For all you shatter is our seeming, And in breaking we are free

Regarding this Marvel engagement rings tumblr post, in which it gives the ring each superhero would get you. I, ah, disagree somewhat.

See, I could see these being marketed by in-universe jewellers as 'the engagement ring ~insert superhero~ would buy you', but I really can't see most of them as the ring the actual person would buy someone they loved. Especially, I gotta say it, especially Steve. I can't see him buying that particular monstrosity for anyone.

For a prompt on comment_fic on the subject of the Avengers and healthy eating.

Title: Care and Feeding
Rating: PG
Fandom: Avengers movieverse
Characters/Pairings: Tony, Clint, Pepper, Natasha, Bruce, Steve, Thor, Jane, JARVIS. Team, Tony/Pepper, Thor/Jane, Tony & the Bots
Summary: Pizza night at Avengers tower becomes an argument on dietary health, the value of comfort food, and Dummy's culinary endeavours. It's amazing how much you can learn from how people eat
Wordcount: 1363
Warnings/Notes: Warnings for mention of Bruce's suicide attempt, Tony's various health issues, implied comfort eating on Clint & Bruce's parts, random bits of backstory for all concerned. General fluff and angst
Disclaimer: Not mine

For today's comment_fic theme. All 6 or 12 word ficlets. Um. Mostly 12.


Discworld, Vetinari, Ticking Clock

Irregularity is a state of mind. He doesn't flinch at disordered time.

Fairy Tales, Ariel/Cinderella, Shattered Glass Slippers

Ariel's limp worsens. Ella kneels, to slip whole glass onto tortured feet.

Highlander, Methos, Ultimate Pragmatist

"We eat our enemies' life-force, MacLeod. Cannibalism will hardly damn us faster."

MCU, Natasha, Truth

Truth isn't complicated, it's just rare.

Star Trek: TOS, Scotty, Working Miracles

Physics be damned, he's got God's own cheat sheet. Her name's Enterprise.

The Musketeers, Athos/d'Artagnan, Wanting

He's been burned by want before. D'Artagnan is too impetuous to care.

For a 100 word prompt on comment_fic. The prompt was: MCU, Tony/Pepper, Charity Date Auction.

Price of Love

Tony stared at her, his expression somewhere between wary and grateful. Mostly, though, he looked stupefied.

"Did you just ...?" he started, bemused, and she leaned in to press her fingers to his lips, smiling faintly.

"I did," she agreed. "You looked like you needed rescuing, and I needed a trophy date for the evening. You don't mind, Mr Stark?"

He blinked, an odd little grin curling on his lips. "Pep, you just dropped the price of a few Ferraris on me. I don't think 'mind' comes into it."

She pulled him close, smiling herself. "Love never does come cheap, Tony."

For today's comment_fic theme.

For today's comment_fic theme. Musketeer heavy, for some reason -_-;

I was sort of absent and unconscious yesterday, due to a crushing migraine. They're getting more regular again, but I suspect that's partly due to increased stress lately (my mother is deteriorating a bit the last couple of months). I think I've forgotten to reply to some people: I'll try and find them later, yes?

However. Just for a random sideline into things my migraine-fried brain decided to think about:

- I tend to get a shower when I've a migraine, because I like to crouch and press my head into the tiled corner of the stall so there's cool pressure around my head while the water keeps the rest of me warm. I usually lean all my weight on my head, but when it gets too much I bring my knees up against the wall too. For some reason, this made me wonder if this was how they originally came up with the idea of flying buttresses in gothic architecture? Because you can really feel the different in weight when you do that.

- Completely random, but you know in daemon AUs? The ones based on the His Dark Materials trilogy? I kind of want to see a fic where someone has a hippopotamus for a daemon. You know: "Yes, I'm a big, stupid-looking herbivore, but honey, when I walk in a room there are apex predators who get the hell out of my way". Like that? I'm not sure who'd have that kind of daemon, though. The only person I can think of off the top of my head is maybe Bruce Banner? I'd also like to see a female-female human-daemon pair where the daemon is a hyena, signifying a leader and an apex hunter (hyenas have something like a 70-80% success rate when hunting, compared to things like 30-40% for wolves and lions). Again, not sure who'd have that, but Wonder Woman/Diana might be a candidate?

I also had a kind of fever-dream type thing where something started out as a Downey!verse Holmes daemon AU and rapidly became some weird, fae, avian-shapeshifter style story. It was ... very weird, and I think I don't tend to think in straight lines when I'm in pain -_-;

*shakes head* Anyway. This post was brought to you by random migraine imaginings. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.

For a prompt on comment_fic of: "MCU, Pepper, benevolent dictator". Um. I suspect I took this a LOT more seriously than intended -_-;

Title: Pale Queen
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: Avengers movieverse
Characters/Pairings: Tony Stark, Pepper Potts, a little Rhodey. Tony/Pepper
Summary: "Ask me to help you take over the world, Pepper Potts. Ask me to be your knight, and you my queen. Ask me that, ask me anything, and I will."
Wordcount: 1317
Warnings/Notes: Erm. Pain and joy and world domination?
Disclaimer: Not mine

A tiny fragment from my 'fic fragments' folder. I went through a phase of variations on Tony/Rhodey/flight, I think. You can read as slash or friendship, either way.

Title: Birds of a Feather
Rating: PG
Fandom: Avengers movieverse
Characters/Pairings: James 'Rhodey' Rhodes, Tony Stark. Tony & Rhodey or Tony/Rhodey, not sure which
Summary: Tony & Rhodey & flying. Jealousies, trade-offs and joys, with a friend by your side
Wordcount: 293
Warnings/Notes: Fluff and friendship, basically
Disclaimer: Not mine

For a prompt on comment_fic of "Bruce/Steve, they bond over the fact that they are jealous of those who haven't ever lost everything". Um. Came out perhaps overly angsty, and more comradely than slashy -_-;

Title: In These Rough Hands
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: Avengers movieverse
Characters/Pairings: Bruce Banner, Steve Rogers. Bruce & Steve
Summary: Bruce & Steve, and the fear of always being the last one standing
Wordcount: 1391
Warnings/Notes: Mention of Bruce's suicide attempt, pain, jealousy, anger, survivor's guilt
Disclaimer: Not mine