#Anti Witcher

[daenerysbeauty]

i’m so tired of these big giant interconnected ips, whether in the form of shows or movies, that have such stupidly large amounts of money pumped into them that they aren’t actually able to say or do anything creative because corporate deems it too risky, just churn out one related piece of media after the next without any discernible difference or meaning, until the conglomerate inevitably caves in under it’s own weight or one or two showrunners with god complexes run it into the ground.

#witcher #the witcher #game of thrones #marvel #star wars #anti witcher #anti got #anti marvel #anti mcu #anti star wars #anti sw

[frogsprince]

i see the w*tcher tag trending and its that godforsaken show and j*skier and r*dovid are making out and you just K N O W that the main defense for the horrendous writing of this season will be "youre just homophobic"

#holy fucking shit. why couldnt you write your own show instead of butchering EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER #this show is just fanfiction!!! stop watching it and putting money in laurens pockets!!! #never have i seen a source material get disrespected LIKE THIS #to be clear this isnt about this rship alone its the entire goddamn thing overall #i love y*nnefer but she literally tried to sacrifice c*ri last season and now theyre a fAmiLy #im so fucking pissed off #anti witcher

[lottiezeb]

More loathsome video game opinions coming right up!

#anti witcher #anti sexy baths #anti mutant witch blowjobs #anti visible daughter bras

[perseruna]

heyyyy do you have any details/sources for the ca*ill being a jackass thing? ngl i watch twn for yen and jaskier so i was already planning on continuing to season 4 but i'd love some reasons to be actively excited for the actor switch. but i haven't kept up on the behind-the-scenes stuff so i'm kinda lost on that front if you're up for sharing any of what you know!

okay guys buckle up this is THE anti henry cavill megathread xoxo

First of all him dating a teenager as a 33 year old fully grown man literally gross and disgusting.

Also as this quote implies they started dating a year prior and only went public when she was 19 so they supposedly started dating when she was 18.

His entire dating history is a MESS. Sure the women he dated are not him, but he chose to date them, I wouldn't even associate myself with people like these let alone be in a relationship with them. He dated the infamous transphobic TERF Gina Carano, albeit before her loud controversy, but I doubt her harmful views were any different back then. His current gf has a history of doing black face.

His "Me Too" comments.

His comments on the Me Too movement are literally so vile. If you don’t want to be called a rapist, just don’t rape women, it’s literally as simple as that. They’re even more foul because they’re promoting the idea that women lie about their abusive for fame, promoting that harmful rhetoric especially in our times is incredibly dangerous.

Now onto his on set behavior.

We can't talk about his set behavior without mentioning the deuxmoi set leak. Here's the transcript of it:

[Transcript:

There’s something I really really wanted to read to you guys--it has to do with why Henry Cavill left The Witcher. I know that was something that you guys were super interested in when it happened, and I just recently got this message. Somebody was like “Hey, do you want to know what really went down?” And I was like “Sure!” So let me just read it. It says:

“At the beginning of the show, Henry was good to work with. A lot of difficult demands that made people feel like he wasn’t a team player, but that’s not unusual for a really big star. Though in TV it truly usually doesn’t happen until the second season. But in season two and three something shifted and he became really impossible for women to work with, which is always a big problem, but even worse here because the showrunner is a woman. He would try to overrule her and try to get changes made last minute across the board without her knowledge, which, if you know anything about showrunning, is completely fucked. The showrunner has to sign off on every miniscule detail down to the buttons on a costume. Female writers and directors were suddenly being completely ignored on set, unable to do their jobs. Every department head was complaining. He started making comments—it wasn’t a sexual thing, he wasn’t grabbing anyone or being lewd, but it was disrespectful and toxic all the same.

“He is deeply addicted to video games, to the point where it was like working with any other addict. He was distracted, he was late, he was obsessive, and a lot of people think the misogyny came from gamer world. Video game bro language is not how you talk to coworkers, and he wouldn’t stop. Someone on the show compared it to watching someone get brainwashed by QAnon, like his whole personality shifted. Eventually his disrespect escalated. He would rewrite scenes without even alerting the other actors in the scenes until it was time to shoot. He decided that he didn’t want any romantic scenes at all—no kissing scenes, no shirtless scenes, et cetera. He wanted complete control of storylines but really had no idea of the limitations of TV, structure, budget, et cetera. He formed a weird alliance with one writer who was also a gamer, who eventually got fired after multiple HR complaints were made and after that writer left, Henry did anything he could to hold up production and cause problems.

