Snowflake Challenge Day 5
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turpsIn your own space, promote a canon/talk about a part of the canon that you love. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
The thing about doing Snowflake from the start, is I've done this challenge a few times now so I wasn't sure if I had anything new to talk about. Then I realised I'd never really posted about my love of Hawkeye/Clint Barton.
Hawkeye has always been my favourite character in the MCU movies. I can't even say why exactly as when I first started to watch I didn't have any background knowledge from the comics, so I fell for him literally in the limited time he was shown on screen.
Moving on a few years and I read Hawkeye centric fic every now and then, and from there discovered the winterhawk pairing, a pairing that made sense and really worked for me, and that was the start of a tentative step into the fandom. I'm still not active there beyond reading a lot and posting a few stories here and there, but the more I read the more I wanted to know about Clint.
I was so confused back when I started reading more extensively, there seemed to be two very different characteristics of Hawkeye/Clint, one I recognised from the films, and another where he'd grown much taller, had messy bright blond hair, was deaf, somehow had a one-eyed dog and was pretty much a human disaster living on pizza, coffee and often landing in dumpsters while being addicted to Dog Cops. I didn't recognise that guy at all, and sent a few emails to friends already in the fandom pretty much saying, wtf?!
And that's how I learned about the Fraction verse of Hawkeye and very quickly realised that while I still enjoyed MCU's Hawkeye as played by Jeremy Renner, I much preferred Fraction verse Clint. I love that he's shown as so very human, and so often broken. Despite being amazing at his job, he also has to cope with depression, feelings of self-doubt and negativity about his own self worth and lack of super abilities. But, he was also funny, always ready with a quip, loyal and ready to thrown himself into trouble at a moments notice. I really liked those contrasts, an Avenger but also someone who is very human with very real faults and just trying to make his way through the world one day at a time.
I'm lucky enough to have my own hard copies of the series assperrywink sent them to me last year and they've been read and enjoyed often since then. I'm not a comic expert in the slightest, but these I'd recommend.
Plus, this version of Clint goes so beautifully well with Bucky, I'm just saying.
The thing about doing Snowflake from the start, is I've done this challenge a few times now so I wasn't sure if I had anything new to talk about. Then I realised I'd never really posted about my love of Hawkeye/Clint Barton.
Hawkeye has always been my favourite character in the MCU movies. I can't even say why exactly as when I first started to watch I didn't have any background knowledge from the comics, so I fell for him literally in the limited time he was shown on screen.
Moving on a few years and I read Hawkeye centric fic every now and then, and from there discovered the winterhawk pairing, a pairing that made sense and really worked for me, and that was the start of a tentative step into the fandom. I'm still not active there beyond reading a lot and posting a few stories here and there, but the more I read the more I wanted to know about Clint.
I was so confused back when I started reading more extensively, there seemed to be two very different characteristics of Hawkeye/Clint, one I recognised from the films, and another where he'd grown much taller, had messy bright blond hair, was deaf, somehow had a one-eyed dog and was pretty much a human disaster living on pizza, coffee and often landing in dumpsters while being addicted to Dog Cops. I didn't recognise that guy at all, and sent a few emails to friends already in the fandom pretty much saying, wtf?!
And that's how I learned about the Fraction verse of Hawkeye and very quickly realised that while I still enjoyed MCU's Hawkeye as played by Jeremy Renner, I much preferred Fraction verse Clint. I love that he's shown as so very human, and so often broken. Despite being amazing at his job, he also has to cope with depression, feelings of self-doubt and negativity about his own self worth and lack of super abilities. But, he was also funny, always ready with a quip, loyal and ready to thrown himself into trouble at a moments notice. I really liked those contrasts, an Avenger but also someone who is very human with very real faults and just trying to make his way through the world one day at a time.
I'm lucky enough to have my own hard copies of the series as
sperrywink sent them to me last year and they've been read and enjoyed often since then. I'm not a comic expert in the slightest, but these I'd recommend.Plus, this version of Clint goes so beautifully well with Bucky, I'm just saying.
