i love anya chalotra i love anna shaffer i love mimî m khayisa i love mecia simson i love freya allan i love therica wilson-read i love myanna buring i love jodhi may i love cassie clare i love all the women of the witcher past present and future

you love the women of the witcher. reblog

Most people are 26 years old

The Adventures of Fun Uncle Jaskier™ and his Pocket-Sized Princess™

YENNEFER OF VENGERBERG The Witcher, 'The Invitation’

oh no dying for me thank you, I just wanted to be on this hill with you

Mimi Ndiweni as Cordilia in King Lear

have you ever seen a woman so beautiful in your LIFE

The Witcher (2019–) | 1x08: Much More

They call her Fringy for short!!

When season 2 gives you motivation to finish old wips

Henry Cavill and Roach - he got it wrong

Just came across this little example of how wrong Cavill got Geralt's relationship with Roach, or better his Roaches (source):

And, as far as I know, all his Roaches were always female. HC did not even get Roach's gender right 😅. So much for book accuracy 🙈.

This is petty fandom salt, BUT... I've been chewing on this phenomenon that I've been calling "Fandom's Darling". It is related to things like "Author's Darling" and "Mary Sue / Gary Stu" and "Protagonist Halo" and all that jazz, where one character gains a peculiar narrative weight in a story.

"Author's Darling" is when a writer has a favorite character, and the world and all other characters sort of get... warped to put the Darling in the spotlight. It's most noticeable in TV shows with multiple writers, when a character you personally like suddenly has their previous characterization destroyed to make another character look good somehow. Every other character might become weirdly incompetent. The Darling's feelings are treated as The Most Important Feelings in any given situation. The logic of the fictional world seems broken past suspension of disbelief in order to validate this one character's beliefs or skillset or some other fantasy. And so on.

"Fandom's Darling" is what I've been calling the pattern where a fandom essentially crowns a New Protagonist for their fanfiction stories (often a side character rather than the original protagonist, but it can also happen to protagonists). This character becomes the self-insert for all sorts of indulgent power fantasies, gaining special powers or backstories, and/or becoming the focus of whump, and/or hooking up with various hotties, starring in all sorts of tropey AUs, and so on. They're not always an obvious Mary Sue version of themselves, but the character's original personality and interpersonal relationships tend to get warped or dropped completely. I call it "Fandom's Darling" because it's not just one self-indulgent fantasy fic (you do you! Have fun!) with characterization that I personally don't like (I have neither the time nor the desire to police anything, I am just venting), but rather a mini-fandom of sorts revolving around this empty doll / fanon version of the chosen vessel character.

I am salty about this (mildly frustrated) (imagine a soft sigh of disappointment before I go do something else) because you are FUCKED if you actually liked the canonical version of this character and their interpersonal relationships. It's almost worse than liking an obscure character that no one cares about. There's about a thousand fics starring your fave, but maybe only about a dozen of them are actually rooted in any kind of recognisable canon.

today's thought on my twn rewatch is that fringilla is the most underrated compelling background character in this whole show

like the little glimpses of the likelihood that fringilla and yennefer were probably friends... yen mentions her to istredd as knowing so clearly what she wants saying "fringilla and the others" fringilla being used as an example their first lesson and having a deformed hand for the rest of her schooling until her enchantments... fringilla knowing what the chapter did to yennefer before istredd... how she looks to artorious at the banquet after yen's betrayal and flees... her stiff poise in her scenes in cintra... the contrast of her future to yennefer's... truly, makes me crazy

2x04 | 3x04

I forget that most people ship things because they want characters to be in a happy relationship and not because they want them to have weird sex things with atrocious psychological consequences

Jaskier: knows Yennefer is stronger than him even without powers also Jaskier: trying to help/ protect her anyway

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