“Eventually top brass at Netflix was tired of him costing them money with delays and HR investigations and the showrunner was asked to construct a potential exit for him. Netflix reached out to him personally and he was given one final warning, and violated that warning with an email he sent to the entire writing staff right after that meeting. That was it. It’s very disappointing.”

End transcript.]

Now believe me or not, but I know from a really good source that the leak was indeed real.

There's a lot of patterned behavior that tracks with what we know of him and his past controversies.

After that leak came out, there was a lot of people from different places coming to comment that ‘yes’ they’ve heard a very similar story adding a little bit more details of their own.

this quickly deleted tweet from one of the writers/producers:

there were rumors about him being an asshole to Anya specifically.

He went on record that he doesn't "understand" sex scenes. Which I know the sex discourse is rampant nowadays and each to their own, but he specifically signed up for a role that requires those scenes and then refused to do them and was allegedly nasty to Anya about it and with the way he talks about women...

Also it’s important to touch upon the “writer he had a weird alliance with” that man in question is Beau DeMayo of the recent fame of getting fired by Marvel from X-Men ‘97. He was previously allegedly fired from The Witcher for being emotionally and physically abusive. And he allegedly got fired from X-Men for being abusive as well. One of The Witcher writers tweeted this after Beau smeared them for “disliking the books” Beau was literally the first person to start that narrative.

The fact that it was HIS idea not to say lines of his dialogue in S1 and instead grunt. To the point that Joey had to take Henry’s lines and make it his own, so the plot would make sense, he talks about it in this interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Oyh0t117t0U&, and then once S2 press arrived Henry was talking about how he was trying to fight the big bad writers to give him more lines. Ridiculous.

Everyone is already pointing out that the cast looks so much happier without him, and it’s very true. Henry was never present on close to any BTS pics from filming the previous seasons, or on any cast dinners or birthdays. He wouldn't even do any shared interviews with the other three mains but only had solo interviews which to me was giving disrespectful like you're an ensemble you’re not the only lead here. It felt like he was above them to sit down and answer questions with them. When they were doing press junkets in Brazil and Poland Anya, Joey and Freya would always arrive together and leave together with that man leaving all the events early and by himself. And like people who post quotes from the cast about him being perfect from press junkets as “proof” are insane to me like Obviously they’re going to say nice things about him, not only they're newcomers, and he's an established industry name, but they’re doing PRESS for a show that he’s a STAR of (well, was lmao)

The fact that he never defended Anya from the racist trolls, even though most of them were HIS fans. Like she had to go through so much and that man couldn’t make a single comment about it as a leading man BUT he could make a whole IG post because people were being mean to his gf and calling her out for doing blackface.

And sure people might say that a lot of these are unverified sources, and I’d get it if it was a singular case, but there are a ton of these accounts that all match each other. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.

#anti henry cavill #the witcher #mega thread

[yocalio]

Lol RIP to The Witcher Netflix. Despite my opinion that he was miscast as Geralt, Henry's passion for the character and his knowledge of the books and games was the only thing that kept me remotely interested in the goings-on of the show. And let's be honest his appeal and star power is what kept people watching in spite of how shitty this team of writers has portrayed Sapkowski's novels. No shade to Liam Hemsworth but the show should just be canceled.

