#au: witches

[27dragons]

Countdown to 2025: Dec 7

Witchcraft AU / Witcher - Geraskier / Garland

“You should talk to him.”

Jaskier glanced up, his hands never faltering on the strings of his lute. “Yennefer,” he acknowledged coolly. “I was wondering why you hadn’t accepted my invitation to visit. Oh, wait, I wasn’t, because I never invited you.”

Predictably, she ignored him, pushing through the door into his rented room. She levitated an empty bottle from the floor into her hand, though Jaskier couldn’t decide if it was because she was a show-off, or because bending over to pick it up would make her breasts fall out of her ridiculous bodice. She sniffed at the bottle and made a face. “This is awful.”

Jaskier rolled his eyes. “It doesn’t have to be good to get me drunk,” he pointed out. “And I’m sure this is news to you, but songwitches don’t command the highest of prices.” Simple habit made him reach for whatever power might be radiating from her, but as always, she was shielded so tightly that Jaskier wondered how the trapped energy hadn’t fried her.

“You’re miserable,” Yennefer told him. As if he didn’t know that already.

“Well spotted,” he congratulated her, voice rich with sarcasm. “A little more practice, and you might be able to tell a horse from a cow.”

“He’s miserable, too.”

Jaskier stopped playing, letting the last vibrations of music bleed into the silence. “In all our long years of mutual loathing,” he said, “I've never caught you lying to me.”

She set the empty bottle on his table. “You’re not worth the effort of lying to.” She picked up another bottle, one with some wine still in it, and took a swig. She swallowed with a grimace. “This really is terrible. And Geralt is fucking miserable. It’s disgusting. I can’t work with him like that. I need you to talk to him or he’s going to start fucking up his hexes.”

“How am I meant to live with a man who hates Midwinter?” Jaskier demanded. “It’s my favorite holiday! Everything is beautiful and there are feasts and parties and dancing and gifts and everyone is happy and there’s music everywhere. It’s when my magic is the strongest! And he hates it!”

Yennefer snorted indelicately. “He doesn’t hate Midwinter.”

“He does! He told me--”

“He hates winter,” she continued, riding over him. “Because that’s when his mother sold him to the Wolf coven for a heating charm to keep herself alive until spring. Because that’s when the Wolves throw their pups out into the snow for their initiation ordeal. Because snow crystals interfere with his magic. Because he hates being cold.”

“He told me that members of the Wolf coven can’t feel the cold.”

Yennefer fixed him with a flat look. “He lied. Go. Talk to him.”

Jaskier threw up his hands in defeat. “Fine, you harpy,” he grumbled, slinging his lute over his shoulder. “But when he throws me out again, you’re going to get me drunk. With the good stuff, not this rotgut.”

She smirked. “But the rotgut gets you drunk just as well.”

“Bitch,” Jaskier muttered, and stamped out the door.

His feet carried him out of the city without his really thinking about it. The air was cold and the wind seemed to find every possible route under his clothes to prick icy needles against his skin, and normally he would have sung a cheerful warming tune to block it out, but he couldn’t stop thinking of Geralt.

Geralt shivering as he was carried away from the only home he’d ever known. As he tried and tried and tried as a witchling initiate to summon enough power from a sleeping earth to keep himself warm -- because unlike Jaskier, who drew power from emotion, the Wolf coven relied on the latent power of the natural world -- only to watch each thin stream of energy collide with the snow to be refracted into a million uselessly fragile threads.

Why hadn’t Geralt told Jaskier that he hated the cold? Jaskier could remember the moment perfectly, back before they’d become friends, much less lovers. Jaskier had been trying to pretend he was cold enough to need Geralt’s warmth, and Geralt’s lip had curled into a sneer as he’d said, “Cold doesn’t matter to Wolves.”

Come to think of it, that wasn’t quite the same as saying he couldn’t feel the cold, was it?

Fuck.

He was shivering himself by the time he turned down the narrow path that led to Geralt’s cottage -- the one they had shared until an argument about the first snowfall of the year had prompted Jaskier to pack up his essentials and move into town.

He rounded the last curve and came to a sharp halt, staring in confusion.

Geralt was outside, on a ladder, hanging a garland of greenery to drape from the well-thatched roof. A slow billow of nearly-imperceptible smoke was rising from the chimney, and a tall candle was sitting in the front window, waiting to be lit with the setting of the sun. The tiny stable was already decorated with garlands that had been adorned with fall fruit and brightly-colored bits of cloth tied into bows. As he watched, Roach -- trust Geralt to have a horse for a familiar -- leaned out of the shelter, trying to eat the fruit and making an aggrieved snort when she couldn’t reach it.

