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Blood of Elves/Time of Contempt inspired Yennefer and Ciri sketches. Also a rendered Ciri. I love this duo!
Decided to render some Yen sketches. I love how these turned out!đź’ś
Blood of Elves/Time of Contempt inspired doodles of Ciri and Yennefer.
Now Ciri is done too! I am quite fond of these, hope y’all like the finished versions too!
My least favorite habit of certain (usually female) fans is when they try to find a “woke” reason to dislike a major female character. See for example, the argument that Yennefer of Vengerberg is “there primarily for the male gaze”.
Yennefer of Vengerberg is a woman whose storyline was placed front and center from the second episode and given parallel importance with the titular male character.
Yennefer is a character who is fearless, powerful, ambitious and selfish in equal measures, all of which are traits we rarely see in female characters period, and the narrative (and the lead male character) treat these traits generally as ones to be celebrated rather than decried.
Yennefer is a character who is given so much story beyond her relationship to the male character that when she has a moment where she has to think back to all of the painful and infuriating things that have been said to her, he never crosses her mind.
Yennefer is a character who owns her sexuality both before and after her transformation and her relationship with the lead male character is primarily on her own terms. (And the part that isn’t on her terms: the wish, is something that she gets rightfully angry about. And at no point does the narrative try to say that she made the wrong decision there.)
Yennefer is a character who is dressed according to female power fantasies. Her gowns are wildly designed, with crazy arches and sleeves, and they look fabulous but also very much in line with what a woman would choose as opposed to a man. And while sometimes she is nude, it’s always plot relevant and not presented in an objectifying or dehumanizing way. Â
Yennefer is a woman of color in a leading role in a fantasy drama that is both helmed and penned by women. (The original books are written by a man, sure, but the teleplay was written by a woman. The showrunner is a woman.)
Yennefer is not going to resonate with every single woman watching the show, sure. But she resonates with quite a lot of them. And she’s crafted with exactly the same “gaze” as every other character in the series. (Including the male ones who are miraculously free of this ridiculous complaint).
Lets be real here the most well written relationship of S1 of The Witcher is neither Geralt and Yennifer’s romance nor Jaskier and Geralt’s friendship it’s 100% Yennifer and Tissaia’s mother-daughter relationship
Yennefer of Vendenberg!
(I've been trying to post it for the last 2 hours, it won't do it with all the other progress photos, sorry guys, this is it, might do another with a gif from all the ones I don't put here in the future)
Loved doing this one! If anyone has a suggestion tell me and I will add it to my list!
Till the next one đź‘‹
Yennefer of Vendenberg part. 2
Here is the gif of progress photos that I promised!
- Nikita Gill
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Yennefer sketch from The Witcher 3 and from books, how I imagine her
gift for @vic-of-thor <3
The Witcher Netflix Review
Netflix’s The Witcher series starts with a bang. Everything within the world comes crashing down. Nilfgard has attacked and overtaken Cintra and Ciri has barely escaped with her life with the goal to find the man her grandmother told her about Geralt of Rivia. The first episode immediately pulled me in and I couldn’t wait to see what would happen in this story and world. The final two episodes made everything come full circle and I was left wanting more. Especially with the cliffhanger ending that episode eight left off on.
The series juggles three timelines with Ciri, Geralt, and Yennefer at the focus of each of their own timelines. Ciri’s timeline happens mainly after the fall of Cintra. Geralt’s timeline chronicles how he came to become Ciri’s fate. And Yennefer’s tells the story of an unwanted and powerless girl becoming a powerful and confident sorceress. All storylines were well told and got me to care for each individual character. I cheered when they succeeded and was sad when they failed. All three were well cast and now that I’ve seen their portrayals in the show I can’t imagine anyone else playing these parts.
Netflix clearly didn’t take any shortcuts with the production of the Witcher. All of the technical aspects look top notch. The CGI looks fantastic for a television series.The cinematography is also very gorgeous. The timelines and places are easily distinguishable from one another through lighting, filters, and set design. I never got one place mixed up with another.Â
I did think there were a few moments that were slow. They probably could have cut some content to tighten up the episodes a bit more. Episode five was the weakest of the eight episode series, but it did contain some relationship building that did affect the characters moving forward. Overall these weren’t that major because the show typically moved at a pretty brisk pace with important story of character beats happening fairly often.
I recommend this show for both fans and newcomers. Fans will enjoy seeing their favorite characters adapted for the screen and newcomers will not be lost in the world and will come to understand the characters and their stories well.
Summon the Bitches!
