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let's hope I can do this with some sense of accuracy given my brains bandwidth at this exact moment LOL. (not drinking,just dead tired from an insane day at work) ((well, ok, I AM drinking but not like drunk. just,a level of relaxing and taking the edge off?))) (((oh God, I am NOT a lush, it was just a really bad, crazy work day, ok???)))

Where can people find you and what are your usernames / online handles:
Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/cassiesinsanity
ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/kiss_me_cassie
discord:kiss_me_cassie
Twitter: kiss_me_cassie, although not really on their as much anymore
Facebook/insta: you don't get to know unless you get to know me better


What’s your brand of Marvel? (MCU, tv shows, comics, cartoons etc. or all the things?)
Mostly MCU but I'll steal from just anything as long as it interests me and/or it fits my needs at a particular time.

What’s your brand of Clint and Natasha?
(Are you still in Avengers Tower in 2012, living at the farm, in denial of the farm, following canon all the way off the cliff, here for alternate universes, all of the above, somewhere else entirely…?)
OH GOD. I'm a multishipper? And like straight couples and gay couples and OT3s and OTMores and THIS IS NOT A FAIR QUESTION!!!

Share three of your favourite Clintasha canon moments, headcanons, fanons, tropes, or Clintasha things you just love to enjoy:
1. the catwalk fight which made me fall in love with them because WHY WOULDN'T I???
2.what did NOT happen in Budapest (ie: all the things we imagined before they even began to tell us)
3.the quiet, unspoken moments between them

Tell us some of your favourite Marvel characters/pairings other than Clint and Natasha:
heh. hehe. HAHAHA. Hahahaasooooooob. Did you see multishipper? Throw a pair or more at me and I probably have some interest in it? there are very few I don't care for except Loki/anyone, Bruce/Nat romance, and Clint/Coulson.

Are there any other fandoms you're currently into?
Leverage and I will always wax poetic about The West Wing but not anything else I would consider really fannish about. I float in and out of things.

How do you / would you like to participate in fandoms? (Are you a writer, artist, reader, cheerleader, beta reader, podfic maker, vid maker, appreciative lurker…?)
Writer (self-depracating, adequate, often invisible), reader (voracious), cheerleader (probably my most notable fandom role),beta (sometimes, when my brain is working)

Share a rec (fic, vid, art, graphics, meta, anything):
NO :P

What’s the last book you read/film you watched/song you listened to (OR what media have you been enjoying recently you’d like to share):
Aur is SUCH a good reccer!!! Muderbot diaries, This is How You Lose the Time War, Sarah Addison Allen

Promptathon 2024: share a prompt that you’ve left on the promptathon thread, a prompt you’re hoping to try to fill, a prompt you're hoping someone else fills so that you can read it, or all of the above:
Did I leave a prompt? Damn. Will have to check that. Want to fill? Five times in the Rain. QuietlyImplode and I are currently baking two cakes.

We’re having a party! What are you bringing? (A little game/prompt to have fun with)
Shoes? Wait, not, that's not a party item! Cake from a box mix? Nah, that's not my kinda thing. Blueberry buckle? Chocolate Chip Banana bread?

OPTIONAL things about me:
Me tired. Fire bad, Tree pretty. (Do you all know that quote? Heheh)

I LOVE that you are tired, drinking, and first commenting - sounds like a fine Friday night 😆💜

I knida miss not knowing what happened in Budapest. We only got a few crumbs, but even those cut off so many wild and wonderful speculations. And it was a fun 'never gonna know' fandom thing, ha.

I feel like I didn't actually know or have forgotten you were this much of a multishipper? Huh.

'No.' Just no. I AM CACKLING. Fair enough 😂

I love murderbot diaries! I've not read the most recent one yet though.

ALL THE CAKE. Including box mix if you so choose ;)

Where can people find you and what are your usernames / online handles: firlalaith (on tumblr, discord, tiktok, instagram, dreamwidth...mostly on tumblr).

What’s your brand of Marvel? cartoons and the comics primarily, with a dash of MCU

What’s your brand of Clint and Natasha? Whatever they have going on in the Avengers Assemble cartoon (so MCU Avengers circa 2012)

Share three of your favourite Clintasha canon moments, headcanons, fanons, tropes, or Clintasha things you just love to enjoy: 1) The contrast between the different ways they approach problems, 2) recovering from mind control together, 3) How they share things

Tell us some of your favourite Marvel characters/pairings other than Clint and Natasha: Bobbi Morse, Kate Bishop, Phil Coulson, Alison Blaire. WinterWidowHawk (Clint/Natasha/Bucky Barnes), WinterHawk (Clint/Bucky), ClintCoulson (Clint and Coulson, both romantically and platonically), Kalena (Kate and Yelena), AgentScience (Phil and Jemma Simmons), Phil Coulson/Alison Blaire, Hawkingbird (Clint/Bobbi), Widowbird (Natasha/Bobbi), HawkingWidowBird (Clint/Natasha/Bobbi)

Are there any other fandoms you're currently into? Star Trek (Voyager/Prodigy are my favorite series), Pokemon (Sprigatito is my favorite)

How do you / would you like to participate in fandoms? Writer and artist (mostly writing though)

Share a rec (fic, vid, art, graphics, meta, anything): Picking something at random from my bookmarks..... The Secret Ingredient by kiss_me_cassie

What’s the last book you read/film you watched/song you listened to (OR what media have you been enjoying recently you’d like to share): recently watched the movie Tornado!, with Bruce Campbell, I highly recommend if you can get a hold of it.

Promptathon 2024: share a prompt that you’ve left on the promptathon thread, a prompt you’re hoping to try to fill, a prompt you're hoping someone else fills so that you can read it, or all of the above: I hope someone fills the prompt I left about Clint and Natasha being a team in the shooting or archery events at the olympics...

