A Message From Your Mods:

Hi all, we'd just like you all to know that workerbee73 and thrace_adama have decided to step down as mods for this community. They've been fantastic to work with and will be missed, but have promised to still be around the bar when they can. Joining the mod team we have frea_o and enigma731. Look out for their co-hosted ATTF coming soon to give them a warm welcome! We still work the same way as a mod team, with a message to one of us being to all, and the comm rules remain the same, so carry on, as you were :D

Your Mods


Reminders and Notices:


Banner by frea_o, Art by lettiebobettie, clickable banner!

Secret Santa 2013 is upon us! You can sign up to take part in the exchange HERE, but don’t delay, the DEADLINE IS 9AM GMT MONDAY 14TH OCTOBER.

You can also join in as a pinch hitter, beta reader, member of the graphics team, cheerleader, or a community gift creator. Phew! Find out more here.


Psst, our bar now has our very own tumblr!!! At the moment we’re hoping to use this to keep people up to date about community activities, feel free to submit your fics and fanworks, and maybe we’ll find some new friends from tumblr. Watch this space!


And don’t forget we have all our usual fun happening:

The deadline for the November Community Banner Challenge is Sunday 27th October. No submissions yet!

You can still sign up to host or suggest ideas for an All The Things Friday.

Unfinished Fic Wednesdays: working on anything that you'd like support and encouragement on from the bar? Send 500-1000 words to bc.unfinished@gmail.com (including a rating and warnings) and we'll be right on that!

Anything else happening in the online world relevant to be_compromised’s interests? Share away!

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...people of this fine establishment,
assassins from all corners of the world,
prompting is now officially closed
and fills are now officially begun for
PROMPTATHON 2013

Before you start posting PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE read the all important
Rules For Promptathon Submissions

Any prompts left after the time stamp of this post will be deleted.
Submissions are open until August 1st.
Fills can be fic, art, icons, graphics, fanmixes, anything you like,
and prompts can be filled multiple times.
You can still leave prompts for the August banner challenge until July 21st
and banner challenge fills are open until July 26th.

Go ye forth and party like it's Promptathon!
Because it is!!!

A few general messages from your mods:

- Please do cut anything that might be considered a spoiler. So that’s anything that hasn’t been in a film, book, or comic that’s been released a good while ago, or production, speculation, or news articles about those. There are some people who don’t even like to watch trailers in case of spoilers for the main event. Be kind; if in doubt, cut it.

- We’re aware that there’s some bad noise in online places at the moment, particular around Captain America 2: Winter Soldier, and we want to thank you for continuing to play nice here. Keep it up, you wonderful people you :)


Some links and reminders:

The deadline for the JULY BANNER CHALLENGE is coming up on this Sunday July 23rd, so get those entries in. We could use some more! And don’t forget you can make up to three each.

UNFINSHED FIC WEDNESDAY has been quiet for a while. If you’d like to send in 100-1000 words of your unfinished story for encouragement, creative support group help, or just some cheerleading, send those in to bc.unfinished@gmail.com with your LJ name, ratings, and warnings (or choose not to warn).

Heroine Big Bang artist claims are starting at 7pm EST. (Here be many tantalising summaries for fics and art. I want to read all of the ones with Natasha!)

And it’s a ten word fills day at comment fics if you fancy some quick prompts and fills today.

Let us know if there’s anything else gong on relevant to our interests, and Happy Monday!

NOTE: CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR DISCUSSION POST IS HERE. Thanking you :)
an important post-Age Of Ultron message from your mods

Hello and welcome to be_compromised!

Here’s a little tour of what we like to call ‘our bar’ (as in this is the best bar and lots of bar jokes) and the good yacht (other pairings have ships, we have a yacht!) Clint/Natasha.

( tour behind the cut: about us, things that happen around here, and some links relevant to your interests )

First off, a message from your mods:

Our hearts are saddened by the events in Boston and by every instance where senseless violence takes innocent lives. We send all our thoughts and wishes out to each and every member of this bar, and especially those who may have been directly affected. Fandom can seem like such a trivial thing sometimes, but it can also be a place of solace and comfort and if we could reach through the interwebs right now and hug everyone we would. Stay safe and stay well.

