ATTF Assassins and Administration
We’ve all seen them, those blow-uppy action movies. The kind that ends (or middles, because the very last thing is usually a fist fight) with 57 smashed-up vehicles littering the flyover and the streets below, including a school bus, a Greyhound, a semi-truck with a Humpty Dumpty logo and at least six police cars? Or the ones with a shootout that leaves seventeen black-clad bodies in a suburban shopping mall, or on the steps of a tourist-rich national monument? You have? Thought so.
Now, have you ever left the theatre wondering what people's paperwork would look like, after something like that? For the agents, who just killed in the line of duty (seventeen times!! with a letter opener!) or even merely discharged their firearms in public repeatedly? Or for Nora from Accounting, who has to write off the flying car and reimburse Barton for the vintage Springsteen t-shirt with the bullet holes (“Why can’t that headcase just wear the SHIELD standard issue black Under Armour, like everybody else”)? Or for Maria Hill ("Banner did WHAT? At Tiffany's??")
At some point, reality will (or should) come crashing down on heroes with a vengeance - and bless Marvel for bringing us the occasional congressional hearing to make that point. The paperwork will be as epic as the battles. And organizations like SHIELD probably don’t self-administrate, either. This is where today’s topic comes in!
Let’s have your snippets of head canon, your prompts and your ficlets, your recs and your self-recs: Assassins and Administration!
Some samples/mini promots to get your creative juices flowing, and to unlock the memory banks for those recs:
I think you get the idea.
So here's a rec:
“Permit A38” by old_chatterhand (General, no warnings apply): Phil Coulson died. And then he got better. The story of the agent who had to deal with the paperwork. Not a Clint/Natasha story, really, but the gold standard for the bureaucrat’s POV.
And a self rec (sorry, but I want you to feel that that's okay, because you know best what you may have done that fits the bill):
“AfterMath” (T, no warnings apply): Based on the Promptathon prompts ““Clint and Natasha doing the inevitable paperwork after an assignment is over” and “… bribing each other with the most outrageous things to get the other to do all of the paperwork.”
Ready, set - go!
And don’t forget these essentials:
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.)
Now, have you ever left the theatre wondering what people's paperwork would look like, after something like that? For the agents, who just killed in the line of duty (seventeen times!! with a letter opener!) or even merely discharged their firearms in public repeatedly? Or for Nora from Accounting, who has to write off the flying car and reimburse Barton for the vintage Springsteen t-shirt with the bullet holes (“Why can’t that headcase just wear the SHIELD standard issue black Under Armour, like everybody else”)? Or for Maria Hill ("Banner did WHAT? At Tiffany's??")
At some point, reality will (or should) come crashing down on heroes with a vengeance - and bless Marvel for bringing us the occasional congressional hearing to make that point. The paperwork will be as epic as the battles. And organizations like SHIELD probably don’t self-administrate, either. This is where today’s topic comes in!
Let’s have your snippets of head canon, your prompts and your ficlets, your recs and your self-recs: Assassins and Administration!
Some samples/mini promots to get your creative juices flowing, and to unlock the memory banks for those recs:
- Who rents (and services) the safe houses in which Clint and Natasha stitch up their wounds and advance their relationship, in places like Astana, Quito and Milton Keynes?
- Did Fury sign a death certificate for Coulson? What did he put on it?
- Does SHIELD have a pension plan?
- What did the write-up look like for the lie detector test that Natasha beat? Or the one Maria Hill took at Stark Industries?
- Can you imagine Hawkeye trying to fill in the expense claim after that mission in New Mexico? (“You’re claiming meal allowances for how many days, Barton? You weren’t exactly working for SHIELD the last three, plus your report said you weren’t even fed!”)
I think you get the idea.
So here's a rec:
“Permit A38” by old_chatterhand (General, no warnings apply): Phil Coulson died. And then he got better. The story of the agent who had to deal with the paperwork. Not a Clint/Natasha story, really, but the gold standard for the bureaucrat’s POV.
And a self rec (sorry, but I want you to feel that that's okay, because you know best what you may have done that fits the bill):
“AfterMath” (T, no warnings apply): Based on the Promptathon prompts ““Clint and Natasha doing the inevitable paperwork after an assignment is over” and “… bribing each other with the most outrageous things to get the other to do all of the paperwork.”
Ready, set - go!
And don’t forget these essentials:
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.)