We’re having a party! What are you bringing? (A little game/prompt to have fun with) Darts for us to play with

OPTIONAL things about me: I am obessed with bats (the animal). I even run a blog on tumblr on about them (todaysbat). I also roleplay on tumblr as Clint (deafarcher), Natasha (avengersoul), Coulson (shieldagentcoulson), and Bobbi (mxckingbxrd)

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A Bruce Campbell movie? ooooooohhhhhhhh

OH NO! A rec of my stuff! OH YES! Do you know how freaking much fun I had writing the blog threads??? SO MUCH FUN!

Keep me away from the darts. I am super uncoordinated. I once threw a bowling ball backwards at a bowling alley. *grins*

Ooo bats! 💜

Woot!! Another Voyager fan!! My first fandom, and my first fic writing adventures...

Where can people find you and what are your usernames / online handles: These days you can mainly find me on discord and the be_compromised dreamwidth for comm events, followed by AO3 and tumblr - I'm currently the one mostly reblogging stuff on the comm tumblr, but almost everything is queued. I'm inkvoices in all places.

What’s your brand of Marvel? I'm mainly MCU and comics, some tv shows, never seen the cartoons, and some things I've just learnt from fanfic and tumblr. To save time, assume I'm behind in everything.

What’s your brand of Clint and Natasha? EVERYTHING. I have a fondness for Avengers Tower and AUs, and least likely to explore things that sound sad, but variety is the spice of life.

Share three of your favourite Clintasha canon moments, headcanons, fanons, tropes, or Clintasha things you just love to enjoy:
A deaf or hard of hearing Clint Barton; choice as a theme, particularly for Natasha; when no one outside of the two of them know exactly what type of relationship they have (because it doesn't matter what other people think).

Tell us some of your favourite Marvel characters/pairings other than Clint and Natasha: To write, Clint/Natasha/Bucky. To read is too many to choose from! I love stories that explore different dynamics between different characters, and group dynamics, and found family.

Are there any other fandoms you're currently into? Tumblr got me into 911, so I've watched up to and including season 6 and read some fic. I got into batfam via fanfic that crossed over with marvel, then ended up reading DC fic without marvel in it. So despite only having watched a few films and following the Wayne Family Adventures comic I now seem to have DC knowledge; no idea what's canon or fanon, ha. Recently watched Deadpool vs Wolverine and feeling nostalgic for X Men.

How do you / would you like to participate in fandoms? I'm a slow writer, a slightly faster beta reader, and a fast reader - when I get to fic or books, I'll usually read them quickly and often in one go. I've dabbled in other things, just to try them out. But my biggest love language is probably organising things.

Share a rec (fic, vid, art, graphics, meta, anything): A lot of my recent AO3 history is batfam, but I recently started rereading my way through thepartyresponsible's fics and one of my favourites of theirs is Got a Heart in Me, I Swear - Clint Barton/Bucky Barnes, with Clint & Natasha friendship, a wonderful large cast of characters and one of my favourite Clints.

What’s the last book you read/film you watched/song you listened to (OR what media have you been enjoying recently you’d like to share):
I recently enjoyed reading Nettle & Bone by T Kingfisher, watched Where the Crawdad's Sing, and Aster has been sending me Taylor Swift songs. I have retaliated with Postmodern Jukebox cover among other things ;)

Promptathon 2024: share a prompt that you’ve left on the promptathon thread, a prompt you’re hoping to try to fill, a prompt you're hoping someone else fills so that you can read it, or all of the above: I actually have a fill idea for CloudAtlas for 'Sex work AU' that I started last year. This year she prompted it again and said no one would ever fill it, and now two people already have so far, and this is encouraging me to add more cake, ha.

We’re having a party! What are you bringing? I'm gonna bring pass the parcel, and there'll be a little prize between each layer like clintasha stickers and things :)

OPTIONAL things about me: I'm in the UK for timezones. I'm she/her, but I'm also fine with 'they' as I'm from the internet era of privacy where everywhere was 'they' for politeness unless they said otherwise or you just didn't know. I don't have an opinion on the box cake debate but I enjoy the cake drama.

The last MCU movie I watched in full* was Age of Ultron and I watched that just last year, so I feel you on the being behind thing.

*I made it thru the first 30 minutes of Civil War, but had to stop watching for my mental health.

"my biggest love language is probably organising things" - and YOU ARE SO VERY GOOD AT IT AND WE ARE SO GRATEFUL!!!!

But you forgot "makes killer fanvids to encourage Certain People to finish their Marvel Bands"! <3

Where can people find you and what are your usernames / online handles:
tumblr: icantopenwaterbottlecaps
ao3: stickler

What’s your brand of Marvel? (MCU, tv shows, comics, cartoons etc. or all the things?)
I'm primarily a comics fan, but really I enjoy all brands of Marvel! MCU, cartoons (Earth's Mightiest Heroes especially), novels, you name it!

What’s your brand of Clint and Natasha?
(Are you still in Avengers Tower in 2012, living at the farm, in denial of the farm, following canon all the way off the cliff, here for alternate universes, all of the above, somewhere else entirely…?)
Farm? Haha what farm haha whaaaat haha that's funny (Okay okay, I jest I jest, I actually like the farm family!) I'm big on alternate universes. If it's comics, I especially love character study pieces of canon events/dynamics. For the MCU, I love an early SHIELD days story. I can never get enough of Natasha coming in from the cold, of her and Clint bonding and falling in love/pining after each other. I also love no power AUs in general.

Share three of your favourite Clintasha canon moments, headcanons, fanons, tropes, or Clintasha things you just love to enjoy:
Comics: 1 - This early interaction between them - "Follow me, Hawkeye!" "To the ends of the Earth, gorgeous!" Yes, Natasha is still manipulating him here, but it's a bit of dialogue that's stuck with me. It's meant to be 60s comics fluff, but it honestly encapsulates them so well. To this day, Clint would still follow Natasha to the ends of the Earth, and so would she for him.