The Witcher 3 drunk witchers
Andrey as Geralt GrimorumFame as Eskel Max as Lambert
photo by me
AU in which Geralt is a hardcore conspiracy theorist who lives in a tin-foil lined RV. Jaskieresk is a final year university student studying fine arts who gets his weed from Geralt. They often smoke together and 'what if' at each other until they're either crying with laughter, or adding another layer of foil to the van, petrified.
Yenna is a park ranger for the land upon which Geralt has parked his vehicle. She looks the other way because he's the kind of guy who picks up litter, yells at teenagers who are going off-path into dangerous areas, and also because he's actually really hot and they totally fuck sometimes. Okay, often.
Jaskieresk and Yenna get along incredibly well because neither of them completely buy into Geralt's theories (although some are pretty well thought-out and have a lot of supporting evidence) and it's just too easy to tease him until he's sulking. Sometimes the ribbing goes a bit too far and Geralt will climb his favourite tree effortlessly (the muscles on the crazy fucker!) and refuse to come down. If it comes to it, Yenna offers to show him her boobs, and Jaskieresk promises the rest of the burrito he's eating. That usually tempts him back.
Nobody expects Geralt to uncover the location of a recently abandoned government facility in which genetic testing has reportedly been performed on children. Jaskieresk is totally in favour of a crazy-ass road trip, but Yenna needs convincing. In the end, she goes with them because a) if there is a grain of truth here (she's never seen Geralt so sure), then children's lives are at stake, and b) she absolutely does not trust Geralt and Jaskieresk to not accidentally blow something up during their 'adventure'.
So they get to the place - it looks like a tiny abandoned house - and trek inside. Geralt has an array of weird instruments to detect radioactivity and signals and all sorts of shit that Yenna and Jaskieresk don't understand. At first Jaskieresk is nervously chatty, screaming every time a shadow startles him, but after they search the dusty-ass house, he relaxes. There's nothing there. He and Yenna begin another session of teasing as Geralt grumps and triple-checks his map and sources.
Jaskieresk does a theatrical impression of Geralt fumbling with his paper map, and in the process, nudges an exposed brick by the fireplace. A hidden door slides open with a metallic woosh, revealing a brightly lit passageway. Stairs lead down to a securely locked door, complete with keycode.
Both Yenna and Jaskieresk are speechless. Geralt lets himself be smug for a moment, before he enters the passage and descends the steps.
Jaskieresk is quick to follow - 'cause then he gets to be safely sandwiched between Geralt and Yenna, smart - and they all peer at the panel. Authorised Personnel, it says in LED wording. Jaskieresk immediately goes to touch; Yenna slaps his hand; they begin squabbling. Geralt ignores them, studies the worn pattern from the many fingertips pressed into the keys, and quickly figures out that the code is the project leader's year of birth.
Yenna looks up from the headlock she has Jaskieresk in as the security door opens with the sound of filtered air depressurising. They're hit with the scent of antiseptic, ozone, and food rot.
Okay, so at this point, they're all a bit creeped out. Not even Geralt expected to get this far without resistance. They huddle together as they sneak down a long, sterile corridor, peeking at abandoned rooms. Yenna has one hand on her gun (she's the only one licensed and trained). Jaskieresk has one hand on Geralt's ponytail (he's not trained in the use of Geralt, but hey).
They see chaos everywhere. It looks like everyone working here left in a rush. The smell of old food is coming from a break-room where a platter of sandwiches has been abandoned. The offices have their computers broken, their drives removed and smashed. A sink is full of the charred remains of paperwork.
Clearly something happened.
Geralt goes about inspecting the hard drives, seeing if there are any he may be able to salvage. He turns up one, and a USB drive forgotten at the bottom of a drawer. Yenna carefully sifts through the burnt papers, picking out scraps that survived the blaze. Jaskieresk closes the break-room door and whines about the smell.
They're about finished with their tasks when they hear a thud. The trio freeze, staring at the end of the hallway at the last door, unexplored. Yenna withdraws her handgun, not twitchy with the trigger - she has discipline - but she won't waste time with the draw. She makes a motion for Geralt and Jaskieresk to get behind her as they inch down the hall. Both men obey silently.
She releases the electronic lock and the door glides silently open. They're confronted with a perplexing sight: rows of large metal cages, empty. As they walk, they read the small tags. Numbers, names - first names - with a red cross beside each. With a feeling of dread, they realise this is where the children were held. And every cross, a failed experiment.
Yenna is shaking by the time they reach the last cage. Jaskieresk looks as if he might be ill at any moment. Geralt's jaw is set firm in anger. They see the tag: 087 - Ciri.
