Resonant Bard

Margaret ❦ she/her ❦ icon by Chaypin❦ sometimesmargotwrites on Ao3 ❦ come talk about writing, characters, literature, or say hi! ❦ proudly affiliated with The Continent Cake Shop

[sometimesiwrite]

Masterlist

Series

Healing Touch- OC healer in the Witcher universe; real cozy tender vibes

Family Business- Modern Coffee Shop AU, collab w/ @pressedinthepages​

Steady As She Goes- Essi/Lambert; series of indeterminate length following the adventures of Essi Daven and Lambert; impulsive, gentle, honest, gritty; mind the tags.

*With Us- Essi/Lambert; Essi & Geralt; Essi & Eskel; Lambert/Geralt/Eskel; OT3+1; Modern dance club AU; Lambert’s partners help him make a few realizations about his good friend, Essi. New chapter added!

*Delayed- Lambert/Eskel; sadskel, comfbert; SFW; Eskel thought they were getting away to Skellige, but fate had other plans; multi-chapter; wip.

Works by Character

Lambert  |  Eskel  |  Essi Daven  |  Geralt

Commissions

Essi Daven and Geralt of Rivia in A Little Sacrifice- by Chaypin

Gwennyd (my OC) commissioned by @pressedinthepages​ for me- by Cylin

Random Witcher Bits

Geralt, Eskel, and Lambert baking success- by Artlark

Character Analysis and Headcanons

Brief Essay on Eskel’s Physicality in TW3       -Related gifset and brief discussion

Essi Daven: Character Reference        -Related Headcanons

Random Witcher Bits

[sometimesiwrite]

Well, I can’t publish them because of psychological problems... I am sending you these pictures just to feel like a person who is not considered by everyone to be furniture. I don't have any evil intentions.

Thank you for your kindness.

I don't believe you have evil intentions, but I can't shoulder the responsibility of posting on your behalf. May you find peace and joy in spite of life's struggles.

[sometimesiwrite]

Ves's mom and Ves's dad?

Hey, there. You've got some neat headcanons. Instead of posting them to my inbox where they likely won't be engaged with after this, why not post them on your own page and give them the love they deserve with your own creativity? I'm not going to do anything with these.

[sometimesiwrite]

Great pics of three strong women! Thanks for sharing.

[sometimesiwrite]

In the end, they were both still different. She was not the ruler Nilfgaard had hoped for, if the rumors at court were true. And Vernon was Vernon, no matter whose right hand he was. They both met no one's expectations and ended up exceeding their own. In their diversity, they were the same. In their stubbornness, too. Finally, it was Geralt, of all people, who was after all a connecting link between them, who suggested they put aside their walking on egg shells at the card table and ride out together. "A race," he suggested. "You'll never agree on anything. Ciri is still too unpracticed at commanding, and you, Vernon, know that thumping the table won't get you anywhere. Take it outside." suggestion was crazy, of course, because Ciri couldn't just ride out whenever she wanted, and certainly not with just anyone – and those were exactly the reasons they did. They drove their horses through a seemingly endless field of buttercups. The wind whistled through his clothes, his thighs ached from the force with which he spurred the animal, and Vernon felt more alive than he had in a long time. Ciri laughed, she laughed at him and with him, and her eyes were as green as a pond. And perhaps those green eyes were the legacy of something he had once loathed. Her powers were unnatural, yes. As unnatural as witchers and sorceresses and much more in this world, in which he had nevertheless decided to live on. And then, one morning, Vernon Roche woke up in silk sheets, and those green eyes were looking at him with that certain sparkle. He was lost. But a loser, he was no longer.

Sounds to me like the great beginning to a story. Keep at it, Anon! Looking forward to reading the rest if you feel like sharing.

[sometimesiwrite]

cerys kisses Ves's ass

Interesting idea you have there, Anon. Not sure whether you mean Ves from the Blue Stripes or Vesemir, and whether you mean she kisses their ass in a sexy way or a goody two-shoes way. Thanks for sharing I guess? Have a good day!

[sometimesiwrite]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[purple-1995]

[shipping-isnt-morality]

Good morning! I’m salty.

