ATTF: Let's See How Much Further We've Come
Hello honorable comrades, and welcome to the latest All the Things Friday! I'll be your host this week, sort of. More on that in a minute. If you want to be a host for a future ATTF, go to this page and check out the info!
Firstly, credit to inkvoices and workerbee73, who masterminded the ATTF I'm mostly copy-pasting for this one. They ran a really successful and ( Read more... )
Firstly, credit to inkvoices and workerbee73, who masterminded the ATTF I'm mostly copy-pasting for this one. They ran a really successful and ( Read more... )
Hmm. By design, I don't read a lot of fandom newcomers because I'm picky and eltist and only read now-to-me authors when I tumble into a new fandom or rarepair or find a rec, so there goes that, but have one old fave that could eternally use more love, and there fics by friends-and-faves that sit at around or below 50 kudos could use more love than they've gotten.
Nighthawks by luthorienne@AO3 (Clint-centric gen; harsh and honest, and probably somewhat influential on what my MCU Clint became when *I* was a wee newcomer in the fandom)
All We Are Not Stares Back At What We Are by findthesea (Clint/Natasha, beautiful writing, captivating and lyrical)
Waving Not Drowning by franztastisch (Maria & Pepper, pitch-perfect voices and character work and a realistic, natural progression of their friendship)
Driver Choses The Music by inkvoices (Clint & Natasha, which embodies everything I love about post-Avengers psychological hurt/comfort and doesn't need a lot of words to showcase it)
2) Tell us the first thing that you wrote/made in this fandom. How did you get into it, what was the inspiration, was it hard to do? What do you think about it now, either in content or composition? Tell the story of your story! Link if you're brave enough :D
My actual first fic for anything Marvel was a relatively... tentative remix fic, but both me and fandom like to pretend that doesn't exist. Sooooo I guess my formal introduction to the fandom was There'll Be Fireworks When You Come Home (Steve/Sam, 7k) and it was a massive, terrible headache to get done, but I remain fond of it, and I actually don't think I'd do much about it different if I wrote it today. It's a bit different with the next in line, Catch A Falling Knife (Bucky-centric gen, 5k), which... I still like the closing scene, but the thing as a whole is, not, I mean terrible or anything, but my focus on what I like to write when it comes to Bucky has shifted, so this fic wouldn't happen again, like this, I think. It was a wonderful collaboration with an amazing artist, though, and I ~that I would surely repeat in a heartbeat. After that one followed the fic that first brought me here, Staggered And Torn (Clint & Bucky gen, Clint/Natasha, 4k), which also sort of happened to be the first Marvel fic I wrote that came easy and flowed out onto the page more than it had to be forced. (Sorry for the elongated trip down memory lane, but, for one, I enjoyed reflecting on these a bit, and also, I thought I'd trace things up a bit to the point where I started feeling ~at home~ writing for this fandom, rather than just putting the first thing ever.)
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As these things happen, one of my favorite niches in this fandom remains "AUish assassins porn" and if I had to single out two of those, I think it'd be Every Night A Hopeless Lie (Clint/Natasha, 616, exhibition kink) and Dropping Glasses Just To Hear Them Break (Clint/Natasha, MCU, fear kink). Ohh and there's You're A Car Crash (And I Can't Look Away) (Clint/Natasha, MCU and 616 crossover) which I should really, really get back to, but it's a braineater, meaning if I work on this I can work on little else, and also I'm terribly, horribly nervous about how long it needs to be if I do it right and how the finished product could very would be the most novel-like thing I've ever done and I basically freaked myself out and now I'm afraid of screwing it up, so uh, yeah, hey, welcome to how my brain works? /headdesk
As for if and how this fandom influenced me, well, it did. A lot. Not so much the MCU part of the proceedings, but the comics corner. Comics fandom in itself is way different than any of the movie or tv show fandoms I've been in, and it changed the way I approach both canon and fanon aka writing. It's less static, and for someone who used to try to pin down canon to the letter, that was quite a learning experience. But it made me more creative, I think, and also more relaxed and confident about my interpretation of canon and characterization.
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