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Prompts: Reading Aloud, Write a fic based on a local legend, Grim giants
Fandom: The Witcher (TV, novels)
Pairings: Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia & The Hansa | Geralt's Company Members, Maria Barring | Milva & Cahir Mawr Dyffryn aep Ceallach
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Words: 2520
"Cahir, you can read, can't you?" Milva suddenly asks out of the blue while they are sitting by the campfire together. It is a nice evening, not raining for once, and two fat rabbits on spits are roasting over the fire. With a grumpy expression, Geralt is perched on a tree stub across the fire sharpening his sword, as far away from Cahir as possible, nothing new here. Regis is off somewhere in the woods to collect herbs and mushrooms, and Jaskier is busy close by scribbling something into this inevitable scroll of his that he is so secretive about.
"Yes. Why?"
"Because I can't. But I have this book."
"It'll soon be dark, Milva."
"It's a thin book. Will you read it for me? There's still plenty of time before those bunnies are done. Please?"
"It's not a romance, I hope?"
"How would I know? I can't read!"
"Alright, then. We'll see what it is, I suspect."
"Just one moment," Mila says, almost jumping to her feet with excitement. She fishes a little bundle from deep inside her saddlebag. She unwrapps it. A thin, leather bound book emerges, no, more a booklet than a book. Tenderly, she strokes across its binding with the fingers of one hand before she passes it to Cahir.
"It's a children's book," he says, surprised.
"What if it is? My father bought it for me because of the picture. It's the only thing I have to remember him by."
"Didn't you say your father died when you were a kid? You've had the book for years and nobody has ever read it out for you?"
"There was never the time, or the right person. I want it to be special." Cahir raises his eyebrow questioningly. However, Milva does not elaborate.
He opens the booklet. On the first page there is a beautifully crafted, somewhat scary looking illustration. In the centre a horrible giant hurling rocks at frightened people. A devilish face crowned by a pair of pointed horns is peeking out from behind a gnarly oak tree on the left, wiggling its forked tongue at the desperate humans. Not a picture you would expect to see in a tale of love, and neither in a fluffy children's bedtime story. Looks like an exciting legend or heroic adventure. The script is big and easy to read even in the falling twilight of the evening.
"Once upon a time there was an evil giant by the name of Mils," Cahir begins.
Continue reading on Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/47385469
This is the Mountain called Milseburg after the Giant Mils, it’s about 25 km from where I live. How the mountain came into being is one of the most famous local legends here.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milseburg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milseburg
#cake shop rarepair bingo#witchermonstermayhem2023#the hansa#geralt of rivia#milva barring#emiel regis#cahir mawr dyffryn aep ceallach#jaskier#eamon farren#joey batey#meng'er zhang#henry cavill#grim giants#local legend#milseburg#the witcher fanfiction#geralt's company#Geralt's Hansa#the witcher netflix#the witcher books#reading aloud
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I left the animals behind this weekend (except Belphie, bc he needs meds every 12 hours), and I'm going through withdrawal
#pangur and grim get really stressed out every time we go to my parent's place#because they dont like the car ride and they dont like the giant dog at the destination#so I'm trying to minimize stress by leaving them home under someone else's care
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cant wait for book 7 igni interaction lmao and also everyone getting outfits/cosplay
#twisted wonderland#twst#ツイステ#ツイステッ���ワンダーランド#mmarts#twst oc#twst yuu#twst grim#sebek zigvolt#twst silver#ortho shroud#idia shroud#ive been thinking abt this thing for so long wwww#the dream team TM#yeah i drew idia as some kind of evangleon robot pilot i still believe we gonna fight mal with a giant robot KEK#yeah this is a hercules reference
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recently i love the pompompurin & pikachu meme
#twisted wonderland#twst#twst grim#dire crowley#mozus trein#twst yuu#twst mc#fanart#if you check the quote tweets there are so many redraw of them#the five yen coin that has hole in the middle of it turns into giant edible coin of baumkuchen
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"Sir... we have a situation."
Based on The Grim Dark Archives by @lets-try-some-writing !!
