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Brushbug Plush Giveaway!!

Hello everybody! I've been working on a style of brushbug plush to start selling over at Etsy and now that I'm preparing to drop them in the store, I'm kicking it off by doing a giveaway!

This lovely little plush is my beta-test version. It's sewn from sherpa fleece with polyfil stuffing. It's poseable thanks to fabric-wrapped aluminum wire down the spine, as well as wire chenille for its little feet allowing them to be posed as well. The eyes are hand-sewn felt rather than machine-embroidered. It's about 22 inches long from head to tail, and about five inches tall. One winner will receive this plush!

Giveaway rules:

Likes and reblogs both count as entries.

No spamming reblogs

No Giveaway accounts (I will check!)

Do not have to be following me

Must be over 18 and willing to provide your mailing address

Will ship within the USA only due to the size of the plush and shipping costs

Entries close at 10:00 PM EST on Sunday, January 15. The winner will be chosen via random number generator and will have 48 hours to respond to the message, or else another winner will be chosen.

Good luck!!

If you don't win and still want a brushbug for yourself, keep an eye on my shop BlushingVioletProps on Etsy! A small batch of bugs should be up for sale by the time the giveaway ends!

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witcher + reductress headlines

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INCORRECT WITCHER QUOTES [#07]

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Doubt

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modern-with-magic au where geralt is like a one-person paranormal home inspector team and yeah sometimes it's a wraith or whatever but do you know how many times he's had to explain, like, basic facts about wildlife. and plumbing. he's like "for sure you're not haunted" and people are like "haha no no no I'm definitely haunted there's no other explanation" and he just stares at them like. "buddy. listen. ghosts are real. wraiths are real. necrophages are real. shit, I had to clear out a lower vampire nest in someone's attic two weeks ago. I've been doing this job for 400 years and I am telling you, with absolute certainty, that your problem is squirrels."

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AU where after the mountain, Jaskier is wanted by Nilfgaard and has to leave his barding behind (for now) and takes up archery instead. 

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An unexpected break of routine.

Bonus Jaskier the second he was at a witcher-safe distance:

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Part2 of Jaskier finds a wolf

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I haven’t stopped thinking of Jaskier since I heard to this song. (x)

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Creatorhub Secret Santa for @patersonluke The Witcher + Quotes from the books

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#Actual Disney Prince Jaskier

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This idea wouldn’t leave me - but maybe it’s more a curse, than anything else. The conclusion to this is already sketched out, but I’d love to hear what you think is gonna happen :) (maybe I did choose a really cute song? or maybe I’ll come for for emotional kneecaps with a baseball bat? who knows :D) 

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when will you give us new tgia chapter? 👉👈

this might have been submitted before I posted the last chapter lmao but I have no idea!! my mental health is sort of like a see-saw at the moment and I need to see a doctor about my fatigue bc my roommate has told me that taking three hour naps in the middle of the day on top of sleeping like, nine hours a night is Probably a Problem lmao

I’ve run through most of my prewritten stuff by this point so the next chapter hasn’t even been started yet! I had almost all of last chapter written before I did the mountain chapter actually and just needed to fill in some gaps so honestly it might take... a while rip

I’m really grateful for all the support I’ve been getting from readers, and how patient everyone has been with me!! I’m definitely not giving up on tgia anytime soon ;3c

tragically as a relatively new author (I’ve been writing fanfic for a little over a year now!) I’m not great at uhhhh structure lmao, I tend to dive into ideas without planning anything out. Which means that often the twists and turns the story takes surprises me as much as all y’all!! 

I’ve learned a lot writing the fic - including quite a lot of spoilers when people asked me how I was gonna address Duny’s backstory that hasn’t come up in the show yet lmao

I think not having a good end point is part of the resistance I’m having to writing the fic honestly so I’ll try sit on that to figure it out. I think I’ll probably end it in a place similar to the end of s1 of the Witcher and then maybe have a sequel fic when s2 comes out??

sorry this is probably way more in depth of an answer than you wanted but I hope it answers something at least!

