2020 Rec Week: Not-Fic Saturday!

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Every year we ask the Cap-IM community to rec all kinds of fanworks for the different themes of rec week, but traditionally most recs have been for fic. Our community is also lucky to many brilliant artists who create fantastic Steve/Tony artworks, sculptures and crafts. We have wonderful podficcers who dedicate their time and voices to breathe life into stories. We have fantastic vidders who produce slick music videos. We have creators that make edits and gifs and manips and moodboards. We have meta posters, and reclist makers, and so much more! Not-Fic Saturday is our special day to encourage recs that reflect the talent and diversity of content that the Steve/Tony fandom produces — you are welcome to rec all fanwork types (as on other days of rec week), except for fic.

Note: Please mark major warnings for your recs, and 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

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Fanart

Some of my favourite recent art is by Hundredthousands, like these

Tony drawings by hundredthousands-art
Summary: Finished some Tony Stark/Iron Man WIPs I’ve been sitting on. The first one is a prompt I got from festiveferret and long overdue. It’s a depiction of Steve’s art piece from their amazing fic, Dreams of The Future, Memories of the Past.
Comment: I particularly love the first one, because I'm always a sucker for people drawing Steve's paintings of Tony and this one is such a gorgeous and inventive one, really striking.

and this

beautiful Steve/Tony piece by hundredthousands-art
Summary: All men have the stars, / [but] you alone will have the stars / as no one else has had them.
Comment: I don't even know where to start with this, it's just perfect - the whole concept, the colours, the execution. It just shines.


I also recently went back to Mrsgingles' art because I realized that she did some of my favourite immediately movie-related pieces:

Post-CW scene by mrsgingles
Summary: So no matter what, I promise you, if you need us - if you need me - I'll be there.
Comment: This is the first one I encountered, right after CA:CW, and it's a lovely movie tag scene, full of angst and heartbreak, but with a little bit of hope for the future mixed in.

"you're alive..." by mrsgingles
Summary: n/a
Comment: IW tag scene, giving us the reunion we didn't yet get in the movie. Again bittersweet, finding each other beaten and exhausted, but also just lovely, with their closed eyes and holding onto each other.

Tony in IM1 by mrsgingles
Summary: reminder that Tony in IM1 was buff af
Comment: Does this need an explanation? No, it doesn't. IM1 Tony looks so damn good and Steve clearly agrees. Including his reaction and Sam's amusement was the icing on the cake.

tired & cuddly by mrsgingles
Summary: n/a
Comment: This one isn't directly movie-related, but I'm including it because it's such a warm and comforting little scene. (Especially because it was done in the wake of CA:CW as well.)


Finally, another recent piece:
Birthday Sunflower by Iwantyoutostony
Summary: Hommage to Tom Lovell
Comment: This one immediately caught my eye and had me going back to it repeatedly because it's such an unusual style for fanart. I really like the vibrancy, the way it catches them in the middle of the moment, and especially how full of light it is, literally and figuratively.


ETA: Forgot this 616 one from a couple years ago, which I wanted to include as well -

Turn the Lights On by Shaliara (616, mini-comic)
Summary: Above all things, Tony was grateful he wasn’t alone. [Context is Steve knowing about the mindwipe and Tony sacrificing himself to fix everything (Tony’s way of fix stuff, ofc).]
Comment: A lovely h/c fix-it comic and as always, Shaliara is great at drawing their bodies and conveying their emotions. I also really love all her framing choices.


Fanvids

Since I think I've recced all my favourite Steve/Tony vids before and given the 2012 theme in the background, I'll rec a couple of team vids for MCU and EMH that people might not have seen yet and that naturally have some Steve and Tony moments as well:

Crew by Isagel (MCU, fanvid) (also on YT)
Summary: I do believe we're all related now.
Comment: There's no love like crew love, or: all Avengers 2012 footage all the time. Really gives a sense of nostalgia for that first movie, tower as the last shot and all.

Your Disco Needs You by twwings (EMH, fanvid)
Summary: oh man this show is so disco though
Comment: Before watching this vid, I never thought about how many colourful light effects there are in this show, but, yes. Ridiculous and fun.

I'll be Your Mirror by twwings (EMH, fanvid)
Summary: FEELS!
Comment: Where the first one has all the action-y fun bits, this one has all the feelings! Protecting and helping each other, hugs and rescues, and a lovely Steve/Tony section in the second half.