Jaskier must have laughed, because Geralt twisted around and saw him. For several long heartbeats, they just looked at one another.

“Jaskier,” Geralt finally said, warily. As if it were possible for Jaskier to hurt him, somehow.

“What-- What are you doing?”

Geralt looked down at the end of the garland still in his hands, and around at the other decorations, and then shrugged. “Midwinter decorations,” he said, as if it were obvious. As if he’d always decorated the cottage for Midwinter and Jaskier was the one being dense.

“Why?”

Geralt grunted and turned to finish hanging the garland, then climbed down off the ladder. He crossed the space between them, cautiously, stopping just out of Jaskier’s reach. “It’s your favorite,” he answered belatedly.

Jaskier looked past Geralt, taking in the decorations that Geralt had put up. For him. Even though he had been living in town. He nodded.

“It looks good,” he said, then closed the last of the distance between them and tucked his arm through Geralt’s. “It’s too cold to stand out here yammering all day,” he said. “Let’s go inside and have a cup of tea.”

Geralt hesitated. Then he hummed and turned toward the cottage. “You should warm up.”

“I’ll get warm faster if you’ll sit with me by the fire,” Jaskier suggested, because Geralt would never admit that he also needed to get warm.

Geralt sighed, pretending to be annoyed. It had taken Jaskier years to understand how to tell the difference between true irritation and Geralt’s pretend annoyance. “How can someone who gets cold so easily like Midwinter so much?”

“Getting warmed up is half the fun,” Jaskier said. “Besides, it’s a long walk out here from town. You wouldn’t want me to get frostbite in my chording hand, would you?”

“Might improve the playing,” Geralt muttered, but he folded his own hand over Jaskier’s fingers, and led the way inside.

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Don't wanna hijack any posts with my Thoughts but @badhedonist has me thinking about witch Omens so: sex witch Noah whose rituals mainly involve fucking (he asks the other guys for help if a ritual calls for 2+ people), who uses cum as a spell ingredient and keeps mundane sex books on the same shelf as his magic books.

[lilprincegoo]

Midnight Brewing by milkteajinnie

seokjin/jungkook

Alternate Universe - Witchcraft, gay panic jungkook, silent gay panic seokjin, Alternate Universe - Magic, Fluff, Strangers to Lovers

9.5k words

rating: T

Jungkook felt frustration take over as he opened the doors to Moon and stomped his way in. The other witches in the store glared in his general direction, taken back by his sudden aggression. He ignored their piercing looks and made his way towards the counter where the supposed owner stood with his back turned. “Excuse me. Are you Seokjin, the owner of Moon?” Jungkook gritted out, clenching his fists. The witch behind the counter nodded and turned towards him, smiling widely. “That is me, yes. How may I help?” - Or Jungkook storms into his rival witch's store to have a "civil" conversation, panics seeing a beautiful man, and drunkenly tells said man that he's cool.

[aftgficrec]

Helloooo

How are yall I hope you're fine and stuff

So, can you give me your best childhood friends to lovers/best friends to lovers andreil fics

Shyxyxydjd

Thank you

Oh, these two with the pining and obliviousness…sigh. This is andreil friends to lovers; check out the previous recs for more + childhood and high school ftl and also enemies to lovers.  On a different note, also try our strangers to lovers tag, because friendship often nestles quietly in between. -A

most recent previous recs:

andreil childhood friends to lovers here

andreil high school friends to lovers here

andreil enemies to lovers 2 here

also see: 

new andreil friends to lovers here

Andreil roommates/pining here

BFFs Andreil with pining here

internet friends here

fics like ‘A Different Matter’ here 

andreil roommates + pining here

friends/enemies with benefits here

friends with benefits to lovers here

we’ve been dating all along?! here

long cute fake dating here

‘lightning rod’ and ‘you are my morphine…’ here 

‘Tales from a Quirky Small Town’ series here

‘Tonight (I Wish I Was Your Boy)’ here

‘Revelation’  here

‘Maybe you’ll be coming over again’ series here

‘definitely something’ here

‘Nine Weddings and No Funerals,’ ‘we're just strangers,’ and ‘The Bokeh Effect’ here

‘pull me closer (and hold me in your arms),’ ‘christmas in a place called home,’ ‘tis the season to be folly,’ and ‘hard candy christmas’ here