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“You’re doing amazing sweety, show him what he’s missing”

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Increasingly Stupid Ways Jaskier Might Have Become Immortal

Jaskier is in fact half human, half… something else because his slut genes are 100% genetic from his mother and that’s great 

A side effect from the incident with the djinn

One day geralt was pissing yennefer off more than usual and she retaliated by secretly making jaskier immortal to annoy geralt forever

He once played a song for a group of random humanoid creatures that he invited to his campfire in the woods (because he has ZERO self preservation instincts) that turned out to be fae, and they were so pleased by his music they decided to make sure he’d be around to make it forever

That time he helped an old woman carry her increasingly concerning and suspicious looking groceries to her decrepit hut and she gave him ‘an eternal blessing’

He made a deal with the devil so that he could be young and beautiful forever (the money he saved on skincare alone was worth his soul)

The time he and geralt were investigating a rogue warlock’s tower and he found a potion that looked particularly delicious and decided to chug it all like a desperate frat boy

The period of time that part of one of geralt’s potions got mixed up with jaskier’s many perfumes and he unknowingly dosed himself with them for over twenty years into immortality

He once made a bet with valdo marx over who would age better and it’s a bet jaskier is determined to win 

Jaskier just decided to stop aging, so he did

Geralt once won a high stakes game of gwent and decided to get his bard something nice (immortality of course)

Roach is actually some kind of mythical being who was so pleased by jaskier’s constant treats that she granted the funny human immortality

Jaskier has actually died on several occasions and managed to charm the grim reaper into letting him come back

Jaskier accidentally swallowed an enchanted ring and is too afraid to tell geralt because he will never let him around small objects unsupervised again (there have been previous incidents)

Both geralt and jaskier share one single brain cell that roach is usually in possession of, and so neither of them notice that jaskier is in fact some kind of minor god until yennefer has o literally spell it out for them

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Secret headcanon that Jaskier and his sense of curiosity is a fucking menace on a normal basis, and even worse when geralt finally brings him to winter in kaer morhen

Jaskier at Kaer Morhen is like herding a toddler who seems fixated on finding everything that could potentially kill them

Listen, Geralt knows that Jaskier isn’t human (okay he’s known this information for a few months because it took him fucking twenty years to realize Jaskier was an elf), but just because he knows jaskier isn’t human now doesn’t make the witcher any less worried about him injuring himself

Because as the years have shown, if there’s one thing other than music that jaskier has a special talent for, it’s getting himself into trouble

So really, geralt just must be an idiot if he didn’t realize what was going to happen bring Jaskier to Kaer Morhen

One really bored bard trapped in a half demolished keep riddled with tunnels, hidden rooms, and high places? 

A recipe for disaster

Geralt is notorious for forgetting that beneath all of the pomp and circumstance of being a bard, jaskier is actually pretty competent, and with that competence comes an insane ability to climb, otherwise known as the bane of geralt’s existence

On their first day in the keep jaskier immediately finds the highest point to climb to, a crumbling tower looming over the courtyard

Geralt spends a nervous hour searching for his bard before spotting him and promptly, as jaskier would call it, ‘flipping his shit’

He snatches his bard from his spot on a rather fragile looking wall of the tower, bundles him and blankets and deposits him in front the the fireplace while he makes supper

By the time he returns with stew, jaskier has already spirited away with lambert, who has undoubtedly promised to show the bard some tunnel or other

It’s only then that geralt realizes it’s going to be a very long winter

No amount of overprotective grumbling from geralt manages to convince jaskier to stay within his sight, much to vesemir, eskel, and lambert’s amusement

Vesemir’s amusement starts to fade the day he comes into the main room to find jaskier high up in the rafters, swinging about like there isn’t a thirty foot drop to a stone floor waiting upon the wrong move

Eskel begins to fear for jaskier’s tendency for high up places after spotting the bard somehow scaling the creaky bookshelves in the library

Lambert is by far jaskier’s worst enabler, and his steadfast partner in crime

Together they manage to give geralt, vesemir, and eskel a number of heart attacks

The time they disappeared for hours beneath the keep exploring the tunnels

The time jaskier insisted he could surely climb his way around the outskirts of the keep without coming inside (geralt shut that one down halfway through)

The time jaskier decided to ‘make friends’ with the monster living in one of the hot springs

The time they found a trapdoor in the pantry and were stuck for three hours

The day jaskier and lambert invented ‘aard the bard’ will go down in history as one of the most stressful days of geralt’s life

Even for all the stress that jaskier causes geralt with his endless stream of curiosity and pranks pulled between him and lambert, geralt still manages to enjoy the time together all winter

Geralt just thanks melitele that his hair is already white, so at least he won’t be getting any gray hairs from the stress jaskier puts him under

Soon it will be time for them to return to the path, to monsters, and witches, and camping under the open sky

For now, geralt holds his bard close and prays to whatever gods might listen that jaskier might not get himself killed tomorrow