I know that Rafael and the other kids aren't present (yet?) in this series, but there's something about a horrifying alien robot being "friends" with a human that just made me go nuts creatively. :3
#I think Raf would see this as something like “The Iron Giant”#He's more like leverage so the human government can't attack the Autobots. I can see Agent Fowler sweating bullets.#the grim dark archives#grimdark#transformers prime#tfp#tfp bumblebee#tfp bee#tfp rafael#tfp raf#maccadam#dorky's art#(On a side note WOW Bee was hard to paint he actually took me hours between multiple days 💀)
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I love how you draw Grim the size of a small cat. It genuinely blows my mind that according to the game he's actually approximately 70 cm tall... Like, Ortho is 148 cm. That's only two Grims! If Grim stands on Ortho's head, they'd be just a bit taller than Malleus (who is 202 cm and I'm not sure that's counting the horns)! The proportions are just so wild to try to imagine realistically... (and I do like the small cat Grim take more, it's very endearing)
every time I remember Grim is actually supposed to be the size of, like, a medium-to-largeish dog, and then I just...draw him cat-sized anyway. I also think it's cuter that way! 🤷 (let's just say he's not allowed to ride the servant unless he takes the shrinking potion first.)
ultimately I figure we all get a little artistic license in our fanart, and mine are:
cat-sized Grim
Lilia with hair spikes up to the heavens
w i d e Silver
#twisted wonderland#as far as i can tell this is not a furret situation and that 70cm does not include his tail#grim's just a big boy#a big boy who needs big helpings of tuna to sustain his giant head#(waiting for him to pull a persona and crack open to reveal a handsome anime man underneath)#i do like wide/buff silver too even though i know that isn't really canon#(i'll argue for buff sebek but silver i think is supposed to be more wiry/people are constantly surprised by how strong he is anyway)#i just...like the contrast of Two Big Guards for lilia the excitable twig and malleus the long wet drip of a man#and as long as jack remains the widest in the land i figure it all evens out somehow#(if i remember right malleus' height does include the horns) (and i think jack's includes his ears and hair which is even funnier somehow)#(i have seen some attempts to figure it out but i don't think there's ever been an official answer on height without their sticky-up bits)#(looking at the height chart mal looks about the same height as the twins and jack very slightly shorter. but that's just eyeballing it)#(don't ask how the 1cm difference between jade and floyd factors in i don't know)
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Miss Spider doodles and humanized spiderwoman cosplay fun. One of the most underrated tsundres in animation ever. OG hipsters (beatniks) are where it's at.
The fact that Susan Sarandon is supportive of Palestine while also willing to take back a comment that could be antisemitic is really cool of her.
As for the cosplays, I mostly just felt indulgent and also I should look up Miss Spider's Sunnypatch kids sometime. I like how that show had a main character for young children who was also a mother and a larger woman.
#my art#franki lew#james and the giant peach#artists on tumblr#humanization#miss spider#muffet undertale#the grim adventures of billy and mandy#cliffside#spider gwen#a bugs life#coraline#susan sarandon#freepalastine🇵🇸#free gaza#free palestine#galvantula#pokemon#cuphead dlc#moonshine mob
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New headcanon where Zedaph owns and (vaguely) knows how to use a scythe he manifested during his time as Zedeath. He’s only ever had to use it twice. Tango can attest to being there once and he describes it as having been a ‘terrifying’ experience, but nobody knows when the other time was and Zed won’t tell. Sure, it’s not the most effective weapon, but it looks pretty cool and Zed has never been one to let inefficiency get in his way. He’s recently begun bringing it with him for protection during the war, though he’s not very happy about it; he’d been using it as a (very adequate) coat hanger and now his base is getting kind of messy with all his coats lying around…
#just obsessed with the imagery of fluffy sheep guy and his giant evil grim reaper scythe#hermitcraft#zedaph#just the whole concept of zedeath is so funny to me#astro speaks#sillyposting
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JACK THE GIANT KILLER
originally this was a kind of personal visual vibe test: I'm still turning some thoughts around about jack in my head (altho I have finished assembling the skeleton of a story and I'm looking forward to seeing what happens when I start to press at it) but I really liked how it turned out so I'm posting it as it's own illustration :)
the first post about this idea is over here, but I've fine tuned it down a bit so that the story begins with jack finding the body of a giant while he's out in the woods one day, and the story spirals out of hand before he can stop it.
