#that that means Bryne is bad

[sixth-light]

ok ok slightly feral post as promised.

first, some context setting: I think it's really interesting to analyse texts in terms of both what the author was trying to do (and whether they succeeded) and what they ended up doing (intentionally or not) and I think their cultural/historical context is vital if you want to do this. I'm not interested in whether Robert Jordan or the Wheel of Time are, like, morally correct in their politics or whatever. I'm interested in what the art is trying to do.

and the thing about Jordan, see, is that he projected this image during his lifetime of a Genial Older Man (see: beard and pipe) but he...wasn't actually that old! He was 42 when EoTW was published. He died at 58. He was a Baby Boomer publishing books at a time when Baby Boomers were the hip young generation taking over from stodgy WWII veterans (Gen Z: It Will Happen To You Too).

What this means is that he was a child and adolescent during the Civil Rights movement, in a then-majority Black city in the Jim Crow South*. He would have gone to segregated schools. The tertiary institutions he attended had only started to desegregate a year or two before he attended each of them. I think his war trauma in Vietnam gets a lot of attention because he did talk about it and also because that's a narrative we understand for white men, but I think we...skim over the impact on white men of growing up at this time because? Civil Rights only happened to Black Americans I guess? but it's his context too. Similarly, he was an adolescent and young man at the time the (white) feminist movement was really kicking off in the US. he was in his mid-20s when banks were first legally *required* to allow women to open accounts and have credit cards in their own names. he went on to marry a woman a decade older than him, who had left her husband to raise her son as a single mother while continuing a professional career in the early 70s; these were issues that must have been incredibly relevant for her.

and what we see in his writing is attempts to grapple with gender and race that are self-evidently of mixed success, but I think have to be contextualised in light of this period of immense change he grew up in. Think about the predominance of women as merchants and bankers in WoT, in the context of how recent their rights to even control their own money were in the US. The...everything...he was trying to do with the Seanchan, making them extra-canonically Southern American-coded. The Whitecloaks as the KKK (among other things, of course).

As an example, I think there's also something probably unintentional but fascinating in the way he presents the pre-Breaking Aiel: bluntly, they are a distinct ethnic group in hereditary servitude (always thinking about how that ancestor of Rand's in the Rhuidean sequence had to get permission from Mierin Sedai to switch to someone else's service so he could marry his girlfriend, this is...uh...super cognate to issues enslaved Black people faced). They're associated with agriculture through the Song sequence. And they're pretty much the ideal of what slave-owning Southern American culture WANTED enslaved Black people to be: completely happy to serve. Then, as the post-breaking Aiel, they become feared as a source of violence, which resonates with the way that enslaved people were feared by their slavers.

I don't think for a second that the intention here was to depict the AoL as a Secret Slavery Dystopia, I think we're meant to take the Rhuidean flashback sections pretty much as they read on the page. But I also think putting Jordan in his historical and cultural context does pose the comparison. Similarly, I find it really interesting that he positions Seanchan as riven by constant revolts and uprisings (because it's a fascist slaver regime) but he never ever goes so far as to link enslaved people in Seanchan (damane and da'covale) to those revolts and uprisings, even though that is fundamentally the deep fear *for real and obvious reasons* of all slavery-based societies.

Or then there's the changes to the Two Rivers in the books - like, both then and now I think it's actually pretty radical to present an influx of Muslim-coded refugees of colour as a thing that enriches the Two Rivers both socially and economically. Various characters are wistful that it's changed, but they don't think it's bad. The text here is really clear that welcoming the Domani and Almoth Plain refugees is both morally right and beneficial. And this is in a book being written and published shortly after the first Gulf War.

There's so many more things like this where I just have no real idea what he was trying to do on purpose and what was accidental and what was fun for him in fiction but did not necessarily link at all to his real-world political beliefs. but gosh it's interesting to turn over and poke at.

#wheel of time #wot book spoilers #robert jordan #and then there's things like...IIRC some stuff about Gareth Bryne is referencing General Lee #and I know a lot of you are Bryne haters but the point here is not #that that means Bryne is bad #it's: how hard was RJ thinking about that and why did he do it at all?

[fancyfade]

Wonder Woman 1987 runs ranked

Greg Rucka's Run (#195-226) - This is my absolute favorite run on WW1987. Rucka's got a good handle on Diana's character, and is very good at creating plots with lots of threads that are interesting to read. I think the way that Greek Gods are re-imagined (except for Hera and Zeus) reflects well in other DC-universe stuff at this time with regards to magic, which is the idea that old gods change with humanity to survive.

Eric Luke's (#139-159) - creator of devastation, my all time favorite wonder woman villain!!!!! So much good just for that! And we also have Artemis training cassie, what is not to love?

George Perez's run (#1-62) and Messner-Loeb's (#63-100) - these two both have bits I really like and bits I really don't. they're this high, because the fact that they each ran for so many issues means that the good parts outweigh the bad parts, and it's easier to forget about those. George Perez does very strong worldbuilding for the Amazon's and Diana's initial cast of supporting characters, Messner-Loebs introduces some very fun plots and characters (like Space Era Diana, Donna Milton, and Artemis).

Philip Jimenez's (#164-188) - Jimenez's run I feel bad putting down here, though I did like it. It started very strong, and I loved the way he retconned the worst bits of Messner-Loeb's Hippolyte. With Hippolyte's actions in the contest no longer being tied to Messner-Loebs trying to make her partially responsible for what Heracles did, and almost vicitm blaming her, it made it feel much less just 'pile on hippolyte' to see the next part of what he addressed, which is the way that the amazons of bana mighdall were treated as second class citizens. the de-establishing of the monarchy was great. in general, my only complaint about jimenez's run is i feel like a lot of the plotlines are rushed, and we don't really have a lot of time to see the cool worldbuilding stuff he was setting up. And Villainy Inc was boring and wasted time we otherwise could have spent on the interesting worldbuilding stuff.

John Bryne's (#101-136) - reading this run was like pulling teeth. It was so boring. the only positive part is that he created Cassie. For that he ges one (1) right.

I did genuinely enjoy all of these runs except for Bryne's, it's just a ranking of which one I remember enjoying more.

#wonder woman 1987 #the real tag #wonder woman 1986 #the thing i accidentally tagged everything on this run in on my tumblr and am too lazy to retag #dc comics #wonder woman #new earth #comic review

[wags-confessions]

Im convinced Isabel’s photo are being sent to the press by their PR team. I saw the page raisingballers who made a post with a pic of haaland when he was a bryne and a pic of isabel when she played for bryne and said they are both professional footballers when she never made it pro and also bryne isn’t a pro team in the women’s game but just a normal academy like millions out there. I wonder how they got that picture and how is a big page with millions of followers posting it. Also saying they dated for long it’s just bad for their pr? If they claim thats how they feel in love it means he dated her when he was at bryne so he was 17/18 and she was 13/14💀

[alectology-archive]

what are all of your least favourite moments from the sanderson wot books

I mean I read a bunch today after a week-long break from AMoL and I still find myself hating every next paragraph I read so. nearly everything I read??? which is why I’m having such a not-fun time? I will say that I had a far easier time with TGS than ToM or AMoL even if the character voices are just as bad in it. I think I finished book 12 in just 4 days and book 13 in 5 days so the reason I’m especially struggling with book 14 is probably because it’s chock-full of war and violence.

