moiraine x siuan

[•] I have a deeply hidden, inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life. [•] Moiraine and Siuan reside here. [•] [she/her ]

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[wibblyrlin]

THE WHEEL OF TIME 1.06 | 3.05

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Yves Bonnefoy, tr. by Anthony Rudolf, from The Selected Poems; “The Ravine,”

[ashleysjohnson]

Across centuries and the void of a world, sleepless, I seek you. (insp.)

[flo-n-flon]

In continuation of this drawing showing Siuan's hair going white from shock after her stilling, I wanted to draw and reflect on women and violence in fiction, and letting brutality and age and survival mark their skin rather than enshrining their youth in death and memories.

I have a lot of feelings about narratives exacting terrible violence in life on women, and then keeping them eternally young and intact in death, often elevating them as symbols, images rather than people, thus turning them into immutable objects of meaning rather than letting them live with scars, heal and eventually grow old.

One of the reasons older women are so important is that they live bearing scars and wrinkles like a tally and a stamp of persistence on their skin.

All that to say, I appreciated greatly the show's decision to keep on screen Moiraine's chest scar in season 2 and had great hopes for Siuan getting similar visible scars after her deposal and torture.

It wasn't meant to be in this life.

So here's my turning of the Wheel where they lived on to cherish the other's body that had gone through so much.

(The Lichtenberg scars on Moiraine's back and shoulders come from pien-art because Moiraine gets beaten up by the One Power with a notable frequency and gets back up often enough to earn cool scars.)

[nixscriptum]

[scribeherself]

the absolute devastating intimacy of a forehead rest. when you are both just so tired from existing in a world that demands you to be a rigid, functional individual, and you finally collapse into each other and just lean your forehead against theirs, or against their shoulder. it’s the physical equivalent of dropping your shields. it’s saying i am entirely heavy right now, and i am trusting you to bear a piece of that weight. and the most beautiful part is that the other person doesn’t even flinch. they just adjust their stance, tuck you a little closer, and absorb the impact. we were designed to divide the burden of being alive.

[faircastle]

The Road to the Spear (S03E04) THE WHEEL OF TIME (2021—)

[aflawedfashion]

Moiraine Damodred | The Wheel of Time 1x05

[aflawedfashion]

Moiraine Damodred | The Wheel of Time 1x07

[sadhorsegirl]

aes sedai: do you swear to speak no word that is not true?

moiraine, who grew up in a culture that required all participants to constantly obfuscate their true intentions and carefully manipulate others to try and avoid being assassinated by a paranoid member of a rival house before they reached the age of eleven: sure lol why not

[mournfulroses]

María Casares, from a letter to Albert Camus, featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[aoya]

[aflawedfashion]

Moiraine Damodred | The Wheel of Time 1x05

[dailysiuanraine]

In another life. 💙

[sanche-damodred]

oh my god…

[wibblyrlin]

THE WHEEL OF TIME 2.02 | 3.05

[babycaker]

Siuraine when