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Hi All, here's how this works: below is an anonymised list of what people have said they would like to receive as a gift in this year’s Secret Santa exchange. Can everyone taking part in this exchange please reply to this post by MIDDAY GMT Saturday 17th October with your FIRST, SECOND, and THIRD choices for what gift you’d like to create. We’ll use these choices to help match people up. All comments will be screened.
For example:
FIRST: twenty-four
SECOND: three
THIRD: sixteen
A few things:
- you're not guaranteed your choices, but we WILL keep to your choices as much as possible
- you have until MIDDAY GMT Saturday 17th October to comment with your choices or we'll match you up without one. (If everyone comments before the deadline we’ll try to send assignments out earlier.)
- your assignment will be sent to you by email, so please check your emails including your spam folder for anything that comes from be_compromised@hotmail.com and let us know if you don't receive anything by October 21st.
And onwards to the main event…
ONE
Prompts:
1. The old Secret Relationship trope! Facts come to light over the holidays.
2. Thwarted timely acquisition of seasonal gifts or failing to even pick one.
3. Mistletoe shenanigans! Come on, 'tis the season after all!
4. "Will you stop yelling at me long enough for me to confess that I love you?!"
5. Deadpool throws a Christmas party. Oh hey, why did everybody show up armed and expecting a fight?! Be honest: Do you think it had anything to do with the "invitations" being spelled out with single letters cut and pasted from magazines? Arts and crafts isn't his strong suit.
6. Outside POV from somebody looking in on the Avengers team dynamics. For example JARVIS, an Asgardian or one of the other aliens.
Yes please: I'd like something that ends on an upbeat note, please. If you arrive there via heartache first, that's alright!
No thank you: Please no school or band AU. Please no kid fic, pregnancies, shmoopy proposals or weddings.
Characters/Pairings:
1. Way I see it, Clint and Natasha belong together and pretty much share a brain.
Whether that's in a platonic or romantic capacity I will leave up to you, as long as they are very close. If you think Bucky should be part of their relationship in any way, well, I am okay with that.
2. All the strong Marvel ladies! Maria Hill! Pepper Potts! Kate Bishop! You name them! Yelena Belova, too, even though we've hardly met her. Other than them I am happy with any character apart from Rumlow. Boo, Rumlow!
TWO
Prompts:
1. Hawkguy comics verse, with Kate shaking her head at stuff
2. Accidental displacement in space or time (fixit elements optional)
3. Respect the classics: go for the tropiest tropes - from Natasha starts at SHIELD to the different call; everyone hangs out in the Tower; fake!marriage or secret!marriage; slow-burn-pining-oh-my-god-are-they-really-that-blind??; SHIELD betting pool; or why the heck not Budapest?? Write like it's 2012!
4. "An odd thing happened on the way to [...]" or "X and Y and A walk into a bar" - pick any excuse for weird and wonderful MCU character pairings (not PAIRINGS-pairings, just odd people in the same place with Clint and/or Natasha, you know what I mean)
5. urban fantasy, magical realism
6. anything you've always wanted to write, or a WIP you were looking to find an excuse to finish...
Yes please: humour! angst! angsty humour! competence porn! fluff! friendship! smouldering/pining/slow burns/friends-to-lovers!
No thank you: threesomes, no Laura & the kids this time, no PWP/explicit sex ("M" is fine, just don't tag like a bazillion sex acts) or graphic violence
Characters/Pairings:
1. Clint/Natasha (duh)
2. Clint & Natasha (& whoever)
3. Anyone else from the comics or the MCU is happy to drop by in numbers small or large
THREE
Prompts:
1. Get a little closer, let fold
Cut open my sternum, and pull
My little ribs around you
The rungs of me be under, under you
-Fineshrine, Purity Ring
2. Trading clothes! bonus points if they all know the other(s) are doing it.
(double bonus points if the clothes that are traded have the person asking's logos on them 😂 (e.g. Clint owns a sweater with a Black Widow logo on it))
3. I hear your heart beat to the beat of the drums
Oh, what a shame that you came here with someone
So while you're here in my arms
Let's make the most of the night like we're gonna die young
-Die Young, Kesha (aka Clubbing but make it OT3 ;P )
4. Tony forces all the Avengers to move into the tower with him because now that there are so many of them he doesn't "feel like a family" any more. Hijinks (or found family feels, I'm not picky) ensue.
5. Holiday traditions/superstitions
6.
Yes please: Happy endings! Fluff! Found family! a bit of angst 😇
No thank you: Laura, pregnancy, kid!fic
Characters/Pairings:
1. I love Clint + Nat being badass partners/totally dysfunctional normal people. Also very into Clint/Bucky/Nat and AUs, although AUs are certainly not required. Ignoring canon for something that's less... upsetting is my jam ;P
2. Sif/Loki
Pepper/Tony
Kate/America
Carol/Nat
FOUR
Prompts:
1. OT3 (ClintNatLaura or ClintNatBucky). Throw in some cats or dogs. Show them being soft with one another. If you want to throw in some smut, I would not object.
