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Madeleine Madden in Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018)

#picnic at hanging rock #madeleine madden

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Since the first two seasons of The Wheel of Time made Liandrin a complex and popular character, Dain likeable and Masema hot, I fully expect that Season 3 is going to turn Gawyn and Elaida into fan favourites.

#gawyn is already a fan favorite and the fan is me #😭😭😭😭 #but i am crossing all my fingers that the show will make other people join me! i'm so excited to see how he's portrayed #as for elaida i feel like wot tumblr is already obsessed with her djkjfg so that's only going to increase #wot #wot book spoilers

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#ishy's really got the monopoly on Unexpected Ships huh #nobody expected him to have so much chemistry with so many people! #wot #wot on prime #the wheel of time #i think i know what the winner will be but you guys could surprise me! #...........i GUESS i should've put perrin/avi and mat/min as options but they're just such excellent Platonic Besties to me i simply can't #and egwene/elayne is not an unexpected ship we've all thought about that one before #(or i did at least lmao during TGH/TDR)

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egwene and gawyn 100%

#gawyn would never forget egwene at the grocery store but egwene would definitely forget gawyn at the grocery store #and genuinely that's something i love about the gawene dynamic djkfjg i can't explain why but it just makes me happy #i guess just the sheer girlboss/malewife energy of it is a delight to see #'woman with so much Hot Girl Shit to do x babyboy who's devoted to her' is what it's all about #wot #wot book spoilers #gawene

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Have you seen the Randfear Renaissance painting picture:

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!

oh to be lanfear tenderly cradling rand in my arms. oh to be rand being tenderly cradled in lanfear's arms. god i wish that were me!!!

looks like this must be from inside the ways en route to falme? i wonder if there was originally a scene of the gang spending the night in there, or if this was simply taken as an on-set photo and isn't from an actual filmed scene. can you imagine the vibes of a lanfear-rand-moiraine-lan Ways Sleepover djkfjgh i would pay so much money to witness that

#twicetolivetwicetodie #answered

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wotseries posted an alleged elaida audition script about 1) her telling presumably leane that she's at the tower to look for elayne and also that siuan's in a big mess and she could use elaida's help in cleaning it up, and 2) her discussing prophetic powers with min.

the first scene is pretty standard with what we've been predicting for elaida and the white tower plotline in s3, so i don't have any commentary on that one for now (though it does imply that, indeed, we'll be setting up the coup to be a slowburn season-long event with elaida weaseling around for a while before making her big move, rather than a shock event that happens early in the season, but i think most of us were thinking this already anyway).

the second scene is interesting because a different leak had placed min in tanchico. wotup's leaks have been flagrantly incorrect before (said faile would be in s2) and wotseries' audition scripts have also been flagrantly incorrect before (said gawyn would be in s2), so at this point it's just a question of which source i distrust more, and i can't answer that haha so for the time being i'll treat both Min Locations as equally plausible. (i'm assuming it'll only be one or the other because i find it hard to imagine that she could make an appearance in both locations during the course of the season, but i suppose you never know.)

looking at where s2 left off, both are equally plausible. min is in cairhien, and both siuan & co and liandrin are also in cairhien. i could see siuan snatching min back to the white tower because she knows about her powers and wants to use them, and i could also see liandrin snatching min over to tanchico because she considers her a liability after min betrayed her/didn't follow through on the deal/figured out she's a darkfriend.

looking at min's established story in the show and where her story goes in future in the books (lmao at the statement that min has a story in the books), both are equally plausible. tanchico would put her back into contact with liandrin and mat to follow up on her story with them in s2 and set up for her future seanchan story with mat (and doubly so if there's a seanchan presence or even tuon herself in tanchico in s3). the white tower would return her to her book storyline and, based on this scene with elaida, potentially give her the opportunity to have a storyline exploring the nature of her powers and her relationship with them. either storyline would allow her to go on to cross paths with rand in the next season or two.

(edited to add that tanchico would also have min interacting with elayne to help set up the polycule. i've so thoroughly made the polycule rand/elayne/avi/mat in my mind that i kinda forgot min is the canonical fourth member when i was making this post djkfg)

i will say that in the books, the tower coup has absolutely 0 bearing on min's overall character/story because she has 0 stakes in any of that stuff and 0 connection to aes sedai. it makes for an interesting 1-book storyline for her, but it's never relevant to her again (vs. someone like gawyn who is dealing with the repercussions of the coup in his storyline for pretty much the rest of the series), and so for that reason i wouldn't be sorry to replace her book storyline with an invented tanchico storyline that might have more long-term relevance to her (re: seanchan stuff). however, if the show expands her white tower storyline to include an exploration of her powers, i'd love that because min actively struggling with and trying to navigate and learn more about and figure out how best to use her powers is something that should have been part of her current story rather than her pre-series backstory. and compare/contrasting with elaida and how SHE uses her prophetic abilities would be super interesting!

that being said, i will never again trust any wotseries audition scripts after the utter betrayal that was the gawyn one, so i'm taking this all with a grain of salt! every time they post a new one they're like "disclaimer that scenes could be invented just for auditions and won't appear in the actual show, but most of our past audition scripts have appeared in the show pretty close to the audition version" and i'm like "what about that time you misled me to believe a whole-ass boy would be present in s2 and then he wasn't???? is gawyngate a joke to you???" lmao i wish they'd be a bit more cautious with their audition script disclaimers bc *i* think they've been pretty hit or miss, not Usually Accurate (even the aviendha one, only 1 of 2 scenes made it into the show iirc).

