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Jan. 13th, 2020 01:01 pmvia https://ift.tt/3a5PZdR
I KNEW making a post like that would draw y’all helpfully out of the woodwork, I love you all. This is why I keep Tumblr despite everything.
mosylu replied to your post “ok ok ok ok”
I’m six episodes in and told my friend (who loves it) that it was delightful, addictive trash. She was deeply offended because she’s not on Tumblr and doesn’t know that trash =/= bad.
Ah, hilariously![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
thebibliosphere literally just had the same conversation on her blog! Somebody got offended when she called it trash and she was like jfc i write romance novels, it’s basically a reclaimed slur at this point, but of course she said it more eloquently. I just think it’s funny that it was also a conversation about The Witcher.
millicentthecat replied to your post “ok ok ok ok”
in the second episode the bard (jaskier) is introduced and they have massive Gay Energy. also i think yennefer is introduced. ive watched four episodes and i recommend the first two for fic reading
Sigh that means I gotta find the second episode somewhere. I was really angling to get us to watch it at my friend’s house but nobody else was into it. Now I have to get creative!
mific replied to your post “ok ok ok ok”
Yeah, read everything by astolat!
I have never played the game and I read her stuff before the series. No canon knowledge necessary to enjoy her fics.
sevenall replied to your post “ok ok ok ok”
I read astolat’s fic first. Amazing. Gerald/Emrys. Really, really amazing.
How Did You Know that’s exactly who I was talking about. LOL I actually explained that to my friends, non-fannish though they are– listen guys, on AO3, there’s this, well, there’s a ton of really good fic by a writer literally everyone loves, so we’re all like, primed to get into this series even if we don’t know what the hap is fuckening because we want to read that sweet tasty delicious fic, ok!!!
I don’t know who the fuck Emrys is but do I have to know that or can I just find out? Maybe I’ll just Google for spoilers, I honestly don’t care whether I watch anything or not. (Maybe it’s because while Whatsname Supermanguy is very scenic he is also very much not my type; I didn’t realize I wasn’t into beef but I definitely, like, don’t mind looking but have zero actual concrete interest, even in my normal sort of tepid demisexual sort of way where there’s not really much physical zing either; I would’ve said I have no physical type or anti-type, but it turns out, yeah no, scenic mountains of manliness are sort of decidedly Scenery Only. A pity, he’s clearly worked very hard on that scenery. Huh kind of like formal Versailles-style gardens; nice to look at, you can appreciate the effort, i would never ever want anything like that anywhere near where I actually existed.)
csevet replied to your post “ok ok ok ok”
you haven’t met jaskier/buttercup/dandelion/The Bard yet, which seems to be where most of the show fandom is shipping. but literally all you need to know about him is He’s A Fantasy Story Bard, and exactly as chaotic bi and annoying as every other Fantasy Story Bard.
See this is the first reply I got and I was like ok, that is what I thought. I just read another thing where someone explained that in other canons, Jaskier is this irritatingly sort of slimy womanizer, and they explicitly decided in this version to make him An Incredibly Chaotic Bi Golden Retriever Omnisexual But Harmless type instead because it’s a new decade and we get new tropes, and I am in love with that, so I think I get it now. I support this and will subscribe to the newsletter.
I just don’t know if i’ll bother trying to find it to watch it, LOL.
I KNEW making a post like that would draw y’all helpfully out of the woodwork, I love you all. This is why I keep Tumblr despite everything.
mosylu replied to your post “ok ok ok ok”
I’m six episodes in and told my friend (who loves it) that it was delightful, addictive trash. She was deeply offended because she’s not on Tumblr and doesn’t know that trash =/= bad.
Ah, hilariously
thebibliosphere literally just had the same conversation on her blog! Somebody got offended when she called it trash and she was like jfc i write romance novels, it’s basically a reclaimed slur at this point, but of course she said it more eloquently. I just think it’s funny that it was also a conversation about The Witcher.millicentthecat replied to your post “ok ok ok ok”
in the second episode the bard (jaskier) is introduced and they have massive Gay Energy. also i think yennefer is introduced. ive watched four episodes and i recommend the first two for fic reading
Sigh that means I gotta find the second episode somewhere. I was really angling to get us to watch it at my friend’s house but nobody else was into it. Now I have to get creative!
mific replied to your post “ok ok ok ok”
Yeah, read everything by astolat!
I have never played the game and I read her stuff before the series. No canon knowledge necessary to enjoy her fics.
sevenall replied to your post “ok ok ok ok”
I read astolat’s fic first. Amazing. Gerald/Emrys. Really, really amazing.
How Did You Know that’s exactly who I was talking about. LOL I actually explained that to my friends, non-fannish though they are– listen guys, on AO3, there’s this, well, there’s a ton of really good fic by a writer literally everyone loves, so we’re all like, primed to get into this series even if we don’t know what the hap is fuckening because we want to read that sweet tasty delicious fic, ok!!!
I don’t know who the fuck Emrys is but do I have to know that or can I just find out? Maybe I’ll just Google for spoilers, I honestly don’t care whether I watch anything or not. (Maybe it’s because while Whatsname Supermanguy is very scenic he is also very much not my type; I didn’t realize I wasn’t into beef but I definitely, like, don’t mind looking but have zero actual concrete interest, even in my normal sort of tepid demisexual sort of way where there’s not really much physical zing either; I would’ve said I have no physical type or anti-type, but it turns out, yeah no, scenic mountains of manliness are sort of decidedly Scenery Only. A pity, he’s clearly worked very hard on that scenery. Huh kind of like formal Versailles-style gardens; nice to look at, you can appreciate the effort, i would never ever want anything like that anywhere near where I actually existed.)
csevet replied to your post “ok ok ok ok”
you haven’t met jaskier/buttercup/dandelion/The Bard yet, which seems to be where most of the show fandom is shipping. but literally all you need to know about him is He’s A Fantasy Story Bard, and exactly as chaotic bi and annoying as every other Fantasy Story Bard.
See this is the first reply I got and I was like ok, that is what I thought. I just read another thing where someone explained that in other canons, Jaskier is this irritatingly sort of slimy womanizer, and they explicitly decided in this version to make him An Incredibly Chaotic Bi Golden Retriever Omnisexual But Harmless type instead because it’s a new decade and we get new tropes, and I am in love with that, so I think I get it now. I support this and will subscribe to the newsletter.
I just don’t know if i’ll bother trying to find it to watch it, LOL.
