Story: "Love Is for Children" (Part 4 of 14)

This story was written for the Asexy Valentines Fest, partly inspired by aceofannwn. It also fills the "game night" square on my card for the trope_bingo fest. This fest features fundamental motifs that will be familiar to most readers. It encourages writers to analyze storylines and characters, then reinterpret them in new ways.

Fandom: The Avengers
Characters: Phil Coulson, Clint Barton, Natasha Romanova, Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, Steve Rogers, Nick Fury, JARVIS
Medium: Fiction
Warnings: No standard warnings apply.
Summary: Phil Coulson is SHIELD's best handler for a reason: he can deal with the broken people that nobody else can manage but desperately need anyway. So he comes up with an unusual teambuilding idea to shore up the Avengers.
Notes: Asexual character. Aromantic character. Asexual relationship. Flangst. Dysfunctional dynamics. Mention of past abuse. Incidental self-injury. Non-sexual ageplay. Games. Cuteness. Teambuilding. Personal growth. Howard Stark's A+ parenting. Hurt/comfort. Trust issues. Making up for lost time. Odin's A+ parenting. Teamwork. Family of choice.

Begin with Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.  Skip to Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14.

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Maple Syrup: Not Lube

 This is what happens when you ask a weird question of an empiricist.  It gets tested to destruction.

Nature Photos

 Misty scenes.

All the Reactions

chordatesrock has posted an excellent resource, "All the Reactions," regarding how people interact with disabled folks.  If you write about characters with disabilities, this may be very useful.

A word of editorial advice: don't try to cram everything into any one story.  Pick the elements that relate most strongly to your plot and characterization needs within that story.  Otherwise it'll get cluttered.

All the Reactions

chordatesrock has posted an excellent resource, "All the Reactions," regarding how people interact with disabled folks.  If you write about characters with disabilities, this may be very useful.

A word of editorial advice: don't try to cram everything into any one story.  Pick the elements that relate most strongly to your plot and characterization needs within that story.  Otherwise it'll get cluttered.

Autism and Culture

 chordatesrock posted about how autistic people should blog.  This is because if you key "Autistic people should" or "Autistic people are" into a search engine, the results are horrific.  As in destructive to neurovariant people and misleading to anyone trying to work with them or write about them.  So, some folks are talking about how to fix this by blogging enough to shift the results.  Linguistic engineering, yay!

A planning post is here on Blogspot.

Autistic People Should is now a blog of its own, with flash blogging scheduled for February 23.

Autistic People Are is also a blog, with flash blogging scheduled for March 2.

You can propose ideas, plan posts, share links in comments, and otherwise help fix the very flustered cluck of shabby information on this topic.  

As it happens, I have a poetic series that fits, and it's featured in a half-price sale next week.  An Army of One: The Autistic Secession in Space is important because a majority of its characters are neurovariant people.  I feel that we need more honest, positive portrayal of under-represented character types in literature.  Storytelling should be for everyone.  

So I'm open to the idea of blogging about this stuff.  What kind of things would you like me to talk about as a ... hmm, a writer who does research before writing things, and while not documented as any kind of neurovariant demonstrably does not think in the same ways that neurotypical humans habitually think?