Tag: randland

I’m working my way through the wheel of time right now and I saw you liked nynaeve and I also like her. She’s my favorite character so far. is there a lot of wot fandom on tumblr or is it all on older forums?

*Face lights up like a X-mas Tree as I smile* Hello, anon, and welcome to Randland! Which book are you on?

To be honest, I don’t know what sites or fandoms are still active, but I can tell you that in the late 90s and early 2000s WoT was the fantasy series on the internet, and there was big forum sites debating the various fan theories and characters and dissecting the smallest cameos and use of chapter icons. ASOIAF wishes it was WoT fandom 😉 I only lurked, but the big one was Wotmania, now defunct. You can read about it here, plus more blog posts: The Thirteen Depository.

Also, there’s this old sprite web comic that I read every day in came out (the memories omg). It was stupid but fun. Spoilers for late end-game books and characters.  WoT Now?

As far as WoT fans on tumblr, they are out here! Some of the ASoIaF people are WoT veterans and it shows, and there are great fan-artists. Currently @queen-serena has neat art with nynaeve and others, if you haven’t found them yet. But as far as general fan interactions go, I play in a small section of the Silmarillion fandom and follow and reblog a lot of DC, so I’m not someone with the networking to hook you up. 😉 If you just want another person to talk WoT (accepting that it’s been a few years now since I read the last book – though trust me that I re-read all of Nynaeve’s chapters of the first eight or nine books multiple times in high school and college) and share impressions and feelings, my inbox is open and welcoming.

But seriously. I need to know if you have read past the fourth book. Fifth book can be the turning point for things like ‘do I like to read from the pov of the main character of this series?’

Once more when it pertains to A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones, the fans who speculate over the prophecies of Azor Azai and the Prince Who Was Promised and which characters they refer to and how prophecies shaped character motivations – I wonder if those fans are veterans of reading Wheel of Time like me. Because that series was centered around prophecies, about conflicting prophecies of the Dragon Reborn and Coramoor, the Seanchan and Aiel and Min’s power, even the prophecies from the villains, of characters trying and failing or succeeding in fulfilling prophecies to save the world, the central characterization conflict arc of the main character tied into prophecies, same with even minor characters and the general world-building. And thus ASoIaF in comparison – the word lacking doesn’t even begin to cover it. I wonder if fans trained to closely analyze and give narrative attention and weight to prophecies in WoT are just trying to transfer that over to ASoIaF.

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It’s time for FORESHADOWING and GIFS. As soon as I knew this chapter was coming up I wanted to draw all the boys. I’m sure Min doesn’t have her viewings as pictograms but I like to imagine what if. I remember loving this sequence when I first read it, getting goosebumps at all these future hints, but in retrospect I wish some scenes weren’t foreshadowed. When you build up something for so long it can make it feel perfunctory when it actually happens.

There’s so much journey and heartache ahead for all these characters. I was flipping through A Memory of Light the other day and for all my waxing and waning interest in the series it was still emotional to see it all come to an end.

It literally just occurred to me I don’t have to stick to the Silm for this meme, right??? so. Moiraine Damodred

general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life
hotness level: get away from me | meh | neutral | theoretically hot but not my type | pretty hot | gorgeous! | 10/10 would bang
hogwarts house: gryffindor? | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuff …ask @anghraine. Whatever the Blue Ajah is
best quality: Gandalf/Obi-wan/Dumbledore is a middle-aged woman that should not be as revolutionary as it is, She’s gonna save the world with her crafty plans and admits when she needs to change tactics, she does care about her Chosen One, she’s snarky without being mean, has flaws
worst quality: Dumbledore-like close-lipped controlling behavior backfires
ship them with: Thom, Siuan
brotp them with: Lan, Siuan, Egwene, Verin, those Grey twins, Matt and Perrin and the various Aiel
needs to stay away from: Lanfear, the Snakes and Foxes
misc. thoughts: It’s been too long, i can’t remember most everyone’s names or plot things that happened especially in the last two books

Wheel of Time cultures like

moghedien:

