Obsessed with the idea of Extraordinary Things being a back and forth between Jaskier and Radovid, with Jaskier trying to draw him out in the first verse, and Radovid finally answering him in the second.
Cause like, with Radovid, Jaskier meets someone who he can't fully read properly. He knows there's something under the front of a drunken, bumbling prince, but he doesn't know him well enough yet to be certain as to what.
So, he tests the waters a bit. throws out a line to see if Radovid will take it—and he does. A little bit. But it's so interesting to me, because it doesn't just feel like Jaskier is trying to nail down Radovid's truth in this verse; it feels like he's injecting elements of his own mask into it, as well.
"Keep your words on ice, your gaze lights the fire. They say 'keep on playing nice,' but I have no desire. Why waste our words when lips were made for extraordinary things? It's not a want, it's a need, it is paying no heed to what others say to sing."
This is Jaskier's read of Radovid as he knows him so far: a man hiding more complex wants beneath the veneer of a drunken party boy. But it's also Jaskier admitting that he knows this about Radovid because he wears the exact same mask himself.
Much like how Jaskier and Ciri speak through Geralt and Yennefer in order to process their own feelings about them later in the season, Jaskier sings through himself in order to comprehend who Radovid is. Jaskier is using the performative persona he's crafted for himself in an attempt to coax Radovid out of his.
All of it leads into the main intention of this song: "The greatest songs are made up of unspoken words of love. Of them, I've had enough. with you, I am enough." I am tired of having to put up a front. I want to be understood. I think you understand me. Prove me right.
And Radovid sees what Jaskier is doing. He comments on Jaskier's ability to see people for who they are and not who they pretend to be. But there's still more he wants to understand. This still feels like a game, in a way.
It's only after Radovid sees the brutality of Dijkstra and Philippa up close, watches them orchestrate the assassination of the queen and threaten to incriminate him if he doesn't fall in line, that he then grasps the vulnerability in Jaskier's lyrics. Jaskier is also caught between multiple conflicting desires, that of his loyalty to Geralt/Yen/Ciri, and that of his work as the Sandpiper & how said work is backed by his continued commitment to Redanian Intelligence. That internal conflict and the desire to escape it is also highlighted in the song's first verse ("they say keep on playing nice, but i have no desire"). Only after all of this, when true fear begins to take over and the game stops being fun, does Radovid truly begin to truly understand Jaskier.
And so, he seeks him out. And he responds.
“Drop the sweet disguise, your heart’s beating too loud. The fairytales and little lies can’t drown out all the sound.” You were right. I do understand you. I know what you really want, because we're the same. You can’t hide it behind a façade of a song and a story and a persona.
“Take this heart and break this heart for extraordinary things.” I don't know what will become of this, or us. I still don't fully know if we can trust each other. But no one has ever seen me in the way that you have.
It's not a want, it's a need. With you, I am enough.
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Ariki......
is it ok if I made an opposite au version of Peacekeeper-
like based of Henney's and Jace's Opposite AU's............
I mean
There is already an opposite of Keeper, which is reverse Keeper ( we never shared art of it, but since it's not canon ig I can show it to you now :3 )
But if you feel like making an other opposite one for fun, sure !
As long as you credit me, Henney and Jace for the characters and concepts
Anyway, reverse Keeper and Stitcher (non canon, this is just concept art)
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Hmm do not get the hate towards people who enjoy fanon Alec when fanon Alec can pretty easily be understood as a version of Alec who reacts to trauma in a more typical straightforward way (the trauma itself is also often made straightforward) as a frustrated reaction to the way canon Alec’s trauma is consistently unaddressed and undermined or framed so he’s the perpetrator in the text and also as a result in the fandom. Like yes that is part of what adds a lot of nuance to canon Alec’s particular brand of trauma and therefor fanon Alec tends to be less nuanced in that particular regard but it is an understandable response to and interpretation of the character and treating it as some kind of moral failing is. Weird.
