March recs

starving by Prim_the_Amazing (Witcher, Geralt/Jaskier)

Geralt has very, very faint memories of his earliest times in Kaer Morhen. Of when they were all undeniably human. There were so many of them, dozens and dozens of young boys all crowded in together with each other. They’d sleep in piles, crowding for space, seeking warmth and comfort, innocently, naively unrestrained and shameless. Grabbing at and climbing over each other without thought.

And then they started taking the mutagens, fewer and fewer boys woke up and rose from the floor to eat breakfast in the morning, and all of a sudden there was enough room for all of them to have their own room. No more crowding, no more piles.

No more touching.

Touch-starved Geralt = greatness.

you wear nothing but you wear it so well by @suzukiblu (Witcher, Geralt/Jaskier)

Geralt doesn’t wear his courting jewelry—the medallion is apparently a witcher thing, not an omega one—and Jaskier supposes that makes sense. Geralt leads a very active life, and probably saves the jewelry for situations it won’t run the constant risk of getting ruined in. Certainly a nice set of earrings would be a lot more fragile than the plain studs he wears instead. A lot of omegas don’t wear their courting jewelry day to day, anyway, or at least not most of it. Geralt’s hardly unusual in that.

It’s a bit of a shame, though, because Jaskier’d like to see him in it.

This is just…so soft and sweet. A/B/O fic, but light on the biology and heavy on the feels.

Shadowplay by sospes (Witcher, Geralt/Jaskier)

Geralt returns to Oxenfurt on a bright May morning to find flowers laid outside Jaskier’s rooms and a fresh grave in the cemetery.

Except, as Geralt is about to learn, in Jaskier’s world things are never quite what they seem.

Like, fourteen tropes that I love in one story. Competence! MPDJK! Spy shenanigans! HEA!

By the Throat by Alchemy_Alice/@alchemyalice (The Man From UNCLE movie, Napoleon/Illya)

In which the KGB took some rather dubious measures to ensure Illya’s loyalty to Russia, and Napoleon doesn’t care for it.

The starting premise is a bit of a reach, but when has that ever kept me from a delicious h/c story? I also adore the part where Napoleon gets to be the one in trouble.

The Mind’s Construction by azdak (Man From UNCLE TV, gen)

What makes you think you know who you are?

I was delighted to find this author on AO3, because a) I’ve loved their The Incident of the Fellow in the Fellows Garden MFU/Lord Peter crossover for years, and b) I love finding good amnesia fics that I haven’t read. Thoughtful and action-packed, though the ending was a bit abrupt.