#wip amnesty 2023
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witcher wip amnesty 2023
summary: there was a post going around ages ago about an AU where geralt went to get jaskier before A Grain of Truth, so he's there when geralt refers to nivellen as a friend. and i had a 'oh jaskier would not react like that' moment and started writing fic. and then i thought 'do i really need to rehash why i think large parts of fandom are misinterpreting jaskier and geralt's fight on the mountain?' and i thought 'no' but it turns out i already had.
word count: .8k
[also on ao3]
I know someone nearby, an old friend
“Geralt, it’s fine. It was a joke.”
“It’s not fine,” Geralt growled.
“You don’t need to get all self-flagellate-y. I said it’s fine.”
“I’m not self-flagellate-y. That’s not why it’s not fine.” Geralt deliberately did not comment on Jaskier’s tendency to make up words, he did not want to give Jaskier the opportunity to derail the conversation.
“I said it was fine.” Jaskier’s voice dropped to a lower register. He was actually angry. Geralt wasn’t backing down on this though.
“You do this to me all the time.”
“Well, I am a bard and you are an emotionally constipated Witcher. I’m allowed and you’re not.”
“Jaskier, shut up and let me finish.”
Jaskier’s face scrunched in exaggerated displeasure, but he sat there studying Geralt with uncomfortable intensity for a very long moment.
“Geralt.”
“What?”
“I’m trying very hard here, but you’re going to have to actually say something.”
“Fuck,” Geralt sighed and pressed the heels of his hands into his browbone before forcing hmiself to speak. “If you hadn’t had some doubt, if it didn't weigh on you in any way that I kept denying we’re friends, would you have left or would you have squawked at me about being a needlessly cruel Witcher and talked in circles until I was too irritated to be properly mad anymore?”
“Oh, that’s...” Jaskier trailed off looking away.
“You mean more to me than I know how to say.”
Jaskier’s mouth quirked like it always did right before he said something he thought was funny but was actually incredibly irritating. But his expression shifted the moment his gaze settled back on Geralt. Geralt could see the gears in Jaskier’s mind downshifting as he forced himself to properly engage with the conversation they were having. It had taken Geralt a very long time to understand that, for all his fast talking and nearly uncanny observational skills, it sometimes took Jaskier a while to really process and integrate new information.
“I know. And you’re my best friend.”
Jaskier dropped his gaze to stare at his hands, fidgeting with his fingers. Geralt was privately glad he did, Jaskier’s intensity discomfited him as much as he also craved the attention.
Suddenly, Geralt found himself fixed with Jaskier’s blue eyed stare, “Do you really think that little of me, that I would let you get away with that for decades if it bothered me?”
Jaskier’s smile went wobbly but sincere. “Yeah, that’s what I thought. I guess I shouldn’t claim it wouldn’t have made any difference to have that reassurance of you having said it, but it wasn’t that. I made it pretty clear you were really hurting me and you just kept going. And I—I get it, I’m not mad anymore, but I can’t just let you do that. Yen hurt you, and you—”
“I wasn’t—”
“No. Yennefer reminded you how easy it is to hurt someone who cares about you and you decided to deal the decisive blow first before I could hurt you too. It’s not fine, but I do understand. You haven’t lived this long by ignoring potential threats.”
Geralt sighed. Sometimes Jaskier was impossible, mostly because he was right.
“Why didn’t you tell her you didn’t wish for that? You didn’t wish for that, did you?”
“No. It wouldn’t have mattered.”
“Exactly,” Jaskier replied, his voice pained.
Geralt, unsure what else to do, rested his hand on Jaskier’s shoulder.
“Just, you know, do better next time. And for what it’s worth, though I made no secret of how much I hated her, I am truly sorry the two of you won’t get a second chance.”
They were both quiet for a long time, at least by Jaskier’s standards, before Jaskier did the imitation of a hyper-alert squirrel he did when his attention caught on something he was uncertain about. “You know, I don’t like this place. There’s something off about it. It’s... creepy? But not in an oooo spooky old house way. You get used to that. This gets worse the longer I’m here. It’s... whatever is in the ceiling is not a cat.”
Jaskier was right. Geralt refocused all of his senses. Cats did not make subtle clicking noises. He remembered the barefoot prints vanishing suddenly in the snow. “It’s a bruxa. We have to get to Ciri. Now.”
“Tell me what you need me to do,” Jaskier said as he tailed Geralt down the hall.
“Go with Ciri and get to Roach. Watch out for her. She doesn’t trust me yet and might not listen.”
