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Did you know that between 1939 and 1941 the NYC Tax Administration and the Works Progress Administration collaborated to take photographs of nearly every building in all 5 boroughs of New York City? And that you can see these photos today thanks to NYC Municipal archiving? This is, obviously, amazing for hundreds of reasons. For the purposes of this post, it's fantastic because this is a very real address:
And when I put that address into the photo locator map, I get this:
Going from there, we can walk around the surrounding blocks via photographs. And if we assume that Steve and Bucky's pre-war apartment was fairly close to the Barnes', then these photos from 1939 to 1941 are a historically accurate trip to their neighborhood.
So, let's explore some pre-war Brooklyn. For your fic inspiration needs, your feelings, the general Stucky vibes, or just because:
160 State Street, bigger and without the map.
(If you ever feel like making the details of a fic incredibly historically accurate, there are so many real businesses to choose from in these photos.)
Like I said, there are pictures of nearly every building. This is just a small collection of the images I grabbed from the immediate blocks around 160 State. You can walk around the neighborhood in more detail, or anywhere else in 1939-1941 New York you want on the map I used.
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love this
Dick Grayson
No words, just his facial expressions
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It's the freakin holy grail of whump. I desperately want them all but don't know how I would explain them to my family on my kindle or bookshelf 😅
Ref Recs for Whump Writers
Violence: A Writer’s Guide: This is not about writing technique. It is an introduction to the world of violence. To the parts that people don’t understand. The parts that books and movies get wrong. Not just the mechanics, but how people who live in a violent world think and feel about what they do and what they see done.
Hurting Your Characters: HURTING YOUR CHARACTERS discusses the immediate effect of trauma on the body, its physiologic response, including the types of nerve fibers and the sensations they convey, and how injuries feel to the character. This book also presents a simplified overview of the expected recovery times for the injuries discussed in young, otherwise healthy individuals.
Body Trauma: A writer’s guide to wounds and injuries. Body Trauma explains what happens to body organs and bones maimed by accident or intent and the small window of opportunity for emergency treatment. Research what happens in a hospital operating room and the personnel who initiate treatment. Use these facts to bring added realism to your stories and novels.
10 B.S. Medical Tropes that Need to Die TODAY…and What to Do Instead: Written by a paramedic and writer with a decade of experience, 10 BS Medical Tropes covers exactly that: clichéd and inaccurate tropes that not only ruin books, they have the potential to hurt real people in the real world.
Maim Your Characters: How Injuries Work in Fiction: Increase Realism. Raise the Stakes. Tell Better Stories. Maim Your Characters is the definitive guide to using wounds and injuries to their greatest effect in your story. Learn not only the six critical parts of an injury plot, but more importantly, how to make sure that the injury you’re inflicting matters.
Blood on the Page: This handy resource is a must-have guide for writers whose characters live on the edge of danger. If you like easy-to-follow tools, expert opinions from someone with firsthand knowledge, and you don’t mind a bit of fictional bodily harm, then you’ll love Samantha Keel’s invaluable handbook
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just wanted to say i really enjoy your writing! i love how you balance the suffering with the payoff (whether that's comfort, recovery, revenge, etc). both aspects are really delicious
Mmmm, I love to make my guys suffer, but also love to give them a little hard-earned happiness in the end. 😊 Thanks for popping in to leave this lovely note, my dear. Lifes been especially brutal lately and random notes like this make my day! 😘😘😘
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idk if this is controversial or not, but I really like when non-professional writing like fic has hints of author bleedthrough when it comes to like, what different people assume is common knowledge. Like sometimes I’ll be reading a fic and it’ll just be obvious that the person writing it is either obsessed with medicine or has been to medical school, because they’ll use terms that are just a shade too technical without explaining them. It’s never the super specific stuff that they’d know other people are unaware of, it’s always the things that once you’ve known it for a while you forget it’s niche knowledge. It’s fun because as a fanfic reader it reminds me of how this is a fun hobby community, where everyone has their own thing going on outside of fandom. Everyone’s got their own specialties and they can’t help but write that into their work sometimes
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spending a long time scrolling the hurt/comfort tag, call that whumpster diving…
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To any fic writers who worry they are wasting their time... I read a fic for a relatively small and inactive fandom about three years ago. And there was one specific scene where a character watched another dancing like an idiot to a beyonce song and it was so sweet and loving that even now years later I have that song on one of my spotify playlist so every once in a while it will play and remind me of that fic, and every time it does I smile and feel a little happier.
