#anti the witcher

[ackermental]

It's a shame there is no inquisition now or this incompetent lady would be burned at the stake before season three release. Now all we have left is suing her for our sore eyes.

#twn #anti the witcher #ive reread those books once again this summer #its impossible to mess up a story this good this badly #Youtube

[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

[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

[just-a-witcher]

#the witcher #witcher #wiedzmin #witcher books #the last of us #anti netflix witcher #netflix witcher #anti witcher netflix #anti twn #twn critical #wiedźmin #tlou hbo #memes #my posts #new trailer dropped unfortunately

[rogue205]

Way late to the party but I am still PISSED about how badly Eskel was both done dirty and absolutely wasted as a character in Netflix’s Witcher. They also seemed to realize that they forgot(for non-book readers) to show just HOW MUCH Eskel meant to Geralt so they also threw in that little “flashback” which also did nothing.

Will I ever stop being salty as fuck about that?

Nope. Not a chance.

That killed the show for me. That and how crappy Jaskier is also handled. I didn’t bother with season three.

#one episode #ONE episode is all we got #and he was thrown away like he meant nothing to the damn plot #and to Geralt and how interacting with him helped Ciri evolve as a character #I will also never get over how they took samples from him then just… #threw his body to the wolves #like WTF?!?!?! #wtf is that?! #Eskel #witcher eskel #anti netflix witcher #Netflix Witcher critical #Eskel deserved better #my rants #*cough* I’m good (for now)

[patroclusdefencesquad]

this bitch got himself a daughter and she introduced him to proper hair care huh

#she said we gotta get you some anti frizz serum #get some moisture in those locks #the witcher

[endiness]

✨ liamralt positivity and hc negativity ✨

i really don't understand why people are so worried about liam playing geralt next season or, like, the idea that liam and joey won't have any chemistry. mainly because after having read the books and having rewatched the show, like, hc is very easily — and noticeably — the weakest performer on the entire show and he consistently does not have any chemistry with anyone. and i'd say when it comes to geralt and jaskier's relationship, it really feels like joey is carrying it which is true. but that also implies that there is something unique about that as if every other actor isn't also carrying things and acting circles around hc in their scenes. which they all are.

like, whether liam's performance is good or bad, i find the idea that he wouldn't live up to hc's performance to be. bizarre. because that bar has been set exceedingly low. as in practically non-existent. like, right now, if we're just comparing hc's performance in s1 to what liam's will be in s4 as those are their first performances as geralt, all liam has to do to surpass hc is... *checks notes* say the lines on the script that he's been paid to say. yeah.

tbh the one and only fearTM i have regarding liam's performance is if the show tries to have him emulate hc's performance — which was bad — and not let him actually do his own thing. like, i just really hope come s4 that there is a soft reboot of geralt's character and that he's written the way he was originally intended and that's what liam's performance is based off of.

#!txt: the witcher #the witcher #anti henry cavill #geralt