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Did I accidentally end up staying past midnight to read this because I saw it super late?
Yes, yes I did.
Do I regret it?
Not even a little.
The slow burn is slower than it takes to melt a bar of steel with an easy bake oven, but you physically could not get me to stop reading this unless you tempted me with another update to read instead.
Go read this!
Stretch and Release
Check out Ch. 7 here!
“Thought you were Hot Pie,” he mumbled, hoping she would pick up on his underlying apology for his attire.
“I gathered,” she grinned at him. Gendry flopped down on his bed. Arya crawled up beside him - oh, no. She was propping herself up on the pillows. His pillows. The situation was getting more and more dire by the minute. Putting his t-shirt on was not nearly enough to save him. He felt frozen, staring at her as she got comfortable beside him without a care in the world.
“He snuck in to see Maggie. They definitely do need privacy, these days, I can promise you that. I came out of the shower to some frightening visuals.” She shuddered. Gendry couldn’t help but be proud of his friend. But he -
“He told me he was going to grab a snack.”
Arya arched one perfect eyebrow in his direction.
“I suppose that’s one word for it,” she stated dryly.
OH MAN
MY GOD IS THIS GOOD
I’m so so so excited for this, just look at the quality! The emotion and yearning and vivid memory that you get lost in for just a moment, and then you’re pulled back just a little, and the feeling is still there and there’s a little satisfaction in it, but at the same time it’s all just a photo.
I’m so excited for this, you have no idea!
A lil teaser of my Gendrya BB fic 🪓🧡🖋
Dedicated to @thedesignateddriver. Look! It’s actually happening 🙂
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He wouldn’t have even noticed the newspaper were it not for the sudden gust of wind that happened to pass through.
He doesn’t know how long it’s been there, wedged between the empty seat next to his and the back of the bus stop bench.
Once he lays eyes on it, he can’t look away.
As faded as the photo is, there’s no denying that it’s her.
Her silver eyes, her short brown hair, her utterly kissable mouth. And of course, those dark, expressive eyebrows that he still sometimes pictures when he can’t fall asleep.
He reaches for the newspaper with surprisingly steady gloved hands, quickly flipping to the proper page. Then he’s confronted with not just her face but her body too.
Draped like a cat over a plush loveseat, she’s posed in the middle of a sunny room, looking like the pinnacle of calm and perfection.
And yet…
He’d come to know that guarded look well. He can tell she’s playing up for the camera, keeping her façade up. Just the thought has him exhaling in some measure of relief.
A reminder that their time together wasn’t for naught. That he still knows her, just by looking at a single photo.
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OHHHHH MY GOD AHHHHHHHH
This is so exciting! I can’t even explain to you the amount of excitement I have for this, and the giant smile this put on my face!
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Stretch and Release
Check out Ch. 8 here!
The team goes to Nationals! My, what an exciting day!
He couldn’t count the number of hours they had spent working on this. Not just their standard practice time; it was far more than that, if you counted how often they stayed late (an alarming amount in the past month as Nationals crept closer and closer). Countless hours. And they had one chance, for less than three minutes, and then it would all be over.
And it could all have been for nothing, if he didn’t do everything right.
Why did anyone voluntarily want to do this?
He was contemplating asking somebody to construct a time machine, and take him back to August, and tell him that this was a terrible idea -
But then Podrick was tapping him on the shoulder, and he pulled his headphones off, and…
It was time.
Ahhh I realize I’m a little late on reblogging this, but oh my god this is such a beautiful ending to such a truly wonderful fic! It’s so gratifying and sweet but also so them and oh my god, it’s actually perfect!
This has been, truly, such a delight to read, and seriously so funny and entertaining! Just...the TALENT. I COULD HONESTLY GO ON ABOUT THIS FOREVER
(But I’ll save that for the comment haha)
Go read this, if you haven’t! It’s amazing and lovely and hilarious yet also so sweet and perfectly balanced, it’s absolutely worth it!
Stretch and Release
The final instalment is here! *cries*
Check out Ch. 9
Gendry had spent a lot of time thinking about what it would be like to properly have sex with Arya Stark. He’d been thinking about it since he met her, really, so… maybe that was part of the problem. He really didn’t want to fuck it up, and, more than that, he really didn’t want it to be the kind of night that anyone else could ever hold a candle to.
So. Maybe he’d set his goals a little bit lofty, there.