The stats on a fic will never really tell you if your writing touched someone. There's no numerical way to show you what impact you made. Maybe you are wasting time, or maybe you are writing something that someone will remember for a long time, something that will never fail to make them smile.
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Aahhh! Thank you so much, @dc-marvel-crossovers !! I appreciate the shoutout! And I swear, I AM working on the next part, which will be some Clint POV of the events of this fic (without rehashing everything).
Thank you for giving this fic some love!!! 😘😘😘
Fic rec: Winter Quarters by @teeelsie-posts
Clint Barton/Dick Grayson
52,000 words, mature
Why it’s great: A gorgeous whumpy super-slow burn in which Dick and Clint spend winters together while their respective circuses stay in the same place. It starts when they’re 11 and 12, which means that you get to really see them grow up together and see the characters change. There are some fun changes to both of their canon backstories, so it feels familiar without getting predictable. And the characterizations are great. This is one of those Clints you just want to wrap in a blanket and protect from the entire world.
An excerpt:
It turns out Clint isn’t ten, he’s a year older than Dick - so twelve - just slight for his age. And like Dick, he likes to climb. Dick had planned to coax Clint into joining them in whatever game commenced during recess, but instead, he follows Clint, who scales the tallest tree in the park. It’s an oak, a lone sentinel in the sea of surrounding orange trees. From here they can see and hear the other kids, who don’t seem to know they’re being watched.
Clint climbs to the tip-top, the highest branch bowing a little under his weight, but it doesn’t seem to bother him. Dick settles comfortably into the ‘V’ of two branches just below. “You’re not afraid of heights.”
“I like being up high.”
Dick can see his eyes scanning the horizon. “How come?”
Clint looks thoughtful before he replies. “From a distance, you can see things coming.”
Well, that’s true, but Dick isn’t sure why it matters or why Clint says it so seriously.
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The 2024 Clint Barton Celebration Bash Is Live!
What is this celebration?
Clint-centric minibang, big bang, and bingo events!
When are these events happening?
Both bangs will open sign-ups on Jan 1, 2024 and post in Sep 2024
Bingo sign-ups will open in May 2024, posting anytime
What are the details?
General Event Rules
Bang Specific Rules, Schedule, and Q&As
Bingo Specific Rules and Q&As
I'm excited! How do I participate?
Join our discord here or follow this blog for future announcements!
Hope to see you there!
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AWESOME art by @baremueran for Ch. 4 of my fic Once Lost (now found).
It feels especially fitting to receive this today, the day that the @Whumptober prompts came out, since I wrote this fic last year for Whumptober. 😊
THANK YOU, DOLL!
After they made it to the top.
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Are you frustrated you can't leave second kudos on AO3? or third kudos? or whatever-who's-counting kudos?
Well, have I got the html for you!
Plop any of these in a comment (by copy&pasting the code) to make an author's day and show your appreciation!
Second kudos:
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Third kudos:
<img src="https://i.ibb.co/52bggQH/third-kudos.png" alt="third kudos">
nth kudos:
<img src="https://i.ibb.co/6y7qGtC/nth-kudos.png" alt="nth kudos">
yet another kudos:
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It will look something like this (and will be transparent with white outline on dark backgrounds):
Feel free to spread and use these as much as you like! (and if you have ideas for other variations, let me know ✌️)
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anything about Superior and/or Winter Quarters?
Hi nolanfa--sorry it took me so long to get to this ask! Life...ya know, it's crazy sometimes.
