#gendrya reunion fic idea

[stupid-bull]

Just thought of a reunion fic idea which I can never write because my style is only for modern AUs so here goes:

Arya has been in west of Westeros for ten years, having settled down in a simple house with her daughter, Eadlyn Stark (y’all can choose a name, I just thought Eddard + Catelyn lol). She’s convinced that she’s happy now, finally finding herself once more, with her little girl granting her that familial love that she’s been desperate for for years. Eadlyn never asks about her father, and for that, Arya was grateful.

Until a raven from Bran falls into the wrong hands, Eadlyn runs away from home, and now Arya is forced to leave and venture to the Stormlands, where her daughter is heading to in search of Lord Gendry Baratheon, her father.

Bonus:

Arya and Gendry decide to start over, to be friends once more and hopefully (obviously) fall in love again.

[yanak324]

fic author tag 📝

tagged by one of the most talented writers I’ve ever read: @fineosaur

ao3 name: yanak324

fandoms: as if this needs clarity, Gendrya all day, every day.

tropes: oooof, i think old lovers/reunions is a major trope of mine; also exploring trauma, and slices of domestic heaven…those are probably the three major tropes…plus I’ve dabbled in secret relationships and good ole fashioned pwp.

number of fics: 25 works published; 22 are Game of Thrones, about 18 are Gendrya specific, which is wild.

fic i spent the most time on: the gift that keeps on giving - The Last Time.

fic i spent the least time on: you make my heart sing louder…all because @thelandofnothing inspires the fuck out of me, and asked.

longest fic: so far, The Last Time, and I think it’ll probably the longest thing I’ll ever write.

shortest fic: you can find it (if you’re dying to live) - a gift for @thelandofnothing, who is my muse.

most hits: The Last Time just edged out an accidental fracture.

most kudos: an accidental fracture, which I still can’t believe, because it was my first modern AU for the Gendrya fandom and completely self-indulgent.

most comment threads: The Last Time.

most bookmarks: an accidental fracture.

total word count: 261,034…and on that note, I should probably mention, I had NO idea there was a stats page on ao3 until @fineosaur pointed it out…and I’ve been writing on this site since 2012...🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

favourite fic i wrote: somebody stepped inside your soul - it was originally supposed to be a very different story, and then it morphed into something I think I genuinely wanted to write as an Arya Stark stan. It’s my least edited and most cohesive story and I love it so so much.

fic you want to rewrite/expand on: I’ve been promising @thatsaysalotalotalot a prequel to you make my heart sing louder - and I generally want to delve further into that universe, because happy, established Gendrya is fun and all, but how these two idiots hooked up is even more fun to explore…so definitely that.

share a bit of a wip or a story idea you’re planning on: If I’m still able to make words after The Last Time is finished (and my elopement fic and my GGB submission), I am very interested in writing a modern au FWB Gendrya fic where Gendry moves back to King’s Landing after a bad break up and Arya and he strike up an arrangement that starts to fall apart when Arya realizes her little school girl crush is actually…LOVE. Ugh. Definitely going to happen, innit?

Tagging @thelandofnothing. Give it to us, bish.

[goodmeowningcols]

I love A Heart’s Home. Before I read the books, I’d watched some of the show and was a Gendrya shipper. In HH, you painted the Jon/Arya relationship so beautifully, I couldn’t help but fall in love with it. I am excited to see what happens in the upcoming chapters!

Hello anon! I’m happy to welcome you to the wonderful world of Jonrya! I must admit that I was a show only fan at first and only knew Gendrya. I’ve read Jonrya fics before and loved it as a multi-shipper but only casually because I had no idea how deep their bond truly was in canon. But the books/canon have opened my eyes to how beautiful and painful and powerful Jonrya truly is. And in the few moments that Jon and Arya spent in the show and with the knowledge of how deeply they loved each other in canon, I was full on waving a shipper flag by the time they parted at the docks of King’s Landing, when both of them were in tears because of their heartbreak. There was absolutely no reason to part them after being apart for many painful years, and especially with how deeply they loved one another and missed each other in canon. My heart broke because their hearts broke. It was like a punch in the gut how this ship crept up on me and ruined me for other ships lol.

And so I looked for any fic that could fix that horrid ending. I waited for a long time for a fix-it until I forced myself to fix it myself. I was quite rusty at writing fic because I was in hiatus for awhile but it felt good to finally get into the Jon Snow and Arya Stark headspace, and to delve into ASOIAF lore. I only really wanted a reunion beyond the Wall but it became a terrifying monster...now there’s a full-on political drama that almost reflects real world politics. As for the next chapters, I’ve been pretty slow in writing lately but I hope you’ll like what I’ll cook up haha.

