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@venus-deep-pit
I’ve finished it! The way you all support me gave me strength ❤️
This sequence was taken from a beautiful fanfic by @dinahdarling , I changed the order of some things for the sake of the composition, but I hope you all like it ❤️❤️ Also, check the original fanfic!
PS: you can find the original colored comic in my Instagram @/venusedge_art and the lewd version in @/vensfwedge_art ❤️
Still a WIP 🌸
Me: *bought comic expecting action scenes and monsters*
Comic: *gives me this*
Me:
Geralt & Jaskier in 1.05 “Bottled Apetites”
The peoples of Siberia (Ulchi, Dolgan, Sakha, Evenki) photographer Alexander Khimushin
Народы Сибири (Ульчи, Долганы, Саха, Эвенки) фотограф Александр Химушин
Алтайцы (South-Western Siberia, Altai Mountains) - Altaian. Wikipedia writes:
The Altaians are presented by two ethnographic groups:
The Northern Altaians include the Tubalar (the Tuba-Kizhi), the Chelkans, the Kumandin, the Shors The Southern Altaians include the Altaian (the Altai-Kizhi), the Teleut, the Teles, the Telengit
Tadashi Shoji Spring 2018 Ready-to-Wear Collection [x]
MLM films + shots of hands touching
Just in case you forget this exists.
It exists.
With those “when you want to design a character but you don’t know color theory” posts flying around I thought this would be relevant again.
SLAMs THE REBLOG BUTTON
there’s also Coolors website that gives you randomized palettes!
Doodle garret hawke n Anders in cute summerware or marian n Merril? Just summer fun..haha XD just a suggestion
I just realized I drew Hawke’s swim ring too small… Hawke wouldn’t fit in that..
maybe he just wants to sit on it, surfing waves. It makes much fun XD
that’s so cute, i just had to draw something!
Secret Lovers by Mahdieh Farhadkiaei
I feel robbed
Why people prefer the relationship between Geralt and Jaskier more than the one between him and Yennefer
DISCLAIMER: This is all based on my opinion. Also, this is not an anti-Yennefer post. I just wanted to post my thoughts on why we weren’t as drawn to the ship as the showrunners thought we will be.
WARNING: This could’ve been better structured but I needed to get the idea out of my head before I forgot it, so sorry if it’s a bit messy.
Well, let’s get to business then! Here’s why we instinctively decided to NOT ship Yennefer x Geralt as much as Jaskier x Geralt, and it all boils down to one episode.
Episode 5 was meant to be the moment when two of the main timelines of the show finally clash and we see two of our protagonists finally meet. How does that go?
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Look, I’ll be honest here…Episode 5 did a bad job at making the viewers root for the relationship between Geralt and Yen. Why? Well…
1) Um…do we have time for that? Geralt, Jaskier is dying–GERALT! STOP LOOKING AT BOOBS WHILE YOUR BARD IS GROWING ONE ON HIS NECK!
I could’ve focused on the relationship between Geralt and Yen and actually root for it if the timing wasn’t so terrible. The only reason why Geralt meets Yen in the first place is because of Jaskier (who ends up becoming a motif throughout all the scenes Geralt and Yen share together in this episode).
And it’s not even a good reason. Geralt states it again and again that he was there because Jaskier was hurt and needed help.
Also, when Yennefer asks about his insomnia during the bathtub scene, he states that impending death (Jaskier) was a bit more important than his own problems.
So yeah, even Geralt of Rivia, the “I have no feelings nor friends” White Wolf acknowledges what is more important at the moment, AKA making sure Jaskier doesn’t die.
That’s why having to watch both of them give bedroom eyes to each other felt very awkward and out of place and no amount of background orgy could change that.
The orgy is also the only reason the flirting doesn’t seem out of place to us. Think about it.
2) The infamous bathtub scenes (this is a long one boys)
What’s funny about this one is that both Jaskier and Yennefer had a bathtub scene with Geralt, and where one failed, the other succeed to make fans root for the ship like no tomorrow.
The first bathtub scene we see is the one from episode 4 with Jaskier.
Then the one from episode 5 with Yennefer.
Let’s compare them a bit, shall we?
JASKIER BATHTUB SCENE:
When Jaskier gives Geralt a bath, it’s because he pretty much needs it. He’s covered head to toe in monster guts and needs to be clean for the party Jaskier asked him to attend to as his bodyguard.
During this scene, Jaskier actually washes Geralt, which is the main point of a bath to be honest. Along with that, we get some funny interactions between the two, which do a good job at helping us understand the relationship between these characters:
Jaskier being too slutty for his own good. Geralt being too edgy for his own good. Both being able to see through each other’s bullshit (”How many of these lords wanna kill you?” and “So you just let strangers rub chamomile on your lovely bottom?”).
