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Iorveth week day 5: “Surrender,”

Off theme redraw of a great scene in tw2

@iorvethappreciationweek

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Iorveth week day 6(38): Flowers

This wraps up my 7 pieces for @iorvethappreciationweek :D

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Learning a new procreate brush 🍃

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Yule in Vergen 🎄

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Ciri with braids ciri with braids ciri with braids aaaaa

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four years later back to drawing squirrels

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An ordinary bath day in a parallel universe.

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burning town with mama

Always a good time to burn down yet another village!

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vernon roche... my beloved. skurwiłbym się dla niego i dla temerii.

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Imagine ure that cringe to argue about moral high ground regarding The Witcher

Listen. LISTEN. Hear me out for a sec, Elves Enjoyers-

[TW: Tattoos, mentions of the Scoia’tael from The Witcher, so TW for violence, colonization, persecution, and related themes at the end.]

Don’t get me wrong, I adore Peepaw Tolkien’s elves.

Love them. Cherish them.

Think about them way too much for someone with a functional adult life. But your girl is a Witcher fan, and I need someone—anyone—to tell me to which Gods I must offer sacrifice to get elves like the tattooed/war painted, war-worn, feral ones in the games.

[This is not me saying LOTR and TROP Elves aren't hot as f, they ARE. This is not the topic at hand here!]

Because PEAK ELVEN DESIGN, I fear.

Tolkien’s elves? Ethereal, angelic, glowing. Beautiful. Stunning. Untouchable.

Like if you even thought about kissing one, the Valar would descend from the sky and smite you for your audacity. They sip wine, play harps, and make tragic speeches about leaving the world. Very elegant. Very poetic.

Witcher elves??? Absolute MENACE ENERGY.

LOOK at them. Battle-scarred. Eyes filled with simmering rage. That perfect, tragic blend of feral rebellion and devastatingly hot. They have TATTOOS. They live in the woods like cryptids. They’d either kill you or make out with you against a tree, and either way, you’d thank them. If they showed up in Middle-earth, Legolas would have a crisis and need a week-long nap.

Where do I sign up. Where do I get the tattoos. How much blood must I spill. If I walk into a Witcher game and tell them, “Hi, I would like to look like I personally burned down a Nilfgaardian flag last week,” will they give me the blueprint???

Because I need it.

[Example: Iorveth and Vernossiel, bottom illustration is Isengrim Faoiltiarna]

[Example: Eldain from the Scoia'tael of Thronebreaker]

And listen—not ONLY the Scoia’tael have tattoos. Last I checked, Avallac’h was not running around the forests robbing people in the name of elven freedom. And yet. Look at him. LOOK AT HIM. Man’s got ancient glyphs all over him, looking like a walking high fantasy spellbook, and I, for one, think that’s hot as hell.

This is a scholarly, refined, magical man, and even he took one look at himself and thought, hmm, you know what would make me even sexier? Mysterious arcane body markings. AND HE WAS RIGHT.

[Example: Avallac'h]

[NB: Also, before anyone comes swinging at me like “um, are you advocating for terrorism???” or like "Are you saying terrorists are hot????", let me just stop you right there, bestie.

I KNOW. I know the Scoia’tael do not go about their goals in the best way. In fact, they go about it in the most catastrophically bad, "oh honey no," war-crimey way imaginable. If you’re looking for moral high ground, you are not going to find it in a bunch of elves committing highway robbery and taking hostages like it’s a national pastime. However. HOWEVER-

Before we start wringing our hands and clutching our pearls about how “oh no, they’re so violent,” let’s take a step back and remember why they are the way they are.

These are people—actual sentient, oppressed people—who have been colonized, harassed, forcibly displaced, treated like second-class citizens, burnt at the stake, r*ped, got their ears cut off, got their children taken away, who got murdered, their temples and religious icons destroyed and burnt to ashes, have their cultures and language torn to pieces and just generally brutalized for generations until any hope of peaceful co-existence got curb-stomped into the mud.

Imagine being told your entire people are obsolete, that you’re a relic of the past, that you don’t deserve to exist, and then watching your homes get burned down while the people doing it sip wine and call you "knife ears" while abusing your kin. At a certain point, some of them went “oh okay so what if we just started stabbing?” And yeah, that was not the best move. But also? Were they just supposed to sit there and take it?

So no, I am not here writing “Scoia’tael did nothing wrong uwu” because babes, they did everything wrong. Just a full bingo card of Bad Life Choices.

But I am saying maybe let’s not act like they woke up one day and thought, “hmm, you know what sounds fun? Terrorism!” No, bestie, that was a slow-burn pipeline of absolute, centuries-long despair. And while I will not defend their actions, I will say that if I, too, was a heavily persecuted elf who had watched my people suffer like that for generations and centuries, I would also consider an unhinged drastic and dramatic "arc".

Would I act on it? No. Would I get a face tattoo and live in the woods making dramatic speeches? Absolutely.]

Not saying Tolkien elves aren’t hot—they are, ethereal and glowing and all that—but tattooed elves?? Tattooed elves hit a SPOT. A very specific, feral, life-altering spot.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

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Witcher 3, doodles #426

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I studied the plastic anatomy of the back muscles and got a carried away:,)

He is soooo eepy, I can't!!!!!!!!!!!!

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emralt smut

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outside it's pouring since weeks so sadly, sadly I mostly canceled all my other activities and stay inside all day, wrapped in a blanked, drinking tea, writing.

~livin da dream~

30k is written and I'm halfway through The War.

So this will be at least a 50k fic.

Oh guys I can't WAIT to wreck you emotionally.

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guys this is your friendly reminder to comment on ao3 fics, from a commenter myself. the amount of times authors reply to me saying ive made their day with my comments is honestly insane; and with the way their replies make my day too, its really a win win situation for everybody

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Iorveth in the group chat right before he admits to hate-humping Vernon Roche

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unicorn ocs + unicorn yaoi I've been thinking about a lot lately