The Jonrya fandom is arguably small despite the ASOIAF content between the two but I’ve met the nicest, sweetest, friendliest, and most talented people ever. Most of us are multi-shippers too so there’s the added benefit of open-mindedness, maturity, and respect. All in all, I’ve loved every moment of being in the fandom.

Sorry this got a bit too long! Thank you for your lovely message!!! 🥰🥰🥰

[greeneyedwildthing]

tagged by @watersandwolves (thank you! ^.^ )

ao3 name: ChristinaS412 

fandoms: GoT/ASOIAF

tropes: oh boy... uhm, friends to lovers, mostly fix it fics, Smut with Fluff, Reunions, AU’s

number of fics: 17 total

fic i spent the most time on: All Our Mistakes most likely -since it’s the longest one to date

fic i spent the least time on: probably Cloaked in Steel or The Masked Wolf wrote both of those in an afternoon and published them on tumblr as drabbles first

longest fic: All Our Mistakes at 28k words

shortest fic: Time Healed Our Wounds at 577 words

most hits: All Our Mistakes

most kudos: Sunday Mornings

most comment threads: Bartender at the Ready - a chainfic that I participated in with some amazing writers in the fandom. I genuinely had so much fun finishing the story with a literal *bang* lol!

most bookmarks:  All Our Mistakes

total word count: 81,434 (heading on 84k when I publish this next chapter)

favourite fic i wrote: The Savage Wolf, just because I’ve put so much love, thought, and effort into it and It isn’t Gendrya. There was a lot of self-doubt (and still is) when I first decided to branch out from Gendrya - I wasn’t sure if anyone would like it/read it and so it’s become a fun challenge to write in a segment of the fandom that isn’t as popular!

fic you want to rewrite/expand on: Probably my series I’ll Take Your Love With Me When I Go - I love writing Gendry post-canon POVs and unintentionally expanded the original story line over the course of the last two years from Dancing til Dawn to Oaken Anniversary. 

share a bit of a wip or a story idea you’re planning on: “Whatever wondrous nostalgia had momentarily crossed his mind quickly vanished at the sight of the flayed flag hanging from the crenelated turrets of the inner walls. A cold reminder that he wasn’t the only monster within the castle.” - The Savage Wolf chapter 5

i’m tagging: @mysweetvilllain , @huffletiika , @thereluctantbadger , @starks-deserved-better , @dragongoddess13  & anyone else that would like to share! Please tag!!

[kelleesioverhere]

hi, i love your fics! 21 + 30 for the writing asks :)

Thank you so much!! I am so glad! And thank you for the asks <3

21.  What is the one fic that got away?

I am choosing to interpret this as ‘the one that got away’ like in a romcom. I’m not sure if I have one, but I will say that the first time I ever tried to write Gendrya (as soon as I saw Joe Dempsie return in season 7 and I realized them reuniting was the only thing I need in my life) I attempted my own little reunion fic and I DELETED IT and now I’m sad.

The general tone of my writing I feel is very light-hearted and I don’t really know how to stop that so I remember that it was far too silly to be in canon-verse what with all the literal trauma and world-ending-ness going on BUT I’m still sad that it’s gone. I’m sure, looking back, there were probably elements of it that were not trash and I could learn from it if I still had it! Bad past me!

30.  Tell us an idea for a longfic you want to write in the future.

Hmmm. I’m not sure how long of a fic I will ever write because if you read my stuff you will notice I’m not a huge fan of things like plot... LOL

That being said, I would one day love to do an Arranged Marriage/Prince Gendry AU and I would want to take my time with that premise! This is nothing that hasn’t been done before but my headcanon is that they would be betrothed when they were very young, and Arya doesn’t understand what it means but they’re great pals! Once they get older the truth of things comes out and Arya is a little brat about it and there is drama and tension before it (obviously) all works out ;)

For this to happen I will have to branch out of my Modern AU comfort zone though so it will likely stay in my head forever!

[fandomjuxtaposition]

For Halcyon: 1,3,4,5,9 💚

So this fic is sort of my baby, so I’m really glad you asked these. 

1.      What inspired you to write the fic this way?

As all Gendrya-obsessed people, I tend to see them everywhere. I was at a library conference, and there were therapy dogs there. Which made me think of Nymeria as a therapy dog at some kind of conference and Arya and Gendry meeting that way.

But then I tried to figure out how to translate the canon events to modern times, and the idea of them being thrown together after her father’s death, being separated, then reunited unexpectedly years later came to me.

I think a lot of us have people who we knew for a short time, maybe a week at summer camp or something like that who had an impact on us and we never saw again, and I really liked the idea of finding that person again.

I really like stories that intersperse flashbacks with current events. That sort of gradually reveal more and more, so I wanted to do that. Showing their friendship develop in the past, and how it still affects Gendry in the present.

