CA: TFA was the first MCU movie I watched! And I enjoyed it a lot - I adored Steve. Along the way I found out there was a kinkmeme for it, to which I went: "oh, people probably pair Steve with that best friend of his, huh?" Then I actually visited the place and went "...who in the world is Tony?" And I found out he's Iron Man, and I really had no idea about the shared Marvel universe, since my knowledge of Marvel were from the movies where everyone is so separate. Thus ended my interest in Avengers.
...Until the movie, when I was linked to the ship manifesto, fell in love, and did nothing for an entire summer but read Steve/Tony across all universes (I'm not kidding here about doing nothing else on the internet. I abandoned my tumblr, I didn't post on the forums I regularly frequented. I was a goner.) I figured out while in the middle of this binge that I'm more drawn to 616, which I realized to my horror I'd actually have to read one of these days, huh?
I'm actually still not too big a fan of the comics format (sequential art is not really my thing - I'm not good with manga, either) but I do enjoy the stories comics tell in their own right now!
The first 616 fic to really resonate with me was W.I.P.E. (http://archiveofourown.org/series/10994) I mean, boy, was I confused without any canon knowledge, but I really, really liked the whole idea of Extremis, and it was really made me go "okay, I have to read some comics to better understand it! And Civil War! And a brain delete, whaa...?" I still like it just as much rereading it after familiarity with the comics!
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...Until the movie, when I was linked to the ship manifesto, fell in love, and did nothing for an entire summer but read Steve/Tony across all universes (I'm not kidding here about doing nothing else on the internet. I abandoned my tumblr, I didn't post on the forums I regularly frequented. I was a goner.) I figured out while in the middle of this binge that I'm more drawn to 616, which I realized to my horror I'd actually have to read one of these days, huh?
I'm actually still not too big a fan of the comics format (sequential art is not really my thing - I'm not good with manga, either) but I do enjoy the stories comics tell in their own right now!
The first 616 fic to really resonate with me was W.I.P.E. (http://archiveofourown.org/series/10994) I mean, boy, was I confused without any canon knowledge, but I really, really liked the whole idea of Extremis, and it was really made me go "okay, I have to read some comics to better understand it! And Civil War! And a brain delete, whaa...?" I still like it just as much rereading it after familiarity with the comics!