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cap_ironman2017-07-17 06:11 pm
Rec Week 2017: All New Monday
Together with the members of this community we celebrated a decade of Steve/Tony fandom and fanworks this year! We all have our fandom classics and the old favorites we reread all the time. But we are a fandom that is far from dead and new fanworks are created every day. On All-New Monday it is time to tell us about your new favorites - Steve/Tony fanworks that were posted during the last year. Anything that was posted any time after the end of the 2016 Reverse Big Bang (so since mid-June 2016) should be recced today!
Note: Please mark major warnings for your recs, and if you have time, let us know why you’re reccing it!
Rec Week 2017 Themes and Schedule
Cap-IM Sunday, July 16th: Rec all your favorite works created for one of the Cap-IM challenges
All-New Monday, July 17th: Works newly posted during the last year
Artful Tuesday, July 18th: A rec day highlighting Fanart specifically! Come and rec all the art.
Angsty Wednesday, July 19th: Bring on all the angst!
Fluffy Thursday: July 20th Rec our favourite warm fluff works
Fix-It Friday, July 21st: All fix-its, all day.
Kiss It Better Saturday: July 22nd: Hurt/Comfort of any kind
For anyone new to rec week you can find out more at our Rec Week 2017 intro post.
This year we have three ways to share recs:
1) comment on the day’s Dreamwidth or Livejournal post
2) Reply to the day’s tumblr post
3) Post to tumblr with the tags #capimrecweek
4) Tweet links to your rec posts @cap_ironman using the hashtag #capimrecweek
Have fun! And remember that you can go back and add more recs to the previous days if you missed out or thought of something new, even after a new day has rolled over. While we especially encourage works produced in the last year, old favourites are welcome as well on all of the other days! Just not on All New Monday.
Reccing for all days will remain open for a while until we will compile a round-up of all the fanworks that were recced at the beginning of August, so please feel free to come back and rec and point people at the posts/reblog the tumblr posts. Have fun!
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Summary: Relationships don’t stop at the altar.
Comment: A great look at 3490 Steve/Natasha – I love how Natasha is written here, and the relationship feels very strong and very real.
Multitude of One by nostalgicatsea (MCU)
Summary: "So was I," his soulmate would tell him one day, and what it would mean was that they loved him.
Comment: A heart-breaking MCU soulmates story.
Minutes to Midnight by Woad (616)
Summary: The Illuminati wipe Tony's memories instead of Steve's.
Comment: So this is the story I got as a gift in the last holiday exchange, and I love it so much. There’s so much angst and all the feels and I just can’t!!! *flails about it*
I Promise You, When I'm Awake by navaan (616)
Summary: Steve thinks he's crushing the resistance and the copy of himself that Tony left behind. But comatose or not - Tony might not be finished with this world.
Comment: This is deliciously evil. And it has a BAMF Tony.
Avengers Slash fanart by nanuk_dain (MCU)
Comment: many, many awesome MCU manips that you need to see.
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Yay, recs! Organized from oldest -> newest works from the past year.
Caesura by Ylixia (MCU, Teen, Complete)
Summary: Tony's gotten maybe twelve hours of sleep in the past four days, and he's been carrying the deaths of everyone that matters to him like a rock in his gut.
Comment: So good. It’s a great fic, short look into a moment during the farm scene from Age of Ultron and definitely something I 100% headcanon. Also sharing a bed.
Not Anyone's Shade by kaesaria (MCU, Mature, WIP)
Summary: Tony had fought, at first. Now he just waits.
Comment: This one introduced me to kaesaria’s writing which is all really good! It was for one of the art for the TRB and so much Tony feels. Takes place after Civil War and is like a what-if.
A Certain Kind of Comfort by Comicsohwhyohwhy, laireshi (616, Teen, Complete)
Summary: “Do you want to sit?” Steve indicates the sofa, but Tony doesn’t want to sit, he’s almost shaking with nervous energy.And he can’t hold it in any longer.
"Steve—nothing's right, it's my fault, I—"
"Is that it?” Steve looks considering. His expression changes, too fast for Tony to identify, and then he looks calm as ever—calm and cold. “Is that what you came here to tell me?”
Comment: SO DELICIOUSLY SAD AND ANGSTY and oh gosh, the Steve in this fic completely destroys me. The way he acts is so chilling and oh man, my heart aches for Tony.
Love and trust by laireshi (616, Mature, Complete)
Summary: Tony's always known Steve loving him was too good to be true.
Comment: Laire’s fics always make me cry but especially stories that explore Civil War II/Secret Empire. Honestly some of my favorite. This one is particularly heartbreaking.
Iconoclasts by Woad (616, Mature, Complete)
Summary: Tony has seen Steve bleed out on sandstone steps before. He's watched the footage of the courthouse shooting hundreds of times. And there is no way in hell that he's going to let Steve die on his watch again.