“Ok. Yes, easy. This will be fine,” Jaskier mumbled to himself. Geralt didn’t snap at him to be quiet like he once might have. He was used to Jaskier, his murmuring wasn’t distracting as much as it was a reassuring reminder that he was there.
#the witcher#geraskier#mayo writes fic#wip amnesty 2023#first drafts of my fic tend to be mostly dialogue not really sure why i write like that
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Speaking of fic that is and was and might be, I’ve posted something tonight on ye olde ao3 -
And I Was Never Afraid of the Dark (Oh, the Weapon You Made of my Heart)
- which is not my usual sort of a thing to do! I’ve been sitting on this wip for a long time, and since I’m spending most of creative energy these days on writing and publishing original fiction, I thought I’d throw caution to the wind and use ao3 as the archive it is and post things that aren’t finished, but are more than just paragraph of set up.
I have several of these. This one is probably the longest one. I hope that even though it is unfinished, that people give it a shot! It’s fun, I think, and there’s lot’s of good in it, that even if I was to harvest the wip for parts as I am wont to do, won’t transfer to whatever new thing they become.
I’ll probably do some more wip amnesty this year, and I encourage folks who are interested in sharing the writing languishing on their hard drives to share it instead of feeling like no one would want to read it, ‘cause I do.
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This isn't really WIP amnesty either - just a cut scene from something when I realized they were in Julian's quarters and it didn't make sense. I think it might've been from The Glow Up originally
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"Mmm, Garak…you don't mind if I spend the night, do you? I've got an early shift."
"And if you had to walk all the way back to your quarters -"
"Well, that's five minutes of potential sleep I'll never get back!"
"I wouldn't dream of condemning you to such a fate. By all means, make yourself at home."
"Thank you. Computer, set an alarm for oh-six-hundred hours."
"Unable to comply."
"My apologies, Doctor. Computer, set an alarm for oh-six-hundred hours."
"Alarm set."
"I should've known better than to think you'd let just anyone give commands in your quarters."
"I'll add your voice print, if you like."
"I'm surprised you haven't already. Hopeless romantic you are."
"Honestly, Doctor. If you're just going to make fun, you can go sleep in your own bed."
"Oh, don't pout. I think it's very sweet that you trust me with your time and temperature settings."
"The temperature is locked, actually."
"Of course it is. Best way to be sure I sleep naked."
"Vanity, vanity."
"Goodnight, Elim."
"Goodnight, Julian."
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fanfic round up 2023
(2021, 2022)
LIST OF FANWORKS
Posted
Crave (LOTR | haladriel | tentacles and rings of power | rated E)
somewhere in the haze (LOTR | Celeborn/Sauron | mutual stockholm syndrome | rated M)
taking me with your song (The Little Mermaid (2023) | Ariel/Eric, Ariel/Ursula | tentacles and possession and mindfuckery | rated E)
can't escape the ghost of you (The 100 | clexa, clarke/the judge | being fucked by the divine wearing the face of your dead lover is better than therapy | rated M)
Eating fire (SPN | Claire Novak | the girl who was castiel grieves for her fathers | rated T)
Bound (SPN | megstiel | a demon and her angel | rated NR)
uncharted territory (Supergirl | supercorp | the dangers of being hated by a luthor | rated M) (technically, just chapter 4 counts for 2023)
nothing can go wrong when you're in love (Nimona (2023) | Nimona/Gloreth | when your boss’ boyfriend looks like your ex, ugh! | rated Gen)
through a father’s eyes (Narnia | King Lune | dads gotta dad | rated Gen)
atomic blonde (Narnia, LOTR | Susan/Eowyn | it’s not the first time a power beyond understanding ripped Susan away from her home to fight in another world’s war | rated M)
Beware how you give your heart (LOTR | haladriel | a fourth age haunting | rated M) (a wip!!)
a little touch in the night (LOTR | haladriel | a love letter in tiny bites | rated T)
+three yuletide offerings to be revealed in January!
WIPS
MCU: the king and queen of Asgard wrt Valkyrie/Carol Danvers
MCU: the final conclusion of my winterbaron sugar daddy fic
LOTR: Doriath trash party wrt Melian/Galadriel
LOTR: “Sauron becomes a tree”
LOTR: dark Galadriel/Samwise and their garden of the world
LOTR: healing generational trauma with fourth age Arwen and her peepaw
The Matrix: Trinity and Smith as mirrors
Good Omens: Crowley haunted by his angel
Star Wars: A really scandalous dinluke sex pollen
Total number of completed works/fandoms written in: fifteen completed works in 2023 for a total of just over 32k words; six LOTR, two SPN, two Narnia, the rest sundry & various.
