Oh My God This Is Actual Gold

Oh my god this is actual gold

Side note, I’m morbidly curious as to what fandom Rickon is a part of??

Yet Another Modern Gendrya AU

Arya and Gendry meet in college in the Riverlands as freshman, he had to take a few years to save up, so he’s a bit older as a freshman.

Sophomore year, they get a two bedroom apartment together and wholeheartedly ignore the wildly intense sexual and romantic tension.

Junior year, Rickon is sixteen and having a ton of trouble at home getting along with Catelyn, so Arya offers for him to move in with her and Gendry and finish out high school in the Riverlands with them.

Rickon moves in with them, sharing Arya’s room with her which they’re both chill about because they get along really well and don’t care about sharing a bed as siblings. 

After a few months, Gendry, in a truly entirely platonic way, is like “Hey, sharing a room with a teenage boy must suck for both of you, why don’t you move into my room with me. We’ve been friends for a while, it will be chill.” 

Arya, truly and genuinely oblivious to how this would be weird at all because she knows she has feelings for Gendry but also knows he definitely does not (she’s wrong btw) and she can totally keep it together (she’s wrong btw), is like “Well, Rickon and I are totally fine, but the purpose of him coming down here was to get space, and that is pry hard with your sister in the same room and bed with you. Okay, sounds good, buddy.”

Rickon, as the wonderful Gen Z that he is and having been painfully aware of how much his sister and this guy are so obviously in love with each other and has been enjoying the hell out of them dancing around each other, at this point is finally fully breaking the 4th wall with himself, and is like “~~~bed sharing~~~”.

Eventually, bed sharing of course leads to feeling sharing and they finally bang and the rooms share a wall so when they finish, Rickon yells through the wall in the night “GET IT” to both their chagrins. When they yell back at him to leave them alone, he yells back “AND THEY WERE ROOMMATES” and then dies laughing but does go to bed since his sleep is no longer being interrupted. 

Rickon eventually graduates with honors and goes on to attend one of the best universities in Westeros, and Arya is so proud when he gets the acceptance letter she openly weeps and Rickon is a sympathetic crier so he does too. It turns out Gendry’s cousin Shireen already attends that school and will be starting that year as a junior, so Gendry puts them in touch.

Rickon basically goes through the entire same thing Arya and Gendry did, and Arya takes a sick delight out of the irony the entire time while Gendry would rather no one be involved in anyone else’s relationships and mind their own goddamn businesses.

Everyone lives happily ever after obvi. This story would include intense angst over mutual pining and lots of doubt and insecurities all intercut with shots of Rickon basically looking into the camera like he’s in the office because he sees EXACTLY what’s going on and has read enough fanfiction to know EXACTLY where this is going. And he is INVESTED.

There comes a time when fandom becomes less of an escape from anxiety to being the source of anxiety. Sometimes I need to remind myself what’s important to focus on, and I made this chart to help me with that. 

(Posting this at the request of a few people. The design/concept was inspired by an instagram post about covid-19 located here). 

the mere fact that john boyegas career could be ruined because he's standing up and speaking out against racism while rich white celebrities careers are safe as they do the bare minimum, if anything, is fucking disgusting.

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH

He calls Gendry Geralt?!

I didn’t think I could love this au more, but apparently I can

Also, everything you said about Rickon thriving with the attention and care of two people who actually invest time in him makes my heart swell

Yet Another Modern Gendrya AU

Arya and Gendry meet in college in the Riverlands as freshman, he had to take a few years to save up, so he’s a bit older as a freshman.

Sophomore year, they get a two bedroom apartment together and wholeheartedly ignore the wildly intense sexual and romantic tension.

Junior year, Rickon is sixteen and having a ton of trouble at home getting along with Catelyn, so Arya offers for him to move in with her and Gendry and finish out high school in the Riverlands with them.

Rickon moves in with them, sharing Arya’s room with her which they’re both chill about because they get along really well and don’t care about sharing a bed as siblings. 

After a few months, Gendry, in a truly entirely platonic way, is like “Hey, sharing a room with a teenage boy must suck for both of you, why don’t you move into my room with me. We’ve been friends for a while, it will be chill.” 

Arya, truly and genuinely oblivious to how this would be weird at all because she knows she has feelings for Gendry but also knows he definitely does not (she’s wrong btw) and she can totally keep it together (she’s wrong btw), is like “Well, Rickon and I are totally fine, but the purpose of him coming down here was to get space, and that is pry hard with your sister in the same room and bed with you. Okay, sounds good, buddy.”

Rickon, as the wonderful Gen Z that he is and having been painfully aware of how much his sister and this guy are so obviously in love with each other and has been enjoying the hell out of them dancing around each other, at this point is finally fully breaking the 4th wall with himself, and is like “~~~bed sharing~~~”.

Eventually, bed sharing of course leads to feeling sharing and they finally bang and the rooms share a wall so when they finish, Rickon yells through the wall in the night “GET IT” to both their chagrins. When they yell back at him to leave them alone, he yells back “AND THEY WERE ROOMMATES” and then dies laughing but does go to bed since his sleep is no longer being interrupted. 

Rickon eventually graduates with honors and goes on to attend one of the best universities in Westeros, and Arya is so proud when he gets the acceptance letter she openly weeps and Rickon is a sympathetic crier so he does too. It turns out Gendry’s cousin Shireen already attends that school and will be starting that year as a junior, so Gendry puts them in touch.

Rickon basically goes through the entire same thing Arya and Gendry did, and Arya takes a sick delight out of the irony the entire time while Gendry would rather no one be involved in anyone else’s relationships and mind their own goddamn businesses.

Everyone lives happily ever after obvi. This story would include intense angst over mutual pining and lots of doubt and insecurities all intercut with shots of Rickon basically looking into the camera like he’s in the office because he sees EXACTLY what’s going on and has read enough fanfiction to know EXACTLY where this is going. And he is INVESTED.

By clarefeldman10