#dandelion

rallamajoop:

The Witcher: The Games vs the Books part 2 – Characters and Accents

So, I’ve already talked at length about the relationship between the Witcher books and games, but how well they captured individual characters is its whole own subject – and you’d better believe I have enough thoughts on it for a whole extra post.

Andrej Sapkowski’s skill for creating vivid and engaging characters really is so much of what brings the books to life, and no matter how much work an adaptation might put into worldbuilding and plot, it’s the characters you’ve really got to nail to get the long-time fans on board. Especially when you’ve done what the games have, framing themselves as a direct continuationof Sapkowski’s story. Nothing invites comparison to your source material like basically forcing fans to read the original novels to understand even half the backstory alluded to in-game. 

So how did they do? I can only offer my opinion – characterisation is necessarily going to be a lot more subjective than just telling you what plot points the games contradicted outright – but like any fan, I have opinions in plenty.

Of the main cast, I feel Yennefer is the character they’ve captured the best. They’ve done just as well with some supporting players – I have no real complaints about Dijkstra or Phillipa, for example, who are favourites of mine in both games and books. For the main players though, Geralt and Regis seem to be the ones who’s differences I’m most inclined to forgive, whereas I don’t feel like they’ve done Ciri justice at all. Book!Geralt is much less of a smartarse, for one thing, whereas Book!Ciri is much more of one. But if we’re talking about the differences, I’m afraid we really need to start with Dandelion.

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season 2 of witcher is coming

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dandelions deserve more respect than they get

you say “weeds” I say “widespread non-native edible plant and early-blooming pollinator resource that is not considered invasive because it behaves politely and does not cause deleterious ecological consequences”

The dandelions aren’t gonna fuck you bro

they have and they will

How would that work

ayo what the fuck

it’s like you people have never met a top before

This post is circulating on Facebook and I want to clarify that I am only comparing dandelions to other, more invasive non-native plants. I’m not saying that dandelions are a suitable replacement for native flowers and spring ephemerals—just that they are far better behaved than most of the invasive introduced plants and actually have redeeming qualities, so the hatred specifically towards them is misplaced.

If you’re looking to create an ecologically sound and helpful habitat, choose plants native to your area rather than dandelions—but also, they’re far from your biggest problem and definitely don’t use weedkiller just to get rid of them.

also you can eat every part of a dandelion and they are very nutritious! leaves in salads (pick them in the early spring) petals in anything from pancakes to jam, roots can be dried to make tea

The amount of respect Jaskier received in the new season (0) hurts me