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18+ 616 Steve/Tony Discord Book Club: Iron Man & Power Pack

It’s Iron Man week for Book Club on the 616 Steve/Tony Discord, and we’re reading Iron Man & Power Pack, a 2008 all-ages miniseries by Sumerak, DiChiara, and Gurihiru. This is set on Earth-5631, which as far as I can tell is a universe consisting entirely of all-ages Power Pack team-up miniseries.

This series features Tony and the Power Pack teaming up against a representative cross-section of Tony’s villains – Ghost, Ultimo, Puppet Master, Speed Demon, Blizzard, and Titanium Man. There’s a two-parter in which Tony’s old armors are displayed in a museum exhibit, which would definitely be a bad time for a villain to start controlling all of them at once and using them for evil. I can’t imagine what happens next.

So come read this with us! It’s cute!

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Y'all simply must see this Roman mosaic from Thysdrus (El Djem, Tunisia)!

The text reads: invidiā rumpuntur avēs neque noctua cūrat, "the birds are bursting with envy but the owl doesn't care."

Which, accurate description indeed.

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18+ 616 Steve/Tony Discord Book Club: Captain America & Nick Fury: Blood Truce

This week on the 616 Steve/Tony server, it’s Captain America week for Book Club, and we’re reading Captain America & Nick Fury: Blood Truce, a 1995 one-shot by Chaykin, Schwartz, and Currie.

Steve and Nick Fury are engaging in some spy shenanigans – along with their old, uh, comrade Titanium Man – which is considerably more entertaining when you remember that Steve is very, very bad at espionage. Seriously. I think the best possible thing I can say to entice you to read this comic is that it’s the one where this panel is from:

You know you want to find out more.

Come join us on You Gave Me A Home, an 18+ comics Steve/Tony Discord server!

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steve/tony multiverse bracket poll round 3 🥊

mcu 🆚️ 616

mcu

616

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Fall of X (Steve/Tony Edition)

For anyone else who is a comics Steve/Tony fan who doesn't usually read X-Men comics and is now finding themselves needing to wade through the Fall of X, this is everything I have found that's out now (or coming out very soon) in the order you should read it, that pertains to Steve and/or Tony.

This is accurate as of today (September 16); we are obviously not done with the event so this list will not stay accurate, but if you want to hop on now, this is how you'd do it.

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Updated Fall of X order! This is as of October 6. New since last time is Uncanny Avengers #2, Iron Man #10, Ms. Marvel #1 and 2, and X-Men #27.

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steve/tony multiverse bracket poll: round 1C

avengers assemble 🆚 ultimates

avengers assemble

ultimates

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Look. It's probably too late to influence the vote, but just in case, here's some propaganda in the form of all my favorite Ultimates universe stony fics:

A Hundred Times, Once by FestiveFerret, SirSapling (@festiveferret, @sirsapling) (Explicit, 24,761 words)

Summary: The shrill tone of his SHIELD beeper pulls Steve out of sleep and into battle. He fights robots, he fights Tony's shameless advances, he fights the exhaustion that threatens to take over him, drown him. And then the next morning, he wakes and does it again. Exactly the same.

And again.

And again.

And again.

Also available as a podfic read by Pywren (@phyrrhicvictory)

Exposed by FestiveFerret, SirSapling (@festiveferret, @sirsapling) (Explicit, 5,979 words)

Summary: Of all the people Steve could be stuck with while this agonizing drug surged through him, of course, it had to be Tony Stark.

All of Your Lonely Sieges by WhenasInSilks (@whenas-in-silks) (Mature, Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, 13,236 words)

Summary: Steve and Tony are stranded in the wilderness. Things go downhill from there.

The story of thirty-six hours.

A bunch more below the cut!

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iheartallthethings asked:

☔, you have so many plot ideas that I'd love to know what didn't make the cut

Lishan! Hiiiiii!

I feel like this one is hard to answer, not because I don’t have things I’m not writing but because a lot of what is on my “write this someday maybe” list is stuff I’m not entirely ruling out not writing. Wow, that had way too many negatives in it.

