#kourasmenos

[helpfulhellhounds]

“Standing on the very tip of the promontory, wrapped in nothing but a sealskin cloak, is a selkie man, all moonlight-pale and midnight-dark with eyes like the sea in storm...”

Based on a request from @kourasmenos for selkie!Jaskier from the lovely fic ‘The Fear of Falling Apart’ by stormsandstarlight on ao3. Author is also on tumblr @storm-and-starlight.

[Image Description: A digital painting of Jaskier standing on a rocky shore in front of rough waves at sunset, wearing a soft but badly damaged seal-skin cloak. End ID.]

#painted with permission from the author :) thank you!! #geraskier #jaskier #the witcher #witcher #artists on tumblr #kourasmenos #storm-and-starlight #request #mine. #my art #1k #witcher fanart #fanart #art #witcher netflix #the witcher fanart #twn #julian alfred pankratz #dandelion #yes the perspective is weird but I wanted to draw more ocean ok? call it surrealism

[shanastoryteller]

happy pride!! geraskier? 🏳️‍🌈

Yennefer doesn't think anything of the silver ring on Geralt's left hand. He's a witcher, for fuck's sake.

She keeps not thinking of it until she stumbles on him at a pub, which wouldn't be too strange except there's a semi-talented bard belting out a tune, jaunty and uplifting enough that the whole place is rowdy with it.

"I didn't know you liked music," she says, sliding into the chair next to him with a goblet full of mead.

He doesn't seem surprised at her presence, but he never does. He almost smiles at her, the closest he gets when they're still clothed. "I don't really have a choice."

She's still trying to puzzle that out when the bard careens towards their table and plops himself in Geralt's lap, continuing to play and sing from his new position.

Yennefer freezes, waiting for Geralt to shove him aside or start yelling or even draw his sword. Instead he smirks, pointedly turning his head away to drink his beer. The bard goes so far to lean back into his chest, his head falling over Geralt's shoulder and singing directly into his ear.

The volume can't be comfortable if nothing else, but Geralt doesn't so much as flinch. Neither do the other patrons, laughing and shouting and no one screaming obscenities' or going green at the sight of a witcher.

For a moment, Yennefer almost thinks that she's not speaking to Geralt at all, but she dismisses the thought just as quickly. Her magic would sense if he were a doppler or under a glamour.

The bard only stands once he's finished, bowing to all the clapping patrons and accepting several beers when he refuses an encore - or a second encore, based on what several people are yelling.

People eventually dissipate and the bard drops into the seat next to Geralt. "Who's the pretty lady?" he asks, taking Geralt's beer instead of any of the full ones littering the table.

"She could eat you," he says but the bard just laughs.

She notices a familiar silver ring on his left finger and her eyes drop to Geralt's hand. They're identical.

"Sorry that he's so rude," the bard says, holding out his hand. "I'm Jaskier. You're gorgeous."

She doesn't take his hand, instead slowly moving her gaze between them. "How do you two know each other?"

Geralt sighs. "Don't-"

"Carnally," he says, "physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, metaphysically-"

"Do you even know what that means?" Geralt asks.

"Alchemically," Jaskier continues, "holistically-"

"I'm going to divorce you," he says, which at least answers that question.

Jaskier shrugs. "You can try. How did you two meet?"

Yennefer stills. She's not pleased with being the other women, but she's not about to get in the middle of anyone's marital business, even Geralt's, so she'll just agree with with whatever lie Geralt tells.

"She put a curse on me and now we sleep together," he says.

Jaskier looks her over, but less like a jealous lover and how she's used to men looking at her. "Nice."

He holds his hand up for a hand five which Geralt ignores. Jaskier pouts.

A very pretty barmaid comes over, holding a cup of the same mead Yennefer is drinking. "Hello, Jaskier," she says shyly, the lines around her eyes taking nothing away from the lush curves of breast and thigh. "You have such a lovely voice. I'd love to hear more of it, later, if you're free."

Jaskier looks to Geralt with a raised eyebrow. Geralt shrugs.

"No time like the present, my lady," he says, bouncing to his feet. He takes the mead in one hand and settles the other on her hip, leading her toward the stairs.

Yennefer stares. "You're just going to let him do that?"

He shrugs again. "You can sleep with him too if you want. He's the one that taught me the thing with my tongue that you like so much."

