#i just ended it right there with geralt realizing bc i love to torture you guys clearly ....

[yeraskier]

There's something almost calming about watching Jaskier when he orgasms. It's always so loud, and intense, and powerful; it leaves no room for anything else.

It's as if his body is absorbing every bit of chaos that surrounds him until he can't take it anymore, and then he simply... releases.

Geralt's had the pleasure of experiencing it many, many times now, and it always has the same impact on him, if not stronger each time. It's addictive, makes him wish that he could spend all of his days, every day, his only purpose in life being to bring Jaskier to orgasm.

And it's possibly making the person in the room next to them homicidal because this would be the seventh time tonight that they’ve banged on the wall, and shouted insults at Geralt and Jaskier for being too loud.

Jaskier’s chuckle turns into a gasp when Geralt slips out of him— the slide slippery, the sound lewd.

Geralt grunts as his body hits the mattress, finding that he's aching in the way he always does after several rounds with the bard. Very few people can tire him out, but it is no surprise that Jaskier manages to be on that short list.

"Outstanding as always, dear witcher."

"Hm."

"And verbal as ever," Jaskier teases as he sits up. "Your ability to be so nonchalant and quiet after sex with me is becoming quite offensive, I must say."

"This is how I normally am."

"You had a lot to say an hour ago when I had my lips wrapped around your cock."

Geralt shrugs, "I was inspired."

Jaskier rolls his eyes, but there’s a playful glint in his eyes as he sits up and begins searching for his pants.

Geralt admires his back (and his backside) as he moves, eyes trailing over the—

Wait…

Wait.

Geralt doesn't panic, okay? Living the life he lives, he doesn't have that privilege, but right now, laying in this bed as he watches Jaskier get ready to leave— fuck, he might be panicking.

Because Jaskier never leaves after sex, not since after the first few times, at least. And yes, he isn't necessarily obligated to stay, but he always does, and so does Geralt, and now he isn't.

Why?

Why is Jaskier not talking him into cuddling right now?

Why is Jaskier not attempting to get him into the now-cold bath in the corner of the room?

Why is Jaskier not going on one of his very detailed post-sex rants that Geralt pretends to despise, even though they both know he gets invested each time?

Why is Jaskier not falling asleep right now? Hogging up all the bed space and stealing the blanket while using Geralt's chest as a pillow?

Geralt remains as still as possible, barely twitching out of place as Jaskier pulls on his doublet. He may not feel normal about this, but he can sure as shit act normal, even if it isn't normal.

"Alright, darling, I'm going to go fetch us some water. Be back before you can miss my presence too much," the bard announces, throwing a wink over his shoulder before practically skipping out the door.

The words settle him, but only for a few moments before he's ready to panic over something completely different because why did he care so much about Jaskier possibly leaving?

Sure, Geralt has become almost as fond of the after-sex things as he is of the sex-sex things, but he doesn't need them. He won't break down into tears without them.

Except...

That's sort of exactly what he was ready to do just now.

Okay, maybe Geralt wouldn’t have cried, but he definitely would’ve bothered… upset, even.

And he knows this because even with the knowledge that Jaskier is coming back, even knowing that Jaskier only left so he could make sure they both stay hydrated, Geralt is, in this very moment, bothered.

Which isn’t good. At all.

Because the last time he got bothered by someone leaving, it was Yennefer. And he was only bothered because.

Well.

But that wouldn’t make sense, would it? Because Jaskier leaves all the time. He leaves Jaskier all the time. They part for months on end, and Geralt lives.

So what if Geralt has begun to notice that it gets a little harder to willingly go every time they part ways?

So what if his mood during the months where Jaskier isn’t around is shittier than usual?

So what if his mood when Jaskier is around is better than usual?

That doesn’t mean anything. Sex puts most men in better moods, that doesn’t mean he’s in love with the bard.

Not that feelings would mean love. Because a little crush doesn’t equate to love.

Not that Geralt has a little crush, or any crush of any sort. Because he doesn’t. Because he can’t.

Because what they have now, friendship and lust and comfort, is the best thing that has happened to him in a while, and he will not ruin that over catching feelings, of all things.

He doesn’t have feelings for Jaskier, so he can’t ruin anything.

“I don’t have feelings for Jaskier,” he says aloud, into the empty room, but the words feel heavy on his tongue.

I can’t have feelings for Jaskier.

“I don’t have feelings for Jaskier,” Geralt says again, but this time, it comes out as a growl.

Please, don’t let me have feelings for Jaskier.

“I do not have feelings for Jask—”

The door opens, and Jaskier walks in with a wide smile, and that spark of electricity that follows the bard wherever he goes bursts in behind him.

Jaskier takes easy steps towards the bed, and it’s like he’s moving in slow motion.

