#witcher rarepairs

[cake-shop-rarepair-bingo]

Valentines Rarepair Bingo!

I had a thought with a friend, and we laughed and decided to make a tiny little valentines event! Two cards, you can pick and choose or mix and match, whatever you like. Tag us and we'll rebagel rarepair works for the rest of February!

Rules:

Bingo fills can be art, sketches, drabbles, new chapters, new fics, on ao3, tumblr, whatever. Paint a picture, create a gifset. Go nuts. Seriously. We're celebrating characters here not giving you a ton of rules about what you can create.

Tag your shit. All of it. No excuses, no "oh no it's spoilers". We tag like responsible fandom around here. <3

Don't be a dick xoxox

WHAT PAIRINGS COUNT?

If your pairing has under 500 works in their ship tag on ao3, they count. I'm not the police. If it was 498 when you wrote it and 520 when you post it, that's fine. We want to give rare characters more love, not stress out creators.

CHALLENGE MODE: Fill a card with pairings under 50, especially if you have to type in your own relationship tags.

DOES IT HAVE TO BE WITCHER?

No. BUT WHY CANT I WRITE MY FAVORITE BIG CANON SHIP?! DO YOU HATE XYZ CHARACTER?!?!

Sure you can write it. No, excluding the most popular ship isn't 'hate'. Why are you in a rarepair bingo? Those pairings have thousands of works, and more readership than any rarepair fic. My favourite pairing has six fics. Total. I can't stop you writing, but I won't share it, because the point is to give some kisses to rare characters. <3 xo

PLEASE NOTE: PAIRINGS DO NOT HAVE TO BE ROMANTIC OR SEXUAL. FAMILY, QPP, AND QPR ALL ARE WELCOME AND ENCOURAGED.

[witcher-rarepairs]

Witcher Rarepair Friends!

You can now claim prompts. The list of prompts is here.

You can also still submit prompts. The prompt submission form is here.

You can claim as many prompts as you want, and more than one person can claim the same prompt. You don't have to have submitted a prompt to claim a prompt (but it would be nice to your fellow Witcher Rarepair Friends if you do).

Please send me an ask on or off anon if you encounter any problems.

[astaldis]

@witcher-rarepairs

Chapters: 10/10       Words: 16,392 Fandom: The Witcher (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Cahir Mawr Dyffryn aep Ceallach/Yennefer z Vengerbergu | Yennefer of Vengerberg Additional Tags: Established Relationship, ALL THE FLUFF, Also fluff in the literal sense, catfic, Stray Cat, they are happy together, Intimacy, Kissing & Cuddling, Rainy Days, Sharing a Bed with a Cat, CATS ARE NICE, Divergence to the Canon Divergence, Purring, Love, Romance, Cintra it is Summary: Cahir and Yennefer acquire a stray cat. Or does the cat acquire them? As a witch, Yennefer vibes with cats well. Cahir is sceptical, as to his best knowledge cats are of no use on the battlefield. Obviously, some tensions are inevitable here. But this relationship will, yes, evolve. The fic depicts real ways of cats and was written in the company of some. Humour, fluff and romance

[onlymagpie]

doodle of them 🏃

[xejune]

pretty sure iorveth's caught onto the fact that geralt doesn’t actually need archery lessons. but hey, who's he to complain?

[tigerlyla-of-metinna]

The Heirs of Nilfgaard

"There is no need to follow in your fathers' footsteps, Princess. No need to run the empire alone. Use this power for the change you want to happen. And I will stand with you all the way."

My little Au/headcannon for Ciri x Morvran

Photo shot by @alphagravy and my photoshop edits.

[witcherrarepaircommentexchange]

The Witcher Rarepair Comment Exchange will return in June 2024!

This time, it will be for fics shorter than 1k words - get out your drabbels and ficlets!

Signups will open:

May 1st

rules and details

[kuwdora]

parable of the hostages witcher book canon Tissaia/Francesca, background Tissaia/Rita rated M, ~1900 words canon divergent AU angst, injury recovery, references to past suicides.

After Tissaia is rescued by Francesca at Thanedd, she finds herself at a crossroads.

Tissaia convalesces on the veranda with her mug of tea. This was no infirmary at Aretuza, and the Temple of Melitele was humble in the shadow of Dol Blathanna’s palatial beauty that has been ravaged by the hands of men and time. The valley below is a vision of autumn’s reckoning; mountain slopes dappled with trees of ochre and crimson and desiccated leaves idle in the dry riverbed.

The silence is a deafening pressure in Tissaia’s ears, but she doesn’t miss the sounds of the coast.

She loses herself, staring into the slowly-changing valley as the sun drags itself across the sky. Behind her the footfalls jostle Tissaia from stillness. It was time for the nursemaid visit. Something that happened every other day because Tissaia was, as she was told, a priority in the Queen's busy schedule. These visits had been infuriating and exhausting as Francesca attempted to litigate the events of Thanedd.

Francesca arrives with her ocelot companion trotting ahead of her. The small feline pads over to Tissaia and scents her chair and blanket with its face and gives her a silent stare. Tissaia remains still and unblinking, idly tracing the roundness of its ears and spots with her eyes.

"Good afternoon, Tissaia," Francesca says.

How Tissaia longs for peace.

Gone was the young student Tissaia had known at Aretuza. Gone was her colleague, her friend, and the lover who had cared enough to insert herself in Tissaia’s life time and time again with a regularity and casualness that Tissaia had come to appreciate. But that was before Thanedd.