Anyway. So there’s stuff on my ideas list that I just haven’t gotten to yet because I am trying to knock some current WIPs off my WIP list and I’ve promised myself I am not starting a story I know will be novel-length until I’ve finished something else. (Unfortunately, I accidentally a novel for two of my current WIPs. Whoops.)

So that section of the WIP list has a lot of stuff that’s, like, fully outlined – not quite down to the scene-by-scene level but in enough detail that I could start writing. This would be, like, “the story where Steve time-travels from the future to meet ToS-era Tony before the Avengers exist and they fall in love – I mean, Steve was already in love – and then Steve has to leave before the Avengers form, and a couple months later Tony is very surprised to learn that Captain America is alive and also he’s been banging Captain America from the future.” I could start writing that right now. It would absolutely be a novel.

There’s stuff that I’d like to write that’s pretty well fleshed out as a premise but not currently writable, because of things like I haven’t yet figured out exactly how the POV works. This is, like, “the BDSM AU where the serum was supposed to make Steve a dom and it did not and he decides he can just lie about it and never tell anyone he is a sub, because then they will kick him out of the army, and then he has entirely different problems when he gets to the future because wow does he like Tony.” Also a story I would describe as “Secret Empire canon-divergent AU with wall-to-wall non-con” but I also haven’t figured out how the POV works or how any of the comfort in the h/c works but I know how to break Steve and Tony very, very badly. I just can’t put them back together yet. Also those would both be novel-length.

And then there’s stuff on my ideas list that I just come up with randomly that I think might be fun, because I am apparently just very fond of generating elaborate sex farce plots on the fly, and there’s nothing wrong with them but there’s also no immediately compelling reason why I should write them right now. Like “the one where Steve extremely earnestly asks Tony if Tony would like him to send nudes and Tony’s not sure if Steve’s trolling him and somehow Steve and Tony end up in a situation in which Steve sends Tony artistic and photogenic dick pics every day and Tony can’t figure out if Steve means for Tony to jerk off to them or just admire them for their artistic merit because they’re actually very well-composed and elegant and Steve doesn’t say. Tony feels like he can’t just ask Steve this because he thinks this is the kind of thing he’s probably already supposed to know about their relationship, you know, whether they’re in any way involved with each other. So in the meantime he’s just going to die of lust and also frustration.” I might write it! I might not! It’s fun to ponder, anyway.

So, yeah, those are some things I’m not writing.

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holistic-alcoholic asked:

🌤️Share your favorite piece of dialogue from your WIP

Here’s a bit from a half-finished Steve/Tony story set after AXE Judgment Day, in which Tony discusses his retirement plans:

“I do. I’m sorry I didn’t think to tell you before, but I do,” Tony says. He sighs. He’s biting his lip. He’d be fidgeting more if he weren’t holding Steve’s hand. He doesn’t like talking about this. He doesn’t think anyone does. “Superheroing is a game for the young. I’m not young anymore. And someday the game will get called on account of darkness, and I’ll have to leave the field.”

Unexpectedly, Steve laughs, a dismayed little bark of surprised laughter. He’s really not okay. But at least Tony made him laugh. He’ll take it.

“That’s the saddest baseball metaphor I’ve ever heard,” Steve tells him.

“You love baseball metaphors.”

That actually earns Tony a wry little smile, a real smile, from Steve. “I suppose I do,” Steve concedes. “Just… maybe not that one.”

Time to get back to his point. Tony gestures at himself with his free hand. “Steve, I’m baseline human. Now and for the foreseeable future. No healing factor anymore, remember? And barring any more terrible decisions I might make about Extremis or any other super-soldier serum analogues” – Tony hopes there won’t be any more terrible decisions, but he also wasn’t really himself for the last one – “I’m not planning on having any physical upgrades. No more enhancements. And I’m closer to forty than I’d like to admit.” He winces. “I can only compensate for the effects of aging by modifying my armor for so long. Eventually my perception, reflexes, and reaction time will slow to a point where I’m unsafe in combat. Five, ten years, maybe?” He shrugs. “That’s not right now, no, but it’s inevitable. And I don’t want to be on the battlefield when that happens. I want to be out of there before I start making the kinds of mistakes that get people killed.”

