Amadeus, Amadeus... Rec me, Amadeus!

[gelbes_gilatier]

A couple rec requests because I got on another scoring run for impossibly small fandoms and/or rare pairings and didn't find enough of either to satisfy me.

#1 Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, William Brandt/Jane Carter. Saw it yesterday, and after I learned to pretend it wasn't Tom Cruise who played Ethan Hunt, I loved it. Also, Jeremy Renner is in it and boy, was I in love with his character the moment he appeared. No really. And then I went looking for fics and I ended up finding like four Brandt/Carter fics. Like, on the whole interwebs. If anyone has fics to rec for me that are neither on ff.net nor on AO3, I'd be very happy.

#2 The Hunger Games, Gale Hawthorne/Johanna Mason. Jesus fucking Christ, I've got issues with that trilogy. Like... massive ones. As massive as the Nut mountain thingy in District 2. I'm nearly finished and I want to throw the book against a wall at every other sentence (I'll explain why after I finish Mockingjay). But, I kind of fell in love with Gale/Johanna after a very short look into fanfiction on HG. I read there were grief and ruins, and you were the miracle. and Feel What It's Like To Be New and they are both awesome and I want more fics like that (which means: no actual appearance of either Katniss or Peeta and most of all no Katniss/Peeta because I just can't abide that pairing). Pretty please?

#3 The Avengers, Clint Barton/Natasha Romanoff. I haven't even seen the movie (and probably never will until it's out on DVD because there's not even one cinema that shows it in 2D in the entire fucking city. It's a city of 3.5 million people and God knows how many cinemas and none shows it in anything other than 3D *sobs quietly) but just from reading other people's accounts (most of all sangate's) I have a feeling it must be awesome. And I just love the idea of two very highly skilled but otherwise ordinary humans on a team of supermen and it just feels as if they'd fit each other very well. I did find a couple of fics but most of them felt OOC even for someone who hasn't seen the movie yet (that sounded pretentious, didn't it?). So does anyone have recs with Hawkeye/Black Widow that don't have them both be OOC? Yes? Anyone? Anyone at all?

Comments

Re: my two cents

[gelbes-gilatier.livejournal.com]

if I can ask, what did you think of Natasha and Dr. Banner?

I think I kind of just answered that in the third paragraph here (http://gelbes-gilatier.livejournal.com/300416.html)...

Or, okay, I thought there was some potential but ultimately, she sees him as a job at first and maybe a fellow soldier/agent/Avenger later and he's probably fascinated by her but it just doesn't feel as if they'd click in the end.

for Natasha and Clint's level of interdependancy and strong mutual trust

How about John Sheppard and Elizabeth Weir? Any shipping aside, I always thought they just... worked together, you know? They had their difficulties but I found that most of all in Season Three there was an underlying amount of trust that was just there, whether they were having differences or not.

acting (ie with Loki)

That's the seduction thing I meant. And if I got that right, she was also specifically trained in seduction to gather information as a spy.

Jarvis is going to have Tony sit on the sidelines while Jarvis takes the suit on a mission

You have no idea how much I want to see that now :D

but would they be allowed on the team if they couldn't keep up or hold their own with the superguys

I guess not and that's what makes them so awesome. I think I now want a prequel with Hawkeye and the Widow...

Re: my two cents

[rodlox.livejournal.com]

it'd be a fun date, anyway - Banner and Natasha. (ie this...when I wrote it, I was in a shippy mood, but its more the team implying they're an item, than any actual ship - I think)

>How about John Sheppard and Elizabeth Weir? Any shipping aside,
well, that's sort of what I was going for in my analogy: a a pair or team that has been working together a long time before there's even a thought of sleeping together.

>there was an underlying amount of trust that was just there, whether they were having differences or not.
that's key, and was in line with what I meant, yeah.


Tony sitting on the sidelines - that's on my to-do list now...very soon.