Place to discuss, rec, and generally squee over fan fiction about Steve Rogers and Tony Stark
Community Suggestion Box: Ideas, Thoughts, Tags, Threads...What Do You Want To See Here?
Well, we are now at almost 400 members, so that's super exciting! Welcome! Look at all you Stony-loving people! However, the only way this will ever become a thing is if people participate. Of our 399 members, we have 79 who have participated...I would love to hear from more of you! Our little community is only as strong and fun as we make it.
I'd love to hear suggestions and ideas for how we can make this community better. What would you like to see? Is there something we aren't doing that we should be doing? Suggestions for tags, polls or threads?
Please note that anyone can start a thread. If you have an idea, question or just want to post your fic or a rec, go right ahead. We don't have a lot of rules, and I hope to keep it pretty laid back and friendly here. Just be nice to each other and have fun!




Would it be possible to get a Civil War, CA:CW and Civil War 2 Tag? there's a lot of... opinions surrounding both, and I personally know I'd like to avoid CW 2 stuff if possible (for multiple reasons, Hydra Cap, the racist undertones etc).
Would a resource post with various fic rec list/places to find fic be a good idea? We could link to stevetony fic blogs on tumblr, people's fic rec lists... and we can add more links via the comments?
Resource post is a great idea!
On a somewhat related note, now that we have a lot more members, I could use another mod or two (in addition to my partner in Stony starksnstripes). Someone to help keep threads going, manage tags (we only get like 50 or so), start topics and get discussion going. Anyone interested? People in other timezones from Center US would be nice, but it isn't necessary.
I'm interested if you're still looking. I used to mod for a couple of LJ comms and forums way back when so I have some experience. Would be great to get involved in an actual community again, I really miss that on tumblr. My time zone is Germany, good couple hours from US central
Awesome! I'll add you. Thank you!
If you still need another mod I'm interested and happy to help out, but this would be my first time as a mod, fair warning lol. if you think 3 mods are enough, no worries :) (My timezone is British Summer Time rn since we do Daylight Savings).
Great, I'll add you. I think 4 is a good number, so that should be plenty (at least for now...), but it takes some of the pressure off me, so that's good.
If there is one already I haven't found it, so perhaps a 'Hi, I'm new' introduction thread? I've always been a fan of those on message boards.
Good idea!
Perhaps a live chat of sorts hosted by the group?
ohh that could be fun! i wish imzy comms had "group chat" function....
Yeah, me, too. We do an "open discussion" thread, but a live chat would be really neat, too.
You could make a discord channel? it's both browser and app accessible.
I...do not know what that is? Maybe someone more savvy than me can figure that out, though...
https://discordapp.com/
It's something that originated within the gaming community, so I'm sorry I didn't explain it further originally.
It's like skype, allows for both text and voice chat, and you can make channels, with different sub divisions (say a general tab, with sub divisions for different things [perhaps Avengers Assemble for example? to prevent spoilers on Sundays])
You'd probably need to set of up basic rules though, to ensure things stay harmonious.
I love chats, they can be great :D A different experience to forum-like talk, for sure.
I'll just add that if the Cap-IM comm has an irc channel with weekly chats (and there's usually someone online to talk with/do writing sprints/brainstorm/cry about doing your BB :P ).
ohhh i was thinking of starting somthing like a fanfic bookclub (?) thing on my comm but itll probs be better to do it here- i dont know how many ppl would be interested, but after reading a long fic and leaving comments on ppls fics, i like to scroll thru other ppls comments and read them, but it always seems a bit ..awkward to strike up a convo in the comments section, so maybe something like..... every monday?? we have 1 fic (or fic series) we've chosen as fic of the week to freak out abt?? (this is me wanting to yell about concatenation with ppl lmao) i mean i guess i could Start A Thing but im super busy and a bit scatterbrained with million and one obligations going on rn so yea;;;;
OR or maybe it can be something anyone can make a post to freak out abt a fic.. it just has to follow the format (so like, the post title title would be uhhh idkk... "FicFreakOut:[insert title] by [insert author]" posting member has to include link to fic but anything else is optional, you can post a fic you havent read yet but are excited abt, (and after leaving the author a comment on ao3 ofc) u can come back here to gush about it in the comments section. (and maybe link the author on ao3 to the post here IF the original poster is comfie with that??) ofc im thinking obv rules like "no fic bashing" but it would be cool to see if other ppl wished for a happy end if it ended tragically, or maybe aftermath of the fic and what the characters might do next? (comments can be modded by this comms leaders? not sure how this work work haha)
maybe we can also do a "WIPFicFreakOut: Title Ch.# by Author" as well cause im following aslightstep's Irreparable and the Cousin Carter Chronicles , and its super exciting to treat each ch like a tv show ep? since most of these fics i look forward to more than actual...comic issues...being published... lmao....