it's been interesting to read up on jack tales from a literary analysis point of view while I figure this story out!! and through the power of more coffee, I think. I'm close to pinning down an underlying theme I'd really like to bite into. I just need to condense it down to a couple of sentences instead of several paragraphs.
and to close this post out, here's another excerpt from the j.g. ballard's the drowned giant that haunts me!
#i had a whole thing about why i dont link to my ko-fi on art posts but a friend said i should at least do it on original art#also cara seems to be promising as an art porfolio site? if you're looking to jump off of dA because it sucks ass. cara looks good so far!#OKAY moving on from that. in my head there is also a weird fucked up story about the drowned giant I would love#to turn into a short comic. maybe early next year? I think I need to go to a beach and do some studies because in my mind#it has a very specific visual and tone. hmmmmmm.#I had a very vivid dream abt it and I want to attempt to capture it down onto paper#and moving on from THAT. to the man himself. jack. ohhhhhh can you imagine if someone would’ve done a fucked up grim dark#Jack novel in 2013 or something. I would’ve eaten that like a cake. this isn’t an intentionally grim dark retelling although it is. grim.#original tag#generic medieval tag
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so i didnt watch the game awards (bc i dont care really, also it was at 1am for me)
but i went back to see the bit where they talked about totk bc it did win an award (sadly bc i frankly dont thik it deserved that) and heard how totk was about "the player making their own story" which is.... ???
like it very much HAS, undenialbly, a story, its pretty clear about that, and its a bland and boring and also illogical one at that, you as the player influence what? how many sages or tears you get and that doesnt change fuck all?? building a hoverbike is making a story ??? huh?? do mean reenacting king kong with toys and glue?? i guess i CAN do that now but i dont play ZELDA for that????
it honestly, looking at the game as a whole too, sounds like "make one up yourself" bc they didnt care enough to write a good one themselves, much less give you any ground to work with bc they treated botws lore like it never happened
but its also so very much contradictory "making your own story" with WHAT, WITH WHAT?? there are no choices that matter and again, there IS a boring ass story, i literally cannot make it my own bc theres no option to do that bc it very much is dictated what happens?? you destroy the good groundwork from botw and old titles that you COULD work with and now tell me "we didnt bother writing a good story bc you should make your own" what the hell am i playing the game for then?? why make it a zelda?? why should i bother playing through a game for its story that you didnt bother to write?????? and you also DID?? but a bad one bc you didnt actually care??? why make one at all??? i could have worked better with an actual sandbox game
"lol i wanted to fuck around with game physics, if you want a story make it up yourself despite there being absolutely one as much in your face as it can be and everythign the previous title was discarded so nothing actually matters, do what you want lol nothing matters" really huh, this is were we are at now
why the fuck did you not make it an actual sandbox spin off then, at least we wouldnt have to deal with this missmatched cocktail of stuff you didnt bother to care about
just please, make your dream sandbox game, just make it, you know you want to, just do it, but dont pretend its a canon story focused zelda title, a sequel to one of the most -full of potential to be elaborated on- zelda games no less
#ganondoodles talks#zelda#totk#ganondoodles rants#am i overhating it? maybe#i dont care#this is the one zelda game i actively hate#and i think its paitnign a grim picture of the future#i saw a video of someone actually comparing botw and totk in detail#and while the video had an eyesore of a filter over it#it was pretty interesting#bc wouldnt you know#where several of the sheikah towers where is no evidence there ever was any#like ones that broke mountains in huge chunks#all sanded off like it was never there#a cave right where a tower was where its impossible to have gone through#and couldnt possibly be changed so much in such little time either#the giant pillars around the castle?#not even a hole#just dirt#also how there are -new- old ruins on top of the akkala fortress#huh???#it really does feel like nothing ever mattered#and we are dumbos that got tricked into caring#i will never buy a zelda on release again lol#id rather see whats up and then decide#waste of money
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A new AU??? Crossing over JSAB??? With Sky: Children of The Light??????? More likely than you'd think-
I have (indirectly) already shared Illumine (and this AU's Heroes) and for those wondering she's the Isle Sage :p now that I have (most of) the main cast sorted I have no more excuses to keep procrastinating designing the BPB Blight- Individuals with masks under the read more!
