Happy Friday All! Since there is now only 13 and a half hours left to sign up to Secret Santa 2017 (!!!) this week's All The Things Friday is a chat about fandom gift exchanges (and any other fandom fun related to that).

New to gift exchanges, or an old-hand but have something you've always wondered? Ask the comm!
Secret Santa specific questions? Very welcome!
What exchanges have you taken part in/are you taking part in this year?
What's your favourite thing about fandom gift exchanges? Favourite type of exchange?
Best advice for signing up and taking part in exchanges? Links to helpful posts?
How to find beta readers, meeting exchange deadlines, pinch hitting... tell us your tales!
Rec us things from exchanges, including self recs of things you've created for them!

It's a weekend to chat about exchanges and help each other out with creative tips and cheerleading :)

Things to remember:
1) Always label NSFW (Not Safe For Work) stuff in the title and post under a cut.
2) Fic and artwork needs to have a rating and warnings (or you can say that you’ve chosen not to use warnings).
3) For people with annoying internet connections, say in the title if a comment is graphic/images/gif-heavy and post picspams under a cut.
4) Have a damn good time! (Because if that’s not happening then this post has clearly failed.)

Title: Forged by Fire
Author: Crazy4Orcas
Pairing/Characters: Clint/Natasha
Word Count: 13488
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Mentions of cruelty to animals, mentions of fire, mentioned death of very minor original character
Author's Notes:  This is based on one of shenshen77's (obishenshenobi on tumblr) prompts from a previous be_compromised event: One of them is a service dog trainer, the other gets a service dog, they fall in love (I'm thinking both may be veterans and one of them needs a service dog to deal with PTSD, the other knows exactly what they need. But you can take it any place you like).

I'm calling this the Dog Days AU

Summary: Clint jerked awake, hoping the echo of the scream was only in his head.  He was dragging in huge, deep gulps of air.  His skin crawled, phantom pain racing across his palms and the backs of his hands.

Forged by Fire on AO3