Netflix | The Witcher | Map of the Continent

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Netflix | The Witcher | Map of the Continent:

Did… did y’all know that the official Netflix Witcher site is just a timeline laid over a map giving background on literally all of the events of the show, so there’s no need to rely on gifsets to know the chronology?? Or am I the last one to get that?

Also it has funny little encyclopedia-style entries about various things if you click on place-names, and occasionally they’re written in first person but they don’t explain? (Probably it’s meant to be Jaskier writing a book after the fact, from the content of it and which ones are signed “Yours Truly”, but there’s absolutely no on-screen confirmation of that.)

Anyway it’s very fetchingly animated and has great graphics and absolutely no autoplay noises, so I do recommend it. The grammar is entertainingly not great in some places, as kind of a bonus. (The Witchers were created to fight a continent, apparently. Good wording, there.)

sourdough

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My first sourdough attempt at a loaf of bread has been rising/resting for two days now (a long rise on a not very warm countertop, and then an overnight rest in the fridge) and I am one thousand percent certain it is going to be a failure. It’s just too dry! I let it overnight-ferment in the fridge and when I went to shape it into loaves I literally was able to just break it in half and it cracked cleanly. Like. no fucking way is that good. You’re supposed to be able to knead it! This is going to bake into the consistency of a rock.

I might add liquid and put it back in to re-rise again? Or not. I’m just going to let it come back up to room temperature in the loaf pans and see what it looks like. It rose, it really did, quite a bit, yesterday on the counter, but I really think there’s just not enough liquid in there despite me using more than the recipe called for.

is this chapter 8? no 7

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featuring uhhh I don’t even know what this is. The densest paragraph I’ve ever written, possibly. 

chapter 7: a snail or some kind of turtle

 The Most Perfect Fat Baby That Ever There Was In All Of The Land turned out to have quite a singable chorus, and Jaskier got most of the room to join in on the “Fat baby! Fat baby! Fat baby!” refrain, and it had the entirely expected side effect of winning over all of the surly young men even though Geralt didn’t sing (Geralt had never one time in the twenty years Jaskier had been performing in his presence showed the slightest engagement with any kind of music, so this was not a surprise) because Geralt had wound up sitting down next to him once the young woman had moved to her own chair, so Geralt was right there getting progressively less scary by association as Jaskier extemporized new verses about the child’s inevitable future as a great woman of some kind, because no child of such voluptuous magnificence could fail to achieve– he’d started off with a verse about her becoming an adventurer, but then he’d done one of her being a healer, and then one of her being an alderwoman, and then one of her becoming a blacksmith, and with some prompting from the audience, a baker, a miller, a wheelwright, or a candlemaker. He then extemporized a verse where she went to the university and became a famous bard, which everyone thought was hilarious and self-serving of him, and he managed to tie it all back in to how important bards were and how everyone should always give them food and money all of the time. Those were easy rhymes because he’d done versions of that verse in basically every improvised song he’d ever done, except of course for Toss A Coin, where he’d been begging on Geralt’s behalf instead.