2.      What’s your favorite line of narration?

She was thirteen that summer. Sad grey eyes, choppy brown hair that looked like she’d cut it herself in a fit of anger, which as it turned out she had. A tiny thing, balancing on that strange edge between girl and young woman.

And

He couldn’t tell who moved first, if he kissed her or if she kissed him, but it didn’t matter because Arya Stark was in his arms and she felt like home.

3.      What’s your favorite line of dialogue?

He sighs. “Anyone who calls you horseface is either blind or a bitch. So which is it?”

5.   What part was hardest to write?

Probably their reunion. I really wanted to get the emotions right. That feeling of shock and relief and just absolute awe that he’d found her.

Also, I really had to restrain myself from having them make out immediately.

9.   Were there any alternate versions of this fic?

Only in my head while brainstorming. I toyed with the idea of them not knowing each other before, and just meeting at the conference, but I really liked the idea of the long lost friend.

[bisexualgendryas]

jonsa + gendrya soulmate/soulmark au

(not gonna really write it till I’m done with the bodyswap but I was imagining a scenario where getting soulmarks, which are house-related, from a witch is like, a tradition among nobles (esp in the Riverlands) and thought of an interesting thing imo. this got....a LOT longer than I thought, I expected to literally just write up a smol outline and uhhh yeah there’s some more than that. some is almost written like an actual fic lol. here y’all go tho.)

at some point when the Stark Kiddos are young, like a couple or a few years pre-asoiaf, Cat brings up to Ned how her father had taken her to get a soulmark, and that her house Stark mark was part of why her father reached out to Rickard (though this is also evidence it’s not the most accurate, as engagements generally would be made with the eldest children, in her case Brandon, when she did ultimately fall in love with Ned, but whatever. it’s a tradition, and she’s taken the concept to mean that daughters would be wed to better husbands, and since she’s got two daughters that’s pretty damn important to her.)

so Cat takes Robb, Sansa, and Arya on a trip to a woods witch in the wolfswood. Robb never has a mark show up, and Arya's takes a really long time, long enough that Cat practically forgets and when she asks later Arya says she hasn’t noticed one (she has a small stag, but she doesn’t want her parents to have a reason to marry her, let alone to a prince, so she assumes a little white lie won’t hurt. later, after having met Joffrey and Tommen, she still stands by that, even though Tommen doesn’t seem horrible).

Sansa’s mark, though, is...problematic. more problematic, even, than Cat knows, but still problematic enough that along with the weirdness of her only other potentially marked siblings’ situations Ned and Cat decide that they’ll just arrange marriages for Bran and Rickon (and the others) normally...because Sansa has a little three-headed dragon on her back, saying that their poor daughter was meant to bind them to the exiled house Targaryen. 

Ned suggests perhaps it had been meant to be Elia’s son, knowing better than to up and admit that they have a Targaryen at Winterfell, and Cat tells him that the marks fade if the soulmate dies - if the gods had meant her to love Aegon, the mark wouldn’t have shown itself, so surely it means Viserys.

Sansa can’t see it herself, so, for the most part, she forgets it, though she’s careful not to get too much help from her handmaidens with bathing and such. Shae’s the only one she explicitly tells, and they get to be sad about her lost chance at love - but then, perhaps there’s someone else out there, Shae suggests, for the mark remains well after Westeros has gotten word of Viserys’ death. perhaps there’s a bastard out there, or perhaps it means Daenerys. Sansa thinks neither would be quite so bad, certainly not as bad as Joffrey, but clings to the idea of a bastard - she had a bastard brother, after all.

her mark does fade, at one point, years later, after she’s been wed to Ramsay and he’s forced her to explain ‘herself’. “your mad dragon prince is gone, my wife. he’s not coming to save you, no one’s coming to save you,” he mocks, but when Ramsay leaves the castle to fight Stannis off, she saves herself, with a few helping hands. in the chaos, it’s Brienne who notices, a few weeks later, that the mark has returned to her back. surely that means Ramsay was only lying to hurt her, or even that the magic isn’t accurate (which would really be fine with Sansa, because the whole thing hadn’t really done their family good), or maybe even that he really had died and there’s some other resurrected bastard out there, but really, what would be the chances?  

(it’s really not important to her anymore - she’s long since known no one will marry her for love, so what’s the point of her childish hopes for it? she just continues to hope for her family, and most of those hopes are answered, even if things are very different than they used to be.)

she, like their parents, had thought that Arya didn’t have a mark, and while Arya is uncomfortable when Sansa mentions her own soon after their reunion, Sansa doesn’t jump to thinking she’s been wrong, only that it’s related to their displeasure about Jon giving up northern independence - until Arya says she thinks the marks are “bullshit”, because she has one and hers hasn’t even ever disappeared, and there aren’t any Baratheons left, not even princess Shireen, not even Robert's bastards, who were all hunted by Joffrey and Cersei soon after Robert's death...but Sansa has always wanted and deserved love, so perhaps there is some Targaryen bastard out there. Arya will concede on that point and that one only.

for a couple months, at least, that is.

