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Brian definitely. Its part of his carefully casual macho aesthetic to wear 'masculine' animals and black/grey muscle T-shirts.
I agree that Rachel would not go out of her way to buy one, but would accept it as a gift and (depending on who gave it to her) would become a treasured item (from Taylor).
Theo might wear it but it's because Hookwolf gave him it (to 'toughen him up') and he burns it in a trash barrel with absolute contempt before he leaves for the Chicago Wards (He cannot risk losing or destroying it beforehand in case Bradley asks about it).
Hookwolf in theory, but he does not wear shirts. Crawler, also in theory, but he cannot wear shirts anymore.
The funniest answer is Siberian, but no pants. It's a little ripped up from the battle going on. Manton is playing Animals by Maroon 5 on his radio loudly.
Armsmaster.
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Which character from Worm--or from anything Wildbow--would wear a Three Wolf Moon T-shirt?
i am losing my mind at this image. fantastic reddit post
they should inflate and heat up when you rub them fr fr
FYI wildbow updated his patreon rewards! now if you commit to an annual subscription you get one of those anime boob mousepads of lung
hi every trans girl in the world if you see this I want you to know you're so pretty and I love you and I'm glad you're alive I hope you have a good day
they need to bring patronage back. i was not meant to 'clock in' or 'take exams', i should be attending salons and being a dandy on someone else's dime while producing one creative work of merit every five years
I'd care if the person I reblogged this from committed suicide.
Reblog this from anybody. literally. ANYBODY. even if you dont like them or even know them that well. YOU COULD SAVE THEIR LIFE.
If Rachel was blonde she would pee herself a little every time she saw Taylor
the autism thing of having to learn to preface every question you ask with Holy Shit I'm Just Curious Please Dont Yell At Me because it turns out a lot of questions seem to Mean Something and people will get mad if you ask them
i love you my transfem mutuals
i would kill numerous people for you
NO I don't want it to get better I want it to get WORSE and then I KILL MYSELF FOREVER!
amy dallon core
God I fucking forgot how absolutely insane Dumai's Wells is.
Imagine being a Shaido Aiel. You've got barely any honour, but fuck the other Aiel. You're conquering shit with the rest of your clan. Sure you don't have a clan chief after some gambler cut off his head, and the most influential wise one of your clan can't channel and hasn't been to Rhuidean, but that's fine. Nobody has the right to tell you that you have no honour or pride. They don't understand. You are the only true Aiel. The only ones who haven't sold themselves to a wetlander king.
And now we get to take the so-called Car'a'carn for ourselves. We just need to take him from the Aei Sedai. The wise ones can handle them.
Then the fucking grass explodes into wolves, arrows punch into your backs from 300 paces, a huge cavalry charge slams into your flanks and fresh lightning and fire suddenly surround you, people's skulls just explode like ripe melons or burst into flames with zero impact at all. This was supposed to be easy. Some mad bearded fucker is hacking through you all with an axe, and a tinker of all things is swinging a sword at you. Then the chest at the center of the copse of trees explodes violently. A woman is screaming her soul out at the epicenter. The Dragon Reborn is free. Then the man to your left is split in half by a string of light that widens into a doorway, and out of that doorway steps a man who turns your whole body into shredded meat as soon as he looks at you.
You don't even have time to scream in pain.
I'm at the Box.
Ominous enough for people without context but I'll go ahead anyway.
I made a joke that Rand laughs every time something horrible happens to him, and I was thinking that was hyperbole, that he was in so much pain and trying so hard to avoid crying out that he wasn't laughing this time.
But here he is, laughing in his box. How fucking ominous must that feel if you're one of the Aei Sedai watching him and his box? You've just bundled him in there for six days of travel, only taking him out to give him water at dawn and dusk, he's delirious from the heat and sweat, he's just killed two warders in a fit of rage over Min's capture and has been beaten for that so severely that he lost his vision temporarily and appears to have completely disassociated from his body, and you've just shown him off to the aiel who you're almost entirely certain will try to steal him from you. He must be utterly hopeless. Nobody's coming to save him. After this he will only be taken out of that box to be beaten by the other aei sedai.
And he's chuckling like a loon in his little box.
