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Hello! (From Colorado Springs, Colorado, US) was curious if you could post a snippet for Cat!Milena or the Marika and Milena folders?

Hello in Colorado Springs! I've done a bit from cat!Milena, so let's have Marika and Milena having Sisterly Feelings at each other.

Marika likes being at court, but she and Dawid both felt it would be wise to take a few months in Montecalvo, to grow accustomed to each other and to being married. They will return to court for the winter season, assuming the weather allows. She takes another deep breath of the crisp fall air and then almost screams as a male voice from above her says, “Marika.” She springs to her feet, Claudin leaping to her shoulder with a snarl, and whirls to stare up at the roof, at the gargoyles on the corners - At the dark shape that is not a gargoyle, that stretches and leaps down onto the balcony beside her, sleek and dark as a shadow, familiar as her own hands. “Gareth!” Claudin cries, and leaps from her shoulder to twine around the panther’s paws, purring loud as thunder. “Gareth,” Marika breathes, and sinks to her knees in a puddle of skirts, staring at her sister’s daemon in near-painful joy. Yes, she had word that Milena was not dead, but a message is not the same as seeing her sister’s soul, large as life and twice as magnificent.

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Ok. It's time to unleash my obsession about witches once again.

Agatha...Philippa...

That is one of many interpretations of Philippa's character design from the book (book ref : Le sorceleur codex) but even without that... these two witches have a lot in common.

They are both strong , morally grey +300 years old witches driven by power. However, they are not entirely villains. Agatha wants her son back and cannot control her power, while Philippa only wants a better world even if it means that she must sacrifice herself.

And they're queer your Honor.

Lodge, Coven, down the Road or on top of Montecalvo, witches you will always be famous.

[hanzajesthanza]

it really does matter so much that fringilla vigo is nilfgaardian, beauclairoise, for many reasons, but let's start here:

her entire role is that of an illusionist; one which she would not be were it not for her family lineage, rooted in beauclair:

There was a corridor in Beauclair Palace, and at the end a chamber, the existence of which no one knew about. (...) The corridor and the chamber, disguised by a powerful illusion, were known only to the palace’s original elven builders. And later–when the elves had gone, and Toussaint became a duchy–to the small number of sorcerers linked to the ducal house. Including Artorius Vigo, a master of magical arcana and great specialist in illusions. And his young niece, Fringilla, who had a special talent for illusions.

and since her talent in illusions is well-defined in the series, as it is her who grants geralt the very silver-mounted chrysoprase amulet which saves his life in the final fight against vilgefortz:

Geralt clenched Fringilla’s medallion in his fist. The bar fell with a clang, striking the floor a foot from the Witcher’s head. Geralt rolled away and quickly got up on one knee. Vilgefortz leaped forward and struck. The bar missed the target again by a few inches. The sorcerer shook his head in disbelief and hesitated for a second. (...) ‘I didn’t know …’ Yennefer said at last, scrambling out of a pile of rubble. She looked terrible. The blood trickling from her nose had poured all over her chin and cleavage. ‘I didn’t know you could cast illusory spells,’ she repeated, seeing Geralt’s uncomprehending gaze, ‘capable even of deceiving Vilgefortz.’ ‘It’s my medallion.’ ‘Aha.’ She looked suspicious. ‘A curious thing...’

that talent is something which cannot, by far, be separated from her character. and returning back to her lineage, it is again her familial relations which place her in beauclair.

she was positioned there, ready to intercept geralt, as early as the autumnal equinox in september, by which time geralt had barely just left the town of riedbrune:

The world over, the autumn Equinox was a night of spectres, nightmares and apparitions, a night of sudden, suffocating awakenings, fraught with menace, among sweat-soaked and rumpled sheets. Neither did the most illustrious escape the apparitions and awakenings; (...) In the huge castle of Montecalvo the sorceress Philippa Eilhart leaped from damask sheets, without waking the Comte de Noailles’ wife. The dwarf Yarpen Zigrin in Mahakam, the old witcher Vesemir in the mountain stronghold of Kaer Morhen, the bank clerk Fabio Sachs in the city of Gors Velen and Yarl Crach an Craite on board the longboat Ringhorn all awoke more or less abruptly. The sorceress Fringilla Vigo came awake in Beauclair Castle*, as did the priestess Sigrdrifa of the temple of the goddess Freyja on the island of Hindarsfjall.

