dragonlady7 | Jan. 29th, 2021

Jan. 29th, 2021

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fisstech-and-succubi https://fisstech-and-succubi.tumblr.com/post/639703644005089280/hello-witcher-friends-and-welcome-to-the-fisstech :

Hello Witcher friends, and welcome to the Fisstech and Succubi Eskel Celebration Exchange! Since we’re all still stuck in our snowed-in crumbling fortresses isolated by forbidding mountain passes, or at least trying not to catch the plague from our neighbours, now seems like the right time to warm ourselves up by creating fanworks about our favourite witcher! No, not that grumpy White Wolf guy, he already has a bard to sing his praises. I’m talking about Eskel.

In this post you will find the schedule and the very slightly updated rules.

Schedule

Signups: January 9 - February 14, 2021 - I will be posting a running list of DNWs during this time so if you remember or are reminded of any additional DNWs that you don’t want, you will have unlimited opportunities during this time to submit additional DNWs for your prompt.

Claim Period 1: February 18 - 23, 2021

Claim Period 2: February 25 - 29, 2021 - for those who didn’t get any of their first round picks

Posting Deadline: April 15, 2021

Rules

The update to the rules is that the upper word count limit on fics and the upper page count limit on comics has been removed.

Each person who signs up will get one fanwork and give one fanwork. You MUST sign up to create a fanwork if you want to receive one.

What counts as a fanwork?

Fics: You may give one fic of more than 1000 words
Art: You may give at least one complete illustration (finished linework and flat b/w) OR at least 5 rough sketches OR one comic based on the giftee’s requests.
Some other form of fanwork if the recipient requests it and the creator is willing to produce it. If you have some other form of fanwork in mind, you should be specific in your request form, and you should provide several alternatives in your request form (including fic or art) in case there is not a creator who is able to produce the type of fanwork you’re hoping for. A game-accurate suit of armor or a five-tier cake is likely more difficult than a playlist or a moodboard.

Your work should:

feature Eskel as a character;
be tagged responsibly; and
follow the prompt you chose and respect the DNWs your prompter listed;

but other than that, there are NO HOLDS BARRED AS TO CONTENT IN THIS EXCHANGE. Do you want to request something light and fluffy where Eskel gets a lot of very nice things and nothing hurts and everything is beautiful? Great! Do you want to request something canon-compliant where Eskel suffers terrible facial scarring and then later does fisstech with a succubus? Great! Do you want to request something dark where Nilfgaardians overrun the North and the Emperor keeps Eskel as his sex slave? Great!

Please share this announcement far and wide!

I am scrambling like mad to get my Lambert shenanigans done in time to work on this but I am SUPER HERE FOR IT now that I actually understand how an exchange works LOL. Hop in and join me! (Your picture was not posted)

my writing, heads up 7 up, writing, tag meme

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Post the last seven sentences of your latest project (meta, fic, any other writing). Thanks to dsudis https://quarra.tumblr.com/ for tagging me!

Heh this is– well, it’s complicated by my possibly deleting this bit because I’m rewriting the little chunk directly before, but this is the last bit sequentially in the doc, and things before it have become messy. This is either a chapter in An Involved Process https://archiveofourown.org/works/28876890, or whatever story is next in the series, I haven’t edited the intervening material enough to be certain whether there’s a story break in there or not. But I don’t think I’ve made a secret of my destination for that story!

(Don’t get your hopes errrrr up too far, I just counted and this is 30k out from the next chapter update. LISTEN I’m GETTING THERE.)

“What do you mean, lost a lot of blood?” Keira said, concerned. “I have a tonic for that, are you feeling well? I could get it.”

“No,” Aiden said hastily, “no, just– water will be plenty, I’ll drink more before I sleep. It’s fine.”

“Then why is it relevant?” Keira asked.

