Inexplicable

Love Flung to Catch a Star! Re-reading I saw it mentioned how Kendon of the Crane's hair was ragged short all on one side. What is the explosion that burned his hair off, or what happened there? On the Path or with other Cranes? Is there a rule about how experimental a Crane can be in the middle of a monster hunt? It risks the other Witcher lives too and not the best time to be testing something too new.

I'm relistening to the podfic of holding water like a cup and I've just had a thought that is now my favourite new little headcanon. After a good 10 years, when Nosey should be starting to get a little gray and slow he... doesn't. He seems to have gotten the witcher immortality mutagens somehow. Everyone is very confused and a little concerned until Aubrey confesses that he has been kissing the cats little kitty head at least once a day for the last decade and Nosey cleaning his fur must have been enough for just enough of the mutagens to work to make for a very long lived kitty.

I love your AWAU, it’s such a great and fun world and all the details in it make it feel really real and fleshed out. You’ve mentioned a few times that there’s no tapestries or wall decorations in Kaer Morhen, but I can’t help but picture at some point a Witcher making one. Maybe they’re bored and trying a new hobby, or it’s a bet, or they want to impress one of the pretty seamstresses. Mainly I love the idea of Kaer Morhen having no decorations except one random side hallway where there’s exactly one (1) tapestry of like middle school art project skill level showing a bunch of geese.

the first guest to accidentally stumble across it definitely thinks it has to be cursed

I had the idea of MBTT Milena running a never-ending kitten fosterage out of her, Lambert's, and Aiden's rooms, and now I keep giggling at the idea of how often they show up somewhere just COVERED in every color of fur.

Also, if Milena ever releases a litter of kittens in the great hall, it will be CHAOS. Worthy of a goose trick, even.

Thinking about the AWAU and how the witchers’ new human lovers are all around 20. But, given the Sexually Transmitted Immortality, they could have a nice long relationship with someone older just as easily.

When they’re on the Summer Progress they will meet many people, and now I’m imagining a younger (40-60yo) witcher meeting a widowed noble woman who is older than he is and becoming smitten with her.

Morvran: I hope you’ll someday become my right hand, like Eskel is to the Warlord

Cahir: I could do that

Me, who has shipped these guys since the first chapter: LET’S FUCKING GOOOOOOOO

Loyal Knight/Benevolent Lord is such a good flavor 😚🤌✨❤️‍🔥 and you do it so well

Rereading MBTT for the nth time and caught something I hadn’t noticed before (because this detail was slipped in the the middle of a sex scene): Aiden dropping peas on the Bears from the rafters?????

(How long DID it take for them to notice someone was deliberately dropping something on them?)

Thank you for recommending The Hands of the Emperor. I'm only a little ways in and I have the conflicting desires to devour it as quickly as possible, and to take my time and savor it. It is indeed a very good book!

Hey, I just wanted to say thank you for the character of Zofia. I'm an older sibling. I was parentified, though not to the same extent. I would do terrible, terrible things for my younger sibling, and if they died, I would probably find my way into an early grave. Zofia is perhaps the first character I have ever seen who would understand that completely. Her love and care and soul-shattering devotion shine through in every single thought and word and action. Her grief makes me cry, and her joy makes me cry harder, and every time I read something with her in it, I feel *seen.* The AWAU is a gift, but Zofia is a treasure. She means more to me than I will ever be able to say. Thank you so, so much.

When you wrote in Traptych about Bluebell "purring thunderously against his head like the world’s weirdest hat", it reminded me of my late cat.

We lost her at the end of last year, so the memory is still bittersweet, but for a moment I could feel her warmth against my head when I read this.

Thank you.

Helo, please let me just say that your Invictus series is so so so special to me. I love and re-read it so often that I know it practically by heart and it's the standard I measure all modern!AU fics by now. It's genuinely so amazing and I'm planning on printing it and putting it in my "special forever" fic folder.

Thank you for your work!!! <3

I've been thinking about Geralt's declaration of "No more experiments" when he chopped of slugobor's head, and it's got me thinking. How will mages and other scientifically incluned folks react? Like okay, I've always been fascinated by medical history, but a large part of it *is* experimentation. Like vaccines, for example. Obviously what mages have done is monstrous, but experimentation *is* an important aspect of the scientific method. Maybe Yen and the other wolf mages end forming a sort of ethics review board for the stuff involving sentients or something. I also like the idea of a mage (perhaps a teacher from Aretuza?) approaching the Wolf to ask for guidelines *because* experimentation is such an integral part of science, magic, alchemy, etc.

Like I said, I've been thinking about it, so I thought I'd make an offering to the plot bunnies

I made bread today! And as I reached for my third slice (within 15 minutes of removal from the oven, naturally), I heard the voice of Inex whisper “…you should put some honey on that”. And I thought it an excellent idea - truly, it is the essence of love!

First time I read accidental warlord I was playing nursemaid to my previous roommate, who'd just gotten top surgery, so I had long hours to while away between attending him. Now I'm doing a full reread right after I've had a major surgery. I guess this is just my "recovering from surgeries" series now? XD That said I do pretty frequent rereads of the Jan chapters and Especially the Marika x Griffin fic, which is my absolute favorite. It must be said, you make a damn good oc

Following the ask earlier about the elves and Ciri being from Cintra -- is there a "no hassling nonhumans" clause in the current treaty between the Wolflands and Cintra? How did Calanthe take it, if so?