So it turns out I can access DW on work computers but not LJ. It looks like this is where the party is happening, anyway!
•What's your favorite Steve/Tony-related moment or experience outside of canon?
Okay, so I decided that for the 10th anniversary I'd love to tell you all the story of a piece of fantastic Steve/Tony art I own.
The setting: last year's C2E2. That's the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo. It's the largest convention I go to, and it's great. Tons of cosplay, good panels, and a variety of guests and vendors.
I'm with Jen and Rachel. Jen is old school Steve/Tony fandom. She only ever wrote a few fic for the pairing, but she beta'd some of the early chapters of RR&R. She's my roommate, and we met through Marvel Comics fandom. When I first met her in person in 2010, she talked my ear off about Arnie Roth and 80's Cap. I knew then that we'd be great friends.
Rachel is a newer friend, but we also met through Marvel, sort of-- I posted a picture of a snow sculpture of Magneto that I'd seen downtown, and she reblogged it with tags that mentioned she lived in the same city. Both she and Jen are Captain America girls. I'm a Tony girl. Almost all of my fandom friends are Cap girls, which sometimes makes me wonder about personality types.
So the three of us are at C2E2. It's Sunday, the last day of the con. I start browsing a couple booths that have original comic page art. Most of the pages that attract my eye are waaaay out of my price range, but it can be cool just to be able to touch (in a protective sleeve of course) the original page for, say, Cap's Kooky Quartet arguing amongst themselves. Or an early kiss between Wanda and Vision.
I consider myself an original comic page art collector, even though prior to that C2E2 I only owned one page: Ms. Marvel (1979) issue 23 page 30. It's an amazing page. Carol rescues her astronaut friend Salia, who has been under mind-control. Sal is frightened of this mysterious Ms. Marvel who has saved her, so Carol takes off her mask. So there's Carol cradling Sal in her arms, and the final text box says something along the lines of, "there's no emotion in these sterile corridors except for love."
If you're thinking to yourself, "Wow, that sounds femslashy and flowery, was it written by Chris Claremont?" Yes, yes it was.
Anyway, since snagging that off eBay several years ago, I like to keep an eye on original art auctions just to see if any pages with notable Steve/Tony content (or Carol/Wanda content) come up, and to get a better feel for pricing.
So the three of us are flipping through art pages when suddenly I find myself looking straight at a moment off the Slashy Moments List: Steve and Tony on the phone, arranging a date. That's the top half of the page. The bottom half features Janet arranging a get-together of female superheroes so she can get some more ladies onto the Avengers. She's also looking forward to showing off her new pantsuit.
Yes, this page is from the eighties. And it rocks.
Best of all, it wasn't that expensive, because none of the characters appear in their superhero costumes on the page, so the images aren't "iconic." Ha! If only the seller knew how iconic that image of Steve and Tony on the phone was to me. I'd used it in a vid mere months earlier. I bought that page in a heartbeat.
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•What's your favorite Steve/Tony-related moment or experience outside of canon?
Okay, so I decided that for the 10th anniversary I'd love to tell you all the story of a piece of fantastic Steve/Tony art I own.
The setting: last year's C2E2. That's the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo. It's the largest convention I go to, and it's great. Tons of cosplay, good panels, and a variety of guests and vendors.
I'm with Jen and Rachel. Jen is old school Steve/Tony fandom. She only ever wrote a few fic for the pairing, but she beta'd some of the early chapters of RR&R. She's my roommate, and we met through Marvel Comics fandom. When I first met her in person in 2010, she talked my ear off about Arnie Roth and 80's Cap. I knew then that we'd be great friends.
Rachel is a newer friend, but we also met through Marvel, sort of-- I posted a picture of a snow sculpture of Magneto that I'd seen downtown, and she reblogged it with tags that mentioned she lived in the same city. Both she and Jen are Captain America girls. I'm a Tony girl. Almost all of my fandom friends are Cap girls, which sometimes makes me wonder about personality types.
So the three of us are at C2E2. It's Sunday, the last day of the con. I start browsing a couple booths that have original comic page art. Most of the pages that attract my eye are waaaay out of my price range, but it can be cool just to be able to touch (in a protective sleeve of course) the original page for, say, Cap's Kooky Quartet arguing amongst themselves. Or an early kiss between Wanda and Vision.
I consider myself an original comic page art collector, even though prior to that C2E2 I only owned one page: Ms. Marvel (1979) issue 23 page 30. It's an amazing page. Carol rescues her astronaut friend Salia, who has been under mind-control. Sal is frightened of this mysterious Ms. Marvel who has saved her, so Carol takes off her mask. So there's Carol cradling Sal in her arms, and the final text box says something along the lines of, "there's no emotion in these sterile corridors except for love."
If you're thinking to yourself, "Wow, that sounds femslashy and flowery, was it written by Chris Claremont?" Yes, yes it was.
Anyway, since snagging that off eBay several years ago, I like to keep an eye on original art auctions just to see if any pages with notable Steve/Tony content (or Carol/Wanda content) come up, and to get a better feel for pricing.
So the three of us are flipping through art pages when suddenly I find myself looking straight at a moment off the Slashy Moments List: Steve and Tony on the phone, arranging a date. That's the top half of the page. The bottom half features Janet arranging a get-together of female superheroes so she can get some more ladies onto the Avengers. She's also looking forward to showing off her new pantsuit.
Yes, this page is from the eighties. And it rocks.
Best of all, it wasn't that expensive, because none of the characters appear in their superhero costumes on the page, so the images aren't "iconic." Ha! If only the seller knew how iconic that image of Steve and Tony on the phone was to me. I'd used it in a vid mere months earlier. I bought that page in a heartbeat.