#witcher negativity

[ayrennaranaaldmeri]

i’m fucking screaming sophie holland showed her entire ass with this huh. 

#anti witcher netflix #witcher negativity #YEN WAS NEVER DESCRIBED AS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN THE WORLD THAT WAS FRANCESCA FINDABAIR #you know the char played by that biracial actress who you tried to make as white as you possibly could #STOP LYING THAT YOU READ THE BOOKS YOU FUCKING CARROT. #YOU WANTED TO CHALLENGE BEAUTY STANDARDS BY NOT EVEN CASTING A WOMAN WHO WAS AGE APPROPRIATE TO PLAY YENNEFER FUCK OFFFFFFFFFF #and you just really picked someone who is conventionally attractive literally what about this actress challenges beauty standards #conventionally attractive woman over a decade younger than the male costar playing her love interest. groundbreaking. #yeah it sure did give me a powerful feeling #of fucking despair bc connifer literally just looks the same age as ciri now #on top of the utter bastardisation of yennefer as a character #man I hope all these mfs continue to show their ass and this rancid show gets cancelled as it should have been

[finleycannotdraw]

ok ok for all of jaskier’s nonsense and sluttiness HE IS SO SWEET!!! “I can’t take you inside. I’m sorry,” he says to radovid after kissing him ONCE like this man is trying to be gentlemanly he’s like “I would love to treat you right but you see there’s a teenage girl that I don’t want to bother. deepest apologies” and radovid is just here like. fuck that! or even better, fuck me. right here. in this shed. :)

I’m just obsessed with how sweet jaskier is, just instinctively, even though he sometimes tries to put on a snarky mask.

#listen if you hate the ship just dni💀 #I’ve had enough negativity from the witcher fandom #the witcher spoilers #the witcher season 3 #the witcher netflix #jaskier x radovid

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[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

BLOCKING s3 vol. 1 haters on sight i am. blocking you all ON FUCKING SIGHT!!! last season we had to deal with eskel being turned into a goddamn fucking tree and then wolf food and now with the MOST fun and MOST enjoyable and LEAST Actively Pissing On The Books season of twn since literally season one that came out before the FUCKING PANDEMIC you wanna HATE??? not having it NOT having it. we literally have the "jaskier being ciris fun uncle" content we craved post-s1 for three years and Geralt literally called him "jask" and you wanna be MEAN???? NOT on my feed no sir

#mine #the witcher #witcher #im making use of my entire reaction file for this #its mostly full of gifs i took from the big brother tag like 4-5 years ago #'but (sob) they aged up radovid and in the books he's (sniffle) he's-' and in the books eskel is alive and not a tree so WHO FUCKING CARES #ive blocked 3 people for being just unnecessarily mean abt s3 i do NOT need this negativity in my life #the witcher s3 spoilers

[solradguy]

I ended up getting a boxless, manual-less, copy of Dirge of Cerberus for like $13 instead of getting one of the like fuckin >$45 ones just to have the little dumb book because I remembered the custom case I drew for my Gamecube copy of Ocarina of Time that also did not have a case or a manual and it filled me with joy imagining making one for Vinny Valentine's Wacky Wahoo Adventures

#photopost #my stuff #Ganon in the back has nunchakus it's kinda hard to tell because this pic sux sorry lol #I've heard only negative things about Dirge of Cerberus I'm so excited #<- One of only 5 people that didn't completely hate Devil May Cry 2 #I love shitty video games so much. Yesss yesss give me NOTHING queen #Thinking about how I beat DMC2 with both Lucia and Dante but I never beat The Witcher 3 or Elden Ring #What's wrong with me #I hope my ps2 still works. It's buried under like an inch of dust

[bardicious]

Okay, not gonna lie, I am a bit miffed that the family trio basically forgot about Jaskier?? Like?? Did they just assume he was okay??? Like, wtf. Couple that with Jaskier confirming Radovid's schemes. Feels like everyone just uses him when they need something. :/

#A Bard A Witch A Witcher And A Witchy Princess #witcher #netflix witcher #jaskier #I know its looking bad right now between jaskier and radovid but honestly i hope they make up #and jaskier lives an old happy life with him #as much as I like the family trope - everything in the past seasons tells me while they like jaskier #and care about him - not sure how far into the family group he actually gets in :/ #saaad x''''''''''''''D #this aint negativity #just feels like jaskier loves them more 😔

[dol--blathanna]

I try not to post too much TWN negativity on this blog, because I know plenty of people enjoy the show just fine, and I hate being an asshole and raining on other people’s parades. But, god, the way that the show treats Yennefer - or rather, mistreats her - just upsets me and pisses me off so much. 

