Hi All, welcome to the 2025 edition of the annual be_compromised epic summer promptathon!

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! Not been active in the fandom for a while? Welcome back. Promptathon is a fun, no-pressure environment 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.

We’re a Clintasha (Clint Barton/Natasha Romanoff) community that welcomes ALL THINGS MARVEL. We’d like Clint and/or Natasha to show up in prompt fills somewhere, but what that means is up to you - individually or as friends, lovers, spouses, partners, gen fic, ANYTHING. Yes, that means we also welcome other characters and pairings (and threesomes or moresomes.)

If that sounds like the kind of party you’d like to join, please read on for the event timeline, how to leave prompts and fills, and a few rules to make sure everyone has a fun time.


TIMELINE

TODAY: You can start leaving prompts from right now (but please don’t post any fills yet, so we can a nice pile of prompts to get us started)
SUNDAY 3 AUGUST: You can start leaving fills (and you can also keep prompting!)
MIDNIGHT SUNDAY 28 SEPTEMBER: Promptathon, both prompts and fills, ends at midnight in whatever your timezone is. PROMPTATHON IS NOW CLOSED

A masterlist will be posted shortly after the event ends, on Dreamwidth and tumblr.


HOW PROMPTATHON 2025 WORKS

Promptathon takes place on Dreamwidth, but you do not need an account to prompt, fill, or join in. Anonymous comments are enabled; if you comment anonymously please consider including your online handle(s) in your comment so we know who you are and can credit you!


Leaving Prompts

Please post each of your prompts in a separate comment to this post.

You can leave as many prompts as you want. We’re serious. Keep coming back. We want as many prompts as we can possibly get.

Prompts can be anything – simple or elaborate, words or pictures, songs or poems, lyrics or phrases, anything that could inspire a fanwork. Use your imagination. Go wild! You can also re-use prompts from previous events, whether they were filled or not.

Please put a spoiler warning at the start of your prompt if it contains spoilers/speculation relating to any films/tv shows released in the last six months.


Submitting Fills

You can post your fills anywhere, but you must leave a comment on this post in a reply to the prompt that you are filling in order for your fill to be included on the masterlist at the end.

The subject line of your comment should be: ‘FILL: title, rating’ to make your fill easy to spot among all the prompts.

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.

Your comment must also include:
> Title
> Author/Online handle if you’re posting anonymously/without a Dreamwidth account
> Rating (ie film ratings or AO3 style ratings)
> Any warnings OR you can say ‘choose not to warn’ (please use the AO3 warnings or take a look at our comm guidance if you’re stuck)
> A spoiler warning if your fill contains spoilers/speculation relating to any films/tv shows released in the last six months. (Not everyone has Disney+/can get to the cinema.)

It would also be helpful for the masterlist if you could please update the Username Database with your online handle/s before the end of the event.

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, and without missing any of your fills. Thank you!

If commenting with a link to a fill posted elsewhere, consider including a teaser to catch people’s attention! For example, the first few paragraphs. If you’re posting on AO3, we have a ‘Community: be_compromised’ tag and a promptathon collection if you like those sorts of things. If you’re posting on tumblr, we track #be_compromised and #clintasha, and we’ll reblog to the be_compromised tumblr. We want people to be able to find and appreciate your fills <3

There’s no length requirement on fanworks submitted. You can create drabbles and three sentence fics to epics. You also can vids, art, fanmixes, anything at all; promptathon is all about sharing ideas and getting creative! Fills do not have to be complete or completed during the promptathon. You can fill as many prompts as you want, and prompts can be filled multiple times by whoever wants to fill them. You can fill more than one prompt in one fill, or make a series out of fills for various prompts. Zero pressure; all fun.


Questions and Squee

The first comment thread below for this post is for questions and any general chat. We will also post some useful Q&A from previous promptathons here so that you have everything helpful in one place.

We welcome reactions, discussion, and cheerleading in comment replies to individual prompts, and we love comments, kudos, and reactions to fills. (This is where posting each prompt separately and labelling the subject line of fills helps to keep things organised.) We also have a be_compromised discord server if you prefer to chat in a chatroom-style space. However, all prompts and fills will be in this post as a one-stop shop. Commenting, cheerleading, and enthusiasm is a huge part of fandom and you are very welcome to join in! Yes, even if you don’t post any prompts or fills.


Event Rules

Our Community Rules apply to this event. To summarise:
> No character or ship bashing. This is a positive fandom space.
> No plagiarism, or use of AI please - we want to see what YOU create.
> Please no RPF (Real Person Fanfiction) or any gossip/speculation about actors’ off-screen non-work lives, as the primary focus of this community is fictional characters.
> Please include a rating for fanworks and a warning OR say that you ‘choose not to warn’.
> Be kind and have fun!


If you have any questions about anything please feel free to ask! The easiest way is to use the questions thread, which is in the first comment to this post or @ a mod on the Discord server (in the ‘general’ thread or direct message). Your mods are inkvoices, CloudAtlas, and gsparkle.

HAPPY PROMPTATHON BEST BAR EVER!