#accidental warlord au

[inexplicifics]

I was listening to “Only Love Proudly…” again, and when I got to the bit about Jaskier going through more chemises than anyone ought, I remembered a tip from corset making:

The seams of a corset are under a lot of strain, and it is a common failure point- either the stitches will snap, or the fabric will rip along the stitch line. If the outer layer of the corset is expensive silk, it is a very good idea to make sure that the fabric is stronger than the thread, so if the seam rips you can sew right it back up without changing the width of the panel.

So maybe the seamstresses start doing up Jaskier’s chemises in very weak thread, with seams in the convenient ripping locations so Geralt can peel him like a banana and they just have to do a quick stitch job rather than making an entirely new garment.

I think the seamstresses absolutely start making Jaskier's chemises to be essentially tear-away clothing. Jaskier is delighted and Geralt doesn't notice, because, well, all clothing is tear-away if you're a Witcher.

#questions answered #accidental warlord au #jaskier

[catscraftsandcommentary]

So I had some time to think tonight at work (in between operating heavy machinery, swearing at the materials, and trying to keep the line running, fun times!) And I asked myself, "self, hypothetically, what might @inexplicifics Accidental Warlord AU look like in another generation or two - once people really get used to witchers being The Good Guys (TM) and helping out?"

And I was like "well, they'd probably get invited to social events - ooh! Who'd like which events best?!? What would that look like?"

Geralt, as we all know, detests anything too formal or Warlord-focused. He enjoys weddings and receptions, but his TRUE favorite is baby christenings. Seriously. Put him in a room with a tiny baby and he's happy as a clam. He'll happily growl away (or weaponize his puppy-dog eyes against) grannies, aunties, and other family members to hold the baby for as long as possible. He's also 90% of the reason that witchers are now rumored to be able to bless babies.

When Mouse and Treyse bring this new rumor to the council, everyone has to just sit. And process for a minute. Because what the ever-loving fuck?!? (Jaskier immediately writes the sweetest lullaby ever, "A Witcher's Blessing", and it is the ONLY song that Geralt ever sings in public, and only ever to babies and small children. Multiple women blame this for their immediate conceptions.)

Jaskier adores weddings and festivals of all types, and if a happy couple includes details of how they met and/or fell in love with their wedding invitation, there's at least a 50% chance that he'll show up to the wedding with a personalized love song, holy shit.

Ciri loves tourneys. Loves watching them, loves displaying in them, loves sneaking into competing in them (omg, heir, NO), loves WINNING them. She's a menace. She has various stealth coats of arms that she rotates between when she's not supposed to be competing, but her favorite is the battle goose. Obviously.

Eskel doesn't like crowds or being the center of attention, which are almost inevitable with public invitations, but he does enjoy being the +1 for his family. Several of his and their interests overlap, and even where they don't, he likes to see them enjoying themselves.

Yennifer becomes well-known as an extremely efficient - albeit terrifying - treaty negotiator. She'll talk to both sides, get a list of their must haves, deal-breakers, would-likes, and don't-wants (as well as - perhaps more importantly - the reason why each of those are on that particular list). Then she draws up a draft and viciously negotiates a compromise. She is genuinely surprised the first time that both sides thank her for her help.

Vesemir, with all his long years of teaching, loves visiting schools and seeing any sort of student performance or sporting event. Kindergarten to university, drama to music to dance recitals to track and field meets to football games to student symposiums to science contests to... He buys out bake sales and funds club field trips and donates several fortunes worth of antique knick knacks to various schools. He's invited as a guest lecturer, a commencement speaker, a competition judge, a referee.

Lambert and Aiden, at some point, discover bachelor's parties, call dibs, and never look back. People learn very quickly not to invite witchers to their stag nights unless they want the entire party to get horrifyingly drunk - but at least Lam and Aiden will make sure that everyone makes it home (or to the wedding) safely. Perhaps not soberly, or sans hangover, but definitely without major injury. (And if the bride asks nicely and the groom and friends weren't total jerks, Lambert can usually be counted on to make a hangover cure. He really is a softie at heart.)

Dragonfly and Serrit get tapped for the odd bachelorette party or ladies' birthday parties. Anything that falls under "I want to be able to drink and party with my friends without worrying about some strange guy hurting one of us." They are extremely protective and have both been drunkenly proposed to several times. (Livi finds this terribly amusing. Gweld just wants to know if he can watch.) Milena and Zofia sometimes go with them.

Milena loves going to wedding showers and baby showers, but outside Kaer Morhen, she has to stay in sight of Lambert or one of his brothers. Lambert's rule. (She got KIDNAPPED, okay? He's allowed to worry!) Usually she'll take Geralt (there might be babies! He's excellent protection!) or Eskel (he's very quiet and has excellent manners, and his signs are impossible to fight) for the more, ah, female-heavy events. If anyone asks, they're her brother-in-law and genuinely like spending time around kids. And very, very married.

