#Jaskier reluctantly becomes a single dad

[buskerjaskier]

Relationships: Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon & Jaskier | Dandelion, Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia/Jaskier | Dandelion/Yennefer z Vengerbergu | Yennefer of Vengerberg, Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia/Jaskier | Dandelion, Jaskier | Dandelion/Yennefer z Vengerbergu | Yennefer of Vengerberg, Minor or Background Relationship(s) Characters: Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon, Jaskier | Dandelion, Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia, Yennefer z Vengerbergu | Yennefer of Vengerberg Additional Tags: Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon & Jaskier | Dandelion Friendship, Father-Daughter Relationship, Aftermath of Torture, Burns, Curses, Period Typical Attitudes, Racism, Xenophobia, Elf Persecution, Non-Human Jaskier | Dandelion, Competent Jaskier | Dandelion, Jaskier | Dandelion is a Mess, Protective Jaskier | Dandelion, Protective Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon, Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia is Bad at Communicating, POV Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon, Fix-It of Sorts, Post-Season/Series 02 Summary:

“Please,” she begs, planting herself in front of him to act as a physical barrier, forcing him to stop. “I don’t have anywhere else to go.”

“Melitele’s tits, you’re persistent. Isn’t your…” His left hand does something complicated in a strange flourish, as though grappling for the right word. “... actual father, here somewhere?” It doesn’t sound like the word he’d been searching for, the common honorific somehow sounding foreign in his mouth.

“I was with him,” she admits, thinking about Geralt because he is the closest thing to a father she has now. “But… we got separated.”

The stranger raised an unimpressed eyebrow. “So, now you’re looking to adopt a new one?”

...

Alternatively: When Ciri gets separated from Geralt, she has to rely on the kindness of one reluctant stranger until she can find the witcher again. She doesn't intend to get attached - and it's apparent that neither does the stranger - but destiny always finds a way to fuck things up.

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My media this week (26 Sep-2 Oct 2021)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🙂 👂 Your Cruelly, Elvira (Cassandra Petersen, author & narrator) - basically a tell-all memoir, mostly remembrance and not a ton of introspection but fairly entertaining. I certainly didn’t realize quite how wild CP’s life BEFORE Elvira was; becoming Elvira was when she SETTLED DOWN. Respect that she was a self-admitted ‘starfucker’ in her wild 20s.

😍 Flowers in our Eyes series (cydonic) - 93K, Stucky, aka the house-flipper AU - reread of this lovely, fluffy story where Bucky flips houses and moves in next door to single-dad Steve. [main story is 88K, short sexy standalone epilogue is 5K)

🙂 Bookwyrm (KL Noone) - short story; the town witch protector goes to check out the big bad dragon who’s decided to settle there

😍 a soldier (who carries a mighty sword) (ghostinthelibrary) - 93K, The Witcher; Geralt/Eskel/Jaskier arranged marriage AU - love to see a polycule instead of a ‘love triangle’ + some nice political chicanery

🙂 Madison Square Murders (Momento Mori #1) (C.S. Poe) - still love a Poe mystery & characters and I’ll definitely be returning to Larkin & Doyle. I appreciate that she tried to mitigate having cop protags by having them be cold case & artist, respectively. Don’t love that she again used the ‘one MC’s relationship is bad and ending and this new love will make him realize it’ thing again. But both of those things didn’t outweigh all the rest of the stuff that I absolutely did greatly enjoy about this.

🙂 👂 A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot #1) (Becky Chambers, author; Emmett Grosland, narrator) - novella - no plot, just vibes and tea and some existential thinking on the meaning of existence. 

😍 The Librarian!Bitty Fics series (marswithghosts) - 156K, Check Please! (107 main fic, zimbits; 48K, parse/omc) - I stayed up too late reading the main fic. It's solid characterizations & a good plot with just enough believable angst and then, of course, a happy ending. Mad respect to this author because I normally am not big on kent parson but here I was, totally invested in this iteration's emotional growth!

😍 Our House, In The Middle Of Our Street (Clocks) - 51K, Cherik - no powers AU - "Charles is a social worker who fosters troubled kids, and one day he meets Erik, an ex-convict, who reluctantly agrees to stay for only a while, but ends up staying for good and helping Charles to raise the kids. Awkward parenting ensues."

💖 +220K of shorter fic so shorter work shout out 💖

Love Runs Wild (DevilDoll) - Teen Wolf: Sterek, 9K - reread of one of the best TW fics out there, in the legendary Neckz ‘n Throats ‘verse.

Clover, and Other Beloved Weeds (chaya) - The Witcher: Geraskier, 26K & Moss on River Stones (chaya) - The Witcher: Geraskier, 9K - a collection of vignettes and a final chapter in the lovely & gentle Flora series

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Come From Away (again)

Superman & Lois - s1, e1-2

Legends of Tomorrow - s3, e13

Elementary - s1, e3-5

Only Murders In The Building - s1, e7

Star Trek: Discovery - s1, e9-10

Ted Lasso - s1, e11 (2x)

Midsomer Murders - s22, e3 “Happy Families”

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Richmond Til We Die: A Ted Lasso Podcast - BONUS: Annette Badland • Mae on Ted Lasso

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Lil Nas X's Montero

Desert Island Discs - Tracey Ullman

You're Wrong About - Bonus: The Great Protein Fiasco

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Magical Summer Memories Vol. 3 - The Cardiff Giant

Ologies with Alie Ward - Pyrotechnology (FIREMAKING) with Ellery Frahm

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Pando the Trembling Giant

99% Invisible #460 - Corpse, Corps, Horse and Worse

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - The Curse of the Kreischer Mansion

Twenty Thousand Hertz - Blind Sports

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - The Mammoth Site of Hot Springs

Hit Parade - Spirit of ’71, Part 1 & 2

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Magical Summer Memories Vol. 4 - The Magic of Water

This is Good for You - Ep 15: Cannabis Is Good For You

Strong Songs - "Lovefool" by The Cardigans

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Heavenly '80s

Joyful Classical Music

Nocturne In

Feel Good! K-Pop Dance Music

Kacey Musgraves

Blues Instrumentals

Respect: '60s Iconic Women

Presenting Carole King

The Essential Sly & The Family Stone

Santana (top songs)

Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics Of All Time (Deluxe Version) [Santana]

Corazón [Santana]