Gizmodo: The Wheel of Time Returns and Finds Darkness Creeping In https://gizmodo.com/wheel-of-time-s2-review-prime-video-rosamund-pike-1850757798?utm_source=regular #theworldofthewheel #marcusrutherford #theeyeoftheworld #thefiresofheaven #madeleinemadden #thedragonreborn #thewheeloftime #katefleetwood #karimamcadams #robertjordan #rosamundpike #danielhenney #animashaun #barneyfinn #faresfares #zoerobins #herwarder #liandrin #moiraine #valere #perrin #sedai #verin #5

Tasty Book Club meets today at 2PM ET on Discord. Today we're reviewing chapters 28 - 35 of The Eye of the World. There's a spot of trouble on the Caemlyn Road.

https://discord.gg/GCDv8R4b?event=1142966750523166880

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Gizmodo: Everything to Remember About Wheel of Time Ahead of Season 2 https://gizmodo.com/prime-video-wheel-of-time-s1-catchup-rosamund-pike-1850735611?utm_source=regular #theworldofthewheel #marcusrutherford #thefiresofheaven #brandonsanderson #hammedanimashaun #theeyeoftheworld #thedragonreborn #attheedgeoftime #thewheeloftime #georgerrmartin #katefleetwood #sophieokonedo #dragonreborn #robertjordan #danielhenney #rosamundpike #thegreathunt #barneyharris #wheeloftime #lordofchaos #jrrtolkien

Swing on by Discord this afternoon at 2 ET for the continuation of The Eye of the World in the Tasty Book Club! Today, we're covering chapters 28-35!

https://discord.gg/uNc7ESby?event=1132849953572659262

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Gizmodo: The Wheel of Time Spins Toward Season 2 With New Character Posters https://gizmodo.com/wheel-of-time-s2-prime-video-robert-jordan-new-posters-1850743514 #elaynetrakandcearacoveney #entertainmentculture #marcusrutherford #theeyeoftheworld #thedragonreborn #madeleinemadden #thewheeloftime #lanmandragoran #acrownofswords #katefleetwood #karimamcadams #danielhenney #rosamundpike #kaealexander #matcauthorn #heraessedai #minfarshaw #faresfares #zoerobins #donalfinn #aviendha #natasha #selene

For two Sundays now, we've had a ball with The Eye of the World on Discord. The Tasty Book Club continues with chapters 20-27 this Sunday, August 13, at 2PM EDT. Join us as season two rushes down the Ways toward us!
https://discord.gg/F73CcAh7?event=1132849703105597591
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Gizmodo: Wheel of Time Season 2 Reveals a Mystical First Trailer https://gizmodo.com/wheel-of-time-s2-trailer-rosamund-pike-prime-video-1850649196 #marcusrutherford #moirainedamodred #theeyeoftheworld #madeleinemadden #joshastradowski #thedragonreborn #thewheeloftime #lanmandragoran #acrownofswords #nynaevealeara #elaynetrakand #thegreathunt #robertjordan #perrinaybara #danielhenney #rosamundpike #cearacoveney #wheeloftime #matcauthon #zoerobins #egweneal #elayne #rand #finn

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"Elyas was out there, also... a two-legged wolf with one sharp steel tooth."

do you think Robert Jordan had any friends who were furries? #TheEyeofTheWorld #TheWheelofTime

Nynaeve's entire perspective, on every topic, is just "It's not like I like you or anything, baka"

I love her, but she's exhausting to read. #thewheeloftime #TheEyeoftheWorld

"Take life as it comes. Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can."

Sage advice from the wolfman Elyas. #TheEyeOfTheWorld #thewheeloftime

Rand's torturous guilt over every life close to him that faces any danger compounds against his increasing sense of responsibility, in a theme that will build to divine proportions. Rand Is Jesus starts early, my goodness.

#TheEyeOfTheWorld #TEoTW #TheWheelOfTime #WheelOfTime #literature

It's really funny how easy it is to map D&D character classes onto the cast.

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Min, a woman who dresses like a boy and sees cryptic prophecies she can only decipher some of the time, is one of my favorite characters. I'd actually forgotten how early she shows up. It's astonishing actually how few pages there are between the first mention of the Stone of Tear and the sword that is not a sword, which Rand actively speculates about in dialogue, and then Min telling Rand she sees a sword that is not a sword in relation to him. It bothered me as a kid that this wasn't obvious to Rand, but actually in this reread, it's easy to empathize with Rand being forgetful and overwhelmed.

The first time Thom Merrilin shows up is a beautiful moment. Over two prologues and four chapters, readers are introduced to a ton of information about the world, and the people of the Two Rivers and their relationships to each other. Which is good, because those relationships carry through the entire series, and it's important to lay that foundation.

