Fic: where the evening splits in half

[inkvoices]

Title: where the evening splits in half
Rating/Warnings: PG13; mild swearing, murder, lots of blood, wanting to die.
Length: 1,230 words
Summary: for the prompt A linguistic interaction is first and foremost manipulative. Natasha and words. from dictator_duck at the be_compromised epic and wonderful promptathon.
Author Notes: this is a prologue of sorts for the small acts

Comments

[cybermathwitch]

Oh my flippin' - wow.

Just WOW.

I'd say you nailed it, this was awesome, and I love - absolutely love - how you wove this all in.

I'll probably have more coherent thoughts eventually. ;D

[inkvoices]

Woah, that was some fast commenting O.O

I'd say you nailed it So, so glad that you think so. I was really nervous about this because it's playing in someone else's sandbox and with a whole bunch of already concieved worldbuilding and charactersation, and everything in the verse is so amazing. So yes, VERY GLAD :D

Feel free to have as many thinky thoughts as you like ;D

[cybermathwitch]

Woah, that was some fast commenting O.O

I might have the prompt-thread set up as "track" in my LJ so I get emails... and I might be sitting at Panera right now 'writing' (by which I mean procrastinating a lot and hovering over my gmail inbox in hopes of distractions. ;) Plus I read fast, usually.

[inkvoices]

I di not know this track thing existed! I approve :D

Lol I would never get anything done if I did that though. I rely on people yelling at me about anything really amazing if it crops up that I have to read now, then I'm working my way through the master list(s!) in my own time, and I wander through the comments pages every so often :)

[inkvoices]

Aww *twirls you* Thank you so much for letting me play and giving the draft a read through. I'm all kinds of happy that I made it worth your while and that you liked it :D

I just found Ophelia Drowns - do not understand how I did not see it before today! - and read Bee's new installement and you both broke me. AGAIN.

[sugar_fey]

*joins Bob in the flail backstroke*

DAMN. This is incredible.

Natalia, Natasha, Natalie, Nadine, Nancy, Naomi.

Romanova, Tsarina, Slut, Bitch, Whore.

All the names she's been given. *brain explosion at this awesomeness*

I love the moment when Clint and Natasha meet, it's perfect.

He has yet to look away and if he cannot see the monster instead of the doll then she will teach him.

Oh, Tasha. He's always seen more than the monster or the doll.

[inkvoices]

THANKING YOU! I'm so very glad that you like it :D

I have a thing for names and naming when it comes to Natasha. Which, um, you may have noticed *grins*. I hadn't made the connection between names and the fact of actions being the 'truth' over words when it comes to Natasha, as in workerbee73's meta, until I saw this prompt and then I had a lightbulb moment :D

When you wrote lost inside this forest with the culmination of the Clint-as-Prince thread with the idea that he's at once both the Prince and the Demon King, and then Natasha gets referred to as thinking that she's a monster in earlier fics...well, I was trying to use your fic a lot for this one, making the prologue and the epilogue brackets, so as you put Clint into a duality that ends an arc for him I wanted to put Natasha in one that starts an arc for her. And that she thinks of it as two things, either or, when she's many and he thinks of himself as one thing when he's many... Here be further proof that the small acts verse owns my brain *grins*.

[workerbee73]

This is so unbelievably perfect, my friend. I'm still joining Bob in the massive flailstorm. Just GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.

Thoughts in a minute. Right now I need to update the master list of all the 'small acts' stories....

[inkvoices]

unbelievably perfect WOAH. Excuse me whilst my brain checks out and I happy dance all over the place. Ohwow ohwow oh. wow. OH. WOW. :D :D :D

You are excused from immediate thinky thoughts on account of having great and important work to do *nods* because I only just noticed Bob's Ophelia Drowns and it therefore needs urgently to be added to the master list so no one else misses it! And I read your Natasha and Fury installement! AND YOU BOTH BROKE ME AGAIN *flails*

[sunny_serenity]

[inkvoices]

Thankfully I had help from Bee when it came to continuity, because I had a few things happening in my first draft that definitely did not fit with established events! I'm all smiles that you think it fits in, wow, tone and story telling and voice and flavour, seriously, epic amounts of smiling going on over here. Thank you! :D