#bgmoth

[witcherbigbang]

It was almost like a song

Author: thegirl20

Artist: bgmoth

Rating: M

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Word Count: 33,027

Pairings: Tissaia de Vries/Yennefer, Yennefer & Jaskier

Tags: accidental bard acquisition, Mild Heterosexual Content

Summary:

Yennefer meets a Bard in a tavern one evening and they strike up a business arrangement. Quite how that leads to him writing love songs about her and Tissaia, she's not sure.

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[lizbethborden]

oh you weren't kidding when you said Wentworth writers can't concieve (and write) Joan as anything but a cartoonish sketch thrown from one extreme to another... the soap I was prepared for, but I'm not sure what was more frustrating - the failed attempt at adding nuance (??) to her character, or the fact that they put things I've wanted to see in her actual self in the mouth of this version of her

Legit, it’s awful, right? It’s really clear that they can’t conceive of her as a whole person with multiple facets, somebody who simultaneously has vulnerability and also an enormous capacity for cruelty. I feel like it really speaks to a buried lesbophobic element in the show’s writing (which also comes blazing to life in how Juice is written), with how deliberately and explicitly Joan is written as a lesbian predator (I know I’ve kind of ranted about this before but the way her characterization incorporates elements from serial killer popular mythology really makes for a compelling argument that she is “male-coded”, which in a way just means “lesbian”) as well as a hatred of certain kinds of mental illness--the show can handle and try to be sensitive to depression, i.e. in Bea’s storyline, but can’t deal with more stigmatized things like OCD, hallucinations, and psychosis. In fact I remember having a conversation a very long time ago with other fans about how for us, Joan’s mental illness was a humanizing element of her character which made us identify more with her, whereas the show’s writers used her disorder to dehumanize and other her. And now they’re trying to backtrack and retroactively embed a sympathy for the character that’s never before existed in the text (outside of probably a few individual moments in s2 and s3) because they’ve realized that she’s one of the most, if not the most interesting on the show and the reason viewers are coming back lol

[troiings]

🌹🌹🌹 (...hey, it said for *every*)

ohhoho

spoiler, we're seeing a lot of Nenneke in the next chapter of Stone...

"You know as well as anyone,” Tissaia remarks, taking a step in Nenneke's direction to examine another plant.

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Now, after weeks of treatment, Nenneke stands at her side, one hand firm against her chest, the other behind her back, and Tissaia breathes deeply without being asked; the breath elicits a cough, and the priestess makes a thoughtful sound at the slight rattle in Tissaia's chest, but says nothing.

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“The shrews, Yennefer.”

[thegirl20]

novak-fan replied to your post “Rectoress vs Rectress?”

IDK how relevant it might be but the Witcher Wiki use Rectoress in both the main and Netflix description for her character :)

troiings replied to your post “Rectoress vs Rectress?”

netflix botches subtitles from time to time. typos and sometimes the wrong dialogue entirely. i know this because i watch everything with subtitles. it happens. def rectoress.

bgmoth replied to your post “Rectoress vs Rectress?”

definitely rectoress. the other one feels wrong, even if it exists in us english.

I hadn’t even considered that it might be anything other than Rectoress until I, by chance, had the subtitles on one day. Then I looked up the definitions and saw the US ones and was conflicted. 

I’m glad we’re all in agreement. 

[wapwani]

bgmoth replied to your post “It took 10 episodes, but Motherland Fort Salem has sucked me in. Of...”

I've been eyeing it (mainly in and because of tumlr gifs) but still on the fence about it... should I make the hop?

It’s not perfect; some writing / story / character choices have left me wondering just wtf is going on in the writers’ heads. But the characters are interesting, and the world building / backstory is getting pretty interesting too. There are some excellent performances, and I think it has a little bit of everything for everyone. Lots of grey areas (at least, I think (and hope) that’s what they’re going for), not a lot of easy answers. A heck of a lot happens in the season finale, so I’m glad they’ve been renewed! 

[ussjellyfish]

bgmoth replied to your post “oh excel….why do you make my life so difficult”

petition to ban excel

seriously, especially when I have to do calc in it

[bonestrewn-a]

bgmoth replied to your post: hell of a thing to add this to a gal’s post and...

I’m more impressed by the north korea logic hop. that was legendary.

it’s almost kinda flattering that someone read a post of my unfiltered thoughts and was like “you know what you sound like? a TYRANNICAL DICTATOR.” like... makes me hopeful for my future y’know

[troiings]

the wip guessing game: reach

Tissaia rolls to her shoulder at this, reaching out. She doesn’t think, forgets to warn her, but when her hand lands on Yennefer’s arm, Yennefer doesn’t flinch, doesn’t move.