2 - Their kisses. They're often bittersweet, and I think there's something quite beautiful about the fact that they never quite fell out of love with each other, even if they fall in love with and have other (wonderful!) partners. Their love transcends the traditional notions of romance and platonic friendship, they are always caught in each other's orbit. These rare, stolen kisses are something private and special, a moment where they consider perhaps, in another life where their lives lined up better, they could give in and be with each other. It's tragic, star-crossed, but beautiful and selfless all the same.

3 - Clint holding Natasha to his chest in Black Widow, vol 8. Their love, bond, devotion, and friendship is everything, and that panel lives in my mind rent free. Same reasoning applies to all of Natasha and Clint's moments in Avengers (2012)

Tell us some of your favourite Marvel characters/pairings other than Clint and Natasha:
Carol/Jess, Carol/Maria, Carol/comic!Mar-Vell (yes, I ship Carol with a lot of people XD), Kate/America, Steve/Bucky, Wanda/Vision, Clint/Bobbi, Clint/Natasha/Bucky, Bobbi/Lance, Tony/Pepper

Are there any other fandoms you're currently into?
I'm a big Doctor Who fan! Especially of the Twelfth Doctor era, but honestly I love it all. I'm also super into musical theatre, and in terms of other music, I'm a big Laufey fan.

How do you / would you like to participate in fandoms? (Are you a writer, artist, reader, cheerleader, beta reader, podfic maker, vid maker, appreciative lurker…?)
I'm a writer, artist, reader, and cosplayer

Share a rec (fic, vid, art, graphics, meta, anything):
some things I mean | by samalander on ao3

What’s the last book you read/film you watched/song you listened to (OR what media have you been enjoying recently you’d like to share):
I recently started reading Other People's Clothes by Calla Henkel, it's great! I've also been listening to Dizzy Gillespie's Free Ride

Promptathon 2024: share a prompt that you’ve left on the promptathon thread, a prompt you’re hoping to try to fill, a prompt you're hoping someone else fills so that you can read it, or all of the above:
Currently hoping to fill inkvoice's summer camp prompt!

We’re having a party! What are you bringing? (A little game/prompt to have fun with)
I'm bringing ice cream, bubble tea, and cake!! :D

OPTIONAL things about me:
I was born in Canada, grew up in Hong Kong, and am currently studying for my bachelor's degree in the UK (just finished my first year ahhh). I have a cat called Lady Anya and she's everything to me. I'm also a swing dancer (lindy hop in particular), if you ever need swing dance scene recs in the UK or Hong Kong, shoot me a message :)

I'm relatively new to the be_compromised community, and I've loved every moment of it. Thanks for having me here and for being awesome! <3

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you're new? what? really? time has no meaning for me

thank you for the bubble tea! YUM.

NOW GO TO SLEEP DAMMIT! I SEE ALL AND DO NOT APPROVE.

And recommendations for the novels? I haven't tried any of those *is curious*.

Their love transcends the traditional notions of romance and platonic friendship, they are always caught in each other's orbit. [...] It's tragic, star-crossed, but beautiful and selfless all the same. I just love this

Doctor Who!!! I've watched Nine onwards and I can never pick a favourite, because each time there's a new Doctor they get to me.

What's your favourite cosplays that you've done, if you'd like to share? I've done a few at cons, putting pieces together and making little parts rather than making a whole outfit from scratch. I sewed a jumpsuit though, learning curve! Love hearing about people's cosplay adventures.

SUMMER CAMP PROMPT!!!!

*waves to you from another part of the UK*

Where can people find you and what are your usernames / online handles: I’m “Betty back in the day” on Dreamwidth, Discord, and ao3 — but not very active anymore on any platform

What’s your brand of Marvel? I’ve really fallen off the MCU bandwagon over the past 2-3 years. But back in the heyday of The Avengers - I was obsessed with all the things.

What’s your brand of Clint and Natasha? Give me Strike Team Delta, give me enemies-to-friends-to-lovers, give me Lucky and Liho on the farm, just don’t mention a pre-existing Barton family. ;)

Share three of your favourite Clintasha canon moments, headcanons, fanons, tropes, or Clintasha things you just love to enjoy: “…Barton’s been compromised” - that exchange between Coulson and Nat is the exact moment I was hooked. I love the idea of Clint & Nat openly flirting while vehemently denying a relationship (to others AND themselves).

Tell us some of your favourite Marvel characters/pairings other than Clint and Natasha: Tony & Pepper, Deadpool & any/everyone

Are there any other fandoms you're currently into? I’m an OG Star Wars nerd and an X-Phile

How do you / would you like to participate in fandoms? Not much time to write anymore, but still love reading the creative works that members of be_compromised continue to share. I’ll try to carve out an opportunity to participate in Secret Santa (my fav comm event).

Share a rec (fic, vid, art, graphics, meta, anything):

What’s the last book you read/film you watched/song you listened to (OR what media have you been enjoying recently you’d like to share): Deadpool and Wolverine (absolutely loved it)

Promptathon 2024: share a prompt that you’ve left on the promptathon thread, a prompt you’re hoping to try to fill, a prompt you're hoping someone else fills so that you can read it, or all of the above: I left the prompts inspired by two Meatloaf songs. ;)

We’re having a party! What are you bringing? Margaritas with all the fixins!!

OPTIONAL things about me: My husband and I own a comic book store; I also started my own copywriting biz; I love dogs :) And also - over the many years that be_compromised has been in existence, I’ve “met” so many talented, interesting, creative, and generous people. This little corner of the internet is a very special place.

"This little corner of the internet is a very special place." It is - and you are a big part of that for me! <3

Lovely to 'see' you!

I read 'Deadpool & any/everyone' and was like, hmm, I wonder... got to films watched recently, and yep, Deadpool vs Wolverine inspired by any chance? *grins* I enjoyed that one, and am all nostaligic for x men again.