In terms of sexualizing the character, I think most people read worm when they were the same age as or a bit younger than the characters and I think that’s honestly the defining factor in how someone sees a character long term. Sometimes it shifts sometimes it doesn’t, sometimes they re read and have a new interpretation of the character but it overlays the first one. I do agree that if people were sexualizing the abuse he suffered as a kid that would be really not good but I’ve not seen anyone do that, just seen people portraying a hypersexual (more commonly just perceived as hypersexual) trauma response which is more straightforward and less nuanced than Alec’s actual canon trauma responses but not any sort of horrible bad take. I personally prefer canon Alec but appreciate and enjoy fanon Alec
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“Hi TicTac,” Tim says. He’s wearing a sweater—olive green cashmere, a size too big—and sunglasses, streaming live from the front seat of his parked car. “I just wanted to take a moment and address—”
Something catches his eye and his attention flickers down to the comments.
“No, these glasses aren’t Gucci, they’re uh. CVS?”
A quick shake of the head and a shrug to reorient himself also offers a view into the interior of the car—leather seats, clean and shiny.
“Anyway, so like, some people have been all over my account lately calling me a ‘nepotism baby’ and I just wanted to say, like. I see your frustration, but also—”
He’s fidgeting as he speaks, fiddling with the hems of his sleeves if he’s not running a hand through his hair.
“Like, it’s kind of upsetting to me, because my parents are dead? My parents were murdered. And like, yeah I was fortunate enough to be adopted by someone very well off, and I grew up in a comfortable home, but—no, okay comfortable does not always mean,”
As he leans down to read the comment better, he shifts the phone—he’s sitting in a parking garage somewhere. Equally nice cars all visible in the background.
“—nevermiiiiind, you’re definitely a child. Anyways, it’s just really annoying to have to come on here and. Like, I’m not. I don’t even have a job, so how could I be benefitting from—”
Comment distraction again—this time instead of leaning towards his phone, he leans back in exasperation.
“Duke, I know your handle, stop spamming the word ‘unemployed.’”
Tim closes his eyes and takes a moment before continuing.
“Um, so. Like, for example, Bruce, my adoptive father, I’m not the only kid he’s adopted. And none of us have jobs through him… well, Dick did for a bit but I think he got fired? But like. Adoption is trauma, not everything that comes of it is magically good, y’know. Like, one of his other sons was killed because of their connection, you wouldn’t really call that a nepotism benefit, would—”
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Opinions on Dream? :^
SO many feelings about him omgg rant under cut please forgive me
okay so i don't really talk or draw him much cause honestly,,,most of the times i just think he's a bit....boring? or more accurately plain? not in a mean way either but just in a 'fades into the background' type of way like don't get me wrong!! he's a really nice friend to his peers, his feelings about his powers and aura making his relationships harder to navigate and trust along with his whole conflict with nightmare and morality about what's good and bad IS very cool!! and i love it whenever they write him to be complex and not on this black and white mentality or when he's just straight up following along his friends with no free will or with a dubious purpose without ever addressing his issues or feelings! it's just unsatisfying to me :')
or when they're making him the 'naive' and oblivious, (sometimes childish?) character being marked as the obstacle and villain along with the other star sanses from the fic's pov, always talking about doing good things while fighting his brother and not hearing him out about the balance, (and for weak reasons most of the time. like it's been so long and you STILL haven't sat down with him when he's, generally, basically begged you to just have a talk? guys please :'( ) or when they go for the victim sad dream always missing the old nightmare, where corrupted nightmare is the incarnation of evil, with no sympathy or emotion except anger and sadistic glee, killing and hurting everyone and dream's just trying to protect the multiverse and dream's always been in the right. such extremes!!!
