Julian Alfred Pankratz - Blog Posts

[MASTERPOST] I drew their first meeting ages ago, and nowadays I love to draw Jaskier as a bamf (as is it is further along the story), but never forget that this is the Jaskier Geralt initially met and fell in love with befriended!

Do you think Jaskier’s lovers from before he was a travelling bard called him Jules? (Short for Julian) bc I think about this more than I should

Jaskier once asked someone to run away with him and we all know how that turned out

Now someone is asking Jaskier to run away with them. Do you know how much this could mean to Jaskier? So much, however I'm thinking that him wanting to find his family is not the only reason he didn't ditch on the spot. I think he was afraid he would do what Geralt did to him. Anyway thanks for coming to my emotional wreckage Ted Talk

Did I just post a radskier one shot? Yes yes I did. Did it take me shamefully long? Also yes. Is this a shameless plug for my fanfic? No, more of a shameful plug, anyway, Ao3 in the Witcher one shot book by Marvel_4_life7, same thing on Wattpad (I also might reblog this with it there later)

I was just scrolling through Jaskier fan art, and I had a thought- Jaskier playing Master of Puppets, or any rock song for that matter, on the lute-

FERAL- I- HOW- HOW IS HE SO-

That part of the Ride of the Witcher, GOING FERAL

The Witcher characters as lyrics from The Old Witch Sleep and the Good Man Grace because it's currently my favorite song

No caption. Just take the art.

The Witcher Headcanon Master Post - Part 1

I finally went and did it! I finally got around to compiling all my currently completed Witcher Headcanons into one Master Post. I'm not including the Baby!Jaskier Interludes for the Trouble Headcanon because they are not finished yet. I have more in the works, so those will go in a separate post when they are ready!

Note: I've had a few helpful users point out that I don’t need to censor curse words and swears. I know I don't have to on tumblr, but it's a personal preference/choice. I don't have a problem with other people using that kind of language, I just choose not to use it myself.

Anyway, happy reading!

Regular Headcanons

Fair

Chords

Adjustments

Yenskier

Gratuitous Jaskier Whump

Fun With Music

Eskel's New Scar

Soft!Yennefer Master Post

Soft!Jaskier Master Post

Chaotic Sibling Things

Signing

Wolf Greeting

Winter Games

Relationships

Ceremonies

Sounds Master Post

Hair Care Master Post

Learning The Hard Way

Trouble Master Post

The Splinter

Modern Day AU Headcanons

Battle Cries Master Post

Attachment Objects

Dad!Geralt and Dancing

A Quick Witcher Imagine

Geralt's Van Master Post

Error 404 Brain Not Found

Mind Games Master Post

Video Bombing

Caller ID Master Post

Fighting Master Post

Currently obsessed with the idea of a Jaskier’s-immortal, it’s-modern-times-now AU where some of Jaskier’s songs have survived to the modern day. They’re not like, widely sung or anything, but people know they exist. Most of them survived as scribbled lyrics but in one or two cases the music survived as well. Those get sung at ren faires by the REALLY dedicated people.

And like, some of them are barely even the same songs anymore- verses got added and changed and lost over the years, somebody added a The Moral of This Story Is verse to “Toss a Coin” like a century after Jaskier wrote it and to the horror of everyone involved, it stuck, the second verse of “Her Sweet Kiss” got lost to time aside from the first line, so everybody knows it’s supposed to be there but nobody knows what it was-

The academic debates surrounding these songs are furious and intense. People kinda know who Jaskier was, in the sense of “we know there was a bard, at about this time, named Jaskier. We know when he was born, he flits in and out of the historical record for close to a century, and we can attribute these seven songs to him.” But then you’ve got the people saying “these songs are autobiographical and we can work out the details of his life from them” vs. camp “he was clearly just making shit up,” you’ve got Shakespeare-style authorship debates (”these other ten songs were also his!” “this song is weird and bad so clearly he didn’t write it!” “this song is weird and bad and that’s probably because it’s the earliest song we have from him!” “Jaskier didn’t write his own music!”), you’ve got some historians who study witchers very politely asking if they can play with the songs for a minute-

So. Many. Theses. Have been written about “Her Sweet Kiss,” with subjects ranging from “how many people is this song about, actually? Two? three? four?” to “who were these people to each other” to “can we pin down specific historical figures for these people” 

Meanwhile Jaskier’s a super obscure indie musician who occasionally tweets things like “The subject of whether or not I am gay is the subject of much scholarly debate. This isn’t just invasive, it’s stupid, if you’ve heard any of my songs you know I’m bi” and has REALLY STRONG OPINIONS on what those obscure, seven-century old ballads are about.

He sings “Her Sweet Kiss” at some open mic night and everybody’s like “Oh, that’s cool, you made up a second verse” while he grumbles under his breath that he made up the first verse, too, but nobody ever gives him credit for it these days

Jaskier: *singing about the conjunction and using specific names*

Everyone: “There goes Jaskier, making his characters again”

Vesemir (who knows the actual story of the conjunction and how Witchers were made): “bitch what the ACTUAL FUCK?”