#themardbard

Hey! :> That’s wonderful to hear, thank you!!!!! I think a friend told me about this like last year and then I forgot about most of it, and didn’t get to see any of the art back then.

Hi there lovely! Yes I do! I just haven’t uploaded the few fics I’ve written and posted on tumblr since the New Year, but that’s only a few fics that I’ll be uploading to ao3 this weekend.

I really really enjoyed it even tho it made me so so sad a lot and I mean a lot. And all the side quests are so cute. And I'm head over heels in love with Eivor I love her so much I could listen to her and look at her all day

But it's still pretty glitchy right now and there are a lot of bugs I hear. I even got one at the beginning that meant I couldn't progress with the story so I had to restart the game , but at least I only had 2 hours of gameplay at that point.

astroloquacious replied to your post “Re-Equip The Swords First”

I actually had the gall to tell Kiera I was in love with someone else during that convo tree and she literally laughed in my face and was like "bitch I want your dick not your emotional baggage" but like. Even if Geralt wouldn't have turned her down for some fun, we ALL know he's a disillusioned romantic & a rusted-over idealist and part of him would have thought it before his pragmatic side was like "shut up and take the free human contact."

"Geralt Roger Eric du Haute-Bellegarde" more like "my prized possession as a bby witcher was a collection of badly copied courtly romance poems about knights and a stack of suspiciously sticky bodice-rippers."

oh no

oh no Geralt was horribly tragically Romantic as an awkward teen oh no

I can’t write that, I secondhand embarrass too easy to contemplate it, but. He was. he really was. 

mikkeneko replied to your post “Re-Equip The Swords First”

I do dearly like DF's idea of what is 'in character' for Geralt

He’s got some specific ideas, and they’re mostly pretty great. They don’t all line up with mine, but like. I have like 100k of fanfic or more now (i hesitate to check) to explore mine so that’s fine.

nogling replied to your post “Re-Equip The Swords First”

Game!Geralt alternates between "kinda smooth" and "horrifyingly awkward". Keira was actually on the "kinda smooth" end of the spectrum, sadly.

oh no because that was not smooth. i mean, he was doing okay because clearly that was what she was after, but it was not smooth.

themardbard replied to your post “Re-Equip The Swords First”

Kiera and Geralt's relationship, for me, is this very close, niche "sarcasm bros" thing. Like what they have is very special to me and I love them. But I'm so relieved my actions didn't bring them to sex bc they aren't like that at all for me. ALSO YEAH GERALT IS A DAD AND WATCHING SEX SCENES WITH HIM IS A REALLY WEIRD EXPERIENCE EUGH

I didn’t get a good “bro” reading off them really, but I do feel like they had potential for bro chemistry. That just wasn’t what Kiera wanted, and Geralt, well-- I mean, I think he was too wary of her to want to be friends, particularly, even though he’s clearly lonely as fuck. 

And re: Dad stuff-- I mean! Somebody’s gotta fuck dads! I understand that! Clearly people find that appealing because so many dads are multi-time dads!!  a lot of people are out here fucking dads!! but I just. I like Geralt, I like him a great deal, but he is so dorky, and I think since I knew she was going to try to hurt him I was just like, I cannot enjoy this.

Also I was sprawled on the carpet of my best friends’ house surrounded by children’s toys watching this unfold and it was sort of an awkward setting for erotica? But also it was Not Sexy, in a lot of ways, so. 

beyoursledgehammer replied to your post “Re-Equip The Swords First”

Kiera and Lambert is the cutest thing T_T

I haven’t encountered them in any canon source, not even spoilers or playthroughs, so I can’t really imagine, but. 

I did plotbunny myself pretty hard with how that would go down in my ‘verse. Lambert’s like, wait, you fucked Geralt? and Kiera’s like ah fuck, men, gods, will you fuck off, and he’s like no no no hang on, and gets out his fucking bullet journal, and she’s like

what

and he’s like okay so I need details

and she’s like fucking what

and he’s like listen Yen won’t talk to me at all and Eskel gives some details but he won’t tell me how big Geralt’s dick is, you have to help me out, my data’s incomplete

and she has to do some mental calculus. Like, this is weird as shit, but, it is not the horrible territorial stupid man thing she had expected, and she also doesn’t have a ton of options right now, and honestly this is ripe for trolling, and honestly this could kind of be hot if you go about it right, soooooooooooo

I’m just saying that could be a really entertaining story, but I’m not writing it, because I’m nowhere near this timeline and also I wasn’t planning to actually kill off Aiden or even acknowledge that timeline in any way at all.

(You could even have a shockingly sweet denouement to the whole thing where after some really entertaining rounds of well he made me come four times so try harder she’s like actually, listen Lambert, I’m like way more into you than I was into him so I don’t want to be a buzzkill for you here but actually I’m kind of over it, can we just be you and me for a bit? and Lambert’s entire brain short-circuits probably.)

bittylildragon replied to your post “quen up and face the water hag”

I really enjoy the Pesta quest, but you are so right that the game just DOES NOT give you adequate clues about how to make the right decision.