Hi All,

Just a heads up that we've updated our welcome post and community rules, to make them shorter, clearer, and to include a note on AI.

Our community rules apply to all members of our community and to anyone who takes part in any of our community events. If you have any questions, if you're unsure about anything, or if you have any problems please message a mod. Your mods are inkvoices and gsparkle (AKA quidnunc-life), with franztastisch (AKA CloudAtlas) helping out. We're available accross all platforms that the comm operates on, but the fastest way to get a reply is to message us on Discord. Alternatively, leave a comment in a ‘questions/general comments’ thread at the top of event posts on Dreamwidth.

Thank you!

Your Mods

Hi All,

Just an update that we will no longer be providing spoiler warnings for Black Widow, as it's been available on DVD and Disney+ (without the extra fee) for a while.

We WILL still be spoiler warning for the Hawkeye tv show and Marvel What If...? (and Shang Chi, Eternals, and Spider-Man). This includes on this dreamwidth Comm and on the Comm tumblr. The Comm Discord has specific channels for content with spoilers so we can keep it out on the other threads.

Considering how Disney are releasing things these days, and the ongoing impact of the pandemic, we would like to politely ask - and it would be much appreciated - if in general you would please include spoiler warnings for any content that includes things released in the previous 6 months or so.

Thank you!

be_compromised mods

With the Black Widow movie due out soon, please be aware that this dreamwidth community is a spoiler free zone until annouced otherwise. If you want to post links to fic, fan art, etc. that contains spoilers you can do, but please place them behind a cut in the post with a very clear warning above the cut. We may do a post for spoiler-free discussion and one for discussion with spoilers, if people would like to chat here rather than/as well as on the discord?

The discord communidt currently has a 'spoiler' channel for discussions.

On the community tumblr anything suspected to contain spoilers will be tagged as ‘#Black Widow spoilers’ or ‘#Black Widow movie spoilers’. I’m trying to avoid spoilers myself, so I’m erring on the side of caution! Movie posters, general excitement, etc. will not be tagged. Any gif sets, interviews, speculation, or content that might have spoilers will be tagged, often without me having read/viewed it.

If you have any questions, comments, or feedback please feel free to let us know in the comments! (Otherwise your best bet for contacting a mod at the moment is inkvoices or franztastisch for dreamwidth, inkvoices for tumblr, and gsparkle / #5137 (quidnunc_life) for discord.)

Hello! If you were not aware AO3 has had to put in place emergency measures which will effect users without AO3 accounts. Primarily this will mean "that starting immediately, logged out users may experience a delay in work updates, and hits from logged out users will no longer be included in works' hit counts."

However, if you do not have an AO3 account and would like one, existing users can send you an invite code. If you follow our Tumblr account, you will see various users who have codes they can send. If you have a Tumblr account, feel free to message anyone with codes to spare. If you don't have a Tumblr account, drop a comment here and I can either send you one of mine or point you in the direction of someone who still has codes to spare. (Just so you're aware, the codes do require you to share an email address.)

And remember, you can also donate to AO3 so they can continue to provide the stellar service we've all come to rely on for our fandom fix.

Hi folks, it's a strange old world we live in at the moment. We hope this community be a bit of sunshine for you lovely lot - with support, a morale boost, and fandom fun. We'd already had a chat about fun things to do as a community and this seems like a very good time to get started!


TOMORROW: watch this space for a recathon launch! This will run for 2 weeks.

SHORTLY AFTER: one of the most popular suggestions was a remix exchange, so there'll be a post asking for your vote/input on how we run that with sign ups following after.

AFTER: Once remix exchange is finished we can sail into another one (AU was also popular?) or a mini promptathon or another idea - check out this post and comment below with other ideas, ideas you like, and any thinky thoughts!

ONGOING: running alongside all of this we'll also restarting weekly ATTFs (All The Things Friday) - a chat/game/challenge started on a Friday that lasts until the following week. For a bit of fun and a natter :) ANYONE can host an ATTF. GO HERE to sign up, so we can avoid any clashes, or to make suggestions.