OVERALL THOUGHTS: ::taps the top of this car:: you can put so much monsterfucking in this bad boy, jfc.
PERSONAL FAVORITE: Getting unblocked by the most unlikeliest of sources and FINISHING MY SUPERCORP HATESEX. uncharted territory finished FIVE YEARS LATER. This has been a weight on my shoulders for years; I always knew it ended with a sadistic Lex Luthor torturing Kara (oop), but it was time passing and The Flash (2023) that got me where I needed to be to get that banged out. I’m really really pleased how that ended, and that I actually can finish a WIP.
MOST UNDERAPPRECIATED: Bound is really exceptional. It was part of my WIP amnesty week, and a revisitation and remix of a meg masters fic I wrote in 2013 after I had a terrible life-altering accident. My favorite 2023 additions are how she can only speak in the language of Sodom at the end. It’s not a GREAT fic, but I really love Meg and I love Meg & Castiel.
MOST POPULAR: Definitely Nimona (nothing can go wrong when you're in love) with 1,200+ kudos. Y’all, the teen/gen fic in younger fandoms hits hard. OOPS. re: my deeply funny stats for the little mermaid tentacles fic with over 3k hits and 86 kudos. AHAHHAHAH. welp.
STORY WITH THE SEXIEST MOMENT: OKAY, so this is sexy specific to me: in Crave, Galadriel taunts Sauron about how he has to fuck Ar-Pharazôn (a mini love letter to my beloved 5ummit!) and this, to me, is everything: “And you’ll never enjoy Ar-Pharazôn’s little prick again,” she says, drinking in the horror of his recent memories, a soured scheme. “Your play at feigned pleasure in service to a base creature will be ash in your mouth now. You will only think of the taste of my cunt with his cock shoved in your whore mouth.” The crass words burn on her lips but she can sense how he trembles, even in this form. “You’ll hunger for the taste of me. And when he’s dead, when you’ve sucked the miserable mortal life out of him, you’ll never take a lover again for the rest of your unnatural life,” she says. “You know where your dick should be sheathed. In me and no where else.”
MOST FUN STORY TO WRITE: Okay, I traveled for work a LOT this year and one night I was feeling down and angry about the world and asked on twitter that for every like, I’d write a soft haladriel headcanon and by the end of the night, i had the bulk of a little touch in the night and I was such a happy delighted lil soul. Such a highlight of the year.
HARDEST: A tie between Crave, which was writing on hard mode since I’m violently anti dominant Sauron (oop), and uncharted territory since I had been blocked for years.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: The delicious lush connection of Celeborn/Sauron in somewhere in the haze that STARTED AS A JOKE and now I’m full rarepair conspiracy theory into it.
DID YOU TAKE ANY RISKS IN WRITING THIS YEAR? Posting SPN in 2023, lol what was that. And neither of them explicitly destiel. Girl. Both tanked but I love those two fics.
MOST UNINTENTIONALLY TELLING STORY: Okay, one of my yuletides this year is really too close to something I’m working through in therapy. Oop.
FAVORITE LINES/SCENES: Okay literally everything in atomic blonde, that fic is nonstop bangers imho. I love this especially:
“Ah, there it is,” he replies. Stops, and turns to look into her eyes. To drink in her fury. “This isn’t your world, Daughter of Eve. Take your cursed horn and your beautiful face and take the little shieldmaiden too for all I care and leave Middle Earth to me. Grow old and find joy in women’s work.” He blinks, nonsense words emerging out of him: “In Christian Dior dresses and Chanel lipstick, in Italian leather handbags and silk nylons, in handsome British officers and those American boys who offer more than kisses, in the rumble of a Jaguar and the cries of healthy babies who do not fear war. Live and die on an island far, far away.” He blinks again. “I do not want you here.”
MY FAVE PART OF FANDOM IN 2023: Repeatedly saying “you hear me, baby? hold together” at the haladriel fandom like Han Solo does to the Millennium Falcon and we did! We made it another year!!! Let’s go, 2024!!!! (YOU HEAR ME, BABY. HOLD TOGETHER.)
2024 WRITING AMBITIONS: same as last year’s: Write more steadily and consistently. Get back into the drabble mode. Make time, take time, just do it. It doesn’t have to be groundbreaking, it just has to be creating something. The joy of creation is like nothing else. Chase that high.
