#yendelion

[littlestsnicket]

because i write codas for my fic before i’ve finished writing it:

“Thank you.”

“What for?”

“Yennefer said it was on your endorsement she forgave me.”

“Oh. Well. That wasn’t my intention, but I suppose I think highly enough of you that such a thing was inevitable. Did she, perchance, say what we were doing when I made such a high endorsement of your person?”

“You slept with her, you cad.” Geralt boxed Dandelion’s ears—gently. 

“I object to that phrasing, as it was, truly, her idea.”

[thirillia]

I am thriving off the Yenskier content in the first chapter of Blood of Elves.

Yen is being so soft for him. She thanks him for travelling with Geralt so he may not be alone. And Dandelion is insecure because he thinks he was nothing but a nuisance in Geralts life. But they both just care so much about him and and that’s what they connect over.

I love this.

[littlestsnicket]

want to write brìan/eredin fic but me, being me, i need to re-watch the show first to be sure i'm getting the vibe right, but current things i would want to work in:

the moment where eredin doesn't say yes right away. he doesn't even say yes after that long stretching moment. merwyn has to leave and allow him to think. and how brìan looks a little bit nervous and sad but not surprised. i just think that is so good.

balor saying he gave eredin everything he wanted and eredin still betrayed him. how many awkward baths did they take? what was balor thinking of during them? was eredin thinking of brìan? or was he always on too high alert around balor to be thinking of his lover? would balor actually be able to come up with anything specific that eredin wanted?

eredin who seems so cautious and careful in every other situation with every other person letting really important classified information slip to brìan and not even being that upset when brìan uses it against him

just... fascinating relationship dynamic portrayed really economically in a show where stuff is happening all of the time.

[littlestsnicket]

No one knew at the beginning what the girl meant, what help she was expecting. Dandelion was the first to understand. Perhaps because he knew the legend, had once read one of it’s poeticized versions. He picked up the still unconscious Yennefer. He was astonished at how dainty and light she was. He could have sworn somebody was helping him carry her. He could have sworn he could feel Cahir’s shoulder beside his arm. Out of the corner of his eye he caught sight of a flash of Milva’s flaxen plait. When he placed the sorceress in the boat he could have sworn he saw Angouleme’s hand steadying the side.

fuuuuuuuuuuck. i’m going to cry now. i have legitimate feelings and can’t remove my shipper goggles feelings. mr sapkowski didn’t have to have dandelion carry yen’s body, but he did.

[littlestsnicket]

🌹

you can have two, because i couldn't decide if it was better to pick something i am unlikely to ever finish or from the wrong fandom.

When Bertrand Baudelaire first met Lemony Snicket, he was flushed and sweaty, his hair stood on end, and he had a wide smile on his face—genuinely happy but clearly also pleased with himself. As first impressions of Lemony Snicket went, it was a rather unique one, though Bertrand didn’t know that at the time.

from the post atwq ot3 fic, which has a lot of nebulous plot in my head that i am unlikely to actually put on paper. (bertrand walks in on lemony and beatrice fencing.)

“No. It is, truly. For all you try to hide it, with your regality and artifice, you are, unimpeachably, a person.”

witcher book!yendelion because i have never had more ship brainrot about anything in my life.

[littlestsnicket]

- have dracula ballet tickets! am very excited!

- one CANNOT label something as a boston cream donut and then fill it with chocolate frosting instead of vanilla pudding… what was that? it made me irrationally sad.

- i am going to stop stalling and finish the geraskier fic. i just have to completely rewrite the beginning paragraph and clean up some stuff, but i think i have a plan now. just have to sit down and do it. then i am going to write the yendelion fic. was talking to one of my non-fandom, played the games first friends who was like ‘you cannot ship yendelion’ and i was like ‘watch me’ and he was like ‘ok, i am curious if you can sell me on this’ so now i really have to write it.