Comments are also open in this post for general chat, fun links, and virtual hugs.

All the best and take care,
your be_compromised mods x

Hi All, we hope you enjoyed the Valetine's Mini Promptathon! The next big events we have in the calendar are THE BLACK WIDOW FILM in May, the comm annibirthday also in May, and the big summer promptathon. Until then the comm is looking a little quiet so we're asking you: what would you like to see here in the next few months?

Past events have included an AU exchange, a hometown fic challenge, a remix exchange, last year's Fix-It Fest, and smaller events like recathons, unfinished fic and writing chats, three sentence prompts... and as ever we're open to new ideas!

Comment with what you'd like to see. Comment to other people's ideas so we can see what's popular. Comment with things from the wider world wide web relevant to our interests. Help us to keep our little corner of the fandom lively!

Thanks as always to everyone posting recs, fics, art, and fun things here and to the tumblr. Sharing is caring and keeps the fandom going :)

Hi everyone, just an update/PSA regarding the be_compromised tumblr.

First of all: HERE IS OUR TUMBLR. Please, if you have a tumblr and are so inclined, follow us! I've given it a bit of a makeover and it's now up and running again.

BUT: I need people's help! I've created a 'submit' button, so you can share content with the be_compromised tumblr. Please use it! Especially for crossposted fic. I'm going to keep it ticking over to the best of my ability, but everyone has different friends and will see different content passing over their dashes. I will not catch anything close to everything.

ETA: kiss_me_cassie  asked below about submitting reblogged content (rather than new content you upload yourself) and it looks like there isn't an option for that. As such, submitting the link to the reblogged content will work, and then one of the mods (probably me) will reblog from the link rather than post the submission. Though! If you have original content, do submit that too!

ALSO: I've made the tag #commstuff, which links to the button From the Comm, where things crossposted from here will live. This is the stuff which would benefit from being signal boosted to high heaven. :P

And if anyone would like to make (or knows of) a cool, right hand heavy desktop/background image, that would be amazing. :D

Message From Your Mods: Happy New Year people of the bar! As 2017 changes into 2018 we also have a changing of the guard - we're saying a fond farewell to the lovely enigma731 and welcoming franztastisch as the newest be_compromised mod. And if you are new to our corner of fandom, either quietly hiding in the back of the bar or ready to jump right in, a big welcome to you too!

All The Things Friday: is BACK, starting from tomorrow with franztastisch hosting a New Year's party in her modly debut. Not to be missed! If you'd like to sign up to host ATTF, make suggestions, or just see what's coming next then this is the post for you.

Secret Santa: is over for another year. The Secret Santa 2017 Masterlist is here for you fic reading pleasure.

Timetravelling into the future: but don't worry, there's loads more to look forward to, like Black Panther and the Valentine's Mini Promptathon in February...

Any challenge/events happening online? Got recs? Anything else relevant to our interests? Let us know in the comments!

Folks of the bar, reveals have now been added to all Secret Santa posts and we have a masterlist here for your holiday fic reading!

You can now feel free to share your gifts wherever you like. A note added to say your fic was part of a be_compromised exchange or a link back to the comm would be appreciated - so anyone new interested in joining the fun knows where to find us.

Thank you to everyone who's taken part in this year's exchange: gift creators, beta readers, cheerleaders, the pinch hit volunteers that we didn't have to use (!), and an extra loud thank you franztastisch and sugar_fey without whom the magic wouldn't have happened.

From all your mods, we hope you enjoy the rest of the holday season and we'll see you in 2018!

IMPORTANT MOD MESSAGE: as posted on LJ our community has moved to Dreamwidth. We will be maintaing a presence on LJ with a monthly news and links post. Welcome to be_compromised mark 2!

WELCOME AND RULES: our Welcome and Rules Post has been updated and reposted to Dreamwidth. Please take a moment to read (or reread) those. If you have any questions message a mod :)

ALL THE THINGS FRIDAY: is available for your weekend entertainment. There's a new sign up post HERE where you can sign up, make suggestions, and see what's coming next. If there's anything you'd like to see on the comm, we'd love to hear from you.