So I already answered about Winter Quarters here. So here's a Director's Cut about Superior.
Aaaahhh…this fic… I really like this fic! I mean, I guess I like all the fic I’ve written or I wouldn’t have written them, but this one makes me especially happy for a couple of reasons. First, it was the second winterhawk fic I wrote, so I had one under my belt and had sort of gotten over that hurdle, so I could relax a little with this one and I wasn’t so tenuous about it. Second, I set a goal for myself with Superior that I didn’t want it to get out-of-control-long—I wanted to keep it tight and to the point—and I felt like I was successful in doing that, so that made me super happy.
When I write fic for internal reasons, it’s usually because a snippet of a scene will hit me and that starts me off running with an idea. When it’s for external reasons (in this case, the fic was for an auction winner) I will usually spend a good amount of time just turning things over in my head for a while until a fic will start to form. In this case, the auction winner wanted a Canadian Shack fic, but I’m a super visual person/writer. Like, I see the action in my head and then basically just try to transcribe what I see. And also, I need to be able to visualize everything: the room, the clothes, the gestures, etc. But, Canadian shack just wasn’t conjuring up any images for me, so instead, I set the fic in a place I was familiar with—the coast of Lake Superior in northern Wisconsin. It’s a really beautiful place with red rock cliffs (it’s a unit of the National Park Service—the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore). Once I had that fixed in my head, the rest of the fic started to take shape.
But my most favorite thing about Superior was the scene where Clint is running through the woods to try to save Bucky. That scene came to me as I was brainstorming, crystal clear, and I could not wait to get it on paper because wounded, BAMF Clint is like my favorite thing in the world (hnngg). In fact, I had it on paper before almost anything else. It was my target. Like, here’s this scene I can so clearly see, but it’s obviously not going to happen until late in the fic, so now I have to come up with a whole fic to get them there, lol. I literally had nothing but that scene in my head and I had to figure out how to get to it. I wrote like, 20k+ of fic to get Clint to that position where he’s running through the woods barefoot and barely dressed. Mmm, I don’t think I’m communicating this the way I want…I had that scene in my head and then I had to create 20k words of fic to plausibly get him to a place where it made sense for him to be running through the woods barefoot and barely dressed. Yes, that’s what it was. 😊
I also enjoyed writing Fury in this fic, in the beginning and then at the end as well. He’s fun to write but I never feel comfortable enough to write him in anything but small doses. But that scene where he’s talking to Clint when he wakes up in the hospital was sooooo fun to write and another one that came to me very early and that I was anxious to finally get to.
What else…Oh, the place where Clint and Bucky end up after they leave Lake Superior—Crex Meadows—that was someplace that the auction winner sent me pictures of as we were discussing what the fic might/could be, because it’s someplace they particularly liked. It didn’t really spark anything in me and then I moved on to the Apostle Islands, but I wanted to give them what they wanted so I worked it into Clint and Bucky’s flight from Hydra.
And Jasper. Oof. I have such mixed emotions about the whole SHIELDRA Jasper. On the one hand, it’s great fodder for angst and turmoil. On the other hand, I hate that they did that to Jasper. Sigh. But, in this case, it worked really well to make him the bad guy because he and Clint would know each other well and it ramped up the angst with Clint and Phil.
Oh, lastly, I guess, I’ll add that the little bit about the stick through Clint’s foot was something that the auction winner mentioned to me, not at all in the context of “please include this” but as sort of an aside of something that happened to a friend (I think), and I just had to include it because it worked perfectly. And then I had great fun with Phil and Nat’s reactions to it. I think I got more comments from readers about that then anything else, lol.
Thanks for the ask, @nolanfa !
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fyi @waffle-sorter (and anyone else) - there's add-on extension you can get: AO3 Floating Comment Box (greasyfork.org) It keeps the box live as you read and you can type your thoughts/comments/live tweet so you don't have to toggle back and forth, and then when you're done you can just click a button to add it to the comment box at the end of the fic. Very handy.
as youre very both old school fandom and also someone who works to preserve old fandom content, what do you think is the best way to print off and preserve fanfics? I've been wanting to start to move my many many many archived pdfs into actual physical copies but ive been way too intimidated to really look deep into it so I was wondering if you had a preference
Okay, so.
