Formerly delirieuse. He/him. 40-something disabled queer. Also jackironsides on AO3. I have a ko-fi (sindesiecle) that you can donate to instead of telling me my identity is a slur.
Hello! Welcome to my pinned post. I update this as I go, so if youâre seeing it on a reblog, you might find extra fic links in the one on my blog.
FYI, I write a lot of comments and jokes in the tags. I love it when people enjoy them enough to include them in the reblogs (like I cannot express how much), but Iâd prefer if you could attach my username to it, whether itâs just adding (via @jackironsides) or whatever. Itâs clear to anyone seeing it on your blog, but Iâve seen my tags circulating unattributed on posts that have like six more reblogs after them often enough, and it makes me sad. I toiled hard in the joke mines for those, dammit.
If youâre interested in my fic, the tag is, obscurely enough, #my fic. Also my AO3 is jackironsides. Below the cut at the bottom of this post is the current list of my main WIPs that are being posted here, which are (mostly) not yet on AO3. Theyâre all Geraskier Witcher fics.
I have chronic pain, chronic fatigue, ADHD and histamine issues, and sometimes I talk about this.
Tags to blacklist
If you have any kind of issues with disordered eating, or you find it upsetting, you might want to blacklist the tag #disordered eating, because thatâs what I talk about my difficulties with food sometimes, such as the bad days when making food is hard bc of my chronic fatigue, or ADHD, or both. Or the ways Iâve had to heavily restrict my diet for chronic illness reasons.
I have a tag called #bitch session, which is for when Iâm grumpy and probably being petty, or just want to complain about how Hard things are in that moment. Feel free to block it.
Below the cut is my list of WIPs (with links!) and meta. x
WIPs
For Flowers May Fly If They Wish (part two): the semi-platonic sex pollen fic. The rest coming soon! It needs editing.
I Need No One (parts two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven): Sequel to Weâre Not Friends. Geraltâs perspective on his friendship with Jaskier.
Donât Let Me In With No Intention to Keep Me (part two, part three, final): sequel to Honey, Thatâs How It Sleeps. Geralt takes Jaskier to Kaer Morhen, where the wolf witchers spend the winters nesting. Geralt is definitely not having any urges about wanting to drag Jaskier into his pile of soft things.
To Become the Waterâs Foam (MerMay fic. chapters one part 2, two, three, four, five, six, seven): Geralt gets sent into a bubble of magic where he finds Jaskier as a merman who seems to already know a different version of him. Also now on AO3.
Donât You Know You Canât Go Home Again (part two, part three): Jaskier has a large, happy family; fake dating
A Scientific Treatise on Witchering (contents page here with the first part of chapter three coming; the first two chapters archived on AO3 here): After the Mountain, Jaskier gets drawn into monster hunting against his will
Cuckoo (parts two, three, four, five, six): Jaskier gets forcibly taken home to Lettenhove. Geralt follows to find out what Jaskier has been keeping secret.
Afterword (part two, part three, part four, part five): The third fourth part in the series of the Kaer Morhen Book Club, where Jaskier has secretly been writing romance novels about witchers. Part two is an interlude focusing on Lambert called Starcrossed.
Ball Games (part two, part three): The one where Jaskier takes Essiâs place at a ball. Complete with dress.
The Narnia fic (part two): crossover AU. Ciri has just found herself in a mysterious other world, and meets a blue-eyed faun.
WIPs on a bit of a hiatus right now:
The True Art of Swordsmanship (parts two, three, four): Geralt tries to teach Jaskier to fight; both attempt not to self-combust from suppressed desire
Folkie Jaskier (parts two, three, four): Modern-day AU where Oxford PhD student Jaskier decides to run off after a witcher to avoid completing his D.Phil in early music.
Outswing: Modern-day AU where Geralt is a ballet dancer, Jaskier is a cricketer, and they go on Dancing With the Stars.
Park Ranger Geralt (part two): AU. Geralt has to show Jaskier, a TV presenter, around the national park where he works
This is last yearâs post running down many of my WIPs and giving little blurbs of them. Some of these havenât been posted yet, but I often still talk about the progress Iâm making in my #liveblogging my fic because reasons tag. This is this yearâs WIP list, which also includes some excerpts of stuff Iâm working on.
You can find my finished stories up on AO3 (same username as here), although these are some little ficlets that arenât up there:
A Victorian circus AU (which will hopefully turn into a full fic at some point)
Geraltâs Companion
Unmanned
Lacquered
Jaskierâs lute case
âThatâs not your name.â
Jaskier went to seminary school
Seminary school sequel, where Jaskier gets into trouble with the Eternal Flame
The one where Jaskier is the Abhorsen (probably going to turn into a full fic at some stage)
âMake me three more shirts,â he says, âjust like this one.â
The dragon ships it.
