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left a comment there and decided to copy it here:
https://www.tor.com/2019/12/16/the-cult-of-the-witcher-slavic-fantasy-finally-gets-its-due/

Thank you for this perspective. It is nice to be seen, indeed. I am one of those early fans who read the Witcher/Vedmak in mid 90s, in Russian and was blown away by the characters and the world. After I moved to this side of the globe, I had no one to talk to about my love for Sapkowski’s world except for my Polish friend with the same problem. We shared our squee, we discussed the story, we lamented that we cannot tell the rest of the our friends about it. Now we both are looking forward to the Netflix adaptation with hope and trepidation. Will it be good? Will it be as dearly familiar as the world of books? I understand the need to adapt the story for the new audience, and I hope they could balance it well.

I do feel heartened by Henry Cavill’s and Lauren Schmidt Hissrich’s enthusiasm for the Witcher. If nothing else, I am happy they are my fellow fans. But I want the series to be successful, too. It might open the door for all kind of new stories.

I read and enjoyed The Bear and the Nightingale trilogy, it’s pretty good and plays really well with Russian fairy tales and historical events. And of course, Catherine Valente’s Deathless is a masterpiece. But it’s not quite the same. Those are still the stories that kind of look from outside in, and it feels. The Witcher’s world is instantly familiar to me. It’s built upon the stories I grew up with – all the thick fairy tale books, and all the old fairy tale movies made in Czechoslovakia and USSR…


and I have a perfect userpic for this