#Barney Bishop

[idroolinmysleep]

Dan Kois: Why did the board make the decision to remove the principal of the school?

Barney Bishop III: Well, like all the reporters I’ve talked to today, the premise that you’re operating from is incorrect. We didn’t remove her. She resigned. She’s an at-will employee by contract, as are all our teachers. I went to her last week and offered her two letters. One was a voluntary resignation, and another a letter that said if she decided not to resign, I was going to ask the board to terminate her without cause. Without cause. We have the right to do that under the contract.

So it’s safe to say she resigned under pressure from the board.

No question.

Read the whole thing, it’s nuts.

[nathanarcher]

Archer, Nathan. “TallaXXXee ClXXXical School.” Tallahassee Democrat, April 2, 2023. https://on.tdo.com/2nUeq7o.

[cherlawa-panna]

The Three Hawkeyes of Gender

[v4guelyv4mpiric]

im sorry to non marvel fans trying to tell what the fuck we're talking about most of the time.

like this guy is hawkeye and this girl is hawkeye and sometimes the first one's brother is hawkeye but evil but og hawkeye was evil twice, once as hawkeye and once as ronin and was also a completely different hero named goliath.. dont get it twisted.

[cinnamoonhawk]

happy belated birthday to the world’s f*ck*ng greatest archer and also the most compassionate a assassin 💜

[joezy27]

HAWKEYE - "We're going to Hawkeye their asses."

All-New Hawkeye by Jeff Lemire & Ramón Pérez

[thelastofthebookworms]

This was supposed to be a French poetry poll. I'll make one, I promise, but I was distracted by the ladies (I think I'll make at least a Amy Lowell's poll and a Renee Vivien one too later, also under my 'sapphic poetry' tag)

They may not be the ones you would have picked yourself, they're some personal favorites.

Feel free to share yours, though !

Anne Hathaway

XVI (Twenty-one love poems)

Fireworks

One Art

Lighthouse Keeping

The Love of Judas

Wild Geese

For the Goddess Too Well Known

Blest as the Immortal Gods

[sergeant-angels-trashcan]

So much potential for Clint Barton meeting Dick Grayson!!!

Do they loathe each other? Bro down? Do they resent the other for horning in on Kate Bishop's time and affection? Do they have a Kate-time schedule that Kate knows nothing about???

I think they COULD resent one another, but the reasons they would in actuality make them very protective of one another-- Dick has never been A Bad Guy, but he's very aware of the potential he has to become that. He was raised in a circus and taken in by someone who trained him who had a fairly solid moral compass. Clint HAS been a Bad Guy, because he was raised in a circus and taken in by someone who trained him who did NOT have a great moral compass. Clint sees Dick and goes, that's what I could have been, and he's either angry and resentful about it, or he deeply deeply wants to protect Dick so he never becomes like Clint. Dick sees Clint and goes, that's what I could have been, and he either resents Clint for showing Dick how fortunate he was to be taken in by Bruce, or he deeply deeply wants to protect Clint so he never has to go through being manipulated like that again.

[jackfrombaskinrobbins]

clint barton as your older brother headcanons :)

type of writing: headcanons / scenario

word count: 685

request: yes / no

original request: "Hi! I love your teen avenger series so far, it's amazing! Do you think you could do headcanons for being Clint Barton's younger sibling? Thanks ❤"

dynamic: clint barton x younger sibling!reader

characters: clint barton, a little barney barton as well, maybe some kate bishop, lucky the pizza dog ofc

a/n: THIS TOOK ME SO LONG IT'S NOT EVEN FUNNY IM SORRY :( but tysm for it!! gotta love clint barton :D also, requests are open, so send an ask any time!

taglist: @thecloudedmind @nutellani

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having clint barton as a big brother really prepared you for anything

and when i say anything i mean anything

he once snuck up on you while you were at the grocery store

IT WAS SO MEAN OMG

like he literally hid behind one of those displays of chips

and then jumped out when you passed him

he was fr laughing so hard

then this old lady told him that he was rude so he got what he deserved

when it was just clint and barney, barney made clint learn sign language so that he would communicate with him

and so when you were born, barney was determined to have you learn it too

little did he know, clint had discovered bad words.

