#modern gendrya

[westerosoliviapope]

Sure Thing (Gendry x Arya)

His woman doesn’t do anything halfway. 

She doesn't "appear" on Sunday political talk show panels, she flays stodgy old pundits and Parliamentarians with needlelike precision. 

She doesn't "apologize" for screwing up their holiday, she bends over the bed and allows him to take out all the frustration he felt sitting alone at his parents' Solstice dinner table on her pert little ass.

And when she alters the trajectory of their lives, she does it dressed in one of his tank tops and a pair of boy shorts. With his favorite sweet potato cheesecake from Hot Pies for breakfast and a Solstice card delivered via Nymeria, dog slobber and all, that reads: 

"We can do it, baby, simple and plain… Marry me." 

What?

Arya is feminist,  non-conformist, and non-traditional. She’s given him dozens of graduate-level lectures about misogynistic institutions and how ownership and love are separate values. She moved in with him and day by day, proved she was as relentless in her love for him as she is with everything else. And he agreed that he didn't need the ring or the ceremony because those were small sacrifices compared to not having this maddening half-wolf, half-woman for the rest of his life.

He breathes through the pounding in his chest and scans the words again. And again. And a third time before speaking. "But you don't…"

Across the kitchen counter, Arya nods. "I know what I said." Then, she bites her lip. "And I know you don't need it and I love you for that. But...I think I do. I need everyone in my life to take this," she motions between them, "as seriously as I do." 

Gendry looks down at his pie and shakes his head. Life with Arya Stark would never be simple. 

“Let’s think about it. Not 'if.' Of course, I want to marry you. But you don’t do ‘traditional,’ so we need to decide what marriage looks like for us.” 

“Okay…” 

“And then,” he meets her tentative gaze with a firm one, “I’m gonna ask you. With a ring. No diamonds, I know you hate those, but I'll make whatever you want.” 

She does the lip bite/smile thing that ends him. Every bloody time. Gods, she's gorgeous. And ridiculous. And fucking perfect and all his. For life. He’s already crossing the counter to reach her before she very pointedly says “Sure thing.” 

Home for the Holidays | A Scandalous Winter Solstice on AO3

[jjofalltrades]

If he took up the mantle his father and uncles left behind, she could go back to school and become whatever she wanted. Gendry saw everything so clearly in his mind's eye. In time, if the years were kind, and they still felt the same, they could become a real family. A real family, he choked on the thought.

"So serious," Arry mumbled as her beautiful grey eyes fluttered open. "What are you thinking about," she reached around his neck with one of her hands and scratched his hairline. Despite the groggy look on the brunette's face, he saw uneasiness. Was she afraid he regretted last night?

"A dream I had," Gendry leaned forward and pecked the end of her nose.

"Yeah?" She lifted her head to return the kiss to the corner of his lips. "Want to talk about it?"

His smile grew as he laid her back down, hovering above Arry with his arms caging her in his hold. "If I did," he began a trail of kisses from her jawline to the nook between her neck and shoulder, "it wouldn't come true."

Arry giggled, squirming beneath him when he planted a nip on the spot that drew a delicious sound out of her. "That's for wishes, not dreams," her giggle cut off into a moan. Gods, the sounds she makes works about as effectively as skin-to-skin. "You need to shave."

[welt-verbessererin]

hi, i love your blog, i have to ask do you have a top ten or twenty of your favorite gendrya fic or maybe most read. hi from mexico clauO

Omg hi! And thank you so much 🥰

(This got lost in my drafts, sorry this took ages to reply. Also, I didn't have the patience to look up and link everything anything, sorry)

My most visited fics are still some of my favourites and most re-read.

Plus, obviously all the docs that have ever been inspired by any of my prompts 🥺

Here are some more:

All the kinktober fics. Literally.

Wolf Hunt

Sneetchstar's one shot collections & check this off your list

I assure you, you're always on my mind

Lianria's series thank you for your service

Sucker punch

With just one kiss I forget I hate myself

When all of this is over & I'll follow you (even by accident) & runs in the family & re: weapons (and you) by scrubclub

Syfygirl's coffeeshops and tattoos

thought you said you'd always be in love & you're the sky by aryasbadbenergy

orphan's club by slayertown

Forging The Broken Pieces Of Us Into Something Better series by R-j-l

To die upon a kiss

Come home to my heart by eleini

In the bleak midwinter

Set fire to my soul

Be my source of gravity by starrynightshade

Hold me thrill me by yanak324

Inky blue

don't let the night end

now serving

We don't have to take our clothes off & meet me in the afterglow by vixleonard

The Stripper AU no one asked for series by crossingwinter

The drabble/ oneshot collections by Veridissima and Crossingwinter

Also taking this opportunity to remind everyone to download their favourite/comfort fics.

