#Istredd icons

[behindfairytales]

icons of Royce Pierreson in The Witcher (s3) as Istredd

[craybii]

So many new things in the newest trailer to go through, so many good and crazy shots. V2 is gonna be amazing.

But anyways, I wanted to go through some of them and write them down for myself, so SPOILERS BELOW FOR S3/V2 since there’s a bunch of new shots from the trailer included.

These two shots are linked - originally I thought the eyes below were Yennefer's but this is Francesca 100%. In the shot above, we see Fringilla's head (her hair from the tavern) + Francesca's iconic braided hair - both of them are looking up at the fire circle that's crashing right down below on top of them - and then they both fall back if you watch the trailer. So the shot below is certainly Francesca watching as the fire collapses down on them. And those are her blue eyes, not purple like Yennefer's.

The shot above is continuation of that - Francesca seems knocked out or something and lands on Fringilla who protects them against the fire with magic in the very last second - this seems to be why the entire hall is completely destroyed in the following shots.

Here, we can clearly see Artorius Vigo (Fringilla's uncle) very much dead with Tissaia trying to desperately heal him - Margarita pulls her away in the very last second as fire explodes all around them (the firecircle that crashes on Francesca and Fringilla???) and puts up a shield to protect herself and Tissaia. So Artorius is a goner for sure. Tissaia and Rita save themselves in the last sec.

This one is interesting - for anyone who knows the books, all of the mages depicted here are part of the neutral faction of mages who were neither on Philippa's side or on Vilgefortz's, with some new tossed in as well.

There's Artorius Vigo, Bianca d'Este, Gerhart of Aelle (the oldest living sorcerer), Margarita Laux-Antille and Tissaia, plus more male mages - just extras but these should be Carduin, Marquard and Dorregaray. They seem to be defending against the arrows of the Scoia'tael who're standing across from them - since Artorius is alive here and the room looks fine here, this is before the fire circle crashes down. Also, since the elves are there, it would stand to reason Francesca is present as well - Fringilla and Cahir should be too. This could very well be the coup but it begs the question - where are Philippa, Sabrina, Keira and Triss, the northern sorceresses?

Sabrina being a badass Kaedweni HBIC in a new dress. The woman behind her in the first shot is Keira Metz, so they're definitely there after the ballroom has been destroyed. Knowing how she hates the elves, this rock is probs heading for one of them. There's more shots that seem to be in this same sequence from other promo material - Cahir swordfighting someone in this room, Francesca blocking a lightning bolt from Tissaia (she fires it from above), Istredd killing an elf, Stregobor staring in anger at the destruction.

I have no idea what's happening here but it looks terrifying - the ocean is completely dried up and Aretuza is burning down. The lightning probably means the portal in Tol Lara is going haywire and we know how that ends.

Perhaps the most devastating shot of this trailer for me. Margarita, Keira, Tissaia, Yennefer and Marti Sodergren staring at what is no doubt Aretuza falling down in flames once the coup has ended. Notice how Tissaia is completely grey - no doubt caused by the huge tragedy that has just destroyed everything she's ever worked for.

[kestrelwitch]

Tags List (Under Construction)

Media:

m: books (content based on/originating from Sapkowski and his original works)

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[czaspogardy]

multimuse for forgotten characters from the witcher books. mun is +30 and too lazy to icon.

sideblog. muses and rules under read more.

Muses

primary:

Rience: mage, lackey.

Mozaïk: mage, coral's assistant.

Vysogota of Corvo: professor, researcher, scholar.

Emhyr var Emreis: emperor of nilfgaard.

Carthia van Canten - Cantarella: spy, scholar, researcher.

Death.

secondary:

Visenna: druid, healer, mage.

Atraud Terranova: mage, member of the brotherhood.

Istredd: mage, archeologist

Vilgefortz of Roggeveen: mage, president of the chapter.

Dorregaray: mage, rector of ban ard.

OCs and games:

(OC) Athos of Cidaris: mercenary.

(OC) Sylas Dregovertz: mage, professor of ban ard.

Gaunter O'Dimm: evil incarnate.

Rules

i don't care for your drama.

i write whatever the fuck i feel like writing.

i'm +30 years old.