Geralt desperately wants to run. He doesn’t.

He remains still as Jaskier sets down the pitcher of water, and the cup in hand, and fills it up to the brim before turning to Geralt with a disarming gaze.

The rim of the glass in Jaskier’s hand is pressed to Geralt’s lips, and the witcher takes in the sight before him.

Those wide blue eyes, and that disheveled hair, and those pouty lips— he realizes that he could probably draw every single feature of this man’s face perfectly without even looking, and he’s never drawn a day in his life.

I can’t.

“Well?” Jaskier says, “drink up.”

Geralt parts his lips, and Jaskier’s eyes drop, and Geralt’s heart thuds so loud, it seems to echo throughout his entire body, and Jaskier smiles wide, as if he heard it.

I do.

Fuck.

#i hate this so fucking much #like the idea was there and thats the only reason its being posted but the execution is making me gag #writing really is like a muscle or whatever the saying is #clearly ive lost some of my pizazz but i will work to get it back #sorry :( #but i might make a part 2 #idk like i already had more planned out but it got too long and this was supposed to be a ficlet soooooooo haha.... haha #i just ended it right there with geralt realizing bc i love to torture you guys clearly .... #jk the part 2 really will come this time since i already know what i wanted to do (if you guys want it) #this was mostly to just write something just to Write because ive missed writing sm #the witcher #jaskier #geralt of rivia #my writing #geraskier

[spaceshipkat]

hhhhh i've been struggling to write all day bc i can't stop Thinking About That Show so i think i need to just ramble a bit again if i hope to get any actual work done so! most of these revolve around Jaskier, but he's pretty much the only character i watched season 2 for (though i did start to watch it for Yen, too, bc she's so much better without Geralt my god) but anyway here we go. spoilers abound, and i'll probably add more as they come to me/as i rewatch the season.

in short: respect the bard for fuck's sake. click the read more for the very, very long (sorry) version that isn't just about the bard.

Geralt felt cardboard as fuck and like he's frozen in time and it's just really, really weird??? i liked him but i didn’t, bc there was no natural emotional growth for him that we got to see happen: not with Ciri (who he jumps from Avoiding Forever to She Is My Daughter really, really quickly, and as someone who is literally writing a story wherein a character doesn't want anyone to rely on him but ends up accidentally adopting a kid, i know how careful that plot progression has to be and how delicately you need to handle it); not with Yennefer, and not with Jaskier. we get more time spent on relationship growth bw Geralt and Nivellen the rapist, for fuck's sake, than we do with any of the characters who are supposed to have a greater impact on Geralt as a character.

there is more relationship growth bw Yennefer and Jaskier in season 2 than there is between Yennefer and Geralt in both seasons 1 and 2. i'm not sure i ship yennskier (idk, have to think on it; right now, i just am in love with their friendship. they, more than anything, need a real, genuine friendship than they do a romance) but if we're supposed to believe that yenralt is endgame (and to be clear, i don't ship yenralt, but it's gonna be endgame bc it's endgame in the books, so) we need more than the gross humping sex scenes in season 1 and the kiss/brief conversation in season 2.

Geralt has a lot of nerve to get pissed at Yennefer but act like he's done nothing wrong. don't get me wrong: it was very, very, very wrong of Yennefer to decide to trade Ciri for her magic and her quickly backtracking doesn't fix it, but i can tell we're just gonna have the djinn wish get blown aside as no big deal in the later seasons bc now it's going to be entirely about Yennefer earning back Geralt's trust rather than Geralt owning up to his shit and making amends.

and speaking of which, can we stop making Jaskier the Punching Bard for a single fucking second? (do the writers have Jaskier's face on a literal punching bag so, when they're not sure what to do next in the plot, they glance at the punching bag and go "OH YEAH WE CAN KICK HIM WHILE HE'S DOWN"?) why are so many of his emotional beats immediately tossed aside without any real weight or time in favor of him cracking another joke? Jaskier's big speech to Geralt being cut off bc Geralt needs his help? Geralt's apology coming from on the back of a horse so he doesn't even have to look at Jaskier while he says he's sorry (and doesn't actually retract what he said! or say "you didn't deserve it"! or say "it was wrong of me to say this"! all he does is say he's sorry! and that's it! FUCK!) only for Jaskier to instantly--literally instantly, there isn't a single second of pause--make a joke. and sure we can say that Jaskier is doing this bc emotions can be really difficult, and he might not be sure how to react, but it's not played as such.