I think we, as a general community, need to start taking this little moment more seriously.

This, right here? This is asking for consent. It’s a legal necessity, yes, but it is also you, the reader, actively consenting to see adult content; and in doing so, saying that you are of an age to see it, and that you’re emotionally capable of handling it.

You find the content you find behind this warning disgusting, horrifying, upsetting, triggering? You consented. You said you could handle it, and you were able to back out at any time. You take responsibility for yourself when you click through this, and so long as the creator used warnings and tags correctly, you bear full responsibility for its impact on you.

“Children are going to lie about their age” is probably true, but that’s the problem of them and the people who are responsible for them, not the people that they lie to.

If you’re not prepared to see adult content, created by and for adults, don’t fucking click through this. And if you do, for all that’s holy, don’t blame anyone else for it.

[zandracourt]

This needs to be reblogged today.

[justsparethoughts-deactivated20]

Consenting to see adult content doesn’t mean you should have to see a bunch of shit romanticizing incest and pedophilia you walnut

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

Except this is the last line of consent before the actual work. So if you’re at this button you have already done the following:

1) chosen to go onto AO3 in the first place

2) chosen the fandom you wish to read about

3) had the chance to filter for the things you do want to see like a specific pairing or a specific AU

4) had the chance to specifically filter out any tags you don’t want to see like, oh I don’t know, incest and non-con and dub-con and paedophilia

5) had the chance to set the rating level if you wish to remove any explicit content at all

6) have read the summary of the story, which aren’t always great but are the only indicator of what the story will be like writing wise so something about it was good enough for you to click on it.

7) have read the tags of the story which will tell you what is actually in the story. If you have used filters to remove stories with things you don’t want then there shouldn’t be anything in here that’s a shock to you but maybe there is. That’s why the tags are there for you to check for yourself.

8) Then you have to actually click on the story. You cannot see anything other than the summary or the tags without personally deciding that you are going to open and read this story.

9) Only here, at step number nine, do you get to the adult content warning pictured above. You have been through eight different steps, the last six of which have also been opportunities for you to see that this has adult content. And AO3 has *STILL* stopped you to ask one last time “are you sure you want to read this because it has things that only adults should see in it”.

If after this point you are reading incest and paedophilia then it’s probably because you specifically went looking for it.

You walnut.

[vi-maxwell-blog]

This is the most beautiful thing that I have seen about ao3

[kaile-hultner]

Just thinking about how republicans are going after normie sex shit like "internet porn" and "dildos" now

we fucking told y'all

[kaile-hultner]

to be clear: the right views any sex that isn't purely procreative as deviant. it's not just kink, or queer sex they find abhorrent. And they genuinely believe that the better educated you are about sex in general, including about gender shit, the more deviant you are. they're legitimately trying to claw everyone down to hell with them.

[headspace-hotel]

Now? Before 2003 it was legit technically illegal in some states for even straight couples to have oral or anal sex, and there are still laws in some states restricting how many dildos you can own etc.

I don't really know what the goal is with putting a numerical limit on dildos, but with republicans the answer is usually "There isn't one. Die."

[buttons-beads-lace]

This is your periodic reminder that it is currently right now illegal in the united states to own porn that the average person in your community would be offended by. That's the legal definition of obscenity (a piece of media that 1. Exists to turn people on 2. has no other "redeeming" purpose and 3. would be offensive to most people in your jurisdiction) and you can theoretically be arrested and go to jail for owning "obscene" media or giving it to other people.

"But that's ridiculous," you say, "porn that the average taxpayer would think was ~offensive~ is absolutely fuckin' everywhere, on the internet and in real life, and nobody gets in trouble for it." And you'd be right about that. Realistically, this is a law that cannot be enforced: it is way too easy to break, way too hard to track, and way too many people are interested in breaking it.

Same with the pre-Lawrence v. Texas laws against "sodomy" that headspace-hotel is talking about. Yeah, it was illegal to give a blowjob in the privacy of your own home. But of course most people who like blowjobs never even thought twice about those laws, because it's usually pretty easy to Not tell a cop what you do in the privacy of your bedroom with your spouse.

