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You're very good at your job, and even better at keeping your distance from the shadier side of the undercity. Until the most powerful man in the Lanes suddenly needs a favor, and your world gets a lot more complicated.
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29 Nov 2025
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Malfoy comes back to school different in their Sixth Year. Harry thinks he's become a Death Eater. But Hermione senses there's something more disturbing going on. After all, why would Malfoy be staring at her so intently? (Possessed!Draco)
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14 Oct 2025
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“No,” Jaskier sighed. “This is the thing, Geralt. I’m middle-aged and tired and I just think I’d rather meet death sitting down and facing it rather than from behind while I’m running. You know?” He contemplated that a moment, and finally added, “Especially if it’s you.”
Set after the end of season 1.
UPDATE: The Fat Baby song in chapter 7 now exists here as composed and recorded by @fannishliss and is BRILLIANT.
See Series Notes on this series for a list of all the fics and what chronological order they go in, as well as recommended reading order if you're into that, just so you know what you're getting into here.
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- Part 1 of Meet Death Sitting
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01 Oct 2025
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Jaskier doesn’t actually know how much time has passed since the black-cloaked Nilfgaardians grab him after a performance in a shitty tavern in the backcountry of northern Kaedwen. He’d assumed--foolishly, apparently--that he was far enough north that any Nilfgaardian soldiers would be few and far between, likely just scouts or even deserters. It would have been hard to actually get any further north--the little backwater town where he’d been singing was just a day from the mountains. Anymore travel, and he’d find himself skirting the Trail up to Kaer Morhen, the Warlord’s Keep, and, well. He’s brazen, but not that brazen.
(or: a wandering bard bites off more than he can chew with the political ballads, accidentally makes friends with a princess in exile, and finds the Warlord of the North in his debt.)
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- Part 1 of the roads we walk
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30 Sep 2025
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Hope Is A Fire by boopboop
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, The Witcher (TV)
01 Apr 2022
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Geralt and Jaskier learn to navigate their budding relationship as they travel across the continent trying to avoid deranged cultists, murderous mages, and the odd kick up the arse from Destiny.
Geralt just wants to keep Jaskier safe.
And Jaskier? He's trying really hard to not accidentally end the world.
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- Part 2 of In and out of darkness
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26 Sep 2025
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Soft Deceitful Wiles by boopboop
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, The Witcher (TV)
17 Mar 2022
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The monsters win, and the man who is supposed to help mother slay them turns out to be the biggest monster of all.
Ten years later, a Witcher lurks in the dark corner of a shitty tavern, a stolen broach dangling from the hilt of his sword like a trophy.
Ten years later, Julian still remembers everything he’s been taught. By mother, by the men in his family, and especially by monsters.
“You must have some review for me,” he says, a gleaming smile one that’s been sharpened to perfection with years of tutelage. “Three words or less.”
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Jaskier is Renfri's son, and ten years is plenty of time to prepare a suitable punishment for the Butcher of Blaviken.
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- Part 1 of In and out of darkness
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26 Sep 2025
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don't tell me we've grown (for having loved) by SummerFrost
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, The Witcher (TV)
03 Jul 2020
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According to Jaskier, they've lived this day almost a hundred times. Geralt doesn't remember any of them.
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09 Sep 2025
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Don't Look a Gift Goblin in the Mouth by SummerFrost
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, The Witcher (TV)
13 May 2020
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“No, I’m serious, I really do have like, uh—a goblin… thing… in my house!” Jaskier insists. “Will you come take a look at it? I don’t want it to, I don’t know, eat my liver or something?”
Geralt massages at his temple. “Very few monsters are that picky. It would probably just eat all of you.”
Aka: The one where Jaskier hires Geralt to investigate a monster in his house, and the outcome is somehow better and worse than Geralt expects.
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09 Sep 2025
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A United Front by didoandis
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, The Witcher (TV)
28 Apr 2021
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“The only solution is a united front,” Yennefer says. When this just prompts blank expressions, she sighs. “Honestly, do I have to spell it out? I mean the two of you should get married.”
Geralt stares at her. Jaskier’s mouth drops open. Tissaia says, thoughtfully, “that could actually work.”
“No it couldn’t!” Jaskier says, loud and shrill.
After Calanthe and Eist are killed, the fate of Cintra hangs in the balance. The only solution is an alliance between two men: the witcher Geralt of Rivia, bound to the princess by the Law of Surprise, and Cirilla’s uncle Julian, better known as Jaskier the bard.
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08 Sep 2025
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Jaskier is on the coast, likely in a court or a tavern, or in someone’s bed, or being chased from someone’s bed. He’s singing or screwing or drinking. He’s safe. When Geralt allowed himself to think of the bard, that’s what he imagined.
Geralt goes a little out of his way to attack a Nilfgaardian patrol, and finds something entirely unexpected.Yes, it's Jaskier.
