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but hc saying this:

"I didn't even have the need to prepare myself for the role. Because I breathe, I live this universe every day. I already got numerous opportunities to think about this character while I was playing the games. My preparation was already made before the casting started!"

except then there's all this:

and then meanwhile there's cassie:

mecia:

therica:

and joey:

astaldis

"While he was not as well versed in the novels as his predecessor" - Wrong!!!

It's so infuriating to see this myth repeated over and over. Cavill had not read the books before Lauren Hissrich introduced him to the novels. Same as Liam. No difference, only that Liam did not annoy the shit out of everybody to get the role, like Henry did.

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also at least liam's been honest about his experience with the franchise, too, and how he wanted to check things out re the books and the show before he signed on because he wasn't familiar with either and he hasn't tried to sell himself as some massive superfan and lorebuff like hc did even though hc didn't even know the books existed until lauren told him and had only really played tw3 and by his own admission, he didn't actually prepare for the role or do any research for it when he sought it out.

#the witcher #henry cavill #liam hemsworth #I fell out of witcher midway through s2 #hc was my least fav part of s1 #just cos I don't like him in other roles lol #fukkin hated his superman

rythyme

Wait. I kinda thought that the Geralt/Dandelion ship was entirely manifested via the Joey Batey effect — i.e. he has chemistry with everyone and everything he's on the screen with. The ship doesn't come from the games, bc honestly Dandelion and Geralt don't have much screentime together or chemistry in Witcher 3. So it's gotta be a side effect of the show, right?

But now I'm reading the books?? And y'all. I have now reached a new conclusion: the books are actually the gayest version of Geraskier.

rythyme

The very first time Dandelion is introduced, there's a priestess who's kinda shitting on our dear bard, and Geralt just sits there like "but he's my friend :("

Nenneke: Do you want to see him?

Geralt: Of course. He's my friend.

Nenneke: I can't understand that friendship. He's your absolute opposite.

Geralt: Opposites attract.

Nenneke: Obviously. There, he's coming. Your famous poet.

Geralt: He really is a famous poet, Nenneke.

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/#is there any basis in canon for geralt being a dick to dandelion all the time or is that just something the show did for fun

imo a lot of that was likely due to henry cavill cutting his lines as it sounds like a lot was being cut during his scenes with jaskier in particular:

“All the grunts, I either added or I didn’t say anything and just grunted instead. It was often up to the other actors to go, ‘I think he’s not gonna say anything now.’”

“Henry likes to cut his lines, 'cause he’s lazy. No, he literally just likes to cut them. He likes to do more up here [frames his face with his hands] and just with face and hmms and grunts. There’s a lot of hmms, and so I often have to take a lot of his lines and turn it into a lot of my stuff so that the plot happens.”

“Joey did all the work, I just had to take the right look and… we had a ready-made 'comedy.’”

“I didn’t even cut that much. Just little bits when someone says how they feel, I thought if Geralt says nothing, and maybe the well-known grunts or hmms and sometimes the occasional f-word, people can take from that what they will.”

“I wanted to make [Geralt’s voice] something which carried a lot of weight when you say very little. And I found my natural accent didn’t quite portray what I wanted Geralt to portray in those brief moments. Whether it be a grunt or a single word or a couple of words directed at a bard.”

“Henry tends to cut his lines, say less, which means I have to say more. So I had to improvise quite often.”

also, by henry cavill's own admission, he didn't want to play them as friendly as they are in the books:

plus i don't exactly think it's a coincidence that this was really only a problem in s1 and how each subsequent season has only improved upon their friendship when henry cavill changed how he wanted to play geralt after he got dunked on by reddit for his performance in s1 because he cut geralt's lines and made geralt come off like a grumpy snowman.

(however, with all that being said, there ARE times when geralt is an asshole to dandelion in the books and crosses the line. not all the time, but there are still definitely times.)

