astridv | Rec of the day

folie_lex
Gen; Clint & Natasha, Phil; backstory/friendship/partnership; PG-13; 10650 words
Summary: They track their history in shots.

She hasn’t taken her eyes of her own target, but she’s landed a perfect shot at the centre of his target’s chest area. He’d be lying if he said he wasn’t impressed.
Now that she has made her point, she turns to him again.
“Let’s be clear, Barton right?”
“Clint’s fine.”
“Barton it is. I don’t need people to be nice to me.”

Natashas's recruitment into SHIELD, the slow building of trust and friendship between her and Clint (and Coulson)... many things I like about this fic and I find it hard to summarize. Um, go read? :)

fanart rec: For the Dr Who fans here, I found this fanart of Ten (I think; I never watched). I like it for the interesting blend of traditional and digital media: A Universe of Wonders by

Atarial
(At least I assume that's a scanned pencil-on-paper sketch.)