Jaskier! Is! Literally! Tortured! For! Geralt! and it clearly goes on for quite some time bc, when the scene resumes, Rience is there saying "maybe i need to change my methods" so clearly enough time has passed for Rience to realize that beating Jaskier up isn't going to cut it, and it took Yennefer quite some time to figure out where to go to find him (Yennefer waiting for the ship to sail while watching over his broken lute, Yennefer finding the sex worker to pay to ask for information, the sex worker going to inquire about Jaskier at any prisons, Yennefer waiting for the sex worker to return with the information, Yennefer finding Jaskier and formulating a plan to get him out of there--that's a lot of time!! also, it’s nighttime when he’s captured and daytime when Yen finds him) and we're not going to have him mention that to Geralt at all? i thought it was really telling that they had cleaned Jaskier's face up of blood and bruises for when Geralt returns, so Geralt doesn't see him post-torture and it can therefore just be swept under the rug.

and for that matter, where is Jaskier's aftermath of the torture? a fair amount of time passes bw him getting tortured and Geralt finding him in prison, as he's not in episode 6 at all, but that amount of time would not be enough for anyone to overcome literal torture so as to just brush it off, even given what we know of Jaskier's history with spywork. (spies are trained to withstand torture etc etc, but that doesn't mean a spy isn't going to be seriously traumatized after they're tortured. that's not how torture works. that's not how training works. that's not how people's mental health and sense of well-being works.) when we see Jaskier in the prison cell, he's singing, his hands are fine after literally being burned, he's not horribly distraught about his lute being destroyed, he can taunt the guards. the most emotion we get from him (and this is absolutely no fault of Joey Batey's; he's a masterclass in acting and micro-expressions and i wish he could have a more respectful writing team) in the post-torture world is the raspy "fuck it" before he hugs Geralt and the way he can't quite look at Geralt the entire time they're in the prison cell apart from when he's yelling at him.

and look, look, i know Jaskier isn't one of the main characters, i know the entire series is the Geralt, Ciri, and Yennefer Story, i know that's why Geralt says that he and Yen and Ciri are the ones up against the world at the very end of the season, i know that. but as a writer, if you're gonna include side characters who are very important to the plot, as Jaskier clearly is, and the characters, as Jaskier definitely is, you need to actually fucking respect them. the writers have said that they're giving Yennefer and Jaskier more plot bc they don't really show up in the books as much as Geralt and Ciri, so why can't some of that time exist to actually treat a character with a modicum of respect? we had an entire episode dedicated to Nivellen, a rapist, and a plot that doesn't really have much impact on the season as a whole, but we can't spare some of that time to giving Jaskier even a second more of proof that the people he risks his life for, over and over again, care about him?

Yennefer is excluded from that criticism, however. of everyone Jaskier interacts with in the show (even the fucking barmaid! we hear her complaining about Jaskier too! for fuck's sake!), Yennefer shows him the most love, the most respect, the most friendship, over and over again: she hugs him the instant it's safe to come out of hiding in the tavern; she trusts him with the huge secret that she's lost her magic; she risks her life and gives up a guarantee of safety in Cintra to save him after he's been captured and tortured even though she doesn't have her magic anymore and consistently feels very weak without it; after the final battle and she, Geralt, and Ciri return from the wild hunt world, she goes to Jaskier before anyone else for support, both figurative and literal; in Kaer Morhen, she asks him for help bc it's clear she actually values his intelligence and abilities and doesn't ever treat him with the same joking derision and cool indifference everyone else does.

speaking of which, i love Lambert and i know how Lambert behaves to most everyone in general, and if he had been the only one to shove Jaskier aside and say "no" when Jaskier announces they're all a big happy family and introduces himself, i'd have been fine with it! bc that's just who Lambert is, as evidenced time and again throughout the season, with him being an ass to various people and then quickly saying "i didn't mean it like that" or "it was a joke" or whatever. but Lambert is simply the last person in a long line of characters to do this to Jaskier: the dwarves, Ciri, even Geralt to a certain degree--though i did, admittedly, love when Geralt said that he missed Jaskier, too, and that it wasn't said in the tone of voice of "yeah yeah i missed you too" with an eyeroll, as it could have been played.

