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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The thing with yapping about your fave characters & IP online for 8 years is that TO ME it sounds like I've said a lot about what I wanted to say, but social media doesn't work that way. Should keep repeating & repackaging old things over & over again shamelessly.

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Olivier César @anticowl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For the PC Witcher 3 remastered players, @etra0.cl updated his light tool. Check it up! github.com/etra0/litcher Check the quick before/after. Tool has also exposure slider. #virtualphotography #vp #vpsupport #tw3r #tw3

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Magdalena @ma-moonshadow.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt #TheWitcher3 #virtualphotography #TCCTiny

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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This, however, I am still waiting for a game to get peat bogs right the way we see them in Estonia and Finland. Raised bogs, transitional mires, and fens. "Walking on water."

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Patrick K Mills @pkernaghan.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I want a god emperor movie really bad but it should be staged as a series of TED talks with little or no supporting narrative, just a big worm on stage talking about homosexuality

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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

"What are alternatives? If another narrative were to say, ‘Just the dynamism of being alive is itself the goal,’ then we might have totally different aspirations for technology, but we don’t have that narrative! Our dominant narrative is to create, invent, make, and to have that change us."

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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

www.vox.com/future-perfe... ‘They want to follow these supposed cosmic instructions so they can help the universe achieve its ultimate destiny.’ The hubris and delusion around AI accelerationism is insane.

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The people who actually want AI to replace humanity

We need to create a new humanism before the “AI successionists” win.

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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

'For us postmoderns, the universe does not come inscribed with directions. Should we evolve ourselves toward greater intelligence, or longevity, or creativity, or kindness, or power? Should we be maximally humble or maximally ambitious? 'The cosmos is silent as to what to do.'

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Luna 🏳️‍⚧️ 🪰 @lugreena.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

really fucking hate how "accessibility" has been hijacked to mean "let's treat everyone as if they're children at all times"

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

(No shade on transhumanism as punk 'fuck biology' tho (changing genders, robotic prosthesis). I think there are alternative senses like there are different senses of 'humanism'.)

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

It's now merging with capitalism, understood as a kind of 'natural force', where A.I. is that forces manifestation. Again, eugenics is brought in to help justify the greed of the super wealthy. All old things are new again.

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Boskoop | Edwige Stoll @b0skoop.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I started to read The Witcher some time ago and I'm enjoying it a lot so I wanted to paint this sweet moment in the book where Triss meets Ciri near Kaer Morhen

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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

When Ciri goes missing after entering the Tower on Undvik, here is Ciri's letter to Geralt in the ending of this version of the script of The Witcher 3 It's interesting as to what Ciri-missing ending might imply about what happens after Tor Gval'cha - we don't really know.

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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I really hope we get an extra energy supply kit for Ciri in The Witcher 4, consisting of pączki. The world needs Ciri and the third doughnut gif. 🍩🍩🍩

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Patrick K Mills @pkernaghan.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

An incredible show, formative

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“alien” 👽 @tinolqa.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

It would quite frankly be a relief if an evil wizard was puppeteering the world into chaos for the benefit of a dark outer god. That would have a sense of coherence and purpose.

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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I just really want to create something that makes people love reading books.

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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Anyway, I think if there is going to be a DLC, it will be in Dol Blathanna instead. (And in the stories I write in my head, it wouldn't be on the Continent at all, and at least partly in various in-between dimensions Ciri and other special beings (unicorns, finally? more elves obvs) can access.)

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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Zerrikania DLC the rumour mills say? How about the North Pole? Or an archipelago of Times and Places?

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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Ever since moving to this island I am amazed at the speed at which the Brits' society comes to a halt at the first signs of snow. It's at once hoped for and feared. Never would I wish for rain to wash it away, and yet some do.

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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

For obvious reasons I really like the thought that the map of the Witcher amounts to the Baltic coast rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise, with Kovir and Poviss ending up as the Baltic and Finnic kingdoms with the promise of mysterious Lapland and Finnic witches up in the far North.

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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

i have been wanting to write about ciri's and avallac'h's relationship based on sapkowski's works alone forever. so I did a thing this year.

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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

www.blathancaerme.com/history-and-... Lady of the Lake confuses The Witcher readers bc Nimue is us – Ciri's lighthouse. Ciri, a girl become legend, forever adrift in mythosphere, searches for one more moment with Geralt and Yennefer & needs to find 'a Nimue' - to show her the way out of eternity.

