#my geraskier

[lilolilyr]

What I've been reading March 2025

January • February • 2024

I have read 5 million words in fanfic this month :D and also, I've surpassed 4k bookmarks on Ao3! 50 of them are my March Fic Recs!

The Geraskier obsession that had me in its grasp since reading the Accidental Warlord in February is still going strong, and the first weeks of march I really read nothing but Witcher fics! Now I've branched out a bit again through bookmark surfing (reading everything a fic author has written, then going to their bookmarks and reading them all, going to the author of the best one, rinse and repeat), and I've also read some James Bond 00Q, Marvel mainly ClintCoulson, NCIS Tibbs and H50 McDanno! Very slash heavy last month for main ships, I also ended up reading a bunch of femslash rarepairs in basically all of the fandoms I was reading in, looks like it might be time to get back to more of that xD probably Avorah, what with the new season of Hacks coming out soon!

When it comes to books, I've really just continued the bird book from the month before - made it to page 100 before I had to bring it back to the library last week. I'll for sure borrow it again! Check out this pretty illustration:

Whose fic I read is a lot more spread out than last month (tho some Witcher repeats, & I'm not spam tagging ppl who I've already tagged last month xD I'm not sure anyone but me cares about these stats anyway but I do like to give a little shoutout to everyone whose Tumblr I can find) , 37 works (6%) by penandinkprincess, 34 (6%) by whisperedstory, and also still 11 works (2%) by inexplicifics who was at 14% last month because of all the accidental Warlord works, and should probably be even higher wordcount wise bc the fics are so long!

And the new ones: 15 works (3%) also Witcher fics by @hummingbee-o0o hummingbeeooo and 14 (2%) by @suzukiblu suzukiblu, 13 (2%) 00q by @beaubete beaubete, and once again Witcher for the others: 12 (2%) @livingintheworldofstories snowkatze, 10 (2%) fandomtrash24601, 9 (2%) @eyesupmarksman eyesupmarksman, 9 (2%) @lurikko lurikko... So yeah apart from one 00q it's still all Witcher really xD

Thank you all for your many wonderful stories, allowing me to read so much :D

Of course I also read fics from authors with less fics or where I just stumbled across one and didn't get around to reading more yet, some of my faves were:

NCIS Tony/Gibbs

Something New by summersquares - Gibbs gets some new neighbors and a dog, and later a new love...

Hawaii 5-0 McDanno

Lost at the Edge of the Sun by @gilajames - Danny tries to hide from the team that he is homeless.

The Witcher Geraskier

when you feel bad about what you've done by ollyollyoxenfree - Jaskier is so used to bickering with Geralt that the mountain argument barely registers for him - but Geralt feels guilty!

of bards and witches and witchers by writethroughthenight - Jaskier and Yennefer are siblings. Jaskier made everyone forget that though...

James Bond 00q

Sigh No More by @dhampir72 - "Bond wants nothing more than for someone, just once, to be waiting for him at the airport when he returns home."

Remember Me by @consultingwriters, which I actually had an (fic spoilers!!) inspo idea for (but of course no energy to write it... Leaving the idea out there for maybe someone else to pick up!) - James forgets his gay revelation and his relationship with Q.

Fidelity by @marlowe-tops - Q is doomed to always fall for someone who won't be loyal to him. He thinks his unrequited crush on Bond will let him stay happily single without risking further heartbreak...

Out Tonight by @starredthought - Q is a drag queen, and James has many feelings, also on this but mainly on other matters entirely!

Thanks y'all's, really bringing me joy with all the fics <3

Those fics and more can be found in my Ao3 bookmarks and recs, feel free to check them out!