‘Take This Heart (Put Yourself In It)’ here

‘cape anywhere’ and ‘Friday Night Big Screen’ here 

‘bloom (just for you)’ here

‘monsters at night’ and ‘band aid on a broken heart’ here

‘every kind of way’ here

‘playing dead’ here

‘corresponding shapes’ here

‘Cutting Ties’ (updated) here

‘does the dog die at the end?’ here (completed)

‘The Game is True Columbia,’ ‘never stood a chance,’ ‘Bad Habits,’ and ‘You've Begun to Feel Like Home’ here

‘Now I See Daylight’ here (updated)

‘12 Ways to Woo a Minyard’ here

‘Pinch of Salt.’ and ‘under the kitchen lights (you still look like dynamite)’ here

‘dirty little secret’ series here

‘Foxhole Paper Company’ series here

‘better than nothing,’ ‘Just learning how to know your mind,’ and ‘He's such a surreal Phenomenon’ here

‘hold on to let go’ here

‘quicksand’ and ‘A world alone’ here

‘Flavors of Fall’ here

‘Haunted: Not Clickbait’ here

‘Here Comes the Sun’ and ‘Lately I been, I been losing sleep’ here

‘Eighteen Wheels And Three Beating Hearts’ here

‘Die Young’ here

You are in love by freshtaylorswiftduck [Rated G, 5199 Words, Complete, 2022]

Getting drunk, as it turns out, was a horrible idea.

The plan was never for Neil to realize he's completely and utterly in love with his best friend.

or: Neil wants to get drunk for the first time in his life, and realizes his true feelings.

tw: alcohol

“Mis-match“ (Jigsaw Puzzle Remix) by JostenlovesMinyard [Rated T, 1980 Words, Complete, AFTG Remix 2022]

Andrew and Neil become friends after a chance meeting on the roof.

Their friends seem to think it’s their right to be involved in their lives whether they like it or not.

NB: Based on ‘Mis-Match’ by doodlingstuff, recced here

It is useless to curse the wind. by gives_you_hell [Rated T, 13526 Words, Incomplete, Updated May 2022]

Looking back, his escape was like fifty percent luck, not that he usually had much of a plan, since things never went the way he wanted; but this time luck played in his favor. And apparently now he has run out of it. It had been too good for too long. He found himself in some back road, honestly he wasn’t really sure where, the spell was done with desperation and not much thought.

-

In which Neil is his chaotic self, Andrew is in love and Kevin just wants to practice in peace. And everyone has magic for some reason.

tw: implied/referenced child abuse

Confusion, my middle name. by voidsdivine [Rated T, 3009 Words, Complete, 2022]

Andrew’s jaw clenches tight with annoyance every time he glances at Kevin. Neil is too -unsurprisingly- injured to ask why. He just wants to be with Andrew.

Wait.

He wants to be with Andrew.

Shit.

-Or-

Five times Andrew thinks Kevin is not a very good boyfriend, plus one time he finds out why.

It's You by 100SleeplessNights [Rated G, 1189 Words, Complete, 2022, Locked]

Andrew asks Neil if he can kiss him and Neil can't say yes because he doesn't just have feelings for Andrew but also for someone he is talking to online.

Take me home to you series by 5a5b5p5 [Rated T/M, Collection, Updated Aug 2021]

Part 1: Take Me Home [T, 9289 Words, Complete, Aftg Mixtape]

Neil and Andrew are online best friends who have never progressed past talking in voice calls. Despite being an ocean apart, Neil wants nothing more than to go home to Andrew.

tw: implied/referenced abuse

Part 2: To You [M, 4555 Words, Complete]

Finally, after so many years of pining and waiting and sleepless nights, Neil had finally gotten to hug Andrew at the airport.

-

Or: Neil finally arrives home to Andrew, and is having trouble processing the fact that he’s not just a screen anymore.

you lay me down by capsize (copenhagenborn) [Rated T, 3554 Words, Complete, 2021]

Andew and Neil go on a date.

You're hot, Neil by neilstriker [Rated T, 3127 Words, Complete, AFTG Summer Exchange 2021]

Neil has a crush on his roommate/best friend Andrew but he is stupid and thinks Andrew isn't interested. Yall know exactly how this is going to go.

better together by melopeya [Rated T, 7774 Words, Complete, 2020]

Andrew Minyard was content building up his fashion TikTok (@ajm, to you) and silently lurking on exy TikTokker @njexy33’s page until their paths unexpectedly crossed. One collaboration turned into a friendship that Andrew never saw coming… and maybe even more.

Or, a TikTok AU that has very little to do with TikTok and a lot more to do with two boys falling in love, as per usual.