- The Mod Team


Links and Reminders

We could really use some more entries for the May Community Banner Challenge! DETAILS HERE. There are two options for this month’s challenge: 1) ‘Geekery’ interpret as you will 2) ‘Where's your towel?’ which is make a banner a little...hotter than our usual fair, although still safe for work please :) Remember, you can make up to three banners each so feel free to take a shot at both options! The deadline is Tuesday 23rd April.

If you feel like hosting, co-hosting, and/or suggesting topics for an All The Things Friday there's a SIGN-UP AND TOPICS POST HERE. Lots of Fridays in 2013 still up for grabs, and let us know the kinds of Friday parties you'd like to see!

If you'd like to be featured on UNFINISHED FIC WEDNESDAY send 100-1000 words of fic to bc.unfinished@gmail.com, with your LJ name, warnings, and a rating.

_samalander has a post about Clint/Natasha authors at the AO3 FUNDRAISER AUCTION Bidding open through April 25th.

Looking to chat about Iron Man 3 spoilers? Then try THIS POST. Looking for someone to meet up and maybe watch Iron Man 3 with? Then try THIS POST.

Anything else you'd like to point the bar to that's relevant to our interests, comment with links :D

Greetings to the bar!

Don't know if this has already been posted here (long comment threads are long, y'all ^_^) but I just got some new info passed my way, and thought it might be Relevant to Your Interests:  there's now an AO3 feed set up on Tumblr for Clint/Natasha!

If you have a Tumblr, you can follow the feed and your dashboard will automatically get a heads-up post every time a new fic is posted in the Clint/Natasha tag on AO3.  (Obviously you can get email notifications for authors and fics you subscribe to, but this is a way to find NEW or unknown fic and authors without having to troll the AO3 tags)  The dashboard posts link straight to the fic, and if you really love something you can reblog to all your followers too.

Here's the link:       ao3feed-clintxnat.tumblr.com

♥!

**leans in close**

**whispers**



Mini Valentine's Day Promptathon is coming. Details at this Friday's ATTF. <3



You did not see me. I was not here.

Two Important announcements/questions:

The AO3 Collection

They've fixed the bug preventing everyone from using the 2012 Collection in the AO3 archive. If you'd like to go back in and edit your fic to add it to the collection (or if you haven't posted it on AO3 yet but would like to add it to the collection when you do, please use the following collection name):

Be_Compromised_Secret_Santa_Exchange_2012

(I recommend copy and pasting that phrase exactly, including the underscores.) It will show up on the auto-complete eventually, but someone at the archive is going to have to go in and adjust it, so it may be a few days. But I've tested it, and as long as you copy and paste that phrase exactly into the space for "Post to Collections/Challenges" it should work fine.

If you've previously added your fic to the parent collection (which should not be used for this year's submissions) "Be Compromised's Secret Santa Exchange" please go in and change the collection it's a part of. I think I got a message to everyone over on AO3 already in it but just in case.

Ebooks!

Our very own frea_o has offered to collect all of this year's Secret Santa submissions into an ebook for us (for the personal use of everyone on the comm, not for sale of course) - but we need to get everyone's permission to use their fic before we add it to the book. I've screened the comments for this post, but I need for everyone who wrote a fic (or fics) to please leave a comment letting us know if it's alright for her to use your work (with full credit/author's names etc).

The reveals are all posted, and the master list is updated and current. If you see anything missing that you think should be in the master list, please please please let either myself or anuna_81 know ASAP so I can get it corrected.

The Numbers:

A total of 56 participants produced:

152 icons
102 Banners
58 fics
5 collages
4 wallpapers
1 original fan art
1 mix
1 vid

You guys are amazing.  :D

A note about AO3 posting archiving:

We are working on an AO3 collection, but it's NOT ready yet. When/if you go to post your work on AO3, you may find a collection listed as "Be Compromised's Secret Santa Exchange" please DO NOT select this collection. If you do, your work will show up on the archive as "Anonymous". That's meant to be the master collection, and we're having a bit of trouble getting the specific 2012 collection set up correctly. I've got a help ticket in with the site to try and get it worked out, and will let everyone know when it's up and running and we'll go from there.

