siren: survive the island is doing something to me . and idk what it is

Prompt 4

Geralt is the captain of a pirate ship, named "Kaer Morhen." Perhaps he's still a witcher, perhaps he's just a regular old human (with white hair and golden eyes? Lol) His brothers (and "cousins" from other witcher schools) Now I can see this going two different ways, so choose a favorite (or make up your own, I am only the beginning, I hold no affront of being anything more) Jaskier is a nobleman's son, aboard his family's ship, possibly on his way to be forced into a marriage to a woman he doesn't love. And either he falls overboard or he's shoved off as a murder attempt, but he's lost in the ocean. Lambert (or someone else, but I love to imagine how Lambert would attempt to call this out to his captain who he doesn't take seriously 90% of the time, #brothers) calls that he spots a man bobbing in the sea, and they haul him up. The majority of the crew sees sight of his jewels and finery and insists on holding him ransom. But when the prisoner wakes up and isn't afraid of death, Geralt looks into this a little more. Apparently their prisoner won't get a ransom because his entire family despise him and his want to run away and become a bard. Funny. Most pirate ships have entertainers aboard to help the pirates deal with months of nothing but ocean. Perhaps they'll have use of this dumb twink after all. OR, option number two Jaskier is a nobleman's son, chained and starved for the crime of wanting to become a bard and not wanting to marry some prissy noblewoman. He hears a lot of loud noises and screams and then a bunch of burly men in fur cloaks stomp down and start rifling through their supplies. One catches eye of him and immediately yells to the captain. The captain is a very handsome man with silver locks and bright eyes, and the dreaded pirate captain is treating Jaskier with more kindness and gentleness than his family or their workers ever have. The pirate hauls Jaskier up into his arms and carries him to their own ship, laying him down in his own bed, and looking over his injuries and sending one of his crewmembers to make hm a fine meal. Jaskier begins telling the captain of his abusive life beforehand and mentions that all he's ever wanted is to spread music and love, and shockingly enough, this big scary (gorgeous) man doesn't even laugh at him for it.. Oh fuck he's falling in love-

♡!Optional addons!♡ • Geralt gayly teaching his bard how to swordfight!!!

• Perhaps Jaskier's family is crueler and has done more than beat him, perhaps they've stabbed him or something, and the very last thing he sees before he passes out from bloodloss is Geralt (Maybe he even thinks he's an angel! Lmfao)

• Geralt getting lovingly bullied by his brothers for taking care of his songbird so well

• Geralt's crew revenge-robbing or revenge-killing Jaskier's family if we do Option one for the story (attempted-murder route), since it's implied it happens in Option Two while they ransack the ship-

• Perhaps I'll do a sequel for this prompt one day for Mermaid Jaskier, I do LOVE mermaids, take this as a much smaller and much less detailed prompt for if you want that idea, too! Perhaps the Pankratz ship has a captured mer aboard, parched and dehydrated (I just mostly think it'd be funny if Geralt was checking his pulse and if he has any injuries while random other witches dump buckets of sea water on him-)

what the fuck is with the white liberal phenomenon of like 'I'm Not Racist, which means that when I see a minority person and make an assumption rooted in stereotype, its because the stereotype is true and my brain is very smart making these connections. :)"

Started watching a "problem with greek myth retellings" video and it began with a blurb montage like "Condemned by the misogynist guys of history, this is the true girlboss feminist story of [A WOMAN]" and like. brb writing one of those about crown prince rudolf. It's ok he's like a misunderstood girlboss to me<3

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"The Land of the Star.

The westernmost of all mortal realms.

The Island Kingdom of Númenor."

You know how people say that the world is different when you lose a love? I feel that

listening to hozier and musicals this week for no reason. i feel like im in middle school again wtff

Whenever I see Eddie, I have to think of my mom y'all. I'm sorry, but it's just so funny to me, lmao. My mom was an 80s metal fan. I currently have her leather jacket but the denim vest she wore over it with patches and pins, she keeps safe because it's still her precious after all these years. If my grandma hadn't stopped her she'd have a skull on her arm and a knuckle metal tattoo. She still listens to metal in her car and when she works. Right now she is a high school math teacher, who dresses like she could be in the PTA.

