#and the modern AU where they do laundry and taxes together

[canisalbus]

idk whats going on with the lore and all (excited to find out) but i gotta say god damn you got some hot dogboys

hot dog (boys)

[homunculus-argument]

You ever look at your life with your partner and think "hey what if this was some bleak show's cheesy modern AU fix-it fic where nobody dies and instead of fighting soul-eating demons and everything is absolutely horrifying, you two just get to do laundry and taxes together."

[daryascurse]

ohhhh for reinarya if you'd like... 📝🪐🙈

he was on my mind so heavy last week i was BLUSHING...

📝: How would your story in canon go? How would you influence the events of the original story?

okay so whenever i visualize the reinarya ship, it's really just in whatever moment feels like something cute that i've imagined; it's never consistently in like canon or modern au or even any particular recurring storyline. (it's because we are merely living together always in every universe at once doing laundry and taxes. Anyway.). but were it to be an aot canon plot -- i think i would be someone who survived the rumbling from marley (or: if i wanna get more worldbuilding with it, the country where hange's ancestral line must have come from to then be on paradis - because i hc us being the same in-aot-world stand-in ethnicity), and who meets reiner after the events of the aot canon and eventually joins the ambassador ship in their journeys. so it would be very post-everything, but, in terms of the most relevent events to reiner's story, i would tell him to leave that poor historia alone. and then we fall in love etc. etc.

🪐: What would be your most popular AU and why?

so i think, in canon, i would be showing him my love of baking and gardening; and it's something that really helps him begin to find that inner peace and just the joy of creating and growing. then i think aus would be those agricultural ones. like a farmer au or where i meet him and he's a hermity gardener man au. like working in the earth together. just a lot of green things and happiness and quiet joy.

🙈: Why would your ship be thought of as cute/fluffy? Why would your ship be considered problematic?

oooohooo... i think it would be cute that like, i just love him. i love him. and i think people would be genuinely really happy that there's someone who loves him and wants to help him and give him a break and everything. but because i'm also a very loud and obnoxious person, instead of like the usual trope where a character finally finds love and she's like a virtuous quiet demure ladylike angel? so i think people would argue that i'm lovebombing him or that we're not a good match etc. etc. (but they're wrong!).

selfship canon ask game!

btw thanks for letting me ramble i'm on a train now and will unfortunately be for several house so this is delightful

[whyiloverivamika]

Modern au snk headcanons?

Do you have any modern rivamika headcanons? Platonic or romantic, it doesnt matter ^^

flatmates au ftw

they become flatmates when Mikasa moves to a new city for work reasons

they are still distantly related to about the same degree as in canon but since this is a modern AU, Everyone Lives and there is more relatives around (this is how the two were put together initially - a cousin who mentioned something to a twice removed aunt who said something to her grandmother who talked to her greatgrandson)

Levi has had a bad streak of trying to find a flatmate who would accept not only his high standards of clean living but that would also be liked by his dog

Levi’s dog is a Basenji, as in one of the most independent breeds in the world; if he doesn’t like you at first, you have little to no chance of winning him over

Mikasa won him over instantly

they rotate chores every other week; if one of them cleans, the other cooks and vice versa, laundry is done in turns

both of them exercise and quickly become jogging buddies

they also quickly find out they have similar tastes in entertainment which leads to them spending more of their free time together

they end up being the other one’s plus one to work events because they are both too busy to date other people and why should they go through the trouble of finding someone for company when they have a perfectly good friend/flatmate right there

people keep thinking they are married because same surname+living together+their looks while similar in some regards are different enough still

it gets to the point where they don’t even bother denying it

and then comes the point where they start to consider making it real for the taxes alone

plus there’s the fact they have lived together for over a year at that point and get along well enough

and truth be told, they are basically dating already

the only unknown variable is the sex compatibility

...

they turn out to be compatible in that regard, too

they hyphenate their surnames because it seemed like a funny idea one evening when they drank more than usual and both were too stubborn to want to admit to that mistake when sober

[thelastranger]

for the prompts— 57 And 69 for Edvin and Hal friendship, modern au, please? thank youu ❤️ i love your writing btw it's absolutely amazing

Ahhhhhh that means a lot, thank you! I’m just happy to help contribute to the fandom. Anyway, have some sleep-deprived disaster college boys that turned out way longer than I expected. 

