#meldof

[thence-we-came-forth]

More blood origin sketches!!

I am taking requests, so if you want anything,,,,hmu

[visenya-den]

fran mills as meldof in the witcher: blood origin

[witcherladiesamirite]

You know what, I gotta give Blood Origin a lot of credit for NOT BEING COWARDS and CANONICALLY CONFIRMING MOST DWARVEN WOMEN HAVE BEARDS

And!! Doing so in a tender, completely genuine conversation that frames dwarven women with beards and beautiful and worthy of envy

I’m so here for it

[bamf-jaskier]

"So I went up to the Koreth Mountains and mined myself some fire ore, smelted it down and added my sweet Gwen's ashes to it. Then me and Gwen went hunting."

BROTHER DEATH (CALLAN) + MELDOF

The Witcher: Blood Origin - Of Warriors, Wakes, and Wondrous Worlds: Ep 3

[thesummerfox]

The Witcher: Blood Origin ∞ Of Dreams, Defiance, and Desperate Deeds

[kasugayamaisforlovers]

Meldof sketch~

[runawaymarbles]

We should worry less about whether a show is “good” and more about whether it contains a blood-splattered sapphic dwarf hellbent on revenge

[lasaraconor]

[nullio]

I rlly rlly hope I'm not mistaken in this but

I LOVE how Blood Origin did the "homophobia does not exist here 🤺" thing, like when Eredin and his bf (his name escapes me, I'm sorry) were talking abt how their relationship won't work, internally I was like

"Oh here we go :/ too men together would be unnatural 🔪🔪"

But nah!! It was a class issue!! And I was suprised and happy

Then it happened AGAIN, Meldof talking abt how much she loved her GF and her massive tiddies and noone had pause or gave her a weird look- she was a lesbian in peace and that's pog as shit

I just rlly hope that carries over to The Witcher proper- like I have an awful feeling that when the Human Sphere(tm) merged that the humans brought their homophobia with or something 🥲

Here's to a Queer season 3 🎉🎉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🐦❤️🐺

[echo-bleu]

@kueble asked for Meldof bloody and laughing.

[Digital pencil sketch of Meldof from Blood Origin holding Gwen against her shoulder, laughing, with blood on her face and clothes.]

[l-watches-while-note-taking]

First thing I did this year was watch Witcher Blood Origin, I loved it, best start to the year I've had in a while! Elie and Fjall, her voice used to start a rebellion and also be an anchor, Fjall going through the first mutation and asking softly once everything was done to die, my emotions were messed with. And like everyone was a badass and I was vibrating. New year actually started during the mutation process, which interesting, don't know if that's supposed to say something about this year.

[djarinslover]

Personally I really liked Blood Origin, just wish it was longer so we could’ve gotten to know more about each character

[stromuprisahat]

Expectations were low, but Oh My God!

I intended to write down the dialogues that don't make much sense, but then I figured it's no use to copy/paste all the subtitles. There's rarely anything that isn't plain stupid. The Witcher: Blood Origins is amalgam of badly used tropes I've seen thousand times before. 

The Elves

Forget the beautiful, graceful humanoids with equally stunning culture. The elves here are dirty, rude and equally pathetic as humans. The only difference is pointy ears. Their architecture is massive and angular, their blades, proverbial elven blades, often look like a total amateur with zero skill forged them out of scraps.

Elves are also morally corrupt. Colonization is a huge issue we won’t learn much about, except they’re just as bad as humans will become in future. Given the context the point seems to be they had it coming... in case you were starting to feel for their race in present time.

REPRESENTATION!!!

Recently I’ve read a post about how little representation is in “source” material. Shocking, isn’t it? Slavic fantasy, heavily inspired by mediaeval Poland doesn’t include POCs (read: Blacks and East-Asians, because I’ve never seen anyone complaining about lack of Native Americans... in pseudoEurope...). The show creators obviously decided to fix that by ticking off the proper boxes.

You’ve got Black elves, East-Asian, gay gay, chubby deaf-mute... well, at least this time the different colours came from distinct nations. If only the stereotypes were avoided.