#ok this is refreshing to read cos i felt like i was crazy being annoyed with s1 geralt??#since the internet seems to love him so much and say he was the perfect geralt #henry cavill #geralt #the witcher

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#joey batey #jaskier

iskisaggie

Needy Geralt, I repeat NEEDY GERALT 🗣️

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#omggg #geraskier #geraskier art #the witcher art

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2x04 // sirens of the deep

#sirens of the deep #the witcher #the witcher sirens of the deep #jaskier gifs #jaskier

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jaskier walked so casanova could run

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Prompt 140

"What?" Geralt asks, frowning, a furrow in his brow. "I turn into a wolf every full moon." Jaskier repeats. "How-" "You were always away on a hunt. You'd just meet me back in the morning." "...You were a werewolf this whole time?" "..Yes. I- I'm sorry, Darling. I never wanted to lie." "Why didn't you trust me with this? Did you think I would hurt you?" "No! I thought I would hurt you. I'm not myself on full moons, Geralt. I can't even remember them. All I know is that the moon raises, i feel this ache in my bones, and the next thing I know, I'm waking up the next morning, nude, with a full stomach of what is HOPEFULLY nothing gross." "...You've not transformed in towns, have you?" "No! Of course not! I'm terrified of hurting someone, Geralt! That's the only reason I'm telling you now! I got the charts mixed up, I thought the moon was still a week away, but it isn't, and we're near a town, and I need you to keep me restrained." A long pause settles between them. "You want me to guard you?" "Guard them. From me. Keep me trapped in a shack and- And lock it up tight. Chain me, hurt me, knock me out, whatever you must do. Keep me from being a danger. I never wanted to be a terrifying beast, Geralt." Jaskier says, with those damned wet doe eyes of his. Geralt agrees. Because he doesn't know a world where he wouldn't. Mere hours later, Jaskier is sat against a beam in an old rundown barn. He's tied up with rope, and chained on top of that. There are no windows in the barn, the door is fully barricaded and locked, and Geralt guards it. "You really should guard it from outside" Jaskier had said. "I'm not leaving you to do this alone. You never should have had to." Geralt replied. Thus, Geralt stands and watches as Jaskier pales and starts twitching. The moon is rising. "It's coming- I'm going to be a beast." Jaskier says with fear, before the transformation takes the air out of his lungs. Geralt watches in horror and awe as Jaskier's body changes, changes, changes.... In... Into a songbird? sitting on the ground is a fat little songbird. It easily hops over the ropes and chains, now much too lose to hold it. Him. Oh my gods. Jaskier's not a werewolf. He's a... were.... werebird... And not even a scary one. Jaskier starts pecking the barn floor and Geralt rubs a hand over his face in exhaustion. He prepared for the worst, and instead is treated to watching Jaskier struggle to bathe in a trough. "Jaskier, it's too deep." He tells the bird, as it fluffs up it's wings. "Jaskier, you're going to-" Jaskier tries to take a step into the birdbath, only to fall, dunking his whole fat little body into the depths of the trough. He flails about in the water, chirping panickedly. Geralt rushes to his aid, gently lifting him out of the water with gentle hands. Perhaps guarding over Jaskier will still be a challenge after all.

#I'm dead lmao #werebird #jaskier

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YENNEFER OF VENGERBERG THE WITCHER (2019 - )

#the witcher #the witcher gifs #yennefer of vengerberg #anya chalotra #rience

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no bc can we fucking talk about this

the fact that jaskier tries to pull away the second he sees rience reach for him. he tries. he fucking tries. even if he knows he can't move his hand more than a few inches he fucking tries out of sheer terror.

but rience still grabs his hand anyway. of course he does. jaskier never had a chance of avoiding this and both of them know it.

but you see how fucking hard rience squeezes jaskier's fingers.

you see how tightly he grips jaskier's hand, even if it's barely a second before his grip relaxes (and in the clip you can hear him hiss in pain). it's not even a necessary movement, since Jaskier would never have been able to evade his grip; it's very clearly a nonverbal command to stop resisting.

and it works.

jaskier keeps his hand stretched out. he stops trying to evade it. he knows rience will do this and he's too terrified (and exhausted from previous torture) to evade it anymore. because he knows it wont work.

and once jaskier's hand relaxes, rience's grip loosens again. he's not even gripping Jaskier's hand anymore. because he knows he doesn't need to. because he knows jaskier won't pull away again.

at this point all rience has to do is just. keep his own hand opened up to keep jaskier's fingers outstretched and laying on his. he's relaxed. he's almost absentminded about it. because he can be at this point.

because jaskier won't pull away even when he sees rience conjure the flame that he knows he will use on his hand.

i just. the way rience emphasizes his control over the situation by making jaskier keep his hand still even though he fully fucking understands what rience is going to do. he's literally holding what makes jaskier who he is in his fingertips and fully intends to destroy it and knows he can hold it gently because there will be so little resistance. because he has already terrified and tormented and shaken jaskier so badly that all he needed to do was squeeze his hand to get him to stop resisting. I'm just. I'm so sick.

#jaskier whump #rience #jaskier #the witcher