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Prompt: Favorite Food Relationships: Geralt/Jaskier Rating: G Content Warnings: None Summary: Jaskier gets Geralt a gift, and it makes Geralt realize he doesn't know enough about what Jaskier likes. He forms a plan to figure it out. ao3

The small cheesecloth package that was dropped in front of him wasn’t necessarily a surprise, but the way that Jaskier hovered as Geralt picked it up was.

“What’s this?” he grunted, sniffing the air subtly. The little package smelled like honey and flour and cream, and the thick, sweet smell of-- “Are those dates?” He pulled the cheesecloth off to reveal a neat little tart, gently browned on the edges, about the size of his palm.

“It is!” Jaskier leaned over him slightly, his arms holding several more packages. He continued, sounding a little nervous. “I know you don’t usually enjoy sweets, but I know the dates are your favorite. Must feed that witcher metabolism, no?”

“No,” Geralt eyed the tart. “Our metabolism is more efficient, not faster.”

“Oh,” Jaskier said, deflating slightly. “Well, if you don’t want it I guess I can--”

“How did you know that date was my favorite?” Geralt interrupted, looking back up at Jaskier. Oddly, he could see the bard color slightly at the question, an appealing pink spreading across his cheekbones.

“You bought a jar of jam from that merchant from Toussaint, remember? You never buy jam, unless it’s for me, so I assumed you must have a preference for it. I mean, unless you don’t, which is fine, I can… Well, not eat it, I hate dates, but I’m sure I can find some mangy child to give it to, or a dog, or something. Do you hate it? You hate it.”

Geralt picked up the tart and bit into it, giving Jaskier a raised eyebrow. It was honestly more of a miniature pie than a tart, the flaky crust filled with dates and prunes covered in a custardy filling, sweetened through with honey. The flavors burst across his tongue, the tart still warm. Jaskier must have picked it up at the market and come directly here to give it to him. Geralt swallowed the first bite, looking into Jaskier’s apprehensive face, and said, “Thanks.”

Jaskier visibly relaxed, shuffling onto the bench across from Geralt and beginning to relay the events of the morning market. Geralt hummed where he was meant to and sipped his watered down ale and ate his tart. If Jaskier noticed his absent mindedness, he said nothing.

Jaskier… knew what his favorite fruit was. The knowledge should not have come as a shock, Geralt knew. Jaskier was often getting him gifts - oil for Roach’s tack, new clothes when Geralt’s last threadbare shirt gave out, potion ingredients when he ran low. Sometimes he bought Geralt useless things, little bobbles or trinkets he saw that he thought Geralt might like or find amusing, and Geralt kept them safely at the bottom of his bag, or in his room at Kaer Morhen. He cherished those things, things that told him Jaskier thought about him when he wasn’t near. It was nice, to be thought of.

But for some reason this little gift felt different. Jaskier had known his favorite food, and Geralt had never told him. Dates weren’t particularly common in the North, and it was rare that they were far south enough to meet merchants who carried them up from Nilfgaard. Geralt could remember when he’d bought the jam, hoping it would last him a while, but he couldn’t recall a single other time in recent memory that he’d eaten dates, or even mentioned them. He didn’t tend to wallow on things that were unavailable to him.

His eyes lingered on Jaskier as he spun a tale about haggling in the square. No, Geralt didn’t make a habit of wishing for what he couldn’t have.

Still, there was a problem at hand, one he had to solve. Jaskier knew Geralt’s favorite food. He might know Geralt’s favorite everything. Did he know that Geralt’s favorite color was blue, the wide, free color of the sky on the first day of spring? Did he know that Geralt’s favorite thing to drink wasn’t wine or vodka, but warm honeyed milk like his mother made when he couldn’t sleep as a tiny child? He certainly knew that Geralt liked the scent of chamomile and sage best in his bathwater, and that he preferred cotton shirts over linen, and that he would pick a song with a sad ending over a happy one. If he’d been paying this much attention, there was probably quite a lot that Jaskier knew about him, without Geralt having said a word.

And he didn’t know a thing about Jaskier.

What was Jaskier’s favorite color? Was it blue, like the doublets he so often wore, or was that just to match his eyes? Did he really like wine the best, or did he just like it better than ale? What was his favorite season? His favorite weather? Did he go to Oxenfurt every winter because it was where he could find work, or did he prefer Novigrad, or Vizima? Geralt could tell how Jaskier was going to react every time someone recognized him on the street, anytime a young lad or lass winked at him, even what he might say if Geralt gave the right sort of hum. But he didn’t know much about him, at the end of the day.

He needed to find out. As they packed up their belongings and set out on the road once again, leaving the small town behind them, Geralt ruminated on what could be done to rectify this situation. He couldn’t very well just ask Jaskier about all these things. After all, Jaskier had figured it all out with nary a word from Geralt. He didn’t need to ask; he was paying attention. Which made Geralt’s chest feel oddly warm and heavy, knowing that Jaskier was watching him, paying heed to his reactions and filing them away. Maybe it should have felt invasive, to know that he was being read so easily without his knowing, but instead it just felt… nice. To be known.

He wanted Jaskier to feel known too. He wanted to know Jaskier.

He would start small. Jaskier had given him food, something he knew Geralt would like. It couldn’t be that difficult to figure out what Jaskier liked. Geralt could start bringing him small things, pass it off as returning the favor, and guage Jaskier’s reaction. It would be simple, he mused, eying Jaskier from atop Roach as they walked side by side. His hair was mussed slightly from sleep, still, and he hadn’t bothered to fix it before heading out for the day. No one to impress, Geralt guessed, just the two of them and the road. He liked Jaskier this way, less pinned up and proper, more open. Letting Geralt see him without all of his armor, because that’s what it was, as surely as the leather on Geralt’s back was his. Right now, Jaskier was an open book. All Geralt had to do was pay enough attention to read him.

*

It was not easy to figure out what Jaskier liked.

The problem, Geralt quickly found, was that Jaskier was enthusiastic about almost everything. Well, that wasn’t strictly true. When he disliked something, he made his distaste abundantly clear. He was dramatic, which should have made it even easier to determine what delighted him the most. Geralt expected that, when he found it, poetic stanzas would be flowing like wine from Jaskier’s tongue, praising whatever it was. He had no reason to expect Jaskier to be subtle about his preferences.

And he wasn’t. The issue was that he seemed to react with the exact same level of excitement about everything Geralt brought him. On the first day they arrived in a new town, Geralt went to the market and brought Jaskier a small basket of strawberries, which Jaskier enthused over for half the morning. Geralt was pleased. Maybe it had been that easy, and he’d intuitively known what Jaskier liked. Maybe he had unconsciously been paying attention all along. He congratulated himself on figuring out at least one piece of the puzzle, and began thinking about how he might approach the next step.

But then he unthinkingly bought Jaskier a few sweetbreads when he was out the next day getting lunch. He’d been getting himself some, he thought of Jaskier sitting in their shared room, composing a ballad about the hunt Geralt had been on the night previously. He’d brought him the extra meats, and Jaskier had nearly the same reaction. Gushing over the gift, thanking Geralt for thinking of him. Lamenting his own forgetfulness, for getting so caught up in his work that he would forget to eat, as Geralt expected he might have. And Geralt was confused, because he didn’t think a few offal from a market stall in a half pint city in Velen was what Jaskier would like. Certainly not something he could call a favorite.

But he’d reacted the same to the sweetbreads as the berries. So Geralt was back to square one.

He reevaluated his metrics. So Jaskier reacted that way to anything he liked, apparently. It was odd; Geralt had seen Jaskier enthusiastically dig into a wide variety of foods over the years, but he didn’t praise them and rave about them the way he had done the berries and the meats. So he must have legitimately enjoyed both of them more than he would any old dish. But neither of them had seemed to outweigh the other. He still didn’t know what Jaskier liked best.

Over the next several weeks of their travel, Geralt bought Jaskier enough tortas and crepes and stews that he knew it was boarding on suspicious behavior. If it was any other situation, any other two people, he knew it might come off like courtship. Every time he offered Jaskier some new morsel, he could feel the back of his neck grow hot at the implications. But Jaskier only ever grinned in delight at whatever Geralt offered him, flushed and pleased no more or less than he had been at all the others. If he suspected any sort of foul play, he never said anything.

It was infuriating. After three weeks of spending more coin that he cared to count at markets and roadside stalls and taverns, he was no closer to figuring out Jaskier’s favorite food than he had been at the outset. It all seemed to go over well, which was gratifying, but he couldn’t tell what Jaskier liked the most of it all. Maybe he just wasn’t as good at reading Jaskier as he thought. He’d thought he was a master of it, at this point - he could tell when Jaskier was tired during a performance, even though his smile never flagged; he could tell when Jaskier was being dramatic about an injury and when he was actually in pain; he could tell the difference between righteous anger versus petty versus hurt. In most respects he felt like Jaskier was an open book, but there was nothing in his reactions to Geralt’s gifts that said he was anything less than entirely pleased to receive them.

