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[clintcoulson]

Alrighty,

So, we will be CCAW 3 May 1st-May 7th, 2023

May 1 - Trope Day May 2 - Supernatural/Magic Day May 3 - Found Family Day May 4 - Fluff Day May 5 - First Meeting/Recruitment Day May 6 - Sex/Romance Day May 7 - AU Day

Remember, this is open to anything. You can make a rec list, write, draw, create something. Really all that matters is that it is ClintCoulson related!

For people who are bummed their day did not get voted in, I have decided to do a prompt list. You can throw a day that didn't get voted into the prompt on the day that it fits best. For example AU in another Canon could fit within the AU Day. There is no guarantee that a creator will take your prompts, but its happened enough that we get stuck and don't have any ideas, so this could inspire someone.

That Document is here

For our creators that are in need of some inspiration or you just want to see what prompts have been submitted. Your doc is here.

[twangcat]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 5/5 Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Clint Barton/Phil Coulson, Minor or Background Relationship(s), Bruce Banner/Tony Stark, relationship if you squint - Relationship, Pepper Potts/Natasha Romanov Characters: Phil Coulson, Clint Barton, Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Pepper Potts, Steve Rogers Additional Tags: 084 as plot device, Soul Bond, Found Family, The lost time between Christmas and new year’s, Jarvis has agency and he uses it, dancing is a love language, So is watching movies, Tony has big feelings and doesn’t always know what to do with them, Phil and Clint are not so great at using their words, Steve has the best of intentions..., Chaperones ruin all the fun, countdown to the new year, New Year's Kiss, probably the fluffiest thing i've written to date Summary:

When an 084 forces open a soul bond between Phil and Clint and another one between Bruce and Natasha, everyone needs to deal with the consequences and decide how they feel about it. The Avengers just have the magical time between Christmas and New Year’s Eve to celebrate all the festivities together, deal with their feelings, and figure out if true love really is right in front of them, if only they open their eyes.

Phlint Winter Phestival prompt: Accidentally soul bound on Christmas Eve, the boys have until New Years Eve to figure a way to undo it before it's permanent (or, ya know, to admit they love each other). Author's note: I took a few liberties with this prompt because I didn’t want them to spend the whole time running around trying to break the bond, so instead, the bond will fade on its own UNLESS they actively complete their bond together before New Year's Eve.

[phlintwinterphestival]

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There are so many wonderful prompts! Take a look at all of them here, and sign up to be a fanwork creator here!

If you want to sign up but you aren't sure how big of a commitment you'd be making, remember that Phestival fanworks are minimum of 500 words or one complete artwork. More is always appreciated, but wintry oneshots are just as loved as Hallmark-movie-length epics, so come join the fun!

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[twangcat]

I'm going to do this! Who else is interested? Let's make this a happy Phlint holiday season!

[avengerscompound]

Clint Barton Vs Peter Parker - the In-N-Out vs Five Guys debate

Avengers: Millennium

[twangcat]

Please, Let Me Love You

(109786 words)

Clint Barton/Phil Coulson

Tags: Mutual Pining, Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Courting Rituals, Friends to Lovers, Exes to Lovers, Under-negotiated Kink, Orgasm Denial, Orgasm Delay/Denial, Ruined Orgasms, A starts to court hard-to-woo!B, not hiding the fact that you're pining for someone who has rejected you multiple times, Dub/Noncon - Character A allows B to do whatever they want to them because A is pining for B, A has lots of casual sex to try to get over pining for B, Slow Dancing while Pining, Angst, So much angst, But a fully happy ending is promised, BDSM, exploring pain kink, and exploring other kinks, and each other, look they just have a lot of learning to do so they can become the people they both deserve, but I promise it has a happy ending, Cock Cages, Teasing, Knotting

Summary: It’s true, the first time Phil Coulson met Clint Barton, he wasn’t especially impressed. What good was a bow and arrow in the era of AI and satellite precision targeting weapons? A month after Nick recruited him, Phil hadn’t changed his mind. He thought the young archer was brash, rude, and wasn’t going to be a good fit at SHIELD. A year later, Phil wondered if the rate Clint was breaking hearts around SHIELD and disrupting teams made him guilty of sabotage and still hadn’t changed his mind.

He lived in a happy comfortable bubble where Special Agent Clint Barton was an unmitigated disaster and not worthy of his attention for 12 months, 2 weeks, and 3 days.

Falling in love is complicated. Falling out of love with the one person in the world you're head-over-heals in love with and would do anything for is even more complicated. What happens when Omega Dom Phil and Service Alpha Clint fall in love before they learn how to use their words? With enough time (and help from some friends with the best of intentions) can they mend their hearts and figure out how to be friends again or even more?

(Yes. Of course the answer is yes! But I hope you enjoy finding out how they get there 💜)

Technically this was posted a while ago but I wanted to add a bigger happy ending epilogue to balance the angst.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[marvelsaos]

Director Coulson cooking for the bus kids.

[twangcat]

These are lines that should be used in more fic.

