Et Cor Solus.

"And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good." - John Steinbeck

[etcorsolus]

Prompts are closed.

Please include: your prompt (obviously), either a pairing or a gen request, canon or an AU setting, and any other info you feel is relevant for me to fill the prompt.

I do not write graphic smut, so please keep that in mind, and if you have any CW that you are not okay with send those along, too. I will do my best to fill every prompt I’m sent!

Pairings I’m most comfortable writing:

Geralt/Eskel/Lambert (or any variation therein)

Lambert/Aiden

Letho/Gaetan

Gweld/Gaetan (A rarepair of my own making.)

Characters I will write for:

Geralt, Eskel, Lambert, Gweld, Vesemir, Aiden, Gaetan, Letho, Auckes, Serrit, Cahir, Ciri, Triss, Luka (for Nightmare of the Wolf fans), Jaskier (or Dandelion), and Aella (an OC of mine).

If a character/pairing you love is not on the list, feel free to ask anyways! These are characters I’m comfortable writing or would like to write and haven’t yet. I will write these characters in any combination, I’ll also write gen.

If you’re unsure about whether or not I’ll write it, ask away!! Any prompts I’m unable to fill myself I can attempt to direct you to a writer who can! 

You can find all my works on AO3, I post all writing there first and typically share links to my blog here. 

#sol writes will take you to all of my posted works.

#sol writes snippets will take you to bits of WIPs that I preview.

#sol rambles will take you to comments, thoughts, and vents about my various works.

#tank update will take you to all my posts about our saltwater aquarium, for anyone interested.

Below is a short list of some of my more popular fics as well as personal favorites!

A Settled Debt  - Lambert/Aiden (Rated: M) (15,000 words)

            This is the first installment in my series Lead Me Home. Lambert meets Aiden as a boy before he’s taken to Kaer Morhen, and then again when he’s much older. 

Tu Me Manques - Eskel/Jaskier (Rated: T) (8000 words)

             In which, Eskel meets a bard who calms him. Body, mind, and soul. This was written for the Eskel Big Bang and has some positively gorgeous art by @cvbeebop.

Mine Would Be You - Geralt/Eskel (Rated: M) (16,000 words)

            A break-up then make-up fic set in a modern verse. After being frozen out of Eskel’s life, Geralt moves away but finds he can’t stay gone for long. He returns home and finds there’s a lot of things he can’t do.

The Question of Trust - Jaskier/Lambert (Rated: T) (3,000 words)

            In which, Jaskier learns what trust looks like from his witcher. This was written for the Rarepair Bingo, the prompt was helping with armor.

This Once and Always - Geralt/Eskel (Rated: M) (9,000 words)

            In which, Eskel meets Geralt, and they have almost certainly met before. A fluffy (mostly) modern soulmate AU.

[etcorsolus]

First attempt at two toned icing!

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First attempt at two toned icing!

[chuckwinchester]

Just sos you knows, AO3 is down under a DDOS attack right now. They’ve been coming back in little blips and then disappearing again. It’s been several hours. (For reference, it’s currently 3 p.m. eastern, July 10, 2023.)

https://twitter.com/AO3_Status/status/1678468065070030856

The culprit (as with a few other DDOS attacks recently) is Anonymous Sudan, a group that is likely Russian, not Sudanese. The ‘reason’ they gave–that AO3 is “full of disgusting smuts and other LGBTQ+ and NSFW things,” is thin and probably not completely legit, though still legitimately concerning.

The AS claim: https://twitter.com/FalconFeedsio/status/1678397195039526912

Reporting on AS: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-28/anonymous-sudan-does-group-behind-microsoft-cyberattack-have-ties-to-russia (you can use archive.ph to get this one, 12ft doesn’t seem to work)

As noted here, https://twitter.com/honeyskeleton/status/1678449598703050769:

DDOS protection is expensive especially for a high traffic site like ao3. And it’s uniquely vulnerable as an independent site without ads or other corporate support. SPECIFICALLY targeted bc of its queer works and yet ppl will still complain every time they ask for donations lmao 

So, again, when AO3 comes back online, please don’t go hard with refreshing all your tabs. Please do remember to download fics you love early and often as  you continue in your whole ~reading journey~. And please do support AO3 through a dono or becoming a donating member, if it is possible for you to do so.

