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10 Years of Cap-IronMan - Party Post
Newer participants may not be aware that the original Cap-IronMan Livejournal community was founded February 19, 2008. Today, we celebrate the 10th Anniversary of our community!
What started 10 years ago as one of the many pairing-specific LJ communities — founded after Elspethdixon and Seanchai had helped bring the Steve/Tony ship to more prominence when they started posting Resurrection, Reconstruction, and Redemption in 2007 — soon grew into an active community, organizing and keeping alive different events and fests that have vastly grown over the years.
Today we want to thank all the different mods and teams, helping hands, and everyone who helped shape the community over the years. Thank you to all the people who have shared their ideas to make new fests and challenges happen, to all fans who have commented and shared recs, and to everyone who helped keep the love going. And of course we want to thank all our creators who contributed to the cap-ironman fests over the last 10 years, and especially to our pinch-hitters and the people who are willing to jump in to make sure everyone is happy in a collaborative event! We couldn't do any of this without you!
This is a celebration of our community and the community is all of you!
Cap-IronMan Anniversary Party
This here is a free-for-all Steve/Tony party post! Feel free to discuss what you love about our shared OTP, share favorite moments, talk about your favorite experiences in this community, share gifs and fanworks, make friends, post links to your own anniversary-related posts — but most of all, share the love!
If you'd like to start a mini-challenge in the comments, we're excited to see it! If you want to, you can also leave fanwork prompts for other people to fill. Anyone who wants to share their fills or wants to create a special thing to share can do so in comments. As you're posting your prompts/fills or mini-challenge in the comments, please have [PROMPT], [FILL], or [MINI-CHALLENGE] in your subject line, followed by a brief description. We have also created a special AO3 collection for your convenience.
CURRENT MINI-CHALLENGES:
Art/Fic Madness
Round Robin
Need a conversation starter? We're also introducing the ...
Cap-IronMan Ask Meme
After so many years, this community has an abundance of stories to tell — and we want to hear them! Whether you're a regular here or new to the community, have taken part in fests or not, whether you're a creator or lurker, or even if you were active here once and aren't anymore, please consider telling your cap-ironman stories to celebrate the last 10 years.
Any Steve/Tony fan is welcome to answer one or all of these questions — all together or one at a time! You're welcome to make up your own questions or just write a post about the Steve/Tony and Cap-IM community stories you want to share the most. We hope to hear from you!
You can find all of the questions in our Ask Meme Questions Masterlist
Where can you answer?
You can answer in comments to this post, you can create your own post with answers and link it here, or you can create one or more posts on tumblr and tag it with #capimaskmeme to share your answers and stories.
Want to receive and answer open questions from members of the community?
You can leave a special comment on this post with the subject line "ASK ME ANYTHING", so people know you're open to be "interviewed" by others — and of course you can indicate on your own posts you're open to more questions by friends and by readers.
Last but not least, we'd like to kick off the upcoming phase of our community anniversary celebrations with:
Cap-IronMan 'Best of Steve/Tony' Nominations
In the 10 yearscap_ironman has been active, we've witnessed many moments between Steve and Tony across all of Marvel's canons as they were published and screened — making up and breaking up in Marvel 616, working as friends then fighting as enemies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, separation and reunion in Avengers Assemble, and more.
To celebrate our community's anniversary, and as a prelude to updating our Slashy Moments list, we'd like to invite everyone to tell us their favorite Steve/Tony moment from the past 10 years, then vote on your favorites in each canon!
For more information and how to nominate your favorite Steve/Tony moments of the last decade, check out the Best of Steve/Tony Nominations post!
We hope you have fun in all of our anniversary activities!
What started 10 years ago as one of the many pairing-specific LJ communities — founded after Elspethdixon and Seanchai had helped bring the Steve/Tony ship to more prominence when they started posting Resurrection, Reconstruction, and Redemption in 2007 — soon grew into an active community, organizing and keeping alive different events and fests that have vastly grown over the years.
Today we want to thank all the different mods and teams, helping hands, and everyone who helped shape the community over the years. Thank you to all the people who have shared their ideas to make new fests and challenges happen, to all fans who have commented and shared recs, and to everyone who helped keep the love going. And of course we want to thank all our creators who contributed to the cap-ironman fests over the last 10 years, and especially to our pinch-hitters and the people who are willing to jump in to make sure everyone is happy in a collaborative event! We couldn't do any of this without you!
This is a celebration of our community and the community is all of you!
Cap-IronMan Anniversary Party
This here is a free-for-all Steve/Tony party post! Feel free to discuss what you love about our shared OTP, share favorite moments, talk about your favorite experiences in this community, share gifs and fanworks, make friends, post links to your own anniversary-related posts — but most of all, share the love!