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History and Fantasy. Or 'How to Think About Time Travel in The Witcher?' | Part 4

Why does Lady of the Lake confuse The Witcher readers? Because Nimue is us – the lighthouse. Readers complete stories. Ciri, adrift in timeless mythosphere, searches for one moment with Geralt and Ye...

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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

www.blathancaerme.com/history-and-... Ciri is an amalgam of Morgana, Bradamante, Vivianne, the Triple Goddess. In Mythic Time, Ciri is ‘nieistniejące’. She takes on legendary identities & is attributed them. She chooses to be called Ciri of Vengeberg just before Yennefer herself passes into legend.

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History and Fantasy. Or 'How to Think About Time Travel in The Witcher?' | Part 3

What do the Aen Elle want? What does 'eternity' mean in a meta fantasy? The Conjunction closed the door to infinite stories, trapping them in The Witcher's. So the freedom they seek might be about exi...

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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

This time on Time in The Witcher: archetypal existence, what do the Aen Elle mean by 'eternity,' and why everyone should read at least Maladie to untangle Lady of the Lake. Causation in Mythic Time is symbolic and thematic. The characters in it are made of story-stuff not materia.

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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Hm, thank you for clarifying. No message/e-mail, but a few days ago, when I posted this Q, my application was archived, so I guess no dice.

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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

On The Witcher's paper trail... Looking for the archetypes.

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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Hi! Since I never heard back from you (neither nay or yay), was wondering if you ever sent out any notifications to the applicants?

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Patrick K Mills @pkernaghan.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

One of the best games ever made

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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Now, in The Witcher storyworld, that elves would take an archetypal form by way of the Wild Hunt suggests a conscious attempt at re-mythizing themselves: a half-way restoration of their pre-Conjunction way of being. The Hunt signals the elves’ one remaining, semi-successful escape from their fate.

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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

when they are in turn displaced, mythologized, and transformed into the next iteration of fairy tales. They will ‘go away’ in one form to survive in another. History’s progression (to the end of the Plot) inevitably ends in an act of blending – into the substrate of all Fantasy.

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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

They are neither dead nor alive in Myth. Euhemerized, these are the elves who ‘left for a more interesting reality.’ But as migration forms the Ur-Myth of this storyworld, nothing new happens without being a repetition of the same archetypal pattern. Elves are what humans will one day become –

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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

www.blathancaerme.com/history-and-... Elves do not vanish without a trace, they become, for example, the Wild Hunt – existing in an altered modality as humans ‘inherit’ elven lands and language, consuming their civilization. ‘It was the end of one… race, followed by the appearance of another.'

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History and Fantasy. Or 'How to Think About Time Travel in The Witcher?' | Part 2

The Conjunction of Spheres trapped elves and other fantastic beings in The Witcher's historical time. Before it, legendary, pre-rational elves moved freely between story-worlds. Elder Blood preserves ...

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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

The most important element of The Witcher cycle, after Love, is Time. Time not Place. Place serves the Plot, but Time serves Meaning. This is Part 1 of a four-part piece on how Time works in The Witcher, and why Lady of the Lake makes perfect sense actually. www.blathancaerme.com/history-and-...

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History and Fantasy. Or 'How to Think About Time Travel in The Witcher' | Part 1

Why is Ciri so powerful? Can Ciri time travel in The Witcher books? With Elder Blood, the Lady of the Lake accesses Mythic Time where past, present, and future exist simultaneously. Sapkowski writes f...

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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Ciri doesn't time travel – she exists in Mythic Time where past, present, and future are simultaneous. The Witcher is a meta fantasy. It has no creation myth. Sapkowski traps archetypal beings in History to show how legends are born in Leśmian's mirror tunnel where a fairy tale unfolds endlessly.

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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Witcher fans, an evening with Andrzej Sapkowski held in The British Library on 01.11.2025 is now available for watching until 8th of November. www.blplayer.co.uk/eventlink/10...

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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Andrzej Sapkowski's opinion on Artificial Intelligence in writing: 'Since there are no children present - the difference between natural writerly talent and intelligence and artificial writing and intelligence is like a comparison between artifical and natural male organ.' Absolute King.

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