Clint pops out of a vent and throws a water balloon at Scott. --@deafarcher

Scott takes the hit right on his head, and he’s completely soaked and surprised. “What the—?”

He looks up and sees Clint in the vent. “Hawkeye! Dammit I should’ve known. How long have you been up there?”

I love domestic Avengers with my whole heart. Showing that they're not just superheros but people too. People that make stupid jokes and love their families and get sick and fail and have parties and mess around and act like children sometimes.

Okay, um… how mad would Tony be if he found out that I’m maybe, possibly, lost in the vents again?

Reminiscing on Clint and Vents ™️

To my knowledge the entire Clint in vents trope in domestic Avengers fics is not founded in any canon reason or instance (I believe our first introduction to Clint even ever being INSIDE a vent is from the Black Widow movie when Nat and Yelena are in that vent in Budapest) which isn’t to say that it’s a bad thing (headcannons are quite literally the bread and butter of fandom culture, but I think when taken meta textually this trope highlights a glaring problem with Clint Barton and Hawkeyes introduction and characterization throughout the MCU.

Which is to say his introduction and characterization was so botched by the hands of Marvel and their inability to juggle a multi-character story without picking favorites (probably corporate meddling to increase merchandise sales) that we literally had nothing to go on as far as his character at the end of Avengers. Zilch. Nothing. Nada. We had Nat and the scorching chemistry between Scarjo and Jeremy but that was it! And because of that we resorted to hand waving that the guy just climbed in vents because he like Obi-Wan likes the high ground. Like—

Think about it. We all already had a pop culture knowledge and in some instance entire movies about Thor, Tony Stark, Hulk (the old version), and Captain America. And even in those movies we had knowledge and an on screen portrayal of: Black Widow, Loki, fuck even Bucky. And yeah sure Hawkeye had a cameo in Thor but did we really get anything about his character on the same level that we got of Black Widow, Loki and Bucky that they got in their respective supporting roles? No. We got his smart mouth and Jeremy’s perfect acting.

And then the Avengers, where he’s brainwashed 98% of the movie?

Yeah it’s no fricken wonder the whole Clint in Vents trope was a thing in domestic Avengers fics—

We.

Literally.

Had.

Crumbs!

This isn’t a bashing of the trope of course but merely an opportunity to highlight just how butchered Hawkeyes introduction was and how Marvel utterly dropped the ball with such a wonderful character.

(And Jeremy Renner deserved better)

Anyway read more Clint Barton centered fics. They are great.

And for the love of god let that man out of the vents!

got to the Tower and immediately fell on the carpeted floor and passed out for several hours

mr. Captain America Steve Rogers Sir told me I'm overexerting myself, and I told him I overexerted his mom last night. kill me.

I think the best indication for me of why Hawkeye and BJ are too dissimilar to have become friends in any other situation besides both being assigned to the same MASH unit is that, when Hawkeye is upset about their situation as draftee doctors miles from home, he typically rails against the system that put them there and/or anyone that supports that system; when BJ’s upset about the same thing, he tends to just lash out at Hawkeye who is entirely blameless and often just attempting to offer him comfort.

Which makes sense. Hawkeye is a much safer target than the American military-industrial complex. But it also shows the stark difference between how they process emotions, problem-solve, and their values.

Kate Bishop crawling thought the vents. Part 23.

*Yelena and Kate enjoying a girls nights watching Disney movies and eating Kraft Mac & Cheese*

*Yelena looks over at Kate and smiles*

*Kate notices and smiles back with a slight blush*

Yelena: Did it hurt?

*Kate smirking*: ...when I fell from heaven?...well, I mean-

Yelena: -No. When you fell out of the vent earlier?

*Kate shocked*: You saw that?!

*Yelena with a knowing smirk*

a petty complaint i have with a certain trope in fiction is that Air Ducts Don't Work Like That.

most air ducts are small enough that children would be the only ones able to fit inside them, rather than beefed up spies or action hero stars. they are also frequently disgusting, like, really nasty. there's a reason professional duct cleaning is important, because the amounts of dust in them makes my nose itch just thinking about it. even if you somehow squeezed into an air duct and didn't have a coughing fit from the dust, there's fans and sharp angles to contend with. they're also SHIT for stealth - everyone in the building would be able to hear you clanking about and grunting and wheezing from the layer of dust you're wallowing in. finally, a lot of ducts aren't meant to hold more than their own weight because, y'know, they're for air. that means there's a nonzero chance of the you breaking the whole duct off the ceiling and crashing to the floor. there are always exceptions to these rules (though i doubt there's a system in the world that is free of all of these hurdles), and the only successful escape from alcatraz did involve using vents, but these opened into a maintenance hall rather than a maze of ducts and they shimmied up some pipes to make it to the roof.

in conclusion, the next time you watch or read someone crawling through a roomy, clean, noiseless duct in some secret base or whatever, i ask you to instead picture a fully grow adult stuck in the 90° angle of a duct, making a terrible ruckus hacking up a lung from the copious amounts of dust they're huffing, writhing around and trying to get free, only to wrench the duct from the ceiling and come plummeting to the hard floor right at the baddie's feet :^)

wait no it actually is so funny that after the avengers came out in 2012 everyone was writing about them all living in avengers tower together and being friends or whatever and then four years later civil war came out and made it canon that they all wanted each other to die

Ah the struggle of “I feel unlovable not because my mental illness is particularly severe but because I’m not mentally ill in a sexy compelling way just in a whiny pathetic way”

Hellllloooooooooo~ Evil Robot Bill.

