#ewanspotter

It’s been a long, cold year since the dragon hunt. Geralt is used to being alone, that's what he tells himself, and he’d managed just fine before he met Jaskier. He could manage just fine now he’d pushed him away.

Still, it’s a relief to head back to Kaer Morhen when the winter arrives, knowing that he’ll have company for a while. Even if that company is a pack of cantankerous old witchers, they’re his pack. He feels a weight lift off his chest when he sees the crumbling old towers appear in the distance, and every step closer lets him breathe more easily.

He pushes open the keep’s great gate and heads for the main hall, expecting to find Vesemir and perhaps Eskel and Coën. Instead, he finds Lambert, splayed across a high-backed chair like a throne, with Jaskier sat in his lap feeding him grapes.

“What,” Geralt growls, “the fuck.”

Jaskier gives him a smug look but keeps his mouth shut for once. Lambert smirks like this is the best thing that’s ever happened to him. “Geralt, old man!” he says. “How good of you to join us. Jaskier here came looking for you, so I’ve been keeping him company. You know how it is here, the keep does get awfully cold at night.”

Jaskier giggles, actually fucking giggles, and buries his face into Lambert’s neck. Geralt feels light headed.

“What do you think, my little bard?” Lambert coos at Jaskier. “Shall we let Geralt here stay with us, or should we send him away like he did to you?”

@ewanspotter: “I never really thought about this. For somebody so important to the main character, she’s just so unremarkable and un-rememberable.” *that's* the problem!! (apart from the fridging). finding kate, protecting her, and then mourning her is like 80% of neal's character motivation for those early seasons. yet the emotional impact from the narrative is lacking because they didn't bother to make her a person. neal spent so much time risking his safety and his freedom, including getting himself sent to prison twice, and... why? because she was cute? because he doesn't know how healthy connections work so he thought she was his soulmate? i can't buy that they were actually in love. the show didn't prove it.

@lunar-beauty: “ikr!! so much of s1 and s2 where about her yet we barely learned anything about her and tbh it was such a waste. cause despite how sure peter and mozzie were that she couldn’t be trusted, she was loyal and had a plan to get herself and neal out of nyc and away from adler and the fbi, and it would’ve worked too if adler was such a piece of shit and bombed her plane. rlly wish her character had been developed more.”

you make good points! the show prioritized misdirection and mystery for her. mozzie and peter don't trust her, she doesn't answer when peter asks if she really loves neal, etc. the viewers are supposed to be interested in the push and pull of whether she's out to betray him or not. but they did nothing to generate interest in her as a character. the posthumous reveal that she was trying to help neal the whole time and had been plotting to run away with him doesn't add any dimensions to her. it just makes neal more likely to want revenge for her death.

in the backstory episode we find out she wasn't a criminal until she met neal. we don't at any point get to see things through her eyes. they don't show what appealed to her about this entirely different lifestyle she just jumped into, so ok, fine? then she ran away from neal so he decided to expose himself and get caught just to find her. i don't even remember why she ran, but it makes the foundation of their relationship that much shakier. and years later in season five, neal basically listed what appealed to him about each of his exes and when he got to kate, he said it was her innocence. ok, i guess?

she's like a ransom note of a person. they cut all these bits out from other works and pasted them together in the shape of a woman. then they cast an actor almost a decade matt bomer's junior (and looked even younger than that. sorry, matt's my age and i just look at her and i'm like ew, why. she's a CHILD.) and she seemed too hamstrung by her inconsistent character motivation and lack of interiority to spark any chemistry with him. changing even one of the decisions they made about her would have made an enormous difference.

My soul (like new; hardly used) for 90 more chapters of this gloriousness. <3

“When I say there's a war coming, I don't mean with the Scarborough; I don't mean with King George or England. Tumblr is coming. And it means to exterminate us.” ☠️

Flint. Silver is used to cold nights without enough blankets; for making due with the clothes on his back. (I just made myself sad.)

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@ewanspotter I was gonna say the exact same thing. Sad people are sad.

There is some overlap between the autos and the panels, a vast amount of photos are in the morning before the panels begin. (Group photos are later on in the day, so you might miss a bit of panel if you have that.)

Photos are first come first serve. The autos are done by ticket number and the ticket numbers are called during the panels. So you can sit in the panels until they’re ready for you to get your autos and then return just after. They typically call tickets for autos in groups of 50, so you don’t queue for that long.

All the panelists do photos and panels on both saturday and sunday. (Your autos with each guest will be either on the sat or sun afternoon depending on whether you’re gold or a high/low regular holder.) But this will all become clearer when the schedule is released.

I missed part of the beginning of the Hettie panel because I was getting Eddie’s auto on the Sunday morning. But that was it at BTRDC. I didn’t miss any panels at RDC.

Hope that helps!