#the witcher #the witcher netflix #henry cavill #anti witcher netflix #callie blabbing #text

[wanderingwolfwitcher]

#anti witcher netflix #the witcher #emhyr var emreis #ciri #nilfgaard #lauren hissrich #anti lauren hissrich #anti the witcher netflix #witcher #cirilla fiona elen riannon #cirilla of cintra #anti netflix witcher #emperor emhyr #netflix witcher is offical Nilfgaardian propaganda #Lauren = TeamEmhyr

[spielzeugkaiser]

[MASTERPOST]

Oh Jaskier... this is an awful winter for him. I think there are various things at play that would make Jaskier defensive. His track with father figures isn't the best, and while he firmly believes that there isn't anything shameful about what he's doing, he still feels like he isn't seen as anything different than a stupid omega, who can't provide properly for his child, who isn't a good parent- Meanwhile, if Vesemir threw the first stone, with his educational and disciplinary methodes...

#geralt of rivia #jaskier #vesemir #yennefer of vengerberg #geraskier #geraskier lovechild #omegaverse #blood tw #this is not how you want to meet your father in law #I keep thinking about how insufficent Jaskier feels as a parent sometimes #(and what that says about him that this is something that is one of his biggest worries) #and what Vesemir sees #a child that is well-fed #that gets bed time stories and toys #who gets his scraped knees kissed better #a child that was never beaten or slapped in his life - that has never experienced violence before #he has absolutely NOTHING to say #nothing to criticize #but Jaskier is out of his mind (understandably so) #(it might come across as slightly anti-witcherish with all the stories that exist about witcher stealing children) #(which Jaskier knows are bullshit that is not why he's reacting that way) #They'll have a lot to talk about! and for quite a while this explains why Jaskier didn't seek out Geralt #why WHY WHY did this story start to get plot it always happens and I can never manage to get it all in comic form gosh

[essskel]

the whole ‘Eskel is a better witcher than Geralt’ stuff has always made me more sad than anything else. Geralt’s arc as a character is the building acceptance that even though he was raised a witcher and the profession is part of him : he’s a human, and he’s happy to be one.

but Eskel is a witcher. He’s not just ‘better’ at killing monsters he’s ‘better’ at wearing the title. He truly does work to cap his emotions, to succumb to the 9-5, to accept that his mutations make him something separate from the human he was born as.

He sees the stereotypes and the stigmatization of witchering and he only allows himself to step outside these forced boundaries when prompted by Geralt, Lambert, or Ciri, and even then he makes it clear that he’s making an exception.

And that’s not to say his moments of vulnerability and human connection are unnatural to him, he feels love and is drawn to protect those that he loves same as Geralt, but he’s out of practice in acting on these emotions because he’s a case study in survival repression.

He never solidifies a relationship with Ciri in the way Lambert does (in the books), he’s not even shown goofing around with her like Coën. He’s kind to her and he loves her and he goes on to put his life on the line to save her, but the vastness of his self-imposed missed opportunities is sickening. And that’s not even touching on the decay of his relationship with Lambert, or his white-knuckle grip on Vesemir.

Eskel is a good fucking witcher, he’ll dispose of your monsters faster and cleaner than his brothers ever will. But when his niece starts reminiscing on her favorite memories from childhood, he’ll be waiting a long damn time before she says his name.

#his vacant relationship with ciri genuinely haunts my waking dreams OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDD #please don’t take this post as ‘anti-eskel’ he’s literally my url. i’m just being sad abt him bc he makes me sad #eskel #witcher eskel #kaer morons #the witcher #the witcher games #lambert #double shot

[endiness]

okay, can i just go off on the ridiculous conspiracy theory that hc is just the only one on the show who cared about the sOuRcE MaTeRiAL and the fandom's veneration of him as this, like, godly nerd figure though.

like, first off, hc did not even know the books existed when he pursued the role and he had only ever played the games. and what, i'm just supposed to believe he has such an obsessive nerdy personality and he's this huge witcher superfan but apparently he couldn't be bothered to google the game series he's just SUCH a fan of and see that it's based off a book series or wiki it or do any research about it whatsoever? he somehow just happened to miss that all of the games credit the book series in the credits to the point where it's literally the FIRST thing that pops up when the credits roll?

secondly, geralt will not shut the fuck up in the books. he speechifies so much that it's like, sir, this is wendy's tbh. meanwhile hc would just not say his lines sometimes. which in turn affected how the writers wrote geralt so as to match his performance. kind of an odd acting choice for someone who just cares soOo much about adhering to the source material.

