They're mainly Geraskier, so I only specified when a fic is about other ships!
Sorted from shortest to longest:
PWP: Purring without plot by @briannorelfhunter
3k, rated G, Geralt's horrific self-worth issues
Geralt purrs in front of Jaskier then panics. Jaskier shows him it’s ok to be soft.
over and over and over and over again by justbekind
4k, rated T, angst with a happy ending
Jaskier gets hurt protecting Geralt. Specifically, his hands get hurt.
Performance Practicum by @brighteyedjill, Poluche
4k, rated T, angst with a happy ending
As Jaskier lectures about the many artistic liberties he takes with the truth, who should show up but the subject of Jaskier’s recent, regrettable song, “Burn, Butcher, Burn?”
spare change(s) by @penandinkprincess
7k, rated T, emotional hurt/comfort
It's a silly, silly thing, to keep the first coin Geralt gave him. It's a foolish, sentimental show of whimsy to hold onto a bit of metal that the witcher likely forgot about the second it left his hand. There's no point in keeping it. None at all. It would be absurd to hold onto it when it could be better spent on ale or bread or doublets.
Jaskier sews it a special pocket in his bag. (Jaskier's life changed the day Geralt left him that coin. How could he NOT keep it?)
Ribs Cracked Open, A Home Made Within by @crownofstardustandbone
10k, rated E, Fluff and Smut, Getting Together
For Geralt, the Trials brought not just strength and speed but an acute sensitivity to the world around him that, at the worst, left him in agony at the mere brush of a hand against his. Vesemir had trained him to withstand it, to be strong, to endure every touch and injury until he could master the sensitivity and exist in a world that despises him. And then he'd met Jaskier and everything had changed.
Incubus Jaskier / What I Will Take by lilolilyrae
11k, rated E, author chose not to use archive warnings
Jaskier had always been good at hiding his true nature from everyone. Until a certain Witcher comes along who he really wants to spend more than a mortal lifetime with...
Love Me Better, Send A Letter by @rebrandedbard
12k, rated T, modern AU, angst with a happy ending
Geralt and Julian have been exchanging letters since high school, and Geralt has been pining away for Julian for over a decade. Finally, Julian has time for a visit, and Geralt has the chance to finally introduce Ciri to the man she knows only on paper. Things would be perfect ... if Julian's visit didn't fall within the week of the concert of Ciri's favorite musician, Jaskier.
It’s a tradition the three of them hold. Whenever one of them finds a book of the right kind, he brings it back to Kaer Morhen to share with the others. They keep the books on a shelf in the library that they inexpertly installed themselves.
Or: Jaskier is a romance novelist, and Geralt finds out.
of bards and witches and witchers by WriteThroughTheNight
18k, rated T, Jaskier & Yennefer are Siblings
When Jaskier was four, he slipped his mother’s watch and went to the field to gather a bouquet of dandelions. He climbed back into the yard, as stealthy as a child really cared to be, and crept over to the barn. In the barn, lived a secret. (The man he thought his father said the secret was a monster, a plague. His mother said the secret was his sister.)
when you feel bad about what you've done by ollyollyoxenfree
18k, rated T, slow burn, hurt/comfort
Geralt feels super bad about everything he said on the mountain and is EXPECTING a huge blowup from Jaskier, but then Jaskier just forgives and forgets like it's nothing and they're travelling together again like usual and why does Geralt still feel kinda shitty about all this?
and i plan to be forgotten when i'm gone (yes i'll be leaving in the fall) by stockholm_syndrom
19k, rated M, creator chose not to use archive warnings
Jaskier is cursed to turn into a monster. He doesn't think this is important information to mention.
Cold Fingers Trailing Warmth by @sparrowrising
22k, rated M, angst, slow burn, graphic violence
Geralt's so touch deprived, his skin hunger is so bad, he unconciously soothes himself to sleep by replicating the feeling of someone else touching him, touching patches of skin that likely havent been touched in years.
Weakness of the heart by Anneku
38k, rated M, hurt/comfort, graphic violence
Geralt tried so hard not to get attached or even get close to humans. Vesemir had drilled into them nothing good would come of it. Such things are a weakness and a weak witcher is a dead one. Though how come this bard seems to contradict everything Geralt thought he knew. Jaskier is weak in every definition he'd been taught.
Echoes of Memory by KittenKakt
40k, rated E, canon typical injury
Geralt loses his memory and needs to figure out how he acquired a bard of all things. Most importantly, he must figure out how to keep him.
Truth in Melody by jazzmckay
77k, rated E, angst with a happy ending
Several years ago, Geralt deposed a Koviri duke, and accidentally became a warlord. Jaskier, bard and agent of the Redanian Secret Service, has been sent to Kaer Morhen under the guise of being given as tribute. In truth, his assignment is to learn the White Wolf's secrets and send them back to his home kingdom.