Because I'm sure I'm not the only one imagining Phil having these scenes with Clint.

[jhholtzmann-deactivated20190111]

so i just googled the phrase “toeing out of his shoes” to make sure it was an actual thing

and the results were:

it’s all fanfiction

which reminds me that i’ve only ever seen the phrase “carding fingers through his hair” and people describing things like “he’s tall, all lean muscle and long fingers,” like that formula of “they’re ____, all ___ and ____” or whatever in fic

idk i just find it interesting that there are certain phrases that just sort of evolve in fandom and become prevalent in fic bc everyone reads each other’s works and then writes their own and certain phrases stick

i wish i knew more about linguistics so i could actually talk about it in an intelligent manner, but yeah i thought that was kinda cool

[hannahrhen-deactivated20181219]

Ha! Love it!

One of my fave authors from ages ago used the phrase “a little helplessly” (like “he reached his arms out, a little helplessly”) in EVERY fic she wrote. She never pointed it out—there just came a point where I noticed it like an Easter egg. So I literally *just* wrote it into my in-progress fic this weekend as an homage only I would notice. <3

To me it’s still the quintessential “two dudes doing each other” phrase.

[simplydalektable]

I think different fic communities develop different phrases too! You can (usually) date a mid 00s lj fic (or someone who came of age in that style) by the way questions are posed and answered in the narration, e.g. “And Patrick? Is not okay with this.” and by the way sex scenes are peppered with “and, yeah.” I remember one Frerard fic that did this so much that it became grating, but overall I loved the lj style because it sounded so much like how real people talk. Another classic phrase: wondering how far down the _ goes. I’ve seen it mostly with freckles, but also with scars, tattoos, and on one memorable occasion, body glitter at a club. Often paired with the realization during sexy times that “yeah, the __ went all they way down.” I’ve seen this SO much in fic and never anywhere else

[jhholtzmann-deactivated20190111]

whoa, i remember reading lj fics with all of those phrases! i also remember a similar thing in teen wolf fics in particular - they often say “and derek was covered in dirt, which. fantastic.” like using “which” as a sentence-ender or at least like sprinkling it throughout the story in ways published books just don’t.

LINGUISTICS!!!! COMMUNITIES CREATING PHRASES AND SLANG AND SHAPING LANGUAGE IN NEW WAYS!!!!!!!

[reliand]

I love this. Though I don’t think of myself as fantastic writer, by any means, I know the way I write was shaped more by fanfiction and than actual novels. 

I think so much of it has to do with how fanfiction is written in a way that feels real. conversations carry in a way that doesn’t feel forced and is like actual interactions. Thoughts stop in the middle of sentences.

The coherency isn’t lost, it just marries itself to the reader in a different way. A way that shapes that reader/writer and I find that so beautiful. 

[kinneas]

FASCINATING

and it poses an intellectual question of whether the value we assign to fanfic conversational prose would translate at all to someone who reads predominantly contemporary literature. as writers who grew up on the internet find their way into publishing houses, what does this mean for the future of contemporary literature? how much bleed over will there be?

we’ve already seen this phenomenon begin with hot garbage like 50 shades, and the mainstream public took to its shitty overuse of conversational prose like it was a refreshing drink of water. what will this mean for more wide-reaching fiction?

QUESTIONS!

[a-deadletter]

@wasureneba @allthingslinguistic

[allthingslinguistic]

I’m sure someone could start researching this even now, with writers like Rainbow Rowell and Naomi Novik who have roots in fandom. (If anyone does this project please tell me!) It would be interesting to compare, say, a corpus of a writer’s fanfic with their published fiction (and maybe with a body of their nonfiction, such as their tweets or emails), using the types of author-identification techniques that were used to determine that J.K. Rowling was Robert Galbraith.

One thing that we do know is that written English has gotten less formal over the past few centuries, and in particular that the word “the” has gotten much less frequent over time.

In an earlier discussion, Is French fanfic more like written or spoken French?, people mentioned that French fanfic is a bit more literary than one might expect (it generally uses the written-only tense called the passé simple, rather than the spoken-only tense called the passé composé). So it’s not clear to what extent the same would hold for English fic as well – is it just a couple phrases, like “toeing out of his shoes”? Are the google results influenced by the fact that most published books aren’t available in full text online? Or is there broader stuff going on? Sounds like a good thesis project for someone! 

See also: the gay fanfiction pronoun problem, ship names, and the rest of my fanguistics tag.

[xo-queenievee-xo]

This is super cool ngl

[thesaltofcarthage]

“Fanguistics” my English major heart just exploded

[catchymemes]

[that-catholic-shinobi]

This is the funniest thing i’ve heard my entire life 😭

[xxleondraxx]

Truth xD

[burntcopper]

This is literally me as a kid.  Dad used to have the responsibility of giving out the well reports that came in on the friday night to anyone who phoned for the rest of the weekend.  The problem was, on saturday mornings, he was doing the food shopping, so I was given a list of approved callers and he’d leave the well report figures by the phone.