He thought it’d be best to take her on a date, first. Proper-like. She deserved that, at the very least. He was having trouble coming up with said date, though. It was a bit of a road-block. He wanted to do something romantic, but also, something that she wouldn’t hate. Something nobody else would think of, but that wasn’t super weird. Something that was, well -
Cheap, alright, he may have a scholarship now but he still wasn’t exactly in the green, these days. So, cheap, but not… cheap in an obvious way. Obviously.
Was it any wonder he was having trouble?
Oh my godddddddddd I saw this yesterday and I’m pretty sure I started hyperventilating
My general rule of thumb when it comes to this fic (really, anything @kelleesioverhere writes) is “drop everything, read now”
Let’s Fall in Love for the Night
Happy smutty Sunday to all!
Check out ch. 4 here.
If Gendry had thought he’d felt a bit drunk before, it was nothing compared to now. Arya Stark was kissing him, with her tongue in his mouth and her fingers tugging on the hair at the back of his neck, each little pull sending his blood rushing south. His hands were restless, wanting to touch her everywhere at once and unable to make up his mind. He needed her closer, though - that, at least, he was sure of. Reluctantly, he pulled away (and fuck if the way she seemed to almost chase his lips didn’t go straight to his cock) before grabbing her by the waist and lifting her onto his lap.
Ohhhhhhhhh mannnnnnnn! This is so exciting!
The intense gaze across a crowded room, ahhhhhh!
Also yay, Bran dialogue!
Seriously, I cannot explain how amazingly written this fic is, the freaking depth and beautifully done character development speak for themselves! Go read this!
The Last Time: Ch. 17 is up!
Chapter 17: water under the bridge (ao3)
“I just don’t know if it’s the right thing for me to push my way into his life like that again.”
“Maybe you should let him decide that.”
Her brother, as always, has a point.
When Arya looks back into the crowd to find Gendry’s gaze firmly trained on her, it not only reinforces his stance on their relationship, but also reminds her that she might actually be right there with him.
Catch up here.
AHHHHHHHH OH MY GOD OH MY GODDDDDDD
This is so exciting! I’m so looking forward to reading this, the last chapter was freaking amazing!
I want to say I’m ready for the big “so sorry” and the angst but also...am I really?
Will I still read it anyways and just be viscerally hit with allll the angst and be kinda loving it? Yes, absolutely
This is very exciting!
Let’s Fall in Love for the Night
Check out ch. 6 here
Everything started to unravel, unbeknownst to Arya, that Friday night. It was Rickon’s fault, really.
(It was probably her fault, and Gendry’s, for both refusing to properly communicate about anything that actually mattered, but -
It seemed easier to blame Rickon.)
That’s all I’ll say… that and a big “so sorry” xoxoxox
I...this is so painful but also so perfectly done?
“Can I have one last kiss?” + gendry/arya
His eyes are hard as he looks out at the ship. “You sure you don’t want company?”
“I’m sure.” She’s told him several times now, but she supposes he needs to hear it just one more time.
“It can get lonely out at sea.”
“How would you know?”
“I rowed from Dragonstone to King’s Landing.”
“Not quite the same thing as sailing into the Sunset Sea, is it?” she asks dryly. At the look his face, she adds in a gentler tone, “You deserve a wife who will be just that--a wife. That was never me.”
His eyes are still hard, but he nods. “Can I have one last kiss, at least?”
She rises up on her toes, brushing her lips against his. He holds her in place, deepening the kiss, but she pulls back with a sad smile. “Goodbye, Gendry.”
He leaves without a word.
She supposes it’s better that way.
after me comes the flood (3/4)
part iii: i write everything down (ao3)
“You ever think about it?” Arya asks before she can talk herself out of it.
“Think about what?”
“Putting down roots, having a family maybe?”
In an effort to mask her nerves, she focuses on tracing the line of muscle on his forearm.
“I never used to.” Gendry responds much faster than she thought he would.
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@thedesignateddriver continues to slay with her art. Absolute brilliance!!
Catch up here.
I...love everything about this, I can’t even explain how much!
On the Gendrya ‘peeing with the bathroom door open’, I believe that’s @arsenicandfinelace ‘s lovely post right here!
Also, just as a side note, the bit about Arya precariously climbing furniture immediately reminded me of this post, and I can’t be the only one in thinking that it is undeniably Arya Stark?
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
Look it’s me!
Go read it if you’d like!
