she/her I reblog many things related to shows I've watched in the past, collected under the 'fandom queue' tag. Found on livejournal, dreamwidth, pinboard, & AO3. Icon created by taibhrigh from livejournal.
voice in the back of my head: Rand/Mat; Rand/Mat/Elayne/Aviendha+. Splits off from canon in the middle of S1E6: The Flame of Tar Valon. Spoilers through book 12: The Gathering Storm. Show and book mix. In progress.
One-Shots:
pocketful of sunshine: Mat/Elayne. Show-based, set in s3.
a place in your house of memories: Rand/Mat. Post-s3. Show-based.
pull my pin (trip my wire): Rand/Mat; Rand/Mat/Elayne/Aviendha. Canon divergence during Lord of Chaos, with spoilers through A Memory of Light. Book-based.
after the fires die out: Rand/Mat; hints of Rand/Elayne/Mat potentially in the future. Set directly after the s2 finale; show-based.
AU Roulette ficlets: A little bit of Rand/Elayne; all AUs so no extensive spoilers for actual canon. Dystopia (ch1); Secret Agent (ch2); Museum/Archives (ch3).
wishing on the same bright star: Rand/Mat; Mat/Elayne; canon polycule. Post-canon fix-it fic that picks up directly from the epilogue.
(more fic and meta links under the 'read more')
bootleg gin: post s2 Mat/Elayne; with spoilers through The Shadow Rising and with some unverified spoilers for s3. Mommy kink. Show-based.
feels something like summertime: pre-series Rand/Mat, kissing practice.
the shadow of history: post-canon Rand-focused ficlet with spoilers through A Memory of Light. Book-based.
not in the stars, but in ourselves: Rand/Mat; Rand/Mat/Elayne/Aviendha. Splits off during The Path of Daggers, with spoilers through A Memory of Light. Book-based.
Randfear Trilogy: Rand/Selene; show canon with spoilers through 2x5.
past is prologue: Rand/Mat; Rand/Mat/Lanfear. Show canon with spoilers through 2x8; uses the Randfear trilogy as optional backstory.
give me your trust (said the love of your life): Rand/Mat/Elayne; book canon. Spoilers through AMoL (including the epilogue).
Seia Ascar: Rand/Mat; book canon. Spoilers through AMoL (including the epilogue)
stars fading (but I linger on): Rand/Mat. Splits off after S1E8 of the show. Show and book mix.
maybe this time (i’ll be lucky): Rand/Mat/Elayne/Aviendha. Splits off from chapter 42 of TFoH. Book-based. I am eventually planning to write a sequel for this, but it’s been on the backburner a while.
Skipping Stones: Rand/Mat. Pre-canon. Show-based.
share one more drink (with me): Egwene/Rand/Mat. Pre-canon. Show-based.
like roses and clover: Rand/Mat/Elayne. Splits off from Chapter 49 in The Dragon Reborn. Book-based.
negotiating with the truth: Rand/Mat. Splits off in between The Dragon Reborn and The Shadow Rising. Book-based.
lean on me: Rand/Mat/Elayne. This fic is based on one way that negotiating with the truth could have gone; written for polyship week 2023.
soul of fire, heart of stone: Rand/Mat/Talmanes. Set roughly in the early parts of LoC, but with an alternate Rand/Mat backstory. Book canon.
where the lightning splits the sea: Rand/Mat; fix-it fic for Winter’s Heart. Written for WoT 2022 Big Bang. Book canon.
trackless domain: Mat/Elayne; Rand/Mat/Elayne/Aviendha. AU for ACoS. Book canon.
Meta & Reread posts:
General meta posts sadly under two different tags
WoT!Prime speculation and specifically WoT s3 speculation (obviously wrong a lot but speculating is fun)
Series Reread in chronological order (COMPLETED)
reverse order
Initial Show Reactions/Meta
reverse order
Initial thoughts on the Dark Along the Ways (post refuses to be retagged for some reason)
Show Rewatch
reverse order
Worldbuilding notes (all of these have spoilers from the books):
Leavetaking ~ Shadow’s Waiting ~ A Place of Safety ~ The Dragon Reborn
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This episode really has the purest example of "this is how Julien behaves when he actually doesn't care about someone", when he runs into Teor, notices that the guy is probably on the way to a death trap, and essentially just shrugs and goes on with his day. And even in 4x30, when he knows Teor a bit better, he's still able to kinda go "that doesn't look like my problem" and move on with the rest of the mission.