This little corner of the internet is a very special place. It's the people that make it *raises a glass to you* 💜

Where can people find you and what are your usernames / online handles:
ladybirdbeewrites on tumblr, ladybirdbee on ao3

What’s your brand of Marvel? (MCU, tv shows, comics, cartoons etc. or all the things?):
MCU + tv shows! I've read a bit of Matt Fraction Hawkeye and all of Phil Noto's Black Widow, but I don't really have access to comics + I find the sheer volume of them pretty overwhelming.

What’s your brand of Clint and Natasha?
(Are you still in Avengers Tower in 2012, living at the farm, in denial of the farm, following canon all the way off the cliff, here for alternate universes, all of the above, somewhere else entirely…?)
I really love platonic or QPR clintasha. As for era, I'm most in love with pre-avengers Strike Team Delta era Clint and Nat - codependence and espionage is my jam - but 2012 Avengers Tower is pretty good too. And the farm- I don't hate it, but I definitely live most days in denial. Canon means nothing to me and I am happy in my little bubble of joy

Share three of your favourite Clintasha canon moments, headcanons, fanons, tropes, or Clintasha things you just love to enjoy:
Favourite canon moments: everything about them in Avengers (2012), that little moment in Civil War where they're fighting and Nat asks "We're still friends, right?". Clint's grief arc in the Hawkeye show is also so so angsty and I absolutely love it.
Headcanons/fanons/tropes: Almost telepathic non-verbal communication between the two of them, sparring as a conversation, them having absolute and all-encompassing trust for the other.

Tell us some of your favourite Marvel characters/pairings other than Clint and Natasha:
Pairings: Winterwidowhawk is my everything, but otherwise I'm really not that picky. Stucky is great and has so many really amazing fics, I had a winterhawk phase that lasted A While, Stony has some really great angst, and recently I've been really intrigued by a couple DC crossover ships (Clint/Jason Todd, Clint/Bucky/Jason, Bucky/Jason, Natasha/Jason etc)
Characters: Tony, Andrew Garfield or Tom Holland Spider-Man

Are there any other fandoms you're currently into?
DC, Lockwood & Co (show + books), Star Wars, Marauders

How do you / would you like to participate in fandoms? (Are you a writer, artist, reader, cheerleader, beta reader, podfic maker, vid maker, appreciative lurker…?)
Usually a writer, but I don't really write Marvel cause it intimidates me too much. I've also played with video edits (they're HARD), and I love beta reading (if anyone's looking for a beta hit me up on tumblr! i will happily volunteer.)

Share a rec (fic, vid, art, graphics, meta, anything):
Everything by CloudAtlas, the At My Back series by SallyExactly (platonic clintasha + strike team delta origin story_, The Music Box by EliotRosewater (nat solo fic + pre strike team delta), runaways are running the night by anothercover (winterwidowhawk + celeb au), Silhouette by marianna_oconnor (winterhawk with really great clint + nat dynamics). All of these are on AO3 btw!

What’s the last book you read/film you watched/song you listened to (OR what media have you been enjoying recently you’d like to share):
I've had "What If I Love You" by Gatlin on loop for 2 days straight. It is so stuck in my head.

We’re having a party! What are you bringing? (A little game/prompt to have fun with)
Ficbinding materials? I really want to try it and it could be a fun group activity. (What fic would y'all be binding if you had the opportunity?

OPTIONAL things about me: This is my first time on dreamwidth! Hi! And sorry if my formatting is messy, I have like no idea what I'm doing haha

I'm just DC Fandom adjacent to a lot of folks, but omg, I got hooked on the Clint/Jason/Bucky thing because of claraxbarton! its a pretty fab dynamic.

oh, and hi!!! welcome, welcome!

Where can people find you and what are your usernames / online handles:
Dreamwidth - ultra_fic; AO3 - Ultra; Discord - Ultra/ultra_woman1/Ultra#4524; Fanfiction.net - Ultrawoman

What’s your brand of Marvel?
MCU, largely just The Infinity Saga, plus the Agent Carter TV series and the first season-and-a-half of Agents of SHIELD. I have also seen Black Widow, Hawkeye, and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Plus, I have some knowledge of the Bucky/Nat history in the comics.

What’s your brand of Clint and Natasha?
I like them as a canon romantic pairing in Phase 1/until canon was Clint having a family, or in any kind of AU where Laura and the kidlets aren't a thing. Also into the BFF thing in later canon.

Share three of your favourite Clintasha canon moments, headcanons, fanons, tropes, or Clintasha things you just love to enjoy:
- Every moment they share in Avengers Assemble/The Avengers (2012) is win!
- My headcanon is that returning the soul stone made Natasha come back again, so of course, the first person she went to see was her BFF :)
- I love anything where Clint and Nat are each other's person, whether it's the most solid friendship/familial thing or as a couple, just when they love each other soooo much it hurts!

Tell us some of your favourite Marvel characters/pairings other than Clint and Natasha:
Big into Bucky/Nat and really love Clint being the protective BFF/big bro type person in that scenario, even if it's totally not needed, and/or anything where the three of them get along as friends that would do anything for each other too. Also enjoy Steve & Bucky; Steve & Nat; Sam & Bucky; Bucky & Shuri; Steve/Peggy; Bruce/Darcy; Thor/Sif; Tony/Pepper; OG6 team-as-family; and probably others that I'm forgetting right now.

Are there any other fandoms you're currently into?
Gilmore Girls and Hart of Dixie, pretty much perputually. I drop in and out of a bunch of others, like Timeless, X-Men, Once Upon A Time, etc.

How do you like to participate in fandoms?
I write a lot of fanfiction. A lot. I dabble in vidding and Photoshop occasionally, read fic when I have time, but mostly, the writing.

