I've found myself dabbling in Witcher fandom, but I'm having a hard time finding a good place to start (I've only watched the series). Do you have any recommendations for blogs or fic?
Hello! Nice to see you start to dabble over here. I am happy to rec some favourite fics. Blogs....I am not that good at differentiating blogs once I follow them? Are they BNFs? Are they mutuals who have shared my fandoms for years? Are they someone who said something nice in a reply once? I don't know. I love them all. And then...are they interested in The Witcher, or the specific ships I ship? Or the actors? Or the band that one of the actors is in? Who can say? Fics, though. I have read some that I really, really enjoyed.
Every single one of these is rated Explicit. This does not tell you anything about me that you didn’t already know. They are all, also, some variation on the Geraskier pairing. Again - Glee likes it Queer. Who knew.
Anyway, recs for @violetwylde:
Fuck or Die - popular in this fandom:
Flying Off the Edge by unwhithered is an excellent example. Explicit, 11.5k
Just Add Some Friction by Ennaess is hotter than the sun. I read it as it was being written and every single chapter set my house on fire. Not only do they both want to have sex with each other (secretly obvs), they want to have really dark and kinky sex that ought to be disturbing but ends up really very loving (in a very specific way). Explicit (duh) 31K I’ll Bloom for You by Catchclaw (Explicit 4.5k) I liked this one enough to bookmark it, which is significant, because I usually forget the bookmark button exists.
I was going to sort the rest of these by theme, too, but I am running out of puff.
Here are a bunch of fics I liked:
Honeysuckle by Amazonia_8 (Explicit 23k)
Faith in Transience by unconscious (Explicit 12.5k)
Even a Small Love by shecrows (Explicit 22k)
A Hard Curl of Satisfaction by LokelaniRose (Explicit 15k) and also Woodash and iron and leather by the same author (Explicit 10k)
The Vines That Grow Between the Castle Stones (I Want To Know Their Names) by madsthenerdygirl (Explicit 3k) - actually check out this author’s whole Witcher tag. Well worth it.
Petrichor by rawrkinjd (Explicit 91k) epic poly story Geralt/Jaskier/Eskel. Some absolutely lovely stuff going on in here.
A Witcher, Once I Loved by Gefionne (Explicit 21.5k)
And here are some series:
Flora Series by chaya I don’t even know how to characterize this. It’s just a lovely friends-to-lovers journey that is beautifully written.
Meet Death Sitting Series by bomberqueen17 This is still being written, as a series, though it’s got lots of completed fics. There’s plot, and developing relationships in quite a few different pairings: Jaskier/Geralt, Jaskier/Yennefer, Eskel/Triss, to name but a few. All of them are believable and in-character and hot. Ciri’s in there too, and Jaskier’s her mom, sort of, but so is Yen, and Triss...maybe an auntie? Kid has more family than she can shake a stick at. It’s a joy.
If We Must Starve (Let It Be Together) Series by Igneum807 : This is a relationship between Geralt and Jaskier, but also all the Witchers of Kaer Morhen who are terribly touch-starved in ways that Jaskier can - platonically? - help them with. It’s beautiful: lots of puppy piles of happy Witchers. More to it than that! There’s some less happy stuff later in the series, when Jaskier is kidnapped, but it’s well tagged, and mainly it underlines how important Jaskier is to all the Witchers.
An Exaltation of Wolves series by round_robin This is also Jaskier and every Witcher going (primarily Geralt), but decidedly NOT platonic. Hot af, and lovely. Lots and lots of feels.