[chuckwinchester]

Update, about 6:50 p.m. eastern, July 10, 2023:

https://twitter.com/AO3_Status/status/1678536479578939392

A group presenting themselves as a collective of religiously and politically motivated hackers has claimed responsibility for the attack. Experts do not believe they are honest about their motivation, so we urge caution in believing any reasoning they provide for targeting AO3.

As part of our efforts to help keep the site up, you might find that you get “Retry later” errors more often when searching or filtering works or bookmarks. Don’t worry, just go a little slower, or try again in a few minutes! These are temporary measures.

They have not given the all-clear. Please go easy on the site if you use it right now. It would be preferable to give them some time and come back later. Check the official Twitter (https://twitter.com/AO3_Status) and Tumblr (https://ao3org.tumblr.com/, @ao3org​). The Status Twitter is especially good about putting out consistent updates. They will give us an idea of when everything is getting back to normal.

Also extend props to your fellow fandom community members who volunteer their time to keep the site functional!! Tell ‘em you love ‘em!!

[chuckhansen]

some eskel appreciation (｡♥‿♥｡) + eskel being a regular badass 

[lilboreddev-blog]

reblog if your name isn't Amanda.

[thatblackwatchdouche-blog-blog]

2,121,566 people are not Amanda and counting!

We’ll find you Amanda.

[iceslushii]

this has almost 11 million notes what is this

[yiffmaster]

I’ve never seen this post once in 10 years on this site

[llsilvertail]

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

I’ve never even heard of this before tho??? Wtf??????????

[computationalcalculator]

oh my god, I didn’t think there were any surviving versions of this post left

For those who weren’t around in the Deep Lore times, this is one of the relics of the editable post era. This post has THE SINGLE HIGHEST NOTES of ANY post on this site, bar none, but with more than a dozen variations. Every single post you’ve ever seen with more than 3 million notes has been a different version of this one.

This is the “Dean’s Gym Shorts” post. This is the Flubber post. This is the original “Reblog if you support gay people” post. it was ALL of them. before half the site got nuked, it had even more notes than it has now - at one point, well over 15 million, and that was years ago.

This, with no exaggeration, is the ONE TRUE heritage post

[give-grian-rights]

This website truly is bizarre

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This big girl went to the vet yesterday for her last puppy visit! Ava weighs 45.2lbs and is officially fully vaccinated. She was also such a good girl during her visit, such good manners 🥰

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Weighed this big guy for the first time in a few months and he's up to 67lbs at nine months old.

[sageclover61]

What Must Be Done, To Protect One's Love

Written with myself and @hyrulehearts1123​

@cake-shop-rarepair-bingo​​

Prompts: Soothing their fears

Fandom: The Witcher

Chapters: 1

Rating: M

Warnings: No Additional Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Eskel/Kiyan

Additional Tags:  Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Stalking, Past Abuse 

Summary: When Kiyan’s abusive stalker of an Ex makes a sudden reappearance after years in prison, Eskel is determined to do whatever it takes to protect his partner.

Even if it means taking a secret or two to his grave.

Keep reading

[etcorsolus]

This big girl went to the vet yesterday for her last puppy visit! Ava weighs 45.2lbs and is officially fully vaccinated. She was also such a good girl during her visit, such good manners 🥰

[orlissa]

You don’t own fanfics. They’re inherently public domain because they aren’t your IP. Agree or disagree with AI, there are no grounds for “protection” from AI because it isn’t your IP to begin with. That’s what you chose when you chose this medium

Oh dear.

Okay, you get an answer, because at least you took the effort to write your ask out properly, even if you are hiding behind the grey, sunglassed circle.

