Title: Thaw
Author: Sienamystic
Remix Recipient: Alphaflyer
Pairing(s): Clint/Natasha
Rating: G
Warnings (or 'I choose not to warn'): No warnings necessary
Author's Note: I really enjoy missionfic, where relationships get explored because of a situation and you can throw metaphors and "if things hadn't gone wrong this wouldn't be happening" stuff, and "well, now we've got a new relationship post-disaster, how did that happen?", and Alphaflyer's Warmth was a story that hit so many of my buttons I decided it had to be the one I wanted to explore. The story I ended up writing is, in some ways, a mirroring, where I've turned a frigid hotel room to a hot desert - but I wanted to maintain the journey that Alphaflyer took Clint and Natasha through, so that the endings would be very similar. I hope I've created something worth reading, because I think the original story is such a tidy bit of characterization that I'd love to live up to.
Fic I've Chosen To Remix (please include link): Warmth, by Alphaflyer
Summary: A disaster leaves Clint and Natasha stranded in the desert.

Natasha doesn't hate the desert, exactly (link to A03)

Info for all:

What is this All The Things Friday of which you speak?
All The Things Friday is bascially a day where we have a post that kicks off a party. That post can be a call out for recs, discussion, picspams, meta, thinky thoughts, squee, dance parties, mini challenges, ANYTHING that you would like to see on this comm. You can take a look at any of the tags with 'Friday' in to see the kinds of things that we've gotten up to before. Although if someone has already used your idea, don't worry; repeats are fine, because there are always new fics to rec and ideas had :)

Who can host?
Anyone. You can host on your own, or as a team, or with a mod.

What does hosting mean?
Being the person that writes the party post. Usually then joining in with the fun that happens. You can know what you want your topic to be in advance, or come up with it on the day.

It's moderating something?
No, don't worry. If you have any problems throw it to the mods as normal. It's more like chairing a gathering, being the DJ, yelling for drinks all around. It's as much or as little work as you want it to be.

How does hosting work?
You write a post about what kind of Friday you want it to be, opening up the floor, and you post it at any time on a Friday. For people worried about timezones, really,any time (we tend to party on into the weekend anyway). At the bottom of your Friday post we'd like you to copy and paste this:

<small>Things to remember: 1) Always label NSFW (Not Safe For Work) stuff in the title and post under a cut. 2) Fic and artwork needs to have a rating and warnings (or you can say that you’ve chosen not to use warnings). 3) For people with annoying internet connections, say in the title if a comment is graphic/images/gif-heavy and post picspams under a cut. 4) Have a damn good time! (Because if that’s not happening then this post has clearly failed.)</small>

What if I have a topic, but I don't want to host?
Let us know what topics you'd like and someone else will host it! Ideas are gold.

You keep saying anyone and anything, but what are the rules of this thing?
Have fun. That's an important rule. Otherwise, it's an all the things friday and we really mean that :)



The Sign-Up List:

07/04: Independence hosted by enigma731
07/11:
07/18: Team Relations hosted by alphaflyer
07/25: SDCC/general chat hosted by enigma731
08/01: Differences between comics & movies hosted by geckoholic
08/08: Guardians of the Galaxy discussion/general chat
08/15: Three sentence ficathon hosted by franztastisch
08/22: Fanvid recs hosted by scribble_myname (& enigma731)
08/29: Hobbies hosted by i_llbedammned
09/05: Characterization imprinting hosted by scribble_myname (& enigma731)

Banner Challenge

We only had one banner entry for this month, so I was going to use that one, but the sizing didn't work :( Instead I'm using one of the unused banners from the last challenge set, by frea_o. People in the Southern Hemisphere, have a seasonally appropriate banner!

If anyone would like to contribute a banner to the community, because it is nice when we get a shiny new banner at the start of each month, just send them in to be_compromised@hotmail.com If we have more than one by the end of the month I'll do a vote/challenge. No theme, unless you feel inspired by the time of year.

A few rules...
1) Everyone is invited to play, seriously, everyone, give it go!
2) Banners must be safe for work.
3) Banners must have a width of 800 and a height of 350 and preferably be a png or jpg file.
4) If it comes to a vote we will make your banners anonymous, so please don’t tell or show anyone what you’ve made until the end of the start of the next month.
5) When new films etc come out please don’t use images that could be spoilers until general DVD release. (If you want to use something and you're not sure if it counts as a spoiler or not, PM me or email.)
6) Banners should contain both Clint and Natasha.


Remix Exchange 2014

You can find posting info and a shiny up to date masterlist HERE. Still a few more fics to go!

For those that haven't spotted it yet we also have a remix exchange collection on AO3.


In Other News

> Did you know that you can tag fics on AO3 with "Community: be_compromised" ? I didn't. I like it!

> June's Monthly Comics Discussion features gorgeous Clint and Natasha art by Phil Noto

> Last week's ATTF is Questions From The Bar, interview style, for our Master Assassins and is full of hilarity

> And you can sign up to host an ATTF or suggest ideas HERE.


Anything else happening releveant to our interests? Let us know :)