Share a rec:
Today, I read beginnings and endings by lunarvalleysinmymind, and it hurt me but I loved it :)

What’s the last book you read/film you watched/song you listened to (OR what media have you been enjoying recently you’d like to share):
Been re-reading all of the Little House books off-and-on for a while now, which I never get tired of. Currently on On The Other Side of The Hill (The Rose Years #4). Just re-watched Wreck-It Ralph today, because it's just fun :) Music-wise, I've been listening to a lot of Meatloaf and Queen, which is my jam when I'm writing Bucky/Nat fic ;)

Promptathon 2024: share a prompt that you’ve left on the promptathon thread, a prompt you’re hoping to try to fill, a prompt you're hoping someone else fills so that you can read it, or all of the above:
Forever hoping someone will write this one... 'It's the 1940s, Clint & Nat are SSR Agents instead of SHIELD, during and/or after WWII, with potential for involvement with Peggy, Steve, Bucky, etc. (Whether it's just an AU where they're just born earlier or time-travelled there for reasons is up to you!)'

We’re having a party! What are you bringing?
Cookies, brownies, cupcakes, whatever you want baked that contains chocolate, I'm on it! :D

OPTIONAL things about me:
40 years old, been in fandom since I was 18, switched fandoms a few dozen times, but never found my way out... mostly because I've never wanted to ;)

Bruce/Darcy? Hmmm... never considered it. DAMN YOU. Although I am hooked on all becakala's Bucky/Darcy fic.

Hiya - late as usual. Here's who, what, and why about me (hopefully not too inconsistent with previous posts... :) )

Where can people find you and what are your usernames / online handles:Pretty much alphaflyer everywhere (unless it's my personal SM accounts, in which case I have to trust you enough to give you my actual name...)

What’s your brand of Marvel? (MCU, tv shows, comics, cartoons etc. or all the things?) MCU and comics, especially the Fraction/Aja and Edmunson/Noto runs)

What’s your brand of Clint and Natasha?
(Are you still in Avengers Tower in 2012, living at the farm, in denial of the farm, following canon all the way off the cliff, here for alternate universes, all of the above, somewhere else entirely…?) All of the above! My fave, frankly, is a mash-up of MCU and comics. Also, canon, shmanon. (Although I have written Laura and the fam if narratively convenient and/or interesting)

Share three of your favourite Clintasha canon moments, headcanons, fanons, tropes, or Clintasha things you just love to enjoy:
(1) Budapest, in all its incarnations
(2) They met before they met in canon, and had assassin-y adventures. Also, sex.
(3) They finally got their act - and themselves - together after New York, or else, have to be Led Towards Happiness by an assortment of friends, colleagues, and fate.

Tell us some of your favourite Marvel characters/pairings other than Clint and Natasha:
I like OG/tower shenanigans, but also mash-ups with other comic and MCU characters, in gen fic. As pairings, I have been known to read Clint/Darcy on occasion; also like Pepper/Tony especially with an exasperated Pepper; Steve/Bucky but weirdly, only in AUs; and Maria/Steve.

Are there any other fandoms you're currently into? Not really, although my fondness for my first fandom, ST:Voyager, remains and kidlet and I comfort-watch both it and The Newsroom fairly regularly. I do however love watching Ted Lasso, ST: Brave New Worlds, and still have annual LOTR marathon parties around Christmas. I probably forgot some things, but nothing has really reached "fandom" status for me. The only other thing I've actually written about, in a fusion/AU thing, is 007 James Bond.

How do you / would you like to participate in fandoms? (Are you a writer, artist, reader, cheerleader, beta reader, podfic maker, vid maker, appreciative lurker…?) Writer and reader! Appreciator of good art.

Share a rec (fic, vid, art, graphics, meta, anything): Here's one of the hottest Clintasha PWPs EVER. I made the mistake of first reading it while hooked up to an IV drip (iron supplements, don't ask) in a large hospital room - was glad it wasn't an ECG... "Long Time No See", by Sidhe Ra

What’s the last book you read/film you watched/song you listened to (OR what media have you been enjoying recently you’d like to share): Last movie I watched in theatres was Deadpool & Wolverine. It was pretty gory, but also hilarious.

Promptathon 2024: share a prompt that you’ve left on the promptathon thread, a prompt you’re hoping to try to fill, a prompt you're hoping someone else fills so that you can read it, or all of the above: "Clint (or Natasha) encounter a Skrull pretending to be Natasha (or Clint)" - if no one writes that, I may eventually have to do it myself... :D

We’re having a party! What are you bringing? (A little game/prompt to have fun with) Georgian cheese bread (khachapuri) and a Georgian tomato-cucumber-and-herbs salad!

OPTIONAL things about me: I'm an international relations nut and inveterate world traveller - I think at last count I've been to over 70 countries.

DO NOT READ THIS SENTENCE ALPHA
[Shhhh! everyone don't write the skrull prompt so Alpha does!]

Ok, you can start reading again ;>)

Also, I will eat anything you make! I'm drooling already.

Where can people find you and what are your usernames / online handles:
Tumblr – caiti-creative-corner (for creative stuff) or caitriona-3 (for personal stuff – fair warning, it tends towards religious)
Ao3 – Caitriona_3 (Caiti)
Discord - serenityscribbles

What’s your brand of Marvel? Mostly MCU for Avengers, but there’s a heavy dose of comics because I was an X-reader throughout college

What’s your brand of Clint and Natasha? Pretty much anything platonic soulmate type – with or without the actual soulmate bond; I normally don’t ship them romantically, but when I’m in the mood, I like them poly with either Darcy or Bucky or both.

Share three of your favourite Clintasha canon moments, headcanons, fanons, tropes, or Clintasha things you just love to enjoy: My favorite headcanon for them (since I’m not usually shipping them) is that they do deep backgrounds and research on each other’s dates. I love the Budapest moment in 2012. The trust and concern they show for each other.

Tell us some of your favourite Marvel characters/pairings other than Clint and Natasha: Clint is my favorite character, so I like him paired – romantically, platonically, etc – with several, though I’d say Kate has been my favorite here lately. Plus there’s always Darcy, Laura, Bucky. I also like Steve/Natasha, Steve/Maria, Tony/Pepper, Bucky/Natasha, & Steve/Peggy.