LIKE!! i hope i'm not the only one that thinks a 500+ year old should have had enough time to idk. learn things? about people and manipulation and deceit? after knowing what the villagers did to night? about the bad things in the world and how there's a lot of grey areas in life and that he maybe reflected on his past enough to process and ask himself if there should to be a convo to settle his differences with nightmare (and you can make nightmare the stubborn one too! or have them BOTH be petty and imperfect and have some things wrong and some right at the same time like why do i always see the good guy vs bad guy cliché with these two when they're the perfect example of why positivity doesn't have meaning without the negativity!! as long as there's a satisfying evolution or growth that doesn't leave me empty i'm good yknow?)
plus i believe dream really isn't as dumb as people view him. i do get some of you saying he probably can't read or write since that's actually a pretty interesting idea to explore! but in general please let him have emotions other than pure sunshiny happiness or endless sadness like he's gotta have more depth than that! let him make mistakes, have flaws that don't just make him the bad guy that's always in the wrong by default, and be angry or suspicious or jealous or bitter or battling his mental health problems/depression or malicious or smart or witty or mischievous and silly or sarcastic or ANYTHING dude i just want him to be put into different scenarios where he can be serious or lighthearted like it doesn't even have to be long or perfect but make him feel real.
it could definitely be that i don't read or see much art about dream or really look for it hard enough but also i just. i feel bad for even saying this fr and i wanna be honest about why i don't enjoy most stories about him cause he always gets the worst treatment along with ink!!! especially ink omg the poor guy has it the worst i think like wow do they mess him up :'(
always one dimensional in non shippy fics, or too plain or easily replaceable by other, more entertaining people in the significant other's life in most of his ships like man. i have read fics out there that made me genuinely FEEL and root for him and love his character so much it restored all hope for me!!! but i can only name one on top of my head and the others? it's been so long i don't even remember their names i just legit feel terrible cause i love him still and i can't find many headcanons that fit my interpretation of him yknow?
not to say people who write him very happy, mislead or sad are ruining him like that's silly- if i see something i don't like i just. move on bro i wouldn't force people to feel or think the same way i do about him cause anyone can have whatever headcanons they want!!! just talking about what i personally look for in him and why i can't exactly find it since most of the stuff out there just isn't my cup of tea :')
hopefully i didn't set anyone off with this rambling opinionated essay i just pulled hhh xD i know i know he's a popular character and i know a lot of people like dream so *sobs* please please recommend me artists and fics about him that you think is good it's been so looong since i've read or seen anything new that makes me attached to this little guy aughg<33333
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So. I just had A Thought.
The Inn At The Edge Of Time, right? The calendar classes made it as a training arena after the loss of one of their own, etcetera, etcetera. And it’s in a pocket dimension which, presumably, they made as part of the process of making the Inn.
The Timekiller Hero, one of the founders of the Inn, has this to say about said pocket dimension:
Timekiller Hero: It’s so... empty out there. Calling it the Edge of Time was so fitting. Endless nothing...
Something about this dialogue struck me today. It reminded me of something and I was trying to figure out what and then it hit me. Empty. Endless nothing. I know where I’ve heard that before!
MQ Narration: As far as human space explorers have ever traveled... there is only nothingness and emptiness.
That’s the language used to describe the aftermath of the Shadowscythe’s destruction of the universe, just before the Reset.
AND HERE’S THE THING. HERE’S THE THING.
The Inn reaches across timelines, right? It was made to offer training to all the versions of the hero, to help them prepare for their own timelines.
But that’s... not quite entire accurate.
Have you ever seen a mecha pilot in the Inn? I haven’t.
The Inn’s not for every version of this character across every timeline. The Inn is for every version of this character across every iteraction of the Dragonfable timeline.
And the calendar class heroes, the ones who made the Inn, they talk about this as though it’s absolute. Which almost certainly indicates that they are also from Dragonfable timelines.
Which means that for every single one of these timelines, the Reset happened.
And AdventureFriends2 showed us that the hero has buried pre-Reset memories. It specifically showed us their memory of witnessing the universe’s destruction surfacing in their dream!
The hero was the only survivor of that. The only person to witness it and live. And the Mage had windows. They saw the outside. They saw what it looked like.
What I’m saying is.
It’s plausible that the Inn At The Edge Of Time’s pocket dimension was subconsciously modelled on those buried memories.
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