[bookedandbusythough]

axg modern fic rec

Careful Fear and Dead Devotion by @elleisforlovee ongoing multi chap fic beautifully done, modern au paralleling events in asoiaf with some lovely twists, highly recommended and really well written

re: weapons (and you) by @scrubclubwrites and (it is a given) literally anything else written by this darling, but this is a particularly fun and long one written in mostly email format and masterfully done

and i can change your marital status by @fineosaur yet another amazing ongoing multi chap with the loveliest fake dating married premise that is a must read in the modern gendrya genre

Neutral Housing by @mizznancywheeler an addicting oh no they were roommates type situation and required reading if you love gendrya in every universe

[lightninginabottle0613]

I know is super late for more headcanons but since i really liked every one you posted I was thinking If you had your own hc for arya and gendry just being in a relationship (with each other ofc lol). I think there are very specific things that screams gendrya to me soo...,,yeah. I really don't know if I'm making sense, sorry 🥺🥺

you saying ‘i know it’s super late,’ as i sit here answering this ask literal weeks after you sent it ... is this thing still on, or what. also you are making perfect sense, and also ily

(it is never too late to send me stuff, for the record! anything/everything! i know i have been relatively quiet on here lately, but gendrya still owns my ass, and i am beginning to suspect that they always will! and what about it)

💘 gendrya in a relationship headcanons 💘

right off the bat, let me say that there’s a post on here (and i do not remember who wrote it, so my apologies) that says that gendrya are a ‘peeing with the bathroom door open’ kind of couple, and nothing has ever made more sense to me 

(i am not taking credit for that headcanon, but i hold it near and dear to my heart)

i don’t think they know when their anniversary is. or if they do celebrate an anniversary, they can never agree on when it should be, so they have multiple 

i think they both wake up around the same time, but gendry almost always falls asleep first. especially if they’re watching a movie on the couch. poor boy can’t stay awake during a movie to save his life

please, everyone, repeat after me - gendrya are not a pet name couple. any pet names (except probably ‘love’) are used ironically

arya’s main love language is words of affirmation, and gendry is not the greatest at that all the time, but he tries his best. luckily for him, arya’s other main love language is ‘gendry trying his best’

gendry’s main love language - as someone who grew up having to do a lot of things for himself - is acts of service

(both are v heavy on the physical touch as well, obviously)

for the absolute blessed life of him, gendry does not understand why his girlfriend likes flowers so much. why bring flowers inside, when they belong outside. but damnit if he doesn’t bring home a bouquet every saturday when he stops by the farmer’s market after brunch w his foster parents

semi on that subject, and this is barely a relationship headcanon, but gendry is definitely The Guy That Loves His Lawn. everyone knows that guy, right? he’s like, 1000% that guy that’s like ‘thank god it’s raining, we needed it’

don’t know why, but i feel like they have matching bathrobes, which arya thinks is hilarious, and gendry quietly enjoys 

they are definitely not ‘that couple’ in terms of overt/annoying PDA, but they do both still absentmindedly play with each other’s hair in public 

they own a step-stool so that arya can reach things on high shelves, but they rarely use it bc she prefers to precariously climb furniture

it often results in her being physically lifted by gendry, who cannot bear to watch her almost hurt herself on a daily basis

arya has thousands of pictures/videos on her phone, and a good number (but not all) of them are of gendry/the two of them goofing around/their home/their dates/etc.

gendry has like four pictures on his (very outdated) phone and they are only of arya

arya texts like this with barely any punctuation or capitalization

Gendry texts like this.

one of my favorite headcanons (both asoiaf-verse and modern) is that gendry can sing (something he gets from his biological mother), and he's self-conscious about it with everyone except arya. they have a vast catalogue of car duets 

all of the tall boy/short girl headcanons. gendry using arya’s head as an armrest, mostly. she is not partial to this 

generally not much ‘traditional’ relationship stuff, but i like thinking about gendry telling jon he wants to marry arya. not even that he plans to propose, just like ... ‘yeah, it’s gonna happen at some point, just so you know.’ and jon is like lol you silly goose. duh

growing up/as kids, gendry usually just read the books that arya liked, so he would know what the f she was talking about. but then he slowly starts to actually enjoy reading, as he gets older. so their home is filled to the brim with books :’)

“you’re on my list” “marriage or hit?” “yes”

and lastly (otherwise, i will go on and on and on), & perhaps the most cliché of all - 

if arya is home, she is wearing one of gendry’s shirts/hoodies, ten out of ten times

[kelleesioverhere]

Love’s a Little Closer to a Wildflower

Happy Thursday! 

If Arya thought back on her life, and her childhood, and the way she’d grown up… as unbelievable as the current state of affairs seemed to her, it somehow made all the sense in the world, actually, that she had ended up here. Completely uprooted in Lost Lake, having left behind all the comforts that came from growing up in an affluent household the way she had. There had been too many disagreements with her mother to count, over the years, from the way she should be dressing, to the way she should be styling her hair, to the ‘calibre’ of the youth she would choose to grace with her friendship. Everything was a fight. Everything she did was wrong, and the more wrong she was the less she could even pretend she wanted to be right.

Check out ch. 2 here.

Thank you @the-end-is-kigh​ for taking time from your busy schedule to put a second pair of eyes on this :))

(And to everyone who tagged me in the last line wip game because it motivated me to get going again!)

[melcochita]

So, this is my first contribution to the 2020 @gendryabigbang.

I illustrated a fantastic fic by 17daysgreys, it’s a lovely modern Gendrya piece that you definitely have to read.

Golden Hour 

Arya Stark has a secret talent but will old loves get in the way, or will she discover that everything she had wished for was always within her grasp?

Read here ( X ) on AO3

[coffeexwhiskey]

"The serenity of the swan, gliding across a lake, belies the paddle of ugly feet under the surface."

-Eleanor Morgan