FIC: Tangled Up In Blue - Chapter 1 (Clint/Natasha)
Title: Tangled Up In Blue (Chapter 1: No pleasure here on earth I found) (WiP - Ch.1 of ??)
Author: im_ridiculous
Fandom: Avengers - Clint/Natasha
Genre: AU. And is angst!crack a genre? It is now.
Rating: For mature audiences. (Angst, sexual references, a four letter word and angst. And did I mention there’s angst?)
Length: ~2500
Disclaimer: I own nothing and ( Read more... )
Author: im_ridiculous
Fandom: Avengers - Clint/Natasha
Genre: AU. And is angst!crack a genre? It is now.
Rating: For mature audiences. (Angst, sexual references, a four letter word and angst. And did I mention there’s angst?)
Length: ~2500
Disclaimer: I own nothing and ( Read more... )
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CLINT MCGEE? MCGEE? Am I supposed to believe that's just a coincidence, because -
Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waiting for a train
And I's feeling nearly as faded as my jeans.
Bobby thumbed a diesel down just before it rained,
It rode us all the way to New Orleans.
I pulled my harpoon out of my dirty red bandanna,
I was playing soft while Bobby sang the blues.
Windshield wipers slapping time, I was holding Bobby's hand in mine,
We sang every song that driver knew.
and of course,
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose,
Nothing don't mean nothing honey if it ain't free, now now.
And feeling good was easy, Lord, when he sang the blues,
You know feeling good was good enough for me,Your Clint is completely at the bottom. He exists exclusively in emotions, in memories, in scents and sensations of the past and God, it's so painful. I hope hope ( ... )
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I am so glad you like it, CountryMusicSister!! :D I am squeeing like crazy over here - seriously, only dogs can hear me now.
Thankyou for such an incredibly kind and generous comment :)
As for Clint. Ooooh Clint. No, he's really not ok at all at this point.
I wonder how this will go
... oh God. And what will happen when they meet again??
Well..... I don't want to give anything away... but ask Bee, as a general rule, I'm reasonably committed to happy endings :) ...that said, when I said it's going to get worse before it gets better.... that is still accurate...my apologies.
AS FOR CLINT MCGEE!! DAMN STRAIGHT IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE!! YOU HAVE CRACKED MY EVIL CODE :D :D :D
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AS FOR CLINT MCGEE!! DAMN STRAIGHT IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE!! YOU HAVE CRACKED MY EVIL CODE :D :D :D
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA THAT'S WHAT COUNTRY!MUSIC!TWIN IS FOR!!!!
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COUNTRY!MUSIC!TWINS FTW!!!!
*evil cackles*
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OH HAI THERE DEBT OUR OLD FRIEND. i love how you've introduced this theme already and dying to see where you go.
clint's voice here is just perfect. gorgeous and perfect and dry and sardonic and self-deprecating and EVERYTHING IT SHOULD BE. gah, i love it. and i think it takes some amazing prose (which this is) to spend a chapter and a half in one character's head at his own self-pity celebration and it feels nothing less than completely compelling. and it's the way the wry humor works its way in. it's insightful and heartbreaking and hilarious in turns.
you have baited the hook well; this fish will bite. *g*
loving it. <3
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But really, ALL THE FLAIL! I'm glad it worked for you, and I am SO RELIEVED you feel it didn't descend into mopey navel-gazing appallingness. I don't know why I love doing this to him so much, but I really, really do. A lot. ... Poor Clint.
Yep, debt and obligation and guilt and self-esteem issues and what-am-i-going-to-do-with-my-life and i'll-only-destroy-us-both.... I'm running the full gamut of angst here, for both of them. Bear with me. ;)
*sealclaps* Thankyou Oh Wise Bee. Awesome comment is awesome and flattering and really means a lot :)
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So, I already told you this whole thing just *sings* to me, right? Second paragraph? Perfection. I love how you evoke imagery without ever getting bogged down in details, it's extremely deft. I love the way the latent heat just simmers through everything, the bars, the music, the desperate!forget!sex, the driving. And, of course, her. Everything carries a sheen of sweat and nothing ever really rests in that kind of heat. It's exactly right.