I honestly don't remember how he comes back from madness during Dumai's Wells on this re-read. If it were me, no Aei Sedai would be allowed into the same room as me except to pledge their total obedience and fidelity to me. The fact that Cadsuane, the most Aei Sedai of Aei Sedai to ever Aei Sedai, is introduced AFTER Dumai's Wells feels insane to me. AFTER he has been magically violated by Alanna, after the Salidar Aei Sedai did their silly little pageantry and subsequently grew to 13 members by accident (admittedly this was a manipulation by the Black Ajah). And obviously after Dumai's Wells and the Box, caused by the Tower Aei Sedai. There is no way that Rand has a drop of trust or friendliness for Aei Sedai left in him after all that. Cadsuane barging in and demanding to be treated with respect should've had her thrown out by a gang of Ashaman and Aiel.
How the hell did we get back a Rand who went back to trying to scare off women by channeling around them so he can intimidate Cadsuane, instead of what would be more realistic, a Rand who surrounds himself with Ashaman and obedient Aei Sedai and threatens to kill Cadsuane if she ever comes near him without bending the knee to him. I think I need to keep reading a little more to puzzle it out, but I think Robert Jordan wrote himself into a corner with the last chapter of Lord of Chaos here and just decided to walk back a bit of his character development because he realized he'd need an old Aei Sedai to advise Rand. Rand should be downright hostile to any Aei Sedai who come near him without his permission. Murderous even.
Also after Lord of Chaos we get into the swing with Mat and Ebu Dar. I fucking hate the Ebu Dar arc. Hate it so much for so many reasons.
we all have that friend that reminds us of a wretched and despotic boy-king
Rand is like Courage the Cowardly Dog in the way he laughs hopelessly anytime he gets hurt:
like "Oh I just lost a hand to a fireball. Hahaha. It doesn't matter." and Min is clinically in shock from the second hand pain, weeping that he's suffering and he doesn't care about himself. that it's just nothing to him.
Wormblr, he's so Taylor coded it's unreal. Protagonist going through some unbelievable pain for no reason. Wotblr, do I have a scrimblo I could introduce you to. She loses the same arm twice and gets cut in half once. She doesn't laugh when she gets hurt though so it evens out.
Drop an anvil on all three of them and they'll come back stronger.
I'm up to chapter 40 of book 6, and I've looked through the replies here a little. For clarification, yes, Egwene does indeed reveal that she was accepted, was dreamwalking when she wasn't supposed to after being injured by lanfear, and that she was intending to do some evil shit by entering the dream in the flesh. And even though her initial thought was that she'd be able to escape punishment by fleeing to Salidar at the first oppertunity, she does do the right thing and delays her trip through tel'aran'rhiod in the flesh so she can meet her toh to the wise ones. She even considers her toh towards Melaine and Rhuarc, and how she'll meet it with them.
However. She doesn't apologize to Nynaeve once for her actions in tel'aran'rhiod. The next time Nynaeve even sees Egwene, it's when Egwene has just been announced as Amyrlin.
Imagine you've been having this crisis of, lets call it authority. Crisis of authority, where you've been approaching your life since you left the two rivers as if you were still the Wisdom of your village. Falling back on that kind of knowledge and training. Egwene, not as your equal, but your eventual successor, suddenly treating you as if you're an empty headed girl of equal rank, if not lesser. You resolve to set this upset right, bare some vulnerabilities for lying to Egwene about something absolutely irrelevant, and she uses it as a tool to belittle and threaten you further, abusing your trust and honesty. You avoid her and tel'aran'rhiod, to the point that perhaps Nynaeve forgot some of the more essential aspects of the world of dreams, like being able to simply will yourself out of almost any trap someone else puts you in, like being bound up as a human pretzel. Not something easily done when you've had your willpower so shaken. After all of this that I won't retread, she's been bullied and insulted by the Salidar Aei Sedai (who aren't really helping with breaking her block tbh, it's not their fucking responsibility to pile on to it, or threaten to take control of her therapy.) even after all the discoveries and advancements she's made. Even discovering how to heal stilling/gentling/severing, something that was not even possible in the age of legends, something that instantly prompted skepticism and derision from the rest of the aei sedai in the room btw. They instantly started talking about how they could do something they thought was impossible better, and all after they had insulted and bullied her to force her to channel. Getting off topic, but it all contributes to a level of simmering rage and injuries to Nynaeve's ego that would honestly leave me ready to rip heads off of the next Aei Sedai to overstep around me.
