Okay, serious point now guys. I need answers. Does anybody in America ever use the term 'hoofers' when describing feet?

Actually, I'd be interested to know if anyone other than me ever uses that term. 

Guys. 

GUYS. 

WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING? THIS IS AN IMPORTANT PLOT POINT IN MY NEXT FIC!

And, if not, I need a derogatory term for feet commonly used in America. Okay? Thanks. :D

(Posting on b_c too because it's totally relevant, and, as im_ridiculous said, I need a more legitimate sample size for my survey. WISE WORDS.)

Title: Wet Hot Avengers Summer (AO3)
Author: sarea_okelani
Rating: PG-13, for teenagers getting up to what teenagers get up to
Pairings: Clint/Natasha, Tony/Pepper, Thor/Jane, minor Clint/Bobbi and Phil/Cellist, Clint & Coulson, Clint & Tony
Characters: Clint Barton, Natasha Romanoff, Jane Foster, Pepper Potts, Tony Stark, Thor, Darcy Lewis, Steve Rogers, Bruce Banner
Author's Notes: Pre-Avengers. Like, waaaaaay pre-Avengers. Also AU. Waaaaaaaay AU. They're teenagers at summer camp. For the purposes of making this work, the characters are nearly all around the same age. Total fluffy crackfic. This was supposed to be written for the be_compromised promptathon, but... yeah... I waved at that deadline as it blew past. But the prompt was from inkvoices: Kid/Teenage AU: Clint is at a music camp and either Natasha is too, or she's at dance camp or martial arts camp on the other side of the lake – except I made it the same camp and they’re in different classes and everyone co-mingles. The title comes from the movie Wet Hot American Summer, but isn’t any kind of crossover or inspiration, other than that it is also about summer camp. Many thanks to Jade, who's betaing this for me, though she'll more than likely live to regret it. I'm pretty sure there's going to be eight parts. Okay, I lied. Nine parts.

Summary: At summer camp, Clint's met the girl of his dreams. Then he meets her four brothers.

Link to story: Wet Hot Avengers Summer (Part 1)

So today is Monday, and what a Monday it's been.

But enough about me; let's talk about you.

Are you working on any fic? Anything that has you stuck, like you don't know if it's even good any more?

FEAR NOT, FOR I AM HERE FOR YOU!

All you have to do is send a snippet of your current project to bc.unfinished@gmail.com (that's bc.unfinished@gmail.com!) and you could have your work featured as soon as WEDNESDAY on this very comm.

Please do this, we have no submissions and I want people to be more awesome.


PS: Bill Murray said it best at the end of Lost in Translation

The Official Tag is "Some government jobs are more complicated than others."

A bit of Bartonesque snark, angst, and cynicism, but no more than is to be expected when you get paid to kill for a living.  (No obvious romance, alas, not even in the later chapters  -- I leave that to the Resident Masters Of Awesome, workerbee73 and bob5fic, with whom I cannot hope to compete, but it's a bit of a prequel to "Going to Ground" so feel free to imply all the future feels you want.)  There'll be kinda a point to all of it when its done.  I hope.

Oh, and since I am epically incompetent at posting text directly onto LJ (notwithstanding inkvoices kind assistance, which I simply haven't had the time to assimilate) all I can offer is a link to the sites that I HAVE figured out how to post to:

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8631793/1/In-the-Service

and

http://archiveofourown.org/works/543070

PS:  Monday is over.  This is good.