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[andyicons]

Tissaia/ Triss/ Istredd/ Nenneke Headers

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[eileensdress]

Season 2 was just a compilation of ex/ex fieldtrips with a dash of certain death and I love that for them

[dadralt]

Top 5 Yenralt moments from the books and/or show? 💙

ely asking the difficult questions!!

i'm gonna cheat a bit but shh 🤫

ok so we'll start from the bottom...

5. the dear friend letter

because it's absolutely iconic. i've never seen someone get roasted so badly :D it's so good, so passive-agressive. truly incredible. i guess it's not really "positive" but it also shows who yen is, and how stupid geralt can be lol

4. you can choke on the envy

i mean jfc geralt !!!!!!!!!!!

3. make love to me

this entire scene, i NEED it in s3. the tender sex, the loud sex, someone clapping for them :D i want all of it

and lol will i ever forgive netflix for giving the thinking about soft things for yen to istredd? no 🔪

2. only she would exist

this is so 🥺🥺🥺 it's from the last wish and i'm OBSESSED with geralt being gone for yennefer already. he literally just met her but he's like yeah, that's the love of my life <3 we love to see it

neither quite knew what caring and tenderness were

this. god. they truly are the ship of dreams. world-changing. just that fucking good.

these two were made to be hard and rough and fight and kill and manipulate and yet with each other, they try so hard to be gentle and tender and sweet. and that's so beautiful.

bonus:

the tent scene in the show. because it's so so good. and like the only time they seem to understand them. it's once again them being open and caring and soft with each other. it just grabs my little heart and makes me go ohhhhhh 🥺 they love each other so much!!!!!!

i'm not articulate at all today but i hope this made sense lajfldskf

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The “Oh No I forgot all of Fringilla’s scenes in season 1″ Post

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Episode 2: Four Marks. 

We first see her during Yennefer's first lesson in the Greenhouse and when Tissaia is listing the ways the girls had their conduit moment, she says "Fringilla froze a cat" to which Fringilla quickly responds in an apologetic voice "On accident" (I think this is an interesting parallel to Sabrina who smirked when Tissaia said she turned her mother fat). Then Fringilla is the first one to get the incantation right in order to lift the rock but because Tissaia did not tell them they needed to use the flower's energy her hand withers and she is in immense pain. 

She is punished for being the best at channeling chaos and Tissaia purposefully did not tell her students what to do  so she could "teach them a lesson". Fringilla is in pain and Tissaia sits there refusing to help her and continues the lecture. Then during the Catch Lightening in a Bottle scene, Fringilla is the one to note that Doralis was still breathing after she failed to catch lightening in a bottle and Fringilla and Sabrina were the only ones who were able to catch lightening in a bottle. 

Episode 3: Betrayer Moon 

We see Fringilla during the ascension where she tells Istredd that Yennefer wasn't chosen for Aedirn but Nilfgaard. Then at the ball, Virfuril treats Fringilla like shit, refusing to dance with her and then condescending her in front of Tissaia by saying "An Aedirnian would surely have had better footing". Then when the King leaves to dance with Yennefer holy shit watch the scene again because Fringilla looks fucking TERRIFIED. 

Tissaia puts a hand on her arm and her uncle comes up next to her because Fringilla knows this means she is going to Nilfgaard. Remember, Yennefer said to Istredd "Can your apology save me from Nilfgaard" and the king there was known to horribly mistreat his female mages and now Fringilla is being sent there when she was one of the most promising students of her year. 

Episode 4: Of Banquets, Bastards and Burials 

We see Fringilla at the very end of the episode after Cintra has fallen. Fringilla has another mage eat Calanthe's skin and then guts him and divines from his intestines the location of Ciri. She is acting like a different person now, she is cold and quick in her words, there are no shy glances or soft phrases now. 

Episode 5: Bottled Appetites 

 We see Fringilla leading Nilfgaard to interrogate Mousesack. This is when Fringilla talks about how the White Flame made her who she is.

Episode 6: Rare Species 

Fringilla cleans Cahir's wounds after he slaughtered the village trying to find the doppler. This is where she tells Cahir "You rose up against the usurper, helped free our people from our chains". She basically hypes him up to keep hunting for Ciri. 

