Mini Promptathon of Love and Joy 2025

[inkvoices]

February has arrived and that means it's time for our annual mini promptathon!

What is this? It’s like the big summer promptathon, only a shorter version. It's a fun, no-pressure event where you can post zero to as many prompts as you like, zero to as many fills as you like, and join in the squee or just quietly enjoy the fun.

This year we're returning to one of our classic promptathon themes of love and joy. You can use any interpretation of these themes in your prompts and/or fills if you like - romantic, valentines, platonic, friendship, supporting each other, celebrations - but the point is that this is a little celebration of fandom love and joy itself.



Timeline

Now: we're open for prompts
Sunday 9 February: you can start leaving fills (and continuing prompting)
Midnight (whatever your timezone) Friday 28 February: February is over and so is mini promptathon

How To Play

1. Leave your prompt in a comment to this post. Please post each prompt in its own seperate comment. Prompts can be anything. You can re-use prompts from past events if you like, whether they were filled or not. You can leave as many prompts as you like. (Yes, seriously.)

2. You can post fills for prompts at any time from Sunday 9 February by replying in a comment to the prompt. The subject line of your comment should be: FILL: title, rating.

At the start of your comment please include:
> Title
> Your online handle(s) (if you don't have a dreamwidth account)
> Rating (ie film ratings or AO3 style ratings)
> Any warnings OR you can say ‘choose not to warn’ (think about the AO3 warnings or take a look at our comm guidance if you’re stuck)

You can post your entire fanwork in the comment if it’s short enough AND/OR you can post your fanwork anywhere else on the internet and post a link to it in your comment.

Following these guidelines 1) makes it easier for people to find your fills during the event as a one-stop shop, and know what they’re clicking on and 2) makes it a LOT easier for your mods to create a masterlist at the end, without missing any of your fills. Thank you!

There’s no length requirement on fanworks submitted and you can create any type of fanwork. You can fill as many prompts as you want, and prompts can be filled multiple times by whoever wants to fill them. If you don't manage to finish your fill during the event, please do still share, it just won't be counted in the masterlist.

3. Sharing the joy! If you post your fill on tumblr, tag the comm and we'll reblog. If you’re posting on AO3, we have a ‘Community: be_compromised’ tag. And we'll post a masterlist of all fills on dreamwidth and tumblr after the event.

Rules

1) Our community rules apply to this event and everyone taking part in it. You do not need to be a member of our community or have a dreamwidth account (or any other specific account) to be involved.

2) As in the community rules, all fills must have a rating and a warning/'no warning applies'/'choose not to warn'. Consider including a warning for spoilers of any media that's been released in the last 6 months; not everyone has Disney+ or can get to the cinema.

3) We ask for fills to contain at least a mention of Clint and/or Natasha in some way because we love them, but the whole, wide Marvel Universe is yours to play in. We welcome other characters and pairings (and threesomes or moresomes).

Thank you!

If you have any questions please comment in in the 'Questions' thread at the top of this post or contact a mod - inkvoices, CloudAltas aka franztastisch, and gsparkle. You're also very welcome to join us on Discord and tumblr.

<3

Comments

[archers_and_spies]

twitter @/annabroges: "this guy and i went on a date a few years ago only to mutually ghost each other and rematch over and over across apps ever since and tbh i think at this point it's my most serious relationship"

[archers_and_spies]

*flirting* if you had to kill me how would you do it?

[iriel3000]

I can't find it...someone posted a few years ago(?), along the lines of 'Clint and Nat communicate through candy'

[archers_and_spies]

"we'll figure it out together"

[archers_and_spies]

Told my friends I hate you, but I love you just the same

[archers_and_spies]

is this the end of all the endings?
my broken bones are mending
with all these nights we're spending
up on the roof with a schoolgirl crush
drinking beer out of plastic cups

[archers_and_spies]

you should think about the consequence of you touching my hand in the darkened room

[archers_and_spies]

And the voices that implore, "You should be doing more"
To you I can admit that I'm just too soft for all of it

[archers_and_spies]

I know places we won't be found

[archers_and_spies]

If I was standing there in your apartment
I'd take that bomb in your head and disarm it
I'd say I love you even at your darkest
And please don't go

[archers_and_spies]

I was scared up till you made me love it

[inkvoices]

Inspired by one of Cassie's from 2023: coffee shop AU, when people hit on me and ask for my number I use a random one - seen it advertised somewhere - and today I wrote it on your cup and it turns out to be yours (like the archery range number, or radio station call in number, or what have you)

[inkvoices]

From CloudAtlas in 2023: Non-sexual intimacy

[inkvoices]

Miscommunication: look, I need to tell you that people think we're together and it's kind of my fault

[inkvoices]

Clint Barton at the end of Winter Soldier, 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 beforehand or contacts him after to tell him, and Clint is like, look, I love you, but FFS, sigh.

[inkvoices]

Could be AU or not - some well-meaning person or friend signs Clint up for sn intro/free/gifted first class of self defense classes (because he keeps saying he'd been mugged, or looking beaten up) or yoga (he seems stressed) or some such.

He keeps going back, because the instructor is hot.

[(Anonymous)]

One of Clint or Natasha has to go undercover as a Dr which leads to a very hands on anatomy lesson

[inkvoices]

Poly - someone in the relationship decides to organised them, with a google calendar or something, to make sure everyone gets time with each other no one feels left out, no one worries if someone is on a mission, and what have you.

This could either work out well or comically not.

[inkvoices]

Not wanting to make an announcement or a big deal out of being together, they do little things (clothes sharing, pet names flirting, writer's choice) and they think that everyone else has received the message

They have not.

(Everyone loves a good gossip, but they would never assume anything, y'know?)

[kiss_me_cassie]

One person tracing the other’s lips with a fingertip until they can’t resist any longer, tilting their chin towards them for a kiss.

[kiss_me_cassie]

“If I ask you to kiss me in front of all these people, will you do it?"

[kiss_me_cassie]

"I'm cold." "I'm cold too." "But it was your brilliant idea, so come up with a plan!" "Oh, I have an even more brilliant idea to warm us up."

[kiss_me_cassie]

"This sounds so cheesy, but be my Valentine?" "It's March."

[kiss_me_cassie]

i hate the holidays more than anything in the world and you drive me nuts because you love the holidays more than anything in the world and this is why we aren’t friends (enemies to friends to lovers hello)

[kiss_me_cassie]

i love snow days because it means that you trek across town to hang out with me and watch movies on the couch except this time you demand to know who i’m crushing on and i don’t know how to say you