Specific stuff I do dislike are:

all of mat’s non-existent plot in book 12

siuan turning into a ornamental sidepiece for bryne in books 13/14

moiraine and lan treating each other like strangers. moiraine and siuan not meeting.

mat romanticising his own abuse in his head and wishing tylin had been... more possessive and controlling? (sanderson specifically writes as if he’s aware that tylin assaulted him but that mat liked it anyway. RJ isn’t aware that men being assaulted counts as assault, unfortunately, but he *mostly* sticks with the thread that mat disliked the way tylin treated him)

veins of gold, since it pretends that the issue rand needs to fix is his inability to bring himself to accept that he needs to die when his POV has mostly always involved a great degree of suicidal ideation. his mental health is the one that needs fixing.

gawyn’s POVs and his insufferable need to convince egwene that she’s arrogant just because she doesn’t listen to his advice

Perrin. 

Perrin teaching Egwene stuff about tel’aran’rhiod in Towers of Midnight.  tbh no one can talk me down from hating this specific thing, no matter what logic anybody comes up with (no, I will not listen to the arguments that egwene just needs a new perspective, wolves are naturally more attuned to tel’aran’rhiod and could teach perrin more quickly, etc). 

re: the above. book 13 is also when the power dynamic flips and we have more women being told they’re unreasonable/emotional/reckless/not strong enough/lacking sufficient skills whereas up to this point... it’s mostly powerful women who’ve been driving a lot of the plot.

aviendha’s rhuidean visions (not for I’m Sad reasons. I think they just don’t work). 

androl

#asks #anon asks #text #brandon #aelia reads a memory of light #aelia reads wheel of time

[f4liveblogarchives]

Fantastic Four Vol 1 #302

Sun Feb 6 2022 [09:58 PM] Wack'd: Last issue: the cops are morons [09:58 PM] Wack'd: This issue: the military are morons [09:59 PM] Wack'd: Harassing Johnny and Alicia on a pleasant drive through upstate NY, trying to detain the two of them and grabbing Alicia without warning rather than just calmly explaining that they've set up a checkpoint here and need to search the vehicle [09:59 PM] maxwellelvis: “You saying I can’t camp here?” [10:00 PM] Umbramatic: geez [10:00 PM] Wack'd: Johnny and Alicia make it to their destination, a quiet little arts town [10:01 PM] Wack'd: This is great

[10:02 PM] Bocaj: HA at Johnny's face there [10:02 PM] Umbramatic: this is wonderful [10:02 PM] Umbramatic: his face [10:02 PM] maxwellelvis: It's great having an artist who doesn't draw the Storm-Richards family as horrifying monsters again, isn't it? [10:03 PM] Wack'd: I didn't think Bryne was that bad personally. I mean. His drawings [10:03 PM] maxwellelvis: Yeah, but sometimes the faces he drew were.... [10:03 PM] maxwellelvis: unorthodox [10:04 PM] Wack'd: So this little arts community is in a tizzy because the army has been conducting illegal searches and just generally being awful [10:04 PM] Bocaj: Dammit the army [10:05 PM] Bocaj: Always being generally awful [10:05 PM] Wack'd: Some members of the community have been disappearing and then reappearing days later, amnesic and confused, and the army is basically using it as an excuse to be jerks in their investigation [10:06 PM] Wack'd: Johnny wants to get involved, but the local sheriff--a buttoned-up contrast to all these bohemian types--would really prefer he just continue letting he and the army handle it [10:07 PM] Wack'd: Back at Four Freedoms, Reed is conducting an experiment to see how far away Franklin can project himself [10:08 PM] Wack'd: OH! OH BOY!

[10:09 PM] Umbramatic: yipe [10:09 PM] Bocaj: Well [10:10 PM] Wack'd: "You see, Franklin, when a man and a woman love each other very much--" "The man locks himself away in his lab all the time and never talks to the woman unless they need to punch something?" [10:12 PM] Bocaj: “The things I’ve seen. They can never be unseen.” [10:12 PM] Umbramatic: good [10:12 PM] Wack'd: pfffft [10:12 PM] Umbramatic: stealing that [10:13 PM] Wack'd: So Johnny goes to talk to the army and finds out some nuclear warheads have been stolen. The army still doesn't want his help though [10:13 PM] Bocaj: Yeah the army is bad at not losing their nukes [10:13 PM] Bocaj: Its very alarming. [10:13 PM] Bocaj: It happens enough that the military has a term for it. Empty Quiver [10:13 PM] Umbramatic: o h [10:13 PM] Wack'd: So he returns home just in time for one of Alicia's artsy friends to kidnap her and Johnny [10:13 PM] Wack'd: They wake up in a cell and [10:13 PM] Wack'd: Things get very bonkers [10:13 PM] Wack'd: Very fast [10:14 PM] maxwellelvis: We talkin' "Last-episode-of-The Prisoner"-level bonkers? [10:14 PM] Wack'd: Not quite [10:15 PM] Wack'd: So it turns out this arts community has been hollowing out the mountain they all live on so they can use it as a high-tech fallout shelter [10:16 PM] Bocaj: That is AMAZING [10:16 PM] Wack'd: The reason some artists have been returning topside with amnesia is because they had second thoughts and needed to get a memory wipe if they wanted to leave [10:17 PM] Bocaj: ..... [10:17 PM] Bocaj: Sure [10:17 PM] Wack'd: Johnny concludes that they stole the nukes to launch the fallout shelter into space, but the council he's been brought before are like "what? No, that's nuts, we hate and fear nukes, that's why we built this place, why the fuck would we do that" [10:18 PM] Wack'd: And then the guy in charge of the fallout shelter is like "ah, no actually, that was me" and pulls a gun on them [10:19 PM] Wack'd: And the guards are all on the big boss's side, I guess because otherwise there's not much of a threat here [10:19 PM] Bocaj: Wow [10:20 PM] Bocaj: So they built a fallout shelter under a mountain. And the boss decided to steal nukes to launch the mountain into space. [10:20 PM] Wack'd: Yes [10:20 PM] Bocaj: I don't know what’s worse. That the boss thought of that idea or that Johnny is on enough of the same wavelength to also think of it [10:21 PM] Wack'd: I cannot emphasize enough how how amazing it is that when Johnny accuses them of this everyone's like "the fuck are you talking about" besides the one guy who's like "OH NO HE FIGURED IT OUT" [10:21 PM] maxwellelvis: He does know that a nuclear missile does not have the fuel or pushing power to lift a whole mountain into space, right? [10:22 PM] maxwellelvis: Have you seen how big a Saturn V rocket is? Have you seen how big the rockets that launched the space shuttles were? [10:22 PM] Umbramatic: OH MY GOD [10:22 PM] Wack'd: So the boss guy runs off to arm the nukes but Johnny reaches him just in time [10:23 PM] Wack'd: When the army retrieves this guy he's like "I was working on a non-nuke-based way to shoot us all into space but I was afraid the world would end before I could finish it" [10:23 PM] maxwellelvis: Oh, Cold War [10:24 PM] Wack'd: Between this and the time warp bubble there's been quite a bit of nuclear anxiety in the comic lately [10:24 PM] Umbramatic: wow... [10:25 PM] Wack'd: But I admire the confidence of both plots being like "actually, trying to hide in a crazy sci-fi fallout shelter is stupid" [10:25 PM] Wack'd: It's a...weird moral...considering we didn't actually have crazy sci-fi fallout shelters [10:25 PM] Umbramatic: YEAH [10:25 PM] maxwellelvis: I wonder what could have happened in the past few months to have the writers of this magazine nervous about the leader of the United States's ability to handle a nuclear crisis. Hmm... [10:26 PM] maxwellelvis: Something to seed doubt of his mental faculties, perhaps... [10:25 PM] Wack'd: But there's an optimism to the insistence that we wouldn't need them anyway [10:26 PM] Wack'd: OH FUCK [10:26 PM] Wack'd: THAT'S WHAT FOUR FREEDOMS PLAZA BEING NAMED THAT IS ABOUT [10:26 PM] Wack'd: I got so caught up in far-right fears about terrorists and Islam I forgot all about communism [10:26 PM] Bocaj: Almost a meme format there [10:27 PM] Wack'd: We can workshop it [10:27 PM] maxwellelvis: It's not unwarranted; Reagan did use Islamophobia to steal the Big Chair away from Jimmy Carter, after all. [10:28 PM] Wack'd: This is definitely a meme format though. Just white-out "nuclear destruction" in the last panel and replace it with climate change or whatever

