Gonna Need a Bigger Boat

Title: Cooking Lesson
Prompt: Homemade
Bonus? Yes
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG
Original/Fandom: Fandom, Avengers
Pairings (if any) Gen
Warnings (Non-Con/Dub-Con etc): Some hinted at swearing, minor damage to a hand.
Summary: Clint may never miss, but maybe he should still stay out of the kitchen.
Note: They were talking about culinary abilities on the be_compromised All Things Friday yesterday. It inspired this tiny, tiny ficlet.

( You really should learn some gratitude, Natasha. )

I hit word count yesterday and finally broke through on The Abbey 08. However, the chapter is kicking my ass so much that I'm going to switch my priorities and work on a chapter from my be_compromised Secret Santa project when I'm finished. I need to write something I actually like and the chapter I'll be writing has an epic fight between Natasha and [character name redacted but you can bet your last Knut she's awesome]. With [weapon redacted but you can bet your other last Knut it's also awesome].

That sound you hear is Maximus laughing as he figures out this adds an entire new chapter to this saga.

But anyway, caught up on word count, The Abbey 08 is a little over halfway done, and hopefully I can push through and finish it today, though I'm not holding my breath.

Word Count: 11,685 words
Current Project: The Abbey 08
Project on Deck: Secret Santa Gift Chapter 2

Title: An Accord of Sorts
Prompt: Zoom In, Zoom Out B
Rating: PG-13 (implied violence, some language)
Fandom: Avengers
Pairings: Gen, Maria Hill, Natasha Romanoff, Clint Barton, Original Characters
Summary: Natasha underestimates somebody. It’s a first.
Length: 1431 words

So this is for a writerverse challenge. I was supposed to write a scene I wrote from a new perspective. I wrote the original in third person limited with Maria Hill, so I chose first person for Natasha Romanoff. I don’t like writing fic in first person, so it...was a challenge. Yeah.

( I can’t even imagine what ‘girl talk’ would be like with these two )

Title: The Woman in the Crosshairs
Rating: PG-13 for minor violence and some language
Fandom: The Avengers (Movieverse)
Pairings: Clint/Natasha, Thor/Jane, Darcy/OMC
Summary: In which Clint has a new hobby and Natasha isn't curious, until she is. Black Widow and Hawkeye, their partnership—and what it means—throughout the years.
Length: 12,182 words

( Part 1. )

On to Part 2

I’m attempting to write a Clint/Natasha story that’s supposed to be a romance. I say attempting because as much as I adore reading romance between them, I seem to have a hard time writing them as anything but...heterosexual life mates. It’s like I have the opposite problem than the one I have with Chuck and Sarah, where every single one of their conversations threatens to turn adorable and fluffy. Clint and Natasha skew more toward the understated and double-talky narrative.

Or it’s possible that Downton Abbey spewing feelings everywhere is killing my groove.

But yes, apparently I have talked myself into writing a Clintasha Bromance. Halfway through, I watched the Iron Man 3 trailer and it dumped half my plot dead in the water, too. So that was a bucket of fun.

In other news, a project that I’ve been stressing out about has been given a “Holy crap! That’s awesome!” rating, so…yeah, I’m no judge of my own abilities anymore. I’ve been beating myself to hell and back, convinced I was screwing up all over the place and meanwhile my boss is like, “This is amazing.”



Sister has a job interview this afternoon. Everybody pray she gets it cos then she can pay half the rent!

Here’s a sneak preview of the Clintasha story I’m writing.

( He’s probably not taking notes )

Also, I heard three different radio deejays crying into their microphones this morning. St. Louis is officially depressed. If you hear somebody shouting, “DAMN YOU PUJOLS,” you can bet it’s a St. Louisian. This is, after all, a drinking town with a baseball problem.

Nanowrimo in a week. Egads, help us all.

Frea

Title: In the Name of Science
Prompt: Planetary
Rating: PG
Fandom: The Avengers (Movieverse)
Pairings: Gen
Summary: Natasha hates science.
Length: 100 words

( The Avengers Version! )

BONUS ROUND! I realized this scene also works for Chuck, so I adapted it!

( The Chuck Version! )

Title: Five Times Maria Hill Didn't Understand Natasha Romanoff...And One Time She Did 1/6
Rating: PG-13 for Violence, Language, Sexual Situations
Fandom: The Avengers (Movieverse)
Pairings: Maria & Natasha, Clint/Natasha, Steve/Maria
Summary: Maria’s first mission for SHIELD does not go the way she expected.
Length: 2,915 words.

( She doesn't understand what the Black Widow wants, coming to SHIELD. )

Title: A Spider's Tears
Prompt: V for Verklempt / Written for the Writerverse Alphabet Soup challenge.
Word Count: 498
Rating: PG
Original/Fandom: The Avengers movie verse
Pairings (if any): Clint/Natasha
Warnings (Non-Con/Dub-Con/Underage): Spoilers for the movie Up
Summary: She's not crying. It's just subliminal imagery, darn it.

( A film about balloons should be uplifting! Geez! )