moment's silence when my baby puts the mouth on me

hi i've been wanting to post this for like a month and i'm finally happy with it and finally have the courage to post it so if you don't like it please do not tell me i will cry. this is like the second thing i've ever published for this fandom

jaskier x yennefer, modern setting, they're married. he buys her a necklace and they sort of bang on the kitchen counter. title is moment's silence by hozier. alt title was "felled by you, held by you, fuel the pyre of your enemies" because if that isn't the hottest goddamn thing??

i don't know how many words this is

also i have more yennskier stuff in my notes and i might post another little blurb later because i just think it is So Good

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She doesn’t need to tell him she thinks the necklace is beautiful - he can see it in the way she looks at him from under her lashes and the way she quirks her lips. “Ever the flatterer. Put it on me?”

It’s when Jaskier nimbly takes the clasp and chain from her and lifts his head as she turns around that he thinks - he wants his wife to stay like this forever. Wispy baby hairs curl delicately against the nape of her neck and he does his best to avoid them. He clasps it with only minor difficulty and she lets her hair tumble down in waves, the curls pulled down by the weight of the day. Yennefer turns her face a quarter of the way to look at him over her shoulder. There is a curious but content look in her brown eyes that catches him off guard and snares him all in one. The low lamp light catches the side of her face and illuminates her profile. She waits for him, patiently, and he can see the slope of her nose, the fluttering of an eye, the way she bites the inside of her lip.

july side quests:

- buy a peach from a stand by the side of the road. (isn’t it sweeter than anything? i love you.)

- sit in a cool creek on a hot day. let it run over and around and through you.

- grieve.

- say “it’s not the heat, it’s the humidity that’ll get you.”

- get too damn drunk off of something sticky-sweet made for 17 year-olds to swipe at the barbecue, giggling. cry.

- sit out on the porch and watch the thunderstorms as they roll through every day before dinner. (we needed the rain, didn’t we?)

- grieve. it hangs in the air with the steam rising off of the pavement. breathe it in.

- disregard what your mother told you about electricity to stand tallest in an empty field and watch the heat lightning on the horizon. (i’m sorry. i know i shouldn’t. i love you.)

- stare into the night sky until something stares back. (there’s dipper, that’s the only one i could ever find. say hello)

- teach someone you love how to pull apart honeysuckle, petal-pistil-stamen-nectar-tongue.

- grieve. catch a firefly. let it go. (there are fewer of them than there used to be, when we were kids. i love you.)

End OTW Racism: A Call To Action

A fan protest against the lack of action from the OTW on addressing issues of harassment and racism on AO3 and within the organization

This is a Call To Action for Fans of Color and Allies

AO3 has acknowledged that they have a harassment & racism problem that its parent organization, the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), needs to address. Currently, people can use AO3 to harass others through fanworks, comments, and tags. Just a few examples include: racist Untamed “spitefic” that used anti-Indigenous slurs and was written specifically to lash out at fans of color; a Transformer fic that used its Black-coded character to reenact George Floyd’s murder in July 2020; someone naming a fandom scholar who criticized their Nazi omegaverse fic in the tags of the fic specifically to incite harassment to the scholar; writers using racial slurs against commenters who pointed out racism in their hockey fic; and so much more.

In June 2020, after the murder of George Floyd, the OTW committed to addressing these issues. It has been nearly three years and they have not yet implemented any of the changes they promised, other than a blocking/muting tool that was already in development before 2020. We need to hold the OTW accountable to their own promises. (See the section further down on “Why Are We Doing This” for even more detail.)

As fans, together, we are powerful. We are organizing to protest the lack of action on promises made by the Organization for Transformative works to deal with issues of racism and harassment on their platform, Archive of Our Own.

We call on fans to do any or all of the following actions any time between May 17 to 31, 2023 to send a message to AO3 and OTW that we will hold them to their promises.

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What Do We Want?

Since their June 2020 statement, OTW has been working on updating their Terms of Service (TOS) to address racist and bigoted harassment, but with little transparency and only the vaguest of updates. It has been three years since their commitment to this update - we want to see the results of their work implemented in the next 6-12 months. Their TOS updates and complementary policies should include:

These points are not particularly new and are not our own innovation; please refer to Stitch's article written over two years ago, asking for several of these very things.

OTW has also already committed to various process-based actions for longer-term works towards centering antiracism, including hiring a Diversity Consultant. The last update that OTW published said that the consultant would be hired within the next five years (after already having had three years to work on it since their original commitment). That is not soon enough. We want to see the following process-based actions implemented:

Why Are We Doing This?

16 years ago, Astolat famously published her manifesto calling for a fandom Archive of One’s Own. In that time, AO3 has grown to be a central pillar of fandom, likely far outstripping its founders’ original vision. It is more than just an archive now; it is a central hub of the modern fannish experience. AO3 and the OTW must continue to grow and evolve with fandom over time to remain a healthy and functioning pillar of fandom. To that end, there are several areas in which the organization, as it admits itself, is lacking.

In June 2020, in the wake of the George Floyd protests and the uprising of the Black Lives Matter Movement, The OTW published a “This Week in Fandom” referencing the works of Dr. Rukmini Pande and Stitch, among others in which they discussed ‘making change for a better society’ through ‘conversations about race and racism’. In response, Dr. Pande and Stitch submitted a letter to the OTW calling for a more formal public statement than an offhand reference in a News Roundup that only served to call for thoughts and discussion without any indication the organization intended to do anything, policy wise, to address the issues being raised.

