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    The Sandpiper network guided countless men, women, and children to safer lands. To many, it was a beacon of hope in dark times. To others, it was an uprising meant to be snuffed out.

    No one, however, had any plans in place to save the Sandpiper.

    Not even the Sandpiper himself.

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    13 Nov 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 26

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    “May I recite to you a poem?”

    “You may do just about anything,” Geralt said, smoke trailing from his mouth and nose, “if you keep kissing my neck.”

     

    Geralt and Jaskier spend two weeks together at the continent’s most famous theatre festival.

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    13 Nov 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 14

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    Still adjusting to his new relationship with Jaskier, Geralt experiments at a bathhouse.

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    13 Nov 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 19

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    A loose collection of stories set in the world of the witcher, centered around the friendship and romance of Geralt of Rivia and Jaskier the troubadour.

    The characters are versions that live somewhere in between the books, games, and TV show. The canon of the books (and games) is followed as much as possible.

    Any of these can be read as a standalone, and you do not need to start at the beginning. Read at your leisure, in whatever order you like.

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    13 Nov 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 99

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    “I can’t sing,” Jaskier whispers. “The scars—they open up again, if I sing. First time I tried I almost choked on all the blood.”

    ———

    Jaskier is cursed; he cannot sing without risking death. Geralt vows to find a way to break the curse, no matter how long it takes.

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    19 Jun 2025

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    07 Apr 2025

  7. Public Bookmark 29

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    Somehow, despite all of that, she simply cannot understand how Jaskier writes music. Not in an insulting way; she is sure he must be talented, if the reputation he keeps telling her he has is anywhere near as lofty as he suggests. It’s just that she doesn’t understand how it happens at all; while she can picture herself fighting like Geralt and channelling chaos like Yennefer, she cannot imagine how she would go about writing a piece of music.

    She finds herself blurting the question out, surprising both him and herself equally. She truly had not meant to bring it up at all, but she is so relaxed, listening to Jaskier strum his lute as rain drums on the roof of the cottage, and her idle thoughts float from her mouth without her brain bothering to vet them first. “How do you write songs?”

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    07 Apr 2025

  8. Public Bookmark 49

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    She is finally going to her room after dutifully wolfing some stew when she notices something on the edge of her hearing. It takes her a long moment to realise that it is not part of the usual sounds of Kaer Morhen.

    Ciri has become used to the click of boots on stone, and the perpetual whistle of the wind around the crumbling battlements. She has learned to drown out the skittering of rodents and the distant rumbling conversations of the keep’s inhabitants.

    She is not used to hearing singing here.

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    07 Apr 2025

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    To a witcher, touch is almost never a good thing.

    Touch means something or someone has gotten too close. Close enough to rend open the places where armour doesn’t protect the vulnerabilities underneath. Close enough to see the pulse where it beats just under the surface, to identify where to strike.

    To Geralt, touch is everything beyond that, too. He craves the moments where touch doesn’t mean pain, damage, or potential death, but where it means safety and care. In a witcher’s life, those moments are far and few between.
    Geralt bears it and watches the seasons change until he can take out that part of himself for winter, and let it breathe.

    He’s used to it, and he’s already endured it for decades when he meets Jaskier

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    02 Apr 2025

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    Jaskier has zero intention of sharing the degrading experience of getting tortured. Ever. He’ll bury the memories and someday they’ll be as scabbed over as Caingorn was.

    Which had been completely, absolutely, fine. And the only reason that wound is bleeding a little now is because fucking Geralt came out of nowhere—after the most humiliating experience of his entire life—and reopened the fucking thing. But that’s fine because he’ll leave and return to the terror of his smuggling work and forget about Geralt all over again. There’s nothing hard drink and the constant danger of execution won’t get his mind off. Because there’s something therapeutic about fearing for one’s life that makes anything not of immediate concern go away.

    So yes, things were just fine before Geralt showed up.

    Two years post-Caingorn, Geralt rescues Jaskier from prison and sends him with Ciri to Kaer Morhen. However, Geralt suspects Jaskier is hiding serious trauma.

