Do you have any recommendations for good Witcher fanfic? I literally devoured all of Astolat's in 3 days and I don't know enough about it to look for more, as my only experience is with the tv show, but the ADHD hyperfocus gremlins have my brain and they won't let go. I've been poking around ao3 but so far nothing has satisfied the gremlins like Astolat.
Oh same hat, huge mood, big worm, whatever meme you want to put here. Unfortunately I have NOT found a lot of fic that I would recommend as approximating the quality of Astolat’s fic, and this may or may not mean it doesn’t exist, because I have channeled my own obsession through uhhhhhh less advisable channels. My family did Christmas late, as we were all busy during real Christmas with parents, so my beautiful girlfriend bought me Witcher 3. And also I got the first (non-short-story) book in the actual Witcher series on Archive.org, which--can I just say? NOT what I expected in that book! In a wholly positive way! I have gotten very suspicious of fantasy novels written by men in the 90′s, and this book was actually stunningly light on sexism and remarkably good.
So, uh. I’d recommend the first book, actually. It’s largely set about six months after the end of the first season of the show, I think, as the show is an adaptation of the relevant short stories taking place before the series proper. That means that the first book involves a lot of Geralt being Ciri’s dad, Triss yelling at a bunch of witchers, Dandelion/Jaskier getting into new and refreshingly self-engineered trouble, and Yennefer being questionably okay with children.