New Year, New Comic! I will be drawing every now and then short stories of Alrick, one of the Death-Heads, who fulfill peoples’ wishes for a price. While some cases of Death-Heads need permissions and legal reports, every single Death-Head assigns their own fees. It can be anything - nothing is illegal or too much.
But Alrick does things a bit differently, heading to get a cup of hot cocoa when the case is closed.
Alrick is now up in Webtoons with a title Death-Head’s Deal. All updates will appear here and in Webtoons, plus my Patreon supporters will get sneak peeks of upcoming Alrick short stories before hand.
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when i started writing this comic, there were courses on duolingo for klingon and dothraki, fictional languages that are only spoken by characters on television shows who don’t exist, but the course for yiddish, a language spoken by jews – real, living, breathing people – for generations, didn’t exist until april 2021.
in 2017 a jewish employee at the anne frank museum was asked to put a baseball cap over his yarmulke. yeah, you read that right – an employee who worked in the house anne frank and her family hid for two years was asked to hide his judaism when he came into work.
what i’m saying is goyim are trying very hard to pretend jewish people don’t exist anymore, and it’s safer for a man to tattoo a swastika on his face than it is for me to wear a necklace with a symbol of my culture on it.
okay but imagine how hilarious it would be if geralt and jaskier are married for almost a decade and geralt still needs to sit through “burn butcher burn” when jaskier’s preforming
i mean, sure, jaskier wrote a ton of love songs about geralt since then (“thanks for the memories”, “i write love songs not ballads”, “wolfie boy”, “(not) complicated (maybe a little but i still love you)”)
but “burn butcher burn” is still a hit and jaskier has to play it everytime. and geralt just has to sit there and sulk, silently supporting his husband’s career.
(“the people need me to play it, geralt. besides, it took you two decades to acknowledge me as your friend. wear that ring i gave you for another decade and maybe i’ll stop”)
First of all, thank you for all your art, it's lovely! If you're taking s2 requests, then how about Istred and Geralt arguing Yen vs Yenna but meanwhile Yennefer is ignoring them both and only responding when Jaskier says "wife!".
Wait wait it just occurred to me. Rience a) first saw Jaskier performing Burn Butcher Burn at the tavern with zero context, knew that he was mad at Geralt but didn’t know why b) never realized who Yennefer actually was (went to Kaer Morhen instead of following her) and c) saw her again at Melitele’s temple with Geralt
Conclusion: Rience 100% connected the dots himself/thought Jaskier and Geralt had a falling out because Geralt was sleeping with his wife. Essentially
I can’t resist the call to make geralt and jaskier happy, so some more soft content: water fight edition
Maria has lived a long life, and even though she hasn’t ever traveled outside of her village she’s seen and heard a lot from the people passing through
but she can’t say this is a sight she’s ever seen
because in front of her she watches as the bard who was playing in the tavern last night savagely attempts to drown the witcher passing through with him
at first she freezes with fear for the bard, but then she hears…. laughter?
it’s coming from the witcher as he tries valiantly to dislodge the bard from his position wrapped around his back
the bard is flipped over the witcher’s shoulder and into the water with a shout of indignation, “treachery!” he declares and promptly splashes the witcher looming over him in the face with a wall of water
the witcher lets out a growl that is the most terrifying sound maria has ever heard in her life, but apparently doesn’t manage to intimidate the bard in the slightest, because the sound only makes him cackle in delight
“Just accept your defeat, Geralt” he calls, “clearly my skills have only improved in our time apart”
the witcher rolls his eyes and an expression crosses his face that maria can only define as fond
the bard’s smile grows wider, “do you concede? does the great white wolf admit defeat to the bard jaskier? oh the songs I will write about today’s epic battle-”
he is cut off by the witcher’s flying tackle and comes up sputtering for air,
“oh, it is on!”
maria watches as the two men go tumbling through the water, disturbing fish and a few errant turtles as they go
waves of water are splashed across the surface and a series of playful insults are exchanged
this is the most entertainment maria has had in years, decades even, and she finds herself charmed by the witcher and the bard’s boyish actions
she settles in by a nearby tree and tries to determine who is the more likely person to emerge the victor of this fierce battle. her money is on the witcher, who although is just about the same height as the bard, has at least twenty pounds of muscle more
imagine her surprise when ten minutes later, the bard drags the witcher to shore by a handful of his hair and pins him to the sand with his entire body weight
she’s less surprised when neither of them make the move to stand back up, watching with wide eyes as they share the sweetest kiss she’s ever seen in her life
maria stands, brushing the dirt and grass off of her dress. she’s seen enough today, and as hands start to wander away to lower places she picks up her pace
she’s seen a witcher and a bard play in the water like children, but she definitely doesn’t need to see what happens after
it’s fun to imagine geralt as a human because before kaer morhen he was bright and had sunny smiles and loved nature and even after the trials he has the soul of a romantic, he wanted to be a hero and a knight, saving people.
non-witcher geralt is just such a fun concept to imagine, especially if we add jaskier to the mix. imagine the sheer beauty and brightness of those two people
