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How The Witcher Falls Into Fantasy’s Trope of Comparing Disability and Monstrousness
I love a good monster, and Netflix's The Witcher has lots of them. Something I also generally love is a blurred line between monster and human; it’s a narrative device than can lend itself to really interesting explorations of morality, identity, and what it means to be a person. Unfortunately, throughout the comparatively short life of fantasy as a genre, it’s mostly been a less than productive trope, often exposing the biases of the writers more than anything.