Amanuensis's Journal

I got podficced again, oh wow! This one lent itself well to audio, and the readers are GREAT, and it's got music and cover art!


Go listen!

Walking on the beach listening to my iPod is good for prompting ballad pastiches, it seems! First time I've done this in Avengers fandom, though.

Title: Matty Groves, or, The Extraction
Pairing: Clint/Natasha/Coulson, Natasha/OMC
Warnings: Violence, Misogyny
Summary: Angelo Marioni only thinks he's the luckiest sonovabitch in the world, and Clint Barton hates extractions like these.
A/N: Another Ballad pastiche from me. Lyrics for "Matty Groves" can be found here. Thanks to cluegirl for beta duty!

"And you will strike the very first blow, and strike it like a man.
I will strike the very next blow, and I'll kill you if I can."

Read on AO3 LJ

( Or read here, below the cut )

Meant to post this after the reveals went up--this was my fic for the be_compromised Clint/Natasha Secret Santa fest, written for shanynde.

Title: In Other Words, Thursday
Author: amanuensis1
A Gift For: shanynde
Rating: R
Warnings: Assassination, a bit of smut
Pairings: Clint Barton/Natasha Romanov
Summary: Assassination, extraction, and morning-after breakfast. It's their version of domestic.
A/N: Author's Notes at the end. Many thanks to my betas fabularasa and cluegirl!


Read at AO3 or on the be_compromised comm, or here:

( Natasha let the corpse--all hundred-and-twenty pelmeni-stuffed kilos of him--collapse to the carpet. )

First of my exchange fics for the season that's getting posted. This was for avengers_xchng, for alwaysenduphere.


Title:The Voice Between (and the monster in green)
Rating: NC-17
Warnings/Enticements/Kinks: Submission, frottage, collaring. Implied threesomes.
Characters/pairings: Tony/Bruce (explicit); implied Tony/Pepper/Bruce; Hulk
Summary: Bruce thinks their relationship is as far from "safe and sane" as you can get, but there's a reason Tony Stark believes in him.
Words: ~5500
A/N: Enjoy, alwaysenduphere! I chose to pursue your liking of Tony/Bruce (and /Pepper) and a couple of your tropes (d/s, polyamory). Many thanks to cluegirl for the beta.

Read The Voice Between (and the monster in green) on AO3

( Or, read here on LJ )

The Clint/Natasha comm be_compromised is having a comment fic fest today to upend all the usual clichés about our spyvenger duo: Natasha only drinks vodka, Clint sews them up in the field, Natasha's been a ballerina, Clint has mechanic skills, etc. I maxi-drabbled here: Tony-centric Clint/Natasha Opposite Day anti-cliché thingy.

( Or, read below the cut )

There's a Clint/Natasha Promptathon going on over at be_compromised and this is my first contribution for it!

Title: there's people and they're young and alive
Pairing: Clint/Natasha
Categories: Fluff
Words: ~2,000
Summary: "Tagging your target in the reptile house in Madrid," Clint says, "does not count as 'a trip to the zoo.'"
A/N: Written for the be_compromised Promptathon. Title from The Smiths. Thanks to awesome betas cluegirl and fabularasa.

(Read 'there's people and they're young and alive' at AO3)

( Or read it here on my lj, below the cut )

*chants in appropriate military fashion:* This is my Loki/Clint non-con fic. There are many like it but this one is mine.


Title: Corruption and Crème Brûleé
Pairing: Loki/Clint Barton
Word count ~6,000
Summary: Loki finds that Agent Barton is peerless. In all things. For a mortal. Which is unforgivable.
Warnings/Enticements: Mind Control rape, i.e., non-consensual smut with dubious consent flavors. Coded as both non-con and dub-con for different reader values of both.
A/N: From the moment Loki grabbed Hawkeye's wrist six minutes into the film, I knew I had a new fandom. And that I'd be writing this scenario.
Thanks to fabularasa and cluegirl for most excellent and speedy beta duty.

