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      The malodour was almost unbearable as he opened the door with one hand and held his breath behind his other hand. His facial features were scrunched—and so it took him longer than he should have to see the horrifying, scaly, massive corpse blocking his front door.
      With slitted eyes, he glimpsed row upon row of iridescent scales splattered with drying blood. Long, thin spikes on a humped back. Sharp, conical teeth in gaping jaws. Very sharp, deadly
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      He screamed at the top of his voice. Slammed the door shut and staggered away.
      He shrieked, "Monster!"

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    Jaskier lives alone in a cottage in the woods, selling handmade jewelry in the nearby town for a living. His solitary existence is uneventful, until he wakes up one day to find a dead wyvern on his doorstep, left there by an even more menacing creature. But when the creature later returns to his cottage, he discovers that it isn't so menacing after all--and befriends it.

    (Originally a twitfic at @giddytf2, edited and formatted into 6 chapters posted daily.)

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    06 Jun 2026

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    Geralt is 100% certain that Jaskier is a vampire.

    He's 100% proven wrong.

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    05 Jun 2026

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    They say cats have nine lives, but truthfully Jaskier has long lost count of his.

    Jaskier has always been very good at playing pretend. It gets harder after Geralt’s harsh words on the mountain. It gets harder still when he has to save a rogue Wolf and his Child Surprise from Nilfgaard’s gathering forces.

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    05 Jun 2026

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    Daemons are supposed to be your soul, but sometimes Geralt feels like he’s got the wrong one. Most times, really.

    Well, that's probably his soulmate's fault, whoever they are.

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    04 Jun 2026

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    Jaskier falls in love with a witcher. It’s a bad idea, of course, but he falls in love with a lot of bad ideas.

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    04 Jun 2026

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    Jaskier wakes up in Posada. He’s been a lot of other places, but Posada is the one where he wakes up.

    The one where someone needs him enough to make him exist, rather.

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    04 Jun 2026

  7. Public Bookmark 66

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    Geralt knew the day was going to be a shitshow from how weak the barista had made his tea, wincing at the taste as he sat down at a table at the back corner of the coffee shop, his back and left side covered by the walls.

    Geralt also knew the day was going to be a shitshow from the nervous way a young man, stood outside the cafe and stared, searching, into the large bank of windows into the shop.

    He held a piece of paper in his hands and would go from reading at what was written on it, to staring up at the sign above the building, before looking back inside the place. Geralt hadn’t been in this profession for as long as had, hadn’t been as well trained as he was to not know instinctually that the man was probably looking for him.

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    Jaskier, the son of a powerful crime family, hires Geralt, the best contract killer money can buy, to protect him from his father, who is angered by Jaskier's refusal to join the family business.

    The John Wick AU only me and two others asked for.

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    04 Jun 2026

  8. Public Bookmark 25

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    He was no stranger to odd occurrences.

    Of course that was the case. Geralt was a witcher, so that much was a given. He’d accepted contracts for the weird and the outright ridiculous in his time. It took a lot to surprise him, given that he’d taken enough contracts with some sort of twist to them to end up half-expecting to be surprised whenever there was even the slightest sliver of an opportunity for ambiguity.

    The world was just like that.

    This, however had managed to throw him for a loop, and it wasn’t even part of the contract.

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    04 Jun 2026

  9. Public Bookmark 26

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    The contract itself was nothing out of the ordinary - it was the fact that he hadn’t been able to lose Jaskier before setting out, that was the problem.

    Usually, he’d have left the bard behind, at a tavern, or an inn, but this time, Jaskier had latched onto him before he could walk away without him and wouldn’t be convinced to just leave, which was how Geralt ended up with a stream of running commentary as he did his best to figure out what was terrorising the locals without also contracting a massive headache.

    Or: Jaskier makes a nuisance of himself on a contract.

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    04 Jun 2026

  10. Public Bookmark 97

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    Jaskier waited for Geralt of to distance himself from the camp well enough, before shuffling off his sitting place atop a rather uncomfortable tree stump, positioning himself so that he was eye-level with the extremely nonplussed horse.

    Not, of course, that he wanted to shoo him from his own campsite, but how the hell else would he corner the man's horse?

