Tag: fanfic

Headwings

copperbadge:

So, the other night I shared the picture of Steve where he not only put his bandages over his uniform, he poked holes in them for his wings to stick out:

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[From Avengers #45, 2001, try to ignore that he’s also riding a hovering wheelchair.]

And someone remarked that maybe they were actually attached to his skull, which given this x-ray image of him talking on the phone, would not actually be that implausible: 

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[From Captain America #308, 1985.]

I remarked that they could be like Namor’s ankle wings. I don’t think Namor’s ankle wings actually give him enough lift to fly, but they’re more like, semiotic indicators that he CAN fly, or little steering wings, or something. 

Anyway the upshot was that if the wings on Steve’s Captain America uniform were actually wings that he had growing out of his skull, and he just kept them folded up under his ‘do most of the time, maybe it was because some of Namor’s blood instead of Wolverine’s was used in making the Serum. Which would mean Steve could theoretically fly. 

I like the idea that Steve could fly but didn’t tell anyone, because when he does his little headwings flap frantically and it just looks silly. 

I wrote fic for this; I couldn’t help it. 🙂

Chrysalid

scifigrl47:

pravdagirl:

neierathima:

clio-jlh:

wrangletangle:

clio-jlh:

wrangletangle:

secretlymartinfreeman:

i find it enormously funny how there’s an actual ao3 tag for Ceiling Vent Clint Barton

My question is, why are there only 37 works tagged with it? Come on, fandom!

I feel that this tag arose after I wrote this particular trope. However, I will retag immediately!

(A High Road Out From Here, in case you’re curious)

The tag was canonized in either August or September 2012, if my memory serves, so you are correct.

I’d really love it if someone could do an analysis of when and how this trope developed. It’s one of the more distinctive and pervasive character-specific tropes to have absolutely no basis in canon whatsoever. It might make a good example of how character traits are developed and codified within fandom.

I saw someone mention William Brandt but my mind keeps going to that story where Tony turned all the roombas sentient and they ended up in the ducts at SHIELD? Does anyone else remember this?

I know the fic you speak of that is quality. But what I recall is that was a thing before the Avengers movie, when it was actually canonized as “Barton likes high places.” Maybe it’s a sniper thing? 

The roomba thing is scifigrl47, but I don’t think she was the originator? Anyone know the source of this trope? Because I pretty much love it. I think it happens so much because you say spy/sniper and people think of surveillance from a hidden vantage point, and who expects murder to come their way from a ceiling vent?

I originated the Roombas, but not Clint hiding in the vents. I don’t know where I picked it up. Pre-Avengers, I was super excited to find out that my childhood favorite Hawkeye was going to be in the movie. One of my first acts upon discovering AO3 was to read the Clint fics. All of them. Clint/Nat, Clint/Phil, Clint/Darcy, Clint/ANYBODYANDEVERYBODY. I did not care, if it was Clint, I read it.

The sniper thing did factor into it, and there’s a solid background of ‘sneaky Hawkeye sneaking’ in the comics, but for a guy with a bow and arrows in a purple suit, he spends a lot of time attacking head on. If I had to guess, I’d say I picked it up from a sequence of Clint/Coulson stories that have since been taken down by the author. I seem to recall it factoring in there, but they’re gone now so there’s no way to double check.

I was literally only having this discussion the other day with actuallyclintbarton and actuallykatebishop, and I theorised that two stories in particular were pivotal to the development of the trope. My pick for the actual origin is the Adaptations series by snack_size, which was written for a kink meme prompt, but clio_jih’s story predates that, unless there was a significant delay between meme posting and AO3 posting.

wearealsoboats:

on loving a fighter

makepieswakethedead: #poetry #a confession of my own: i wrote this for #steve x bucky #but it also works for #arthur x eames #so #but i knew him #in your veins #i am emotional so i wrote poetry #i feel like i could have elaborated on this but i quite like it the way it is now idk idk #fiona attempts to write

motleypatches:

liminal-zone:

littletrenchcoatangel:

this gif becomes like 8000% more gay when you realise steve is surrounded by a world he can finally see in colour but he just keeps staring at bucky

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#and it was already pretty gay

This whole “color” issue needs to be mentioned at least 10000% more in fics. And if it’s not mentioned already…it really should be.

Steve Rogers has never seen his Bucky Barnes in color.

Steve Rogers has never and will never get to see his old neighborhood in color.

