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some_stars) wrote2020-02-19 06:58 pm
some_stars) wrote2020-02-19 06:58 pm
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soooooo i kinda got into the witcher...the tv show only, i don't play games anymore and i don't read fantasy novels by men on principle. i don't exactly...LIKE the show? like it has many, many major flaws and i would enjoy watching it so much more if it were different in various ways? but i love the characters and oh, my god, i love the fic. there is. so much. not nearly enough ot3 fic for my liking but that's the only thing lacking, bc the fic for the witcher is CHOCK FULL of old tropes. like almost every trope i love and haven't seen in 10-15 years (ok, i've seen fuck or die but it's way harder to find a good one than it used to be, except in this fandom), and i'm just rolling around in it and even having some ideas of my own, which i almost certainly won't write but it's the first time in years i've kind of wanted to.
anyway i would ask for recs but at the rate i'm consuming, in a week i'll have read every single decent story anyway. i mean still feel free to rec me stuff though. ESPECIALLY vids, i want vids and i don't know how to find them anymore. i'm toying with making a yennefer vid but idk if season one has enough for what i want to do.
anyway this is something i wrote on twitter and then copy pasted to tumblr and it's NOT even remotely fic but just. an idea. geralt/jaskier/yennefer, ends with major character death but only of old age after a happy life together. because it turns out all i needed to get back into a fandom and have ideas again after several years was to start watching a bad show instead of a good one. how foolish of me not to realize.
today’s emotionally compromising thought: when jaskier gets into his 50s and just can’t traipse around anymore (and is in even more danger from doing so than now), geralt and yennefer sort of unspokenly decide they’ll all just…take a break for a few decades. not exactly settle down, but slow down, stay in one area of the continent for 2-3 years at a time before going somewhere else–none of them are made to live in a small town or even a city long term. but ease up on the fighting stuff. because they have the time, and they want to give it to jaskier.
they both spent decades before him living in a certain way, and when he’s gone they’ll probably fall back into it for another century--idk exactly how long-lived and/or immortal they’re supposed to be but i assume they get at least a few hundred years. so taking a 30-year timeout is just, something they decide to do without exactly deciding. they just slow down, because it’s either that or leave him, and neither of them want to. and of course jaskier notices--and he’s not made for settling down either, but he’s grateful, and doesn’t say much about it, except when he occasionally does--when he wonders, not quite idly, if they’re bored, if he’s holding them back. and they respond in different way but always making it clear that he’s not. they even start to form other human relationships, slowly.
it’s a really good thirty years, is the point. a mostly quiet but not boring thirty years of actually living in the world, and when he’s gone they realize they don’t just have memories of HIM--they have memories of the houses they shared. of the neighbor’s little girl who loved to braid geralt’s and yennefer’s hair. of the dog that came to live in their tiny yard, in that one town where they spent almost six years straight. because jaskier loved them and wanted them and they loved and wanted him but he gave them even more than their relationship. he connected them to humanity, for just a few decades.
so i like to think that there’ll be other people, after jaskier dies, after a decade has passed and taken the worst cruelest edge off the grief. someone else will stumble into their lives, and keep them whole. not a replacement, but that they will realize they have room now for more, and they always will, because he gave that to them.
anyway i would ask for recs but at the rate i'm consuming, in a week i'll have read every single decent story anyway. i mean still feel free to rec me stuff though. ESPECIALLY vids, i want vids and i don't know how to find them anymore. i'm toying with making a yennefer vid but idk if season one has enough for what i want to do.
anyway this is something i wrote on twitter and then copy pasted to tumblr and it's NOT even remotely fic but just. an idea. geralt/jaskier/yennefer, ends with major character death but only of old age after a happy life together. because it turns out all i needed to get back into a fandom and have ideas again after several years was to start watching a bad show instead of a good one. how foolish of me not to realize.
today’s emotionally compromising thought: when jaskier gets into his 50s and just can’t traipse around anymore (and is in even more danger from doing so than now), geralt and yennefer sort of unspokenly decide they’ll all just…take a break for a few decades. not exactly settle down, but slow down, stay in one area of the continent for 2-3 years at a time before going somewhere else–none of them are made to live in a small town or even a city long term. but ease up on the fighting stuff. because they have the time, and they want to give it to jaskier.
they both spent decades before him living in a certain way, and when he’s gone they’ll probably fall back into it for another century--idk exactly how long-lived and/or immortal they’re supposed to be but i assume they get at least a few hundred years. so taking a 30-year timeout is just, something they decide to do without exactly deciding. they just slow down, because it’s either that or leave him, and neither of them want to. and of course jaskier notices--and he’s not made for settling down either, but he’s grateful, and doesn’t say much about it, except when he occasionally does--when he wonders, not quite idly, if they’re bored, if he’s holding them back. and they respond in different way but always making it clear that he’s not. they even start to form other human relationships, slowly.
it’s a really good thirty years, is the point. a mostly quiet but not boring thirty years of actually living in the world, and when he’s gone they realize they don’t just have memories of HIM--they have memories of the houses they shared. of the neighbor’s little girl who loved to braid geralt’s and yennefer’s hair. of the dog that came to live in their tiny yard, in that one town where they spent almost six years straight. because jaskier loved them and wanted them and they loved and wanted him but he gave them even more than their relationship. he connected them to humanity, for just a few decades.
so i like to think that there’ll be other people, after jaskier dies, after a decade has passed and taken the worst cruelest edge off the grief. someone else will stumble into their lives, and keep them whole. not a replacement, but that they will realize they have room now for more, and they always will, because he gave that to them.
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