Yeah so! In the film, he really did have a whole ass flag Dwayne did! Or part of a flag.

Here's the costume he wore! It's an official stunt double one that was used on set!

You can see the flag there, and also here!

As you can see from the red and gold, it's ment to be the USSR/Community flag! And you can see it when he jumps around sometimes, but you can't see it that clearly at times.

But also I like...maybe need to wear my glasses more, but have no clue if I'm that blind to detials or not....regardless! It's really cool!!

Ahhh thank you! I thought I imagined the yellow/it was a fandom thing that I’d just ended up assuming was canon

A random video: talking about why the mcu is going downhill

Me: *nodding while listening*

The dude talking: praises no way home and hates on Hawkeye

Me:

Clint’s in the goddamn vents again

you know the woman in the fridge trope? thats what clint barton is in fanfiction. i dont think ive read a single winterhawk fanfiction that didnt strip and tear down and abuse clint for the benefit of some other character [in this case bucky] to rise above, improve themselves, be given motivation, be the hero and the big strong savior of some sort. thats all that ever happens to him. hes the damsel, hes the injured, the weak, the mess, the "disaster," the one constantly sacrificed for the sake of absolving and building up the other character into something big and good and better and important, always as the cost of clint’s autonomy, health, well being, dignity, self worth, skills and ability and value. so the other one can "build" clint back up and be hailed as the one that saved him and got him through his times of trouble and become the shining star in his life or in the story in general. 

bucky doesnt have to do RIGHT, or be better or have his own character development... clint just has to be damaged and torn down in a way that makes whatever bucky IS already, LOOK better. so he can be the pillar for clint and by virtue of clint being so LOW, bucky is higher. its annoying. and its cliche, and its every single story in this entire fucking tag on tumblr and ao3. not one single one isnt like this. im not sure i can take it anymore. 241 pages of winterhawk fics, and i have not read a SINGLE one [excluding snapshots or kissficlets or pwp] that isnt this exact plot over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over. 

[to be clear; ive read every. single. fic. in the winterhawk tag on ao3. 4,800 or so fics. - i filtered out threesomes and fics with other clint pairs and bucky pairs, or when clint/bucky was a past/former/barely there minor side pair. i may have skipped a few things because they were really poorly formatted or poorly written or were just art or bullet points or poems or ideas, but... yeah. all of them. im housebound, have insomnia and a compulsive disorder that drives me, and have NO life, so i have all the time in the world to read, so that’s what i did.]

no other character gets treated this way, that ive seen. and the depiction of clint in fanfiction is not even remotely canonical for him in the comics or movies. i dont get it. do yall not like the canon character at all? why not just make an oc then? if you are just gonna change everything about him except his name and the archery thing and some of the circus backstory, why not just find a different character to use or pair with bucky? maybe youve all been in echo chamber headcanons for so long you forgot who he is?

i guess no one in winterhawk LIKES clint, and just uses him to boost bucky and provide him with ever more glorification and character development - while stripping clint of all the things that make him clint, or plotting for him to lose them so he becomes dependent on bucky anyway. im close to abandoning this fandom entirely, [ooh, im sure youll be devastated if i leave, since im criticizing yall, right?] because the headcannon bullshit of clint being a pathetic tiny talentless incompetent clutzy disaster with no skill to speak of, spending all his time berated and belittled by everyone, only being spoken to in “bantery” insults and outclassed in every conceivable way, while having his marksmanship reduced to ONLY shooting arrows and even so, not up to snuff compared to the main character of the day, and stripping him of ANY and all combat skills, and he also cant speak a complete sentence without stuttering and blushing every other line is just... so fucking exhausting. 

yall dont like clint at all, it seems, cause you reduce and disrespect and emasculate and infantilize him and use him solely as a dickless fuckhole for whoever you pair him with, and pretend hes an unintelligent oblivious idiot and ... god the incompetence thing really irritates me. at best, hes some kind of mascot to your ensemble fics, and is always always shredded and injured and needs to depend on everyone else and in no way is a worthy member of any agency... hes always the slapstick idiot who needs to be compensated for by everyone, and talked down to all the time because hes not good at literally anything. why is this depiction of him so popular?!?!

read the comics, guys. and not just fractions kinda lame take for the sake of glorifying kate.