2024 FICS ON THE IMMEDIATE HORIZON:
Jan 1 - htp trash fic exchange
Feb 3 - rffa exchange
March - haladriel exchange!
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SIGN UP FOR PROMPT #569: AMNESTY 2023 WEEK 2
This week's prompt is: ANY PAST PROMPT
It’s that time of year! For this week, ANY PAST PROMPT is fair game. Want to write for two or three previous prompts? That’s fine! Pick whatever prompts you want to write for, whether you’ve written for them before or not, and write those stories. Have a story that turned into a beast, and you didn't get it done and haven't posted it yet? Polish that off and post! Be sure to tag both this week’s prompt AND the prompt you wrote for when posting. Don’t forget to add your work to this week’s prompt and the past prompt collection on AO3, too!
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[ID: A splotchy gradient of orange and green blended in places. The top center reads “Hartmonfest 2023”. Either side of the text is a circular picture for each character looking casual/happy. Hartley Rathaway is on the left and Cisco Ramon on the right. Below that is the hashtag #Hartmonfest2023 and a white rectangle with the prompts listed for each day which are also listed in the main body of the post below. /END ID]
Announcing the prompts for Hartmonfest 2023 since that’s coming up at the end of the month. The event will run for 4 days, from June 30th to July 3rd.
This is the last year we’ll be doing Hartmonfest, though we will be doing some more Finish Your WIP days later on in the year as well.
June 30th - Beach / Season 9 AU
July 1st - Prompt amnesty / wedding
July 2nd - “I thought you were supposed to call me.”
July 3rd - Regrets / Finish Your WIP day
Prompt amnesty means you can create for any of our past prompts, and Finish Your WIP means you can post any Works In Progress you can finish in time for the event.
The event is open to any type of Hartmon fanwork - including friendship, pre-ship or polyam ships including both of them. There’s no sign-up and no obligations with this event, simply post as much as you want, whether that’s for 1 day, all days, or anywhere in between. If you can’t post an item on the day for the prompt that’s no problem, we’ll happily reblog anything for the prompts no matter when you post – the more Hartmon content the better.
Tags to use for the event are #hartmonfest and #Hartmonfest2023 in the first five tags, as well as @hartmonfest in the post so we (hopefully) get notified. You can use ‘Submit a post’ or message us links to the fanwork instead if you prefer. The Ao3 collection name is ‘HartmonFest2023‘ and you can submit a new work to the collection here.
If you have any questions about the event do ask, and if you’re happy to, please reblog/share this post so it gets seen far and wide. :)
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Brakebills South (Magicians Settings Week, Antarctica prompt)
Going South (6825 words) by EliotQueliot
Chapters: 2/4
Fandom: The Magicians (TV), The Magicians - Lev Grossman
Summary: This is the first piece of art for the story. There will be several scenes outside the edifice of Brakebills South! Hope this provides a sense of how imposing, impenetrable, and snowy the building is.
Notes: As this is the last day of amnesty week for the collection, I wanted to post more for the Day 5 prompt, “Antarctica,” Friday, March 31, 2023, of Where the Magic Happens: Magicians Settings Week. I've so enjoyed the event, and really want to offer heartfelt thanks to all those behind the scenes at The Magicians Challenges for creating Where the Magic Happens: Magicians Settings Week, March 27 - April 2 2023, as well as to all those who created fanworks--I love everything you contributed so much! (Please, everyone, go check them out!) For those who created ongoing WIPs, I'm eagerly awaiting more! And I'll be adding more chapters to this & my other Settings WIPs as soon as I can.
#magicianssettingsweek#magicianschallenges#queliot#brakebills south#the magicians fanart#eliot waugh#quentin coldwater#quentin x eliot#antarctica
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If you're still doing the wip ask thing the zukka pirate au 2023?
So, there are actually two, and one of them is a barebones outline along the lines of, "at 13, Zuko decides finding the Avatar is too hard, and insists on becoming a pirate; at 14, Zuko's ship is attacked and sunk by the Southern Raiders," etc. Not very interesting.
The other one has a complete plot and chapter outline, and a whole rising and falling action, but its dark origin is that I was playing around on chatGPT one day doing things like, "hey, idiot, give me a table of contents for a story with these parameters," "hey, give me a crew list for a pirate ship of this size and era," "hey, generate a port city that might exist in this canon." It was instructional with regards to the overall quality of AI-generated content (poor), but also it did get my creative juices flowing enough that I took the scraps and made them into something half-way decent.
