4. Something in my head is unable to understand Clint/Coulson fic, because it keeps going "why would you write about two extremely minor male characters when you could have Darcy in your story instead?"
As someone who has been reading ALL OF THE COULSON fic... okay, I have never actually seen Thor, and I'm not sure I'll ever get around to watching it (a friend who died was really looking forward to it and died before it came out, plus I have heard it's not that good -- a bad combination). And after discovering the character through reading Avengers fic and looking him up, I was able to dredge up the memory of Coulson from the Iron Man movies, which I have seen... and okay, I probably will not watch the Avengers, and it took me two days to get through Captain America (this speaks to how good the movie is, that I did end up finishing it. Usually when I go "oh my god I can't keep watching, humiliation squick", I never come back), and I am not exactly invested in these fandoms as movies, I am invested for the fic...
All that said (basically: I am here for the fic, what is this canon everyone talks about?): Coulson is My Kind Of Character. I have a type. I have a very specific type, and Coulson hits it. He is the guy in the corner, the really competant one, also sort of a crossover with my other type of The One Who Gets Left (as opposed to: The One Who Leaves, which are the heroes, the adventurers, etc), the background snarker, etc. He is my type!
And with Clint... I dunno. Because that's who he gets slashed with?
Also, the point about being minor: that's a selling point for me. I always fall in love with a minor character. And that's also a crossover with my Type: the really competant people? The people who get left? Are not the heroes. They are not the ones the story is about. And I want all the stories about them, so clearly I have to write them/seak them out in fic and squee because someone is writing the story that I wish the actual story (i.e. canon) had been about. And alas it wasn't, because we are never getting a 2 hour movie/400 page book about them.
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As someone who has been reading ALL OF THE COULSON fic... okay, I have never actually seen Thor, and I'm not sure I'll ever get around to watching it (a friend who died was really looking forward to it and died before it came out, plus I have heard it's not that good -- a bad combination). And after discovering the character through reading Avengers fic and looking him up, I was able to dredge up the memory of Coulson from the Iron Man movies, which I have seen... and okay, I probably will not watch the Avengers, and it took me two days to get through Captain America (this speaks to how good the movie is, that I did end up finishing it. Usually when I go "oh my god I can't keep watching, humiliation squick", I never come back), and I am not exactly invested in these fandoms as movies, I am invested for the fic...
All that said (basically: I am here for the fic, what is this canon everyone talks about?): Coulson is My Kind Of Character. I have a type. I have a very specific type, and Coulson hits it. He is the guy in the corner, the really competant one, also sort of a crossover with my other type of The One Who Gets Left (as opposed to: The One Who Leaves, which are the heroes, the adventurers, etc), the background snarker, etc. He is my type!
And with Clint... I dunno. Because that's who he gets slashed with?
Also, the point about being minor: that's a selling point for me. I always fall in love with a minor character. And that's also a crossover with my Type: the really competant people? The people who get left? Are not the heroes. They are not the ones the story is about. And I want all the stories about them, so clearly I have to write them/seak them out in fic and squee because someone is writing the story that I wish the actual story (i.e. canon) had been about. And alas it wasn't, because we are never getting a 2 hour movie/400 page book about them.