#wot #wot on prime #the wheel of time #wot book spoilers #wot show spoilers

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Just started eye of the world, wish me luck. I will be scrolling as far down ur wot book tag as possible and basically holding u up as a holy scholar of the series

ooh, best of luck!!!!! i will offer you some motivation:

and i'm honored to be held up as a holy scholar of the series! but i'm not sure i deserve it djkfjg i read it once and only retained about 40% of it, and also had some very wild takes that would make many longtime book fans faint. so don't let my wild takes influence you! (or do, because they are in fact very correct takes. on that note, report back to me someday once you've read enough to have an opinion about gawyn trakand lmao)

#sexysideoftheforce #answered

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it's interesting that in the coup it's framed largely as the young trainees taking elaida's side vs. the older warders taking siuan's (though i'm sure there was some mixing and it wasn't a 100% clear-cut division, especially since plenty of older warders would've sided with elaida because their aes sedai did). the ages feel significant to me, because it feels like the kind of thing where the younglings are doing what's right in a by-the-book way (upholding tower law by preventing the jailbreak of a legally-deposed* amyrlin) because they are too young and too inexperienced with the world to be ready to question authority or see potential nuance in a situation. it's the older warders who are able to think "hmmm, this may technically be legal but it still doesn't feel right" because they have the life experience to know that tower law and aes sedai are not infallible and can make mistakes or act out of shady motives. whereas the younglings are still in the early phase of trusting the tower as an institution 100% no matter the situation (which we see later on too, when gawyn is growing disillusioned with elaida/the tower but knows he can't voice this to any of the other younglings because they'd kill him for being a traitor to the tower).

this makes me curious about the novices and accepted. i think some fled with the rebels since i remember nynaeve and elayne needing to teach classes in salidar, but how did that happen? was it only a small minority of blue-leaning students who went, or was it a more even split? i suppose that aes sedai students may have had more direct interaction with siuan and/or elaida and more opinions on the blue and red ajahs than warder trainees and so maybe they were more likely to have personal reasons for choosing one side over the other, while the warder trainees kinda defaulted to Tower Law As Written since they were pretty far removed from the politics & emotions of elaida deposing siuan (bar gawyn who did have plenty of direct interaction with both, which made him predisposed to trust elaida and distrust siuan).

*siuan was not legally deposed, but i don't think anybody fully realizes that until much later when they find out that some of the sitters who voted against her were black ajah. on the day of the coup, most inhabitants of the white tower have little to no reason to doubt the legality of the deposition; at most they would have a Bad Feeling about it but no real evidence that it was illegal.

#i always kinda wondered why RJ split the warders on age lines in the coup but i think this might be it #he definitely WAS making some kinda commentary with the younglings #about idealistic young soldiers being groomed by the institution to support it always & then being misused by that same institution #which views them as disposable weapons and cannon fodder #and most of them are so intensely loyal to the institution that they don't realize it's not mutual (gawyn realizes it tho) #wot #wot book spoilers

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i saw this tweet the other day and then today donal posted that he's out of hadestown from april 30-may 2, so i'm guessing it's because he'll be at this event, and if this event is important enough for donal to take time off from his other job to attend, then i'm guessing the whole main cast might be there!

we did get the full gang for the last one, looks like. based on their outfits i vaguely remember this event and i remember there was a nice discussion panel with all of them. if something similar happens for this one then i'm guessing they'll probably only be discussing s2 and not anything to do with s3, but i don't think we've had any full-cast panels about s2 yet what with the strikes so i'm excited!