My preference is "yes." Yes, I want you to archive them. Yes, I want you to save them. I've worked to preserve 1960s teen pulp mags, for fuck's sake, it can't get much worse than that, and I'm grateful to have them.
With that said, pick any or all of the following options to make your physical printouts last longer:
--select acid-free paper
--bind by sewing, not stapling
--store in archival sleeves, like the ones you use for old comic books
And now, pick any or all of the following options to make my life easier as a historian (or, you know, the lives of the historians who come after me):
--include the title
--include the author's name
--include the fandom name
--include which version of the canon, if relevant (e.g. the OG Transformers show vs the Michael Bay movies)
--include the date, or at least year, of publication
--include the summary
--include the site of origin, including the URL
All of these things are called provenance and help not only to identify a specific work, but to place it within its cultural context. As an amusing example: I recently got into James Bond, and decided to go through every fic in the main pairing tag, in chronological order. There came a point where suddenly, out of nowhere, there were like two solid pages of nothing but A/B/O, which I previously had not seen at all. I had a suspicion, so I looked it up, and sure enough--those two pages appeared within just a couple of weeks of the corresponding Supernatural episode. Having publication dates let me determine that. If I were a historian trying to piece together a long-ago puzzle instead of going "lol I live on the hellsite, I bet I know exactly where this came from," that would be a huge datapoint. I could probably find a similar sudden explosion in other fandoms, as well--and if we're going far enough in the future, if Supernatural were to just vanish off the face of the planet along with its entire fandom, historians could still trace that it existed and even determine some of its events based on when certain tropes begin to appear in other fandoms. And further, the fact that its tropes and major events appear in so many other fandoms would allow those historians to say "this must have been a very, very popular story." (This isn't just me making shit up to sound important, by the way. This is literally how we have records of a lot of things throughout antiquity and even into the Renaissance. The more copies there are of something, or the more references that are made to a thing in other things, the more likely it is for at least part of it to survive. This is literally how we know about Shakespeare's two lost plays--he was a popular enough playwright that quartos of his plays were advertised for sale.)
Whew! Now let's get into stuff you could do that would make me, as a historian, scream with delight if I were to open your folder full of labeled, acid-free fanfiction fifty years from now:
--write a little something about why you picked this particular fic to preserve in hard copy when doing so is bulky and time-consuming compared to the easy instant storage of the internet, yes, even if your reason is "I'm trying not to use my phone in bed because the screen keeps me awake but this story is soothing to reread"
--write a little something about who you are, even if it's just "my name is X, my age is Y, I live in Z, I printed this out in 2022"
And last but not least:
Marginalia. Marginalia. Marginalia, my beloved. That's when you write your thoughts in the columns on the sides, underline stuff, circle it, and so on. Having marginalia means I actually get a window into your thoughts as you read--your perspective, stuff that stuck out to you, places the story made you feel some kind of serious emotion. And yes, this goes for everything. Villain A kills Hero B and you write "YOU MOTHERFUCKER" in the margin, that tells Future Historian Me that you really loved Hero B, you were invested in seeing her succeed, and that this scene really resonated with you. One of my most treasured possessions in the fandom museum is a copy of the novelization of the Help! movie the Beatles did. This particular copy is very worn--unsurprising, it was a cheap paperback even when it was printed--but also, its original owner apparently took it to the movie theatre and
wrote notes in the margins indicating all the things happening onscreen that weren't in the book. What does this tell me? WELL. Let's go ahead and take a look:
1) the written ink doesn't look any newer than the book, so I'm guessing a little when I say this was the original owner and in the theatre, but I have an actual datapoint I'm basing that on
2) based on handwriting and the main demographic of the Beatles audience at the time, this was a young woman, probably a teenager.