2. We made three rules when we started to sleep together - 1) friendship always comes first, 2) nothing changes except that we do naked things together, and 3) no romantic feelings - but i broke rule 3 and you’re the only person i want to talk about it with
3. Blind Date AU: They keep winding up at the same restaurants with awful blind dates until one night they say screw it and try a date with each other. (Or their blind dates don't show up and they decide to share their meal.)
4. You look so hot but i can’t go near you with all these people around so i’m just going to send you dirty texts/sign language until we get an opportunity to leave without looking suspicious. Bonus if there's a stray misdirected text.
5. Sharing a bed/body heat while stranded in a harsh, remote locale. Injury to one or both optional.
6. Clothes sharing/swapping/stealing, either on purpose or by accident. (Can Clint help it if he has a grey hoodie *just like Natasha's*?)
Yes please: I like most things, but some particular things I like are: romance, smut, OT3s, team as family, happy or hopeful endings, AUs, and banter. If one of these vague things strikes your fancy but does not fit a specific prompt, feel free to go wild.
Use the MCU, the Disney cartoons, or the comics. Or mash them all up. I am ridiculously easy to please.
No thank you: Prefer nots include - Major character death, kid!fic (unless it includes Clint's existing children), Laura bashing (if you really hate her pretend she doesn't exist), Phil as part of an OT3, unhappy endings
Absolutely do not include - Anything with Clint & Loki, A/B/O, age-play, non-con, rape (although I'm a-ok with kinky smut.)
Characters/Pairings:
Anything with Clint/Natasha, including friends, lovers, OT3s, canon-compliant, AU, comics, cartoons, MCU, or a mishmash of different canons.
Honestly, you could randomly throw a dart (or shoot an arrow?) at the Marvel line up and hit a character I like. USE MORE PLEASE. But please use the villains sparingly and don't bother redeeming them.
FIVE
Prompts:
1. Teenaged Clint finds teenaged Natasha who’s just escaped from the Red Room and has to hide her from both Red Room agents and his foster family. AKA Season 1 of Stranger Things ClintNat au.
2. Maria and Laura are friendly exs and Maria accidentally (or on purpose) sets her up with Clint and Natasha. Years later Clint tells the story, How I Met Your Mothers, to the Barton kids.
3. OT3 person of your choice is a travel writer/blogger who keeps running into Nat and Clint at various exotic destinations.
4. Clint and Nat (or OT3) are celebrities and news of their relationship has just leaked. Bonus points if it’s epistolary/has a social media element.
5. “I overheard you yelling loudly over the phone in Russian and I have no idea what you just said but damn I’m sort of aroused” AU.
6. Sharon, Maria, and Natasha become bffs by bonding over SHIELD gossip and judging each others love lives.
Yes please: Go create what you'd like, but I enjoy good natured/gentle teasing, domestic moments, and banter. The team all being friends and especially the ladies all being friends would be very appreciated. I'd prefer something with a happy/positive ending. Endgame didn’t happen unless everyone lived.
No thank you: Character death (especially Endgame canon character death).
Characters/Pairings: My big ones are ClintNat and ClintNatLaura, but I’m fond of Clint/Nat/Bucky and Nat/Yelena. I’m for Nat/any female character. My only real notp is Nat/Bruce.
SIX
Prompts:
(1) five times Lucky solved the case and one time Hawkeyes did
(2) old school, everyone-lives-in-the-tower fic
(3) "this friends with benefits situation was not supposed to develop feelings."
(4) “Listen: there’s a hell of a good universe next door; let’s go.” – e. e. cummings
(5) (774): i just walked into a room at this party and someone yelled "dibs!"...
(6) “Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.”
– Muhammad Ali
Yes please: I love both non-AUs and AUs, with a particular fondness for dystopia, urban fantasy and magical realism. I love female friendships (and friendship in general) and badass ladies. I am a-okay with everything ranging from PWP sex (though some DNW exist, see below) through to genfic. I love competency porn, 616 crossovers, banter and snark, relationship negotiation, friends to lovers, big casts and cameo characters, UST and pining (ALL THE PINING).
No thank you: canon compliance past Civil War/Black Panther, AoU Barton Farm, heavy BDSM, rape/non-con, dub-con, incest, abuse, A/B/O, curtain fic, kid fic, bad guys being good guys, character death and character bashing. Also not a huge fan of marriage proposals.
Characters/Pairings: Clint/Natasha, Clint/Bucky/Nat, Clint & Kate, Natasha & ladies, general friendships (also Clint/Nat/Steve and Clint/Nat/Sam if you’re so inclined). Characters I love: Bucky Barnes, Steve Rogers, Pepper Potts, Maria Hill, Kate Bishop, America Chavez, Kamala Khan, Miles Morales, Bobbi Morse. Side pairings I love: Steve/Bucky, Tony/Pepper, Bruce/Betty, Kate/America.