It's a tale in four acts.
Act 1 - Air. Zuko and Sokka are pirates captaining different ships. They're after the same prey one day, but have to join forces to repel a Fire Nation anti-piracy patrol. They part ways after victory at sea, and later at port the two engage in a drunken tryst.
Act 2 - Water. Zuko leaves Sokka twisting in the wind at a dangerous moment, but later apologizes and makes a peace offering: a treasure map to a long-lost mountain of gold. Sokka accepts the offer, and the two embark on a quest. Unbeknownst to them, they are being followed by Admiral Zhao, who wants the treasure for himself.
Act 3 - Earth. They arrive at an island where a spirit that knows the real treasure's location resides, and she tests their bond of love to almost the breaking point. In the end, she gives up the location of the treasure, but extracts a terrible price for the knowledge.
Act 4 - Fire. Turns out Zuko had a deal with Zhao: treasure for amnesty. Sokka is furious, but the treasure happens to be located on an island currently contested by the Fire Nation and Earth Kingdom, and he suggests that the Earth Kingdom would be better to beg for amnesty from. A pitched battle at sea ensues, and Zuko turns on Zhao to save Sokka and the others. It ends with the Earth Kingdom granting Zuko and Sokka both letters of marque and reprisal, and the two joining forces to sail off into the sunset.
I'm eliding a lot of details with this summary, but that was the gist. I never did much more than some basic logistical note-taking and fleshing out the table of contents. I was, at the time, too busy working on J&R. It might be interesting to take this up again when I've got more of that monster slain, but for now it sits in my WIP folder, abandoned.
WIP game master post.
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by mayoho
This will probably be two chapters, but I haven't gone through all my drafts yet.
Chapter 1: Jaskier wants to try anal sex. Obviously he asks Geralt for help. Writing good sex scenes is hard, and I didn't feel like bothering, so this is just the intro, but I really really liked it.
Chapter 2: single scene from the AU where Jaskier is there for A Grain of Truth
Chapter 3: Jaskier is upset about Radovid and Geralt sort of helps
Words: 1868, Chapters: 3/?, Language: English
Fandoms: The Witcher (TV), Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: M/M
Characters: Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia, Jaskier | Dandelion
Relationships: Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia & Jaskier | Dandelion, Jaskier | Dandelion/Radowid V Srogi | Radovid V the Stern
Additional Tags: Platonic Sex, First Time Bottoming, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
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by mayoho
This will probably be two chapters, but I haven't gone through all my drafts yet.
Chapter 1: Jaskier wants to try anal sex. Obviously he asks Geralt for help. Writing good sex scenes is hard, and I didn't feel like bothering, so this is just the intro, but I really really liked it.
Words: 826, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English
Fandoms: The Witcher (TV), Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: M/M
Characters: Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia, Jaskier | Dandelion
Relationships: Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia & Jaskier | Dandelion
Additional Tags: Platonic Sex, First Time Bottoming
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witcher wip amnesty 2023
(it's still january, i'm still allowed to do that right?
summary: jaskier's never had anal sex. obviously he asks geralt. (i gave up on this before i got to the sex part, but i really really enjoyed writing the dialogue setup.)
word count: ~.8K
[also on ao3]
They are sitting around the campfire, Geralt working through his endless equipment repair and maintenance, Jaskier humming and tapping his fingers against his palm (it’s too dark for him to do much of anything else). Jaskier goes quiet for just long enough for Geralt to become suspicious and look up at him before he asks, “Geralt, have you ever been fucked?”
“What?”
Jaskier huffs—a momentary flash of annoyance that Geralt hasn’t divined enough of his train of thought for this question to seem reasonable. “Yes, surely a worldly person such as yourself is familiar with the male body’s capacity to be penetrated for sexual pleasure.”
“Yes. Why are you asking me this?”
“I haven’t been, and I’m curious.”
“And your first thought was to ask me?” Geralt’s voice is flat with incredulity.
“My first thought was to—“ Jaskier pauses to wiggle his fingers, “self experiment. But it wasn’t… it wasn’t bad but I’m not sure I’m doing it right.”
“So you want me to teach you how to make anal sex feel good?”
Jaskier’s face lights up. “Yes, that’s the idea!”
