I have not made manips in forever. I made a couple for Hellboy fandom, mostly Nuala-centric, but haven't REALLY gotten into it since my Spuffy days. There is, in one way, something REALLY silly about, say, making fake wedding pictures for fictional people, but on the other hand, it's challenging and artistic and fun without requiring . . hrm, how to put this . . a certain base level of creativity? It requires imagination, certainly, but it's more like putting together a puzzle than creating a painting. There's something soothing about that (though I like painting too).
Anyway, point being - have a Bruce/Natasha manip:
In my mind, they are standing outside somewhere near their home in the 'Indefinable Things' 'verse. I'm not entirely sure what Natasha's smirking at. You tell me. ;)
Also, I finished
the zombie fic with bonus meta. It went places I REALLY didn't expect it to go, and it kinda KEPT DOING THAT as I wrote it. This fic started out as, "I wanna write mission fic for Natasha, but I suck at creating mission-like scenarios and I'm feeling lazy that way so, hey, let's see what I can borrow in the way of a crossover/fusion - oh, this has zombies! And situations that would make Natasha uncomfortable! SCORE! Oh, hey, and there's an AI in here, too, isn't there?"
. . . and yeah, then Natasha had ALL THE ANGST about that. No, seriously. ALL of the angst. Every last bit of it.
. . . . in other news, my cat just got a small square tissue box stuck over his head. Yes, folks, this is my life.