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11 January 2019 @ 10:48 pm

ATTF: Endgame Trailer Happened; Now What?

First ATTF of the year! Relevant to your interests: we have a new sign up post for 2019 here, also asking for suggestions on how we can liven things up. For this week though, let's talk about:

What To Do When You've Seen Those Few Clint And Nat Moments In The Endgame Trailer, And Suddenly You Need More In Your Life Again, But Endgame Is Not Until APRIL.

Yeah. That.

Are you revisiting old fics? Desperately searching for new ones? Exploring other corners of Marvel (or other fandoms)? Got any recs?

Perhaps you're racing to finish a fic before you get jossed, or suddenly fired up to write Marvel fic again, create icons/graphics again, or re-read your favourite comics/graphic novels? Which ones are your favourites?

Or perhaps you have other countdown coping methods?

Let us know, folks of the bar, because we're all in this boat together :)

Things to remember:
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4) Have a damn good time! (Because if that’s not happening then this post has clearly failed.)

Tags: all the things friday, discussion post, recs (fic)

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crystallitanie on January 13th, 2019 03:59 pm (UTC)

Hey there!

I've mainly reverted back to reading old-school Clintasha fics in AO3, and for the moment just looking forward to Punisher's second season, due in a few days in Netflix.

Although, to tell you the truth guys, I'm going through a hibernation period. From September till New Year RL was so crazy, that I have now reached a point where I don't have the energy to do anything, including watching and/or reading anything new. I just hope it will pass soon!

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alphaflyer on January 14th, 2019 04:09 am (UTC)

Sympathy! RL has been an endless rollercoaster - all work related, coming home late, working weekends ... All that means little time to even read anything other than my twitter feed to keep up.

Mood: Ca 2012 Clintasha...

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inkvoices on January 14th, 2019 08:35 pm (UTC)

I always want to hibernate in January :/ But I want to take books with me; I always end up getting back into reading in the new year for some reason.

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alphaflyer on January 14th, 2019 04:14 am (UTC)

I didn't get the notification that a new post was up ... Oops.

My unfortunate condition is that once major things happen in canon, I find it hard to ignore them. So after AoU, I found basic Clintasha hard to write; post-TWS, those Ye Olde SHIELD fics got tricky. And now, after the ashes, how to do a slow burn happy fic.... I got to have my cake and it it too in "Sanctum", but that was a real one-off. May need to stick to the Fraction-Aja verse until April. Oof.

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inkvoices on January 14th, 2019 08:34 pm (UTC)

Eh, I think people have gotten used to these being irregular, but I'm hoping we can boost them up again. I think we've gotten some new faces, and probably new lurkers *waves*, even as we've lost people with LJ and all. We have tumblr, chat...and new film soon! So, fingers crossed.

YES. Even if I write AUs, the way I've viewed particular characters or ideas changes. Which I love; I love that Marvel surprises us with things like the collapse of SHIELD half a season into a new SHEILD tv show (well played, Marvel, well played) and new sides to characters. But it does redirect my thinking.

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kiss_me_cassie on January 15th, 2019 01:58 pm (UTC)

Ugh. I feel you. I'm okay with ignoring canon and Laura (even though I like her and am fine with her existing!) but have a really hard time reconciling why he'd become Ronin if he didn't lose a family. It just doesn't make sense. And if he did have a family, how do you do slow burn happy fic after the death of that entire family?!?

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inkvoices on January 15th, 2019 08:22 pm (UTC)

On the one hand, I agree. On the other, I feel intrigued by the challenge of thinking up why Clint might become Ronin without losing his family, hmm... Maybe if he's on the run, and hiding his identity is to protect his family? Maybe some secret ninja plotline? Maybe an Incredibles style plot where the whole family become superheroes? (Like they go on the run and Laura is ex-SHEILD, and even though their parents tell them to stay put, damn it, Cooper insists on helping and becomes the guy in the chair, and Lila has inherited really good aim that she uses to defend the baby one time, and it's hard, but they're lucky; they're alive, and they're together.)

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findthesea on January 17th, 2019 06:25 pm (UTC)

omg I already wrote an Incredibles AU thing and I totally wanna write this now. That's kind of brilliant.

Maybe Cassie's there, too. ;)

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inkvoices on January 18th, 2019 09:26 pm (UTC)

Feel free to run with it. And then I can read it *grins*.

And I am all for Cassie being there - post Civil-War (before we knew how dire the straits woud get, heh) I thought whilst Clint and Scott were in (on?) the Raft then Cassie and Magge and maybe Jim might be in a safehouse with Laura and the kids...

