#lifetimeofreading

[thefitzsimmonsnetwork]

Hello, Fitzsimmons shippers!

Due to TFSN functioning in a very limited capacity last month, I missed the birthday project for the month of May. 

I’d like to offer a very sincere apology to all of the following awesome people, and ask you to send them some belated birthday love! ♡ ♡ ♡ 

They deserve it in heaps, and I’m so sorry that the net missed a month! 

@widowshulk -- May 1 

@sciencebabies -- May 3

@nothingiswhatyoubelieve -- May 5

@the-nerdy-stjarna -- May 6

@ninedaysafter​ -- May 8

@swanslight​ -- May 11

@the-shy-and-anxious-fangirl​ -- May 11

@complimentandasmile​ -- May 15

@marvelouswhovianfairytales -- May 20

@roxy1alonde​ -- May 21

@lifetimeofreading -- May 21

@maoshield -- May 22

@somethingmarvelous -- May 23

@ftzsimmons -- May 24

@helloagainsarahjane -- May 26

@leofitzes -- May 28

Happy Belated Birthday to you all! 

[plinys]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

When Jemma sets out to prove a psychological theory regarding making men fall in love with her, she ends up choosing Fitz to be her "subject". Little does she know that Fitz has become the unfortunate pawn of two friends, and a bet to see if he can get a girl to hate him by the end of ten dates.

For lifetimeofreading as part of the "A Whole New World" more than 5k fs exchange over on tumblr. They requested a "How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days" AU, but I've never seen the movie, so using summaries from friends and the trailer, I attempted to craft a story. I hope you enjoy it!

[mech-bull]

Follower appreciation fic(let)!

Title: The Hole Shebang Pairing: FitzSimmons Rating: Explicit Summary: lifetimeofreading requested something after or during Dial O for Orgasm. I will summarize this simply as: butt stuff. Um...NSFW

[agentverbivore]

lifetimeofreading replied to your post “Well Formed and Symmetrical :)”

Aww yay! I wondered how show!Fitz & comics!Jemma got along. Poor Jemma, in any universe she never interprets the situation correctly when Fitz avoids her lol.

nooooo, poor thing. at least she doesn’t think he hates her for v long this time, lol, bc his curiosity about her gets the best of him. (he just sort of focuses v intently above her neck, lmao.)

[agentverbivore]

Well Formed and Symmetrical :)

I have a few headcanons about how show!Fitz gets along with comics!Jemma, actually! 

he has trouble speaking when he first arrives because jesus h christ Jemma’s wearing a skintight superhero suit how is he supposed to form words. (he has no idea how to process this, bc this story takes place sometime after FZZT but long before the end of s1, so he has far from figured out his feelings for his best friend yet.) basically, he can’t look straight at her for fear of… problems.

poor comics!Jemma is sort of hurt about this - she senses that something’s off, although she doesn’t know what it is - and feels very self-conscious about being around him (esp. once she manages to get it out of him that she & “his” Jemma look very different). but she still gravitates towards him anyway. she can’t help herself, even if she misses “her” Fitz terribly. being around show!Fitz just sorta makes her feel better.

Send me one of my fics & I’ll tell you something no one knows!

[agentverbivore]

lifetimeofreading replied to your post “Do you think fitzsimmons first child would be a boy or a girl? GIVE ME...”

I LOVE all of this but esp the hair thing. I can imagine teenage Margaret asking her dad to brush and braid her hair when she needs comfort. And then he does it the night before she gets married & they both get really emotional.

AWWWWWWWWWWW yes, I love that!

once she’s gone to sleep, Fitz curls around Jemma in their bed (a part of him is itching to do busywork in their private lab - which they have in lieu of a full garage - but he knows that Jemma will wrangle him back into bed if he tries it). after a long silence: “I’m gonna miss her.” “Me, too.”

[agentverbivore]

For the writing meme: 2,5,8. :)

answered 5 here!

2. What does your id want? Do you ever give in?

kissing. lots and lots of kissing. so much kissing. all the kissing.

also pining. and post-coital cuddling. and more sex than I’m ever comfortable writing. I give in to the first three, but I fight my id more often on the latter, lol. 

8. What parts of writing a fic do you think are a chore?

UGH PLOT. PLOT IS MY NEMESIS. the more I can avoid plot, the better. plot is gross and hard. kissing is much more fun for everyone involved.

(also, pretty much any scene that doesn’t involve either of FitzSimmons, but that is extremely rare because usually I’m writing from only their POVs. and, well, them fighting - but that can also be cathartic to write.)

Send me a number for this writing meme!

[agentverbivore]

jessiecrimefighter said:

This really upsets me as well. I saw a Fitzsimmons blog on here list their 10 favourite fictional characters. Fitz was number one, but Jemma was not on the list at all. I honestly do not understand that.

lifetimeofreading replied to your post “[[MOR] I think one of the reasons why I’m so neurotic about the low...”

Fandom sympathies already kind of naturally gravitate to the male in a pairing & the show helps this along by having Fitz be the pining/emotionally accessible one. Jemma, being logical, scientifically minded, is less easy to empathize with. I personally love your characterization of Jemma in HiD and think it's spot on but I can see how some might find her denial and rationalizing plus comparing Fitz to past lovers less enticing than Fitz's hopelessly romantic pov. That said, if the roles were reversed in both the show & your fic, I'm sure Jemma would get lambasted for being all starry eyed, I'll-die-for-a-man, woe how unfeminist blah blah. The female half of an otp can never win.

*sigh* yeah, I just... I don’t get it. and I really do blame the writers/producers for being completely oblivious about how poorly they’re presenting Jemma’s POV. which I was sort of trying to comment on/counteract with HiD, but... you can only lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. :-)