#Same for that Witcher guy

[thefaestolemyname]

After my Matt Graham phase as a kid I didn't pay attention to celebrities, didn't care who they were, didn't recognize the name of most of them.

But I have come to love Niel Gaiman, not because I've read any of his books, or have watched any of his shows, but because he is funny and kind on Tumblr, and makes his way onto my dash without me trying to find him.

I now have one (1) celebrity I am a fan of

[nex-has-gender-envy]

-RANT TIME -

Come join my on my rant cuz I'm mentally ill and I don't care if somebody will hear me or not

Yknow how we got Cavillrine as a joke in new deadpool. Like I love Hugh w my whole heart but I know he isnt square/bulky enough looking for Logan. So yeah make sense Henry would be better fit.

However I thought... If we switching. Lets try opposite way. What if Hugh as Geralt.

I mean, they are both two pathetic driven 200 year old men who grunt a lot (oh.. ).

And then I thought more and ..

Henry is opposite ,he isn't slim/rat looking enough to play Geralt... But HUGH IS ..

And at this point i just went full blown mental illness and autism be dammed.

I have tools and i had to use them. I've searched Hugh w long hair, and my god, he has that type of shit blocky long hair, the same as geralt in game

So I just had tho (obvsiouly there is no footage of hugh w his haie half down so this is what we got but yknow)

Cannot even over-simplified, how little editing it took for me to make it into Geralt. He has same slim nose, same rugged jawline w stubble. His eyes are green so they really shine through already, and didnt even need to edit deep eyebags and big thin eyebrows

As for Logan! Henry Cavill. Ive always loved Henry looking like lumberjack mountain man and now i know why. I have this specific picture stored permanently at back of my mind. And thats exactly Logan. No edit needed.

So... Yeah.

[magpiedraws]

OCtober Day 14 - Who/What inspired your OCs I don't really ever deliberately base my OCs on existing characters, but I definitely do so subconsciously - at this point rereading a book I loved as a kid, or re-watching a show I was obsessed with years ago, will always inevitably lead to me going 'wait a fucking second. is my OC just (previous blorbo)???' at some point - tbh its extremely funny every time, I wouldn't change a thing

took this as an excuse to draw my two favourite ocs interacting with the characters I think most influenced their personalities - Gabriel and Rincewind (Discworld) are probably bitching about whatever quest the universe has bullied them into against their will, and Viamo, Regis (The Witcher), and Giles (Buffy) are probably all extremely confused as to why none of their vampire knowledge seems to line up, despite the fact they all claim to be experts on the subject.

[kingthunder]

trying to nail the characterization i like for geralt and jaskier is like trying to balance on one of these bitches

[hanzajesthanza]

thinking about all of the wonderful book witcher designs that i’ve seen from fanartists across decades of fandom (i.e., way before i joined the fandom) and how different everyone’s designs are, yet how they all are so similar because we’re all inspired by the same descriptions, we’re all working with the same text. the distinguishing features come from creating based upon our personal interpretations and imaginations, which are unique to us. and yet all images, in all of their differences, are the same character, the same description, the same text

[beaft]

i know it's a result of deliberate costuming/directorial choices and i've probably been guilty of it myself, but i will never not find it funny that everyone in the witcher fandom collectively depicted jaskier as this waifish little cityboy twink when joey batey is a) nearly the same height as henry cavill and b) absolutely fuckin jacked

[petrenocka]

"X is just a guy" is a popular phrase to throw around these parts when talking about blorbos, but I swear, and I am 100% stone faced serious when I say this, not a single character has ever done it quite like Geralt from The Witcher books.

[storywestistrash]

playing the witcher 3 with someone who loves the game asking for a report after every session is a nightmare cuz theyll ask "how could you reject that quest!!!" and the quest starts with going on a date with a woman who clearly wants to sleep with you and gives no indication that you can refuse to sleep with her

[imageingrunge]

Anytime I upgrade my pc I feel like I’m performing surgery on an alien species

Me *opens her up*: oh I’m scaered

Guy from the tutorial I’m watching: me too 🧍

[zkretchy]

Me: alright i’ll just do the lines and continue the colouring tomorrow Also me not doing that:

[luxeberries]

something that's really fun about steddie (and most ships honestly) is that we don't necassarily use their canon relationship as a base for fanfiction/art. like. we take how they interact in canon and then infer how they would act if they got closer to eachother and that's the base for most fanfic/art. idk. i think its interesting how that works. like people always say 'but they interacted like once' and its like. yeah so? the point of shipping isn't to only use canon, its to build off of that. if you know how two(or more) characters act individually you could literally put them together even if they have never interacted in canon because you know how they would interact. i just think its silly when people say 'they spoke three words to each other' because like. that's not the point. use your imagination.

[screeching-painter-witch]

NO ONE TOLD ME THERE'S AN OLD LESBIAN BARMAID THIRSTING FOR YEN IN THE WITCHER S3???

