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enchantedsleeper) wrote2023-04-30 01:41 pm
enchantedsleeper) wrote2023-04-30 01:41 pm
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Three Weeks for Dreamwidth / A fic that could have been
I just realised it's Three Weeks for Dreamwidth at the moment (which began on 25th April), which has been a good incentive for me to get my finger out and post to my blog again! Thanks to ysabetwordsmith for giving me the heads up about the event in the first place as the Snowflake Challenge was coming to an end, and also to bluedreaming , whose post about TWfD on Mastodon tipped me off to the fact that it was happening right now, because it had totally fallen off my radar. I'm so glad I saw it in time!
I gathered that you can do pretty much whatever you like for TWfD and there aren't any set prompts or activities for taking part, though people have made lists of ideas/thought starters and various comms have things going on. I might find one of those to join, but otherwise I'm inclined to set the bar pretty low for myself given that I only occasionally get around to posting at all, and just aim to make a few posts to my DW during the event, maybe work on some of those ideas I've been sitting on.
For my first post, I decided to just keep it general and short and write about taking part, but I also thought it would be fun to share something that I came across in an old notebook recently. I have this massive spiral-bound notebook that I bought on holiday sometime in... 2007? which is obviously intended for students to do their work in, but I've been using it for writing. It used to be my notebook for daily writing exercises during 2008 and then again for a while in 2013, but I've never been very good at keeping up that sort of thing. (*gestures at DW blog*) Anyway, over the years I've used it from everything for planning out original stories to writing poetry to writing fic, and it's kind of an interesting time capsule. I flipped through it the other day and was surprised at how far back it went (like 'Oh, I was using it when I came up with THIS idea, huh').
Anyway, I found a plotted-out Five Things fic idea for The Avengers fandom that I never wrote, and I thought it would be fun to share it here. I want to date it to sometime between 2013 and mid-2014, most likely 2014, because that was when I was most into Avengers (and there's a fic written after it that I know I wrote in July 2014, because I did publish that one). It's very quintessentially 2012-14 Avengers fandom, featuring domestic!Avengers, Clint being weird on furniture (that's the fic premise, in fact), Avengers movie night, and Clint sleeping/living in the vents of Avengers Tower. But without any more preamble, here it is:
5 Times Clint Barton Refused to Furniture Properly (And One Time He Had No Choice)
1 - Breakfast with the Avengers in Tony's huge kitchen-diner, Clint perches on a counter rather than sit around the table with the others. Tony gets pissed off and in response Clint throws a fork at him with one foot
2 - Movie night with the team, Clint perches on the back of the sofa with his feet on the cushions (Natasha promptly sits on them in retaliation)
3 - JARVIS reports to Tony that Clint is sleeping in the vents rather than his bed, causing Tony to rant in exasperation about how Clint refuses to "furniture"
4 - Some kind of scene in a café where Clint is sitting on the back of a chair with his feet on the seat and in response to being told to sit properly he just tilts it up on one leg
5 - Clint sits on Coulson's desk while he's doing paperwork
+1 - Clint is perching on a chair during a team briefing and Coulson tells him to sit on the chair or he would tie him to it himself. Clint accepts the challenge and a scuffle ensues in which Nat and Steve team up to overpower Clint and Coulson ties him to the chair
OR Clint is injured and has no choice but to lie on the sofa back at Avengers Tower whilst drugged up on painkillers
😏 Fun times! As you might have guessed, the pairing (insofar as I intended to make it shippy, which I definitely did at least a bit) was Clint/Coulson, which was my big ship in Avengers fandom.
This was very nostalgic reading for me, even though I have no memory of coming up with it, because again, you can very clearly see the hallmarks of many popular fic tropes at the time in the idea. Though I was heavily into Avengers around 2013-4 (and beyond, though it's hard to say exactly where "Avengers fandom" ended and "MCU fandom" began), I barely published anything for it, which is a bit of a shame considering how many ideas I had. It would have been nice to put some of them out there, but I was interacting in various other ways instead. It's nice to come across something like this that shows what I was doing/thinking of in the fandom at the time.
ysabetwordsmith for giving me the heads up about the event in the first place as the Snowflake Challenge was coming to an end, and also to bluedreaming , whose post about TWfD on Mastodon tipped me off to the fact that it was happening right now, because it had totally fallen off my radar. I'm so glad I saw it in time!I gathered that you can do pretty much whatever you like for TWfD and there aren't any set prompts or activities for taking part, though people have made lists of ideas/thought starters and various comms have things going on. I might find one of those to join, but otherwise I'm inclined to set the bar pretty low for myself given that I only occasionally get around to posting at all, and just aim to make a few posts to my DW during the event, maybe work on some of those ideas I've been sitting on.
For my first post, I decided to just keep it general and short and write about taking part, but I also thought it would be fun to share something that I came across in an old notebook recently. I have this massive spiral-bound notebook that I bought on holiday sometime in... 2007? which is obviously intended for students to do their work in, but I've been using it for writing. It used to be my notebook for daily writing exercises during 2008 and then again for a while in 2013, but I've never been very good at keeping up that sort of thing. (*gestures at DW blog*) Anyway, over the years I've used it from everything for planning out original stories to writing poetry to writing fic, and it's kind of an interesting time capsule. I flipped through it the other day and was surprised at how far back it went (like 'Oh, I was using it when I came up with THIS idea, huh').
