out of the river and the trolley and the gate

I decided I needed a fandom blog. Right now. Will add more later (hopefully). Identity summary things: queer cis woman, neurodivergent (autism, OCD, social anxiety), asexual, white, USian, from Russia. Medias

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Tore through the Hive Mind/Hive Future novels in the past several days (after running into the series page on tv tropes and being interested) (haven’t read Perilous yet, and if I understand correctly the other works aren’t currently available?) and looking for fellow fans!

Have looked some at the search here already; would love to hear/see other people’s thoughts and if possible talk to people etc!

(Extra especially anything people have been doing with fusions and also developing other Hives! I’ve been somewhat developing some fusion ideas (with Untamed) (was actually part of what made me want to start reading!) and I think a few minutes ago just had an inspiration idea and seem to have started a Hive development.)

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Hello! Happy to have you in the fandom! You’re right that the other works (Candidate and Telepath Mira) are not currently available, although I believe there’s still a copy of Candidate on the wayback machine.

I haven’t seen too much of people worldbuilding other Hives, or with fusions—I think there’s one fusion on Ao3 and I also have a crossover on Ao3, although I don’t think mine counts as a fusion. But I’ve definitely seen lots of people wanting to think more about what other Hives might be like!

I’m not super familiar with the Untamed myself, although I am reading the Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System which is also by MXTX but I’d still be interested in hearing about a fusion with it and Hive Mind!

If you’re a discord person, there is also a discord server for fans of Janet Edwards’s books: https://discord.com/invite/wsUvRuFakn

A place for fans of Earth Girl and other Janet Edwards works to hang | 22 members

It’s not super active, but there is occasional chatter, and sometimes people (…mostly me…) brainstorm AUs in there, since it’s easier to go back and forth than on tumblr in my opinion. Although I have been meaning to do more AUs on tumblr.

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Aw, thank you for the very kind welcome! And thank you, that is good to know!

Ooh! I looked for the fandom on AO3 earlier (and found!); now that I'm though the main novels I need to actually check out the various works! (I went to the page, but wanted to avoid more spoilers than I already had so didn't go reading even many fic descriptions etc). And, I also want to think more about that! (...And about what they are almost definitely not like, but it'd be a concept that could fit into the world etc...).

Oh my goodness, small world! (Hope you're enjoying!)

Ooh, thank you for the link and invite! I think I saw a link for what may be the same discord in a post I saw, but it was more than a year old iirc so wasn't sure if it would still be the right place/link etc. (Also if I'm getting that correctly I think the name is referring to one of the other series, so also wasn't sure re that).

Ooh, AUs! What kind of AUs do you tend to do?

Thank you again!

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Tore through the Hive Mind/Hive Future novels in the past several days (after running into the series page on tv tropes and being interested) (haven’t read Perilous yet, and if I understand correctly the other works aren’t currently available?) and looking for fellow fans!

Have looked some at the search here already; would love to hear/see other people’s thoughts and if possible talk to people etc!

(Extra especially anything people have been doing with fusions and also developing other Hives! I’ve been somewhat developing some fusion ideas (with Untamed) (was actually part of what made me want to start reading!) and I think a few minutes ago just had an inspiration idea and seem to have started a Hive development.)

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genuinely need a hundred video essays about the lighting in wake up dead man bc WOW. the lighting was a character itself.

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I want to look as social media but there's three episodes and I've just seen one atm and I'm not sure how to filter well enough...

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Oh my god poor Egwene.

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Campaign beginning where you all meet because you're answering the same 'hot wizards in your area' ad.

Everyone who showed up is there for completely different reasons. One person was genuinely looking for wizard hook-ups; one person is bad at detecting scams and got taken in; one person is good at detecting scams and wants to take revenge on scammers; one person is from the wizard irs and thinks this guy hasn't been filing his taxes properly; one person had a translation artifact glitch and thought this was 'hot lizards in your area', a vendor of heating stones for cold-blooded customers.

Then you find out the 'wizard' has been mysteriously kidnapped and get drawn into an adventure.

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Finished our Wheel of Time S1 rewatch yesterday with 1.08!

I kept meaning to make posts about stuff from different episodes, but, edf.

Some stuff from this episode:

So I totally knew that I had very poor memory of this episode - during season 2 was very aware that I did not remember like, the actual final confrontation - aside from the image of the - opponent.

I think I more or less remembered that there was the trollock attack on Fal Dara (but not details), Rand's ~temptation thing, as noted the image of the opponent, the image of Padan Fain on the throne and that he got the horn, and the sister and the other women with the magic against the trollocks outside Fall Dara and burning out, and I think I did remember that one of our characters there heals the other (I think I have a memory of *reading* that?). And of course from S2 knew what happened to Moiraine though didn't have memory of it happening.

Oh right and that there was flashback 3000 years back and who it was between, though didn't have memory of what episode that was in.

Oh and remembered that Rand asked Moiraine to tell everyone he died there, I think I remembered that rather than just knowing from season 2 stuff.

