All The Things Friday: Let's See How Far We've Come

[inkvoices]

Welcome to another All The Things Friday! Your co-hosts this week are inkvoices and workerbee73.

First off, a note to say we have a thread at the top of this post for signing up to host, co-host, and/or to suggest themes for future All The Things Fridays. At the moment we have jacedesbff for February 1st and noblealice for February 8th (not sure what topics you folks are going with?)

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ATTF sign-ups and theme ideas thread

[inkvoices]

Volunteer to host or co-host an All The Things Friday Session and suggest ideas for All The Things Friday sessions. Go! :D

Re: ATTF sign-ups and theme ideas thread

[lar_laughs]

February is out for me because coworker will be on vacation for most of the month and I'll be pulling mad overtime but can I ask for the first Friday in March?

I can't for the life of me think of a topic that isn't narrow.

Re: ATTF sign-ups and theme ideas thread

[inkvoices]

Friday March 8th is International Woman's Day I believe. Just throwing that into the pot :)

Re: ATTF sign-ups and theme ideas thread

[anuna_81]

Oh can you put me down for that? I ALREADY HAVE IDEAS. Women! Female characters! All different things they can do, different approaches to them, but especially Natasha and oooooh. THINKY. SO MANY POSSIBILITIES.

[anuna_81]

Oh God, I'm gonna feel bad, but not, blowing my own horn, or whatever the phrase is.

1) One of my favorite stories that I've read, and I think it certainly deserves more love at least on LJ, is frea_o's The woman in the crosshairs. Second chapter is here. No warnings that I can think of and I think it's PG - 13 rating. I love the idea, the entire concept, Frea's fun and precise style, I really love all of it. It's a unique approach to Clint and Natasha, and among all hobbies and pastimes people tend to give Clint, the one used here might make most sense. Lovely and fun and amazing work. You'll laugh all the way through, and you'll feel very happy at the end. :)

Another thing I read recently, and it's just MINDBLOWING is franztastisch's Strange bird. PG - 13 and no warnings, I think. In which Natasha Romanoff's life was saved by a man who was once a hawk. It reads almost like a fairytale, but not quite, the pace is patient, slow, just right, it's written through Natasha's POV which is just wonderful, and it tells a story about those unspeakable things

[inkvoices]

I loved The Woman in the Crosshairs! For all the reasons you said :D Ooo, and adding Strange Bird to my bookmarks to read; it sounds right up my alley.

I did not know that was your first fic in this fandom O.o That is a long, complex, first fic, wow this fandom must have hit you with the ideas bat! No gentle, toe-testing the waters for you, heh.

Out curiosity, is red thread darker in tone/twistier than stuff you've written before? (I don't think I've divided into your non/pre-Avengers stuff yet.) Just wondering if you're like me in that Master Assassins seems to have done that. THE METAPHORS! Ahem. Yeah, love those :D

[anuna_81]

I think you're going to ADORE the Strange Bird. It's absolutely gorgeous and you'll lose yourself in it! *nods excitedly

[lar_laughs]

Is your HP stuff up on your AO3? I don't know why I've suddenly gotten excited about HP again? I think it must be that I'm excited to read the bar's HP.

[workerbee73]

dude, you stole one of my recs! i can't stop reading that poem/fic/meta by alwayslera. i so owe a comment on that but it's been siting in my brain just percolating. :)

and i remember reading both of the fics you mention in a span of a single night when i was totally stalking your LJ going WHO IS THIS PERSON AND WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE?

good thing nobody ever introduced us. ;P

[workerbee73]

as you know very well, sometimes it takes me a while to get my thoughts in order. :)

(blah blah blah blah. what, were you saying something?)

[_samalander]

1. My favorite lesser-known C/N fic is Bows and Catapults by Sproid (G, No warnings) in which Clint and Natasha are foster children together and you should read it because damn.

2. My first fic in Avengersland was called "Walking on My Skin Again" (R, Character death as in the movie) which is Clint/Natasha/Coulson and IDEK if I ever shipped it, but I came out of that movie the... third? time needing to write about grief, and that's what happened.

3. My favorite fic I've written in Avengers fandom is my love letter to Steve Rogers, (sleep wake hope and then) (G, no warnings) but my favorite C/N is my Secret Santa gift, Wild Dedication. (PG-13, no warnings.)

[inkvoices]

Bows and Catapults! BOWS AND CATAPULTS! <3

Have I read your first one? I don't think I have. (I can see myself getting a long reading list from this post *rubs hands together excitedly*) I know I've read (sleep wake hope and then) though because I'm never going to forget that one; it's amazingly good :D

[_samalander]

BOWS. AND. CATAPULTS.

It's a look at my mind directly after seeing the movie, really. There are some inconsistencies and some characterization that's sloppy, but I'm still pretty proud of it.

Trivia: "The Only Soldier Now is Me" was originally a sequel to (sleep wake hope and then)".
This exchange is near the end of sleep:
Natasha rolled her eyes.

"Are you doing okay?" she asked, her eyes raking Steve's form.

"As well as can be expected."

She smiled sadly. "When they defrosted me, I was alone. A miracle no one killed me before Clint decided not to."

Clint flashed a smile over his shoulder, and Steve couldn't help echoing the easy joy that passed between the assassins.

"So you woke up and there was no one there?"

"There was someone," Natasha shrugged. "But the Russian program was... different from the American one. I killed whoever it was. Didn't even think. I was feral, basically."
And I needed to know more about that.

[shenshen77]

Bows and Catapults is lovely!

And I need to read your other stuff, can't believe I know only Wild Dedication of these three! But I love The only soldier now is me :)

[sugar_fey]

Love this post!

Okay, one of my favourite stories that I think needs more love is Here the City Code is Lock and Load (http://archiveofourown.org/works/497651) by Sproid (Explicit for smut, no warnings). It's a post-apocalyptic AU and I love the way Clint and Natasha's feelings for each other is described.

The first fic I wrote for this fandom was Tightly Wound (Teen verging on M, no warnings used) (http://archiveofourown.org/works/408748) I think my understanding of the characters has deepened since then, and my writing style has improved. But the essential things have stayed the same.

My favourite thing that I've written is my current WIP, Worlds Collide (M, warnings in each chapter) (http://archiveofourown.org/works/631609/chapters/1142438). Some parts have been a joy to write, others caused me a lot

[workerbee73]

OH MAH GAWD WOMAN YOU STOLE ANOTHER OF MY RECS!!! Srsly, this is getting ridiculous. I need to get in the game. ;)

I remember that story!!! I think that was the first things of yours I ever read. It might have even led to stalking. And I'm so excited that youa re jumping into the land of WIP with Worlds COllide. It's been a great journey so far. <3

[sugar_fey]

I'm really enjoying WIP Land. :D In fact, the next chapter is nearly done...

[workerbee73]

\o/

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