As You Likely Well Know, A Little Sacrifice Is My Favourite Of The Witcher Short Stories. I'm A Big Fan

As you likely well know, A Little Sacrifice is my favourite of the Witcher short stories. I'm a big fan of Little Eye and the old bugger she's friends with :')

Boop

booooop <3

Sorry not sorry (i love this moment)

...He quietly got out into the attic, climbed out through the attic window, went down the drainpipe to the roof of the library, and jumped, almost breaking his legs, onto the roof of the autopsy room. From there he reached the fence adjacent to the garden wall. Behind the dense thickets of gooseberries, he found a hole, which he expanded himself as a student. Further on lies the town of Oxenfurt. Dandelion mingled with the crowd, then quickly slipped through the side streets, weaving like a hare pursued by hounds. Having reached the carriage house, he took refuge in the shadows. After waiting a good half hour and not noticing anything suspicious, he climbed up the stairs into the attic and jumped onto the roof of the house of a brewer he knew, Wolfgang Amadeus Goatbeard. Clinging to the moss-covered tiles, he reached the window of the desired attic. An oil lamp was burning in the room outside the window. Standing unsteadily on the gutter, Dandelion knocked on the lead binding. The window was not closed and gave way under light pressure

– Geralt! Hey Geralt!

– Dandelion? Wait… Please don't come in… – What do you mean, don’t come in? Why don't you come in? – The poet pushed the window. -You're not alone, are you? Maybe you're actually fucking someone?...

(Andrzej Sapkowski "Blood of Elves")

I feel like people don't appreciate enough that Dandelion is a fast slippery little fucker. Granted we don't see this much since the books are heavily Geralt POV, but it's mentioned that a lot of his dalliances involve him scaling up houses, jumping out of windows, sliding down drainpipes, running along rooftops etc and that is hard as fuck to do

He's basically committing AssCreed level parkour and is able to outrun almost anyone who comes after him. When he's not travelling with Geralt, he has to be able to get out of trouble by himself somehow and since he's not a fighter that means being good at running, hiding and talking

Not only this but in Last Wish, as someone pointed out on my posts once, it's shown that when riding his horse, he can effortlessly lift one leg to hook over the pommel of his saddle while playing his lute at the same time the horse is moving. That's a lot of skill and balance and knowing your own horse's temperment and what they're willing to put up with. He's not just a casual rider he's an experienced rider pulling off shit that you'd only see from pros

Idk man it's just a little irritating how often he's reduced to "horny silly bard" when he has these skills under his belt too and is obviously capable of keeping up with hunting parties and actual warriors without much issue ya know?

And you will find it not where you are looking

I usually write fics in my native language and don't particularly post them on international resources. But for some reason I wanted to translate and post this one. And yes, I’m not comfortable with AO3, so it will be like this.

AU about Jaskier and his friend the bard girl (OFC)

Well, I know that many people don’t like Jaskier x OFC style fics, so I don’t have much hope for reading it.

Jaskier the bard : legs, boots and posing 😅🥰 (BTS included)

Bonus : probably the ultimate one 😅

a shard of ice & eternal flame