#katie txt

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People love, love to bring up one-off moments of Yennefer at her worst. Yennefer who is mean, cold, haughty, angry, hurt, jealous, stand-offish.

It’s both funny and sad to me that people forget the rest. Yennefer, who ruins her expensive camlet dress without even realising it to save a woman having a miscarriage on the steps of Kaer Trolde. Yennefer, who gives the nervous young clerk Fabio Sachs the Younger such unexpected high praise that he blushes to the roots of his chestnut hair. Yennefer, who saves Giancardi’s family. Yennefer, who buys back Geralts swords without his knowledge - who has her own banker keep track of where he is looking for work, to make sure the region has a decent “Witcher fund”, even when they’re not together.

Yennefer, who on Skellige, earns the favour of Freyja, the patron goddess of motherhood; receives her grace, her diamond, her Brisingamen, because she is willing to endure more than the limits of human suffering for Ciri.

Yennefer has so many flaws: she’s a deeply broken, traumatised woman who’s prideful and knows how to play the ice queen. But if you don’t realise that Yennefer is also full of love for people around her, hidden kindness and compassion…you might want to read those stories again.

#she’s so very very very human. #katie txt

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i always giggle when i see geralt drawn or written as kinky or really sexually adventurous because i just think of the

geralt: yennefer can we please just have vanilla sex on a bed, please,

yennefer, wearing her lingerie worth more than some families earn in a lifetime, in her room of unique oddities including what appears to be a preserved troll dick: get on the the unicorn bitch boy

#katie txt

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something that really boils my piss is that the Witcher constantly clearly lays out that Witchers are societally ostracised and seen as othered, monstrous, less than human - and then that is disproven again and again

and then in fandom it’s very common to portray them as “idiotic” - not understanding basic human emotions and needing them explained, poorly literate or educated, not able to grasp basic concepts, not knowing about arts or literature outside of their field, etc

like. you missed the point. oh my god. you missed the point and landed 5 miles away. you are literally the medieval peasant in this scenario.

#guys they’re super long lived…they have their own personal interests and hobbies and studies… #they’re also well-educated… #like cmon. #katie txt

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my biologist fact of the day for you is that there are two little tanaids (small sea crustaceans like hoppers or slaters) out there named after Geralt and Yennefer

#katie txt

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incredibly under-appreciated Witcher woman? nimue. girl is sitting obsessively up in her tower in the middle of a lake, frantically researching the legend of ciri, collecting the most limited edition fan art, having her boytoy…

#she should be the fandom icon frankly. #katie txt

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me whenever people can find serious issue with every single woman in the witcher series but every dude is a poor sad soft boy who we should feel super sorry for and has done nothing wrong ever :((

#rip reading comprehension you would’ve hated this #katie txt

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one thing that rose from TW3 that fascinates me is the argument that Triss is a better partner because she’s nice, and removing the partner aspect for a minute, i’m always fascinated by the descriptor of Triss as “nice”

maybe it’s just me, but both Book!Triss and Game!Triss could be described in many ways that are both good and bad, but nice isn’t actually one of the ways i would describe her?

#katie txt #sometimes I’m like wait idk if y’all know what nice people are

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do you guys think that a witcher ever gets hired to clear out a haunted house and they’re like at the owner “great news, no ghost. bad news, im getting a whiff of the Nefarious Scent” (carbon monoxide)

#katie txt

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one thing i find 50% hilarious 50% sad is that people fight like cats and dogs over ciri and how she’d want to present her aesthetically in the future, what job/role she’d take, her future partners, if she’d ever want children or not, and a lot of the time it devolves into people arguing they understand ciri best

but sometimes it’s radio silence on the important things about her. like…her best friend is Ihuarraquax! her best friend is an actual real live unicorn that she’s frequently seen with and jumps between worlds with!!!! how is this not talked about more!!!

#katie txt

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I maintain that Lambert is too smart to ever end up with a child surprise. However if he was drunk, high, concussed and out of his mind enough for it to happen, I feel like no one would find out for years until someone found like. His hidden pile of school reports

Turns out Lambert is like uh yuh you dead beats? I see my kid yearly? Pay my child support? None of you are shit, I’ve been to an absolutely terrible flute recital. Btw my kid is cooler than all of you and can hit rats with knives really well

#he’s got a case of school reports letters and bad drawings #taught that kid a potion of shit yourself for a mean teacher #he’s like damn I guess I have parental responsibility now #everyone is melting down while lambert is like sorry I’m smarter and better than all of you. #As if it’s my fault. #katie txt

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actually I love Witchers but modern, especially funny if monsters are critical to ecosystems/endangered. you get off trail in a national park and suddenly some weird dude is sprinting towards you like STOP, IN THE NAME OF THE CONSERVATION ACT- and it turns out you’re in the dirt bathing grounds of the winged fucktail or something

#really makes you think #katie txt

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Wolf School Mentor: Your name should be pronounceable, not stand out too much, and be respectable so you can represent your trade. Here are some ideas for some acceptable resources to pull from-

Cat School Trainee: I’m Shoebox now.

Cat School Mentor, not even looking up from what they’re doing: That’s nice, you still have to run your laps though.

#katie txt

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actually one of my fave moments i always forget is that potions make it so geralt can’t get his dick up and yennefer laughing and having to magic it

#like they have to drink the most foul acidic evil monster energy drinks #AND it gives them dysfunction? leaf them alone 😭😭😭 #katie txt

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sometimes I get the vibe that people in the fandom don’t really understand the significance of what happened to Witchers and Witcher Schools

the fall of Kaer Morhen was a pogrom - a large scale violence/destruction, aimed to displace or kill a specific minority group, by the greater collective (this differs from a genocide, which is more systematic and involves more state/government/official involvement)

anti-Witcher rhetoric cumulated into a very specific type of violence; they were specifically trying to wipe out all Witchers in that region, permanently. I think this is really underexplored sometimes in terms of a) long term effects on the survivors and b) the loss Witchers suffered that wasn’t only lives (oral and spoken history, written history, culture, ability to perform traditions, etc)

#katie txt #like. #idk how to explain it. but it wasn’t just an opportunistic oh fuck these guys it’s been a bad year #and sometimes I feel like the significance of what occurred is misunderstood