddles with comfort characters rn

[reliquiaen]

in which Alviarin is the most relatable character

[hahnspoetry]

YES YES YEHSHDHFHBFHDB

Shopping For Love - Liandrin Guirale/Lanfear

A/N: Day 11 for @augustwritingchallenge

Liandrin Guirale has always been a quiet and hard worker, her job in the retail sector had always been something she loved but she knew, too, that she would like one day to do something else, even something as simple as being a housewife for someone extremely rich. Her world changed the day that Lanfear, the famous model and actress who had become well known as a rich bitch, a problem for anyone and everyone who worked in retail. Lanfear she knew was immaculate and liked things a very specific way. So she made sure everything went the way that Lanfear liked. People had been surprised when Lanfear announced she was engaged, even more so when they realised Liandrin was not someone famous, she was simply someone who understood Lanfear and her needs perfectly.

[emillungs]

catching up with wot and the fact that my two favorite characters have an horrible mentor/student dynamic means so much to me

[aflawedfashion]

Alanna & Liandrin | The Wheel of time 2x01

[shutupineedtothink]

Initial trailer thoughts (I just watched it like 5 times and screamed a lot):

We love an all female voice acapella soundtrack

Siuan and Moiraine voice over is right and correct

I see they gave us a smooch with them but i ain’t fooled that’s probably a flashback UNLESS—

Holy shit the cinematography. The VISUALS you guys wtf I can already tell they’re one upping themselves again

Moiraine: “… and in every future where I live…” Me: DONT YOU SAY IT “…Rand dies.” Me: NO!!!

Well at least she’s talking to Lan about it

So it was her he was carrying across the desert fuCK

The Moiraine Lanfear scenes girl do NOT get me started oh my godddd

Liandrin’s cover is intact?? She’s back to Red ajah

Only one mysterious shot with Moghedien i see

Siuan confiding in Egwene, I think?? If I’m right about the wonder girls scooby dooing around the tower figuring shit out Imma be so happy

Two millisecond shot of Rand and Lan with swords nice

Definitely can’t wait to see Alanna fuck some shit up. But ooh buddy I am worried about that shot of her screaming. One or both warders are in trouble I think

March?? I repeat, MARCH?? Girl I thought we were gonna have to wait til September again. On the one hand, excellent, if they can keep up this 1.5 year pace, that would be great. On the other hand, what am I supposed to do for the rest of this year after this??

[black-ajah-hq]

Holy shit, I was expecting Cadsuane but am probably equally excited for her as Elaida. Having such a strong actress in that role is going to make Elaidas character so much more effective.

[girlonthelasttrain]

walking into Moiraine's childhood home while Moiraine is elsewhere, likely thinking 'I know something about her household that Moiraine can't even begin to suspect and it's going to get her killed... and finally we'll be even'

[queenofmalkier]

Moiraine being 70 vs 40

(Alright this one took me a minute because corralling my thoughts is a challenge in the best of times.)

To begin with I will admit... I am one of the people who was indifferent towards the age change in the beginning. They're Aes Sedai, they live nice, long lives, and I wasn't like, emotionally attached to a younger, canon-aged Moiraine. It does make her early years more poignant, but I'll touch on that later.

Primed for older Moiraine, the show started and after two seasons I can safely say I am so gung-ho for 70 year old Moiraine I might actually be feral.

Here's why I, personally, think it was an excellent choice: Rosamund Pike is 44 as of writing this, so she visibly fits into the book age. As an audience nobody is really questioning her age - a few show-onlys I watched season 1 with actually remarked on how refreshing it was to see an older female character allowed to just exist and be part of the narrative without trying to sex up and/or grandma-ize the role.

Little Did They Know.

So you've got an audience that's mostly accepting of this character being in her 40s, and then you hit them with "Oh she's 70 and lets explore just how horrific that fact actually is together, it'll be fun!"

It was not fun, it was gutting.

One of my main critiques of the book has always been how we have these long-lived women, powerful women... but we never really take much of a look at the reality of that concept. Nor are we given POV characters who are really old enough to remark on it. Pevara at least thinks about her family, but Cadsuane doesn't give two figs about hers.

And here's the thing... they're Aes Sedai, but they're still human. What happens to them as they get older, but the people who fill their life are the ones aging? How does it feel to watch a mother, a sister, a child, friends, acquaintances, EVERYONE succumb to time in a way you won't for a very long time after?

That has to be impactful and I wanted to see those stories - and the show delivered. Seeing Moiraine with Anvaere? Chilling, horrifying, heartbreaking. Liandrin and her boy? A kick in the teeth. Even Alanna with her family, knowing very well she's probably the oldest one sitting at that table.

The point is, being an Aes Sedai means being powerful and respected, but it also means living through a very specific kind of suffering and trauma. They're basically vampires in terms of lifespan and we should see how that shapes them.

In regards to Moiraine being older and therefore not basically a child during the foretelling, it does change that particular hit... but by no means did the show let the viewers not understand how that moment altered Moiraine's life forever.

Instead of her being sort of an unformed girl hardened and honed by a lifetime of searching for Rand, one who never got much chance to be anything else, we get a woman who was already beginning to build her life, who had achieved the shawl, found love, and was exactly where she wanted to be.

And then all of that is taken from her.

It's devastating to watch the double-barreled whammy of Siuan and Moiraine giggling about being fishwives and walking into what was in many ways their deaths. Because the Moiraine and Siuan they were before walking into that room were gone forever. They would never be able to go back to the women they were before. They never even had a chance to mourn that loss. Moiraine went hunting and Siuan set her sights on the Amyrlin Seat.

I do understand for a lot of people her age is a sticking point, and that is completely fair and valid! It's a change that I fully agree did not need to be made... but by making that change we're given such a stark insight into the lives of older Aes Sedai who are just beginning to experience what it means to outlive everyone they know, watching one by one as cherished friends and family members pass on.

Soon all they have left are the children and grandchildren of those people, fractured mirrors that are just enough of a hint at the original that it must be painful to know them - which explains even further why so many Aes Sedai cut off contact entirely with their families. It's too painful to keep them in their lives.