#idea bin

[sometimesitscozy]

When I was in Pittsburgh recently a very good friend and I got to go to the Carnegie museum and gallery and we saw this set of paintings

and I was immediately transfixed by the last one.

Theres so much of immigration emigration and refugee studies that deals with the crossing of oceans and the power of oceans and its not something we talk about a lot. It made me think of the shared experience of people drowning themselves as a means to escape transatlantic slavery and exiles from Spain after the Civil War drowning themselves off the coast of Spain so as not to be forced from their country. Obviously different circumstances but the presence and use of the ocean as a permanent end really struck me.

I've been working on a poem in relation to it but I just can't seem to get the words right.

[writinglizards]

Was gonna add this in the tags of that last post but it was gonna get a little long and I don’t wanna lose it so.

In canon, we know Geralt and Eskel are both in the same cohort of boys to go through the trials. We know Lambert is one of the last witchers and we know Lambert’s situation is a bit of a unique one (he’s older than most of the boys, remembers more about his life before Kaer Morhen, etc.)

SO I’m proposing: Eskel uses the quen schtick to train the new baby witchers and he KNOWS you’re not supposed to get attached--so many of them don’t make it through--but the loud, angry one is just something else and Eskel can’t help himself. He likes the kid. And he’s terrified both that he won’t make it through the trials and that he will. Eskel knows making witchers is a necessary evil, but he wouldn’t wish this fate on anyone he cared for. And this boy has seen so much hurt.

Lambert makes it, of course. He doesn’t want anything to do with any of them for a long time, but he warms up, of course. What else does he have left? And Lambert would never say it, but Eskel gets a special place in the little found family of Lambert’s heart. He’s the first one who really believed in him, after all.

[hdlynnslibrary]

Some random AU ideas I’ve had the past week/month that might get written? Who knoooows

My Big Fat Mando Wedding AU (with Din of course)

A Jane Eyre/John Wick themed AU (idk with who but instead of a wife in the attic he is an assassin and your the governess to his child)

Pushing Up Daisies AU (with Din because Im awful)

Tin Man (2007) AU (with Din because who else?)

Romancing the Stone AU (with Ezra)

One for the Money AU (with Din or Boba??)

[heliotropicmages]

A part of me wants to go into loving detail about all of the ideas I have but the other part of me is like “if you speak it then you have to write it.”

So anyways I had a Quest for Camelot AU floating in my mind for another pairing but I think I’m going to repurpose it for Yengilla because I very much so want to see Yennefer as a jaded knight permanently blinded and outcast after she sees the horrors of war while a very naive Fringilla tries to follow in her father’s footsteps and Save the Kingdom TM. Tea and Vea are there and yes they are the two headed dragons. Magic and sword fights! Falling in love while walking through spooky woods! Stregobor will get got. Calanthe and Renfri in roles that I have yet to determine fully!

[writinglizards]

Just spitting this one out there so I don't forget in the meantime but:

Gameverse Geralt and Dandilion after Geralt retires to Toussaint. Dandilion's down for a festival and he hasn't seen Geralt in YEARS. Geralt invites him to stay and Dandilion accepts, even though it's way out of the way.

Cue lots of awkward pining they both thought they were over.

[writinglizards]

I am on a ROLE with ideas I don’t have the time or energy to write right now but:

Witcher Frankenstein AU where Geralt is the creature and Jaskier is one of the De Laceys but isn’t a little bitch and ABSOLUTELY falls head over heels for this big, sweet guy who just wants LOVE and a FAMILY

[writinglizards]

Another thought I don’t want to lose: Jaskier gets turned into a woman (how doesn’t matter). This is Distressing for Geralt and pretty “whatever” for Jaskier (he’d worry, but he knows Geralt will figure it out and get him back to normal. In the meantime, he’s just going to enjoy being a woman while he can.) 

The distress is compounded when Geralt realizes his feelings for Jaskier haven’t changed. It’s much easier for him to recognize that he loves loves him when he’s a woman (women are okay to love. Men? No. We are EXPLORING that repression, my loves) which cues a new panic: does he love Jaskier or does he love him like this?

So he frets about that and weather or not changing Jaskier back is going to change this but he also can’t just...leave him a woman. They get him changed back (again, how doesn’t matter. Maybe it wears off! Maybe they bother Yen until she fixes it for them. Dealer’s choice). Geralt still feels the same when he’s himself again.

[writinglizards]

IM NOT AT MY HOME COMP RN SO I HAVE NO ACCESS TO MY IDEAS DOC SO LIKE

imagine with me, if you will, Geralt absolutely SCANDALIZED by Jaskier's penchant to go about half cloathed

but he can't SAY anything because he doesn't want to make it WEIRD and also he doesn't CARE actually why would he?

But also like. Jaskier being UTTERLY OBLIVIOUS.