In her tomb by the sounding sea.

why do atsu yotei and frodo lord of the rings have the same shoulder sword injury

ppl saying Geralt witcher is boring...: he is weird and off-putting as a defence mechanism and also just sometimes because he doesn't want to talk to people. The idea of a witcher having no emotion is a mask that he can wear. It lets him get by without people prying into his feelings, it lets him follow the witcher principle of neutrality. But people still pry into his feelings, because they don't fall for the act he's putting up. Because it's not a good act! People are so quick to assume that Geralt is emotionless he's never had to put real effort into the charade, so anyone who simply tries to see through it, can. Dandelion, Yennifer, Regis, Milva, Zoltan and yes, Ciri. When Ciri tells Geralt 'Neutrality is contemptible', it takes a while to sink in, but eventually he admits she was right. And he's never the same. When he drops the idea of neutrality, I think he drops the guise of being emotionless. If people come to that conclusion, fine, but he doesn't pretend like it anymore. The only time he ever tries to be neutral again is at the very end of it, when he hangs up his sword, but we all know how long that lasts. He can't help himself, he has to do what he feels to be right, because he knows Ciri reached the heart of it. He does have emotions, he is a person, and is therefore wrapped up in the matters of people. He can't be neutral, not anymore.

GRRM and Sapkowski both have this fantasy author disease where they are writing capital C Crazy stuff about their female characters but are simultaneously very capable using the genre of fantasy to explore womanhood in ways that lap 90% of other fantasy schmucks. Like I have to read about danys boobs once per chapter but I also get to read about how she is exploited by the men around her, all seeing and treating her as a child while wanting her as an adult. Sapkowski is having Geralt sleep with a 17 year old AND is having us bear witness to how Ciri is seen only as a womb, not as a girl, and certainly not as a person. and meanwhile only 50% of female fantasy authors have come to the realisation that women other than them are actual real people and I don't think anyone other than George and maybe 2 others have managed to figure out that if a woman is ugly then she is still deserving of love and decency and respect and can be a main character in a book so there might be just no winning I guess.

Both jaimie and brienne being in love with their respective king/queen, both being sworn to them as knights, and therefore both being a part of the chivalric idea of courtly romance (their love never truly being consumated or otherwise acted upon)- but jaime failing to live up to that through actually being with cersei whereas brienne would never consider even the idea of actually being with renly (although i'd say it's impossible to differentiate how much of that is her being a 'true' knight and how much is her thinking that he'd never want her anyway)

Geralt is such a good protag to me because he is an impossibly good monster hunter and swordsman, has 1/3 of the continent's population (male and female) in love with him, is very articulate and intelligent- and yet he is still a bit of a loser. Girldad to deeply concerning teenager. Is in a 30-year-long situationship. Falls out with his best friend like they're on the playground. Spends all the money he barely scrapes up on a new jacket. Immediately ruins said jacket. So it goes.

Replaying Cyberpunk rn: evil corporations, rampant consumerism, the worst guy you know also being your best friend- all very realistic, but what makes me call the game's reality into question is that it tries to convince us of the idea that V could have passed their driving test

you are two months old. for the entirety of your life you have wanted to escape the hell you were born into. you escape for less than an hour. you find out that you and your family made hell. you are forced back in. your evil twin commits identity theft against you. you take back your body and swear to help find your bfs missing wife. he gets her back. after everything. he gets to escape hell but at the cost of you and everyone else in it dying. you have wanted to leave since you were born but it is all you have. it is better than nothing. he gets everything he wanted and instead of taking it he stays with you. you take each other hand in hand and walk back into hell. for however long you will be allowed to stay. you are still two months old. this is also all happening while you are only eating like a quarter of an egg everyday. Just another day in the life of perhaps lumon's least enthusiastic macrodata refiner.

Jame watching Helena eat one sixth of a hard boiled egg vs Helena watching mark house six platters of Chinese food