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astaldis · 5 months

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Andrzej Sapkowski: "Personally, I like the Netflix series a lot"

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Minute 8:13-8:17 ("persönlich da habe ich die Netflix Serie sehr gern")

He also says something about the Slavic influence: "When you say that in the Geralt Saga many things and matters are inspired by Slavic mythology, that's true, but not only, not only." (He really emphasises this!) ("Wenn Sie sagen, dass in Geralt Saga viele Sachen und Angelegenheiten inspiriert von Slawischer Mythologie inspiriert sind, das stimmt, aber nicht nur, nicht nur. Also keine Mythologie ist für mich schlecht zu bearbeiten.") (3:12-3:30)

When he is asked if he was influenced by Tolkien, he says yes, that he is a specialist at fantasy and has read everything and that his goal was to avoid all the cliche/sterotypes that you find in fantasy and to find his own way. ("Mein Ziel war, alle Klischees die im Fantasy sind, zu vermeiden, also finden meinen eigenen Weg." (6:39-6:55)

So, all in all, Netflix not just copying the exclusively white elves from Tolkien's world seems to be compliant with the author of the Witcher books's ideas. Maybe there could have been more Slavic elements, but that the Witcher is pretty much exclusively inspired by Slavic mythology like some people claim on social media is not true, according to the author (he especially mentions the Brothers Grimm as influences, for example). And that every fan of the books must automatically hate the show is definitely bullshit, if even the author himself likes it.

Take that, haters 😉

#Youtube #the witcher #the witcher novels #andrzej sapkowski #interview with the author #the witcher netflix #the witcher tv #sapkowski on the witcher series #Sapkowski likes the Witcher Netflix #a lot

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sevendutchies · 3 months

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People in this fandom will really look at The Fool, Patience, Lacey, Carson, Sedric, Hest, Davvie, Lecter, Kennit, Ash/Spark, and yes, even Fitz himself, and still have the gall to call it queer bait.

These characters are explicitly queer, their actions impact the narrative, they are well written, and their identities are treated with respect. That is the best possible queer representation you could ask for in any story.

I've seen people on tumblr basing the likelihood of if they read this series on whether or not it's "actually gay" and I'm here to tell you that it is. There are queer characters. There are queer protagonists. And no matter what you see people in the fandom say, Robin Hobb wrote some amazing queer representation in a genre that rarely sees it at all.

EDIT: and I think it's pertinent to note that, no, characters who are questioning or struggling with their feelings about sexuality instead of knowing 100% does not make something queer bait or "less gay"

TLDR;

Queer bait = disrespectful marketing ploy that exploits queer audiences

Queer bait ≠ "my two favorite characters never have sex"

#Fitzchivalry ''i wondered if I lied so that I need not be ashamed of myself'' farseer thank you everyone #quite frankly the disrespect to Robin Hobb in this fandom is in EXTREMELY poor taste #the interview from 2008 before half the series was written where she explains why Fitz would not suddenly be head over heels for a person h #perceives as a man because all of his life he has only had heterosexual experiences apparently means that no queer characters exist #whatsoever in the whole series and Robin Hobb is an irredeemable backwards old lady who can't get with the times. right.#Fitzchivalry ''what were we? Beloved'' farseer #this is actually not supposed to be a debate over whether Fitz is canonically queer or not. he is. ope.#also...I do read Kennit as queer. just cause he is traumatized and his queerness comes out in predatory ways doesn't mean he's not queer.#that's called writing a compelling villain baybee #Hest!?!? thank you Robin Hobb for the evil gays god bless <3 #modern reader: the author didn't describe these characters dicks touching in detail therefore she is homophobic #rote #realm of the elderlings #fitzchivalry farseer #the fool #I really had to get this out of my system guys. thanks <3 #as if Robin Hobb didn't give us the FOOL. nonbinary/gender fluid character OF ALL TIME.

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celestetsang · 4 months

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ionlydrinkhotwater · 2 years

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Quote from Rainbow Rowell's Vanity Fair interview

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RAINBOW: "I had a really rough time as a kid, so with Simon I'm always looking at how does that affect your ability to be an adult? When you grow up in an unhealthy place, can you expect yourself to be unhealthy in your adult relationships? If you've been kind of in fight or flight mode for so long. Simon is literally fight or flight.

INTERVIEWER: my god you literally gave him wings.

