even the mighy shall fall

[drunkoffthestars]

I started reading Teen Wolf.

IDEFK, you guys. I just need something to read. And it's all over my pinboard subscriptions and network. :( I. ugh.

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[bluemeridian]

I totally understand. (And have obviously gone native, but whatever. Come to the dark side! We have cookies! And fic! Tasty, tasty fic!)

[drunkoffthestars]

christ there is SO MUCH FIC! I SURRENDER! I WILL READ IT ALL.

4srs, I love your recs you post here! Makes it Much Easier that even trawling pinboard.

I seriously have run out of Avengers fic to read. It is such a crapshoot every time I visit the Clint/Coulson page on AO3. And 99% of the time I hate how someone has written Nastasha when she is so very relevant to my interests. /whiney-whine-whine

[bluemeridian]

I had this open in a tab to respond and was distracted by Pinboard (me, doing 5 things at once again? pshaw), wherein I found something that may be relevant to your interests. It's a short little PWP, but a nice one:

Maintaining Cover (1506 words) by Montana Harper
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Avengers (2012)
Rating: Explicit
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Clint Barton/Phil Coulson
Characters: Clint Barton, Phil Coulson
Summary: "You're starting to attract attention, Barton," Coulson's voice says in Clint's ear as Clint turns away another guy who wants to buy him a drink. "And not the good kind."

(Totally cheating on the rec formatting, but it'll get the job done, yeah?) No Natasha in this one, although I know what you mean. I bookmarked a rec earlier today just because it mentioned "features best bro Natasha" - the Such Great Heights window washer fic that's kicking around. Oh!! And there's a graphic from/for SHIELD has Paperwork for Everything on Tumblr that's just lovely.

...It's a darn good thing people like recs because I really like sharing. :D

[drunkoffthestars]

\o/ Definitely relevant to my interests! Thank you! I love it when people share!

[spatz]

I literally have read every Clint/Coulson fic that shows up on that tag on Pinboard now. Except the newly posted ones. I feel like such a stalker.

Oooh, can we talk about Natasha? What do you hate about fanon characterization of her?

[drunkoffthestars]

oh god. the worst is when I click on a thing and get a paragraph or two into reading it and realize I've already read it. /o\ /o\

OK, so I think my personal problem with the way a lot of people who write Natasha is tied to one of the reasons I (and many slashers) read (or write slash). A lot of times, things are just a little too close to home when it's a lady and a dude instead of two dudes. So a lot of the times when she is written romantically just don't really strike me as true for her. Like, she is not a woman who ever worries about her attractiveness unless it's whether or not she's made a mistake about her mark preferring brunettes or blondes. I also just don't see her relaxing enough to have non-coning-a-mark/getting close to assassinate someone sex, and hardly anyone ever gets the kind of set up where I would believe that she actually wants it for romantic reasons instead of other motivations. And she doesn't really seem like to sort who needs or wants to ever give up control at all ever, and as a lady, there's a lot of that inherent in the dynamics that many people use when writing porn about a dude and lady having sex.

Also, I don't like it when she is written as 'too normal'. Like, I don't actually know a ton about her background, and a lot of her characterization in the movie IS relatively normal/casual/etc, but the fic that resonates the most for me are the ones where she is characterized as somewhat fundamentally altered by her history/training/background. She is not always cold and ruthless, but that is a large element of her personality, but she seems like she should be constantly calculating the people around her. She does not have the 'typical' concerns that would be appropriate characterizations of other women around her.

So I guess I just feel like she is too obviously an avatar for the person writing her in many stories, which is just a) uncomfortable on several levels and b) not as interesting for me.