Sansa gets the whispers from one of her handmaidens that Arya's taken a liking to one of the smiths, and soon enough, Arya is up in arms because she’s spent years ignoring her little stag mark and has just found out that the blacksmith she’s, well, courting, is in fact, Robert’s bastard, which means...any number of things, none of which she’s sure how she feels about. but Sansa encourages her to tell him about the mark, because she just ran away from her soulmate on what could possibly be their last night alive. if Jon is with his love, and many others were, too, shouldn’t Arya spend the night how she wants, with someone she loves?

“I already hated the idea of losing him - of losing anyone - but if I never have to see that stupid stag mark after tomorrow, I...”

“you’re stronger and more stubborn than anyone else I know, but I imagine any man who loves you could come close. what if you both live? what then?”

“what if it’s not even him?”

“only a few moments ago, you told me you wanted to be together without even knowing. why wouldn’t it be him?”

it’s not really what Arya wants to hear, but she leaves anyway, seemingly accepting that that’s Sansa’s final answer, and Sansa goes to find Theon. the sisters reunite a few hours later, up on the ramparts as the castle finishes what battle preparations it can, and while Arya doesn’t give Sansa any details before handing her a dagger and telling her to go down to the crypts, she confirms that she went back to him, if only for the one night.

it’s not the one night, though, because they do survive, and while she’s happy for Arya she still has to try not to be jealous, even as she encourages Arya to marry her soulmate, while her own is nowhere to be found.

then, Jon puts himself in between them and Daenerys for what she dearly hopes is the last time, and Arya decides they need to talk about it - privately. 

he says, again, that he’s not a Stark, and they both fight him on it, but Bran does not. Jon looks to Bran and Bran looks at Jon and says it’s his choice as though they’re supposed to know what that means, even though Jon is the only one who does. and so, Bran tells them that Jon is not their father’s son, but their aunt’s - and Rhaegar’s. 

their first moments are full of too much emotion to name, and Sansa’s swept up in Arya’s insistence that Jon will always be a brother to her, and gathered up into hugs, and then it’s the moments after, when they’re all silent, standing there with Ghost between them and tears in all their eyes, that she realizes what that means about the sigil on her back. and from the concerned glance that Arya meets her eyes with when Jon turns away from them, Sansa knows that she’s realized too.

[gizkasparadise]

i want to do some gendrya AU fic for axg week but im a little idea-dead. so please feel free to request prompts for any of these:

-Let’s Run Away Braavos AU -Marry Me Now -Reunion modern getting-back-with-the-ex AU -Just Get Naked Naked & Afraid AU -Don’t Lie to Me -I’ll Be There art show au -Because I Can criminal au

im down for any AU i know o7 just a little fried on writing canon-verse

[livhatesolives]

Tagged by @fineosaur-writes ! Thank you so much! Sorry I did this so late!

ao3 name: Liv_Hates_Olives

fandoms: ASOIAF, Gendrya

tropes: Reunion-ish, the conversation they deserved to have, best friends to lovers

number of fics: 2! But I definitely have at least another one in the works

fic i spent the most time on: All I Do, the Whole Day Through, is Dream of You

fic i spent the least time on: I’ll Tell You the Truth, But Never Goodbye

Although maybe this one is the most time? I wrote this one fully fledged in my head one day in like fifteen minutes, but I forgot to write it all down so I kept like rewriting it from memory and then sat on it for six months before showing another living soul haha

longest fic: Published? I’ll Tell You the Truth, But Never Goodbye, 2,378 words

Unpublished? My god dang wip that’s sitting on like almost 10k at this point ahhhhhhhh

shortest fic: All I Do, the Whole Day Through, is Dream of You, 1,615 words

most hits: I’ll Tell You the Truth, But Never Goodbye, about 1300!

most kudos: I’ll Tell You the Truth, But Never Goodbye, 136

most comment threads: Again, I’ll Tell You the Truth, But Never Goodbye, at 15!

most bookmarks: You know

total word count: 3,993!

favourite fic i wrote: Honestly, my wip! It’s my babyyyyyy

But also, I’ll Tell You the Truth, But Never Goodbye, I like how it’s written!

fic you want to rewrite/expand on: I do want to expand on...well, the only series I have published haha

In fact, I actually am writing something else for it!

share a bit of a wip or a story idea you’re planning on: Here’s some of that aforementioned something else, just some bare bones dialogue!

“Do you think, if you could change it, you would do anything differently?”

She pauses.

