be_compromised | Promptathon is heeeeeeeeeeeeeere!

The Good Ship C/N Promptathon
of Magic and Joy: Aka, The Promptathon of All Wonderful Things Involving Two Certain Badass Assassin People Doing Badass Things and Being Awesome. And Badass. And Pretty. And Stuff.

NOTE: The promptathon has now closed, but please enjoy all the lovely fic and fanworks. in our Masterposts below.

Master List of all Promptathon fanworks.

Master List, Part 2 now with more delicious everything!

**Many thanks to rayruzfor the beautiful graphic.

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NOTE: PROMPTING HAS NOW CLOSED, BUT FICS AND FANWORKS MAY STILL BE SUBMITTED THROUGH AUGUST 31ST. THANKS!

Welcome!!!! The time is now upon us. This will kick off a month's worth of prompting and fanworking and all the good things. Not sure what to do? Click below for our handy-dandy Promptathon Guide!

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 crazy. All I ask is that you keep it tasteful and warn for anything explicit or triggery. Also, try to be as specific as you can with your prompts--this is often very helpful to those creating the fanwork.

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.
Tailgate and chitchat and keep leaving prompts. And mull over the epic fanworks you are creating.

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. The nitty gritty details of posting your stuff can be found HERE. Please read before you post

Timeframe:
Prompts will be accepted starting today, Friday, July 13th (!!!) and will remain open until Friday, August 10th. Submissions may be submitted beginning on Friday, July 20th and may continue to be submitted until August 10th.

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.

Meet new and awesome people. Because srsly, I love everyone in this bar. It's a good damn bar. Don't be afraid to say hello
Ship like you’ve never shipped before.
Tailgate when appropriate. My motto is, if something ain’t a cocktail party, you just aren’t trying hard enough. In that spirit, aurora_0811and I are hosting the tailgate section (which I think at this point just includes random chatter and ridiculousness, cheerleading and tomfoolery, because I doubt our comm’s talkative nature will be suppressed even during the prompting/waiting period.) So pull up a helicarrier-shaped lawnchair, crack open a cold one and settle in for the festivities. And leave prompts.

And most of all, have fun. :)

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Why are you so wonderful? I love so much about this, about this universe, but mostly I love how his torment is to lash out physically, to inflict pain (even unknowingly) on others and to hurt his demons in the dark - and she retreats into herself, hurts only herself, seeks refuge from the violence in the world around her in the only place she can. Their twin and twain reactions, the Morse code, their adaptions and adjustments to the other's issues... <3

Also, Clint's "You're better than this" makes me want to cry, to wonder how he can see her as 'better' when she's so steeped in blood - is it because she didn't have a choice? Because she was molded this way while he sought his hell out? Oh, my boy...

You are such a sweetheart. Thank you. :)

mostly I love how his torment is to lash out physically, to inflict pain (even unknowingly) on others and to hurt his demons in the dark - and she retreats into herself, hurts only herself, seeks refuge from the violence in the world around her in the only place she can

Oh yes. Such a fantastic observation. And I'd never thought about it quite that clearly before. And it's also so much how they see themselves. Clint doesn't do introspection, he doesn't go inward, everything reduces to action, everything gets pushed outward, everything becomes violence (as in violence in it's purest form, that being acting upon something that is not one's self.)

Her violence (for lack of a better term) is completely directed inward--her prison is entirely within herself.

The "better than this" line is a difficult one to parse, and I think it can go a lot of different ways, but I love your interpretation. And I do think that has something to do with it-- the choice and the choosing and who makes it and how it's done. In his eyes, she's just 'a kid who grew up too hard and too fast.'

**huggles your brain**

Edited 2012-08-02 03:48 (UTC)

I may have a tiny ficlet tagging along in my head that that reminds me of...

She leaned her head against his chest, relaxing into the comforting embrace of the weariness she had fought all her life.

"If you could go back and change my past, would you?" She asked, eyes slowly closing.

He didn't have to think about his answer, about the young girl he wanted to protect from the Red Room, about the woman he couldn't save from the red blood slipping through his fingers.

"Yes."

She laughed softly, and her breath was warm against his skin as he watched the first stars appear in the night sky.

"I wouldn't."

...how do you like my brain now? >___>

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Perfect. :)

Gah, this is so interesting because I, respectfully, disagree ;) So excuse me while I impose myself on your carefully wrought characters!! For me, this Clint is ALL inwards and introspection. But at the same time and despite all of that, he can't see himself AT ALL. Hmm... can't or won't, I'm not sure. But I think all he can see is the darkness. The rest of it is hidden from him in that darkness. Which is why he's relentlessly chasing this redemption with her, to save her, a compulsion which I really, really don't think he understands. And not understanding it, but feeling it overwhelmingly all the same just makes everything worse. And it IS the quest for his redemption... but it's also the reflection of his capacity for kindness, his capacity for good (altho that sounds utterly naff) which he's forgotten he has. Actually, hasn't forgotten, just refuses to accept. Doesn't think he deserves. Probably believes that he's killed off. "I am no knight." And he's sure got himself convinced of that, in my head.

And so with all that rage and fear and hatred of himself, and his desperate, yearning need for redemption and SOMETHING which he cannot articulate but which seems to be tied up in her.... with all that twisting around inside of him, when it's manifested physically... well... fucking get the fuck out of the way and seriously, believe him when he tells you to keep that knife handy. And that's before you even get to the PTSD proper....

Cronenburg enough for you..?

Edited 2012-08-02 06:15 (UTC)

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Re: FIC: out to get you (rated R for language, sex, mentions of PTSD) 2/2

Re: FIC: out to get you (rated R for language, sex, mentions of PTSD) 2/2

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