Not all those who wander are lost.

Canadian, genderqueer, nerdy, writer, intersectional feminist. Please feel free to say hi. My main fandoms are Yuuri!!! On Ice, Shingeki no Kyojin, Good Omens, Fullmetal Alchemist, Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, The Witcher, The Elder Scrolls, and Middle-earth.

[twisting-vine-x]

Fic: You Alone, Geralt/Jaskier, NC-17

Just finally finished up one of my Geraskier series on AO3.

Here if anyone would like to read. :)

[its-bread-bitch]

Here’s the thing:

Jaskier doesn’t have a horse. I mean yeah, technically he has Pegasus but in nw and most fanon media he doesn’t. The man walks at the same pace as a horse every day for twenty years. And I’m sure Geralt let him put SOME things on Roach, but probably not much. She’s Geralt’s horse and needs to carry his things AND Geralt, no one wants her to be over extended with bard stuff. So that means Jaskier carries all his stuff himself which is AT MINIMUM, his lute, notebooks, probably like 3 sets of relatively complex performing outfits and road clothes, all his fancy cosmetic stuff, a bedroll, and his METAL coin money. He also probably has first aid things like bandages and potions, frivolous things like baubles and jewelry, food, water, and probably other bard stuff like spare strings and such.

Yeah, Jask is depicted as traveling without bags but that’s just not possible. He probably carries his own essentials and as someone who backpacks— that alone is usually 20+ lbs. WITH modern technology aimed at making things lighter. Thats not counting all the fancy stuff he’s prone to and his career tools. Jaskier is probably hauling like 40-50lbs or more of stuff EVERY DAY while mostly roughing it off the land and keeping pace with a man on horseback. Oh, and this is WHILE SINGING AND TALKING the entire time. Can you imagine this man’s lung capacity? To sing and talk constantly while exerting himself?

This is all to say: Jaskier is strong as fuck and fit as hell. The thing is though, he probably doesn’t even recognize it. Yeah, he probably knows he’s got the muscle and such, but he still is largely perceived as a delicate person. He PROJECTS being delicate. Being fragile and pampered and in need of the finer things. He projects capable, but not strong. This. Is. Hilarious.

Jaskier, having already walked 12 miles at a moderate incline carrying 40lbs of stuff without breaking a sweat (it’s barely past midday): Geralt I am FRAGILE. I cannot POSSIBLY walk through this mud. (It’s like a 3 ft section) I’m not a rugged mountain man like you, I’m simply not BUILT for this!

Geralt, staring at Jaskier who’s as burly as most Witchers and has walked the path w/o Witcher training for over a decade: hm

[twisting-vine-x]

I just finished my first BG3 playthrough (about 250 hours) and I'm just in awe. What an astounding game. I'm so grateful it exists.

Time to do it all over again. <3

[geraskiersource]

#’how to flirt with a witcher 101′ with jaskier

[aramblingjay]

#jaskier being weak for The Shoulder Touch (and accompanying sincerity) two seasons running

[izzy-hands]

That is the role of poetry. To say what others cannot utter.

[patroclusdefencesquad]

can you believe it's actually canon now

[jaskier-more-like-saskier]

Things that hurt

[spielzeugkaiser]

sir, please comfort your bard, he's anxious!!

[anya-chalotra]

LIFE’S ONE BLESSING, 1.06 | OUT OF HARM’S WAY, 3.02

[alicent-florent]

YENNEFER OF VENGERBERG and CIRI OF CINTRA THE WITCHER — 3x01: “Shaerrawedd” (2023)

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

THEY HAVE THE SAME FUCKING FACIAL EXPRESSION HELP ME-

[defectivegembrain]

Not "I always knew I was different", not "I thought it was normal", but a secret third thing: it never occurred to me to think about whether it was normal until I was forced to, usually in a cruel way

[motherbychoice]

Care to debate abortion?

Nah

[reproductivejusticeandliberty]

Mood. -V

[kiwianaroha]

This reminds me of a party I went to last year. I was standing with some friends, chatting, and someone said something that indirectly implied that sexism exists. Some trivial recounting of the basic facts of daily life for most women. Something so mild, so uncontroversial, so mundane that I don’t even remember what it was. 

Suddenly, this man standing on the outskirts of our conversational circle piped up with “actually, I think men are more discriminated against than women these days.”

 All conversation died.

I turned to look at him and he had this smug, insufferable grin on his face, relishing this moment, expecting us to waste our time and energy refuting this ridiculous thing he had just said.

The Devil’s Advocate was among us.

And, in my mind, I saw the next 15+ minutes playing out. The parade of facts and statistics in a vain attempt to defend ourselves, our gender, and to prove that misogyny is real. The glib, snide denials from some shithead who is getting off on our pain and frustration. The Gish Gallop of bullshit that would take a whole evening to properly dismantle. It was depressing and overwhelming. I hated it. I had to kill it before it began.

So I looked him dead in the eye and I said “OK,“ shrugged, and just walked away. 

Nothing I have ever said to another human being has ever been so crushing. As I walked away, I watched the smug grin vanish and confusion and anxiety set in. The rest of the group turned their backs to him and carried on as if he had never spoken - as if he was invisible. He was still staring at me when I walked over to another friend and told her what he had said. I pointed him out for her and made direct eye contact with him while we both laughed.

tl;dr: Don’t feed the troll. Let it perish, cold and hungry, in the wasteland of your indifference. It is weak and you are strong. Live your best life.

[kikyozoldyck]

fan fic authors be like yes i know this will flop however i simply have too much love for this character and my very niche headcanons for them. and i think that is so fuckin sexy of us

[tedsprestonesq]

new game: how many hits/reads/whatever does your least popular fic have? mine has 16

[tlotrgifs]

requested by anonymous

[penny-anna]

u know i feel like something that would help w a lot of shipping discourse would be remembering that not everyone in fandom spaces is here to do textual analysis & people sometimes (often) ship characters solely because it's sexy

[penny-anna]

like ur absolutely welcome to be critical of smutty fanworks (you can be critical of whatever you want go nuts) but occasionally i'll see people like 'why would you ship these two characters romantically don't you see that their relationship being platonic is important to the underlying themes of the work' and be like oh yeah for sure, you're absolutely right about the Themes and stuff, however, i also think it would be hot if they fucked. i contain multitudes.