28 December 2012 @ 05:40 pm
/THROWS DOWN GLOVE  
Okay, be_compromised! I issue you A CHALLENGE.

(Super informally, no one's got to die or eat fifty bajillion croissants.)

Over on the Friday post we've been discussing how it's hard to write cities we don't know, so:

Write a C/N fic set in your hometown/a city you love and haved lived in!
(Mission or otherwise, serious or crack!)


THEN POST IT HERE (er, in the bar, not... this post. Unless you want to do both? I will read your fic!). And, um, get... reviews? It will be fantastic.

♥ !


ETA: [livejournal.com profile] frea_o has built a home for these at Ao3 in this collection at Ao3! If you are not on Ao3 but want to post to the collection, lemme know (for... reasons? I don't want to say anything, because it'll feel like a promise, and I have no grounds to make any. But multiple reasons, on the *staring at the collection so all fics that want to be in it can be* front).
 
 
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[identity profile] andacus.livejournal.com on December 29th, 2012 12:50 am (UTC)
Hmmmm I love this idea. I'm trying to fit them into my tiny hometown and its kinda funny.
[identity profile] dictator-duck.livejournal.com on December 29th, 2012 12:59 am (UTC)
You can do it!! Haha, maybe someone in your hometown is SECRETLY A SUPERVILLAIN along with being the person who sells plots in the cemetery and is a leader in Kiwanis. (aka: my granddad...? SORRY GRANDDAD)
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[identity profile] frea-o.livejournal.com on December 29th, 2012 12:52 am (UTC)
My hometown has one of the most magical places in the world and I am beside myself with glee imagining a giant battle taking place there. *dances*
[identity profile] dictator-duck.livejournal.com on December 29th, 2012 12:56 am (UTC)
:D!! I am just ridiculously excited, haha.

(Oh my goodness. your icon. CLINT DEFINITELY IS PASCAL.)
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[identity profile] alphaflyer.livejournal.com on December 29th, 2012 12:57 am (UTC)
You are SO on. After I finish my Star Trek secret santa piece...

Now which place to pick ... born in Dusseldorf, lived in TWO Londons (Ontario and the Big One) and in Vienna ... hmmm.... Then again, maybe SHIELD could send them to London and they THINK they get to go to the UK, and then when they get their tickets they end up in that little genteel university town smack in the snow belt ... ??
[identity profile] dictator-duck.livejournal.com on December 29th, 2012 01:07 am (UTC)
Hahhahaa, the idea of surprise!London, Ontario is cracking me up. But you have a good place to dispose of a body in Düsseldorf ... decisions, decisions!

Good luck on your ST fic!
Ashen Key: black and white smile[personal profile] ashen_key on December 29th, 2012 01:27 am (UTC)
As I said in the discussion post, I imagining Natasha and Clint judging the hell out of the ASIO building (look, they put a red square around it so you can find it. Oh, ASIO, babies, no, you fail at secrecy). And the statues in Civic. And Questacon. OMG maybe they have to meet someone at Questacon. Or at the national museum.

...Canberra brings the surreal to your architecture? :D?
[identity profile] dictator-duck.livejournal.com on December 29th, 2012 01:28 am (UTC)
/fascinated.

WHAT IS A QUESTACON. It sounds like a place designed for adventure.
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[identity profile] alphaflyer.livejournal.com on December 29th, 2012 01:38 am (UTC)
well, have you looked at MI6 lording it over London's South Bank (good shots available in Skyfall) ...? Oh, and the guys at the Canadian equivalent have the BEST cafeteria in the entire Canadian government. Open secret, that. ;-)
(no subject) - [personal profile] ashen_key on December 29th, 2012 01:43 am (UTC)
[identity profile] hufflepuffsneak.livejournal.com on December 29th, 2012 02:00 am (UTC)
Questacon! OMG, I can totally imagine a supervillain trying to take it over, and the staff and assorted kidlet taking it back with SCIENCE. I loved that place when I was a kid.

I'm just imagining Natasha watch a kangaroo bounce across the lawn in front of Parliament House being like "what is this country?" And Clint being like "everything is new and planned, wtf?" when he sees it from above. Canberra is not your average country's capital :)
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[identity profile] sugar-fey.livejournal.com on December 29th, 2012 03:18 am (UTC)
OMG THEY HAVE TO GO TO QUESTACON.

