My obsession with Yennefer (long post!)
Yennefer was ALWAYS my favourite character from an entire Witcher franchise and easily my favourite character from any fictional story. I drew her, sketched her, wrote about her obsessively since I first read the Witcher in 2013.
Let's give it a try and gather all of the Yennefer pieces and sketches I ever did, because I had a Witcher brainrot for many, many years. Spoler alert: all of my Yens are totally different!
This one from 2014 was probably inspired by the The Bounds of Reason.
The one that was inspired by the very first Yennefer render from CDProjektRed.
The weird one. I don't really like her.
2015! The Shard of Ice Yennefer:
Don't have much to say about this one either, I guess it was an experiment.
The one I don't remember drawing. Somehow I predicted the Netflix!Yen having these exact eyeshadows.
Oh I love this one! This is a mix of game!Yen and book!Yen:
The next one is pure game!Yennefer, even though I never liked her in-game design (especially the bangs, the small nose and the lips):
Basically, this is how I saw it: game!Yen meeting the book!Yen.
Late 2015/early 2016 traditional sketches (yes, the second one is Yen from the Hexer):
THE FAVOURITE ONE. I haven't watched Farscape until 2018 and when I first saw Claudia Black I GASPED, because to me she looked exactly like this Yen version I drew back in 2016 and still is madly in love with.
Apparently there was an infinished second piece of this exact Yen design but I never posted the high resolution of it which is kinda sad.
2017! I saw early game!Yen designs and did a sketchy portrait of her. And then I decided to make the second version with the book!Yen:
Finally, Yennefer from 2022 (original sketch and the colored sketch). This design seems the most book accurate to me, but I still love all the previous ones I did (except the weird one, she is creepy).
And the last, but not the least: my own Thanedd ball outfit for Netflix!Yen, portrayed by Anya Chalotra.
And a small bonus! The very first Yennefer sketch I ever did (2013!)
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AYO What music we think Miguel listens to?
Y'all think Miguel be up in his office listening to reggaeton or no?
Standing up on that high ass platform - what do he being doing up there
Does he know Bad Bunny?? Does he like him? If he a fan? Does he like Calle 13???
Does he listen to ROSALÍA? He seems like a ROSALÍA guy. He's dramatic - he needs dramatic music. Jess walks into his office to ask a question and he's just... listening to MOTOMAMI. Up there bumping 'BIZCOCHITO'. Or 'Aute Cuture'. I feel like he'd LOVE 'SAOKO'
PLEASE TELL ME HE LIKES SHAKIRA THAT'D BE GOLD
You're helping him do some work and hear him hum a melody under his breath, or repeat some lyrics from the Spanish version of 'Whenever Wherever' - a sappy-ass love song.
Or you walk into his office and he tells Lyla 'turn off the music' really really quickly but you're still there looking at him like
"... Miguel were you just listening to 'Hips Don't Lie' feat. Wyclef Jean? Be honest.'
'Forget what you heard, and this stays between us.'
PLEASE WHAT DOES HE LISTEN TO I NEED TO KNOW
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Yall wanna hear a kinda funny, kinda sad story about my grandmother and hetero-normativity?
Ok, so... when my grandmother was in her 50s (I was an infant), she met a woman at the Unitarian Church. And, as can happen when you meet your soul mate, this event made it impossible for her to deny parts of herself that she had fiercely hidden her whole life.
All the drama- their affair being found out, the divorce with my grandfather, the court battle over who got the house, happened while I was a baby. Even in my earliest memories, it's just Mama Jo and Oma, and my grandfather lived elsewhere (first his own apartment, then a nursing home, then with us.)
But here's the thing- no one ever explained any of this to me. No one ever sat down and was like "hey, Rosie, so do you know what a lesbian is?" It was the 90s. It was Texas. I think my mom was still kinda processing all this, and just assumed that like... I was gonna figure it out. Don't mention it, let it just be normal. Like I think my mom thought that if she explained the situation, she would be making it weird? I dunno.
But like. In the 90s, in all the movies I had seen and books I had read, do you know how many same sex couples I had seen? Like. 0. Do you know how many "platonic best friend/roommates" I had seen? A lot. I had no context, is what I'm saying.
I literally thought this was a Golden Girls, roommates, besties situation until I was like...I dunno, 11? 12?
It was actually their parrot, an African Grey named Spike, imitating my grandmothers voice saying "Johanna, honey, it's getting late", that triggered the MIND BLOWN moment as I realized that *there's only one master bedroom and it only has 1 waterbed* when all the pieces finally clicked.
Anyway. I think it's a real important thing for kids to know queer people exist, for a lot of reasons, but also because kids can be clueless and it's embarrassing to have your grandmother be outted by a parrot because everyone just thought you'd figure it out on your own.
Anyway, here is my grandma and her wife, my Oma, after they moved to Albuquerque to be artsy gay cowboys and live their best life. They helped run a "Lesbian Dude Ranch" out there (basically just with funding and financial support. As Oma has explained "traditionally, most lesbians don't have a lot of money" so they wrote the checks and let the younger ladies actually run the ranch.)
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i do enjoy "living weapon" characters but specifically living weapons who did in fact do absolutely horrific things which at least a part of them enjoyed and thought was good and right at the time, and that no amount of not knowing any better or guilt they feel in hindsight will ever make up for. i love living weapons who are "irredeemable", and no it's not their fault that they were made that way or pointed in the directions they were by the hand that wielded them, and yes they are victims, but so were their victims. living weapons who some people will never be able to forgive, but who still wake up every day and try to do better than what's expected of them. a sword that uses its blade to cut wheat to make bread for the people who once lived in fear of its arc falling on their heads.
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