SEVEN
Prompts:
1) 'God damn maybe I am a little paranoid
Cause I can feel it getting harder to breathe
I really don't know when it began to be unbearable
But now it's sickening me'
(Disturbed - The Best Ones Lie)
2) "There are certain moments where I consider you someone with brilliant ideas and a good future. This is not one of those moments."
3) 1920s AU, whichever way you want to take it - all swinging twenties and pomp and fun, noir detective adventures, a sad and tragic period piece... whatever you like!
4) familiarity
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noun
1. close acquaintance with or knowledge of something
2. relaxed friendliness or intimacy between people
Yes please: Mundane AU, scifi, fantasy or magical realism. And smut. Smut is good, either as part of a longer story or a as a PWP. Kink is more than welcome. Canon is great too, and moving along the timeline for either comics or MCU.
No thank you: Anything related to AOU or the Barton farm and family, and importing comics characters into movieverse fic and vice versa. Also please no crossovers to non-Marvel canons either, no excessive fluff, no marriage or kids. Oh and no Coulson and please avoid Loki. And please no fusions or crossovers with other fandoms either.
Characters/Pairings: For movieverse, aside from Clint/Nat, I would also love poly Clint/Nat/Bucky, Nat/Bucky, Sam/Bucky, Steve/Bucky, or Steve/Sam. For comicsverse, platonic Clint & Nat rooted in their deep and long connection as exes, or romantic Clint/Kate.
EIGHT
Prompts:
Anything hurt/comfort
1. Whump leading to a happy christmas of being all together and happy
2. Christmas present shopping gone wrong
3. Christmas Eve being special
4. Christmas traditions (both good and bad)
5. Ending up together on boxing day and redoing Christmas for any reason - missed christmas
6. Looking at christmas lights/putting up decorations - stories from childhood
Yes please:
Comics/books/movies are all great, love any angst/hurt/comfort/whump (as long as there's pay off at the end of togetherness), I am very fine with most things (except my no thank yous!)
No thank you:
- Character death (sorry can't handle it)
- No AU's
Characters/Pairings:
1. Clint/Nat or OT3 is all good in any way. Clint/Nat being married always gets me too..
2. Any other pairing is fine (is it ok to put that no Bruce/Natasha?)
NINE
Prompts: in no particular order! You’re also welcome to whip up something else you think I’d like!
1. There are only around 120 anonymous Michelin restaurant inspectors in the world. They spend 3 out of every 4 weeks on the road, and must vacate a region for 10 years if they think a restaurant suspects their identity. Imagine: a real spy getting in trouble and mistaking a restaurant critic for a fellow agent. The critic takes their job very seriously and won’t reveal themselves, and so gets pulled into some kind of huge dangerous conspiracy whilst continuing to take notes on the quality of every restaurant they almost get shot in.
2. White Christmas AU
3. Cooking class disasters (can be a 5+1, AU, whatever!)
4. mission fic, but the mission is getting your partner to realize that they’re in love with you and you’ve been essentially dating for close to a year now.
5. They say love is patient, kind, and all other sorts of nice things, but when Clint and Natasha take too long to figure themselves out, love starts to lose its patience.
6. lighthouse keeper AU
Yes please: feel free to include: enemies to friends to lovers (or just friends to lovers), banter, wintery/holiday related shenanigans, Kate Bishop and America Chavez, mission fics, Natasha interacting with Maria, Pepper, and/or Melinda May. I also love Natasha and Steve being friends, especially when she goes to him for life or dating advice! I'm a sucker for fake dating and the more rom-com it is, the better :D
No thank you: death fics, ABO/anything particularly kink-based, kid/pregnancy fics, horror/gore
Characters/Pairings:
1. I prefer my Clint/Natasha canon divergent/denial: I’m fine with the farm, but I’m not particularly interested in Laura or the Barton fam and very super extremely not interested in Bruce/Natasha. Also cool with AUs and I love when comics canon comes into play!
2. For this exchange I’d like Clint/Natasha to be the main focus, but I also like Steve Rogers/Maria Hill, Thor/Valkyrie, and America Chavez/Kate Bishop.
TEN
Prompts:
1.There's a saying that goes "Misery loves Company". Therefore, Bucky and Clint, both raw from the events in "Endgame", are teaming up to spend the holidays together (Bucky doesn't want to impose on Sam's family, neither does he want to spend any time with Old Steve; Clint has had trouble to re-connect with his family on an emotional level ever since Bruce's snap). Cue their surprise when right on Christmas Evening, they get the gift of their life (in the person of a reincarnated Natasha showing up). I'll leave it to the gifter to figure out the how's and why's, but what I want is as much fluff as possible (be it in a romantical or a pure friendship between them three way)
2. Christmas proposal (with or without the other Avengers around; and I also leave it up to the gifter who's popping the question ;) Go nuts!