[littlestsnicket]

the thing about writing smut (or really this is ridiculously soft erotica) is that it takes a zillion words to explain what people are doing with their bodies and then a zillion years to prod it into something that has enough emotional weight and coherence, i guess, that i am comfortable sharing with the internet at large. 

so i generally cannot be bothered but i am almost done! and quite pleased that i managed getting this far. (involving a beta reader really does help with this sort of thing :) ) (and then i can do the same thing all over again with the yendelion fic... because that is a choice i made for some reason, but the story really does feel lacking if i just end it before the sex. actually, the sex has narrative value, so it will probably be much easier than reverse engineering character development around the idle, sexy emotional hurt/comfort daydream i decided i needed to type out.)

[littlestsnicket]

i wish you would write some Cahir+Milva pre-relationship fluff

oh my god!! i wish i would write this too!

i need to finish reading lady of the lake, which i am finally making progress on doing now, so soon, and then i promised myself i would finish the yendelion fic i started, but i am seriously considering that this should be next on my list cause i haven’t quite got there yet, but i know what happens and suspect i am going to need to give them nice things for my own personal sanity.

i was kind of planning i would go back to the klaus&lemony fic i have been working on for literal years, but cahir/milva sounds like more fun. we’ll see. i have way more fic ideas across multiple fandoms than i have time or attention span to write.

[littlestsnicket]

i recently started re-reading so you want to be a wizard, and i am reminded that i had very nebulous plans to write fic where nita and kit meet the 11th doctor, that was really all to do with my odd head canons of time lord “tech” working very similar to spelling and the speech. (of course there was no hint of plot.)

i also want to write bodyswap fic, just because i find that trope to be so fascinating, but i don’t actually have any more concrete ideas.

and i want to finish the book!yendelion fic, but my brain is too fried to work on something that i had tied into canon quite so closely.

hmmm.

[littlestsnicket]

"tarted writing yen accidentally spies on geralt’s dreams about being a knight fic." why must you hurt me so??? how to kill me in one (1) sentence. please, please write it! it's such a good, interesting idea - and I really love how it can be taken down both angsty and fluffy routes! Geralt so desparetely wants to be good that he often doesn't realise he already is; and him dreaming of being a knight? And Yennifer seeing/catching a glimpse of it? Sign me up!!!

:D

i saw it as a prompt and had a very similar reaction! it is still in the very loose planning and poking at maybe writing it phase, so we shall see. it has an almost overwhelming amount of potential!

(have to finish the yendelion fic first… it’s been sitting more than half done in my drafts since before season 2 aired, not that that’s actually relevant since it is very strictly book continuity fic)

[littlestsnicket]

finally transcribed what i have of the triss fic out of my bullet journal so i could start poking at it and aaaaaaaagh i have no idea what sort of story i am trying to tell. like this was supposed to be triss&geralt friendship fic, and it’s not not that but it’s also more vague triss character study that is in no way related to geralt and i am really not sure where i am going with it. there has to be some sort of thesis to tie this together and i don’t know what it is. i think i want it to be the whole lead up to triss joining the lodge but i also want this to be something of a scope that i am confident i can finish… ugh. decisions.

or i can leave it alone in it’s doc for now and actually finish the yendelion thing. that is achievable. re-read it recently and most of it is pretty solid. needs some work but not a ridiculous amount. at least i definitively know what is supposed to happen.

(and i’m almost done with geraskier fic that is sort of inaccurately titled “smut :/“, trying not to bother my beta reader too much :) ) (on the one hand, fandom does not need more of that, but on the other hand, apparently upwards of 80% of people writing it don’t agree with me about what is interesting about their dynamic so i had to do my own version myself.)

on the plus side the weather is beautiful and i have no commitments beyond making chicken soup and not getting behind on housework.

[littlestsnicket]

I don't really watch Netflix!Witcher, but I'm very happy that your Yendelion needs have been met and exceeed every expectation!

Aww, thank you! I am just so thrilled and excited! Both by what I got to see in the show itself and by the uptick in interest from other Netflix fans! And the gifs! So many gifs!

So inspiring! I actually wrote words of the book!Yendelion fic I have been working on (on and off) for ages.