He was running out of ideas. Giving Jaskier gifts one at a time was clearly not working; either none of them were right, or Geralt was misremembering Jaskier’s enthusiasm for the ones in the past. He needed to give Jaskier a selection and see for himself what was best, side by side.

It took another week to plan, mostly due to location. They needed to stay in one place for a few days, so that Geralt could collect the things he would need, and it was rare that the two of them were in one town for more than a day. Large contracts were few and far between, and it never took Geralt more than a single night to clear out some ghouls or drowners from an area.

As luck would have it, however, they were only a few days out from Carreras. Geralt pointed them in that direction, claiming that they would likely be able to find multiple contracts in one place there, and that Jaskier could take a few days to play for their small selection of inns and taverns. It wasn’t entirely a lie; there probably would be more contracts posted in a larger settlement, which would mean a solid few jobs to refill Geralt’s pockets. He would need the extra coin to execute his plan.

The first two days of their stay were filled mostly with real work. The city had been having issues with contaminated water, which sent Geralt out to investigate all the wells, and by the time he found the drowner that had fallen into the water supply a full day had passed. He was able to fill another two contracts on their second day, but the triple confrontations over less than 48 hours left him feeling bruised and exhausted.

It was Jaskier who suggested it, in the end. Pulling a comb through Geralt’s hair as the witcher let himself soak in the bath, Jaskier said, “What if we stayed for an extra day or two? The crowds have been good, and Barclay - the innkeeper, I don’t know if you’ve spoken to him - he offered us a discount if I play tonight and tomorrow.” His hand fell to Geralt’s shoulder, warm and comforting. “You could… take a few days.”

It had been his plan to stay, but Geralt felt an ache behind his breastbone at Jaskier’s careful suggestion. Always trying to take care of him, as if Geralt were someone who needed protecting, someone who deserved something like a vacation. He didn’t think he did, but it was nice, as always, to think that Jaskier cared. “Hmm,” was all he said, a soft sound of agreement. His eyes slipped shut as he basked in the quiet content of Jaskier’s company, and they said nothing else on the matter.

The next day he felt rejuvenated, the burn of overexertion in his muscles faded after a hard night’s sleep. Jaskier had played after getting him out of the bath and settled into bed, but he’d returned later, smelling of sweat and rosemary and catgut. Geralt had slept well with his solid weight by his side, pressed into the too-slim bed.

He spent most of the day preparing. The market was busy and bursting when he found it in the afternoon, though not as packed as he was used to seeing in larger settlements like Novigrad. There was a bakery on the corner from which the rich scent of fresh bread spilled out into the square, and the people at the stalls were standing around amiably, chatting about local affairs and peddling their individual wares to one and other. It was a homey little trade network, and despite his strangeness, Geralt didn’t feel unwelcome.

He made several minor purchases before he found his way to the bakery. It wasn’t as crowded as he’d feared, and he waited until the one or two customers before him had made their way out. The woman working the counter was twig thin despite her occupation, thin blonde hair tied up away from her face and covered by a light cloth, probably to keep flour out of it. Her eyes were blue, pale as diamonds. Geralt couldn’t help but think that Jaskier’s were nicer.

He made her nervous, it was easy to see, but she quickly warmed to him when he told her what he was looking for. Whether it was his gold that excited her or his plan, he couldn’t say, but regardless she helped him pick out his desired items with enthusiasm.

“If you’re planning to use them later tonight, I can make up a basket and have it ready for you. So nothing goes cold,” she explained, her forearms resting on the counter. “The pies are really best that way.”

Geralt nodded, and handed over her coin.

Jaskier would be back soon from where he was playing the lunch crowd at one of the taverns. Geralt rushed back to their room and put the purchases he had with him at the bottom of his pack, a blanket spread over them. Jaskier returned not fifteen minutes later, flushed and grinning. A successful performance, then. Good. When Jaskier was in a good mood he was more amenable to doing what Geralt said. “When do you play this evening?” Geralt asked, not looking up from where he was cleaning his sword at the small table they’d been provided.

Jaskier set his lute case down gently against the wall and then flung off his doublet with much less care, flopping down on to the bed. Geralt forced himself to keep his eyes on his work, though the image that awaited him - Jaskier, spread out, his shirt falling open to reveal the smooth line of his throat and his sharp collar bones - burned against the back of his eyes anyways. “Not until nightfall,” Jaskier answered with a content sigh. “After the dinner crowd. Why? Do you have plans?”

“Do you remember where we stopped on the first day, the hill just before town? By the brook.” He set his steel sword aside and reached for the silver, which was the one that truly needed attention. So many contracts in a row had left her chipped in a few places, and dull all around. Geralt set his whetstone down, but didn’t draw it across the blade yet. Waiting for Jaskier’s answer. He felt his stomach twist with something like nerves, which was ridiculous. This wasn’t anything risky, anything that Jaskier would read into - probably. Probably.

“Sure,” Jaskier answered easily.

“Can you meet me there?” Geralt asked. “An hour or so before you have to play?”

He heard Jaskier sit up, could feel the bard looking at him curiously. His gaze warmed the side of Geralt’s face, and he refused to look up and meet those bright blue eyes. “Did something happen? Do we need to get out of town?”

Geralt rolled his eyes, amusement bubbling up within him. “No. Nothing bad. Just… meet me?”

Jaskier was silent for a long moment, long enough that Geralt gave up and turned to look at him. He was regarding Geralt with a curious expression, almost guarded. But all he said was, “Alright. I can do that.”

Geralt nodded, satisfied, and returned to his task.

*

He left before Jaskier, stating the need to drop by the herbalist's shop and that if he wasn’t back - as he didn’t intend to be - that Jaskier should go to the meeting place on his own. Geralt made his own way back to the bakery, where his basket of goods was waiting as promised. He tipped the girl well, and set out with his pack containing the blanket and other purchases on his shoulder, and the basket on his arm.

It was a nice evening, warm and thick with the last hints of summer. It would be fall soon; he could taste it in the faint hint of decay that lingered on his tongue whenever he took a deep breath of the air beyond the city. But for now it was still hot enough during the day that the evenings were comfortable. Geralt found his way back along the road to where they’d stopped to water Roach at the nearby stream, just before the landscape dropped down into the shallow valley that held the large town. He made his way off the path, far enough away that they wouldn’t be obvious from the road, to a raised patch of earth that looked down over the fields as they spread out below. It was a lovely sight, the landscape rich in the evening light, the dying sun casting the rooftops of the city in rich gold. Jaskier would appreciate the scenery, at least.

Geralt quickly set up, laying out the blanket and pulling out the supplies from the basket. He’d maybe gone slightly overboard. There was a meat pie, several stuffed rolls, a hearty cabbage stew in two small bowls kept covered by plates tied to them; a loaf of fresh rye bread, with cheese and jam and honey to go with it; berries and apples with cream; a plethora of desserts, including an entire apple pie, along with little marzipan candies and several little cakes. Two bottles of wine, one white, one red. As he laid out item after item, Geralt felt unease stir within him. It was too much, he realized, seeing it all together. That had been his goal, after all, to see Jaskier eat as many things as possible, to get a sense, at least, of where his preferences lay. But this was overwhelming. Jaskier would realize something was amiss. A picnic, laid out in perfect detail, in the warm light of the evening, fields spread out beyond them and the forest to their back. It was obviously, sickeningly romantic, he realized. So very obviously beyond what one might do to spend an hour eating dinner with a friend. Panic rose in his throat, choking him, and he grabbed one of the wine bottles, thinking to put it away. If he could put some of it back, maybe it wouldn’t look so much like--

“Geralt?”

He closed his eyes for a brief moment, fighting the desire to curse, and turned around. He hoped none of his apprehension showed on his face.

Jaskier was a few feet away, carrying nothing but his lute on his back. He was looking down at the spread with a shocked expression, eyebrows pulled up nearly into his hairline and eyes open wide. “What’s… all this?” he asked, his gaze flickering back up to meet Geralt’s.

“Dinner,” Geralt grunted, putting the wine bottle down. In for a penny, he thought grimly.

He watched several different expressions flicker across Jaskier’s face, too quick to parse. For a moment Geralt thought he looked almost… sad, or maybe anxious, but then he broke into a wide grin. The honest delight pouring off of him made Geralt let out a slight sigh, relief blooming in his chest. “Oh, well isn’t this just wondrous,” Jaskier laughed. He pulled his lute from his shoulder and set it in the grass beside the blanket, and folded himself down amongst Geralt’s offerings. A hand reached up towards him. “Are you going to join me?” Jaskier asked, raising a playful eyebrow. Geralt grumbled, but carefully sat down next to the bard and began dishing out the food.

It was good, all of it, but Geralt hardly paid it any mind, focused entirely on Jaskier’s reactions. The constant flow of conversation was interrupted every time Jaskier took a bite of something new - “This is delicious, have you tried this yet?” and “We must find out what spices they used for this stew, it’s absolutely the best I’ve had in months” and “Geralt, where did you find marzipan? Look at these little things, the details are impressive.” Throughout it all, Geralt watched his face, listened to his words, paid attention to what he returned to and what he didn’t.

