happy new year!
Dec. 31st, 2024 06:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
isunshoweruh. not yet. it's still 6pm here (and i have a raging headache so if this is super incoherent thats why lol) but i unfortunately just finished sword of destiny, the second witcher collection, and that means i gotta post about it.
one of the things that interested me reading this collection is the theme of parenthood. no, not just family. parenthood. yennefer wants a child and can't have one, geralt extremely doesn't want this child of surprise but she finds him anyway, geralt and his own mother and the just-now-getting-mentioned-a-bit vesemir. no coherent thoughts (again, headache) but i am certainly Thinking.
some fun fairytale references in this one too--the swan sister one, briefly and notably, and the little mermaid--as well as the observation that hey, the old tongue looks pretty celtic, was that on purpose because there Sure Are Themes about colonisation in this book and also is that a localization thing? like is it different in polish? will have to poke around about that later when i am more of a person. honestly while reading i was like "this book is going to go in one eye and out the other" but not so apparently i absorbed some things.
anyways happy new year may 2025 be good to you all
one of the things that interested me reading this collection is the theme of parenthood. no, not just family. parenthood. yennefer wants a child and can't have one, geralt extremely doesn't want this child of surprise but she finds him anyway, geralt and his own mother and the just-now-getting-mentioned-a-bit vesemir. no coherent thoughts (again, headache) but i am certainly Thinking.
some fun fairytale references in this one too--the swan sister one, briefly and notably, and the little mermaid--as well as the observation that hey, the old tongue looks pretty celtic, was that on purpose because there Sure Are Themes about colonisation in this book and also is that a localization thing? like is it different in polish? will have to poke around about that later when i am more of a person. honestly while reading i was like "this book is going to go in one eye and out the other" but not so apparently i absorbed some things.
anyways happy new year may 2025 be good to you all