one thing led to another, and let’s just say the sign language clint taught you didn’t exactly mean what he told you it meant

barney was so mad omg but it was so funny

i feel like clint likes to invite you and barney over for dinner

not that barney comes bc that man is out doing who knows what

but he always gets pizza

like every single time he gets pizza

and he buys way too much

you once asked if he could get something else

and then once you got to his place, there was pizza on the table

smh

an important part of your relationship is that whenever you’re around, lucky ignores clint and only listens to you

and he gets super annoyed

like he’ll try EVERYTHING to get his dog back

but it doesn’t work :) 

you also have a really good relationship with kate

the two of you meet for coffee every once in a while just to gossip about clint

because let’s face it, the only person who has more blackmail on that guy is barney

i think clint would be a pretty protective older brother

he definitely calls just to check in on you

except sometimes he’ll call and do voices

i feel like clint would do a lot of voices

like celebrity impressions or accents

and so you’ll answer the phone and he’ll be trying to sound like bruce springsteen or something

and it’s always a really bad impression too

but he’ll try to have you guess and then he’ll tell you what it was after

and you always go “oh ok. i definitely heard that. yep.”

and then he just hangs up.

but he always calls back don’t worry :) 

clint also frequents antique shops.

but he doesn’t buy stuff for himself because he knows he’ll break it

so he swings by your place a lot with the most random stuff

sometimes it’s cool

like one time he gave you this lamp that looked like a taxi sign

but then once he gave you one of those really creepy baby dolls

from like the forties or something

and he just dropped it off by your door and ran away

and then he sent you a text like “check the front door…”

IT SCARED YOU SO BAD

you called him to yell at him but he wasn’t listening because he was laughing so hard 

you have a lot of eating competitions

barney used to take the two of you out to eat when you were younger, and you would both get four ice cream sundaes

and barney would just roll his eyes because he knew what was coming

you’d try to eat them as fast as possible

it usually ended with someone getting sick or with ice cream all over their clothes

and barney would just be sitting there, eyes closed, wishing he didn’t have such weird younger siblings

but don’t worry, he secretly loved the two of you :)

i like to think you knit and crochet stuff for clint a lot

and at the time he won’t look that excited but then he’ll wear it every chance he gets

you made him this purple hat thing and he literally won’t take it off

but he has to find something wrong with it, so he says it’s not warm enough

but you know that’s a lie!!

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[hawkeye-appreciation-club]

All New Hawkeye (2014-2015)

[abboz]

by Abboz

“Merry Christmas, handsome. Bit late I know.”

Clint stopped still in the hallway, his jaw gaping open as he stared at Natasha.

“Clint?” she signed. “You okay?”

She knew sign language? Of course she did. The Black Widow had probably known ASL long before he’d needed it, maybe before they’d even met.

“Hearing aids playing up again?”

An image flashed into his mind, sun streaming through the window, the pair of them before a screen, her agile hands signing his handle. “Tasha… I missed you.”

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[much-obliged-timothy]

Whumpcember #12

Hawkeye - #12 - Broken Bone

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“We can’t even get pizza without being attacked,” Barney said, sipping on his soda. “How many people have you pissed off, Clint?”

“You could - ow - help,” Clint said, kicking away the angry guy in a tracksuit that was trying to break his nose. He whacked the guy over the head with his bow, letting him crumple at his feet.

“Your problem.” Barney leaned against the side of the building and shrugged helplessly. “Someone’s got to keep the pizza safe. Hurry it up before it gets cold, will you?”

“Insufferability runs in the family?” Kate guessed.

“Gift from dad,” Barney said.

“I’m glad you two are having - ow - fun,” Clint said, ducking away from another punch thrown at him. “Kate, will you watch my back already? Barney, give Lucky a slice. He’s being a good boy while he waits.”

Barney flipped open the lid of the pizza box and offered a slice to the dog, who happily took it. Barney pet his head as he ate.

He watched the fight progress. Clint and Kate worked easily together, having each other's backs and predicting each other's movements. Barney couldn’t help the little spark of pride he felt as he watched his little brother fight. Maybe this was just an average street gang, but Clint had helped save the whole damn world before. 

“Come on, I’m going to eat without you,” Barney called, because he refused to let himself get too sentimental. 

