Snowflake Challenge Day 5
Jan. 9th, 2021 04:02 pmIn 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 as![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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.
( Some visuals to go with that )
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.
( Some visuals to go with that )
