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#Season of Storms
fangirleaconmigo · 2 years
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Geralt, who has lost his swords: I need those specific swords back.
Dandelion: Oh, just buy new ones.
Geralt: Oh rly and what if someone took your lute?
Dandelion: OH GOD WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT IS SOMEONE LOOKING AT MY LUTE OH SHIT WHAT HAVE YOU HEARD NO ONE LOOK AT MY LUTE YOU FUCKERS*covers lute with body like a human shield*
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😂😂 they are hilarious. Also, Geralt saying he feels like a snail without a shell is adorable.
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podcastenthusiast · 1 year
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Finally reading Season of Storms and Geralt says he needs to leave town because he has no money, and Dandelion replies "We shall find a remedy for that. I shall support you financially."
Um HELLO
SUGAR BABY GERALT CANON?!!
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relar-fela · 5 months
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I consider gazing into the abyss utter foolishness. There are many things in the world much more worth gazing into.
- Dandelion, Half a century of poetry
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sharlatanka-art · 1 year
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Just got an email from my Slavic studies listserv that the Polish cultural institute has put out a video on Andrzej Sapkowski and translation, focusing on my favorite book of his, Season of Storms. I had/continue to have a lot to say about gender and sexual deviance in SoS especially reading it now in a time when many of its readers are LGBT+ (which you can find here). I’m wondering if that will come up re: translation studies here. I haven’t seen it yet (spent all day translating a different language. I’m exhausted out of all more learning), but I’m posting it here for anyone interested:
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aghostwithnoname · 4 months
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Reading Season of Storms really just has me cackling like
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yugiohio · 4 months
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I just want to put Geralt in my mouth and chew him like bazooka joe bubblegum is that asking for too much???
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honeysuckle-fae · 3 months
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The Aeneid, Book XII; discord message from @lazarusemma; Season of Storms by Andrzej Sapkowski
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themuskrater · 1 year
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Denis Gordeev's Witcher art is so good. They're all so chaotic and unhinged, but also have that 80s fantasy novel vibe. I love them
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slowpokegamer · 5 months
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I don't know if my memory is just bad, or if I'm stupid, but Season of Storms has some GNARLY FUCKING GORE DESCRIPTIONS, I do not remember actually getting like "euuughweweewwww" reading the other books 😟😟
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smangelangel · 2 years
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I’m about halfway through the third book in the Witcher series and how does anyone believe that Geralt and Dandelion aren’t incredibly gay for each other
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libraryatkaermorhen · 3 months
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Was anybody going to tell me there was an effeminate heterosexual sorcerer who was gay for pay in Season of Storms or was I supposed to just find that out for myself organically
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geekynerfherder · 2 years
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Orbit Books have revealed the final batch of cover art for new hardcover editions in Andrzej Sapkowski's 'The Witcher' series; 'The Lady Of The Lake' and 'Season Of Storms'.
'The Lady Of The Lake' and 'Season Of Storms' will be available in November 2022, and released in the UK by Gollancz in 2023.
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podcastenthusiast · 1 year
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Geralt: "I need to get new witcher swords since I was robbed."
Dandelion: "So go to Kaer Morhen."
Geralt: "I can't. It would take too long and the weather is bad."
Geralt: "And Vesemir and my brothers would make fun of me for years."
LMAO this book is good.
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whatkindofnameisvolta · 8 months
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Egmund: plots to kill his father and become king of Kerack
Xander: plots to kill his father and become king of Kerack
King Belohun: haha idiots you can’t kill m-
Viraxas, like a deux ex machina: bursts in and actually kills his father and becomes king of Kerack
The ocean: kills a lot of people and destroys a sizeable chunk of Kerack
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sharlatanka-art · 1 year
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I finished Season of Storms during a travel day. It was my favorite of the series so far. But I want to talk about how Sapkowski is OBSESSED with gender in this entry, and how he wields gender deviance and transgression in his characters, and how (personally) they were received on the reader end, by a queer person.