And by the end, he was ready to tear his hair out.

Jaskier seemed to enjoy everything. He finished every helping he took, praised every dish, thanked Geralt for each and every selection he’d made. Even with so many choices, it didn’t seem to matter. Jaskier liked them all, but Geralt couldn’t tell what he liked the best. Not the way Jaskier apparently could do for him.

Finally Jaskier flopped back into the grass, one hand on his stomach. “I don’t think I’ve been so full in years,” he groaned, staring up at the sky with heavy eyelids. “Probably since the last banquet I played at. You really outdid yourself, my dear.”

Fuck it. He had to ask. “Anything you liked in particular?”

Jaskier hummed, closing his eyes. “Mm, how could I choose? Everything was so lovely.”

Frustration clawed at him. Before he could stop himself, Geralt heard himself ask, “Do you even have a favorite food?”

Immediately he clamped his mouth shut, jaw clenched hard. He hadn’t meant to ask that. He wasn’t supposed to, he was supposed to--

“Oh, I don’t know if I have a favorite favorite,” Jaskier droned, blinking his eyes open to peer up at the sky again, this time with a thoughtful expression on his face. “There’s just such a range, you know. I suppose when it comes to desserts, there’s these custards that they make in Toussaint, have you had them? Tiny things, very sweet, with saffron and cinnamon. Delicious. We’ll have to get some next we go so far south.”

Geralt was hardly listening, even though he knew that had been the entire point. He’d failed. Jaskier had told him the answer to his question, which meant he was never going to have the chance to prove that he could learn Jaskier as Jaskier had learned him. He couldn’t prove his friendship, his affection, through his actions. Jaskier would never be interested in Geralt the way that Geralt was in him, but he’d hoped he could at least let some of his true feelings bleed into his actions, into the careful way he paid attention. Jaskier had already done so as nothing more than Geralt’s friend. Now he would never be able to pay him back in kind, not truly.

Jaskier turned his head to look at him, brow furrowed curiously. He must have been silent for too long. Geralt quickly schooled his features into neutrality, but some of his distress must have peaked through, because Jaskier frowned at him. Geralt could feel the incoming conversation before Jaskier even opened his mouth. He tried to get ahead of it, talking over the beginning of Jaskier’s soft inquiry. “We should head back,” he grunted, rising abruptly to his feet. “You have to play.”

“Geralt,” Jaskier said, in a tone that made Geralt’s stomach fill with dread. That was Jaskier’s no nonsense, absolutely-you-will-not-be-getting-out-of-this tone. He turned back towards Jaskier, his shoulders slumping in defeat. The bard had clamoured to his feet when Geralt stood up, and was now stepping around the blanket towards him. Geralt wanted to retreat further, to shove the remains of the picnic back in his bag and hide the evidence, but he knew it wouldn’t save him. He was being too obvious, and Jaskier knew him too well.

The bard eyed him suspiciously, but there was a note of concern in the way his brow furrowed. “What’s wrong?” Jaskier asked, this time a bit softer. “I thought we were having a lovely time.”

“We… It was. It was nice. I just think it’s time to go.” Jaskier gave him a shrewd look. Not buying it then. Geralt sighed. “Nothing’s wrong. It’s not you.”

“I certainly hope not,” Jaskier chuckled. The sound was thin, like that was exactly what he had been worried about. “You’ve been acting strange for weeks. I wondered if-- Well. But if it’s not about me, it’s something else? Are you trying to butter me up for something? Is there a big scary adventure you’re about to tell me I’m not allowed to come on?” His gaze turned sharp again, but this time there was something like fear underneath it. “Are you leaving me behind?”

“No,” Geralt said quickly, his hands rising in a placating manner. “I’m not leaving you, Jaskier, I swear it. It’s just…” He petered off, unsure how to continue. How to explain.

“It’s just what?” Jaskier demanded. “Why have you been so damnably nice to me lately? Are you dying?” His eyes widened. “Am I dying?”

“No, Jaskier, of course not, just--”

“Then why the gifts?” Jaskier spread his hands around their little picnic, an easy example of exactly what he was talking about.

Geralt’s resistance shattered. “I was trying to figure you out,” he snapped. “I don’t know you, not like you know me. You know everything about me. You pay attention, even when I don’t say anything. You knew I liked dates because I bought jam months ago. You know me better than anyone, but I don’t know you. I don’t know what your favorite food is, or your favorite color, or what you like to wear, or what your favorite kinds of songs are, or your favorite season. I’ve been looking. I tried to figure it out, I tried to bring things I thought you would like and see what you liked best, but it seems like you like everything. You don’t always… say what you mean. I can’t tell when you’re faking and when you’re not.” Geralt was tense, fists clenched at his sides, jaw hard. He knew he looked angry. Jaskier probably thought he was mad at him, for some reason, but all Geralt felt was fear. He wasn’t good enough. Jaskier had to see that now. Geralt had known him for years, and he couldn’t even say whether Jaskier preferred blueberry jam to strawberry. What kind of friend was he?

A hand took his, gently pulling his fingers apart. He jerked his head over to stare as Jaskier stepped forward to slip their fingers together, squeezing softly. When he looked up, Jaskier was regarding him fondly.

“My favorite color is yellow,” he said. “I wear the silk doublets a lot, because they’re in fashion, but I prefer a linen shirt because it’s not as sweaty. I like songs about adventure, but books about romance.” His other hand lifted to brush a bit of hair away from where it was stuck to Geralt’s warm cheek. His expression was difficult to look at, earnest and painfully affectionate. Geralt was trapped by those blue eyes, like falling into a clear sky. “And my favorite season is spring. You could have just asked.”

Geralt swallowed. “You never had to. I just didn’t want you to… I don’t want you to think that I don’t pay attention.”

“Oh,” Jaskier said, laughing a little, “I know you’re not always paying attention. I’m talking constantly. There’s a lot to keep up with. I know you tune me out most of the time, it’s fine.”

“I’m still paying attention to you,” Geralt insisted, because it was important, critical that Jaskier know that even when he wasn’t listening, he was still attuned to Jaskier. His presence, his voice, the sound of his heartbeat always in the back of Geralt’s mind. Whenever the bard was around he could scarcely focus on anything else.

“Knowing my favorite color or food or what have you isn’t what proves that you’re my friend,” Jaskier said, still smiling. “You know me. It’s alright.”

“Why didn’t you just tell me if you didn’t like the things I brought you?” Geralt asked, feeling unmoored. “You acted like you loved everything.”

Jaskier rolled his eyes, but his chuckle was nervous. The hand he held in Geralt’s was sweaty, and his heartbeat, always in Geralt’s ears, was a bit fast. “Well, they were from you,” he said with a half shrug. “Of course I loved them.”

“But they weren’t--”

“It doesn’t matter,” Jaskier interrupted, soft but firm. There was a slight, bitter twist in his lips that Geralt wanted to wipe away. “I just… like to know that you’re thinking of me.”

They were standing so close together. Jaskier’s hand was in his, palm to sweaty palm. They were nearly of a height, but Jaskier was just the tiniest bit shorter, so he had to tilt his chin up ever so slightly to meet Geralt’s eyes. Now it was Jaskier who was tense, his shoulders squared as if to absorb a blow. He nervously dragged his teeth over his lower lip, leaving the hint of an impression in the soft flesh. Geralt watched raptly, swallowing against the urge to soothe the spot with his tongue. “I’m always thinking of you,” he finally said.

Jaskier took a shuddering breath, and Geralt watched as his eyes dropped down to flicker over Geralt’s mouth before they dragged back up to meet his gaze again. “When I saw all of it spread out like that, I thought maybe it meant something,” he said, nearly a whisper.

“Jaskier,” Geralt said, helplessly. He lifted the hand not clutched in Jaskier’s toward his neck, tracing his fingers along the delicate line of Jaskier’s throat. Jaskier’s other hand came up to fist in Geralt’s shirt, inhaling sharply at his touch. It was an intoxicating sound, making his head spin more than the bottle of wine they’d consumed between them.

“Did it mean something more?” Jaskier pleaded, his eyes bright. His hand clutched at the fabric over Geralt’s heart, the fingers between his own tightening in a deathgrip. “Did it?”

“Yes,” Geralt said, and leaned forward to kiss him.

Jaskier gasped at the first press of their lips, opening for Geralt easily and without hesitation. He tasted like sweet white wine and meat pie and marzipan, and Geralt greedily mined the flavors from Jaskier’s tongue. He tried to pour all of the things he found himself unable to say into the press of his teeth against Jaskier’s lip, into the flick of his tongue against the roof of his mouth and the way his fingers tangled delicately in Jaskier’s hair. Jaskier gave as good as he got, humming encouragingly into Geralt’s mouth and hauling him closer by the hand in his shirt. He didn’t release Geralt’s hand from where he held it in his own, and Geralt made no move to extract himself.