and maybe its 1st come 1st serve so ppl are discouraged to make a post abt the same fic twice? (maybe we can have tags for these posts so ppl are encouraged to look thru the tag first??)
Those are GREAT ideas! I love the fic bookclub ideas, and it would be really fun to have threads to follow along on specific fics. Even to just have a place to talk about them in anticipation of their updates? Would people do that kind of thing? Like speculate and discuss...? I'm really game for anything here, so yeah, definitely go for it!
I really love this idea! I've never been in a book club, but I've always kind of wanted to-- and discussing fics is such fun.
I messaged both authors and they were totally okay with a discussion thread. aslightstep even asked for an invite, so hopefully, we'll get some really good discussions going. Those are probably two good fics to start with (or Saudade?). What do you think? I was thinking sort of a "Irreparable by aslightstep Fic Discussion Thread." Let people talk about the fic, what they expect to see, whatever? What did you have in mind? I'm totally open, but I'd love to see if threads like that get some traction.
YEASSSS i was abt to ask aslightstep to join imzy but im glad u reached out to her first!!! I feel like for organizations sake, it'll probs be best to keep some sort of title formatting protocol (whether its what i suggested or something u have in mind idc too much what uts called lol) so other ppl will be encouraged to start their own threads/post for other fics too? Also since each text post is all comments and not live chat, i think making a new post per each new future chapter would be easier for ppl to interact with (and also spoilers) what do u think?
please include ann2who's Say When series if she's willing.!!!💖
Good suggestion!
That sounds good to me. Why don't you start a thread for one (or both) and then we can kind of use that as a guinea pig for how it might work? I'm sure it will be a learn as we go thing, but I like the idea (I haven't started Irreparable and have only read the first CCC, so I'm not really sure where those are).
Just wanna thank you for the idea! I'm really looking forward to this :D
Just chiming in to say I LOVE the book club idea! would definitely like to participate :)
Yay so many people! I really enjoy all the discussions here.
For the tags: there is a tag for fanart, but there isn't a fanfic tag. I'm not sure about using the "writing" tag for fics because I thought it was meant to hold resources and such?
Also, "other canon verses" could be a good tag for all these awesome canon AUs Marvel does (Civil Warrior! 1872!).
Good suggestions! Fanfic, duh. Bear with me, lol
I guess that's just one of those too obvious things :D
I love to see fic and art recs on here! Whether it leads me to something new or an oldie-but-goodie, I just love seeing fic recs-- especially when the person writing the rec takes the time to gush! And the stevetony fandom has some really stellar fanartists who deserve all the love they can get!
We need more artists to post! I will have to make a tumblr list or something so people can find artists.
I know imzy doesn't have a reblog equivalent, which is a little inconvenient-- so maybe something like a weekly or every-other-weekly spotlight on certain fanart or fanartists? It could encourage participation-- I know I love to squee over beautiful artwork with other people, and what artist wouldn't love getting happy commentary? Could be fun, I think.
That's a very good suggestion. Thank you.
I think people are still used to their tumblr ways (me included) & feel intimidated but hopefully that will change as we grow :)
official taglists would be awesome so that people would tag each post!
tags could be divided by recs, themes, regular community themes (like sinful saturdays?) discussion, questions on marvel 'verses to help fic writers, etc :)
Good ideas!