Are there any other fandoms you're currently into? Harry Potter, Ancient Greece myths, Tolkien

How do you / would you like to participate in fandoms? Writer, mood boarder, and reader

What’s the last book you read/film you watched/song you listened to (OR what media have you been enjoying recently you’d like to share): Rewatching Time Team docu-series

Promptathon 2024: share a prompt that you’ve left on the promptathon thread, a prompt you’re hoping to try to fill, a prompt you're hoping someone else fills so that you can read it, or all of the above: I hope somebody fills – “Olympic pommel horse guy meme but Clint Barton. Clint's waiting for his Olympic event, hearing aids out, eyes closed, maybe having a little nap. Then his event comes up and he smashes it.”

We’re having a party! What are you bringing? probably the alcohol

OPTIONAL things about me: Proud Texan who has also traveled to a big chunk of the US, Jamaica, several countries in Europe, and Israel. Also, my best friend and I are still writing our epic multi-crossover fic and I think we’ll both be the crazy cat ladies retired somewhere by the time we finish it. (If we finish it.)

they do deep backgrounds and research on each other’s dates this idea made me chuckle

Pommel horse guy!

Shout out for your lovely mood boards 💜 I was starting to queue things ready for Halloween last week (not me proscratinating by organising stuff that's far off, nope, not me) and fingers crossed I've managed to include all your past creations.

Where can people find you and what are your usernames / online handles:

You can find me on AO3, ff.net, Discord and tumblr if you type in Chaed.

What’s your brand of Marvel? (MCU, tv shows, comics, cartoons etc. or all the things?)

Mainly MCU, with a couple comics background thrown in between.

What’s your brand of Clint and Natasha?

I love their Strike Team: Delta days, them as this deadly efficient team bracing the odds and having this explosive romance developing between the two of them. If the farm fam is involved, I'll admit I'm also a sucker for Clint cheating on Laura with Nat and all of that going nuclear. I may have at least a dozen unfinished fics of that kind lying around, lol.

Share three of your favourite Clintasha canon moments, headcanons, fanons, tropes, or Clintasha things you just love to enjoy:

whump 'em babies, the whole defection era, and them complementing each other so naturally. I love coming up with AU versions of them too (I've got Mafia, Vietnam POWs, hired assassins for Superior Iron Man, just criminals, triple agents, etc.)

Tell us some of your favourite Marvel characters/pairings other than Clint and Natasha:

My OTP is Pepperony, but I've also dabbled in Tony/Natasha, which I really came to enjoy as a pairing (if the setting is right). Also, I recently dabble in Bucky/Nat as a Red Room / past pairing, with Clint finding out/coming into the mix and spicing things up.

Are there any other fandoms you're currently into?

No. I was a writer for Resident Evil and The Hunger Games for years, but once I choose a fandom I'm all in until I burned out. I'm hoping the MCU can keep me a while longer.

How do you / would you like to participate in fandoms? (Are you a writer, artist, reader, cheerleader, beta reader, podfic maker, vid maker, appreciative lurker…?)

Writer and reader, known to dabble in photoshop for my own fanart. I write mainly longfic, with a very slow publish rate (1 fic per year, if that).

Share a rec (fic, vid, art, graphics, meta, anything):

what the water gave me Unfortunately abandoned, but SO much potential, and I loved the style.

Attrition This one will stay with me forever. Hurts, but damn, it's good.

A Walk Down Lafayette Street A self rec, but this might be the one story I'm proudest of, and my longfic debut into Clintasha.

What’s the last book you read/film you watched/song you listened to (OR what media have you been enjoying recently you’d like to share):

The Charm School, as research for my next Clintasha fic. Probably gonna top it off with another couple cold war spy flicks to get the mood right.

Promptathon 2024: share a prompt that you’ve left on the promptathon thread, a prompt you’re hoping to try to fill, a prompt you're hoping someone else fills so that you can read it, or all of the above:

prompted: Soviet Wilderness Survival School (or Strike Team Delta stranded in the boonies)
hoping to fill: touch starved
hoping someone else fills: "The information you came for or your partner's life. Your choice."

Just to say, while ouch and cheating aren't really my cup of tea - I like whump with a HUGE pile of comfort, and angst with hope 😉 - I do love AU thinking and all these tangents, and am cheering you on for spy shenanigans 😊

Where can people find you and what are your usernames / online handles:
you guys probably care most about my
discord: clintasha
AO3: lunarvalleysinmymind
twitter: CL1NT4SHA
tumblr: archers-and-spies

What’s your brand of Marvel?
mostly MCU, i did fight in the trenches of the AOS fandom while it was still airing 🫡 and of course the Fraction/Aja run. like inkvoices, i absorb a lot of vibes and lore from fanfic and just never question if it’s canon or not lol

What’s your brand of Clint and Natasha?
i would say mostly based off of MCU? i would like to ignore vormir and the farm but i sometimes must give in to the angst (tm) 🔥 never ever brucenat though. i also loooove SHIELD stories

Share three of your favourite Clintasha canon moments, headcanons, fanons, tropes, or Clintasha things you just love to enjoy:
this is such a hard question but 1: bi, demi, neurodivergent clintnat. shut up and take my money
2: i have the infirmary scene from a1 memorised down to the number of breaths the actors take, but i also melt every time clint talks about nat in the hawkeye series. he always talks about her with so much love, passing their stories down to kate and yelena, and even when he just says her name it’s like he cradles it. savours every mention. it’s so obvious how much she meant to him. kill me!!!
3: BEST. FRIENDS. TO. LOVERS. it’s about the PRE-EXISTING FAMILIARITY, KNOWING each other’s VULNERABILITIES better than your OWN, FALLING for them despite the FEARS they don’t RECIPROCATE, the REPRESSED LONGING, the TRUST, the LOVE (also exes to lovers for pretty much the same reasons)

Tell us some of your favourite Marvel characters/pairings other than Clint and Natasha:
kate bishop and i are one!! i also love starmora, phillinda, stucky

Are there any other fandoms you're currently into?
i remain the comm’s resident swiftie 🫡 i’ve also been watching Leverage because G & CC got me into it!!

