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Jaskier doesn’t actually know how much time has passed since the black-cloaked Nilfgaardians grab him after a performance in a shitty tavern in the backcountry of northern Kaedwen. He’d assumed--foolishly, apparently--that he was far enough north that any Nilfgaardian soldiers would be few and far between, likely just scouts or even deserters. It would have been hard to actually get any further north--the little backwater town where he’d been singing was just a day from the mountains. Anymore travel, and he’d find himself skirting the Trail up to Kaer Morhen, the Warlord’s Keep, and, well. He’s brazen, but not that brazen.
(or: a wandering bard bites off more than he can chew with the political ballads, accidentally makes friends with a princess in exile, and finds the Warlord of the North in his debt.)
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- Part 1 of the roads we walk
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09 Jun 2026
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comet of your mind by meathermac for geminislime
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
13 Oct 2024
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Veritas Ratio is born with a soulmark in a language he cannot read. He spends 35 years trying to make sense of the symbols on his arm, and winds up surprised by them anyway.
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or, the first words your soulmate says to you after realizing they love you are somewhere on your body. ratio breaks, builds himself again, and finds love along the way.
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27 Mar 2026
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“Ah. Here is a young man transfixed. Do you like Hunt, sir?"
"Do I like him?" Phil tore his eyes from the painting before him and marvelled at the stranger at his elbow. Like him? One might as well ask do you like Michaelangelo? Do you like Homer? Do you like the Alps?
An art enthusiast with a talent for meteorology meets (arguably) the Finest Painter in England. But impressing your idol can be damned hard work, especially when he's all pride and prejudice, and you're all sensibility and no sense. Heavy weather ahead...- Language:
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24 Mar 2026
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oh to be your favorite artist's muse and enjoy a summer (and more 👀) together
i looooove overheard conversations where the character misinterprets but the reader knows exactly what's going on. exquisite!
hunt focused on phil's pleasure.....and phil having some Realizations when edmund pulls his hair....ty for the food
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r/relationships: Boss’s nemesis keeps helping me out, and it’s making things awkward by graveExcitement for Elsin
Fandoms: Original Work
11 Nov 2021
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My (23M) boss (28M) has a workplace nemesis (mid to late 20s?M) who is, in a lot of ways, an asshole. Like, my boss is definitely in the right on any conflict between them. Even when the asshole isn’t actively causing problems, he’s a constant nuisance and a thorn in my boss’ side. I’m loyal to my boss (let’s call him Jake), and I also have to help clean up the mess the asshole (we’ll call him Sebastian) leaves in his wake. So, obviously, Sebastian is pretty high on my shit list.
The only issue is that Sebastian keeps… helping me?
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31 Dec 2025
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will I ever not love villain x hero sidekick?? doubtful.
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Vale, youngest Fae Prince of the Night Court, has been captured and taken prisoner by the King of the Summer Court. Both Courts have been at war with each other since the very beginning of their people's history and there is no doubt in Vale's mind that he is about to be publicly executed as punishment for past transgressions.
But it doesn't happen. Instead, he finds himself as a War Prize to the King himself, the King who seems to covet Vale to the point of obsession.
To be put on his knees at his new Master's pleasure, forever.
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15 Dec 2025
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mmmm i love "why are you doing this to me" x "i've had my eye on you for years and i want to keep you safe by me (for whatever twisted reasons there are. but there IS also genuine affection)" i love how this played out and i can imagine vale slowly but surely coming around and genuinely liking farren. OH OH possessiveness/dressing in someone's colors is also a trope that gets me every time i eat that up. i also love when someone (vale) has an enormously different idea of what's happening than literally everyone else around him. like vale thinks farren is trying to humiliate him and only thinks of him as a war prize (which is an entirely understandable thought), meanwhile the dude's been obsessed since day one, puts him in ROYAL COLORS immediately, with his personal mark on his forehead, like okay man the whole court's thinking something and it's not that the king has won himself a lovely war prize. well, it's not the ONLY thing they're thinking.