19 October 2012 @ 04:42 pm
All the things Friday: The Team edition  
hello dearest bar, I shall be your Friday host for the day. Today? Today we're going to discuss* all the things Clint/Natasha plus team (* discussion, but also welcome are fic recs, fanart, cast photos, videos, icons, comment fics, anything you find fun and nice and happy inducing and it has to do with our two favorite assassins and the team!Avengers). :)

Few thoughts from me at the beginning - one of the best things in The Avengers, in my opinion, is group dynamic between all main characters - I wouldn't even call it team dynamics, at least not until the final battle. The film presented us a group of truly extraordinary (and also quite frakked up) individuals who really had to struggle to reach a common ground and fight the mayhem at the same time. It's always interesting to notice that, among these people, two of them already have an established connection - once we got Clint back it was obvious, oh so obvious, that he and Natasha feel good around each other. They're already a team within a team, and it shows. During the final battle we saw all the pieces sliding into place. One of the interesting things I always notice and think about is how seamlessly Clint fits in, even though he just "jumped in" among the rest of them. I'd say it shows a lot about Clint's skills, training, and confidence; and also that he is capable being a flawless team player. (Also. I always find it interesting, how Natasha's primary motivation is to get Clint back, but the further the plot goes, the more she seems to realize that she needs to do the right thing, aka help the rest of Avengers to defeat Loki. After Clint wakes up, he seems to follow her (into the war), and in a way they become each other's motivation to join the fight, and Avengers.)

So. What do you think about the team? Do you think Clint and Natasha fit into the team easily, or are there bumps along the road' What do you think about team dynamic, which are your favorite friendships? Who is the prankster and who is the grumpy cat? Do you like team!fics, do you have any recs? If you write fics yourself, do you like writing about teamy moments, various Avengers friendships, jokes, bickering and so on? Who will adjust to the team with more ease, Clint or Natasha and why? There are more topics, I am sure, these are just the first things that pop to my mind. Feel free to add more things to the table, I don't want to overwhelm you.

Happy Friday and rock on!
 
 
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[identity profile] sunny-serenity.livejournal.com on October 19th, 2012 08:25 pm (UTC)
because i found it totally hilarious that the premiere for the avengers was may fourth (I C WHUT U DID THAR!) this one is especially fun and full of geeky stuff: may the fourth (http://archiveofourown.org/works/445156) by irnan

and i'm sure there's more out there that includes a lot of ALL THE CHARACTERS (i remember reading one with betty, pepper, darcy and jane also being in the tower and hanging out but rawr, i forgot to bookmark it and now i can't find it) but it's hard to find a team!fic that i like (read: natasha/clint with ALL the cast of MCU [including betty fucking ross!] and tonnes of female friendships (jane and betty and bruce and tony geeking out over SCIENCE! imagine that awesome for a bit) with some excellent space bro times [like darcy dragging thor and natasha to an all night romero marathon cos no one else wanted to go and tony was all: 'WHY DON'T WE JUST WATCH IT HERE COS I HAVE THOSE! plus, pizza.' and darcy's all: 'because i like GOING OUT and seeing other people's faces besides yours Tony!' so natasha would be down cos yay, a break from tony and thor is all, 'are there hot dogs?' and when they get back clint asks how it was and is sorry he didn't go but he can't see stuff like that after the chitauri {he kind of thinks they were zombies too} and loki and natasha is all, 'it was fun and i get it.' then there's cuddles.]) cos wow, there's a lot of slash that goes along with it and i don't read those. i'm frightfully vanilla in my tastes. but! when this:

Image (http://sunny-serenity.livejournal.com/pics/catalog/864/382864)

showed up on tumblr last week (was it last week?), this happened...

so my brain went: i wonder if bruce was all, hey i wonder what glow in the dark alien thing i'll get from this vending machine... 'tony, do you have four quarters?' and tony's all, 'why are you asking me just cos i'm a billionaire? fine, i see how it is banner. i thought we were friends.' and bruce is all, 'NO! it's just you know, you're the only other person here wearing normal clothes. like, jeans with pockets. it's not like i can ask thor for change, you know?' and then clint gives him four quarters. and steve is all like, 'THAT costs a DOLLAR? what happen to the fifteen cent cracker jack toys in the box?' natasha's all, 'inflation.' and tells clint that was nice of him to help bruce out. thor is all, 'does this trinket serve a purpose or is it just an amusement?' tony explains that it's just a silly toy that parents get their kids so they stop fidgeting while they order and then thor would want one. and bruce is all, 'no guys, i just wanted a souvenir for this moment.' and is all, '...sorry, i didn't mean to cause so much drama.' clint is all, 'i'm tired can we go home now?' yeah. i would watch a whole movie of them just doing shit like that all day. ALL. FUCKING. DAY.

not even kidding. if they did laundry in the basement of clint's crappy hole in the wall apartment in alphabet city, i would watch that. also, grocery shopping cos that shit would be hilarious!

Edited 2012-10-19 09:00 pm (UTC)
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