Theoretically I was just supposed to list off the numbers.  Except. Very early I started parsing the figures and give my own analysis.  Apparently engineers and geophysicists got a bit freaked out by a ten year old going ‘It’s not that good, the flow’s really slow compared to last week, and there’s gas pockets really screwing up the flow in the east pipe judging by the pressure report.’

Dad still got that yelled at him at conferences: ‘This is the fucker who used child labour to do well analysis!’

‘Was it wrong?’

‘That’s the not the point!’

[greater-than-the-sword]

We found him- the 20 year old with 10 years experience

[agntq]

Happy Birthday Agent Director Coulson!!!

[writingmaz]

Writing Tips

Punctuating Dialogue

✧

➸ “This is a sentence.”

➸ “This is a sentence with a dialogue tag at the end,” she said.

➸ “This,” he said, “is a sentence split by a dialogue tag.”

➸ “This is a sentence,” she said. “This is a new sentence. New sentences are capitalized.”

➸ “This is a sentence followed by an action.” He stood. “They are separate sentences because he did not speak by standing.”

➸ She said, “Use a comma to introduce dialogue. The quote is capitalized when the dialogue tag is at the beginning.”

➸ “Use a comma when a dialogue tag follows a quote,” he said.

“Unless there is a question mark?” she asked.

“Or an exclamation point!” he answered. “The dialogue tag still remains uncapitalized because it’s not truly the end of the sentence.”

➸ “Periods and commas should be inside closing quotations.”

➸ “Hey!” she shouted, “Sometimes exclamation points are inside quotations.”

However, if it’s not dialogue exclamation points can also be “outside”!

➸ “Does this apply to question marks too?” he asked.

If it’s not dialogue, can question marks be “outside”? (Yes, they can.)

➸ “This applies to dashes too. Inside quotations dashes typically express—“

“Interruption” — but there are situations dashes may be outside.

➸ “You’ll notice that exclamation marks, question marks, and dashes do not have a comma after them. Ellipses don’t have a comma after them either…” she said.

➸ “My teacher said, ‘Use single quotation marks when quoting within dialogue.’”

➸ “Use paragraph breaks to indicate a new speaker,” he said.

“The readers will know it’s someone else speaking.”

➸ “If it’s the same speaker but different paragraph, keep the closing quotation off.

“This shows it’s the same character continuing to speak.”

[neil-gaiman]

I knew about half of this when I started writing. It’s amazing the stuff they don’t teach you in school that you have to work out on your own. And look, all beautifully laid out for you.

[twangcat]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 7/7 Fandom: The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Clint Barton/Phil Coulson Characters: Clint Barton, Phil Coulson Additional Tags: Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, With A Twist, Caretaking, Clint is sick and hates Medical, So of course Phil HAS to take care of him, Self-Esteem Issues, Both of them, Hurt/Comfort, Soft Dom Phil Coulson, and they lived happily ever after Summary:

Will they learn to use their words and ask for what they want? More importantly, will they believe they deserve the love the want? Only time will tell. (Or you could read the tags. The answer is spoiled in the tags ;) But they will take some time to get there and there will be much caretaking along the way along as we explore ABO dynamics with some slightly complicated but fun twists.)

[chaosisorderly]

Okay, so I non-writing creative things are a bit more engaging for me right now, and I have been mucking around with some video editing. Please have the results! It is my attempt at a CC Regency AU trailer (for the fic I am also trying to write, but that’s going a lot slower). Apologies for the clumsy editing, but I’m actually rather proud of the attempt <3

[beardedmrbean]

[imagine-sterek]

I saw a tik tok where a girl is laughing about a twitter thread where a boyfriend bought his girlfriend a new imac for her graduation and her dad went and bought her a Benz. So like imagine stiles graduating and Derek buying him something expensive for a gift and the sheriff one ups him by giving stiles a new Jeep. Like no one is going to make his kid happier than him. And like it keeps going to every holiday and major event. Derek buys stiles a nice gift but the sheriff buys him something better and it doesn’t even have to be more expensive. It’s like cute competition they have where the love to shower stiles with gift cause he’s their most important person.

Derek gets the flannel shirt Stiles has had his eye on, Sheriff Stilinski gets him a batman figurine. Derek gets Stiles a puppy, Sheriff Stilinski gets him a toy lightsaber.

It's never a fight, just a fun little light-hearted competition.

[rabdoidal]

please watch this video of real ass complaints alex hirsch got for his work on gravity falls, it is comically bad

[ursulaklegay]

actually i love growing older and learning how i work as a person like realizing what kinds of fabrics feel best on my skin or what brand of yogurt i like best or how I want to be touched. watching myself change, enjoying brussel sprouts when I used to hate them as a child, understanding why I got angry in that one conversation 10 years ago… there are so many mysteries inside me that i have yet to unravel and there will always be more and sometimes i think maybe its all worth it

[kdfskdbkjfbkdjfb-deactivated202]

[acaseofthewiggins]