We also get to see Jaskier being very comfortable with doing things around Geralt that would probably get many fools killed in the process, such as taking away his drink because “he should stay sobber” or being very casual around Geralt, whose facial expression screams bloody murder.
And how can I talk about this scene without bringing up the icing on the cake
Geralt: I don’t need anyone. And the last thing I want is someone needing me.
Jaskier: And yet, here we are…
So yeah, what makes the scene with Jaskier great is the fact that it advanced the plot and did a good job of presenting the characters and their personalities.
YENNEFER BATHTUB SCENE
Let’s look at the scene where Geralt takes a bath with Yennefer. Some of yall gonna be real mad at me, but I have to say it: This scene did not need to happen like that.
No amount of naked Henry Cavill is gonna fix it. They needed an excuse to show both of them naked next to each other otherwise we wouldn’t find their talk romantic or something.
I rewatched both bathtub scenes, and during the one with Yennefer, Geralt doesn’t wash at all. The only reason why that scene even happens is because, according to Yennefer, Geralt smelled so bad you could guess his horse breed.
Does he do anything to fix that? Nope. He just stands there naked and brooding while Yennefer joins him for some reason, despite that water probably being gross as fuck if what she said about his smell was true.
And she’s the only one who washes between the two… if you can call that a wash. She just grabs a sponge and rubs it a bit around her neck and that’s all.
The dialogue was cute, and it showcased their personalities a bit, but as I’ve mentioned, it didn’t need to happen in a bathtub.
Here’s how I’d fix the scene:
They’re both in the same room and Yennefer needs to change from her black dress into that more comfortable white one. She tells Geralt to turn around while she does, and their conversation goes as it happened in the bathtub. After she’s done, she hands him his new clothes and tells him that she’ll accept their conversation as payment enough…but only if he takes a bath (aka what happened BEFORE the bathtub scene). Then it cuts to him, fully changed and clean, walking into the room where Jaskier is asleep and the episode resumes as usual.
3) Wow, she really did that…
I’ll bring up something that kinda makes many people not that fond of the ship, AKA Yennefer kinda mind-controlling Geralt and sending him to attack the people who wanted Yennefer out of the town.
In her way of getting revenge from them, she made Geralt get the death penalty tho.
We’ve seen Geralt fight before and win, but this situation seemed kinda lost until he found out he was the one with the wishes. His wish to make the guard’s head blow up was probably the only reason he got out of there alive.
4) ”She saved your life”
They really could’ve convinced us to ship Geralt and Yennefer during the last few mins of the episode, but they just decided to replace “relationship development” with “sex scene” because, hey, we didn’t know by now that Geralt was a slut.
What happened before that was way worse for their development tho.
So, Jaskier leaves the building, bumps into Geralt and they begin to walk away until Geralt realizes Yennefer is about to die inside. He then decides to go there and save her despite almost getting him killed.
If Geralt had a greater sense of self-worth, he probably would’ve walked away, but he still decided to go save her because she’s the love interest after all, right?
The thing is… When Jaskier stops him, Geral doesn’t mention anything about how great Yennefer is, or how nobody deserves to die or how she doesn’t deserve such a fate.
No no. His only argument is that she saved Jaskier. So yeah, even in a moment meant to build up their relationship, Geralt mentions doing something because of Jaskier.
Somehow, everything between those two in this episode had a little bit of Jaskier in it. Even during the sex scene, we see Jaskier for a few seconds.
5) “Just a friend, I hope?”
This one is more for the shits and giggles, but the fact that Yennefer has to ask twice in the episode if Jaskier was “just a friend” is a bit…like, even she was uncertain whether to hit on him or not.
In conclusion.
Episode 5 really did a poor job at making the viewers root for the relationship between Geralt and Yennefer. The good scenes they had were outshined by the bad scenes and this gets worse with episode 6.
We had 4 episodes to get used to Geralt and Jaskier together. But Yennefer and Geralt? We had episode 5, which was a mess, and episode 6, which was a time skip.
You see, because it’s a time skip instead of seeing their relationship develop better after they’ve met, we’re just told that Geralt kept Yennefer as his booty call over the years and that they PROBABLY had some sweet moments together.
The only good scene these two had was the tent scene from episode 6, but that’s forgotten immediately because of the argument they have on top of the mountain.
And you can see how much the fans cared about Geralt and Yennefer together because at the end of the episode most of them were weeping from what Geralt said to Jaskier than from the argument he had with Yennefer.
So yeah, blame it on the poorly structured episode 5.
Finally someone put all those fleeting thoughts into words, thank you.
Yeah, pretty much all of this!
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Lo mejor de ser bardo era ganarse la vida cantando, de taberna en taberna, disfrutando cada segundo.
