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Geralt, fully potion-ed up: Be not afraid. Jaskier: Raw. Next question. Geralt: Geralt: Be a little more afraid.

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One thing about the whole "book lore says women can't be witchers" is that...it doesn't even really say that. All the lore ever said on this matter was that no girl has ever survived the Trial of the Grasses. That's it. It doesn't say what the sample size was, nor does it say if they ever tried it on adult women. For all we know, they conducted it on a few dozen girls, none of them survived, and then immediately gave up.

There's also the possibility that simply more research was done for male physiology, and females might've required a different concoction of mutations to survive that they never got. Considering how under-researched womens' health tends to be irl, is it so hard to believe that the mages who first created the witcher mutations could've failed to take into account the nuances of female physiology?

In the medieval world, males are naturally going to be more expendable by virtue of being less essential in reproduction roles, so of course there's going to be more performed on boys. However, 'no girls have survived' =/= 'it is impossible for girls to survive'. Especially when the girl in question is canonically one of the most powerful women in-universe. We have no idea how Ciri's bloodline could interact with the mutations.

Nevermind the fact that there has already been a woman who was subjected to witcher mutations and survived. In the Witcher game, Rayla was turned into a mutant by the Salamandra, who had stolen the secrets of the mutagenic process from Kaer Morhen. The only difference between her and an actual witcher was the training.

The Trial isn't some immutable element, they're a process of alchemic components/ingredients, and like all things under alchemy, formulas can change and improve.

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Crescent Moon Couple 🌙

#geraskier #jaskier #geralt #witcher ( inspired by the 1930 piece by Elbert McGran Jackson, with the same name )

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Geraskier sketch requests ~

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Master Dandelion was singing. The witcher who came with him drew his sword and clinked it on his lap as if it were an instrument. The iron sword and the silk strings played together, blending joyfully into the song.

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big hugs at first meeting after winter~

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[MASTERPOST] - witcher!Jaskier is back!! I can't believe I finally did it, yesss, I finally drew something for those two again 😭

Also: Jaskier is 5 seconds away from being thrown at the next drowner.

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There are SO many people in the new Barbie movie?!?!?!! Oh my god?!?!?!  (the watermark is my twitter, please do not remove it, this took a while even with the imperfections) 

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Jaskier: I am the descendent of an elven bard!

Vesemir: Ah yes that would explain the lack of aging and the musical inclination.

Jaskier: And she was in love with a witcher!

Vesemir: And that would explain the other thing.

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you're nothing, you're less, you're broken, a mess.

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Okay but can we talk about the "No, not I" moment in That Unwanted Animal?? 🥴

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God I need to watch Origin

okay but the storyteller spirit occasionally having to pop back and remind jaskier that actually, he can’t JUST focus on the whole “the first witcher was in love with a bard” element. like yes obviously the universe is setting up some parallelism, but you also have a job BEYOND getting a boyfriend here-

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this bard is delicate flower he needs love aND ATTENTION

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I had a very intense debate tonight on whether or not Jaskier deserves a little murder as a treat. Care to weigh in?

-SF anon

how could I not, the man DESERVES a little murder

look at him tell me he doesn't deserve it

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a bit late but i had to keep the tradition going, this year feat. probably the most well known fictional polish icon

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netflix really heard us bitching about not having enough bard and went “FINE. GIVE THEM TWO.”

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Geraskier is in the top ten ships on tumblr and moved up 11 spots even though there was no new season this year. Honestly it makes sense because the longer we have in between seasons the more we realize just how queer coded these guys are but sadly they probably won’t ever become canon………WAIT Guys Geraskier is the new Johnlock.