Rec Week 2017: Angsty Wednesday

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We all love Steve and Tony, but sometimes they're just not very good at being happy, are they? (And sometimes we don't want them to be happy anyway.) There is just so much drama and uncertainty - and let's be honest we like the sad and dark feelings that evokes in us. So, today is the day to rec all you favorite angsty fanworks!

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!

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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AA post Season three art by hellogarbagetime
Comment: Poor Steve, he has just lost his Tony. But it’s even worse than that. Just a brilliant coda for the end of the episode.

AA post Season three art by shaliara
Comment: It’s a lovely scene of Carol comforting Tony post “Death of Captain America” and it’s forever edged into my memory.

Some Other Beginning's End (7486 words) by missbecky
Summary:Tony feels sick to his stomach. It can't be true, it can't be. Because Steve is fine. He looks perfectly fine. He isn't sick or poisoned. He has the super soldier serum and he is Captain America and he can't die again, not when he's just come back.
Comment: It's the ultimate unhappy ending fic and Tony's feeling are at the horror of losing the person he cares most about are so well explored. ;_;

Minutes to Midnight (3257 words) by Woad
Summary: The Illuminati wipe Tony's memories instead of Steve's.
Comment: Multiverse, incursions and a lot of guilt. There is this gut wrenching meeting with another Tony that makes this one of my all time favorites. And that end…

Lost Chances (2250 words) by laireshi
Summary: “No,” Tony says.

But Steve already knows what Tony lying to his face looks like.
Comment: Non-con happens in the flashbacks and Steve has to come to terms with how he hurt Tony when he had not really been himself and how maybe it doesn't matter that it wasn't "his" fault. Things are just painful and complicated and the fic does the PERFECT job of conveying that.

Most Faithful Mirror (4815 words) by Kiyaar
Summary: After the events of Fear Itself, Tony is in rough shape. Feelings and porn ensue.
Comment: This just hurts in exactly the right kind of way. A lot of complicated emotions get not-really-worked out during sex and it’s like a punch to the gut.

Zugzwang (2353 words) by Woad
Summary: His package comes back marked "undeliverable."
Comment: Deathfic. This is the SAD ending for Civil War and I love the way Woad writes it.