#resent the whole we should go to cairhien to make our new home stuff in ep 7 by the way

[sadhorsegirl]

agree with all of this obviously, and i've also been thinking a lot about how robert jordan's own ambient homophobia ended up adding so much unexpected dimension to the way others perceive moiraine and siuan's relationship in the books.

like the way everyone in the white tower was like INSANELY suspicious of them and how close they were. the idea that a lot of that paranoia comes out of a fear that their power levels are too high and any partnership they form is inherently a threat to the ever crumbling power dynamics of the white tower but ALSO it just kind of reads like deeply rooted homophobia and distrust towards gay people who will always be outside certain power structures and therefore might very well try to undermine them

sooooo many opportunities for the show to address homophobia in world in a compelling way and instead the writers decided to go the cw route of "its a fantasy/future setting where homophobia is no longer a concern" but like. doesn't even put in the leg work to explain why the world has evolved to the point where it isn't a concern lmao

the charm of homosexuality is that no matter how aloof or reserved as a person you are you’re still a degenerate to someone like you don’t get to have a private life at all because your proclivities are a matter of policy and litigation. which is why making all the gay characters young iconoclasts has fundamentally become boring because you can’t fully illustrate how entirely belonging to this category of otherness can strip you of any and all measures of dignity at any moment.

It truly would be so much more interesting to me to see Moiraine try to control every aspect of her life including other people but then have this part of herself that’s just a giant kick me sign. She gets in a fight with her sister and her sister is like “you could never have sacrificed like I sacrificed you couldn’t even bring yourself to lie down with a man. So as much as father believed in you I know you would have let him down in the end” like that would have been so dramaturgically juicy. But as it stood all the arguments felt so low stakes because you knew no one was going to say that so it just felt like they were pulling punches all the time