[10:28 PM] Wack'd: Anyway next issue Roy Thomas is back! Roy's my boy! [10:29 PM] maxwellelvis: Wonder where Roger's going? Is he going off to write Spider-Man now? [10:29 PM] Wack'd: *shrug* [10:29 PM] maxwellelvis: Nope, he'd already been dismissed from that ages ago, looks like. [10:30 PM] Umbramatic: huh [10:30 PM] Wack'd: Oh hey letters page [10:30 PM] Umbramatic: lettersssssssssss [10:31 PM] Wack'd: Sandy Kat of San Francisco thinks Marvel has been overusing the word "Awesome" lately [10:32 PM] Wack'd: AJ Lewis of Ohio argues at length that the 4 is now an abstract team symbol and and they can keep She-Hulk without changing the name. "Have the NEW MUTANTS changed their name to THE REGULAR MUTANTS WITH SOME NEW ONES?", he asks [10:33 PM] maxwellelvis: “He a little confused, but he got the spirit.” [10:33 PM] Umbramatic: i don't trust him, he's from ohio [10:33 PM] Bocaj: AJ Lewis of Ohio is going to be sad when they become X-Force [10:34 PM] Wack'd: And finally we're told that not only is Roy Thomas back next issue, so is Thundra! We're going full tilt 70s nostalgia, a thing I never thought I'd say about Fantastic Four unless I got to write it [10:34 PM] Bocaj: I wasn't certain whether you were being sincere when you said ya boy Roy [10:35 PM] Wack'd: Roy Thomas not only is the only Fantastic Four writer to give a clear, cogent argument as to why Sue's treatment is bullshit and try to give her agency in fixing it, but he also oversaw some gloriously bonkers bullshit [10:35 PM] Wack'd: By far my favorite Fantastic Four writer up to this point [10:36 PM] Umbramatic: ooooooh [10:36 PM] Bocaj: Gloriously bonkers bullshit is a strong selling point. [10:36 PM] Bocaj: As is the Sue thing

#1987 #Roger Stern #(plot) #Tom DeFalco #(script) #John Buscema (pencils) #The Main Book

[champion-of-thedas]

Wot Reread New Spring Chapter 6: Surprises

·Is Tsesuko (sp?) one of the Kin? I feel like she was one of the Kin. I feel like she was one of the healing focused ones. During the descriptions of her we get the way the Tower operates with channeling and also hints of the Kin if you are in the know.

·Sheriam is a heavy sleeper. This is so funny to me.

·Poor Moiraine. Getting forced inside and away from her goal. Also Merian needs to learn not to take out her bad day on other people. Excuse her.

·Okay so I’m glad the story had Siuan explicitly tell Moiraine that she didn’t need to feel bad about the fact that her uncles were dead. Also love the fact that Moiraine had told Siuan about her uncles and personal life more than anyone else.

·Siuan’s plan backfired and now they both are stuck inside, but at least it’s doing something that does further their goal. Only problem is that the person who currently has the baby is unlikely to tell anyone. “Hello, I took this baby from a dead Aiel woman on Dragonmount. Can I get some money?”

·Laras! My queen!

·I wonder if the amount of people giving birth had something to do with the Pattern trying to hide where Rand was born, especially given the fact that it basically led the Black Ajah to occupy their time with the names on the lists.

·The way that comment was said makes me wonder if Martin is important in the series. I don’t remember if this was an important or present character in the main series of if the name was just added for flavor.

·There’s a lot here about them finding more names and being shocked at the amount as well as people being vague. Tamra tells Moiraine she can use the power and Moiraine advises Siuan on how to play the great game.

·Ah! Now we start getting Sisters bothering Moiraine about her becoming Queen. Moiraine seems like she knows it at least, much as she told Siuan otherwise. I also find it interesting that this was the first lie she had told Siuan.

·Ah yes! Moiraine’s running away from the throne of Cairhien. I mean, I don’t blame her. I would also like to not rule Cairhien, their political structure is a mess and a half.

There was a lot of plot moving forward in this chapter, but nothing I really felt like commenting on at present. We get the beginning of the Moiraine avoiding becoming Queen plot and more of her and Siuan’s relationship and the depth that it goes to. I really wish that RJ hadn’t made them romance other people and hope it doesn’t happen in the show. It just doesn’t feel right, and also it feels out of character for the people they end up romancing as well. At the very least, I would like Gareth Bryne more if everything about his romance with Siuan was gone. Thom’s romance with Moiraine feels so out of character and some of that is because by the time they get together, he’s a non-character. It’s just so weird. I don’t mind them being bisexual queens, but let’s keep them together shall we? There’s just so much more potential that way.

#Wheel of Time #wheel of time spoilers #Wheel of Time reread #wheel of time book spoilers #wot spoilers #wot book spoilers #wheel of time: new spring #new spring #champion rereads new spring #champion rereads wot

[evermorehqs]

CATCHING MY BREATH, STARING OUT AN OPEN WINDOW

Ralph Rackett is based on Ralph from Wreck It Ralph. He is a 28 year old imaginary friend, demolition laborer, and uses he/him pronouns. He has the power of super strength. Ralph is portrayed by John Boyega and he is open.