3. Christmas Party at Avengers Tower/Compound. Go nuts! Just some ideas: Earth-born characters explaining (and failing at) Christmas to spacebound characters (or those who only have heard about it); Thor's Asgardian Mead; a wayward mistletoe; spiked eggnog; shenanigans galore; ugly sweaters, courtesy of Tony (and it's mandatory to wear them); Secret Santa, ....
4. Swan Lake AU (can be traditional with Nat as the white swan and Clint as the prince, but you can also do a twist and swap the roles ;) ) But please with a happy ending!!
5. Last year, I got for one of the many exchanges I participated in a wonderful OT3 story set in the 1930's. Maybe this time, Nat and Clint are doing some time travel - accidentally or on purpose up to you - and run into a dashing young man named James Barnes... ;)
6. Western AU: Clint is a gun for hire, Nat a quite mysterious woman who's not only more than meets the eye, but who also catches Clint's attention the moment she walks into the saloon,...
Yes please: All the fluff, be it season-related or just the guys and gals! Happy Endings, Meet-Cutes, BAMF Ladies, Sexy Times, Three- or Moresomes, Weddings, Kids, Crossovers with the Fraction!verse or the Ed Brubaker Winter Soldier series, Idiots in Love (aka Mutual Pining, with or without some "helpful" friends)
No thank you: Major Character Death, Rape/Non-con, Character Bashing, Nat's Endgame ending, any of the bad guys (e.g. Rumlow, Pierce, Thanos) in a featuring part (mentioning is okay, though), Unhappy Endings, Suicide including attempts, any kind of Watersports (the kink ones), NO Bruce/Natasha romantic pairing (friendship is totally okay!) (the same goes for Steve/Sharon, please not even as a background pairing), Jealousy (to the point it will drive a wedge between characters)
Characters/Pairings:
Characters: Clint, Natasha, Bucky, Sam, Steve, and pretty much everyone from the hero side of the MCU/Fraction!verse
Pairings: Clint/Natasha, Clint/Natasha/Bucky, Bucky/Clint, Bucky/Natasha, Steve/Natasha, Natasha/Sam, Sam/Natasha/Steve, Bucky/Natasha/Steve, Bucky/Natasha/Sam, Clint/Natasha/Sam, Clint/Natasha/Steve, Clint/Laura/Natasha, Laura/Natasha, Clint/Laura, Clint/Wanda, Clint/Pietro, Natasha/Wanda, Carol/Natasha (all of these pairings also work as friendship for me!)
ELEVEN
Prompts:
1.Anything with Clint Barton collecting strays. For example, after Clint brings Natasha into SHIELD, since he thinks he's so good at recruitment part of his punishment is SHIELD sending Clint to give the recruitment pitch to other… troublesome potential hires. (Bonus: Clint actually manages to recruit them.) Or somehow Clint's apartment becomes the HQ for the Young Avengers. Or after SHIELD takes down the Red Room Clint somehow kinda adopts a bunch of teen assassins.
2. AU: James Barnes is the Russian assassin Clint Barton brings in from the cold and into SHIELD. Natasha Romanoff is the Winter Soldier. (This could be gen, any pairing, or threesome!)
3. Anything circus or carnival related.
4. Fury: I hope you have a good explanation for this. / Natasha: We have three actually. / Clint: Pick your favorite. = Clint and Natasha giving multiple reasons or explanations for something and people not knowing which is true. For example, why is there a marriage certificate with their names on it? What DID happen in Budapest? How did the Avengers get banned from IKEA?
5. AU: a weird/awkward first meeting. For example: We live in the same building but we've never met and Sunday morning we were both doing the walk of shame up the stairs together. Or first day at a new job and, oh shit, we hooked up last night/weekend. Or okay, i'm here at 2am because that is a perfectly reasonable time to go shopping/the the dance studio/wherever, but what's your excuse? You get the idea!
6. Everyone lives in the Tower fic or team!family fic.
Yes please: If any of this works for your fic I love sass and banter, found family, friendships, happy or at least hopeful endings, diversity, deaf!Clint, and AUs (from canon divergent to completely different). When it comes to sexytimes feel free to include them or not; romantic, sub/dom tones, or sex being ridiculous and messy all welcome, and sexuality as infinite varieties in infinite combinations.
No thank you: (permanent) major character death, pregnancy or weddings as a main plot point, non-con, dub-con, character bashing, and I’d rather not have anything lockdown or pandemic related please.
Characters/Pairings:
1.Clint/Natasha - I am more than happy with any form of Clint and/or Natasha, as friends, partners, lovers, competitors, enemies to friends, married, it’s all good!