Some stuff having rewatched:

-Ok so that story Moiraine told of her backstory makes me really curious who that Aes Sedai was. Are we going to meet her? (Have we already). Also wow more Aes Sedai stuff like that.

-Rand: you thought it was Egwene. Me, thinking: well she did have a very rare item specifically for male channelers for you!

-I was also very expecting Moiraine to tell him that she can't teach him to channel because teaching channeling is side-restricted, but she didn't.

-Trying to understand stuff that happened with the knowledge that this is Ishamael and not the Dark One and not completely sure of some stuff.

-So - ok, with the knowledge we get later, what exactly did happen here? Including with the ~temptation? I'm not sure. What are we supposed to think of various things? (Like, it seems like they well, were gotten the better of, so.)

-(I continue to be unhappy about the stuff I was unhappy about first time around).

-So the first time around I probably didn't register it because didn't know them so well yet etc, but ok so in the scene with Padan Fain those are the characters we later see pursuing him in S2, and of course Loial is important, and here they seem to have *been killed* - so we spent the rest of the episode waiting to see how that got addressed, I was trying to remember, and then it just didn't?

-...Did Rand realize Moiraine well, with the knife? He has the marks.

-Brain is thinking about defense ideas for the Gap apparently.

-Ok so Padan Fain maybe has a different perspective on the Dark also/We hear another one.

-Amusingly I totally didn't remember whether or not Lan comes with them and whether or not he then somehow follows them, so was like, finding out just like if I hadn't seen it.

-When the flashback started I was like, right this - ok I totally don't remember at all what in fact happened/was talked about in this convo. And yep I didn't and ok wow that was important! (I have questions.) Also I'm pretty sure last time I *also* registered she called him Dragon *Reborn* and had questions, and this time registering it again and continue to have questions. (Not quite the questions one might think I have maybe, here).

-Noting some stuff about the outside the window scene.

-So want to think more about what can be filled in as having happened between seasons, but thinking about it - ok how was communication between Siuan and Moiraine supposed to have gone there? Like, didn't remember before, but, this plan came from Siuan and Moiraine's conversation, it seems like Siuan would have wanted, well, a report? And we know Moiraine didn't tell her about not being able to access the source, but - again, what is meant to have happened?

-So I was thinking as things were happening, so is the ~idea that Moiraine doesn't die ~because she is blocked from touching the source and that is metaphorically properly counted as such a thing. But just now occurred to me wait, in fact this *was not the Dragon meeting the Dark One at the Eye*. ...Did anyone else think about this?

-By the way, why is this called the Eye of the World?

-Right, I'd forgotten the connection between the prison and the Blight!

-(Have probably forgotten something still.)

-Eta: oh right was looking forward to seeing the Seanchan arrival now that I know more stuff about them, and indeed! Noticing that the sul'dam and damane have a few aesthetic differences I think.

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What happened to Ryma? I don't think I saw her either at the power testing or the final battle. Given the timing, she might have still been in that 'initial training/breaking' phase we saw for Egwene, so she wouldn't have been brought out?

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Also we got the intro/credits again, I love the intro, I missed it!

(I saw the Sony and whatever presents thing and was a bit ...? and then it kept on and I knew we were getting the intro!)

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So assuming here Lanfear's plan went something like,

Betray Ishamael to his death.

Throw the rest of the Forsaken in the ocean.

Figure Rand will have enough feelings to not put her in a seal again and hang around trying to seduce him.

(If so this is really funny.)

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I really want to know if Ishamael is going to be back. (Don't tell me!)

(On one hand I'd generally think yes because he's important and because the coming back would be like - a world thing (and it would affect him). On the other hand it feels like the kind of thing where show would consider it impact reduction?)

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so my current best understanding/theory is that the Horn calls whatever of the Heroes of the Horn are currently dead.

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I love how they set up showing us that link between death and the collar dropping off, so when we see the collar drop off we know.

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The thing I really love about Egwene’s victory is that apart from figuring out the thing, the thing she won by was - like Renna said, she’s still her damane. She feels twice the pain. But she has been in that pain and been in it and been in it. (The pain and the other thing both). And Renna hasn’t ever felt it.

(And they show this so well, we see her she’s enduring it as she does what she does and we just got reminded and we know this is what she’s doing.)

(-And Renna knows that Egwene doesn’t have to stop if she gives in, and she know if she gives in Egwene can kill her which otherwise she can. But she does anyway because she can’t stand it).

(Also I love that Egwene’s defiance, which she did without any reason to think she’d be saved from the results, is very likely the reason she and Renna specifically survived, because they were at the center away from the walls.)

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Holy shit that entrance.

Also brilliant use of ‘actually there’s more’ after what looked like a close.

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Holy shit that reveal (re darkfriend).

Also *really* wondering if when telling people about the one party to the conversation the teller also told them about the other party

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huh, there aren’t that many works on AO3 for the book series (1 - 20 of 1,585 Works in Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan. Show is 1 - 20 of 928 Works in The Wheel of Time (TV)). (Not reading them but I was curious!) Is this a ‘fandom predates ao3, most works are elsewhere’ thing?