I just felt like Tony probably should have retirement plans.

Also, yes, I’m aware that baseball fields now have electric lighting.

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urisarang asked:

for the ask game and because I love to be hurt gimme dat ANGST

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I would just like to say that I have fic that is much angstier than this excerpt but I was trying to pick one where the excerpt would not spoil too much of the story.

Anyway, in this completely-finished draft of a story about Whitney Frost that I have just needed to edit for approximately four years, Tony has told the media that he’s dating someone but has not said who (it’s Steve). Whitney has kidnapped Tony in an attempt to get Tony to tell her who he’s dating, presumably so she can make their life miserable. She has also, ironically, kidnapped Steve in an attempt to use him as leverage, so she can threaten to hurt Steve if Tony doesn’t tell her the truth. She has no idea, at this point, that Steve is precisely the person she’d like to be hurting anyway.

“I won’t,” Tony rasped. “No. I won’t do it.”

Whitney half-turned away from him and one of her hands dropped below the table. When she lifted it again, she was holding a gun. Tony couldn’t say he was surprised by this development.

Tony wasn’t going to panic. He’d been through a hell of a lot worse. For all the times Whitney had threatened him over the years – and there had been quite a few of those – she’d never actually shot him. Sure, she had a gun, but this was going to be all right. He could talk her down. He’d always been able to talk her down.

Then Whitney turned, lightning-quick, aimed, and shot Steve.

The gunshot echoed, thunderously loud.

“No!” Tony yelled. He didn’t realize he was struggling until the cuffs bit into his wrists as he tried to lunge forward. He was helpless to stop her. “No, Whitney, don’t!”

There was a bullet wound high on Steve’s thigh. Steve’s eyes were squeezed shut. His breathing, muffled by the gag, was harsh, pained. Blood was soaking the leather of his uniform, spilling out of him at an alarming rate.

Oh, God. It was so much blood.

This is not even close to being the worst thing that happens to Steve and/or Tony in this story. :D

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onemuseleft asked:

🌤️Share your favorite piece of dialogue from your WIP.

Man, I reblogged this meme and then wandered away from Tumblr for a week. Whoops!

Um. Hmm. From the mind control WIP, a 616 Steve/Tony story that is currently 90,000 words of Tony with a mind-control collar accidentally locked around his neck (yeah, IDK either), here is Tony explaining to Steve why Steve’s plan to figure out whether Tony might possibly be queer by reading celebrity tell-all books is a bad plan:

“Shh, it’s okay. It really is. Breathe. You’re fine.” Tony half-smiles. “Also, for the record, you picked one of the least accurate ways to try to figure out if I could like you. Those tell-all books are approximately 6.25% correct about my love life.”

Steve blinks. “That’s a very precise approximation.”

“Eh,” Tony says. He wobbles his other hand illustratively. “It’s a ballpark figure. I’m guessing, of all the people willing to talk to the press about being with me, maybe 50% of the people in the book have ever actually even met me. The other half really wanted the money and don’t mind lying, and the scummier publishers definitely don’t fact-check. Of that 50% who have met me, maybe half of them are people I actually went out with. The other half, maybe I turned them down, maybe I was busy, maybe I accidentally stood them up because Kang was literally punching me into next week, whatever. So now we’re at 25%. And then maybe half of them, which I would like to stress is an extremely generous estimate on my part, are people I liked enough that I actually slept with them. That’s 12.5%. And then you figure maybe half of them are actually telling the truth about what that was like, and not exaggerating anything to make them look better and me look worse, or whatever their agenda is. So that’s at best 6.25% of those tell-alls that are true, and I can tell you from an extremely informal survey of some of them that the six percent that’s true – let’s just say, it definitely isn’t any of the real exciting parts.”

Honestly I am pleased with the extremely scientific estimates I came up with and also “Kang was literally punching me into next week” lolololol.