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i didn't dislike it but man choices were made

Before you start reading:
this is a review of The Nightmare of the Wolf (2021) directed by Han Kwang-il and it contains spoilers.
Read my review on Letterboxd if you don’t want to be spoiled.

the good: good quality animation, great banter and some very interesting original characters, another look into the lore of the world of the witcher, cool monster design

the bad: weird choices about the timeline, some questionable narrative choices ...and SPOILERS.

i was looking forward to this movie. the witcher s2 is so far away still, and i have no way to justify a third playthrough of wild hunt, so i really hoped it would help me get some kind of fix. the good news is that the mood is right: we have a witcher fighting monsters, we have the intrinsic tragedy of being a witcher, and we have excellent animation to tell us that story. there's also a lot of stuff that left me with a bitter aftertaste in my mouth though. i enjoyed myself, but i wish i liked it more.

( Rambly and spoiler-y recension under the cut )

i should be writing but i can't get in the flow so i might as well catch up a little

challenge #06: rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create

first of all im going to cheat and redirect you to my other two reclists -- one for series and one for single fics.

the three stories i rec'd are huge, cover heavy themes either psychologically or emotionally, and are very different between them, for genre, pairing and style, so I think they make for a nice morsel for someone who -- well, wants to look into my tastes in fanfiction i guess haha. please give these people all the kudos because they deserve them.

three stories that consumed me

tap tap tap, by lemmingdancer geralt/eskel, geralt/jaskier | angst with a happy ending | 45k | link
this fic is long. it spans their whole lives, from childhood to retirement, and it's deliciously painful. one of my favorite things about it is geralt's transformation after the second trials, how he has to put an effort in learning how to act human again. and i love how eskel and jaskier go at it, with their flaws and their sweetness. i loved the issues and the mistakes and the feelings and the tap tap tap. and after a lot of pain — a happy ending. truly a must-read. // warning for minor spoilers for the games

Silver and copper, by heronfem geralt/jaskier | canon au, alternative meeting, horror and violence | 56k | link
jaskier has a very good reason not be a bard, and geralt happens to pass through lettenhove and fix it. this is a horror story (to the point that i regretted reading it at night) and there's some truly horrifying stuff going on about the curse, so heed the tags. it's also a mystery story, which reminded me a little of the side quests you can play in tw3 but with a lot more frustrated meandering and false leads, which keep you on the edge of your seat. there's also a lot of hope and love, though — the truly selfless kind, the kind that doesn't give up on you, the kind that waits for you to come back, the kind that adopts you even if it has no reason to do so.

out in the pouring rain (down on your knees) by SummerFrost geralt/jaskier/yennefer | modern au, BDSM | 45k | link
it starts out as jaskier doing a favour to yennefer and geralt, to satisfy a cuckhold fantasy, and then it turns into something much more complicated. i'm extremely picky with modern aus but this pushes all my buttons re: kink & the witcher cast. also, i almost feel like i should've tagged this as jaskier/yennefer because that's what mostly is - geralt is off screen a lot, but he's the elephant in the room and the reason everything is happening and everyone is feeling. the pining hits hard and the burn is slow; by the end of it i felt consumed by it, in the best of ways.
special mention: ciri! she's trans (i know that folk look for that kind of thing) and adorable and her parents and jaskier love her very much and i appreciated the whole thing so much.

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challenge #05: talk about a canon you love

Nobody will be surprised to see that this post is about the Witcher, since apparently it’s all I think about these days. I don’t actually talk about it much on any of my online spaces - I’m not great at meta and I always feel like other people have more interesting things to say. Fiction is usually my way to say things about my canons, so that’s what I usually write — but this is a challenge so I felt like challenging myself.

Before the netflix show came the games, and before the games came the books, which I had the pleasure to discover during the entirety of 2020 — so I’m going to gush a bit about the opening scene of the short story that started it all.

( spoilers about the books under the cut )

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reading the posts about goals made me want to re-make the one i did in a more structured way, so i guess i am officially behind with the challenge lmao. it's one of the drawbacks of dreamwidth--since it's longer posts, it takes me more time to write them and i always second guess myself and the content i post.

anyway, for day #5 the challenge is to gush about canon and i wonder if it's finally the moment for me to re-read the witcher (the short story) and shard of ice and break them down--but i don't have time today and my hands hurt and it's taking me forever to just type this so maybe somewhen during the week?

Does anyone have experience with IFTTT? I'm trying to set up a thing that reads a RSS feed from Ao3 to post it on Dreamwidth but I can't absolutely seem to figure it out...?

EDIT: nevermind, I did it!! Unfortunately the free version of IFTTT lets you create only three applets at a time, which is really not useful for what I wanted to do (I have like, three dozens of tags to filter and I'm not sure commands such as OR work in the 'keyword' field??) so I'm back to square one. I'm not even entirely sure if it works the way I intended it to, but I guess we're going to find out next time I post a fic in the tag.

The Witcher Fic Writer Network twitter chat is pretty fun now that we're only a few people, but I would love for it to have a scope beyond the livechat feed (which can be pretty overwhelming, even if we all write in different moments because of timezones)... So that is the feed idea: create an account that automatically shares the fics written by the people in the network!

I would love to have an actually active space here on dreamwidth (or pillowfort, even) but the ones that are already existing don't have a lot of interaction and I feel a little awkward...

Anyway if you're a fan of the witcher and you write or intend to write fic for it, feel free to come and say hello!

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