2020 Rec Week: Tell-All Thursday!

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Today, we want to hear about your favourite canon moments and why you love Steve/Tony! Send through your most beloved gifs, the artist that made you fall in love with the pairing, the writer or fic that opened your eyes… Share the explainer or meta post that convinced you to ship Steve/Tony, or create a ship manifesto of your own! It's Tell-All Thursday, and we're looking forward to seeing what you have to say! We would also love to hear about your SteveTony highlights of 2012, if you were in the fandom back then

Note: Please mark major warnings for your recs, and if you have time, let us know why you’re reccing a work.

2020 Rec Week Themes and Schedule

All New Monday, June 15th: Recently posted works that feel like they were created in 2012.
Tropey Tuesday, June 16th: "Team movie nights!" Come and rec works that have your favourite tropes.
What-If Wednesday, June 17th: Time to rec some AUs! Canon divergence, no-power alternate universes, soulmates… send them all in!
Tell-All Thursday, June 18th: Tell us about your highlights of 2012 or your favourite moments of canon, and share why you love Steve/Tony! Explainers welcome.
First Five Friday, June 19th: Share your firsts with us! The first 5 fanworks that made you fall in love with Steve/Tony, the first 5 people you subscribed to, the first 5 works that you created, the first 5 collabs you did with others, the first 5 anything!
Not-Fic Saturday, June 20th: A rec day highlighting fanworks like moodboards, manips, fanvids, podfics and artworks!
Cap-IM Sunday, June 21st: Rec all your favorite works created for a cap-ironman challenge!

There are several different ways to participate:

• Comment with your recs on the themed daily posts that will go up on our Dreamwidth and Livejournal communities. (Anon commenting allows everyone to participate, even if they don’t have an account.)


• Reply to a day's Tumblr post that will go up on our Cap-Iron Man Tumblr with your recs.


• Make a Tumblr post with your recommendations, mention the @cap-ironman Tumblr and tag it with #capimrecweek within the first five tags on the post (you can DM or email us the link as well). Please include the day’s theme somewhere in the body of the post. On the dedicated day we will reblog posts for the day’s theme on our community Tumblr and later include them in 2020 Rec Week masterlist.

If you have any questions, please let us know in the comments to our announcement post, send us an ask on Tumblr or email us at cap.im.events@gmail.com.

Comments

[felis]

I don't think there's one specific fic or art work or meta post that 'convinced' me to ship them - they kind of made me ship them all by themselves, starting with the MCU right after CA:CW, and then expanding into comics and other universes. (Which, by the way, definitely a feature: you get several version of them, which are all distinctly Steve and Tony, but they are also all specific to their universe and not interchangeable.)
This jump from MCU into comics was very much helped by sineala's posts, though, which included all her fics (always with canon references in the notes, too) as well as her helpful rec list across universes (also very useful for universe overview purposes) and her posts on starting points for comic reading, like this essential stony reading one or this favourite tony and steve arcs one (still have these two bookmarked because I haven't actually read all of the stuff mentioned in them).

Plus, reccing one piece of art here: hellogarbagetime's 616!Steve/Tony shaving scene. I love everything about it, but I guess one of the main aspects of it is trust. Which in turn is one of the key themes in their relationship for me, in all its complexity. For example, you get implicit trust and understanding on one hand, but also these instances of conflict where both personal issues as well as differing worldviews and big picture problems can throw a wrench in that trust and bury it, or fracture it for a while. (One of the many reasons I loved Endgame so much for their relationship is that it made that theme explicit.)