ANNIBIRTHDAY REC-A-THON

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This weekend is our community’s annibirthday (6 years since we started out on LJ) and it’s the tenth birthday of the MCU (Iron Man was released in May 2008)! To celebrate we’re having a good old fashioned nostalgic REC-A-THON.

How It Works: You can pick and choose from the handy meme format below, or use all of it, or just get commenting with recs of ALL THINGS MARVEL. Rec your favourite Clint/Natasha and Clint & Natasha works, branch out and rec things that focus on other characters, pairings, and teams in the MCU, or go really wild and even rec things from the comics. It's party time and everyone's invited!

This is a spoiler free zone so NO INFINITY WAR recs, mentions, or anything. We are here for the last ten years of Marvel and a mountain of nostalgia :)

Copy and paste for suggestions on getting started:

<b>Gateway Drug</b> - rec one of the first Marvel fanfics you can remember reading: <b>Golden Oldie</b> - rec something from phase one/two/three: <b>Master Assassins</b> - go on, rec some Clint/Nat or Clint & Nat: <b>Marvel Rec</b> - branch out and rec from any Marvel film, tv show,comic, crossover… any characters or pairing: <b>Recs for your favourite tropes/tags</b> - team family, road trip, fake married, first times... : <b>AU Rec</b> - rec something alternate: <b>Rec something that ISN'T fic</b> - art, fanvid, playlist, graphic, collage, cosplay, knitting pattern… : <b>Self-rec</b> - something that you’ve written/created: <b>Rec search</b> - describe a fic that you can't quite remember or something that you’d really like to read and someone else can comment with recs for you!



Things to remember:
1) Nothing Infinity War. At all.
2) Always label NSFW (Not Safe For Work) stuff in the title and post under a cut.
3) Fic and artwork needs to have a rating and warnings (or you can say that you’ve chosen not to use warnings).
4) For people with annoying internet connections, say in the title if a comment is graphic/images/gif-heavy and post picspams under a cut.
5) Have a damn good time! (Because if that’s not happening then this post has clearly failed.)

Comments

[paperairplanesopenwindows]

Hi I'm going to be terrible and not link anything on here because I don't have the attention span for it right now. Hopefully I'll remember to come back and fix it, sorry everyone.

Gateway Drug - rec one of the first Marvel fanfics you can remember reading:
I got into Marvel competitively late, when my roommate started watching AOS Season 2 while I was in the room. The first marvel fic I remember reading (and it’s the first work in my bookmarks) is White by the_irish_mayhem. I honestly think this fic is what cemented my love for Clint and Natasha and whenever chapters are posted in the sequel I literally scream.

Golden Oldie - rec something from phase one/two/three:
The Alliterative Domiciles series by Vera_DragonMuse. Nice, soft, fluffy Avengers as a family fic series (that also made me ship Bruce/Pepper/Tony like nobody’s business)

Master Assassins - go on, rec some Clint/Nat or Clint & Nat:
AlwaysLera writes the most beautiful feelsy ClintNat fics

Marvel Rec - branch out and rec from any Marvel film, tv show,comic, crossover… any characters or pairing:
anything Kiss_Me_Cassie writes, bc its all so good and she regularly indulges me with all of my OT3 nonsense.

AU Rec - rec something alternate:
Any of CloudAtlas’s or gsparkes AUs! I’m a sucker for any au ever though. If you’ve written a clintnat au I have read it!

Rec something that ISN'T fic - art, fanvid, playlist, graphic, collage, cosplay, knitting pattern… :
I rec the Avengers Academy mobile game (its dumb and beautiful) and the Avengers Assemble TV show (also dumb and beautiful)


Self-rec - something that you’ve written/created:
Oh god, I’ve only posted two fics? Ones a Clint/Nat/Laura coffee shop au, the other is an utter smut fest semi grounded in Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. This Soulmate Au post keeps going around, maybe one day I’ll actually write it.


Rec search - describe a fic that you can't quite remember or something that you’d really like to read and someone else can comment with recs for you!
Not so much a request, but to this /day/ I see people recing workerbees (sp?) ClintNat fics as being like, formative to the community and I never got to read them. I managed to pull one or two off of Wayback Machine at least.

There was also one posted….circa 2014? Where Nat was undercover and Clint played her motorcycle riding bad boy boyfriend for the cover. At one point they “broke up” so she could date the mark?

[alphaflyer]

The Workerbee/Bob5 fic you're looking for is called "Five times Clint and Natasha made out like teenagers because reasons" and it was first posted/linked on this comm when it was on LJ, and I was very new to the fandom, and we all squeed when a new chapter was posted. It was followed by "Off the Grid" and "The equilibrists" and I *cough* may have them downloaded.

[gsparkle]

does that *cough* mean that *cough cough* you'd be willing to email them to interested parties? I didn't join the fandom until Winter Soldier came out and I feel like I missed so much D:

[alphaflyer]

I might just ... *bats eye lashes*. DM me on Tumblr and I'll send you my e-mail.

[paperairplanesopenwindows]

I would also like to get these works! Are you AlphaFlyer on tumblr as well? (I mean statistically speaking I'm probably already following you....)

[alphaflyer]

Sorry - just realized I never replied. Yes, I'm AlphaFlyer pretty much everywhere (holdover from my Voyager days), sometime with a space between the Alpha and the Flyer. Send me a DM!