57. “Sleep is for the weak”

If someone had told Hal three months ago at the start of freshman year that he would be the one trying to force a reluctant Edvin to go to bed, he would have laughed in their face. Out of the little friend group that had assembled during college orientation, Edvin was by far the one with his life together. He knew where his classes were (unlike Wulf and Ulf), he didn’t survive off of junk food (unlike Stefan and Hal), he paid taxes (literally no one else did), and he could do laundry without messing things up (again, Wulf and Ulf). Edvin was the responsible one that kept the rest of the herons alive when Hal came up with crazy ideas and they loved him for it.

So it was a major surprise that it was Hal telling Edvin to go to sleep (and not just because Hal was infamous on the dorm floor for not getting enough sleep).

“You need to go to sleep Edvin!” pleaded Hal who was a little out of his depth here. Sure it was finals weeks and everyone was studying like crazy, but he was pretty sure Edvin hadn’t slept in like two days. 

“Sleep is for the weak,” hissed out Edvin, hunched over his laptop and textbooks. “And only the strong ace their finals.”

That definitely did not sound right to Hal and it freaked him out a little if he was being honest. 

“You’re a nursing major; you of all people should know the importance of getting enough sleep.”

At the reminder of his (self-assigned) duty and responsibility, Edvin seemed to shake himself out of his caffeine and sleep-deprived fervor. A quick look down at his ratty blanket and cheeto covered textbooks and panic flashed in his eyes.

“Hal, what are you doing here?” Edvin asked hesitantly. 

Hal only smiled gently. “Come on buddy, let’s get you some warm milk and I’ll getcha to bed.”

“Ok, ok,” Edvin was definitely out of it and with any luck, he wouldn’t remember tonight because he’d be straight up embarrassed at the way he was acting. 

Edvin allowed himself to be led to the dorm kitchen and Hal prayed that there would be milk and that it wouldn’t be expired. You never knew when it came to the dorm kitchen.

69. “Listen, it’s for science”

“Listen, it’s for science,” were words Edvin never wanted to hear come out of Hal Mikkelson’s mouth, but here they were. 

Edvin stretched out a careful arm. “Buddy, I know you love science and the Heron, but you need to put down the nail gun and get some sleep.” 

“No!” exclaimed Hal who still had the nail gun in his hands. 

Edvin had been woken up in the middle of the night by the rest of the Herons (bar Ingvar who had also been asleep in the room but who was a much deeper sleeper than Edvin) and had blearily rubbed his eyes as Stig explained Hal had taken over the basement with scary looking wooden pieces and elaborate blueprints. No one had been able to talk him into getting any sleep and not even Stig had gotten him to put the nail gun down, which Edvin was pretty sure violated a lot of safety hazards. 

“Hal, if you don’t stop making crossbows and trying to modify the rowboats, Erak is going to kick you out.”

Hal shook his head confidently. “He wouldn’t kick me out; Thorn would give him too hard of a time.”

The smaller boy ignored the blatant nepotism (was it nepotism?) that Hal had just demonstrated and tried to think of what would distract Hal enough for Stig to grab the crossbow away. An idea crossed his mind and he motioned for Stig to start creeping toward the weapon in the background. 

Edvin Put his hands up in a “I surrender” sign and sat down, legs crossed, next to Hal. 

“Let’s just forget about the nail gun for a minute, yeah?” Edvin smiled. “Why don’t you tell me about your plans for the Heron. What color are you going to paint her?”

Hal peered suspiciously at his friend, pretty sure this was some sort of trick to make him stop hugging the Mangler and go to bed, but it was Edvin. He was so calming and always knew what to do that Hal couldn’t resist starting to talk about his pride and joy. 

Hal was so engrossed in his conversation with Edvin that he didn’t see or hear the rest of his friends cleaning up the mess he made and the conversation was so soothing that Hal didn’t even realize he was falling asleep on Edvin’s shoulder. 

Edvin didn’t dare move Hal from the first good sleep he’d gotten in who knows how long until Stig stood over the duo. 

“Thanks Edvin. I thought he was going to nail Tursgurd to the wall if this kept up.”

Edvin shifted up and Stig took Hal up on one shoulder. 

“Any time Stig. Any time.”