My mom literally turned from Eddie into Steve and it's the best thing ever XD

i have no idea what is going on in doctor who and at this point im too afraid to ask

that being said, do you recommend it?

i absolutely recommend doctor who. if you like fun goofy wacky silly scifi with the frequent enough emotional gut punch and fantastic episode its a must watch. you have to understand though that it is a fundamentally silly show. you mustn’t go in with super serious scifi expectations. especially if you start with nuwho because nine’s first episode is very silly. fun! but silly

i find old american straight men's interest in the smiths hilarious like you listen to the softcore gay car sex band and yr singing " i was looking for a job and found a job" you listen to the vegan pro choice bisexual band and you focus on the capitalism critiques that barely touch the surface speaking about an economy that you don't even partake in? Okay girl.

god this show is not afraid to kill off its characters huh

heathers the musical is like rocky horror for teens (complimentary)

why is season 5 of being human so good?? why is a season with zero original characters so good??? why is the hotel setting so good???? why are all the minor characters so good?????

AH!!!!

cute smallholder woman that called me a good girl and awoke something inside of me has given me her number so she can teach me how to drive and how to bind books ahhhh!!!!

i’m an academic in the summertime and know no other way to function, so:

class in cheers meta

i essayed on twitter about this yesterday morning but i am extending it here as ‘notes’ too. :x because what i appreciate most about cheers is where it exposes/satirizes, or at its best, interrogates, social structures/constructs and how they affect the characters and their relationships with each other. for a 1980′s sitcom -- during a time when long-time character arcs were uncommon in this genre, and nowhere as honest? -- it made it rather groundbreaking.

and, of course, from the onset, one of these aspects is class. and in more recent rewatches, i’m noticing particular threads of class clashes that are frequently interwoven more subtly which are:

1. Diane Not Always Getting It. diane was born into money (her father’s--her mother canonically experienced a working class to upper-class shift by marrying her father), and diane had the /option/ to deny inheritance and chose to Forge Her Own Way. YET, she doesn’t seem to have total awareness of the gravity of this. In Other Words, she tends to not entirely understand why her blue collar coworkers Care so much about $. e.g., the sizable will that is given to sam, and woody’s big bet win. in both situations, although it differs contextually, she is not written as fully comprehending why the money might matter to them

2. there’s a Very Much There marrying outside of class commentary that i am really noticing in recent years. personally, i really like when cheers did commentary of particular flaws in 1980′s marital views (especially when it was satirizing how married dudes can behave in homosocial/masculinist environments: norm re. vera). and so, i’m trying to work through, exactly, what they were doing with this marrying outside of class theme:

there’s - frasier crane’s mom, hester, who exhibits SUCH antagonism toward diane just before she and frasier get engaged in s3. because hester does not feel that diane has Accomplished Enough to be on par with her distinguished, psychiatrist son as a “pseudo-intellectual barmaid” and literally says something about frasier giving his career up? which could probably be better translated into a tarnishing of class status, because that sounds far more accurate (sighs)

COMPOUNDED ON - why sam and diane ultimately don’t marry makes no sense. but there’s nonetheless a class read/interpretation here. kimberley @bartend​ turned me onto thinking about this lol by mentioning that why sam/diane don’t marry could have been about any number of things that put their relationship under strain, but in keeping with s5′s overall bad writing, it’s that diane is told she cannot have a career and be married simultaneously which makes zero sense. so she and sam decide not to marry while At The Altar so diane can... write a book....

and maybe it’s partially my brain wanting to make sense of bad writing and seeking cohesion in a show that’s generally cogent, but within the context of it all: since it’s diane’s absolutely villainous academic ex-fiance (yes she’s been engaged 3 times leave her alone) who gives her this sort of ultimatum, it DOES come off as a figure from the iron gates Retrieving her (disgusting sentence) and being like, “choose success or choose sam.” not dissimilar to hester crane’s mode of thought

so, whether or not cheers wrote this to have Whiffs of Class (lol) explicitly, i think that it would fit thematically. it’s just, what kimberley said ^, it would have been more productive and cohesive to see sam and diane challenged on their emotional repression/suppression, or whatever else--which surely has to do with class! but not wholly.

that’s all for now.......