[ SECRET POST #4095 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4095 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Writing thread - mixed genre-ish

[(Anonymous)]

I need some advice on an Agents of SHIELD fic. Spoilers for aired episodes:

So, I want to write a story where the first half is May/Coulson basically spending a week wrapped up in bedsheets making up for lost time with a bit of amputation angst/kink.

But I want the second half to be Coulson & Yo-Yo having a heart to heart about disability and the ways they can - and can't - relate to each other. In my head, it's all one story, but I'm afraid each half will alienate readers who would be into the other half.

Is that dumb? Or likely?

Re: Writing thread - mixed genre-ish

[philstar22]

Not dumb at all. I think you maybe might want to keep the fic from Coulson's POV. That would connect the two halves more.

Re: Writing thread - mixed genre-ish

[(Anonymous)]

Wellllll...the first chapter that's already written is May observing his weirdness about taking the arm off after it starts shorting out and ends with her initiating some lovin'...that gets picked up in the second (mostly unwritten) chapter from Coulson's POV and remains throughout. Guess I'll just finish it and see how it shakes out, thanks.

Re: Writing thread - mixed genre-ish

[(Anonymous)]

To flesh it out a little, you could try to loop back to May and Coulson through a conflict and resolution. Yo-Yo and Coulson's interaction and Coulson's personal experience of both situations can still have an equal balance, but it might feel more finished and cohesive that way?

For example:

Coulson and May reunite, it's intense/happy/whatever but there are some things Coulson is avoiding talking or thinking about, and it causes him to distance himself.

He talks with Yo-Yo and through the course of their interaction he comes to a better understanding or acceptance within himself and maybe the other character relates something personal that Coulson can then apply to his own life and relationships.

May and Coulson reunite again with less urgency, but more emotional intimacy.

Re: Writing thread - mixed genre-ish

[(Anonymous)]

It's kind of set up so that May is the catalyst for Coulson realizing he never *really* came to terms with losing a limb, which then sends him to Yo-Yo whose loss is still fresh. I was planning to have her be really insecure and angry about how helpless and dependent on other people she feels. By it's nature, that has to touch on the Mack/Yo-Yo relationship. I guess that would be a good time to loop May back into the conversation...