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 23 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 23rd October to comment with your choices or we'll match you up without one. (If everyone comments with their choices before the deadline then 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 29th.

And onwards to the main event…



ONE

Prompts:
1. Leverage Crossover. Either Clint or Natasha have a past with one of the crew and their missions intersect, causing chaos. Or hilarity. Or both.

2. Clint and Nat have shared beds before. It's no big deal. But lately there’s something about one's bleary eyes and mussed hair in the morning that just makes the other one... feel things.

3. ‘Wait, you’ve been hired to kill this guy too?!’

4. Natasha's family can be very nosy. And inconsiderate. And even though Natasha has her own safehouses all over, they just keep finding them and barging in at the most inopportune times. Lucky thing Clint is a very patient man (and also, its happened so often, he's used to it by now.)

5. Hallmark Ahoy! Clint is a small town farm guy with hidden depths/secret past. Nat is a city girl out of her depth in the country and trying to fit in. Superhero or mundane. Your choice.

6. Winter shenanigans - snowball fight, snowman building, ice skating, the first snow of winter, snuggling by a fire, whatever winter-like thing floats your boat.

Yes please: mission fics, angst with a happy ending, magical/mystical, AU (with the exception of HS), poly (preferences below, but feel free to go nuts with others, I'm ok if they sleep around), 2012 they all live in the tower, existing Barton kids are ok (but new Clint/Nat ones are not), fluff, feels (give me so many feels!), blending of different canons (MCU, comics, cartoons, etc), future fic

No thank you: Permanent character death, OG Loki, Brainwashing (unless its recovery from!), noncon, rape, any mention of Bruce/Nat unless its tongue-in-cheek never-gonna-happen.

Characters/Pairings:
1.Clint/Natasha (DUH!), Clint/Nat/Bucky, Clint/Nat/Laura, pretty much any side pairing you want to include, het or slash
2. Clint, Natasha, Bucky, Laura, Steve, Peggy, Tony, Pepper, Sam, Scott & family, Bruce, Sam's sister Sara, Zemo, Kate, America, Yelena, Melina&Alexei, Draykov, Darcy, Jane, Thor, Wanda, Monica, Loki, Sylvie... Listen, if they've been on my screen, they're ok to include.

TWO

Prompts:
1. Write like it's 2012! Tower shenanigans; what really happened at the Shawarma joint; Maria Hill and Clint meet over a drink and deal with their shit; Natasha is SO done with Banner apologizing for whatever the Other Guy did to her foot. Take your pick!

2. Yelena goes looking for Clint, a Madam Hydra-supplied photograph in her hand, and murder in her heart. The first place she heads to, naturally, is a farm in Iowa. Depending on how you feel about AoU, she finds either Laura and the kids, Kate and America, or Barney Barton. Then Clint shows up - with or without Natasha, depending on how what Endgame fix-its exist within your head.

3. Clint meets Wanda in the Rockies, a few weeks after Westview. "They say you can shape reality now?" he says, a haunted look in his eyes.

4. Screwball mission!fic. Dinosaurs, time travel, dragons, de-aged and/or duplicated Tony Starks, evil garden gnomes, goose on the loose - anything goes! Whatever your fevered imagination can produce, provided Clint and Natasha - plus Kate - are in the middle of it, the former two preferably still stuck in a state of unresolved mutual pining.

5. Family reunion (pre-Infinity War/Endgame). Alexei, Melina, Yelena, Barney, Clint, Natasha - any and all combinations! Bonus points if another Avenger or one of the Guardians of the Galaxy pop by.

6. Write whatever your heart desires - that leftover Promptathon thing you didn't get around to; a languishing WIP; some weird AU you always wanted to write but thought no one would ever read - I will love it, provided it stars Clint & Natasha (plus anyone else you like, including if you like, for this one, Laura).

Yes please: competence porn, banter, screwball comedy, mild angst, UST ---> RST, friends to lovers, established couple. Romance, friendship, sexytimes, they don't know each other yet, I'll take it all!

No thank you: Three or more-somes; *unresolved* character death (deaths with resurrections or fixits are absolutely fine); graphic violence; A/B/O.

Characters/Pairings:

1. Clint/Natasha

2. Clint & Natasha

3. other Avengers are welcome to put in an appearance, alone or in flocks.

THREE

Prompts:
1. Olympics AU
2. The Witcher AU
3. Avengers tower mischief
4. 5 times Natasha faked her death and 1 time Clint did (or reverse)

Yes please: banter, fluff, soulmate-y things

No thank you: character death, angst

Characters/Pairings:
1. OTP, if attempting canon then Natasha didn't die in Endgame, or complete AU is fine
2. Tony/Pepper

FOUR

Prompts:
1. Coffee shop/bakery/university aus
2. Getting together, friends/exes to lovers.
3. Rom-com type tropes of any kind/hallmark movie au
4. Fake dating/mission cover dating
5. Road trip - au or mission based


Yes please: Silent understanding, touch-starved characters, true friendship, supportive friends. Snark. Happy ending.

