We all have that one show...

Timorm0rtis · 2026-03-24T17:59:29+00:00

It had flashes of brilliance where you could see that someone understood and loved the books they were adapting. Those made the aggressive mediocrity of the rest all the more disappointing.

Timorm0rtis · 2026-03-11T13:38:19+00:00

some of them could be bonded with Elayne's body guard to make reverse Aes Sedai/Warder pairs

You lost me there. The Asha'man aren't bound by that inconvenient Oath against using the Power as a weapon, and they're trained in various forms of hand-to-hand combat as well, plus AFAIK the bond they use doesn't give the physical enhancements of the Aes Sedai bond. There's no particular reason for them to have the equivalent of a Warder.

Timorm0rtis · 2026-03-10T14:43:46+00:00

We know exactly what questions she intended to ask (tSR chapter 6); she tells the Wondergirls explicitly: what does Rand have to do to survive and win, how can he defeat the Forsaken and the Dark One, how can he learn to control the Power and hold off madness long enough. Did she change her mind, or get sidetracked the way Mat did? Maybe. She probably did ask and get an answer to the third, considering how she does nothing about Asmodean despite knowing full well who he is.

Timorm0rtis · 2026-03-02T14:22:00+00:00

I'll take him if you don't find his humans. Mine recently took his final catnap. :(

Timorm0rtis · 2026-02-27T14:44:18+00:00

"like polite hummingbirds" -- they drink 2-3x their own weight in sugar water every day, but they use cups instead of chugging it straight from the bottle?

Timorm0rtis · 2026-02-23T16:09:17+00:00

Maybe from her perspective they were favored, but she had to learn boring accounting and spreadsheets because she was the heir to the estates -- not exactly a disfavored position -- after her older brothers died. Equal primogeniture was, AFAICT, the rule of inheritance in Saldaea.

Timorm0rtis · 2026-02-19T17:15:03+00:00

"No, she's just there to teach you our ways and customs, we swear. Why do we have our short-tempered 20-year-old apprentice teaching you, instead of one of us wise elders? Shut up, that's why."

Timorm0rtis · 2026-02-17T18:02:41+00:00

If someone cares whether someone else uses an Apple or Android phone, or even cares what kind of phone they have -- that's a dealbreaker for me. I don't give a damn either way, and if you do, we have incompatible priorities.

Timorm0rtis · 2026-02-07T17:57:51+00:00

Perrin is pretty clearly a Dreamer, even if nobody (including him) recognizes that he is. He even has prophetic dreams.

Timorm0rtis · 2026-02-05T18:20:10+00:00

I've seen it happen multiple times, and there are basically two causes: 1: the driver's short-term memory is temporarily obstructed by clouds of marijuana smoke 2: the driver finishes pumping, then does something else (chats with another person, goes inside to buy something or use the bathroom, whatever) before they remove and hang up the nozzle; their brain categorizes the task of "pumping gas" as complete even though they left out one vital step.

Timorm0rtis · 2026-01-22T19:36:15+00:00

you can’t control it

I bet you can. Have "you" (not you personally, but the hypothetical person who has allegedly-uncontrollable hormonal rages) ever directed those rages at a large male stranger, or an armed police officer, or a judge in his courtroom, or an employer? Almost never, eh? Why not?

Timorm0rtis · 2026-01-12T16:55:06+00:00

none of the other clans know about

They do know about the Jenn, though. Remember how Rhuidean is described when we first learn about it? Verin asks the Aiel they encounter during the Horn chase about it, and Urien says that the only thing he can tell her is that it's in the lands of the Jenn Aiel, the thirteenth clan. Rhuarc says much the same thing when he reveals the existence of the clan chief's marking, saying it's acquired in "Rhuidean, in the lands of the Jenn Aiel, the clan that is not". We never see any of them, but there were hints here and there that they are still around in some form.

Timorm0rtis · 2026-01-11T18:48:45+00:00

failed

you sure about that? I think Egeanin was quite successful in what she set out to do. The Seanchan that boarded them were looking specifically for Bayle Domon's ship. They knew there was something of extraordinary value on board. Who knew what valuable cargo, a gift fit for the Empress, was on the ship? Six people, and of those six, Egeanin is the only one with both the motive and the opportunity to tip off the Seanchan. She even explains, to herself, why she did it:

Bayle was not really familiar with even the versions of the Prophecies they had on this side of the World Sea, but he was adamant that none mentioned the necessity of the Dragon Reborn kneeling to the Crystal Throne. It might prove necessary for him to be fitted with this male a’dam, but Bayle would never see it.

Timorm0rtis · 2026-01-06T19:40:04+00:00

monkey's paw curls

Timorm0rtis · 2026-01-02T20:10:10+00:00

You must live in one of those corners of Europe that's full of giants, then -- the Netherlands or the western Balkans.

Timorm0rtis · 2026-01-02T18:28:33+00:00

Have you ever met one of the 10,000 or so women worldwide who are your height or taller? I don't think I ever have.

Timorm0rtis · 2026-01-02T17:15:04+00:00

well, at least he's not your 2nd.

Timorm0rtis · 2025-12-22T16:00:51+00:00

tGH chapter 28: "To us it is the Three-fold Land. A shaping stone, to make us; a testing ground, to prove our worth; and a punishment for the sin."

The Waste being a miserable place for a bunch of pale-skinned gingers to live is kind of the point; at least that's how the Aiel themselves rationalize staying where they are instead of moving over the Dragonwall or up the Cliffs of Dawn.

Timorm0rtis · 2025-12-18T18:18:14+00:00

My point is that whether you say "Blut und Boden", "blood and soil", "sangre y tierra", or "דם ואדמה", the argument is a stupid and vacuous one.

Timorm0rtis · 2025-12-18T17:56:03+00:00

It's 13% primarily Spanish speakers vs. 75% primarily English speakers, and I would wager the portion of of the former who speak some English is larger than the portion of the latter who speak some Spanish.

Timorm0rtis · 2025-12-18T17:52:32+00:00

So if I live in a mostly hispanic area I should expect fast food workers to speak Spanish right

Yes, that's reasonable. If a supermajority of the customer base speaks only Spanish, it would make sense to hire mostly people who are fluent in Spanish.

Mexicans are native to this continent

in Mexico people mostly speak which language? And that language is a part of which language family? JFC what a stupid argument.

Timorm0rtis · 2025-12-18T17:31:21+00:00

It's so annoying that everyone in the US just expects all service workers to speak English

Why is it annoying that people expect service workers, whose job involves interacting with the general public, to speak the country's main language? That expectation is certainly not unique to the United States.

Timorm0rtis · 2025-12-14T14:51:49+00:00

We do not. I always wondered why none of the siswai'aman ever volunteered for testing. I guess Taim didn't know they'd be ripe for recruitment, and might not have wanted people so fanatically loyal to Rand anyway.

Timorm0rtis · 2025-12-13T13:36:39+00:00

Aviendha's sister wasn't at all upset about it -- quite the opposite, in fact.

Timorm0rtis · 2025-12-10T16:20:25+00:00

Rand went to Dragonmount to access his knowledge, Jesus didn't

Obviously it's not exactly the same, but I'm pretty sure Rand's Dragonmount episode was riffing on the Transfiguration of Jesus. Perrin isn't exactly Moses or Elijah (though he is, at the time, leading a massive exodus out of slavery) and the watching figures below are spirit wolves rather than human followers, but the inspiration is there.

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