But Rand, the POV protagonist for basically this entire novel, spends the whole time gawking. Oh, it's festival! Yay! The weather sucks, boo! The peddler's in town? Neat!

And then Thom Merrilin tumbles out of the Winespring, hits on every woman he sees, and then very quickly provides his opinions about war, Dragons, witches, and all the major themes of the book. It's pretty great to have a character with a perspective to contrast the Two Rivers kids so early.

It's also astounding how much Amazon's adaptation really flubbed these characters and their journeys.

#TheEyeoftheWorld #TootsOfTime #WheelOfTime

I'm revisiting #TheEyeoftheWorld for the first time since I first read it in middle school. I'm going on this very personal little journey with myself, and I thought it'd be nice to try to journal the experience here.

For background, I grew up in a very small, very poor little area of the desert. I first encountered the Wheel of Time because a friend was reading it and I liked the cover. My friend had gotten the book out of the school library; the selection there was small, and the books were old, many practically falling apart. This one wasn't quite, but it was well on its way. It was exactly the sort of thick, old paperback I'd heard older kids talk about when they talked about discovering The Lord of the Rings for the first time. And that's what The Eye of the World was to me; it was the massive High Fantasy epic saga in which I took refuge through the most perilous, the most tumultuous times of my young life.

I'm a #trans woman, but I didn't know that at the time, and I was under too many external stressors to have room to figure it out. In fact, for much of the time I was reading these books, I was deeply dissociative, which I attributed just to depression for a long time. Even through all that, though, I remember resonating with Robert Jordan's work and world mainly through his depictions of women.

For as much of the books make about "men's spheres" and "women's spheres," this very 1800's balance and delineation of work and social roles by sex and gender, I think Robert Jordan was actually making a case for exactly the opposite. Through his characters' personal journeys, he invites readers to question power and tradition, and to dismantle systems which are dysfunctional. In depicting the fantasy world that deconstructs the tropes and myths that make it up, Robert Jordan was also telling us that we should rigorously examine the structures of power that oppress us in our real world. We should look at the legends we're told, see them for what they are, come to understand them, and then we'd have the tools to take them apart.

At least, that's the message I got out of the books. Part of it, how I remember it, anyway. I hope it holds up.

For now, I'm just having a good time revisiting my good good idiot boys in their little village before everything goes to hell for them.

#TootsOfTime #WheelOfTime #WoTposting #genderidentity #feminism #literature #tootalong

I'm revisiting #TheEyeoftheWorld for the first time since I first read it in middle school. I'm going on this very personal little journey with myself, and I thought it'd be nice to try to journal the experience here.

For background, I grew up in a very small, very poor little area of the desert. I first encountered the Wheel of Time because a friend was reading it and I liked the cover. My friend had gotten the book out of the school library; the selection there was small, and the books were old, many practically falling apart. This one wasn't quite, but it was well on its way. It was exactly the sort of thick, old paperback I'd heard older kids talk about when they talked about discovering The Lord of the Rings for the first time. And that's what The Eye of the World was to me; it was the massive High Fantasy epic saga in which I took refuge through the most perilous, the most tumultuous times of my young life.

I'm a #trans woman, but I didn't know that at the time, and I was under too many external stressors to have room to figure it out. In fact, for much of the time I was reading these books, I was deeply dissociative, which I attributed just to depression for a long time. Even through all that, though, I remember resonating with Robert Jordan's work and world mainly through his depictions of women.

For as much of the books make about "men's spheres" and "women's spheres," this very 1800's balance and delineation of work and social roles by sex and gender, I think Robert Jordan was actually making a case for exactly the opposite. Through his characters' personal journeys, he invites readers to question power and tradition, and to dismantle systems which are dysfunctional. In depicting the fantasy world that deconstructs the tropes and myths that make it up, Robert Jordan was also telling us that we should rigorously examine the structures of power that oppress us in our real world. We should look at the legends we're told, see them for what they are, come to understand them, and then we'd have the tools to take them apart.

At least, that's the message I got out of the books. Part of it, how I remember it, anyway. I hope it holds up.

For now, I'm just having a good time revisiting my good good idiot boys in their little village before everything goes to hell for them.

Today’s t-shirt: #TheEyeofTheWorld #RobertJordan #TheWheelofTime #Fantasy

So I finished my re-read of #TheEyeOfTheWorld last night, and:
No wonder I fell into this world hard as a younger person.
No wonder I identified so hard with Perrin as a young closeted (even to myself) trans boy!
I'm quite impressed with Robert Jordan's capacity to introduce us to his world in the first book. There's concepts that aren't explained in depth, but so much is touched on, I feel it's a good intro!
And call it growth or the writing, but I read so many more characters as POC this time

Nynaeve and Lan, sittin' in a tree. K. I. S. S. I. N. G.
#amreading #theeyeoftheworld #WoT #reread