third, s3 was the closest adaption to the books so far yet that's the season he leaves after? 🤔

fourth, why would he be a fan of the games tbh!!! if he really was as obsessive about adherence to the source material as the fandom claims he is to the point that he either threw a temper tantrum and quit his multi-million dollar paying job because of it or was fired because he was so insufferable and disruptive on set, why would he be a fan of the games? the games do not perfectly follow the source material, either, they retcon things, they introduce just as much if not more original material. if he really had the personality type and attitude the fandom portrays him as having, he wouldn't be able to tolerate the games. yet he is a fan of them. so either that was a fucking lie.gif, he's just a massive hypocrite, or both. 🤷‍♀️

#anti henry cavill #and his stans!!!!!!! #!txt: the witcher

[ramen-flavored]

Damn, I wish they didn’t leave the season 3 finale on a cliff hanger like that. What a shame there won’t be a fourth season.

#this is a joke #I know there will be a fourth season #but unless Henry comes back I refuse to acknowledge it #we’re anti Hemsworth here #the Witcher #the witcher netflix #twn #Netflix #Geralt of Rivia #Jaskier #yennefer of vengerberg #cirilla of cintra #princess Ciri #Ciri #Henry Cavill #joey batey #anya cholatra #freya allan #geralt of rivia x reader #jaskier x reader #Yennefer of vengerberg x reader #ramen-flavored

[crispyliza]

To all the people feeling sorry for Henry Cavill, don't 💖

#he's a creep #henry cavill #anti henry cavill #tara king #superman #the witcher #geralt of rivia #clark kent #it's karma baby #i can't find it now but a frw years back i read an interview about his relationship with the 19yo where he said #that younger women are better to date bc they haven't figured out their life yet and so you can do whatever you want #🤢 #i used to be a huge fan of him... #liam hemsworth #twn #dc comics #dceu

[frogsprince]

this is absolutely the worst possible take i have ever seen

#anti witcher #unfortunately our audience is too stupid your honor #what nuanced aspects. you BUTCHERED EVERYONE

[tiredmoonslut]

The way HC's exit has overshadowed what was the most accurately adapted, and in my opinion most compelling and dramatic season of the show is gonna piss me off for the next several years, I feel it.

Okay I was gonna keep these in the tags but actually nevermind, salt post inbound

Henry Cavill is a good actor and a good Geralt, I'll never deny this, but the revisionist history that's going on because of his leaving the series is a bunch of nonsense being puppeted by his dudebro gamer fanbase that wants to keep holding him up as the Witcher god.

The whole "he left because of inaccurate adaptation" argument really falls apart when so much of season 3 was pace-for-pace with Time of Contempt...and Henry didn't leave the show until after production on it had wrapped, as confirmed by both Anya and Freya. It loses even more weight when Henry has gone on record more than once that he hadn't even read the books or known they existed before pursuing the role of Geralt in S1.

Also, it literally cannot be denied that this same group of people who ride-or-die for him go completely silent about Freya, Anya, and Joey---or worse, become misogynistic and racist, when what makes the story of The Witcher great is Geralt's relationships to these people and the way he acts as a catalyst in their journeys.

It's just so annoying. Be upset that he's leaving all you want, but don't make shit up and don't be a fucking dick to everyone else who works on that show as if one of them is the imposter who's responsible for his exit---when the much more likely truth is that Warner Bros. was gonna pay big bucks to have him back as Superman.

#rant over #I'm just tired of yall #the witcher #the witcher season 3 #anti henry cavill #tagging that just in case #it's really more anti his fans #time of contempt #twn #witcher netflix #the witcher Netflix #anya chalotra #freya allan #joey batey #ALSO ALSO #for anyone who reads tags #3x07 being the worst rated episode when it's the MOST accurate to the book??????? #go to hell lmfao

[zeunicorn]

The problem with the Witcher

I understand the problem of not sticking to the script (books) and making up your own plotlines. Not sticking to canon, ruins established universes and characters. I haven’t read the book and was interested of hearing what the plot differences are.