  • cowboy empire with dragons, slavery, a bug army, and slavery
  • ginger russians in the desert with spears. no really it makes sense
  • hipster vegans wanderers searching the world for the perfect song to jam to. probably high.
  • fish people that hate magic and have a giant rock no one can break into. they love fish so much
  • short people. rivals of the fish people
  • they like big boats and they cannot lie
  • matriarchy at its finest
  • small community of farmers living in the country and evading taxes
  • like ents, except not trees and their eyebrows never stop growing
  • from the north. everyone of them can kick your ass don’t even try it
lorienann replied to your post:rencat replied to your post : Still Bitter over…

I stopped reading the series after winters heart I waited years for some plot development to happen by the time it did I just didn’t care.

Completely understandable 🙂 

When I first read the series, my mom had up through Path of Daggers in paperback (and I thought it was a completed series), so I plowed through them in about ten days (reading through the night, on the bus, during lunch, etc…) Winter’s Heart was the first I had to wait for, so there was the excitement there of buying the hardback. And…I was always most invested in Perrin and Mat and especially the girls. That Rand finally did something interesting besides sitting crazy around Cairhean was a relief (only reading his chapters for Nynaeve). And it had all the Matt meeting Tuon. So I don’t think it was until Crossroads of Twilight that I got really frustrated with the stall on rescuing Faile, and at least that book had the plot moving with Matt and Tuon. But yeah, the nadir of the series (though Rand’s chapter especially post Dumai’s Well were the parts I barely read through). Knife of Dreams I got the sense the author was realizing it was time to stop some of the plot stalling and start picking things back up to march towards endgame. The last three, of course, a mixed bag of some really great moments, some writing fumbles, last battle wrap everything up with a lot called in advance but also a few neat surprises.

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Still Bitter over Egwene al’Vere and Gawyn Trakand…

I got so upset about them last week. Just washing the dishes….then RAGE!

Sometimes I think about AMOL and just … ugh~~~

Those Min chapters in the beginning of the fifth book where she’s on the run with Leanne and Suian and Loghain were the only time I liked Min, with Gareth’s Javert-esque hunt after them, and I was chuckling with excitement during his POV chapters how he kept thinking of Suian without realizing who she was – and their adorably ‘can’t admit it to ourselves let alone each other’ will-they-won’t-they romantic tension… They were my 2nd tier OTP and that they didn’t get to have semi-retired (ha neither would have settled down to that farm) politicking and ruling life post-Final Battle… *grrr*

(IT WAS AN EITHER/OR! YOU COULD HAVE PICKED THE OTHER COIN FLIP!)

Ugh, I think that’s why I loved the 4th and 5th books so much, that White Tower coup and Salidar plot-line that was so different (that the Deposed Wise Magical Organization Authority survived the predictable removal to open up more drama and had a story after that event is novel and neat). Plus that’s around the point Rand’s chapters started their long slide into ‘cannot stand’. (Ugh, by book six I was already only reading his plot-line by sheer willpower. Which is bad because he was the most central character and in the first two books he was as enjoyable as the other leads. Book Three was one of the best for him ;3 , just for how behind the scenes and between the lines.)

I was very actively stalking online all the theories and Arthurian/mythology/etc.. symbolism and decoding the prophecies, so the whole Rand/Moridin ‘twist’ ending was something that had been called in advance. It wasn’t shocking. And Rand barely redeemed himself for me in the last two books anyway (barely) so I was waiting and hoping for his final sacrifice so he’d finally be gone.

(WoT is also why I forget and then get very annoyed with prophecies in ASoIaF, because I have my giant fantasy series where the crux of plotting involves various characters molding their actions off of prophecies (and are the prophecies of the same persona and are some accurate or dueling or what) and trying to understand their meaning and misreading them or conflicting because of them and magical artifacts. It’s central to WoT. Straight-up prophecies in ASoIaF feel invasive. It’s this weird feeling of mine.)

And Egwene we speak not of. Or Gawyn (poor baby. ugh when he picked up the blood-raven-shadow rings thingies, I knew in the pit of my stomach and still was in denial ‘til several chapters after it happened)