* Slight correction - As explained in Chapter 3 of Lady of the Lake, Beauclair is not a castle, but a palace.

and she's only invited to beauclair in such a capacity because she is a relative of the duchess:

‘I’m in Beauclair because the largest, best-stocked library in the known world is here. Apart from university libraries, naturally. But universities are jealous of giving access to their shelves, and here I’m a relation and good friend of Anarietta and can do as I wish.’

(whom, you may note, she stands by and jointly receives geralt with at their first meeting, and participates in the festival of the vat with)

and therefore, she was in a perfectly strategic position to delay geralt, keep him captive:

‘(...) Please at least tell us … has the Witcher calmed down now? Are you capable of keeping him in Toussaint at least until May?’ (…) ‘No,’ she answered at last. ‘Probably not until May. But I’ll do everything in my power to keep him here as long as possible.’

because fringilla is not just an illusionist literally, as in the magic she is naturally gifted at, but 'illusionist' is her entire identity as a character.

and as her family hails from beauclair, this specific identity is compounded with the fact that beauclair itself is the center of illusions, a dreamland, a fairytale:

‘There’s something bewitched about this place, this fucking Toussaint. Some kind of charm hangs over the whole valley. Especially over the palace (...) no two ways about it, there’s something bewitched about this bloody Toussaint.’

fringilla is an illusionist because she is beauclairoise. she not only hails from a long line of illusionists, but hails from, is related to the ruler of, the very city of illusions and dreams.

she is the illusionist not just in a literal sense, but in the entire narrative role of casting an illusion over our hero, because it is the illusion of love which keeps her and geralt in beauclair. (the tricky trick is that geralt, taking a page out of yennefer's playbook of seduction, cleverness, patience, was able to cast an illusion upon the mistress of illusions herself, free himself from the witch's spell, awake from a pleasant dream to face the harsh reality).

(sighs) and even if you want to forget fringilla's beauclairoise identity and erase her entire positioning as the illusionist which poses a threat to our heroes, entices them to complacency, her role as nilfgaardian in the sense of her academic identity and imperial service also defines her.

because it is also fringilla, the illusionist who casts the wool over people's eyes... who blinded yennefer at sodden hill.

‘We’ve already met,’ Yennefer spoke again. ‘I don’t recall,’ Fringilla said without looking away. ‘I’m not surprised. But I have a good memory for faces and figures. I saw you from Sodden Hill.’ ‘In which case there can be no mistake,’ Fringilla Vigo said and raised her head proudly, sweeping her eyes over all those present. ‘I was at the Battle of Sodden.’ (...) ‘Occasionally one happens to see another person for only a split second, right before going blind, and one takes a dislike to them instantly.’ ‘Oh, enmity is considerably more complicated,’ Fringilla said, squinting. ‘Imagine someone you don’t know at all standing at the top of a hill, and ripping a friend of yours to shreds in front of your eyes. You neither saw them nor know them at all, but you still don’t like them.’ ‘So it goes,’ Yennefer said, shrugging. (...)

fringilla's (proud!) participation at the battle of sodden is a crux of the lodge, because she alongside her good friend, the scholarly assire, they are nilfgaardians who, owing to their nationality, find challenges meshing with the northern sorcereresses. the lodge brought together representatives of magic across nationalities in the midst of a raging, bloody war between them all.

and it's so integral to fringilla's character that she has imperial biases, that she approaches even the international lodge with an imperialist view.

with no factual basis, she initially exotifies and sexualizes the northern sorceresses, despite her own prior denial of these base stereotypes:

Fringilla Vigo was putting on a brave face, but she was anxious and stressed. She herself had often reprimanded young Nilfgaardian mages for uncritically yielding to stereotypical opinions and notions. She herself had regularly ridiculed the crude image painted by gossip and propaganda of the typical sorceress from the North: artificially beautiful, arrogant, vain and spoiled to the limits of perversion, and often beyond them. (...) Her untrammelled imagination offered up images of impossibly gorgeous women with diamond necklaces resting on naked breasts with rouged nipples, women with moist lips and eyes glistening from the effects of alcohol and narcotics. In her mind’s eye Fringilla could already see the gathering becoming a wild and depraved orgy accompanied by frenzied music, aphrodisiacs, and slaves of both sexes using exotic accessories.

