Steve/Tony Fandom Turns Ten

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Hey, so maybe it's silly to assign a "birthday" to a fandom, but The Confession hit the shelves March 14th, 2007, and the ten year anniversary is fast approaching.

Browsing the Steve/Tony tag on marvel_slash, it's obvious people were shipping the pairing before The Confession but there were only 3 explicitly Steve/Tony fics and a few pretty great fanart posts. The first(?) multi-chapter longfic, Resurrection, Reconstruction, and Redemption started going up a few months after The Confession.

So I'd like to celebrate the ten year anniversary as more than just the anniversary of a particularly angst-filled an poignant ship moment; I'd like to celebrate it as one of the main sparks that ignited this pairing's engine.

Would anyone be up for a cap-ironman party on or around the 14th? It could be one giant post, or a combination of the following:
-comment fic post/kinkmeme
-party post for mingling and sharing favorite gifs, scans, recs, etc.,
-friend meme
-chat room
-starting a tag on tumblr for fanworks created for or during this event, maybe "stevetonyturnsten" or "stonyturns10" or some-such?

If anyone is into this idea, would you be willing to share with your fellow Steve/Tony fans who might not be watching this community?

Please let me know if anyone is into this idea. I've been feeling a resurgence of Steve/Tony love in my heart and it would be lots of fun to share it with a group of people. I might even throw together a vid.

Comments

[navaan]

I think I would try to get someone on board with that, so we can cover MCU and cartoons too. So much has happened!

Also I just realize the Steve/Tony page on fanlore makes it look like this fandom just stopped in 2013 and we should change that. Maybe we can drum up some interest in doing that for the anniversary.

[muccamukk]

At least it doesn't still list the old crew as comm mods, which it did for like three years after we quit.

[navaan]

Yes, well, we mods got proactive about the page for the comm and decided that THAT part was up to us. -.- Teyke revised it at some point last year and then I did after the recent change... because otherwise... nothing would have happened. But the pairing page... I have no idea where to start with that and if I should invest the time and energy. (This comm is enough most days...)