(Of course when I mean “color” I mean the difference of what he saw pre- and post-serum; there are different types of color-blindness after all, and if the serum sharpens all of Steve’s senses….it’s still dramatic)

One of my favourite fandom head canons of Steve’s vision is from Silverlace_Vine’s Perspective series, where the author describes post-Serum Steve as a tetrochromat. So he literally went from having poor, colourblind vision to being able to see colours and details that most non-enhanced humans just can’t.

agents-of-frickle-frackle:

let’s be real though for as big a dad as coulson is he’s an even bigger fanboy

News just in: Skye does some IP lookup sneaking and discovers that the biggest BNF fanfic writer in Captain America RPF fandom is on the Bus with her.

Bonus points: the slash is super hot, and now she’s slightly freaked out that her mind has unknowingly (very happily) gone to the sex place with Coulson’s Cap fantasies. She always thought she was up there writing reports or some shit, but now she knows The Truth.

I just saw your Avengers bad fic bingo game and omfg you’ve read fics with Clint living in the vents of Avengers tower?! I’ve never come across that but it sounds hilarious!

actuallyclintbarton:

iamshadow21:

actuallyclintbarton:

actualkatebishop:

actuallyclintbarton:

greaseonmymouth:

oh my god that trope it’s the single most RIDICULOUS trope and i’m not sure where it even originated? because it makes ZERO sense for his character. <.< why the hell would an archer be in the vents all the time? ?? (i’ve probably even written it myself once)

but yes. i’ve seen it more in phil/clint fics and tony/steve fics where phil/clint might be background, than in any other fics, but i don’t know man. i’ve also got no sense for how prevalent it is today, as we made the bingo card about 1½ year ago, and i’ve stopped reading tony/steve since then, and i haven’t read much clint/phil either, i guess maybe a handful? so i don’t know. i’m in no way up to date on the current tropes in the mcu fandom…

CLINT IN THE VENTS!  Started as a legitimate character quirk in a fic that I read very shortly after Avengers came out that I can no longer remember.  The logic, in the fic, is that that’s where he goes when he’s super stressed or upset or freaked out, because (taking from the backstory in comics) he had an abusive home life, and then a pretty-borderline-abusive/neglectful life in foster care/group homes, and he would hide as a kid in small spaces to feel safe, and he learned from a young age that people don’t often look UP when they’re searching for a kid, and so hiding in the air vents was the perfect mix of those two coping mechanisms, and he still fell back on them sometimes.  It wasn’t his NORMAL mode of behavior, and it actually indicated that he was REALLY NOT DOING WELL in some way, and it made sense.

But then OTHER fics started using “Clint in the vents” without giving it as much context, and then they started using it as a casual thing, and then it became this huge fandom trope entirely divorced from the original “kind of shitty bad-mental-place coping mechanism from his abusive childhood” context that was the only reason it had made sense AT ALL.

And that is where the “Clint in the vents” trope came from.

That’s so interesting! I mean I could understand it from a crack fic perspective but as a realistic action for his character it didn’t make sense until you explained it, Mat. If you ever find it again, please send me the link! I’d be really interested in reading it.

Yeah, it’s pretty cool!  And I doubt I will ever come across it again, but if I do I will be sure to link you! ^_^

I am about 95% certain that what you’re thinking of is snack_size’s Adaptations series, which according to the notes was written for a kink meme prompt. Also noteworthy, though written some months later, is BobbiMorsed’s do the math, expect the trouble series, which has Clint doing the same thing when just recruited for SHIELD. Both are well worth your time, and both have Clint doing it because he’s fucked-up in some way, grief, hyper-vigilance, history of abuse, etc.

Shadow is amazing with the fic linkage, and Adaptations is indeed the fic I was thinking of! No idea if it’s as good as I remember it, but the context at least makes SENSE, which is all I ask for a ductwork fic at this point.

I hope that it’s as good as you remember! I knew it pretty much immediately, because though it’s been a while since I read it (and though it does have echoes of former Phil/Clint) it’s essentially a Clint/Bruce story, and there is so very little Bruce, let alone with Clint. The other, I haven’t read in AGES, but from memory it’s got a solid big cast and Clint is deftly drawn.

I’m gonna fess up now and confess that I have written Clint-in-the-vents into a story, but he wasn’t living there, he was hiding there so he could snipe new recruits with Nerf darts because he was bored.