CATCHING MY DEATH, AND I COULDN’T BE SURE

Ralph remembers when life was a never-ending monotonous cycle; waking every morning to go to work, go home, go to bed and repeat. What he doesn’t remember is that he was trapped in a video game. Back when he was nothing more than a collection of pixels inside of a little screen, his existence revolved around destroying buildings he didn’t care to destroy, being the villain he didn’t care to be. Filling a role that he was not only obligated to fill, but had no choice in. For decades he wished for an escape and finally, one day, it came. Instead of life ending when the machines were unplugged, instead of the world going dark when the arcade went out of business, he and his comrades were transported to Evermore, to a new world. The real world, thanks to the love and imagination of children all over the globe that wouldn’t let their memory die. Ralph doesn’t know that, though, for every time he tries to reminisce on the past it’s nothing but a blur. All he knows is that, after all this time, he isn’t quite sure who to be. He isn’t a bad guy, but he isn’t a good guy, either. He doesn’t know what his personality is outside of wrecking everything he sees. While he wants to be smart and reliable and important, the negative traits are such a deep part of him, he still has trouble not causing chaos by complete and utter clumsy accidents. And don’t forget the angry outbursts. Ralph would never hurt anyone, but he could not say the same for any inanimate objects that laid in his path. It only seemed fitting to work in demolition since his fists ended up going through walls on a regular basis. It wasn’t what he wanted, but he figured he might as well get paid for the messes he left behind. Though his purpose before wasn’t one that he had ever wanted, and he can’t recall quite what it was, he did have purpose. Sometimes, as unhappy as he was back then, he finds himself wondering if if it would’ve been easier to just keep going on as whoever he was before... as Wreck-It-Ralph.  

I HAD A FEELING SO PECULIAR

❀ Rina Snow: He can’t stand the Sugar Racers because they’re stuck up brats that are mean to Vanellope, but he doesn’t think sweet little Rina has ever said a bad thing about anyone. For that, she is the only one that gets a pass. ❀ Stitch Pelekai: Talk about chaos. Sure, it’s Ralph’s job description, but in the right situation, Stitch can make his destruction look like child’s play. There’s something special about that kid. There has to be. ❀ Rian Bryne: Rian is so uptight, and it really grinds his gears. So what if Ralph walked through his garden and crushed a few plants? Has the man never heard of an accident?

THAT THIS PAIN WOULD BE FOR EVERMORE

#disney rp #disney rpg #bio rp #john boyega #wreck it ralph #open male #male bio #open bio #has powers

[kim-poce]

Kingdom's Sword 8 - Council

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CW: war mention, injuries, painful healing.

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Commander Harriet left the cell but this time things were different. Sword didn't close his eyes, nor did he block the sounds and thought, he doesn't remember the last time he was allowed this much while still fed and being allowed to sleep.

He touched the remaining warmth on his cheek as it quickly froze with how cold that cell was, now that he was allowed to think he was sure that the dungeons were cold on purpose, maybe it was planned this way or maybe it was a surprise they took advantage of, in any case, no one has the intention to let the prisoners in there be comfortable.

When the warmth was gone Sword looked down at the gloves Harriet left behind, "It's too cold here, so I'll leave them in case you want to wear," and yes, he wanted, but not yet, he had other worries now.

He groaned as he moved from the kneeling position to a sitting one, it hurt so much, it had been over a week and he wasn't offered any medical care, which is to be expected; the resources are low and between helping their own soldier or –as commander called– an enemy, anyone would pick their own soldier.

Sword tore his own bloody shirt, it was going to make the cold worse but he had the blanket now and he suffered worse in the past. For the rest of the night he roughly treated his own wounds, it was painful at the best, but he didn't have many options.

After the wounds were –as much as possible– tended to, he tried to stand up, he didn't need to walk yet, but he needed the blood to circulate well, he needed to lessen the pain as he could, even if this means to put himself in more pain before it.

When his body was getting too tired and his mind was starting to escape into the empty world in his head, he stopped and cleaned his dirty hands on the blanket.

Just then he picked up the gloves, not putting them on, it could damage them, his hands were wider than Commander's after all so instead he held them close and curled into the blanket in the more warm in comfortable way he could before closing his eyes.

He thought about her, even now that he could think about anything, it was still her that came to mind, but it was okay, he never wanted to stop thinking about her, he just wanted not to be forced to, the thoughts are so much more meaningful now that between every single thing in the world he still picked her as his last thought before sleeping.

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"What did you just say?" Earl Bryne asked angrily, and Harriet couldn't shake that feeling for a noble who fought with his words for the most part of his life he was really bad at hiding his emotions.

Principally when compared to that guy, well, I guess anyone can be expressive when compared with him. "I don't see what in my sentence you can't comprehend, Earl Bryne."

"The part where you want to take that prisoner to your manor!" he said loudly.

"From your words, I see that you did comprehend my words, so I see no reason to keep talking about this," Harriet said firmly, in truth, tired. They would keep shouting and complaining, but she knew she would win in the end, that whole conversation wouldn't get dragged on as long if they just accepted it.

"I heard what the soldier said," Baron Casey said as if this would flip the tables, "That guy obeys you as if brainwashed, right? Are you so used to the war that you want to own such a weapon?"

Harriet smirked at that, "Can you even hear yourself? Do you really believe such a rumor? Do you really think that the Kingdom's Sword would simply obey the person who captured him? And what? Brainwashed? Baron... Did the war, which you didn't fight, affected you this much?"

Before Baron Casey could answer anything, Marquess Meyer spoke up, "Commander Harriet, you can't stand in front of us and say that that person disobeyed you at least once, we wouldn't fall for that, too many witnesses against your pitty lies."

"Marquess, I can assure you that if you were captured by an enemy and taken to a place where every single living person loathes you, you too would obey any order received."

The nobles didn't notice the smirk on the queen's lips as she watched Harriet use her words, she only put fuel on the talk with questions without the need to tell a single lie, the council was much less tiring with her having it by herself.

Commander will have the last word. The monarch doesn't have a doubt about it; because the sword is too dangerous to stay in the hands of the other nobles, and because Harriet is too important to be thrown away in exchange for one single soldier.

But there will be hours until the last words, enough to tire the council enough to keep them down for a couple of days, until then all that queen will do is to watch the fated talk, it always amusing to watch the noble trying to control the woman that even her –the rightful queen of the kingdom– struggle with.

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#whump #war mention #injuries #painful healing #Kingdom's Sword #my writing

[amemoryofwot]

Top 10 is fun but I feel like I’m seeing the same twenty or so names rearranged. Who are some of your favourite minor characters or ones you find interesting? Everyone’s definition of this will be different but I’m talking like tertiary/quaternary/non-POV characters. No limits or ranks just as you think of them.

Some of mine:

Be’lal (as you all know by now lmao),

Setalle Anan (my girl),

Leane (literal queen),

Berelain/Alliandre/Gallene/Arganda aka the only good part of the rescuing Faile arc,

I know it’s a bad relationship I know but I have a soft spot for Tallanvor/Morgase,

Daigian (what does it mean to be bottom of an arbitrary hierarchy and still work your way through it? We don’t talk about her enough imo!!),

Sulin (omg I just, when she finds out about Rand 🥺🥺🥺 he’s actually such an ass to her and all she does is love him I can’t)

Seonid (we stan a canon lesbian)

Mentioned before but Teslyn, the second best Red behind Pevara and peak WoT comedy

Sheriam (I was actually so heartbroken over her 🥺)

Bashere (basically the Gomez Adams of the series, Gareth Bryne wishes he could)

Nalesean (pour one out for a real one)

#i could probably go on forever really #but it’s coming down to three categories #queens #flamboyant generals #and bench filler Aes Sedai #wheel of time spoilers #wheel of time book spoilers

[unbiasedlactoseinn]

Fires of heaven sure is starting off strong. Chapter 1 is quite a trip

> Min’s name appears after your standard “neither a beginning nor end but it was a beginning” etc

THAT MEANS SIUAN YAY

> … “Lord Gareth” …

Oh no. Loathe and dread.