No thank you: Character death, unresolved angst, terminal illness, miscarriage. Character hate (such as when Tony is written as an unredeemable asshole).

Characters/Pairings:
1. Comic disaster Clint, together or winterwidowhawk, or best friends with Natasha/happiness and Clint/Bucky. Everyone lives. Laura either doesn’t exist or is a sister. I love Bucky and Clint shenanigans of any kind

2. Bucky/happiness. Steve/Bucky, Bucky/Sam, anyone who makes Bucky happy similar to Natasha above 😂 Only real notp is Natasha/Bruce. And I guess any of the ‘bad guys’ as current pairings, Rumlow and Pierce can go jump off a cliff.

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.

2. 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.

3. “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.

4. Sharon, Maria, and Natasha become bffs by bonding over SHIELD gossip and judging each others love lives.

5. Clint and Natasha have been friends with benefits for awhile, but oh no! Now there's feelings! Now the two most emotionally awkward people ever must negotiate a relationship.

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 like both platonic and romantic Nat and Yelena). I’m for Nat/any female character. My only real notp is Nat/Bruce.

SIX

Prompts:
1. Swapping all their clothes, even though they have different body types
2. Someone (Pepper? Matt Murdock???) is throwing an ugly Christmas sweater party and Clint, Natasha (and maybe Bucky) all get way too into trying to have the ugliest sweater
3. Leverage AU
4. Needing to stay warm in a wintery storm (ideally more like staying cozy indoors, but up to you!)
5. A fic based on one of the McElroys' fake christmas movies 😂 (I made a list here in case anyone is interested and unfamiliar)
6. Pacific Rim AU

Yes please: OT3s, AUs, fluff, hilarious misunderstandings, snowy weather 😊, memes

No thank you: Major character death, cheating, kids, Laura (sorry!), Bruce/Natasha (not sorry)

Characters/Pairings:
1. I generally ship Clint and Nat romantically but intense platonic relationships are also my jam. I almost always ignore AOU and any character death :P
2. Clint/Natasha/Bucky, sometimes I add Steve into the relationship for fun

SEVEN

Prompts:
1. Natasha survives Endgame and comes to live on the Farm full time. Plenty of H/C and learning to be "retired"

2. Western AU. New sheriff Clint/Natasha meets the local ranch owner and tries to figure out who's stealing their cattle.

3. Clint and Natasha on a day of from Avengering/Shield-ing. Nothing bad happens.

4. Four times Clint/Nat needed the other and One Time They Didn't.

5. Clint & Nat stealing/borrowing each other’s clothes

6. The power is out due to a natural disaster that is not life threatening. The problem is, everything in the fridge and freezer is going to go to waste if we don’t eat it.

Yes please: Clint/Laura, Farm Family Clint/Nat, mix of film/comic/Hawkeye D+ show is fine, Lucky is the best, AUs are cool, Natasha Lives is always welcome, sexy times are welcome as well, so is Clint and Nat just chilling. Barney/Yelena showing up in a cameo is cool too.

No thank you: Endgame death

Characters/Pairings:
1. Tony/Bruce

EIGHT

Prompts:
1. Clint/Nat/Laura trying to beat holiday shopping for the kids
2. Classic Clint/Nat "there's only one bed and we're stuck in a snowstorm"
3. Team Clint vs. Team Nat tactical snowball fight
4. Clint asks Nat for help finding Kate a Christmas present
5. Clint/Nat hallmark Christmas movie AU
6. MCU!Nat upon sacrificing herself is able to view different multi-verses of herself

Yes please:
1. Fluff fluff fluff
2. Also smut is good too
3. Big fan of Matt Fraction's comic-verse Clint
4. I love when Clint's hearing loss is in the

No thank you:
- Character death
- Angst (wanna stay in the happy holiday season!)

Characters/Pairings:
1. Clint/Nat getting together
2. Clint/Nat/Laura happy throuple
3. Big fan of Clint & Kate interaction
4. Also love Kate & Natasha
5. Sisterly Natasha & Yelena is good too

NINE

Prompts: in no particular order! You’re also welcome to whip up something else you think I’d like!
1. You’ve Got Mail AU (flirty penpals who, unbeknownst to them, are mortal enemies IRL)
2. Nobody knows how Clint and Natasha ended up planning the holiday party, but Maria will be damned if anyone lets them do it again
3. Tired of attending every holiday event as singles, Clint and Natasha decide it’ll just be easier if they pretend they’re dating. Nobody’s going to catch feels, right? ...right??
4. Tired of unrequitedly pining for each other, Clint and Natasha each ask the same person to set them up on a blind date. Which they do... with each other.
5. Secret Santa - just what the hell is one meant to buy a reformed Russian spy and/or an archer assassin?
6. Any unusual workplace 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 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. Christmas traditions gone wrong
2. Christmas not being ideal but making it up
3. Being given time off for holidays but using it in an unusual way (going looking for something, recovering, having an actual holiday)
4. Christmas superstitions or superstitions in general

Yes please:
Angst with a happy ending, hurt/comfort, whump is all good :) (I'm also a sucker for female friendships)

No thank you:
No character death (or any death) is a def no (sorry can't do), no au if possible (au in the same world is fine just no putting characters in like bookshop au or supernatural au etc). No pure fluff if possible...

