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actuallyclintbarton:

Okay so I feel the need to make a little Hawkeye ramble.  Namely, why I love him so much, and the moment it clicked how much I truly identified with him.

Feel free to not read this, it’s really just for my own benefit.

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That scene and that whole issue are my favourites, too. I’ve liked most of the stuff I’ve read so far – Blindspot was particularly useful as prequel info for Fraction’s Hawkeye, and I’ve only once actively disliked him. (It was in Secret Avengers, from back when I think Remender was writing it, and he wrote Clint as being an incompetent, grade A+ dick to everyone.)

Will look for Hawkeye and Mockingbird. Anything else you think I should add to the reading list, hint hint?

Oh man, okay, um… Look for H&M, but don’t read it until you’ve gotten some previous Clint-and-Bobbi under your belt because honestly it will break your heart more if you get to see them together before that, and I am a big fan of breaking your heart over those two, ngl.

SO!  His very first arc in Tales of Suspense (I don’t have issues i’m so sorry), where he ends up working with Natasha?  READ IT, IT IS HILARIOUS.  

Early Avengers, the second team that was led by Cap and comprised of Cap, Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch, and Quicksilver.  (The Cap’s Delinquents team – poor Cap, having to wrangle snotty ex-criminals who are basically still teenagers and who have a surplus of sass and attitude.  And also Wanda.)

I don’t know if you’ve read the original Hawkeye solo, but that’s the one where he meets Bobbi and it is so worth it.

WEST COAST AVENGERS!  Just… West Coast Avengers.

Secret Invasion is also a must-read, ESPECIALLY if you’re at all invested emotionally in Clint and his feelings about Bobbi.  It— yeah.  I can’t really— it’s emotional.

THEN Hawkeye and Mockingbird, after Secret Invasion.  There’s another thing with the two of them between SI and H&M but I can’t remember what. -_- Some poking on google could probably provide an answer, and it’s definitely worth finding if only because I remember Clint makes a Grey’s Anatomy reference in it because he is a loser, but I don’t remember the actual title it was in. It’s been ages since I read it.

Some New Avengers stuff from post Civil War is also good, but again, it’s been ages since I read it and I can’t remember where to start you there.  (those are also good for cute Luke Cage/Jess Jones moments, if that is important to you.  They’re so precious.)

Also, Iunno if you’ve read Avengers Assemble?  But there’s an arc where Clint and Jess and Natasha go on a mission together and it’s vaguely awkward (this was before the Clint/Jess breakup) and totally adorable and totally awesome.

HOPEFULLY THIS HELPS AT ALL AND ISN’T JUST A MASH OF UNHELPFUL THINGS okay.

I have issues 1-9 of Avengers Assemble, but not the rest. I need to get it. The Hawkeye Solo thing I have is him basically playing at private detective to solve a guy’s death, and I have the run of five issues, but I haven’t read it fully yet, and I don’t know if that’s the solo thing you meant.

I have this Hawkeye torrent already on my to-download list, but it’s massive, so it’ll take me ages on our limited connection. I’ll look for West Coast Avengers and Secret Invasion and the other stuff, though.

Another time, Jack took a call. A voice on the other end said, ‘There are three of us down here in the lobby. We want to see the guy who does this disgusting comic book and show him what real Nazis would do to his Captain America’. To the horror of others in the office, Kirby rolled up his sleeves and headed downstairs. The callers, however, were gone by the time he arrived.

Mark Evanier, Kirby: King of Comics (via nerdhapley)

It’s Jack Kirby’s birthday, so here’s that story of him being bad ass all of the time.

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True fact: during WWII Kirby was assigned as a scout due to his art skills, meaning that he went in alone and unarmed, ahead of Allied attacks so that he could draw enemy fortifications.

Once he was ambushed by three Nazi soldiers, all of them with guns. He killed all three with a knife he stole from one of them.

Dude was verifiably grade-A stone-cold badass.

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And that’s why Jack Kirby was the King.

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The Tale of the Terrible Toffee Tin

I am a person of limited means. This does not mean I am immune from the occasional ridiculous purchase. One thing I love is novelty tins, the kind that fudge or biscuits come in. Most recently, I bought a brand of ground coffee not my own purely because it came in a gorgeous black tin with irises on it, and I knew I could refill it with my preferred organic beans at a later time, which I have done. Two Christmases ago, during the post-holiday season, I bought a tin of awful biscuits purely because the tin they came in looked like a stack of books.

I have a problem, I know, but I also a) am a crafting person and b) have mice in my kitchen, so tins get used in my house, rather than stuck on a shelf and forgotten.

Novelty tins and such come in early in Australia, because we don’t really celebrate Halloween at all, and Thanksgiving is not an Australian holiday. So, Christmas merch turns up in mid-September. My birthday was the 15th, and, sure enough, in town three days later, I spot the first cheap and nasty Santa crap outside a kitchenware store.

So it wasn’t a massive surprise that while shopping with my partner in our regular supermarket, I saw this, and immediately gasped. “It’s hideous. I need it.”

Because copperbadge regularly documents hideous merchandise, we took an immediate photograph for posterity. My partner was quick to point out how unnaturally close they’re all standing to each other to fit on the tin. Maybe they’re not wearing pants, it was eventually decided, since Steve’s O-face suggests he might be on the receiving end of some Hulk-lovin’. We discussed this conversationally standing next to the milk fridge, at normal vocal volume. Since entering our thirties, we’re officially in the no-fucks-to-give zone of caring who might overhear.

Because it’s only $5, it ends up in our trolley with our already-over-budget weekly shop.

“What will you put in it?” my partner asks, demanding answers, some kind of vague justification for buying it.

“Buttons or something,” I say. It won’t be buttons. I don’t know what it’ll be, but I’ll find a thing to go in it.

I’d noticed when I picked it up how light it was. Not light enough to be empty, but certainly light enough that I didn’t even bother trying to claim I just wanted the sweets. I was buying the terrible tin.

Later that evening, my partner opened it, and this is what was inside.

Eight tiny offbrand sweets, of the kind you tend to buy from a $2 shop by the kilo. (Yes, I know that’s six, we ate two.) Eight sweets, in the whole $5 tin.

So, I have yet to find something to put inside it, but I own my first fandom tin, and maybe it’s silly of me, but I think the fact that it’s driven me to out-loud laughter twice and made my partner make buttsex jokes in a rural supermarket, means it’s money well spent.