[ SECRET POST #2317 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2317 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[bigmess]

I like this pairing but I kind of agree with this (yeah idk). They appeared out of fucking nowhere and they even are one of the big pairings! It's weird in a fandom as huge as The Avengers but at the same time it kind of makes sense?

1. They both don't have a lot of backstory (Clint Barton's probably been on screen no more than 20 minutes, between Thor and The Avengers), so fandom can create their own easily.
2. They both work together. Most important, they work together in a secret goverment agency. Probably as spies. You have 'that mission where they almost die and save each other' fic, 'that undercover mission where they are a married couple and acidentaly fall for each other' fic, Coulson's Clint superior (whether this is a fanon idea I don't know) so you have ALL the Dom/Sub you can get, all the origin stories (Coulson was the one who brought Clint into SHIELD, etc), and I could go on.
2.1. They work together as spies in a shady goverment agency. They have probably had to see each other naked and bruised, gone through who know what kind of traumas, built an insanely amount of trust for each other.
3. They have some little moments in the tie-in comic for the Avengers. They are really little (like, Clint is driving and Phil's sleeping in the passenger seat and Clint has a little smile on his face. I said little, right?), but then again, people has shipped a couple for a lot less (coughstonyinthemcucough)
4. Coulson said he had a cellist and apparently that's Clint because a cello and a bow are similar???? (tbh I don't get this one)

Besides (I might be wrong in this one but I don't think so lol), their fanfiction is pretty well written. I didn't even liked this pairing at first, but there's some fantastic fic about them out there, and I think that helps a lot. Between the fact that both characters don't have a lot of built ground, the authors can play all they want, and between all the bad fic with ooc in the Avengers fandom, the best ones I've read are Clint/Phil.

But, yeah. I agree with kaijinscendre too, probably you just have bad luck with fics. May I recommend you use the -"Clint Barton/Phil Coulson" tag on AO3 when searching fics in the Avengers fandom so they don't appear?

[(Anonymous)]

Clint/Coulson is one of those pairings that doesn't make sense until it suddenly does. I've had a handful of friends just suddenly be interested in the pairing, and the confusion/craving combo is so funny to see. XD

[truxillogical]

Clint/Coulson is one of those pairings that doesn't make sense until it suddenly does.

QFT

[raaj]

4. Coulson said he had a cellist and apparently that's Clint because a cello and a bow are similar???? (tbh I don't get this one)

A cello has a bow. I've read a C/C fic that did indeed reference this with Clint snorting when he'd heard about the cellist, realizing:

His idea. His sarcastic little suggestion. When Phil had told him, with a weary voice, about Pepper Potts' kind and enthusiastic attempt to fix him up with a lovely woman from HR. Phil had been amused, Clint had found he wasn't. And in his usual socially inept manner, he'd shot his mouth off about making up a fake girlfriend.

Who worked with a bow.

So that's pretty much the idea there--that the cellist girlfriend is a cover-up of Clint that still references him. And since I went and found it, the fic is Hollow Your Bones Like a Bird's.

[bigmess]

... I supposed it was something like that. English isn't my first language so I was just like "cello = bow ????? okay", but thanks for explain it to me :)

[raaj]

Ah, yeah, I can see how that would read really weirdly then! It took me a moment to remember what part the bow is, since I'm not very musically inclined.

[(Anonymous)]

I thought I recognized that line! I love that fic.

[truxillogical]

Pretty well-laided-out reasons for the pairing, really.

It makes me kinda surprised that I never see anything even remotely like this in the hundreds of romance books that come through the library. Granted, there isn't a lot of m/m romance in that genre, but clearly ladies do like it.

I never knew I had a secret agent kink until this pairing showed me exactly what you can do with those circumstances (plus trust. Okay, so trust is apparently my thing).

You're right about the quality too. I mean, there's a lot of really cheesy-to-terrible stuff as well, but for what it is and for what fanfic usually is, there's a surprising percentage of good fic, and the good fic is really well-written. (Like, the first time I have no problem rec'ing fic to a friend.)