Characters/Pairings:
1. Clint/Nat

ELEVEN

Prompts:
1. Mission fic, competence porn
2. Slice of Life / Domestic Assassins / Everyone lives in the Tower
3. Horse AU (Olympics? Western?)
4. Mermaid AU
5. 5+1
6. Undercover married

Yes please: fluff, domestic, mission fic, happy endings, friends-to-lovers, smut is good but not necessary, romance, action/adventure, Lucky, Liho, team, AU works for me, Natasha hurt/comfort

No thank you: character death, non-con, dub-con, angst without a happy ending, extreme violence, Clint or Natasha with other partners/lovers, character bashing, genderswap

Characters/Pairings:
1. Clint/Natasha - together, feel free to ignore anything AofU and beyond
2. team fic is good too, I don't have preferences for other pairings

TWELVE

Prompts:
1. Anything with Clint Barton collecting strays. Like Natasha! And perhaps Bucky or Yelena. Perhaps he ends up helping a bunch of Widows? Or his apartment somehow ends up the headquarters of the Young Avengers? Or when living in the Tower he ends up befriending the cleaners, a random intern, the mail guy...

2. Inspired by Doctor Strange - there is a network of guardians at key points around the world protecting people, and this reality, from... magic/other worlds/insert idea here.
Natasha and Clint have very different ways of going about it. Both work.
Potential bonus ideas: Natasha could have a black cat familiar. Clint could have an apprentice called Kate.

3. Anything with circus or carnival. Canon or AU, the circus stops in Ohio, normal or magical, 5 + 1, anything at all. (I'm particularly a fan of the kind of found family, diverse, going to the supermarket at 2am covered in glitter type of circus/carnival.)

4. Natasha goes undercover with the Tracksuit Mafia and ends up reluctantly impressed by the random guy with the bow who refuses to kowtow to their bullshit demands.

5. I was listening to an audio book with headphones [in the gym/swimming/wherever], and you were trying to get my attention to flirt. But I was distracted by a sex scene and the awkwardness of listening to it while in public.

6. Everyone lives in the Tower fic or team!family fic. Party like it's 2012! Or old school comics! Or any combination of team! Tropes and shenanigans welcome.

Yes please: If any of this works for your fic I love sass and banter, found family, friendships, happy or at least hopeful endings, a heap of comfort following hurt or angst, 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, 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, and any ship or character bashing. I’d rather not have anything lockdown or pandemic related please.

Characters/Pairings:
1.Clint/Natasha - any form of Clint and/or Natasha, as friends, partners, queerplatonic, lovers, enemies to friends, married... it’s all good!
2. I'm also a fan of Clint/Nat/Bucky (feel free to turn any prompt into OT3) and Clint/Bucky. All other characters and pairings welcome! If using characters from the tv shows please just make sure I can follow your fic even if I haven't watched them yet :)

THIRTEEN

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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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.

FOURTEEN

Prompts:
1. Sex worker AU. Can be smutty or not, up to you.
2. Mulan AU. Natasha has to go undercover as a guy Because Reasons and meets and falls for Clint, who (gratifyingly) falls back. Only, how to explain she’s not a guy? Could be both AU or canon-adjacent I guess. Red Room?
3. Slice of life. A day in the life of Clint and Natasha, master assassins.
4. Clint and Natasha inviting third into their relationship. Lots of relationship negotiation and feelings.
5. Road tripping AU/backpacking AU – take me on holiday, seeing as I still can’t really go anywhere
6. I'll be your mirror, reflect what you are, in case you don't know – I'll Be Your Mirror by The Velvet Underground and Nico

Yes please: dystopia, urban fantasy, magical realism, female friendships (and friendship in general), badass ladies, competency porn, banter and snark, relationship negotiation, friends to lovers, cameos, UST, polyamory, pining, mission fic, tower fic.

No thank you: rape/non-con, dub-con, incest, abuse, A/B/O, curtain fic, kid fic, characters bashing, Barton Farm, Clint/Laura, Bruce/Natasha, canon compliance past Civil War/Black Panther (cherry picking elements is fine but the general arc of the story/all those deaths? No thanks). I’m also not a huge fan of marriage proposals.

Characters/Pairings:
1. Any MCU characters you like. Feel free to add 616 characters such as Kate Bishop, America Chavez, Jen Walters, Jessica Drew, Miles Morales, Lucky the Pizza Dog, Liho and Alpine.
2. Clint/Natasha and Clint/Natasha/Bucky are my favourites. Other pairings I like include Steve/Bucky, Tony/Pepper, Clint/Natasha/Sam, Carol/Maria, Steve/Peggy, Wanda/Vision, Steve/Peggy/Bucky, Kate/America, and Bruce/Betty. No Sam/Bucky, Darcy/anyone, Coulson/anyone or Loki/anyone please.