Rec Week 2017: All New Monday

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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!

Comments

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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.

or

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!