fanart so upsettingly good it makes you get up and pace around your room in shellshocked silence
shout out to The Character for enabling the creative expression of some of the greatest artistic minds of our generation that i can easily access and be moved by without even having to leave the house or sit up in bed
never kill yourself there's literally always more art to look at. you can even make it yourself.
I think my favorite translation-related detail in the Witcher saga that separates the original Polish version from English lies in Geralt’s horse(s), Roach
He names all of his horses “Roach,” which in English, is a very grim-sounding name. It immediately stirs the thought of a cockroach, and it sort of fits the grimy dark fantasy aesthetic that the series has going for it, as well as Geralt’s personality as someone who likes to keep things simple and uncomplicated. He gives the name to every horse he owns, further adding to that.
Meanwhile, in the original Polish version, his horse’s name is Płotka, which to my understanding is a diminutive form of płoć, which is a type of fish, known as a common roach in English, which is actually a pretty small and common fish. It being a diminutive form, it’s also basically saying “Roachie” instead of “Roach,” so all things considered, it’s meant to be a tiny, adorable, cutesy name, but that gets completely lost in the translation. It’s like naming your horse “Guppy” or something.
op i need you to know when you google “ Płotka“ this is like the third image
Toss a coin to your fisher, o valley of plenty.
Same in German! In German he names his horse “Plötze” which is the German name for Płotka. Also the German translation and localisation of Witcher is FUN.
No one warned me that Geralt saying,” If you know my name, it’s because you know his songs” was COMPLETELY UNPROMPTED!!!! He just hears about this man who was mean to Jaskier and gets so petty immediately.
Drawing Jaskier in a corset again because netflix are cowards and could never
Been getting back into the witcher so I had to draw my fav :P so! Eskel based on how I've been imagining him when reading:] (maybe not accurate to the books descriptions of him.. because I'm a little stupid and tend to ignore descriptions+it is also heavily influenced by the games cuz I've been playing tw3 as well)
Love being reminded that Geralt is the character of all time. He’s a horse girl. He’s a girl dad. Before he went out on the path he gave himself 5 names to seem more like a knight but everyone bullied him about it so he settled for being called “of Rivia” even though he was not from Rivia and had only been there once after he’d become a Witcher. He’s constantly bullied by everyone around him because he’s an idiot. His two best friends are a bard and an elderly higher vampire who doesn’t drink human blood because the last time he did he got so drunk on it he flew directly into a building. He names every horse he owns Roach and always picks chestnut mares. He’s centuries old and didn’t know about periods until he got Ciri and he and the other Witchers got chewed out by a sorceress for not knowing what periods were