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    02 Apr 2025

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    They’re only eyes, for Heaven’s sake. Granted, they’re extraordinary eyes, and there’s this bold intensity to them that commands attention, that makes you look.

    Now if Jaskier could only stop looking.

    Instead, he holds Geralt’s gaze and puts his feelings into words. “It’s all in your eyes. The perpetual loneliness and quiet longing for refined company. I’m your best friend, how could I refuse such an overt supplication?”

    Now with amazing fanart for chapter two by @snovaaprel!

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    02 Apr 2025

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    Geralt had known Jaskier studied at Oxenfurt University, but he had thought of it as a sort of formal music education. It was becoming abundantly clear that while he had indeed studied music and composition, he also knew a lot more than Geralt had ever learned. And it was impressive. And humbling, too.

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    13 Jan 2025

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    Geralt realizes, quite suddenly, that Jaskier is aging. He desperately asks the mages for any possible solution, something that could make Jaskier not so terribly mortal, and he finds his answer in an old elven ritual. Geralt decides to use this on Jaskier and himself. He can share his slow aging with Jaskier, and he won’t have to lose the person who, aside from Ciri, might be most important to him.

    He just has to make sure that Jaskier doesn’t figure out that they are, technically, getting married.

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    27 Jul 2024

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    “It’s time for me to get off this mountain, Geralt.” 

    Jaskier adjusted his trousers, rebuttoned up his shirt. But when he tried to walk away, Geralt grabbed his arm. 

    “Jaskier, you can’t just leave. It’s nightfall - the nearest town is days away. It’s too dangerous.” 

    “It was a metaphor, Geralt,” Jaskier snapped back, “but now that you’ve mentioned it, I think I will leave. It’s not like you actually give a shit.” 

    “If I didn’t care, I would never have let you follow me in the first place.” 

    Jaskier scoffed, pulling his arm out of his grip. “If you really care, then prove it. Come down the mountain with me, right now. I’m not fucking staying here a minute longer.” 

    “You’re being ridiculous, I can’t just abandon the group- “

    “You mean abandon Yennefer.” 

    Geralt shook his head, “Jaskier, you’re acting childish!” 

    “Okay,” Jaskier nodded his head once, “I guess that’s my answer.”

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    07 May 2024

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    A love story in 30 (sex) acts.

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    04 May 2024

  16. Public Bookmark 4

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    Jaskier attends Geralt and Yennefer's wedding. He thinks about love, endings, and what it means to be selfless.

    (a spin-off, jaskier-pov of the non-canon short story "something ends, something begins" by andrzej sapkowski)

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    25 Mar 2024

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    “Oh.” Jaskier’s voice is quiet in the stillness of the cave. “I thought…” He trails off, unable to finish the sentence, looking away from Geralt and down at his hands as he clasps them in his lap.

    Geralt sighs beside him, their shoulders rubbing together at the movement. “I’m sure you thought many things, Jaskier.”

    Or, Jaskier refuses to leave Geralt on that mountain, no matter what the witcher says.

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    09 Mar 2024

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    Geralt decides to retire to Toussaint. He takes Jaskier with him.

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    08 Mar 2024

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    Someone finds the cabin where Jaskier and Ciri are hiding, but it's not Radovid. It's someone far more dangerous.

    With Geralt and Yennefer away at Thanedd, Jaskier must face what he fears most. Only it's even worse than last time, because he's not only afraid for himself.

    And he's begun to realise that there is nothing he won't do to keep Ciri safe.

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    08 Mar 2024

  20. Public Bookmark 66

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    The hoofprints in the road. The smell of a campfire. The worn spot in his bedroll. The tread in his boots, slipping along a hill. The whinny of a horse. A dead body along the road. The stars, oh the stars. They ache to reflect Geralt’s eyes one last time, and Jaskier weeps as he tells them that it isn’t to be. He’s grateful that they grieve him, too. It makes the loneliness more tolerable.

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    08 Mar 2024

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