Valentine's Mini Promptathon 2021

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Hi All, February has arrived and with it Valentine's Mini Promptathon 2021!

What is it? It’s like the big summer promptathon, only a mini version and there’s a general theme of Valentine’s Day and love - romantic, platonic, galentine’s, you name it. Friendship? UST? Developing romantic feelings? Badass mission? Excessive consumption of pink cupcakes? Angst and hurt/comfort? Alternate universes? Poly relationships? Natasha or Clint dating other people? Clint or Natasha spending time with friends? All welcome here!

How To Play - Prompts:

Leave your prompt in a comment to this post. List each prompt as its own separate comment. Prompts can be generic, Marvel, or include a mention of Clint and/or Natasha.

How To Play - Fills:

We’d like fills to contain a mention of Clint and/or Natasha in some way because we love them, but other than that the whole, wide Marvel Universe is yours to play in.

Post your fill, or a link to your fill - be it fic, art, a video of you performing an interpretive dance, etc - as a reply to the prompt comment. Please don't post your fanwork separately to the comm. We'll create a masterlist post at the end to make sure that everyone gets to see your creations!

Please include a title, rating, and appropriate warnings in the subject line of your fill. (If you run out of space just make sure it's at the start.) As per the comm rules please include a rating/warnings or a rating/choose not to warn. Thank you!

Prompts can absolutely be filled multiple times by multiple people <3

Timeline:

NOW - prompts are STILL open, prompt ALL OF THE THINGS!
Friday 12th February - fills are open!
Midnight (your timezone) Sunday 28th February - February and mini promptathon end, both prompts and fills close

If you have any questions please ask in the Questions comment thread below or contact a mod.

Okay best bar, let's do this. Share the love!

Comments

QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, SQUEE

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Thread for questions and general comments

Re: QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, SQUEE

[gsparkle]

YAY I've been waiting for this notification all day!!!!!

[mitchpell]

Early SHIELD: Natasha happens upon Clint buying/wrapping/etc a Valentine’s gift. Unaware of Laura and the kids, she incorrectly fears it’s for her.

[alphaflyer]

WW2 AU.

OK, I'm cheating alittle: I've started writing something and need to set myself a deadline... :P But - the more the merrier!

[inkvoices]

Haha, if it gets us more fic we'll take it!

[alphaflyer]

Natasha takes the plunge and buys Clint a box of Godiva's. What she doesn't know, because it's never come up: He's allergic to chocolate (or nuts).

[paperairplanesopenwindows]

Stolen from a Tweet: Nat and Clint fall in love, not knowing that they both have anon twitter accounts and have been online enemies for years.

[inkvoices]

I WILL READ THIS :D

[paperairplanesopenwindows]

"I don't know how to stay tender with this much blood in my mouth." -Ophelia, Act IV, Scene V

[inkvoices]

Well damn, appropriate Shakespeare quote is appropriate.

[paperairplanesopenwindows]

AU where Clint leaves increasingly terrible comments on Natasha's recipe blog so she'll notice him.
Ex: "No, I don't recommend using cheese in this brownie recipe"

FILL: The Secret Ingredient

[kiss_me_cassie]

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Clint Barton/Natasha Romanov, minor James Bucky Barnes/Sam Wilson
Characters: Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Clint Barton, Steve Rogers, Kate Bishop, Darcy Lewis, Maria Hill, James "Bucky" Barnes, Sam Wilson (Marvel), Bruce Banner, Phil Coulson
Additional Tags: Fluff, Food, Blogging, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Pizza Place, Pizza, Secret Identity, Crushes


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Excerpt from The Widow's Retreat blog entry "Tender Beef Wellington"

There are some foods that both beginner cooks and seasoned chefs alike shy away from regularly, thinking that they're much harder to make than they actually are. I'm going to take the mystery out of Beef Wellington today and show you how you can make a juicy, succulent favorite with a lot less fuss than you think...

Comments on "Tender Beef Wellington"

ArrowGuy
I don't have any good quality beef, so I think I might use a hotdog. And I don't have any of that flaky stuff either so I thought I might use cornbread. Is it ok to use a box mix? Or should I try to make it from scratch?
That's DOCTOR Darcy
Are you crazy? You're crazy!
How has Natasha not banned you yet?
ArrowGuy
How is asking about a mix crazy?
Falcon
Uh, I'm pretty sure it's not the box mix she's
implying is the crazy part, arrowguy.

Read the rest at AO3

[kiss_me_cassie]

We slept in the same bed for space reasons but now we’re just waking up and there’s something about your bleary eyes and mussed hair

[kiss_me_cassie]

we made the mutual decision to go to this party separately and when i arrived there was this asshole flirting with you and i’m trying not to make it obvious i’m seething with jealousy but it’s really difficult

(or alternately, it's turning me on and I'm not sure how it'll go over if I suggest a threesome)

[sorcer3sssupreme]

ooooo 👀

[kiss_me_cassie]

"Please tell me you can explain why there is a hole through the window.”

[kiss_me_cassie]

“Hey honey…did you seriously adopt another kitten?”

[kiss_me_cassie]

AU where they’ve both been feeding the same stray cat and the actual owner of the cat is upset because their cat is getting very fat

(Really, you can see where I'm begging for an OT3 here, right?)

[inkvoices]

Ha, I love this idea! I really wouldn't want to get on the bad side of Natasha or Bucky by making Liho or Alpine fat, yikes. Also reminds me of a kid's book, six dinner sid, where this cat has meals at lots of different houses :D

(Do I need to say any of my prompts could be OT3? lol)

[kiss_me_cassie]

they’re all gods at war with each other, fighting and unable to agree on how to handle anything, when suddenly a mere mortal shows up during their council meeting and everything goes into a frenzy because how the hell is this mortal here?

