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Day 05 - OTP For Whom You Never Seem To Run Out Of Inspiration

Natasha/Clint

(Or at least, I haven't run out of inspiration or desire to read fic about these two yet, although I have gotten pickier about the quality of fic I'm willing to spend my time on.)

Day 06 - Crossover OTP

Steve/Darcy technically counts given that they've never been in a movie together.

Day 07 - Real People OTP

I don't do this.

Day 08 - OTP That Has Put You Through The Ringer

Katara/Zuko. There is a reason that my pairing tag for this couple is 'forever bitter.'

Navel-gazing fanfic questions gacked from musesfool:

Leitmotif of the year:

"Clint/Natasha, Stephanie Brown, and ships that involve a dude pining" is one answer. I almost feel like a more accurate one would be, "this are people I want to kiss. See them kiss."

What's the story that makes you happiest?

I'm really pleased with You Only Live Twice, both because I am so happy that Jason/Stephanie fanfic exists, and because I really enjoy that story.

My favorite story this year:

Couldn't Get That Boy To Kill Me (Natasha/Clint)

I love the prompt, the section of Natasha's history I was working with, what I ended up saying about Clint and Natasha, and just.... this went through several drafts and I think it shows (in a good way).

My 5 best stories this year:

This Is The Art Of Living With A Ticking Heart (Felicity/Oliver)
End Of The World News (Darcy/Steve)
Please Believe Me When I Say The Last Thing You Need Is Fixing (Stephanie Brown/Nick Gage, Barbara Gordon/Dick Grayson)
Couldn't Get That Boy To Kill Me (Natasha/Clint)
I'm Yours (Ghosts & All) (Natasha/Clint)

( ............ )

This fanart is basically all my Clint/Natasha feelings in graphic format. WITH BONUS NEKO CASE LYRICS.

gacked from tumblr:

♛: my “FOREVER” pairing

Anya/Dimitri
Katara/Zuko
Clint/Natasha

♔: my “sometimes” pairing (if i’m in the mood)

Fionna Glenanne/Michael Westen (depending on if the writers are remembering that Michael loves Fiona, it's not a one-sided relationship.

旦: my “friends-with-benefits” pairing

Leonie Barrow x Johannas Cabal
Lydia Martin x Allison Argent

☆: my “adele” pairing (“WE COULD HAVE HAD IT AAAAAALL”)

KATARA X ZUKO
ARTEMIS X WALLY

☁: my “angst” pairing

Irina Derevko x Jack Bristow

✖: my “hate sex” pairing

Kate Argent x Derek Hale
Bela x Dean Winchester

۞: my “working on it” pairing

I am not entirely sure what this means.

ℨ: my favorite threesome

Leonie Barrow and her maybe-evil German boyfriends a.k.a Leonie Barrow x Johannas Cabal x Horst Cabal
I am also intrigued by Steve/Bucky/Natasha and Hermione/Ron/Harry.

☄: my “crack” pairing

Darcy Lewis x Steve Roger
Stephanie Brown x Damian Wayne
Stephanie Brown x Jason Todd

gacked from portions_forfox:

I think I'm going to reprise a meme from ye ages past, because I'm bored and I like to make fandom-y lists and also, as the title would suggest, I like to ship.

(I'm going to be kind of throwing ships onto these lists, in an attempt to shake things up and maybe mention ships I don't often do. But don't worry, some of my old stand-bys are here.)

( ALL THE SHIPS. ALL OF THEM )


So, yeah, come talk to me about these ships.

Title: Couldn't Get That Boy To Kill Me
Author: redbrunja
Rating: NC-17
Warning: brain-washing, violence, explicit sex.
Pairing: Natasha Romanoff/Clint Barton
Author's Note: qualapec went above and beyond the call of duty beta-ing this for me.
Prompt: I couldn't get the boy to kill me, but I wore his jacket for the longest time.
Wordcount: ≈3000
Summary: Sometimes she thinks she should have forced Barton to put her down. After all, death clears all debts.


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Over at be_compromised there is a discussion on what makes Clint and Natasha read as accurate in AU fanfics, and my two cents are here.

(BTW, this is totally unrelated to and thus spoiler-free regarding IM3.)