The book already puts her through the wringer - too much at times, honestly - but the show just takes it to a whole new level. The amount of suffering they put her through that wasn’t present in the books is so frustrating to me. Like adding in random torture scenes that weren’t present (the hysterectomy scene, being tortured by Stregebor), losing her magic powers, constantly being captured in S2, not even having a particularly good court standing - like in S1 when Fringilla mocks her for not helping advance Aedirn at all, and Yennefer doesn’t even have a good comeback to that. It’s as if the show is just obsessed with giving her constant Ls and never really letting her come out on top. Sidenote: I am fine with angst, in fact I enjoy it, and I am fine with a character going through hardships and suffering. You can do a lot of great character, story and theme exploration with angst, and sometimes it’s necessary for a character to suffer to develop that. If I wasn’t fine with angst, I wouldn’t be a fan of the witcher lmao. But when I see a character who already goes through a shit ton of misery in the books get forced into even more suffering in the show that never happened....I start to have a problem.

And then, of course, S2 committed the cardinal sin with that stupid ass Voleth Meir plotline. As if torturing her, having her be captured, making her lose her powers, wasn’t bad enough - they completely character assassinate her by making her almost sacrifice Ciri to a fucking demon. Something that is so bewilderingly OOC for Yennefer, something that never EVER happened in the books. When the show got bored with creating narrative suffering for her, they decided to take it to a meta level by character assassinating her in a really bizarre, stupid way. Because, why was this necessary? I know that they were concerned about the fact Yennefer doesn’t really show up much in Blood of Elves, I understand they wanted to create a plot line for her that got her more involved in the main plot. But - why this???!!! There were 101 different plot lines they could have given her that didn’t involve her trying to sacrifice Ciri to a fucking demon, in the process completely messing up her relationship with Geralt and Ciri!!

And this is the main reason I’m making this post - her relationship with Geralt and Ciri being messed up. I’ve seen a lot of articles recently about S3, all stating that Yennefer essentially has to grovel to Geralt, that he ignores her for potentially a full year, that at the beginning he doesn’t even let her enter the same abode as them - what the fuck!!! It upsets me so much. Because this was the biggest problem with the VM plotline - it completely upends Geralt and Yennefer’s dynamic. In the books, their relationship is way more equal - in fact, it honestly would be accurate to say that Yennefer is the more dominant one in the relationship, not Geralt. The show is now completely turning that on its head, and making Geralt the dominant one - but not personality wise, more in a moral highground type way. Because now, whatever stupid shit Geralt does, or has done in the past - e.g. tell Yennefer she’d be a terrible mother, which he never apologises for - none of that matters!! Because it will never be as bad as Yennefer trying to kill Ciri. Instead of a relationship where they both fuck up and both make mistakes, like in the books, in the show the emphasis will all be on Yennefer. Yennefer is the one fucking up, Yennefer is the one making absurdly stupid mistakes, Yennefer is the one who needs to apologise and grovel and beg for forgiveness. 

And this is what I mean by, the show is obsessed with giving her Ls. Not only do they make her suffer, they character assassinate her by forcing her character to do this cartoonishly evil thing, and then punish her for it!! They don’t just take away her powers, her court standing, they even strip her of her own relationships!!! And I ask again - why is this necessary?? Who decided that punishing her like this would be an extremely important plot line, an improvement, over the original source material? Like back when the show was first announced, I sure as shit wasn’t thinking “oh wow a netflix witcher show - I sure do hope they have a plot thread where Geralt refuses to talk to Yennefer, and doesn’t even let her into the same fucking house as him, because she tried to kill Ciri!!” who wanted this??? Who thought this was a good idea??? Honestly, it makes me feel as if someone on the writing team hates Yennefer and wants her to suffer, both in a narrative and meta level. And no, I’m not talking about that infamous Beau deMayo interview - something that caused a huge amount of online drama and should be taken with a big old pinch of salt, especially since the writer who made this claim was responsible for some pretty questionable decisions, namely the whole Treeskel thing. I’m not making a direct accusation here - it’s more a feeling. When I look at TWN, I cannot help but sense a level of contempt and spite towards the character of Yennefer. That doesn’t necessarily mean someone in the writing team genuinely has it out for her, but if that’s the impression that I get from the way they treat her in the show, then something has gone very wrong with the narrative decisions they made for her.