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alphaflyer on January 17th, 2019 10:10 pm (UTC)

Well, I had a theory in my last fic elements of which might work: Laura moves out and takes the kids (maybe thanks to misinformation from Ross?) and essentially disappears. The "house arrest" thing is what Natasha etc are told by Ross, but it never actually happens. Clint comes home from the Raft to an empty farm, and goes berserk/Ronin. So when the Snap happens he assumes they are gone for good. Except they're not - they're in Poughkeepsie (or something).

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inkvoices on January 18th, 2019 09:28 pm (UTC)

You did, and I thought that was a heartbreaking but fixable and therefore not completely heartbreaking solve :) In my post-IW fic I went with only one of the kids being un-dusted, because statistically if Thanos dusts half of all people and they're a family of five... And I thought it'd be tragic if it was one of the kids left. Although also what if Laura was okay, but all the kids were dusted? And I also think having some people with their families/people safe would also be an issue, because you'd be relieved, but then the jealously and emotions from the people around you, especially if things descend into a kind of dystopia or panic...

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redheadredledger on January 14th, 2019 08:53 am (UTC)

Honestly ive just been sulking about the wait and wearing my arrow necklace. Hearing about the rumours about a new black widow movie is helping tide over the wait

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inkvoices on January 14th, 2019 08:19 pm (UTC)

Ooo, arrow necklace :) I'm gonna believe there's a Black Widow movie when it happens, because otherwise I'm gonna be either disappointed or so very, very excited that i'll be bouncing off the walls, ha.

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inkvoices on January 14th, 2019 08:40 pm (UTC)

Well I'm back into books at the moment (not that I'm ever really not) - currently reading Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker, which is really interesting and also a bit scary because I really don't sleep enough, yikes. And I just finished In An Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire and I loved it; the Wayward Children series of novellas are just damn good fairytales embedded in realism.

In fanfic I seem to mostly be reading non-Marvel, maybe so I don't get too excited? I don't know, brain, you tell me. Except for runaways are running the night because the last part was posted at the weekened and I had to finish it - it's Clint/Natsha/Bucky in which Natasha is in a kickass famous girl band and Clint is a comedian and, damn, so good. And the fanfic I'm beta reading for

franztastisch *grins*.

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gsparkle on January 14th, 2019 09:01 pm (UTC)

RUNAWAYS OMG RUNAWAYS franztastich and I messaged each other at every single update and now... it's over :(((((( And I don't know what to do with myself!!

(I could write, I guess, theoretically.............. nah)

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inkvoices on January 14th, 2019 10:29 pm (UTC)

As soon as I finished devouring the last installment when I got the notification on Saturday morning I went back and read it all again from the beginning - to stave off the craving, lol, but also because it's great to see how it all hangs together bookended by the 'now'. I don't like to mither authors about more and extra (because, ugh, pressuring people and people who're doing this for free) but I'm thinking if we're really, really lucky maybe there'll be outtakes or headcanons or something. Maybe maybe. Pretty please. *Hearts in eyes*

I compromised and beta read *grins*. Is beta-writing a compromising on not writing? Like editing without actually doing in the writing in the first place or really doing the editing because you're just suggesting? I dunno! I did it anyway! *grins*

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franztastisch on January 15th, 2019 06:37 am (UTC)

Runaways was so good and I'm so sad it's over now. URGH WHAT DO I DO NOW??

Also THANK YOU for the beta!! <3

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inkvoices on January 15th, 2019 08:29 pm (UTC)

Read it again? ;D

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franztastisch on January 18th, 2019 10:26 am (UTC)

Lt's be honest, that was always going to happen at some point. :P

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kiss_me_cassie on January 15th, 2019 02:05 pm (UTC)

Ok, well thats been sitting in my inbox and I guess its time to step it up and read it, huh? Can do.

(This is like me and the slow burn Clint/Laura divorce fic which sat and sat and I read 2 years after the fact. heh)

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inkvoices on January 15th, 2019 08:29 pm (UTC)

It is goooooood!

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franztastisch on January 15th, 2019 06:34 am (UTC)

WRIIIIIIIIIITE!! <3

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alphaflyer on January 15th, 2019 07:33 am (UTC)

Second that. DEMON AU!!!

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inkvoices on January 15th, 2019 08:30 pm (UTC)

Thirded! Oh, wait, demon au, are we pestering me to write now as well as

gsparkle? Lol

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