yes a chapter update

sitting, fit for pearls, morvran voorhis, empress ciri

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i haven’t discussed on here that i’ve been at my office job this week but i have been doing manual labor there, which just seems unfair. i’ve taken an off-white hallway and painted it white, which sounds really deadly dull and in fact is, and unrewarding, and it needs a third fucking coat of paint which is just incredible to me but. anyway. i’m emotionally and spiritually and physically done with painting, but alas, i am not actually done with painting. boo.

despite that i have managed to… well i wrote other things this week, entirely, but this chapter as it happens was actually already done and just waiting for extremely minor revisions so i can actually post it.

It’s Fit For Pearls’s turn, and we’re on chapter ten https://archiveofourown.org/works/31289303/chapters/82481344, and finally we get the scene with Morvran and Luliana that I came up with ages ago and have probably excerpted on here a zillion times because I’m so fond of it.

Bonus: also Geralt realizes that Yen is going to want an accounting from him of what he got up to while amnesiac after all.

A minor conundrum– I have some scenes written where Yennefer is in Vergen and I don’t know where to fit them in, they don’t fit here. Hmph! I have to think that over. It’s extra-confusing because the Vergen stuff is several weeks earlier and I haven’t reconciled the timelines.

Listen I’m having a hard summer, just like every summer I have, LOL. And the next couple of weeks will be, as usual, insane, but like, more so. And all the shit I’ve been writing lately hasn’t… been working out, so I don’t have next chapters lying in wait for any of my WIPS. So we’ll see, but barring a miracle I’ll be way off my schedule for at least the rest of the month. deep weary sigh I know I’ve been bad at answering comments too but please believe I read them voraciously, and if you’ve ever been on the fence about talking to me about things I write please feel free to come tell me things because I am having a hard time.

Anyway, this chapter we get a Geralt-and-Yennefer reunion-by-megascope.

By the time her eyes came back up to his face she had composed herself somewhat, and regarded him with a familiar sparkling archness that went right through to the middle of him. “Well, well,” she said, mouth curling in sly delight. “I am certainly going to make you a token to carry so that I know where you are in future, Geralt. I was very annoyed not to be able to ascertain your whereabouts, these last two months.”

“Sorry,” he said. “I didn’t think it would be alarming, after everything we just made it through all right.”

“Mm,” she said. “Secondly. I am finding out a lot of fantastic things from these friends of yours. I expect we’ll have to have a… detailed conversation about that.”

Ciri laughed and squeezed his arm. “Ciri,” he said, not taking his eyes off Yennefer, “I might need you to give me a moment alone with Yen here.”

“No, no,” Yennefer said, “It’s going to have to wait, dearest. I have too many things to tell you, and I can’t do them at a distance like this.” She looked at Ciri, and laughed. “Don’t look like that, child.”

Ciri had her face scrunched up with distaste. “I’ll have to arrange a reunion for you two at some point,” she said, “just so I don’t have to watch this.” (Your picture was not posted)

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how is it thursday? for that matter how is it almost fucking august?????? i am

well i don’t have much concept of linear time is what it comes down to, and i knew that already, so

i want, very badly, to do a friday update, of something, and i have a chapter of the roche/iorveth thing almost done, and i have a chapter of the sparrow thing almost done, and i have instead spent all of today’s free time on a completely different future bit of the sparrow thing, so like

sigh

we’ll see how i fare tonight.

here is a snippet from what i think will be chapter 10 of the sparrow thing, which is not up next (i’m like 99% sure the next chapter is 9 but you know numbers aren’t real so i’m doing my best) but i’m posting it anyway.

“Why are you in bed? It’s so early.”

“Sometimes a lady likes to get a bit of extra downtime,” Luliana said primly.

Voorhis frowned. “Are you unwell?” he asked. He really didn’t look like a man who’d just climbed in a window, though he wasn’t dressed up either. He wasn’t wearing a doublet, just an unornamented tunic with no shoulder padding, though of course it was a perfect expensive true-black.

“No,” Luliana said, aware that she looked tousled and sweaty and just now noticing that she’d put her shift back on backwards. Well, if assassins had burst in for her, she’d have just had to die naked. If they’d been quick maybe she could’ve died thinking about Cirilla’s tits. Not a bad way to go.

“Are you quite sure,” he said, giving her a once-over. She pulled the blankets up to her chin.

“Yes,” she said. Why was she hiding? She thought of what she’d surmised, of why Voorhis might find her unthreatening.

“You look flushed,” he said. “If there’s some sort of contagion–”

“For pity’s sake, Voorhis!” Luliana snapped, “I was having a wank, do you need to know everything? Should I tell you what I was thinking of, or do you already know that too?”

Voorhis’s expression went completely blank, and then he blushed, quite deep red, which was extremely gratifying. “Oh,” he said.

“I was thinking of Cirilla’s breasts,” she said, with relish, knowing it would mortify him, and it did. “Do you ever think of them?”

“I,” he said, bright red and wide-eyed, “no.”

I have finally published this chapter, by the way. Chapter 10 of the sparrow story is up. :D https://archiveofourown.org/works/31289303/chapters/82481344 yes this is a redundant notice but I am delighted by this scene so i felt i should nudge it back up the list, LOL. (Your picture was not posted)

a grump

i'm posting this here because i don't know where else to vent.
it's not exactly tumblr drama.
it's. me-drama. IDK.
( just, whining )

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If Gaeilgoirí reacted to English names the way English speakers react to Irish names:

Ciara Ní É, reposted on TikTok by TG4

I see people in the notes looking for a translation so here:

What is the story with English names? They make no sense. How can a person have that name? Pah-tricky-a? And that’s supposed to be Patri-sha? And what about that one? Hummus I think?? But Thom-as is how you say it?? And this is the most difficult one Ah-leh? I don’t know what that letter at the end even is. English names are so weird (Your picture was not posted)