Episode 7: Before a Fall 

 This is the iconic mage council meeting. She gives a fun little propaganda post and pushes back against Tissaia's whole "you have rejected our way of life" schtick and also ignore's Triss' whole comments about Forbidden magic. This is fun cinematography because it's cut with scenes of Nilfgaardians slaughtering Cintrans. 

Fun thing to note: Yennefer actually sides with Fringilla and says to "burn it all down" until Tissaia begs Yennefer and convinces her to go to Sodden. 

Episode 8: Much More 

Fringilla tells a Nilfgaardian commander and Cahir that mages are fortifying the keep at Sodden and that they will fight them saying "I will personally deplete them until they are empty and powerless". 

Fringilla tells Cahir that that Cirilla is across the Yaruga and this emboldens Cahir to go to fight the mages once again in search of Ciri. Only Fringilla and Cahir seem to be in on the whole "find Ciri" thing as the Nilfgaardian general seems to just want to take over the continent. 

Then, during the seige Nilfgaardian mages are making life force bombs?? where they suck out their own life then catapult it into the shields around Sodden. Fringilla seems to be coordinating this. 

She is then able to break open the gates of Sodden from a distance with her mind ALONE so she is very powerful. She does some fighting and battles it at with Tissaia who briefly tries to convince Fringilla to "come back" and then Fringilla throws some Dimeritium at Tissaia and leaves her to rot.

[yennefxr]

forget the main witcher trio, these are the minor character plot lines i’m excited for in season two:

iconic comedy duo zoltan chivay and field marshal windbag

✭・.・political drama・.・✭ with dijkstra

phillipa eilhart’s owl fursona

mother nenneke being done and rightfully so ft. the nuns and awkward scribe jarre at melitele’s temple

the return of yarpen zigrin

emhyr var emreis

make up tutorials with triss

ban ard bad boy rience (@netflix don’t cast him hot, please,my morals)

cahir discovering consequences after sodden

lovely witcher coen

fringilla! sabrina!! keira metz!!!

shani in oxenfurt, get that degree girl

istredd and lydia van bredevoort, because if they aren’t scampering off together exploring dark and cursed monoliths then what pray tell, is the point?

stregobor and artorious’s supremacy at aretuza being torn away from them

tissaia trying to cope with her world being turned upside down and seeking comfort in the wrong person

vilgefortz’s reign beginning

the tension between filivandrel and francesca re: the scoia’tael aiding nilfgaard

i want to see the continent through as many eyes as possible, all the politics, the cultures, the magic, the war, the history!!

[behindfairytales]

icons of Royce Pierreson in The Witcher (s1-2) as Istredd

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[feralig]

100% SURE I WILL END THESE  (  3  /  5   )   : 

JOEY BATEY as jaskier ( the witcher )   ―  gif pack / s01 eps: 5, 4 & 2. IN PROGRESS: clipping ep 5.

SANDRA BULLOCK as debbie ocean ( ocean's eight )   ―  gif pack. IN PROGRESS: clipping the movie.

HELENA BONHAM CARTER as rose weil ( ocean's eight )   ―  gif pack. IN PROGRESS: clipping the movie. 

OPEN FOR SUGGESTIONS

OPEN FOR SUGGESTIONS

 SLOWLY DOING THESE BUT NOT PROMISING ANYTHING SOON  :

ANYA CHALOTRA as yennefer of vengerberg ( the witcher ) ―  gif icons (maybe pack) / s01 eps: 2 - 8. IN PROGRESS: clipping eps 8 & 5 .

MIMI NDIWENI as fringilla ( the witcher ) ―  gif pack / s01 eps: 2 - 8. IN PROGRESS: clipping eps 8 & 5.

MACIEJ MUSIAŁ as sir lazlo ( the witcher ) ―  gif pack / s01 eps: 1 & 7. IN PROGRESS: - .

ROYCE PIERRESON as istredd ( the witcher ) ―  gif pack / s01 eps: 2, 3 & 7. IN PROGRESS: - .

HARRY SHUM JR as magnus bane ( shadowhunters ) ―  gif pack / s03. IN PROGRESS: working on base psds .