COMM ANNIBIRTHDAY PARTY: is happening over HERE. It's a weekend-long, happy 4th birthday and happy Dreamwidth move day party and YOU are invited!

COMMUNITY BANNER: This month's is a classic Avengers pose from perpetuations. We'd love some new banners for our shiny new comm! Send them in to be_compromised@hotmail.com
( A few things to note... )

IN THE WIDER WORLD WEB: Have you seen Guardians of the Galaxy volume 2 yet?!


Any challenge/events happening online? Got recs? Anything else relevant to our interests? Let us know in the comments!

We are currently in the process of importing the community to Dreamwidth (where it is also be_compromised) as on the discussion post people seemed in favour of at least backing up the community there. Please be aware that the queues for importing are currently long and then there will be coding that will need amending. We are also still dicussing our options, as in how we're actually going to use the Dreamwidth side. So please don't use the Dreamwidth community for anything just yet! Although feel free to join it as a memember :)

In the meantime, we'd still like to hear your thoughts on this discussion post. We're listening and we're using this to discuss as mods what direction the comm takes.

Thank you!

Your Mods

For those who might not be aware, since the start of 2017 there have been changes to Livejournal with servers moving to Russia and, most recently, a change in LJ Terms & Conditions.  We would like to share with you some of our thoughts on this and then we would like the community's input, with a view to possibly making some changes. Your mods may be manning the bar, but without all of YOU there is no community. Your views are important so please do comment after reading. Thank you.

Please be aware that your mods are nowhere near the likes of Tony Stark in technical knowledge and futurist thinking, however: never asumme that information you post on any social media is entirely private. Social media companies hold the rights to your information (see: instagram owns all your photos, see: you can never completely delete your Facebook). In addition, unless you are very, very good there will be someone better than you who can crack your security; we can take precautions but we are not immune. This has not changed with LJ. It's just that instead of LJ being in Trump's America it's now in Putin's Russia. Your opinions on those administrations and on your online rights associated with companies located within them are your own.

Our Position: Your mods are not panicking, but we are wary of these changes. They do not at first glance impact the main activities of this community - a main change in the T&Cs concerns politics for example - but with things such as this and Russia's LBGTQ rights record we are wary. We also, of course, have to take into account our members. If the majority of you move elsewhere then it would make sense for the community to follow the community.

Dreamwidth: An alternate social media site that we could host the community on is Dreamwidth. It is relatively easy to import a community there from LJ. There are pros and cons to Dreamwidth vs LJ and these are different for personal journals and communities. KEY POINTS: we could import the entire community including all of the comments to Dreamwidth. You can't crosspost on communities and future comments would not crosspost, although we could re-import the community on a semi-regular basis. Dreamwidth has an OpenID log in system so that you can comment there using an LJ, and other, online identities - you do NOT have to have a personal Dreamwidth account to post to a Dreamwidth community (although it makes it easier). None of your mods are familiar with Dreamwidth and there may be stumbling blocks that we wouldn't know about until we trip over them.

Options under consideration:

1) We keep the community on LJ. We back it up on Dreamwidth and re-import to Dreamwidth on a semi-regular basis to keep it current. We do not moderate or use the Dreamwidth version. It remains inactive unless needed in the future.

2) We keep the LJ community AND have a Dreamwidth community. How this would work: we re-import semi-regularly to Dreamwidth, we comment on both, we moderate both, we keep both active. Dreamwidth would have BOTH LJ and Dreamwidth posts. LJ would just have LJ posts. Dreamwidth would (hopefully) end up with the comments from both. LJ would just have LJ comments. 

3) We move the community to Dreamwidth and maintain a presence on LJ. Dreamwidth would be the main community but monthly/ on a semi-regular basis we would post a summary post to LJ with links to Dreamwidth posts and activity, so people on LJ would know what was going on and could either comment/chat on LJ or use OpenID to comment on Dreamwidth.

4) We move to Dreamwidth completely. We archive the LJ version and don't use it at all.

