#witcher series

[brokimoon]

[nastillda]

The Child of Destiny 👩🏻‍🦳🗡️

[meanpersonaart]

Painted a portrait of Book!Emiel Regis - that's how I kinda imagined him when I was reading the books all those years ago. I would love to add more detail, but I've had the rough sketch of this artwork in my w.i.p's for so long, I feel like If I had it un-finished for another month, I would have never finished it.

It was supposed to be a more broader portrait, but then I added lillies as a decoration and it looked prettier in smaller scale. So yeah.

[corvus-b]

Jaskier/Dandelion

[elven-sisters]

Like... Yeah, Ciri and Geralt once again ✨

[wolfsdensblog]

[faetyrantosaurus]

Just finished The Sword of Destiny (second book in the Witcher series), and I have some thoughts about “The Bounds of Reason.” So enjoy this really long rant that was written in my notes app after I finished the chapter. Also yes I was/am an English major. No, I don’t write too much.

The Bounds of Reason:

Geralt literally sleeps with everyone. Borch is like, “Hey, let’s go up to my room. Geralt, which one is your favorite?” And Geralt’s like, “Huh wtf are you talking about bro?? These oysters are fire tho.” Then Borch goes, “Ah, I can’t choose either,” referring to Vea and Tea. AND THEN GERALT JUST??? GOES UPSTAIRS TO BATHE IN THIS HUGE CAULDRON WITH ALL OF THEM and SLEEPS WITH ALL OF THEM??

Netflix sort of did this episode wrong…???THERE’S A LIL BABY GREEN DRAGON!!!!!!

Geralt and Yennefer over here talking about vocations and goals and views for like??? 10 pages??? But I suppose it has some merit because Geralt is like “I have no destination at the end of the road” and then eventually finds out that Borch’s destination is the baby dragon, his survival, and proving that “there are no limits of possibility” because “[e]ven those who are different can survive.” Borch tells Geralt that he “will also find such a purpose” one day—and that purpose is Ciri, his child surprise, his legacy and his means of passing on, a destiny that he is trying to run away from or ignore because there is no order to this horseshit, but people like to believe there is. The parallels are paralleling.

ALSO… Boholt ties up Yennefer, rips open her shirt, and?? shamelessly gropes her??? And then Dandelion is ogling her and is like “I SHALL COMPOSE THE BALLAD OF THE TWO TITS AND WILL DIE HAPPY” like the mansplain manipulate manwhore he is instead of SLEEPING IN AND MISSING THE FIGHT like he does in the Netflix show. AND YENNEFER AND GERALT AND DANDELION ARE JUST ALL TIED UP ON A WAGON WATCHING AND PUKING WHILE THE DRAGON AND VEA AND TEA JUST OBLITERATE EVERYONE???

ALSO Dandelion realises that Borch is the golden dragon first. He’s like “Oh shit!” when Vea and Tea show up, and he’s like, “Geralt, my very intelligent friend, don’t you understand?” but Geralt’s too busy obeying Yen’s command to BURN HER ropes off using Igni and burning her flesh off in the process?? BUT IT WAS HER IDEA SO YES YENNEFER QUEEN GERALT IS DESPERATE?? AND THEN YENNEFER GOES OFF CASTING SPELLS BY SHAKING HER FREE LEG AND ANKLE? Netflix really went for Game of Thrones rather than big Slavic silly.

NETFLIX WHERE DID YOU GET YOUR IDEAS??

Okay but big problem with the whole ‘Geralt and Yennefer’ argument. Borch *does* say that Yen and Geralt’s relationship technically won’t work, but he says, “You were made for each other, you and the Witcher. But nothing will come of it. Nothing. I’m sorry.” Obviously they are both sterile, and Yen wishes to have a child, but Geralt is just kind of… Geralt. Yen doesn’t get mad, and neither does Geralt??? Yen just says that she’d like to believe that there are no limits of possibility, or at the very least that they are still very far away. So she’s hopeful I guess. And she also shows less animosity at the end of The Bounds of Reason, saying that she’d essentially forgive Geralt despite rejecting and insulting him the entire trip beforehand.

Philosophical takeaway: Geralt, ‘bound’ by principles and the limits of possibility and reason, the times we live in… and yet times are changing, and so the bounds of reason must be crossed.