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Geraskier Dom Jask, Sub Geralt Masterlist

His Bard - Geralt struggles with what to call Jaskier in front of others.

Just Need to be Held - Touch starved Jask, cuddle fic ❤️

Needy Aftercare - Semi non-verbal Jaskier needing Geralt to look after him after sex

Is this what you want? - Geralt’s first time in sub space

I'm not Scared - Jaskier stays up watching scary films and realises it's a bad idea come bed time, cuddle fic ❤️

Friends Share a Bed - That’s Fine -  There was only one bed fic

Geralt’s Chores - Just cute subspace Geralt being looked after. 

The Letter - Geralt leaves a letter for Jaskier then runs off. It contains a few confessions and some scored out cute stuff.

Not Used to This - Geralt's had a rough day and Jaskier soothes him by simply holding him, something he's not used to. Cuddle fic ❤️

Shivering - Consensual axii fic, Jaskier is unwell and Geralt just wants to help

Sort of Dr Jaskier - Its a fluff written asmr cranial nerve exam lmao

What’s your opinion? - Geralt asks for Jaskier to give him advice, it catches him off guard. (Sword of Destiny prompt)

Sunburn - Geralt gets taught a lesson about not wearing sun cream, light smut.

Jaskier’s Hands - Geralt wonders why Jaskier wont let him touch his hands.

“I can smell him on you” -  Geralt is mad that Jaskier slept with Chireadan and Jaskier is simply having none of it.

The Burden - Jaskier’s feet are blistered but he doesn’t want to seem like a burden so struggles on.

“You’re stuck with me whether you like it or not” - Jealous Geralt grits his teeth as Jaskier flirts with someone at a party.

“You smell nice.” - Drunk, cuddle, fluffy Geraskier sweetness. Geralt feels safe with Jaskier on his knee.

Scent kink - headcanons for Geralts cum/scent kink

Catboy Jaskier - Jaskier gets spanked into subspace

Piercing AU // Part 2 // Part 3 // Part 4

Head Wound - Geralt tickling Jaskier, fluff, season 4

Non-Sexual Little!space Masterlist

Comfort Biting Headcanons - semi/non verbal Geralt

Collection of Ace Week stories. A mixture of writers and Wolfie has kindly put all of mine in a wee group there 😊💜🖤

Jeskel

Geralt cries for the first time

"It started with X's" - fluff, Geralt writes Jaskier a letter

Snow - Soft, winter cuddles by the window.

The Crowd - Jaskier sees a crowd pelting someone with rotten fruit, he steps in to help. First time meet.

First heat - mini fic, omega Geralt shares first heat with Alpha Jaskier.

My Sweetheart - Hurt/comfort, Jaskier comforting Eskel abut his scars.

Geskel

Little Wolf - Geralt wants to feel small again in Eskels arms.

Small Geralt - 5'4" headcanons for Geralt

First - Virgin Geralt & Eskel intercrural sex

Feeling Full - Eskel's recovery from ED

Lambden

Grumpy Ginger - New Years modern au. Lambert and Aiden video call party.

Scared - Lambert is anxious about his body image and chronic pain.

I've Got You - Aiden holding Lambert through nightmares

Veskier

Soft Dom Ves - Jask x Ves headcanons

I’m Yours - Sub Jaskier fully submits.

"I want doesn't get" - Teasing Vesemir.

Jaskier's first drop - comforting Jask ficlet.

Spoiled rotten - Jaskier plays a spoil and denial game.

Daddy Ves x Needy Jask soft smut

Yennskier

The Lamp - Yennefer wants to keep the lamp on while everyone sleeps, Jaskier can tell she doesn’t want to ask.

Quick... Kiss me - Jaskier wants Yen to kiss him in a club to make Valdo jealous, and it sparks up strange feelings for Yennefer.

The Name - Sub Yennefer

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Thank you lots and lots for reading <3 xoxoxoxo

Link to Ko-fi *shy face* (picture by @stinastar ❤️❤️❤️)

The stress bucket is a way of understanding everyday stress. Things like work, finance, illness and chores. Imagine you have a normal sized bucket that’s brand new, with a tap on the side. You wake up and the bucket is empty, but throughout the day, you add stress to the bucket and eventually it can fill up and overflow, leading to being anxious, irritable, tired, tearful or snappy etc.