His face crumples into a frown just as quickly, “I suppose it’s presumptuous. I’ve never even known you to seek out the company of men. If I was of your advanced age, I’d have tried everything, but not everyone is like that…”
A small part of Geralt is curious of what else Jaskier might say it was allowed to keep rambling. He’s seen and learned a lot of the world for someone so young, it’s interesting sometimes to see what he has and hasn’t pieced together. But Geralt speaks when Jaskier pauses to draw breath, “I don’t usually, but I have often enough. Most of my experience is with women.”
“Well, yes, in general, I know you well enough to have observed that.”
“Not just in general.”
“How does that work?” Jaskier sounds alarmingly excited.
Geralt wiggles his fingers the same way Jaskier had earlier and adds, “or with a harness.”
Jaskier’s expression goes a bit glassy and Geralt can smell his arousal spike. Maybe this will distract Jaskier enough that they won’t have to finish this conversation. Geralt’s not sure if he’s disappointed or relieved.
It doesn’t matter. It only takes Jaskier a few moments to return his attention to Geralt. “The mechanics on the receiving end must be basically the same regardless.”
“Yes,” Geralt confirms. He pauses with a frown. “Are you propositioning me?”
“Oh, no. I was not expecting a practical demonstration. But, hm, you’re not usually one for words, so that’s not an unreasonable assumption and if you’re offering I am in no way opposed.” Jaskier gives Geralt a deliberately obvious once over.
That, in Geralt’s opinion, is the worst answer Jaskier could have given, putting this decision on Geralt, but Geralt studies him. He’s comfortable and relaxed, pleased to have Geralt’s attention, but mostly endlessly curious.
“Okay,” Geralt says, allowing Jaskier to study him in return.
“Lovely!” Jaskier exclaims before shifting suddenly into awkwardness. Geralt has had the time to grow accustomed to how quickly Jaskier’s expressions can shift, but it’s still disconcerting sometimes. “So, do we kiss or…”
“Thought you were supposed to be good at this.”
Jaskier hrumpfs with exaggerated offense. “I’m practiced in how to seduce, be seduced, and exchange quick favors, but I don’t know which of those things I’m supposed to be doing? I’ve never done… whatever this is?”
“Hm,” Geralt says in genuine surprise. But Geralt thinks about it a bit more and it makes sense. It was the last thing Geralt would have expected them to share upon meeting each other, but they both exist in a liminal space (very different ones but the results are very much the same) that makes it difficult to see where one stands with other men. Geralt has only done this sort of experimenting with other Witchers.
Geralt’s been quiet too long and nervousness is starting to creep into Jaskier’s scent. It jars him out of his thoughts.
He nods decisively. “We should kiss first. Not sure how to make this good for you unless you’re…”
Geralt trails off, but Jaskier seems to understand, does a pleased wriggle and moves to kneel next to Geralt, posture open, inviting, and eager. Jaskier does know how to be seduced.
Geralt sighs again, aiming for annoyance but it comes out fond instead. It’s embarrassing, especially when Jaskier smiles at him knowingly. Geralt quickly tidies away the bits of Roach’s tack he’d been mending and comes back with a vial of oil.
“Oh,” Jaskier says, looking at the vial. “That does make sense.”
Geralt laughs.
“I would have asked more questions before I did this to someone else! And I did think it through enough not to just stick completely dry fingers in my arse!”
“No, it’s not that. If you thought this was fine with just spit—not that experienced people don’t enjoy that—my job will be easy.”
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Fanfic Round-up 2023
Holy crap, I actually wrote enough this year to make doing one of these posts worth it!
All stories are locked to AO3 users only. I have invites if anyone needs one.
The last three stories are part of my WIP Amnesty, meaning they're unfinished and will never be finished. Read at your own discretion.
Emotional Motion Sickness (Star Wars: The Bad Batch | CF99, Rex, Phee | 5505 words)
Echo is sitting alone in the cockpit when the comm starts to blink with an incoming transmission. It’s Rex, hopefully with some actionable intel, but Echo isn’t going to hold his breath.
Or: Clone Force 99 doesn't rescue Omega and Crosshair from Mount Tantiss; Rex does.
No Alterations (Star Wars: The Bad Batch | CF99 | 450 words)
"Wait, if Omega is an unaltered Fett clone, then why is she a girl?"
Oh my god, Wrecker, you can't just ask someone why they're a girl.
A Step to the Left (Star Wars: The Bad Batch | CF99 | 1442 words)
His first immediate thought is to order everyone back to the rail line, but half of the squad is still in the hangar.
A different choice is made and the universe moves a step to the left.