2. I'm also a fan of Clint/Nat/Bucky, Clint/Bucky, Nat/Steve/Bucky, Clint/Steve/Bucky. For other characters and pairings, whoever brings friendship and sass (off the top of my head: Kate, Steve, Sam, Tony, Rhodey, Maria, America) so whoever you like!
For example:
FIRST: twenty-four
SECOND: three
THIRD: sixteen
A few things:
- you're not guaranteed your choices, but we WILL keep to your choices as much as possible
- you have until MIDDAY GMT Saturday 17th October to comment with your choices or we'll match you up without one. (If everyone comments before the deadline we’ll try to send assignments out earlier.)
- your assignment will be sent to you by email, so please check your emails including your spam folder for anything that comes from be_compromised@hotmail.com and let us know if you don't receive anything by October 21st.
And onwards to the main event…
ONE
Prompts:
1. The old Secret Relationship trope! Facts come to light over the holidays.
2. Thwarted timely acquisition of seasonal gifts or failing to even pick one.
3. Mistletoe shenanigans! Come on, 'tis the season after all!
4. "Will you stop yelling at me long enough for me to confess that I love you?!"
5. Deadpool throws a Christmas party. Oh hey, why did everybody show up armed and expecting a fight?! Be honest: Do you think it had anything to do with the "invitations" being spelled out with single letters cut and pasted from magazines? Arts and crafts isn't his strong suit.
6. Outside POV from somebody looking in on the Avengers team dynamics. For example JARVIS, an Asgardian or one of the other aliens.
Yes please: I'd like something that ends on an upbeat note, please. If you arrive there via heartache first, that's alright!
No thank you: Please no school or band AU. Please no kid fic, pregnancies, shmoopy proposals or weddings.
Characters/Pairings:
1. Way I see it, Clint and Natasha belong together and pretty much share a brain.
Whether that's in a platonic or romantic capacity I will leave up to you, as long as they are very close. If you think Bucky should be part of their relationship in any way, well, I am okay with that.
2. All the strong Marvel ladies! Maria Hill! Pepper Potts! Kate Bishop! You name them! Yelena Belova, too, even though we've hardly met her. Other than them I am happy with any character apart from Rumlow. Boo, Rumlow!
TWO
Prompts:
1. Hawkguy comics verse, with Kate shaking her head at stuff
2. Accidental displacement in space or time (fixit elements optional)
3. Respect the classics: go for the tropiest tropes - from Natasha starts at SHIELD to the different call; everyone hangs out in the Tower; fake!marriage or secret!marriage; slow-burn-pining-oh-my-god-are-they-really-that-blind??; SHIELD betting pool; or why the heck not Budapest?? Write like it's 2012!
4. "An odd thing happened on the way to [...]" or "X and Y and A walk into a bar" - pick any excuse for weird and wonderful MCU character pairings (not PAIRINGS-pairings, just odd people in the same place with Clint and/or Natasha, you know what I mean)
5. urban fantasy, magical realism
6. anything you've always wanted to write, or a WIP you were looking to find an excuse to finish...
Yes please: humour! angst! angsty humour! competence porn! fluff! friendship! smouldering/pining/slow burns/friends-to-lovers!
No thank you: threesomes, no Laura & the kids this time, no PWP/explicit sex ("M" is fine, just don't tag like a bazillion sex acts) or graphic violence
Characters/Pairings:
1. Clint/Natasha (duh)
2. Clint & Natasha (& whoever)
3. Anyone else from the comics or the MCU is happy to drop by in numbers small or large
THREE
Prompts:
1. Get a little closer, let fold
Cut open my sternum, and pull
My little ribs around you
The rungs of me be under, under you
-Fineshrine, Purity Ring
2. Trading clothes! bonus points if they all know the other(s) are doing it.
(double bonus points if the clothes that are traded have the person asking's logos on them 😂 (e.g. Clint owns a sweater with a Black Widow logo on it))
3. I hear your heart beat to the beat of the drums
Oh, what a shame that you came here with someone
So while you're here in my arms
Let's make the most of the night like we're gonna die young
-Die Young, Kesha (aka Clubbing but make it OT3 ;P )
4. Tony forces all the Avengers to move into the tower with him because now that there are so many of them he doesn't "feel like a family" any more. Hijinks (or found family feels, I'm not picky) ensue.
5. Holiday traditions/superstitions
6.
Yes please: Happy endings! Fluff! Found family! a bit of angst 😇
No thank you: Laura, pregnancy, kid!fic
Characters/Pairings:
1. I love Clint + Nat being badass partners/totally dysfunctional normal people. Also very into Clint/Bucky/Nat and AUs, although AUs are certainly not required. Ignoring canon for something that's less... upsetting is my jam ;P
2. Sif/Loki
Pepper/Tony
Kate/America
Carol/Nat
FOUR
Prompts:
1. OT3 (ClintNatLaura or ClintNatBucky). Throw in some cats or dogs. Show them being soft with one another. If you want to throw in some smut, I would not object.
