The Queen In Yellow

He kills the monster and then demands payment.

The guy refuses. He doesn't have that much. An argument breaks out.

Suddenly the man says something along the lines "You witchers take children huh? Take the child then! The bastard might not even be mine!"

He didn't know it was Lambert, who became a witcher againts his will, who was thrown into the world of blood and monsters, who seen his father act in similar ways.

He leads him outside, wanting to negotiate something else.

Time passes and the scared mother walks out, son closely behind her.

There is no sight of the witcher or the man.

Rich local magistrate steals from the impoverished people who hired Lambert to kill drowners and could only pay him in bread? Shame about his house burning down.

Lamb goes to brothels for free because he beats up any client who is rough with the staff.

The people who live where Lambert patrols think of him as their very grouchy avenging angel.

Jaskier and Geralt travel through Lamb’s territory one year. The people are a bit more suspicious of Geralt than seems warranted. Jask makes some inquiries, and a bartender quietly asks him, “Is your Witcher like ours? Ours kills the monsters, but he kills the bad guys too.”

Geralt is EXTREMELY annoyed by how many songs Jaskier writes about his irritating little brother that year.

“You’re my bard, damnit!”

Jaskier’s eyes widen. “I am?”

Geralt is EVEN MORE ANNOYED when the song that comes out of that declaration is still about Lambert.

“What the hell, Jaskier?!” He glares at Jaskier’s lute as if it wrote the damn song.

“Geralt, Lambert is such a glorious hero that not only does he help humans be better people, he even helps the great White Wolf be a better man!”

"and the importance of self-cultivation in a marriage to understand what makes you light up inside-" girl just get yourself off and be normal about it

"and the key is that it's not secret. I'll tell my husband and get his blessing for some 'pleasure practice'-" babe you're not doing holy christian woman sex you're doing orgasm control/denial kink with glitter packaging

my god

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

This torches everything. And I do mean everything.

A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):

ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives

allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason

preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies

requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.

What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.

Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:

"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"

This year’s is different. They are now federal REQUIREMENTS, which means there’s no flexibility. As was said previously, the 400 pages are not singularly devoted to being absolute shitheads to trans people. Theres a lot of stuff in there, some of which is the standard dry boring grants stuff, some of which is the horrible ideological warfare outlined above.

This document is issued by the OMB, the Office of Management and Budget, which is currently lead by fucking Russell Vought, the principal architect of Project 2025. This is how they’re going to implement all the horrible shit in there that wasn’t covered by Executive Order. Russell Vought is actively coming for my job, my marriage, and my kid, and most of my friends lost their jobs last year because of him. He is the fucking arch villain behind the heinous shit the current regime is doing.