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@numberonefunpatrol
Hello mutual in law twice removed, I am a Polish person contacting you, dunno if that's still a thing you need
what are your thoughts on the 90s
I think you need to consider that the short stories were written in the 80's. So witcher doesn't only reflect post-communist times but also tail end of PRL
Where has the weird prevalence in the Witcher fanfic community that Vampires don't sleep come from? As far as I can tell the books never imply Regis doesn't sleep and the games outright show Vampires sleeping, such as the guy in Novigrad asleep in the coffins, Regis has a bed in his Crypt (albeit a rather uncomfortable looking one) and there is a document referring to Regis' thought before he falls asleep.
Like CDPR changed a lot about existing Witcherverse Vampire lore but I can't even blame them for this one this seems to be entirely fan made.
Which is odd cause most Vampire media depicts sleepy Vampires going for daytime naps in coffins so I genuinely don't know where this headcanon originates.
Normally I can point to the plausible origin of most non-canon fandom headcanons but this one genuinely does not make sense to me.
there are couple of things like that. Like hot springs or animalistic caracters of witchers. Or Jaskier/Dandelion being small.
ive said it once ill say it a million times (<- still mad) theres straight up One (1) choice i Agree with and its making dandelion/jaskier less misogynistic. bc he kinda sucks in the books. hes weird abt yennefer once (which might have even been a translation thing bc that was in the book the translator was Weird About Women in) and is a serial adulterer and doesnt care too much about fucking up those womens' lives so thank you to joey batey for making him more a romantic and less a womanizer.
HOWEVER!!!!!
even THAT is a specific and pointed choice andrzej sapkowski made because the whole series is about morality and he made dandelion suck a bit BECAUSE you find yourself still liking him anyways. hes not a good, standup guy to the ppl he sleeps with BUT hes also incredibly kind and does a lot to help the marginalized people AND he sucks irt his sexual/romantic partners. the point Is that You Still Like Him you Still Enjoy Him even THOUGH he sucks a bit. even in this paragraph alone im using language that reduces his Suckage BECAUSE i like him and the point of his character is to make you examine that. hes a good guy and a stalwart friend and cares so much about people and hes also very flippant with his sexual partners and very much uses them. but you find yourself still liking him. and thats a hard opinion to have and to marry and THAT IS THE POINT!!!!!!!!!! SO EVEN TAKING AWAY HIS MISOGYNY IS A DEFANGING!!!
Paradoxicaly when we talk morality book Dandelion is still a better person than Jaskier, even with his promisculity given the events of The Edge of the World
Interesting things from recentmeeting of sapkowski and fans. As posted on reddit by NoWishbone8247 who participated in it and shamelessly copied to tumblr by me :)
Today, as part of the Opole Book Festival, a meeting with Mr. Andrzej Sapkowski took place, led by Daniel from Strefa Czytacza and Geralt of Rivia: The Story of "The Witcher"! Below is a "short" report.
The meeting took place in the Opole Philharmonic building and lasted almost an hour. Then, Mr. Andrzej signed books for the participants of the meeting (one at a time) for over an hour.
What could we learn at the meeting?
As always, Mr. Andrzej recounted many anecdotes from his life. Including the following:
- He mentioned the translations of his prose, where he stated that he considered the Czech ones to be the best. He also mentioned various translation "somersaults".
- When he was in Russia, they encouraged him to change the character of Mistle to a boy, because how is it a girl with a girl? To which he categorically refused, because, as he put it, "he would be damned". And the Russians, fearing this, caved in.
- He mentioned money very often... A coincidence? 😄 In particular, he remembers how he was given money by one of his fans after the publication of his first story.
- In jest (although ...) he mentioned that he is still waiting for the Golden Gloria Artis, because he already has a silver one and wants some Minister of Culture to finally call him a "national treasure". Ahh modesty!
- Mr. Andrzej mentioned that he writes to spite people who think that after 70 you shouldn't do anything anymore. And he does it to train his brain, so that sclerosis doesn't get him.
- He said that it was a "stupid thing" because he hadn't watched the animation "Nightmare of the Wolh", so the fact that he described the vision of the Kaer Morhen pogrom in a completely different way he called "well, that's too bad" 😄.
- Since he is a visual person, he tends to avoid audiobooks, but he is currently listening to the latest radio play by Wieża Jaskółki! However, he is doing it slowly.
- He mentioned that he has copies of his oldest publications somewhere (older than Steelhead), but it is his private copy and he hopes that people will forget about it.
And what is "most important"? Mr. Andrzej mentioned that he, unlike George R.R. Martin, will write another book! It is true that it will be published in about 10 years (at the latest), so we have to be patient 😄. However, he did not want to reveal whether it will be another Witcher or something else, although he admitted that he did not remember that during the Freedom Games he mentioned a book on the subject of the 30 Years' War 😉.