#the witcher #accidental warlord au #inexplicifics

[nex-has-gender-envy]

Witcher and his Lark

Two 'not so' bound by fate but by choice

Again specically hc designed for fic - With a Conquering Air by @inexplicifics

#vitiligo jaskier #why the hell not #god im exicted by this one #accidental warlord au #witcher #the witcher #geralt #geralt of rivia #geralt warlord #inexplicifics #white wolf #ao3 #wiedźmin #geraskier #jaskier x geralt #with a conquering air #the moon and sun #fanart #witcher fanart #jaskier #buttercup #jaskier the bard #geralt the witcher

[jeanblack2056]

Soooo, I'm doing a witchertober this year and kinda forgor to post it here as well, so Imma be posting it when I'm done all at once. But. BUT.

Today I did this cute Letho&Julita moment as a tribute to @inexplicifics and just can't resist. The Accidental Warlord AU was the first thing I read from the witcher fandom, and it holds a very special place in my heart.

Letho: Gets crushed by angry wyvern and stabbed with its tail into his bowels.

Letho: Gets up and finishes it off. Returns to Kaer Morhen.

Healers: Sir you should be unconscious, lie down.

Letho: Nah, I'll just chug down another swallow.

Julita: Lip starts wobbling when she sees him.

Letho: Immediately subdued and lets himself be "fretted about uselessly" as they disinfect, sew him up, counter the poison, etc.

Julita: I baked you a pie to get better.

Letho: Thank you snakelet, that's gonna help so much.

#witcher #witcher fanfiction #witcher letho #letho of gulet #accidental warlord au #kaer morons #i can't from how sweet those two are #my heart melts

[fadedfrost]

And another one from @inexplicifics Accidental Warlord AU

#fadedfrostmoodboards #ao3 #the witcher #jaskalt #jaskier #geralt of rivia #accidental warlord au

[curious-trickster]

Please help a Reader find new content!

Hey there. I recently finished reading 'for the want of a jewel', an original work written by @formlessvoidbeast and I absolutely loved it!

Just like I loved the 'Accidental Warlord' series, a AU based on the Witcher, by @inexplicifics.

Those fics are both an absolute delight to read and they have a few things in common which kind of caused a want of more in me.

Please help me find fics/original work/books/shows... with these tropes (they do not have all the things I mentioned but it would be nice to have them meet several):

Character gets traded for peace to a most likely hostile party (warlord, king, pirates, bandits, just something they expect to be bad or different)

The trade-in-character expects to be hurt/killed/abused/hated/...

The second party they are given too is not aware of the circumstances of the way the trade-in-character had to leave their home

The second party which the trade-in-character expects to be hostile turns out to be not so bad

The trade-in-character finds true home with the party they were given to

The trade-in-character finds true friends/family not made by blood/love/their way of life/... with the people they were given too

Shenanigans (optional as the rest of them, but they would be greatly appreciated)

If you can think of something which has some or even better all of these tropes, pls comment/send a message! I would be very grateful and you'd help my adhd brain by feeding it with its new hyperfixation!

Feel free to drop the number of the trope(s) your recommendation has, or don't it's up to you!

A big thanks to @formlessvoidbeast and @inexplicifics for writing these amazing stories and allowing me to mention you in this post!

#Help wanted #Fic recommendations #book recommendations #media recommendations #Traded for piece trope #Sold out to hostile party #fear of death #The accidental warlord @inexplicifics #for the want of a jewel #For the want of a jewel @formlessvoidbeast #accidental warlord au #Finding home #finding freedom #finding friends #finding family #hurt/comfort #pirates #Enemy Kingdom #pls recommend #Being treated right #Warlord au #Slavery #kinda? #Expected slavery? #I am open to these tropes as long as the character is freed again i guess #But i will try reading anything because I am always surprised by books i didn't think I'd enjoy #Original work recommendation #fic tropes #fic talk #Bamf character

[krzys2000]

Looking for DC x DP prompt

So Justice league (or all heroes) were kidnapped by some threat. But villains remained on earth and aliens started invading. In other words Chaos

Ghost king Danny stepped in to bring back order just JL returns.

He took over word by accident

@stealingyourbones @fancycat-thesilvertux @hdgnj @azulhood @percyisawesome @radiance1 @im-totally-not-an-alien-2 @long-live-astronerd-ghost-king

Maybe you guys remember it? (I hope that you don mind tagging you)

Great thanks to @youcalledsworld For finding and sharing it

#dc x dp #dp x dc crossover #dcxdp #dp x dc #danny phantom #dc x dp crossover #dp x dc prompt #ghost king danny #dc universe #dpxdc #looking for prompt #world domination #accidental warlord au #accidental world domination #accidental world takeover #world takeover

[dftea]

I am not a big fan of AUs. I generally like fiction where the characters are strongly rooted in their time and place, and so a Coffee Shop AU is never going to feel right to me.

So when all my Witcher fic searches threw up the Accidental Warlord AU by @inexplicifics, I spent a long time ignoring it. Because I don't do AUs.

Then I went "well, maybe it's not that bad, let me have a look."

