Where can people find you and what are your usernames / online handles: You can find me under Chaed on Ao3, ffnet and tumblr, although only the first one is active.

What’s your brand of Marvel? Mainly MCU, with a few headcannons that stem from the comics.

What’s your brand of Clint and Natasha? I like SHIELD-era spy stuff and everything STRIKE Team Delta, as well as AUs—and for those, canon-divergent rather than completely unrelated universes. I am not a fan of Laura triangles, although I enjoy stories she's part of, either happily married with Clint and Nat as Clint's best friend, post-divorce Clintasha or even cheating Clintasha (yes, that is not below me, sorry Laura).

List some of your favourite Marvel characters/pairings other than Clint and Natasha: Pepperony was my first OTP, and I've dipped my toes in Tony/Nat before, although that one needed an AU-verse to work in my head. Currently Clintasha is my desired pairing.

Are there any other fandoms you're currently into? Not in terms of content creation. I was big into Resident Evil, but they lost me a couple years ago with all their reboots.

How do you / would you like to participate in fandoms? I am mainly a writer, although I'm known to spend untenable amounts of time doodling fanart for my own stories in Photoshop when I try to procrastinate writers block. I'll gladly beta read and cheerlead, and if anyone knows good long-fic, that's my favorite to read.

What're some of your favourite things you love to see in fic/creative works? Realism most of all, especially concerning action and medical stuff. I really like whump and hurt/comfort, but you'll loose me if a bandaid somehow magically fixes internal hemorrhage and a bad concussion disappears within the first paragraph's dialogue. I also like well-written intimacy that goes a little deeper than Captain America getting a boner every time he sees Tony stepping out of his sweaty Iron Man suit, lol. In terms of Clintasha specifically, the various forms of their initial hookup, Natasha opening up about her Red Room days, general Delta awesomeness and any and all survival scenarios that really put them to the test.

Rec us something/s (fic, vid, art, graphics, meta, anything): https://archiveofourown.org/works/12577504 A brilliant (and hot) Clintasha oneshot.

Self rec something that you've written/created: https://archiveofourown.org/works/48548197 My first foray into Clintasha this summer.

Give us 3 sentences or a teaser of something creative, fic or otherwise, that you’re working on:

(a scene from my current story in the works, hopefully coming soon to a fanfiction archive near you)

I had just stepped out of the shower when I heard a light rapping on the door. I thought it must be Hill, coming to chide me for drinking straight from the pot (something I did just to get under her skin) so I yelled back, "Give me a moment unless you're willing to see things that can't be unseen!"
Wrapping a towel around my waist, I trudged to the door and opened it. But it wasn’t Hill standing there with an expression of mild amusement.
"This is unexpected," I managed.
Natasha Romanoff gave me a small smile, taking in my towel-clad state. "I can see that."
It felt like ages since I’d last seen her. Both of us had been on divergent mission agendas for a while now and our schedules rarely still aligned. Besides, even if I’d been so inclined, it wasn’t as if you could just pick up the phone for a chat while deep undercover. We had, each in our own way, become two of SHIELD’s most valuable assets. 
Natasha was no longer the suspicious new Russian defector. She’d proved her mettle a hundred times over by now. And I had matured into my craft, grown less impulsive. I didn’t need a partner to temper me, worked well alone. But that was how I’d always thought of her, even as our paths split. My partner.
“Hey, stranger,” Natasha said, her voice playful as she took a good look at me. “What’s a nice guy like you doing in a dump like this?”
Listen, here's the deal with Natasha: she’s the kind of woman who won’t take any shit, but can dish it out in spades. She’s got the looks and the brains. And she’s been one of my most solid friends and allies since I‘d recruited her five years earlier.
“Getting ready for a little coffee and ice cream date with you,” I said, grinning. “How long has it been? Six months? Longer?”
“Something like that,” she said. “I’m still shaking off the jet lag. This time last week I had a British accent. Some all-American high-fructose trash will definitely help me get my head back stateside.”
She gave me another look-over. “Maybe put a shirt on if you don’t want the local girls to get all overcome with excitement. Doesn’t seem like there are many men around here with a full complement of teeth.”
And there it was. That easy, playful banter between us that made it feel as though no time at all had passed. I laughed and told her to meet me in the parking lot in five. Suddenly I was glad Bogota had been called off.
Wherever they’d send me, at least it would be in good company.


What’s the last book you read/film you watched/song you listened to (OR the last ones that stuck in your mind or that you’d like to share): Fun fact: for the last 6 years or so, I've read almost exclusively Stephen King for fiction. Currently on a re-read of It. It's just so awfully long.

What Marvel merchandise do you wish existed, or what's your favourite fan thing that you own? I have a little Iron Man figure glued to the dashboard of my Jeep Wrangler. I keep praying to it for that superhero mental support whenever I go offroading.

If someone were to win the lottery and we had a community convention (in Budapest, of course), suggest a panel, activity, event etc. you would like us to have:I'd hire Scarlett Johannsson and Jeremy Renner for a be-compromised production of “What REALLY Happened In Budapest” With y'all as script writers, obviously.

OPTIONAL extra info: I like leatherworking. Is that random enough?

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*whispers* I also enjoy cheating Clintasha...

"What REALLY Happened in Budapest"! Yes, I need a full staged reading and film. 😂

Do you happen to have any good fic recs on cheating Clintasha?

I feel like there weirdly aren't that many (so I've started working on one 🫣). But these are in the ballpark:

https://www.tumblr.com/iriel3000/672016728550768640/friday-recs-the-for-me-edition
https://www.tumblr.com/iriel3000/690542000789979136/friday-recs-meant-to-be-part-2

Let me know if you have any recs!

Oh, thank you for those recs, I'll work my way through them while I wait for what you have in store. Off the top of my head I'd say catching bullets in our teeth and The Salacious Saga, although the latter is complete AU, so I'm not sure if that's up your alley.

Thank you! I LOVE catching bullets in our teeth!

HIGH INFIDELITY!CLINTASHA TRUTHERS RISE
(https://archiveofourown.org/works/7998025 I recall this one made me cry… which is how you know it's good)

THANK YOU.

Tony/Nat as friends with benefits hits so many things for me. :D

Yes! That's exactly what I'm seeing that pairing as, too. I tried writing it once in 4 Strong and I got so excited by the concept that I want to write a sequel just for the sake of exploring that pairing.

Any good recs you know on IronWidow?

"What're some of your favourite things you love to see in fic/creative works? Realism most of all, especially concerning action and medical stuff." YESYESYES!!! I'm the kind of derp who maps out battle scenes to make sure the right number of minions are killed, and bodies don't suddenly move or disappear entirely.

I don't know if you've seen any of the Extraction movies, but I love them both for not gilding the lily when it comes to the brutality of fight scenes and how characters rarely get away unscathed. Clint might get away with less if he stays at a distance sniping, but Nat is usually all-in and close-up and is so often portrayed as barely having her makeup out of place when the brawl is over. I mean, a lot can be said about technique, but still.