Waiting to Begin (Star Wars Prequels Era | Mace Windu, Leia | 862 words)
Mace has just settled onto a comfortably padded bench in a secluded garden, thermos of tea and packet of biscuits at his side, his datapad displaying the first page of a novel that Shaak had recommended to him just last week, when a whirlwind rushes through the open doorway.
Until Break of Dawn (Star Wars: The Clone Wars | pre-Codywan | 686 words)
It's a beautiful planet and under any other circumstances, he might be able to enjoy the sights, but as it stands, it feels like they've been redeployed here every other week to try to take back the same ground they've been fighting with the Seppies over for the entire war.
Bedside Manner (Star Wars: The Clone Wars | Codywan | 1769 words)
Normally Cody wouldn't answer a personal message while on the bridge, but normally his general wouldn't have been left behind while the rest of the battalion was dispatched under another Jedi.
He makes sure that his comm is routed to his bucket and not his vambrace projector and accepts the call. "Cody here."
"Cody," says Fox on the other end of the call. "You need to get down here ASAP. It's your general."
Easy as Breathing (Star Wars: The Clone Wars | Codywan | 834 words)
Cody takes an accidental nap on the most comfortable bed in the galaxy.
I am not the ghost you are to me (Star Trek: AOS & The Lord of the Rings | Jim Kirk, Eomer, past Jim/Bones | 1205 words | WIP Amnesty)
It all starts with the cultural anthropology department requesting permission to observe a pre-warp civilization. If it was purely up to Jim, he'd just say yes and let them fabricate native clothing and go down there, but it's not, so it takes nearly two weeks of orbiting an Earth-like planet before they receive the go-ahead from HQ.
Young Not-Married Not-a-Couple (Star Trek AOS | Jim Kirk, Leonard McCoy, pre-Jim/Bones | 2678 words | WIP Amnesty)
The relationship between Jim and Bones could best be described as "old married couple" except they're not even dating.
The roads we choose all end up the same (The Hobbit | Female Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf, Kili | 4288 words | WIP Amnesty)
Bell had once foolishly thought that battles must be the worst things on the face of the earth, filled with violence and pain and death, but that was before she'd had to deal with their aftermath.
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Evil Author Day 2023
Not that evil, actually. This scene was part of a planned midquel to "a comma in the middle of a phrase" but it probably stands on its own.
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He wore his hair longer and looser now - most people did, but he thought it particularly suited him. The traditional military style with the stiff pomade wasn't practical in a post-war bombardment zone.
Then again, Julian remembered him that way. Would it be wise to appear different in their first face to face conversation since the end of the war?
After a good deal of deliberation, he elected to tie it back so that it wasn't terribly noticeable, but slung the excess over his shoulder so the doctor could comment on it if he wished to.
"Garak!" Even over the holovid, the sparkle in his eyes was evident. "You look - oh, you look fantastic. The climate must really be doing wonders for you."
"Hmm," said Garak, eloquently. "And you haven't aged a day, I see."
The boyish smile was back. "You're not a very good liar these days, are you? I know I look like hell."
He really didn't.
"You really don't," Garak said. With a casual motion, he flicked the rest of his hair back behind his shoulder. Just as he'd hoped, Julian's eyes followed the movement like it was the springball at a particularly high-stakes match.
"Your hair!" he enthused, jumping a little in his seat. "Is that -" He cut himself off with a laugh. "I'm sorry, I just remembered how you feel about the word ponytail."
"Try comparing the back of any Cardassian's head to the ass of some - beast of burden, and see how it goes for you."
"Don't get me sidetracked! Your hair!"
"Yes, I know."
"It's long!"
"Surely you've noticed the old styles are coming back into fashion since the war. In the end, it was more politically expedient to blend in than to keep styling it the way I used to."
"Oh, I'm certain that's all you were thinking! It suits you."
"You think so?"
"Very much," Julian murmured. "Do you ever braid it? You know, like Dr. Parmak?"
"I haven't," Garak said. It was close enough to the truth. "It's…unusual to do, except under particular circumstances. It's known to have a sort of spiritual significance. Parmak started doing it to himself years ago as a sort of political statement, and it became a signature look for the dissidents of the time. I don't know how it would come across if I started doing it."
"Well, maybe just in private then," said Julian, leaning in a little closer. "I'm quite good with my hands, you know."
"Are you trying to seduce me into letting you braid my hair?"
"Why, is it working?"
"You are an exceedingly strange man."