VIGGO MORTENSEN as aragorn ( lotr )  ― gif pack. IN PROGRESS: - .

SCHEDULED :

REBEL WILSON as penny rust ( the hustle )   ―  gif pack / 100 gifs ―  11/30/2020 4:00pm ; 

ANNE HATHAWAY as josephine chesterfield ( the hustle )  ―  gif pack / 100 gifs ―12/01/2020 4:00pm ;

THEMES THAT I HOPE TO POST ONE DAY   :

BOTTLED APPETITES  ―  clean up code & make a preview.

UNTITLED 01  ―  clean up code & make preview.

UNTITLED 02  ―   finish tabs.

[trustinginthelight]

it’d be totally cool if I could focus on one thing at a time and not jump back and forth between shit like i always do

Update my carrd ayyy got that done Do Jaskier’s carrd at all Work on multimuse replies/asks Read Blood of Elves Fully add Ciri Work on icons for Jask Work on icons for Yen Work on icons for Istredd Collect caps of Essi’s FC Work on icons for Essi Work on icons for Ciri Work on icons for basically everyone Finish replaying DBH Do those tags for Jask’s blog

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Istredd / Triss / Nenneke / Tissaia Icons

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the witcher: betrayer moon

The beginning of this episode seems to draw so much more on horror tropes than other episodes. Not that I watch a lot of horror to actually know that. This bit isn’t actually that gory, but there’s something about the slow painful dying that’s really ick. 

The random ass Witcher is smoking a fucking pipe! I missed that the first time around. It seems like he dies a lot too easy for someone with heightened Witcher senses. I guess there just narratively isn’t time for that to take longer but it feels a bit sloppy in a way this show usually isn’t. 

Two funny things about the scene with the prostitute: (1) we immediately establish that they’ve been at it long enough to run out of refreshments which is great, and (2) she’s singing Jaskier’s songs and using them to identify Geralt’s scars. That comes up in shippy stuff a lot but let's assume that is not what they’re going for. The best thing about it is that Geralt is annoyed at the singing and scar identification but also 100% willing to ignore all that if it means a pretty lady is touching his chest like that. I’m amused.

Oh hey, organized labor!

‘You can’t kill the vukodlak so you decide to kill your king?” — that’s a real odd take on the situation, but I suppose it’s not an unreasonable take on what Geralt knows of the situation. Maybe. And he’s so derisive about it. Geralt’s political views are complicated and warrant more thought than I am willing to give them right now to unpick. 

“And if you can’t kill it?” “Then I die.” ICONIC. 

It’s an interesting touch that the guard captain knows people by name. He seems very engaged on a personal level. It gives you a feeling of how small Temaria is. 

I’m not going to look at this in terms of adaptation (that would be a separate thing if I even get around to it) but I think it’s a really interesting choice to pull Triss into this story. 

This has been going on for 6 years?!? No wonder people are close to revolt. 

Oh Geralt’s angry face when he finds out that Triss lied about the other Witcher fleeing. Like don’t undermine his professional honor. 

I’m really glad they didn’t give Geralt cat eyes. I found it really distracting in Good Omens when Crowley wasn’t wearing his glasses. It’s just an odd thing to see on an otherwise human passing creature. 

Yenn? Why are there illusions of people you conjured watching you have sex? Why is that something you thought to do? The way they are smiling and the just like... warm applause is so odd. What is the kink you’re exploring there? I want to understand, Yennefer.

“You are a first draft of what nature intended.” The delivery of that line is so funny. (Also, I imagine that is how book!Dandelion’s hair looks.)

“We remake ourselves on our terms. The world has no say in it.” There’s a lot to unpack there. Especially with how Tissaia explains it in terms of power. 

“Call her a unicorn if you like.” Fanon is wrong about how much Geralt talks in the show. It’s not all just hmm. Relative to all of his dialog there’s not actually that much of that. 

I very much enjoy the way Geralt’s deduction skills are shown here. And also how he confronts royalty as someone who is both not a subject and has very little to lose in terms of social standing.

