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It's Friday. Here's Ch.3

I Hear You Call My Name, and It Feels Like Home (10439 words) by StolenParadise Chapters: 3/? Fandom: Hawkeye (TV 2021) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Yelena Belova/Kate Bishop, Yelena Belova & Kate Bishop Characters: Yelena Belova, Kate Bishop, Clint Barton, Laura Barton, Lucky (Hawkeye), Fanny | Yelena Belova's Dog Additional Tags: Temporary Amnesia, Medical Inaccuracies, Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, POV Yelena Belova, Protective Yelena Belova, Post-Hawkeye (TV 2021), Yelena Belova Needs a Hug

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kate wakes up to a weird noise permeating through the house one early morning and sneaks downstairs only to find yelena playing a theremin

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Kate: Yel, if there’s one thing you’ve taught me, it’s to appreciate the little things.

Yelena: That’s actually really sweet, I—

Yelena: WAIT, WAS THAT A SHORT JOKE?!

Kate: *giggles*

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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER | 2.16 // VERONICA MARS | 1.07

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YELENA BELOVA trying to protect her younger self in the void

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city of devils - chapter six

Somehow, Yelena knows exactly what’s coming as soon as Natasha texts her that she wants to meet up. Because Natasha hasn’t left their hotel much over the last few days for anything other than recon.

She knows that it’s been frustrating, that her sister has felt stuck and bored and restless and so many other things. There is a lot going on in Natasha’s head, no doubt, Yelena feels it too - she sees it. Whatever happened with her sister during everything with Thanos changed her.

Yelena, who always tries her best to read every situation and know what to expect, looks at her sister now and cannot figure any part of it out.

Mostly, because Natasha refuses to let her in even a little. They’re both stunted when it comes to communication - a childhood of betrayal and abuse will do that to a person.

There is, perhaps, more of this on Yelena than she would care to admit. It is very easy to blame Natasha for her silences, for the way she takes things on without telling Yelena or how she does not ask for help.

But also, Yelena carries a different kind of weight. Because while they were both in the Red Room, the lack of free will came after Natasha left. When Yelena and the others were no longer deemed capable of compliance and instead had it forced on them.

She doesn’t blame her sister for this, not anymore. Maybe when she first got her life back, after killing the widow who freed her, Yelena was too traumatized to do anything but put the blame on the sister who left her behind. Who never came looking for her. Just like everyone else in Yelena’s life - they never choose her.

So when Yelena sees her sister at a small table outside of a non-descript restaurant, wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses and looking every bit the spy she is - Yelena knows.

“Are we the kind of people who brunch?” She asks as she sits down, Natasha with a small smile that does its best to cover up what is no doubt going to be a very uncomfortable conversation.

“I don’t like to eat early in the morning, a good cup of coffee is hard to pass up though.” She takes a long sip from the, frankly, enormous mug in front of her and Yelena doesn’t even bother to pick up her menu. “How was your night last night? You cut the feeds so I figured…” there’s an attempt at being playful there, but it doesn't land.

Yelena shrugs, “I didn’t think you’d want to hear any of that and Kate deserves modesty.”

“Fair enough, was that all it was? No intel?”

Some part of her wishes this was different. She wishes they were the kind of sisters that would talk about their relationships. If only because Yelena feels like she goes through so many of these parts of her life without a parachute. Like she could smack into a rock full speed at any moment.

But they are not, and this is not that kind of conversation. “No intel, Kate was upset and looking for a distraction.” She won’t talk about the emotions Kate shared with her, that doesn't feel right. There was nothing Kate said that would help them find the widow anyway.

CONT ON AO3

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Kate spends so much time stressing and trying to ensure that the Khans love her (it’s a combination of people pleasing, her mommy and daddy issues, and wanting to ease their worries over their daughter being on a superhero team). She is constantly tripping and falling over herself in front of them

In reality Kate had won them over before they ever even met because Kamala told her parents that Kate likes Billy Joel

