Frog in a Blender

[itsallovernow]

So a few months ago, I emailed the Hussies, a little desperate.  "I don't know what to do...I'm having all these FEELINGS after Age of Ultron.  How is that NOW I'm having Marvel/Avengers feelings, fannish, obsessive feelings...and about a pairing that fandom seems to hate?"

And then I gushingly broke down the deep, obsessive need to find and read ALL or ANY thing that was Natasha Romanoff/Bruce Banner because kick-ass, super smart, super competent, super controlled female character and brilliant, slightly unstable scientist who could destroy everything around him with his own control issues? It did, in retrospect, really seem like my thing... And it turned out that it was also rubberneck's thing, even though we both kind of looked at how it played on in AoU, shaking our head's and thought, "We can do better."

So we slung it back and forth across time-zones for six dizzy, frantic weeks until we finished a draft and had a timeout and inquired about how one did fandom in this speedy social media age.  Six weeks. 70,000 words, and I won't lie, Feldman is as always the brains of the operation, and the competencies, and the effortlessness and the sheer, solid work. If there's a phrase that catches the eye and ear, odds are she wrote it. If there's plot that makes sense, she drove it.

But this story has ended up being one of the things I'm most proud of being a part of, because it was unexpected, and kind of needed at a tough time in my life, and because writing with rubberneck is truly one of great joys of my life.

Frog in a Blender (70287 words) by Thassalia, feldman
Chapters: 15/15
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bruce Banner/Natasha Romanov, Clint Barton & Natasha Romanov
Characters: Natasha Romanov, Bruce Banner, Clint Barton, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Pepper Potts, Thor (Marvel), Maria Hill, Nick Fury
Additional Tags: Post-Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Pre-Avengers: Age of Ultron (Movie), Red Room, Team Dynamics, Super Soldier Serum, Identity Issues
Summary:

When she notices Banner's attention she doesn’t discourage it, because he lives a similar lie. Pretend this is safe, pretend he’s containable, pretend that unchecked aggression doesn’t tend toward slaughter. She can give him that much, as easily as letting him turn her foot over gently in his warm hands and build a hypothesis that she’d rather he left alone.

Comments

[haphazardmethod.livejournal.com]

OK, fine. I will dip my toe into a new fandom. I am always interested in writing by you and by feldman. BUT if I come out of this with a full-blown addiction to MCU fic, there will be WORDS. ;)

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Ha!! Well, I make no promises for how delightfully addictive that fandom is. I got COMPLETELY sucked in, at least for this pairing (in part because I'm contrary, and in part because it's sexy and delightful) although I suspect I really was primed for it, and then once rubberneck was willing to help sustain the addiction, I was pretty much lost.

But there's a crackiness to that universe that makes it fun to read. Nothing is too outlandish, and I find that I'm willing to accept other people's versions of the characters more easily since there's always gonna be another version...

Plus, Natasha. Who is the best.

I hope you enjoy it!

[rubberneck.livejournal.com]

You're one of the best opium den buddies a gal could ever have!

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Loves you:)

[cofax7]

YAY.

I have downloaded for to load on my Kindle!

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Yay! I hope you enjoy it!