#wot context

[k-wame]

CLARK GABLE as Alan Gaskell 1935 • China Seas • dir. Tay Garnett

[turtlespancake]

i love seeing out of context posts about long-running stories with deep lore because it's always shit like "MAJOR SPOILER WARNING!! i can't believe that the metallic athenaeum's envoy actually used never-ending dance of the 57th universe on rionne as if she's not LITERALLY the incarnate of august?!?!" it's like buddy boy thank you for the spoiler tag but all of those words are incomprehensible without at least 5 years of foreshadowed knowledge, 7 different fan theories, and 21 wiki entries

[nervouspearl]

His emotions were a small knot in the back of her head, all steely hard determination. She knew the muted pain of old injuries, tamped down and ignored.

[bluenoisen]

now nearly done with The Fires of Heaven and do you guys REMEMBER this scene where Rand plays up his madness just to make Selande back off?? so so funny, this guy is nuts i love him

[fishalthor]

aes sedai (mom) worries over dragon

[markantonys]

you know what would be so cute for avirandlayne in the show would be if rand & aviendha get together in s3, then they reunite with elayne for s4 and aviendha immediately susses out that elayne has a crush on rand (which she acquired in falme), and elayne is so guilty and apologetic like "i know you're with him i'm so sorry i'd never try to come between you i'm trying to get over him" and avi's like "girl what are you talking about? get in this relationship!" and subsequently takes it upon herself to play matchmaker, while elayne is mortified and rand is an oblivious baby about the whole scheme.

oh! then we would get to maintain the canonical "aviendha telling rand about how hot elayne is" scene, but here it's in the utterly wholesome context of aviendha trying to set her boyfriend up with her friend who she totally doesn't have a crush on, instead of.......i'm not even going to try to sum up the mess that's going on between the 3 of them at that point in the books djkfjg

+ bonus hijinks: avi's constant descriptions of how hot elayne is and reminders to rand that it is okay to have multiple partners in aiel culture make rand think SHE wants to date elayne, which he is all for, and he sets about trying to set THEM up. eventually aviendha and rand both find out that the other is shipping them with elayne and they're like

they finally work out together that they both like elayne and both want to date her and both want the other to date her, and then elayne is swept off her feet and all's well that ends well.

[onaperduamedee]

Anasai of Ryddingwood. Each of her poems was written as an elegy. This was for her father. She left instructions; it can be read, but should not be spoken out loud, except when it was right to do so. She did not explain when it would be right to do so.

[toastandjamie]

Mat is the type of person to see a red flag, acknowledge that it’s a red flag, continue forward and then gets surprised when the red flag is red

[halcyon-autumn]

Wheel of Time Season 2 + Disco Elysium

[moghedien]

It is never not hilarious to me that Moghedien just started providing what was potentially the biggest info dump on the Age of Legends and the exact technological heights they reached that we could have gotten in the books but we didn’t get it because Nynaeve refused to listen to what she was saying

[ladyalysoftheblueajah]

GIF set inspired by a WoT Ao3 I read and loved

[highladyluck]

Mat: *thriving in Robert Jordan's kinky BDSM universe* Egwene: your beloved evil wife the universe insisted you marry is my personal horror movie

[dubiousculturalartifact]

“But aren’t you worried about [Thing] breaking the lore/how the magic system works?” listen with fantasy I have only two rules that will justify almost anything for me: -would it be emotionally satisfying for it to happen? -would it be really, really cool?

[asexual-spongebob]

Ah yes, out of context oc lore. Aka Wasted Bubblegum (Vela and Fran) lore.

[sixth-light]

absolutely ridiculous deep-cut piece of speculation for fantasy nerds of a reasonable vintage: it is entirely plausible, publication timing-wise, that Mara of the Acoma could have been an inspiration for Tuon Athaem Kore Paendrag. discuss (or don't, it's the weekend)

[markantonys]

we know liandrin did careful research into her cover story for the girls' kidnapping, but she might not know exactly when gawyn's birthday is. maybe she only knew it was coming up relatively soon and thus the story would be plausible, but maybe it hasn't actually happened yet.

so what i'm saying is - and i am saying it with all the love and affection in the world for gawyn - 3x02 A-plot of the waste-bound group gatecrashing gawyn's birthday party in caemlyn and mat kicking gawyn's ass in a duel in front of his future wife and everyone he knows at his own birthday party, or we riot.