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when giving a witcher CPR do you do chest compressions:
same speed as for a human
1/4 the speed to match their regular heartbeat
regarding book!dandelion’s much discussed misogyny one thing i find insanely amusing is how the gamer bro fanbase perceives it.
because to me, it’s like, supposed to be one of his weaknesses. it’s one of the ways in which he is unhinged that continuously gets him in trouble. yeah, there’s a joke here and there. but like. dudu thinks he can get away in dandelion’s form? nah man, the angry woman with the frying pan knocks you out, worst decision you made that day. he’s afraid he’ll get murdered if they go to toussaint. he survives the quest to end up on a scaffold because he couldn’t stop fucking around.
yet, when you see the dude bro “book stans’” reaction to the queer netflix reveal there are very personal grievances when they say “you made the womanizer gay!!!”. we know he’s not gay. he’s bi. he fucks more than twice the amount. but the fact that “the womanizer” would as much as look at a man somehow hurts these people in their masculinity, which reveals they think this part of him to be the cool, masculine part.
and it’s really funny to me, because i have this idea of sapkowski using bard characters (he does it in the hussite trilogy as well) to have some, dare i say it, subversive masculinities. because dandelion is very un-masculine in the context of the story. not only does he challenge the temerian knights and others by directly insulting their idea of masculinity and often ridicules the hierarchic structures he himself benefits from despite having fled the connected responsibilities. he’s not a fighter, he’s a poet, he’s not ‘hot’, he is pretty. he’s a coward, he is vain, he is bitchy, he is emotionally intelligent. he laments the gruesomeness of war that is nothing like the heroic masculine stories told about it. he is kind of the mum of the hansa. in short, he is very ‘feminine’, except for his womanizing and his misogynist moments (and the drinking). the parts of him that are, as i said, the most pathetic of his character. and yet, readers who are caught up in the structures of hegemonic masculinities perceive it as a way to consolidate his place in the hierarchy. in a way, his assholery is his redeeming quality in the masculine order. or at least that is what i believe, because why else would they have such an extreme reaction. if dandelion loses his one hegemonic masculine trait of putting himself above women by also sleeping with men, then he is not a man.
[i am aware the concept of masculinities has fluctuated massively in history, which is the point of hegemonic masculinities, and that medieval courtly masculinities had their own ‘feminized’ moments, with monks complaining about the knightly fashion making them look like vain women, but this is a fantasy saga that the reader perceives from contemporary standards, and the masculinities presented are very warrior-centered]
plus, i imagine it complicates his friendship with geralt. because they are bro bros, going to the BROthel together, sharing beds, kissing each other on the cheek for goodbye. if one of these bros is interested in dick, it makes emotional intimacy among men ~weird~. it makes the dude bros go “a bro cant have anything”. but bro, bro, you could have everything. you could even have a bite of dandelion.
Rewatching that scene where Philippa and Dijkstra have the mages from the Conclave all lined up, what occurs to me is how much of a goddamn unsatisfactory bitch of a situation that was.
Philippa saw what was coming. She saw it before anyone else did. And she tried everything in her considerable power to stop it. But she needed Tissaia's help to do it.
I get the impression that Phillipa and Tissaia were close beyond close before Vilgefortz came along. The dynamo whose magnetism powered the entire Continent. But where Philippa saw it, saw Vilgefortz for what he was and what he was capable of... Tissaia didn't. I feel like Philippa tried to reach her first as confidant, lover, friend, ally. She spoke in the language of the heart.
But when Tissaia wouldn't listen to heartfelt warnings from the heart, Philippa had the courage to break up with her. However you read their relationship, that is a huge statement for her to make. She spoke in the language of dignity, of not allowing even the person who is closest to her to shake her from what she knows is the truth.
When that didn't work, Philppa tried one last time. She manipulated Redania into such a position of power and influence that she had the power to collar the great and the powerful of the entire northern Continent. (What an incredible flex btw, RESPECT.) She was screaming now, speaking to Tissaia in the language of Power.
And even in this moment, look at her character design!!! This woman's heart is so open to Tissaia. Her hair is heart-shaped, the popped collar mimicking the theme, ruffles spilling out just like her love and her yearning to be heard. (Screams in theater kid.)
But even when she thought she'd finally get Tissaia to listen, even when she thought she'd be able at last to turn the tide by at last getting Tissaia to turn the power of Aretuza against the coming horrors, there was nothing she could do to get through. Vilgefortz, vile fucker that he was, had made manipulations so deep and so effective that the Conclave ate itself alive instead. She saw it coming, she tried everything she knew how to do to stop it, and when it mattered most, the only person in the whole world she needed to hear her was deaf to her. What a fucking goddamn unsatisfactory bitch of a situation. My guess is that Philippa would never have tried to take over the Continent if Tissaia had just listened to her in the first place. This all could have been avoided, but instead, the tragedy just keeps rolling downhill and gaining speed. It really sucks that she couldn't get through.
