Geralt and Yennefer have one of the most chaotic dynamics in all of fantasy literature, and following this week’s exciting Barbie promos, fans of Andrzej Sapkowski’s folklorish medieval universe couldn’t help but make out the striking similarity between Barbie and Ken and their favorite protagonists.
Meanwhile, a Riot exec has given fans a disheartening update on Arcane season 2, so read ahead while we go through fantasy’s biggest developments through the weekend.
Geralt and Yennefer get the Barbie meme treatment
The live-action Barbie movie recently got a sizzling trailer and a whole bunch of character posters introducing us to the movie’s colorful cast. This prompted social media to come up with a brand new viral meme template, one that brings different couples, fictional or otherwise, into Barbie Land. In its latest edition, Yennefer and Geralt grace the cover. She is everything. The Witcher is just Ken.
Tell us if that isn’t the best description of the two protagonists you’ve ever heard.
Riot CEO says Arcane season 2 is happening, but not any time soon
It took Riot a whopping six years to develop the first season of Arcane. The unexpected outpouring of love was to an extent that it caught the game developer totally off-guard, and though they’ve made strides to produce the second season as fast as they can, there’s only so much you can do to speed things up in a production of this size.
Riot CEO Nicolo Laurent says you definitely shouldn’t expect Arcane season 2 in 2023. In fact, taking their initial pace into account, we’d be lucky if we got the next chapter in 2024, but since Laurent hasn’t ruled it out, it might be the most probable release window now.
The Brandon Sanderson drama continues to unfurl as the writer breaks down why he is in the business of creating secondary worlds
Brandon Sanderson is the best-selling author of some of the best fantasy novels in recent memory, with his bibliography featuring many recognizable names such as Mistborn, The Stormlight Archive, and numerous other novels in his shared Cosmere universe. It’d be no overstatement to suggest that most of these books have risen to unanimous critical acclaim, but not everyone is quick to sing Sanderson’s praises.
After running the most successful Kickstarter campaign of all time last year, Brandon garnered a lot of attention from the media, and that inevitably resulted in a controversial hit profile that undermined his success as a writer of fantasy. Now, that profile has been followed up by another extensive study into his life courtesy of Esquire, and while the tonal contrast is enough to appease most of the community, even Sanderson himself felt that a lot of people needed more to move past this drama.
Which is probably how he came up with this brilliant and honest piece of writing on his personal blog. In it, Sanderson goes through his approach towards the fantasy genre, and what compelled him to choose this career in the first place. For those of you who have always been in love with these secondary worlds, and found it difficult to explain why, “Outside” will prove an emotional and revelatory read.