Here was Enid an Glenna, the Daisy of the Valley. A leader to her people. As poised and incisive as the woman Tissaia once intimately knew, but she was still Francesca to Tissaia.

The mid-afternoon air was still quite warm but Tissaia adjusts the blanket in her lap. The circulation in her lower body was still quite poor and she was forced to wear layers regardless of the temperature. Tissaia had expended her Chaos and nearly depleted her life. It left her body in shambles. The amulet Francesca’s healer had donned upon Tissaia reduced the inflammation in her joints and helped regulate her body temperature, but it could only do so much.

She had considered tossing the amulet aside and reopen the bandages before Francesca or her servants could return.

Tissaia was—is—is, she keeps reminding herself—the oldest sorceress on the Continent, and for the last few weeks she has felt every one of her years. But Tissaia knew, as her eyes roamed the openness of the valley, her eyes drawn to the craggy line of mountain and yellowing grasses, she would not allow herself to be found in such a state. Wearing clothes that were not her own. In Francesca’s home. Being attended by Francesca’s servants. No, Tissaia would not open the bandages. She couldn’t. She was trapped.

The ache lingers in her chest, that loss of her dignity.

Francesca settles in the chair beside Tissaia and the ocelat slinks away and settles on a rug to bathe in the afternoon sun. In Francesca's lap was a box with elegant handles and elven knotwork burned into the wood.

“I have something for you.” read on ao3

[navyinks]

old friend of mine

[dravenxivuk]

I've had a nap, and have woken up to find my brain firmly aboard the good ship Squirilla, and unfortunately intend to make this everyone else's problem (thank you @bittersweetbark for the name)

The thing about being on my 8th playthrough of Witcher 3 is I mod the shit out of it to keep things fresh, and now I have a new modding target for all the female characters.

And i know, i know, this started as a crack ship. I know that.

But the more I think about it, and especially now I've slept on it, I can really see Ciri and Iorveth getting along.

Both stubborn Both have strong principles Both fight for people weaker than themselves Both willing to make personal sacrifices to make that happen ("I am who I need to be" and Ciri sacrificing The Path for the greater good in the Empress ending parallels anyone?) Both have pretty green eyes and enjoying sassing Geralt...

The list goes on!

Edit: Both have been fighting to stay alive while really just wanting a stable home to sit and have a rest in

[decahedrones]

silver & copper melting together...

Olgierd's custom nude body was made by one of the most skilled modders out there, @witcherscreenshotsdump

[unbury-the-gays]

Rendezvous in the woods a summary:

Adrien, about killing a bunch of scoia'tael together: It was pretty romantic.

Kiyan: You know who the only people who would think that are?

Adrien: Who?

Kiyan: Us.

[witcher-rarepairs]

Nominations Open for Witcher Rarepair Prompt Fest!

Welcome to the Witcher Rarepair Prompt Fest! Geralt/Jaskier get so much love and attention, and with good reason, but there are so many other great pairings in the Witcher and this prompt fest is for them.

How did Roche and Iorveth go from enemies to lovers? What do Vilgefortz and Rience do in their downtime between plotting evil plots? Can the Empress of Nilfgaard and the Queen of Skellige turn their political marriage into a love match? Just how good of friends are Fringilla and Francesca, exactly? And how well did Geralt and Mousesack know each other before the plague?

Tag nominations are open now!  So head on over to the tag nomination form here and nominate all the Witcher twosomes and moresomes you would like to see in the world, plus a few tags and tropes to get people inspired.  GBBO AU?  Kaer Morhen hot springs?  Animal transformation?

This prompt fest is open to characters and ships from all of the various Witcher media we have, from the books to the TV show to the games to Blood Origin to Nightmare of the Wolf to Thronebreaker to anything else I am forgetting.  The only thing I ask that you not nominate is Geralt/Jaskier - there are many other events aimed at them and this event is for other ships to shine!  You may still nominate Geralt or Jaskier in other ships, like Geralt/Emhyr or Jaskier/Yennefer.

So send me your nominations!  Reblog this post far and wide!  Ask box on this blog is open if you have any questions at all!  Let’s come up with some great ideas!

[astaldis]

@witcher-rarepairs

This was written by an Ao3 friend of mine who is not on tumblr. I totally love it, so cute and funny. If you like cats and Yen x Cahir, this might be the perfect fic for you. 🐈🐈‍⬛🐕❤️

Chapters: 1/10 Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Cahir Mawr Dyffryn aep Ceallach/Yennefer z Vengerbergu | Yennefer of Vengerberg Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Post-Season 2, ALL THE FLUFF, Also fluff in the literal sense, catfic, Stray Cat, they are happy together, Intimacy, Kissing & Cuddling, Rainy Days, Sharing a Bed with a Cat, CATS ARE NICE, Divergence to the Canon Divergence, Purring, Love, Romance Summary: Cahir and Yennefer acquire a stray cat. Or does the cat acquire them? As a witch, Yennefer vibes with cats well. Cahir is sceptical, as to his best knowledge cats are of no use on the battlefield. Obviously, some tensions are inevitable here. But this relationship will, yes, evolve. The fic depicts real ways of cats and was written in the company of some.

[bookcalanthedaily]

his was real devotion.

[tigerlyla-of-metinna]

Ciri/ Regis

The Empress and her Advisor

Shot by @eycsnow666 and my photoshop edits.

Tagging @andordean