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28 Aug 2025
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What Counts as a Rescue by didoandis
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, The Witcher (TV)
30 Oct 2020
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Geralt unties Roach from the post, and is about to leave when there’s the sound of an altercation behind him. He turns to see two guards dragging a third man between them. The man is wearing brightly coloured clothes and struggling, not seriously, more like he’s aware that in such circumstances struggling is expected. The guards approach Geralt and drop their charge to his knees in front of him.
“Ow,” the prisoner says. Geralt recognises the bard from the tavern: a little more dishevelled, his face not improved by two black eyes and a split lip.
“This one claims he’s a friend of yours,” one of the guards says. “Caught him sniffing around the treasury but he says he knows you. Says you’ll vouch for him.”
Geralt looks down at the bard, who winks at him, then winces.
How the witcher got his bard; or, the history of a relationship in ten rescues.
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26 Aug 2025
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Always on My Mind by didoandis
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, The Witcher (TV)
11 Dec 2021
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The bard doesn’t seem to notice Geralt lurking behind him until Geralt clears his throat, a low rumble, which makes him turn.
“Goodness,” he says. “Hello. You’re very… loomy.”
Now she’s closer, Ciri can see his face properly. His hair hangs lank around his face; stubble covers his chin, a little too long to be stylish; his eyes above are a bright shining blue. And yet there’s something faded about him, his clothes just slightly worse for wear, his cheeks hollow.
“Jaskier,” Geralt says, almost desperately.
After the mountain, a reunion. It doesn’t go that well, to begin with.
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25 Aug 2025
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The Flower of the Court by aileenrose
Fandoms: The Witcher (TV), Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
27 Jun 2023
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The dream is not, Jaskier thinks, good foreshadowing for his plans tonight. The dream, after all, is about a man who King Emhyr decided had betrayed him, and subsequently had him killed. Killed in front of the court, no less, as a reminder of how quickly their fates could change according to the King’s whims.
Tonight, after his performance, Jaskier plans to do just the same. Betray his king.Jaskier, the so-called "Flower of King Emhyr's court," does not think himself a brave person. Still, he attempts to escape the King's volatile, violent court, and in doing so, stumbles into the Warlord's lands. There, he tries to determine if he is captive, pawn, or something else entirely.
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25 Aug 2025
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Being, Reasonable by LolaRaincoat
Fandoms: Murderbot (TV), The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
24 Jul 2025
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Bharadwaj looked at the screen carefully. "You want us all to sign a non-disclosure agreement about an orgy we just had?"
"Yes!" said Pin-Lee.
"But we didn't have an orgy," Gurathin said sadly.
"And if we had had an orgy," Mensah added, "why would we mind disclosing it?"
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On their way home from the Corporation Rim, the PresAux team encounter an alien artifact.
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06 Aug 2025
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Trapdoor Function by Ololon
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
29 Sep 2025
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Ratthi persuades Murderbot and Gurathin to go on a survey trip to a planet with the ominous nickname of Spider Planet. Soon, troubles with corporates and the local fauna mean that SecUnit is earning its currency cards, but nothing SecUnit can't handle - until it can't.
"I’d like to say that at least things couldn’t get any worse, but whenever someone says that in the media things inevitably do get worse and that seems to be one of the things media actually gets right. Oh right. I just remembered how this gets worse: the only person who could help me was Gurathin."
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05 Aug 2025
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ART knows that it can never reveal its intense, bewildering desire for SecUnit. So it generates a virtual playground where it can satiate its disturbing needs. And it creates a simulated copy of SecUnit to be its plaything.
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31 Jul 2025
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Despite his best efforts, he wants the SecUnit to be one of them. He will never voice it. He will never ask it. It would be pointless. Where the SecUnit is concerned, his feet bleed as he walks the cutting edge between suspicion and hope.
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From All Systems Red through Exit Strategy.
Gurathin's perspective on a certain murderbot.Series
- Part 2 of Murderbot Outside POVs
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31 Jul 2025
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Gurathin, Care and Feeding of by murderbot
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
20 Mar 2022
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Gurathin and SecUnit brace themselves for a very public ceremonial kiss. (It's their wedding after all.) But Gurathin has lingering family-related trauma, and it's nothing a Murderbot is prepared to handle.
Set in the same AU as The Long Emergency, about three years after the main events of the story. (Before the epilogue.)
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31 Jul 2025
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AU: Trapped on the survey planet when the last emergency beacon fails, Murderbot and the PreservationAux team scramble to survive deadly fauna, cruel weather, scarce resources, and GreyCris's armed hunting parties. In a gruelling ordeal spanning two planetary years, Murderbot becomes closer to its humans than it ever thought possible.
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31 Jul 2025
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Murderbot returns to Preservation Station for a visit with its humans. It's expecting to have a nice, relaxing time watching media and catching up. It doesn't expect to be living opposite Gurathin of all people. It doesn't want to spend more time with that asshole. It knows exactly where their situationship stands and absolutely nothing needs to change. Unless...
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27 Jul 2025