Jaune Chat's Life, the Universe, and Everything

Title: Tie a Ribbon Around Me
Author: jaune_chat
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Characters/Relationships: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
Rating: NC-17
Word count: 8,154
Content Advisory: Alpha/Beta/Omega dynamic, courting, fashion and couture, no-power AU, alternate history
Disclaimer: Not mine, just playing.
A/N: Written for Cat Solari for Marvel Trumps Hate
Art Link - I commissioned some lovely artwork by LeeHanJi for this fic!
Summary: It's the time of the annual Courting Galas, and Tony Stark, former weapons manufacturer, has sponsored one ever since he changed the direction of his company. Never looking for anyone himself since his change of heart, he finds a sudden interest in veteran and artist Steve Rogers, who finds him just as intriguing...



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Title: Assembling
Author: jaune_chat
Fandoms: The Avengers
Characters/Relationships: Tony, Steve, Bruce, Thor, Clint, Natasha, Maria Hill
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 28,728
Spoilers: Uses elements up to The Avengers.
Content Advisory: Action/Adventure, medical emergency
A/N: The second half of this story written for wipbigbang (first 11k written in 2013, last 17k finished in 2017). Amazing art by ensign_c. Also on Tumblr here. Thanks to brighteyed_jill for betaing!

Art: Amazing art by ensign_c can be found here.

Summary: The Avengers Initiative is assembling: The Thunderer - Tony Stark, Iron Man - Thor Odinsson, Captain America - Natasha Romanov, and The Black Widow(er) - Steve Rogers are being thrown together to go after one Clint Barton, who can become a rage monster known as the Hulk, and his bow-wielding protector, the radiation scientist Dr. Bruce Banner. Together these six people might just be able to save themselves and the world they've taken by storm.

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( Assembling - Chapter 4 )

Title: Assembling
Author: jaune_chat
Fandoms: The Avengers
Characters/Relationships: Tony, Steve, Bruce, Thor, Clint, Natasha, Maria Hill
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 28,728
Spoilers: Uses elements up to The Avengers.
Content Advisory: Action/Adventure, medical emergency
A/N: The second half of this story written for wipbigbang (first 11k written in 2013, last 17k finished in 2017). Amazing art by ensign_c. Also on Tumblr here. Thanks to brighteyed_jill for betaing!

Art: Amazing art by ensign_c can be found here.

Summary: The Avengers Initiative is assembling: The Thunderer - Tony Stark, Iron Man - Thor Odinsson, Captain America - Natasha Romanov, and The Black Widow(er) - Steve Rogers are being thrown together to go after one Clint Barton, who can become a rage monster known as the Hulk, and his bow-wielding protector, the radiation scientist Dr. Bruce Banner. Together these six people might just be able to save themselves and the world they've taken by storm.

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( Assembling - Chapter 2 )

Title: F.A.B.U.L.O.U.S. - Fashion Emergency
Author: jaune_chat
Fandoms: The Avengers (films), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Incredibles
Characters/Relationships: Bruce Banner, Edna Mode, Original Characters
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 1,900
Spoilers: Avengers movie, Incredibles
Content Advisory: A little objectification
Disclaimer: Not mine, just playing.
A/N: Written for a prompt from avengerkink. Sequel to F.A.B.U.L.O.U.S..
Summary: When the latest version of the Hulk Pants fail, the members of F.A.B.U.L.O.U.S. must call in the best fashion designer they know to solve an impossible problem!

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( F.A.B.U.L.O.U.S. - Fashion Emergency )

Over on Ao3 (Archive of Our Own), I have been putting many works of fanfic, mostly in the Avengers fandom. Over the past two years, I had been working on two extended AU stories that had ended up in the 40k+ word count range. But at the end of 2013/2014 I stalled out on them for multiple reasons. My husband and I were in the process of starting to get our house on the market. We were looking for a house to buy. I was going to a bi-weekly writer's group with the eventual intention of taking a short piece of original fiction and turn it into a novel with intent to publish. I took a promotion at work, becoming the shift leader for my work group. My fanfiction writing, as a consequence, took a hit. Two multi-chaptered stories with plot arcs and loving care went into limbo. I did shorter pieces for a while, but finally decided to set myself a deadline. Before the clock clicked over to 2016, I would update and finish these two stories.

And, by gum, I have! As of my 35th birthday on the 28th of December, Iron-Hard Man and Recovery are finally finished. They couldn't be more different in tone, and I think I was working on them simultaneously for some balance. Both are Tony Stark-centric Avengers stories, both are AUs, but there the similarity ends.

Recovery is an ABO rape-recovery, following the fairly harrowing Addiction. After Steve forcibly turned Tony into an omega in Addiction, Recovery chronicles the immediate and short-term aftermath and the consequences. It's a damn dark fic, and despite some light shining through, I would not recommend it for those feeling down. This was my exploration into some of the darker twists an ABO world would take.

Iron-Hard Man is a canon-character background AU. Tony Stark, instead of creating weapons for most of his life, instead chose to become the world's premiere sex-toy mogul. As the CEO and chief researcher for Stark Naked Industries, no one would ever suspect that behind the doors of Tony's private workshop, he's been working on a suit of armor to fight against the weapons of his father's legacy... While most of the other Avengers cleave close to canon in this one, Tony gets to be both more innocent and gleefully snarky. He's a virgin the battlefield, but can recommend 1,001 ways to get you off. Also, JARVIS is a sex machine and Bruce uses all of Tony's toys. This was a hoot to write because Tony got to approach everyone differently than he would have with his canon background, and I had a God-given right, nay, responsibility, to write filthy sex scenes in every chapter.

I have achieved deadlines, broken through my year-long writer's block, and I'm feeling like 2016's going to be a damn fine year! :D

Title: Colors
Author: jaune_chat
Fandoms: The Avengers (film), Marvel Cinematic Universe, His Dark Materials (AU)
Characters/Relationships: Clint Barton/Natasha Romanoff
Rating: PG
Word count: 1,256
Spoilers: Avengers movie
Content Advisory: Daemon AU
Disclaimer: Not mine, just playing.
A/N: Written for a prompt from comment_fic.
Summary: Clint and Bree can see unseen colors.

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( Colors )

Title: Written Large Across My Heart
Author: jaune_chat
Fandoms: The Avengers (film)
Characters/Relationships: Clint Barton/Natasha Romanov, Tony Stark/Pepper Potts, Thor, Steve Rogers, Bruce Banner
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 1,694
Spoilers: Up through Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Content Advisory: Scars, past violence.
Disclaimer: Not mine, just playing.
A/N: Written for a prompt from comment_fic.
Summary: The scars of her profession kept Natasha from wearing what she wanted for a long time. It's only after she joined the Avengers that she realized she no longer needed to be so careful.

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( Written Large Across My Heart )