"So if laws like this don't actually stop people from doing whatever sexual things they want to do, why are you concerned about it? You just said these laws don't hurt anybody, right?" Here's the thing. The purpose of laws like this is to create an atmosphere where you can get away with doing ""deviant"" things... if you hide it from polite society, if you keep it secret, if you know your place.

What you can't do is go out in public and say that actually gay people can have happy relationships, or that masturbating sometimes doesn't make you a depraved sex addict, or that it's okay to want to enjoy having sex and not just do it as your Duty To Your Husband.

You can get away with doing what you want in private if you never challenge the dominant cultural message that what you're doing is gross and immoral and people who do it are disgusting freaks. If you dare to speak up and point out that your ""shameful secret"" is actually normal, off you go to jail.

That's the purpose of laws like this. To make it impossible to challenge the rhetorical stranglehold of conservative christianity on society. To shift the Overton window once and for all to the right. And that's why we need to fight laws like this with all our strength, every time the right tries to push them forward, even when the specifics are stuff like "you can't own more than five dildoes" that might seem like a silly thing to go to war over. It's not about the specifics. It's about limiting everyone's speech to things a conservative preacher would say from the pulpit.

[bijoumikhawal]

The other thing laws like this are good for is giving the police excuses

[defilerwyrm]

Younger Americans NEED to understand why Lawrence vs Texas went to the Supreme Court.

In 2003, police raided the private home of two gay men and charged them with sodomy. I cannot emphasize enough that THEY WERE NOT CURRENTLY HAVING SEX AT ALL when the police raided them. But the cops had “probable cause” to believe that they had, at some point, had non-procreative sex, which was illegal under Texas’s sodomy law, so they were charged with a crime.

Ultimately, the SCOTUS ruled that sodomy laws are unconstitutional because US citizens have a right to privacy: what consenting adults do in their own homes is their own business.

What you need to know is that in four states, including Texas and. Missouri, sodomy laws are still on the books. That means that if SCOTUS strikes down Lawrence vs Texas, these laws immediately go back into effect, and more states can add their own.

What would that look like?

If you’re on Tinder and your profile says you’re gay or bi, the police can subpoena your profile and use it to arrest you.

If you’re on Scruff or Grindr, the police can subpoena your location data and messages and use them to track down and arrest you and all your hookups.

If you’re in a same-sex marriage, the police can subpoena a list of same-sex marriage certificates and arrest every single couple—even if they’re widowed or divorced.

If your school has an LGBTQ club, the police can subpoena a list of members and arrest kids & college students.

They could subpoena data from FetLife and Facebook and Twitter and, yes, if they thought to do so, Tumblr. Rainbow flag in your profile? They’re drawing up charges.

And all of these people getting arrested and charged with sodomy, when convicted, will not only have their lives ruined by jail time, but will also likely be labeled sex offenders for the rest of their lives.

This is not ancient history. This was not “back in the day.” I WAS IN COLLEGE WHEN THIS HAPPENED.

And the Republicans are frothing at the fucking mouth to bring these horrors back.

[ellies-enrichment]

lore accurate conversation

[arabellas]

#the big three 🗣

[cosmicretreat]

[unstoppable-armsnotsigns]

Following instructions isn't a skill, grilling meat is.

[hostis-the-white-wizard]

People really will work the most dead end, low effort jobs anyone can do and act like they’re “skilled labor” huh

[mornington-the-crescent]

“Unskilled labor” does not mean, “This job requires no skill to perform”. “Unskilled labor” means, “This job does not require any special schooling to perform”.

[wanderer-chronicles]

[anarchistmemedistro]

[tlounetwork]

THE LAST OF US | 1.09 “Look for the Light“

[awardseason]

KE HUY QUAN Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” 95th Annual Academy Awards March 12, 2023 in Hollywood, California

[huttslut]

shoutout to the lord of the rings lighting directors. bold move to let the audience see what's going on in nighttime scenes. i miss that.

[tloudaily]

the way he unconsciously leans into her 🥹