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When he was dying, she was always the first one in his mind. And her brooch is also integrated with his sword.

if you love them, you can watch my video.

i don’t think we have enough evidence to say for certain that calanthe was born during the eclipse but you could def make that argument, or even argue that stregobor made up the entire thing just to keep women from attaining power. 

def agree anon! one of the many things i appreciate the show is that it doesn’t shrink away from its problematic elements but leans into and distorts them, so at least they’re something to notice, to interpret and discuss. geralt kills renfri, but he wouldn’t have been put in that position if she hadn’t been thrown out by her family and hunted by stregobor’s men because he was terrified of her power. she became a monster product of what happened to her.

i agree that things like fridging happen when, as you say, it’s part of a wider trend, and a writer is completely unaware of the hegemony in which they’re writing. women become plot devices and objectified by the story. but when a writer understands greater context and acknowledges that there’s systemic power play happening not only in the text but in the real world as well, it seems like the work is trying to speak to those trends, not necessarily be complicit in them.