I demand the fic where Natasha is in Korea during the war and ends up at a M*A*S*H unit. I'd like to see her meeting the Other Hawkeye.

Someone should write me that.

Title: Invisible Ink
Author: kadollan
Disclaimer: This work is a piece of fan-fiction that is intended for entertainment purposes only. Steve Rogers and Natasha Romanoff are owned by any number of people who are not me.
Primary Characters: Steve Rogers and Natasha Romanoff
Rating: Teen
Type: One-Shot; vignette
Warnings: Mild implausibility, tattoos
Word Count: 505
Summary:

Steve knows that Natasha has a tattoo, but it isn’t until they are sparring that he finds out more.

Notes:

Written for the prompt, “Steve knows what Natasha's tattoo is. How did he find out?”

As always, many thanks are due to my dear beta cheerleader (this is largely un-betaed), cybermathwitch. Thank you darling! Any remaining mistakes are, of course, my own.

Steve knew that Natasha had a tattoo from that darned “never did I ever” game that Darcy’d roped them all into playing.

(Also on AO3)

I'm stealing this idea more or less wholesale from lar_laughs.

I'm going to send out holiday cards this year. If you would like to receive a card from me, drop a note in the in the comments (all comments are screened, but if you're more comfortable feel free to drop me a PM.)

ALSO -- if you would like a short ficlet/drabble-thing in your card, please reply with one of the following fandoms. I promise you something unique and holiday themed. (Notice that I am not also promising you quality.)

Fandoms on offer include: Harry Potter, Marvel Avengers Cinematic Universe, and Lord of the Rings. (I thought about also offering Firefly and NCIS, but I'm not sure I'd do either justice.)

Darcy sends the following text to Jane: "Steve is reading a translation of Gangnam Style. Theatrically. SAVE ME."

Next text, sent only a few seconds later: "OMG gng to kill Tony & Clint for showing him Youtube, Christ Jesus."

(I wrote that into my NaNo because my daughter just played Gangnam Style for my husband, who responded as any sensible person would be Googling the lyrics and reading them aloud. What is my life?)

A meme! Gacked from damn near everybody.

Name a fandom and I'll tell you which character I most likely:

Want as my mentor:
Bake cupcakes for:
Lend my books to:
Put thumbtacks on the chair thereof:
Have a crush on:
Pack up and leave if they moved next door:
Vote for President:
Pick as my partner in a buddy movie:
Marry:
Want as my boss:
Sue:
Want as my best friend:

cybermathwitch and I watched a baby being born today.

If you look up the word "awesome" in the dictionary you will find a picture of little Phoebe Sarah.

Welcome to the world, sweetheart. You're going to love it out here.

Gacked from all of the places...

So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious but you have no idea about, or something obscure you just have to know. Ask away. All topics, within reason, are open for discussion.

If something is too personal, I reserve the right to vague my answer up or straight-out not answer. But you'll never know what I'm willing to say with the anonymity of being on-line if you don't ask!

A Question for the Committee

Here's a question for those of you who post fic on AO3: What is a reasonable Hits to Kudos ratio? If say, 95% of your hits don't leave kudos should you assume that nobody likes it? Or is 5% a pretty good number? What's average? Or do you even worry about the ratio? How can you tell if you're winning?

Update on the NaNo Front

I've managed to be at or slightly above the word count goal every day so far. ::knocks wood:: I am hoping to keep that up (or maybe get ahead) because I know that there are going to be some serious interruptions before all is said and done (and by "serious interruptions" I mean "cooking Thanksgiving dinner for 18+ people" and "my best friend is having a baby and I'm one of her birthing coaches.") So, yeah -- ahead would be good, although so far I've just pretty much been managing "not behind."

I posted one the things I wrote this month night before last (this is not unrelated to the AO3 Kudos/Hits question above.)

Marvel Avengers Movie Universe/Captain America: The First Avengers "Can't Get Warm." Rated Teen. 1358 words. Bucky wakes up cold on a table in a German camp, and he can't get warm. Events in Captain America: The First Avenger from Bucky's POV.

DVD Commentary Meme

I have the DVD Commentary Meme on offer here. I had fun doing inline commentary for "The Lost Boys." Come play with me!

Title: Can't Get Warm
Author: kadollan
Disclaimer: This work is a piece of fan-fiction that is intended for entertainment purposes only. James "Bucky" Barnes and Steve Rogers are owned by any number of people who are not me.
Primary Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes and Steve Rogers
Rating: Teen
Type: Gen
Warnings: Cold, Feels, Major Character Death (or not)
Word Count: 1358
Summary: Bucky wakes up cold on a table in a German camp, and he can't get warm.

Events in Captain America: The First Avenger from Bucky's POV.

Notes:

As always, many thanks are due to my dear betas, cybermathwitch and jessofthebugs. Thank you darlings! Any remaining mistakes are, of course, my own.

I've had a lot of feelings about Bucky Barnes ever since I first saw Captain America.

Before, Bucky always saw himself as Steve’s protector.

(Also on AO3)

I've got just shy of 9,000 words on my NaNo and I'm pretty happy with what I've written so far. I thought I was going to write the HP Shakespearean Romp, but what I seem to actually be doing is working on Avengers short stories.

I'm not sure how that happened, but I just wrote 1600 words of Bucky POV stuff set during Captain America: The First Avenger. ::wibbles::

Anyway, I'm writing some stuff that doesn't suck, so I'll take it. Even if it wasn't quite what I was expecting.

Now, on to the meme! Stolen most recently from cybermathwitch.

Pick any passage of 500 words or less from any fanfic I’ve written, and
comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you the
equivalent of a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I
wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what’s going on in the
character’s heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the
context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that
you’d expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

My fic can be found either here at Awfully Clever or here on AO3.

Play with me!