“Ha,” Lambert said, and Aiden covered his face with his hand in embarrassment because he knew Lambert wasn’t going to have any fucking tact about it.

and now dear reader, as you enjoy this snippet, what do YOU think Aiden’s current difficulty is?? due to lack of blood, having been moderately injured in the course of Plot? Hmmmmmm???? Where might the three of them be, that this would come up? or… not up, as the case may be???

anyway it’s probably getting edited out but you and I will always know that’s where I was headed with this.

Oh man I never know who to tag with stuff, who’s actively writing and who’s on a sideblog– but– if you see this and are writing something that has seven sentences or more in it please consider yourself tagged, even/especially if I’ve never commented on your stuff before. And please tag me back so I know to read it. :) (Your picture was not posted)

history, intersectionalism

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tikkunolamorgtfo https://tikkunolamorgtfo.tumblr.com/post/640762000246554627/ive-seen-so-much-bad-faith-discourse-today-that :

tikkunolamorgtfo https://tikkunolamorgtfo.tumblr.com/post/640706362854309888/ive-seen-so-much-bad-faith-discourse-today-that :

I’ve seen so much bad faith discourse today that could easily be solved by everyone acknowledging that multiple things can be true at once because the world is actually really complex.

Still stewing about this. Like… everybody wants there to be some sort of definitive Maslow’s Hierarchy of Oppression for all situations instead of accepting that different power dynamics can simultaneously exist on multiple axes. And I’m sorry but it just doesn’t work that way.

Let’s look at my grandfather as an example:

He was an Indian man born under colonial British rule who supported the Indian National Army, an armed force formed by Indian nationalists and Imperial Japan in 1942 in Southeast Asia during World War II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_National_Army. He was studying and working in the US during the war and wasn’t able to return to India in order to fight with them, but I know he wanted to. And on one hand, fighting to end British colonial rule in India was 100% a noble goal. I’m fully down with giving a hearty “fuck you” to British imperialism.

But on the other hand… the Japanese were an Axis power with their own history of imperialism, and were endeavouring to establish even greater dominion over China and Korea (the latter of which had already been annexed by Japan in 1910). And on top of that, they were allied with, y’know, the Nazis, which… as a Jewish person, I have to just say: *Not great, Bob! *

I mean, you had this Indian military force that was fighting against British colonialism, but they were doing it by aligning with another imperialist power, who in turn were aligned with the fucking Nazis, who the British were trying stop. In fact, Subhas Chandra Bose, the leader of the INA, actually lived in Berlin from 1941-1943 during the height of the final solution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subhas_Chandra_Bose#1941%E2%80%931943:_Nazi_Germany, and had even met with Hitler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subhas_Chandra_Bose#/media/File:Subhas_Chandra_Bose_meeting_Adolf_Hitler.jpg and other Nazi officials about forming alliances to defeat Britain, until he finally came to the conclusion that “the new nationalism of Germany is not only narrow and selfish but arrogant.” And yeah, it was definitely fucked up that Bose spent time working on an Indian alliance with Hitler to the point where he was living in Nazi Germany for two fucking years, but on the other hand, he was mostly there because the British threw him in jail for leading mass protests against their own imperialism, and the Germans strategically gave him asylum with the goal of turning British Indian POW against the Allied Powers (they totally would have invaded India later if given the chance but I digress). And meanwhile, Churchill, while fighting off the Nazis—which, again: good—was also enacting policies that contributed to (or at least exacerbated) a major famine in Bengal that killed 3 million people, which didn’t bother him at all because he was a massive anti-Indian racist who said doing anything to help was pointless because we (Indian people) “breed like rabbits.”

So anyway, back to my grandfather. He was an Indian man who wanted to end the centuries-long occupation of his country by the British by any means necessary, to the point where he considered fighting for an anti-British army that was aligned with the Axis powers. And yet… he was also madly in love with his Jewish wife, and the proud father of a Jewish-Indian son, and he hated the Nazis, because, y’know, people tend not to like regimes who want to murder their family.