Interesting, but not currently her focus. "Why didn't you tell me you were married?"

How the hell is a witcher married? To a bard, of all people?

"You didn't ask," he answers, and then says nothing else.

Okay, just for that she is going to sleep with his husband.

#prompt answers #prompts are closed #asks #kourasmenos #witcher

[crushcandles]

book asks!! 10 and 24 if you want ?

Hi! I answered 24 here

10) What was your favorite new release of the year?

Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah was so stark and did such a good job of showing the sparkling spectacle and grim nature of the world in the novel. It really sucked me in, turned me around, and spit me out.

And, I swore this was a new release for 2023 but it turns out Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton came out in September 2022, but it was a new release in my heart. It deserves every award and ounce of acclaim it's gotten. The way it narrows into a specific time, place, and life and then blooms out into wider issues is masterful.

end of year book asks

#crushcandles answers YOUR asks #kourasmenos #thanks for the ask!

[witchersgoldenbard]

someone stop me from writing ranger’s apprentice fanfic catered to myself and two of my followers please

#ranger’s apprentice #but listen. LISTEN!! hurt comfort gilan/seley el’then fic!!! i cannot stop thinking about this honestlyyy #they’re all in that cell in erak’s ransom and john flanagan said gilan gets the worst of the beatings (and torture?? don’t remember) #because he is BAMF but also just. selethen being gentle with him and distracting him from the pain and rangers don’t feel pain shut up sel #but secretly gilan leans into the touch and he doesn’t want to spend his last night alive in pain and hfjdhsh YALL THE WHUMP #y know me i write good whump 😔😌 hnng. I SHALL NOT #sere16 and kourasmenos this one goes out to you two 🫶 #this is a witcher blog i know but hear me out. they would all sass the ever loving shit out of the witchers so i’m keeping them here #also gil and jaskier PLEASE. halt and vesemir. PLEASE

[witcher-trash]

Witcher Fic Lost & Found

Recently I have gotten some asks from people looking for certain fics. Honestly, I thought I might be good at helping people find their fics, but I gravely overestimated my abilities! I thought it might be nice to start this post in which I collect all the fics people are looking for and update it with info by everyone who might know the fic! So, if you have any tips, please don't hesitate to reply, reblog, or send me a message! Let's find these fics!

Geralt/Jaskier, post mountain

Possible solution proposed by @kourasmenos:

Geralt/Jaskier, bath thime and jealousy

Geralt/Jaskier, post mountain

Possible solution proposed by @pjs-n-pizzaplz:

Geralt/Jaskier, a/b/o

Geralt/Jaskier, possibly about their way to Kaer Morhen

Jaskier/Eskel/Lambert/Geralt

#witcher #geraskier #jaskier/geralt/eskel/lambert #fic search #trash speaking

[submissive-sl0th2]

τι εγινε δεν δειχνεις αλλο ποσο τσουλι εισαι???

Eimai ligo kourasmeno

[atalienart]

hello! im just starting to learn art (literally a complete beginner) and i see a lot of artists say to do 'art studies.' what exactly is, and how do you do an art study? is it something you do when youre starting to learn, or later on? thank you!

Hello! Studies are something you do always no matter if you’re a beginner or you draw for years. If you want to improve and learn new things that’s how you do it, through studies.

What are art studies? It’s learning through observation, analysis and practice. Whenever there’s something you want to get better at, for example anatomy, form, lighting, colour, perspective, or drawing eyes, body proportions, stylizing things etc. you need to find a way to approach the subject.

Let’s say you want to get better at body proportions. You can observe real people, collect some photos, measure proportions, find some tutorials and books by other artists, check some anatomy books too if you want to look at the human body in a more technical way. Then you look at everything, analyse the info, draw trying to understand what you’re drawing, why things look and work the way they work. You can try different techniques and approaches to find the easiest way to understand and learn things. For example, you can draw tiny figures because that way you won’t be distracted by details and will be able to see the whole body better, you can use lines or paint shapes, you can measure things or draw something and then compare it with the reference putting it on top of it (like layers) and checking what’s off. You can trace a photo paying close attention to what you’re doing and why the lines or forms are where they are. Then you practise more, try different poses still focusing on proportions. Then you leave the references and try to draw without help, and when you finish you go back to the references again, checking if what you remember is correct.

