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[bestiarum]

it's so funny to me that lots of people have this genuine belief that the classics are usually hard to read, serious, boring, pompous, etc... but if you randomly pick up a popular classic book there's a 90% chance it's gonna be the most insane, hysterical, inappropriate shit that you'll ever read in your life. to which most of modern day literature does not compare AT ALL

#guess who's been going through some of the classics on their bookshelf #literature #kashmircastiel.post #kashmircastiel.txt

[bestiarum]

i love watching movies where the actors are clearly having the time of their lives. yes this is about daniel craig in glass onion

#glass onion #daniel craig #in his little outfits...... #kashmircastiel.post #kashmircastiel.txt

[bestiarum]

i love how we all took one look at hugh grant standing in blanc's doorway and immediately went 'oh yeah. homosexuality'

#glass onion #kashmircastiel.post #kashmircastiel.txt #imagine being so powerful as an actor that your mere presence on the screen indicates gayness. hugh grant i applaud you

[bestiarum]

no but the concept of eskel is actually god tier galaxy brain. like the first time we hear of him it's when geralt remembers how they were both young stupid boys and got a beating from vesemir when he caught them teasing a captured bumblebee. and when we actually meet him, it's from ciri's point of view and she's SO terrified of kaer morhen cause it's this dark unfamiliar place and she's just a little girl who's already been through too much, and then there's this guy whom she doesn't know and who sounds angry and evil and wrong (the polish word for that was "zły" which can mean all those things and more) and whose face is so fucked up that at first she thinks that he's not human. and then BOOM he smiles at her and cracks an unfunny joke and welcomes her to kaer morhen, welcomes her HOME and turns out to be the kindest gentlest most well adjusted Just Some Guy in the keep. iconic

#can you tell im very emotional about him #eskel #the witcher #wiedzmin #wiedźmin #kashmircastiel.post #kashmircastiel.txt

[bestiarum]

ok but why is no-one talking about how when dream smiles at hob as they reconcile the scene immediately cuts to desire pretending to be a skyscraper

#much to think about #the sandman #hob gadling #dream of the endless #neil gaiman #dream x hob #kashmircastiel.txt #kashmircastiel.post

[bestiarum]

okay so. this video essay series is easily the best critique of netflix’s the witcher as a story & as an adaptation that i’ve ever seen. no angry gamer screaming that 'wokeness' ruined the story, no pointless repetition of 'it’s stupid they killed eskel' and such; just really fair analysis. plus, it’s very well researched and mindblowingly insightful. so yeah there u go

#it is 8h long BUT the videos have time stamps and there’s five of them #so it’s really digestible #and so so so so good #the witcher #wiedzmin #twn critical #kashmircastiel.post

[bestiarum]

i will only say this once but reading the witcher fanfiction as a polish person and seeing writers make even the barest of efforts to research our language and culture, even if it's just to call a side oc that appears for 0.003 seconds 'jan' instead of 'john' or something like that is just. one of the most gratifying and amazing experiences ever. i am kissing y'all directly on the lips for that <3

#sorry but. #i am so emotional about this 😭♥️ #ESPECIALLY recognizing that julian is shortened to julek and having geralt call jaskier that. #yeah that's my weakness #snndndndm #ANYWAY fic writers i love you #the witcher #wiedźmin #wiedzmin #geraskier #geralt of rivia #jaskier #fanfiction #fanfic #kashmircastiel.post #kashmircastiel.txt

[bestiarum]

why is noone talking about how nandor LUNGED after guillermo into that sewer without a moment of hesitation

#i was like 😳 okay. #wwdits #nandermo #nandor the relentless #guillermo de la cruz #what we do in the shadows #kashmircastiel.post #kashmircastiel.txt

[bestiarum]

y'all are so weird.... like what did you expect from the vampire horror show. has lestat ever struck you as a good person? there's a history of abuse in the loustat relationship and now suddenly everyone's acting surprised that it escalated. also it's ok to not condone awful actions of fictional characters. ESPECIALLY when you understand them. like i cried when they were hanging in the sky and i cried FOR lestat. do i still think he's completely in the wrong and that what he did to louis is atrocious? yeah. it's never even portrayed as anything but. does that mean the episode is bad? no. some of you need to really learn how to approach media critically lmfao

#interview with the vampire #kashmircastiel.txt #kashmircastiel.post

[bestiarum]

"Remember?"

"I remember."

#i read these books 12837468713 times. and yet still i'm like akjgdhfhjkfdh every time they interact. #friendship. #the witcher #geraskier #jaskier #geralt of rivia #wiedźmin #kashmircastiel.post #kashmircastiel.txt