Eventually, the organization did remove the references to the works of Dr. Pande and Stitch and then made an official statement on the issue of racism within the organization and AO3. In it, they identified several things they would be prioritizing to combat harassment and benefit users. Some of those have been implemented (notably those that were already under development). However as of this writing, little else has been done especially in regards to:

By their own admission, the current tools and policies of the OTW are not sufficient to deal with issues of harassment and racism.

Several people who were involved in the founding of the OTW, including previous OTW Board members and staff on the original OTW Content Policy Committee, acknowledge that the founding of the OTW in 2008 and early board iterations failed us as a fandom by not doing enough, and by not even considering the way racism is perpetuated in fannish spaces, despite a long history of racism in fandom.

It has been nearly three years since the original commitment by the organization with little visible, measurable progress on these three crucial issues and a complete lack of transparency on where they are in regards to even beginning to deal with these issues. In fact, in Q&As, it was heavily implied by a member of the board that those calling for OTW to deal with issues of racism (which OTW had already acknowledged as a problem!) were not really fans but outside agitators.

This has cast significant doubt on the organization's sincerity and commitment to their stated goals, and on their position as leaders of a central fan tent-pole. Fans of color are not outsiders. They are right here, members of our community, and they are being harassed and targeted and driven out while space and platforms are being given to racists.

We, as fans of color and our allies, find the current state of fandom and current actions (and lack thereof) unacceptable. Fandom is our space, all of ours. We, as a fandom, have a right to a racism-free space and have a duty to our fellow fans to create that space. Unlike so much of the world, this is a space we can control and make better. It is a space we must make better. To read even more about this movement, visit our FAQs.

Heard some of y’all enjoy my cowboy AU, so how about a little leaning in

so i finished blood and wine

I’m dying to see this pair like a niece and an uncle, having a nice time together in S3

Bear Eskel needed a Wolf Geralt so here we are 🐺 💜🐺

One bed because it is cheaper? Because the only one bed left? Nah. One bed because Geralt and Dandelion want to sleep together. Just look at them. They are married. They are old married couple. They're comfortable with each other. Their friendship is so long that they stop feeling embarrassed around each other. They know how disgusting they can be and accept it and learn how to live with it. They definitely found a comfortable pose to sleep in. I believe it. They deserve to have some cuddles. Especially my little star Dandelion

i just love the idea of yennefer and jaskier meeting up and immediately engaging in the most ruthless harsh devastating exchange of insults and just as geralt and ciri think they're going to have to step in to prevent a murder yen and jask just reach across the table and start making out

petty thief pick pocket! jaskier. jaskier pinching coin bags from rich people he bumps into in the street. geralt turning around and seeing jaskier standing there tipping coins into his hands and he just. sighs. jaskier sneaking geralt's medallion off and when geralt finds out he glares and puts his hand out and jaskier pouts and hands the medallion back only when geralt turns away again he realises jaskier just stole his dagger as well. jaskier's butter wouldn't melt baby blues expression of innocence convincing yennefer that of Course he didn't steal her eyeliner! despite the fact that he is literally wearing it. jaskier looping ciri in on his cons to get extra food and furs out of vesemir and the wolves

Some emotional and soft Geraskier for the ever so lovely and so very dear to me @theartistformerlyknownasg 💖

Adoration, is the emotion I was trying to convey, I hope I succeeded 🥰

A (very) old piece done for Galeaspida’s Winter Solstice fic.

Some cowboy AU Geraskier - Requested last month by a patron 🤠

“Come back, come back, we don’t have time to fuck around”

The older I’m getting, the harder this line is hitting. I have been working on this piece for MONTHS. It was a little masochistic of me to make that many French knots on this big of a hoop, but in the end, the texture of them is perfect for the hedge effect in this piece inspired by Pruning Shears!

[View all my other embroideries inspired by The Amazing Devil here]

okay but book jaskier is so special to me

Him just being this childish, flirty, and self loving pretty man in his fourties who makes inappropriate jokes at the wrong time and always ends up in situations that he needs to be saved from

but him also being so much more than just this basic, seen before, comic relief.

him being an artist, above all else, a really good one, one that can make people passionate and sad and feel all the emotions he feels. wasnt he even a teacher at oxenfurt? like teacher jaskier pls give it all to me

him coming from a rich family, being educated but deciding that his art is all he needs and to live his life in the fullest

him always thinking he's not brave enough, but for the people he loves he goes through danger and discomfort, as long as he possibly could, longer than anyone, including himself would have thought

him also being just a really lovable person? him chosing Geralt, cold seeming, unsocial, sad Geralt as his best friend (in the books thats the kind of realtionship i see them as) and just making Geralt love him, even though he fucks things up on a regular basis, can be annoying as hell and lands them in the strangest ans messiest situation, Geralt loves his bestie so much, he would go through anything for him without making Jaskier feel bad for it

sure he might sometimes be annoyed but would never truly be angry and never ever abandon him do you hear me netflix

he could have all the company in the world, but he chose to stay with the outcast, the brewing, dangerous man who is unwanted and unwelcomed by society, and never regretted it

In conclusion Jaskier is a very special being and means the world to me

All aboard the Centaur bandwagon. Choo Choo