Kate Bishop & Clint Barton's Extraordinary Exes

I want to read a fic that all about Kate Bishop saving the world and fighting crime with some of Clint's fierce exes - Natasha and Bobbi, mainly - and Kate is like holyshitthey'resoawesome be cool, be competent, and is kinda star-struck be trying to be discreet about it, and the whole fic is ladies saving the world and being cooperative with each other, and Kate keeps sending Clint texts like:

01:23 a.m.: oh my god, you dated total badasses
02:07 a.m.: they're super-hot, too.
03:46 a.m. the black widow just complimented by abs!!!!!!! was that flirty or platonic!?!?!?! i couldn't tell.

And Clint is equally disturbed and aroused.

Also, I've committed a tiny bit of Kate Bishop/Young Avengers meta on tumblr here.

I Don't Know Where I Went Wrong

Le sigh.

brokenrecord_ pretty much laid out my feeling on this episode here and I think tumblr has pretty well covered what’s not working about this section of the narrative. Speaking personally, I am not traught with any of the choices being made
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In a change of tone, I do want to recommend two LBD fanworks:

In Our Own Pretty Ways in which Gigi and Lydia exchange music and don't talk about things (with bonus fanmix!) and this fanvid:

This Is What I'm Hearing: Happiness Isn't Worth Any Inconvenience

phemyscira recently asked me about bulletproof ways to make me ship something, and I didn’t have a good answer for her. I do, however, have something that makes me NOT ship a pairing (regardless of if I shipped it or not previously) which is when someone says, “the time just isn’t right.” Someone says that, and I immediately hear, “I don’t want this relationship. Not really.”

Hold that thought.

So, I read Cold Days. Well, I skimmed Cold Days. I tried to go into the book with an open mind and
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