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recent read: time of contempt, book two-ish in the witcher series. enjoyed it. it's a book about the horrors of war. yknow. i like it because of how the camera bounces around--the focus isn't necessarily only on geralt, yen, and ciri, but rather we get to see the different sorcerers and low level army guys (i had to google a lot of old-fashioned military terms that i promptly forgot) and so on and so forth. the whole situation with the sorcerers murdering each other out of political [gestures confusedly] was very compelling and i'm also really interested in what ciri is gonna get up to with her rat friends.
like, and another thing--i mentioned this to my.... to my, uhhh... my [redacted]? my not really anything so i'm going to talk around it and hope that the one (1) person who reads this picks up on the specific social situation i'm in? one of the dudes i impressed by having read the previous witcher book? one thing i mentioned to him is that i was kind of pleasantly surprised by how funny these books are. like obviously they are about the horrors of war. assassins, teenager girls almost dying in the desert and eating all sorts of unpleasant things to survive, soldiers talking about how they're going to rape and pillage, so on. but ciri is constantly ribbing yennefer about her relationship with geralt, and that condringher guy (he was interesting, rip) saying that being a bastard is a cornerstone of his profession, and that bit in the last book where triss lays into the witchers for not knowing what to do when ciri gets her period. like. listen, i don't know what the tone of the games is like (and [redacted], who has actually played the games, did not answer my thinly veiled inquiry about this because it is like pulling teeth trying to extract text messages out of him), but the show is very grimdark with the exception of when jaskier is onscreen. so the comedy that comes up in the books, the one-liners of it all, i wasn't expecting it. yknow.
also what the fuck is up with this falka shit. i'm soooo curious about that.
like, and another thing--i mentioned this to my.... to my, uhhh... my [redacted]? my not really anything so i'm going to talk around it and hope that the one (1) person who reads this picks up on the specific social situation i'm in? one of the dudes i impressed by having read the previous witcher book? one thing i mentioned to him is that i was kind of pleasantly surprised by how funny these books are. like obviously they are about the horrors of war. assassins, teenager girls almost dying in the desert and eating all sorts of unpleasant things to survive, soldiers talking about how they're going to rape and pillage, so on. but ciri is constantly ribbing yennefer about her relationship with geralt, and that condringher guy (he was interesting, rip) saying that being a bastard is a cornerstone of his profession, and that bit in the last book where triss lays into the witchers for not knowing what to do when ciri gets her period. like. listen, i don't know what the tone of the games is like (and [redacted], who has actually played the games, did not answer my thinly veiled inquiry about this because it is like pulling teeth trying to extract text messages out of him), but the show is very grimdark with the exception of when jaskier is onscreen. so the comedy that comes up in the books, the one-liners of it all, i wasn't expecting it. yknow.
also what the fuck is up with this falka shit. i'm soooo curious about that.