But every video I have watched about the ruining of the Witcher, or why the prequel Blood origin is bad, has about 1 minute of “the plot is bad” and then just goes into the most racist and sexist tirade I have ever heard. Everyone and their mothers are using this situation to complain about the racial diversity and how women get to much screen time.

I GENUENLY can’t tell you a single way the plot in the tv show differs from the book, but what I have learned is that a racially diverse pub is unrealistic in a fantasy world (????) and the racial diversity show that the writers have never been to a middleclass pub. Also, many men see fantasy stories as escapism and if they see someone who is not white, it pulls them put of the story, because they are reminded, that the actor only got hired for racial diversity (???). If a woman does something for themselves, it is only seen as the writers trying to push a feminist agenda. Also, the very Indian actress Anya Chalotra, who plays Yennefer, is black (???)

EDIT:

They are becoming self-aware

#the witcher #the witcher netflix #racism #anti blackness #geralt of rivia #geralt #witcher #Yennefer

[multifandomslut2023]

I'm....I'm sorry.... imagine shipping (Mr Doesnt Give a shit about the small folk, there's a war going on and people are starving and yet he's dressed in gems and shit, has zero character development asides from being a selfish manipulative traitorous little twat) Radovid...of all people....with Jaskier, (who fights for elven rights, whose so kindhearted and sweet and actually cares about people)..when Geralt/Yennefer/SamTheBaker/FuckIt...TheMailmanFFS are right there to be shipped with Jaskier!!!!

#Radovid is so cringey and revolting #how yall like his character idk #jaskier #the witcher #anti radovid #anti radskier #or whatever the fuck their lame ass ship is called #geraskier #geraskefer #sam the baker

[alpaca-clouds]

The Witcher books always confuse me

And not for the reason you might think.

I can always be on the "I knew this, before it was cool" train for The Witcher. Based on the fact that I just read every fantasy book that our local libraries had. And one of the book series, that was in the library, was The Witcher, as they got translated into German in the early 2000s.

It meant a lot to me at the time because of Ciri. Ciri was the first ever non-anime character, I encountered in media, who was LGBTQ*. Because, you know, representation matters.

But, at the time, there was still so much about the books that I did not get.

Again, I read them from the library, not owning them. And also knew them under the German title "Der Hexer". So, when I was a young adult and my then boyfriend started hyping this new fantasy game, I originally did not even realize from the title that it was a game based on those books I read as a teenager. Imagine my surprise, when I played that first game back then and realized: "Oh, I know those characters!"

I read the books again in 2012 and was still fairly impressed with them. But over the years - reading the books again and again - I got confused about these books. How where these books written in the early 1990s by a white man?!

Like, these books - again - have not only openly LGBTQ* characters, with one of the main characters being openly bisexual, but they also just tackle a plenthora of feminist and anti-colonialist issues within the text. And I am just sitting there: How did this got written in the 1990s, before the age of the internet? How did it get published at the time? What kinda man is Andrzej Sapkowski, that he was actually interested in writing this?

You know... I do not hate the games. They are very fun games. While I only played that first game twice, I did put hours upon hours in Witcher 2 and 3. But also... I absolutely get Sapkowski's frustration with those games. Because the games literally just do not get the books. The point with Geralt as a protagonist is, that for the most part he is just some dude. He is not some superhero type. Heck, he acquires a disability midway through the books and struggles with a ton of stuff after that. But the games ignore this as much as they ignore Triss' scars (and her self-consciousness about them). Just as they ignore a good chunk of the colonization angle of the books.

And... Really... The books are probably my favorite high fantasy book series. And quite frankly, given that a ton of folks got into the fandom through the games, the fandom is obviously full of folks, who have not really gotten access to this full picture and are very ignorant about the themes of the book series. And while I am very on the "hey, adaptions can do their own thing" train... At times I just look at the games with their sexy times side quest and think to myself: "Hmm, they kinda didn't get it, did they?"

To me it is really ironic, though. That this Polish book series from the fucking 90s manages to align with my progressive values a lot more than most books being released these days.

#the witcher #the witcher books #fantasy #anti sexism #anti colonialism #andrzej sapkowski #geralt of rivia #lgbtq #representation matters