Do I, or any fanfic author for that matter, have any legal claims to our work? No, not really, no. (Although if someone took a fic, filed off the serial number--deleted the fandom specific elements--, and then had it published for financial gain, yeah, that would be a case.)

BUT

Fandoms are built on a social contract that says we respect each others work, the effort people put into their art. We don't steal or disrespect the work of our peers. By feeding people's fanworks to AI you both steal and disprect it, and we need to make people realize that before it's too late--before fandom falls apart, because there will be no more real, actual fanworks.

Disrepectfully,

Orlissa

(i can't believe I have to say this)

[whetstonefires]

Also this is not true. You do in fact have the copyright to the specific writing you did in a fic, because that's not how copyright law works. Like this is not a grey area.

People who write IP content for corporations give up their copyright on a contractual basis--the company wants writing they can sell about characters/settings they own without getting entangled in royalty obligations etc, so they hire people. Who sign contracts saying they don't own what they write as part of that job.

That's why you don't own Star Wars stuff you wrote for Disney; you specifically agreed not to own it.

Writing for IP you don't own leaves you in a position where you can't legally monetize it (without taking out the Owned parts ad rebranding), but it absolutely does not automatically cede or void copyright. That is super not a thing.

SUPER not a thing, I cannot say this enough.

I can't sell my Batman fic, but neither can DC Comics without my duly authorized consent. Because they own Batman, but not the prose I composed about him.

Do not perform that kind of massive corporate overreach for them. Holy shit. Do they not own enough.

[chimaerakitten]

It’s fascinating that this misconception of copyright still exists. Haven’t we all seen the posts on here where authors beg fans to please not send them fanfic of their works? They’re not doing that because they feel like it, they do that because fans legally own their words and ideas, and an author who takes them even unintentionally can in fact end up in real legal trouble for taking something that’s not theirs. It doesn’t matter whether they own the canon.

[beacon-lamp]

hello beloveds ☺️

[iceslushii]

made an alternate version for the mutuals ive never spoken to

[thetreeofliberty]

You are appreciated

[etcorsolus]

Miss Ava has already grown so much. 10 weeks old, the day we brought her home in the first photo and 4 months old today. She's the hubs girl if you couldn't tell.

Wait until I post Axel. Stay tuned for a hundred pound woman lifting a sixty ish pound Shepherd 😂

[ritta1310]

Attention artists, art theft!

Saw this post by rosebloom-arts and decided to check it out. Turns out she is not the only person suffering from art theft by this website, making profit from printing posters of peoples artwork without any premission whatsoever.

I saw i lot of artworks including my own and from a lot of other people!

This is the website. If you search you name you will find some of your artworks they are using. And here is the petition to end this website. 

This is affecting a lot of people, not just myself and if you are an artist either by photography or drawing they are most likely stealing from you too.

So check it out and sign the petition, please. 

[lila-jelly]

a bunch of my artwork’s up here too, and actual pictures of me?? so weird. - please consider signing the petition to shut down this website! 

[meabhd]

It’s happening to me as well! I just searched my name in the search bar and almost everything I’ve ever posted came up, if you make art and post it on Tumblr please search your url on the site because I saw some of my friends stuff on there and I’m really freaking upset about. may12324 and alexcopeman I saw both of your work posted on it! Just so you know

[themadknightuniverse]

What the fuck, seriously!!!

[armellin]

WHAT!!??? WTF MY ART IS THERE TOO! WHAAATTTT?!

[megmcmuffins]

What the fuck, there are PAGES AND PAGES of my art up there too, and not just from tumblr! Deviantart, interviews, ads I’ve used…??? I even searched an old moniker of mine AND THAT SHIT WAS ON THERE TOO ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME. Just absolutely everything. 

Please broadcast this and sign the petition.

[hamburgergod]

hellosaidthemoonisafangirl feredir prinzik consulting-cannibal siriusfallen I found your stuff on here, so you might to check this post out. If you post any kind of art on tumblr you’ll want to check it out too.

Also apparently we shouldn’t report using their website because it’s a scam to get your info? Is there a way for ppl to get the stuff taken down yet?