So what do you take from all that?

I feel like so many of you just want to see things in black and white, and decide if somebody is stanned or cancelled. But there are so many situations where you can’t do that—where things are grey or dualities exist at the same time.

The whole thing with the INA and the Japanese and the Nazis and British - it’s like a snake eating itself. I can’t fault my grandfather’s desire to join the INA as a way of overthrowing the British, and I also can’t wholly support it. It’s not quite wrong and not quite right, and I’m saying that as somebody with 80 years of history in the rearview mirror, which means at that particular moment in time, it was probably even more unclear and confusing.

And sure, there are plenty of things in history that are more clear cut. In If you look at the fight between the Brits and Nazis in microcosm, obviously the Brits are in the right, because fucking Nazis. And if you look at the fight between Brits and the people of India, obviously the Brits are the wankers, because fuck colonialism. But a lot of things are much greyer or amorphous than that, and sometimes we either need to accept that we’ve been presented with a Gordian knot or agree that there are situations where multiple things are true at once.

We can hold indentured labourers in the 1800s accountable for their role in colonialism and also empathise with the systemic powerlessness they sang about in work songs, and neither cancel nor absolve them, but instead learn about history and also look at parallels between then and now, where disenfranchised people in the West often benefit from sweat shop labour abuses abroad without necessarily being able to immediately do anything to stop it.

We can be honest about the fact that American soldiers of all races in the Korean and Vietnam wars aided in unleashing extreme imperialist violence against the people of those nations, but also empathise with the fact that many of them, especially Black soldiers, were only there because of systemic racism at home—and we can also acknowledge that even in spite of all this, many Asians are still horribly anti-Black/contribute to the systemic oppression of Black people, instead of having useless fights over whether a fictional Black soldier in the Korean war https://lovecraftcountry.fandom.com/wiki/Atticus_Freeman should be the protagonist of a show or not.

And we can acknowledge that sometime two disabled people will have competing needs that can’t necessarily be reconciled, instead of declaring that one of them is being ableist against the other.

Sometimes nobody is the hero and nobody is the villain, and sometimes we’re both all at once, and the sooner everybody recognises that, the sooner I can stop banging my head against a fucking wall. (Your picture was not posted)

wank tho, Anonymous

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I missed all this. i was like… there is VESEMIR EGG DISCOURSE???? i must know.

surely a man with so many Lorge Sons is good at frying eggs? or is it that he eats them raw

you should know, to properly absorb the protein in an egg it’s best if you cook it, your body can’t utilize it nearly as effectively raw, but like. maybe witchers are different. (Your picture was not posted)

vesemir and eggs?, i am not aware of this

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toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account https://toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account.tumblr.com/post/641093364236877824 :

Yes it may be called The Witcher, but that doesn’t stop me from focusing on:

The Cute & Joyful Bard
The Sexy and Terrifying Mage
The Small Baby Daughter Child
The Witcher’s Brothers
The Almost Entirely Fanon Cat Boyfriend to one of The Witcher’s Brothers
The Goat The Fandom has Decided was Adopted by the other one of The Witcher’s Brothers
The Witcher’s Father Figure That We Can’t Decide Whether He Loves Or Hates Eggs
The Amazing Young Lady That Was Killed In Episode One
The Mostly Fandom-Concieved Rival Bard With Many Varying Fancasts
The Horse (Your picture was not posted)

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i’ve been plugging away on this 20-tape VHS order. [we digitize analog media at the camera store. people bring us their old tapes and movies and shit. mostly home movies, stuff people shot on camcorders etc. also film stuff. slides. whatnot. mostly i find the work rewarding, but it’s also often real boring.] Most of them are like, family shit.

this order, clearly these people had a camcorder that took full size VHS tapes. great! so there’s lots of Little Suzie’s First Steps kinda shit, which is great. Also lots of Lil Suzie’s First Concert, which is less great because I leave the sound on so I know when the tape ends, but like. whatever. i’ll live.

but also these tapes fit in the VCR, so a bunch of them… well, these people liked Law & Order.