No pressure tagging everyone who sees this to show us your own fic or book recs and/or make some more Ao3 bookmarks :D (in a new post pls)

History + 6377812 - to read: -10276 - 1531 - 29669 - 158322 - 4698 - 26609 - 29815 - 34469 - 78993 - 5517 - 138180 - 21719 - 40873 - 34886 - 5890 - 1045 - 99571 - 37305 =-759368 - to continue reading: -373223 - 42369 =-415592 - mar25 didn't reread -14169 - didn't read yet: -43184 no external sources

total: 6377812-759368-415592-43184-14169= 5,145,499

and holy fuck exactly 600 works in my history?? what in the even... for comparison in february the history has barely even 400 works, and I had a Lot more 'to read' stuff that didn't count bc of the accidental warlord inspo bookmarking... So, lots of shorter fics this march!

My formula so I have it noted down somewhere: history - to read(exclude:series, exclude: external source) - to continue reading (exclude: series, exclude: external source, exclude: to read) - didn't read yet (exclude: series) + external source (exclude: to read, exclude: to continue reading, exclude: didn't read yet) & check month tag (mar25 in this case) and add and subtract as noted (subtract usually, it's probably 'didnt reread now' on an old bookmark, unless it's external source I've actually reread)

And actually what I've been reading most is probably my now over 40k words long master's thesis xD I'm almost done with it!

Adding my geraskier tag list bc this is still mostly a Witcher rec list @toboldlynerd @cincia-azzurra

[lilolilyr]

Sleepwalkers - a Geraskier comment fic

Inspired by Sleepwalker's Serenade (17k, E, canon typical violence) by @octoberling, spoilers for their story! And I can only recommend you check it out, it's really an interesting idea and very well written :)

Geralt searches for a wraith in people's dreams, and stumbles across Jaskier's horny dreamscape... Jaskier is intrigued by the Witcher and inspired by his deeds.

This fic idea is set a bit earlier than octoberling's story, Jaskier has just come to Oxenfurt, the wraith ballad is one of his first proper songs.

Cross posted to Ao3! The Ao3 version is longer but more chaotic, tumblr is missing some parts in order to make it one cohesive storyline

Jaskier and Geralt flirt in the dreamscape, but Jaskier is too young for Geralt to really take seriously as a potential relationship.

Geralt fight's the wraith in front of Jaskier like in Octoberling's fic, inspiring Jaskier to write a song about it.

When Geralt comes back to Oxenfurt some years later and Jaskier is near the end of his degree and more experienced and, to Geralt's surprise and delight, still utterly gone on him, they rekindle their relationship, and once Geralt goes back on the Path Jaskier asks him to check in through the dreams at least from time to time so he knows he's okay, he hated not knowing what happened to Geralt when he had left the first time.

'and please be safe, take care I know what you do is important But So Is Your Life, especially to me'

Geralt is worried Jaskier will become too attached and be heartbroken when he inevitably dies, and Jaskier has to talk Geralt out of leaving him completely. They talk for a while and Jaskier asks 'Why are you Witchers going on patrol alone, I bet if you worked in groups or at least pairs of two you'd still make quick work and fewer of you would die, so in the end you'd make Better work and kill More monster not less' and Geralt is like... 'Hm. We've always done it that way?'

Jaskier argues 'Traditions can be good but not when they're bad fucking ideas done Just for traditions sake! Please promise to try it out at least! And don't just try to ask the first other Witcher you come across and let it go if they say no! Actually try working in a team!' Geralt can't say no to his bard, of course he promises to try, even though he doesn't believe it will work.

A while later, Priscilla, who had overheard their conversation, comes across a Witcher (Eskel?) and asks whether he knows Geralt and explains Jaskier's idea and he's like 'well... Vesemir will hate this but Sounds Like A Plan alright'

Eskel is already on his way to a contract, just in town looking for some supplies (he doesn't usually need but that will be necessary for this specific specific monster, and Jaskier is sad Geralt will leave earlier than expected but glad that at least he won't go alone, that someone will be there to have Geralt's back even if Jaskier can't be that person

They can't do the dream sharing every night because Geralt can only access a specific person's dream through meditation, not sleep, and while Witchers need less sleep they don't need none, but he still checks in regularly.