âI was under a curse at the time and was unable to consent to any contract.â
What if the Drones Club were a gay gentlemenâs club like the Hundred Guineas? (Jeeves & Wooster)
âI thought that witchers didnât have dĂŠmons.â
A Victorian AU for The Witcher where Dandelion becomes an Aesthete (which I am absolutely going to have to turn into a full fic once my WIP list is shorter)
I also have a fic-only blog now, at @jackironsidesfic, which would be the easiest way of keeping up with fic updates.
Iâve written a bunch of meta, mostly for The Witcher. It can be found at #my meta, and Iâve got a #my fic meta tag for meta about stuff Iâve written. Thereâs also #how to write a bard for me exploring things that people might not know about music/musicians etc. These are some of the meta Iâm proudest of:
The Sad Silk Trader
Geralt is a Moral Person
Steve Rogers v. Yennefer of Vengerburg: Disability Rep and Erasure v. Fantasy
Just Call It A Shirt (Itâs Historically Accurate, I Promise)
Doublets Donât Have Laces Please God Stop Saying They Do (okay, this is less one Iâm âproudâ of than one about something which gets under my skin)
(Netflix) Jaskier might be a tenor, but Joey is a baritone
I have chronic pain, chronic fatigue, ADHD and histamine issues, and sometimes I talk about this.
Tags to blacklist
If you have any kind of issues with disordered eating, or you find it upsetting, you might want to blacklist the tag #disordered eating, because thatâs what I talk about my difficulties with food sometimes, such as the bad days when making food is hard bc of my chronic fatigue, or ADHD, or both. Or the ways Iâve had to heavily restrict my diet for chronic illness reasons.
I have a tag called #bitch session, which is for when Iâm grumpy and probably being petty, or just want to complain about how Hard things are in that moment. Feel free to block it.
What really fucks me up about people calling trans men who talk about transandrophobia MRAs and gamergaters is that the main feature of those hate movements was blaming women for all their issues and building hate campaigns around that, I-
Genuinely genuinely - with all the love in my heart - none of the big initial posts that started all this (from nothorses, st-dionysus, doberbutts etc) claim anything about transmisogyny! Literally all they were saying was hey, I have experienced x, y and z and I would like to talk about a, b and c because I don't see it discussed a lot
Like, nobody claimed they were "more oppressed" than transfems or that transfems are in any way involved with the issues they face, like, literally that is a whole new sentence help
I know it sounds like an insult, but, like, it's not about you
"But the term implies-" SHUT THE FUCK UP! That's a bullshit semantic argument and you know it. Do you go around saying "bi means two!" at bisexuals? Grow up.
One year ago today I posted this practically shot Iron Giant photo I created using real figures, lighting, miniature sets & my trusty old tin foil for water technique & cotton wool for the splashes.
it really is quite bad for your military to have an image of itself as a warrior class. what you really want is for your soldiers to think of themselves as boring professionals who will fill out a report form if someone gets a little too warrior ethos out there
on âthe blond,â âthe older man,â and other crimes against third-person limited
You know that thing where a story is written in tight third person limited â weâre meant to be inside someoneâs head, seeing the world through their thoughts â and then suddenly the narration says âthe blond frownedâ or âthe shorter woman sighedâ about a person the POV character knows really well?
Thatâs called antonomasia â using a descriptive label instead of a name. And itâs fine when weâre talking about strangers: âthe cashier handed her the receipt,â âthe tall guy blocked the door.â The POV character doesnât know their names, and we just need a quick way to tell people apart.
But the moment itâs used for someone the POV character already knows, it breaks immersion. Because thatâs not how our minds work. We donât think âthe older man smiled at me.â We think âMark smiled.â Or maybe âmy bossâ if that relationship matters in the moment.
Third person limited means the narration sits inside someoneâs perception. Their inner monologue is the storyâs voice. So when you switch from âMark smiledâ to âthe blond smiled,â youâve pulled the camera away from their mind and turned it into an outside shot.
If you want to create distance or irritation, you can do it on purpose â
âThe idiot from accounting emailed again.â
Thatâs character voice. Thatâs judgment. That works.
But otherwise?
As soon as your POV character knows someoneâs name, use it. While we do tend to worry about repetitions, names rarely register as such to the readers.
If you need variety for rhythm, use relational or emotional identifiers that make sense in their head: her friend, his partner, their teacher, the person they loved.
Because inside someoneâs thoughts, there are no âblondsâ or âbrunettes.â
'#counterpoint: you can use something that isn't their name if it's how the POV character would think of them#AND relevant to the scene/story#'their mother said' 'the other man yelled' etc#you do get I think a good sense for this if you read and write enough? but maybe that was just me#knowing the formal rules for it is good but like all rules they're not hard and fast and you can break them if you know what you're doing' adding this but i don't see it as counterpoint so much as refinement of what the post said, that the relationship to the subject changes what it means & what happens internally
happy disability pride month and once again, FUCK lazy subtitles. fuck the [speaks foreign language] instead of actually transcribing the words, fuck shortening sentences and changing whats been said for no reason, fuck censoring swearing in captions but not in audio and fuck anyone who says youre being 'too sensitive' for being upset about a lack of accessibility
"One breath and you are at the hiveâs threshold, where smoke, wax, and honey conspire into alchemy. A fragrance of sun-baked wood and warm beeswax, buttery, gold, and dense with the ghost of a hundred flowers. The beesâ own musk rises in the air, intimate and unmistakably alive. Honey follows in a deep glow that transcends simple sweetness. Soft puffs of smoke curl in, dry and calming, turning the air velvety and strange. Roll initiative."
