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Hello, I am gremble. I am a fandom cryptid who comes out with new content once in a blue moon.

DREAM DADDY (MY TRUEST LOVE)

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood - Robert/Dadsona, 112k words, the slowest of slow burns, because "men having emotions that they don't know how to deal with" is my JAM.

ddads primer, which will equip you with everything you need to know in order to read my fic.

gremble's favorite meta on ddads (and I wrote a lot of it)

WITCHER SHIT

And then when ddads fandom was dead, I somehow stumbled into the Witcher, and apparently Geralt/Jaskier is where I live now.

FICS

For the Asking -- Warlord AU that began as a thought-exercise into what Geralt's side of the story looked like in @inexplicifics' “With a Conquering Air," and then turned into 55k words of pining and fantasy politicking.

“That Uncertain Season” -- A short 9k spinoff of "For the Asking," looking at that power imbalance from Jaskier’s angle, and exploring a different way that their relationship could have developed.

A Song of Selfish Hearts -- aka "the tropey amnesia fic" -- in which Geralt loses a chunk of his memories, meets a handsy bard, and comes to the obvious conclusion: that somewhere along the way, he apparently lost his godsdamned mind and decided to take a human lover on the Path with him.

META

I enjoy discussing the ways in which The Witcher Netflix disappointed me. 😊

In my capacity as a leather armor-maker, I’ve discussed the costuming. (And here, have some pictures of gremble in Geralt's armor)

AND ALSO I DID THAT ONE DRESDEN FIC LIKE TEN YEARS AGO

Enemy Mine -- Dresden Files, 120k, Harry Dresden/John Marcone -- Reads like a Dresden Files novel, with ensemble cast & complicated plot, but more gay shit.

PODFICS

My podfics are on AO3 under the gremble-pods pseud.

Lol I have already written the exact meta you're looking for.

(I actually wrote a fuckton of ddads meta back in the day, but yeah, tumblr doesn't make it easy to wade through the archives and find these things.)

And yay! I love that game so much, and I love that fic so much, and I'm delighted to have a small influx of new people into both. 😊

(Witcher folks, I promise I will circle back round to SOSH once the ddads stuff is wrapped up! If nothing else, this should be proof of concept that I do finish my fics eventually..... it just might take three years. 😅)

HAH, it really is. I love Robert to the moon and back, but he is a piece of work sometimes. 😬 There's a reason he's single when you meet him.

And not to spoil what's coming in the hookup AU, but some of those lyrics are kind of prescient. 🤣

Fanbinding! A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Someone asked if they could do a binding of it, and I was like, Lol funny story, I have actually formatted it for print already. So here it is, for anyone who’s interested:

Sequential pages - for reading on your computer, or sending to a print-on-demand service.

DIY bookbinding version - pages are arranged for printing in three-sheet (twelve-page) signatures.

That should all be in working order -- if it’s not, please let me know so I can fix it. ✌

Title: Troy Burning Author: gremble Chapters: 1/5 Fandom: Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator Rating: Explicit Relationships: Robert Small/Dadsona Additional Tags: fuckbuddies to lovers, bad decisions, bad coping mechanisms, bad mexican food, but great sex!, D/s overtones, though let’s be honest, the s is the one calling the shots here, angst with a happy ending

Summary: In which Gene had the presence of mind to say yes—and it was a mistake. (aka, the trashy-hookup AU of A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood)

Anyone potentially interested in beta-reading for the trashy hookup AU? 

By which I mean that you agree to obsess over the blorbos with me, not just read it once, tell me “it’s good,” and then fuck off. (And you don’t need to try to con your way into early-access, because the first chapter is going up probably tomorrow. 🤣)

Anyway, DM me if you want to talk blorbos. ✌

WELL, FRIENDO, YOU ARE IN LUCK !

Come back in a few more days and I should have the first chapter of the trashy hookup AU up too. 😁

(And I am SO STOKED to finally be able to share that one -- it's a funny, smutty, angsty fuckbuddies-to-lovers high-energy rollercoaster. I just didn't want to post it until after I'd finished the canon, as it were, because their dynamic is VERY different in the hookup AU (it's uh, the Bad Timeline), and I didn't want their AU characterizations kicking around in people's heads while they were reading the last chapter of Beautiful Day.)

And now that the last chapter is finally posted, y’all get to see the picture of the dog named Kitty that I have been holding onto for literal years. 🤣 Kitty on the left, out making trouble with Duchess Cordelia.

AT LONG LAST, IT IS DONE, FOLKS.

I swear, ever since the Hemsworthening, I feel like every time I learn something new about this show I'm checking the date, all, is it April Fools again already? Look at the URL, because surely this is a satire site? Is there a camera, am I being punk'd? Am I having a stroke?? Those sure are some words they said in some order!

I made my peace with the Radovid thing -- I went and breathed into a paper bag for a bit, and remembered that everything feels catastrophic when you're running on three hours of sleep, and also that (1) game-Radovid != book-Radovid and (2) LOL, IT'S NOT LIKE TWN IS FAITHFUL TO BOOK-CANON EITHER!

Reading what they've said about it so far, it really sounds like they just made up an OC to ship Jaskier with (probably hoping The Gays would SHUT UP ABOUT GERASKIER, SHUT UP ABOUT GERASKIER) and named him Radovid, and he's going to bear no resemblance whatsoever to any previous Radovids who may have appeared in this franchise.

Which again begs the question of whyyyyyyy did they not just invent a new guy?? Why THIS GUY, of ALL GUYS, to arbitrarily assign as Jaskier's love interest, since it's a pairing with no basis in any canon, a pairing that book-fans met with polite confusion and game-fans met with visceral repulsion.

Even if TWN Radovid winds up being a completely new character, as I expect he will, it's still baffling. The showrunners know that a good portion of their viewer base is coming from the game -- they have been actively courting the Witcher III crowd in their marketing since the get-go -- so even if the only thing the Radovids have in common is their name, why choose to evoke a character with such utterly rancid associations? And then repurpose him as a love interest for Jaskier, of all people? o_O

idek, man.

The curse of knowledge, I suppose -- because if I weren't familiar with game-Radovid, I could be out there partying with all the people who are just like, BI JASKIER CONFIRMED, WOO HOO!! 🎉🎉

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If Jaskier is sapiosexual then he should be climbing Dijkstra like a fuckin’ tree, is all I’m saying. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