    At Oxenfurt, Jaskier had, much to his vexation, learnt that the word ‘nonplussed’ had two meanings – the first being ‘unsure about what to say, think, or do’, and the second, ‘not bothered, surprised, or impressed by something’. It was almost a contranym, it caused him no end of frustration, and it was the perfect word to use in this scenario, because how the hell was one supposed to get a read on the complex emotional state of a horse?

    Nonplussed was right, because Jaskier couldn’t read Roach for shit, so he might as well have covered all his bases, instead.

    “So,” he began, and it was a good way to open a dialogue, very solid, “why are you a horse?”


    Or: When Jaskier finds Geralt and Roach at Posada, it's less of a first meeting, and more of a reunion.

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    03 Jun 2026

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    Besnik doesn't truly understand the importance of the mission they've been given. Politics isn't something that's ever interested him, and he has only the faintest notion of why it's so important that the witcher girl that follows the Beast like a shadow is brought home with them to Nilfgaard - but then, it isn't his place to understand.

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    When a group of Nilgaardian soldiers fail to capture the witcher princess, they come to realise that what they've got instead could be a valuable tool for negotiation.

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    03 Jun 2026

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    "As you have probably heard, Princess Pavetta of Cintra's daemon has settled -"

    "I hadn't."

    "- and so by the customs of the land, Queen Calanthe has announced her daughter's eligibility -"

    "Thought she'd be a bit young for you."

    "- which means there will be the very grandest of feasts, and hang on, sorry, what was that?"

    “I hope you aren’t planning to announce your intentions. How old is the princess? Seventeen?” Geralt paused, distracted, and furrowed his brow for a moment. “What age do daemons usually settle, again?”

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    02 Jun 2026

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    It was easy to forget, sometimes, that Jaskier had seen barely a fraction of the same world as Geralt. For all of his learning, for all of his stories and songs, for every book he’d memorised, he had barely left his corner of the continent before they’d met. And travel alone was not the same as travel with a witcher - the dangers came from different places, places that Jaskier hadn’t yet learnt to be vigilant of.

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    02 Jun 2026

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    There were other rumours, older and more persistent, that Jaskier hadn't been able to make a dent in.

    Witchers don't have souls. Witchers are no better than beasts. How could they be civilised, intelligent, compassionate, human, when they don't even have daemons.

    What was Jaskier supposed to do about that?

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    02 Jun 2026

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    “Coming!” Jaskier yells, bangs his elbow into the corner of the table, and is still hissing against the pain when he pulls open the door. All words and thoughts and thoughts about words flee his brain instantly. Head empty, nobody home. “ – Wolf?” he manages to get out after interminable seconds of dumb staring.


    Jaskier has made his peace with being alone – and without his ADHD meds – for the holidays when help arrives from an unexpected corner. It could be a Christmas Miracle... if he manages to not fuck things up. Which is easier said than done, considering his track record.

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    31 May 2026

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    On a stroll through the forest, Lambert and Aiden find a most peculiar thing – and a deeper mystery whose answers promise to also solve a different puzzling situation.

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    31 May 2026

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    It’s a normal day at the museum Jaskier works at – wailing children, harried parents, introducing a group to one of the most beautiful languages on the Continent, and a drop-dead gorgeous man who steals Jaskier’s heart without even trying. And that's before Jaskier gets utterly charmed by said man’s bright and inquisitive daughter...

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    31 May 2026

  18. Public Bookmark 56

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    Shortly after acquiring a bard, Geralt wakes alone in the middle of the night, trying to figure out how said bard has seemingly vanished into thin air.

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    31 May 2026

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    Filavandrel's gift was so much more than a simple lute. It seemed fitting, that Jaskier’s soul would be made of wood and strings and beautiful sounds.

    The problem is that now Rience has his lute and is threatening to burn it if they don't hand over Ciri. And Jaskier has never told anyone that his very life is tied to his beloved instrument.

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    29 May 2026

  20. Public Bookmark 57

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    A post-Mountain fic of sorts, in which Lambert and Jaskier meet and travel together through Velen for a while. It features Jaskier doing some spy shit (but badly) and Lambert dealing with his dyslexia (also badly).

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    28 May 2026

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