(Read "Corruption and Crème Brûleé" on AO3)

( Or read here on my lj, below the cut )

Finished and posted! (Decided not to go anon. I've embarrassed myself worse before.) God, this was so hard, because it's the first thing I'm posting in my shiny new fandom, and it's essentially torture porn (you've been warned; no, REALLY, please see the warnings), so I kept plucking at it because I wanted it to have some pretentions of narrative. Plus it just kept growing, because Tony wouldn't shut his mouth.

Title: Weak Points
Fandom: The Avengers (movieverse)
Words: ~4000
Characters: Clint, Natasha, Tony, Thor, Bruce, Steve
Category: Serious effing Hurt/Comfort (mostly Hurt), Drama/Angst.
WARNING for intense torture/violence (non-sexual)
A/N: Anonymous requested Clint getting the s**t kicked out of his un-powered, mortal ass while the other Avengers are forced to watch. I asked myself, "What's the worst physical thing I can think of to do to Clint? Oh, yeah." Levels of abuse you can only do to a character you love; meant to be disturbing.

(Read on avengerkink Round 4)

(Read Weak Points on AO3)

( Or read here on my lj, below the cut )

Yuletide reveals!

I discovered who created my Yuletide gifts! fyrie wrote my Mulan-Aladdin crossover, twistedchick wrote my 1776 Adams/Franklin, and _hannelore wrote my Rapunzel/Little Mermaid! You guys are wonderful. Thank you all again for a fabulous Yuletide!


So imma gonna reveal my own Yuletide fic and meta on it for a minute.

Title: Deuxième Appendice (Second Appendix)
Fandom: Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons) by Choderlos de Laclos
Pairing: The Vicomte de Valmont/The Chevalier Danceny (with background canon pairings)
Summary: An additional collection of letters reveals that the conquests of the Vicomte de Valmont were not confined to the ladies of the controversy.
Words: ~7,000


I wrote for Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons) by de Laclos, which you probably know has been done in multiple movie versions (and put John Malkovich on the hot badboys actor map). But if you've read the original material, you'll know the book is epistolary. The recipient, v_v_lala, was asking for Valmont/Danceny slash, which made me think the obvious response was to write all the letters that revealed that particular relationship. And the entire thing was written in my head at that moment, really; it was just a matter of getting it down on paper. Which is what all the cackling was about.

I knew that the story was going to appeal to a limited audience because that sort of lofty, 18th-century-fake-letter-writing-style-in-translation would not be everybody's cup of tea, but the opportunity to imitate that style was like a dam bursting. Not just delight but relief. The sick thing is, I nearly write like this every day, in work emails. No, really. I have to rein myself in when I begin to type, "What is wanted by the parties requesting these concessions is our receptive ear," and then I sob and backspace the whole thing and instead type, "The people who say they want these things really just want to know we're listening to them." Which, yeah, may be better writing but it makes me sad that the English language is as rich as it is and I don't get to play with it in the way it deserves.

So, anyway, I got to play with it for this story. You'll either like that sort of thing or not. If you do happen to like the style in the book of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, check out my fic.

The author of my wonderful The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly giftfic was miss_pryss, and my contribution to Yuletide was for a film I love, that I'd never have tried to write for without Yuletide to push me, and for a pairing I'd certainly have never tried to write without fated_attraction's prompt.

I wrote Inglourious Basterds fic, Archie Hicox/Bridget von Hammersmark, smutty-ish but not deeply filthy, (as befits Archie; he's a gentleman), about 2500 words.

Title: Unter einer Decke Stecken
Fandom: Inglourious Basterds
Pairing: Archie Hicox/Bridget von Hammersmark
Summary: fated_addiction requested: "Archie Hicox/Bridget von Hammersmark...He was a film critic, she was an actress. Were they old friends? Or was it just a chance encounter? What might've happened had they survived?"