[pluto-the-demigod]

@smudgeandfrank ALEX!!! Your shit is up here too!

@blvnk-art so is your stuff.

[blvnk-art]

Fucked up

Never buy anything from this site! Nothing but a scam, I literally think it’s copying any artwork from internet, it’s not like they are posting knowing who we are, maybe it’s a programming thing that’s why we are able to find so many of our arts there. Be aware. Always purchase drawing through the REAL artist’s link. Of course its fucked up they are running a site like this but also let’s make people be aware of not buying art from random sites.

[immochiball]

There’s a fuckton of my stuff there too =.= please spread the word.

My stuff can be found only on redbubble and immochiball.com

[anabelkay]

wow what the fuuuuck my art is on here! @zoyastormwitch so is yours!! 

ugh. and the petition in the original tumblr post is several years old so obviously this went nowhere. 

[zoyastormwitch]

hahahahahahahahahahahaha fuck everyone 🙃

[sncinder]

What the fuck. Everything I’ve ever posted is on this website. I knew this sort of thing happened on the internet but dang

Is there anything we can do about this? The petition did nothing

I’m disgusted

[nouketou]

This is so fucking fucked up

[hebedesu]

What the actual fuck, they’re selling my drawings for more that I wish I could get, like there’s a lot in here is insane, I’m not getting paid for it, neither any of the artists above me or anyone that reshared this. End this website, for our shake.

[yunayin35]

Oh goodness gracious no💢💢💢

This is too illegal!!!!

They used my art too AAAAAAJSHSJSGSHGSHSGSHSGSHSGS💢

Dis website needs to be shut down! Immediately!!!! 💢💢💥💥💥

[krowkatzart]

WHAT

WHAT

[sevinss]

When yo’ art is so bad it doesnt even get stealen

[wildstarfan]

Mine is here too….and i can’t even sign up the petition….WTF??

I can’t even contact them!

[captainthane]

Geez, damn what a website created by thieves and assholes!!!

[blobtheartist]

So i found no traces of my art, but i found @luis1316 and @chenn-yuu art :/ and some other soma!sans fanart

[pineapplesquash]

Hey so for the record-

If searching up your own username doesn’t work, searching up the genre or fandom you usually post artwork can also bring up your own artwork, as some of these images don’t mention the creator’s name, but just aforementioned genre/fandom.

Quality and level of skill doesn’t seem to matter, I recognised that a lot of these images seemed to be pulled straight from Google in accordance with the stuff you search up on it.

I looked up object heads myself, and while I haven’t scrolled very far nor have I seen my own artwork, I’d suggest you check it out yourself-

But then even if there isn’t, there’s still a great deal of reason to try and take the website down and get angry with all that it’s doing

[yes-i-write-fanfiction]

Uhm, what the fuck?

[lxdymoon0357]

@myearts-uwu A lot of your art is here and so is many of @imbouttasue and @parad0xang3l edits are here as well, though for you both it’s not important, but by many I mean MANY of @myearts-uwu’s Myra, Anastacius, roger, jennete and other character’s art-work!

[myearts-uwu]

… HUH?!?!?!?!!!!!!!

[morgendaemmerung89]

Wtf there’s basically everything I reblogged and posted! My own art is there, as well as other people’s art!

@chained-to-the-mirror yours is there too!

[chained-to-the-mirror]

What the actual heck???

And the petition is already closed 🔪🔪 yet the site is still up 🤬🤬

[dduane]

Holy shit, I’m there too. :/

(links for my reference… and I know there are more:

Discover a wide collection of high-quality posters and wall art for your home and office decor. Shop now for modern, abstract, vintage and c

Discover a wide collection of high-quality posters and wall art for your home and office decor. Shop now for modern, abstract, vintage and c

Discover a wide collection of high-quality posters and wall art for your home and office decor. Shop now for modern, abstract, vintage and c

Discover a wide collection of high-quality posters and wall art for your home and office decor. Shop now for modern, abstract, vintage and c

Discover a wide collection of high-quality posters and wall art for your home and office decor. Shop now for modern, abstract, vintage and c

…The question now becomes, how effective is DMCAing them going to be in the long term? <Might be smarter to (a) shop them to Google for multiple copyright violations, and starve them of oxygen that way: (b) DMCA their IP provider directly: let’s see if we can find out who that is…

Okay, they’re hiding behind a Cloudflare host. Tracking them to their true location may take a little time.

