Creature Feature: Katakan

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akilah12902:

Style over sensibility, darling.

Today’s Creature Feature is the Katakan, a kind of higher-order vampire.

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I have had this song stuck in my head for like…

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I have had this song stuck in my head for like… three days now? It’s weird, I go about my business, and I sing other songs and other songs get played on the speakers or whatever, I’ve been down in the film lab a lot and that’s a 24/7 Metallica zone, upstairs my coworker’s been on a Kraftwerk kick, whatever I’m bopping along, and then later I’m humming to myself

gave up on smokin’, two years ago, and i ain’t been drinkin’ for a month now or so… 

IDK! It’s a sign, I think I gotta learn this one. It’s not even like it’s that relevant to my life– I mean, it’s about somebody whose nightlife carousing is mostly behind them kind of reflecting on that, it’s a cover of a song by some older country legend sort, Robert Earl Keen, this version’s not even on any album it’s a live recording from some performance or other, and it’s not like it’s thematically resonant with any of the stories I’m working on at the moment either. It’s just. Real stuck in my head. 

I present it, here, to you, as not-an-earworm, but as whatever is going on here.

fthgurdy: agadixit: Południca (Noonwraith,

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fthgurdy:

agadixit:

Południca (Noonwraith, Lady Midday), a demon in Slavic mythology.

Art by me.

I love the Południca myth a whole lot, because it’s all about how a harvest demon will come get you if you’re working in the fields at noon in the summer, and such deaths are easily scientifically explained by sunstroke, heart attacks, exhaustion and other health issues that might affect peasant workers who are out in the sun all day, plus you have the startling visual effects of small, brief whirlwinds which are not uncommon in the summer when the pressure changes and would frighten people

but

all of this also means that something can and does happen to people out in the fields when it’s hot and the sun is high.

So, beware of noonwraiths. 

Ancient Sea chapter update

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chapter 4: supervision

We get Triss and Lambert’s POV on things. Listen there’s juicy Jaskier and Yennefer stuff coming but not yet, so instead you get Lambert being a total fucking nerd, and Triss being a grown-up actual woman instead of her creepy character arc from, apparently, both book and game. Listen I can buy that Geralt is hot but not that literally every woman he meets throws away the rest of her life in a quest to bone him, that is really not how it ought to work and your Creepy Male Writer Bullshit is showing.
(Occasionally people reading my fic are like “i can’t wait to read the books!” and I’m like well, I haven’t, and am not going to, and listen that kind of shit is why. Life is short.)

“What do you mean, Geralt knows more about girls?” Triss asked, as Eskel checked another door and made a face. 

“Oh, I mean– Geralt… well, he’s a little better at fitting into society in general than the rest of us, so he… interacts more… with women.” Eskel was clearly working very hard to come up with the words to say this.

“You mean he gets laid regularly,” Triss said, sparing him the need to be delicate.

“I wouldn’t say regularly,” Eskel said, amused. “But more often.”

“He’s better at society than you?” Triss was skeptical. “You seem reasonably well-socialized, to me.”

Eskel gave her a look that was hard to read, and continued down the hallway. “I’m missing half my face,” he said in a moment, a little curt. “Tends to put people off.” 

It certainly wasn’t half his face, and Triss had already gotten used to it, but she guiltily remembered her first impression, which had been that he was the scariest person here. “Does it really?” she said. “Everybody here has scars on their faces, though. I was starting to wonder if it was an initiation thing.”

Eskel swung around suddenly, leaning slightly into her personal space, and she shrank back in sudden fear from his frightful expression. Then he laughed, a little bitterly, and turned around and kept walking. “It does,” he said. “Weird. No, it’s not an initiation thing, it’s just an occupational hazard of getting the shit beat out of you by supernatural horrors for a living.”

“That wasn’t playing fair,” Triss protested. “It wasn’t your face that scared me so much as you being twice my size and looming at me in a dark hallway! Maybe don’t do that to people!”

“And you thought I was well-socialized,” he said.<br

deputychairman: bomberqueen17: deputychairman reblogged your post ...

