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Last year we celebrated 10 Years of Steve/Tony. So far this year, we celebrated the 10 year anniversary of the [community profile] cap_ironman community and next month it'll be time to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. A lot of time has passed, a lot of fans have shared their love for the Steve/Tony ship with us and put in work to share the love for this ship.

In July, it will be ten years since elspethdixon posted her Captain America/Iron Man (Marvel Comics) Ship Manifesto in the [livejournal.com profile] ship_manifesto community on Livejournal: an essay and overview of the Steve/Tony ship that aided the start of our fandom and the still active Steve/Tony community.

Ten Years Later



Much has transpired during those ten year in Marvel Comics canon, the Marvel multiverse, and in the Steve/Tony fandom. But not least of all, the MCU has given shippers an accessible and immensely popular Steve/Tony universe, and brought in so many new members to our community in the past decade. Just look at all the brilliant Steve/Tony moments everyone voted on during our Best of Steve/Tony 2018 votes.

Steve/Tony and the Marvel multiverse go hand-in-hand. And that's why it is time to for the community to come together to continue on the legacy of the Steve/Tony Ship Manifesto, and help create the...

The Steve/Tony Multiverse Ship Manifesto



Join the Ship Manifesto discussions! )

The Cap-Iron Man Slashy Moments List



The Slashy Moments are getting an update! )
[identity profile] grey-bard.livejournal.com

Because I love Steve Rogers very, very much, because I'm a dialogue obsessive and because I found him frustratingly hard to write, last year, after Captain America: The First Avenger came out, I made an audio dialogue file of all his most important lines.

Analyzed and linked here are Steve's most important lines of dialogue from Captain America: The First Avenger, as an aid to writers who want to write Movieverse Steve*. At less than 10% of the runtime of the movie, this counts as fair use for educational purposes.
This post was created with the transcription aid of [livejournal.com profile] yunafire.

Analysis:

Because Steve Rogers, even before the serum, never hesitates to tell anyone what he thinks, it's easy to miss the fact that he doesn't actually talk very much. He always makes his opinions known and he's happy to talk with friends, but he doesn't need as many words to do it. Captain America has fewer lines in his own movie than Black Widow has in The Avengers.

Because of this, and because it shows him in a wider variety of moods and contexts than The Avengers, I've decided to transcribe and analyze his dialogue in Captain America: The First Avenger instead of The Avengers.

Steve tends to speak in short, slightly choppy phrases and sentences, and is prone to dropping unnecessary words, particularly at the beginning of sentences. (Not always, but generally.) See: "You start running, they'll never let you stop. You stand up, push back. Can't say no forever, right?" and "Got hit, couldn't shake it." Much of the humor and emotional content of his speech is carried entirely by tone of voice, which, while not wildly dramatic, is extremely expressive. His joking tone is wry when he's feeling down, sly when he isn't and usually self-deprecating either way.

More analysis, a dialogue transcript and accompanying audio file here.

* All analysis is only intended to apply to Steve Rogers in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, not any other incarnation of Steve Rogers.

muccamukk: Wanda walking away, surrounded by towering black trees, her red cloak bright. (Default)
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Tony Stark selflessly preforming first aid on Steve Rogers. The Avengers v3 #70.

The structure of H/C is usually such that we have some discussion of the hurt, then later we get comforting to make the hurt better. The hurt is frequently injuries in battle, torture, illness or odd things done by aliens and/or wizards. The comfort may or may not involve wild monkey sex, or snogging at the very least. However, between the horrible torture and the wild monkey sex, there is usually some kind of scene wherein the comforter (let's call him Tony) finds the hurt person (Steve, for example) in a state of hurtness (totally a word!). At this point, Tony will probably have to do something immediately to help make Steve better, or at least to keep him from dying before Tony can cradle his seemingly lifeless from in his iron-clad arms and fly away into the sunset (or into the local hospital).

This would be first aid.Read more... )
[identity profile] tsukinofaerii.livejournal.com
Friday again, etc etc, this week's meta is on characterization. Heroes/Protagonists, Villains/Antagonists, love interests and minor characters all abound within. :D

On Writing Steve/Tony Part 8: What Measure a Figment?
[identity profile] tsukinofaerii.livejournal.com
It is Friday, and I am Wordy. Well, not really wordy, but I have the usual meta to present. This week is on genre, also covering subgenre, mixed genre and unfaithful tropes.

On Writing Steve/Tony Fanfic Part VI: Romancing the Genre (aka "Faerii could not think of a snappy title")

Meta: VI

Aug. 6th, 2010 05:10 pm
[identity profile] tsukinofaerii.livejournal.com
Y'all are free to hate me now, because this isn't even close to a finished series, oi. Part 6 of the meta series it up. This time, on plots; how to use 'em and how to lose 'em. You can tell that I got a cheesecake craving about mid-way though. *g*

Part 6 of Writing Steve/Tony: Plotting the Course
[identity profile] tsukinofaerii.livejournal.com
It's that day of the week again! Writing Meta Part 5 is up and posted. It covers Outlines. Namely, ways they can be useful. This one is less of a "tips and tricks" meta. Outlines are really very unique to each person, so I'm hardly going to make a prescriptive of them. ♥

Meta #4

Jul. 23rd, 2010 04:19 pm
[identity profile] tsukinofaerii.livejournal.com
Friday again, and more meta! This time, it's Tropes. Specifically, Bad Tropes. Follow the bouncing link.