“I think… that’s a question that’s not worth asking. Or answering, for that matter.”

“Why not?”

“It doesn’t change anything, does it? It doesn’t matter.”

“Well, it would mean something.”

“What are you really trying to ask?”

A beat.

“Would you still leave?”

She pauses.

“Yes.”

He’s quiet.

“Oh come off it, I left Westeros, not just you.”

“But I’m included in Westeros.”

“So? What do you want me to say, that I’d leave Westeros every time, that I’ll leave you every time?”

“Well, is that your answer?”

“What if it is?”

They fall into silence. Gendry swallows.

“Is it?” His voice is quiet.

“Would I be here if it was?”

Have a two for one deal while you’re at it, because like I said, my wip is my baby:

“I’ll meet you on the driveway at the ungodly hour of six A.M. two days from now, then?”

She nods and gives him a small smile. “Bright and early,” she quips. And he nods, and she nods, and they’re both nodding, and this conversation should have ended two minutes ago, so why are they still here?

And then she kisses him.

It lasts for less than a second, only a chaste kiss on the cheek, but it catches him off guard all the same.

She slips down from her tip-toe, and bites her lip before tilting one corner of her mouth up in a half-hearted smile. “Happy New Year, Gendry,” she says, her eyebrows furrowing together just the tiniest bit, and then she whirls around to head upstairs, leaving him alone in the middle of the crowded living room.

And he wants (so badly) to go right after her and ask her what in the seven hells was that all about, but Renly’s borrowed fancy shoes feel like they weigh a hundred pounds and the blazer Robert had forced him to wear might as well be a straitjacket, and all he can do is stand there, dumbfounded, the buzz of the party humming on all the same around him.

Alone.

This was really cool! Apologies again for getting back to it so late, I’m pretty sure almost everyone has done it at this point haha! But if you haven’t, you really can always say I tagged you’

[purewhitepages]

Mobile-friendly Master Post

Links with posts seem to be ok now, but I’m leaving this up because I think its going to be easier. So here’s a masterlist of all my fics and their chapters. the “æ” indicates a link in that line to either the whole fic if its a one-shot or to the individual chapters.

Outlander

æ Comparative Romantic Literature Pairing: Jamie/Claire Rating: M Type: One-shot 2k Summary: Jamie discovers the Romance section of the local bookshop, and Claire finds the idea of a kilt irresistible. Modern AU, married life in Boston with our favorite Frasers.

Desert Heat æ Chapter 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Pairing: Jamie/Claire Rating: M Type: Multi-chapter; In-progress, currently at 10k Summary: The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry. After the death of her beloved Uncle, Claire Beauchamp takes up his work to discover secrets hidden under the Egyptian sand. Egyptology AU set in the early 1920s.

La Retour de Foi æ Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Pairings: Non-pairing-centric, Faith&the Frasers, Jamie/Claire, Ian/Jenny, Bree/Roger Type: Multi-chapter; Complete 14k Summary: Nothing is ever lost, only changed. Its been 27 years since Claire and Jamie’s daughter was put up for adoption, and their family has never felt truly whole since. At least they have the Fraser Family Reunion at Lallybroch to look forward to. Claire sends an email, Young Ian crashes a car, and a familiar stranger walks the streets of Broch Mordha. Faith lives modern au in Scotland. “There are separations, reunions, secrets, and close calls galore in this Modern AU!...I’ve been on the edge of my seat in every chapter!”- @thelallybrochlibrary​‘s Librarian Julia

æ Dreaming of You Pairing: Young Ian/Rachel Rating: M Type: One-shot 2k Summary: It’s been 3 days since Ian and Rachel have seen each other. And the heat on the Ridge is one for the record books. PWP

Star Wars

After My Father’s Funeral æ Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 Pairing: Han/Leia Rating: M Type: Multi-chapter; Complete 25k Summary: Funerals can be stressful, but so can weddings–especially with a family as effed up as theirs. Unfortunately for Leia, she has both to attend in one go. So much for repression. Modern AU

Dusty Skirmishes æ Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Pairings: Han/Leia Rating: G Type: Multi-chapter; Complete 17k Summary: In the WEST more territory means more power. The REPUBLIC sent settlers with promises of provisions, hoping to expand their land. As the Civil War broke out, The IMPERIAL COMPANY promised to double those provisions to anyone willing to give over the rights to their land. But as the years go by, what was the Wild West is shrinking as civilization bleeds from the east. In the new state of ALDERAAN, the city of SCARIF has annexed several small towns and villages nearby, most recently the small village of JAKKU. In the nearby TATOOINE, Sheriff LUKE SKYWALKER and Mayor ACKBAR worry their dusty town is next.

