Promptathon 2014

[sugar-fey.livejournal.com]

The Good Ship C/N Promptathon
of Magic and Joy: Round 3


Break out the confetti canons!!

RULES ON POSTING SUBMISSIONS
(please read before you post! <3)


The Rules. Just follow these three easy steps!

1. Leave a Prompt.
Prompts can be anything--simple or elaborate, words or pictures, songs or poems, lyrics or phrases. Anything that, to you, inspires a C/N fanwork. Use your imagination. Go WILD. All we ask is that you place anything NSFW under a cut or link, use trigger warnings when appropriate, and place anything spoiler-y under a cut with a warning. As this is a Clint/Natasha promptathon, your prompts and fanworks can include other characters, but the central focus must be on Clint and/or Natasha. If you’re posting large images, please be mindful of members with slower Internet connections and place the image under a cut or link.

And leave as many prompts as you want. I’m serious. Keep coming back, y’all. We want all the prompts we can possibly get Also, be sure to leave each prompt as a separate comment.

2. Wait a week.
Keep leaving prompts and plan your fanworks! This is a time for celebration and creating all of the things. Work hard, shippers.

3. Submit C/N fanwork like there is no tomorrow.
All submissions should either be posted here or linked to this post via a comment. We will make an official post about rules in the time leading up to submissions. Please read it before posting, as responsible partying is to be encouraged at all times.

Timeline

Prompting starts today, August 2^nd and will remain open until August 9^th. Submissions will start on August 16^th, and will remain open until August 31^st.  It is, in fact, A WHOLE MONTH OF PROMPTATHON.

If you can’t complete your fanwork by August 31^st, that’s okay. You’re still welcome to post your fanwork to the community! However, the promptathon masterlist will only include fanworks from August 16-31.

What we hope to accomplish with all this promptathon-iness:

• A chance to get in the game. Been wanting to jump into the C/N fanwork scene but not sure where to start? Now’s the time. There’s no length requirement on the works submitted, you can focus on drabbles and vidlets and short and sweet projects (or do longer more epic stuff if that strikes your fancy as well).  It’s really entirely up to you. We’re just hoping to provide a fun, no-pressure environment. If all you want to do is post prompts and share in the squee, that’s fine too!

• Meet new and awesome people. Newbie or lurker? Here is the perfect opportunity to say hello!

• Ship like you’ve never shipped before.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact the mod team.

Have fun, everyone. Now fly, my pretties, fly!

SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW CLOSED.

Thanks to everyone who participated!

Comments

[franztastisch]

I would not ask you were you came from, I would not ask and neither would you.
Honey just put your sweet lips on my lips, we should just kiss like real people do.

[Like Real People Do, Hozier]

[krilymcc.livejournal.com]

Oooh. This one I definitely have to try to do.

FIC: I Will Not Ask (and neither should you) (1/2), rated: PG, no warnings

[cybermathwitch.livejournal.com]

Summary: In a darker version of Clint and Natasha's world, she was never really "free" from those who trained her, and Loki was far from the first to snake his way into Clint's head (he was just more thorough about it).

Or, how you were raised is a part of you, but each day you will make the conscious choice whether or not to let it define you. All you owe your past is acknowledgment, not fealty.

*****

I will not ask you where you came from
I would not ask and neither should you

*****

"How do you know I'm not Hydra?" he asks.

"I don't" is on the tip of her tongue... because she thought she was the only one, because she can't be sure she knows them all.

*****

It begins with fire licking up walls and curtains, rough hands dragging her out of her bed and to a place where the food is hot but the rooms are always cold. It begins with the words written into her blood, in a red so dark she's drowning in it.

*****

It begins with a mission. It begins with the mission, in an alleyway in Prague with an unexpected arrow instead of a gun.

He's not the mission she was sent there for. He's not even supposed to be there.

Or is he? By the end of the day, when no other contact comes through, she no longer knows.

*****

He laughs, short and sharp, when what she finally says is "I know you." Then there's a heartbeat. A pause. "I know."

He doesn't look at her when he says "I know you're not."

Somewhere deep in her chest something tightens in a painful twist. Somewhere she feels something suffocating and struggling for its last breath.

*****

FIC: I Will Not Ask (and neither should you) (2/2), rated: PG, no warnings

[cybermathwitch.livejournal.com]

It begins with the words, with their sibilant hiss in his ears. He can't remember the first time he heard them, just the vague lingering taste of hard packed dirt and sawdust in the back of his mouth. There's just the echo of them in the hum of his bow string, lessons learned side by side.

*****

He's with SHIELD just over two years before there's even a hint of contact, and all it is, is a knowing glance from someone he thinks maybe he used to know, who passes him by. The words are in their eyes, in how they nod, but never in their mouths. Just the look, and the shift of memory against his brain.

*****

It wasn't supposed to be like this, she thinks. They never told her they were already there inside SHIELD, already so deep. They never told her their plans, never told her she was their back up (at best) - just another pair of eyes and ears. She got close to people, made herself indispensable, learned how to fit in. In case someday they gave her a mission, but it was always just watch and wait, watch and learn.

Respect, and then friendship; lust, and then love - none of those things had been part of her plans.

Ignoring who she was wasn't the same thing as forgetting, but when she tried hard enough it had the same effect. Now, ignoring it isn't an option anymore - ever since the bunker she can't think of anything else. She never had time to check all the files with her name in them, but somewhere, someday, one of them will surface, and what then?

She focuses on Clint's fingers tapping on the steering wheel, solid and certain like he is (not shifting and false like she feels) and tries to let his rhythm and the unending fields of corn and soybeans take her far away.

*****

Snakes and monsters sing through his brain, discordant and wrong. Loki added a whole new layer to the jagged chord, but the chorus has always remained the same. It used to be white noise in the back of his mind that he could forget for days, weeks, even years, until Loki turned the volume up to eleven and then the dial got stuck somewhere around nine.

He glances over at Natasha, with her head tipped back and her eyes half closed, breathing evenly. She's always the one trying to scrub herself clean, never realizing he's dirtier by far.

*****

Row after row of endless green and brown slide past their windows as they eat up the miles between their past and their future.

She focuses on his fingers tapping on the steering wheel, he focuses on the sound of her breath, and they let their rhythms and the unending fields finally silence the voices of their pasts.

*****

I could not ask you where you came from
I could not ask and neither could you

Honey just put your sweet lips on my lips
We could just kiss like real people do

*****

AO3 link including thanks and author's notes here (http://archiveofourown.org/works/2149269). (Kudos = <3)

Re: FIC: I Will Not Ask (and neither should you) (2/2), rated: PG, no warnings

[morrighangw.livejournal.com]

Ooooh.

Re: FIC: I Will Not Ask (and neither should you) (2/2), rated: PG, no warnings

[cybermathwitch.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Re: FIC: I Will Not Ask (and neither should you) (2/2), rated: PG, no warnings

[sweetwatersong.livejournal.com]

ALL the love! (Despite kicked puppies and everything. ;) <3)

Re: FIC: I Will Not Ask (and neither should you) (2/2), rated: PG, no warnings

[cybermathwitch.livejournal.com]

<3 ::hugs you::

Re: FIC: I Will Not Ask (and neither should you) (2/2), rated: PG, no warnings

[inkvoices]

OH now this is a dark Clint/Natasha scenario I hadn't considered. And trying not to be their pasts with each other, trying to be 'real people' for each other, talk about a redemption arc. I wonder what the day will look like when they find out about each other.

Nicely done! :D

Re: FIC: I Will Not Ask (and neither should you) (2/2), rated: PG, no warnings

[cybermathwitch.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D