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    “What’s the plural for a group of Steves?” asks Natasha, and it’s weirdly comforting that the question has a hint of whimsical hysteria to it. Good, Bucky’s not the only one who’s not dealing well with all of this.

    “A clusterfuck,” he says. “A clusterfuck of Steves.”

    Despite how little sense his life has made since he got on a battlefield to fight a bunch of aliens, Bucky's pretty sure he knows exactly what's happened when a much older Steve appears after the mission to return the Infinity Stones: he left Bucky behind to get his much deserved happily ever after in the past. Only then another Steve shows up, and another. And Bucky realizes he still hasn't got any idea what's going on.

    What he does have is a whole lot of Steves, a fraught relationship with his own Steve, and tentative plans to leave. But the more Bucky talks to all these different versions of Steve, the more he begins to wonder if leaving really is what's best for him and his Steve, or if there's a way to make something new out of their long friendship.

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    16 May 2024

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    RIGHT IN THE FEELS

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    They’ve all changed since the mountain, Geralt more than most, but he’s known Jaskier since he was a teenager and there’s been more change in him this last year than the nineteen previous. 

    Whatever happened, whatever is happening still, Geralt needs to know. For Ciri and his brothers, but for Jaskier too. A year is a long time for a human, and if he’s in some kind of trouble, it’s Geralt’s job to get him out of it. 

    Call it instinct. Call it paranoia. But he’s paying attention now, and Jaskier won’t be able to keep his secrets for long. 

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    16 Mar 2024

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    Supper secured and stuffed away in his trousers, he looks up to find the silver-haired stranger in the corner, the one person who hadn’t heckled him. The man is objectively gorgeous, with fascinating hair and a body that makes Jaskier’s mouth water a little.

    Oh yes, he decides quickly, he will be climbing this stranger like a tree.

    He’s a little wrong-footed when he works out that the stranger is a witcher with big scary swords Jaskier’s heard horror stories about, but after a quick moment of thought, he also thinks about how very many things the fae elders have been wrong about all his life and decides to ignore them once again. The witcher–Geralt of supposedly Rivia, even though Jaskier can tell from his accent that that’s a lie–tries to get rid of him, but Jaskier is nothing if he’s not determined, and he’s simply too damn interested to get scared off easily.

    The witcher has clearly not realized that Jaskier is something to be hunted, and Jaskier, well, he’s never excelled at silly things like self-preservation.

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    11 Jan 2024

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    Jaskier thinks he hit rock bottom when Geralt flushed twenty years of friendship down the drain, but then he finds himself suddenly translucent and rudely walked through by a traveller. Apparently he's dead - that's certainly a new low. He needs to find out what happened, and who better to help him than the man who's made more than clear he wants nothing to do with him.

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    03 Jan 2024

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    “I’m not fucking done, Geralt, you stunted buffoon. I’m talking to you, no more Jaskiers. For someone who never fucking talked to me, you sure seem desperate to say a lot right now.”

    Geralt has the decency to keep his mouth shut this time.

    “You hurt me, Geralt. I asked you to come to the coast with me, and you decided instead to come inside Yennifer. Sound familiar? Yes? It should at this point because it’s happened more than fucking once but that goddamn mountain — I know my fucking worth, Geralt. I’m worth more than you’ve ever treated me in the last twenty years. Let me say, I know you’re what, four hundred? So my age must be incomprehensible to you at this point, but I shared my eighteenth birthday with you on the path. I was a child. If that is how you treat other children, by gods, I pray for your child surprise. Give the girl to Yen. Give her a chance to be something other than a doormat for your gorish boots.”

    “I’m sorry.”

    “Your armor looks atrocious by the way. I hate it. Brings out the douchebag qualities in your very punchable face.”

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    aka; an angry jaskier fic because s2 fucked him over

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    29 Dec 2023

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    Isolating the emotions and communication from the context of the Witcher fandom gives me a lot to think about in terms of my own regrets and grievances. There are works that show me new things to work through in therapy like a slap in the face, but this is beautifully written and doesn’t stray anywhere near overwhelming.

    Also, this is just a bloody amazing piece of work and does justice to the characters - not trivialising but also not labouring too much.