since this comm is so awesome with the participation and feedback and i have too many ideas floating around in my head, i need some direction. participate in what we're talking about this friday will ya?

i just really like voting: POLL TIME!

submissions of 500 - 1000 words of fic are welcomed at the bc.unfinished.gmail.com account (sorry, i got that wrong last week, eep. this is the correct address.) FEED ME, SEYMOUR.

today's submission hails once again from cybermathwitch who said:
A/N: There was a prompt-a-thon prompt for a Hunger Games AU (by nessataleweaver) here.


This is the beginning. (And can you tell the prompt-a-thon was good for my muses? And that they like to write AUs apparently.)

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Title: Only human
Fandom: The Avengers (2012)
Pairing: Clint/Natasha
Rating: adult
Genre: pregnancy/baby story, Natasha centric, introspective, with hefty doses of angst and fluff
Spoilers: it's set before the movie, four -ish years before, to be more specific.
Warnings: pregnancy, pregnancy - loss, fertility issues, implied abuse in young years (because both Nat and Clint had hard lives)
Summary: when you love someone you have more to lose. but when you have nothing to lose... you simply have nothing."
Disclaimer: this is fanfiction, folks. written for fun, not profit.
Author's notes: it turns out I can't have enough of these two + babies/children. Last Friday's discussion only helped, I already wanted to write a fic where Natasha does want to have children and play with that sort of approach to her. It turns out that having children can have an interesting effect on two of them, especially Natasha, who was meant to be everything but someone's mother and it turns out that deciding to become one can be an act of ultimate reclaiming - of herself, her body, everything she is and can become.

This fic was made infinitely better by my lovely braintwin and an amazing beta reader, cybermathwitch, who practically coauthored this with me. <3! Read, enjoy, comment - i always love sharing thoughts on this topic :)

Read the fic here.

I think. I think this can be classed as "relevant to your interests". And if it's not, well, it should be. Trigger warning for slut-shaming.

Observe the beautifully worded and well thought out views of James Gunn, the director-to-be on Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy (yes, written over a year ago, but is that the point? I think not. Also, original article available here through Google Cache):

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SO! As a result please: Petition to remove James Gunn from Guardians of the Galaxy

[...] Someone created a petition, I signed it, and I hope many people on Tumblr will, too, because Marvel needs to know that we CARE about who will handle big franchises, and how BAD it is that a man like him is allowed to work in this industry, considering his vision of women and women characters is basically, meat.

Signal boost this, please. And let’s see if we can make ourselves heard.

[from marielikestodraw on tumblr]

Please sign this. Because I have been into comics for the grand total of about two months and the poor treatment and representation of female characters became apparent to me about 2 days in.

And you know Natasha would ninja this shit.

(Sorry for raining on the happysquee of this bar but... needs must)