2. We made three rules when we started to sleep together - 1) friendship always comes first, 2) nothing changes except that we do naked things together, and 3) no romantic feelings - but i broke rule 3 and you’re the only person i want to talk about it with
3. Blind Date AU: They keep winding up at the same restaurants with awful blind dates until one night they say screw it and try a date with each other. (Or their blind dates don't show up and they decide to share their meal.)
4. You look so hot but i can’t go near you with all these people around so i’m just going to send you dirty texts/sign language until we get an opportunity to leave without looking suspicious. Bonus if there's a stray misdirected text.
5. Sharing a bed/body heat while stranded in a harsh, remote locale. Injury to one or both optional.
6. Clothes sharing/swapping/stealing, either on purpose or by accident. (Can Clint help it if he has a grey hoodie *just like Natasha's*?)
Yes please: I like most things, but some particular things I like are: romance, smut, OT3s, team as family, happy or hopeful endings, AUs, and banter. If one of these vague things strikes your fancy but does not fit a specific prompt, feel free to go wild.
Use the MCU, the Disney cartoons, or the comics. Or mash them all up. I am ridiculously easy to please.
No thank you: Prefer nots include - Major character death, kid!fic (unless it includes Clint's existing children), Laura bashing (if you really hate her pretend she doesn't exist), Phil as part of an OT3, unhappy endings
Absolutely do not include - Anything with Clint & Loki, A/B/O, age-play, non-con, rape (although I'm a-ok with kinky smut.)
Characters/Pairings:
Anything with Clint/Natasha, including friends, lovers, OT3s, canon-compliant, AU, comics, cartoons, MCU, or a mishmash of different canons.
Honestly, you could randomly throw a dart (or shoot an arrow?) at the Marvel line up and hit a character I like. USE MORE PLEASE. But please use the villains sparingly and don't bother redeeming them.
FIVE
Prompts:
1. Teenaged Clint finds teenaged Natasha who’s just escaped from the Red Room and has to hide her from both Red Room agents and his foster family. AKA Season 1 of Stranger Things ClintNat au.
2. Maria and Laura are friendly exs and Maria accidentally (or on purpose) sets her up with Clint and Natasha. Years later Clint tells the story, How I Met Your Mothers, to the Barton kids.
3. OT3 person of your choice is a travel writer/blogger who keeps running into Nat and Clint at various exotic destinations.
4. Clint and Nat (or OT3) are celebrities and news of their relationship has just leaked. Bonus points if it’s epistolary/has a social media element.
5. “I overheard you yelling loudly over the phone in Russian and I have no idea what you just said but damn I’m sort of aroused” AU.
6. Sharon, Maria, and Natasha become bffs by bonding over SHIELD gossip and judging each others love lives.
Yes please: Go create what you'd like, but I enjoy good natured/gentle teasing, domestic moments, and banter. The team all being friends and especially the ladies all being friends would be very appreciated. I'd prefer something with a happy/positive ending. Endgame didn’t happen unless everyone lived.
No thank you: Character death (especially Endgame canon character death).
Characters/Pairings: My big ones are ClintNat and ClintNatLaura, but I’m fond of Clint/Nat/Bucky and Nat/Yelena. I’m for Nat/any female character. My only real notp is Nat/Bruce.
SIX
Prompts:
(1) five times Lucky solved the case and one time Hawkeyes did
(2) old school, everyone-lives-in-the-tower fic
(3) "this friends with benefits situation was not supposed to develop feelings."
(4) “Listen: there’s a hell of a good universe next door; let’s go.” – e. e. cummings
(5) (774): i just walked into a room at this party and someone yelled "dibs!"...
(6) “Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.”
– Muhammad Ali
Yes please: I love both non-AUs and AUs, with a particular fondness for dystopia, urban fantasy and magical realism. I love female friendships (and friendship in general) and badass ladies. I am a-okay with everything ranging from PWP sex (though some DNW exist, see below) through to genfic. I love competency porn, 616 crossovers, banter and snark, relationship negotiation, friends to lovers, big casts and cameo characters, UST and pining (ALL THE PINING).
No thank you: canon compliance past Civil War/Black Panther, AoU Barton Farm, heavy BDSM, rape/non-con, dub-con, incest, abuse, A/B/O, curtain fic, kid fic, bad guys being good guys, character death and character bashing. Also not a huge fan of marriage proposals.
Characters/Pairings: Clint/Natasha, Clint/Bucky/Nat, Clint & Kate, Natasha & ladies, general friendships (also Clint/Nat/Steve and Clint/Nat/Sam if you’re so inclined). Characters I love: Bucky Barnes, Steve Rogers, Pepper Potts, Maria Hill, Kate Bishop, America Chavez, Kamala Khan, Miles Morales, Bobbi Morse. Side pairings I love: Steve/Bucky, Tony/Pepper, Bruce/Betty, Kate/America.