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deputychairman:

bomberqueen17:

deputychairman reblogged your post “problematicfan: penny-anna: penny-anna: penny-anna: …”

[image description: tumblr notifications window screenshot that reads: “deputychairman reblogged your post [about Jaskier and Yennefer becoming BFFs, to Geralt’s dread] [and has these hashtags attached among others] #this is essentially what im writing now #i am HIGHLY inspired by your pegging fic #i am SO INVESTED in your fic”]

this is like, the dream

because for all the backstory and all the drama and all the excitement

i can only have them have The Big Emotionally-Fulfilling Climactic Threesome once

(like there can be more sex scenes than that but I can only do a first time once) (and let’s be real I am so distracted by like 100k of backstory that I will never have time for all the sex scenes)

so what everyone wants, what we all deserve, is for someone else to also write one, because I want to read ALL OF THEM

this is genuinely The Dream

#it doesn’t even have to use any of my headcanons #i just want the threesome #i want the OT3 #and i would absolutely not say no to a whole bunch of pegging

That’s what i want toooooooo! you can’t leave out the sexy but unhinged witch who he’s tied to by DESTINY (well, you can, everyone is free to do as they wish, but WHY would you waste a scarce natural resource like Yennefer? In this economy?) and you can’t leave out the pining, twinking best friend who makes mixtapes for him, the OBVIOUS solution is to put them all together!

Seriously, i did read your fic before i finished the show and i have imprinted on your version as the Way & the Truth & the Light, so maybe I should just lean into it and use the “inspired by another work” button? You know that feeling when you’re like, oh, this is TOO SIMILAR to what someone else has written, every word I type should be Deeply and Importantly original? I am wrestling with that feeling while actually very much wanting to write somethign that fits into your universe - same versions of the characters, slightly different events, another first time Big Emotionally-Fulfilling Climactic Threesome! Maybe, just maybe, with pegging! 

Yes yes yes do this, yes, please, no, I don’t need an “inspired by” cred, though you could mention me in the notes if you think you’ve leaned so heavily it might not make sense to someone who only watched the show, but beyond that, oh gosh. That’s what fanfic is about.

The very first slash fic I ever wrote, in like 2005, was literally a fic of someone else’s fic about two extremely obscure characters from, not even the Silmarillion, from some long-lost old notes of Tolkien’s in like, volume twelve of the History of Middle-Earth, and she had fleshed them out into these wonderful mutually-pining creatures when in canon I’m not even sure either of them actually had direct lines, and I wrote fic of them that was even more obscure and was very specifically about her versions of them, and she was so gracious and generous and delighted that it formed a lot of my understanding of how fandom culture works. to be gratuitously heavy about this, for a moment. 

But my point is, man, please write that. The pegging is optional. There are so many ways this can go and I want to read them all and I can’t possibly write them all. 

I do get how this could be thorny– if you didn’t know me well, or if you wanted to take my starting point and go a wildly different direction with it, or something like that– but even in that case, I’d feel like– I mean– the original author of a creative work doesn’t get to say no fanfic, they just get to say “well i won’t read it”, and if someone was doing something I really didn’t like with, like, an OC I created for my own fic or whatever, that would literally be as far as I could go. “oh I didn’t see it going that direction, hm, you know, I might tap out, no hard feelings but plz don’t tag me in the next one?” 

But this situation is specifically the opposite of that, so it’s a moot point… PLEASE write ALL of it, whatever your heart desires, please. I do understand your hesitation, I feel that basically every time I sit down to write fanfic instead of Some Original Work Of Heartbreaking Genius that will live in a drawer for fifteen more years with all the others, but one must follow one’s heart and square away one’s doubts and write the porn of your dreams.

penny-anna: Geralt: what’s your full name??

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penny-anna:

Geralt: what’s your full name??

Jaskier: Julian Alfred Pankratz? I have told you this before.

Geralt: why do you have so many names

Yennefer: because he’s a viscount?

Geralt: you’re a viscount?

Jaskier: yes?

Geralt: why?

Jaskier: why am I a - I have no idea how to answer that question.

penny-anna:

Jaskier: since my parents… named me?

Yennefer: he’s said his full name in earshot of you multiple times? I know, I was there

Geralt, fully unable to tell whether or not they are trolling him: ……….what

Jaskier: eh… he tunes out anything up to 80% of what I say at any given time… I’m not surprised he didn’t notice.

just-a-normal-eccentric:

“Since when?”

penny-anna:

Yennefer: hey Julian, last decade called, they want that jacket back

Geralt: who the fuck is Julian

Jaskier: I’m Julian

Geralt: ……………………………what

altalemur:

counter-point:

she calls him “Julian” mockingly, but also to signal that she knows more about Jaskier than Geralt.

penny-anna:

Going back to ‘geralt having the unsettling realisation that Jaskier & yennefer have become friends within his knowledge’. Jaskier & geralt running in to Yennefer and Geralt not noticing that anything is different - bcos their dynamic hasn’t really changed they’re just at each other’s throats in a 'we like each other really’ way now looks the same to an outside observer - until Yennefer casually calls Jaskier 'Jask’ and THEN geralt is like, whaaaat the shit… What’s happening