Coulson Lives

erebusodora:

Remember one of the very first Coulson t-shirt designs?
Yes. This one. The one that keeps you calm.

With a blessing from Coulson Lives project, I offer you an opportunity to get this design for yourself (the truth is, I can name every person who owns such a t-shirt, because there’s only seven of them so far, with Clark Gregg being the first owner).

The contest I’m offering to you is a small, but fun one.

WE ALL KNOW THAT COULSON LIVES.
ALL I NEED YOU IS TO SPECIFY: HOW.

The authors of the most peculiar, convincing, original versions will get a piece of stuff designed by yours truly; mind that none of these can be actually bought anywhere.

We’ll see how this develops, but so far, the prizes are these:
1st place: “Keep calm” longsleeve and military dog tag (and a printed copy of FIX-IT comics, if I get lucky enough to print it on time)).
2nd place: “Keep calm” t-shirt and military dog tag.
3rd place: “Keep calm” vest and military dog tag.
I must also add that there’s supposed to be one prize for the 1st place, two for the 2nd and three for the 3rd. See, the odds are pretty good ;}

THE RULES are simple: reblog this entry with your story instead of all this blah-blah-blah and tag it #CoulsonLives. Your story could be a comic strip, a short fictional text, a photomanipulated image of an official S.H.I.E.L.D. report, a piece of artificial news, anything. Use your imagination and your common sense to keep the story convincing and get the logic above the ‘because of reasons’ level.

THE LIMITS are easy to remember.
Deadline submission date: August, 26.
Rating: G, PG-13, and don’t you dare do anything offensive, S.H.I.E.L.D.’s watching you.
Number of submissions per one person: let’s make it three, just to get this more entertaining))
Size of the submission: if it’s a text — 1,000 words; if it’s an image — 1024x1024 pt is maximum.

Free your mind, engage your imagination, and get the agent alive, NOW. 

ATTN: ALL SHIELD AGENTS 

RE: OPERATION: COULSON LIVES

SPECIAL OP: DRAGON*CON PARADE

The Agents of the Department of Social Media, Alternate Realities, and Talent attending Dragon*Con in Atlanta, Georgia (33.7489° N, 84.3881° W) are invited to participate in a special field operation on Saturday, September 1, 2012. 

Mission specifications: spread the message, “Coulson Lives,” by participating in the Dragon*Con Parade. Standard SHIELD-issue suits, ties, and sunglasses should be worn for this mission. Signage will be provided by the friendly agents of Agent Support Services, all we need is YOU.

It is imperative to the success of this mission that we have an accurate headcount of all available agents before making our application to join the parade. If you are able to break cover while at Dragon*Con this year and participate in this field op, agents, we’d love to have you: we need every available agent on this one.  

We’ll be posting this message on multiple platforms, so if you’d like to participate, please email the senior agents in charge ASAP at coulsonlives.project (at) gmail.com so that we can get an accurate headcount. You have one week from the posting date of this message to send us an email, at which point we will be putting in our application to join the parade. If our mission is approved, we will contact all agents with further intel. 

Good luck out there, agents.

ATTENTION ALL AGENTS, AN URGENT MISSION IS NOW UNDERWAY.

Please view the video briefing for more details; a transcript is available here for your convenience. As usual, please remember to consult the laws of your particular locality before undertaking any mission and be courteous to fellow agents and civilians. In addition, please obey the directives of all con staff while undertaking this mission.

Please note that we will continue to accept Phase One and Phase Two reports as well as reports from Operation: Loki in the Haystack. The key, agents, is to spread the word as far and as fast as possible.

This may be your most difficult mission yet, agents, but you can do it. Your dedication is and always has been the pride of S.M.A.R.T.

Your Agent Support Services Agents,

Glyph, Stiletto, and Collateral

Please carefully monitor all birthday parties and all celebrations, as our target turns 48 today. Check particularly in the vicinity of all baked goods, as our man has a documented sweet tooth.

Happy birthday, Agent Coulson, wherever you are.

• Question: If I submit something, but don't see it posted, should I assume it didn't meet the qualifications for the blog? (If not, what should I think?) - Anonymous
• Answer:

  If this happens, agents, one of two things has occurred:

  1. Your post is still in the queue. It takes between two and three days for submissions to be posted.

  2. Your post did not, unfortunately, meet the qualifications. Remember that posts should be directly linked to our mission. While we appreciate things like videos of Agent Coulson’s previous missions, they are not related to the spreading of the message.

  If your mission report or artwork is not posted and you want to check its status, please email glyphshield@gmail.com.

  Now back to it, agents. — Agent Glyph

Attention all agents:

Please respect the work of other agents, particularly creators of artwork found online. Do not submit work that is not your own. If you can contact the creator, please inform them about our project and encourage them to submit their work through our submission form, through @CoulsonLives, or by emailing glyphshield@gmail.com.

Let’s keep doing good work, agents. We’re all in this together.

—Agent Glyph

Attention agents:

As you may have noticed, enemy operatives have infiltrated tumblr, attempting to stop the message from spreading. They have broken many functions that are key to our mission; we are working around these blocks, but it has not been an easy task.

Until the enemy agents are defeated, you can expect posting to be irregular, though we will attempt to stick to the usual number of posts per day. Asks also go missing, and often notifications don’t appear. Field reports with embedded pictures have now stopped working entirely, so please submit them as photo posts. If this is not possible, photos can also be emailed to glyphshield@gmail.com for posting by proxy or tweeted to @CoulsonLives.

Bear with us, agents, and keep spreading the message.

— Agent Glyph

Agents of the Department of Social Media, Alternate Realities, and Talent:

We would like to thank all of you following the project on Tumblr or Twitter, supporting our mission, and spreading the message. We are incredibly grateful for all our agents; in twelve days, over a thousand of you have answered the call.

We really have no words. We hope the project will continue to be as successful as it has in these first two weeks. Let’s find Agent Coulson, folks. He deserves it.

Your Agent Support Services agents,

Glyph, Stiletto, and Collateral

Esteemed agents,

We have been asked for clarification on Operation: Chalk It Up, so allow us to give a more thorough overview of this project.

Where Phase One consisted of freeform efforts at spreading the message, Phase Two consists of more focused missions, where agents will be directed to use certain media, work in certain areas, or interact with others. 

The first mission is designated Chalk It Up, where the task is to create pavement art using sidewalk chalk. Please remember that there will be multiple missions in Phase Two, so if it is not possible for you to participate in this mission, another will be available to you. We will also continue to accept Phase One submissions; we value all forms of creativity and their utility to the cause.

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Agents of the Department of Social Media, Alternate Realities, and Talent,

As our campaign continues to grow in strength, the head of Legal has asked us to reiterate these SHIELD policies:

1. Please be considerate and respectful of others and their property. The laws and customs of your location will differ from those at SHIELD headquarters (we suspect they will be much more lax), but remember to take this under consideration.

2. Do not break the law in the furtherance of this project. We are not responsible for injuries to persons or to property sustained in the furtherance of any activity related to this project. Agents are expected to abide by the laws of their jurisdictions and to engage only in legal, safe, responsible activities.

3. Agents are advised to refrain from using stickers or indelible ink, as they may cause more long term property damage than it seems.

In short, agents should obey the law and use their best judgment. Keep up the good work, and spread the message.

— Agent Glyph