Wolfblood / Must Brave The Thorns by @inexplicifics
264k wip series, rated E, Lambert/OfC, Geralt/Eskel
Twenty years ago, the Warlord of the North came down out of the mountains and slew the king of Kaedwen, taking crown and kingdom for his own. To seal a new treaty between Redania and the Warlord, Lady Milena de Roggeven has been sent to marry whichever of the Warlord’s men he chooses.
The Accidental Warlord and His Pack by @inexplicifics
Warlord!Geralt receives Tribute!Jaskier as a sacrifice to appease him in every way possible. Jaskier has no choice on the matter and he’s fully aware of the awful rumours that have spread about Geralt and his ruthless conquests. (But we all know those aren’t legit.)
You can also find these and more fic recs in my Ao3 bookmarks!
Does the Queen of Cups (Upright) fit Milena of Kaer Morhen, a.k.a. Milena de Roggeven (Accidental Warlord AU)?
Yes, this is the perfect card for her!
This fits her well enough.
No, another Cups card would work better.
No, another card entirely would work better.
I don't have enough information to say (Results)
Voting ended onJul 7, 2025
Placeholder image of author's pfp used unless and until I can find a better image.
The Queen of Cups represents mature femininity, emotional security, warmth, kindness, and empathy. Reversed, it indicates immaturity, frivolity, selfishness, manipulation, and depression.
Propaganda (courtesy of Moddie)- "Milena is such a compelling character and I love it. She's a traditionally feminine woman who helps provide a good female role model for Ciri, but that doesn't stop her from learning to defend herself, and it never leads her to any conflict with less traditionally-feminine characters like Zofia or Shrike. She is completely and utterly in love with Lambert but never tries to stop him from doing what he wants- instead, the two of them are solid supports for each other and love each other for who they are, warts and all. She's one of the most respected members in the keep not for being Ciri's lady-in-waiting, but because she brings a calm, warm, gentle air with her. She's all the best traits of femininity in a single person without devaluing or denigrating those who don't fit into the same role she does, and she's possibly one of my favorite female characters ever."
Other Notes- "Go read the Accidental Warlord AU right now, it's amazing. I don't care if you're not a fan of The Witcher, read it anyway. You don't even need to know anything about The Witcher franchise, everything that you have to know is explained in the text or can be inferred from context clues. The prose is amazing, the character writing is phenomenal, the plot is engaging, and there's a little bit of everything- angst, fluff, crack, suspense, action, smut, you want it, you got it. There's a reason this series has nearly five hundred works inspired by it- it's legitimately one of the best works of fiction you will ever read."
I felt inspired by the coin asks so I drew some of the designs that people mentioned. As someone who is studying to be a historian I really liked designing them, because coins were a wonderful way to spread propaganda, and it’s very telling what people put on them. Just putting the lute as a symbol for Jaskier on one side would have been a very telling message about how important Jaskier is to Geralt.
Also maybe the coins with the Witcher school designs could be dispersed in the areas that the schools were before they all came to Kear Morhen.
@inexplicifics 's most recently published chapter in Like Stones in a Running Stream has a single stanza written for one of Jaskier's songs that is so vividly well written that i could hear the melodies that i grew up with almost immediately. Im not particularly talented with instruments beyond banging a hand to the rhythm and my voice is occasionally nonexistent on my bad days but i had to. Blame the former theater kid that is a much younger with less scar tissue in their lungs me.
(A side note. The background noises are me making coffee. I wasn't prepared to be recorded at the time lol.)
The lord swore up, the lord swore down, the lord swore far and near / that not an elf in Ghelibol would come to harm that year / the lord he swore and blustered so and this is why he died: / the lord of Ghelibol that burned, he lied, he lied, he lied.
Summary: Jaskier arrives at Kaer Morhen knowing his family gave him up without a second thought, and absolutely sure that the dreaded Warlord of the North will value him even less than his own blood did. But the White Wolf and his pack are not what Jaskier expected...and if he's unreasonably lucky, Kaer Morhen might become far more of a home than Lettenhove ever was.
...He is, in fact, going to be unreasonably lucky, because the Warlord of the North is a far finer monarch - and a far better man - than Redania's king has ever dreamed of being.
Submitter Notes: This is the first fic in an amazing and long ongoing series, the author is incredibly skilled and I frequently go back and reread their works.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/23273713
https://archiveofourown.org/works/23273713
Yesssss. YESSSSSSS. AWAU is a must read! One of those fics so good it has its own fanfics, you know? Permanently altered my perception of characters.