> The “by the light and hope of my salvation and rebirth” oath aka Moiraine and Siuan’s marriage vows

That was taken word for word from Siuan’s oath to Gareth Byrne??? Life is joy.

> And then in the same paragraph: using the oath rod was the only stronger form of oath

Which was what happened with the M/S marriage vows??? Clutching heart

> And Siuan has no intention of honoring her oath to Bryne (at least any time soon) lulz but we all know Moiraine meant every word she said to Siuan

My god if Moiraine/Siuan weren’t endgame Rafe is a deranged sadist (and a very bad storyteller) for setting all of this up in ep6

#wheel of time #wot book spoilers #the moiraine/siuan brain rot continues

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

Bryne has arrived on WCA, which means we are beginning Vision Quest... and things are about to get pretty bad for Wanda and Vision...

#Marvel #West Coast Avengers #Wanda Maximoff ~ Scarlet Witch #Greer Nelson ~ Tigra #Clint Barton ~ Hawkeye #Simon Williams ~ Wonder Man #Vision Quest

[lonelier-version-of-you]

Jac Naylor!

- Why I like them: She's just an excellent character. Really complex and fascinating. Plus she's beautifully acted by Rosie Marcel, and I also just love seeing a female character who isn't good at emotional stuff or social stuff, because you don't see that often.

- Why I don't: She can be quite cruel and manipulative sometimes.

- Favourite episode: I haven't seen as much of her earlier stuff as I'd like, so I'll go for S21E36 "The Perfect Storm" (the Darwin special). She was just excellent in that episode. She's also at her best in S09E48 "Trial and Retribution" (the speech she gives Joseph about him wanting to see her as a victim and feel sorry for her is incredible).

- Favourite season: Again, not seen as much of her earlier stuff as I'd like, so I don't feel like I can pick one here.

- Favourite line: The aforementioned S09E48 speech to Joseph:

Joseph: Doesn’t matter what you say, I wouldn’t wish sexual assault on my worst enemy.

Jac: No, Joseph. That is a downright lie. Alan Clooney trying to rape me… that makes you feel good!

Joseph: That’s an appalling thing to say!

Jac: ‘Cause it turns me into a victim, doesn’t it? And if I’m a victim, then you can feel sorry for me. And you like that! If you can put me in a pigeonhole, the world falls into place. You can feel strong again. Your bleeding-heart sympathy reinforces the great Bryne sense of moral righteousness. You feel powerful. Just like Alan Clooney wanted to feel powerful. Frankly, when you think of it like that… you and Alan? You’re pretty much the same.

- Favourite outfit: That grey pantsuit she wore a couple months back was great.

I also liked the long red dress she wore in S21E01, and her suit at Mr. T and Inga's wedding in S19E13 was iconic. There are probably more Jac outfits I love - they pick some great clothes for her, they really do - but I can't think of them right now.

- OTP: I liked her with Kian up until they ruined that. Now, IDK. But I am fond of Jac/Connie. Jac/Zosia is cool too.

- BroTP: Jac & Sacha, obviously. But I also adore her friendship with Henrik, for obvious reasons. I loved her mentorship of Nicky, too.

- Headcanon: Does it count that I have accepted Rosie Marcel's headcanons about Jac and Connie having slept together? Lol.

If that doesn't count, then: I headcanon her as genderqueer, but not necessarily in the nonbinary sense like I headcanon Henrik or Ollie as, moreso in the umbrella-term "complicated relationship with gender" sense. I'd call her a genderqueer cis woman.

I have a number of headcanons relating to her friendship with Henrik, unsurprisingly. Particularly, I'm convinced she knows he's autistic but has never brought it up because she just assumes he doesn't want to tell people. (Little does she know he has not, in fact, figured it out yet and could actually really do with her bringing it up. 😂)

- Unpopular opinion: Okay, she's not Parent Of The Year because none of the Holby characters are, but why do both the show and the fandom seem to have this idea that she's the worst parent at the hospital or something? Fletch is much worse, and then there's Henrik and I mean... we all know how THAT turned out. Why don't either of them get hate for being neglectful parents? (Rhetorical question. I know it's misogyny.) (I was also going to say "get hate for, or be punished by the show for" but to be fair Henrik very much was punished by the show for it. Fletch, though... we're supposed to think Fletch is the best dad ever and he's never really held accountable for his mistakes and I can't stand it.)

Similarly, people generally give Jac way too much hate for things other characters are allowed to get away with. Even when something Jac does or says is completely out of character and obviously the product of bad writing, people still use it as an excuse to hate her, and it's unfair. Obviously it's fine for people to dislike her, but she seems to be held to much higher standards than other characters are.

- A wish: For her to get her happy ending. Preferably, for her to get a happy ending now, move to Casualty in a few years (having retrained like Connie), stay on Casualty for a while, then get another happy ending.

Also, I want her to be explicitly confirmed as bi. And if she moves to Casualty I want her to have a proper romance with a woman.

- An oh-god-please-don't-ever-happen: They had BETTER not kill her off.

- 5 words to best describe them: I'm not very good at these things. Can I say "really badass bisexual heart surgeon"? That's a 5-word descriptor, surely it counts... 😂

- My nickname for them: Don't have one, lol.

#asks #anons #long post #gonna tag #tw;rape mention #tw;sexual assault #for the s9e48 quote

[wags-confessions]

Guys the Isabel tiktoks that I have saved are not incriminating in fact they are videos of her singing very well with good English which just goes to show that despite being a wag she's an interesting person with talents for example she was a footballer and did gymnastics also knows how to play instruments. I assume everything bad about her is a lie spread by the twitter user @lunaskarsgard who said it was Emma Brunes (haaland's cousin) and played with Isabel and knew she was mean and a gold digger then this troll confessed to be a fucking man and eve got her age wrong so THERE'S NO PROOF only haters and pathetic girls who wish they were being f--- by a football star. Also @haalandinhoo9 account on TikTok just keeps pushing hate towards Isabel spreading those lies. Plus Isabel's mom never had twitter only IG and Facebook. Everyone says "people I'm bryne talk shit about her" but I NEVER SEEN A SINGLE PERSON DO THAT (sorry if that was too long)

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[betaxbe-were]

DYLAN FRYE CHARACTER PROFILE

“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”

Character’s full name: Dylan Frye Reason for name and/or meaning of name: His parents had a list of other, more whacky names chosen out for him, but decided to name him Dylan on a whim when he was born Character’s nickname: Dyl, he’s trying to get his friends to call him ‘fleas’ endearingly because it makes him laugh Birth date: May 3rd