SEVEN
Prompts:
1) 'God damn maybe I am a little paranoid
Cause I can feel it getting harder to breathe
I really don't know when it began to be unbearable
But now it's sickening me'
(Disturbed - The Best Ones Lie)
2) "There are certain moments where I consider you someone with brilliant ideas and a good future. This is not one of those moments."
3) 1920s AU, whichever way you want to take it - all swinging twenties and pomp and fun, noir detective adventures, a sad and tragic period piece... whatever you like!
4) familiarity
/fəmɪlɪˈarɪti/
noun
1. close acquaintance with or knowledge of something
2. relaxed friendliness or intimacy between people
Yes please: Mundane AU, scifi, fantasy or magical realism. And smut. Smut is good, either as part of a longer story or a as a PWP. Kink is more than welcome. Canon is great too, and moving along the timeline for either comics or MCU.
No thank you: Anything related to AOU or the Barton farm and family, and importing comics characters into movieverse fic and vice versa. Also please no crossovers to non-Marvel canons either, no excessive fluff, no marriage or kids. Oh and no Coulson and please avoid Loki. And please no fusions or crossovers with other fandoms either.
Characters/Pairings: For movieverse, aside from Clint/Nat, I would also love poly Clint/Nat/Bucky, Nat/Bucky, Sam/Bucky, Steve/Bucky, or Steve/Sam. For comicsverse, platonic Clint & Nat rooted in their deep and long connection as exes, or romantic Clint/Kate.
EIGHT
Prompts:
Anything hurt/comfort
1. Whump leading to a happy christmas of being all together and happy
2. Christmas present shopping gone wrong
3. Christmas Eve being special
4. Christmas traditions (both good and bad)
5. Ending up together on boxing day and redoing Christmas for any reason - missed christmas
6. Looking at christmas lights/putting up decorations - stories from childhood
Yes please:
Comics/books/movies are all great, love any angst/hurt/comfort/whump (as long as there's pay off at the end of togetherness), I am very fine with most things (except my no thank yous!)
No thank you:
- Character death (sorry can't handle it)
- No AU's
Characters/Pairings:
1. Clint/Nat or OT3 is all good in any way. Clint/Nat being married always gets me too..
2. Any other pairing is fine (is it ok to put that no Bruce/Natasha?)
NINE
Prompts: in no particular order! You’re also welcome to whip up something else you think I’d like!
1. There are only around 120 anonymous Michelin restaurant inspectors in the world. They spend 3 out of every 4 weeks on the road, and must vacate a region for 10 years if they think a restaurant suspects their identity. Imagine: a real spy getting in trouble and mistaking a restaurant critic for a fellow agent. The critic takes their job very seriously and won’t reveal themselves, and so gets pulled into some kind of huge dangerous conspiracy whilst continuing to take notes on the quality of every restaurant they almost get shot in.
2. White Christmas AU
3. Cooking class disasters (can be a 5+1, AU, whatever!)
4. mission fic, but the mission is getting your partner to realize that they’re in love with you and you’ve been essentially dating for close to a year now.
5. They say love is patient, kind, and all other sorts of nice things, but when Clint and Natasha take too long to figure themselves out, love starts to lose its patience.
6. lighthouse keeper AU
Yes please: feel free to include: enemies to friends to lovers (or just friends to lovers), banter, wintery/holiday related shenanigans, Kate Bishop and America Chavez, mission fics, Natasha interacting with Maria, Pepper, and/or Melinda May. I also love Natasha and Steve being friends, especially when she goes to him for life or dating advice! I'm a sucker for fake dating and the more rom-com it is, the better :D
No thank you: death fics, ABO/anything particularly kink-based, kid/pregnancy fics, horror/gore
Characters/Pairings:
1. I prefer my Clint/Natasha canon divergent/denial: I’m fine with the farm, but I’m not particularly interested in Laura or the Barton fam and very super extremely not interested in Bruce/Natasha. Also cool with AUs and I love when comics canon comes into play!
2. For this exchange I’d like Clint/Natasha to be the main focus, but I also like Steve Rogers/Maria Hill, Thor/Valkyrie, and America Chavez/Kate Bishop.
TEN
Prompts:
1.There's a saying that goes "Misery loves Company". Therefore, Bucky and Clint, both raw from the events in "Endgame", are teaming up to spend the holidays together (Bucky doesn't want to impose on Sam's family, neither does he want to spend any time with Old Steve; Clint has had trouble to re-connect with his family on an emotional level ever since Bruce's snap). Cue their surprise when right on Christmas Evening, they get the gift of their life (in the person of a reincarnated Natasha showing up). I'll leave it to the gifter to figure out the how's and why's, but what I want is as much fluff as possible (be it in a romantical or a pure friendship between them three way)
2. Christmas proposal (with or without the other Avengers around; and I also leave it up to the gifter who's popping the question ;) Go nuts!