she even has a difficult time understanding why the northern sorceresses are upset about the nilfgaardian invasion, believing it to be a boon to their society. only through their discussion does she just barely begin to grasp the meaning of "invasion" and why she wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of it:

Some were clearly anxious about the close proximity of Nilfgaard. Fringilla had mixed feelings. She had assumed that such educated people would understand that the Empire was bringing culture, prosperity, order and political stability to the North. On the other hand, though, she didn’t know how she would have reacted herself, were foreign armies approaching her home.

all of this indoctrination into imperial beliefs, at the same time that she is an educated woman, and herself, as an imperial sorceress, known for being rebellious and an upstart within her own culture:

‘Stop staring,’ Assire said, touching her bouffant and glistening curls. ‘I decided to make a few changes. Why, I just took your lead.’ ‘I was always taken as an oddball and a rebel,’ Fringilla Vigo chuckled. ‘But when they see you in the academy or at court…’

this is such a chaotic rambling post, but all i want to say is that fringilla's character, like most of the minor characters in the witcher series, was not invented through random generation, a roll of the dice, a spin of the wheel. her specific traits - such as her nationality, lineage, talents - all relate back thematically. everything is relevant, specifically chosen to create a specific character.

if once changes her backstory (e.g., to place her at aretuza... though i don't know who would do such a thing for no reason) they would change her entire character, the series' commentary on imperialism, and because of her role she takes later on, even the entire ending of the story.

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Cartolina panoramica risalente ai primi anni del '900 con panorama ripreso dalla zona c/da Montecalvo : il Rione Libertà praticamente non esisteva e i primi agglomerati di case iniziavano da oltre il fiume Sabato .

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love ur post about geralt and his hook ups. I hate most of them. Idk how people can hate yen for being “toxic” and be okay with people like Triss/Fringilla…..

God. Out of every woman that Geralt has sex with, Triss and Fringilla might actually be my most hated.

I think for both of them, I side eye anyone who is about it, because well…they’re both really using him, even if they are “in love” with him to some degree. They both have no problem fucking over Yennefer (who, together with or not, Geralt clearly cares deeply about and co-parents Ciri with) and Ciri.

Triss is the more obvious one here. She has no problem fucking Geralt under extremely dubious circumstances, despite being friends with both Geralt and Yen. She betrays Yennefer with Philippa and the Lodge, and is willing to hurt both Ciri and Geralt by letting them think Yen died a traitor. She is willing to let the Lodge use Ciri.

Fringilla I think is easier to miss. Firstly, while it is warfare, she blinds Yennefer for a year at Sodden, and even recovered, Yen is said to have some fairly serious mental scarring from it. I have seen Fringilla characterised as a “nice” or “more friendly” sorceress, and that’s why she helped Yennefer teleport past the blockade on Montecalvo.

Personally, I think it can also be read another way: Fringilla fought on the opposite side of a battle to Yennefer, doesn’t like her, and doesn’t particularly want to work alongside her. Yennefer wants to escape Montecalvo, and Fringilla wants her gone. I don’t think Fringilla was necessarily giving Yen a helping friendly hand as much as she was getting rid of her - as far as she was concerned, Yennefer was leaving a safe place and the Lodge where she had significant influence (even if she wasn’t particularly popular/trusted). Nilfgaard would capture her as an enemy, or the Northern Realms would consider her a traitor/ally to Vilgefortz. Frankly, it was impossible for Fringilla to predict where Yennefer would end up, and how it helped her further research Ciris bloodline.

And then we have fucking Geralt all winter so he didn’t continue to search for Ciri and Yennefer, while knowing Yennefer was captured/likely being tortured, and that Ciri was in danger (rather that be from Vilegfortz or the Lodge itself). She wanted and directly asked Geralt to stay in Toussaint with her because she didn’t give a fuck about Yennefer, or his daughter.

The Triss horse has been beaten to death in terms of her actions (unfortunately I still do have a soft spot for Miss Triss, and think she should be allowed to be an actual disaster away from everyone else). Anyone who has ever talked to me though knows it’s fuck Fringilla forever.

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Ariadne and Kralle (DND character of @philippa-eilhart-of-montecalvo ✨) make a great team!