I just saw your Avengers bad fic bingo game and omfg you’ve read fics with Clint living in the vents of Avengers tower?! I’ve never come across that but it sounds hilarious!

actuallyclintbarton:

actualkatebishop:

actuallyclintbarton:

greaseonmymouth:

oh my god that trope it’s the single most RIDICULOUS trope and i’m not sure where it even originated? because it makes ZERO sense for his character. <.< why the hell would an archer be in the vents all the time? ?? (i’ve probably even written it myself once)

but yes. i’ve seen it more in phil/clint fics and tony/steve fics where phil/clint might be background, than in any other fics, but i don’t know man. i’ve also got no sense for how prevalent it is today, as we made the bingo card about 1½ year ago, and i’ve stopped reading tony/steve since then, and i haven’t read much clint/phil either, i guess maybe a handful? so i don’t know. i’m in no way up to date on the current tropes in the mcu fandom…

CLINT IN THE VENTS!  Started as a legitimate character quirk in a fic that I read very shortly after Avengers came out that I can no longer remember.  The logic, in the fic, is that that’s where he goes when he’s super stressed or upset or freaked out, because (taking from the backstory in comics) he had an abusive home life, and then a pretty-borderline-abusive/neglectful life in foster care/group homes, and he would hide as a kid in small spaces to feel safe, and he learned from a young age that people don’t often look UP when they’re searching for a kid, and so hiding in the air vents was the perfect mix of those two coping mechanisms, and he still fell back on them sometimes.  It wasn’t his NORMAL mode of behavior, and it actually indicated that he was REALLY NOT DOING WELL in some way, and it made sense.

But then OTHER fics started using “Clint in the vents” without giving it as much context, and then they started using it as a casual thing, and then it became this huge fandom trope entirely divorced from the original “kind of shitty bad-mental-place coping mechanism from his abusive childhood” context that was the only reason it had made sense AT ALL.

And that is where the “Clint in the vents” trope came from.

That’s so interesting! I mean I could understand it from a crack fic perspective but as a realistic action for his character it didn’t make sense until you explained it, Mat. If you ever find it again, please send me the link! I’d be really interested in reading it.

Yeah, it’s pretty cool!  And I doubt I will ever come across it again, but if I do I will be sure to link you! ^_^

I am about 95% certain that what you’re thinking of is snack_size’s Adaptations series, which according to the notes was written for a kink meme prompt. Also noteworthy, though written some months later, is BobbiMorsed’s do the math, expect the trouble series, which has Clint doing the same thing when just recruited for SHIELD. Both are well worth your time, and both have Clint doing it because he’s fucked-up in some way, grief, hyper-vigilance, history of abuse, etc.

petite-madame:

Le futur nous attend

3300 ~ mots, Gen, (petits sous-entendus légers comme une brise de printemps, Étienne/Clem)
Résumé : La dernière soirée de Jacques Clem Lagrange, à la veille de son départ pour Londres et de son engagement dans les Forces Françaises Libres.
Note de l’auteur : Et si Steve Rogers, le fameux ‘Captain America’ était français, habitait Paris et se nommait Étienne Roger? Tout est parti de ce post complètement ridicule _mais au fond pas tant que ça _qui donna naissance à Étienne Roger, Jacques Clemenceau Lagrange et au « Capitaine France ». Une fic un peu triste et nostalgique en dépit d’un postulat de départ qui lui, ne l’était pas du tout.
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Paris – Novembre 1940

Étienne attendait emmitouflé dans une grosse écharpe à la sortie du métro Iéna, trépignant dans le froid. Clem allait arriver d’un instant à l’autre et l’embarquer une fois encore à l’autre bout de la capitale dans une folle soirée dont lui seul avait le secret. L’idée aurait pu sembler relativement séduisante à n’importe quel autre moment mais pas aujourd’hui, Étienne ayant espéré quelque chose de plus intimiste pour ce qui allait être sans nul doute sa dernière soirée avec son meilleur ami.

Dernière soirée.

Étienne n’aimait pas le son de cette expression. Il y avait quelque chose de définitif dans ces mots, trop définitif. « Dernière soirée à Paris » ou « Dernière soirée – tout court », cela dépendait si on décidait de voir le verre à moitié vide ou à moitié plein. Même avec tout l’optimisme du monde, cependant, Étienne savait ce qu’il advenait de ceux qui passaient de l’autre côté, ceux qui partaient se battre avec les Forces Françaises Libres. Il avait entendu parler de tous ces hommes tombés au combat, restés fidèles au Général, tous ces gamins qui ne reviendraient jamais, alors cette dernière soirée il aurait aimé un peu égoïstement la passer seul avec Clem, dans leur chambre de bonne miteuse à gribouiller tranquillement pendant que son ami d’enfance referait le monde, un verre de pinot bon marché à la main. Mais non, Clem en avait décidé autrement et lui avait donné rendez-vous à sept heures moins le quart précise avec l’assurance d’une « sortie fabuleuse en très charmante compagnie ».

Où donc allait-il trimballer Étienne cette fois-ci ? (cliquez ici pour la suite)