Of Stars and Stories by loveandwarandmagick [Not Rated, 5514 Words, Complete, 2020]

Andrew is an English major coming down from his drugs, spending his nights on the rooftop while everyone's asleep. What he suspected was a hallucination, a side-effect, follows him up there, and doesn't disappear even after he gets sober.

This is troubling. It's even more troubling that Neil wants to listen to him. The worst part is probably that Andrew finds himself wanting - the truth, to give his own, to see if Neil wants more than that.

Or, the non-mafia au where the only impending doom is the height of the roof, and the fact that talking to Neil makes him feel like he's standing at the edge of the drop.

tw: implied/referenced rape/noncon, tw: implied/referenced child abuse

Survivor by 6_impossiblethings [Rated G, 18868 Words, Complete, 2020]

Outwit. Outplay. Outlast.

Neil and his other castaway mates have spent 20 days competing so far the become the sole survivor. Finally joining up with the other competitors, Neil has to rely on his alliance with Andrew now more than ever before. With new players wanting to make deals, will Neil stay loyal to the Monster Alliance? Or will he go on his own to be the sole survivor?

tw: implied/referenced abuse

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[lilprincegoo]

potions & emotions by sospira

seokjin/jungkook

Alternate Universe - Magic, Fantasy, Witches, jungkook is seokjin's long suffering apprentice, Banter, Humor, jk: emotionally confused baby bean who tries his best, seokjin: galaxy brained individual unmatched in speaking in puns, Pining, Fluff

15.6k words

rating: T

Jungkook's life as the Royal Witch's apprentice is exceedingly difficult, what with juggling all the chores and learning new techniques and not thinking about his very inconvenient and confusing feelings towards his mentor, Seokjin. It only gets exponentially harder when a potion-off goes awry and leaves Seokjin speaking in puns and himself only able to tell the truth.

[lilprincegoo]

of witches, covens, and matters of love by almostsophie1

ot7

Alternate Universe - Magic, Polyamory, Witches, Fluff, Asexual Character

18.4k words

rating: T

Jeon Jeongguk, fresh out of training, moves to Seoul to begin his apprenticeship. He has enough on his plate with work and adapting to the world of humans and discovering these fascinating things called memes, so he doesn't put too much thought into finding a coven. Well, he doesn't put too much thought into it until a coven finds him.

[lilprincegoo]

handwritten in ink by conclusions (introductions)

yoongi/jimin

Alternate Universe - Magic, Witches, Angst, Humor, magical politics, Slow Burn, Temporary Character Death

193k words

rating: T

Min Yoongi expects the hangover he wakes up with after a night of regrettable drinking. What he doesn't expect, however, is the impossibly intricate tattoo covering his right arm--and he definitely does not expect it to move. Meanwhile, Park Jimin wakes up without a body. (or: when magic goes wrong, park jimin finds his fate inexplicably tied to min yoongi's).

[lilprincegoo]

Midnight Brewing by milkteajinnie

seokjin/jungkook

Alternate Universe - Witchcraft, gay panic jungkook, silent gay panic seokjin, Alternate Universe - Magic, Fluff, Strangers to Lovers

9.5k words

rating: T

Jungkook felt frustration take over as he opened the doors to Moon and stomped his way in. The other witches in the store glared in his general direction, taken back by his sudden aggression. He ignored their piercing looks and made his way towards the counter where the supposed owner stood with his back turned. “Excuse me. Are you Seokjin, the owner of Moon?” Jungkook gritted out, clenching his fists. The witch behind the counter nodded and turned towards him, smiling widely. “That is me, yes. How may I help?” - Or Jungkook storms into his rival witch's store to have a "civil" conversation, panics seeing a beautiful man, and drunkenly tells said man that he's cool.

[aftgficrec]

Also!! Any recently updated or completed fics that include Neil and Andrew with children? Thank you. :))

Ok, I’ve got some that updated this year and a few from 2020 that are new to our blog. You can find more on our parenting tag. Enjoy! -A

completed or updated in 2021

‘This is Good’ here

‘Blame It on My Youth’ (since updated) here

‘Growing With You’ (since updated) here

‘Aidan Minyard’ (since updated) here

‘Serendipity’ (since updated) and ‘The Trials and Tribulations of Being a Teacher’ here (since updated)

‘Inheritance’ here (since updated)

Lower Your Protection Walls And Let Yourself Be Cared For by thisisnotourlasthunt [Rated G, 4433 Words, Complete, 2021]

"The first thing Eli could process as soon as he woke up was the pounding in his head. His body strangely felt as if he had been hit by a thousand trucks all at once, and he felt hot all over. It didn’t take long for him to realize what was wrong, and he hated it the moment it hit. He was sick. Shit."