How do you / would you like to participate in fandoms?
i mostly write, i sometimes draw, i very often reread the same fics from the same authors 😭 i also scream about things in DMs a lot

Share a rec (fic, vid, art, graphics, meta, anything):
and it’s our time now (if you want it to be) by SleepyMaddy (author’s other c/n works are also so good)

What’s the last book you read/film you watched/song you listened to (OR what media have you been enjoying recently you’d like to share):
last book i read: the da vinci code by dan brown
last film i watched: inside out 2 (but also please watch the fall guy gsparkle will back me up on this the clintasha vibes are through the roof)
last song i listened to: the lucky one by taylor swift, and if you are interested here is the clintasha (taylor’s version) playlist i made over two years ago

Promptathon 2024: share a prompt that you’ve left on the promptathon thread, a prompt you’re hoping to try to fill, a prompt you're hoping someone else fills so that you can read it, or all of the above:
prompt i’ve left: I wouldn’t marry me either
prompt i’m writing: Gentle Ways To Let Him Know You’re Dating Each Other, from inkvoices (though technically i prompted it in the discord first lol)
prompt someone else should fill: from gsparkle, “You wanna tell me who did this to you, or do you want me to find out the hard way?"

We’re having a party! What are you bringing?
guitar!

OPTIONAL things about me:
hello i’m aster!!! i go by they/them, i’m from hong kong, and i’m going to be an english major and legal adult this september :)

THE TRUST 💜💜💜

I'm waiting until Inside Out 2 is on Disney+. Making a note of Fall Guy!

Screaming is a very legit form of fandom engagement 😊

prompt i’m writing: Gentle Ways To Let Him Know You’re Dating Each Other, from inkvoices (though technically i prompted it in the discord first lol) just one of the ways to enable people into writing their own prompts *grins* Have fun!

Where can people find you and what are your usernames / online handles:

I’m CyberMathWitch pretty much everywhere, but I really only use Discord these days. (However, I’m kind of side-eyeing Dreamwidth? Because ngl, I miss blogging and also seeing the user pics just now maybe almost made me cry.)

What’s your brand of Marvel? (MCU, tv shows, comics, cartoons etc. or all the things?)

Raised on the X-Men/New Mutants comic books back in the 80s. Obsessed with phase 1&2 MCU. Julie (Smutlover)’s “Use Your Words” verse is my canon.

What’s your brand of Clint and Natasha?
(Are you still in Avengers Tower in 2012, living at the farm, in denial of the farm, following canon all the way off the cliff, here for alternate universes, all of the above, somewhere else entirely…?)

AUs are my favorite snack, but I’m hardcore Avengers Tower 2012. I can get behind some OT3 farm living, but since so much else of AoU pissed me the hell off in terms of other characterizations, if I’m on the farm it’s either entirely insular or merges back into Avengers Tower ‘verse. (But, again, see above re: Use Your Words. Can’t rep that enough.) I’m also here for any pre-Avengers C/N Delta shenanigans, but kind of think that the “official” MCU canon of Nat’s past is utter trash.

Share three of your favourite Clintasha canon moments, headcanons, fanons, tropes, or Clintasha things you just love to enjoy:

- Headcanon: Clint may appear as a goofball, but Natasha wouldn’t have put up with anyone who couldn’t keep the hell up and stay at her level for very long. And her level is *insanely* high, and probably (definitely) augmented.

- They both know a *ton* of languages. (Example: QueenRiley’s “Of Languages”

- I am obsessed with plain old pre-Avengers Mission!Fic.

Tell us some of your favourite Marvel characters/pairings other than Clint and Natasha:

I am *obsessed* with well characterized Tony Stark. I also love Darcy in all her sloppy, creative, multi-faceted fanon glory. I <3 Darcy & team shenanigans. I will ship Darcy with just about anybody. I’m a staunch Bucky/Steve ‘shipper, but also adore Tony/Pepper/Steve OT3. I *ADORE* and can never find enough Tony & Natasha fic. They have SO MANY similarities and I adore them. And you will pry Bruce/Betty from my cold dead hands and I weep that we never saw Mark Ruffalo and Liv Tyler opposite one another on film.

Are there any other fandoms you're currently into?

- Game of Thrones/House of the Dragon, but in the way that I will watch and listed to people *talk* about it (meta, myth, analysis, etc) and read the shit out of the fic (I am currently obsessed with HotD Team Black Fix-it fic), and will never ever read the actual books or watch the actual shows because I can’t handle that level of gratuitous violence and pessimism about the human condition.
- Critical Role
- Dimension 20
- Leverage v. 1.0 is perfection (I haven’t seen the sequel show yet and I want to but my health stuff sucks and I hate it)
- 911 / Lone Star (but I'm a couple seasons behind)
- Arrow (but really only the Oliver/Felicity fic, and the show circa Seasons 1-2) I got really pissed off after that and am fic-only now)
- LotR movies
- Bridgerton (show)
- LawNerd (emily d baker, runkle of the bailey, etc)
- I watch ridiculous Netflix reality shows and feel a little like an alien on an anthropology observation mission.
- Catfish is one of my comfort shows. … The Dead Files is another one.
- JD Robb’s “In Death” series
- Fanfiction as a thing. Like just that it exists and why we do it and how we do it and etc.
- Are planners/planning a fandom? I feel like that counts

How do you / would you like to participate in fandoms? (Are you a writer, artist, reader, cheerleader, beta reader, podfic maker, vid maker, appreciative lurker…?)

- I love all things to do with meta discussion and fanfiction.

Share a rec (fic, vid, art, graphics, meta, anything):

Use Your Words (series). I will rec the hell out of this until the end of time. It (as close as) my MCU perfection.

What’s the last book you read/film you watched/song you listened to (OR what media have you been enjoying recently you’d like to share):

I just finished Random in Death by J.D. Robb, and Death at Morning House by Maureen Johnson, and I just started Daindreth’s Outlaw by Elizabeth Wheatley.