Now I'm having flashbacks to my Year 8 class trip to Canberra. Questacon was the highlight, of course. Unfortunately I got food poisoning right after. I think I've had a grudge against Canberra ever since.
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ext_62952: black widow explosion[identity profile] hermyfan.livejournal.com on December 29th, 2012 03:37 am (UTC)
Oh god the ASIO building, I don't think there's anything more obvious than it in the entire world (though I did like how they built the top of the building, then spent forever doing the rest of it - no, of course their not putting supersecret underground stuff in it...) AND QUESTACON. However much I love Canberra, I'm now just imagining incompetent ASIO spies chasing C/N around Questacon. Up and down that vertical slide they have (had?). Oh lordy.
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[identity profile] jacedesbff.livejournal.com on December 29th, 2012 02:38 am (UTC)
I live east of Atlanta, Georgia. Redneck villains FTW!!
[identity profile] dictator-duck.livejournal.com on December 29th, 2012 03:05 am (UTC)
Mad scientist rednecks! the best kind :D
[identity profile] poppetawoppet.livejournal.com on December 29th, 2012 02:53 am (UTC)
hmmmmmmmmm Blackhawk in the liberal pocket of a red state, suburbia, and a small city best known for people getting the hell out of it

Edited 2012-12-29 02:53 am (UTC)
[identity profile] dictator-duck.livejournal.com on December 29th, 2012 03:10 am (UTC)
MAYBE secretly people leave because it' s haunted! by… science ghosts? alien ghosts? … ghost ghosts?
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[identity profile] anuna-81.livejournal.com on December 29th, 2012 07:21 am (UTC)
Oh dude, I did something very similar before, but I could definitely give this a try. It's not like I'm writing million other fics of anything. But. One of the places I consider hometown has.... gorgeous museums and awesome restaurants and pretty parks and... wheeee! *bookmarks this*
[identity profile] dictator-duck.livejournal.com on December 29th, 2012 07:50 am (UTC)
>:DDD! I love Lib.er.tas. (did I get that right?), but I'd love to see you take another take on this! I'm definitely not going to get my done tonight, some people in this comm are ridiculously fast haha.
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(no subject) - [identity profile] dictator-duck.livejournal.com on December 29th, 2012 09:03 am (UTC)
[identity profile] purely-distel.livejournal.com on December 29th, 2012 08:42 am (UTC)
YOU LITTLE MINX(es?) ... how am I supposed to NOT respond to it?! Though I have no real idea what they could ever do in THIS godforsaken part of bloody Germany ... oh, this is a real challenge .... uh, damn you all! :D
[identity profile] shenshen77.livejournal.com on December 29th, 2012 09:24 am (UTC)
You'll come up with something, no doubt :D If I can find something of appeal in Darmstadt, wherever you are in Germany can't be that uninspiring ;)
[identity profile] dictator-duck.livejournal.com on December 29th, 2012 09:32 am (UTC)
Uncover an underground smuggling ring of alien artifacts! Collaborate with INTERPOL to chase a high profile assassin/terrorist! FIGHT DOOM BOTS *giggling*. You can do it!
[identity profile] frea-o.livejournal.com on December 29th, 2012 06:59 pm (UTC)
Hey, [livejournal.com profile] dictator_duck, just to let you know, I set up collection (http://archiveofourown.org/collections/be_compromised_go_home_challenge) for all of the stories written, if anybody wants to add to it over on AO3. ;)
inkvoices: avengers:jrenner you[personal profile] inkvoices on December 30th, 2012 12:07 am (UTC)
You are fantastical :D
[identity profile] dictator-duck.livejournal.com on December 30th, 2012 12:54 am (UTC)
... *___* Awesome! I'll go edit the post to link to it :D.

-- And maybe put it in a new post, too! It looks like this one has migrated to the bottom of the front page.

/bustles!
inkvoices: ideas[personal profile] inkvoices on December 30th, 2012 12:06 am (UTC)
Ooo, looking forward to the shiny that comes of this! Brilliant idea :D

I have no idea what Clint and/or Natasha would be doing in my neck of the woods...unless oneshot of hiliary or AU. My old university town, yeah, that might work...but again with the call of the AU...
[identity profile] dictator-duck.livejournal.com on December 30th, 2012 01:56 am (UTC)
Thanks!!

Every town needs a hidden ~~mysterious past-dark secret :O. Or, some renowned terrorist-assassin lying low?

Or, you know, AUs :D.