"Look, I just like doing it. It's soothing. And I haven't dated anyone with long hair in a while so I -"
He very clearly realized what he'd said and stopped abruptly, eyes widening. He swallowed dryly, and Garak sat there watching him, just letting him suffer. The councilor didn't bother hiding the little smile that tugged at his lips, though.
"I just mean," Julian said at last, everything coming out in a breathless rush, "I just mean it can be a bit intimate so I wouldn't just go around - but you I have been - well, we've known each other a long time and it's not -"
"Doctor -"
"I know we've been - I know we've always - you know, and I figured, well, you practically begged me to come to Cardassia so -"
"I did not beg!" Garak exclaimed.
"- and I'm not saying I didn't want to, I really, really do, but I - I always come on too strong. And it always ruins everything."
"Doctor…" No. "Julian…"
That got his attention. His head snapped up, eyes still wild and anxious.
"Julian, you won't scare me off. Surely you know that by now."
"You say that…"
"And I mean it. When we met, I was numb. It was all just a buzz of white noise and nothing. You were the first thing that felt real. Even after you brought me back to the land of the living, I wanted…I always wanted more. More conversation, more of your time, more of your smiles and prying questions and fits of righteous anger. It was never, ever too much. You were never too much."
The look of raw emotion on Julian's face was almost too much to bear. Garak understood now, he thought, why the doctor had been reluctant to call. The urge to touch him, to soothe him in some way that words couldn't, twisted like a knife in his ribs.
"Elim," he said, like he was trying out the taste of it. "I…"
"You were right," Garak cut in. "As much as it pains me to say it. This is - too difficult to discuss remotely. We'll come back to it when you arrive planetside."
Julian looked dazed. He nodded. "Okay," he said. "Yes. But I…"
"I know," said Garak firmly. "Please, Julian. Not now."
Annoyance seeped into his expression. "This was your idea, you know."
"Yes, and I really did want to discuss logistics. You're the one who got things off track."
"You flipped your hair at me! What was I supposed to do, not mention it? You'd never forgive me."
"Doctor, please. We need to discuss your accommodations."
"Starfleet's providing a stipend."
"Yes," Garak said, amused. "I'm the one who arranged for it. The money isn't the issue."
"Alright."
"I did attempt to reserve an apartment for you in the high-rise across from the Project, but there must have been some kind of mix-up, because they've filled all the spots again. Thankfully I have space for a guest until things are cleared up. If you don't object, of course - then you could set aside the stipend and use it for other expenses as they come up."
"Some kind of mix-up!" Julian echoed, with a grin. "Garak, you're unbelievable."
"I'm inviting you to be my guest, dear. You could be a little more polite."
"You're asking me to move in with you, is what you're doing. I can't believe I thought I was coming on too strong."
"Doctor, I'm offended."
"How many beds do you have, Garak?"
"...I was going to acquire another."
"You absolutely fucking weren't."
"I was! Just - only if you seemed put off by it."
"Oh my God."
"I didn't think you would be. You've been throwing yourself at me in your postscripts for a week now."
"That is hardly the point!"
"What is your point?"
"I don't know! I suppose that I'm just annoyed with myself for being so anxious about this whole situation when you're just as bad as I am. What an absurd pair we make."
"I'm not certain I appreciate that framing, but you seem to be feeling exceptionally fragile this evening, so I'll allow it."
Julian rolled his eyes. "Oh, thank you. I know you Cardassians are made of sterner stuff, so I'm grateful for the consideration."
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no more ace to play
no more ace to play
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by sheepishlion
For most of his life, Sam has had a stone in the bottom of his stomach. He’s not sure when it first showed up, but he remembers it all the way back to summers spent at Bobby’s junkyard, remembers feeling it turn over, heavy like lead, watching Bobby show Dean how to fix up some old lemon or another, while Sam sat inside and caught up on his summer reading list for school. The stone has a hunger of its own and a mind too, and it always likes when Sam goads Dean into pointless arguments about old movies, or classic rock, or soggy cereal. It gets bigger whenever Dean gets something Sam doesn’t. It gets angrier.
sam can't win 'em all, but he'd like to win one.
Words: 1310, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
Series: Part 3 of wip amnesty
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: M/M
Characters: Sam Winchester, Castiel (Supernatural), Dean Winchester, Eileen Leahy
Relationships: Castiel/Sam Winchester, Implied Castiel/Dean Winchester - Relationship
Additional Tags: evil team free will love triangle baby!!!, Unrequited Love, Jealousy, standalone & complete as-is, WIP Amnesty
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SIGN UP FOR PROMPT #568: AMNESTY 2023 WEEK 1
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