be_compromised | Promptathon is heeeeeeeeeeeeeere!

Entry tags:

promptathon 2012

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.

******************

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. :)

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

*wipes meta stains off shirt*

I'm glad you think this is hot! You know it's the most explicit thing I've written? :P

And they barely made it through the door. The neighbours were lucky they didn't get a free show in the hall (or would that be unlucky?).

(and yes, I'm still tempted to write a 5+1 of their reunions in this verse b/c of that image alone.)

*says nothing* *sends enabling vibes*

They never sy the words (like not ever, not in my head, they just don't do that) but their confessions of love are always around--they crop up in every one of their little rituals: the storytelling, a kiss on her the wrist, tracing his scars, worshipping her body, give and take, push and pull.

This! They declare their love through actions but never words, and they get the message anyway because they've never needed words to communicate.

I see this as something she does for him fairly regularly, to bring him back down to earth after facing the darkness. I imagine he has a ritual for her as well, but I can't think what that is right now. Thoughts?

Also the duality. THE METAPHORS. I do love me a good metaphor, and this tale is perfect. It's dark and complex and wonderfully ambiguous (remind you of anyone?), and there is a prince who wants to SAVE HER and a demon king who TAKES WHAT HE WANTS and in the end she CHOOSES BOTH OF THEM.

Dude, you need to read Deathless. You will die of squee.

I'm so glad you liked it, and thanks for letting me play in your universe! It's a highly addictive sandpit.

Is it really the most explicit? Moreso than last one?

And yes, definitely hot. And I will take hot by implication every damn day of the week. Don't tell me everything; don't even come close. Just imply enough to plant a couple of lovely ideas in my head and we're good. Srsly. That's the secret. (at least to me)

I imagine he has a ritual for her as well, but I can't think what that is right now. Thoughts?

**ponders**

Hmmm.... with him it wouldn't be about words.

I think it's all about water. He literally washes the dirt and dust and blood of the mission off of her. Sometimes it gets all hot 'n heavy, sometimes it's more worshipful or platonic, but he literally washes the past away. Brings her back to herself. The water is scalding hot, there's maybe one candle in the room (sometimes it's almost completely dark), and he knows, he just knows when they're done by the way her breathing changes-- the way she starts to come back to herself. The spell is lifted and the princess wakes back up. (plus I have all these images of him washing her long red hair b/c clearly i need to add hair!issues to my long list of cronenburg!issues.)

I dunno, that was me shooting from the hip. Thoughts?

Re: Deathless, I'd already decided that I need this in my life. Shall rectify tomorrow. :)

Edited 2012-08-06 03:27 (UTC)

I think it's all about water. He literally washes the dirt and dust and blood of the mission off of her. Sometimes it gets all hot 'n heavy, sometimes it's more worshipful or platonic, but he literally washes the past away. Brings her back to herself. The water is scalding hot, there's maybe one candle in the room (sometimes it's almost completely dark), and he knows, he just knows when they're done by the way her breathing changes-- the way she starts to come back to herself. The spell is lifted and the princess wakes back up. (plus I have all these images of him washing her long red hair b/c clearly i need to add hair!issues to my long list of cronenburg!issues.)

... ... ...

::falls over::

*___*

*g*

It's amazing what can come from a sleep-deprived brain. IDEK. **shakes head**

The other one was probably more explicit, now that I come to think of it. I guess by explicit I actually meant 'sexiest.'

OMG, yes to everything. I can see that so clearly. Especially him washing the blood out of her hair. (I thought hair!issues was already a thing in this fandom? :P)

Are hair issues a thing? WHY DIDN'T I GET THIS MEMO?????

Haven't you seen the large amount of fic centering on why she cut her hair?

Ohhhhh. I have; haven't read a whole lot of it. Is it kink-dark-and-twisty hair issues?

Some of it. It varies in quality, as is the way of fanfic.

Goddddddd. That washing the blood/dust off of her.......HOW DO YOU COME UP WITH THESE THINGS?!? They are made of gold and sparkles and everything perfect. Idek what I'm saying. But I'm starved for a fic about this.

I think sugar's going to kick my ass until I write this, so you might just be in luck.

And thank you. :)

My brain. Sometimes I don't even know. O_o

I see this as something she does for him fairly regularly, to bring him back down to earth after facing the darkness. I imagine he has a ritual for her as well, but I can't think what that is right now. Thoughts?

I love love love the idea of that - in the story I'm working on (which is closer to movie-verse stable-r assassins than Cronenburg Assassins) they end up using sex as a way to ground her back down into being the Natasha she's turned herself into rather than whoever she was pretending to be or whoever someone else has manipulated/brainwashed her into being. And it's intercourse between the two of them, specifically because he initially refused to have sex with her unless she dropped all her masks which freaked her the fuck out, but she eventually managed it. Which turned it into a touchstone for her - he kind of becomes a living embodiment of counter-triggers for her after awhile. So... what things could this Clint do that she wouldn't have any other associations with to bring her back?

(And now I'm wondering if I could incorporate it into that "music as trigger" prompt floating around without going into some serious dub-con territory. Hmm...)