3. Christmas Party at Avengers Tower/Compound. Go nuts! Just some ideas: Earth-born characters explaining (and failing at) Christmas to spacebound characters (or those who only have heard about it); Thor's Asgardian Mead; a wayward mistletoe; spiked eggnog; shenanigans galore; ugly sweaters, courtesy of Tony (and it's mandatory to wear them); Secret Santa, ....
4. Swan Lake AU (can be traditional with Nat as the white swan and Clint as the prince, but you can also do a twist and swap the roles ;) ) But please with a happy ending!!
5. Last year, I got for one of the many exchanges I participated in a wonderful OT3 story set in the 1930's. Maybe this time, Nat and Clint are doing some time travel - accidentally or on purpose up to you - and run into a dashing young man named James Barnes... ;)
6. Western AU: Clint is a gun for hire, Nat a quite mysterious woman who's not only more than meets the eye, but who also catches Clint's attention the moment she walks into the saloon,...
Yes please: All the fluff, be it season-related or just the guys and gals! Happy Endings, Meet-Cutes, BAMF Ladies, Sexy Times, Three- or Moresomes, Weddings, Kids, Crossovers with the Fraction!verse or the Ed Brubaker Winter Soldier series, Idiots in Love (aka Mutual Pining, with or without some "helpful" friends)
No thank you: Major Character Death, Rape/Non-con, Character Bashing, Nat's Endgame ending, any of the bad guys (e.g. Rumlow, Pierce, Thanos) in a featuring part (mentioning is okay, though), Unhappy Endings, Suicide including attempts, any kind of Watersports (the kink ones), NO Bruce/Natasha romantic pairing (friendship is totally okay!) (the same goes for Steve/Sharon, please not even as a background pairing), Jealousy (to the point it will drive a wedge between characters)
Characters/Pairings:
Characters: Clint, Natasha, Bucky, Sam, Steve, and pretty much everyone from the hero side of the MCU/Fraction!verse
Pairings: Clint/Natasha, Clint/Natasha/Bucky, Bucky/Clint, Bucky/Natasha, Steve/Natasha, Natasha/Sam, Sam/Natasha/Steve, Bucky/Natasha/Steve, Bucky/Natasha/Sam, Clint/Natasha/Sam, Clint/Natasha/Steve, Clint/Laura/Natasha, Laura/Natasha, Clint/Laura, Clint/Wanda, Clint/Pietro, Natasha/Wanda, Carol/Natasha (all of these pairings also work as friendship for me!)
ELEVEN
Prompts:
1.Anything with Clint Barton collecting strays. For example, after Clint brings Natasha into SHIELD, since he thinks he's so good at recruitment part of his punishment is SHIELD sending Clint to give the recruitment pitch to other… troublesome potential hires. (Bonus: Clint actually manages to recruit them.) Or somehow Clint's apartment becomes the HQ for the Young Avengers. Or after SHIELD takes down the Red Room Clint somehow kinda adopts a bunch of teen assassins.
2. AU: James Barnes is the Russian assassin Clint Barton brings in from the cold and into SHIELD. Natasha Romanoff is the Winter Soldier. (This could be gen, any pairing, or threesome!)
3. Anything circus or carnival related.
4. Fury: I hope you have a good explanation for this. / Natasha: We have three actually. / Clint: Pick your favorite. = Clint and Natasha giving multiple reasons or explanations for something and people not knowing which is true. For example, why is there a marriage certificate with their names on it? What DID happen in Budapest? How did the Avengers get banned from IKEA?
5. AU: a weird/awkward first meeting. For example: We live in the same building but we've never met and Sunday morning we were both doing the walk of shame up the stairs together. Or first day at a new job and, oh shit, we hooked up last night/weekend. Or okay, i'm here at 2am because that is a perfectly reasonable time to go shopping/the the dance studio/wherever, but what's your excuse? You get the idea!
6. Everyone lives in the Tower fic or team!family fic.
Yes please: If any of this works for your fic I love sass and banter, found family, friendships, happy or at least hopeful endings, diversity, deaf!Clint, and AUs (from canon divergent to completely different). When it comes to sexytimes feel free to include them or not; romantic, sub/dom tones, or sex being ridiculous and messy all welcome, and sexuality as infinite varieties in infinite combinations.
No thank you: (permanent) major character death, pregnancy or weddings as a main plot point, non-con, dub-con, character bashing, and I’d rather not have anything lockdown or pandemic related please.
Characters/Pairings:
1.Clint/Natasha - I am more than happy with any form of Clint and/or Natasha, as friends, partners, lovers, competitors, enemies to friends, married, it’s all good!
2. I'm also a fan of Clint/Nat/Bucky, Clint/Bucky, Nat/Steve/Bucky, Clint/Steve/Bucky. For other characters and pairings, whoever brings friendship and sass (off the top of my head: Kate, Steve, Sam, Tony, Rhodey, Maria, America) so whoever you like!
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