Prompt 21
This past winter, Geralt grabbed a tower of books from the library and holed himself up in his room for practically the entire season.
Eskel walks in one night, intent on just checking in on his brother, only to poke around and find that every book that Geralt is painstakingly studying is medical books, from how to deal with a sore throat to the most rarest of diseases.
Eskel asks Geralt why he needs to know all of this, worried Geralt might be losing his mutagen-induced healing factor?! Is he getting sick!? Are his wounds not healing over time!? Oh GODS!
Oh nvm- Geralt says he's fine :) He's reading all of this because... He met a human bard he wants to keep safe?
Odd... Especially for Geralt... But whatever makes his brother happy!
I just want a scene after some nice gay brotherly teasing that's like
"Ow- Oh no.. Geralt, my arm was scratched by a branch. Hold on, I need to-" And geralt is like FROTHING and is like "WE NEED BANDAGES, THREAD, A NEEDLE, DISINFECTANT, NUMBING SOLUTION, AND I KNOW FOURTEEN DIFFERENT NATURALLY MADE POULTICES I CAN MAKE, AND I KNOW A HELPFUL SPELL A HEDGEWITCH CAN CAST AND-"
"It's just a scratch, Gera-"
"SHIT, SIT DOWN, I GOTTA FIX MY HUMAN BEFORE HE DIES AND I LOSE ONE OF THE ONLY GOOD THINGS IN MY LIFE"
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i think one of the only ways to make gotham work as a populated city is that it has to be beautiful. there has to be some external, artificial draw that keeps bringing in new people that, only then, does its curse make them stay. otherwise, there's no appeal to such a crime-ridden city. gotham more or less represents the equivalent of new york city, but there has to be more to it than just trash and trains and tall architecture. there has to be some kind of ethereal beauty, something people can't quite describe until they are in it, deep in its belly. gotham must be beautiful and teeming with allure or else it just does not work. i think people get too caught up in the crime and gloomy aesthetic that i attribute largely to what the dark knight did to batman as a whole. the grittiness i feel like has overwhelmed interpretation of gotham when it should have some level of grit but also a gleaming shine of beautiful city life and culture. there has to be a richness to anyone's interpretation of gotham that must go beyond what the wayne's stuck their fingers in. if you want a proper gotham, it has to be one that attracts people, that keeps them coming back for more despite the risks. there must be attraction there or all you've got is a smelly city and overpopulation, and that's not what gotham is
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i think it's a really interesting phenomenon in sci fi and fantasy stories where an entire species is assigned a moral code with no room for nuance because it most often seems to be used as an excuse as to why it's okay to just slaughter them. come across a group of goblins in dnd? oh well, it's fine if you kill them, all goblins are bloodthirsty and would kill you without second thought anyway. it's okay if we do horrible things to this alien, their species has a ruthless moral code and every single one of them adheres to it with no exceptions. we don't need to feel guilty about this because if it was the other way around they would kill us, with no exceptions. the species that are labeled as enemies are unilaterally bad. but of course there's nuance among the species that are your allies. why do we assume that other species are so uniform when humans are so incredibly varied?
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Some miscellaneous Ghost Dean AU bits kicking around in my head that I may or may not get around to drawing/writing drabbles of but there's only so much time in the day and if I don't extract the ideas my head is going to burst, so:
-Dean's a stubborn bastard so given the info on the 'ghosts' page on the wiki, I think its safe to say after he gets the hang of manifesting within the car, it's not too long before he can control the car - then haunt in the vicinity around wherever the car's parked. He knows what ghosts can do, and likely just says "I want to teleport. I'm going to teleport."
-This leads onto the next concept of Sam just shoving someone into the passenger seat, of the empty impala, presumably after they were just attacked by a monster, then yelling towards the driver's side "Take them somewhere safe, and don't be weird!!" and bolting off. The person just watches Sam run, jumps when suddenly the doors lock by themselves, looks back and Dean is just sitting there like "Hey what's up, heard you need a ride." then he just takes off as this person's screaming.
-He pisses Sam off too much one day and the dude pours salt on the door and windows of whatever motel room he's in and Dean's just stuck outside like, you motherfucker. "I was stuck inside the car for a year please I want to pretend I'm alive again!"
-On the topic of him haunting the general vicinity of an area + ghosts ability to see other ghosts and incorporeal creatures, for your consideration: Ghostfacers episode, but the bros are checking out an alleged haunted location and they conclude: there is nothing there, it's clean. On the way out Sam runs into the Ghostfacers crew (Dean probably dips, or was conveniently in another room at the time, dude's probably relishing in the ability to just Not Be There when he wants to just cause it pisses off Sam) and they're like "OH SHIT IT'S YOU! What happened to the other guy???" and Sam just panics and spitballs:
"Oh, he uh, he died. One year ago, today in fact. In this very house. You guy's shouldn't be here!"
And then they proceed to riff off each other and just scare the living shit out of these poor people. Dean just manifests like "SAYUM, YOU LET ME DIEEEE!!! YOU COULDN'T SAVE MEEE!!!", the Ghostfacers team are screaming, Sam is trying not to laugh. If they try and leave Dean just appears at the doorway looking intimidating and they bolt in the opposite direction, or Sam just pretends to try and open and door and goes "Oh my god he's locked us in!!"
Nothing is more powerful than two siblings putting aside their differences to absolutely ruin some other peoples day (instead of trying to ruin each others.)
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i think if you told aki you liked journaling/scrapbooking and kept tickets, receipts, wrappers etc. for it he'd start collecting some himself to offer you.
for the first few it's more of a passing thought: "i think they'd like this," or "maybe they could use this." he'll give them to you the same day when he gets home. but then he starts actively looking for things you could use... keeps them in the drawer by his side of the bed to give them all to you when he has a 'respectable amount' as a surprise... it takes a while because he'd be picky about it—they have to be up to his standard, the same way all his gifts for you are.
and maybe it's just smoothed receipts from the convenience store you visit during late night snack runs, or one from the library with the 3 books he took out a few weeks ago, or a wrapper from the new flavour of a candy you like. but your face lights up as you thank him and talk about spreads you could do, and aki thinks he'd empty his drawer of his own belongings to fill it to the brim with more bus tickets and newspaper scraps if it meant you'd be happy
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