Game of Thrones

æ Hood Ornament Pairings: Arya/Gendry Rating: M Type: One-shot 8k Summary: One-shot. When Arya comes home for summer vacation, she’d planned on hanging out with Jon, going to the beach, and working on their family’s old car, Ice. What she got was the Waters boy invading (and possibly changing) her life. Engine grease and trips to the zoo may cinch her heart, but love is tough when neither of you wants to admit your feelings. Gendrya, mentions of past Jaquen/Arya. Mentions of sex and cars, but no smut.

Amelia Peabody

æ The Last Time I Saw Enid Pairings: Enid/Donald | Nemo Rating: G Type: One-shot 1.2k Summary: One-shot. Before he was Nemo, he was Donald. And before she was Miss Debenham, she was Enid. The last exchange between them was short, sweet even, and not nearly satisfactory.

Miraculous Ladybug

I’m Here to Dance Pairings: Love Square, Nino/Alya Rating: T Type: Multi-chapter, complete 54k æ Chapters: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | Pairings: Marinette/Adrien, Chat Noir/Ladybug, Alya/Nino, others Summary: Alya drags Marinette to the hot new club “Miraculous” where it’s winner take all on the dance floor. After an embarrassing first encounter, Marinette dons a costume and challenges the champ, Chat Noir, as Ladybug. Marinette embraces the Paris break dancing scene, but times are getting tougher and competition even more so. Author’s Note: inspired by @starrycove‘s break dance au and this picture by @jen-iii posted with their permission and I hope they enjoy. Please check out the Ao3 and FFN versions for full author’s notes

[fineosaur]

5, 6, & 17

5. What’s a crackship you love?

i got an ask the other day about Hot Pie x Sandor and i literally cannot stop laughing about it, it’s hilarious to write stuff about it.

6. What’s the last thing you read that made you laugh?

the latest chapter of The King and the Master of War made me laugh at one bit

17. Describe a fic that is still in the ‘ideas’ stage.

- a gendrya high school reunion fic im thinking about starting next week

- a gendrya twelfth night au that im still brainstorming about

[stupid-bull]

random gendrya prompt:

Same universe as my reunion fic idea in which Eadlyn is, of course, gendrya’s child but Arry is the son of Gendry and some unnamed Lady whom he was forced to marry and divorced later to give said lady a freedom to marry the person she loves, knowing full well that he’d never be able to love anyone more than Arya.

Arry: My name’s Arry. Of House Baratheon.

Eadlyn: Eadlyn Stark. Nice to meet you!

And these two have no idea that they are half siblings.

[ourmrsreynolds]

Jon, Arya and the Childhood BFF to Lovers Trope: Or, why everyone ships J0nsa

I had an argument with my sister which was precipitated by her quipping “nobody likes childhood BFFs” and “hot new guy is always endgame.” I almost flipped a table. I sat there and I seethed for 30 seconds and then I texted her back PIRATES OF THE MOTHERFUCKING CARIBBEAN and I gotta say I was p pleased with myself because yes, Elizabeth and Will end up together even though Jack Sparrow exists and is indisputably hot.

My sister and I are reading Jenny Han’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. This is a story that sets out to deconstruct the trope of “It was always gonna be you and me,” and while my sister can crow all day about how Hot New Guy Gets the Girl, I want to examine why it makes thematic and structural sense for that to be endgame. I think it comes down to the protagonist, who seldom ventures out of her comfort zone and has trouble letting herself want things. The combination of extremely deep feeling and almost pathological constraint is what makes her story so compelling—because in the course of the novel she learns to unabashedly want things, to reach out and take them: and what she wants is the sardonic lacrosse-playing jock, not the Boy Next Door she’s had a crush on since forever. One of the running gags in the background is her nine-year-old little sister inventing increasingly far-fetched reasons she should be allowed to have a puppy, because the kid “knows what she wants and will do anything it takes to get it.” The contrast with hyper-repressed Main Character could not be more pronounced. I ask you, who does Main Character remind you of? Not Arya, for a surety. This is one thousand percent Sansa.

After the finale aired Jenny Han and some other YA authors were dragged on twitter for openly shipping J0nsa, which, I mean (a) it was more “ugh fan fiction” and “ew incest” and “think of the children!!1!” than anything specific to J0nsa (b) of course she ships J0nsa. Of fucking COURSE. J0nsa is not a childhood BFFs ship, because the whole point is that Sansa’s character development leads her to see Jon in a new light. It’s above all about Sansa’s arc and the scales falling from Sansa’s eyes and there isn’t room for someone who has always seen the value in Jon, who has always loved him best. Because that would not be sufficiently Pride & Prejudice-y. Allow me to remind everyone that Pride & Prejudice is (1) the ur-Romance novel and (2) about people changing their minds and revising their initial judgments. Ffs it was originally titled “First Impressions.” This is the dominant narrative wrt romantic love, then—that one must fall in love, that it must be accompanied by major character development and reevaluation of preconceptions. This is the appeal of Enemies-to-Lovers.