Comment: Also another fic that takes place during Civil War II and oh my god, the ending just crushes you. Uh, it’s not a happy ending but oh god, Tony would do anything for Steve and that just breaks my heart.
Adaptive Immunity by captainshellhead, vibraniumstark (616, Gen, Complete)
Summary: Tony programs Extremis to act as his immune system, and it works a little too well.
Comment: THIS FIC IS SO WELL WRITTEN AND HONESTLY VERY HILARIOUS??? It’s what happens if you program an immune system and I must say, it made me chuckle a lot. My favourite line from this fic has to be “You’ve given yourself an autoimmune disorder” which in the context of Tony Stark is....so him. :P The science nerd inside me is very happy reading this.
i'll swim through the earth (la douleur exquise) by oldglory (MCU, Mature, Warnings: Er there’s a lot - please refer to the warnings in the fic, WIP)
Summary: Following the final confrontation in Siberia, Tony's days are filled with a strange numbness. He wonders, between drinks, what it's like: to be loved by Steve Rogers above all else.
The universe decides to answer him, for once.
Tony learns to be careful what you wish for.
Comment: Incomplete fic and ends at such a cliffhanger part so uh. :P But I re-read Chapter 1 fairly frequently over and over again because it’s so good; it’s Tony fresh out of MCU Civil War and meeting an alternate version of Steve. Who cares A LOT about him. Lots of delicious angst? Poor Tony in this fic though.
Time and Again by Jaylee (616, Teen, Complete)
Summary: If history shaped and molded a person, what was a person without it? Two histories had been created for him, for all of them, one he’d lived in for years, the other only the past year. He certainly preferred the former over the latter, yet he had no actual ownership over either.
The world is in ruin and the only option is to go back and start again from the beginning.
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How two people fall in love with each other twice (without remembering the first time).
Comment: Fix-it for Secret Empire and SO GOOD. Like...the way the story is weaved and how it ties back the idea of leading different lives, different stories - being reborn. I can’t give it a comment that gives it justice, but it’s a beautiful fic that has really touched me and makes me weep because of how GOOD it is.
When I Have Fears by lastdream (616, Teen, Complete)
Summary: Tony Stark has made a lot of intelligent programming in his time, but none of that experience is quite like making an AI version of himself.
Comment: If anyone knows me, lastdream’s works are what I live for. :P This one in particular is a heartbreaking story of Tony Stark programming. Yes. All he does is program but it is SO SAD AND GOOD.
Give Me What You Left Behind and Remake the World with Me by navaan (616, Teen, Complete)
Summary: Tony lies in a comatose state when Steve tells him a truth he can never be allowed to know. Steve’s plan had been to keep the man in an unbalanced state until it was too late until he could show him the new world he would create and now he’s robbed of the chance. But Tony’s AI is around. Now… Now he may have the perfect and final chance to make Tony stand with him, even if he won’t ever have what he really wants.
Comment: I love this fic and all the delicious angst and potential it holds. The idea of Hydra!Steve wanting to keep all versions of Tony to himself and won’t stop until he belongs to him is. ;) Very satisfying. A great read!
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Summary: Tony misses Steve very badly after the Accords. Some days he deals with it better than other days.
Comment: One of my favorite post-CA:CW fics. This fic is too much. Steve pines away like there's no tomorrow, which is exactly up my alley.
The People Who Would Keep Us on Our Knees by Sineala (616, Teen And Up Audiences)
Summary: Tony wakes from his coma and finds a very different world than the one he remembers. Steve's in charge now. And Steve has missed him.
The Right Thing by Sineala (616, Teen And Up Audiences)
Summary: Today is a very important anniversary for Steve and Tony, and the fact that Tony's currently comatose isn't going to stop Steve from celebrating it.
Comment: Sineala's Hydra!Cap fics are just great. I love the insight we get into his mind and it's beyond interesting to read about how transparent he is regarding his feelings for Tony.
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Many face, all of them yours by cptxrogers
616 and 4k words of amazing identity porn. DOUBLE identity porn: no one knows Tony Stark is Iron Man and no one knows Nomad is Cap. Unexpected feelings and super fun.
Captain America, Undone by laireshi
A 616 story that manages to be both incredibly hot and absolutely adorable. Established relationship, where Steve decides that he can out-seduce Tony Stark.
Steve and the Starkosaurus by veldeia
Mcu pure fluff. Tony gets turned into a cute velociraptor and Steve cuddles with him.
Never Eye to Eye by vorkosigan
mcu post-CW fix it and one of my favourite fix it ever, in the mcu civil war drama. The Avengers are back together, Steve and Tony are not kind with each others (quite the opposite), until they are.
Sixpence in his shoe by schifigirl47
Mixed/not clear universe (maybe mcu?). Accidental (not so much) marriage. This is actually a WIP, but I just found out as I honestly read the first chapter as a oneshot, so I am actually ecstatic!
(edit to add a couple of recent fanvideos because fanvideos are great!)
