She was the girl on the fire escape

[girlonthefireescape]

Brought a Knife to a Gunfight (Kate/Yelena)

Summary: "What do you mean you’ve brought the woman who tried to kill you home for the holidays?"

Set post-Hawkeye. After clashing over the number of forks a single person should own (as well as a bunch of other things), Kate and Yelena crash the Barton family Christmas.

This is a story set (mostly) in that liminal time between Christmas and New Year’s. Comes with a dash of angst and a sprinkle of (belated) holiday cheer!

Rating: M

Length: 14.5k (5 chapters + an epilogue)

Key tags: hurt/comfort, intimacy, exploration of sexuality, romance, bed sharing, barton family dynamics, discussion of black widow hysterectomy

Comes with a playlist! (I made it last August, so it has zero Christmas songs.)

Find it on ao3.

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Notes: I finished it!! If you read the snippet (here or on ao3) that I posted on Christmas Day about Kate and Yelena baking sugar cookies at the Barton farm: This is the finished story!

If you're no longer here for the holiday vibes because it's mid-March, fear not! Only the first chapter is set on actual Christmas Day. If you are here for cozy vibes and fairy lights, you're in the right place.

(Please mind the full list of tags.)

Hawkeye screencaps are from FanCaps. Unbaked cookies are mine.

[daeronhightowerr]

Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater

Titanic (1997) | dir. James Cameron

[larapaulussen]

[unearthlydust]

SEBASTIAN STAN as BUCKY BARNES Captain America: The Winter Soldier THUNDERBOLTS*

[stayprettyandsmile]

To anyone who’s reading this I hope something wonderful happens to you and that you have an amazing week. Sending you lots of good vibes!!!

[belovasvault]

BIG potato stuff! 🥔

[blackwelliath]

SHOW DON'T TELL

...unless telling creates a better effect. ...and unless the POV character would naturally conceptualize it rather than experience it sensorially. ...and unless you are moving through low-value time. ...and unless you are establishing transitions. ...and unless clarifying a complex thought. ...and unless you are controlling pace. ...and unless you are preventing every emotion from becoming a three-act stage production. ...and unless the summary itself is the point.

Show what the reader should experience. Tell what the reader merely needs to know.

[hppjmxrgosg]

all you new fandom members need to QUIET DOWN oh my god you're going to get us KILLED. we're happy to have you but if you keep talking about BULLSHIT like PUBLISHING fanfic for MONEY, Anne Rice is going to come back from the dead to KILL US. looking at YOU, maurauders fans, heated rivalry fans, byler fans...out here giving out interviews to news channels SHUT UP. we're going to have to start setting off firecrackers to keep the rent down.

[northstarfan]

#unfortunately the kids raised on hustle culture and lack of privacy don’t know much about discretion online and letting hobbies be hobbies

Tags from prev.

[fjellblomst-deactivated20180409]

[orofeaiel]

Maine Coast

[doubledecks]

“While many people think fanfiction is about inserting sex into texts (like Tolkien’s) where it doesn’t belong, Brancher sees it differently: “I was desperate to read about sex that included great friendship; I was repurposing Tolkien’s text in order to do that. It wasn’t that friendship needed to be sexualized, it was that erotica needed to be … friendship-ized.” Many fanfiction writers write about sex in conjunction with beloved texts and characters not because they think those texts are incomplete, but because they’re looking for stories where sex is profound and meaningful. This is part of what makes fan fiction different from pornography: unlike pornography, fanfic features characters we already care deeply about, and who tend to already have long-standing and complex relationships with each other. It’s a genre of sexual subjectification: the very opposite of objectification. It’s benefits with friendship.”

— Francesca Coppa, “Introduction to The Dwarf’s Tale,” The Fanfiction Reader (via francescacoppa)

Someone put it into words. I gotta sit down

[queeranarchism]

(Why does this belong on my decidedly not-fan-fiction-related blog, you ask? Because this quote illustrates very well how assuming that anything where people put sex in it is debasing it, objectifying it, or simply ‘sexualizing’ it, etc. often misses a lot of the real picture of why people do that thing.)

[rhaenyratargeryen]

BLACK WIDOW’s wardrobe in the Marvel Cinematic Universe | 2010 - 2019

[bloodmoonlich]

Hayden Panettiere dies at 36

Her representative confirmed her death to ABC News.

[jame7t]

Dude it’s almost time to step on a crunchy leaf

[myfairynuffstuff]

Denise Antaya (b.1959) - Seeking Tranquility. Oil on linen.

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

whatever it is you need good luck for, i wish you good luck. tests, job, home life, social life, mental health, physical health, love life. you name it. this post is wishing you good luck on all of that.

[capsiclewidow]

Even with everything stacked against them, Natasha marveled at how they had all done the right thing. Risked their lives for everyone on the planet, even as they were being hunted by the people they had sworn to protect.

And Natasha realized that it never would have happened without the one good man who showed her just how far a person could go with a little trust and a pure heart, all those years ago. Who had made her believe again.

Steve Rogers. Captain America.

Natasha wasn’t sure what would happen next. Where they would go, what they would do. But she knew one thing: She would follow Steve to the ends of the earth if he asked her to, as his friend, his partner in fighting evil.

Because she trusted him.

- MARVEL’s Avengers: Infinity War: The Heroes’ Journey (2018)