mandyp12

This fic is currently standing at 120k words. Even generously assuming that 20k of them get trashed in the inevitable rewrite when I finish, it's pretty long. And this fic is a little over halfway done. So it'll probably be 200k words long when I'm done. (Insert my husband saying, "Did you say it was going to be short when you started it?")

Anyway, since it's been so long, context of this fic is it's a Christmas fic in which Strike Team Delta ends up in Phil's hometown of Manitowoc for Christmas, and Clint and Nat meet Phil's entire family. The set up/inspiration for this fic was sort of three-fold:

What if Phil Coulson was the screw up his family and his siblings were way more successful than him?

Going home for Christmas when you're the only one unmarried and/or without kids sucks. A lot. (Cue stories of me sleeping on the couch in my late twenties while everyone else had a bedroom!)

Isn't crazy that when you're home with your siblings and parents you sort of revert to a non-grown-up version of yourself? Some amalgamation of the adult you, the kid you, and the teenage you? And what does that look like for Phil Coulson? And what does Strike Team Delta think of that?

And thus this fic, which has no real name at the moment, was born.

Since I am determined to finish this for this Christmas (really I am!) I have a Sunday Six for us. And I'll probably try to post status updates every week. Despite having two maniac children now, my husband is also onboard plan "get Mandy writing again" and has pretty much point-blank instructed me to use a few hours every week to leave for work a little early and go sit at a coffee shop instead of heading straight to work. So I think it's gonna happen. I think I'm going to get there.

So enjoy this little snippet of a scene, which it took me a shockingly long time to write, that happens right after Phil has a run-in with one of his childhood bullies at a shooting range in Manitowoc.

the idea that thousands of people are calling alexander hamilton a slut

calling any founding father a slut

the idea that people are SHAMING Alexander Hamilton for being Such A Slut he is being SHAMED for being such a naughty little tart, SPREADING HIS LEGS FOR EVERYONE IN CONGRESS

that this was probably prompted by people expression dissaproval for Alexander Hamilton cheating on his wife - that the OP thinks “slut shaming” and “Isnt it gross that he cheated on his wife” are the same thing

Alexander Hamilton has been dead for 210

210 slutty, slutty years

the way that this is presented in such a CHECKMATE SJWS way when they’re talking about a founding father who cheated on his wife and has been DEAD FOR 210 YEARS

the fact that the words “Slutshaming” and “Alexander Hamilton” have been used in the same sentence

i mean just apply what we’d traditionally think of as “slut shaming” to Alexander Hamilton.

His frock coat is too tight, his breaches are so short, have you SEEN how often he powders his wig??? I heard he gave Thomas Jefferson a handy behind the stables AND that he got fingered by John Hancock

These are based off the main languages learnt in the UK plus English

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, in two variations:

1. Keep both title roles human on the grounds that they’re really a single composite character; Kermit the Frog is cast as the Player King for maximum meta fuckery.

BERT: Your experience? Actors. I’m talking about death! You’ve never experienced that. You die a thousand casual deaths and come back in a different hat, but nobody gets up after death. There’s no applause. Only silence and some second-hand clothes!

BERT: [stabs him]

BERT: That’s death!

PLAYER KING: [clutches his wound and falls]

BERT: [pauses] If we have a destiny then so had he, and if this is ours then that was his, and if there are no explanations for us then let there be none for him.

And that’s all I drew.