~*~*~*

Eli has been living with Neil and Andrew for almost five months, the best five months of his life in quite a long while. But when he gets sick, he acts as if nothing is wrong with him for various reasons, one of them being he thinks Neil and Andrew wouldn't care and shouldn't care that he is sick. Oh how wrong he was.

tw: implied/referenced child abuse

The Second Chance by Welikesandalwood [Rated E, 7647 Words, Incomplete, Updated March 2021]

It's been five years since Neil graduated. Six years since Andrew acknowledged that they were in a relationship. Seven years since they’d fallen in love and four years since Andrew admitted it. Life and love have been going well for Neil and Andrew, learning the patterns of each other, and falling in deeper love with the other every day.

However, their comfortable rhythm is disturbed one day when Neil gets a disheartening phone call, and the boys are faced with a life-changing decision.

Is this Neil's second chance to give back to someone who saved him, years ago? Can Neil and Andrew be the second chance at life a little girl needs?

Part 4 of the 'The one with all the ships' series, but it can be read on its own!

Andreil's Adventures in Parenthood series by EmmmaMmmm [Rated T/G, Collection, Last Updated June 2021]

Part 1: Ode to a Past Rewritten [10214 Words]

Neil and Andrew would never have considered adopting a child if fate hadn't intervened.

Or, in which the Josten-Minyards find a little boy cowered on their porch and neither of them have the heart to turn him away.

Part 2: Andreil's Adventures in Interviews [1256 Words]

Neil had done many interviews throughout his life. He had done many interviews with Andrew throughout his life.

This one was different. This was the first one that he and Andrew would be talking about their son.

Part 3: Andreil's Adventures in Growth Spurts [1182 Words]

“Andrew,” sighed Neil, and he opened his eyes to see his junkie hovering above him, a mixture of amusement and dismay in his eyes. “It’s not a big deal.”

“He’s ten years old,” said Andrew, letting his eyes glaze over as he looked into the ridiculously blue sky, “and he’s already taller than me.”

Neil’s lips twitched. “He thinks you hate him.”

“We have to return him,” said Andrew, shaking his head. “He can’t be taller than his father. This isn’t fair.”

Part 4: Andreil's Adventures in First Love [923 Words]

Neil really was getting old, but at least he still had his son's teen angst to entertain him.

Part 5: Andreil's Adventures in Dating Advice [1277 Words]

Harry bounced on the balls of his feet. “Dad, Papa, I have updates!” He held his arms out to his sides, as though waiting for a reaction. When he didn’t receive one, he barrelled on anyway. “Guess who’s not straight?”

Neil frowned. “Uh... you?”

He sighed, shaking his head. “Papa, come on. We crossed that bridge long ago."

Part 6: Andreil's Adventures in Cats and Sons [1087 Words]

Harry really wants another cat.

Neil is really tired of the begging.

Turning Page by yungpliny [Rated G, 13143 Words, Incomplete, Updated Sept 2020]

Andrew and Neil beat the odds. They survived the Moriyamas, the Wesninskis, college exy, and being out in the professional sports world. They fell in love, they got married, and now they're ready to grow their family–no, not with more cats, they're ready for a son this time. But they get a little bit more than they bargained for.

And neither of them would change a thing.

It will always be morning again by EarlGreyjoy [Rated T, 716 Words, Complete, 2020]

Emily pattered barefoot and almost silently in their bedroom but Andrew heard the sound and shifted in the bed and opened one eye and then the other. “Emily?” he whispered “Is that you?”

tw: implied/referenced abuse

something new that's entirely similar by all_forylee_the_game [Rated T, 2670 Words, Complete, 2020]

Andrew and Neil adopt a kid. To say that day one was rough would be an understatement.

tw: implied/referenced abuse, tw: implied/referenced torture, tw: implied/referenced csa

memories from the wall series by clarcmontdiaz [Rated G, Collection, Updated 2020]

Part 1: nothing new [1260 Words]

Date: August 15, 2025

STAR GOALKEEPER ANDREW MINYARD ANNOUNCES HIS RETIREMENT

Part 2: comfort & joy [521 Words]

A very short, fluffy part of Andrew and his girls' morning.

Praying For You by infernalstars [Not Rated, 5126 Words, Complete, 2020]

Praying never worked for Andrew Minyard, at least not to the Christian God.

-or-

Witch!Andrew :)

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Made some outfits for Karai, April and Shinigami for an AU I’m working on (you know, instead of actually WRITING ON IT....). April’s definitely turned out the best lmao.