*brain explosion*

Yes. To everything ever. I would love to read this fic.

So... what things could this Clint do that she wouldn't have any other associations with to bring her back?

Movie!Clint or Cronenburg!Clint? Cronenburg!Clint I'd say ropes, or something else to do with her wrists. Movie!Clint... Strangely, I see him as being very, very gentle with her. Takes his time, focuses almost entirely on her pleasure. And he calls her Tasha, which no one else is allowed to do.

Yes. To everything ever. I would love to read this fic.

::blushes:: Thanks.

I've started working on it actually. Except Steve showed up, too. I have no idea why Steve showed up. (IDEK. But it just might break him. Or just fail spectacularly. We'll see.)

Cronenburg!Clint I'd say ropes, or something else to do with her wrists.

Sweet Zombie Crickets I would give a frak-ton of anything to read that. ::swoons::

Everything that Bee said *grins*. Sorry, I've just read all of small acts in one go and I think I've lost my ability to anything lol. But. I love the storytelling, a fitting end as an epilogue with that 'here is a story, here has been a story' vibe and also that it's fairy tale in tone and style, because fairy tales are at their origins dark and often prettied up and toned down for children, so you could say that Clint and Natasha in this verse have been that dark fariy tale, but prettied up to outsiders or not seen as they truely are by outsiders, perhaps just seen, as Coulson says, 'in love' when love is for children, a childish version of the story. And then this is twisty fairy tale, twisted from the classic. I mean, a thin fairy tales generally have in common is that there's a good girl who gets told don't talk to strangers, don't stray from the path, don't touch the spindle, don't. And then if they do, if they're bad, then bad things happen. And there's a Prince and love and a rescue. Here the emphasis is not on any bad thing that the girl has done and there's no rescuing and no one love and things are complicated. The bad thing she has done is not to be claimed and claims herself? Yeah, not awake and articulate enough any more, but fairy tales!

I haven't read Deathless. This is a thing now added to my to read list :)

Then we have the ritual of a story, and a style of story that is in and of itself ritualistic, in a series that has been about rituals, religious, worshipping, devotion, trust, BDSM, rituals. And at the end She lets him kiss her as she lifts her wrists above her head She LET'S him, such a big thing for me in all of this, that it's also been about Natasha agreeing, giving, consenting. And almost coming full circle here Clint does not need to tie her down to make her stop, to end the 'advance and retreat', but she volunteers to stop, maybe not even to be tied, but to be in that position. Once he caught her and tied her down. Once she offered him a rope for him to tie her down in a different way. Now she offers him her wrists, her bare wrists.

Also, y'know, fantastic writing :D <3

My gosh, I need sleep. Then at some point I need to put all my thoughts together and pass them to Bee and Bob. Poor souls, heh.

so you could say that Clint and Natasha in this verse have been that dark fariy tale, but prettied up to outsiders or not seen as they truely are by outsiders, perhaps just seen, as Coulson says, 'in love' when love is for children, a childish version of the story.

OH MAH GAWD YOU HAVE JUST BROKEN MY BRAIN IN THE BEST POSSIBLE WAY.

**DIES**

HELLO, METAPHOR FOR THIS ENTIRE STORY.

**DIES AGAIN**

It kind of killed me when at the end of sweet days of sugar Clint is all ramble and long document and Coulson just sums it up with 'he's in love' and I know my automatic reaction to that has become 'love is for children' but in this case I said it and then went, no, hang on, this isn't that childish kind of love and Coulson I know is being succint, but he makes it sound so much less and no, that's not it. It's that outside of view of, oh yeah, this is love, just as Loki says 'is this love' like it's an insult and Natasha calls it as one. But yeah, they are the dark side of the original fairy tale, the wild thing, the off the map, but the thing so ritualised and embedded in culture and society, so a part of how we work, that it's prettied up and gifted to children. 'This is what love is' only it isn't.

Anyway, yeah, you GUYS, the three of you made me toss words all over the place. And kill Bee! Well, it was at least 1/3 her fault ;)

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Promptathon is heeeeeeeeeeeeeere!

Re: Watch out--I'm about to meta all over you.

I SEE YOUR META AND RAISE YOU MOAR META.

Re: I SEE YOUR META AND RAISE YOU MOAR META.

Re: I SEE YOUR META AND RAISE YOU MOAR META.

Re: I SEE YOUR META AND RAISE YOU MOAR META.

Re: I SEE YOUR META AND RAISE YOU MOAR META.

Re: I SEE YOUR META AND RAISE YOU MOAR META.

Re: I SEE YOUR META AND RAISE YOU MOAR META.

Re: I SEE YOUR META AND RAISE YOU MOAR META.

Re: I SEE YOUR META AND RAISE YOU MOAR META.

Re: I SEE YOUR META AND RAISE YOU MOAR META.

Re: Watch out--I'm about to meta all over you.

Re: Watch out--I'm about to meta all over you.

Re: Watch out--I'm about to meta all over you.

Re: Watch out--I'm about to meta all over you.

Re: Watch out--I'm about to meta all over you.

Re: Watch out--I'm about to meta all over you.