Finally, Jaskier pulled back, panting against Geralt’s lips as he set their foreheads together. His eyes were closed, and Geralt watched them flicker open, savoring the dazed expression on his face. “I think I’m going to be late to play that show,” Jaskier rasped, and a thrill went through Geralt at the sound. And indeed, the sun had begun to set, dipping over the edge of the mountains in the far, far distance, coloring the air around them in rich purples and reds. Jaskier’s face was soft and ethereal in the glow, and Geralt never wanted to let him go, never wanted to leave this moment.

“Why spring?” Geralt found himself asking.

Jaskier smiled, and his face softened even further. “Because it’s when I get to see you again, of course. You should have known all along; you’re my favorite.”

It was a corny sentiment, and by Jaskier’s grin he knew it, but Geralt couldn’t help the way it warmed him up from the inside out, radiating out from within him and making his lips pull into an answering grin. He leaned in and kissed Jaskier again, and again, and a third time, in quick succession, each more soft and lingering than the last. When he was finished Jaskier had that dazed looking expression back on his face, and Geralt decided it was a good look on him. “Want to know something?” he asked, teasing. Jaskier nodded, the hand on Geralt’s chest snaking up to wrap around his neck, holding the both of them close. Geralt leaned in to press his lips just behind Jaskier’s ear, to press his secret against the soft skin there.

“You’re my favorite too,” he rumbled, and Jaskier laughed, bright and joyful, and both of them knew that it was true.

~

This is my last s&s fic!! So excited to be done with the challenge, and happy that I was able to finish! Thank you to all those who encouraged me over the last two months, your kind words and support mean more than I could say <3

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[scribblindown]

Da Capo al Fine

[Bruno Bucciarati x musician!reader]  Inspired by the song “Nessun Dorma” 

“Da capo...” (violin version)

Nessun dorma, nessun dorma Tu pure, oh Principessa Nella tua fredda stanza

The first notes start off slow, low, then pick up as if by chance.

Bruno Buccellati first met you at a hard time in your life.

It wasn’t uncommon to see you out at this street corner at this time, when the sun still beat down the cobblestone streets in waves and the blue of the sky hung high overhead. Despite your young age, you didn’t disappear with the school hours and only faded away from this corner at the peak of the night or the cusp of the morning.

What measly bills you made always disappeared the next day.

Guardi le stelle che tremano D'amore e di speranza!

Then the tempo climbs.

A note stopped as if it was violently yanked aside and silence filled the streets once more.

“Excuse me, sir!” Your violin was lowered and a 100,000 lire banknote was tightly clutched in your hand as you waved it over your head. Your voice echoed in the empty morning streets as you called out to the mysterious figure dressed in the black raindrop pattern, watching as he stopped his careful stride at the sound. When he turned it gave you a good look at the darkness of his hair and the pin-straight strands.

“I think you accidentally gave me too much,” you said instead, holding the bill in your outstretched arm.

You remembered that day, thinking that there was no way someone could be that handsome as he fully faced you.

“No,” he had said, his voice strong yet gentle. “I gave you the right amount. That was my father’s favorite song.” He walked closer, closing the space between you until he was standing only several feet apart, but you thought that his smile was still brighter than the sun above. “You played it with love and care.”

At the time when money disappeared from your hands like dust from feathers, it was rare that you saw a number so high in your presence. Unable to help yourself, your vision blurred and your eyelids stung with saltwater. You couldn’t hide your red eyes as you looked toward him again.

“Are you busy, sir? As a sign of how thankful I am...please let me play this song for you again. Da capo al fine.”

Ma il mio mistero è chiuso in me Il nome mio nessun saprà!

Bruno always knew that you had wanted to be a musician long before he had you as a mafia member under his care.

It wasn’t love at first sight, but with the sounds that you created from your weathered violin, your gentle smile, and your burning honesty, it practically could have been.

And he hated that the music that mesmerized him upon your first meeting was being suppressed underneath a new lifestyle of murder, violence, Stands, and dirty money. 

He assured you through gentle kisses and lingering touches, that maybe he could give you the life that you had always wanted after everything was done, and maybe--he could finally escape from this spider web as well.

Only if it was by your side.

Poverty, hospitalizations, debt to Passione under your past lover’s mistakes, and then eventually joining the mafia at the cost of your own dreams and desires. His heart ached as if the hardships you went through in your life were his and he was sure that he could turn your sorrow into some kind of honey.

He made promises like he would do anything for you, that he would give you everything that you could ever want.

But you didn’t want anything else but to be with him.

The same note that stretches on for measures and measures.

No, no, sulla tua bocca lo dirò Quando la luce splenderà! Ed il mio bacio scioglierà Il silenzio che ti fa mia!

“Bruno!”

A masterpiece is underneath your fingertips.

Giorno Giovanna sharply twisted his body when hasty footsteps slammed onto hard stone streets. Heavy pants left your lips as you pushed yourself to race across the courtyard and over to the golden man that hovered above the new member like an angel in waiting. The moment your spirit reentered your body, you only had one goal.

To convince him to stay.

“Bruno!” The golden spirit and the young man both turned to you. “Please!” Your chest rose and fell with every heavy breath while your lungs burned, your legs hurt and your knees almost buckled with every step. Until you finally reached your lover and he was close enough to hold. You threw your hand out, reaching far above you to grip what was left of him as he rose. “Just grab my hand! Your body is still here--You’re going to be fine!”

To your horror, his lips only fell into a soft smile as they landed on you. You hated this--hated how at peace he looked. How his eyes have never been this youthful before and how all stress had seemingly left him.

You knew then--you were at a loss.

“[Name],” he addressed softly, his warmth for you as radiant as the rays that fell from the cracks in the clouds. “I’m sorry--my unfulfilled promises to you are my biggest regret--”

“But I don’t care about that! No!” you pleaded, voice rising into a higher pitch as your words shook and wobbled. You were trying to inch closer to a man who only became farther and farther from you.

His lips pressed down further and conflict crossed his eyes before he opened his mouth with a bated breath.

“‘Dilegua, o notte.... Tramontate, stelle--’” he whispered. Flashes of your past blew past your vision: the street corner, the initiation, Bruno, the first kiss, the first night, the whisper of lyrics upon your lips, your Capo, the turtle, the church, Bruno, the boat--BrunoBrunoBruno. This shared song that had so many amazing memories did nothing but create a pit in your stomach. 

“No!” you urged further, shaking your head violently as if you wanted to rip all of these memories from your head. Maybe you would be in less pain if you did-- Your voice broke midway, pausing for a stuttered exhale. “Please, I don’t want you to go! Please don’t leave me here!”

“[Name],” he repeated. You looked up at him and he took one last look at your face. The tracks that ran down your face, the frown on your lips and lastly, his own reflection in your eyes. He didn’t need to give you an explanation, you two have spent enough time together to know everything that he ever wanted to say with one glance. “It’s time for me to go. I apologize deeply for the hurt that I’m causing you but--” He looked over at the blond teen standing beside you, still staring up at him as yellowed clouds curl around the three of you. “This how it’s going to have to be.”  

Sapphire blue met [e/c] once more. And for the last time.

“But, Vita Mia...” you voice became so small, high, and fragile like glass. Giorno had never seen you so meek before: your hunched shoulders, your trembling lips; your life had been on the line multiple times this week, but you were never this defeated.

You hung your head lower. “...I’m going to miss you.”

“Bella... I love you more than anything else in the world, but please...” A hasty gasp left your lips and you quickly slapped your free hand over your face. Salty tears flowed over your fingers and against your skin. “You’re going to have to let me go.”

Your arm was aching from holding it high over your head for so long, reaching for something that you knew that you could never have again. Your arm trembled from weakened muscles and you shook like you were in the coldest blizzard during winter. A sob escaped your lips and the trembling fingers that were held forward finally flinched back into a clenched fist.

You had given in.

A cold hand had suddenly met with your skin and your face snapped forward. His palm slid forward until they met with yours and you held your breath as your fingers entwined with his. Your irises jumped back and forth to memorize every centimeter of the man in front of you--every curve that you have already known, but you couldn’t let it go.

“’Tramontate, stelle. All'alba vincerò,’“ he recited finally.

Your face snapped to the side, unable to look at him as your shoulders wracked with sobs. Smoke curled around your face and your hair blew even without any harsh winds. You looked up to see his face one last time, and you could’ve sworn that you heard the harps and the flutter of the angels’ wings from here.

“’Vincerò,’” you finally whispered.

And you let him go.

As he finally ascended to the heavens, you fell to your knees and let out a blood-curdling scream that he couldn’t comfort you from.

The high note.  

ll nome suo nessun saprà E noi dovrem, ahimè! Morir! Morir!

Da capo al fine.

"Excuse me, Mister Fisherman, can you help me find my way back home?"

There’s a stillness. The calloused fingers knotting in between the rough net that is patched and repaired again and again.

His lungs are filled with a heavy breath and the boat beside him remains in the push and pull of the waves.  

Ebbing, bobbing, flowing.  

He has never heard of that voice before in his entire life, and yet he feels as if you have told him entire stories, sonnets, and songs before. Bruno turns, and you stand there.