🚨NEW LAMBERT ART 🚨
From the new book (release 05/13/2025) The Little Witcher; Illustration by Giada Carboni ♥
Young Ciri’s extensive training at Kaer Morhen, the witchers’ stronghold, includes everything she needs to learn to survive the many threats in her world . . . as well as all the antics and fun of a little girl bonding with her adoptive dad and family.
With help from Geralt and Ciri’s closest companions—including the motherly magic of Yennefer of Vengerberg and the wisdom of uncle Vesemir—these adorable tales of a non-traditional family will make you laugh, make you sigh, and make you realize that raising a Little Witcher is not that different from raising any other kid. Sure, bedtime stories might include warnings of monsters who fart when surprised, and Geralt might invoke the Witcher Code to get Ciri to brush her teeth or clean her room, but even the formidable White Wolf knows to surrender when it comes to bedtime battles or Afternoon Tea with the toys.
Geraskier makes me a little bit crazy because over the three seasons, it changes so much, but it's not very noticeable from an outsider's view.
Season 1, Jaskier is in love with Geralt, but Geralt is not in love with Jaskier, but Jaskier is trying to change Geralt's mind. He's optimistic. He keeps giving little lead-ins: "and yet here we are," "we could go to the coast," etc. Geralt never even looks that direction and in the end sends him away.
Season 2, Geralt is not in love with Jaskier, and Jaskier has decided not to be in love with Geralt. He's still his friend, that's inarguable, but he holds him at arm's length. He doesn't push in to be closer. They are friends and that's all.
Season 3 ends with Jaskier in love with Geralt and Geralt not in love with Jaskier. But this time, Jaskier seems to have accepted it. He's not trying to win Geralt's affections, he only wants to be with him, to help him however he can.
Their relationship has changed so much and the thing that gets me is that Geralt never seems to acknowledge it. Jaskier does, even Yennefer does, but Geralt doesn't. I'm so curious how they are going to move forward from here in season 4 and if it ever gets properly addressed.
Okay I've had a couple days to stew, I finished the sewing I was sewing when the trailer dropped, I got it shipped and it arrived at its destination. Let's talk about the Witcher 4 trailer because I'm not impressed.
I don't care about the fact that it says The Witcher Ciri is the best ending. Empress Ciri made no sense to begin with and the dead Ciri ending straight up just isn't in character for Geralt. This is fine.
What I DON'T like is the fact that Ciri is a full blown Witcher. Oh Andromeda is it because she's a woman?! Are you sexist??? You're mad because they made a girl Witcher??? Are you one of those game bros that hates women??? No!
Retconning the trial of the grasses like this sits very wrong with me and it's not "oh she can't be a Witcher cuz girls can't be witchers". There are tons of other media in this multimedia franchise with female witchers. The thing these all have in common is that they were Children when they went through the trials. Ciri would've been twenty at the Youngest when she went through the trials, which is a major retcon that it has Implications. In Kaer Morhen's map in the Witcher 3 you can go into one of the caves, read a thing about all the boys and the ages they were when they went through the trials. They were about 6-10 years old. The thing about the trials is it's heavily implied that you do the trials while they're so young so their body can adapt to them and make them fully a Witcher and being prepubescent is a necessary aspect for proper mutation. After a certain age (around puberty) the trials become Unsurvivable. With the Ciri full Witcher thing this is retconned, obviously, but that leaves me with one question. Why then were we torturing and horrifically medically traumatising the kids that survived, of which over half didn't, if you could just make a Witcher as an adult? I want, so genuinely, to hold out hope that they'll explain this in a way that makes sense but the fact that they made her a fully mutated Witcher instead of using the Elder Blood as a way of explaining how she's doing a Witcher's job doesn't make me eager. The Elder Blood was already there, the Elder Blood already made her crazy stupid powerful, it was already cool and unique no changes to Ciri needed to be made as an entire compelling game system can be built around her learning how to control that aspect of herself without going through the formulaic Witcher stuff we got with Geralt.
I love Ciri, I don't mind playing as Ciri! My thing about this isn't against Ciri. What I am is Very scared with this trailer drop that we are not getting Ciri as I love her, but instead a mass produced marketable recognisable brand image. I do not trust that CDPR knows who Ciri is. I do not have faith we will get a Good (read: compelling, complex, multifaceted, unique, and well understood) Ciri. I'm not even holding out hope that we will see her blink mechanic from the third game. CDPR has proven, multiple times, they do not care about internal consistency in their games. From the fact that the Shani romance option from the Witcher 1 had NO effect on the Witcher 2 and no MENTION of it until much later in the updates, to the poor writing and consistency around Radovid's age (of which he is textually in these games referred to as being born in 1255 making him 15, 16, and 17 but treated in dialogue and appearance like he's 40), to the fact that none of the choices in the Witcher 2 mattered for the state of the politics in the Witcher 3, it is expressly clear CDPR does not care about making their games consistent. I would not be surprised if Ciri's entire characterisation, arc, and abilities are completely shattered with the release of the Witcher 4.