One tape I left running for like 45 min and was finally like okay they don’t want this, this is just The Price Is Right and shit. I was about to turn it off when it fuzzed out and was–

Little Suzie’s Third Birthday.

oh my god someone taped over the first 45 minutes of Little Suzie’s Third Birthday.

So the next time it happened i let it go the whole time. Now this is labor-intensive shit, I have to let it run realtime the whole time so a two-hour tape really takes up two hours of the machine, but then I also have to run it through an editing process to strip out the dead space and recompress it to something your computer will want to play, and that usually takes another like 20 minutes or so.

I’m just now finally burning the DVD and I’ve just done the final editing pass and hit the button and I’m realizing… no, this one is ENTIRELY Law & Order and an epsiode of the West Wing. Fuck.

Well, I’m giving it to them, because I did all the work, because I fully expected at some point it was going to tick over and be Little Suzy’s First Horseback Riding Lesson or something, and if you want to bitch that you just paid twenty bucks for some old reruns, well, I just spent about three hours making those reruns into something you can watch on your computer, and I deserve to get paid for those three hours and it’s not my fault you taped over whatever touching family moment was supposed to be on there.

oh in other work news Plague Maiden never developed symptoms and all her tests came back negative and apparently there’d been four people in her house and one of the tested positive two days later but nobody else did so her ventilation system must either be boss or her sick friend wasn’t contagious yet. good for us, but i’m going to call her Plague Maiden forever. now maybe I can see my mother-not-law again and ask her how tf to make the really simple reliable sewing machine she gave me in working condition work, because I can’t get it to sew a single stitch and it’s driving me crazy. (Your picture was not posted)

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last night a friend was streaming herself using her spinning wheel on Twitch. It was super chill, she’s got a second camera that watches her sleeping giant dog at the same time so it’s an immersive experience. She uses an auto-captioning app, which is great because sometimes I can’t turn the sound up so I can’t hear what’s going on and I still tune in because I can see but it’s nice to know what the chat’s about. (Also invaluable if you missed something a second ago.) But her auto-captioning app makes a lot of hilarious mistakes. Firstly, she’s prone to saying the word “Jeez”, because that’s just a thing in her dialect (which let’s be fair here is pretty adjacent to mine, it’s not like I’m mocking her here, I do it too), and occasionally whips out the whole phrase which is “Jeez Louise”, of course. And the captions would invariably translate that as “Cheese Louise”. So we theorized what sort of dish a Cheese Louise would be. A casserole, probably– I’ll gladly take suggestions.

Anyway, so the concept came up of Bobbin Chicken. As you’re filling the bobbin on your spinning wheel (the thing in the middle of the spindly bit, which collects all your spun yarn/thread/whatever), and you’re eyeing how much fiber you have left to spin, and you decide you can keep going just a little longer, juuuuust a littttle longer before you stop to wind everything off your bobbin– especially with antique spinning wheels, you often don’t have a spare, so you really do have to disassemble the thing and deal with what you’ve made, reel it off onto storage bobbins or a niddy-noddy or something– and it’s a whole production you’ve got to go through before you can resume what you were doing.

But if you can just squeeze a bit more on, you can– well eventually the bobbin stops turning, and you’ve lost bobbin chicken and have to go through the whole rigamarole and then come back and then there’s just like a pathetic tiny amount left to go onto your bobbin to finish the job.

Anyway the autocaptions called it Bob And Chicken, and so another person in the chat was like WHO IS BOB and we were like RUN FROM THE CHICKEN, BOB and so on. Very entertaining.