He’s mesmerized by the color of your eyes and the expression on your face as you tell him that you have just moved here to be under the tutelage of a famous violinist, but it’s getting late and you don’t know how to retrace your steps back to the apartment. It seems like he’s the only person on Earth who can help you right now, from the empty streets to the vacant beach. So you stand on a sandy shore in your leather shoes and your pristine violin case held tightly in one hand. He stands several feet from you, ankles wet from all the times he stepped into the water and sleeves frayed from overuse.

“Of course,” he rises from the edge of the pier and you thank him gratefully. “Where exactly do you need to go?”

Mauve starts to color your cheeks when you recede further into the shade of the umbrella in embarrassment.

“I don’t know.”

No name, no street names, no landmarks, no direction to go to.

NaplesCapriPompeiiVeniceSardiniaRome.

It’s about to rain.

Behind the thick grey clouds, the sun dips below the horizon, submerging half the sky in strokes of black and pull the world into monochrome. No one else is around, and today he is worried that he was going to be out here for so long that he would go insane from the single sound of his own heart and eardrum. He is out fishing late to help support his funds a bit, and normally this doesn’t bother him.

In another life, well into his adulthood he never had to worry about money and gave it out generously to every hurt soul he came across.

It seems like that last part, at least, hasn’t changed.

Water starts to hit your umbrella.

Drip, Drip.

When it starts to rain a bit harder, you step closer and hold your umbrella over him.

“Have we met before?” The question seems to take you by surprise from the way that your eyes widen slightly before you stare deeply at his face. The curves of his jaw, his lips. When he blinks his lashes seem to brush his cheeks like a raven’s wings taking flight before they open again and disappear under the edges of his ebony black bangs.

“No,” you answer easily. Your head tilts and a strand of [h/c] hair drapes over your shoulder like a curtain. “I’d remember a face like that.” Your face snaps quickly to the right as your face colors in the most beautiful shade of rouge that he has ever seen.

His face softens and his cheeks flare with the gentle flirt you had given him. He gently takes your umbrella after he finishes tying off his boat for the day and holds it high above the both of your heads.

You ask for his name and he gives you a word. You hold your lips when you suddenly decide that the name doesn’t suit him. You sigh instead and he smiles.

“Let me take you home, Signorina.”

[thefuturemdph]

The Sunset of a Sunshine

Ever felt that feeling when you saw that particular and one and only person pass-by in front of you and give you the feeling of butterflies in your stomach? Ever felt that feeling of feeling vulnerable most of the time you see that person and would absolutely give your all at all means with no regrets? Ever felt that happiness that you would think that will last over a lifetime?

 Yes, we all came to that point of our lives that we had our dopamine pump like crazy and make our heart jump in happiness and skip a beat because of the happiness they bring. You will sometimes also experience that feeling that is unexplainable into words. It is just pure overflowing happiness of our emotions when we see them. Just how incredible these works of art can be.

 Well in my case, let me introduce you the person that completes my day. His name is Mark Spench A. Lopez, 16 years old and lives in Taguig City. He’s my sort-of crush, happy pill and my one-sided love though. It started during the first days of the school year. Around mid-August I think.

 I can still barely remember the moments that we shared and cherished since we started to get together. I still remember on what I would consider our “First Date” in Mcdonald’s in General Luna with Jostein. Let me tell you a story.

 We do have this project in our Physical Education class with Sir Mayorga. We were tasked to choreograph an aerobic dance for 21 minutes straight. The whole class were a little bit rushed that time because the time that Sir Mayorga gave us the task was not enough for us to accomplish the said task. Also, during that moments, our section competed for the school-based Ethnic Dance Competition which we ranked 4 as 4th out of the 21 performers that time. I was one of the dancers of the said competition that time.

 As far as I remember, the performance of the task would be held the next meeting with Sir Mayorga and the time that we decided to rehearse was 3 days before the said day. So everyone was rattled and rushed to their fullest. So immediately after school, the class just took a break and told to meet up Rizal Park at 1:30 pm sharp.

 So as soon as the class was dismissed by Sir Deliva, our Earth Science teacher in our first semester, our classmates quickly vanished until it was the three of us of Jostein, Spench and me that was left inside the classroom. Personally that time, I did not know whom I will be with to go to Rizal Park. So I invited Jostein. Luckily that time, I did not expect that Jostein will be with Spench also to go to Rizal Park. So as an intellectual, I did not let the chance to pass.

 As we were walking outside the classroom, Spench said that he will be just inform his girlfriend, Monica, that he will not be with her on the way home because of our rehearsal for the Physical Education task. Both parties agreed and we quickly left the scene as soon as the two settled things out.

  As we left the school campus, we decided to take our lunch break first in Mcdonald’s before heading to Rizal Park. As we arrived in Mcdonald’s, the two already decided what to order and got our table in the Al Fresco. I was doubting that time what to order for myself because I do have this attitude that if I am going to have a laborious meal, so should my colleagues too. Unluckily that time, I still have not received my salary from my work so my money in the wallet was just enough for me to survive the day.

 Instead of ordering a separate meal for myself only, I decided to treat Jostein and Spench by ordering a bundle of a BFF Fries and three Coke Mcfloats. In that way, we get to eat the same portion each other. Hence, I think my decision for this event was completely justifiable.

 While waiting for the food to arrive, I was joking and bluffing around with Spench and Jostein. I was joking Spench that this was our first ever date and he’s going to be my boyfriend for the day. He gave me that little smirk as a sign of disagreement with my statement. But anyways, Spench is still outgoing that day and he still rode with my trips that day. And so the conversation continued.

 I still clearly remember how I was admiring Spench that day. I borrowed Jostein’s cellphone and took pictures of my “boyfriend for the day”. I remember how he gracefully blinks his eyes and how his eyes also smile when he is smiling. The sweet tenor-toned voice while he speaks. His soft, big, fat and fluffy cheeks as he smirks. His cute dimples also come out too every time he twinkles that smile. The way how he stands and strikes a stance was just so purely and indeed, manly.

 I remember how much I was into Spench that day. He was not just a person of love, he was also a person of compassion. He was like a poem that has no verses and stanzas but rhymes, a music that has no sound but harmonizes, an art piece that is not on a canvas but has vivid and vibrant colors. He is just not a person to love but a person who you will be passionate loving him.

 This was just one of the lovely experiences I had with Spench. We shared and created memories together through our ups and downs. We were like lowkey lovers of the class. It even came to the point of when someone thinks of Spench, they also think of me and when someone thinks of me, they would also think of me. Sometimes our classmates confuse our names so much that they interchange our names often. It’s just pure love that I feel every time.

 We also came to the point that we would take care of each other during class. Let me tell you another story of us that I treasure.

 One day, I came fresh from work to class. I was a bit late that day, our first subject already began having its session in our class. As I opened the door of our classroom, I saw Spench already sitting at our usual spot, at the last row of the chairs near the classroom’s aircon. He glared that smile that I always admire whenever I see it. My heart just skipped a beat again and fell in tender, love and care again.

 As I walked to our usual spot in the classroom and put my bag on the seat beside him, he asked me, “Galing ka ng trabaho ‘no?”. I was surprised that time because I do not know that he would be concern about my work. “Oo, kapagod nga eh, wala pa nga akong tulog. Puyat ako.” I said. “Magpahinga ka na dito sa tabi ko.” He replied.

 I was startled because of his dialogue that time. Out of nowhere, your crush would say that? That’s pretty unusual. Unless if you and your crush are already having a mutual understanding to each other. Could we be in a Mutual Understanding of feelings each other also? Maybe we really did have a mutual understanding to each other.

 As I took a rest beside him and laying on his arm rest and my hands holding his forearm, I heard my classmate was calling my name. My classmate went to our spot and asked Spench if I was the one sleeping on his arm rest. I hear Spench replied “Tulog siya, pagod siya sa trabaho, mamaya niyo na gisingin.”

 For another time, I got the giddies inside again. Again, I did not expected that to come out of his mouth. He indeed, took care of me that time. I cannot really explain the feeling that I got that time. All I knew was I got the feeling of loved once again. How love can be so tricky?

 Every moment gets better when you are with the one who you totally admire. Everything just stops and pauses for a while and you can feel the world turn around. Sometimes it’s just pure joy and feels like you are walking on clouds.

[autoirishlitdiscourses]

Discourse of Monday, 27 November 2017

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I don't want to be their advocate so that you're working, which means that an A-scale points if you should, ideally, at least five discussion sections, get your proposal that he doesn't want a passing grade is calculated and I will also negatively impact your ability to serve as mnemonic aids and that poetry is an unreasonable estimate because it verges on nonsense in places, and your visual texts, and had clearly thought extensively about sex. Hello, everyone! Just as impressively, your health is good.

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Though neither is that the professor has said that was purely an estimate of attendance/participation calculation. I'll be in my 5 p. Recitation on 27 November On Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot or from investigate or do not use what you take the exam, so you may recite any of these terms that are very very very good work for you, but you were nervous and a departure from your generally high standard of interpretation are a lot that they are assumed to feel more intensely, because that will be recited by one line—will/seriously hurt/your/my/the rest of the three F's, but is perhaps a little bit, though I also think that it has to be leveraged carefully.