3) she went to see the movie more than once (some notes are in pencil, some in ink, but the handwriting is all the same)
4) she was dedicated to making sure every moment of the movie was preserved. This was an era before home video players, so once the movie left theatres, she had no guarantee of seeing it again.
5) while the book is worn, it's not beaten all to shit. It was read a lot, but there's no evidence it was mistreated, so it was probably a prized or at least respected possession.
What can I extrapolate from this, with the understanding that I mean "what theories can I reasonably form but not prove"? Well. She was probably a pretty big fan, since she went to see the movie at least twice and also bought the book. Maybe she wanted to keep the story after the movie was gone. Maybe she was looking for answers for some teen mag contest like "find these things in the Help! movie and win a chance to meet the Beatles." Maybe she had a friend who wasn't allowed to go to the movie. You know what the most tantalizing possibility is to me, although I'll never be able to prove it and actual ethics as a historian mean I can only present it as one among many possibilities? Maybe she did it as a source reference for writing fanfiction. We don't know. We can't know, because I have no idea who the original owner was or if she's even still alive and no way to trace her. But that? In terms of fandom history, that is a fucking gold mine. Pure 24-karat all through. From a strictly historical view, that's worth more than the animation cel I've got in there, and I paid over a hundred bucks for that thing.
So yeah! That was a lot of words to say "just do it." But there's your answer!
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My fave of your fics is What Doesn't Kill You. Would love to hear your comments on that one!
Director's Cut commentary about What Doesn't Kill You:
What Doesn’t Kill You was my first MCU fic, so it’s kind of special to me. Yeah, I know it starts with a brutal gang rape, so I guess that sounds kinda weird.
After I saw CA:CW, just literally, out of the blue, I got this 2-second snip in my head of Clint bent face down over a desk, struggling as his arms are being held down and outstretched. That was it, just this flash of a scene with nothing else really along with it, but I COULD NOT let go of it.
I lasted about a week until I had to take that scene and develop it to something more in order to get it out of my head. Up until then, I’d been lurking in the fandom since AoU and there were soooo many accomplished writers out there who had already been producing great stuff for years. It was very intimidating to write and post in the fandom. I felt like such an interloper.
Eventually, that flash of a scene resolved itself into chapter 1 of the fic--the rape scene. Now look, non-con is not a genre I would say that I write in. I’m not criticizing it—I’ve read some very, very good fic that involve dub-con or non-con. But, I’d never addressed it before in my own fic and if you’d have asked me, I would have said, nah, not interested, just not my thing (I probably would still say that). But, man, I could not shake that image and when more of a fic started to form in my head and take hold, suddenly I was writing a really, very graphic non-con fic.
It made me kind of uncomfortable, if I’m honest, because it’s such a brutal thing and I was like, where is this coming from? But I think the thing for me is this: for me, the non-con is simply the necessary event to highlight and demonstrate that Clint Barton is nothing if not a survivor. He’s resilient. (I think Phil says as much at some point in the fic) That’s what this fic is really about. The rape is just a means to an end. And yes, I could have just had him get a beat-down (because you know I love my whump), but I really felt like the Raft—prison—is all about power differential, and rape is not so much as act of sex, but an act of power and violence, so in the context of the Raft, it just made sense.
The fic was originally just a one-shot—what is now chapter one—and I had no intent to write any more. dentalfloss betad that fic for me and after I posted, she said something like ‘I wish I could see the others’ reactions.’ Which got my wheels spinning anew. It was tricky, because I’ve read more than one fic where it’s a one-shot from a certain POV, and then maybe someone says exactly the same thing to the writer that dentalfloss said to me and so they write the other POV. Sometimes the next parts are great, but it seemed like too often, it was just a repetition of the first part, sometimes word for word for long dialog stretches. So I knew if I was going to add more to the story, itneeded to BUILD on chapter 1 and not just repeat it. I spent a few months plotting out and drafting chapters for most of the other Avengers, trying to weave their stories into Clint’s without being repetitive. I hope I was successful at that. If it worked the way I wanted, each chapter would reveal more little bits of the broader story without any one person’s story telling it all. Ach, it’s hard to explain. In the end, I was satisfied with how it turned out.
