10 random lines
I was tagged by @clottedcreamfudge , thank you love 💙
Rules: pick any ten of your fics, scroll to the midpoint, pick a line (or three) and share it. Then tag ten people.
I’m going to do the last 10 posted fics, since they’re more or less what I’ve posted in the last six months.
1) Didn't the trees tell us their stories? (The Witcher)
“I… I got lost. Not,” he holds out his hand to stop Aiden from interrupting. “Not spacially. I just, when Geralt… We were up in the mountains. I came down, and I.” He clears his throat. “I’m afraid I lost grip on my… body. This human form, it takes some effort to maintain, especially here in the woods.”
2) i'll sing silence (the Witcher)
So Jaskier sobs. He melts into Geralt’s embrace, so strong that he knows it will bruise, and he cries his heart out, silently, breathlessly. The singing downstairs has stopped. So has the music always playing in his head, snippets of songs and wordless melodies and improvised tunes. It’s gone.
It’s all gone.
3) Holding Angels (Shadowhunters, WIP)
“I won’t trade my dignity for a bit of leniency,” Alec says without hesitation. He’s not sure that he really thinks it, not anymore. Not when he has a good idea what’s coming. The dread in his chest has had time to settle, and it’s growing with every hour.
But he will bear it. For Jace. For Clary. For Magnus. Renouncing his decision, pleading for mercy, would put them all at risk.
4) Dandelion Season (The Witcher)
She falls to her knees beside him. “Jaskier!”
Still nothing. She slaps his face gently, unsure if she should move him – he might be injured, humans don’t lie on the floor like this for no reason, right? She runs a light hand over his chest, pulling at the doublet to open it. It falls apart under her fingers. That’s when she sees the blood.
It pools underneath him, already staining her dress where she kneels. There’s so much of it. She’s not sure how he’s still conscious – if you can call his weird lethargy conscious.
5) every promise and lie (The Witcher)
Jaskier takes a deep breath and limps to the door. He clumsily unlocks the bolt and pushes down the handle with his elbow.
He takes a step back, hides his hands behind his back because, yes, okay, he’s more than a little self-conscious, and he takes in Geralt’s form in front of him.
He looks exhausted and jittery and yet really fucking hot, god-dammit. It’s entirely unfair just how much Jaskier yearns for him even now. He hasn’t seen this face in a year and a half and he just wants to—
“Fuck it.”
6) your smile in mine (The Witcher, they/them Jaskier)
Jaskier's heart clenches. Is that it, then? Is that what she means? Is Geralt shutting them out because he's about to break up with them? Jaskier knows that their personality and their issues are a lot of handle, and the fear that Geralt will one day wake up and realize that Jaskier is just too much (or maybe not enough) is always present at the back of their mind, but this time they can't even pinpoint what they did wrong.
"Hey, Jaskier, breathe," Yennefer calls out, and Jaskier realizes that they're hyperventilating. Yennefer has moved from the armchair across from them to the couch, and her hand is hovering over their arm, as if asking for permission to touch them.
Jaskier slips their arm away -- the thought of being touched makes their skin crawl right now -- but they take a few deep breaths to calm down. "Sorry."
7) the wallpaper inside my heart (the Witcher)
“Does he matter to you?” is her question once Geralt is done relating the story, cheeks heated up in shame at his fuckup.
Geralt takes his time to think. “Yeah,” he sighs.
“Then go and apologize. If he really doesn’t care about you, he’ll tell you. But if he does and he’s just going through a rough time, then not only you’re losing a friend, but you’re hurting him unnecessarily on top of that.”
8) a flower by any other name (The Witcher, they/them Jaskier)
It takes Geralt about an hour to figure out how he wants to do it, which is far too long when he knows that Jaskier is anxiously waiting and trying to keep it all in. Finally, with a muttered "fuck it", he does something that he would never normally do: he lifts his phone and takes a selfie of both of them, hugging in front of his sloppy omelette.
Bon appétit from Jaskier and me, he captions the photo, adding the only buttercup sticker he can find in the app, and he sends it to the group chat.
9) remember me I sing (The Witcher)
He’ll find a way to slip away, maybe, meet Rience just to see him do it. Or maybe he should just treasure every moment he has with his family…
His family.
He hasn’t let himself use that word, even in his head. He’s known since the start that he’s a liability, that his days are numbered. He didn’t mean to get attached to Ciri. He didn’t mean for Ciri to get attached to him.
10) Collapse (Shadowhunters)
It builds up. Or maybe it built up before, all the way up to now, all the things that went unsaid and the trauma they didn’t acknowledge and the fights they never had, and now it’s boiling over. It’s boiling all over Alec and he can feel the burn on his skin and he doesn’t remember anymore if the pain is from that goddamn demon venom or from the hurt in Magnus’s eyes and it freezes him all inside.