Stregobor!! AAAAAGH! He’s so awful 

“The all powerful sorceress Tissaia de Viress is knocked down from her glass pedestal.” Teenage rebellion Yenn (although that does oversimplify their relationship.)

Geralt just like... ignoring Triss’s questions is really good. There’s not nothing to the fanon characterization of Geralt.

Sniffing! Sniffing years old scents! How does Geralt function out in the world with all of that input? I guess he’s used to it. 

“Kings have done more for less.” “True.”

Istredd calls her Yenna!

“I will not be schooled by some man that pimps the world as some romantic adventure. My world is cruel. Unpredictable. You enter, you survive, you die.”

“You’re just angry because you lost your chance to be beautiful.” “I want to be powerful.” “Seen and adored with everyone watching.” “It is what I’m owed.” “No amount of power or beauty will ever make you feel worthy of either.” This whole exchange is so good. Yennefer and Istredd are young and flailing about but know each other to hit the mark a few times. 

The aesthetic of this ball is so confusing. What is that music? Maybe Yenn’s dress as “what a early 2000s teen thinks a witch should dress like” was more intentional than I thought. That’s what this party is too. It’s got a strong, for lack of a better word, fanon Harry Potter vibe. 

Angry Yenn! She has got to be so used to being able to emotionally beat down people by the time she meets Geralt. 

“This isn’t my first time trying to save a princess who others see as a monster.” “What happened to that princess?” “I killed her.” Geralt is fucking impeccably honest. That is a huge part of who he is as a person. What a thing to say to a king.  

The prostitute assumes Geralt was in love with the princess and Foltest assumes he is incapable of it. And Geralt does not correct him. 

“She was hiding from the brotherhood...” Wait!!! Did Yenn give the guard captain the curse?!? I think she could have timeline wise. 

Yenn chooses to keep her eyes and her scars. She also very explicitly knows what she is giving up. Which she, importantly, never puts up for debate. But this really isn’t informed consent. That is the life path she was, essentially, sold into. She also doesn’t get what she was promised in a court appointment. The thing that stands out to me on this watch is how little real power and influence Triss has in Temeria. I think it’s easy to suspect that Yenn didn’t put in her all at court, because by the time we see her next it’s been such a long time and she is so jaded. But I don’t think that’s the case at all. There is something going on here with women needing to be beautiful to exercise power and it also, simultaneously, undermining them. It’s a complex thing.

Geralt can be pretty fucking ruthless when he lets himself. Just abandoning captain dude to die. Not that he’s a good person or whatnot, but still. 

The snow particles add a lot to the aesthetic of the fight sequence with the striga. And the noises the striga makes are truly horrifying. 

Yennefer is insane to do this without any kind of pain relief. I read some very good meta about Yennefer believing it should hurt. I don’t have anything insightful to say about it. 

The little moments of Geralt being clever while fighting! I’m trapped so let me aard through the floor to escape. That is next level situational awareness! 

Yenn’s transformation intercut with Geralt fighting to break the striga curse. What does that imply? Lots but I’m really not sure exactly what. 

Geralt trapping himself in the crypt. It’s so clever but also feels like an act of desperation. And he’s relatively unscathed until the mostly uncursed but totally feral princess tries to eat him. 

Yenn and feral princess are in very similar fetal positions post transformation. 

Yenn’s face when she walks into the ball! It’s a really complicated face. Something about her ever so slightly vague open mouthed expression reminds me of Steve Rogers post Captain America transformation. It’s a similar “I have just undergone something incredibly painful and now am different” thing. 

So what would have happened if Yennefer ended up in Nilfgaard? Would it have made any difference?

“Anyone else would have killed the princess. You chose not to.” “I’ll take my coin now. I need to get back to my horse.” yeah sure Geralt. Triss knows you’re not in this just for the money. 

Vortex of Fate!!! This is not one of the episodes where they say destiny an unreasonable number of times, but Triss does say it there at the end. (And also the bit about destiny being related to choices.)

“I feel something waits out there for you. Something more.” CUT TO CIRI! There are a lot of really clever things with how these storylines are woven together. 

You know what? I did not miss Ciri at all this episode. Freya’s performance is good and there’s nothing wrong with the writing, but she is definitely the character and storyline I am least engaged with.