Unfinished Fic Wednesday

[_samalander]

Guys, are you as stoked about the secret santa reveals as I am? Well, take a break from answering your comments and hugging each other until you turn blue, and check it out! It's Unfinished Fic Wednesday!

(and this is where the theme song goes... it goes la la la... something about spies... submit to bc.unfinished@gmail.com... sexy spiiiies

Comments

[stuntriderjenny]

Dude, DUDE! I wont be able to read your snippet until later when I have longer than just my work break but OMG there is interest here!! Little side story, back when I was little, in between wanting to be a marine biologist or a veterinarian I wanted to be an archeologist so bad! I had dinosaur sheets on my bed, had the land before time memorized, could tell you all about the different dinosaurs, what time period they lived in.....omg interested definitely

[ashen_key]

But if you want more specifics, I think something along the lines of JPark would work really well. The movie started light hearted and fun, full of snark and banter, and then by the end, well, nature found a way and the raptors wreaked havok ;) so yeah more serious-ish, but still with bits of humor and snark.Yesssss, exactly - there was the SERIOUS! of the very, very start, and then it went more snarky, and then serious again, which is a bit of the beat of this. So, the 'ten hours earlier' I was thinking was Nat's POV, and running through things up until when HYDRA starts shooting, and then it's more serious (although with black humour, because these are the kind of characters who will crack jokes while things try and kill them

[stuntriderjenny]

ooooh yes I like what you're thinking! Bookend the more light hearted (as light hearted as you're going to get ;) with the more scary, serious stuff, yes! See you got this! ;)

and I'm in total agreement with you, I completely see Nat and Clint (and maybe your OCs?) having dark/black humor and being all snarky and bantery while things are trying to kill them. They're surrounded by all this death and destruction, they'd have to find humor in things to keep it from going to their head, I would think?

I would totally go to the museum all the time if I could, "for research" yeah ;) My hometown had a super sweet museum, complete with a giant, life sized T-Rex eating a Triceratops carcass... scared the crap out of me when I was younger, but still awesome! 'oh, awesome, but ahhhh' lol totally understand what you mean! yay for new books and up-to-date research! Ah yep, when I was little if it wasn't a coloring or info book about horses then it was one about dinos ;)

[ashen_key]

Ahaha, hopefully! I was just worried people might be "LOL DINOSAURS" and then Clint's frozen in mildly hysterical shock (albeit briefly), so I was....worried. But! Dangerous creatures and black humour and serious.

When on-duty, there is snark and low-key jokes to take the edge off; off-duty, there is way more goofing off and silly before they settle down again. Too serious, and their jobs would just eat at them. And that depresses me waaaay too much, so, mine snark a lot and then relax on off-duty. But with dinosaurs? Oh, yeah, there are going to be jokes. If they can turn things into jokes then they can...bring it down to something more manageable and deal with the situation.

Totally research! It's not a very big museum, and I know most of the info anyway, but the dinosaurs on display are awesome - and really helpful. It's one thing to know that the raptors I'm using were three feet tall at the hip, and another to stand next to a statue and go '....right, yes, there is the rest of the body that is above the...hip

[stuntriderjenny]

*nods head* yes to everything you said about their characterization!! too serious and letting their jobs get to them is way too depressing, indeed!! :/ Have to deal somehow, and snark and jokes are all good! I'm excited to read what you come up with :)

Yay research! lol yes, as cool as it would be to see dinosaurs in the wild/study them... yeah its probably best that its just a model ;) 3 feet at the hip.... then the rest of the body o.0

*nods* I completely understand!! No lie, I've always been into wildlife, be it prehistoric or modern, and wanted so bad to be a palaeontologist, biologist, or vet (I did end up studying wildlife biology but.... *pokes retail jobs* now to do something with it :/ ) Writing stories and reading books is indeed the next best thing :)

oh that display was awesome! but yes tiny!little girl me was riding on her daddy's shoulders when he turned the corner and then wham! I was face to face with a giant moving t-rex who was making growly noises o.o but still amazing ;)