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.)
rotten tomatoes means nothing, imdb rating means nothing, sometimes even letterboxd reviews mean nothing. the most effective way to show your love for a movie is to mass reblog gifsets of one
some of you need to make your bed and have a shower with a soap that smells nice, and then sit in a chair near the window and have tea with milk and read a hardcover book and see how your creative block is after that tbh.
i’m not saying creative block isn’t a real or difficult phenomenon. i’m saying creatives have a tendency to neglect themselves physically and emotionally in favor of manic bursts of productivity. a little softness and clean sheets and a bagel will go a long way. make a playlist and light the fancy candle you’ve been saving for a special occasion. life is a special occasion.
I recently moved into this new small city and I’m loving how green its outskirts are. This astounding persimmon orchard is literally twenty minutes on foot away from my house and I’m starting to get used to drop by it at least twice a week. I love to just sit down with a book and bask in the golden atmosphere. I thought I’d be homesick at first, but I feel like I’ve found my natural habitat here instead!
not normie enough to fit in but not fringe enough to lean into being a freak, worst of both worlds, pure liminality, just the weird coworker, and unrelatable classmate. and your mutual
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