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  1. Public Bookmark 60

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    Everything goes to shit, but Jaskier is given one more chance to fix things, in the form of a small black magic crystal. Fuck destiny, he's going to make sure all of his family survive and live happily. Even if it means changing history itself.

    AKA a self-indulgent time-travel fix-it where I play with cannon like a toddler in a sand pit.

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    10 May 2026

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    OK this series has been going on for 2 years now and I should summarize it better.
    The first part is several decades of, largely, Geralt and Jaskier's interactions, as they both fumble together toward some kind of meaningful understanding. That section largely concludes with a Jaskier/Geralt/Yennefer endgame.

    Then there's a time jump, and the series picks up after the events of the Witcher 3 games. I follow Lambert as he copes with grief, and Keira as she learns new things about herself, and the lives they make.

    I decided to tell the story of how Ciri became Empress after W3, which intersects with Keira and Lambert's adventures; I read the books somewhere in this and got invested in some of the themes they brought up. And entangled with this, I got interested in the politics of the North, especially the Upper Aedirn Free State and the threads laid down in the Witcher 2 game that didn't exactly get resolved in Witcher 3, and so I have several stories dealing with that thread, which will intersect with the other stories in the same timeline.

    See notes for chronological dates and what order the stories really ought to go in!

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    04 Feb 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 57

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    Jaskier is often seen as a constant in Geralt's life.
    It's a coincidence that constant can be used to describe immortality.

    Or Ciri keeps noticing odd things about Geralt's bard, but no one else seems to.

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    01 Feb 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 81

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    Jaskier was honestly looking forward to Geralt claiming his Child Surprise. The circumstances--and Ciri herself--just aren't what he imagined. She's acting...strangely. The dwarves don't seem to mind, but they haven't woken up to her staring at them in the middle of the night. Most teens refuse to eat or sleep or speak at some point, right? She'll feel better when they reach Kaer Morhen. He just has to make it a few more days, travelling alone with her through perilous, unknown terrain to the secret Witcher stronghold.

    ...It'll be fine.

    In which a bard contends with a demon in disguise, and the trees in the Blue Mountains do a lot of heavy lifting. Thanks, trees. No mystery here.

    Titles are hard.

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    28 Dec 2025

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    At the fourth stumble of the morning, Geralt’s patience breaks. Fine, the little fool is too stubborn to see he should leave and get it over with. Geralt will do the hard work for him, will simply move so fast that the bard has no choice but to end this farce already. He shifts his posture, squeezing Roach gently with his legs to urge her on faster-

    -and nearly goes flying purely out of surprise when she gives him a warning buck, a single crow hop before she settles again.

     

    (there's a reason mares lead herds)

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    13 Sep 2025