#i'm suffering from wotshow withdrawal so i will take anything i can get! give me any crumbs you can spare! #it will just be nice to see everybody i miss them! #wot #wot cast #wot on prime

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i want the show gang to be better at telling each other things than the book gang, but with one exception.

so, in the books, elayne spends several months at the white tower with egwene and gawyn, so she is probably aware that there's a crush brewing (at least on gawyn's side if not also egwene's, depending on whether we want to ignore the Early Series Weirdness of her crush on galad which is later semi-retconned lmao) because i just know that elayne would be very observant about things like that (unlike egwene completely missing everything to do with avirand while traveling with them for months bless her heart).

but in the show, depending on how things are reshuffled, elayne might not be around whenever and wherever egwene and gawyn first meet. she might not be around for ANY of the times they're interacting.

and i just think it would be funny if egwene and gawyn both refuse to or forget to confide in elayne about their love lives and elayne rolls up to the last battle and sees them together and it's like "oh hey! egwene, i didn't know you knew my brother" "yeah he's my husband actually" "what the FUCK"

#i'm sure there will be some good ol' TAR Love Life Gossiping in the show and so elayne would be in the loop and this wouldn't happen #but it would be funny if it did #i just love the idea of egwene and gawyn both being like 'elayne is nosy as fuck i'm not telling her shit about my personal business' #that post that's like 'aren't people embarrassed at their weddings? i'd be so embarrassed at everyone listening to me talk about #how much i love the other person. i'm gonna turn to them and say why don't you all mind your own business' #that is very gawene-core to me #gawene #wot #wot book spoilers

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jordancon is over and no gawyn casting was revealed 😭😭 alas, The Longing continues. maybe it really WILL remain secret until he shows up in the literal season lmao it truly is just my luck that this is the one casting in the entire show that's completely leak-proof!

#i'm surprised there were no s3 tidbits at all! the past 2 jordancons rafe gave us a little something about the upcoming season #oh well i guess we must now set our sights on..........sdcc in the summer is the next Event i can think of (if wot has a panel there idk) #wot #gawynposting

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The Wheel of Time | 2.03 - What Might Be

#wot

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relationship: egwene/gawyn/rand rating: explicit length: 7k, complete summary: “Gawyn,” she said, cutting off Rand’s defense of himself, “is that any way to greet the Lord Dragon?”

Rand stuttered to a halt, and Gawyn looked up at her with wide eyes. “How should I greet him, then?” he said, a bit warily, but…hopefully too, unless Egwene’s ears deceived her.

“Perhaps you should kiss his boots,” she said before she could lose her nerve, and Gawyn’s eyes went even rounder and—yes, that was definitely a spark of heat in them, and in the bond.

#do not perceive me djkfjgh i'm putting on my cone of shame #i just had to get 1 egwene/gawyn/rand threesome fic out of my system and now we'll never have to revisit the idea again #(i mean unless the show compels me in some way.............) #wot #wot book spoilers #my fic

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rand: oh my god i can't believe taim is evil and has destroyed the black tower!

lews therin, who had kill bill sirens blaring on full blast in rand's head from the moment he laid eyes on taim to try and warn him:

#poor lews #he only gave rand 100 false alarms about people being untrustworthy and now rand won't believe him anymore! #rand al'thor #lews therin #mazrim taim #wot #wot book spoilers #the wheel of time

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i remember seeing this post used with elaida being raised amyrlin by the sitters, but it is also very much taim being appointed head of the black tower by rand

#AHA it was you who made the elaida post!!!! #it is a Wheel Of Time Heritage Post to me #wot #wot book spoilers

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i remember seeing this post used with elaida being raised amyrlin by the sitters, but it is also very much taim being appointed head of the black tower by rand

#well i guess taim does have relevant skills so he did successfully pass 1 interview question #mazrim taim #rand al'thor #wot #wot book spoilers #the wheel of time #it's honestly comedic how taim shows up and is like 'hey i'm the worst guy ever' #and rand's like 'wow this is the worst guy ever. giving him full control over the assembly of the most dangerous people on the continent.'

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6 sentences tag game

tagged by @butterflydm thank you!! <3 as always, i will put out a blanket "tagging anyone who wants to do it" because i never know who to tag haha

Post 6 sentences from a WIP and then tag 6 people-

“Gawyn,” she said, cutting off Rand’s defense of himself, “is that any way to greet the Lord Dragon?” Rand stuttered to a halt, and Gawyn looked up at her with wide eyes. “How should I greet him, then?” he said, a bit warily, but…hopefully too, unless Egwene’s ears deceived her. “Perhaps you should kiss his boots,” she said before she could lose her nerve, and Gawyn’s eyes went even rounder and—yes, that was definitely a spark of heat in them, and in the bond. Rand looked amused when Egwene glanced back at him. “I’m not that full of myself, Egwene,” he said.

this was tough because i don't really have any active WIP fics at the moment...........except for an unhinged egwene/gawyn/rand threesome oneshot. so, here you go djkjfg sometimes a girl has just gotta tell her boyfriend "why don't you let me and your mortal enemy go to town on you and maybe you'll calm down"

will i ever post this fic? who knows! it's finished but i'm still deciding if i have the guts to put it out into the world and subject other people to it lmao

#i mean it's not THAT unhinged as pwp oneshots go #but by my standards and compared to my usual fics it is pretty unhinged #and the base concept of egwene/gawyn/rand threesome is just inherently unhinged no matter how you slice it #wot #wot book spoilers