Beside it, a green tick.
Inside the cage, a huddled form; she's bundled in blankets, pressed as far away as she can get. The child can't be older than ten. She still has a central line in her arm.
As Yenna puts her weapon away and switches to stoic crisis mode, coaxing the girl with a matronly voice, Geralt and Jaskieresk back up to give them room. They exchange a meaningful glance.
After this, there will be no going back to smoking and giggling and tree-climbing. After this, Jaskieresk's degree will sit incomplete. After this, they'll fight to hide and protect this child, and uncover the truth of her mistreatment.
After this, they'll begin to learn exactly what Subject 087, aka 'Ciri', is capable of.
So I’m a big fan of transformers, the movies are amazing, the action is killer, I hyper-fixate every time I watch the movies.
So I brought you all hear for an au idea, Transformers and the Witcher. At first? I thought of Optimus Prime being like Vesemir, and the rest like the wolves. Be hella cool. But hear me out okay?
Geralt is the guy who contacts the first Atuobots, and her name is Roach. I do want to stick to Optimus Prime being like Vesemir because I think that would be really cool.
Maybe some backstory is Geralt, Eskel and Lambert run a car shop, all three end up meeting Roach. We also get to meet Scorpion who takes Eskel’s side, and then Storm, who’s stubborn enough to take Lambert.
I do want Yennefer, Ciri and Jaskier to be there. Yennefer is a federal Agent who works with the Autobots, getting top secret files to the next big guy, her and Geralt had a fling a while back but decided to keep it friendly. Ciri is Geralt’s goddaughter, who stays with Geralt, Eskel and Lambert along with Roach, Scorpian and Storm, trust me they all swore to keep that kid safe no mater what. Jaskier? Jaskier is Yennefer’s partner. New and young, good with words and good with getting them into situations Yennefer wants.
Jaskier’s first meeting with Geralt, his brothers and the transformers, goes pleasently well. Scorpian loves him, he’s funny, Storm doesn’t like him and Roach doesn’t seem to care. What they don’t know, and soon figure out, is that Jaskier first found Prime and that even though Prime drives mostly himself, he has a soft spot for Jaskier. It’s funny because when they first meet, Jaskier pats the hood and smiles, saying “he likes to be called Vesemir” Geralt, Eskel and Lambert have a new appreciation towards Jaksier, the cars opinions doesn’t change but Roach learns to warm up to him.
During this time, Jaskier and Geralt warm up to each other nicely ;) dates and possibly a little more, but they are absolutely badass working together with the Autobots. I think it’s a silly but cute idea, and I’m absolutely going to forever think about this idea.
Modern AU where Geralt is ex FBI and runs a true crime podcast with his overly exuberant and terribly dark humored husband Jaskier with expert guest forensic pathologist Yennefer and the occasional appearance from his brother Eskel who is 100% a believer in aliens and government cover ups.
They once recorded the conversations at Thanksgiving dinner and just posted it unedited.
Fans want to hear more from Vessimir, but only on the topic of how pretentious Geralt was as a child.
No one knew Jask and Geralt were married til season 5 when Jask says 'babe' (which is common bc he's just constantly over affectionate) and Geralt responds with 'darling' and the fans go buck wild.
They post a little 5 minute montage of wedding photos/clips in response to all the questions with the caption "no shit Sherlock?" Bc Geralt thought it was obvious.
They actually end up solving a cold case one time and Lambert is SO annoyed with the attention they're getting and the smug looks Jaskier gives him.
Meet and greets get wild. All the booze. They go WAY over time on any and all panels bc they're just so into it and Geralt wants to hear all the theories regardless of how stupid they are bc "its important in any investigation to think outside the box"
Geralt throwing Jask over his shoulder when he gets too excited (and angry) over a suspect in that one cold case he cannot stop thinking about.
Valdo runs a podcast himself that started true crime but morphed into roasting Jask and trying to prove their theories wrong. He doesn't upload for three months when they solved the cold case.
Geralt has a rant at least once every couple episodes on proper crime scene and evidence collecting procedure. He's sick of these lazy deputie's and officer's shit.
Jaskier cries often. Our boy is empathetic af and fans start sending kleenexes to the studio they record in. Pretty soon they have to tell people to stop bc there's just too many. They donate them to shelters and preschools.
They are asked for merch so they do tshirts and tank tops with images of blue latex gloves, evidence bags, and long tweezers with the text "don't be fucking lazy" and there's a couple different versions with names of shitty coroners (Fami Malik anyone?) or cops that threw entire cases by fucking up the chain of evidence.
Guys I could go on forever.