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KALALOCH RUNNING CLUB

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"Uno di voi mi tradirà", dice Gesù ai suoi discepoli con somma tristezza. Per quanto mi ricordi, posso dire con tutta sincerità che non sono stato mai un Giuda per il prossimo. Ho avuto con il prossimo sempre un rapporto sincero. Forse, anzi senza forse ho deluso qualcuno, ma, ripeto, non ho mai tradito qualcuno. È vero, però, che, nella mia lunga esistenza umana, ci sono stati un numero considerevole di Giuda che, alla mia presenza, la loro bocca era piena di dolcezza, ma nel cuore già pensavano come uccidermi, ovviamente non fisicamente, ma moralmente. Mentre mi dicevano: “Pace a te”, nel cuore già mi muovevano guerra. Devo dire, però, che la grazia dello Spirito Santo mi ha fatto sempre reagire con mitezza.

Quanti baci falsi si danno! Quanti abbracci falsi si danno! Quanti elogi falsi si fanno? Quanti "Ti voglio bene" falsi si dicono! Bisogna pregare molto perché a causa dei Giuda, il nostro cuore non si indurisca e non provi rancore.

A volte veniamo traditi proprio da chi è stato da noi aiutato, promosso e incoraggiato nei suoi momenti di dolore e sofferenza! Una cosa lo Spirito Santo mi ha fatto capire ed è questa: è meglio amare che essere amato!

Oggi voglio essere molto breve. Perciò termino dicendo: Non smettiamo di fare il bene quando veniamo traditi. Amen.

(Padre Lorenzo Montecalvo dei Padri Vocazionisti)

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IMSA Long Beach

Na largada houve um toque entre o Cadillac V Series R #01 (Da Cadillac Ganassi Racing) bateu com o Acura ARX06 #60 (DA MEYER SHANK RACING),que também teve um toque com a BMW M LMDH V8 #25.

A equipe da Cadillac Racing até tentou arrumar o carro pra continuar más não deu, já o da Meyer Shank voltou  para a corrida.

Após a relargada teve uma parada muito estranha Do Cadillac V Series R #31 com troca de pilotos com apenas mais ou menos 10 minutos de corrida.

Após a relargada a liderança na GTP e na geral estava com o Acura ARX06 #10 (WTTR-ANDRETTI), em algumas voltas depois da relargada o líder estava chegando no Cadillac V Series #31 que tinha feito uma parada nos boxes durante o sefety car.

Olha o enrosco que aconteceu entre os GTD\GTD PRÓ, eles conseguiram sair dali então não teve bandeira amarela.

A Disputa entre a BMW da Turner motorsport e o Astom Martin da Heart of Racing da GTD.

O momento da parata obrigatória em que as Equipes Porsche Penske Motorsports ,WTTR Andretti Acura e a BMW TEAM RLL foram as melhores.

Isso que é bom numa categoria muito equlibrada três marcas diferentes nas três primeiras posições.

Depois da parada a disputada dos lideres que já tinham parado, menos o Cadillac V Series R #31, era entre o Acura ARX06 #10,BMW M LMDH #25,Porsche 963 #6.

Com 1 hora completa das 1h 40 minutos de corrida faltando 50 minutos para o final dela,o Cadillac V Series R #31 tinha se recuperado e estava na volta do líder com o Brasileiro Pipo Derani na condução.

A disputa da 2ª posição entre o Porsche da Pfaf Motorsports e o Corvette C8.R na GTD Pró.

Após as paradas a disputada estava com todos que já tinham parado menos o Cadillac V Series R #31 na disputa, faltando meia hora de corrida ele fez a parada obrigatória e caiu para 6º posição na corrida atrás do Acura ARX 06 #60 que já tinha  recuperado pelo menos naquele momento estava na volta do líder.

E a disputada do segundo lugar continuava entre o Corvette C8.R e o Porsche 992 GT3 R da Pfaf Motorsports.

O momento, da disputa entre Porsche 963 # 7 VS Acura ARX06 #10 na disputa pela 2ª posição.

E eles ficaram nessa disputa duríssima até que o Acura teve um problema e ficou lento do nada e a BMW  M LMDH #25 chegou logo atrás nele.

Eles conseguiram chegar no Porsche  963 #7 e tiveram o disputada incrível de três carros no final da volta.

