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lilac sweet

#c: yennefer #art #the witcher books

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Still WIP of Yen

Thank you all for 304! that’s a huge number btw

#c: yennefer #the witcher books #art

melscrate

Jaskier my love… I kinda lost passion half way through, but still like how he turned out :) 🎻🪈🎤🎺

#c: dandelion #the witcher books #the witcher games #art

mpsgds

Portrait of Toruviel

#c: toruviel #the witcher games #art

a-dux

Dijkstra calling Dandelion Geralt's "gigalo boyfriend" after Geralt corrects him about what instrument Dandelion plays is WILD

#best dialogue exchange in tw3 maybe #dijkstra im glad you’re back from zerrikania actually i missed your ass #the witcher games #c: dijkstra #s: i want to be by your side #txt

ntrider

noncon friendship

#when i see geregis posted with noncon tag im just going to pretend its this when in bof regis is like hey :) lemme give you advice

goetiagrimm

thius must be how it feels to be a witcher out in public

#the caption fucking killed me 😭😭😭😭😭😭 bro #because i wish to eat a third donut #geralt at the end of the lesser evil short story:#WITCHER IV BETTER FEEL LIKE THIS TOO #its the average middle school experienve but in the game you have swords and cats eyes… and percival is playing…

now why did i forget that triss is canonically bisexual. i thought that was just something in my head i made up. i love being correct after all

#not short lived. no short lived. you get back to your toxic yuri with miss eilhart right now #stop because sapkowski can be so problematic when talking about gay people but #‘if you give women enough time they will masturbate a lot and then become lesbians’ is such a funny opinion and i can’t even be mad #and people say he has such dark writing when this is objectively the optimist take #some women just figure it out sooner than others…#so are you suggesting that lesbianism is like fermentation #and philippa eilhart is sauerkraut that has been fermenting for 300 years #meanwhile netflix made tissaia de vries sleep with vilgefortz 💀💀💀💀 and not just sleep with but fall in love with 💀💀💀💀#i think geralt at aretuza should look like the screenshot of homer simpson sitting in a lesbian bar #geralt trying to get out of the coup d’etat: enjoy your death trap ladies!!#c: triss #the elbow-high diaries #but its triss so its like #congratulations! the worst woman you know is gay #actually that is a lot of characters in the witcher…#this is why i need milva to start figuring things out asap. we need positive representation over here and we also need butches #also vea and tea should have made out crazystyle. that wouldnt have helped anything but it couldnt hurt #excerpt #book: blood of elves #the witcher books #main tagging to help people not forget like i did

hanzajesthanza

i just can't imagine geralt being homophobic... such a weirdly specific headcanon many people have about him. geralt? i mean he didn't like sorel degerlund much but i think that's because he was an asshole sorcerer. not because he was gay

hanzajesthanza

following up with clarification that the way i’ve seen this is in fics and imagines that have geralt react poorly to love confessions by his (male) friends, quitting the friendship and rejecting them coldly.

now that might make sense for netflix geralt… who feels like he calls jaskier slurs in missing scenes… but i have to come in here with some book references to clear actual geralt’s name

obviously, i’m firmly in bisexual geralt camp anyways, but i feel like “canonically heterosexual” geralt as he is represented in the books, would probably respond to a male friend’s unrequited love the same way he did with female friends. which is: he’s gentle and apologetic, comforting, and is angry at himself that he can’t be more comforting, because he doesn’t love them, is horrified at his own lack of love.

essentially, like he did with essi daven, but maybe with more intimacy since he would actually know them and love them in a deep platonic way.

of course i take some issues with geralt and essi (“she couldn’t have been older than 18, geralt” said in the “she’s 17, scott” voice) but IMO this is a well-written scene of “unrequited love confession”

so in the case of how geralt reacts to unrequited love, you already have an example of this in the books. he doesn’t leave them, he doesn’t push them away, he doesn’t make nasty remarks or even reject them roughly. he may not love her back, but he treats her with decency… i could even remark on how he also treats triss with decency too, but i won’t go there for now

#of course with essi its different though because he barely knows her #i think the stupidity in this to me is also that #rule 1 of geralt and dandelion is that geralt and dandelion are best friends #even if they had unrequited love for each other they would still be best friends thats just how it works #funny as hell to read netflix geralt being a massive dickhead and meanwhile #book geralt is like please essi dont cry #hes so awkward… hes so uncomfortable… he feels so bad #the other obvious example is that geralt was mad about regis being a vampire for like 2 days and then he was like #you guys better be nice to regis…#‘but that’s being a vampire that’s not…’ ‘yes actually’#the elbow-high diaries #excerpt #story: a little sacrifice

#i mean also debatable since degerlund apparently was not actually gay and was just having gay sex for political clout #i think dandelion would be homophobic before geralt would be homophobic #not violently just with microaggressions. i mean like how he was with regis #wait so you dont want to have sex with women? never? never EVER? but--#and it was geralt who wanted to be respectful and not to pry... and who accepted regis without further explanation...#remember after bounds of reason geralt can legitimately say now he understands what its like to find a man beautiful.#i think it's an incomprehensible take with book geralt and just weird take with games geralt #since he is a representation of the Good that fights Evil #if a person isn't evil then geralt's pretty unbothered by them... and if they're his friend he loves them no matter what #however it's more understandable with netflix. henry cavill geralt? that man says slurs #the elbow-high diaries

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Do you know this Musical Song? #370

I know the song and the musical

I know the song but not the musical

I know the musical but not the song

I may know this

I have never heard this

Voting ended onJul 15

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do-you-ship-this-book-couple

Do you ship...