It is worth emphasizing that Daniel devoted almost half of the meeting time to the Fans, who gathered in large numbers at the Philharmonic Hall, could ask Mr. Andrzej questions. Among others, a question was asked about Leo Bonhart, about the Witcher author's attitude to adaptations (Mr. Andrzej stated that there are better and worse ones and that it is very rare for an adaptation to be better than the literary original, here he gave The Shining by Stephen King as an example), but he did not want to point out any specific adaptations of his prose and evaluate them. He also joked about the time he currently spends writing. This time I also managed to ask (as usual, rather incoherently) a question. I asked Mr. Andrzej if he had heard of or used the Witcher Wiki, a fan project that was created in 2006 and will soon celebrate its 19th anniversary! As it turns out, Mr. Andrzej not only knows the Witcher Wikipedia, but also uses it sometimes. Below is a quote:
"Of course I know what the Witcher Wiki is. What's more, I sometimes even look there. Not often, but I do. And that's because not only have I myself slightly, let's not be afraid of the word, inflated the onomastics in the books. There are an infinite number of names and names there. In addition, the adapters shamelessly add all sorts of crap to this onomastics and topomastics. With a persistence worthy of a better cause. Because of that, sometimes I also slowly start to get lost in all this. And then this wiki comes to me with invaluable help. Because then I can find out that, for example, the name of a given river is a name invented by CD Projekt, I have nothing against it, it lives peacefully. And sometimes it turns out that
the very name of the river that I was convinced was a river is actually a lake, and that's what I wrote myself a few books back. What the hell did I forget. So if it weren't for this Wiki, it would have happened a few nice blunders, which fortunately did not happen, so hooray if Wiki can be given some hooray, general applause". And here came the applause 🙂.
Once again witcher writters did not understand the source material.
The crux of the story was in conflicted feeling of geralt and his complicated relationship with essi. The human-merman conflict was the backdrop. Meanwhile they made conflict full blown war and completly botched the relationship. How can you read something and not understand it to this degree?! It's baffling. edit. Now that I sat on it for a bit. I might have been a little bit over dramatic. It's still not good but at least animation is nice. so that's something. 5.5/10
do you guys ever think about how geralt of rivia tied his fate to yennefer of vengerberg forever on essentially their first ever meeting do you guys ever think about do you
Well, this was the only way to save her from being brutally slaughtered by djin before his very eyes
you live up to your username, congratulations! what a feat.
besides, i don't think it was simple at all.
just doing my job boss o7
do you guys ever think about how geralt of rivia tied his fate to yennefer of vengerberg forever on essentially their first ever meeting do you guys ever think about do you
Well, this was the only way to save her from being brutally slaughtered by djin before his very eyes
The Heavy Mantle of True Neutrality.
Reached the halfway point of the Witcher series, "Time of Contempt", exemplified by a tired old grouch's quest to scoff as many vol-au-vents as he can before his hosts murder each other.
He should have been allowed to at least wear his headband. Yen is so cruel! This is as good as things can get for our small witcher family. From this point on it's going to be "suffering builds character -> suffering builds character -> suffering builds character-> sufferin..."
one reason a little sacrifice is my favorite story is the beginning's so funny like wdym you hired a witcher as a wingman for your situationship with a siren and wdym said witcher accepted
Work is hard to come by. If you get offered money AND you may not need to risk your life for that? Geralt is a reasonable tradesman, he would be a fool to refuse such a succulent deal
I'd play Witcher 3 but I don't want to romance a girl so. I skip the game.
you can actually play the game all the way through without romancing anybody
small witcher rant on how sapkowski writes women (it's mostly positive!!):
i just love the way sapkowski writes the main women.... it's not just abt their looks or virginity or whatever. while they are very feminine (and all magical, i've noticed), they've got A LOT of personality (like, actually, not the joke of calling big breasts "a big personality") PLUS that feminine rage to them, bc they're angry at the unfair world little girls are raised in. their views on themselves are shaped by this world, which critiques them at every opportunity, leading them to believe something is wrong w them if they dont fit in w societal expectations, such as the case w yennefer's beliefs..
Sapkowski is an interesting example of someone who became a feminist and holds progresive views (bodily authonomy, workplace emancipation) while also retaining some of the sexism he was raised with
should i read or watch the witcher series first?
let's just say that second season had only 11% of book content. If you plan of reading books remember to start with "Last Wish" (short stories)
One of my students once told me that, in his opinion, Roach is the most powerful character in the universe - no matter where Geralt leaves her (even on another continent), she can always come back to him, she can talk (even if some say that her voice is a side effect of witcher potions), and sometimes it seems that she's cleaver than her owner. Well... It's hard for me to disagree. Long live Roach! 😂🐎🗡️
Don't let them learn that Geralt had dozens of Roaches in his life and at least 6 over the course of the books. They are too innocent
Ciri: I think I'm starting my period.
The witchers, aghast:
Jaskier, who grew up with sisters: I've been trained for this moment my entire life. I got this.
they literally had to import triss into caer because they didn't know what to do xddd
Fully thawed out and ready to cook~
They deal with the monster in the caverns only to find Sato who was frozen hundreds of years ago and burried there for safety xd
Sushi
Hate to say this but I agree with Katana
I got so excited when I first met Elihal. I was like "OH, DANDELION HAS A BF TOO!!" nah fam, he doesn't.
Yep, Dandelion is only bi in the show. And his lover, Radovid is a child king in the books so that whole plotline couldn't even happen
Wait, Radovid as in THE Radovid? The one who gouged out Phillipa's eyes and burns mages at the stake for the fun of it? That Radovid??? That's Dandelions bf in the show?? I'm currently playing the third game, and I fucking hate that man.
That guy. To be fair, Phillipa had it coming. She murdered Radovid's father, Vyzimir - a beloved king and hero of the first Nilfgard War known for defeating army of 100 000 Nilfgardians in great Battle of Sodden Hill. After that she took to raising young Radovid as she saw fit and abused him severly. All of Radovid's madness and hate for mages can be tracked down to action of Phippila. He was a child when he saw his father die and had to endure being tutored by one who killed him for many years. Netflix for some reason decided to age up Radovid, gay him up and make him Vyzimir's brother. Quite wierd decision if I may say so myself.