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Chapters: 3/5 Fandom: Hawkeye (TV 2021), Thunderbolts (Movie 2025) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Yelena Belova/Kate Bishop Characters: Yelena Belova, Kate Bishop, Lucky (Hawkeye), Alexei Shostakov, James “Bucky” Barnes, Ava Starr, Robert “Bob” Reynolds (Marvel), John Walker (Marvel) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Hospital, Hurt/Comfort, POV Changes, yelena’s gay haircut, ft her slut strand, Crocs as an important plot point?, Minor Yelena Belova/Ava Starr, Vigilante Kate Bishop, Kate Bishop Needs a Hug, Nurse Yelena Belova, Yelena Belova Needs a Hug, Slow Burn, You Have Been Warned, Angst and Humor, Fluff and Smut Summary:

There’s a hole where your heart lies, and I can see it with my third eye. Kate’s a vigilante by night. A pizzaiolo at Herman’s Hearty Slice by day. Yelena’s a nurse by night. An expert feelings avoider by day. Worlds collide. A slow burn ensues.

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Decent-ish night tonight, certainly one of my more productive nights since finishing “You Know Nothing, Kate Bishop!” and “Welcome to the Red Room, Kate Bishop.”

404 words in Butterfingers on Main, finishing the scene where I had left off on Monday night with this week’s WIP Wednesday Last Sentence You Wrote. Now a total of 1,158 words.

Then, 166 words in a new, fluffy idea that came to me while eating Wednesday afternoon, and for which I banged out 124 words at that time before being consumed by the garden.

I think both of them should be fairly short one-shots, maybe 3K max (famous last words! 😂) if I can figure out the entire plot arc for each, but we’ll see what happens 🙄

It’s a rare thing when I can write on two different works in the same day, much less the same session…let alone in two different fandoms…so 🥳

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Two trainwrecks usually means tragedy, but in Bishova, it means love. — @bishlova-ship

Great little phrase from @bishlova-ship in our comment thread.

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Discord is one of those things that makes me actually feel old 😭

Design matters (remember—design is how something works)! Discord feels like it was designed by a hyperactive puppy who thinks getting shot in the face with a firehouse is The Best Fun.

Plus, the name! Names matter. Names set the tone. And the tone for this thing: disagreement, lack of harmony, strife, dissonance…

Back in the day, the web was one of the great innovations for fandom, making it more broadly and easily accessible—fan pages and fan sites, webrings, forums and online boards!

Discord bastardizes all of that; yes, you can access it via the web, but it’s still locked behind a wall; it’s not part of the web.

All of those decisions combine to make it feel cliquish and discordant, a bad fit for serving as the primary space for a fandom.

imo a discord server should be like a breakout room for fandom. like the place to run your wips by your besties or discuss your otp in more detail with a few people who were insane about it on your post or organise events with a handful of trusted mutuals etc etc. if it’s where ALL the fandom activity is going to happen it will inevitably foster a cliquey environment where the fandom is divided into “those in the server” and “those who aren’t”, lurking is disincentivised if not made outright impossible, people who feel uncomfortable joining in conversations and would rather interact with fandom through reblogging etc are largely excluded because there’s no repost mechanism, and the fandom itself becomes an enclosed space so new fans are limited in how much content and meta they can access without having to make the plunge into Joining The In Group, there’s limited scope for interaction between different communities within the same fandom, god it’s just an altogether dogshit stupid idea. what if we moved all fandom activity to really massive private groupchats. STUPID

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Kate: Come on, I wanna show you something. [turns and walks away]

Yelena: Nice.

Kate: That’s not it, but thank you.

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Smooth

Kate, Sam, Bucky, and Yelena chilling tgth.

Kate, to Yelena: When are you going to stop calling me by my last name? Is it a Russian thing? Cuz I swear Bucky does it too.

Bucky: It isn't a Russian thing, it's an assassin thing. And I'm not Russian. Just so happen they are often linked together.

Yelena: I'll stop calling you by your last name, Bishop, once you change it to Belova.

Everyone: ……..

Sam: …Smoooottthh…

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this is how the elevator scene basically went right. right?

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We all have things that we regret. No, but I have so many!

THUNDERBOLTS* (2025)

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Kate is naturally a morning person but due to her superheroing and everything else taking so much out of her she always ends up sleeping in

Yelena’s naturally a night owl but her training’s still so deeply ingrained in her that only the most extreme circumstances can make her sleep in past 8 am

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Florence Pugh's answer to what Yelena's superhero name would be was Lil Widow.

This is now my head canon pet name that Kate calls her.

Update: Apparently, she said "little". I'm still going with Lil Widow though. 😂