Tropes to Run Away From Very Quickly
[identity profile] tsukinofaerii.livejournal.com
♪ This is the meta that never ends ♫

Yep, I'm back again, and back on schedule. Part 3, To FedEx, With Love, which covers the terminology of shipping, the effects of privilege in a ship, shipping stereotypes and the Canon Love Interest.

Meta again

Jul. 9th, 2010 11:59 pm
[identity profile] tsukinofaerii.livejournal.com
I totally forgot to crosspost this earlier. (facepalm) Summary, because it's late: [livejournal.com profile] muccamukk was kind enough to work with me to do a beta exchange, so I could use examples of beta reading for one of these meta pieces. We were able to get that done this week, so the Shipping post has been slipped back. That will be posted next week.

Meanwhile, here's the beta post. On Writing Fanfic - Love Your Beta.

NOTE: There is adult content in the post.
[identity profile] tsukinofaerii.livejournal.com
(creeps in) Following up my post last week (I hope to make this a Thing I Do On Friday), I come with new meta. This week's topic is the relationship between the author and the audience. It's... Well, to say "tricky" isn't doing it justice, so I'll just use an appropriate icon. Subjects covered include reasons for writing, communication, research and The Evil That Is Wikipedia. As always, the focus is on Steve/Tony. ♥ If anyone is interested, follow the link.

On Writing Fanfic Part 2 - the Audience and You
[identity profile] tsukinofaerii.livejournal.com
I'm getting started on a long series of meta posts on writing fanfiction, with Steve/Tony as the focus. (This is not at all a subversive attempt to turn Steve/Tony into a universal ship through the art of Exposure. Not. At. All. Why are you looking at me like that? ¬.¬) Since writing Steve/Tony is Relevant To Community Interests, and the comm seems slow, I thought I'd crosslink the first post and get some writing discussion going. The post is over at my LJ.

On Writing Fanfic Part 1 - Know Your Canon
muccamukk: Wanda walking away, surrounded by towering black trees, her red cloak bright. (Default)
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This is not a mod post declaring what the comm policy on concrit Shall Be From Now On. As far as our rules go, the only mention of commenting policy is from the comm's info:
...we ask that you remember that opinions are just that - opinions. You don't have to like or agree with someone's opinion, but we ask that you respect it and the individual who put it forth. Respect and basic courtesy is not an optional aspect of our community; it's the foundation. When in doubt, just think: What would Steve Rogers do?

(Note: if you feel that the immediate answer to that last is "call your team leader a 'low-life mercenary' and punch him in the face,"* you may wish to pause and reflect some more before posting).

However, I do think that this is an interesting topic for our comm to discuss. Though this topic does the rounds on metafandom about once a year, there hasn't been a lot of talk about comm policy on it, what the open exchange of concrit might do to the feel or environment of a comm, or, often (once the debates get sidetracked into the issue of the week) what concrit even is. And, hey, rehashing metafandom is a fandom tradition, it's why there is a metafandom.

So I mean it more in the spirit of [livejournal.com profile] valtyr's Role of the Beta post.

Why Do You Want Concrit )

How to Give Concrit )

How to Receive Concrit )

Things That Are NOT Concrit That I Still Want to Talk About )

So? Thoughts, comments. Past relationships with concrit? Talk to me.

*See The Avengers Vol 1 #168 for details.
[identity profile] otherhazards.livejournal.com
For all Cap’s ‘old-fashioned’ ways, he’s not the only one who sometimes acts with an old-school mindset.  (Essay/monologue)

[identity profile] crimsonquills.livejournal.com
Hey folks! As some of you know, I recently wrote a Steve/Tony themed essay for [livejournal.com profile] superhero_muses. The final version of the essay (text unchanged except for typo correction, but now including issue references and links to supporting scans) is now live at this link: http://community.livejournal.com/superhero_muses/50497.html

Reaction has been positive so far, and based on comments on some of my fic, I think some folk who read it have been poking around Steve/Tony fandom to see what they think. :-) :-) :-)
[identity profile] elspethdixon.livejournal.com
So, I'm still a couple of months down the queue from being able to post this at [livejournal.com profile] ship_manifesto, however... I give you the draft version of the Steve/Tony manifesto:

A Sword, a Horse, a Shield

The Steve Rogers/Tony Stark ship manifesto.


(I could not love thee, dear, loved I not honour more)


Any additions, suggestion, edits, etc. are welcome. There wasn't room to listeveryone's fic at the end, so I tried to pick a representative sample.