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bikiniarmorbattledamage:
kame-tan:
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glorious-spoon:
mortuarybees:
yes i am a big advocate for realistic clothes and armor in media like
this is perfect and? extremely fucking hot
but also ive never seen anything hotter than when geralt is fighting without his armor and instead in tight pants and several of his shirt’s buttons undone and i want every fight scene from here on like that
Put the women in full plate armor, put the men in open-front shirts and tight leather pants.
Seriously. Both are sexy. Give me full plate armored women. PLEASE.
Give me open shirt, tight pants on men who wield a sword.
I will fucking eat that up like it’s my last meal.
bikiniarmorbattledamage
This ties in quite nicely to a recent fiasco where a guy named Andrew Klavan, who is apparently an author of some sort, made an even more ignorant than usual rant. It was about about how he hated the show because he considered it “unrealistic” that the women - particularly GoddessQueen Calanthe, were shown as capable of winning sword fights or doing a sword fight (it’s not clear).
Swords YouTube was united in their rejection of this notion - not just for his hilariously inaccurate claims about equipment but also because they unanimously agreed there are three major factors that decide who’s likely to come out of a battle second-best, and who gets to live:
Quality of training
Quality of equipment
Luck
Obviously a queen of a nation that regularly has battles and skirmishes would certainly have access to the best training, and commission the best quality armor - and we can all agree to that anyone who is born into royalty is lucky.
So really, if this author and those like him were upset at having to suspend disbelief about sword fighting, in a world with literal dragons, they’d be mad at these scenes with Geralt kicking ass in just a shirt.
Weird that he’s bothered by a realistic depiction of a powerful woman, but not a comically unrealistic power fantasy of a man.
Links to various YouTube videos discussing the matter below¹.
Skallagrim - Yes women do sword fight (an interview with two that do)
Blood & Iron HEMA - “Women Can’t Fight With Swords” says Witcher Reviewer and Author Andrew Klavan - WRONG!
Academy of Iron - Can women fight with swords?
Scholargladitoria (Matt Easton) - Zero Women Can Sword Fight? Andrew Klaven on The Witcher warrior women
- wincenworks
¹ If you’re wondering why one of the bigger, more self important names may be missing, its because hes already made his stance on women pretty clear - and it’s bad.
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bikiniarmorbattledamage:
kame-tan:
mysweetvilllain:
glorious-spoon:
mortuarybees:
yes i am a big advocate for realistic clothes and armor in media like
this is perfect and? extremely fucking hot
but also ive never seen anything hotter than when geralt is fighting without his armor and instead in tight pants and several of his shirt’s buttons undone and i want every fight scene from here on like that
Put the women in full plate armor, put the men in open-front shirts and tight leather pants.
Seriously. Both are sexy. Give me full plate armored women. PLEASE.
Give me open shirt, tight pants on men who wield a sword.
I will fucking eat that up like it’s my last meal.
bikiniarmorbattledamageThis ties in quite nicely to a recent fiasco where a guy named Andrew Klavan, who is apparently an author of some sort, made an even more ignorant than usual rant. It was about about how he hated the show because he considered it “unrealistic” that the women - particularly GoddessQueen Calanthe, were shown as capable of winning sword fights or doing a sword fight (it’s not clear).
Swords YouTube was united in their rejection of this notion - not just for his hilariously inaccurate claims about equipment but also because they unanimously agreed there are three major factors that decide who’s likely to come out of a battle second-best, and who gets to live:
Quality of training
Quality of equipment
Luck
Obviously a queen of a nation that regularly has battles and skirmishes would certainly have access to the best training, and commission the best quality armor - and we can all agree to that anyone who is born into royalty is lucky.
So really, if this author and those like him were upset at having to suspend disbelief about sword fighting, in a world with literal dragons, they’d be mad at these scenes with Geralt kicking ass in just a shirt.
Weird that he’s bothered by a realistic depiction of a powerful woman, but not a comically unrealistic power fantasy of a man.
Links to various YouTube videos discussing the matter below¹.
Skallagrim - Yes women do sword fight (an interview with two that do)
Blood & Iron HEMA - “Women Can’t Fight With Swords” says Witcher Reviewer and Author Andrew Klavan - WRONG!
Academy of Iron - Can women fight with swords?
Scholargladitoria (Matt Easton) - Zero Women Can Sword Fight? Andrew Klaven on The Witcher warrior women
- wincenworks
¹ If you’re wondering why one of the bigger, more self important names may be missing, its because hes already made his stance on women pretty clear - and it’s bad.
More of The Witcher on BABD