Oh my life, it's SO GOOD. It's a braided thread romance of multiple novellas, with amazing original characters and a great balance of angst, fluff, hurt/comfort, and romantic smut.

And best of all, especially in this fandom: it's still going .

My only problem now is that I've read all of it, and I have to wait for more.

(And that I want to write an Aiden/Sasha ficlet because they are the cutest and so someone should hurt them...)

#the witcher #the witcher fic #fic rec #accidental warlord au

[lovelyscot]

Folios->signatures -> bookblocks. Now time to trim the fore edges.

#lgbtq community #queer #accidental warlord au #awau #fanfiction #fanfiction bookbinding #witcher fanfiction #fanfic #the fanfiction i'm binding #geralt fanfic #witcher geralt #geralt x jaskier #witcher eskel #aiden the witcher #bookbinding #baby bookbinder #inexplicifics #awahp #ao3 #archive of our own

[dionysusbisexual]

@sofiacapella needs help finding a fic!

#geraskier #geralt of rivia #jaskier #accidental warlord au #geralt/jaskier #the witcher netflix #the witcher

[inexplicifics]

Here I am.

Just a hungry inexplicifish.

Standing before my beloved author.

Asking

for a Flung to Catch a Star update.

Darling inexplicifish, I am sorry it has been so long, but I have good news! Flung to Catch a Star, the next long AWAU fic, will start posting Monday morning. It is 15 chapters and 95K+ long, so it will post Monday thru Friday for three weeks.

I hope you enjoy it!

#questions answered #accidental warlord au #flung to catch a star

[catscraftsandcommentary]

If you were in @inexplicifics Accidental Warlord AU for a day (or several), what would you do?

Because I'm curious and want to know.

I would probably:

Hug as many witchers as possible, especially the ones old enough to be remember the Path before Ard Carraigh

Double especially Eskel, the man works way too damn hard

Have long talks with Vesemir about philosophy of government and society, because I think his take on it would be FASCINATING

Ask Jaskier to teach me "Ode to Witchers" and "Ciri's Goose Trick" plus maybe some other songs

Boop Geralt on the nose. Possibly while hugging him

Bake HUNDREDS of cookies with Julita (and Melina and Zofia if they wanted), then use those cookies to bribe as many witchers as possible into a giant cuddle pile. Possibly in the library for story time and/or with Jaskier for music!

Go pester the Cranes and make stuff with them - maybe kitchen gadgets? (A dough scoop for the literal HUNDREDS OF COOKIES I'll be making with Julita, for example...)

Teach Lambert to swear in classical Latin, assuming he doesn't already know how (also teach him why those words/phrases are so insulting)

Ask Milena to teach me fancy hairstyles. Offer to paint her nails in return!

Update: someone should introduce Kaer Morhen to new card games. I particularly think Cards Against Humanity Kaer Morhen would be a big hit.

#accidental warlord au #inexplicifics #the witcher

[cherryblossomshadow]

This summary is factually incorrect, but I saw this post and I just wanted to make a silly, low-effort meme about one of my favorite witcher fic universes. And now I'm off to go reread my favorite installments

The OG: With a Conquering Air by inexplicifics (@inexplicifics)

And an incredible Geralt POV remix: For the Asking by gremble (@abeautifulblog)

#i post #i rec fics #this fic has the longest list of 'works inspired by' that ive ever seen #i think it was like three page lengths long on my phone #with a conquering air #inexplicifics #accidental warlord au #the accidental warlord and his pack #this fic wrung so much emotion out of me within just the first few paragraphs #that jaskier angst 👌 #for the asking #gremble #abeautifulblog #SUCH great worldbuilding and politics #and the directors commentary was incredible #i never learned so much about the beta process #or about #poetry #and school tried so hard to get me to care about poetry but i just Do Not with poetry #i loved the way jaskiers song cycle was described tho #even tho i Do Not with poetry #through this fic i got a glimpse of what the fuss is about

[nex-has-gender-envy]

Geralt of Rivia

wolfcut is named after Geralt, I stand by that

This design is very personal to fanfic series With a Conquering Air by @inexplicifics .

[I can't get it out of my head]

#I always imagined him with big fluffy white fur because Kaer Morhen is cold as helll #accidental warlord au #the witcher #witcher #geralt of rivia #With a Conquering Air #the Accidental Warlord and His Pack #jaskier x geralt #the white wolf #witcher games #i think i want to ilustrated some scenes from jt #fanart

[mothpiercings]

honestly netflix should get inexplicifics and penandinkprincess to write on twn like i’m so serious right now their fics r better than the actual show 😋

#accidental warlord au #PLEASE ITS MY FAVE #i think maybe that au should get it’s own show hm #joey batey would be on board #joey batey #the witcher #twn #the witcher netflix #geraskier fanfiction #geralt of rivia #geralt and jaskier are actually in love #jaskier witcher #jaskier fanfiction

[fadedfrost]

From @inexplicifics Accidental Warlord AU again

#fadedfrostmoodboards #ao3 #the witcher #accidental warlord au #jaskalt #witcher eskel #geralt of rivia