#Book dandelion

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Currently obsessed with them a normal amount (please look at the details they're the most self indulgent stuff ever & I love them)

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I GOT A WITVHER COLORING BOOK AND

MY MAN 🗣️🗣️

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Geralt and Dandelion in the books:

- 2 badass and competent professionals in their own fields who have great chemistry right from the start of their relationship

- bond over philosophy and literature and a mutual desire and need to roam and travel

- are friends because they just genuinely enjoy each other's company, love, care about, and respect each other

- go out of their way, often to great personal risk, to help each other

- A close, platonic relationship between two adult men who are comfortable being physically close with each other (which includes sharing a bed quite often)

- share personal and financial resources when they travel together

- feel comfortable enough to read each other for filth and be honest about what they see in the other's life choices, and feel free to tell the other what they need to hear (but don't want to hear) in terms of life and relationship advice.

- close until the (literal) end even though there were still some residual relationship issues between them (with the Dutchess Anna Henrietta situation) which the reader is left hoping would have been worked through eventually had they been given the time. And even this wasn't enough to make them want to stop being close. 🥹😭

Geralt and Jaskier on the TV show:

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a dandelion in the sun (he is experiencing philippine heat)

[lost-ghost-of-kaer-morhen]

One bed because it is cheaper? Because the only one bed left? Nah. One bed because Geralt and Dandelion want to sleep together. Just look at them. They are married. They are old married couple. They're comfortable with each other. Their friendship is so long that they stop feeling embarrassed around each other. They know how disgusting they can be and accept it and learn how to live with it. They definitely found a comfortable pose to sleep in. I believe it. They deserve to have some cuddles. Especially my little star Dandelion

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I was talking about this last night in my groupchat, but I've been in shambles lately thinking about how fresh little 19 year old baby Dandelion was ready to fucking DIE alongside Geralt during the short story "The Edge of the World"

Like he just met this white haired bozo. Geralt was about to convince the elves to SPARE him and Dandelion was like "KILL ME TOO OR ELSE I'LL SET THE WORLD AGAINST YOU, YOU PIECE OF SHIT!!!!"

I can't breathe, he's somehow just the stupidest motherfucker in the world and also somehow the most LOYAL ASS BITCH IN EXISTENCE. He loves his friends so much, he loves GERALT, so much 😭😭 He was gonna get revenge for Geralt if the elves killed him through whatever means he was able to and he was 100% serious on that threat

He literally barely knew Geralt and he was ready to give up EVERYTHING, he immediately decided he was going to be bonded to this broody asshole for the rest of his life and THATS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED

I care about them so much. They make me want to start tearing up carpets, I'm gonna be sick /pos

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DRAW SANJI IN A DRESS BESTIE IM ALWAYS THRIVING ON SANJI IN A DRESS !!! SANJI IN A DRESS!!!

If that's no good on the art block draw a book dandelion 🤭 maybe I can infect you with the brainrot (lighthearted) (affectionate)

they fought me SO HARD today but I have doodles for you mwah mwah

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witcher art dump ft. game!yennlion, a meme redraw, and an outfit meme netflix!radovid

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Dandelion does actually compose the Ballad of the Two Tits that he threatens to write at the end of The Bounds of Reason. It is a jaunty little tune about two plump round little birds that are certainly not a euphemism for anything.

[himikochan]

Laissez les bon temps rouler! (Let the good times roll)

A Dandelion inspired look for Mardi Gras

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Dandelion when he keeps losing his rosin (I’m projecting)

So I didn’t feel like drawing his stupid hat from behind and also like…I messed up the lyrics in the bottom anyway metaphors by the crane wives ily…

[slumberingcorpse]

Book Dandelion my beloved 💕

finished the boys! :3 here’s the wip with a beautiful short text When the Snow melts (I’ll be with you again) by @dont-trust-humanity

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Little drawing I did of book dandelion 😼

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I've seen some posts from people in the Witcher fandom (usually who are into both the Netflix show and the books) being confused as to why book fans think Geralt being mean to Dandelion (Jaskier) is a canon divergence in the TV show, when in the books, there are times when Geralt can be very cutting and even a bit mean to Dandelion.

My takeaway from their relationship in the books is that this conflict has the purpose of developing both of their characters (and serving as allegory because we KNOW Mr. Sapkowski loves allegory, and we love him for it! Or at least I do), and there's context around why they can be this way with each other. There's a rich history in this friendship, a comfort and casualness with one another that one wouldn't have with someone they weren't that close with, which in a lot of relationships comes with a safety to BE cutting and blunt with each other at times and know that having these conflicts is not going to mean an end to their relationship. They tend to move on from their arguments and all is forgiven (sometimes after a period of distance, but that's also normal after a hard conversation I feel - both parties sometimes need to process and lick their wounds, or wounded egos), and it's implied (at least to me) that their friendship is an "always" thing, even when they do blow up at each other, and even when the things they say are harsh.

Furthermore, there's so much "off screen" (off-page?) time between them that we don't get to see. But their closeness is implied by others and themselves throughout the entire saga and the short stories. And the things they say to other people indicate how important they are to one another as well.

I do want to point out that my personal take on their relationship is tempered by me being in my 40's and having more than one long term relationship (namely my closest and longest-running friendship which is going on 25 years now, and my marriage which is almost 15 years old this year) where there IS that familiarity and "safety" to sometimes have cutting conversations, or at least "brutally honest" conversations, telling each other things we might not want to hear, but perhaps need to.