Por lo menos, aún le quedaba aquel laúd. Su favorito, de los que jamás había tocado.
-¡Bardo! ¡Canta la del Brujo!
Jaskier sintió un leve nudo en la garganta. Lo deshizo con una carcajada, mirando a su público con incredulidad.
-¡Vamos! ¿Otra vez? ¡Ya la he cantado mil veces!
-Pues canta una nueva. ¡Antes sacabas canciones nuevas sobre ese Brujo cada semana!
-Dejé de componerlas cuando empezaron a aburrir a todo el mundo -les aseguró, usando la mentira que ya había puesto como excusa en la anterior taberna.
Ni siquiera había sido capaz de cumplir lo último que le había prometido a Geralt antes de obedecerle y desaparecer de su vida: seguir contando su historia.
Y no era porque ningún otro bardo se hubiese adueñado del personaje de Geralt de Rivia para componer sus propios cantares. Le quedaban anécdotas de sobra en el tintero para deleitar a su público.
Simplemente, no tenía las fuerzas necesarias para volver a ponerse su nombre en los labios, para rememorar todas las aventuras que había podido vivir a su lado antes de agotar su paciencia.
Lo único que le venía a la mente cuando alguien mencionaba al Lobo Blanco o al Carnicero de Blaviken era la ira en su mirada, el gesto fiero de sus labios contraídos, mostrando los colmillos que supuestamente "se había limado".
Y no pensaba difamar la imagen de Geralt que llevaba plasmando en sus canciones desde "Toss a Coin to Your Witcher". Valiente, compasivo, invencible.
No quería cantar ni un verso más sobre Geralt y sus gestas; no quería recordar una amistad difícil ni un amor no correspondido, ni el terrible punto y final que le había puesto.
El único consuelo que le quedaba a Jaskier era imaginarse que, tal vez, por un segundo, el Brujo se hubiera arrepentido de haberle hecho tanto daño.
-Tengo algo mucho mejor que cantaros... -anunció, carraspeando para quitarles la tristeza a sus cuerdas vocales.- Es una balada de amor. Bueno, de desamor.
El público recibió la propuesta de Jaskier con abucheos de decepción.
-¿Por qué nos iba a interesar una canción de amor?
-Oh, prestad atención... Tiene mucho que ver con vuestro querido Brujo.
Arrancándole el primer acorde a su laúd, el bardo comenzó a tocar una de sus piezas más íntimas, más dolientes.
El fruto que había dado su caduco encuentro con Geralt de Rivia.
-The fairer sex, they often call it... But her love's as unfair as a crook...
The best part of being a bard was living off his singing, from one tavern to another, enjoying every second.
At least, he still had that lute. His favourite one, out of every lute he had ever played.
“Bard! Sing that one about the Witcher!”
Jaskier felt a slight lump in his throat. He swallowed it down with a chuckle, unbelievingly looking around at his public.
“Come on! Again? I’ve already sung it a million times!”
“Then sing a new one. You used to come up with new songs about that Witcher every week!”
“I stopped composing them when they became boring,” he assured them, using the same lie that had served him as an excuse at the previous tavern.
He hadn’t even been able to accomplish what he had promised Geralt before obeying him and thus vanishing from his life: going on to tell his story.
Not that no other bard had appropriated the character of Geralt of Rivia to compose his own chansons. He had many anecdotes left to delight his audience.
Simply, he didn’t have the strength he needed to get his name back into his lips, to remember all the adventures he could live beside him before he had run out of patience.
The only thing that came to his mind whenever someone mentioned the White Wolf or the Butcher of Blaviken was the rage in his gaze, the fierce snarl of his lips, exposing fangs he claimed to have ‘filed down’.
And he wasn’t going to slander the Geralt he had always depicted in all his songs since ‘Toss a Coin to Your Witcher”. Brave, compassionate, undefeated.
He no longer wanted to sing a verse about Geralt and his deeds; he didn’t want to be reminded of such a difficult friendship and unrequited love, nor of the terrible end he had put to it.
The only relief that was left for Jaskier anymore was imagining that, maybe, for a brief moment, the Witcher could have regretted hurting him so badly.
“I have something way better to sing…” he announced, clearing his throat of sadness.” It’s a love ballad. Well, a heartbreak ballad, actually.”
The audience received Jaskier’s resolution with a disappointed boo.
“Why would we even be interested in a love song?”
“Oh, pay attention… It has a lot to do with your dear Witcher.”
Ripping the first chord off his lute, the bard started playing one of his most intimate, most painful pieces.
The fruit of his fleeting stay with Geralt of Rivia.
“The fairer sex, they often call it… But her love’s as unfair as a crook…”
And yet… here we are.
MAKE ME CHOOSE @bateyjoey asked jaskier or geralt