And this is why, not only can I not let myself be excited for S3, it’s why I’m genuinely feeling dread about it. Every time I read interviews about how Geralt and Yennefer have this really rocky start and he’s ignoring her or whatever, my stomach just sinks. And again - why was this decision made? Who thought this was a good idea? And yeah, the TWN team have already said they’re trying to fix the problem with their relationship caused in S2, but a) the way they are going about fixing it only serves to punish Yennefer’s character more and b) it should not have been something to fix in the first place. It’s also why I can’t bring myself to believe that S3 will suddenly be more faithful and better than S2, esp in regards to Yennefer (aside from the fact they’ve made this promise before and failed to deliver). Because the early plot points of a story are extremely important in setting the foundation of your later plot, especially in a series like the witcher. If your foundation is inherently flawed, it doesn’t matter how good your later seasons are; they are built on a faulty base, and will therefore lack a good structure. Case in point with Yennefer. Without going too much into book spoilers, let’s just say she has a really rough time of it post-Time of Contempt in the books. So in the show, either a) they will just put her through even more suffering and leave you thinking “wow did this entire show exist just to punish Yennefer?” or b) they will have to deviate away from the books. Neither of these options are particularly good. (this also is one of my problems with S2 as a whole - they were so desperate to put in all this insane blockbuster action and dramatic plot points, but sometimes in stories you need moments of calm to make later dramatic plot points more hard hitting. In the books, Blood of Elves was the moment of calm before Time of Contempt’s batshit, action packed drama. In the show, you never get that moment of calm. Why should I care about whatever happens in Thanedd if S2 had Ciri get possessed by a fucking demon and go on a killing spree? But anyway.)

And I think the reason why I’m particularly disappointed with the way that the show has treated Yennefer’s character so badly (aside from the numerous promises of “we’re a faithful book adaptation” being complete lies) is that Yennefer is a character who already receives a lot of unfair hate. Obviously there’s the annoying “Team Yen vs Team Triss” thing from the games, but even within the show there were a certain type of fans of a certain ship who hated a lot on Yennefer for daring to get in the way of their ship. Like, I’m so sick of seeing Yennefer getting hate for stupid, unfair reasons - and now even the show is treating her like shit??? Like, give me a break!! 

I’m just tired of it. And obviously, if you like TWN and you’re excited for S3, that’s fine. In fact, I’m honestly jealous, I wish I could feel the same. And who knows, maybe the show will improve its treatment of Yennefer, maybe they’ll finally give her some Ws. But that’s what I thought about S2, and was proven VERY wrong. Any confidence, trust or optimism I had left for the show was completely destroyed by the Voleth Meir plotline in S2, and the show will have to work very hard to rebuild that trust for me. And unfortunately, everything I’ve heard about S3 so far is only confirming that they’ll continue to treat her poorly.

#sorry I just had to rant about my feelings after seeing all the interviews about S3 recently #it's just so disappointing #and I don't like being negative about TWN on this blog too much bc I don't like pissing on other people's enjoyment of things #but man. i'm just so sick of how this show treats Yennefer in such a weirdly mean-spirited way #anti twn #anti witcher netflix #twn critique #twn critical #twn negativity #long post #text

[hunterarden]

Continue to be confused by those who pay more attention to costumes and hair than I do making demonstrably untrue assertions about The Witcher show (always in order to dunk on it of course lol). Like no that’s literally not a bad wig, you can see videos of them doing the actors’ hair. No that’s not a racist stereotype in a lazy attempt to degrade the actor, she had input into the design that you won’t stop calling ugly and offensive.

#Twn #the Witcher Netflix #the Witcher #wigs #costumes #clothes #outfits #hair #hater #being a hater #of haters #still hating technically lol #Fandom #Fandom negativity #?

[chwduplemon]

the time of contempt season 3 of netflix's the bitcher is approaching, so here is a silly little bingo card i made (as a coping mechanism and with a lot of help from @sorokmagpies — thank you, btw, my friend!) for all of us redania & redanians fans in these trying times

[p.s. feel free to use it however you want, but don't even try to defend twn and their stupid decisions on my dash, this show has already done irreparable damage to the fandom and a bunch of my favorite characters, tyvm]

#i know it's cringe #but that's the point! #so yeah let's play a game and see how insightful magpie and i are and how predictable twn writers can be #although some shit they made up for this show was unpredictable as hell #twn critical #the witcher books #the witcher netflix critical #anti twn #twn negativity #anti witcher netflix #jaskier #prince radovid #radovid #sigismund dijkstra #philippa eilhart #king vizimir #redania #the witcher #my edit

[welcomewithmetonight-thechaos]

they cannot trick me into liking radskier. i know what they are doing. they want to pair jaskier off so they can focus on yennefer and geralt... well not with me they don't

[unsheathes sword]

geraskefer forever!!!