Até que o Acura ARX06 #10 com Ricky Teylor no comando passou o Porsche #7

Nos últimos 3 minutos de corrida o Acura #10 estava alcançando o Porsche #6 

Nos últimos 1min15 pro final o Acura #10 Tinha passado o Porsche #6 e logo depois perdeu uma freada com isso colocando uma bandeira amarela na pista inteira e terminando como resultado na primeira vitória do Novo Porsche 963.

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1-6-Matthew Jaminet\Nick Tandy-Porsche 963 LMDH-Porsche Penske Motorsport -78 LAPS

2-25-Conner de Philippe\Nick Yellolly-BMW M LMDH-BMW M Team RLL

3-7-Felipe Nasr\Matt Campbell-Porsche 963 LMDH-Porsche Penske Motorsport

GTD PRO

1-14-Ben  Bernicoat\jack Hawksworth-Lexus RCF GT3-Vassser Sulivan Racing- 73 LAPS

2-3-Antonio Garcia\Jordam Teylor-Corvette C8.R GTD-Corvette Racing

3-9-Klaus Bachler\Patrick Pilet-Porsche 992 GT3R-Pfaf Motorsport

GTD

1-1-Bryan Sellers\Madison Snow-BMW M4 GT3-Paul Miller Racing-73 LAPS

2-23-Roman De Angelis\Marco Soressen-Astom Martin Vantage AMR GT3-Heart Of Racing

3-12-Frank Montecalvo\Aron Telitz-Lexus RCF GT3-Vasser Sulivan Racing

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Yennefer netflix leading the lodge, can't say I'm surprise.

So:

-Yen steals Vilgefortz's role in Sodden

-No Phil fighting in Sodden

-Tissaia steals Philippa's lines

-no Rience vs Geralt (feat Phil & Shani) scene in Oxenfurt

-no Lodge of Sorceresses leaded by Phil with no Montecalvo

Uuuuh and this isn't even everything. I swear this is ridiculous. Soon enough Yennefer will be the empress of Nilfgaard, riding with the Wild Hunt during her holidays and also travelling between worlds.

Don't get me wrong, I love Yennefer (books, games), she is one of my favorite characters of the Witcher universe. But this is a robbery.

What pisses me off the most is the fact that Phil will probably do a coup (another) and take over the lodge while laughing like a demon. I hate when they just erase everything that makes Phil subtle and important. Now she is below Yennefer in terms of power balance and I hate it so much (and I bet book Phil too).

This moment was so important for me, you know how much I love the lodge. I'm sure they will erase Assire and Ida too. Poor babies. Or maybe it's better that way. With netflix we could have full confident Assire with a dog called Arthur and Ida being super rude with everyone except Sabrina.

I want a book lodge of sorceresses reaction to netflix lodge of sorceresses now.

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locales from the Witcher franchise

Acorn Aedd Aldersberg Amarillo An Anchor Ard Armeria Aspra Assengard Attre Baldhorn Ban Barefield Bay Beauclair Belhaven Blaviken Bodrog Bremervoord Brenna Breza Bridge Brugge Burdorff Caelf Canell Caravista Carcano Carraigh Carreras Castel castle Cidaris Cintra Claremont Craag Creigiau Creyden Crinfrid Daevon Darn Dillingen Dorian Dorndal Drakenborg Druigh Dudno Dun Duén Dyffra Dâre Ellander Est Exeter Eysenlaan Fano Fen Foam Forge Forgeham Fox Ghelibol Glevitzingen Gleán Glyswen Gors Grim Gulet Gwendeith Gynvael Haemlet Hagge Hengfors Hochebuz Hollow Houtborg Jealousy Kaczan Kaer Kagen Kerack Kernow Klucz Knotgrass Lan Leyda Little Loc Lower Lyria Maecht Malhoun Malleore Maribor Marsh Mayena Meadow Metinna Mirt Montecalvo Montsalvat Morhen Muinne Murivel Nastrog Neunreuth New Nilfgaard Novigrad Ortagor Oxenfurt Palace Pont Porog Port Posada Rakverelin Ravello Razwan Red Rhys-Rhun Riedbrune Rinde Rissberg Rivia Rocayne Roggeveen Rowan Rozrog Ruach Sarda Scala Schwemmland Shaerrawedd Spalla Stygga Tegamo Thurn Tigg Tretogor Tridam Trolde Tyffi Unicorn Upper Vanis Vartburg Vattweir Vedette Velen Vengerberg Vidort Vizima Vole White Winneburg Zavada Zurbarran