Greetings and hugs to you, oh members of the bar, this fine Friday evening. Today's All The Things Friday comes from something that lar_laughs mentioned would be interesting to see, and I said that it would indeed be interesting and should happen!

You know how fandoms gather around ideas and things can become handcanon? And how if you stop and think about it, even though we have very little film canon for Natasha and Clint we seem to have formed some group ideas, even though we never wanted or intended to? And then when you add in the comics, there's comic fanon, film fanon, and comics-film fanon? Things like that. Well, I started doing some writing (as you do) and then I spotted that another another had started posting a fic with in a similiar vein, and I didn't want to read their's in case it impacted what I was doing. I wanted to write my own thing.

lar_laughs pointed out to me that really we're all writing with the same focus, and it's hard not to rethink our premises and ideas because of what we know another people are doing, or other fics that we've read. They proposed an experiment: if everyone at be_compromised were challenged to write a story using the same premise. How many of them would end up the same? How many wouldn't really be anything at all the same? Even using the same basic ideas, or even very specific ideas, they think that who we are dictates the story and the similarities would become unnoticable with the weight of all the other words combined. I think this would be really interesting to do, to take a look at what we bring, our styles and our thinky thoughts. I think it would be interesting as well because once you can see patterns, then you can deliberately do something different, if you like.

Your challenge, should you chose to accept it, is this: downtime, featuring a plaster (or band aid, or whatever they're called where you are).

I say 'downtime' and not domestic for the same reason that we have downtime as a tag and not domestic - this is anything that is non-mission time for these two, but whilst for some writers that might mean domestic fic with cooking or house cleaning, just like anyone else or uniquely assassin style, others might think downtime for our assassins is eating in a SHIELD canteen or doing paperwork, hanging out with the other Avengers or doing a crossword in a safe house, or something perhaps not typically classed as domestic. And I've specifically chosen 'band aid' as the more specific item because that may conjure up specific things for comics readers as opposed to people who have just watched the films, and they might use that or they might not, and also because injury is often a theme with Natasha and Clint from the serious to the mundane and you can interpret that as you will as well.

You can write something fresh for this, however short or long, or you can describe what you would write and just have a snippet of what that fic would be like, or you can post a link to a fic you've previously written that you think fits the bill, but if you do that can you please also comment on whether you think your thoughts or style have changed since then, what you'd do differently. Arts, graphics, meta, and so on are all welcome too! Because those are yet more interpretations and styles!


PS If you'd like to host an ATTF or suggest topics the latest sign-up and topics post is here. I love topics suggestions. It means I don't have to come up with one myself for the Fridays I host that other people haven't signed up for *grins*.

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.)