I'm Not Telling You Not To Boycott The Show Or To Not Support The Cast. Henry Has Also Made No Official

I'm not telling you not to boycott the show or to not support the cast. Henry has also made no official statement about being forced to end his contract. So, again, you are portraying misinformation. I advise you don't take me talking about Joey as a personal dismissal of Henry. This discussion is about Joey and the recognition he rightfully deserves for his involvement in the show and his actions, separate from Henry Cavill.

However.

On June 28th we still have no official statement from Henry Cavill or his representatives.

All I'm saying is not to spread misinformation, and to not make a post about Joey about Henry (and false statements.)

Henry has also never claimed or stated he was sexually harassed on set of The Witcher. What you're presumably referring to is that he refused to perform a scheduled sex scene in the script as a joint decision made with Anya, based on their perception of the plot and the scene's intentions. They mutually declared the scene was unfit for the characters, and changed it to a non-sexual moment of intimacy and reunion.

Source for the above paragraph.

(What Henry has spoken out against in the past, however, is being sexualised and objectified. A good example of this is Amy Adams during the Superman and Justice League movies, who even let her daughter grope him as a toddler.

Henry has also spoken out and said that he has a growing dislike for shirtless scenes because they often require him to dehydrate for days and undertake actions that are dangerous to his health, such as excessive working out while dehydrating and avoiding eating. Hugh Jackman has also brought this up and challenged Hollywood's perception on male body standards in the film industry.)

Just for information's sake, here's another article detailing Henry's public statements about his grievances with the show. Again, absolutely nothing about sexual assault on the set or from the producers.

Also for information's sake, a pretty good discussion video on the subject.

Anya specifically said; "He's chosen that this is the end and to move on."

Lauren specifically said: "It was a mutual agreement that he wanted to move on."

Joey specifically said: "Life changes, he had things come up."

Henry Cavill was not fired. He made the active decision to leave. That's not publicist propaganda or saving face. The ship was sinking and burning and he took a running jump off it. He swam like he had a Great White grazing his ankles. Usain Bolt couldn't catch this man running away from their bullshit.

But.

This post is about how Joey, exclusively, is responsible for preventing what happened to Henry and Geralt happening to him and Jaskier.

Joey, who has considerably less money, influence, backing and leverage than Henry did. Who doesn't have Henry around to back up his complaints. Who is still currently locked into a contract and wholeheartedly wants what is best for Jaskier.

Who is also currently facing atrocious homophobia across all social media platforms.

That is the focus of this post. That is what we should be paying attention to when we talk about Joey. Joey Batey deserves recognition and support for what he has done, is doing, and will have to do for as long as he's employed by The Witcher.

If you are going to post praise or support for Jaskier's confirmed sexuality, please do not dedicate it to The Witcher or the showrunners and writers. Dedicate it to Joey. Joey is the one who fought from day one for the show to honor Jaskier's sexuality. Joey is the one who spent weeks arguing with the writers and show runners to make the scenes accurate, engaging, respectful and honest. Joey is the one who said if you're going to use this as a lifeline, you're at least going to do it right.

In these trying times as many of you undoubtedly turn to fanfiction and fanart to fill the void, now more than ever you should be remembering to support those people giving you content to consume for free.

Sometimes I think humanity is so obsessed with the notion of not being obligated to do something or not expending effort to do something, that we've completely eradicated the fact that realistically, there's no harm or negative outcome in just.

Doing it.

"Readers aren't obligated to comment on fics." "Friends aren't obligated to check in on each other." "I don't have to not say X so someone else isn't uncomfortable."

Okay but. Paltry excuse for laziness and uncaring aside, why not? Why wouldn't you? It takes less than 15 seconds to let your friend know you hope they have a good day. It takes less than 15 seconds to leave even a single heart emoji under your favorite author's works. It has literally no impact on you, at all, to simply not say something that upsets someone else.

Why are we so obsessed with the fact that we don't have to do things that are actually extremely basic, consume little to no time and cost us nothing? Shouldn't we want to anyway? Where's the joy in life if we're all just sat in our own miserable bubbles refuting most of life's interactions? Why are we so obsessed with the entitlement of consuming things without ever giving anything back?

Its honestly fucking baffling. I hate seeing those Facebook posts from people who brag about not talking to their friends for months on end like its some kind of accomplishment.

Stop thinking about the fact that you don't have to do something and start thinking of the reasons why you should anyway.

This is your reminder not to censor words in tags because it blatantly defeats the point of tagging something so users can filter it out.

E.g; tag something with rape, not r*pe or r@p3.

"Oh I'm doing it so nobody gets triggered!"

Great. Except now they're forced to see your whole rape-based post because its not being filtered by their settings because you censored the word rape so they didn't have to see it. So rather than just seeing the word once in the filtered post alert, they're seeing your entire post and however much detail it has.

"Well they can just censor out both!"

Why? Why should someone have to filter out 1593734 variations of a word instead of just 1? Why should they have to censor two words when you could just type out one and save hundreds of people the additional effort?

Nobody needs protecting from the tag itself. Stop censoring the tags.

you are over the age of 18 and are still making up fake scenarios over these “anti billy hargrove stans” 😭

Is it a fake scenario though. Is it.

FYI you can enjoy Jaskier being canonically bisexual while also acknowledging that its being used as a hosepipe on a gasoline fire. Jaskier being bisexual is not the bad thing. How and why its now being included is.