Promptathon 2024: share a prompt that you’ve left on the promptathon thread, a prompt you’re hoping to try to fill, a prompt you're hoping someone else fills so that you can read it, or all of the above:

… i haven’t been by the prompts yet! But I might request/prompt an old fashioned mission fic. <3

We’re having a party! What are you bringing? (A little game/prompt to have fun with)

Kahlua cake, cucumber basil sandwiches, and cows in snuggies. (this is what we renamed “pigs in blankets” since we have several people who don’t eat pork and so we use all beef mini-sausages wrapped in crescent rolls)
Maybe also lemon-lavender scones.

OPTIONAL things about me:
- I’m a queer spoonie stay-at-home dog mom. I have CFS/ME, and am autistic/ADHD. We (my partner and I) have two dogs, both Dachshund mixes, Hermes and Stella. My camera roll is basically just pictures of them. :’)
- I’m unable to work anymore, and have to nap a lot. Unfortunately it also impacts how much I can interact online, and do creative things. :/
- I tentatively garden. (This year did not go well. We’ll see about next year.)
- I’m an artist, writer, crafter, witch, tarot reader, armchair astrologer, and like playing ttrpgs.
- My main crafts are knitting, crocheting, and cross-stitch.
- I’m pretty much unbearable around the holidays because I love them and all the things about them. (yes, I *will* watch/rewatch all the Netflix holiday movies, thankyouverymuch)
- I’m currently studying Judaism (at least as much as my limited energy and health allows me to do anything, I guess?)… idk yet about conversion but I’ve been really drawn to it for years and seeing how it goes.


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Oh I miss userpics :(

Clint may appear as a goofball, but Natasha wouldn’t have put up with anyone who couldn’t keep the hell up and stay at her level for very long. And her level is *insanely* high, and probably (definitely) augmented. Oooh yes! While I love and am amused by disaster Clint, I love it best when that's balanced with the fact that he is actually still super competent. (One of my favourite tropes for that is the kidnapped one of 'you don't have him; he has you' vibe, where he gets kidnapped but it's not a problem, or he's only not broken out yet because his captors are amateurs and he doesn't want to hurt them.)

Mark Ruffalo and Liv Tyler would have been amazing!

Are planners/planning a fandom? I feel like that counts 💜 A friend sent me a joking invitation to a planning / organising and stationary event the other month. And I was like, yes, but... we're gonna go, right? Alas, we were too late to arrange it, however... there's always next year 😉

... I've had tea, but now I'm hungry again, ha.

(Just to note your links aren't working? Unfortunately you won't be able to edit your comment now that someone has replied, but you could reply to yourself with the full links)

Where can people find you and what are your usernames / online handles: I'm paperairplanesopenwindows on most things these days, except Twitter (which I'm hardly ever on anymore).

What’s your brand of Marvel? (MCU, tv shows, comics, cartoons etc. or all the things?) Pre-Hawkeye movies and shows. I have a deep love for the ABC shows (Agents of SHIELD and Agent Carter). Occasionally I delve into comics.

What’s your brand of Clint and Natasha?
(Are you still in Avengers Tower in 2012, living at the farm, in denial of the farm, following canon all the way off the cliff, here for alternate universes, all of the above, somewhere else entirely…?) Typically shipped in a polyamorous relationship with Laura, but I also like them on their own. Truly believe in the "Clint and Natasha are soulmates" and it doesn't matter if it's platonic or romantic (though I prefer the romance)

Share three of your favourite Clintasha canon moments, headcanons, fanons, tropes, or Clintasha things you just love to enjoy: the fight in Avengers, "Auntie Nat," and "you know what it's like to be unmade?" "you know that I do."

Tell us some of your favourite Marvel characters/pairings other than Clint and Natasha: clint/nat/laura (obvs I am ME), honestly I'm pretty flexible so long as it's cute and makes sense. I have a fondness for Thor/Bruce, I appreciate Kate/Yelena, Maria Hill should be gay with whoever she wants, I miss Peggy/Angie, Agents of SHIELD characters/happiness.

Are there any other fandoms you're currently into? ...I love Mara Jade from the Star Wars EU and really she's the whole reason I am here. Once a yearish I watch Twin Peaks and it eats my brain. LEVERAGE.

How do you / would you like to participate in fandoms? (Are you a writer, artist, reader, cheerleader, beta reader, podfic maker, vid maker, appreciative lurker…?)I read a lot of fanfic and sometimes I write. Occasionally I make fanvids.

Share a rec (fic, vid, art, graphics, meta, anything): It's been awhile since I've read MCU fic, BUT I can give you a deep rec list if you want to get into clint/nat/laura. (right now I'm rereading the entire Luke/Mara star wars tag OOPS)

What’s the last book you read/film you watched/song you listened to (OR what media have you been enjoying recently you’d like to share): THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ IT ALSO EVERYONE NEEDS TO LISTEN TO HOT TO GO BY CHAPPEL ROAN BUT ALSO THE NEW THE WARNING CD HAS MULTIPLE SONGS ABOUT NATASHA (SATISFIED IS THE MAIN ONE IT GIVES ME FEEEEEEELINGS SHARKS IS ALSO A GOOD NAT SONG ASK ME FOR MORE I WILL TELL YOU MORE!)

Promptathon 2024: share a prompt that you’ve left on the promptathon thread, a prompt you’re hoping to try to fill, a prompt you're hoping someone else fills so that you can read it, or all of the above: ...I don't participate in Promptathon, I'm sorry. My brain doesn't jive well with it.

We’re having a party! What are you bringing? (A little game/prompt to have fun with) Jaws board game and biscuits made from my family recipe (unless I wanted to cause problems by bringing cake...)

OPTIONAL things about me: Bisexual aromantic (thought I often refer to myself as gay or queer).

Also I'm a middle school teacher and I think that explains a lot about me.