be_compromised | Epic Promptathon 2020

It's all go with the Bingo Challenge and AU Exchange, but it wouldn't be summer without THE EPIC SUMMER PROMPTATHON! Yep, it's that time of year again. ARE YOU READY?!

Just before we get started we have some info and rules we’d like you to read…

HOW PROMPTATHON 2020 WORKS

Step One: Leave Prompts

Prompts can be anything – simple or elaborate, words or pictures, songs or poems, lyrics or phrases, anything that inspires a fanwork. Use your imagination. Go wild!

We welcome ALL THINGS MARVEL, although we do like it if Natasha and/or Clint is in there somewhere, individually or as friends, lovers, spouses, partners, in gen fic, ANYTHING. That means we do welcome other characters and pairings (and threesomes or moresomes).

Leave as many prompts as you want. We’re serious. Keep coming back. We want as many prompts as we can possibly get. Just make sure each prompt is in a separate comment.

Step Two: Squee

Been wanting to jump into the fandom but not sure where to start? Now’s the time. Newbie or a lurker? Here’s the perfect opportunity to say hello! Promptathon is a fun, no-pressure environment. If all you want to do is post prompts and share in the squee, you’re more than welcome! And by squee we mean chatting in the chat thread, replying to prompts to chat about prompts, and just lots of excitement all over the place.

Step Three: submit fanworks like there’s no tomorrow!

The usual Community Rules apply. There’s no length requirement on fanworks submitted. You can create drabbles or epics, vids, art, fanmixes, anything at all; it’s just all about getting creative! You can fill as many prompts as you want, and prompts can be filled multiple times by whoever wants to fill them.

HOW TO POST FILLS

1. Respond in a comment to the prompt you are filling. Please post the entire work in the comment if it's short enough OR post a link, and consider posting the first section as a teaser. Please don't post works directly to the comm - we’re all about one-stop shopping, so keep everything in this main promptathon post. We'll do a masterlist of fills at the end.

2. Label your fill/comment in the subject line with 'FILL', your title, and a rating. Example: FILL: 5 Times Clint and Natasha Were Awesome (PG) When filling in the subject line, you may need to view the comm in its original style (if you don't already). Just make sure you can see a subject line when responding with your submission. This makes it A LOT easier for us to make that masterlist and for people to spot your fills.

3. Make sure to include a rating and warnings OR 'choose not to warn' at the start of your fill, as per the comm rules. Help us out and make sure folks know what they're clicking on :)

4. Please put anything NSFW behind a cut or link.

TIMELINE

TODAY: Prompting starts! GO, GO, GO
SUNDAY 2nd AUGUST: We open for fills! (You can also continue prompting)
UPDATED: MIDNIGHT FRIDAY 25 SEPTEMBER: Promptathon, both prompts and fills, ends at midnight in whatever your timezone is PROMPTATHON IS CLOSED!

If you have any questions about anything please feel free to ask! We have a questions thread as the first comment to this post and you can always PM a mod.

OKAY THEN BEST BAR EVER, LET’S GET PROMPTING!

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“ – no no no Kate it’s under the – yeah, yes. The red one – no, the – yeah, that one.” Clint clamps his phone between his shoulder and ear and picks up the watering can. “Well, I couldn’t not buy a purple one, could I?”

He begins watering Natasha’s houseplants. She has a lovely spider plant currently taking over her kitchen which Clint is very fond of, largely because she’s had it for nearly five years now and he’s not managed to kill it yet.

“Well, yeah, I guess, but – ” He frowns. “Katie, no. Are you insane? America would – ” Clint spills some water on Natasha's counter and leans over to wipe it up with his sleeve. “I don’t think – ”

He’s cut off again, Kate getting more and more animated on the other end. Urgh, Kate’s crush is getting really annoying now.

He moves on to the plants in the front room. There’s a monstera and a couple of cacti and… oh, that’s new. He’s not sure what it is but –

“I am Groot.”

“What?” Clint says, uncomprehending.

“I am Groot,” says the fucking plant.

His phone clatters to the floor, Kate’s voice floating tinnily from its shitty speaker.

“Clint? Clint? What was that noise? Are you – CLINT?”

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“He fainted?” says a voice Clint doesn’t recognise. “He fainted?”

“It’s a talking plant!” Ah, that’s Tony though.

“And it was in my house.” And that’s Nat.

“Excuse you,” says the first voice, “Groot is not a plant.”

Clint peels his eyes open to find Natasha sat at his side, hand wrapped around his. Is he in hospital?

“And I thought he was supposed to be a hero?” the first voice continues. “Since when did heroes faint?”

“Well, we don’t have talking plants here!” Natasha snaps.

“Groot is not a plant,” the first voice growls. Clint inches his head around until he can see the speaker, feeling the scrape of fresh bandage against his skin. Did he hit his head? Is that why he’s – ?

The speaker is a raccoon. A raccoon. And there was a talking plant earlier, he suddenly remembers.

Fuck this shit, he thinks as he checks out again. He’ll wake up again when the world makes sense.

Edited 2020-08-21 20:01 (UTC)