RAINBOW: All he wants to do is kill something or run from it. Now he has to have a relationship where he can neither kill nor run. What I was kind of trying to get to the truth of is you develop this auto-immune disorder against being hurt. You know how auto-immune disorders work where your body attacks anything it sees as a threat. It can be your own immune system that it's reacting against. You can emotionally get that way when you've been traumatized or when you've been through hard things. Anyone gets close to you, like someone coming to hug, and you have this feeling of get away from me. I can't handle it.

So I think that's where Simon is. I just really wanted to see him try to work through that. He is having so much trouble being present with Baz. And as bad as Baz’s life has been, he has really been loved. He's better able to receive and offer love because he's had that in his life. Simon really hasn't so we just see him panic. I wanted to stay with him during those hard moments. When he wants to run. "

Heres the link to the full interview, It's really great:

I also recommend Rainbow's playlist analysis on her website its fantastic

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/07/any-way-the-wind-blows-rainbow-rowell-simon-snow-baz-ending-trilogy-future-plans

#simon snow #the simon snow trilogy #simon and baz #simon snow series #carry on rainbow rowell #rainbow rowell #simon snow trilogy #baz pitch #awtwb #vanity fair #meta #lore #word of god #author interview

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cat-soap-opera · 2 months

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one on hand, i would find it neat if i could partake in some kinda video where i could talk abt CoRV n the process of making it (sometime in the distant future when im actually uploading pages), but on the other hand.... i know for certain that the only comments that video would get are vore jokes. and not even like, funny or new vore jokes.

#mod posts #but yea. i think itd be neat if someone could make a series where they interview various warcat comic authors #or maybe not even a series just one long video #like there are some videos talking abt warcat comics/xenofiction comics made by warcat adjacent artists #but i wish there were more n they could have the author there to talk abt stuff

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cheekydogs · 11 months

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4. Plush With The Best Name

This was a hard one, but I think I’d have to award this one to Wee Hen!

Warrior Cats is one of my oldest special interests, and the name “Wee Hen” always stood out to me—even though she was a loner who never actually appeared in a book! And since she’s a Little (Wee) Henry Hound, it felt like a brilliant name for her :)

#cheeky barks #15 day plush challenge #she’s helping me make a vinaigrette for dinner :)#food tw #also dw I’m still quite critical of the series and authors even if I am a fan #apologies for this being so late in the day! I’ve been prepping for ab internship interview tomorrow and playing the game its for all day 😖#my plush: wee hen #jellycat #dog #plush #actually autistic #safeplush #plushblr

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thedenofcaseywolfe · 7 months

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This week, we go Beyond the Blurb with the amazing @authorivyljames.

#LGBTQ Authors #LGBTQ Novels #RepresentationForAll #Interview Series

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frary-us · 5 months

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"Melton author Louise Doughty believed there was “no way” her supernatural thriller would be adapted for TV, but she’s delighted to be proved wrong. Platform 7 is her latest work to hit screens and is set to provide many twists and turns.

"That's where the idea came from: a railway station as a metaphor for purgatory.”.....

Others have deeper emotional bonds to stations and she was keen to show it. That deeper bond is explored by Lisa(Jasmine Jobson) herself who after witnessing the trauma at Platform 7 sees her former lover Matty(Toby Regbo) and her parents come to lay flowers at the scene of her death. Being more than simply just a ghostly witness, she finds she is able to follow them beyond the station and begin to unpick the truth about her demise."

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volfoss · 6 months

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every popular male comic author who i hate will have leagues of fans who are like omg u just read his REALLY bad stuff the rest is better. it totally doesnt have the same problems as his bad stuff did. and then it in fact does

#well rape is more common than murder and so its not misogynistic i put it in there for most of #my female characters“ ”i as a white man can reclaim this antiblack character. because no one complained about the insanely racist asian +#stereotype in the same series so basically im innocent #twist rambles #looking right at ennis rn. but also like. every single fucking war ellis fan who is like omg hes sooo good at writing. i hate that man #but its very um. funny to me how people will be like gaiman is good at writing and then like? honestly his comics are kind of mediocre.#same shit with miller. why are we praising him for the dark knight. it is not good. like objectively. and EVERYTHING daniel way has put out #the wolverine stuff he did was SO bad and then i got well. 45 issues of him writing DP. it was not a good time. there is a solid chance i #hate a solid 50% or more of the popular male comic authors.#also. god sorry i will never get over alan moore. <- he said all this shit in an interview btw. insane.