For easy commenting you can copy and paste the following. Or you can just comment with whatever you think about all of this. The important thing is that we have a discussion as a community, so please do comment. There is no deadline for this post and we open to changing our minds (again) in the future. However, if you could comment before MONDAY 17th APRIL that would be helpful.

<b>Are you planning to keep your personal LJ or move it to Dreamwidth or elsewhere? Or some combination?</b> <b>Of the above options for the community, would you prefer ONE/TWO/THREE/FOUR/some variation?</b> <b>If the comm continues on LJ and you move your personal journal to Dreamwidth OR if the comm moves to Dreamwidth and you keep your personal journal on LJ, would you still be active in the community? Or more active, less active?</b> <b>Other thoughts and/or things you would like to be considered?</b> 

PLEASE NOTE: please be respectful of other people's opinions, emotions, and countries. Think debate, not argument. Thank you.

Your Mods

Hi all, just in case you haven't already spotted it: fills are open at the Valentine's Mini Promptathon!!!

The deadline for fills is midnight Eastern 21st 28th February because fills have been extended by a week! Multiple fills are a delight. Remember to include a title, rating, and appropriate warnings in the subject line of your fill. (As ever, we welcome creative works after the fact but they won't be added to the masterlist.)

GO GO GO!

Promptathon 2016 is now officially over. 38 days, 459 comments on 7 pages, 26 fills, and that’s a wrap for this year’s summer promptathon! Huge thanks for everyone who prompted, created, beta read, commented, waved those cheerleading pompoms, and took part.

If you still have prompt fills that you’re working on or feel inspired by prompts now or in the future, you can still create things for them and post them to the community as usual. We’ll love them; they just won’t count as part of promptathon.

If your fills aren’t already on the Masterlist please comment to the Masterlist post with:
- the title
- the rating/any warnings
- the prompt/a link to the prompt
- a link to your fill where it is on the promptathon thread
for your works to be added so we don’t miss anything!

Also, if you have any promptathon icons or graphics, inspired by promptathon or participation graphics, share a link with us in the comments to that post and we’ll get those added too.

Until next time folks, enjoy trawling through the Masterlist and carry on being amazing! :)

Reminder that PROMPTATHON 2016 closes for fills at the end of THIS SUNDAY 4TH SEPTEMBER.

If you don't have time to finish your fills don't worry, you can still post them to the community at a later date and we will still love them, they just won't be included as part of promptathon.

Also a reminder to PLEASE COMMENT TO THE MASTERLIST WITH YOUR FILLS. It was looking a little short so I've just had a trawl through the main post and found a pile that weren't on the Masterlist. Help us not to miss any!

Counting down to the end of summer...

Promptathon will be closing for prompts in about 5-6 hours so time to throw in a bunch of last minute ideas!

Folks, I hate to do it, BUT PROMPTATHON IS NOW CLOSED FOR PROMPTS. Fills are open until Sunday 4th September. CREATE LIKE CRAZY.

Because we have some things relevant to your interests on the way...

SECRET SANTA: Yes, it's that time again. Yes, already. This year's gone so fast I think my calendar's broken! The sign up post for this year will be going up this weekened, so watch this space. You will have a week to sign up and then we're managing this in a similar way to the AU Fest earlier this year, which means there will then also be a short window of time to select which requests you'd prefer to fill. More details soon!

ALL THE THINGS FRIDAY: is morphing into something extra special in the countdown to Christmas the Winter holiday of your choice Secret Santa gifts happening. Get ready, because for the next three months ATTF is becoming a fortnightly weekend extravaganza! Every two weeks there'll be a Friday post as usual - we have some fun things being planned! - which will then fun ALL WEEKEND. The first will be up this week. (And the calendar-savvy amongst you will notice that yes, this means Halloween weekend will be an ATTF weekend. OH YES.)

COMMUNITY BANNER: This month is another creation by perpetuations To nobody's surprise, I am loving the circus element :D If you'd like to make a banner for the community please do, we love to see them, send them in to be_compromised@hotmail.com
( A few rules for new banners... )

Feedback and thinky thoughts? Things you would really like to see happening on the comm? Anything else going on in the wider internet relevant to our interests? Comment away!