“Don’t eat my pizza, Barney, or I’ll shoot you,” Clint warned.

“And I’ll help him shoot you,” Kate agreed. “Hands off the pizza. I paid for that.”

“Have you ever paid for anything in your life?” Clint asked. “You’re, like, nine.” 

“Shut up, Clint,” Kate said. “I’ll shoot you too.”

“You can-” Clint started.

“Clint!” Barney cried, pushing off the wall.

Amidst their lighthearted banter, Clint hadn’t noticed the guy sneaking up at him. Clint spun to fend him off at the same time the guy struck at his leg.

Barney heard the crack of bone from where he was. Clint’s face twisted with pain as he went down, a cry of agony tearing from his throat. As he went down, he swung and caught the guy in the throat with his bow.

The guy choked and roughly kicked the bow away. He lifted his foot over Clint’s head.

Barney yelled as he tackled him to the ground. “Get away from him!”

“Kate!” Clint’s voice was strained with pain. “Cover him. Cover Barney.”

Barney drove his fist into the guy’s face, over and over again. He couldn’t help it; he felt as angry with himself as he did with this bastard. His teasing had been what distracted Clint. He could’ve been helping, and instead all he managed to do was distract Clint and get him hurt. Hadn’t Clint been hurt enough in his life? 

Barney saw their own father hitting Clint and his rage grew. Screw their past hostilities; Clint was still his little brother, and he’d failed to protect him yet again. 

“Barney! Barney, you’re gonna kill him!” Clint said.

He was dragging himself towards Barney, which was the only reason Barney stopped before he broke the bastard’s neck. He spun and put his hands out.

“Stop!” he said in alarm. Clint’s leg was twisted at a painful angle. “You’re going to make it worse. Shit, we need to get you to a hospital.”

He moved closer to Clint, putting a hand on his shoulder to calm him before he moved again. Clint gazed up at him, pain in his eyes.

“You’re gonna be fine,” Barney assured. “I’ll take care of it.”

Take care of you, is what he wanted to say. But Clint nodded like he knew it anyway. Potato, potahto. 

With Kate having his back, Barney punched his way through anyone who got too close to Clint. When Kate took down the last of them, Barney dropped back to Clint’s side.

Clint was clinging to consciousness, though Barney knew that would be short lived as soon as they tried to move him. He put a hand on Clint’s back in silent apology.

“We’ve got to get that taken care of,” he said.

Clint gave a weak nod. Barney shifted to get a good grip on Clint. Clint grabbed at his arm tightly, giving another nod, closing his eyes and breathing out slowly.

Barney lifted him. Clint yelled in pain, the sound shattering Barney’s heart. It didn’t last long though, as Clint slumped into unconsciousness in his arms, head dropping lifelessly against Barney’s shoulder.

“Hard part’s over, buddy,” Barney muttered softly. He raised his voice. “Kate, grab his bow and let’s go.”

He had Clint in his arms, safe now. But just like when they were children, the embrace came too late, and Barney could not stop staring at Clint’s twisted, broken leg and imaging that pain in Clint’s eyes.

[tomorrowusa]

Is there any doubt that somebody is already working on a Michelango-style statue of Ron DeSantis? 😄

[tomorrowusa]

That describes the DeSantis GOP “war on woke” well.

It’s ironic that Republicans claim to be the defenders of Western Civilization but then have a hissy fit when their kids are actually exposed to it.

Perhaps we can add Don’t Say Art to Ronnie’s Florida commandments.

There needs to be talk of selective boycotts of Florida.

BTW, I always thought the word woke sounded really stupid. By using it constantly, I hope it makes Republicans sound even more stupid than they already are.

It’s way easy to make fun of Republicans, but what really helps is removing them from power at the state level.

It’s never too early to start clearing them out of state legislatures. Many of the GOP horrors, including restrictive anti-abortion laws, happen at the state level. Sadly, too few people pay attention to state government. The first step is to find out who exactly is representing and passing authoritarian legislation in your name.

Find Your Legislators Look your legislators up by address or use your current location.

^^^ Don’t wait, do it now!

