#angouleme

[vintagehomecollection]

In an Irish House, 1988

[meanpersonaart]

That's excactly how the words were exchanged in that chapter in the Lady of the Lake. Yeah, the charcter on the left is Fringilla, on the right Hansa sans Geralt with Jaskier/Dandelion.

Original template - here

[olwolo]

haven’t drawn them in Forever.

[itsnotzka]

Angoulême 🔥

I naively thought that I could start listening to the Witcher audiobooks again without any consequences. Oh, how wrong I was. I don't think I'm even sorry...

[chocochipclaire]

the hansa never missing a breakfast together in toussaint 🧀🥐🍳

[retrogeographie]

Angoulême, le quartier de la gare.

[essskel]

Angoulême as Geralt’s false Ciri is a concept that always obliterates me. She’s introduced as Ciri, deconstructed as a hopefully avoidable future state of the real Ciri’s, and then blends back into Ciri when harmed in front of Geralt. She can only be Ciri when she’s bleeding, which luckily she does a lot. Angoulême is the photo of Ciri on the dashboard of the Hanza’s van that they all stare at as a reminder of what they’re truly after. Angoulême reminds Geralt of what it’s like to be a father, but makes him ever farther from it because she is still False and the absence in him has a shape now. To parent her would be wrong because that’s not his daughter that’s just a girl. He parents her anyway. Angoulême is the doll given to a grieving mother who needs something baby-shaped to hold. And it is comforting. You start to love the doll as a doll too. The doll has her own clothes now, she answers when you speak to her.

On the other hand: Ciri is both a princess and a street rat, but she’s most importantly neither of those things. Those two false but very real roles that she runs from and into are so overwhelming to her narrative that they exist as people in the story: The False Cirilla in Emhyr’s court, and Angoulême in Geralt’s Hanza. False Cirilla and Angoulême, but especially Angoulême are characters of their own who I hate that I sound like I’m downplaying or tossing aside as nothing but imagery to further Ciri’s story, but also you can’t talk about either of them without talking about how they overlap and grow off of Ciri like a cell in mitosis.

Angoulême is here because Geralt loves Ciri, False Cirilla is here because Emhyr has a daughter-shaped cage that collapses unless it’s filled. The two fathers confront the reality of their daughter while staring at a girl who they have no relation to, but it’s alright, they realize what they need to realize anyway. There was no medicine in that pill, it was just sugar, you got over the pain on your own, good job.

And then we reach the bloody ending and it hits us that Angoulême is so much more that Ciri, and that we love Angoulême too. That we and Geralt and the story were cruel to try and twist her into this shape, she’s such a great kid, she deserves her own story she’s going to be such a woman. Fuck this post Angoulême isn’t Ciri Angoulême is Angoulême and these comparisons are getting so old and played out. Then she dies in Ciri’s arms.

[pimsri]

Finsihed The Witcher SS3 so here's the hansa doodle <3

[svrt-degraded]

Witcher pack

[hanzajesthanza]

‘An elegant little castle,’ Cahir said in admiration. ‘Well I’ll be, an elegant and pleasing little castle, indeed.’ ‘The duchess lives well,’ said the vampire. ‘You have to admit it.’ ‘Fucking nice gaff,’ added Angoulême.

i thought the girl in beauclair's gwent card bore a striking resemblance :) i gave it a little edit, for geralt & co. arrived to beauclair as “autumn was passing and winter was coming...”

so here's angoulême admiring the 'fucking nice gaff,' sometime in mid-october, as the snow begins to fall

(Beauclair by Maciej Łaszkiewicz)

[galateaencore]

By popular demand from my 4 mutuals...

Methodology: I tried to pick characters that are lesser-known but still liked by those who remember them. If you needed to google some of these, that means I got it right 🦗🦟🦗🦟🦗🦟

[vintagehomecollection]

The Coles wallpaper in the main bedroom was especially designed and printed to echo the delicate pattern on pieces of Angouleme china displayed on the mantelpiece. These pieces were made to commemorate the birth of the Duc d'Angouleme at Versailles; he was later to marry Marie Antoinette's daughter.

In an Irish House, 1988

[bunsakashitafrancepaintings]

Mlle Spirou Festival de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême Angoulême, France Gouache A5x2 Hahnemühle portrait sketchbook Jan 30 2020

[witcherscreenshotsdump]

ANYWAY i've discovered hero Forge lmao

[nicholask-la]

From January, 2024

[chocochipclaire]

last words