Physical appearance Faceclaim: Jordan Fisher Gender: Cis-male Height: 5′11 Build: Lean, but strong Eye color: Dark brown Glasses or contacts?: He’s supposed to wear reading glasses for his schoolwork, but he doesn’t wear them as often as he should Distinguishing marks/scars: Dylan has a scar above his left knee from falling as a kid that is vaguely in the shape of a pizza, which he thinks is really on brand for him Hair color: Black Type of hair: Curly Hairstyle: He usually has the sides and back shaved with the top longer Clothing style:  Dylan can most often be found wearing t-shirts, jeans, and whatever comfortable shoe is closest to him.  He tends to run pretty warm, so he usually forgets to grab a sweater or a jacket.  He either wears neutral and muted colours, like dark greens and blues, or bright whacky patterns, there really is no in between Facial Hair: He usually has a little bit of scruff on his chin Make up:  He loves to paint his nails

Personality Good personality traits: Observant, Eccentric, Loyal, Easy-Going Bad personality traits: Indecisive, Hot-Tempered (mostly around the full moon), Surly, Withdrawn Mood character is most often in: Dylan is typically pretty easy going, and when he feels comfortable enough around someone, he tends to be quite witty, liking to laugh at himself and the world around him Sense of humor: He has a very easy sense of humour, and would rather laugh at things than let himself get upset by them Articulation: Dylan usually talks slowly, taking the time to find his words.  However, when he gets particularly excited, he will rush to get his words out in an absolute jumble, almost difficult to understand.  He also is a big hand talker Character’s greatest joy in life: He loves being around his friends, but he also loves being in class, expanding his mind Character’s greatest fear: Hurting someone when he’s in wolf form during the full moon Character is most at ease when: He’s by himself resetting in the forest Most ill at ease when: He’s around people that he doesn’t feel comfortable around or doesn’t understand Enraged when: The full moon is close Depressed or sad when: The full moon is close.  There’s also a tiny little voice in the back of his head that wonders why his parents would have a child if they knew they were going to pass on the werewolf gene, but he loves his parents fiercely and doesn’t want to delve too deeply into that kind of thinking Priorities: Dylan would do anything for his friends, but he also would do anything for his family and his pack Life philosophy: Life’s too short to sweat the small things Greatest strength: His confidence in himself Greatest vulnerability or weakness: His blind desire to follow his friends and family, sometimes forgetting that they’re only human (well, half human in his parents case)

Goals Drives and motivations: Dylan is really driven by his own curiosity, as it makes him seek the answers to the millions of questions he has about the world around him.  He’s also really driven by his friendships and his loyalty to his friends Immediate goals: He wants to graduate with a B.Sc. with a reasonable average Long term goals: Dylan would love to do research into the werewolf gene and find out more about the science behind his werewolf body

Childhood Hometown: Bridgemead, Massachusetts Type of childhood: Dylan had a pretty happy childhood, his parents had an open door policy and always took the time to answer his hundreds of daily questions.  When they told him about his werewolf gene, it only strengthened their bond more, and once he turned, they started to feel like an invincible family unit Pets: None, but Dylan is begging his parents to get a cat Most important childhood memory: When his parents sat him down, talked him through puberty and told him about his werewolf gene Dream job: A physiologist Religion: Nothing specific, but he does believe in a higher power

Present Current location: Bridgemead, Massachusetts Currently living with: His parents Sexuality: Pansexual Politics: Democrat Occupation/education: A physiology student at Bridgemead college Mode of transportation: Dylan walks a lot, and enjoys doing so, but he does borrow his parents car from time to time, and his parents will usually drop him off at classes, or he’ll take the bus

Family Parent one: Ava Frye Relationship with them: Very close, she is a strong female influence in his life and a big part of the reason that he identifies as a Feminist Parent two: Watson Frye Relationship with them: Very close but not quite as close as he his to his Mom Other important family members: He considers everyone in Bridgemead’s pack part of his family and they all had an impact on him in one way or another

Favorites Color: Bright sunshine yellow Music: Red Hot Chili Peppers Food: Burgers and fries Film: E.T Drink: A virgin Pina Colada Form of entertainment: Playing Sudoku or Crossword puzzles Most prized possession: A piece of volcanic rock from a family trip to Alaska

Habits Hobbies: He likes to read, go for runs, swim, and dance really uncoordinatedly.  He also likes to take a lot of time to think about really unimportant but bizarre questions like “is cereal soup?” Plays a musical instrument? The kazoo Plays a sport? Dylan always wanted to play football, and will sometimes play around by himself in his yard How he would spend a rainy day: Probably still in the forest outside Spending habits: He will always spend his pocket money on snacks Smoking/drinking/drugs?: His parents always offered him sips of alcohol when he was growing up so it took the mystery out of it, and he really doesn’t like the taste.  He hasn’t ever smoked or done drugs, and doesn’t really plan on it, but he isn’t against other people doing it Nervous tics: Dylan usually has a hard time standing still, and taps his fingers or pen on the table or desk when he’s thinking really hard Usual body posture: He usually has pretty decent posture

Traits Optimist or pessimist?  Optimist Introvert or extrovert? Introvert Daredevil or cautious? Cautious Logical or emotional? Logical Leader or follower? Follower Disorderly and messy or methodical and neat? A little bit of both Prefers working or relaxing? Working Confident or unsure of himself/herself? Confident Animal lover? Of course

Self-perception How do they feels about themselves?: Dylan is pretty confident in himself, he marches to the beat of his own drum and he doesn’t really mind being called an oddball One word the character would use to describe themselves: Pretty damn rad What does the character consider their best trait?: Being positive What does the character consider their worst trait?: Being hot-tempered What does the character consider their best physical characteristic?: Probably his hair or his smile What does the character consider their worst physical characteristic?: Probably nothing How does the character think others perceive them?: Dylan imagines that others think he is a little bit odd, and he thinks that they’re probably right What would the character most like to change about himself/herself: There’s definitely a small part in the back of his mind that thinks about what having kids with his werewolf gene could mean, but he has never wanted to not be a werewolf.  He would definitely change the mood swings that come with it though, if he could

Relationships with others Opinion of other people in general: Dylan tends to see the best in people, even if he doesn’t relate or connect to them Opinion of the Scooby Gang: He loves his friends so dang much Does the character hide their true opinions and emotions from others? He tends to be pretty honest about what he’s thinking or feeling Most important person in character’s life: Probably his Mom, they have a really special bond Best friend/s: Dylan considers the entire Scooby Gang to be his best friends, but out of the gang he’s closest to AJ Darke, Arabella Bryne, and Kody Pierce Dating experience: He really doesn’t have much experience in the romance department, especially being a bit of a loner before meeting the gang Romancing: If Dylan likes someone, he gets really nervous and fumbling in front of them, always trying to play it cool, but usually having the façade backfire on him

Extra Physicality: He’s pretty fit, and the whole werewolf thing gives him a bit of a lift in the strength department Species: Werewolf How do they feel about it?: He’s definitely normalized the whole werewolf experience, because his parents are both werewolves.  Though he hasn’t been making the monthly change for that long, he’s known about it for so long that he forgets that it isn’t exactly normal.  Dylan is pretty much at peace with being a werewolf, but he always dreads the full moon and the pain and memory loss that comes with it How do they look in their supernatural form?: He is larger than a regular wolf, but considered average size compared to the other wolves in the pack, and his usually brown eyes glow a dark amber when he’s in his wolf form

#bridgemeadtask01 #the man; the wolf; the legend #//cheesy quote is cheesy its fine

[f4liveblogarchives]