[littlestsnicket]

title: worth

word count: 3.3k

what if, after yennefer rescued dandelion from rience, we saw the rest of their conversation, and then they had sex because yennefer is lonely and FOND of him; obsessively canon compliant

The pair sat in the near empty inn, watching the embers of the banked fire. Heavy thoughts lent themselves to heavy silence. Yennefer ought to rise from the table. She hadn’t intended to spend her evening with Dandelion—never mind that the proprietor had yet to return with her wine. The service left much to be desired. Inexplicably, she remained in her seat.

“Oh, you’re staying?” Dandelion asked, sweeping his somber, contemplative mood aside as easily as drawing open a curtain.

He sprawled back in his chair and cleaned chicken remnants from under his fingernails with a pen knife. It was, beyond any doubt, the closest thing to a weapon he had on him. But Yennefer caught his gaze flicking towards the door in uncharacteristic hypervigilance. She had no need to skim the surface of his thoughts to confirm that he felt vulnerable and unenthused at the idea of being left alone.

“Someone ought to look after you. I’m not convinced you won’t do something stupid instead of immediately returning to Redania like I told you.”

“You saved my life so now you’re responsible for it?” Dandelion’s tone was all levity, despite the seriousness of the matter. Yennefer’s responding laugh rang hollow.

Dandelion leaned forward conspiratorially, chin settling on his hand. “I don’t make a habit of admitting to mistakes, but you did save my life. I’ve already thanked you and promised to rehabilitate your reputation, but I find it’s not enough. I was wrong about you.”

[continue on ao3]

[littlestsnicket]

wip tuesday

thanks for tagging me @astaldis !

i am, as of rereading the relevant part of blood of elves and spending literal hours doing rewrites because i finally managed to put my finger on what it wasn’t quite working, finally making forward progress on the yendelion fic! (just have to finish writing the sex. yes, this is where i thought i was when i set my writing goals for the week but i know what the sex is supposed to achieve now so i mean it this time.)

snippet:

“I’m in your debt and you’re responsible for me,” Dandelion said, easily looping back to earlier in their conversation. “I suppose that’s the purpose of the Law of Surprise—to tie this sort of mess up with a neat bow.”

“Perhaps. Should I claim it?”

“I don’t mind—being in your debt, that is—as much as I would have thought. I can’t imagine I have much you would want, surprise or otherwise. And,” Dandelion’s expression shifted from serious to impish in a blink, “if you used the traditional formalism, you might be left waiting a very long time for me to return home.”

“You shouldn’t show your hand like that.”

Dandelion shrugged. “You’ve always had the advantage, I don’t suspect it matters much.”

Yennefer studied him with a frown. “Regardless, I accept your earlier offer. You may repay me in song. It is what your life is worth.”

“Others might take that as an insult, my lady, but song is my life’s purpose.”

tagging: @whoslaurapalmer @gellavonhamster (i have your one piece fic open in a tab waiting for me to read the comics or be in the specific fey mood where one can read fic that they know basically nothing about the source material) and anyone else who wants to play :)

[littlestsnicket]

"He didn't get much from it," he muttered. "He didn't get much from our friendship. He had little but trouble because of me. He constantly had to get me out of some scrape... help me..."' She leaned across the table, put her hand over his and squeezed it hard without saying anything. Her eyes held regret.

Blood of Elves

this makes me insane. totally and completely insane.

[littlestsnicket]

“there was something between us. that’s why i know him a bit. he does not like having help imposed on him. and if he was in need of it he would seek it from those he could trust. a year has gone by since those events and i… i’ve not had any news of him. and as for our debt, i owe him exactly as much as he owes me. no more and no less.”

i am very normal about them.

(also very normal about yen and dandelion. who else do we see her be vulnerable enough with to admit how sad and insecure she is about geralt to? certainly not triss. certainly not any of her sorceress ‘friends’. maybe ciri. but that’s very different.)

(yen is so lonely and it fucks me up.)