legit the only way I’ll be happy with clint and natasha in cacw is if they just… pretend to fight. like everyone’s fighting to the death around them and there’s clint and tasha in the corner busting out a gymnastic routine with fake punches and kicks that only graze, pouring out the theatrics, w/ clint falling to the ground like ‘Ahhh! She got me! This is the end!’ and a beyond-frustrated and bloody Steve yelling, mid-fight, ‘Clint! Fucking focus or go home!!’
No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacillus sanfrancisensis? It is native to the soil there, and does not do well elsewhere. But any kitchen can become an ecosystem. If you bake a lot, your kitchen will become a happy home to wild yeasts, and all your bread will taste better. Even a failed loaf is not wasted. Likewise, cheese makers wash the dairy floor with whey. Tomato gardeners compost with rotten tomatoes. No writing is wasted: the words you can’t put in your book can wash the floor, live in the soil, lurk around in the air. They will make the next words better.