Anyway, I found a plotted-out Five Things fic idea for The Avengers fandom that I never wrote, and I thought it would be fun to share it here. I want to date it to sometime between 2013 and mid-2014, most likely 2014, because that was when I was most into Avengers (and there's a fic written after it that I know I wrote in July 2014, because I did publish that one). It's very quintessentially 2012-14 Avengers fandom, featuring domestic!Avengers, Clint being weird on furniture (that's the fic premise, in fact), Avengers movie night, and Clint sleeping/living in the vents of Avengers Tower. But without any more preamble, here it is:
5 Times Clint Barton Refused to Furniture Properly (And One Time He Had No Choice)
1 - Breakfast with the Avengers in Tony's huge kitchen-diner, Clint perches on a counter rather than sit around the table with the others. Tony gets pissed off and in response Clint throws a fork at him with one foot
2 - Movie night with the team, Clint perches on the back of the sofa with his feet on the cushions (Natasha promptly sits on them in retaliation)
3 - JARVIS reports to Tony that Clint is sleeping in the vents rather than his bed, causing Tony to rant in exasperation about how Clint refuses to "furniture"
4 - Some kind of scene in a café where Clint is sitting on the back of a chair with his feet on the seat and in response to being told to sit properly he just tilts it up on one leg
5 - Clint sits on Coulson's desk while he's doing paperwork
+1 - Clint is perching on a chair during a team briefing and Coulson tells him to sit on the chair or he would tie him to it himself. Clint accepts the challenge and a scuffle ensues in which Nat and Steve team up to overpower Clint and Coulson ties him to the chair
OR Clint is injured and has no choice but to lie on the sofa back at Avengers Tower whilst drugged up on painkillers
😏 Fun times! As you might have guessed, the pairing (insofar as I intended to make it shippy, which I definitely did at least a bit) was Clint/Coulson, which was my big ship in Avengers fandom.
This was very nostalgic reading for me, even though I have no memory of coming up with it, because again, you can very clearly see the hallmarks of many popular fic tropes at the time in the idea. Though I was heavily into Avengers around 2013-4 (and beyond, though it's hard to say exactly where "Avengers fandom" ended and "MCU fandom" began), I barely published anything for it, which is a bit of a shame considering how many ideas I had. It would have been nice to put some of them out there, but I was interacting in various other ways instead. It's nice to come across something like this that shows what I was doing/thinking of in the fandom at the time.
Thoughts
That is correct. The easiest bits are "make a post every day" and "use a Three Weeks for Dreamwidth icon on your posts during the event."
>> and there aren't any set prompts or activities for taking part, though people have made lists of ideas/thought starters and various comms have things going on.<<
There are lots of questionnaires and prompts. My gather post about Three Weeks for Dreamwidth lists some, and I'm running one over on
>> I might find one of those to join, but otherwise I'm inclined to set the bar pretty low for myself given that I only occasionally get around to posting at all, and just aim to make a few posts to my DW during the event, maybe work on some of those ideas I've been sitting on.<<
1) An alternate participation mode for low-traffic folks is to make one anchor post for each of the three weeks.
2) To maintain blog activity without overloading yourself, consider recurring posts.
>>I have this massive spiral-bound notebook that I bought on holiday sometime in... 2007? which is obviously intended for students to do their work in, but I've been using it for writing.<<
I use stenographer notebooks for hardcopy writing, and a desktop calendar for tracking dates. You might like
>>I want to date it to sometime between 2013 and mid-2014,<<
Write the date at the top of the page before anything else. Steno pads often have a block for name / date / project title.
>>5 Times Clint Barton Refused to Furniture Properly (And One Time He Had No Choice)<<
So adorable! I prefer the couch ending.
Re: Thoughts
And yeah, there's lots of prompts, I just meant that there isn't a single central set like say, The Snowflake Challenge has.
Write the date at the top of the page before anything else. Steno pads often have a block for name / date / project title.
I've started dating stuff now, but my past self wasn't as concerned about preserving that information xD Thank you for the comm rec, I'll check it out! I like buying planners but I'm bad at actually using them.
So adorable! I prefer the couch ending.
Thank you! Yeah, the couch ending is a bit less.... weird xD
Re: Thoughts
Re: Thoughts
It is not a requirement. It's just a popular option, because you can post about anything.
>>And yeah, there's lots of prompts, I just meant that there isn't a single central set like say, The Snowflake Challenge has.<<
Not currently. There used to be one. It's why I made a blogging questionnaire for last year.
>>I like buying planners but I'm bad at actually using them.<<
That comm often has pictures of people's bullet journal pages or collages. They're pretty to look at even if you don't do anything with your own journal. Most of my journaling is year-end and year-beginning stuff, but I still like looking at the pretty pictures.