Fantastic Four Vol 1 #286

Tue Jan 05 2021 [08:04 PM] Wack'd: 'S an X-Men crossover, proclaims the cover [08:04 PM] Wack'd: Joy [08:05 PM] Bocaj: The Essex-Men [08:05 PM] Wack'd: We open in media res with the Four coming home from some massive space exploration [08:05 PM] Bocaj: They just do that offscreen sometimes [08:06 PM] Bocaj: And other times they make huge productions out of space exploration [08:06 PM] Wack'd: I assumed it was because of Secret Wars II nonsense but nah it's just so Bryne can do some metajokes

[08:06 PM] Wack'd: Also: ass shot [08:06 PM] Umbramatic: oh geez [08:07 PM] Wack'd: My theory is if cosmic doesn't sell it's because most people are bad at writing cosmic [08:08 PM] Wack'd: Lotta portent and politics and tossing around Big Important Proper Nouns [08:09 PM] Bocaj: I'll subscribe to that theory [08:09 PM] maxwellelvis: Something something Prequel Trilogy [08:09 PM] Wack'd: Anyway they gotta land at an airport because the Avengers don't have a large enough airfield. Sure [08:09 PM] Umbramatic: weird [08:09 PM] Bocaj: Although the Avengers don't have an airfield I dont think. They just tend to launch from the mansion [08:10 PM] Wack'd: Yeah I mean same with the Baxter, so [08:10 PM] Wack'd: I dunno if this is needlessly petty but I honestly can't help but focus on this bumper sticker

[08:10 PM] Wack'd: If it's a deliberate political statement it sure does add up [08:12 PM] Wack'd: Anyway the Avengers have a glowing redheaded woman in a tube [08:12 PM] Wack'd: I assume it's [insert whoever had the Phoenix at the time here] [08:14 PM] Bocaj: Glowing redhead? My guess is for Mary Jane [08:14 PM] Bocaj: She's overdue [08:14 PM] Wack'd: None of the assembled Avengers or the Four know who she is so Johnny decides to scram while Reed goes into research mode [08:14 PM] maxwellelvis: I don't think it's Rachel, I think by now she's over in London with Excalibur. [08:15 PM] Wack'd: Reasons why Jen has a crush on Hercules: he's the actual mythological Hercules, he's got eyes like Tom Selleck. [EDITOR’S NOTE: Passed unacknowledged at the time, somehow, is that the fact that he’s 5000 years old is also part of it. Because of course.] [08:15 PM] maxwellelvis: Those are good enough reasons. [08:15 PM] Bocaj: In Byrne's She-Hulk book Jen keeps having romance novel cover style daydreams about him [08:15 PM] Bocaj: Or will have. Time. [08:16 PM] Umbramatic: fucking time [08:16 PM] Wack'd: Jarvis is the real superhero

[08:17 PM] Bocaj: I've been saying that for years [08:17 PM] Umbramatic: jarvis is a good boi [08:17 PM] maxwellelvis: Now if Hercules had the MUSTACHE of Tom Selleck, I'd probably join Jen in that fantasizing. [08:17 PM] Umbramatic: my mother has a mug that says "saving myself for Tom Selleck" [08:18 PM] Wack'd: So whoever this is breaks out of their chamber and starts tossing Reed and the Avengers around like flies, ranting about whatever the fuck's going on in X-Men and accusing them all of being robot imposters [08:18 PM] maxwellelvis: In that case it might be Rachel. [08:18 PM] maxwellelvis: She's been through... a lot. [08:19 PM] Wack'd: Sue uses a force field to keep herself bolted to the floor, and then traps redheaded lady in one which seems to subdue her [08:19 PM] maxwellelvis: Does she have tattoos of triangles/spikes running along the sides of her face? [08:19 PM] Wack'd: No [08:19 PM] maxwellelvis: Then it might not be Rachel. [08:20 PM] Wack'd: Just a regular redheaded comics lady with no distinguishing features [08:20 PM] Wack'd: Oh it's Jean Grey still [08:20 PM] Wack'd: That's on me for hedging my bets I guess [08:20 PM] Umbramatic: hi jean [08:21 PM] maxwellelvis: Would you have counted "very short hair" as a distinguishing feature? [08:21 PM] Wack'd: I might if she didn't have armpit-length hair [08:21 PM] Bocaj: Darn Jean Grey always in pods [08:22 PM] maxwellelvis: Because Rachel tends to cut her hair very short. It's how you know she's the edgier alternative to her mom and later, to her present-timeline self. [08:22 PM] Bocaj: Punky Birdster [08:22 PM] maxwellelvis: That and the tattoos on her face, more firey aura, and spiky jumpsuit. [08:23 PM] maxwellelvis: In fact as Phoenix, Rachel tends to use the flames of the Phoenix to mask her face. [08:23 PM] maxwellelvis: Makes her look slightly Dormammu-ish. [08:23 PM] Umbramatic: oh huh [08:23 PM] Wack'd: Jean has lost memories of a buncha stuff and wants to go to Prof X to get help but Steve refuses because they're associating with Magneto and Steve's got a bug up his butt about it