#i will go down with this ship #I'm convinced Enchanted Flowers was a love confession #never mind all the other love confessions #geraskefer #geralt x jaskier x yennefer #the witcher season 3 #radovid negativity

[fablewoven]

Netflix’s ‘The Witcher’ might be canceled before its 4th season

When a friend sent me the one and only article like this yesterday I thought it was clickbait because there was only one...but now more articles are popping up saying the same and mentioning the severe drop in viewership, so it looks like it actually has the potential to be true...

#•~⍣ᴍᴏᴛʜᴇʀ ᴏꜰ ᴅʀᴀɢᴏɴꜱ [ooc] #the witcher #with all the negative feedback of henry's departure #to now the drop from billions of viewers to like 500K... #how surprised would we all actually be?

[jadewestwriter]

I am literally begging for all of the people to stop commenting under the Witcher posts

if you don't have anything nice to say, please, just shut UP

yes, recasting Geralt with Liam isn't my dream scenario either

sure, you won't watch s4

yes, yes, more book accurate please, whatever

oh no, incorporating different cultural aspects into the silly little fantasy world that's F-ING fake

but by the gods keep that to yourself

I'm trying to enjoy my silly little dudes and dudettes doing silly little fantasy dance scene battles and stuff in their silly little outfits here

#why are people like this #the Witcher #pls #is it that hard to just say nothing #i understand where teh frustration comes from #but spamming everything with so much hate and negativity is not going to help

[ayrennaranaaldmeri]

https://twitter.com/VoicesByZane/status/1687471237474222083?s=20

^^^ Take a look at this bogus interview by the producer of TWN. This is so rude 😐

💀💀💀 Americans, bitchflix producer just called y'all dumb as hell.

Fr though the sheer disrespect here, Imagine if Peter Jackson or Denis Villeneuve had this kind of brain rot. It really goes to show just how many people involved in this wretched show - from Lauren to their costume designer to this guy - are outright rancid human beings. I read an article about this interview trying to pity the "poor" creators being "forced" to dumb down this show and tbh I don't think any "creator" of this show gets any kind of pass when time and time again they admit they hated the source material or didn't even touch it. And Cavill's reward for giving a fuck about canon was getting smeared as a toxic gamer bro lmao.

The only thing that kind of surprises me about this is Tomasz Baginski being the one to say all of this because he made the cinematics for the witcher games like was he also thinking about dumbing those down bc the games were gonna be sold internationally 🤡

#answered #incredible really #anti witcher netflix #witcher negativity #now my personal conspiracy theory is that this all makes sense if hes saying this about lauren and co #and not the audience 🤣 #but really everyone involved in this keeps outing themselves as the worst kind of idiot

[bamf-jaskier]

You know, there’s not a ton of commonalities between the different Geralts but there is one thing every Geralt, book, show, game or even comic has in common: they all cry during sex

#and btw this is not a negative thing #idk I think crying during sex is emotional cathartic it’s like you are being truly cared for and it’s very overwhelming #the witcher #geralt

[gabetheunknown]

So anyways everyone I've talked to so far who are part of 'the mainstream fans' so to speak, calls the witcher season 3 a huge disappointment. Lemme tell you I am just scared that they will resort to the bullshit they pulled in season 2 to keep the mainstream fans happy :-)

#the witcher #help? #should I tag this #the witcher negativity #? #because I will #I don't wanna risk it #might delete this later I'm just scared and rambling into the void #I'm going to avoid the mainstream fandom for now because they're making me super depressed lmao #gabe yells #'I just watched it for hcav' #really? can NOT relate at all #lmao

[blossomdapple]

Someone please tell me I’m not the only one who liked The Witcher: Blood Origin

#i don’t wanna feel stupid for having an unpopular opinion lol #also to the negative reviews calling the cast of characters uninteresting: really??? #i thought they were pretty interesting actually #mine #twn #the witcher #the witcher netflix #blood origin #the witcher blood origin

[dol--blathanna]

Lucinda you about to catch these fucking hands

#i'm sorry i try to keep my TWN negativity to a minimum but this dress has sent me over the edge #why does lucinda insist on giving yennefer bad ugly modern outfits. what the fuck #and more importantly: how the FUCK did lucinda manage to make a south asian dress look so bland and boring???? HOW???? #like anya looks gorgeous #she always looks gorgeous #but also she would still look good in a potato sack. so why is lucinda always letting her down like this #and bear in mind this is meant to be her BEST outfit. like this is a god damn ball she's at this should be her TOP TIER DRESS #and instead it's so mid #infuriated rn #twn critical #anti twn #twn critique #anti witcher netflix