You can go ahead and post your work there, you'll just need to go back in and edit the collection information later. Also, most everyone here is on AO3, and you can indicate when you post who a work is "gifted" to - if you have any questions about setting that up, please comment here and we'll try to help you out.

If you aren't sure how your giftee is listed on AO3, your best bet is probably to PM them here on LJ and see if they have an account there or a preference as to how they're listed.

I just noticed that Clint and Natasha currently have Santa hats on, squee!

*ahem*

Anyway... I posted information on the first issue of the new Hawkeye comic here and someone added posts on the sneak peeks for issues two and three.

Now, if you're like me, and you wanted to read them, but couldn't find them because they were sold out in your local comic book store, not to worry, because Marvel has compiled the first five issues of Hawkeye and the sixth issue of Young Avengers Presents into one volume: Hawkeye, Vol. 1: My Life as a Weapon (link goes to Amazon.com) and is available for preorder. It comes out March 26.

Chapters/Coles/Indigo also has their preorder page up here for the Canadian folk.

So, with the Secret Santa posting about to start (hooray!!!) I thought I'd take a moment and point a few things you can do to keep up with posts and comments. Particularly since there's not an offical LJ FAQ about how to do this that I've been able to find. If you know where it's hiding, please let me know.

This will be particularly useful if you:
1. Want to keep track of any comments on the fic/art/gift you made, since they're being posted anonymously and you won't automatically receive notifications of any replies. Once you see your work posted, you can choose to track the comments for that particular entry. Please remember NOT to reply to comments on your work and give away your identity until after the reveals!

2. You want to be sure you receive notification about new posts in the community so you don't miss any of the wonderful presents! (And let me just say, they really are fantastic and y'all have outdone yourselves!)
3. This will be useful information if/when we have another Prompt-a-thon, and also makes keeping up with larger posts like the All The Things Friday posts easier if you tend to live out of your e-mail inbox.

So. Just like you can tell LJ to send you an e-mail letting you know if someone has replied to a post or comment you've made somewhere on the site, you can:

( Track a post (i.e. receive notification whenever someone comments on a post) )

If you have any questions, please let me know and I'll try to help. :D Enjoy the exchange!!!

Have you heard about this? This January, HAWKEYE #7 will feature two stories following Clint Barton and Kate Bishop as they navigate the landscape of storm-ravaged New York and New Jersey with guest art from Steve Leiber and Jesse Hamm. The royalties go to the Red Cross. While I'm not a huge fan of how the Red Cross spends their money, I'm all about helping out.

And because I do love the covers from this series: Hawkeye #7 cover art

y'know how there's been much lamentation over not getting a black widow movie in phase 2 of marvel's MCU? i figure one way we, as fans, can lay the groundwork for that is by voting for johannson in the people's choice awards. part of the spiel they float for these movies is that they went with fan favourites (even though we know a lot of that is bullshit cos it mostly has to do with who holds the rights and other hollywood business shenanigans. and, if that's the case, then why is there no current black widow title anywhere in the marvel publishing house? she's the only one out of the cast of the avengers movie that doesn't have her own current book.) anyway, our voice could be heard if we vote the crap out of The Face of Heroism category. it couldn't hurt.

PCA online voting

for twitter votes (make sure the account is public so the vote counts): Scarlett Johansson #faceofheroism #peopleschoice

remember, the limit does not exist.

Information on be_compromised folks using fandomaid to raise money for Hurricane Sandy/Frankenstorm HERE

_samalander and sunny_serenity are always on the look out for submissions for Unfinished Fic Wednesdays. Send 100-1000 words of your unfinished fics (anything that would suitable for this comm), along with a few words for context if you like, to bc.unfinished@gmail.com.

If you’d like to host an All The Things Friday there’s a post about that here or just get in touch with workerbee73.

There’s a a creative support group thread here for people with Clint and/or Natasha in their NaNoWriMo stories, which is also for anyone working on Clint and/or Natasha fic outside of NaNoWriMo as well.