I expected a Ciri protagonist, I did, they were going to keep the brand recognisable and Ciri IS the central figure of which everything in the books revolves around this is fine. I also understand that they are not using books canon and this is their own thing. What I think though is that, if this goes the way it's looking at the moment, the stripping her of everything that made her unique is more disrespectful to Ciri as a character than the fact that she's a Woman Witcher. She can be a Woman Witcher! However she was not using her Elder Blood powers in that trailer, she was not blinking around that monster, she was not manipulating time and space as she was even shown to do in the Witcher Three. Sure it's a cinematic trailer and not gameplay, things can change between now and then, but I am Very Apprehensive with what they've showed us so far.
I want a Ciri protagonist where we get Ciri, the Lady of Time and Space, not just Another Witcher. Not just the same formula as the last three games. I hope when we get more info they actually show us they understand Ciri instead of Geralt 2, electric boogaloo, girl version this time. I want to play as Ciri!! I'm Very Nervous.
About bards and flowers or what’s up buttercup?
It's not the top of my skills. It's not even the middle ground. I'm too busy at Uni and by writing raports for my boss as poems. But that's what I did at work today. 'Cause we have to talk about Jaskier.
And i feel like my english is really terrible here, sorry
Btw have you heard song’s from first tv show? Zamachowski may not look the part but please, listen:
Now let's move to more popular language, the one that made everyone explain who is Jaskier.
A little confusing? Well, that's the translation that made most people know this character. But before English one there were others. For example:
We get it, it's flower. And they didn't have courage to actually use translation of "jaskier" so they picked other flowers. But behold...
When I created this all I could think about was how Geralt would make some mistakes... But a little explanation. When the first translation of Witcher came up in Czech Triss wasn't even introduced in stories.
And of course let's not forget that bard's name is not actually Jaskier. It's Julian (in Polish we pronounce it like Yulian) Alfred Pankratz Viscount de Lettenhove. And in Netflix show poor thing tries to say it in every season. The thing is the book Jaskier would never. He had some reasons to be honest. Like you need your heart to live reason.
Actually the 1st hint we get in Baptism of Fire (3rd saga book and 5th in general):
It's the 1st time we even see name Lettenhove in books and as it may seems like he's talking about one of his lovers it's really "If my mother could see me now". Here I would also wanna say that if Netflix won't give us this drinking scene and Jaskier and Zoltan falling asleep as they hug I will riot.
And here he was making fun of long names:
This guy was telling everyone about Geralt's love life and Ciri. But he didn't even say what's his first name is.
We learn it at the very end of The Tower of Swallows. And by "we" I mean everyone including Geralt. Also that's first time we hear that he's viscount.
What he's full name it we learn at the end of very last book The Lady of The Lake. And that's also another scence that I demand to be shoot without any changes. Netflix, I'm looking at you.
At the end I'll just say that there is one thing I find really cute. In many fanfictions I saw writers using "Julek" as pet name for Jaskier. And that's what we use to call Julians in Poland. It's just so so lovely that so many writers looked it up.
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And btw I see many of you assuming that Lettenhove have to be a place. But it could just be surrname. In Poland noble titles were given to houses and not every surrname was connected to some town or village of same name. But at some point nobles wanted to emphasize that they're noble. So they started to put their titles after names and before surrnames. Normally it would be Viscount Julian Alfred Pankratz de Lettenhove. And Lettenhoves may have some lands, castles ect. But not nessecery the whole town. Or they could. But it could be of different name.
Analysis of Jaskier's songs from s1—
—and how they reflect the narrative events and Jaskier's character arc through the show. I'm trying to keep this as canon as possible and not look at it through shipping goggles, but there is textual stuff about Jaskier's relationship with and love for Geralt that's impossible to ignore.
Toss a Coin to Your Witcher: Jaskier’s first big break, the famous and famously annoying Toss a Coin. He wrote this when he was around eighteen and it definitely feels immature. He’s cracking bad jokes like “elf on a shelf” (god I hate that one, it grates me every time) and substituting “bleat” for “beat.” He’s taking enormous creative liberties with facts. And he’s being a little thoughtless; in his enthusiasm to hero-wash Geralt, he’s throwing elves under the bus, calling them devils and pests while he’s talking about Geralt as a friend to “humanity.” (more about this when we get into some of his later songs and his time as the Sandpiper)
