Ooh, I’m tempted! Might do a remix of Living on Your Breath from Tony’s pov, if you’d be cool with that!

I would definitely be cool with that! 

(You don’t need to ask me – you can remix whatever you want of mine! That’s how this thing works. The only thing is that in order to participate in Remix Madness, you have to sign up and offer up your own works to be remixed, so you have to have at least one Steve/Tony fanwork. But if that isn’t something you can do or want to do, I also am cool with remixes at any time even if they’re not affiliated with Remix Madness.)

I just wanted to say that I signed up for Cap-IM Remix Madness so if anyone wants to sign up and remix me, you can totally do that. I’m not sure yet who if anyone I will be remixing, but I put myself in anyway.

(Currently I am unsuccessfully attempting to write a bunch of Fandom Stocking ficlets. Thanks to having had a cold all week, I am not anywhere near the number I want to write, but I’m at least going to have a couple of them done. I guess I’ll see what I can make happen this week. I haven’t been having a lot of writing luck lately.)

The thing about tentacles is, as with a lot of kinks, that it’s really hard to explain why you like it because either you’re into it or you’re not, you know? So I don’t think I can explain why fandom latched onto tentacles other than, well, people saw tentacles and decided they liked them.

Everything I know about the history of tentacles in fandom is pretty much covered on the Fanlore page about tentacles. Fandom came to it by way of tentacle hentai anime in the 80s, as far as I know. The classic of the genre is Urotsukidouji (Legend of the Overfiend) but I’ve never seen it so I don’t really know much about it. 

Obviously the Big Two superhero books have featured tentacles for a long long time – they’re fun! they look cool, visually! it’s Wednesday and the superheroes need to be in bondage again! – but I don’t think eroticized tentacles were ever really A Thing in terms of cultural awareness until tentacle hentai became popular.

(A forerunner of modern tentacle erotica is of course Hokusai’s The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife which, uh, yeah. That’s a thing that exists.)

Also, now that I am looking at the Fanlore page I am remembering how much I liked the Sime~Gen novels and wondering why that never took off as a fandom setting for AUs. It has tentacles and super-special pair-bonding and biological imperatives! Fandom loves these things!

Thank you! <3

I went through my bookmarks and pulled out a bunch of Steve/Tony that I tagged “au” and remember liking, so here you go. There is no particular unifying theme here other than that I tried to pick things that don’t already get recced a lot because I figure we’ve all read them.

• Afterheat by tryfanstone. A world where people go into heat and turn into anthropomorphic cats.
  
• A Man to Ride the River With by a_sparrows_fall. 1872 AU in which Steve is a mermaid. Merman. Mer. Whatever. He’s got a fish tail.
• The Blade’s Edge by Teyke. 616 historical AU set in a Japanese-themed world; Tony is a swordsmith and Steve is a samurai.
• Captain Rogers and the Iron Man of La Rochelle by Muccamukk. A 616 historical AU that is heavily inspired by The Scarlet Pimpernel.
• Descent by Teyke. 616 high fantasy AU. Lots of magic.
  
• Emanata (The Comics Will Break Your Heart Remix) by teaberryblue. AU set in 616 early canon in which Tony owns a comic book company and Steve is a comics artist and also they are both Avengers, not that they know this about each other.
• Every Little Thing He Does Is by a_sparrows_fall. A Harry Potter AU set on Earth-57289, which is a world where Tony works for Rhodes Industries. Steve is an Auror undercover in the Muggle world.
• Iron Out the Kinks by panickyintheuk. Steve goes to the BDSM dungeon where Tony works.
• Open Field in Front of Him. MCU college AU.
• The Plague of York by deadeyeboy. Ults fantasy AU. Lots of monsters.
• This Thing of Darkness by Mizzy. X-Factor #231 AU.

I hope you enjoy them! I know I have!

marvelheroperil:

Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers) is caught in the monster’s tentacle.

- Captain Marvel v10 #1, 2019

naamahdarling:

naamahdarling:

rhube:

bastardlybrendan:

fuckingrecipes:

facts-i-just-made-up:

I spent like 15 hours on this.

*impressed slow clap*

This was ridiculously pleasing to read out loud. 

This is a legitimately fine poem. I say so with my BA in English and Philosophy and my PhD. It’s DAMN HARD to write something like this. Be impressed, yo.

Transcript of poem in screenshot:

First the cracker batter baker bakes a cracker batter batch
then the cracker batter mixer door will open and unlatch
so the batter mixer nozzle can descend onto the patch
where the cracker batter spreads out for the nozzle to attach.

When the cracker mixer nozzle sprays the cracker batter spray
and the cracker batch emulsion lies a-soaking in its haze
then the cracker batter mixer starts to stir up all the glaze
that the final cracker stacker needs to lubricate the way.

Once the cracker stacker handle stacks the cracker batter squares
then the cracker batter’s hardened into double stacks of pairs.
Now the cracker separator breaks the crackers in the stackers
so the wrappers on the stackers fit the finished stacking crackers.

Then they’re distributed to Wal-Mart.

I forgot about this magnificent poem, and you probably did too. Here it is again.

I highly recommend trying to read it aloud, it feels delightful and is almost impossible.

Honestly, the way that has worked best for me is “make a bunch of friends who will let you bounce story ideas off them and then ask them if they’d mind taking a look at your draft.” Other things that can help with this pursuit include engaging in comment threads on AO3 – say, if you’re writing/posting a WIP and you have regular commenters – because odds are good you can find someone who’s willing to beta what you’re writing. It also helps to reciprocally offer to beta for people because it builds trust and this is how we human. You don’t have to be a particularly good beta – I’m not! – but even if, like me, you can only do SPAG and canon compliance, someone somewhere is going to find that useful and then maybe they will beta for you. I think fandom is built on reciprocal niceness.

Other options:

There are usually people offering beta services in the various fandom charitable auctions – Fandom Trumps Hate is going on right now – and you can get a beta and support a good cause.

If you’re looking for Steve/Tony betas specifically, the Cap-IM community has a List of Beta Readers. You can pick one and send them an email!

If you’re looking for a Steve/Tony beta and you also use Discord, both the 616 and MCU servers (both 18+; the all-ages server does have brainstorming channels if you need that) have Beta roles. You can join and ping the Beta role with an @ mention and everyone who has volunteered as a beta will see your message. Response times are usually pretty fast.

Hope that helps!

cannibalcoalition:

cannibalcoalition:

Spider plant, spider plant

Does some things that spiders can’t.

Clones itself in a pot

Makes the air fresh when it’s not.

I’m… gonna steal this spider plant.

Spider plant, spider plant.

 Friendly cubicle spider plant.

 Kinda like Fieri’s hair 

But takes formaldehyde from the air. 

Look out, i stole a spider plant.

wonderytho:

me irl