#jelenedrake

[artsyneurotic]

jelenedrake replied to your post  “Hrm… I feel like drawing some simple portraits tonight… anyone have...”

Atton Rand always makes me happy.                    

[asolitaryrose]

jelenedrake replied to your post “I can't play the W/itcher 2 because at one point they mention "G/eralt...”

See I know Triss lied but she spends most of 3 regretting that lie and trying to make it up to Geralt. I felt at least....

i fully admit i’m biased. when i feel that a game is clearly showing me “the right path” i tend to go the other way because i deeply resent when games do that - see: the whole Theirin/Mac Tir debacle - so i might be a little harder on Triss because of that but... it’s true she tries to atone. she helps Geralt find Ciri, she organizes the mages escape from Novigrad... 

but i do think an honest conversation between her and Geralt was necessary, because as things stand, i have to listen to every single NPCs railing about how horrible Yen is but how perfect of a gf Triss is and i just. i hate it. and while she never outright asks Geralt to stay, the fact that she constantly throws herself at him is really awkward/grating. and i don’t think it’s ever acknowledged that what she did to Geralt was fucked up and wrong. 

i’d like her character better without Geralt interfering tbh. to me, he hurts her character development and undermines her growth. ultimately i think Triss going to Kovir on her own and making her own destiny is what’s best for her as a (fictional) person. i really feel like CDPR did her a disservice by watering her down and not allowing her as much depths and complexity as a character like Yennefer. 

[asolitaryrose]

jelenedrake replied to your post “jelenedrake replied to your post “I can’t play the W/itcher 2...”

In my (admittedly unfinished) Triss playthrough I got the impression that Triss was afraid to ask Geralt for anything. She tries to stay away even when Geralt begs her to stay and says he loves her still. Her face during these scenes is painful, she has this selfloathing written across her face like "you THINK you do" and "I don't deserve that" that gets me everytime.

and i’m not surprised she thinks that given that their romantic entanglement is based on her lying by omission and him thinking she’s the sorceress he has vague memory of... idk i find it hard to sympathize with her because it’s just... so messed up. but tbf it’s mostly CDPR’s fault. how does no one ever mention Yennefer to Geralt when he’s in Kaer Morhen? Lambert? Eskel? Vesemir? They all know he doesn’t remember her and no one says anything. 

i like their friendship well enough, i just think a romantic relationship between them doesn’t work at all, and both of them are better off without the other, especially Triss. 

[becausedragonage]

lyd-ia replied to your photo “goblinthief: what?? the heck?? dawn?? @becausedragonage I may be...”

Also 'herth' here, maybe its a Nova Scotian thing?

jelenedrake replied to your photo “goblinthief: what?? the heck?? dawn?? @becausedragonage I may be...”

Also HERTH here. It's not a HEART dammit. It's where fire goes. Heart burn is bad, mmkay?

astarbrat replied to your photo “goblinthief: what?? the heck?? dawn?? @becausedragonage I may be...”

I 100% say "herth," so you're not alone.

crowsister replied to your photo “goblinthief: what?? the heck?? dawn?? @becausedragonage I may be...”

wait i pronounce it like that too. it's...it's not pronounced like that?

I’ll also note @autisticinquisitor pronounces it like I do to. From what I’ve read the two sounds have common roots in Old English anyway and diverged at some point so you got hearth sounding like /harth/ and heard sounding like /herd/. I actually do use the /harth/ pronouciation sometimes to, but less often.

[sarasa-cat]

jelenedrake replied to your post: “sorceressrinoa replied to your post “Note about purging LJ accounts”...”:

((ugh stupid tumblr jumped my reply to the wrong post. sorry!((

Haha! No worries. ;D

[storyhoard]

jelenedrake replied to your post: so i’m looking up critical role because a) my...

Because it’s an actual play of people playing D&D.

i’ve never played dnd so idek but like in normal people’s sessions i’m sure there isn’t additional 20-40 minutes of like.... ads 

[becausedragonage]

jelenedrake replied to your photo “abbiemillsamericandream: *sniff* Thank you”

We all need Nicole Beharie in our lives daily.

Truer words were never spoken.

[artsyneurotic]

habitatfour replied to your post “Uncharted: Lost Legacy”

the thing with chloe's indian heritage is that it didn't exist until lost legacy lmao. her original character concept from one of the artbooks was just "dark and exotic" to contrast elena's girl-next-door vibe. i don't think she was ever meant to be assumed white but the indian heritage thing is technically a retcon? to set up the backstory for lost legacy.

pohutukaryl replied to your post “Uncharted: Lost Legacy”

the 2 and Trilogy art books said she was mixed race but didn't specify

jelenedrake replied to your post “Uncharted: Lost Legacy”

*coughs* Nate's journal in Uncharted 2 alludes to the fact she is part Native American (and from Oklahoma!) Maybe I recognized the reference cuz I am from there? Or maybe my brain just made that connection. There was something there though because I remember thinking that was cool way back when.

Hmmmm, interesting, so maybe it wasn’t just me! lol... I guess it does sound like a retcon, but something they made purposely ambiguous from the get-go so they could change it later if they wanted?  I mean her design went through more visual changes than the other characters, so it almost seems like they hadn’t really firmly decided on her background ‘til this game.