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2022-10-31
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MIL (Myths-In-Law)

Summary:

A forum where deities, heroes of old, and everything in-between come to complain about their in-laws.

Notes:

This is not the result of me being weird for once. This is the result of my realization that Louhi would definitely be on r/justnoMILs if Reddit existed in mythological Finland.

I don’t know what this is, but I hope you like it.

Please note that this is not very accurate to Finnish mythology. If you want an accurate representation of Finnish mythology, please refer to a source other than some random shitpost on AO3.

Chapter 1: u/SmithofKalevala's problem (Finnish Mythology)

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(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

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My MIL keeps turning into a bird and shitting down our chimney 

r/justnomythsinlaw 

Posted by u/SmithofKalevala 

See title. She’s always been a bitch, but she got worse after my wife and I absconded. She sends messages all the time demanding that I let my wife go and calling me a dick, then blaming me for destroying the bride price. I did not destroy the bride price. She tried to steal the bride price and dropped it in the ocean when my buddy and I tried to steal it back, then told me it didn’t count when I asked her if I could have my wife now. 

A few weeks ago, a vulture attacked me while I was working and made me mess up an enchanted hammer. Fortunately, the customer was understanding when I advised him to wear gloves the next time he used it and offered to take a potshot at the bird, but I told him I could handle it. When I came home, my MIL was trying to convince my wife to come with her by claiming that my customer had killed me with a lightning bolt and she was a widow now. As soon as she saw me, she started shrieking and turned into a vulture, then flew up to our roof, shit down our chimney, and left. 

She’s come back every day for the past week to shit down our chimney. Sometimes she leaves threatening letters written in blood. I’m so close to calling my buddy and asking him to use magic on her, but my wife hates him and wants nothing to do with him. Does anyone have any advice? 


u/CrescentDeer: Just shoot her 

  u/SmithofKalevala: I’m trying not to end this with violence. 

    u/CrescentDeer: Shoot her and blame it on your buddy 


u/BritonKing: OMG I have a half-sister like this. She seduced one of my knights and tried to curse my wife. I had to get my court wizard to curse her to get her to leave us alone. I’d have that friend of yours deal with this unless you have experience with magic. It’s always best to leave magic to the people who know what they’re doing. 

  u/SmithofKalevala: He said he’s fighting a giant in the underworld right now. I’ll ask him when he gets back. 

Notes:

Ilmarinen is notoriously bad at romance, but apparently there’s a variant of the story where he does actually get the girl in the end, so that's where this comes from.

The “Buddy” Ilmarinen keeps referring to is, of course, Vainamoinen. I’m fairly certain he was stuck in the underworld before the whole ordeal with the Sampo went down, but it's been a few months since I last read the Kalevala, so I invoke creative license.