I know ice hockey skates don’t have toe picks.

WIPs

For Flowers May Fly If They Wish (part two): the semi-platonic sex pollen fic. The rest coming soon! It needs editing.

I Need No One (parts two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven): Sequel to We’re Not Friends. Geralt’s perspective on his friendship with Jaskier.

Don’t Let Me In With No Intention to Keep Me (part two, part three, final): sequel to Honey, That’s How It Sleeps. Geralt takes Jaskier to Kaer Morhen, where the wolf witchers spend the winters nesting. Geralt is definitely not having any urges about wanting to drag Jaskier into his pile of soft things.

To Become the Water’s Foam (MerMay fic. chapters one part 2, two, three, four, five, six, seven): Geralt gets sent into a bubble of magic where he finds Jaskier as a merman who seems to already know a different version of him. Also now on AO3.

Don’t You Know You Can’t Go Home Again (part two, part three): Jaskier has a large, happy family; fake dating

A Scientific Treatise on Witchering (contents page here with the first part of chapter three coming; the first two chapters archived on AO3 here): After the Mountain, Jaskier gets drawn into monster hunting against his will

Cuckoo (parts two, three, four, five, six): Jaskier gets forcibly taken home to Lettenhove. Geralt follows to find out what Jaskier has been keeping secret.

Afterword (part two, part three, part four, part five): The third fourth part in the series of the Kaer Morhen Book Club, where Jaskier has secretly been writing romance novels about witchers. Part two is an interlude focusing on Lambert called Starcrossed.

Ball Games (part two, part three): The one where Jaskier takes Essi’s place at a ball. Complete with dress.

The Narnia fic (part two): crossover AU. Ciri has just found herself in a mysterious other world, and meets a blue-eyed faun.

WIPs on a bit of a hiatus right now:

The True Art of Swordsmanship (parts two, three, four): Geralt tries to teach Jaskier to fight; both attempt not to self-combust from suppressed desire

Folkie Jaskier (parts two, three, four): Modern-day AU where Oxford PhD student Jaskier decides to run off after a witcher to avoid completing his D.Phil in early music.

Outswing: Modern-day AU where Geralt is a ballet dancer, Jaskier is a cricketer, and they go on Dancing With the Stars.

Park Ranger Geralt (part two): AU. Geralt has to show Jaskier, a TV presenter, around the national park where he works

This is last year’s post running down many of my WIPs and giving little blurbs of them. Some of these haven’t been posted yet, but I often still talk about the progress I’m making in my #liveblogging my fic because reasons tag. This is this year’s WIP list, which also includes some excerpts of stuff I’m working on.

You can find my finished stories up on AO3 (same username as here), although these are some little ficlets that aren’t up there:

A Victorian circus AU (which will hopefully turn into a full fic at some point)

Geralt’s Companion

Unmanned

Lacquered

Jaskier’s lute case

‘That’s not your name.’

Jaskier went to seminary school

Seminary school sequel, where Jaskier gets into trouble with the Eternal Flame

The one where Jaskier is the Abhorsen (probably going to turn into a full fic at some stage)

‘Make me three more shirts,’ he says, ‘just like this one.’

The dragon ships it.

‘I was under a curse at the time and was unable to consent to any contract.’

What if the Drones Club were a gay gentlemen’s club like the Hundred Guineas? (Jeeves & Wooster)

‘I thought that witchers didn’t have dæmons.’

A Victorian AU for The Witcher where Dandelion becomes an Aesthete (which I am absolutely going to have to turn into a full fic once my WIP list is shorter)

I also have a fic-only blog now, at @jackironsidesfic, which would be the easiest way of keeping up with fic updates.

I’ve written a bunch of meta, mostly for The Witcher. It can be found at #my meta, and I’ve got a #my fic meta tag for meta about stuff I’ve written. There’s also #how to write a bard for me exploring things that people might not know about music/musicians etc. These are some of the meta I’m proudest of:

The Sad Silk Trader

Geralt is a Moral Person

Steve Rogers v. Yennefer of Vengerburg: Disability Rep and Erasure v. Fantasy

Just Call It A Shirt (It’s Historically Accurate, I Promise)

Doublets Don’t Have Laces Please God Stop Saying They Do (okay, this is less one I’m ‘proud’ of than one about something which gets under my skin)

(Netflix) Jaskier might be a tenor, but Joey is a baritone

I have chronic pain, chronic fatigue, ADHD and histamine issues, and sometimes I talk about this.

Tags to blacklist

If you have any kind of issues with disordered eating, or you find it upsetting, you might want to blacklist the tag #disordered eating, because that’s what I talk about my difficulties with food sometimes, such as the bad days when making food is hard bc of my chronic fatigue, or ADHD, or both. Or the ways I’ve had to heavily restrict my diet for chronic illness reasons.