swim through the fires to stay in this world

There was a post going around tumblr that really got under my skin - it was a fairy accurate summary of the king and lionheart dynamic, but the line about not being able to find a example with a lady just***... triggered all my past experience of people dismissing het and femme-slash because [pick a square from your slash fangirl bingo card, pick any square].

*** I also want to note that the person I linked from tagged this post 'Kate/Clint' SO CLEARLY I AM NOT THE ONLY PERSON WHO THINKS THAT THIS DYNAMIC EXISTS WITH LADIES.

So, queen and lionheart dynamics. The examples that came to mind:

Lydia/Allison (Teen Wolf)
Sabriel/Touchstone (Sabriel, bolded because so much yes.)
Tremaine/Ilias (although that's more spy/lionheart)
Mulan/Aurora (Once Upon A Time)
Jane/Darcy (would be the super-fluffy version of this trope)
Any Evil Queen/Huntsman story would be the evil example of this trope
I'd accept a case for Hermione/Ron here.
I think a case could also be made for Cameron/John from TSCC.
Richard/Cara (LOTS)

Young Avengers and Hawkeye Annual #1 were both highly, highly entertaining.

( my old man is a tough man but he's got a soul as sweet as blood red jam and he shows me, he knows me, every inch of my tar black soul | he doesn't mind I have a flat broke down life | in fact he says he thinks it's why he might like about me )

In retrospect, I realized that when I wrote Lilac Perfume (Kate/Clint) I had Kate acting out of character in the ending, so I've edited and updated that fic, if anyone is interested.

LJ

AO3

...that Clint spent a 30 hour flight obsessing about the last thing Kate said to him as he left?

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Check out this amazing Clint/Kate fanart, and read this fanfic, both of which are based on this hilarious text-from-last-night:

(617):
You asked me to text you at 11 and remind you that he's 33. It's 11:20. He's 33.

(1-617):
you're too late. he has eggnog and whiskey and all seven seasons of buffy. I shan't be coming home tonight