i swear

[dragonlady7]

everything happen so much

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i’m making progress on things, it just doesn’t look like i am.

i’m pretty freely tabbing back and forth between What Has Yennefer Been Up To (which it turns out is mostly Jaskier and, separately, Geralt) and then what was supposed to be a soft epilogue for Keira and Aiden and Lambert and is now just smut, and alas Yennefer and Jaskier was supposed to be smut but unexpectedly faded to black on me which, WTF you guys. anyway.

Somehow I managed to work a mention of Roche/Iorveth into one of these stories. You’ll have to read it to see which. I don’t even go there but it amuses the loremasters of my acquaintance, so.

Oh and I read one of the Witcher books! I think Lady of the Lake? I already forgot. The library had it and it wasn’t checked out, for a wonder, so I did, and it only took me a couple of hours while I was doing other things, and– well– I mean– I don’t know, it wasn’t devoid of charm. It’s not groundbreaking stuff but it’s not bad either. The levels of sexism etc.,– well, I have a literature degree, which means at some point I was prevailed upon to read some of The Great Canon including a truly inordinate amount of Thomas Hardy, and at one point I read James Fenimore Cooper’s collected works of my own volition, so like– it’s not like I’m not used to that bullshit and worse.

Ah, it was The Last Wish, that I read. I’ll read Blood of Elves next because it’s also available. There’s not that many of them. HA Last Wish has the Netflix art on the ebook cover but Blood of Elves has the old art that slightly looks like the video game (with the high bouncy half-ponytail, cute).

Ugh I don’t really have the mental capacity to read, though– I’ve already forgotten part of what I read of the other one. I know we met Three Jackdaws but I don’t remember if we ever did anything with him. I’m not going to be able to keep any of it straight in my head. This is why my to-be-read pile… well I just don’t add things to it. If the thing’s not just right I won’t absorb it at all, if it’s too good I’ll get hyperfixated. (Please don’t suggest me things I should read or watch, I don’t want either of those things to happen and it’s like one of those clicky flip switches, there’s not a middle position on this version that lets me just enjoy things like a normal person.)

I think I’m doing quite well at living a facsimile of a quite functional life actually! but I spent most of this weekend wandering, lost, either in my head or in my basement, and my hip spent much of the weekend actively paining me, including popping out while I was cooking dinner, and I dislike this enormously, I even did the Grudging Exerbike Workout, I did the Halfassed Get-Back-In-There Yoga, I did the Don’t-Sleep-In-The-Positions-You-Like Snooze of Resentfulness, I took an extra walk out of sheer (brief) high spirits, and I was punished for that all weekend.

But I got some of my smut wrote, and that’s something.

How long until I can do some sort of chapter update on anything? Pff IDK, I fell off the end of my backlog and that’s that. I want to do F&S next, but– I think Where’s Yennefer needs to go sequentially before Ciri’s Girlfriend, for timeline reasons, or maybe vice-versa?– and F&S needs to sequentially slot into that somehow and bring them together at the end– and then the smut can be wherever so maybe I should aim to get that one up first, IDK, it’s sequentially after, but that doesn’t matter, they’re different timelines and they don’t have to come together unless I want there to be plot.

Which I do. Phooey. (Your picture was not posted)

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[redstapler]

Josh and I watched the show over the last couple of weeks, and I would have sworn there was more than one season, but oh well.

I was really struck by how aggressively Germanic/Eastern European the humor was. I know the author of the books is Polish, but I'm just not used to seeing that kind of tone in media created for (ostensibly) American audiences. At first, I was like, "Uh, they really need to pick a tone and stick with it," and then I realized, No, wait. The tone is exactly what it means to be, it's just very different than the usual American Take On High Fantasy.

[dragonlady7]

The books bear that out too. There's a lot of absurdism.
Really the original books are Extremely An Pastiche of all the shit Sapkowski was tired of reading about, with a healthy dose of male power fantasies of his particular variety thrown in. THe 90s were rich in id, let's just say.

But yes-- that holds true through the games as well, which I LOVE, because ALL of the marketing is Geralt Glowering Manfully At The Camera and yet if you actually play Witcher 3 the face he makes The most oFten that you as a player can see is this kind of concerned/resigned face as various people tell him things, and like one of your first quests is to go into this locked house to get an old lady's frying pan back from a guy who stole it. he very much does that through the rest of the game.
There's even a bit where-- there's an Extremely Dramatic cinematic where he vigilante-justices some guys while growling about killing monsters? Later his semi-brother has a cinematic openly mocking him about it and Geralt does this fantastic shamefaced "it just... came out dramatic i can't help it" kind of shuffle.

People who understand the Witcher in any of its canons to be a growly alpha male thing have not actually engaged with the source material. it was expressly written to be a subversion of that. (But. I mean. Given all the people who thought Fight Club meant what they thought it meant, I'm not surprised.)