~

At some point, Geralt disappears from Jaskier's dreams for weeks or months, and Jaskier's getting increasingly anxious - his friends in turn are also getting worried, and while Jaskier had told them about the Witcher friend/lover before and of course wrote that ballad about the wraith, most of them thought he was taking a lot of artistic licence and hadn't actually met the Witcher (which, in my second idea, he hasn't yet in person)

Priscilla has to explain to Jaskier that she doesn't mean to offend or doubt him, she just honestly hadn't realized he was serious!

Finally, Geralt comes back from some exhausting hunt, but he's badly hurt. Jaskier drags him to the university nurse, and while she heals the physical injuries, Jaskier sleeps at Geralt's bedside, and it turns out sharing a dreamscape with him helps Geralt but leaves Jaskier utterly exhausted so afterwards he goes right back to sleep still in the room where Geralt is healing

Then, they stay at Oxenfurt, and either they're already a couple, or they just neatly slip into a relationship with barely any need to talk about it (though in that case Jaskier's friends are a bit o.o 'you said friend, friends don't sit on each other's lap and snog and make heart eyes at each other!'

And it's winter in some months and Jaskier's last semester will be over by then, and if he can manage to finish one last big song project (maybe a group project that students tend to fail the first time? Maybe he and his friends talk Geralt into giving some monster info and write a Witcher monster hunting ballad together!)

Jaskier asks Geralt to come back to Oxenfurt on his way to Kaer Morhen and Geralt nods and invites him to come with him over winter if he's finished with his degree by then

Priscilla also invites herself along because sure this Witcher seems alright so far but Jaskier doesn't exactly has a good track record she's not gonna let her best friend leave on his own with what to her is basically a stranger (Jaskier's communication skills are. Really not that much better than Geralt's. And he really told his friends fuckall useful information about his love), and she's also finishing at university and has no plans for the winter - she doesn't want to travel over summer like Jaskier does, she wants to go back to the cities then, but over winter she'd love to tag along.

They winter at Kaer Morhen together.

~

The next year, Jaskier stays at Oxenfurt again for some weeks while Geralt goes on some contracts. When Geralt's back in town, Jaskier meets him as soon as he hears there's a Witcher in town and practically jumps into his arms to the astonishment of anyone around them, and promptly gets into an argument with someone who's biased against Witchers...

Jaskier drags Geralt away from there and says he can stay in Jaskier's room, he doesn't need those idiot people anyway, and Geralt replies something along the lines of Jaskier just wants to get him into his bed, and of course Jaskier wants that! They're kissing when Priscilla runs into them: 'that's public indecency even for you, Jaskier. hey, are you coming to the pub with the others as planned?'

Jaskier kind of wants to just drag Geralt to his room immediately but there's something to be said about delayed gratification, plus the pub is on the way anyway...

They end up talking, and the mood turns a bit somber when maybe Geralt explains about really being used to people hating him for no good reason, and/or Priscilla asks about monster stories or rather invites him to the pub saying he can tell them and all the other bards some good stories and Geralt is like 'Yeah Jaskier already warned me about going drinking with any of you' 'warned? Warned? Warmly invited!' 'yes, to be needled about all the horror stories in my life.' 'oh, love, you know you don't have to tell us anything if you don't want to! You know I love to hear your stories, but seriously, I don't want to hurt you. I'll make the others back off too.'

They go to the bar and chat with Jaskier in Geralt's lap, and there's laughter and singing, but there's also Jaskier rubbing himself against Geralt and pressing against him, teasing him...

When they finally make it back to Jaskier's place they make love all through the night.

~

later that summer, Lambert comes into a small town on the way to Kaer Morhen and a woman greets him with a smile and going 'your brother his at the inn already! With his lover and friend!' and Lambert is like. Wut. 'i know I missed out on the winter at Kaer Morhen last year but how am I This much out of the loop?!'

This and more on Ao3! If someone wants to write a longer fic with this idea, feel free, just please lmk so I can read it and use the inspired-by function!