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Steve's love language is... words of affirmation roasting.
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (2011)
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (2014)
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There should be a fanfic writing game called the showrunners challenge where someone writes a story and partway through someone else can play things like "actor leaves after 4000 more words" or "topic now too politically sensitive due to unforeseen world events" or "lost rights to that reference"
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If no one else has asked, or you haven't made a list yourself, how about some fics the feature Irish Steve for St Patrick's day?
Great suggestion!Ā Put some green on and letās see what we haveā¦
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Leprechauns Canāt See Green, Either by AnonEHouse: Tony celebrates St. Patrickās Day with Steve.Takes place in a āverse where Civil War never happened, and Steve and Tony get on much better than Marvel allows them to do.
St. Patrickās Day Antics by GothicLolita009: Steve and Tony decide to head to the local St. Patrickās Day Street Festival. Tony opts to go full-blown on the celebrating. Steve is amused.
Of All the Things by @pensversusswords: It was a shirt that was Tonyās undoing, of all things. Well, it was completely Steveās fault for wearing it in the first place.
Nine in the Morning by @ashes0909: āAre you pouring whiskey?ā Steve asked as Clint very obviously poured whiskey from Starkās bar. āWhat about it?ā He tossed in an ice cube in his glass, then another. āWell, itās nine in the morning.ā
the eyes have it by @laudatenium: Alternatively, āI wanna touch the light, the heat I see in your eyes.āāThe sunglasses were his first armor, really, if he thinks about it.
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Since I heard your lilting laughter
Itās your Irish heart Iām after
:āD Happy St.Ā PatrickāsĀ day everyone~ c:Ā
sob the boys celebrating Steveās heritage
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Happy St Patrickās Day!
(Tony totally bought Steve that shirt)
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Happy St. Patrickās dayĀ (ļ¾āć®ā)ļ¾*:ļ½„ļ¾ ā
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my ot4 beach trip 2k14
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Frequency--Steve Rogers/Tony Stark--NOW COMPLETE https://archiveofourown.org/works/38510290/chapters/96251923
Fourteen-year-old Tony Stark finds Captain Americaās broken radio in his fatherās safe and decides to repair it. It works, because of course it does, he fixed it, after all, and he gets to talk to a group of soldiers who canāt share much about what they are doing, which is fine by Tony because while it is true that he is technically a student at MIT, he maybe wasnāt entirely upfront about everything. This presents a problem when he develops feelingsāokay, fine, a massive crushāon one of the soldiers.
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Happy 60th anniversary to the happiest day of Tony's life!!!!!! (100% canon btw)
60 years of 616 from Avengers #4 publication date when Steve and Tony had their arctic meet cute š
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FIC REC WEEK 1 ā STONY FAVORITES
When I Think (Oh, it Terrifies Me) by celli
Pairing: Steve/Tony
Rating: E
Words: 8,643
Tags: Telepathy, First Time, Tony Hates Magic
Summary: Look, some mornings you wake up and little green men are invading New York City; some mornings you wake up and you can hear Captain America's voice in your head. Tony has been an Avenger long enough that he saves his freakout for important things.
Reasons why I love it:
The humor in this is superb, it makes me laugh every time. Seeing how they care for one another even before they realize they want more is really, really sweet. And the conclusion in the end is brilliant in concept alone, but also so goddamn funny. Also, drunk-by-extension-Steve is a delight, always and forever.
I Hate You: A Love Story by FestiveFerret
Pairing: Steve/Tony
Rating: E
Words: 14,558
Tags: College AU, Booty Calls, Enemies to Friends to Lovers
Summary: Tony had honestly been stunned that his "Wanna fuck?" line had actually worked, but tasting Steve's desperation on his tongue now, it made a bit more sense. All Tony wanted was a handful of that muscular ass and a look at the abs he'd seen a hint of under Steve's painted-on shirt.
Reasons why I love it:
Ferret never misses, and this fic is exhibit 399 of proof of that. I love the way Tony and Steve's relationship develops from begrudgingly in lust to actually caring for one another. And to top off a wonderful story, the smut is also superb. I've probably read this fic more than 30 times, but I always come back to read it again. It's definitely one of my comfort fics.
Exact Measurements Required by trilliath
Pairing: Steve/Tony
Rating: E
Words: 13,517
Tags: Wardrobe Malfunctions, Humor, Crack Treated Seriously
Summary: That time S.H.I.E.L.D. quartermasters accidentally put Steve's balls in a vise and it goes exactly as well as you'd expect it to. Tony promptly offers to help. Because he's helpful like that. Obviously.
Reasons why I love it:
One of my favorite Stony fics of all time. Not only is it scorchingly hot, but the way trilliath took this cracky concept and turned it into such a lovely story is absolutely amazing. Tony is hilarious in this, and Steve's inner monologue just takes the cake. Definitely read this, if you haven't already!
The Highest Form of Friendship by ChibiSquirt
Pairing: Steve/Tony
Rating: E
Words: 5,661
Tags: Getting Together, Humor, Sex on a Car
Summary: āImagine if Iād met you back in my hellion days,ā Tony says, and Steve groans out loud. Thereās a mental image, here. Well, Steveās a visual kind of guy; mental images are how he operates. The mental image is of a baby Tony - okay, not baby; Heyday Tony, letās call him - and Heyday Tony has dark eyes and a wide mouth, and the little pin-scratch frown that Nowadays Tony wears all the time these days has been magically retrotransformed into a confident smirk. Heyday Tony has the same lean strength that Nowadays Tony has, but he looks taller because he bears himself more aggressively, more straight-backed. Heyday Tony has poofy hair and a tendency to look all the way down, and all the way back up, at a person - regardless of gender - before meeting their eyes.