Namaygoosisagagun First Nation/Collins has burned to the ground. The entire community is nothing but ashes after being quickly consumed by wildfires. They did not have any support from emergency services, and no one offered aid. The community saved themselves by escaping into boats because no one came.
Mishkeegogamang and Cat Lake have lost power. Families are ending up in shelters with nothing. Armstrong, Lac La Croix, Whitesand, Gull Bay, Lac des Mille Lacs are currently in the fires path and all members are being evacuated.
All this loss, all this devastation, and it was entirely preventable.
After steadily underfunding wildland firefighting and purposefully excluding Indigenous wildland firefighters and Indigenous wildfire organizations from wildfire operations, firefighter training, decisionmaking, and resource exchanges, in 2025, Doug Ford slashed the forest firefighting budget.
It's hard to ignore his decision to cut funding and leave us out of adequate fire training (even though we've lived with forest fires for thousands of yearsâfar longer than settlers have been in Canadaâand made sure fires like the ones we're all seeing today were prevented through kinisitotÄn) when, despite making up less than 5% of the population, we account for 42% percent of all wildfire evacuations in Canada.
And when we are successfully evacuated, we face discrimination and racismâlike Kashechewanâbecause it's always been easier to blame us than it is to blame the true culprit: denialism, corportate greed, and colonization.
The people of Collins and every other impacted community deserve better.
Right now, the AFN is currently accepting donations to help Collins First Nation. If you're able to, please consider donating.
ONWA (Ontario Native Women's Association) is another great place to donate to. They have outreach vans going to motels and inns and offering food, water, resources, and cultural support to those impacted by the wildfires.
Other places to consider donating to are Mikinakoos Emergency Fund, Red Cross, True North Aid, Indigenous Climate Action. You can also send donations directly to Whitesand First Nation via e-transfer ([email protected]) and they request that you add your full name in the e-transfer comment section to receive a tax receipt.
*Before sending money, verify that the appeal appears on an official First Nation, Tribal Council or registered charity channel.
If you can't offer financial support, please consider donating items of need. Moontime Connections is currently accepting drop-off donations. If you live in the Thunder Bay area, Namaygoosisagagun Health Office is also taking in donations! They can also bemailed to Superior Inn Hotel & Conference Centre at 555 West Arthur Street, Thunder Bay, ON, P7E 5P8.
âA tasty little cookie never gave me explosive diarrhea!â âAn iced coffee and gossiping with my friends never gave me explosive diarrhea.â âIâll just stick to my charcuterie boards, those never gave me explosive diarrhea.â
1) Baby we are not the same. I have two GI conditions. A stiff breeze from the wrong direction can give me explosive diarrhea
2) Food poisoning/foodborne illness can take days after consuming the contaminated food to show up, so itâs actually quite difficult to pinpoint the culprit. You canât know for sure that some spoiled oat milk in that iced coffee a week ago WASNâT the source of your gastrointestinal affliction
I think we apply conspiratorial thinking to things way more than we should (though I think the basleine for conspiracies we should believe in is zero in general), from individuals to large scale ideas. Most people are not thinking about the specific ways to hurt someone or a group of people as much as possible, they simply don't care when that harm happens.
Most abusers are not doing math in their head to figure out the perfect way to manipulate their victims, they're just self-centered and cruel and they take advantage of opportunities that present themselves. Most abusers are not thinking "these are the steps I need to take to isolate my partner/child/friend/etc from everyone but me", they're just possessive and controlling in general.
In the same vein, most corporations are not thinking up ways to poison water sources or put lead into food or make cars more dangerous to drive; those things are just the consequences of cutting safety measures and labor rights to make a profit and corporations care more about the money they make than the harm being done, especially when the only consequences are a slap on the wrist. Marginalized groups are hurt the worst by this not because there is a targeted effort to wipe us all out but because we are simply not valued by society as a whole.
It's very easy to fall into this mindset because we don't want to think that our pain is often just a side effect of someone's actions, but the reality is that there isn't some grand conspiracy or a huge chunk of our society who are evil geniuses solely dedicated to hurting people. Most people are just. . . selfish and cruel and more focused on themselves than on how they're hurting other people. There is no shadowy group of people steepling their fingers as they plan their next waste plant to deliberately poison a town's lake. That just isn't what's happening.
