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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!
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
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
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!
FILL Putty in Your Hands, gen, unbeta'ed
It's been going on a week now that they've been perfect guests of this marriage-councelling resort to the wealthy. Clint didn't think that the one talent he's going to need the most here would be patience, but he's started wondering whether there's such a thing as whiplash from too much nodding with fake sympathy. For almost the entire week, Clint, posing as Clark Ratcliffe, has been sitting in a circle of husbands bemoaning the stressful effects that financially suppressing the 99% has had on their ability to keep up with the libidinous demands of their mistresses. Since Natasha, in her role as Nadine Ratcliffe, has been purposefully cold to him and spent her time with the circle of frustrated wives, Clint's entertainment has been sparse. The only highlight comes when it is his own turn to share.
To relieve at least some of his boredom, he starts embellishing the Ratcliffe's previously agreed-upon backstory with an affair of his own. It's worth it, too, to pretend not to be aware of most of the racist and homophobic discomfort halfway through the tale. In fact, it's so entertaining, he's adding another whole fifteen minutes of waxing lyrical about the imaginary young intern's impressive black cock, carrying on until eventually their spiritual leader calls a break and runs, suspiciously hunched over, for the nearest exit.
Alas, today's exercise has less comedic potential: It is a pottery class.
"That's it, time's up!" instructor Harem Pants chirps, happily applauding themselves as much as the group of adults hunched around chunks of clay.
Clint mentally claps himself on the back for not groaning his frustration. Although she has her back to him, he knows that Natasha will see right through it.
"Let's see what magic you guys wrought!" Harem Pants stage-whispers, as if sharing an illicit secret. Clint cannot be bothered to use the clearly made-up hippie name they introduced themselves with, not even in the privacy of his own mind and especially not if they insist on talking to a room full of adults as if they were a group of kindergarteners.
Everybody swivels their chairs around to share their work with the group and with a small smile, Nadine Ratcliffe's eyes meet her husbands. It's smooth, the way she first places her clay sculpture on the table before minutely raising both hands, stretches her fingers and sharply twists them palms outwards - it's unlikely anyone else will have picked up on the fact that she's signed All Done in ASL.
Finally!
Clint allows the relief at ending the charade to flit across his face.
"Let's see, who wants to go first? How about you, Benjie," says Harem Pants, unaware of the exchange. "Do you want to show us what you cherish about Hilda?"
It doesn't take an academically trained art critic to see a piggy bank in the young man's piece of clay, even though he makes a valiant attempt at describing some vague symbolism surrounding an animal that bonds for life. At least Hilda seems smitten, so maybe it'll work out alright, Clint thinks. He's wondering whether Esther across from him will be making up something about the Leaning Tower of Pisa or just forego all pretence and straight up admit that what she crafted is a dick, when he hears his own name.
"Nadine, what do you cherish about Clark?" Harem Pants asks.
"Clark and I have, like, really learned so much from, like, your seminar and that?" Nadine says, her accent as fake as the cheeky twist to her smile is real, "and I'm, like, so grateful?" She turns her work around to show to the room. Offset with a pattern that, if you were to look really closely, could potentially resemble tiny hourglasses, an arrow pierces the shape of a heart. "When we first met, it was like, as if cupid had struck me down? He, like, shot me with his arrow and ever since then, it's like, been a completely different world for me?"
Clint doesn't have to fake the broad grin splitting his face while the room oohs and aahs with misplaced romantic notions.
"That is so beautiful!" Harem Pants sounds close to tears. "Clark? What did you make for Nadine?"
"First of all, I don't think there's enough clay in the world to make models of everything I cherish about her," he says, and unsurprisingly, everybody sighs happily all over again. Natasha grins right back at him and even if appearing to have reconciled themselves is as good a way to finish the mission as any, he finds he's not lying about this part.
"But above all, she's this..." he proudly shows off his creation, biting his tongue to keep a straight face as the room falls silent. Brows draw together, heads tilt in scrutiny of the shapeless blob in front of him.
"It's a big rock!" he explains after a moment, full of fake exasperation. "She's my rock!"
Immediately, the room titters a chorus of "Yes, naturally!", "Of course!" and "That's what I wanted to say right away!"
The fake Ratcliffe's meet in the middle of the room, Clark lifting Nadine right off her feet in a tight embrace, ringed by terrible sculptures and smitten couples.
It's the entirely genuine Natasha who whispers into Clint's ear: "You're so full of shit," her quiet laughter the sweetest declaration of love he's ever heard.
Re: FILL Putty in Your Hands, gen, unbeta'ed
The intern absolutely killed it for me. Masterstroke!!
Re: FILL Putty in Your Hands, gen, unbeta'ed
Re: FILL Putty in Your Hands, gen, unbeta'ed