Check out this Black Widow Tattoo by renegadewriter8!

Steve draws a tattoo for each of the Avengers



The explanation:
Natasha looks at the drawing for a long time. It's a spider, elegant and deadly and beautiful, slender legs encircling a little girl with Natasha's hair and features. The child leans trustingly into the creature's embrace, sweetness kept safe by a sleek and lethal protector. It's incredibly revealing, and he expects her to refuse. She's quiet for a long time, and then nods. "Yes," she says, "it's beautiful."

And yes, it really is that hard to narrow it down. (Of course!) That being said, what are your favorite stories in this fandom? I limited mine to six, because otherwise it would become a VERY long list, but there is no punishment for posting more. :-) Your choices could be there for personal reasons, excellent writing, you like the theme, whatever. You don't have to think that anyone else will appreciate it as much as you do. Maybe it includes stories you think fandom has overlooked. Doesn't matter. This is your opinion and whatever you say goes!

Offer any appropriate warnings. Include links so that everyone else in the bar can enjoy your choices!

This is sort of my version of the all-inclusive, open invitation, day-late Friday Fic Recs. :D Mods, please let me know if this needs to be altered in any way!

( My six are under the cut. :D )

Hey Promptathon peeps-- 

I was off the grid a few days and am now catching up on comments and linking new fics to the Master Post. Give me a couple of hours, and if you still don't see your stuff, feel free to yell at me. ;)

In the meantime, have some Jeremy Renner and Betty White. (To be filed under Things I Never Knew I Needed until It Happened and Now I Don't Know How I Ever Lived Without It.)

Title: Mr. & Mrs. Barton (Or, Why Natasha Sends Jennifer Aniston an Annual Apologetic Fruit Basket) (3/3)
Fandom/Pairing: Avengers, Clint/Natasha
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 5685
Spoilers/Warnings: non-canon back-story, sexual content, implied sexual abuse
Summary: Five years before they meet as Hawkeye and the Black Widow, they meet as Clint and Natasha. There is a romance, a marriage, and then, predictably, everything goes absolutely to hell, and Clint still thinks they should be getting royalty money from the DVD sales of Mr. & Mrs. Smith. (Or: boy meets girl. Boy and girl fall in love. Boy and girl get married. Boy and girl neglect to do background checks.)
Notes: OKAY HERE IS THE LAST CHAPTER. It took forever and turned into a total beast, but oh goodness I love it, and I hope you will too! Thank you so much to everyone who read the first bits—this is my first multi-part Avengers fic (and my first multi-part fic period in about four years!) and your feedback has been so wonderful!

Part One: The Courtship

Part Two: The Marriage

Part Three: The Ever After