Florida Principal Ousted After Parents Melt Down Over Michelangelo’s ‘Pornographic’ Statue of David

An Interview With the School Board Chair Who Forced Out a Principal After Michelangelo’s David Was Shown in Class

[inkvoices]

Circus Fics

A collection of circus and carnival fics featuring Clint Barton (and Natasha Romanoff, Kate Bishop, Tony Stark, Phil Coulson, Dick Grayson, and friends). Reblogs with additional fics very, very welcome!

some moments more spectacular than others by gsparkle

Mature; Clint Barton/Natasha Romanoff; 21,575 words

Summary: When Janet suggests a team bonding event, Natasha thinks she means… an art gallery, a movie, even bowling. Something like that. 

Not the circus. Not clowns. Not falling head over heels for a professional circus archer with an affinity for purple, slushies, and purple slushies.

Freedom by lar_laughs

Teen and Up; Clint Barton/Natasha Romanoff; 1,757 words

Summary: He and Barney found the circus completely by accident. They’d run away from yet another foster home, intent on making it to the ocean (because Clint really wanted to see the ocean and now was as good a time as any), when they decided to stay the night under some trees surrounding a deserted field. When they woke up the next morning, the empty field wasn’t so empty any longer. (Night Circus AU)

First of May by inkvoices

Teen and Up; Clint Barton/Natasha Romanoff; 6,766 words

Summary: Clint is eight years old the first time he decides to run away and join the circus. Like a lot of things in Clint's life, it doesn't work out, but then this is a circus that comes around every ten years and believes in second chances.

galaxies in our halos and hands by sweetwatersong

Teen; Clint Barton/Natasha Romanoff; 1,339 words

Summary: He has faith in miracles. The white horse and the woman who rides him can be nothing less.

airs above the ground by sweetwatersong

Gen; Clint Barton/Natasha Romanoff; 667 words

Summary: With hand and touch, smile and twist, they move as if the world around them has ceased to exist, and the laws of gravity have their own rules in the canvas tent they dance under.

Overture by AlphaFlyer

Teen and Up; Clint Barton/Natasha Romanoff; short fic

Summary: Carson's Carnival of Travelling Wonders makes a stop in Ohio.

Slide In by enigma731

Mature; Clint Barton/Natasha Romanoff; 3,962 words

Summary: Natasha’s expected a mockery of a man, a virtual caricature fitting of the costume and the codename. All it takes is that first, single shot, for her to realize that she has been utterly wrong. (Alternate first meeting.)

Dust to Dust by inkvoices

Teen and Up; Clint Barton/Natasha Romanoff, 1,361 words

Summary: The carnival stops for a stick of a lad, nothing but bones and bones are what he’s burying. Natasha doesn’t care what his story is. She’s not a goddamn fortune-teller.

Clint is a farm boy that the carnival picks up and Natasha is one of the carnival’s dancers. Avengers/Carnivàle fusion.

The Nature of Dust by inkvoices

Mature; Clint Barton/Natasha Romanoff; 10,196 words

Summary: For as long as he can remember Clint has always been getting into trouble for seeing things that he shouldn’t, or rather for getting caught at it. Oklahoma, 1934, and this time trouble comes in the form of a girl.

Cover Another Black Eye by geckoholic

Teen and Up; Violence; Clint Barton/Natasha Romanoff, Clint Barton/Bobbi Morse; 6,969 words

Summary: History will dub it the summer of love. Natasha neither knows nor cares about love, never has, expects she never will, but history's got one thing right: it's the summer when everything changes.

Natasha and the Amazing Hawkeye(s) by Frea_o

Teen and Up; Gen Clint Barton & Natasha Romanoff & Kate Bishop; 5,330 words

Summary: It starts because somebody orders a hit on the Amazing Hawkeye. No, not that Amazing Hawkeye. The other Amazing Hawkeye.

Where Home is Tonight by samalander

Teen and Up; Clint Barton/Kate Bishop; 4,990 words

Summary: "Look, when I say I'm not from around here, I don't mean I'm from Jersey. I'm not supposed to be here. And I won't stay long. But-- but I wanted to meet you. See if you lived up to the hype."

"Girl," Clint says, his arrogance somehow more pronounced by his youth, "I am the hype."