Lurid (They/He/She) - Golden Wasteland Sage - La Danse Macabre
Oppo (He/Him) - Daylight Prairie Sage - Friend Cube
Araneae (She/Her) - Hidden Forest Sage - Spider Dance
Floret (She/They) - Valley of Triumph Sage Jester - Lycanthropy
Krait (He/They) - Valley of Triumph Sage Knave - Barracuda
Penumbra (We/They/Them) - Vault of Knowledge Sage - Sun/Moon
#jsab#just shapes and beats#jsab macabre#jsab cube#jsab spider#jsab spider dance#jsab lycanthropy#jsab barracuda#jsab sun#jsab moon#Addiction AU#Grim Warrior | Lurid#Friendly Giant | Oppo#Rainweaving Spider | Araneae#Flowery Jester | Floret#Serpentine Knave | Krait#Synchronous Eclipse | Penumbra#sky children of the light#sky cotl#that sky game#scotl
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Picture from The Official Witcher Wiki
Published: 2021-10-02, Completed: 2021-10-08
Prompt: Grim Giants
Chapters: 3/3, Words: chapter 3: 2916, story: 8729 Fandom: Wiedźmin | The Witcher Series - Andrzej Sapkowski, The Witcher (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences, Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Cahir Mawr Dyffryn aep Ceallach, Maria Barring | Milva, Emiel Regis Rohellec Terzieff-Godefroy, Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia, The Hansa | Geralt's Company (The Witcher) - Character, Angoulême (The Witcher), Roach (The Witcher) Additional Tags: Friendship, on the way to Stygga, Sansmerci Pass, Mortblanc Pass, snowstorm, avalanche, Panic Attack, Implied/Referenced Torture, Claustrophobia, Regis saves the day, frozen Geralt, mostly book canon, written pre-season 2, Cahir Whump, caretaker Regis
Summary: After Cahir has started to tell the company some of his story, there are undesirable repercussions which do not make the already sufficiently difficult crossing of the Sansmerci any easier. Neither does the weather. Nor Roach. And then there is still the Mortblanc, the White Death, lying in wait for the friends ...
Excerpt from Chapter 3: The White Death
Around noon, the company had already made it more than halfway up the ravine. They allowed themselves a short break to have some bites of left-over rabbit and to water the horses, but looking up at the sky, Geralt soon urged them on. Another blizzard was gathering around the mountain tops. Hopefully, they would already be on the other side of the pass when it struck, safely put up inside a farm house or, at least, holed up in some abandoned sheep shed. If not, there was no telling what would happen. They definitely did not need any repetition of their night on the Sansmerci. So they better got a move on.
It did not take long until Milva and Cahir were somewhat falling behind the others. Milva's gelding was the sturdiest and most reliable of the company's horses, which was one of the reasons why Cahir was riding with her and not with Angoulême on her more spirited but smaller and lighter mare. Or with Regis or Geralt. Neither Draakul nor Roach were an option, the mule being too small and Roach too skittish. Plus the mare would have had to carry the combined weight of two grown men. However, Milva's horse was also the slowest, even with only one rider, and the extra weight of an additional horseman did not exactly help. Well, they would catch up eventually, at the latest when it was time to set up camp.
The three companions making up the vanguard had almost reached the plateau and the source of the stream, a beautiful little waterfall mostly frozen into a cascade of icicles which fell into a small rock basin, when Geralt, with his enhanced Witcher senses, heard the sound of falling stones higher up on the mountain side. Maybe a mouflon or a mountain goat? They had not seen any animals for quite a while, actually since they had left the forest, but some cold-adapted creatures were bound to live here, too. Perhaps even a rare capricorn? Geralt scanned the rock face. However, there was nothing to be seen, just snow-covered rocks and ledges. When he turned his gaze away from the cliff again, though, he suddenly caught a movement in the corner of his eye. A bluish shape high up on the mountain, its head almost reaching into the clouds. Huge. Monstrous. It let the enormous bolder it was holding in its shovel-like hands drop ...
