#lifetimeofreading

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.)