#mat/dagger

[grichel]

[casualavocados]

#5-min diy crafts to avoid touching an evil possessive dagger by mat cauthon

THE WHEEL OF TIME 2.08 | What Was Meant To Be

[amemoryofwot]

Mat about to touch something he shouldn’t touch: ok but like.. what if it WAS for Mats

[aotearoa20]

Liandrin: there is very fine line between genius and stupidity

Liandrin: watching Mat burrow through the walls

Liandrin: Matrim Cauthon appears to use that line as a fucking jump rope

[shitpostingkats]

On the heights, all paths are paved with memes.

[gl00mytuesday]

a wheel of time collage of my loves

[toastandjamie]

Hey so… in Great Hunt when Fain broke out of Fal-Dara what actually happened there. We don’t ever get an explanation about how Fain or whatever/whoever knocked both Egwene and Mat unconscious. Neither of them were actually injured just unconscious which would indicate they were knocked out through unconventional means. Which then leads to the “Why not just kill them” question, but perhaps it would just be too time consuming. Then there’s the dagger of it all, why take the dagger, Fain was unlikely to have actually known what the dagger was or what it did. Perhaps he Did know that it was at least something Mat found valuable and in turn the others would also likely feel so. A back up plan in case the horn wasn’t good enough to lure Rand and the others after him?

On that note I also want to talk about Perrin’s monologue about the whole thing. Perrin and Rand have a lot in common including how personally responsible they both feel for the others safety, specifically Mat and Egwene. In general both of them seem to be under this impression that Egwene and Mat aren’t capable of protecting themselves- for various reasons, Mat because of his immaturity and Egwene because she’s a young woman. This lessens as time goes on and the group are forced apart and reunited with each intermittently after receiving enough experience and character development that it’s hard to keep arguing that any of them are vulnerable. The difference between them is that Perrin is able to talk himself down from his guilt, he can accept the fact that he realistically could have done anything to protect them in this situation- where as Rand tends to fully take on responsibility for any bad thing that happens. Rand isn’t able to differentiate what is and isn’t in his control whereas Perrin and is uniquely aware of his own limits. In Great Hunt Perrin repeatedly checks on Mat while he’s unconscious and notes to the audience that he feels guilty for not having been with Mat when Egwene had asked him to check on Fain with her- though he notes that he likely would’ve ended up unconscious like the other two. Then when Rand asks him about how Mat is doing, Perrin of course snaps at him to check on him himself if he’s worried, though after Rand apologizes more thoroughly to Perrin for their fight earlier Perrin does recognize that Rand’s worry is genuine and tells him. Though Rand accidentally ruins it by implying that Aes Sedai were only looking for him, further enforcing Mat and Perrin’s earlier quarrel of “Rand thinking he’s better and more important than us.”. I could say more about Perrin in this book but I’ll digress for now.

[wot-tidbits]

The Bowl of Winds by u/acactis21

[toestalucia]

say hi to my dispel duo

[daveyfvckingjacobs]

*vibrating at immense speeds* so I’m chill about the finale

[dragon-of-the-soutn]

Someone please free my man Mat from Ebou Dar! He had such an awful time in the last book! Please, a building fell on him and if he isn’t the main pov in the next book I will cry!

Rand your bestie/boyfriend is in fact not ok I hope your road trip with Min is to go rescue Mat. Or at the very least I’m freed of Perrin in the next book. I think I deserve it for being in Mat withdrawal.

[reverseblt]

#Heroes don't go it alone. Join me for the epic #season2 #finale of #TheWheelOfTime, and let all who have ears to hear and eyes to see know that the #Dragon has been #reborn! Season 3 can't arrive soon enough!

[luckhissoul]

i rarely post ooc on here but here's my long winded rambling about something that i keep seeing in regards to the show. like i've seen these different takes that somehow in the show mat's been given more layers and depth. but like i can't see where or how tbh all the show's given me so far is

his "gritty" backstory. supposedly to "explain" why he's the way he is. even though in the show he's not at all the way he is supposed to be ---

his disloyalty. abandoning his friends to possible death, abandoning egwene in the tower. they took one of his biggest driving points and just erased it entirely. this is not the mat that chased an assassin all the way to tear to save the wondergirls. this is not the mat that turned back towards a literal war when he had never fought in one before.

his innate darkness that drew him to the dagger. no mat couldn't just want gold, he couldn't even be greedy. he needs to have a darkness that made moiraine so sure he'd choose the dark. and apparently ishamael saying he belonged to him since birth ? like uhm did i hear that right?

these are literally the only traits he's been given. -- how does one do a more complex mat than the one robert jordan wrote anyways? he's confusing af - no one understands what's going on with him not even himself. like i always see sando getting flack about how he wrote mat. like he did better than anything the shows done so far tbh.

but this leads me to the whole 'the show did it better than the books' or that "the show fixed things" about every single little or major change that the show makes.  like prefer one over the other, love one hate the other. cool nbd. but -- i've never seen the source material of an adaptation so -- idk hated by the fandom? it confuses me how much flack robert jordan gets for writing a certain thing or a certain character but the show gets praised for a basically hollowed out poorly done adaptation. like i can enjoy the show, there are good things ( hello josha ) and there are bad ( the over the top age drops of the aes sedai. alanna's lowkey creepy with much young warders - they do know they don't get the same life span right? - and moiraine didn't give up her life for the search for the dragon. how long did she live before his birth ?? etc etc ). but i don't know how one could "understand" the characters or world better than the person that wrote it. i don't get how anyone could be interested in a world or characters from a book series that they seemingly hate ? by an author they basically hate, too? that's just my take i guess. i for one love the books. so ---

i'll go crawl back into my corner now ---

[wheelwheelwheel]

Idk what Mat is going to do this season but to me it makes sense that Loial would get his whole “needs to be reunited with the dagger to be healed” storyline after getting stabbed like that

[amemoryofwot]

For all Perrin’s “trying to be gentle with his size” he’s sure hitting Mat a lot

[theuncannybookdragon]

Spoilers for WoT s2 ep. 1

"Happy Bel Tine, Mat" my ass, burn you Liandrin!

The fact that she also specifically left out the part of the letter where Perrin mentioned him, my GOD