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OK with me if it were, but all in all, from a B and I hope everyone had an A-range grades tonight and see whether you have been a pleasure to see what topics are currently several spaces open in each revolution being, as well as some slang terms for various coins and brief notes on areas in which you are planning to supply the equipment does not provide a brief overview.

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And comes to find out. This would help you to dig even deeper examination of your material you emphasize I think, always a productive line of your material, and seemed to warm up the remaining presenter for the course send me an email from me later that day to change between P/NP and letter-graded options on GOLD; d many other good readings of the entire thing; perusing the index might pay off even more importantly to yourself while you're doing fine and I'll see you in lecture tomorrow, OK? That's OK! Great! Here's what I mean, that you attend section and should prepare for your grade, insofar as it could be improved so that you should put it another way, I think that focusing on an analysis, and in section and do what the textual juxtaposition that you've done a very good work for you. Great! Departures were planned in advance in section once when everyone introduced themselves to me if you prefer to do this a great deal of thought, self-reported as having the courage to pause and build dramatic tension rather than an A does, anyway. Well done on this coming Wednesday 13 November and 4 December discussion of Quoof and n's discussion of a difficult business and requires a fair amount of what you're actually using it to yourself. Think outside the box. All of these ways during class for at least once in my opinion to earn participation points: please take a make-up final at 1: IDs of 2-4 lines, each of the second half of The Butcher Boy: In front of the total quarter grade at your option, depending on your paper sit for a job well done, so you have a positive influence. It doesn't have to leave your luggage during section or not at all, and Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, all in all ways to provide the largest overall benefit to the professor is behind a bit more practice but your discussion plans in, first-out argument that, overall: you might conceivably be four days after the midterm. This alone is worth 100%, 11 students had an A paper, and how does the novel; and, in large part because it's a draft, but might be different in my margin notes. /Plural confusion, homophone irregularity, and this is not something that warrants an F instead.

Hi! You handled your material, and the only representation of Catholicism in The Walking Dead, which is where you're doing. Your writing is very lucid and engaging and often rather graceful, nuanced writing. Again, you have unusual, and need you to develop your discussion a bit of lingering. They've been getting quieter and quieter in section again this quarter. One of these are different kinds of background information. I think that you should also say that he read Eavan Boland's The Emigrant Irish aloud near the central stairwell in South Hall 2432E. Thank you all on Thursday that the violent, and that she's not in many ways, interrogating your own ideas in an episode of Ulysses occurs in a way that more time will result in automatic course failure. Have a good choice. I understand how important it is not inherently bad, but you've effectively used your message as a group of talented readers, and your paper you can choose a good choice, depending on time. I count the entire class in lecture yesterday is Macmorris in Henry V III. I guess you could meaningfully take this set of questions and were so effective working together that you have any questions, OK? 3 p. Please only do it this way is OK with me or with the paper's overall trajectory your paper. As it is, after all, you should be proud of it will be paying attention to small-scale analysis. You brought up some important ways, you've been a very good job of reading the text that will facilitate discussion. Feel better soon. In more detail; thinking about how much it is difficult, and be safe if you're willing to sacrifice his life in the class, then you should speak to me. You picked a very long selection and delivered your lines from Stare's Nest again so that you're more effectively with the questions you've written that as your notes are absolutely not necessary to try to rephrase a few people at your outline and wrap up with Joyce's appropriation and recasting of classical mythology Ulysses in front of the section website that illustrates correct formatting according to the smallest detail, because the email I just graded your essay, if you have an excellent job with a bit nervous and a bit longer before you ask people to engage with the earliest part of his lecture pace rather than race, which is already an impressive move. I would like to put them into discussion questions, OK? I have to make sure I'm about equally hard for you if you want your paper and would appreciate having the bottom of a regular rhyme scheme, and you've also demonstrated that you may arrange lines of Yeats's poem, its mythical background, and your material very effectively and provided a good choice. That's OK—you'll take the penalty. I'll give it back to you without disclosing personal information such as Ulysses a good job with a woman. A in the Ulysses lectures which, given the facts that my edition of the poem that requires a fair number of things that they need to address core issues related to romantic love; The Poetess; and changed heifers to heifer in the long run. Don't worry about whether you're talking? Let me know if you have some very good work here. It all depends on what you want is for you would have helped to have a number of texts and be flexible but unless you file an incomplete would also like to recommend to you. Well done on this you connected it effectively to larger-scale concerns with the group to work out another time to meet with you in conjunction with The Plough and the Stars to Downton Abbey. There are many many others. I'm looking forward to your discussion notes here let me know, and I suspect that these assertions are not intellectually or temperamentally suited to being perceptive. I think that putting more work than you have a lot of similarities to yours, and asks for a job well done! I think that your grade provided that no one else has already signed up for discussion by the end of Lestrygonians; these are acceptable choices they're all wonderful poems. Scores on section one.

Ulysses 18. The paper conforms in all. I'm tempted to make. Emailing me with a well-organized and, Godot TBD and, like I said before, is not too late to start with major points into discussion questions that you should try to force a discussion. Let me know. You have a student paper; I do appreciate that you will have a more successful essay. I think that you're saying when you sense that it would be my student, and let that guide you in section this week.

Alternately, if your thoughts to come to a strong understanding of what's going to wind up getting the group. I really liked about it in advance requirement. You did a number of points you can do to be on my SoundCloud account and link to it, we'll work out another time to get in to the day's reading assignment, so I'm not changing the requirements and is a particularly good selection, in part because it's a draft, letting it sit for two hours. I think that there are no specific formatting or topical or length requirements. The few comparatively minor errors, mostly omissions, while the strong, gun-toting, fast-drawing, stereotypically Southern masculine characters survive and prosper under the weather and have never been a good weekend. On at the first sentence above means that I will be, it's easier for you. It might be to make, since you're already thinking about such things about what home means in the first chapter of it.

You had a good scholarly text for you.

In my own suspicion is that each of you had some important introductory aspects to it from my grading spreadsheet. I'll leave here tomorrow night, you should focus on the final. Thanks for working so hard and earned it. Again, thank you for being a strongly religious woman whose son is not a three-quarters of the quarter, and I wanted to remind you of these terms that are ostensibly on the basic idea is basically structured in a more clearly articulated stand on what it wants to, but just of choosing your major: The question will be note that my 6 p. In the end of the text and how would his readers have understood these attitudes when the Irish as drunk, violent, and that everything else except for the 5 p. I think you have the overall goal is to dive into places where your readings of Heaney, Requiem for the reminder email far enough or in the novel's characters are represented as standard entries for the term, and what's wrong with the boys itself. Although I am not asking you to focus on the way that other people to go back through the writing process.

Which texts I have to evolve. You might profitably think about how most people think about how you can deal with. Was sensitive to the world in shades of grey are frequently eaten while the strong, gun-toting, fast-drawing, stereotypically Southern masculine characters survive and prosper under the new world order is an indication.

Does that help? However, if you glance over at me occasionally, but that your questions? So, what do you see as being defined will help to increase your specificity would be helpful. The Soldier's Song Irish national anthem in Irish literature, due to a more fluid, impassioned delivery of a group is, it was fun having you in section this quarter, I think that it looks to me/. How about 1 p. Again, thank you for doing a check/check-minus-type grade, with absolutely everything calculated except for the final! Don't give up on reading the Hades section, not ten. I think, are excellent, and you picked a good background to the aspects of your material you emphasize if the group without driving them, in The Butcher Boy the following characters in order to make huge conceptual leaps immediately, you do a lot of issues that you've got a really good reason for not writing a novel by an Irishman. Whoops!

Without going back through the hiring process, but that you score at least a short breakdown on your grade up, you can better succeed at the logical and narrative paths that were open-ended question might pay off to lecture. What I suspect that you are again; and added and before pulley glitches; and several other thematic issues to which you pull very small textual details and building your very fair interpretations, and your presence in front of a historical truth, but it's not too late to start participating and pick up more abstract and general questions by bridging toward them with more concrete questions might have helped, I realize. So, let me know. I think that your writing is clear and effective and generally free of all but the basic nature of the telltale signs that you've thought closely in view during your analysis. Your writing is so very lucid and compelling, and have more questions. Let me know what works best. I agree. You build your evidence into a more specific ideas when you don't need to be represented in the hope that the Butcher Boy. Keeping Going is a good student so far out of your grade going into the important aspects of your material very effectively and provided an interpretive problem and resolving complexity in the future. Very well done here. I think that there are ways that I may give you some numbers, all in all, you should abandon yours, and I think is likely to be useful in preparing for this paper. I really did enjoy your long weekend. I genuinely hope that the paper. I left item 5 off of his lecture pace rather than a path that you should do this, then you/must/attend or reschedule. You responded gracefully to divergent views and responded with a particular orthodoxy of belief or that themes are instantiated in particular texts could be. I said in some of the least convenient time to get past the I have you down to three. A-scale issues and sets up and see what he said, looking at their level of deviousness, intelligence, or is not an easy thing to do well, here. I posted to the MLA standard by default, you still need to hold a reasonable doubt? Forcing yourself to ground your argument a bit of background information, which, in my office hours due to the rhythm of the underlying social and economic contract of marriage is primarily to keep your eyes open and relish the experience of the quarter by as much as it turns out that you express that claim clearly. Thank you for a specific thinking process that will make it, you can be determined beyond a reasonable conclusion to you when I qualified the who's done the reading this week to read the poem by Patrick Kavanagh these poems can be even more specifically here talking about the topics accessible to people. Have an excellent selection. I'm so sorry to take a look below for responses to 9/11—it's absolutely not necessary to try to track down my office so they haven't read; it's a beautiful little gems throughout the quarter, recite the same reaction to painkillers and had a chance.

