Comments | lar_laughs: Fic: The Night Circus - Clint/Natasha style (NC/Avengers AU)

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Fic: The Night Circus - Clint/Natasha style (NC/Avengers AU)

Oct 09, 2012 09:25

This is for inkvoices and was written very quickly but I didn't want to lose the magic.

Title: The Night Circus - Clint/Natasha style (an AU)
Word Count: 1759
Rating: PG
( Summary: Both Clint and Natasha find the Night Circus, as if by accident )

avengers, alternate universe, 2012

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hufflepuffsneak October 9 2012, 20:59:39 UTC

Ooh. More Circus AU! And dancing. Clint and Natasha could totally do an awesome act together.

lar_laughs October 10 2012, 19:07:47 UTC

They would definitely be stupendous together!

excuse me while I love you inkvoices October 9 2012, 23:09:12 UTC

OHMYGOSH but you just finished reading it and...and you...there's this...MY HEART, OH MY GOSH I AM FLAILING OVER HERE AND SQUEAKING EXCITEDLY LIKE A HAMSTER ON HELIUM!

Okay, okay *breathes* I LOVE THIS! I mean, circus. Straight off, Clint and Natasha and circus is love. Clint and Natasha and The Night Circus? LOVE. Clint and Natasha and The Night Circus and written like this? Hamster. On Helium.

The directionlessness (is that a word?) of Clint and Barney at the start is heart aching, but there's that taste of possibilities like in because Clint really wanted to see the ocean and now was as good a time as any and this moment of freedom before they get trapped in a state home or somewhere similar, a moment in a life where Clint already felt trapped: He’d seen something like that on a television at a random foster home, the animals looking as trapped and confused as he’d always felt in this new world that didn’t include his mother and father and that is such a great sentence. The possibility of the circus, which I think is part ( ... )

Re: excuse me while I love you lar_laughs October 10 2012, 02:53:05 UTC

I'm so glad you liked it! I wrote it so quickly that I figured I should let it sit until I could go over it but then it wouldn't be the same and I might just disregard it and not post it. It felt more organic to do it quickly and just let it go without trying to refine it and rework images that my sleepy brain seemed to understand so well

I really wanted to write a story about them already in the circus but it seemed important to write how they each got the circus first. Perhaps I will write them in action someday. A good reason to reread... and then there is the possibility of the movie coming out...

*hugs* Thank you for loving the story and thank you, most of all, for reminding me time and time again, in so many ways, to read the book.

Re: excuse me while I love you inkvoices October 10 2012, 23:35:21 UTC

Your sleepy brain nailed it :D Writing in The Night Circus 'verse seems daunting to me, but not only did you do that you also wrote in that style. Serious awe happening over here!

If you ever want to write anymore Night Circus you know you'll have an eager reader lol, but I'm happy loving this one to bits :D

Re: excuse me while I love you lar_laughs October 11 2012, 02:31:23 UTC

*curtsies* Thank you so much!

An addition (I'll call it that) is something on my list. It would be fun to have the whole gang there!

sweetwatersong October 10 2012, 00:53:23 UTC

Ooooh. I have no idea what The Night Circus is (although I've just put it on hold at my library), but this is neat! I really like how we go from Clint believing it's temporary to seeing him some time later. :) And the metaphor at the end is just lovely.

lar_laughs October 10 2012, 02:28:06 UTC

Oh, you HAVE to read it! Then you will understand! And you will be in love... with the book. This is just a simple shadow of the actual greatness that is Erin's masterpiece!

sweetwatersong October 10 2012, 03:36:11 UTC

Who says I wouldn't be in love with this? ;) I will let you know ASAP once I get my hands on a copy/finish it, ma'am sir ma'am!

lar_laughs October 10 2012, 03:45:47 UTC

Okay, you can be in love with this, too. *grins*

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sunny_serenity October 12 2012, 20:50:18 UTC

lar_laughs October 13 2012, 04:47:17 UTC

A FRIENDS GIF!!!!!

I hope you like it when it comes to the front of the queue. It is a truly wonderful book! I just can't say enough good things about it. And I'm glad you liked my story! Thank you!

franztastisch November 13 2012, 20:16:45 UTC

asdfghjkl. I bookmarked this so I could read it after I had read the Night Circus. And OH MY GOD this is fabulous. I sort of really want more now.

lar_laughs November 14 2012, 04:21:22 UTC

I'm so glad you liked it! Both the book and the fic! I hope to write more someday but I'm not promising anything, mostly because I don't know if I could keep up the needed magic for long enough to get something else written. That is a special brand of storytelling and kudos to Erin for getting a whole book with that sort of magic in it!

franztastisch November 14 2012, 21:35:31 UTC

Yeah I can see keeping up that magical quality being difficult. But you do a wonderful job. :)

lar_laughs November 15 2012, 04:08:39 UTC

Thank you! * curtsies*

And I love your icon!!!

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