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crack_van2013-02-01 10:16 pm
turnonmyheels.livejournal.com) wrote in crack_van2013-02-01 10:16 pm
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love is for children and other lies by fahye
Hi! I'm B and I'll be driving your Avengers crack_van for February! I am mostly reccing gen/character studies. My character preferences lean toward Tony, Natasha, and Bruce so you’ll see them as the main characters in most of what I rec, but that doesn’t mean I will leave the others out. I plan to rec long fics on Friday and shorter fics through the week for sneaky at work reading.
Fandom: AVENGERS FRANCHISE
Pairing: Maria Hill/Natasha Romanov, Clint Barton/Natasha Romanov
Length: 30,095
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fahye
Author Website: at AO3
Why this must be read: As the author notes, "no comic book canon was harmed or indeed used in the making of this fic; it was either roundly ignored or ransacked for the occasional neat idea like 'ballet'". This fic it is *immediately* and easily accessible for non-comic readers. It starts out with Natasha as a child and follows her creation, destruction, and re-birth. What makes this fic stand out from so many others is that Natasha is asexual. It's a fascinating exploration of sex as a commodity, a weapon, and a means of being like other people.
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She waits for it, the attraction. Years of exposure to and study of human nature have told her that it should have come by now, if it's going to come at all. And if it's to be anyone, it should be Clint Barton, who saw something solid and precious in her just when she was beginning to feel smoked-out and empty, a fighting skeleton breathing shallowly under the debt of lives.
For all her expertise in exploiting human desires, she doesn't know if he wants her in the way that she sort-of-wants to want him. He looks at her. But then, she looks at him. They're building a whole language of joke and gesture that feels too intimate for Natasha's idea of friendship, but he's never touched her with intent, or voiced any desire.
love is for children and other lies
Fandom: AVENGERS FRANCHISE
Pairing: Maria Hill/Natasha Romanov, Clint Barton/Natasha Romanov
Length: 30,095
Author on LJ:
fahyeAuthor Website: at AO3
Why this must be read: As the author notes, "no comic book canon was harmed or indeed used in the making of this fic; it was either roundly ignored or ransacked for the occasional neat idea like 'ballet'". This fic it is *immediately* and easily accessible for non-comic readers. It starts out with Natasha as a child and follows her creation, destruction, and re-birth. What makes this fic stand out from so many others is that Natasha is asexual. It's a fascinating exploration of sex as a commodity, a weapon, and a means of being like other people.
Excerpt
She waits for it, the attraction. Years of exposure to and study of human nature have told her that it should have come by now, if it's going to come at all. And if it's to be anyone, it should be Clint Barton, who saw something solid and precious in her just when she was beginning to feel smoked-out and empty, a fighting skeleton breathing shallowly under the debt of lives.
For all her expertise in exploiting human desires, she doesn't know if he wants her in the way that she sort-of-wants to want him. He looks at her. But then, she looks at him. They're building a whole language of joke and gesture that feels too intimate for Natasha's idea of friendship, but he's never touched her with intent, or voiced any desire.
love is for children and other lies
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Oh no, don't encourage me!
But no, actually, I'm looking forward to the recs as I love Natasha and Bruce too.
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