Listen, I don’t ship a pairing because I think it’s endgame; I ship it because I think it’s interesting. What I’m trying to do here is formulate a theory as to why so many people find Jon & Sansa’s dynamic interesting, as compared to the small handful of us who find Jon & Arya’s dynamic interesting. I’m not engaging with the people who are anti-incest on principle (if you’re not into incest this is maybe not the fandom for you). I think it has a lot to do with the sort of romantic stories we elevate and validate. Gendrya is a wildly popular ship, and it falls very much in the Childhood BFFs mold, but I think we can all agree that Gendry & Arya are not a finished product—they have a lot of stuff to work on, and what shippers are interested in is the process of them hammering it out. Jon and Arya though? They’re already president of each other’s fan clubs, where’s the tension or drama in that? The obstacles to their relationship are external and plot-driven rather than internal and character-driven. And I say unto you: This is Arya’s creation myth: Before there was anything, there was Jon. That’s it that’s my kink that’s the kind of all-encompassing bond I’m about. The absolute trust they repose in each other gives me LIFE. I’ve seen some J0nsas parry the “she’s not even his favorite sister” argument with “because she’s his wife not his sister” and like ... ok valid ig but the whole reason I’m interested in Jon/Arya is because they set no boundaries on their love?? They are each other’s e v e r y t h i n g. I mean if you want to read about two strangers fumbling their way towards feelings that’s fine but do not pretend to me that J0nsa is some kind of underdog ship. It’s the most basic of ships -- it’s a Pride & Prejudice ship. (Gendrya otoh is Persuasion, which is the best Austen novel don’t @ me.) For in-universe reasons why J0nsa undercuts Jon and Arya’s unconditional love this is a great post, but I’m going to stick to the meta reasons people ship what they ship.

Here is the thing I will die mad about: Everybody takes childhood BFFs for this hegemonic trope and wouldn’t it be so eDgY to subvert it by making her fall for a HANDSOME STRANGER instead. Jfc have you seen the biggest young adult franchises of the past decade? They are: Twilight, The Hunger Games, The Mortal Instruments. Spoiler alert none of the heroines end up with their childhood bffs. I know the love triangle is hardly the point of The Hunger Games but facts are facts. It’s been 150 years and the Little Women fandom is still generating twice as much Jo/Laurie fic as Jo/Bhaer fic because Louisa May Alcott did Jo March dirty by not letting her marry the man she clearly belonged with. I just think the idea of there being someone you belong with, always have and always will, is ultimate #goals and this is the hill i will die on.

I look at Sansa and Arya’s starting points, when it comes to Jon, and however their arcs resolve in the end I cannot imagine how you could retcon J0nsa into some kind of lifelong attachment?? Here is Sansa in the wake of Lysa’s death, mulling her options:

there was nowhere for her to go. Winterfell was burned and desolate, Bran and Rickon dead and cold. Robb had been betrayed and murdered at the Twins, along with their lady mother. Tyrion had been put to death for killing Joffrey, and if she ever returned to King’s Landing the queen would have her head as well. The aunt she’d hoped would keep her safe had tried to murder her instead. Her uncle Edmure was a captive of the Freys, while her great-uncle the Blackfish was under siege at Riverrun. I have no place but here, Sansa thought miserably.

She lists Tyrion among her potential refuges, without once mentioning Jon! TYRION. Unreal. Even Brienne weighs the possibility of Sansa going North to Jon, and Brienne has literally never even met Sansa:

though all her siblings had been slain, Brienne knew that Sansa still had an uncle and a bastard half brother on the Wall

In case anyone requires reminding, Arya takes every possible opportunity to suggest “hey we could go to the Wall instead of wherever we’re going!”:

"I know where we could go," Arya said. She still had one brother left. Jon will want me, even if no one else does.

Maybe I should go to the Wall instead of Riverrun. Jon wouldn't care who I killed or whether I brushed my hair

One of these girls has been trying to get back to Jon for going on four books now. The other one thinks about Jon Arryn more times in her POVs than she thinks about Jon Snow (18 Arryns out of 27 total hits for “Jon” in all Sansa chapters). I’m not saying Sansa hasn’t grown and changed, or that her reunion with Jon might not evolve into something interesting; it’s just not a dynamic I personally care about. I’m definitely not saying that authors deserve to be publicly shamed for shipping fictional characters, but I think an author’s shipping preferences are revealing and shed light on their choices as far as which stories they choose to tell. I’m saying I ship Jon/Arya and I accept it’s not the ship dynamic that appeals to most people but here I am.