My best friend, for example, saw me through a 6-year relationship that was actually abusive. She felt that she had to tell me some truths that I needed to hear, and while some things she told me were hard to hear during that period, I'm so glad she felt safe and comfortable enough with me to be honest about what she saw happening.

She is not a fuzzy-wuzzy cuddly person. But she is MY person. She has been my rock for nearly a quarter century. I would actually trust this woman with my life. I would donate a kidney to this woman if I were a match and she needed one. We are not cutesy fuzzy with each other (although most of the time we're warm, generous, and supportive like a certain witcher and minstrel duo). She's not the type to say "I love you" out loud, so we don't do that because I know that would make her uncomfortable (she's even like this with her partner of several years - some people just aren't as demonstrative with saying the WORDS, but it doesn't mean they don't FEEL it). But we LOVE each other dearly. We don't have to actually say "I love you" to say I love you to one another.

Because we're all human, we can even at times slip up and not be as tactful and sensitive with each other as we should be, or even in a moment of vulnerability get angry and snap (which is completely Geralt in Baptism of Fire). Some of the conflicts I've had with my best friend and my spouse can look a lot like what we encounter in the books between Geralt and Dandelion when they do get into a heated discussion or argument. But these relationships are, to me, "safe" and "always" in my mind and heart. I know we'd have to do something truly *despicable* and abusive to one another for those relationships to end entirely.

What I think people are saying, when they say, "Book Geralt would never *be mean* to Dandelion," isn't that Geralt could never *literally* be mean. It's that the portrayal of their friendship and the conflicts they could have were lacking any kind of context whatsoever. Furthermore, the Netflix show didn't make us believe they were ever MUTUAL friends who loved each other (mutually) in the first place, didn't do enough to build up their relationship and show its history and why they're so bonded to each other, why they're proud of each other, show us HOW the "opposites attract" thing actually works in their relationship, how they add value to each other's lives by having different but complementary personalities, why they had such a strong connection in the first place, why they loved each other, why they enjoyed and valued each other's company and place in their lives.

Instead they made it seem like Geralt was simply tolerating this silly little guy who gets him into trouble all the time, and then out of nowhere you get a tirade of verbal abuse that goes on about how this silly little guy ruined his entire life, and basically a "get out of my life" tirade which is extremely hurtful and broke the show character's heart (understandably enough). Geralt also punches Dandelion in the show, and while they have their share of verbal arguments in the books, Geralt never lays a hand on Dandelion, and even goes out of his way to protect him and save him from violence and physical danger multiple times throughout the entire saga.

Geralt's attempts to push the Hanza away in Baptism of Fire are often cited as the example of Geralt being mean, by Netflix viewers who are confused by book fans saying Geralt being mean isn't canon.

But I think book fans pretty universally agree that Geralt's "meanness" in Baptism of Fire actually stems partially from him wanting to protect the other members of the Hanza from danger, and partially from feeling like he's messed everything up so badly he doesn't *deserve* help or support, or that he can't *truly atone* for Ciri's separation and unhappiness unless he completes the mission entirely alone.

He tries to emotionally push everyone away by being, well, a jerk (which if one is looking to push people away, that can definitely be an effective way of doing so). But his friends see right through this defense mechanism, seem to intuitively know where it's coming from, and seem to understand what he's going through, and are not afraid to call him out on it!

They rightfully roast him for it, but in a way that to me comes across as loving, albeit tough love. To me it's in the vein of, "We see right through your nonsense, we know why you're being like this, because you think you're leading us right into harm's way and you don't want to do that, plus you're losing your mind because you're in a lot of pain and you've lost your daughter and de facto wife who you were JUST beginning to mend fences with before she and your daughter were ripped away from you, so you're freaking out and not being rational. This isn't going to work on us, we're not going to leave you, so just sit down, chop these veggies, and eat this fish soup with us, and shut up you silly man." My favorite moment is when Milva makes the remark about how wolves don't actually hunt alone. Wolves are, after all, pack animals who work as a team to survive.

Modern toxic masculinity harkens a lot to his idea of "alpha males" and "lone wolves" which is total fallacy and nonsense and runs completely counter to what real life is actually like. People, like wolves, are communal animals. We literally need one another to survive. Interdependence, not independence, is the optimal way of being human. Having love, comeraderie, and support are not just frivolities, they're necessities!

To close this, I think the heart of why book fans take issue with this portrayal of their friendship is that Dandelion and Geralt are the longest running thread through the series, each other's "always" person (which in a long lifetime often IS someone's closest platonic relationship, whether that be a chosen best friend or a close sibling for example), and they're so instrumental to each other's character development, that to bludgeon that in the show just runs so counter to what I feel as a fan of this series is one of its central themes, which is that nobody actually CAN do everything alone and without support, that being isolated and alone really leads down a dark path for us as human beings. By stripping away this piece of the story (Dandelion and Geralt's friendship in its true nature, not a contrived one) it fails to adapt the story on that level.

Keep in mind that these are just my opinions. If you made it this far, thanks for reading!

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i did not post this yet did i

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Dandelion, in front of the mirror: hmm, I'd like to look at myself with long hair. Maybe even curl them

*After several months*

Dandelion, in front of the mirror: what a gorgeous sexy man you are, Master Dandelion ~~~

*after several years*

Dandelion: Geralt, I want to cut my hair. What do you think?

Geralt: bad idea. You won't like it

Dandelion: don't you tell me what I will like or not! I'll cut them!

*****

Dandelion:....

Dandelion: I want my lovely curls back(((

Geralt: told you

Dandelion *frustrated poet noises*