I KNEW making a post like that would draw yâall helpfully out of the woodwork, I love you all. This is why I keep Tumblr despite everything.
mosylu replied to your post âok ok ok okâ
I'm six episodes in and told my friend (who loves it) that it was delightful, addictive trash. She was deeply offended because she's not on Tumblr and doesn't know that trash =/= bad.
Ah, hilariously @thebibliosphereâ literally just had the same conversation on her blog! Somebody got offended when she called it trash and she was like jfc i write romance novels, itâs basically a reclaimed slur at this point, but of course she said it more eloquently. I just think itâs funny that it was also a conversation about The Witcher.
millicentthecat replied to your post âok ok ok okâ
in the second episode the bard (jaskier) is introduced and they have massive Gay Energy. also i think yennefer is introduced. ive watched four episodes and i recommend the first two for fic reading
Sigh that means I gotta find the second episode somewhere. I was really angling to get us to watch it at my friendâs house but nobody else was into it. Now I have to get creative!
mific replied to your post âok ok ok okâ
Yeah, read everything by astolat!
I have never played the game and I read her stuff before the series. No canon knowledge necessary to enjoy her fics.
sevenall replied to your post âok ok ok okâ
I read astolat's fic first. Amazing. Gerald/Emrys. Really, really amazing.
How Did You Know thatâs exactly who I was talking about. LOL I actually explained that to my friends, non-fannish though they are-- listen guys, on AO3, thereâs this, well, thereâs a ton of really good fic by a writer literally everyone loves, so weâre all like, primed to get into this series even if we donât know what the hap is fuckening because we want to read that sweet tasty delicious fic, ok!!!Â
I donât know who the fuck Emrys is but do I have to know that or can I just find out? Maybe Iâll just Google for spoilers, I honestly donât care whether I watch anything or not. (Maybe itâs because while Whatsname Supermanguy is very scenic he is also very much not my type; I didnât realize I wasnât into beef but I definitely, like, donât mind looking but have zero actual concrete interest, even in my normal sort of tepid demisexual sort of way where thereâs not really much physical zing either; I wouldâve said I have no physical type or anti-type, but it turns out, yeah no, scenic mountains of manliness are sort of decidedly Scenery Only. A pity, heâs clearly worked very hard on that scenery. Huh kind of like formal Versailles-style gardens; nice to look at, you can appreciate the effort, i would never ever want anything like that anywhere near where I actually existed.)
csevet replied to your post âok ok ok okâ
you haven't met jaskier/buttercup/dandelion/The Bard yet, which seems to be where most of the show fandom is shipping. but literally all you need to know about him is He's A Fantasy Story Bard, and exactly as chaotic bi and annoying as every other Fantasy Story Bard.
See this is the first reply I got and I was like ok, that is what I thought. I just read another thing where someone explained that in other canons, Jaskier is this irritatingly sort of slimy womanizer, and they explicitly decided in this version to make him An Incredibly Chaotic Bi Golden Retriever Omnisexual But Harmless type instead because itâs a new decade and we get new tropes, and I am in love with that, so I think I get it now. I support this and will subscribe to the newsletter.
I just donât know if iâll bother trying to find it to watch it, LOL.