[in which i am a creep, bonus weird-ass selfie at the end]

But eventually Bob lost and the fiber had to be wound off, and there was some discussion of whether the streamer should turn the camera to watch the unwinding, and she said maybe the camera would just wind up showing nothing but feet. And I, thinking to be funny, was like yaas feet pics and then I meant to follow up immediately with kidding! or something, but Twitch was like

no, you have commented too many times, you cannot send any more comments. please wait.

so my gross creepy thing about feet just like. hung out there in the chat, and i was dying of mortification because like probably everyone knew I was joking but I did not actually specify that I was joking? oh god. OHH god.

Anyway.

in a moment Twitch let me specify that I had been joking, just in case you were in suspense.

Listen if I’m watching your stream about something else entirely just so I can creepily creep on something I’m illicitly sexually into I would at least fucking subscribe, all right? Jeez.

(Or, as the captions say, Cheese.)

Anyhow. That was a whole thing, and in fact she wouldn’t even have been close on bobbin chicken, the project almost filled a whole second bobbin.

“Well,” she said, “this yarn is pretty poofy, but–” and then she paused to untangle a thing. The captions obligingly supplied THIS ONE IS PRETTY POOPY BUTT. 😂

Well, so that was fun, since there was no hockey. (OH my gosh the NWHL situation is distressing! one of the teams in the bubble had a positive corona test! the team had to go home! they’ve already played teams who’ve played everyone else! this is so tense. I don’t know man. Fuckin’ 2021.)

Anyway.

To round out the entry, I was then talking on Discord with various people about our coronavirus hairstyles. And I explained, as I do, that my coronavirus hairstyle has been the hairstyle I’ve had since junior high which is that I don’t cut it, so I don’t miss hairdressers. I’ve got really thin textureless hair that would look shitty in any kind of short style unless I spent forever daily on it, so instead I just grow it out and braid it up and clip the braid up during the day and take the braid down to sleep and then I only have to brush it every three or four days and maybe wash it once a week, and that’s that? I get that not everybody could live like that but I can so I do. So anyway.

Someone posted a photo of some incredible butt-length hair, and I was like, man, that’s way longer than mine, I’m so jealous (mine, however long it is, is definitely terminal-length, since I’ve been doing only minimal maintenance trims for literally a decade by now), but it was enough to get me off my ass to go take my hair down and brush it, which it was way overdue for, and then take a photo over my shoulder, and– oh.

pardon the filthy mirror and those are light brown pajama pants I’m not bareassed there, but yeah! My hair is kinda long, it turns out! And those ends aren’t bad for me cutting them by like a quarter inch at a time in the sink under my arm using my best judgement and the feyeselftrim method from livejournal back in the Day. Not too shabby at all!

Anyhow the other person who posted their hair was like listen i thought about getting an onlyfans for this after i posted a hair tutorial video and got Some Comments but anyway I only bring that up because if you’re going to be creepy about my hair then tip me LOL.

(Yes, creepiness was apparently the thematic throughline of my evening as I attempt to digest it down for the purposes of writing a post, LOL.) (Your picture was not posted)

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Caitlin Doughty, a mortician in Los Angeles, has some words you should hear. Especially if you live in Southern California. (Your picture was not posted)

relationships, exrayspex

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i have LOVED having them just be– like– established in their relationship? there’s no worry about someone being too sappy or whatever, they don’t have to posture about Manliness or whatever, they each know the other one pretty well and don’t have to pretend anything and there’s just– there’s still so much room for drama, and bullshit, but they can take it as read that they’re on each other’s sides and it makes it all a bit easier to take but also a lot more interesting, I think!

it’d be easy to fall into Lambert Is The Whiny / Asshole One and Aiden Is The Good-Natured Patient Saint Who Loves Him Anyway, too, and i don’t want that either, they’re both dorks and each one has stuff they support the other one in and each one is sometimes the asshole and sometimes the saint and that’s how relationships work.

yeah, aiden has to be pretty determinedly easygoing to be able to easily absorb Lambert’s Everything So Much, but like. he’s not a doormat.

anyway i’m enjoying them a lot plz send help. (Your picture was not posted)