Phil had stayed quiet a long time, hadn’t taken his eyes off the road. “Because it ain’t a new trail you’re blazing, my friend,” he’d finally said. “You’ll see; you’ll travel, you’ll play the bars, you’ll meet everyone in time. We look out for each other.”This makes me ❤ Phil so much. SO MUCH. ( ... )
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Ok.... Ok, I'm bac--... No. Nope, nope, still dying........
THANKYOU really really really!!!!! For everything. Seriously, this is so much better because of you. Same wavelength, we're on it. :D
Apparently we are setting up shop in each other's brains now?
*fluffs cushions and flops down on brain! couch*
It would seem so, yes!!! :D
It seems incredibly obnoxious to quote praise, so please just let me say.... I don't even know what to say. I just.... It's like all squee and clutching pearls and ugly gross sobbing over here in :) Thankyou for loving it, thankyou for loving the heat stuff, thankyou for loving Phil so much, and as for the sketching..... *grabby hands* (y'know, in your own time of course... Hee)
Also? APPROPRIATE ICON IS APPROPRIATE!!!!! **TACKLEGLOMP**
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O HAI THERE PHIL THE FIDDLE PLAYER! SHALL YOU BE OUR VIRGIL TO OUR DANTE? YES YOU SHALL!
Oh. *happy sigh* Freaking fabulous. Love it all the way down to its little toes/words. Not even remotely navel-gazing. It gives all the backstory and then some and sets it up beautifully and I just love it with an unholy love AND MAN OF CONSTANT SORROW, HOW ARE YOU IN MY HEAD FOR FAVORITE COUNTRY SONGS? Sweet baby Jesus, you work in the The Greencards' The Ghost of Who We Were and I may die.
Lovely lovely, my lovely. CARRY ON.
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AND OMG VIRGIL COULSON!! HE IZ TOTES VIRGIL, THIS IS WHY I NEED YOU TO READ, SO YOU CAN MAKE IT MORE ERUDITE AND INTELLIGENT!!!!
As for Man of Constant Sorrow.... I know. Oh I know. There is a little bit more that-song-as-pertains-to-Clint!meta still to come, which part of me thinks might be labouring the point, but most of me doesn't even care because I love it so much. So at least I'll have one other partner in crime!!! :)
Sweet baby Jesus, you work in the The Greencards' The Ghost of Who We Were and I may die.
The Ghost of Who We Were, huh? I do not know this song... I'll have a listen and see what I can do... On the face of it, if certainly sounds relevant to my interests! :)
I'm so pleased you liked it, and thankyou so much for the wonderful comment!
*twirls you*
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LOL As I have said to Bee & Bob, I will be your Professional Enabler for the day. :D
Man of Constant Sorrow: IT IS NOT BELABORING THE POINT. CARRY ON. It's just perfect.
As for the Ghost of Who We Were, it's probably not a perfect fit for what you are writing here, but this bit was something I could just hear your Clint singing:
Now I only see the world in black and white
Sure I wake up crying in the dead of night
But it's worth every minute of the pain
When I hear the wind whispering your name
Should I stay or, should I leave your memory behind
I been waiting, hoping you might change your mind
Oh the ghost of who we were is still living in this house
And yes, dear sweet baby Jesus and little fishes, I dig this. CARRY ON.
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Now, pardon my being demanding, but PLEASE FIX IT, MAKE IT ALL BETTER!
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But I'm so glad you liked it and thankyou for telling me so!
... as for making it better... well, without wanting to give tooooo much away. Stick with me :) Altho I should give you the same warning I gave Nuna.... it's going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better. err... Sorry about that? *g*
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