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Legit, it’s awful, right? It’s really clear that they can’t conceive of her as a whole person with multiple facets, somebody who simultaneously has vulnerability and also an enormous capacity for cruelty. I feel like it really speaks to a buried lesbophobic element in the show’s writing (which also comes blazing to life in how Juice is written), with how deliberately and explicitly Joan is written as a lesbian predator (I know I’ve kind of ranted about this before but the way her characterization incorporates elements from serial killer popular mythology really makes for a compelling argument that she is “male-coded”, which in a way just means “lesbian”) as well as a hatred of certain kinds of mental illness--the show can handle and try to be sensitive to depression, i.e. in Bea’s storyline, but can’t deal with more stigmatized things like OCD, hallucinations, and psychosis. In fact I remember having a conversation a very long time ago with other fans about how for us, Joan’s mental illness was a humanizing element of her character which made us identify more with her, whereas the show’s writers used her disorder to dehumanize and other her. And now they’re trying to backtrack and retroactively embed a sympathy for the character that’s never before existed in the text (outside of probably a few individual moments in s2 and s3) because they’ve realized that she’s one of the most, if not the most interesting on the show and the reason viewers are coming back lol

“The shrews, Yennefer.”

It’s not perfect; some writing / story / character choices have left me wondering just wtf is going on in the writers’ heads. But the characters are interesting, and the world building / backstory is getting pretty interesting too. There are some excellent performances, and I think it has a little bit of everything for everyone. Lots of grey areas (at least, I think (and hope) that’s what they’re going for), not a lot of easy answers. A heck of a lot happens in the season finale, so I’m glad they’ve been renewed! 

seriously, especially when I have to do calc in it

it’s almost kinda flattering that someone read a post of my unfiltered thoughts and was like “you know what you sound like? a TYRANNICAL DICTATOR.” like... makes me hopeful for my future y’know

Tissaia rolls to her shoulder at this, reaching out. She doesn’t think, forgets to warn her, but when her hand lands on Yennefer’s arm, Yennefer doesn’t flinch, doesn’t move.