Steve knows: heās seen the videos. Has maybe studied the videos. Has maybe spent more time on that activity than strictly appropriate...
āCan we not?ā he pleads. āIt didnāt happen that way, and it did happen this way, and thatās how it is.ā
Reasons why I love it:
Their chemistry in this one is just off the charts. ChibiSquirt's characterizations never miss, but in this one especially they completely knocked it out of the park. The fic is equal parts scorchingly hot and hilarious, so definitely give it a read, if you haven't already.
Unfurl Your Gown by theladyingrey42
Pairing: Steve/Tony, past Steve/Bucky
Rating: E
Words: 8,541
Tags: Crossdressing, Denial, Barebacking
Summary: "I feel ridiculous." Steve scowls at his drink and pretends he's not shifting just to feel the skirt against his thighs.
Reasons why I love it:
I don't know why I have a huge thing for Steve struggling-with-gender-concepts Rogers, but I do. And this fic scratches that itch in the most satisfying way. It's heartbreaking in one moment, hot as hell the next, and finishes off with a conclusion that makes my heart melt every time. Tony is so lovely in this, supporting Steve all the way, and Steve's inner conflict is gloriously written. I can't recommend it highly enough.
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in which Tony realizes he can wear a literal mask to accompany his figurative emotional mask!
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Welp it's been almost an entire year since the last hate comment in my inbox, so I figured I was due for another one (and trust me, dear nonnie, you have nothing on the three months of targeted bullying and hate I went through at the end of 2022/beginning of 2023). But I think this is a good time to spend some time talking about authorial intent. Now, don't get me wrong, I think there are many, many things wrong with this comment, but their complete misunderstanding of what I wanted to accomplish with this fic is indicative of a wider problem that I'm seeing in fandom at the moment, so we're gonna talk a bit about critical thinking and authorial intent.
So I could point out that this comment sucks because the fic they're complaining about is a gift fic and the giftee loved the fic so anyone else's opinion doesn't matter, and thinking that your opinion matters more than the giftee's is the height of entitlement (but let's face it, being called entitled doesn't matter to this person).
Or I could point out that this fic was tagged with "Infidelity" so they had to have known what they were getting into when they first opened the fic and shouldn't be so horrified that the cheating fic contained cheating (but let's face it, we all know that they didn't read the tags, and I'm not even sure they read the fic since both characters were cheating, not just Tony).
But what I really want to focus on is how badly this person misunderstood what I was writing. This is a smut fic masquerading as a breaking up & making up fic. I wrote this fic specifically so I could write 6 sex scenes (which was the original prompt anyway). I didn't really want to focus on the feelings. They're there, they're present, they get mentioned to set the stage for the sex, but I don't spend thousands and thousands of words talking about the feelings and mental states of Steve and Tony.
Which means that for the parts where Steve and Tony are being "toxic" and "shitty," I don't go into a whole lot of detail as to why they're being toxic and shitty. I have a personal headcanon as to why they're acting like this, but it doesn't actually matter. What matters is that I made a deliberate choice not to include the justification for their actions so I could write the smut instead. I knew that I was writing Steve and Tony as toxic and shitty because that was the entire point.
Now, let's be honest here, this commenter doesn't care about any of this. "Disgusting" and "grossness" are a deliberately inflammatory word choice, and as my friend pointed out, they're being puritanical and moralistic. In other words, they're like any other of the growing number of pearl-clutching members of fandom I see these days.
But this post isn't really for them. This post is for everyone who's only reading fic through their own lens and forgetting that the author also had a purpose when they wrote the fic in the first place.
This isn't the first time someone has completely misunderstood what I was trying to do with a fic. It's one of the meanest, but it's not the first time. It happened with the professor/student fic I wrote in 2022 where I argued that just because two people were wrong for each other when they were younger that doesn't mean they're still a mismatch when they're older. The pining Tony/serial one-night stand Steve where almost all of the early comments were about how it should be switched and missed that that was the entire point (that Steve is the obvious choice for pining, and I wanted to explore what would switch that dynamic). The Christmas fic in 2021 where someone straight up told me I tagged it wrong just based on the summary.
So here's the thing: death of the author is only one interpretation of literary criticism, but it's by no means the only. Authorial intent is a perfectly valid way to interpret a fic, and in this case, it's arguably more valid than looking at it through the lens of death of the author because if the reader isn't considering my reasoning behind why I wrote the fic the way I did, then the point of it will go right over their head. Getting so hung up on my intentions, my background, my style of writing not mattering, on only their interpretation mattering, means that they only read the surface level of this fic. And that works just fine in other fics, but it doesn't work here. At all. Because the entire point of this fic is my intentions. I intended to write a smut fic that glossed over the feelings of the two characters involved. I intended for it to look like a toxic relationship from an outsider's perspective. I intended to write the prompt I saw for the person who prompted it.
And if you're not looking at it through what I intended, then all you're going to end up with is dissatisfaction and the belief that I made a mistake somewhere instead of realizing that I achieved exactly what I set out to do.
#before you comment something that isn't positive#maybe y'know self reflect and ask yourself 'is this necessary'#when I was younger I had a negative comment on a fic on one site#I was cross posting it to another#I did keep writing that fic but guess which site I just straight stopped updating? lol#but also to OP's more general point yeah it is necessary to view writing with more context sometimes!!#I don't think any of that even has to do with Barthes' particular literary critique either#I don't think you need to consider the author's background or viewpoint to understand the context of#gee steve is the pining romantic all the time and tony the playboy what if we switched that up on purpose#like playing with those dynamics and more importantly PLAYING WITH the audience's already ESTABLISHED UNDESTANDING is the POINT of fanfic#it's modern greek tragedy just not always tragedy y'know#ok mini essay over I swear
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