And then, because I was talking to dentalfloss, and had been reading In Wade We Trust, Wade Wilson popped up in my head and said, me me pic me, and waved his arm around and I sat down and drafted a chapter with him in about 30 minutes because it was all JUST RIGHT THERE and I couldn’t not. Thankfully, floss gave me permission to use “her Wade”, but his appearance in this fic should not be construed as being part of her Wade ‘verse.
If I hadn’t added the other chapters, this would be a very different fic (obviously). For me, though, this fic is no longer a rape fic—it truly metamorphosized into a recovery fic. Like, when I think about that first chapter now, I’m kind of hand-wavy, yeah, yeah, but that’s not the point! The point is what comes AFTER. Honestly, I think if non-con turns you off, you could literally skip chapter 1 and move on to the rest with just the background understanding that this thing happened to Clint, and the rest of it is really the important part.
Finally, I really love Phil in this fic. This was some of my favorite Phil writing (by me), for sure. I got his voice pretty much just how I wanted it, and there are a couple scenes between him and Clint that are high up on the list of my favorites I ever wrote.
So this fic started as a bit of an earworm that I had to put on paper in order to get it out of my head, and it became something else entirely, unexpectedly becoming much more a story about survival and resilience.
Thanks for the ask, @ryuunoyuki
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Fanfic Writers' Director's Cut: Winter Quarters
@drgrlfriend asked for Director’s Cut commentary about Winter Quarters, so here you go!
Ages and ages ago, I stumbled on a short one-shot C/C fic, Feathered Friends. by Perpetual Motion. It’s an MCU/DC crossover that introduces Dick Grayson as an old friend of Dick’s from the circus days. Honestly, I didn’t think much of it at the time because I wasn’t into DC at all then, but it was C/C and by an author who had written other things I’d liked. I liked the fic, though, and always sort of remembered it vaguely. Some years later, I was needing a distraction from life (for reasons) when a writer I admire and follow cast about looking for a beta for a 60k Jay/Dick fic. For those of you who might not be aware, Jay/Dick is a significant pairing in the DCU (the tag has the most fic in the DCU and Batman fandoms ao3). Anyway, I spent a couple months with that fic and that got me interested in more Dick Grayson fic, in particular. And then one day, it hit me like a bolt of lightning: Dick and Clint both grew up in the circus and there’s so much potential there for crossover fic! I checked out the tag and there were only 8 fic with the pairing. Eight! A travesty! From there, I just started thinking about it, a lot. Like, really a lot.
I toyed with them at the same circus, but their respective circuses are so well entrenched in canon that I decided I didn’t want to do that. And for reasons I won’t get into, I was aware that circuses used to winter over in Florida, and I thought, oh, wow, wouldn’t that be great fodder for angst, to have them coming in and out of each others’ lives every year, have their relationship grow, but then have to LEAVE each other year after year. Mmm, yummy angst! 🤤 Thus Winter Quarters was born!
Mmm, what else… well, I think Clint and Dick work well together for the same reason that Clint and Phil work together: it’s the yin and yang. While they both grew up in the circus, Dick’s early life was vastly different from Clint’s. His family was loving and stable and his parents were kind and supportive and encouraging. Just the opposite of Clint’s. I enjoyed writing Dick’s slow realization that Clint’s life was nothing like his own. Dick’s life wasn’t sheltered, exactly (I mean, he did grow up in a traveling circus), but because his parents protected him, he never really faced head-on the kind of horror and trauma that Clint experienced regularly. Because he couldn’t recognize it for what it was, it takes him a long time to understand what’s going on with Clint.
