#captain says to soldiers no pillahing no murder. mm if you rape do it quietly and out the way

[softness-and-shattering]

Ok k I was reading the witcher today, time of contempt and its around the events of season 3 in the show.

So yennefer sends ciri into town with a bank clerk while she does some boring secret bank wok.

Cw for SA, very brief description.

While they're in the crowd, some priest dude grabs Ciris butt and she turns around and yells at him and winds up to punch him. The clerk pulls her away not to cause a scene, and then the prose basically goes "and then he bought ciri some sweet fritters and she forgot about the whole incident. After that...."

And im like. Ah yes, what a silly girl, all people who are assaulted just need some sweet treats to forget the whole thing! Its not a big deal! Like a little grazed knee a little.oopsie distract the child with treats!

Other than the first book which Im DNFing bc the sexism is so intense, youre going along fine and then he just whacks you with it. Like mm this is Ciris viewpoint why the hell does she find Yennefers clothes "provocative"? Provoking of what? I dont think Ciri is meant to be sapphic and Yen is meant to be her mother figure! Ciris never like, wow Geralt is so dashing today that would be absurd. But women (and teen girls) always gotta be sexualised! Its ridiculous. I want like. The abridged version that cuts all that out. Discretion of the translator or something.

I was reading this shitty horror novella, and one detail that really stuck out to me is that this girl main character (who wore a nightgown throughout) was surprised by her period, and out of shame took off her soiled underwear and hid them. this wasn’t her first period or anything, it just caught her off guard. which, sure, that happens. but she then proceeded to walk around the house underwearless for the rest of the novella. I was reading this like………so is she just freebleeding??? is she leaving a trail everywhere she goes? what’s happening here? is the nightgown white? is she bleeding up the place in her white nightgown while everyone else is too polite to comment on it? she has multiple conversations with other people. are they blind? do they not care? is this normal?

after I finished the book I looked up the author, and it was a cis dude. that was a big ohhhh moment. like he just didn’t know…..that he wrote a novella about a freebleeder. he didn’t know that he was creating this insanity-inducing situation with no explanation. but did his editor not know? did nobody who initially read it know? why didn’t they know? what’s happening?