Anyway, time to start investigating the DMCA situation…

[veradragonjedi]

@jspookywolf MY FRIEND!!! YOUR ART IS ON THERE.

[thechaoticfanartist]

MY ART IS ON THERE TOO!!! HOLY SHIT!!

Thanks for the heads up @veradragonjedi

Tagging some of my artist mutuals @purgetrooperfox @kohtoyah @jgvfhl @ratcready

[foreverchangingfandomsao3]

@frostbitebakery @sunflowersinheaven @captora @thegreencarousel I searched Codywan and I think I recognise all of your art

[frostbitebakery]

UGH, yes, my art is there too.

FOR THE RECORD: I do not sell my art. Nowhere. If you see it anywhere, you do not support me if you buy something, but some greedy, exploiting shithead.

[sterling-jay]

Ok but real talk here, big, important question for everyone:

Why do you like but not reblog?

It feels like the bare minimum in fandom to reblog stuff you like. It’s the easiest way to support artists/writers and guarantee they do more of that same kind of thing.

I thought of some reasons people might not want to reblog and I’m going to debunk them:

Reblog = repost and reposts are evil!!!

Reblogs are different than reposts. As long as the original post came from the artist, the artist gets the credit for it and that’s what they want. REPOSTS are when you find a piece of art you like, save it to your computer, and later make your own post with it, and that’s not cool

Reblogging is too much effort!!

It really, really isn’t. On mobile? Press and hold the reblog button. The post has now been reblogged. On desktop? Hold the alt key and then click the reblog button. Off it goes, letting more people enjoy the beauty of the post you just enjoyed yourself!

I don’t want to tag things though

So then...don’t? Just reblog it with no tags. You want to tag it later, you can. You never want to tag things? Cool, neither do I most times!

I DO want to tag things but I feel like I’m bothering people

I guarantee you, 90% of the time, artists love tags. Even the keyboard smash tags. The ones they don’t love are the ones demanding more art/for the artist to do things in a specific way/to change the art to suit one specific viewer’s preferences.

If I reblog things a lot, it’ll annoy people!

If people are following you, it’s for your content. If it annoys them, they can unfollow you. That’s on them. If you mean it’ll annoy the ARTIST if you go in and reblog their whole art tag...wrong, false, no, definitely not, they might even make more art specifically for you if you do that. Especially if you tag with ‘I love this piece because...’ and then give a reason why you love it, that is the most encouraging thing.

Reblogging doesn’t fit my blog aesthetic.

Idk what to tell you here, you’re in control of your aesthetic. Make a side blog maybe, reblog there and leave your main ‘clean’. Or vice versa. No reblogs = a quickly dwindling supply of art that people are willing to post.

Reblogging is an important part of fandom/tumblr community in general. It encourages more people to make more content which means more things for you to do/see/read.

It’s part of the fandom ecosystem; we have content makers and we have content viewers. Without makers, we have no art. Without viewers, there’s no reason to post it online. If viewers are limited, people start reconsidering whether to bother posting their art online or just share it with their friends they know will give feedback.

Reblogs are how you contribute to the fandom. Try it.

[sterling-jay]

NO I MEAN REBLOG THIS TOO

[etcorsolus]

Ava the Diva and her wtf face as Axel invades her photo shoot 🤣

[etcorsolus]

This dog loves the pool, but he loves his kids more. He circles the whole time they're in there. Sometimes, he walks through to cool off and steal a kiss, but mostly, he watches his babies.

[etcorsolus]

They're not rotten. Nope. Not even a little bit.