This is just one example. You can decide what works for you. Sometimes you want to learn how to draw landscapes so you collect many references (or go plein air) and just draw, copy what you see. But to actually learn something you need to think what you’re doing, why you use certain colours, how light or dark they are, where the horizon line is, does it look harmonious? You check other artists and see how they draw landscapes, what they put in the picture and what they omit, why do they do that, does it improve the composition? You can check their process videos and try to follow their steps. 

This is basically how you study, this is how I study. And I do that whenever I feel like doing it, if I want to improve something, or remind myself how to do stuff. And there are so many things to learn that you just don’t stop. The thing is, you need to make it enjoyable. There are some things that can be very technical but when you try to use the knowledge in practice you can do that drawing your favourite things, your ocs or fanart, or whatever you want.

Hope this helps. It’s quite long :)

#kourasmenos #Q&A

[blueskittlesart]

o shit realised u draw atla... she ra... zelda... zelda link roleswap... zuko catra vibing ... bruh omg

w. what did u think i drew before this gfdfghjk thats basically everything i draw

#or did you think i was just some shitposter and the 'art' in my url is just for show #tbh i wouldnt blame u #oh maybe u thought i was a vocaloid artist. the last like 4 art posts have been vocaloid i think lmao #asks #kourasmenos

[kougeki-scans]

😔😔😔😔 getting those crumbs (@dgm) anyway wanted to say thank you for your work!! its always such high quality and like really makes the difference when im reading. very thankful!

crumbs literal crumbs 😔😔

and thank you ! that means a lot <33 

#answered #kourasmenos

[cant-icle]

hello... i saw... in one of ur ask tags... that you like okami.... this fandom is so small and we suffer for a proper sequel ANYWAY HELLO just wanted to say hi!!!! also your fics are amazing!!! can't believe you like okami thats also amazing !!!!!!!

hello friend!!!!!!! okami is my #1 game forever in my heart!!!!!!!!! i literally don’t have words for how much i love okami, i literally cannot describe the depths of my emotions for it, every time i play it’s like i’m coming home (’: maybe someday we’ll get another full fledged game (okamiden was lovely but it wasnt enough pls)!!!! i have tentative hopes, what with that big ol’ push to get okami hd on like every platform (i still need to buy it for switch tbh, yes i have it for ps2 wii ps3 and ps4 but...)

#o! ka! mi!!! #o!!!! ka!!!!!! mi!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #i'm done screaming now but i'm just as excited to find another person who loves it ((((:!!!! #some day i'm gonna get an ammy tattoo #maybe as a quarter sleeve? #i'm already in progress on a quarter sleeve on my other arm with all my (2) fandom tats lmao #but i've been planning the big ammy for like 5 years #someday!!!! #kourasmenos

[helpfulhellhounds]

if you're talking art requests i wld like to ask/offer selkie jaskier from 'the fear of falling apart' by stormandstarlight ?

Sure! Thanks for introducing me to that fic btw :)

#requests #replies #kourasmenos

[drxgonfly]

hey! i am using your 'PAGE 01 V1' tags page for my nav, but im having an issue where the columns/tags are unbalanced and im not sure what's happening or how to fix it. if you have any time, would you be willing to help? if not that's okay! (hope ur staying safe)

hi! Everything looks fine on my end? Are you talking about each section of tags? Like how the one on the right has no box underneath it? Or are you talking about the columns of tags inside each box? If you have a tag that is too many characters it will overflow on to the next line. So if you had 10 tags in each column, but the one of your tags overflowed onto two lines, it would make them appear uneven.

If that’s not what you’re talking about send another message and I’d be happy to try and help!

#page 01 #theme help #kourasmenos

[marie-curie]

hey! could i ask where you get your grid paper from? your notes are so neat!!

thank you for the compliment! i don't know which post your reffering to but i mostly get my paper from the supermarket. that grid paper is pretty default. have a nice day :)

#ask #kourasmenos

[pame-taratsa]

Egw pou tha ton perimenw spiti tou, enw autos tha erxetai kourasmenos apo th douleia

#meresmou

[alessioterz]

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[priv-lyz]

sono solo toso kourasmenos. i can’t anymore je nes fais plus ca hoc dolet