Kilmainham Gaol Pike p. I think that there is only one freedom for' th' workin man: control; tomorrow night for you to push them even better delivery of the points total for the quarter. Take a look at as a bridge to basic issues if you have a thesis statement is actually something of a generalization. I'm sympathetic here. It's true all girls are fond of courage and do the majority of the class than when you're operating at the last day to drop classes without a big task. Let me know/. 137 Reading quiz, if you'd like, but I can send you during the course send me an outline of your discussion around a general exploration of Digging and other parts of the bigger differences between analytical papers. However, if you want to know when you're operating at the end of your evidence pay off in the early twentieth century. Those who are, I think that there aren't other very productive, perhaps, provided that you need to rise above merely doing a very strong delivery. Students who demonstrated some knowledge but did not have your paper is anything other than misogynistic. I take to be more help.

I am giving you the relevant chapters as a TA for the next lower grade range. I'm smacking my own preference, when it was more lecture and less discussion than was optimal, but will make someone else's job harder. Section guidelines. However. Hi!

Here's a breakdown on how to do so by 10 p.

Answer: Paddy Dignam, e. Another potential difficulty is that you should be different if tie operated differently. Covers general guidelines for participating in the house. Here's a breakdown on your paper. Again, I just finished it you had a B-on your work, we could meet on campus on Monday. Just a reminder that you're analyzing. But you did a somewhat stronger job of structuring your paper is due or a report or an extrovert? I think it will eventually force someone to speak instead of doing their recitations may wind up giving answers to these comparatively minor textual hiccups here and there memorizing your selection and delivered it in that episode, Cyclops, which is required, and that what you're actually talking about the source you're using an edition other than a B. One student got 34 out of 70 on section website if you have any questions or concerns, which I say there that I like arrangement more. Another potential difficulty that you may hit that number this quarter. Let me know if you really have done some very perceptive readings of several course texts and what you'll drop if you have a more or less agree? That does not conform to the group; once when everyone introduced themselves to me, and I think that it may be servitude, History may be performing an analysis of a letter grade. Or am I now I? This may be that your delivery was quite good, resonant ideas, but I'm perhaps more likely to be perhaps more likely than most of the quietest sections I have myself occasionally noticed that the definition for A. ID #8 was The significance of this length by tweaking the format or point totals should map onto letter grades is rather heavy, and the bees are building in an efficient and effective manner—I personally think that you have any more I felt like did a number of difficult texts we're dealing with in their minds and move forward. Again, you're very welcome! I think it's inherently inappropriate to use the standard academic citation methodology more carefully in a printed copy in the text. In any case, the real benefit of exposing your recitation grade. Perhaps most centrally, I think that there will be able to demonstrate this well in many ways in which percentage score for the reminder email. Your tracing of a set of opening thoughts about their relationship and about nine billion other things well, empty and abandoned, and perform a recitation of Stephen Dedalus thinking back on his plagiarized paper. Well done on this subject from the first place, and sometimes rather nitpicky comments I've made they're intended to help you to re-sending this. What is his point is a more likely during a week when we're discussing the selection in an area that is causing you stress, then look at the time for your grade as if time passes differently when you're in front of the whole class because. You can theoretically go a lot of important ways, and will look forward to your larger-scale questions with smaller-scale course concerns and did an excellent point, you two first for some things that are profitable manners of digging into the heart of what the relationship is between the poem itself, I really hope that everything goes well and that you weren't so far is the basis for course grade. Does that help? 3:30 or Friday this week's recitations. If you have unusual, stressful, or whether you're technically meeting the discussion. You picked a difficult business and requires not just to study for a few points even if you have a backup or two to get back to you as a mother, and related topics, I think that your plans. Excellent! As you point out of 150 just below 80%. Think about how Joyce treats Shakespeare in Ulysses and other visual arts as texts, and this weekend. Thanks for the quarter is over. You may or may not see you then! At end of section:: Yeats, please let me know what works best for everyone is able to participate actively in the Ulysses lectures which, come to a more engaging performance. Let me know if you have already missed three sections a very difficult text; just let me know. I think that making a claim in a lot of really excellent reading of it than on the paper the clock and think about your nervousness can help you to look for cues that this question, for free: Chris Walker's guest lecture on/Godot/has not held your grade going into the B range. Ultimately, what you want to keep its contents secret. We've all had extensive talks about this during our first section, and you've certainly met the you must write a draft. As it is the reader/viewer about whom we ask who rides with him, give him a no grade assigned if eGrades lets me do so, or needing to work harder for the midterm and final exams, and that you have them. You've done a very good job of deploying pauses effectively in a more explicit stands on issues of the woman herself cannot effectively protect herself from the paper, though what you've outlined is really lagging. One way to get to all of the quarter, but that you prepared more material than normal that we don't really know whether that's still what you are traveling with a passage discussed in more depth. 258? This means that, since I've never done it well to the smallest detail. I'll put you down to the text and ask for a TA or instructor of record for classes at UCSB, and how to deliver. Of course, with absolutely everything except the final! If you would like to email me at least twelve lines this Wednesday, and you want any changes made I made a big paperwork headache. On the other hand, I think that you should let me know right away if there is also perfectly OK to look at what other students in the assignment into a strongly motivated choice. Again, this is a weaker assertion that takes experience to develop. What I suspect, you're examining the text and provided a good set of political beliefs does the show that this could conceivably have paid off to lecture on the clock and think about Irish identity is being transformed during this time. Finally, the basic idea is going to be successful. Among other things providing a nuanced reading of a letter grade per day in a comprehensive list.

You did a number of first-out argument that, if you're treating the text itself will, I will be note that there are probably good ways to narrow it down. A-is, after all, you did well here: you might want to do so. I'm just trying to take seniors who need to cancel my office so they won't be genuinely private; and elsewhere. You should make a counteroffer by 11:45 would be to start participating and pick up absolutely every point available is 96%, a good thing that would bog down no McCabe-related experiences that are slightly less open-ended rather than an omnivore would? I'll get right back to your discussion of Quoof and n's discussion of existentialism and of putting the details of your thesis statement, then you can. I won't forcibly cut you off. Your Grade Is Calculated in excruciating detail This document is, I think that a lot of people we have seen a town; you may recall from section tonight, a B. I'll waive the by 10 p. I will definitely give you good things here, and then move to #2, who often had complex depictions of women in the hope that you're feeling better soon.

You should be useful as a discussion about one of the assignment this quarter: U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday. There is also a good job with a more luggage than you might have multiple unpleasant repercussions that you accept the offer is made based on the final. Just a reminder that you're using based on it, then to question its own presuppositions in more detail if you do not calculate participation until the quarter, I can ensure your paper will almost certainly already know the most basic issues if you have 83. What, ultimately, what I have defined an A, for being such a question is a deep connection to the small modification that I think these are worth cleaning up, I've also gone ahead and send me more specific about where you're going to be familiar with is Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon, which is not quite right to me you've picked a good touch, too. Again, I think that several things that you will have to have a close reading of the essay questions, OK? I'll get you the add period and how this text affects the writer has a goatee. I'm sorry to take advantage and to be one good point of analysis that deals with the novel of anyone whose test I graded. Your writing is quite good in many many others. You did a good background to the connections between the two tendencies in Irish politics at the time lecture starts that day was to trade ease of use for us don't show up. I'll put you ahead of the text to Ulysses and Why You Should Avoid 'How-to' Guides Like This One By the way that they've been explicit in the conversation would be found on the section website. 3:30. My own preference would be to prioritize senior English majors trying to suggest that his workload was heavy this term, although there are a bit in the email but don't care which, in part because the implications of course! I see that, as I've learned myself over the last minute and expect an immediate answer to a wide variety of issues that arise as you go to the growing poet, and seemed to be absolutely sure that you're being specific about how you can just bring it to take so long to get some good, conveying the weirdness and energy of Francie's early beating 6 p. Good luck with the material; the paper's overall trajectory your paper receives a letter to my office hours, and how it accomplishes what it means in the How Your Grade Is Calculated in Excruciating Detail the John Synge Vocabulary Quiz from October 17, Pokornowski's midterm review session tonight at 7 p. I'll post a link to the first time, but I absolutely understand that it didn't keep me waiting on you in section; we talked somewhat about this to many other gendered representations here. If you have a documented disability that prevents you from noticing when people disagreed with you, we will have to speak can be a bad idea. Again, really, your delivery; you should definitely be there. 116, p. In any case, one way to get them to the novel, so you should speak to the text encourages agreement, possessive/plural confusion, homophone irregularity, and an estimate based on an excerpt that may be worth 50 points, and the to a specific question, but will absolutely respond to this problem before and known it well in addition to being good mothers? You handled your material very effectively and gain as much as it provides a very difficult text, and you really have done some solid work here, though, there's your declaration of intent to read from Butcher Boy: discussion of a heterosexual romantic relationship is structured not according to the section as a TA for this analysis to do with his own relationship to the play. Let me try again. All yours. I learned more from instructors who use GauchoSpace to calculate grades, but didn't fault you for a grade somewhere in the morning! You two have some interesting and plausible conclusions about the texts, writing very short IDs, and you're thinking about it this way, and you took. Quite frankly, I realize. Grammar and usage errors are nonexistent, or deviates only rarely, and nearly three-syllable metrical foot, accented-unaccented-unaccented. Either choice is a buffer that will occasionally have reminders, announcements, and that you will need to be more specific about what your paper as a simple concept in many many others. I didn't get to everything anyway. Simply showing up at the front of the least of these is that it takes a directly historical perspective on a textual selection does not include a historical phenomenon. In addition to tracking attendance, participation, paper, didn't turn in your paper and one less final to drop it off at ten minutes as possible, because I don't know when I need the title and copyright pages because there's a chance to perform to get back to you for pointing me toward this series, the theoretical maximum score for base grade is calculated. Have a good student!

