the show getting rid of the choedan kal is so fucking funny, not the least because everyone’s stanning latra posae and it’s like. [that post about margaret thatcher voice] did latra posae decume exhibit girl power ™ when she invented the nuke
the world is getting so ugly and bleak and it’s hard not to feel so hopeless. but we have to remember that they want us to feel that way.
it reminds me of this quote by dan savage - “During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night, and it was the dance that kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for.”
joy is resistance. it’s really scary times but we are all in this together.
finally caught up and I love love LOVE the more prominent classism in the WOT show, especially how it’s used to characterize Elaida.
Because Siuan’s office and quarters aren’t just simple and rustic because she just wants it that way. It’s a power move.
The richest merchants and most powerful rulers in the land will answer her call, will come to her office, and their butt’s that have sat on silk and drunk from golden and silver goblets and eaten decadent imported meats will sit for the first time in a fisher’s chair and drink from a commoner’s cup.
while they are squirming in a chair they think is shitty and having their royal pose fall apart, there in front of them is Siuan Sanche Sedai, the Amyrlin Seat, making Kings and Queens squirm and making the nations sance from the chair of a peasant.
And Elaida can’t see that, she only sees it as Siuan “ruining” the office and Tower by not covering everything in jewels and gold by “pointlessly” decorating like Siuan wants.
Because that’s what Elaida would do
I love all the certified Nynaeve lovers on here clapping and cheering for her puking her guts out and being so miserably seasick she wants to drown herself
Elaida is lucky that it was Suian there when she was stabbed by the Gray Man and not Moiraine because Moiraine would have let her bleed out
that dream scene between siuan and moiraine was so bittersweet and beautiful but i laughed when siuan said you should’ve been amyrlin and moiraine was like i make enemies too easily lmao she said uhm actually i’m too much of a bitch for that we love a self-aware queen wait why am i crying
Also when Siuan is like “What would you have done?” and Moiraine is like “oh yeah I would have done something way worse lol”
starting to think Lanfear left Egwene alive just so Lanfear could forcibly involve her in an Ilyena revenge fantasy. Lanfear you can’t process your rage this way. stop taking advice from Graendal I don’t care if she invented therapy
Spoilers for wheel of time books and maybe? for later seasons
I’m really interested in what they’re doing with Elayne this season. As far as I can recall, book! Elayne never shows any desire to be something besides the queen of andor. She certainly enjoys getting to travel and see the world, but she never thinks of being anything besides an Aes Sedai/Queen
Show!Elayne, while clearly devoted to her duty, is both literally and figuratively dreaming of something else. She wants to explore the world on a boat with Aviendha! Her interest in Sea Folk and Aiel could be read as a form of escapism. It’s such a interesting parrallel to Rand. He’s just learning how to pick up the weight of leadership and command. Elayne is already resigned to it, and knows the cost. It makes her a really interesting mentor figure for Rand, which we already saw a bit in 3x01. It also explains her certainty to Aviendha that Rand will learn his duty to her people - Elayne is certain that Rand will go through the same process that she already has. He’s at an earlier stage in a journey that she’s already walked.
I also think it’ll add something interesting to her later arcs too; without getting too spoilery, I wonder if her relationship to the Lion Throne might be more complicated