And if Clint had anything to say about it, he never would have learned about it. I see them both as very protective of the other (which is why they both make excellent super heroes), with Dick, once he learns what Clint’s going through, he wants to save him from it. Whereas Clint sees Dick as this sort of, unmarred shining star, doesn’t ever want to expose Dick to the darkness in his life—from Clint’s perspective, he’s afraid he’s going to…sully Dick, and he doesn’t want to do that.
In truth, I wasn’t super well informed about Dick Grayson when I started writing this. I had to sheepishly ask a few people on tumblr if they could give me, like, Dick’s baseline personality traits. Those I asked were very kind and gave me enough to go on and pointed me toward a few essential Robin/Nightwing comics so I could get my start. One of them said something about Dick and his ‘dad jokes’ which is the entire reason I inserted all those dumb jokes in there. I spent a stupid amount of time googling ‘dad jokes’ and puns to try to find a handful that would fit into the story line. In the end though, I kind of liked how they worked into the narrative.
The hardest thing about this fic for me, I think, was writing with a young boy’s voice. I never was one, I never had bothers, and my kids are girls, so I was pretty insecure about how authentic they sounded. I still am, if I’m honest. But I suppose there’s a universalness to the teenage experience, regardless of what your gender is, so hopefully I wasn’t too far off the mark.
In all honesty, I didn’t think anyone would be interested in this crossover—it genuinely was one of those situations when they say you have to write for yourself and not other people—so the response the fic has gotten has 100% blown me away. But it makes me super happy and I hope it will inspire more people to write some Clint/Dick! In the meantime, I continue to think about Part 2 on a daily basis and I’ll get there eventually, if for no other reason then that I have already written the denouement and I really like it so I want to write everything that leads up to it so I can post it! 😅
Thanks for the ask, drgrlfriend!
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I'm late to the party but so many exciting WIPs! Any in that list about our favorite archer?
Almost all of them!
Against the Wall (I answered this, here)
Crack (of the Bat): This came from a prompt on the AvengersKink (I really miss that) that said: SHIELD participates in an annual baseball tournament against the CIA, NSA, FBI, etc. The competition is heated, with major grudges between the different organizations and honor on the line. After the discovery of SHIELDRA, the other agencies obviously think SHIELD's out of the competition, but the loyal members of SHIELD show up . . . and so do members of SHIELDRA. Some of them have been on the baseball team for a decade or more! They're not going to give up now! SHIELD and SHIELDRA have to act as one team if they want to win, but they can't leave their grudges off the field.
What I have drafted is pure silliness, and the “Crack” in the title is a double entendre for sure. Every year in October I open it up and poke at it a bit, but it’s never gone very far and as we get father away from CA:tWS I feel like it’s less relatable so, it’s unlikely to see the light of day. But here’s a snippet that makes me giggle:
“Strike ONE!”
“What are you, blind!” he yells as he swings around to come face to face with an eye patch. “Uh…”
“You have something to say, son?”
He clears his throat. “With all due respect, sir, I don’t think that was a strike and you, uh… you only have one eye?” The last couple of words peter out into a squeak.
“Do you know who that is on the pitcher’s mound?” Fury gestures with his chin, but keeps his eye riveted on the batter.
He glances toward the mound where the pitcher is wearing a shit-eating grin. “He doesn’t look familiar, no.”
“Aw, man! Really?”
“Can it, Hawkeye!”
“Hawkeye? You mean, the guy with the bow?”
Barton waggles his eyebrows.
The batter sighs. “Yeah, okay, strike one.”
Falling Timestamps—Flinch: This is what it sounds like…a timestamp for my fic Falling Off the Face of the Earth, where Clint and Bucky are working on Clint’s farmhouse and Bucky accidently moves quickly and causes Clint to flinch, which resultes in double angst.
msraven remix: This is a fic inspired by msraven’s fic: Nothing I Wouldn’t Do, where Phil asks Clint (who secretly loves Phil) to have sex with him to practice because he’s going to go out with recently resurrected Steve. That fic is Phil POV, and I asked msraven for permission to remix it from Clint’s POV because the ANGST, omg! I never got very far with it though…
safeword: This is a winterhawk fic where Bucky is into BDSM but Clint isn’t but Clint goes along with it because he is into Bucky and what’s a little pain? He’s had worse, he can handle it. I could never make this work with Bucky’s background, and then once I started writing over in DC, I ended up writing this fic as Jay/Dick which I think worked much better (it’s here, if anyone is interested).
