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Henry Cavill in The Witcher (2019) Before a Fall
S1E7
With the Continent at risk from Nilfgaard's rising power, Yennefer revisits her past, while Geralt reconsiders his obligation to the Law of Surprise.
*MyAnna Burning and Anna Burnett both appeared on the series "Ripper Street"
And if I win the war but lose Ciri, what victory is that?
Before a Fall by @queercore-curriculum
I started fanbinding in part because I’m so in love with fic and fandom and I wanted to contribute something, but I’m not a fine artist and I thought I’d never be able to write fic myself. Then I started listening to the Rusty Quill Gaming Podcast, and oh my god oh my god oh my god Zoscar, and all the gifts that Alex bequeathed the RQG fandom at the end of season 3. An 18-month time gap? A weird disease that requires characters to quarantine and strip naked every day for seven days? Mysterious and unexplained character trauma? Yes, yes, yes please. I was obsessed, and I wrote Before a Fall because I couldn’t stop thinking about all of these unanswered questions and I had to know the answer, so I wrote a 57k word answer for myself.
Before a Fall is incredibly self-indulgent, but I’m not ashamed. It’s my love letter to the enemies-to-lovers trope (the great love of my life), the romance genre, and of course to Zoscar and RQG. If you like Pride and Prejudice, want to read passages of When Passions Collide, or ever wondered how Zolf lost his sea legs and Wilde fell in love with Harrison Campbell novels, maybe give it try!
Binding, cover design, endpapers, and layout by me. Bound with hand-dyed variegated linen thread using a variation on a long stitch binding I designed myself. The endpapers are the love letters that Zolf and Wilde write to each other in the fic, and the peacock feather print was made with a stamp I carved. I wanted the binding of my fic to be as self-indulgent as the fic itself, and I’m pretty sure I succeeded!
More pics below the cut!
Proverbs 16:18 (NKJV) - Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.
Me when Ciri started chanting
no doubt my fave storyline of the witcher is the child surprise and the entirety of geralt and calanthe's interaction. I loved Of Banquets Bastards and Burials (easily my fave ep) and that bit in Before a Fall, when they discuss whether Ciri should stay in Cintra or go with Geralt is just 👌🏼👌🏼
Yennefer legit got these girls high
1, 14, and 21 for the end of year fic asks <3
1. favorite fic you wrote this year
Before a Fall. It's the first fic I've ever written, and I was stupidly overambitious. I wanted to do ALL THE THINGS--fill in a gazillion gaps from canon, pay tribute to the enemies-to-lovers trope and the romance genre, make some kind of meta-commentary about fandom and bonding over our favorite things. It's not perfect, but I think I managed to pull the thing off, somehow, and I'm still shocked that I managed to actually get it done.
14. a fic you didn’t expect to write
Coriander, my coffeeshop AU that was wholly inspired by @illusemywords RQG exchange prompts. I previously hadn't read many AUs beyond canon-divergent AUs, and I've been really surprised by how much fun I've had transplanting these characters into an original setting. Too much fun, maybe--when I started writing, I thought it'd end up being around 15k words (lol), but I got invested!
21. most memorable comment/review
All of the unimaginably thoughtful comments that @eleanor-is-fine left on Before a Fall, which ended up doing so much to shape that fic for the better and led to a truly wonderful friendship and the best beta I could ever ask for!
But if I had to pick just one, this comment on Before a Fall has really stayed with me:
This is story is already brilliantly written, with the characterisation and worldbuilding, but the subtle tributes to Korean culture are just killing me !! How did you create something that speaks on such a personal level, I’m having the time of my life savouring it
I wrote my culture into the fic because I wanted to see myself in this world I love, and for someone to suggest that these references made the story even better?? I felt so seen <3