And then Egwene shows up as Amyrlin. Crisis of Authority over, but not because it's resolved. It's over because Nynaeve completely loses all authority entirely. If she challenges Egwene on anything, or even remembered to ask her about why she was so cagey with dreamwalking, it would undermine her authority when she, Eleyne and Egwene are all relying on it to keep them alive and politically relevant, especially once they start getting near to Rand and the White Tower, and being able to set out and get the bowl of the winds.
I do love Egwene, but there are many things she never answers for.
kinda fucked up how egwene destroyed the confidence and social standing (between themselves) of a woman whom she trusted and respected, to the point that nynaeve has a massive crisis of self-confidence that may have contributed to her being beaten by moghedien, the whole deal with birgitte, and her decision to take the group to salidar and hand over her responsibilities and the threat of the forsaken in tel'aran'rhiod (though smart) in the hands of strange aei sedai who might not even support rand.
all so egwene can avoid punishment by the aiel for dreamwalking when she shouldn't be, because they would cease teaching her as per their threat, and rightly so. iirc she only ever decides that she needs to apologize for misleading them on being a full aei sedai (which is a pretty fucked up thing when everyone assumes everything you say is the whole truth, though the fact that egwene helped rand blow shit up at cairhien should've clued the aiel in that she's not bound by the three oaths like all tower trained aei sedai, and I am certain moraine must've brought that up at least once.) and only ever gets punished for her specific toh in that moment.
it is never reconciled, never apologized for, never explained, and egwene belittles nynaeve twice for almost revealing to the wise ones that she's dreamwalking. i don't think they see eachother again until egwene is in salidar and she is then raised to amyrlin seat, and then egwene places special emphasis on nynaeve not undermining her while she leads the rebel aei sedai.
worse still is how egwene's brow beating worked in preventing nynaeve from figuring out that egwene is hiding something from the aiel wise ones, especially after the blowup from egwene in front of amys, who egwene should really trust with anything said in tel'aran'rhiod, and nynaeve and elayne, who already know she's dreamwalking into elaida's study. its really emphasized a little later when nynaeve gets to salidar and shows that she's an incredibly smart person when she's not being rode over and bullied, and figures out the entire scheme between siuan and leane, something they're keeping from the salidar aei sedai so they can continue to manipulate them, practically instantly.
fucked up. sorry if anyone likes egwene particularly and is defensive regarding her, i like her too and she has many redeeming qualities and as many amazing accomplishments, but this is one of the many things that she's never apologized for. it shows more and more that her story is about a complete abandonment of emond's field to become the most aei sedai she can be, and she's certainly adopted bullying and brow beating to get her way in a topic she knew she shouldn't have gotten her way, but valued knowledge acquired through any means necessary over her personal relationships. the aiel aren't spared here either. she ferrets out their secrets, pushes dangerously far beyond what they've taught her and almost damages her relationship with them too when it becomes impossible to continue the lie.
she doesn't even reveal that she's an accepted until she's no longer going to be in the wise one's camp to learn from them, summoned to salidar, at which point there's no real punishment she can suffer from them, short of death, since she'll have learnt everything she can out of them and won't be able to learn anymore anyway, and despite all her talk of acting like an aiel and fulfilling her toh, I seriously doubt she would've calmly accepted death as her punishment if that was what the wise ones decided, even though any other aiel apprentice would have.
anyway, I know I'm not doing a liveblog, I'm just re-reading the wheel of time books and I'm almost finished with the fires of heaven (book 5). wanted to get this thought out there.
creep is such an amy dallon song idk if anyone else has said it here
it's actually so on the nose that it might swing back around to not fitting at all
"I don't care if it hurts, I want to have control - I want a perfect body, I want a perfect soul." yeah
the look they give brian and lisa when they tell them they've maimed hookwolf and have restarted the gang war by rescuing puppies.
girls with big brown eyes
Interesting that Eidolon is so vocally hesitant about Alexandria's plan in the flashback to the founding of the protectorate
Gestation Basically
Bonus: First worm meme I sent to my friend who recommended it to me