Sins (part 2) – Someone commented on my fic Sins of the Father that a second chapter with another conversation between Clint and Tony pre-Endgame battle—now that Tony is a father—would be interesting. I was immediately inspired and I actually have it largely drafted and if I just clean it up, maybe I’ll post it someday.
spinning wheels: This is a post Raft-breakout fic where Clint and Steve start a friends with benefits thing in Wakanda and then catch feelings.
unhealthy coping mechanisms: I think this is the first Avengers fic that ever came to me and I’ve poked at it for years but its long and complicated. Post-Avengers, Clint is self-punishing and because reasons, he finds that outlet via a BDSM relationship with Tony, Clint hates every minute of it, which is exactly what he wants. Tony, being Tony eventually figures out what Clint is doing. Lots of angst and feels and eventually Phil comes back and…hopeful ending.
WQ (part 2) (already answered, here)
Not sure which if any of these will see the light of day. *shrugs*. Thanks for the ask @jinxquickfoot 😘
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Have any commentary about the Winterhawk fic where Clint rescues Bucky and they're escaping hyrda through the forest (can't remember the name). The rock climbing scene was so intense!!!!
So, Once Lost (Now Found)...
This fic was prompted by the lovely @drgrlfriend for Whumptober with the prompt being winterhawk and blind. This is putting a lot out there for me, but I don’t know how to talk about this fic without talking about how it was personal for me in a way that no other fic has been. I learned about 18 months ago that I’m losing my vision. With luck it will be a long, slow loss but there’s no knowing at this point. When I saw the Whumptober prompt list and saw that one of the prompts was ‘blind’, I thought about saying that I wouldn’t write for that one. But then I thought, well, there are basically 124 different prompts (each day having essentially 4 options), so what are the odds that someone will choose that? Haha, jokes on me! 😅 I thought about telling drgrlfriend I couldn’t do it, but then I decided to put on my big girl pants and deal with it. It’s not like I can hide from reality so I might as well confront it, right? In the end, maybe it was a little cathartic. Jury’s still out on that, but I will say that while there were moments it was difficult to navigate, it wasn’t as traumatic as I feared it might be and in the end, I’m just fine. 😊
So, more specifically about the fic... I wanted to do something a little different with the Clint/bucky relationship than I’ve done before with my winterhawk. I guess I try to switch things up from fic to fic in terms of what Clint and Bucky’s relationship is at the start and the one thing I hadn’t really done yet was to have them actually antagonistic toward each other – so more of an enemies to lovers kind of thing. Initially, I tried to make it work that they were exes, and this fic was going to be them getting back together. But I just couldn’t quite make it work in plotting the fic out, and then this idea started to form, so I ran with it.
I felt pretty bad for poor Bucky, because I always knew what was in his head and why he was behaving the way he was, but the readers didn’t, and some were (temporarily) kind of mad at him. That was really the reason I felt like I needed to insert that Bucky POV chapter in there, because I couldn’t figure out a way to get across what was going through his mind without having him vomit a lot of wordy emotion, which just didn’t fit with the way I see these guys. Like I said in a previous ask, for me, less is more when it comes to discussing feelings and emotion.
I’m glad you liked the climbing scene (or I’m assuming that was an ‘I liked it’). It was kind of intense to write, so I’m glad the jeopardy and fraught-ness of it seemed to come though. Putting myself in his shoes, I kind of could feel the terror of being so vulnerable and having to rely 100% on someone else when you are used to being able to do things by yourself. Honestly, that was probably the hardest bit for me to put on paper.
Thanks for the ask, nony!
Director's Cut ask game.
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