Also @lightninginabottle0613 I guess I’m the one to write the call it what you want fic! (It’s okay if you don’t like it very much haha)
Would You Run Away With Me?
read it on the AO3 at https://bit.ly/37fonnt
by Liv_Hates_Olives
When she stares at the ceiling at night, she wonders what happened to that girl who brought her lord father purple and yellow flowers with a wide smile on her face. As she walks through the grounds of Winterfell now, the air is cold and the land is barren, save for the thorns on the wood remaining when the leaves and vines have died out.
So she heads down to the forge instead, where Gendry is at work and the nearest anvil has a grain sack settled on top of it just for her.
OR
A little “Call it What You Want” Gendrya drabble where they go back on the road together and Arya reflects on everything that’s happened and maybe everything is still a little sad, but maybe everything is also a little closer to being right.
Words: 1600, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: F/M
Characters: Arya Stark, Gendry Waters, There’s like a one or two word mention of Sansa and Daenerys that’s not worth tagging
Relationships: Arya Stark/Gendry Waters
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, I guess this is a, Songfic, Oh my god how and why did I write a songfic, Introspection, Light Angst, Instead of going west of Westeros, Arya and Gendry screw off to the Riverlands for some reason or other, happy-ish ending, Kind of ambiguous and kind of happy
read it on the AO3 at https://bit.ly/37fonnt
Arya x Gendry Week - (Day 3) It’s A Sign → Playlist
Arya x Gendry Week 2019 (Day 2) Marry Me Now - Las Vegas Wedding
Road trips should have happy endings. His ended with him joining his life to hers.
Arya x Gendry Week 2020 (Day 1) - The Return of Spring
When the hope of spring blossomed the one that was lost to him returned
Gendrya // Buzzfeed Unsolved AU
I’m Gendrya Trash!
Coming alive on Tumblr after a century because Gendrya might be rising soon!!!
Arya/Gendry Fic Recs
loving you’s a bloodsport by @anniebibananie bodyguard au. but like - also - so much more than that. just such a beautifully written fic. everything about arya and gendry’s interactions is so spot on. characterization is amazing. the writing draws you in and you can’t stop reading til you’re done and then you’re just sad it’s over. then i would recommend anything and everything else gendrya written by annie!
A Part Of You by the legendary @gendrie or elenei on Ao3 one of the very few modern au’s i’ll actually endorse. just a masterpiece. not sure where you’ll find better characterization. (you won’t). beautiful plot. absolutely gorgeous axg interactions. on top of that @gendrie writes some of the best gendrya meta and runs just one of the best gendrya/arya blogs out there and has overall the best gendrya/arya opinions ever!
gonna make this place your home by @argyledpenguin five different yet equally and hauntingly lovely au ficlets: 1 2 3 4 5 all shorter one shots but simply beautiful. if you enjoy these (which you will), go here to find more gendrya one shots scattered between pages 3-6, there’s just something SO captivating about this author’s style of writing.
The Long Journey Home by waytooserious on Ao3 an absolutely beautifully written multi-chapter (9) fic including a reunion and all the aftermath not to mention a full length multi-chapter (8) sequel! so when you’re looking for something to keep you hooked all night, this is your fic!
Carved From Stone by onborrowedwings on Ao3 and just because, another multi-chapter (7) fic au where arya stays with the brotherhood and encounters lady stoneheart. also just gorgeously done. you will not regret reading. their relationship is just so on point in it.
All I Ask by Awakened_Angel on Ao3 everything you never knew you needed from a fake dating fic. very ‘to all the boys i have loved before.’ beautifully done. great changes/adjustments made so the story fits axg. an absolute must read!
Ned Stark Lives! by cbstevp on ff.net and because i just couldn’t help it, this absolute gem that is FORTY FIVE chapters long and details what would have happened if Ned had lived (obviously including gendrya), just kind of a masterpiece…
if you’re interested, you can find my first two fic rec posts here and here…
Arya reaching for a kiss ‖ Gendry reaching for a kiss
First time doing Gendrya’s gifs, but this tag needs less salt an more shipping, so…
Please make this into a fanfiction
Gendrya Modern AU - Late Night London
Arya goes to a gig and sees her high school crush, Gendry, on stage. She goes looking for him afterwards…
“That’s a nice axe you played, you’ve gotten better.”
“Thanks, so have you… I mean… you look… good.”
“Thanks, so do you…”
(photos not mine)