[08:24 PM] Wack'd: Was Magneto being a maybe-good-guy still a huge deal in 1986? That feels wrong [08:24 PM] maxwellelvis: Yeah. [08:24 PM] maxwellelvis: It wasn't until like, the early 90's that he stopped being a good guy, but it always felt weird. [08:25 PM] maxwellelvis: When he showed up in New Mutants, the kids all QUIT and went to go be child soldiers for the Hellfire Club's Inner Circle instead. [08:25 PM] Bocaj: In secret wars it was still a big deal that he claimed to be mostly good [08:25 PM] Bocaj: And that wasn’t so long ago [08:25 PM] Wack'd: Fair [08:26 PM] Wack'd: Reed is skeptical of bringing Jean back to her house because she's been presumed dead and it'd freak out her folks which, y'know, good point [08:26 PM] Bocaj: Call ahead? [08:26 PM] Bocaj: Anyone? [08:26 PM] Bocaj: Haha just kidding x men never pick up a phone [08:26 PM] Wack'd: Oh I mean, like [08:26 PM] Wack'd: Her home-home [08:27 PM] Wack'd: Where her biological family lives [08:27 PM] Bocaj: Call ahead [08:27 PM] maxwellelvis: Mr. and Mrs. Gray only exist when it's convenient. [08:27 PM] Bocaj: Hah! [08:27 PM] Wack'd: Right yeah, seems like the good compromise position [08:27 PM] maxwellelvis: Same goes for all the X-Men's parents, come to think of it. [08:27 PM] Wack'd: But Sue is like "she's having a mental breakdown and needs familiar surroundings and a sense of security so, like, we cross that bridge when we get there I guess" [08:27 PM] Wack'd: Oh good! They do in fact call ahead [08:28 PM] Wack'd: But only get answering machine [08:28 PM] Bocaj: I’m as smart as a comic character [08:28 PM] maxwellelvis: Bummer [08:30 PM] Umbramatic: now i wonder what the X-Answering Machine is like [08:30 PM] maxwellelvis: They don't have one. [08:30 PM] maxwellelvis: Otherwise, Excalibur would never have happened. [08:30 PM] Bocaj: “You know what to do, bub” [08:31 PM] Bocaj: And then the answering machine recording doesn’t click on [08:31 PM] maxwellelvis: Or it's a "Please Leave A Message"-themed rewrite of the "Pryde of the X-Men" theme. [08:31 PM] Bocaj: Ha [08:32 PM] Wack'd: So uh [08:32 PM] Wack'd: Rest of the issue is expositing X-Men stuff [08:32 PM] Wack'd: Jean is a clone, or maybe she isn't, or maybe an energy being made a facsimile of her, or something [08:32 PM] maxwellelvis: "PLEASE LET ME BACK ON THE MAIN BOOK!" [08:33 PM] Wack'd: Yeah I cannot be bothered. So much Xnobabble [08:33 PM] maxwellelvis: "DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH I NEED TO BE ON THAT BOOK?! I GAVE ALPHA FLIGHT AN ONGOING FOR GOD'S SAKE!" [08:34 PM] Bocaj: Fun story: Claremont insisted on some changes to the Phoenix stuff to line up with his own ideas and shooter went sure. And this made Byrne big mad and he refused to make the changes so that’s why Claremont has a writing credit. And I’ve heard why Byrne quit FF [08:35 PM] Wack'd: “Basically, this story and the back-up in Classic X-Men explain that the Phoenix Force replaced Jean and Jean has spent the convening years in suspended animation healing at the bottom of Jamaica Bay.” [08:35 PM] Wack'd: Alright [08:36 PM] Umbramatic: that's some jucy drama bocaj [08:36 PM] Wack'd: “According to Byrne, the changes were written and drawn by Chris Claremont and Jackson Guice. Hence, the story reads somewhat disjointed in part, regarding the nature of the Phoenix Force.” [08:36 PM] Wack'd: You don't say [08:36 PM] Bocaj: Thaaaaats Byrne [08:36 PM] Bocaj: The drama part anyway [08:37 PM] Wack'd: Why the fuck did any of this have to happen in Fantastic Four that's what I wanna know [08:37 PM] Bocaj: Nothing, I think he just wanted to slide in his ideas about Phoenix despite being off book [08:37 PM] Wack'd: *siiiiiiiiiiigh* [08:38 PM] Bocaj: I say it should have happened in X factor since that’s the reason Jean is back and the reason why Scott is a bad husband [08:39 PM] Bocaj: It looks like it got built up in avengers and FF. Stay in your own stuff X

#1986 #John Bryne #(script and pencils) #Chis Claremont #(script) #Jackson Guice #(pencils) #The Main Book

[champion-of-thedas]

WoT Reread New Spring Chapter 5: The Human Heart

·I just love this peek into young Moiraine’s character. She is so shocked at the idea of a noble person shouting. Scandalizing.

·Siuan is so quick to take charge. It’s in sharp contrast to earlier when she had trouble with it. She’s more in her element calming down a riot than convincing someone to go a certain way. I would worry that it only works because she’s shouting at women (and what that would say that she couldn’t convince a man but women listened to her) BUT it is stated that entire camp went quiet with her voice. This also speaks to Siuan’s strengths. She needs to learn how to be subtly persuasive, but her sheer presence is affecting. In a ttrpg (Chronicles of Darkness) I play, there is a separate ability stat for Manipulation and for Charisma (both are under the social tree). I think Siuan at this moment in time is a perfect illustration of the difference between these two and what it means to be high Charisma and low Manipulation. Furthermore, it also contrasts with where Siuan was in the story while this was published. As of the Crossroads of Twilight, Siuan is the opposite in that she’s learned to lessen her presence even among non-Aes Sedai. This is mostly through doing Bryne’s laundry which I have thoughts on. She’s learned to up her Manipulation in the intervening years between New Spring and Crossroads of Twilight, and relies on it then.

·Babes. I hate the word babes, and it is thanks to this series.

·This noble lady has so much Karen energy.

·Moiraine does not think this adventure is that great. She would like to file a complaint with the Pattern.

·Moiraine believes in not making others suffer for her bad day. My history in customer service thanks her greatly.

·One thing I do think that the Amyrlin (and Moiraine) did not consider was that the child could have been born Aiel. There is a lot of assumption going around that the child will be on this side of the Dragonwall. I mean, Rand is. That does not change my opinion though.

·There is a really sweet moment here that makes me think of Rand, Moiraine, and how they are at the beginning of their journey vs later. Look, I will always find parallels between Rand and Moiraine, because I think there are a lot and that they are good foils in what is the same vs what is different about them. Anyway. Moiraine enters a woman’s name down in the books because she sympathizes with her plight, and she gives her money to take her child to a healer. She and her child are going to starve if they don’t receive help and they aren’t going to get it from the people around them. Now, I don’t think older Moiraine would not do the same in this relatively harmless situation, but she does place an emphasis when she gets older on helping who you actually can but focusing on the greater good. I’m thinking of the inn that got burned down in Eye of the World that Nyneave yelled at her for. There, Moiraine says that she will have the White Tower send money, but if she went back to help the inn she would be putting people that are more important at present in danger. She has shades of it here because she initially wasn’t going to put down the names, but Siuan made her take a closer look. It’s definitely a show of there being a small sense of idealism early on and believing you can save every person you meet and then a more pragmatic viewing of saving the world later on.

·Ah yes. Here comes Elaida. I don’t remember the name of the Aes Sedai with her which means she is either a background character or dead. It’s an ‘m’ name, so probably dead. We are also getting hints of the Aes Sedai hierarchy here, so it’s likely she’s more powerful than Elaida. I don’t think there was anyone more powerful than Elaida, Moiraine, and Siuan already in the Tower when the series started, so dead then.

·It’s sweet that Siuan wanted to stay until the last possible moment so that they could get as many names down as they could.

· Moiraine being a supportive girlfriend.

·Is Katarina one of the darkfriend reds in the series or is that a Katarine? I don’t remember.

·Okay so I remember Merian (I’m sure I didn’t spell that right. I listened/am listening to these books, okay?) the Keeper of Novices was a darkfriend. I think. I may be completely wrong about that, but I remember when I first listened to the book SOMEONE that seemed really nice and important was secretly a darkfriend, but this was only revealed super late into the book after they got to the Borderlands.

·I love that Moiraine hears her uncles are dead and just goes, “Sure. Probably deserved it.” Not in so many words, but that was definitely the vibe that she had going. Merian has no clue, and I don’t blame Moiraine for not sharing. I also didn’t remember that she got told this early. I thought that they had at least another day of taking names and that she got told around the same time they decided they wanted her to be Queen of Cairhien.

·Siuan being a supportive girlfriend.

· It is not wrong to not feel bad for the deaths of horrible family members. Do not punish yourself for it.

·This was such a sweet moment between the two of them, comforting each other between nightmares. We of course know who and what the Dragon Reborn is, but I can see how it would scare them and it’s nice to get the perspective of someone that is afraid of Rand, but pragmatic about it, and also does not know him.

I don’t really have any extra thoughts about this chapter. I made sure to pause the audiobook so that I could get everything out as it was coming to me. Maybe part of the reason that I paid better attention was the fact that I’m in less of a brain fog now or the fact that it is roughly in this chapter where I was planning to start the fic. We’ll see.

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