If you'd like to start a mini-challenge in the comments, we're excited to see it! If you want to, you can also leave fanwork prompts for other people to fill. Anyone who wants to share their fills or wants to create a special thing to share can do so in comments. As you're posting your prompts/fills or mini-challenge in the comments, please have [PROMPT], [FILL], or [MINI-CHALLENGE] in your subject line, followed by a brief description. We have also created a special AO3 collection for your convenience.
- Rules and guidelines for all other anniversary-related events, can be found here: Cap-IronMan Anniversaries Masterpost
- Please mark anything that's not safe for work and put it behind a link or spoiler tag.
- Anonymous commenting is totally, 100% welcome here. However, please remember to be nice to each other and remember to keep it about Steve/Tony, but that is no invitation to bash other ships. (The simple "don't be a jerk" rule applies as always.)
- You can join the party on Tumblr by tagging related posts with #10yearsofcapim among the first 5 tags of your post. We will queue reblogs for the main community tumblr.
- People in this fandom are from tons of different time zones and some of us are super busy! Because of this, this party ain't gonna expire at a set point in time. Feel free to jump in whenever you can!
CURRENT MINI-CHALLENGES:
Art/Fic Madness
Round Robin
Need a conversation starter? We're also introducing the ...
Cap-IronMan Ask Meme
After so many years, this community has an abundance of stories to tell — and we want to hear them! Whether you're a regular here or new to the community, have taken part in fests or not, whether you're a creator or lurker, or even if you were active here once and aren't anymore, please consider telling your cap-ironman stories to celebrate the last 10 years.
Any Steve/Tony fan is welcome to answer one or all of these questions — all together or one at a time! You're welcome to make up your own questions or just write a post about the Steve/Tony and Cap-IM community stories you want to share the most. We hope to hear from you!
You can find all of the questions in our Ask Meme Questions Masterlist
Where can you answer?
You can answer in comments to this post, you can create your own post with answers and link it here, or you can create one or more posts on tumblr and tag it with #capimaskmeme to share your answers and stories.
Want to receive and answer open questions from members of the community?
You can leave a special comment on this post with the subject line "ASK ME ANYTHING", so people know you're open to be "interviewed" by others — and of course you can indicate on your own posts you're open to more questions by friends and by readers.
Last but not least, we'd like to kick off the upcoming phase of our community anniversary celebrations with:
Cap-IronMan 'Best of Steve/Tony' Nominations
In the 10 years
cap_ironman has been active, we've witnessed many moments between Steve and Tony across all of Marvel's canons as they were published and screened — making up and breaking up in Marvel 616, working as friends then fighting as enemies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, separation and reunion in Avengers Assemble, and more. To celebrate our community's anniversary, and as a prelude to updating our Slashy Moments list, we'd like to invite everyone to tell us their favorite Steve/Tony moment from the past 10 years, then vote on your favorites in each canon!
For more information and how to nominate your favorite Steve/Tony moments of the last decade, check out the Best of Steve/Tony Nominations post!
We hope you have fun in all of our anniversary activities!
Re: [ask meme] lots of rambling ;)
I was also pretty intimidated by thinking that I needed to know "all" of 616 canon to start writing, but I've been tackling it an arc at a time, and really enjoying it so far. Never thought I'd find myself reading comics, but there are a lot of really fun arcs that are fairly self-contained which helps with the "endless canon" issue.
also, I had no idea this was gottalovev until I clicked on that AO3 link :-)
ETA: I have that story on my "to read" list, alas I haven't gotten around to it yet. It's mostly that I need to find time to read all 90k of it AND be in the mood for GoT style setting! (I only caught up with all of GoT last December, which was after this was published).
Re: [ask meme] lots of rambling ;)
you are right, I just should start with some story arcs and go from there, good advice. I felt it easier to start with very contained canon like Noir and 1872 for example. I'll tackle 616 one of these days :)
ohhh, yes, I should have said somewhere. I am gottalovev EVERYWHERE but on DW, where I thought "hey, why not confuse everyone and take my RL nickname over here!" lol!
eeep, I hope it didn't sound like I was asking for more people to read the Medieval fic. That was not it at all, and there is no need to feel as if you should have read it already or anything like that! but I am very very pleased if it seems of interest, whenever you find the time for it!
I KNOW it's a beast of a fic. The way it's written, what I hope and have been told is that knowing GoT will allow you to get the little nudges here and there, but it's very different. I personally describe it as mostly a Iron Man 1 AU in medieval time. It was a lot of fun to play with, so I am happy it's out there, whether people read it or not :)
Re: [ask meme] lots of rambling ;)
If you want recs for easily tackle-able storylines, let me know :) I mean, "Red Zone" arc by itself is no brainer, I think, but i'm guessing you've read that.