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Mini Promptathon of Love and Joy 2025
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
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
FILL: and i run (love, run) (General Audiences)
On Ao3
and i run (love, run)
One
The first time it happens, Clint tries not to panic. He knows Natasha — has been her partner for almost a year. He knows she wouldn’t turn her back on him now.
Still. It’s a little unnerving. One evening she’s there; the next morning, she’s gone, nothing but a gone for a little while scribbled on a piece of paper. No way to reach her; no way to find her.
He gets it; he does. Sometimes, in their line of work, it’s best to go off-grid for a bit. He trusts she’ll come back.
But that doesn’t make it any easier.
Two
“Do you have to go?”
Natasha freezes, sitting on the edge of the bed, her back to him. She’s already dressed, he can tell, even in the faint light of dawn filtering through the window. Her shoulders are tense and, internally, he kicks himself. He should have kept pretending to be asleep.
“You know how it is,” she says eventually, not looking at him. “Sometimes.”
He swallows. Keeps his breathing even. Resists the urge to reach for her hand, clutching the sheet instead. “Yeah,” he says, because he does know. “I get it.”
She nods. A moment later, she’s gone.
Three
“Romanoff not joining you?” Fury asks as Clint walks into his office.
He shakes his head. “She’s off-grid.” Has been, in fact, for almost a week.
Fury frowns, picking up a pen and twirling it around his fingers. “You know, we can’t track her when she does that. We’ve tried.” He gives Clint a look. “You get any better luck?”
“I don’t know,” Clint says, and takes a seat. “I haven’t tried.”
It’s true. Maybe he could find her, if he did — but she wouldn’t want him to, and that’s what matters.
“Hm,” Fury says, unreadable. “Your partner, your problem.”
Four
“I’ll miss you,” Clint mumbles into his couch cushion, half asleep still.
He feels more than hears her step closer. The next moment, there’s a hand carding softly through his hair. He sighs. They’d fallen asleep on his couch after their last assignment, and he’s not surprised that she’s ready to leave — it’d been a tricky one.
Still; he’ll miss her. He always does. The hand leaves his hair, and he listens for the door, clinging to wakefulness by the thinnest of threads.
Instead, he hears, “Me too.”
It’s low enough that he might have dreamt it. Maybe he did.
Five
It’s not that he doesn’t think she can’t take care of herself. He knows, better than anyone, that she can.
But sometimes, when she goes, he can’t help but think that, maybe, it’d be better if she stayed. That the wounds she prefers to address alone might fare better with help.
He knows better than to say it — instead, he tries to show it. Helps her, when she stays, best as he can. And, slowly, the frequency dies down. Until it’s rare — until he knows that when she goes, it’s because she wants to, rather than needs to.
It helps.
+1
“You’ve never asked,” she says, one evening, as they sit on his couch to eat takeout.
He steals one of her samosas, narrowly avoiding getting his hand speared by her fork. “Asked what?”
“Where I go.” She’s not looking at him.
He pauses. “I don’t need to,” he says eventually.
She glances at him. “No?”
He shakes his head. “I know you’ll come back. That’s what matters.”
She says nothing for a while. When he looks at her, it’s to find her looking back, a faint smile at the corner of her lips. “Yeah,” she breathes. “I suppose it is.”
Re: FILL: and i run (love, run) (General Audiences)
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