If you’re willing to offer beta reading help of any kind, please do sign up to our Beta Directory and if you’re looking for a beta reader the directory can be a good place to start.

Don’t forget, the deadline for Secret Santa gifts is December 20th!

And you can vote for at the People’s Choice Awards for Clint/Natasha for Best Onscreen Chemistry! The Avengers and Scarlett Johanasson are in bunch of other categories as well.

Feel free to comment with other signal boosts and have a happy Monday :)

as fandom's wonderbra i thought i'd bring this to your attention. just caught wind of it via tumblr. may it fuel your fires of creativity!

Clint/Natasha Week

Clintasha Week: an entire week dedicated to our favorite master assassins:

Clint Barton & Natasha Romanoff.

Each day of the week will have a different prompt and participants are encouraged to create whatever they wish for the prompt to contribute to the week.

These creations include, but are not limited to: fanart, fanfiction, graphics/gifs/gifsets, fanmixes, fanvideos, or any combination of the above.

The tentative week at the moment is:

monday, october 1st, 2012 - sunday, october 7th, 2012.

The Prompts

Day 1 - A Different Call
Day 2 - Budapest
Day 3 - Avengers
Day 4 - Strike Team: Delta
Day 5 - Fluff/Feelings
Day 6 - Friendship
Day 7 - AU
BONUS (any day) - Rennerson

If you are interested, please take a look!
Click here to take a look at extended explanations of each plot.
Click here if you have any questions.
Click here if you have any other prompt suggestions for the days.

There is nothing that I dislike more than not knowing how to do something. Like tying my shoes. For years (and I was a slow learner so we are truly talking years), I had to wear velcro shoes because I couldn't tie my own shoe laces. It was horrid. And then one day, a nice person finally showed me something that clicked and VOILA! I could get shoes with laces again!

This community seems to have become a sort of gateway into LJ from the larger interwebz around us and there are things that some of us take for granted because we've been here a really long time. At one time, we didn't know how to do certain things. None of us is born with this knowledge in our brains. It doesn't happen overnight. Unfortunately, it needs to be learned.

So I've decided to make a post where questions can be asked (anon or not) and answered. Not necessarily by me but by EVERYONE in this cool bar! If you see a question that you have an answer to, please feel free to answer it! We are a surprisingly intelligent group of people when you come right down to it!

This is a place for all the questions that have ever kept you up at night! They can be related to canon (How old is Natasha? What is her real hair color? What is that specific line from the movie that I want to use in fic but can't because I know I'm not getting it right.) or fandom (What came first - Harry Potter or Star Trek? If I want to make a Clint cosplay costume, should I have sleeves or no sleeves?) or technical (How do I make an LJ cut? What is the correct story header to use for most every community? Where are good places to post my fic?) or anything else that hits you.

Come here to ask questions. Come here to answer questions.

To help everyone's brains out, if you are asking a question, please put QUESTION in the subject line. Conversely, if you are offering up an answer, please put ANSWER in the subject line. Clear as mud?

So epic comment-a-thon/impromtu dance party/spur-of-the-moment friending meme happened. And I don't know about y'all, but I feel like I'm rummaging through the kitchen for the last bottle of water (after drinking nothing but Coronas and vodka tonics all weekend.) Whew, I is exhausted. How are y'all?

(Incidentally, I am proud as hell that we rose to the occasion and partied that hard and that awesomely for pretty much four days straight.)

**raises glass**

**of water**

How's everyone doing this fine Monday morning? Just wanted to remind you that this is the last week of Promptathon, so be sure and get your fills posted by Friday. Also, be sure and check out whet's been posted so far; it's great stuff.

Here's wishing you a lovely Monday. :)

For those of you who missed the Friday that happened yesterday, it's still happening over here. Clear as mud? Sweet.

It has also turned into an impromptu friending meme and gif party. Go forth and gif and friend.

No fic recs today; still basking in the glow of Promptathon (which ends a week from today, btw. And yes, there will be a party for that as well. We don't need much of an excuse.)