Welcome to another All The Things Friday! Your co-hosts this week are inkvoices and workerbee73.

First off, a note to say we have a thread at the top of this post for signing up to host, co-host, and/or to suggest themes for future All The Things Fridays. At the moment we have jacedesbff for February 1st and noblealice for February 8th (not sure what topics you folks are going with?) so raise your hands and bring your ideas :D

The theme for today, though, is a three part rec extravaganza. You can do one, two, or all three, or just join in the chatter!

1) rec a newcomer’s or underappreciated story (or artwork, or creative work) that you feel deserves some love.

2) tell us the first thing that you wrote/made in this fandom. (We’re thinking of doing a list of people’s first works that newcomers can add to, kind of a first time not-necessarily-rec list thing, so we can use these to kick off that list. You can tell us your first thing and then tell us that you don’t want it on the list though if you like.)

3) rec something you wrote/made in this fandom that you’re most proud of, or that’s your favourite.

Discussion Ideas: how have your thinky thoughts or creative leanings changed since that first thing you wrote/made? How far have we come since the film was released? What is it about the shiny new things coming through that are different, that have changed your thinking?

For my underappreciated/newcomer rec I’m going to rec two things from the same person, in case you don’t like WIPs: galaxies in our halos and hands by sweetwatersong (PG, warnings for injury, short one-shot) is a gorgeous circus AU with a theme of the two-sided coin that is the magic and reality of circus life, echoing the two-sided coin that is Clint/Natasha. humanity (n) by sweetwatersong is a WIP (link is to chap. 3 with links to previous installments; eventual R, paranormal AU), but it’s fascinating and there’s a good chunk to sink your teeth into.

My first fic in this fandom was And Time Yet (PG13, chosen not to warn), a post-movie look at all the team from Natasha POV with a focus on Clint. I can see hints and implications in there of how dark the territory of Master Assassins can be, but since joining this fandom I’ve definitely gone further when it comes to dark tones and gotten more confident in doing that. I also think that, thanks to some fantastic discussions, I’ve gotten better at putting my meta and thinky thoughts into my fic. Most recently I’ve had a brain full of AU and fusion ideas. Maybe because I’ve read a lot of pre-movie and post-movie things and I want to sail in unchartered territory? I don’t know, but I do find myself wanting to fuse Clint/Natasha into everything *grins* and loving all the AUs.

The work of mine that I’m most proud of at the moment? My Secret Santa fic. Because I think I managed to get some meta and thinky thoughts in there, do an AU that works, and I stuck with it when the length it was getting to scared me.

What’re your three things for this Friday?


And a few things to keep in mind:
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 has 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.)