He can’t stand up and he can’t walk and Magnus sits there looking at him like that and Alec wants to cry.
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That was fun! No pressure tag for @eveningspirit (feel free to give us your wonderful original writing as well) @moonlight-breeze-44 @xianvar @pherryt @flightsfancy22 @entropic-saudade
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I was tagged by @xianvar to share the titles of my current WIPs!
If one strikes your fancy, drop the title in my inbox and I will tell you a bit about them or drop you a line or two!
Only downside is - I really don't have titles yet for most or all of these.
Crossovers!
* Witcher/MCU - Geralt and Jaskier find the Winter Soldier in a cave
* Witcher/SPN - Yennefer opens a portal into the Bunker in an attempt to find them all a safe haven
* Witcher/The Others - Yen, Geralt, Jaskier and Ciri are chased through another portal by Stregebor and they find themselves in the Lakeside Courtyard
* Witcher/Elfquest - honestly, neither Geralt nor Jaskier know how they wound up on Abode - the world of two moons. Neither does the author
* SPN/Old Guard - the old guard have been captives of the MOL for decades. Joe wakes up in the American bunker after it's been abandoned and then found again. Dean and Sam are in for a shock
* Second Half of "The Beckoning Stars and the Secrets They Hold..." Star Trek/Marvel Au
Not Crossovers
* Incubus!Jaskier - look, this monster is at 48k already. um. that pun was totally unintended.
* Forgotten Song Sequel (Witcher)
* Hit the Spot (Marvel AU)
* The next part of Second Chances Series - not actually started, but the series is a WIP so.... - Witcher
* The next part of the Just Right Series - same deal - SPN
* The next part of the Lost and Found series - Same deal - MCU
Bonus:
* Lost Boys - Zoro (One Piece) and Ryoga (Ranma 1/2) get lost together. They get so lost, they keep falling into other fandoms****
****This one does not actually have any words written yet, just me figuring out which fandoms they'll fall into. But it's one of the few with a title! so I thought I'd include it
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Six Sentence Sunday and there are two extracts for you today!!! First of all, one from my Angel & Riley story which I've recently gotten back to and which currently stands at over 9k words (this was intended to be short fic how did this happen). This is a few days after Riley's near death experience in 5x04 - which goes a little differently than in canon and Angel helped saved his life, which is a milestone in their relationship.
Things were still a little strained between them, but it was clear Riley was making an effort to unlearn a lot of things and genuinely seemed to want to spend time with him as well, so Angel would make the effort in return.
And it was…better than he thought it might be. It was clear that under it all Riley really was just a country boy, and he talked about his life in Iowa with such fondness…
But he was happy here. More so, now that the government were off his case and he and the Scoobies were starting to talk about things, but there was still that undercurrent of insecurity – and uncertainty, because as he told Angel over drinks one night, he’d wanted to become a soldier in order to protect people, and instead he’d been used and lied to and sometimes the real monsters were people. He was a military man without a military, because he didn’t trust them not to pull the same shit years down the line.
“I thought I knew what was right and what was wrong,” he’d said mournfully, “and now I don’t, and I can’t help but wonder how many lives I ruined because of what I was a part of, what I refused to question.”
“Good.” Angel had replied. “That’s a good sign, Riley, trust me. I know it’s not easy – believe me, I know – but you’re starting to make amends. You’re learning from Giles and planning to train with Buffy once your strength’s back up, and you’re not going to run blind into anything again.”
“I hope not, but…what if I do? What if I do something stupid and I don’t know how to fix it?”
“You pick yourself back up, and you try again.”
There's still a while to go because it turns out they have a lot to say.
The next extract is from chapter 3 of when a friendship is found (across the seas) - set in 1949, the morning after the banquet in Cintra, and Jaskier is getting to know Áine.
“I noticed, my dear Islander, that you didn’t seem at all fazed by the White Wolf.”
“That’s because I’ve never believed that Witchers are monsters. Besides,” she continued, her expression turning fond, “I’m friends with a Witcher myself.”
“You’re what?” Jaskier could hardly contain his excitement and wished he had his lute with him. “Oh, this I must hear, Áine – you’re friends with a Witcher.”
“Yup - have been for several months.”
“Who? How? What’s he like? Is he of the Wolf School? Do you think I could meet him?”
“That’s a lot of questions, Jaskier, but—”
Whatever she was going to say was interrupted by a familiar voice calling her name.
Jaskier is just about to find out she's Eist's kinswoman (and is utterly delighted by this fact).
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