Tropes and patterns

Soft, slightly feminine gay, gullible disabled, wise older East-Asian mentor,  washed out hippie healer, abused genius, forbidden love between protector and his charge, soldier who was done killing untill the enemy wiped out his home, redemption = sacrifice = suicide, two characters arguing about who’s gonna do the sacrificing only for the one, who “lost” to go behind the other one’s back and do it...

... sprinkle some well-known terms and names: chaotic power, Xin'trea, Eredin, Avallac’h... aaand done! Brand new tale from a widely-loved universe is done!

Perhaps try writing less of what could people find cool, and focus on a good story.

Rah, rah-ah-ah-ah!

Four episodes don’t offer much space to develop many characters. Seven good guys, at least four antagonists... personalities, interactions, needless romance... it’s interesting how much can actors express in only so many interactions.

Zacaré and Brother Death are believable. 

Meldof and Gwen's story's tragic, but rather sweet in a way. (Tho they could’ve refrained from that rape aspect.)

Éile and Fjall, flat and boring. One of the unsurprising, disappointing turns of events. Zero chemistry. Made to fuck with the sole purpose of making a baby to artificially connect them to Ciri, one of the MCs in the “original” series.

The WITCHER: Blood Origin

You're telling me that the first version of a witcher was a badass elf? This is really gonna piss Geralt off.

One would hope for something different, after all this fuss, but no. First “witcher" is just another butch guy, only with pointy ears.

How do we know the turning potion's ew? It's black!

How do we know he's really WITCHER 1.0? Yellow eyes!

How do we know he’s not quite himself? Black eyes and veins on his face!

I'm sure this improvised ritual had the same effects as carefully honed procedure sorcerers spent decades perfecting...

Fuck the Coup, free The People!

The story starts with a coup, killing off three monarchs with their bodyguards. Corrupt, elitist leadership’s gone, the new rulers- army, magicians and overlooked princess- plan to invade new worlds to gain resources their world’s lacking. Sounds like a decent idea? Our heroes would disagree. The empress needs to be destroyed, because people suffer.

You changed nothing. You're just another boot looking for more necks.

... reproaches the great Éile new empress. When was she supposed to do that? In a week? Change takes time and resources, Merwyn had none. Am I supposed to cheer, because now it's faceless "people" in charge? Do they have knowledge to rule? The skill? Anything? Or are they expected to wing it? Rule isn't about putting new people to the wheel and hope it will all work out. Talk about freedom won't feed you, run trade, economy, agriculture etc..

The worst thing's we know the Empire is crumbling. We know there's no food to redistribute, even the leadership has barely anything and you can't let the head starve if you want to fix anything. Merwyn's unforgivable sin was being born into the ruling class.

- You've no idea what elfkind even is. You're just another spoiled princess.

~ I am Empress!

- You are a child ~given~ the reins of a warhorse. You don't speak for elfkind.

... the writers try to gaslight us. We’re introduced clever, idealistic, inquisitive princess, who wants to help her people. When she’s confronted with reality, she tries to learn more. She goes from her family’s pawn to schemer, who makes allies and plans, frees herself from role of figurehead and reminds others the most important task is to feed their people. That’s a character I’d love to watch. Not a dumb singer, who rallies a mob, destroys government, helps to cause cataclysm and fucks off to countryside.

The Story of the Seven

What did those fame-deserving Seven achieve? Did they solve famine? Did they end war? Did they offer better way to rule? No, no and no.

But they (unintentionally) caused the Conjunction, brought the monsters and humans into weak, starving, disorganized society. The rightfully forgotten Seven effectively crippled their own race and destroyed any chance for defense they might have had.

I don’t know who is Jaskier’s song about, but it’s not about these Seven.

[witcherladiesamirite]

Kay, where is the AU where Meldof's Warhammer Gwen is actually possessed (benevolently!) by the ghost of her love.They can still be together even if they should've had so much more. The gays are unfridged (mostly). Gwen really DID get to be the one to kill her own murderer

[lexablackbird]

new blorbo (and her warhammer gf) dropped last month

[offense-is-the-best-defence]

Metal is pulling an arrow you've been shot with & using it to kill the dude who shot you.