First off, we have to start out by saying that a major theme of Season of Storms in the Rissberg Brotherhood of Sorcerers plot is mutation, pathological abnormality, and playing god with the bodies of men and monsters. Sapkowski weaves these same themes throughout the story, where Geralt’s personal neutrality breaks and we see ourselves the judgment of the author himself, instead. Throughout these episodes of gender deviance are a foil to Geralt’s normative romance with Lytta Neyd.
I’ll start off where it begins with Violetta (pictured lovingly above 💕) and the other women of the Kerack city guard. It can read as a comical scene when not related to the overarching themes of the whole story.
Violetta and the other guardswomen are absolutely reviled in the third person narration behind Geralt’s shoulder. They fart, they’re loud, their massive and muscled, their heads are shaved. They’re women but refuse to look like women, which seems to be the greatest sin of all for an author who can write fantastically rich women, as long as they’re normatively beautiful and choose to be beautiful. What’s worse for Sapkowski and Geralt, the women are lecherous! And as we see with Lytta Neyd, women are allowed to be predatory and lecherous as long as they’re normatively attractive to Geralt. This encounter ends in violence 🤷‍♀️
Now I’ll get to Sorel Degerlund (I drew him below ⭐️), the current king and boyboss of my heart. He’s ambitious, conniving, and very easy to hate. BUT….. hear me out. You don’t have to like him. But you can admit he’s compelling…
Sorel is a product of his environment. The network of favorites and homosexual bonds in the brotherhood of sorcerers have less to do with the presence of gay and bisexual men there than they do with men and the dynamics of power and subordination. Any kind of male homosocial organization is going to have men who have sex with men, regardless of whether there are gay or bi men involved. He was playing the game and doing it well, and it’s implied everyone else at Rissberg was implicit with his goetic magic. The only sorcerer that gets morally redeemed by Sapkowski in this story is Pinety, who is redeemed by showing his normative heterosexual love for Lytta Neyd (interestingly, he shows this through gifting a sword to Geralt, which is— and I think this is a literary criticism term— pretty gay).
Sapkowski WILL NOT let it go that Sorel Degerlund is effeminate, that he looks like a woman, that he’s very pretty. It’s on every other page. He is obsessed with how this straight man was not only cursed with effeminacy but also turned and used it in ways that were abnormal, homosexual, etc etc. Lets compare this to Dandelion’s good looks manipulating women for fun and profit without any moralistic judgement (but let’s not get it twisted— Dandelion isn’t effeminate. He is the norm of masculine gender expression among men of his noble income bracket in this fantasy world heavily based on medieval Europe).
The name of Sorel’s lover/benefactor, as well, “Ortolan” brings to mind the dish ortolan, something that Sapko/Geralt mentions explicitly at least once, suggesting that the wizard was once young and delicate like Sorel, and his affection for him is just as much about relating to one another as it is about desire. (Idk. I love them). And again, we can compare this relationship to that of Lytta Neyd with her apprentice, Mozaïk, which in its physical abuse is extremely intimate and when Geralt gets involved between them it becomes almost psychosexual. Mozaïk bears it because she’s ambitious like Degerlund was. This is fine, Sapkowski says over Geralt’s shoulder. These are both women behaving like women who are beautiful and who love men.
Why did I write that I love this book in the series so much, when I criticize it like this?? The history of media is full of queer people identifying with and empathizing with queer-coded ‘bad guys’ and villains, regardless of the creator’s original intent, and it was this way with me. I was instantly captivated by these characters and read between the lines. The author was dead for a moment and it was beautiful. I know that Geralt and the concept of witchers is a pretty potent allegory for a lot of transmasculine fans. The way these things are presented vs how many non-cis and queer people receive the series is something I’m still unraveling in my little pea brain. Geralt is a mutant, Sorel and the women guards of Kerack(?) are mutants. But they’re mutants Sapkowski wants us to feel different about. Born different, abnormal, creatures whose mutations twist their soul in ugly ways. As a queer reader I didn’t read it that way.
All of this to say that Sapko tried to say “look at these freaks. Yuck!” And I said
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[if you didn’t hate this bite sized piece of meta and are a Witcher 3 fan, see this post where I elaborate on Novigrad’s criminal underworld as a PhD candidate studying music and criminal subculture in Eastern Europe 💕 ]
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soupblessings · 1 year
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