Well, I'd been a Marvel fan and an Avengers fan (on and off) since almost the very beginning (somewhere I have an unbroken run of Avengers from #1-#150(?) - haven't checked) bought off-stand. However, I hadn't read anything much in Marvel since Disassembled (the reports/reviews I was seeing did not engage me) when the Iron Man movie came out I was shocked and delighted by how good it was and very excited about the Avengers hints in the stinger.
However, I was on gafiation from fandom in general at the time and didn't follow up on fan fic but just kept watching the movies.
Then I found AO3, started putting some of my old fic on site and then started simply scrolling through incoming fic - this was in, oh, late 2011, when that was still just about possible. Within a short time I came across a fic with this summary...
Steve wakes up in the 21st Century. He doesn't think much of it, and it's dubious about him. He meets a Norse God, joins a superhero team, and feels terribly awkward about the whole monument at Arlington he's rendered obsolete by not being dead. Meanwhile, Tony is trying to make his mark on history by being the man who finally drove Nick Fury over the edge.
How could I resist? I read it, and it was wonderful and the accompanying art (by made_of_tin) was stunning. That story was Tomorrow Belongs to Me by Valtyr (http://http://archiveofourown.org/works/259417)
It is still a great -- really, really great -- alternative reality to the start of the Avengers. And, then there was the pairing, which was a really interesting one, and one, that in comic terms produced a "Why didn't I think of that?" from me.
Valtyr's story led me to this site, and then I found the great rec site for the Avengers on TVTropes, the Tales of Suspense archive, elspethdixon's list of fics and now I have 400 fics bookmaked on AO3 alone (and I am, you know, very picky about my fic.) What's more Steve/Tony has become my OTP.
It even got me back into reading Marvel comics. I blame thank valtyr for that too.
(PS: For those of you following 'But in Battalions' I've had a bit of trouble, life and plotting wise, but the next chapter should be up soon.)
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However, I was on gafiation from fandom in general at the time and didn't follow up on fan fic but just kept watching the movies.
Then I found AO3, started putting some of my old fic on site and then started simply scrolling through incoming fic - this was in, oh, late 2011, when that was still just about possible. Within a short time I came across a fic with this summary...
Steve wakes up in the 21st Century. He doesn't think much of it, and it's dubious about him. He meets a Norse God, joins a superhero team, and feels terribly awkward about the whole monument at Arlington he's rendered obsolete by not being dead. Meanwhile, Tony is trying to make his mark on history by being the man who finally drove Nick Fury over the edge.
How could I resist? I read it, and it was wonderful and the accompanying art (by
It is still a great -- really, really great -- alternative reality to the start of the Avengers. And, then there was the pairing, which was a really interesting one, and one, that in comic terms produced a "Why didn't I think of that?" from me.
Valtyr's story led me to this site, and then I found the great rec site for the Avengers on TVTropes, the Tales of Suspense archive,
It even got me back into reading Marvel comics. I
blamethank(PS: For those of you following 'But in Battalions' I've had a bit of trouble, life and plotting wise, but the next chapter should be up soon.)