Alphabet wars.

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

Question for the class: 

Can anyone shed some light on the different spellings of Natasha's name?  Specifically I'm thinking "Romanoff" versus "Romanov."  I was noticing that the AO3 tag has "Romanov" while in the movie they spell it "Romanoff."  I suspect it has something to do with Russian grammar/spelling and American bungling of same.  There's also the "Natalia" v. "Natasha" thing, which if I understand right she changed when she defected.  (Or did I just read that in a fic somewhere and now it's my headcanon?)

And as a follow-up, is there a good case to be made that the movie got it wrong by going with "ff" instead of "v"?  Or to put it simply, why deviate from movie!canon?

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[brickhousewench.livejournal.com]

damn, i've read too much fanfic, remind me where this is from if you remember - I loved the fic where Clint's nickname for her is Gnat.

Oooh ooh, *jumps up and down with hand in the air* I've read that one (and I haven't read much fanfic in this fandom yet, so it was easy to track down). That's Lifeline (http://sarea-okelani.livejournal.com/395867.html).

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That's the one! WOOO, thanking you! :D I feel awful when I remember a story really clearly but can't actually remember where I saved the link. I have a serious need to organise my favouriting and bookmarking system, especially for the Avengers.

[brickhousewench.livejournal.com]

I feel awful when I remember a story really clearly but can't actually remember where I saved the link.

if it makes you feel any better, so many people have that same problem that there are LJ communities to help people find fics that they read and can't find again.

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Heh, true :D