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Yennefer/Geralt is an m/f ship but it is not a het ship.

Yennefer/Jaskier is an m/f ship but it is not a het ship.

Look at them. All of these characters are queer. I will not be taking questions. Stop assuming that every m/f ship is a het ship.

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larry mitchell, the faggots and their friends in between revolutions, illustrations by ned asta, calamus press, 1977

[“The strong women told the faggots that there are two important things to remember about the coming revolutions. The first is that we will get our asses kicked. The second is that we will win.

The faggots knew the first. Faggot ass-kicking is a time honored sport of the men. But the faggots did not know about the second. They had never thought about winning before. They did not even know what winning meant. So they asked the strong women and the strong women said winning was like surviving, only better. As the strong women explained winning, the faggots were surprised and then excited. The faggots knew about surviving for they always had and this was going to be just plain better. That made the ass-kicking different. Getting your ass kicked and then winning elevated the entire enterprise of making revolution.”] (Your picture was not posted)

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I am almost done with Witcher s2 and this is about to become a Fringilla fanblog tbh. (No spoilers in this post.)

I watched maybe the first 6 episodes of season 1 when it first came out and had no idea what was happening. It seemed a bit violent for me. I didn’t watch the end of the season but did read a few fics that crossed my dash (mostly Geraskier) so maybe that contributed to me becoming emotionally attached to the characters? I just have a lot of feelings for all of them right now. When season 2 came out I started with ep 7 of season 1, and went from there, and it all seems to make a lot more sense now. Like I have deep feelings for Ciri, and her relationship with Geralt. I love Jaskier even though I hate his stupid voice and think his songs are not catchy and very forced (unsure whether canon wants me to feel that way or if its just my ear. IDK characters in universe seem to think he has talent, especially HIM, so 10/10 for commitment.) And I am deeply, deeply emotional about Yennefer. I don’t think she really wants a kid so much as she’s just unhappy with everything no matter what and frankly…relatable. I love her self-insertishness. Sometimes it seems like a man is writing her and sometimes it seems like a woman who’s like, “what if I WAS a powerful mage with my tiddies half out???”

But like. Fringilla. I need to see her doing unhinged things and loving it. I need it.

Are a lot of people in the Witcher fandom writing to the netflix canon or is it mostly fans of the books / games?

What are the ship names for f/f ships?

Also I feel like the episode with Vareena (the bruxa?) really helped me trust the show a little more. The first couple episodes of season 1 are very “big strong guy with sword kills monsters” and my first question in that scenario is generally, “why am I not rooting for the monsters?” And I feel like that episode was very morally grey, very “it’s ok to root for the monsters, actually, because they can feel love and pain and everybody’s gotta eat and we’re all just doing our best.” Ciri is an eldritch horror, Geralt is an eldritch horror, we’re all eldritch horrors here. It’s fine.

oh ho ho my leetle friend. rubs hands together welcome, welcome. Indeed, in all the canons part of the point of the Witcher is that the Good Guys aren’t unambiguously good or always right, the Bad Guys are often the heroes of their own stories actually, your heroes wil let you down, and your villains may save you, and the most important thing is that war is never noble or worthy it’s always a fucking waste. The books were written by a man born in a WWII-ravaged country who ravenously devoured a lot of English-language fantasy novels and was slightly cynical about them even as he clearly loved them. The other canons are… somewhat less clear about this, but often I do think the sarcasm and self-awareness shines through, charmingly.

yes, there are a fair number of show fans writing fic. I started out that way, and then the hiatus was so long and the pandemic so intensely isolating that I branched out into games and finally books, so my shit is Not What You Want. (A lot of us did that, which I know does make it a lot less accessible. This also explains why certain pairings that seem totally bizarre given Netflix canon are so overrepresented in AO3– you can bet those are characters who interact in the games, or are more important in the games than in Netflix, like Triss Merigold and Philippa Eilheart. LOTS of great dark Philippa/Triss stuff; Phil is a fantastic character in the books and the games [also, canonically lesbian!] and we’ve only just met her in S2 Netflix.) But.

I know there is a great amount of interest in Francesca/Fringilla, but so far few fics have emerged. Some Yengilla fics date back from S1, and I expect a great deal more to follow after the lovely content S2 has given us to work with for that ship. The main f/f shipnames are Yennefer/Fringilla as Yengilla, Yennefer/Tissaia as Yenaia, Yennefer/Triss Merigold as Trissefer, and Fringilla/Francesca seems tentatively so far most likely to get tagged FrinFran but again, not a lot of fic written yet, but I know of several in progress.

Unfortunately, of course, Tumblr has just broken all its tags again so there’s no way to search for anything. I’ll reblog this and see if anyone following me has any direct recs.

I asked one of my Discord servers for recs as well, and was told that limerental​’s in dark and twisted braids https://archiveofourown.org/works/32116468 is an absolutely superlative Yengilla fic dating from S1. I haven’t read it yet but I have it open in a tab now!

In general I do think the Witcher is a good place to come to meet your morally grey needs, but that aspect of it isn’t my particular specialty so I humbly ask anyone reading this for recs! (Your picture was not posted)