Jaskier is maybe being written as queer but not explicitly so, or with the purpose of Actually Giving Us Rep, but with enough plausible deniability to skate by. i'm sure some straight people will not see it (or will willingly not see it), but as someone who is queer as fuck i can't not see it, especially bc i know what it's like when showrunners want queer points without doing any of the work to make the queer well-written/respectful (looking at you, spn. you were a crash course for this). there's this common practice in fiction to write an artist and make them the gay character: to use Netflix examples, it happens in the first season of that Medici show and it happens in Bridgerton, and it appears to be happening in the Witcher now, too (and i'm sure it happens in more than just these three Netflix shows). it makes sense, in a way, i suppose, for the artist to always be the gay character (hell i'm queer and a writer, and most of the writers i'm friends with are queer in some way), but the fact remains that it's a trope commonly utilized by people wanting to throw in a little queer so they can get a few points from queer viewers and tout their stuff as diverse without actually doing any of the work. and it's happening here again with Jaskier: him adding that he, an artist, will be lumped in with those deemed the other; the Taylor Swift breakup song that is Burn Butcher Burn; the fact he admits that he's broken-hearted over Geralt; that Yennefer doesn't even need to pause for a second to understand it's Geralt he's singing about even though she wasn't there to see how Geralt treated Jaskier at the end of season 1; the fact we're seeing him write himself into the same camp as Yennefer when he sings about Geralt again and again (i've had his songs on repeat since they came out. the lyrics are crystal clear); the team-up of Geralt's ex and Geralt's ex and Yennfer's ex and Yennefer's ex.

okay god i need to stop. at least i do feel better now that i've gotten a lot of this down, so maybe now i can finally settle down to keep working on my response to the cool concept but terrible execution that is the Witcher on Netflix, where i treat my characters with respect--even the side ones.

#kat vents too #long post #the witcher #witcher season 2 #spoilers #jaskier

[weakforjaskier]

any favorite fics to share? links please xx

Hello anon! Sorry for the delay

I hope you like geraskier bc that’s all I’m reading and probably the only fics I’ll read for a long long time. I adore our two idiots so much!

All of these are one-shot or completed

Every Second into More by      Morcalivan (one shot)

As much as he hated to admit it, Jaskier was one of those who had peaked in high school. Back then he had been universally adored and had people left and right begging for his attention. The years since then? No so much any of that. When he received the invitation to his high school reunion, it could not have come at a worst time; not only could he barely book enough jobs to stay alive, but he was woefully single. What he did have was the old standby: lying through his teeth. All he needed was one hot distraction in the form of the one person he could never get to look at him twice: Geralt.

This was so much fun to read and the smut at the end is fantastic.

Julian     by  vands88 (one shot)

Inspired by Spencer B’s ballet AU

Jaskier was a child prodigy who burned out before he was sixteen. Now he's going from job to job with no aim in life until he meets Geralt Rivia - the famously strong ballet dancer who has also fallen from grace after an accident that he still blames himself for.

Geralt sees a potential dance partner in Jaskier and maybe even a chance for redemption. Jaskier, meanwhile, just wants to get laid.

I loved their characterizations and everything about them. AUs are obsession for me so this one fulfilled all of my cravings

In a Little Corner That We Call Home (I Loved You From the Start)     by @ohmygoshwhatascream

Jaskier falls in love with all who he meets, gifting pieces of his heart to anyone will have him.

He gives and gives and never once does he take back, but he convinces himself that he is happy. He sings of love and lust and heartache in musty taverns and dirty bars and he never stays in the same place. Always moving, always running. Always hiding.

But then he meets Geralt and their lives become intertwined. Geralt becomes his destiny and with it, he holds the key to his heart.

The thing with hearts, however, is that once you give someone your heart in all its entirety, you cannot take it back. And Geralt is not used to handling such delicate things and this time Jaskier can't just run away.

This author broke my heart in thousand of pieces and put it back together but my heart will never be the same and that’s okay. This is one of the best fics I’ve read and believe me when I say it because I’ve read a lot of stuff. It’s not an easy read. There is a lot of angst and Jaskier is tortured in one of the chapters and it made me sick to read it but at the end is so worht it.

Guardian of the Soulless by    @starrose17

Modern!AU. Geralt has just left a relationship with Yennefer, the boss of a top London crime family. They leave on good terms, and he stays as a bodyguard for hire to be called upon when needed. He has every reason to believe his life will carry on as normal, but he barely gets two footsteps down the street before he finds a noisy angel amongst his monsters of the crime world.  Jaskier has no idea what he's gotten himself involved with, and frankly he's more excited for it. Cue Jaskier finding a heart to call home, and Geralt realising love is what he'd always been missing. 

Another amazing fic. The sex scenes are the hottest I’ve ever read. The action is so so great, you are looking for emotions? You will have a ton of emotions reading this. The end is fantastic. I will cherish this fic forever

we can help each other (we can heal together)    by @marvelousmaize

Her eyes are still too narrow, too shrewd. It unnerves Jaskier. Then, softly, Yennefer adds, “Your feelings for Geralt - I had not realized.”

Jaskier snorts, but does not pretend to misunderstand. “That’s quite alright. He never did either, if it’s any consolation.”

This fic is everything I want in a post ep 6 fix it. Pining, idiots in love, found family, happy ending. This fic will heal all you wounds.

I hope you enjoy them and remember to leave kudos and comments for the authors.

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