FILL: The Kindly Ones (Teen & Up, no warnings)

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This is the prompt which I thought had the least possibility of me filling it. Never say never! Hope you enjoy it Cassie <3

Title: The Kindly Ones
Rating/Warnings: Teen & Up, no AO3 warnings apply
Length: 5775 words
Summary: Somewhere in the universe is a mostly flat rock, spinning slowly through space. On it, arranged in a circle, sit six stone daises occupied by the six Aspects of existence, responsible for ensuring the universe continues as it should.
At least when they’re not arguing or being petitioned by mortals.

The Kindly Ones

Somewhere in the universe is a mostly flat rock, spinning slowly through space. On it, arranged in a circle, sit six stone daises occupied by the six aspects of existence. Or rather, five. Clint leans against the side of his dais instead, lurking in the shadows while he watches the others arguing, which is increasingly common when the Council of Aspects comes together these days.

Loki, lounging on the throne-like chair he created for his own dais, is the current focus of Clint's attention. Time is always worth keeping an eye on, but especially when he’s riling up his brother.

“Isn’t he delightful?” he says, smirking at the mortal on display in the View he’s conjured – a floating window into another world, wisping into green at the edges.

“He was mine.” Sitting on the dais to Loki’s right, Thor, the Aspect of Power, leans forward in his own broad-backed wooden monstrosity, covered in carved depictions of ‘mighty deeds’. “I claimed Steven Rogers and his warrior’s heart. He was mine, brother.”

“And then he became a man out of time."

Loki waves one hand in the air, dismissing Thor's words without looking away from the View where Rogers raises a shield to deflect a number of bullets as he dives for cover behind a vehicle.

“You cannot claim another’s,” Thor protests, his volume rising. But if Loki is able to find Steven Rogers in a View then it does seem he’s been claimed by Time.

“Really? Did Space not fight you for him, when he crashed that plane, to drown her Stone beyond reach of his enemies, believing it would cost his life?”

Loki smirks at Carol, seated on his other side. There’s no chair on her dais. Instead, she perches on the edge of it, kicking her heels idly against the stone and stroking the flerkin draped across her lap. Clint wonders how far she must have travelled since the last Council gathering to find a being that contains a pocket dimension inside its body. Watching it close its eyes as Carol scritches between its ears, he also isn't sure which of them has adopted the other.

“You can leave me out of it,” she says.

CONTINUED ON AO3

[kiss_me_cassie]

we’re such good friends/coworkers that other people have started to think we’re together and one morning i was really tired and agreed with them and now they think we’re together and i’m so embarrassed can you just go with it? (AU or in canon)

[inkvoices]

Natasha has seen Clint naked/semi-naked plenty of times - missions, training, strip poker, early morning wake up calls, what have you - and hasn't thought anything of it. It's just a body and she's seen plenty of bodies.

Then, after some time/getting to know each other, she looks and it's like she has new eyes, or something has changed, because suddenly she's attracted to him.

[sorcer3sssupreme]

ooOOooo this is making me think of demisexual Nat and I'm into it 🤔

[inkvoices]

Clint Barton at the end of Civil War, mission compromised, on the run, not sure who of his SHIELD colleagues to trust or where to go, finding out that Natasha exposed all of SHIELD... and either Natasha gives him a heads up before or contacts him after and Clint is like, look, I love you, but FFS.

[alphaflyer]

Assume you mean TWS? Totally there for that...

[inkvoices]

Figuring out each other's love languages.

(5 love langauges: words of affirmation, physical touch, receiving gifts, quality time, acts of service)

[inkvoices]

I haven't seen WandaVision yet, and NO SPOILERS IN THIS SPACE PLEASE for anyone, but generically: character realising they're living in an alternate reality/something is not right and figuring out how/why... or deciding not to.

[inkvoices]

Christening a new place.

Bonus: someone's (Kate, Steve...?) reaction to knowing sex has happened on the couch they've just on, or the table they've just sat at for food, or what have you.

[kiss_me_cassie]

Wait a second, didn't Franzi just write this for Clint and Bucky and Natasha? ;)

[sorcer3sssupreme]

Meeting new people and letting them figure out that there is more than one partner can be a lot of fun

(am I just stealing from the OT3 prompt list? yes)

[sorcer3sssupreme]

Swapping all their clothes, even though they have different body types

(bonus points for if they discover they own each other's merch)

(once again stealing this from the OT3 prompts list)

[crazy4orcas]

No matter where he happens to be on Valentine's Day (top secret mission, in the infirmary, middle of the jungle, hitching a ride on a submarine, etc) Clint ALWAYS finds a Valentine's card from Natasha - and they're always one of those cheesy cards that he was forced to give his classmates when he was in elementary school (alternatively - they're always one of the cheesy Avengers branded cards).

[quietlyimplode]

I love this idea!!

[crazy4orcas]

Natasha tells Clint that they're going out for Valentine's Day - she has it all planned out - he's under the impression they'll be doing the "typical" romantic stuff and is suitably reluctant. Turns out Natasha has booked them space at an archery range that also has a paintball course and an old fashioned pinball arcade - Clint is thrilled.

[inkvoices]

Post-Civil War Clint and Natasha after Clint is broken out of the RAFT and they're on the run.

[sorcer3sssupreme]

oh no I have Ideas™ about this one, too 👀

[inkvoices]

Avengers Assemble AU: what if Loki uses the spear to take Natasha instead of Clint.

Could be an imagining of how that would go. Could be dealing with the aftermath.

[quietlyimplode]

Oh gosh, I’m so tempted to do this (but have never seen AA) and would just be going off the avengers. But hmmmmmmm..