Ok still on my “ Robert Jordan made all the female WOT characters wlw by accident” train, the white tower ritual to check there aren’t men in the room is everyone showing eachother their tits (and we’re ignoring Jordan’s weird bioessentialist shit)
The book CLEARLY states you can make illusion tits, which makes the whole process redundant, BUT they do it anyway
Which either implies no one has noticed the fact this ritual is literally useless, or that they all just want to see eachother’s tits before a meeting
While I do think the Aes Sedai have Intricate Rituals I think this practice is more an illusion to the “Pope Joan” and having to prove the Pope was male myth
characters with both the abject terror and murderous desperation of an animal that knows it is cornered and destined to be eaten. you just can’t get that kind of angst out a successful hunter. but alternatively i posit: predator animal fear. which is a totally different thing
Kamala’s first encounter with Lockjaw is still one of the simultaneously hilarious, adorable, and poignant scenes in the entirety of Ms. Marvel history!
Thank you so much G. Willow Wilson & Sana Amanat for giving us this absolute treasure!
From Ms. Marvel (2014) #8 by G. Willow Wilson & Adrian Alphona.
This is very adorable but why would you thank the writer and editor, then leave out thanking the artist who actually created the scene itself?
And every single one of these traditions was created by this sequence of events:
“Oh wow, Grandma, what you’re making is really nice. But I think you made a little error in the pattern here…”
*squints, curses under breath* “uhhh, that was on purpose!”
“Really, why?”
“Welll….”
This is probably gonna start Some Shit, but here we go:
I watched the first two episodes of S2 & then had to take a break because I was getting really triggered & stuff.
But:
-remember when S1 ended & everyone was writing fanfic, and there were all these fics that painted ed as completely unhinged and vicious and suicidal and deliberately sadistic, and izzy as the noble victim/voice of reason trying to ‘save’ ed from himself, & all the crew were taking izzy’s side
-And there was a bunch of really well articulated critiques of how those narrative framings often seemed a tad racist and way too enthusiastic about labelling ed as a toxic brute while totally brushing off everything that izzy did in S1 and the fact that he betrayed him & gleefully threatened/goaded ed into acting like that, etc? and that the rest of the crew absolutely hated izzy and would in no way go out of their way to help him or be on his side? Etc etc etc?
-so genuine question: why have i seen barely even a whisper of that kind of criticism when they wrote basically those exact tropes into the show
So pretty early on in The Fires of Heaven, our boy Mat hands a necklace to one of the Maidens to impress her, not realizing that giving a gift like that as a close as a dude can come in Aiel culture to proposing. Which means. This guy. Has not one but TWO accidental proposals under his belt. Incredible writing decision, no notes, RJ really said “I will explore cultural differences by making Matrim Cauthon get accidentally engaged as many times as possible” and that was the best possible choice
