#wheel of time community

[necarion]

I'm curious the extent to which Robert Jordan intended this (I think he probably did), but the in-universe narrative of "men and women cannot possibly understand each other" is deeply undermined by the fact that you, the reader, are extremely likely to identify as male or female, and are capable of understanding the motivations of both male and female characters.

The reason I think Jordan knew this was not only the effort made to have the characters motives be explicable when you're in their heads, but to have these communication difficulties go away the second the characters talked to each other and explained what was going on with them.

I think more than that, Jordan feels like he thought a lot of culture around masculine/feminine mystique was silly and harmful. Not only because it hinders good communication (Jordan does not agree that "not explaining stuff" is generally a good thing), but also because it leads to other harmful behaviors being swept up in the umbrella. Think of the number of times Elayne, Nynaeve, and the Aes Sedai are being awful to Mat, who treats it as "this is women being awful and inscrutible" when it's really them just being arrogant and awful. Or Mat being flippant and a jerk (in part as a defensive thing) being generalized to an "all men are like this" when it's really "Nynaeve and Mat get along like two cats in a sack that is on fire".

Does Jordan have some weird gender essentialism in his books? Definitely. But he also has far less than people credit to him, if you listen to the characters and not the subtext (or even text).

[smovs]

sketches & screenshot studies for my Barret gold saucer date rewrite

[halcyon-autumn]

Can’t stop thinking about Elayne trying to figure out what's going on at the end of season 2

Elayne: who is the slouchy looking one with the knife-stick? Egwene: that’s Mat and we don’t know where he’s been for six months Mat: Hello! I'm a hero of the horn! Elayne: so let's put a pin in that. and who's the dude with the shield? Nynaeve: Perrin Elayne: why are his eyes gold? Nynaeve: genuinely no clue Perrin: it's because of the wolves I think Elayne:okaaaaaaaay and the redhead who I healed from a stab wound infected by a darkness so intense that he'll bear the pain of it the rest of his life? Egwene: that’s Rand my boyfriend. Well, he faked his death because he was afraid he’d go insane and kill everyone he loved, so relationship status tbd Elayne: mkay. So uh - what was up with the big fire creature in the sky? Nynaeve: we don’t know what that was and we don’t know where it came from Rand, from the other side of the tower where he’s been pretending not to listen in: oh I think Moiraine made it and THATS why Lanfear had to punt her out of the waygate Nynaeve: what? Elayne: you mean Moiraine Damodred my aunt? Nynaeve: WHAT?

[markantonys]

THE WHEEL OF TIME | 2x06

[zombunny-06]

Many a familiar face

[tiredmoonslut]

Obsessed. I am off my rocker obsessed with the DRAMA of Lan riding through the night to Siuan's caravan to tattle tale on Moiraine, Siuan's microexpressions as she realizes it's him and Moiraine isn't with him ("where is she what's happened so help me if she's hurt I will--"), and Siuan Sanche, the Flame of Tar Valon, immediately calling her entire security detail and fourteen Aes Sedai to pull up on her wife's front doorstep the second she learns Mo was stilled. OBSESSED.

Can you imagine her thought process? We know how abhorrent and unspeakable it is in the Tower for a woman to be cut off from the Source (well, if you've read the books you have). We know it's considered the worst pain an Aes Sedai can ever feel, worse than death or loss. And now Moiraine, her Moiraine, has been suffering through this for half a year without saying a word and Siuan simply has not been there. It's unacceptable. No, that simply will not do. I am marching on Cairhien this instant and I will blow the hinges off the door if need be. I'm obsessed

[ketchupstrain]

WoT-ers who are also LGBT:

Do you find it hard to get as into the Wheel of Time series because of such rigid gender boundaries, roles, and traditions? every page there’s a remark about how one gender feels about the other.

Maybe I’m just feeling weird about it now because of my weird complex feeling about gender, but I’ve found over the past few months that it’s been harder and harder for me to really enjoy Wheel of Time as a story.

[medicalkarl]

average team wwgob? interaction

also the watermark downgraded since this is a shitpost

[ofthebrownajah]

My worry re Rand starting to lose himself in s3 as per the synopsis (which I love the description, it's very in line with TSR and TFOH with where Rand's mental state is) is I don't want it to be one sided. Like I don't want it to be like "his friends are all being super supportive and he's the one lashing out and therefore he is the only one in the wrong" cause in the books there were issues from both sides of it of them being weird about him being the dragon. Idk I just don't want it be "his friends are trying to help and he's the only one being a dick" type situation

[dicediceking]

Some screenshot redraws of its time for thes newest episode

Me and my brother have a theory, that as the sky gets darker the show will get darker

And so far it's been holding up

[bakerstreetdoctor]

Trying so hard to reconnect with a friend from highschool right now

[bananapolice4ce]

they're watching you, wheel.

[mitchellhenderson]

[t4x208]

green apple and wheel doodles

[reneesbooks]

febuwhump main victim character

so for a few of the prompts i've already got plans/have written something but for some of the ones that i'm stuck on i have an idea. i'm going to make a random picker wheel with the names of the characters in the cycle and spin it and then i have to write a scene with that character for whatever prompt i'm feeling stuck on. i've done something like this before but i have also decided to spice things up and get y'all involved! vote for who you think should be the main victim of my febuwhump pieces below, and i'll make a picker wheel out of the results. # of votes = # of extra times their name is on the wheel. let's have a little fun with this. please reblog for more chaos <3

who the hell are these people?

raedoran cycle taglist: @k--havok @oh-no-another-idea @space-writes @lyssa-ink

picker wheel i use

[sadhorsegirl]

aes sedai: do you swear to speak no word that is not true?

moiraine, who grew up in a culture that required all participants to constantly obfuscate their true intentions and carefully manipulate others to try and avoid being assassinated by a paranoid member of a rival house before they reached the age of eleven: sure lol why not