[roughentumble]

thinking about Jaskier with amnesia! lost and confused with his memories gone, stumbling through the mountains until Geralt rescues him

over the months Geralt takes care of him, they start falling in love, share a few kisses

but then someone shows up in the spring, Valdo or some other asshole, claiming to be Jaskier's fiance there to whisk him away back to Lettenhove - when they're really not his fiance and just wanna trick him so they can marry into his wealthy family

!!!!!!!!!!!!! SCREAMMMM

geralt is instantly suspicious, but he also worries that it's just jealousy..... that doesnt stop him from being suspicious, holding jaskier close.

[official-saul-goodman]

The guy from The Amazing Devil is from that Netflix show????

[goleb]

Have you ever thought up a DHMIS fairy tale AU, or something in the realm of fantasy? For the former, I’m not sure there’s many fairy tales focusing on good parental relationships…but there’s plenty of potential for Fluffybird!

Y'know, funny thing is when I started writing up an answer to this ask, the first class I had the next day had a test revision entirely themed around fairy tales. Ain't that a coincidence? My life's full of those. Also that was on Monday, I'm so sorry, I've been way too busy lately ): 

Certainly, I've thought up plenty of things over these Royful years, fantasy-esque ones included. And I'll probably only remember half of them after I already hit post. Some of them, granted, still only concepts and not-yet-developed ideas, but I like to put a lot of care into those things and that's why it takes me years to get them done, you know. But they'll all get their time to shine, eventually, when something clicks. 

Now, fairy tales... yeah, fairy tales aren't exactly a genre of many parents, good ones especially. In my - admittedly perhaps limited - knowledge of the topic, it seems you're significantly more likely to find parental figures who were good but died, or are alive but not good very bad. And, I'm sure you could tell, I'm not about that. Not when we're talking Roy. Roy is a fantastic dad. Roy would not send his kid out into the woods unattended. 

But! Art is all about invention. And if you ever find me unable to make something about Roy, that ain't me. As for romance, I do love a good romance. It's everywhere in the Roylore, if you know where to look. Why, would you like me to provide you with some shipping content? :P Haven't really thought about it before, to be honest, but can do, I suppose, can do. 

But back to my stories! 

There is one particular one I've probably mentioned a few times before, and it's actually one of my most finished ones! Because I've been working on it for like 4.5 years now, good lord! I've got a pretty large piece of the first draft done. Not all of it, but most, definitely. Yeah, definitely. Without spoiling much, it takes place in the faux olden times. It's extremely loosely inspired by Little Red Riding Hood, or more specifically a retelling of it I had to read for a BritLit class once. 

Roy - because it's always about Roy - is what could be best described as a wolf-selkie in that one. So's Yellow. I mean, obviously so's Yellow. They're family. They can freely switch between human and wolf form, so long as they have their skin with them. Not to be confused with werewolves - and they'd be quite offended if you did - because a werewolf is a human that was turned into a wolf via curse, and wolf selkies are all natural. Red Guy's also there. He's a human. Or, well, as much of a human as he can be. I love telling my friends about this story without mentioning the wolf part purely for their reactions when they get to the part where Roy outruns and hunts down an entire horse. 

The aforementioned retelling actually helped me out, with one particular unimportant scene, in picking who the villain of this story was gonna be. Y'see I made this little challenge for myself a while back where I'd make an AU specifically tailored to match one of the teachers as the antagonist. It's still not done yet, you've no idea how difficult some of them are to typecast. Shrignold is the only one so far that's been proving cooperative, I simply adore antagonising the fucker. But this one... this one was good. It was easy. 

And just because I can, here’s a couple more of these contextless lines. 🤭 

And uh. Speaking of Little Red, I have at some point entertained the thought of Little Red... Riding... Guy... as a joke - a joke which practically wrote itself! - and you can consider that idea a precursor to the above. 

On a completely different topic, the Witcher's fantasy, right? Cause you can bet I got into the Witcher purely for the Roy AU potential. Same reason I got into Kingsman (remind me to do something about that, by the way). S'not my fault Roy handling deadly weapons is such a compelling thought. Give my boy a sword. He deserves one. As a treat. 

My point is, really, who's a better fit for a witcher than Roy? They've got so much in common! Though obviously Roy's story is significantly different from Geralt's. Less relationship drama. More juggling getting life-threatening contracts and trying to raise a kid. Max is there as the only actually Polish guy. Also Red Guy? Definitely a bard. Maybe not exactly the best at it but he is one. There’s plenty more I could say about this one, but I’ll save that for another post. This one’s getting a bit long already, haha. 

[ettadunham]

i'm kinda heartbroken about the new redthreadgames title becoming one of those clown gamer ragebait targets, because even if it is genuinely bad, there's now no way to find a normal fucking conversation on it on the internet.

anyway, i'm obviously gonna get it during the christmas sale anyway, it just sucks that there's so much bullshit to wade through because gremlins can't be normal about minorities in video games.