Okay, I'm going to tell you right now, this, the previous post, and the next post are all due to qualapec. Feel free to send her flowers.

So, over email qualapec asked me about what I thought Pepper was afraid of and what her nightmares are like.

( Pepper, Natasha, Clint, & Bruce )

I’m drawing a blank on Thor, Tony, Jane, and my answers for Darcy would be so transparently mine, they’d verge on out-of-character.

Okay, so, flist, tell me about the other Avenger’s fears.

Title: Marionettes
Author: redbrunja
Rating: NC-17
Characters: Clint/Natasha.
Warning: sexual content, red-room and related issues.
Summary: Loki wasn't the first time Natasha'd been compromised.


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gacked from lady_with_cats:

1. 5 TV shows you watched from the very start (that may or may not have gotten better).

I cannot think of even ONE tv show that I watched from the beginning (like, saw the first episode before it aired, kept watching). Pretty much every show I’ve ever watched has involved me finding about it after it’s been airing for a while and/or already been canceled. The exceptions are Alias (which I watched the pilot and the first couple of episodes when it was first airing and then my mom made me stop watching and I later watched in college) and Wonderfalls (which I watched from the pilot until it was canceled, three episodes later.

2. what playlists do you have on your phone/media player/mp3 player etc?

About a billion. The ones of interest to you, dear reader, is that I have several fannishly specific ones:

I Learned Love From Sacrifice (MCU, heavy on Natasha-centric songs)
Beautiful Car-Crash Of A Boy (Clint Barton)
Soul Eater (Soul Eater)
Four Elements (Avatar)
Alias (songs played on Alias)
Veronica Mars (ditto)

I also have several playlists for individual writing projects and then a bunch of other playlists that are basically like songs grouped together for ease of listening.

3. favourite tumblr tags (that you have on your tumblr).

two master assassins in love, which I also use on livejournal, and red room romance, for stuff relating to Natasha/Bucky. Most of my other tags are either ‘fandom name’ or ‘stock’ or ‘hell yes’ for pretty people.

4. IS BREAKING BAD REALLY THAT GOOD? I MEAN. REALLY?

Since I don’t watch it, I wouldn’t know.

5. something you can't stand but everyone else loves (be it food, a tv show, a ship etc).

BBC Sherlock. Slash. Coconut. Bananas.

6. do you regularly quote any catch phrases from pop culture? (e.g. "he is terrible face wise")

I regularly quote pop culture (in fact, for years, trying to stump each other with quotes from movies or tv was the game my mom and I played whenever where were bored) but I wouldn’t say I’ve adopted any consistent catch phrases.

7. a song you never get tired of.

So many. Too many to list.

8. something from etsy you really want but can't afford.

I say away from etsy. And we were just talking about my consistent case of fannish buyer’s remorse.

9. a fandom you wished was bigger/had more fanworks.

I’d get slapped if I suggested that the Avengers fandom needed to be any bigger but I’d really like the fanficcers with a deft touch for fucked up people in love to start writing for Clint and Natasha again. Because it’s been a long, long time since I’ve read a deliciously dark, explicit-as-fuck fanfic for those two. Lately it’s all been sunshine and babies and Winter Soldiers. Or, you know, in-character gen where they’re platonic. Seriously, the most ‘oooooh,’ Clint/Natasha I recently read was (nonconsecutively) about six paragraphs as a background pairing in a Steve/Bucky fanfic that I read. THINK ABOUT THAT SENTENCE FOR A MINUTE, PEOPLE. THINK ABOUT EVERYTHING IT IMPLIES.

10. a tv show you're one going to watch, ONE DAY.

I’ve watched the first three episodes of Friday Night Lights. That’s as far as I’ve gotten. I’ve tried to watch Farscape twice, and don’t understand why I don’t love it.

11. Three tropes you love.

Using sex to block out emotional pain while being in denial about how much the person you're with means to you.
Ruthless, violent, competent women and the more emotionally open badass men who love them.
Friends to lovers. (Actually, I would love a really good friends-to-lovers story at the moment.)

(Anyone who enjoyed reading this meme should totally do it themselves, switching out questions they found dull for questions they actually want to answer.)