Geralt & Yennefer (Witcher)

Yes, I ship them

I'm neutral about them

No, I don't ship them

In a fucked up way because it compels me

Not before but now I'm intrigued

Platonically

They're divorced

I don't know them

Voting ended onJul 6

hanzajesthanza

some propaganda ❄️❤️

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#s: you’ve condemned yourself to me #i didnt include any sp0ilers :) only from the first four books ok #excerpt

icewine mod is so good. actually, there are so many w3 mods that feel like my prayers to the mod gods (well, modders :)) were answered. stuff you had been wishing for and waiting for, hoping your wish would be answered

#i recently re-opened my w3 and remembered to download a couple i had wanted to get for a while but was too lazy to install :)#the things i wont play w3 without now… ummmm top 5…#hairband mod. is number one #blonde jaskier mod. no debate #yennefer’s hair is also a pretty big one for me #maybe ciri armor mod bc girl you’re gonna freeze and die wearing only a shirt or a crop top armor #im not doing brunette dandelion im too old for ts #and then the mod that takes off regis’s sideburns #the elbow-high diaries

do-you-ship-this-book-couple

Do you ship...

Geralt & Yennefer (Witcher)

Yes, I ship them

I'm neutral about them

No, I don't ship them

In a fucked up way because it compels me

Not before but now I'm intrigued

Platonically

They're divorced

I don't know them

Voting ended onJul 6

#before you vote remember something more part iii belleteyn and then also lady of the lake chapter 12 rivia and avalon !! ok i said it all #interested to see the tumblr response to this post #gauge the opinion of the witcher fans specifically on this site #i love how it’s ‘yes’ ‘no’ and ‘they’re divorced’ are all leading #s: you’ve condemned yourself to me

clairedelune-13

The thing is with people who try to role-play as “Book!Geralt” are ultimately missing a large component of the fact that he was essentially reborn in Witcher 1.

He canonically died and ascender into Arthurian legend.

Then he comes back without any of his memories, and went through a slew of new experiences that “Book Geralt” never did.

Then he gets his memories back and he’s still not exactly the guy we see in the books, either.

He’s been through more shit, his perspectives have changed.

Dying will do that to a person.

So saying something like “Book!Geralt would never do that”.

Maybe not, but that version of him was a very different person and had literally not died yet.

I think playing a book accurate Geralt when it comes to the games is extremely limiting and a little boring.

hanzajesthanza

i’m thinking of doing a book-geralt playthrough and this post made me think deeply! i see your point, because the very term “book geralt” is in-of-itself, very broad. geralt at the very beginning of the series is as much a “book geralt” as geralt at the end of lady of the lake. and even in one book or short story, he is a different person by the end of it, because that’s just how character arcs work (unless it’s a flat character arc)

also, sapkowski makes a point that geralt in the books can be unpredictable and unknowable, when things shift out of his perspective (blood of elves ch 5, time of contempt ch 2) so even though there are some pretty “not-geralt” choices in the games, the borders are probably more blurred than people think.

and what counts as “evil” is really dependent on the narrative and how it’s framed. for example, geralt in the very first short story cuts down three men in a bar fight because they harassed him, and this isn’t given moral judgement — but when ciri does it baptism of fire, i think it is more intended to show her moral decay (as a book ago she was horrified at killing a man)

this point also explains a lot of “mis”characterization of the games, even though that logic might not change the purely emotional reaction (for example, my annoyance is why regis in blood and wine is so depressed, even though it makes complete and utter sense for him to be, in the context of the story they were trying to tell in BaW… i admit it’s literally just a personal bias i have, i irrationally just miss the optimist from the books, even though in this context, he wouldn’t exist anymore)

on the other hand, i think part of the fun is deciding what that “book version” of the characters means for yourself. the appeal for me is that it’s almost like someone asking you: “what do you think is the most book-like decision here” and asking you to defend your answer, like a personal debate in my head.

and then there’s also the more fanon and personal interpretation. like i’m sure book geralt might visit brothels occasionally, but i don’t, because i don’t have anything to care about there. so it’s not as much of limitation, like being on a diet, but more like interpretation, like choosing how what kinds of and how much seasoning to add to your food to make it fit your palate. the roleplaying is just for fun, like character analysis on the fly…

overall, people will definitely have different experiences, i see story-driven video games like this as very personal and individualized experiences, despite giving us all (versions of) the same story.

i think the problem is insisting that everyone make the same choices, when that’s obviously contrary to how the games, with their decision-making, exist. at the same time, it’s also valid to critique certain choices from that “books perspective” and debate over whether or not a character would do it

i will say that reading the books changed my whole perspective on geralt and enhanced the playability/replayability of the games, but they were also just as enjoyable without having read the books. i did a lot of things that, objectively, “book geralt” would not have done, but i had a lot of fun playing. that said, now that i’m more of a book fan, i can’t get “book geralt” out of my head, so now i’d rather roleplay as him than do my own thing.

this really makes me question how i will approach witcher iv, but i feel like i will personally be more lenient because ciri in the books is a much more morally grey character, at different times in the saga she embodies both good and evil, and then in the end becomes something else, that sapkowski won’t tell us 😂 but i predict that i would find more satisfaction from an “evil” run of witcher iv, than i would of witcher 3 🤔

sorry for the essay, as i said, this made me think 😂

#the elbow-high diaries

me: “huh i never checked out this witcher creator before, i wonder what they have to say”

not even one minute into the video: “DEI—“

#i hope women POC and LGBT people take over the witcher and all these guys lose their minds and commit seppuku to retain their ‘honor’#i can’t believe 50% of the earth’s population is DEI 🙄 wokeslop for sure #the elbow-high diaries

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