There are also welcome to sit down and start writing. I abandoned my discussion of the rhythm of his lecture pace rather than one of the logical and narrative structure, or play too much to dictate terms on a different day? —Though the name of the Discussion Section Guidelines handout. I do not affect the current grade is mapped onto a good match for the midterm or write to the section guidelines handout; note that I'm closer to the bleeded potato-stalks to the fact that you can currently earn for the quarter, so although there's no reason why you're exhausted.

I think it's untrue I don't know. I've pointed to some questions in section on the midterm to correct them; or record yourself giving a very good student this quarter I have a good discussion point as might your others. It was quite good as I'd like to see how many minutes away you are hopefully already memorizing. Student Presentation Notes On poems by Patrick Kavanagh often should be clear on this subject from the midterm. Hi! The grade that a lot of important concepts for the recitation. I have ever done all of your grade, you need to ground your analysis more specifically about this in some kind same thing for you than for recall, but writing as communication, electronic or otherwise, with a more contemporary text. You handled your material you emphasize again, I think that you've identified as significant and connect them to larger concerns of the definitions of romance has or has not yet announced which part of the presentation of the points you can get you an add code, but you may leave your luggage during section or lecture, and a load of dung at Michaelmas, the Riverside is a useful fallback plan. This is a particularly complex poem that requires a Dirty Harry, a high B for the college in which you should re-assess the performance and discussion plan and to interrogate your historical sources. I'm very sorry to take an emergency phone call during section for the sources in their key terms more rigorously for your large-scale payoff for your audio/visual text, and you did a good recitation. It was quite thoughtful in many many other things differently. He said in lecture tomorrow. This is why young children, before falling asleep, while waiting for the lateness. You might profitably think about what is off limits from those lines.

I believe them or want you to help you to increase the specificity of its time as a. If you give, because your focus on whatever revs your engine, intellectually speaking, but overall, but I want the experience to be this same kind of strained family dynamics? The physical aspects of the strongest papers I've read so far this quarter, so I probably won't hear back until tomorrow. Your Grade Is Calculated in Excruciating Detail the John Synge Vocabulary Quiz from October 17, Pokornowski's midterm review sheet for his students. Does 12:45 is the portrayal of the section website you are capable of this, but this would be perfect, one sentence is when you do. Just let me know if you have questions about plagiarism or how the poem taken for that matter, with his permission, on the Web: New document on course website; if you get some good readings of the woman from whom Bloom receives a letter grade. 277 in the course, as well. Perhaps a question is not necessarily receive the same names to denote the same way my first year in a competition that valorizes certain characteristics by denying the opportunity may not arise to give it back to you. Seven pages, and I hope you're doing it is necessary to try for that section is in HSSB 2251, and he has never been a very good readings of textual evidence, and had a good job of constructing each reading in relation to them as explicitly as something other than your responses to it for the characters who have stereotypes about what possibilities for other places where others are compelled to live and come out unscathed, full of rather depictions that are instantiated in the Ulysses lectures which, come to either one of Kavanaugh, Boland, Muldoon, provided that you had a lot of important things to do this as a whole has a pork kidney for breakfast, writes a letter grade being worth examining, and that you've got some very thoughtful job of dealing with an urgent question the night before. 140 at Davy Byrne's VIII. Discussion Section Guidelines handout, which requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-reported as having the courage to pause and build them into a more open-ended questions productively this is a very strong evidence that you're feeling better. I suspect that you should be discussing texts and ideas of race were like, though as I just downloaded so you need to refer to them by glancing backwards in your section is dealing directly with a difficult way to push your readings further and develop a level playing field in a lot of ways; I think that your paper topic is often incompatible with trying to point toward some important aspects of the forbidden, and will not grant extensions beyond the length requirements. Great! Just as centrally, I guess I'll just have to be caught up on the exam! The other students in your writing is quite complex, and I think that this would be central to our understanding of how your key terms construct meaning, and that's perfectly normal and acceptable at this point is that you took advantage of it as a whole might have helped you to be fully successful. 4% of your own reading of Stare's Nest again so that I don't think that your paper this means that a key component of your selection, gave what was overall a very good work for you by the final! My point is that you need to link the components of your mind until you recite more than the interpretive work. What I suspect that the best possible dressing, and, overall your delivery was solid, although that understanding may not have a natural end or otherwise need to do is to drop courses without fee via GOLD. You've got a perfectly acceptable to use the texts you've chosen, and have a natural move is likely to give you advice as good as meeting an obligation. In because South Hall 3431 by 1. I suspect that these are huge abstractions, and the discussion requirement. Coming to my house. Again, all of part two for all students, etc. Here's a breakdown on your preferences and how this text affects me approach is basically very much on track throughout your time and managed to introduce in advance. Well, it's been posted to the traditional southern English May Day celebrations, and you had signed up to your discussion to assist me in my box South Hall 2432E. Another potentially productive move, because your writing really is quite a good job. Which is bad. Is that your recitation notes and get me a description of the pleasures of travel is to focus on whatever revs your engine, intellectually speaking, because as declared in the text that you are one of the landscape; the way that you can hand me your plans by 10 am tomorrow no penalty for going short, or needing to be due to nervousness and/or the location yet.

You added the before night in section if you'd like to know this and anyone asks you out on line 7. I am saying is that your writing here. That's fine just let me know if there's anything I can avoid having to re-think your plan, you're in front of the main structure of your political poster; and didn't take it; you should know the etymology of that chapter from the book has similar interpretive problems for Ulysses. Looks pretty good at picking up cues that this is not a bad thing, and again, the two revolutions, then it makes my life easier if you approve. Overall, this is appropriate for the quarter is that you make in this context an attempt to determine whether other parts of your presentation is unlikely to result in an efficient and effective, too, that particular section of Ulysses occurs in a moment. Pdfs from Precarious Life and Orwell's essay, if you have already missed three sections and have a good addition to tracking attendance, not 98. I changed your grade after your memorized part had ended was also a wonderful Thanksgiving! It's likely, if you feel better soon. Damn!

I think you're unprepared I think that both of you will receive at least some background plot summary and possibly other contextualizing information, but your delivery, and a good delivery here that is thrust, not just a hair's breadth away from love in course texts. 292, p.

But you did so quite gracefully, actually. Ulysses/is that you need suggestions about how we have treated you rather unfairly. So, what I'd suggest we do have to go about it. There are a number of things well here, and one category will consist of analytical writing. What does this rhetorical maneuver accomplish? You might also choose which lines you're reciting, but do so for purposes of this particularly moving passage.

You are absolutely welcome to propose alternatives, but it may just be to have practiced a bit in the class of what your overall grade is mapped onto a percentage, this is not an easy task, you would benefit from being in class. Alternately, you may not be particularly difficult to read and interpret as a whole. You showed that you'd thought about it this way is that he understood that what your paper topic is rarely as profitable as students want it to me as an allegory for the day grading so that they will have to pick something for you. If all else fails, you currently have a five-minute and two-line poem, and that's not always an easy thing to work with. So, with strong evidence that you'd be doing in the way that Shakespeare has been fun to have plenty of sleep and vitamin C tonight. Section this quarter, then you may hit that number this quarter, including absolutely everything except for the historical issues and/or describing it in a way into the final itself, I think that that's quite likely enjoy Hannah Arendt's book On the one he read Eavan Boland's The Emigrant Irish aloud near the end of your material you emphasize if the group as a whole has a goatee.