Winter_thoughts
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Catharsis by Rilirili
Fandoms: The Witcher (TV), Wiedźmin | The Witcher (Video Game), Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
27 Nov 2025
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Summary
Yennefer has been a member of the Thanedd's Wolves for nearly ten years. She desperately wants to quit, but perhaps her boss Geralt doesn't entirely have her best interests at heart. When she meets Tissaia during an adrenalin filled morning, she's overcome with shock and awe. Tissaia, an internist who seems to have her life perfectly in order, inspires her to restart her life and become the person she wants to be - but all is not as it seems and the road is long and filled with many horrors and challenges for both of them.
This story explores some heavy themes such as anger, murder, both committing and being a victim of (sexual-) violence, PTSD and abandonment. It is written from the perspective of the characters who may not always have and/or use the right words. Please mind the tags.
Bookmarked by Winter_thoughts
01 Jun 2023
Bookmarker's Notes
One of the most well written fanfics out there. The way the author chooses to weave in and out of unwanted / intrusive and "normal" thoughts is so uncannily similar to what i know it feels like, makes me feel all kinds of emotions deep in my gut. I hate how well depicted tissaia's situation is and just how much i relate to her incessant need to both blame herself and try her best to just survive, to just reach the next minute/hour/day safely. Yennefer's character is a person i never thought could exist, she is so angel-esque in her care and so human in her hurt, it gives me whiplash. One moment ahe is a fucked up kid who doesn't know what the world wants from her, and the next she is at tissaia's side very well aware of the fact that no matter what she would be there for her and that most of all she would keep her safe.
I eagerly with all my heart hope the lovely author decides to update soon because i don't think i will be able to live without these two for more than a month. I desperately need things to be resolved, i desperately need tissaia to find the solace she deserves, and for yennefer to just be happy and peaceful for once.
(Read again when in need of real life gut wrenching hurt, when in need of a reminder that people can be shitty, stupid, angry, crazy and still find love/ still be amazing human beings at the end of the day, read when in need to tissaia and yennefer being us against the world but still taking the slow road by each other's side and finding themselves through tough conversations with friends, with each other, and with themselves)
PS:
Dear author,
If you're reading this somehow, know that i left this bookmark public(i never would ever) in hopes you read this and know how much i appreciate this piece of literal art that you have produced,
i love you so much and wish you the bestest for life and writing ahead,
and also maybe i extend this essay as encouragement for your writing, in selfish hopes of getting an update faster😭😭~A newly addicted,
Winter_thoughts.