[fedonciadale]

What do you think is significant about Maisie Williams saying that Arya ends the show alone? I I obviously don't think it means that Arya is the only one left, because it being her last scene doesn't mean that it's the last scene of the show, but it is interesting. I'm sad because I'm very much into Gendrya, but I can't really think of a situation that would allow for Gendrya and have Arya in the show alone.

Dear nonny,

I would like Gendrya as well and there is foreshadowing for it in the books and they played a bit with it on the show as well. As much as I like it I wouldn't be comfortable with full Gendrya in the books, because Arya is still so young, but I would very much like to have implied future Gendrya.

During the last seasons there is also some foreshadowing that Arya won't stay in Westeros - the whole what is East of East question - and if Arya has a last scene alone it could mean that she would go on an adventure and leave Westeros at least for a while. Like season 4 ended for her when she left on that ship and looked to the horizon. 'Bring me to the horizon!'

It would tie in with my idea that Jon and Arya's reunion - something the readers and the audience wanted for ages - will not be as happy as wished for. GRRM has a tendency to really drive home the lesson of 'Be careful what you wish for, you might get it' - we all wanted Theon to be punished for his betrayal, but did we want that? We all wanted Cersei to be pulled down but did we want her walk of shame? We all wanted Arya to meet her family again, but did we want her to witness the Red Wedding? I'm convinced that in the books it will be even worse because Arya will meet Lady Stoneheart... Jon expected his sister and will reunite with the 'wrong' sister in the books... Etc.

So, all this leads me to the conclusion that the Jon/Arya reunion will be very awkward. The show had the very ominous line of Sansa's : 'His heart will stop when he sees you.' - Regardless of my predictions the Jon / Arya reunion will be a disappointment for the fans no matter what. They are so super-hyped about it, that there is no way any director could pull it off. Just my two cents obviously.

This would tie in with my idea that Arya will not be too happy about Jonsa. I think it will take her some time to accept it and leaving Westeros for a time might be what she thinks is best and what will fit to her adventurous and curious nature. It would also give a little piece of sadness to the ending. The knowledge that some things changed and can never be again as they were.

That does not necessarily exclude Gendrya. I would be very happy if we get something along the lines of : 'when I return I'll visit you at your smithy.' or even something like 'I guess I'll wait for you my lady.' We could get heavily implied post-canon Gendrya, and I would really like all the post-canon fics we would get from that. It also would be a scenario I can imagine in the books as well. Say Arya is fifteen by the time of ADOS, she leaves for five years and becomes Gendry's wife after that and visits Jon and Sansa and is the most beloved aunt that tells all kind of cool stories. I could certainly live with that! Bonus if we get an epilogue with Jon and Sansa and their kids and the impending visit of aunt Arya and uncle Gendry is mentioned. That would make me cry for joy!

So, I don't think you should despair yet. Actually in the books I think implied post-canon Gendrya is the most likely scenario.

Thanks for the ask!

[callioope]

guys i stopped writing fan fic during college. i had this crazy idea back then, when i was young and didn’t know better, that i had to grow up and grow out of it. 

and then i read a song of ice and fire -- specifically a storm of swords, the best one in the bunch honestly -- and i just, i started writing fic again

and NOW THAT SHIP IS CANON well at least in the tv show

in celebration here’s a recap of my gendrya fic -- yeah you KNOW there’s an anastasia AU in there [it’s why i never wrote a rebelcaptain one, it’d be too much]

Cold: Arya returns to Westeros and has second thoughts when Gendry doesn’t recognize her [also on ao3]

Firsts: A series of firsts for Arya and Gendry

The Last Stark: Anastasia AU for Arya & Gendry

Reunion: Gendry arrives at Winterfell (TV-show setting rather than book setting)

HAPPY SAILING ALL!

[bwniche]

Hi guys!

So I’m experiencing major writers block on the fic above, but I can’t just abandon the work, because of how amazing the people who have been following it are. Even when I disappeared for a few months, and then posted a chapter explaining what was going on, people have been nothing but supportive. 

So I’m looking for ideas, or for suggestions on how to unblock myself. I’m currently working on a chapter that has Sansa and Arya meeting Daenerys and Tyrion (kind of in secret) and it’s just. not. working. Or maybe it is, and I’m just so up my ass with this blockage that I can’t even see that what I’m forcing out is decent. 

I promised a few more chapters, and since this started out as a one-shot smut Gendrya fic, I’m definitely going to fit one of those in there. I’m not so much worried about that one, because I’m probably just going to do a PWP, because fuck it why not. But I also wanted to do the Tyrion/Sansa reunion, and one more chapter, but I can’t think what I want that chapter to be.

So I guess I’m asking for help with ideas on what the last chapter will be, as well as how to get my creativity going again. So if anyone could read the fic and either message me or add to this post, I will love you to infinity and beyond.

Thanks all!