Multiverse SteveTony by FirenstoneThis video is AMAZING, it's done masterfully and it blends together so many different universes, from 616 to Heroes United, mcu and everything you can think of!
Company always, love always by Sow Y
Another multiverse video, and once again, the scenes from different universe are blended so well! This is actually two videos in one.
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To See What Lies Beyond by Veldeia (Marvel Noir)
Summary: Afraid that his declining health will soon put an end to his adventuring days, Tony convinces his friends to join him on the ultimate challenge: climbing Mount Everest. As well-prepared as the 1952 Stark-Rogers expedition is, there are many twists and turns on the way towards the summit that take them by surprise. Is there another team on the mountain? Are Bucky Barnes and his friend, Natasha Romanova, entirely truthful about their story? Not to mention the Yeti, and the lost city of Haven, which could hold the key to fixing Tony's heart for once and for all—if he can survive the journey.
Comment: This is such a creative, well-written story and the characterization is spot on.
Fix You by thegraytigress (MCU)
Summary: The awful script, the play by play and scene by scene… Tony isn't going to let it happen this time. He isn't going to let Steve leave again. He can fix this. They can talk and not fight. He'll have to find a way to make that happen because this has to stop. It has to. He has to make Steve better again.
Comment: This is written in the post-Winter Soldier world and ends up touching on some of the interpersonal conflict in the CW movie. Some absolutely gorgeous characterization to be found here.
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I'd never read that before, and OMG.... no, seriously, I've had to walk away and THINK about all the ways that made me feel.......
and I'm back at the computer, several hours later.... still smh with all the feels at the sheer awesomeness of this fic.
Rec is golden.
Thanks!
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I like "Shiver" and "To the Victor" in particular. If you like, also checkout a few of the other Stony bookmarks I have made over time, they are lovely stories.
And please leave the author a comment since you enjoyed it!! :D
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and yes, I left her a comment, and then edited with MOAR comment and a link to your rec..... :O)
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Summary: They aren’t friends, not anymore. But Steve still loves Tony with all his heart, and Tony still risks his own life to save Steve.
Down to Zero by Sineala (Marvel 616)
Summary: After a battle against the Controller goes awry, Steve is bewildered and guilt-ridden when Tony begins to treat him exactly the same as he treats everyone else.
Honor, Honesty, Valor and Loyalty by magicasen (Marvel 616)
Summary: When Steve tries to break Tony out of Morgan le Fay's mind-control by waking him up, he doesn't expect Tony to kiss him. He also doesn't mean to kiss him back.
The Vegas Remixes (Series) by navaan (MCU, Marvel 616)
Summary: Getting Married in Vegas Across the Multiverse
Moments by captainshellhead, vibraniumstark (Avengers Assemble)
Summary: After being trapped in a pocket dimension, Tony tries to find his way home - and ends up lost in the multiverse.
Lead and I'll Follow by Woad (Marvel Noir)
Summary: Under orders, Captain Rogers prepares for a gala by taking dance lessons. He's not sure how Fury persuaded Adventurer Tony Stark to give said lessons, though.
For comm prompt: For one night, Steve and Tony try to forget there's a war going on as they slow dance, alone in a cozy room.
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This list is extremely biased and I'm sorry (but also not very sorry).
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Summary: During and after the Armor Wars, Steve confronts Tony, and the results aren't what either of them expected.
Comment: I love this so much. The original Armor Wars don’t get explored much in fic and this gave me all the Armor Wars feels that I had never gotten before.
Bodyswap 101 (AvAc/616, Art) by ranoutofrun
Comment: This is just hilarious. I adore the different reactions in the two Tony’s and I hope 616 Tony got home to his man soon after.
Interrogation Series (616) by laireshi
Summary: “I’m artificial intelligence, Steve. I don’t have a body. You can’t hurt me.”
Steve looks at him with dark eyes. “Are you sure of that, Tony?”
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Comment: Okay, this is my favorite Hydra!Cap thing. Steve is just so chilling in his interactions with Tony and so cold and Tony is so full of self-loathing.
Knowing Me, Knowing You (616, Vid) by garrideb
Summary: this fanvid celebrates the 10th anniversary of "The Confession" and of Steve/Tony fandom. You guys have been amazing!
Comment: I love all of garridebs videos, but this was the one she made for the 10 years anniversary of The Confession this year and it is just so good. The choice of song for the moment of that particular comic issue is just so sad and perfect.
Breaking Through (EMH, 3258 words) by Neverever
Summary: Tony can't shake the guilt of nearly killing Steve while under the Purple Man's control.
Comment: EMH fic doesn’t happen too often anymore and this was really good! So much delicious post-Purple Man Tony angst - it’s a delight!
repeated image of the lover destroyed (1300 words) by laireshi
Summary: Steve needs to shatter Tony in order to make him his. But Tony will always rebuild, and he'll always save Steve, too.