Or, Kate falls off a building, and lands in a place where time moves differently.

scramble in the summer sky by paperclipbitch

Teen and Up; Kate Bishop/America Chavez and the young avengers with a little Clint and Natasha; 3,011 words

Summary: Kate’s first week, when she was still pretty sure this was a terrible idea and also not one that real people actually had – seriously, in the twenty-first century, who ran away with the circus – America came up to her three days in and said without preamble: “is anyone going to come looking for you, Princess?”

Try to Freeze Time by thepartyresponsible

Mature; Clint Barton/Tony Stark; 6,897 words

Summary: The circus has a way of evening people out. Everyone looks the same when the lights center on the stage. The whole audience, just blank shadows, staring in. Everyone looks like nothing. 

Someone like this, though. Someone like him. They’ll throw off that nothing before they get back to whatever pampered bed they crawled out of. Everyone else stays nothing, but, for people like that, it’s just a temporary state. 

Clint doesn’t mean to watch him. It’s just that he keeps catching Clint’s eye.

No Magic Would Save Me by arsenicarcher

Mature; choose not to warn; Pepper Potts/Tony Stark and kid!Clint, 20,738 words

Summary: Once upon a time, an angel with the unlikely name of Pepper came to the circus, and took Clint away.

home is under a canvas sky by Selenay

Teen and Up; Clint Barton/Phil Coulson, Clint Barton & Natasha Romanoff; 15,968 words

Summary: "Who's the new guy?" Clint asked, trying to sound casual.

"His name's Phil," Natasha said. "He's our new knife throwing act."

"You didn't have an old knife throwing act."

"We did a few years ago. Knives and archery. It was a good act."

circus peanuts by dustbear

Gen; Clint Barton/Phil Coulson; 9,451 words

Summary: There are always kids that run away to the circus. 

Sometimes, they're from good families, kids from the depths of suburbia, looking for a new, exciting life. The circus is just a grittier, dirtier, summer camp to them, a brief foray into the seedy underbelly of travelling entertainment. They always go home, eventually.

And, there are kids like Clint. Who have to learn to hit the bullseye every time, and split arrows on cue, who learn to balance on a tightrope blindfolded, who learn not to flinch when the knives hit the plywood only millimeters from their soft flesh. If they learn, they’ll thrive, and they’ll eat, and they’ll sleep, sometimes even with a sturdy roof over their heads.

Sometimes, much later, some of those kids - from both categories - grow up and become SHIELD agents.

and so it grows by hoosierbitch

Teen and up; grief; Clint Barton/Phil Coulson - Phil's mom's PoV

Summary: High School!AU in which Phil is trying so hard to step up and be the man of the house, but his mom is more than capable and just wants him to spend time with that nice Clint boy she knows Phil is crushing so hard on. (None of this fic takes place in a high school, but Clint and Phil are high school aged.)

Only learned bad things by grydo2life

Teen and Up; Clint Barton/Phil Coulson and various avengers; 5,217 words

Summary: “What, really?” Tony asks.

Clint resists the urge to cross his arms defensively. “Yes.”

Or, 5 skills Clint learned in the circus, and 1 he picked up at SHIELD.

Winter Quarters by AcornsOnTheGround and Teeelsie

Mature; choose not to warn; Clint Barton/Dick Grayson; 52,000 words

Summary: The winter that Dick Grayson is eleven years old, the other boy shows up for the first time. He’s small - can’t be more than ten years old - but there’s a curious intensity to him that makes him seem older, and that has Dick’s eyes flicking back and forth between his own textbook and where the boy seems to be burning a hole in his with a laser focus.

They’re at winter quarters in Florida, a borderless area in the middle of the state where traveling circuses and carnivals lay low during the cold and rainy months of October through March.

Dick Grayson and Clint Barton: two boys, raised in the circus, destined to be superheroes. Of course they cross paths.

[cinnamoonhawk]

Barney disappeared due to the blip, Barney disappeared due to the blip, Barney disappeared due to the blip,

he would never have given his little brother permission to be a vigilante, he is an undercover FBI agent and since he found out that his brother was alive in 2012 he has not stopped trying to protect him in his own way.

Fuck all those supporting characters that served no purpose, I want to see Clint Barton overcoming his own problems (like he always has) because he can do it with a broken heart, he can realize his worth without having to serve as the father figure that the UCM invented