Read the complete chapter on Ao3:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/34224823/chapters/85508626
#witchermonstermayhem2023#witchermonstermayhemday26#grim giants#old#the hansa#the hanza#Geralt's Hansa#Cahir Mawr Dyffryn aep Ceallach#geralt of rivia#emiel regis#milva barring#angoulême#eamon farren#the witcher fanfiction#witcher fanfic#cahir
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When you start a game like elden ring, with a reputation like elden ring's, you think that the required Gamer's Temperament is something like this:
determination to overcome obstacles
appreciation for esoteric and obscured story beats
undeterred by "unfair" gameplay
willing to learn from each death
And what they dont tell you is a crucial part of the cocktail that makes you enjoy elden ring is
appreciation for slapstick comedy
#sam plays elden ring#PLEASE its so funny#yeah elevator me directly into the spike ceiling thanks#mad max ass car careening through the dungeon#indiana jones boulder#how did it get its grim ass reputation when theres a giant man riding a tiny horse as one of like the main bosses#Risking my life for the chance to read a note that helpfully tells me Try Fingers But Hole#or Fort Night
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In the Kaos’ Kastle level in Skylanders: Giants, there’s a hidden area called the Forgotten Sepulchre, and it can only be reached by falling through the floor in the Pushblock Challenge room as a Giant.
In the Forgotten Sepulchre is this hat:
…A princess hat.
A princess hat surrounded by—or rather, buried with—piles of bones in a long forgotten sepulchre beneath the castle that cannot be reached by regular means. It’s suggested that not even Kaos knows it’s there.
I often think about how one of the entries in Book of Kaos mentions Kaos allegedly having brothers. Perhaps he has other siblings.
Perhaps he had other siblings.
I often think about Kaossandra’s diary entires in the same book, in which she writes about the many times she’d cruelly lock up her young son in the castle’s dungeon for days on end, all because she considered him to be irritatingly inept at magic. I think about the Kaos Clan’s unfathomably long legacy of evil and the immense pride they have in their reputation as powerful wielders of dark magic. Anyone they deem weak is swiftly punished. Perhaps much worse.
Kaos ultimately proved himself to be both powerful and ridiculously resilient. But what about the previous children, of which I am sure there were several? The children that…weren’t as resilient. The children deemed weak and useless.
I often think about this royal family of Dark Portal Masters and their twisted dedication to ensuring that their family remains powerful by any means necessary.
I often think about the Forgotten Sepulchre and all those bones. I often think about the little green princess hat that no doubt belonged to someone.
I often think about this princess that Kaos never got to meet. The sister he never knew he had.
#whissu rambles#skylanders#skylanders giants#kaos skylanders#(sort of. this is mainly meant to be about sepulchre princess because she makes me impossibly sad)#implied child death tw#child abuse tw#heavy topics i’m so sorry#on my last replay of giants this room just blindsided me with the horrific implications#i’m thinking about posting a design for the princess on my art blog soon#edit: it’s been posted B)#i promise i don’t just talk about grim skylanders lore i Promise i have fun here
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First time I draw skylanders I loved Skylanders as well since childhood.
#skylanders#skylanders giants#skylanders trap team#skylanders trigger happy#Skylanders grim creeper#Skylanders eye five#Skylanders grinnade#skylanders swap force#skylanders hot dog#skylanders bad juju#Skylanders chill bill#Skylanders chompy#Skylanders tussle sprout
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little halloween warm up doodle from a couple days ago
#my art#grim adventures of billy and mandy#art#artists on tumblr#doodle#digital art#cartoon network#billy and mandy#i miss this show so much#those giant pumpkins used to terrify me as a kid. now i think they are very cute creatures
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