Or in 4x31, when Occtis is telling him to take Mara and leave, so that Occtis can go in after Thimble alone, and Julien is basically like ???? why should I care about Mara ????
When Julien doesn't care about someone, it is real obvious.
So... I feel like I have to mention the elephant in the room: the extremely unlucky bar fight trio have been reunited. Thimble, Occtis, and Kattigan had the first combat of the campaign and their entire beginning rounds were just... so incredibly unlucky. Hopefully that won't happen again in the upcoming Seekers arc!
Kattigan and Murray have a mutual flirt-off in this episode, which kinda happened again in the Convergence (or, wait, did they flirt or did we only get the bit where Murray was horny and missed him?), and he also smacked Occtis's ass, which Occtis says is "weird", and he tells Azune that it sounds like "his balls finally dropped". Just to collect all that together.
We see a lot of classism from Julien in these early episodes. The difference between the way he treats people on or above his own level of nobility vs how he treats 'commoners'. He's not as bad as Primus, but he's definitely somewhere on that scale. Which I like as a character flaw, but it does make it very interesting that Wick kinda engages with his classism basically right away, because he's thrown into a party of non-nobles, while Julien travels with two nobles of Sundered Houses, a member of the esteemed Lloy Family, and an ancient elf (which seems to come with its own level of respectability), so he doesn't really need to challenge his classism at all in the first arc. In the new Seekers group that he's in, he now has to face the challenging elements that Wick faced in his first arc (Kattigan & Thimble).
Julien also faces a lot of his doubt from his father here but gets his job (find Occtis) done with a lot of efficiency. Much as he does in the Convergence Arc when it comes to his sister's soul gem. Julien gets things done! Julien remembers Occtis from five years ago, places him as the same boy who was hanging out with Thaisha at the funeral, notices that the guy hanging out with Thimble has a voice that doesn't match his face, and then pretty easily talks Occtis into returning with him.
Some quotes that really stuck out to me:
Thimble to Julien:
"[Thjazi] didn't deserve it, you know. All the shit you gave him."
"Keeping running, like you always do."
"You may have everyone else fooled."
"I know you aren't my better. I see you. Sir Julien."
And to Occtis re: Julien
"He's nothing but a liar. He lies about everything."
All of them makes me extremely curious about what exactly what down between Julien and Thjazi twelve years ago. What lie did Julien tell? Azune is also going to allude to this in the next episode I think -- he says that he'll tell the story that Julien wants him to tell, if Julien gives the people here a chance. It's kinda implied here that this might be the first time that Thimble has seen Julien since he captured Thjazi twelve years ago. Brennan says it's been many years since Thimble's seen him.
"Is it possible that dead things can still love us?" Continues to go so hard. I love that line so much.
Julien's "So you got out" to Occtis about him leaving his family behind remains a very intriguing line as well. Occtis seems pretty overwhelmed talking with Julien ("he's scary") but still manages to lie to him about not being part of the plan to rescue Thjazi.
While Thimble doesn't like Julien, she also doesn't seem to think Occtis is in any danger from him. She's worried that Julien might be mean to Occtis ("Don't take any shit from Julien.") but she doesn't seem at all worried that Julien might hurt Occtis. Which is an interesting contrast to Thaisha, who does seem to feel that Julien presents a potential physical danger (when she hears that Occtis left with Julien, she instantly goes wolf shape to go hunt them down; and when she and Julien talked about Alogar in the first episode, she also assumes that Julien might hurt him).
Aranessa was aware that Thjazi was collecting relics, it seems, from what she says to Occtis in their conversation. Did she know what he was planning on doing with them?
for the love of god, write all the self-indulgent scenes you want. be utterly shameless about including every last fantasy. i know everyone likes to share quotes and quips about how miserably hard writing is, but please please try thinking of it as a joyful act where you get to be a messy human who makes art rather than some pain filled quest for icy perfection.
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I like that you can tell every flamingo is just strolling along calmly but the further the parade goes the more it seems like an insane churn of hundreds of manic legs.