The hawk-eyed among you may have noticed that we've added findthesea to all the modly contact information on the comm. We've now increased the mod team to five people to keep up with you lovely lot! So warm, best bar welcome to findthesea!

We're also seeing new faces and returning faces in the bar following Age of Ultron, so welcome and welcome back!

And this all seems like a good time for a getting-to-know you, friending style, All The Things Friday. So copy and paste the following into a comment, grab yourself a drink from the bar, and let’s have some fun!

<b>MCU, comics, or all the things?</b> <b>How many times have you seen Age of Ultron (so far)?</b> <b>Camping out at the farm, by that river in Egypt, in a world of AUs anyway, or another camp all together?</b> <b>Give us 3 sentences or a teaser of something creative, fic or otherwise, that you’re working on:</b> <b>Rec something (fic, vid, art, graphics, meta, anything):</b> <b>What things do you love to see in fics/creative works, what’re a few of your favourite things?</b> <b>If someone were to win the lottery and we had a community con (in Budapest, of course), suggest a panel, activity, event etc. you would like there to be:</b> <b>Any other fandoms:</b> <b>The last book you read/film you watched/song you listened to:</b> <b>What should a new friend know about you/your LJ and/or what are you looking for in an LJ friend?</b> <b>Anything extra to add?</b>

Things to remember:
1) Always label NSFW (Not Safe For Work) stuff in the title and post under a cut.
2) Fic and artwork needs to have a rating and warnings (or you can say that you’ve chosen not to use warnings).
3) For people with annoying internet connections, say in the title if a comment is graphic/images/gif-heavy and post picspams under a cut.
4) Have a damn good time! (Because if that’s not happening then this post has clearly failed.)

If you haven’t already read the rules and our post-AOU message please do :)
And if you have any ideas for an ATTF post or would like to host a ATTF the latest sign up post is here!

First up, as of TODAY - Monday 11th May - be_compromised will no longer be a spoiler free zone for Age of Ultron. We have plans for fun things and monitoring spoiler cuts all over the place will be too messy. Apologies to people who have yet to see the film and we hope you get to see it soon!

On that note, in light of Age of Ultron here’s how we see our community moving forward:

As per the sticky post at the top and as per our profile page, we are and always will be a community for fans of Clint Barton aka Hawkeye and Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow, individually as well as paired together as friends, partners, lovers, or spouses. What that means following Age of Ultron is that we will happily take all the denial fic and AUs where Clint/Natasha is a thing and all the canon-compliant fic where Clint & Natasha is a thing, and basically, as always, we will take and discuss anything that has a focus on Natasha and/or Clint.

Which means we’re also interested in the new dynamic with Laura, whether that’s Clint/Natasha/Laura or Clint/Laura with Auntie Natasha, or even Clint/Laura with a strong focus on Clint or, yes, even Natasha/Bruce with the focus on Natasha. Or just Clint or just Natasha, or any other pairing combinations or platonic combinations you like. Go wild! As long as there’s a focus on Clint and/or Natasha :)

One of our community rules is that character bashing and ship wars are assassinable offences. We love difference in opinion and discussing all the things, but we also want to keep this bar a positive fandom space. Please keep in mind that we are about the love.

So, we’re going to be exploring the new dynamics following the Age of Ultron reveal! Watch this space!

In the meantime we have shiny, new community tags for fanworks:

fanwork: age of ultron for all your works dealing with this
fanwork: aou divergent for all your works pretending these events never happened – be that everyone still lives in the Tower, killer bots never happened, or farm what farm
fanwork: on the farm for all your farming requirements
fanwork: polyamory for Clint/Natasha/Laura, Clint/Natasha/Laura/Bruce, Clint/Natasha/Bucky…any and all combinations your muse can come up with
fanwork: platonic for when the existing ‘fanwork: partners/buddycops’ just isn’t enough for the depth of best friend Clint & Natasha feelings

Remember, we do already have a whole bunch of other tags in the guide to tags and tagging for the completely AU, for team fic, and a whole heap of others. Don’t see a fanwork tag for what you need? Just let us know!

Your Mods x