#redanian intelligence

[hannibard]

Not sure what the fuck that means but I'm happy for him!!!!

[spilledbutter]

rewatching some witcher clips and absolutely obsessed with jaskier's lil jump right here when he and yen are running away from the goons

lil leapfrog boi

jumpin over his problems

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

who/what is redanian?

Redanian Intelligence is a site that collects and shares info about the filming of various fantasy TV shows. Among other things, they have contacts in casting, so they're a great source of who will actually be in a show. Or even earlier in production, with descriptions of the roles a show is casting and the sort of actors they're looking for.

For example, this is their article for HOTD season 2. The section of "actors with unknown roles" tends to inspire a lot of fan speculation, but they typically turn out to be unnamed servants/soldiers or smallfolk or very minor noble characters. But as I was saying, the role of Benjicot Blackwood wasn't listed in the article, and the actor who played "Davos Blackwood" wasn't even there as an unknown, so when people were thinking the episode 3 trailer kid had to be Bloody Ben, I was worried that couldn't be true. And well... 🤷‍♀️

[astaldis]

The HANZA travelling through the woods?

https://x.com/RedanianIntel/status/1790349146001408030

[renegadesstuff]

I love the evolution of their relationship 💜

[janjan-the-ninth]

It is totally ridiculous how geralt is just always going to Oxenfurt or Novigrad to pick up his bard, bring him along to some weird task and then put him back into the arms of the redanian intelligence.

And I couldn't be more happy about it!

[fawnnbinary]

As Jaskier and Radovid's lawyers respectively, I and @windflowerofskellige have an announcement to make regarding the recent info from Redanian Intelligence

Also have Jaskier and Radovid giving their own testimony sjhdjsf

[calyssmarviss]

there’s a spy in Emhyr’s court

[awitcheress]

Better than I expected, but he needs tighter trousers... 😈😁

[mejcinta]

House of the Dragon Season 2 Wraps Location Shoots, One More Month of Filming Remaining - Redanian Intelligence

Production will reportedly wrap this month and not October as earlier thought.

[two-damn-minutes]

Behind the scenes of Joey Batey during the Blood Origin reshoots

Source: Redanian Intelligence Twitter

[hannibard]

Redanian Intelligence is implying that Jaskier is gonna have a relationship with Radovid???? Bi!Jaskier confirmed?!?!?!?!?!

[aladygrieve]

I know we all think of Burn Butcher Burn as THEE breakup song, but I’d like to turn everyone’s attention back to Her Sweet Kiss for a minute. It tends to get overlooked compared to the other in-universe songs, mostly because the final version was never technically diagetic. But it plays over the 1x06 credits, and we’re clearly supposed to understand it as having been written immediately post-mountain.

If you remember, Jaskier was working on this portion of the lyrics at the very beginning of the episode:

“I’m weak, my love, and I am wanting / If this is the path I must trudge / I’ll welcome my sentence / Give to you my penance / (Gorgeous) garotter, jury and judge.”

He wrote this before Geralt ever sent him away, and it becomes all the more heartbreaking in hindsight when you realize what it means in that context. This is Jaskier accepting that Geralt will never love him back. He’s too weak to do the harder thing and just leave, but he accepts that his feelings will never be returned because to him, being with Geralt in any capacity is worth the punishment of unrequited love. Supporting him in whatever way Geralt will accept is his penance.

And then Geralt blames Jaskier for all his problems and banishes him from his life. The lyrics are worked into a song all about Yennefer, a warning to Geralt about the dangers of being in a relationship with her. The original lines remain exactly the same (except that, tellingly, “Gorgeous” is removed), but the context shifts. The path Jaskier must trudge is now a lonely one, the punishment worse than ever. He feels he deserves to do penance for the crime of his unreturned feelings and sees himself as a burden and an annoyance for having them because Geralt just told him that’s what he is. He’s lost the one thing that made all that pain worth it, but now he’s too weak to do the harder thing and fight to stay with Geralt. Jaskier won’t protest Geralt’s cruel and unfair treatment of him because he knows (thinks) he’s already lost him to Yennefer forever. Burn Butcher Burn is full of rage, but in the immediate aftermath there’s no anger, only heartbreak.

Which only makes Jaskier’s relationship with Yennefer in Season 2 all the more interesting. This is the woman he thinks he lost his love to, and only months ago he wrote a whole song begging Geralt to stay the fuck away from her. There’s a deep bitterness when they first meet that is only slightly masked by Jaskier’s usual humour, but as soon as he realizes the danger she’s in, his first instinct is to help her and protect her. The camaraderie they find in their mutual fallings out with Geralt, and the softness initiated by Yennefer being a hugger, is really special to watch.

I don’t really know where I’m going with this other than that Jaskier is a gem and he doesn’t deserve to be shit on by the narrative the way he has been.

[theundeadelf]

I had a much more elaborate post planned but oh god everything about Jaskier in Season 3 is so hysterical right now??

I've known that they were probably confirming his bisexuality for over a year - ever since the audition tapes for a "male royal who flirts with Jaskier" were leaked. The fact that it's a whole romance is excellent, but the theory that Jaskier's chemistry with Geralt (and Yennefer as well honestly) led the showrunners to make this change has me absolutely howling.

Oh, you want Jaskier to have a complicated relationship with a man who has long [blond] hair and he writes a sad love song about him? You want him to have an on-off relationship with a beautiful woman? We've got you! (⁠◠⁠‿⁠・⁠)⁠—⁠☆

I will always have a soft spot for Jaskier and Geralt especially. But as fun as it is to speculate in fanon, ultimately I knew it wasn't happening. I think the very best we can hope for in that direction is an acknowledgement of one-sided feelings, and to me, having Jaskier acknowledged as queer or bi - that he "doesn't see gender" - is way beyond my wildest dreams already.

I really want to know more about Radovid and Vespula! Will Geralt, Yennefer and Ciri ever find out that their bard has caught feelings?? Will Jaskier ever have to choose his family over his newfound love? They've drastically changed Radovid for the show - what implications will that have??

(Basically can it be June 29th already???)

[astaldis]

Maybe this scene is from or inspired by chapter 2 of Baptism of Fire? There's a farm and thirteen horsemen in it that are neither Scoia'tael nor regular soldiers. And with Zoltan, Percival Schuttenbach and Milva who were all present at the table read for chapter 1. Cahir's there, too, but invisibly trailing Geralt and hiding in the bushes. Geralt has a different sword from the one in S3E8 too, maybe Zoltan's Sihil?

Thanks for the link! 😘 @my-jokes-are-my-armour

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

OH MY FUCKING GOD