ha! i love the idea of “not beyond repair” as jason’s motto. that’s amazing. i talked about that fic right here.
love could start a war is the sequel to shatter together. it’s still in pretty early stages, but here’s how the story starts.
warnings for violence and preemptive apologies for the cliffhanger.
It’s not a regular thing, him and Jason. It’s not a thing at all, and Clint keeps reminding
himself not to think about it like that. It’s just that, every now and then,
when he picks up a job in Gotham, he’ll check in with Jason, just to see him.
And Jason never tells him to cut it out, so Clint keeps coming back. Because he
never learns. Because, no matter how many times he’s taught, he still hears You can stay as Yes, please stay.
In the beginning, he haunts rooftops, wanders the skyline at
night, puts himself where Red Hood is likely to find him.
“Hey,” Jason says, the first time Clint sees him after the
night they met. He pulls his mask off, and his hair falls across his forehead,
black and curling, sweat-drenched at the roots. The grin he gives him could
break hearts at fifty paces, and here’s Clint, like an idiot, standing at point
blank range.
…is this supposed to be considered weird? I don’t get it.
I think it’s more that it was an unexpected feature. I’m glad it’s there.
Yeah I actually found it while prepping for brain surgery, and was incredibly relieved that it was a built-in feature and not something I’d have to leave convoluted instructions about or whatever. It’s a bit morbid, sure, but it’s a great feature.
…an unexpected but very appreciated feature.
This is a feature designed by women who’d been in fandom for decades, and who had faced the issue of, “X is dead, and we know she loved fandom, so… can we reprint her stories? Who can decide? Her family knows fuck-all about fandom. Who was her best friend? Do they know if she would’ve liked her story to be reprinted in the Best Of OTP Fic zine?”
Running across that once doesn’t make you think about a policy, but by the time it’s five to ten times, and then you’ve seen people vanish from the internet (might be dead; might just be not interested anymore) and nobody knows whether it’s okay to collect their fic in an archive or transfer it to a new one….
Yeah, the FNoK policy is one of the awesome things about AO3.
Hi, there! Just dropping in to tell you to be proud of your successes!
I have this little demon that I can’t get off my back, and he’s always telling me that what I’ve achieved is not enough and we need MORE. And I thought to myself, I bet some of you have little demons, too.
So you tell that tiny bastard to shut right up.
Did you write today? GREAT! Did you do some plotting or character work this week? FANTASTIC! Did you submit something to a magazine or an agent or a publisher? AMAZING! THAT’S AMAZING!
Did you even just think about writing? Just for a second? WAY TO GO!
While it might not feel like it, I think it’s these baby bricks that eventually build something bigger. It’s putting that positive energy out into the world that sets the dominoes to falling.
A brick at a time. A step forward. You deserve to be proud of every single one!
KiernaSerea 