You can manage this by recognising when your bucket is too full and you metaphorically turn the tap, meaning you do whatever it is you need to do to mindfully de-stress. Once you go to sleep, your brain then files away and processes everything that’s been in the stress bucket, and you wake up with a fresh bucket.

There are many factors that can affect how much you can hold in that bucket, like neurodivergence, chronic illness, and other factors where you may have additional support needs. However, I am going to be speaking about trauma, specifically OCD and (C)PTSD.

Why is this different if you have trauma? – The filing system analogy

Trauma affects the brain in a few ways. Your prefrontal cortex for example, which is responsible for rational thinking, should regulate emotions - however with (C)PTSD this can be reduced. Your Hippocampus, which is responsible for memory and differentiating between past and present, can be reduced with consistent trauma exposure. Your brains “fear centre” becomes overactive and leads to a constant state of danger, even in safe environments.

A lot of people who have been through therapy will be aware of the filing system analogy. During trauma, your nervous system becomes overwhelmed, meaning your brain can’t file away your memories properly. If your brain feels unsafe to take the time and process memories, make sense of them, sometimes these memories are suppressed instead, leading to triggered flashbacks or nightmares. Sleep can end up becoming challenging due to your body trying to file away trauma that’s all jumbled up, triggering a fight or flight reaction when you’re just trying to sleep.

So how is this related to the bucket?

People who have experienced trauma and are dealing with things like OCD or (C)PTSD, begin their day with a smaller bucket. A bucket that is already half full and might have cracks in it. It can be hard to recognise when the bucket is full until it is too late, and the reaction to breaking a glass or forgetting to take the wet washing out of the machine might be the same reaction as something much more devastating.

If you’re not getting proper sleep, there’s no time for your brain to reset or empty the bucket. In addition to this, the stress that you’re experiencing might be triggering other things, and instead of one thing going into the bucket – it’s five.

I’m going to use two different examples in this instance. The first example being if you were dealing with day-to-day life with a “normal” stress bucket, and the second example with the trauma-based bucket.

In the first example, you wake up and you’re hungry, so you go to get bread to make toast. You realise that there’s only one slice left and someone hasn’t bought a new loaf, so you only get one slice of toast. On a regular day, for someone with a regular bucket, that might be one item to put in there.

For the second example, let’s say you have OCD and (C)PTSD. You haven’t had a good night sleep, and you wake up hungry for toast. There’s one slice of bread left, and you put it in the toaster, so you only get one slice of toast. The toast pops up and your filing cabinet has decided that it doesn’t know the difference between the noise of the toaster and a specific loud bang from your childhood – a door being slammed, an item being thrown, a physical fight. You might not know why you’ve got a fright from that bang but suddenly, you’re back there in that place. You can smell it, hear it, feel it. You take a plate from the dish rack and place the toast onto it to put jam on there and you can’t remember if the plate was washed or dirty. I mean, it came from the dish rack, but maybe it didn’t? Maybe in the process of moving the plate from the dish rack to the table soap got on there, or the table cleaner that’s sitting by the sink. When did you open the jam? It should be safe because it’s a preserve, but maybe you left crumbs in there and it could give you botulism. Maybe you should google botulism symptoms because that jam was used yesterday. All of a sudden, one item in that bucket has turned to five, and all you’ve done is make a slice of toast. The day hasn’t started yet.

Some people will say “I’m in a bad mood; there was one slice of bread left this morning.” And have absolutely no idea that that’s not the reason they’re in the bad mood, because the rest of those feelings are a constant background noise that they live with every day. Every interaction they have with the world is filled with this unreliable narrator who is saying everything is unsafe.

Today, it was useful to hear about the stress bucket in this context, because it made me realise that I’m not starting the day off with a clean slate, space in my mind to take a step back and evaluate something for what it is.

I went into today’s session by saying “I’ve been very anxious this week and I have no idea why. All I’ve had on was work and hobby classes.” Which ended up with me going through the steps of the week, what some of these interactions triggered in me, and really thinking about why some of the things I was classing as “minor stresses” and in my opinion, not worthy to bring up, actually told more of a story than I originally thought.