The Last Punbender

Spot the difference: Wheel of Time edition

witches !!

guys i know we’re traumatised by 3x05 but we’re sleeping on elaida confirming that (i quote) siuan used to fawn over moiraine like a lovesick puppy when they were novices which i think might be some of the best information to ever exist

Ok right I’m kind of obsessed with this, especially since 2x07 gave me the vibes it was a fairly recent relationship (unless Moiraine has just been putting off meeting the family for like thirty years??) so like, when did they actually get together?? Siuan has been pining all this time???

Putting off meeting the family for thirty years is PEAK Moiraine behaviour lbr

Putting off meeting the family until Uncle Laman is dead is also peak Moiraine behaviour

Reread Equal Rites recently. I used to think it was about feminism and little girls getting the same opportunities as little boys. Which, it isn't not about that. But ALSO.

It's about an intersex kid.

It's about a little girl born with a staff.

And that's Not Right.

The adults in the room- her father, the 'medical professional'- attempt to remove the staff, by blade and by fire. The fresh little baby SCREAMS. So they agree to pretend it doesn't exist. She'll probably grow up just a regular little girl.

right?

But just around the onset of puberty..... it becomes apparent, not to her, but to the adults, that she's not going to be Regular.

The medical professional tries again to rectify matters. She tries to destroy the staff while the girl is unconscious. The girl screams. The adults give in. They aren't monsters.... but life will be so much harder, so much less foreseen, for this strange little girl....

They try to raise her 'right'.

If she won't be a conventional woman... maybe an unconventional woman. A Powerful woman- in the way that women can be powerful. Are permitted to be powerful.

But she's not a woman- she's a child. What will she be, when she's grown? A Witch. A Wizard. She can't be either. She can't be neither.

(The term 'warlock' is repeatedly invoked and scoffed. The etymology of 'warlock' is 'breaker of oaths'. Counter to the covenant. Rulebreaker.)

Right.

i think it would go something like this

inspired by this post from @byjove:

Wheel of Time 3x05 "Tel'aran'rhiod" / Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan / New Spring by Robert Jordan / "A Brief for the Defense" by Jack Gilbert / The Fires of Heaven by Robert Jordan

In a moment of great catharsis, Zuko finally gets to say what he couldn't all those months ago, when he was a server at the Jasmine Dragon

Somewhere in the Ramtops

I finished Pentiment the other day, and felt an insane urge to draw the Lancre Witches in that style

granny progress before I changed a few colours

elaida: i know what you are

siuan: a lesbian?

elaida: Yes, but also river trash

i really dont know how to caption this but The Truth changed wires in my brain and everyone should be reading it. Some hidden/obscured details in this under the cut!

i feel like this is their dynamic so far

Wheel of Time be like what did you see in the arches? What did you see in the rings? What did you see in the doorway? What did you see in your dreams? What did you see in your visions? What did you see in the columns? What did you see in the portal stone? What did you see in the omens?