[bestiarum]

ok so. i love the witcher books. i read them a Long time ago and the story has stayed with me all these years + i'm polish so i have this different kind of emotional attachement to it as well. and i reread the books like 10 times already. but my point here is. i really struggle to understand the trajectory of the show. and i know a lot of things have been said about it (esp season 2), and i agree with some stuff and disagree with other (e.g., that black people don't belong in slavic stories. stfu). HOWEVER. something that baffles me more than anything else i think is the way they handled the relationship between jaskier and geralt. rant below :)

cause like. some of the stuff that happens in the show does happen in the books as well. it's not that the relationship is completely different than it was in the og source material. jaskier is kind of an idiot and gets geralt into a lot of trouble. geralt does get upset with jaskier at some point and tells him a few unpleasant things. but like. the entire relationship is different?? the circumstances too? geralt doesn't get upset with jaskier for no reason, and he doesn't berate him for stuff that jaskier isn't guilty of. (in baptism of fire there is a very good reason for geralt to very decidedly tell jaskier that he's being an idiot and it would have been better if geralt "strangled him and threw him in a ditch" like some people suggested he should when they first started travelling together. and even then, in this particular book, geralt is being awful to everyone because he's Going Through Things, but it's never as baseless as in the show, and then he gets called out on it by everyone and changes his behavior. but regardless.) it's like the writers took all of the books and hand-picked the awful moments and behaviors present in their friendship and packed them into the first season (i'm not even gonna discuss season two because it's just not even remotely similar to the books sorry). i mean, geralt would NEVER not on pain of death hurt jaskier physically. the gut punch in the second episode always makes me go "well MY geralt would never". and pretty much the entire show does that as well.

the thing about this relationship and why it is so special in the books is that it provides levity. and i don't just mean that jaskier is the comic relief, i mean that jaskier brings levity into geralt's life. he's the one person who sees geralt as just human and who does not have any expectations for him (unlike yennefer, ciri, etc, all of them in different ways and for different reasons). jaskier condemns geralt's attitute towards himself multiple times (ie makes geralt understand that he isn't different and alienated from humanity by default, that he keeps expecting people to see the worst in him and treat him as some sort of exotic freak and not a person, which isn't true), allowing him to just be himself. they have fun together. like they're absolute idiots sharing one braincell sometimes and it's good!! it's fun!! he's geralt's best friend. that's literally how he's first introduced, before we even see him in the scene; nenneke tells geralt that jaskier's there to see him and asks if geralt wants to, and geralt literally says "of course, he's my friend, after all". and when nenneke tells him she doesn't understand this friendship because they're each others' complete opposites, geralt tells her "opposites attract". and that's that. none of the weird shit the show tries to pull with geralt refusing to call jaskier his friend because....? idk why actually.

their relationship is a constant. geralt and yen have issues all of the time; geralt avoids ciri for a while as well, but jaskier is someone he's always happy to see (there are actually many points in the books where geralt just sees a feather that jaskier wears on his hat or hears a "familiar peal of laughter" and immediately knows it's jaskier and always welcomes the bard into his company). and yeah, jaskier does drive geralt crazy because he's annoying and extravagant and kind of an idiot, but it's always met with something more akin to fond exasperation than with the cold annoyance that we get in the show.

in the books, they sleep in the same bed multiple times. they share physical contact. they save each other multiple times (jaskier stays in dangerous situations just because he doesn't want to leave geralt and instead tries to help him and geralt once calls jaskier crazy for thinking that he could ever leave jaskier in danger). in the last wish, after the djinn, geralt learns that jaskier will not be able to sing, but that he'll survive and be able to talk, and STILL geralt sits down in a corner resting his face on closed fists. and then says that he'd sit his bare ass on a scorpion if it meant that jaskier would be okay. and THEN keeps negotiating with yen so that jaskier is completely unharmed. meanwhile in the show we get a mere "yeah we won't let that happen" when jaskier is DYING. and in the lady of the lake, as they say goodbye, geralt says "daj pyska, stary durniu" which literally translates to "give me your face/mouth, old fool" and is used as an invitation to kiss someone platonically. can you imagine show geralt asking jaskier to kiss him? neither can i.

idk it's just so weird to me that they keep saying how "male friendship is so important blah blah" while making their relationship more of a one sided romance on jaskier's part, when they have SO much material in the books. and i'm bitter lmao

#anyway. my polish ass CANNOT stand what the show did with this relationship. #the witcher #geraskier #geralt of rivia #jaskier #kashmircastiel.post #kashmircastiel.txt

[bestiarum]

why do these 10-20 min sketches bring me more peace then like. almost anything

#art block is temporarily over so. women!!!!!!!!! #art #kashmircastiel.post #kashmircastiel.art

[bestiarum]

teenage years were about queerbaiting and trauma inflicted by bad television writers but adulthood is going to be all about unlearning and recovering from that trauma by watching good canon gay shows

#unfortunately there are like. 2 good gay canon shows #kashmircastiel.txt #kashmircastiel.post

[bestiarum]

bisha

#misha collins #supernatural #spn #YEAH I KNOW IT'S A SLUR IN PORTUGUESE I WAS MADE AWARE #kashmircastiel.post #kashmircastiel.txt

[bestiarum]

*grabs jackles by the shoulders and shakes him violently* now is the time old white millionaire this is your time to release the tapes and to buy the network they can't sue you they have no money

#jackles #jensen ackles #destiel #spn #supernatural #dean winchester #castiel #kashmircastiel.post #kashmircastiel.txt

[bestiarum]

ok time to think about REAL bisexual people again. like dean winchester

#misha collins #spn #supernatural #dean winchester #kashmircastiel.post #kashmircastiel.txt