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ultramarine-spirit · 1 year

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This has nothing to do with wmmap but how did you find Spoon's Youtube channel? I have tried to find the Youtube channel of other artists such as a stepmother's marchen or how to get my husband on my side and I cannot find it, I have even searched for it with its Korean name and I have checked all its social networks (Instagram and twitter ) and I couldn't find anything at all, but you managed to find Spoon's, How did you do that?

Hello Anon! Oh, well, maybe not all of them have YouTube channels in the first place? I think most manhwa artists tend to be private people.

How did I find Spoon's channel... It was such a long time ago that I really can't remember. I guess I either saw it linked on the WMMAP Wiki or @lithi (hi <3) posted about it.

Now, I don't follow other manhwa artists as closely as Spoon, but I remember seeing SAM (Your Throne) doing a video interview, and SUOL (Penelope manhwa) did a Twitch stream. Perhaps the artists you are interested in have done promotional videos like those, even if they don't have a YouTube channel of their own. Those are usually on the YouTube channels of their publishing houses or the korean platforms for their manhwas. But again, it's not the norm for all artists to have a channel, most of them are pretty private (smart decision, to be honest).

#sadly twitch vods get deleted after a while... surely someone on the Penelope Manhwa fandom saved it tho?#but about the authors you asked for anon. tbh it sounds like you searched quite a lot #and if you couldn't find anything then they probably don't have their own youtube channels #(i think Spoon is more of a rare case)#perhaps they have done interviews and such.. searching on their publishers' channels is the best advice i can give you #or you can ask more hardcore fans of those series #sometimes authors do exclusive interviews with JP publishers as well. You could check with Kadokawa. FLOS COMIC. etc #surely there are information accounts dedicated to those manhwas? like i do for wmmap on here and twt #if anyone knows more than me please tell me!

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cherryfaerie-reads · 1 year

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fazilareads · 1 year

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Wisdom Lost (Pandemonium Rising #2) By Michael Sliter | AUTHOR Q&A | Escapist Book Tours

TITLE : Wisdom Lost (Pandemonium Rising #2) AUTHOR : Michael Sliter GENRE : Epic Fantasy/Grimdark INTENTED AGE GROUP : Adult Pages: 592 DATE OF PUBLISHING : 2019 PUBLISHER : Dragyn Press (Self Published) Welcome to my tour stop for Wisdom Lost (Pandemonium Rising #2) by Michael Sliter, hosted by Escapist Book Tours. I am so grateful to be part of The Escapist Book Tours and for getting…

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thewonderofanime · 1 year

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X 1999 Deep Dive! Part 3 (vols 7-9) CLAMP Reread Series

EMOTIONAL DAMAGE! That’s all I can say about this part of the story. Watch me as I cry along and breakdown volumes 7-9 of X/1999

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bill-gates-hate-blog · 2 years

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also AOT fucking spoon-feeds you basic liberal anti-racism. How this goddamn show got a reputation for being fascist is fucking beyond me.

#JKR is one thing because shes actively annoying and a TERF #though I think yelling at people to stop enjoying a series they grew up with is not a very smart or effective way to combat transphobia #AOT on the other hand is a basic anti-war story written by the most standard of libs #we don't even know the author's politics aside from interviews and what he puts down on the paper #"but the tweets' you mean the tweets that are unconfirmed to be his?#sorry everybody read the polygon article that woefully misrepresents the entire series instead of the actual manga #may favorite part is that enjoying this cringe lib anti-war story still gets you branded a fascist that's so funny to me

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apollopapyrus · 29 days

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readerviews · 1 month

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MEET THE AUTHOR – A conversation with Louise Glass – Author of “Dream Lover”

Today, Reader Views talks with Louise Glass about her book, "Dream Lover." #reading #meettheauthor #authorinterview #readerviews

Dream Lover Louise GlassIndependently Published (2023)ISBN: 979-8399566924 Louise Glass is a genre-bending novelist, dollhouse enthusiast, interior designer, and wildlife photographer from Demarest NJ. While working as a designer Louise freelanced in magazines and now enjoys creating lifelike characters that resonate with the readers. Louise focuses on blending the lines between contemporary,…

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#Author Interviews #Dream Lover #Louise Glass #Reader Views #The Dream Lover Series

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