Place to discuss, rec, and generally squee over fan fiction about Steve Rogers and Tony Stark
Monday: Donate-a-Prompt
Don't we all know this feeling of having too many ideas to write and no time to write them all? Is there this one headcanon that you really want to read but can't write it? Or that frustration when you actually do want to write but you can't come up with anything?
If you have prompts or headcanons that you want to provide for your fellow writers and/or artists, here's the time and place! Anything is welcome, just take note to attach appropriate warnings if applicable :)
If you need resources:
- Here's a handy prompt generator
- There's an unholy amount of AU ideas on my tumblr
- Prompts on Writer's Digest
- Writing Prompts that Don't Suck
In case you create something based on these prompts, be sure to link to them here so we can all read them! Or maybe post a short fill directly in the comments :)





I've recently noticed a lack of ACTUAl mysteries in fanfiction instead of merely pure romance. So: what about a short term memory fic in a no power!AU in which at every waking, Steve feels the need to look for someone, but for inexplicable reasons, he doesn't know who he's looking for and why. To add to his confusion, every time- or is it everytime- he's asked about his childhood or attempts to refresh and in doing so, reveals SOMETHING, he gets blackouts. You can determine the actual conflict in the story, but it has to somehow include Steve/Tony. I'm horrid at it. Possibly a reveal at the end about how his world was actually generated by the Illuminati with Charles Xavier repeatedly erasing his memories in fear that he'd remember the real world- the one with Captain America- and that Tony Stark- the one he was subconciously looking for- has been dead the entire time? See? I AM bad at this.
I have, for the longest time ever, been envisioning a songfic based on Ke$ha's song Gold Trans Am, with the speaker being skinny!Steve and the 'biker' being Tony. I cannot get it out of my head. Neither do I find myself actually getting words down on a page for it. :(
I know it's silly, but I'd love to see a story about Steve and Tony reuniting after the Civil War (yes, a fix it of sorts) based on the song Closer by The Chainsmokers. I just think it fits them almost perfectly!
Wow? Today is Monday? I completely forgot...
Uh let's see...I haven't really seen any Steve/Tony star wars aus. It'd be kind of cool if Steve was a jedi knight of the old republic that got frozen in carbonite or something. Tony of course would have worked as a weapons designer for the empire until he had a change of heart and started secretly working with the rebels. (I haven't seen Rogue One yet, but I'm going tomorrow fyi.)
I've been thinking of something like that since seeing Rogue One
I just got out of Rogue One! I want to see a Star Wars au even more.
My absolute guilty pleasure prompt/AU is the New World Order or an AH (Alternate History) idea. What if an evil entity took over the world? What if the colonies lost the American Revolution? Things like that.
Probably my favorite out of them is a takeover, and then a few people who've escaped start rebuilding in hiding and trying to take out the overruling government from the inside. Very cliche, I guess, but there's so much that can be done with it.
This got me thinking...what about a Man in the High Castle au? That's kind of similar.
I've heard of that barely, and it is for sure a "Axis won WWII AH"
A little hard to work with because Nazis, but it could work.
Amazon made a tv series based on the book. I think it's about to get a second season. I've only seen the first few episodes of the first season, but it seems like it has potential.
Japan gets the western half of the USA and Germany gets the eastern half. There are all sorts of plots, rebellions, and people trying to hold on to their idea of America even when it's banned. It's easy to picture Tony being raised in the German half, with Howard bitter and abusive or just not in the picture. Steve's story can be pretty much the same only he wakes up to find out they lost the war.
I'm just saying, it could be pretty interesting for both Steve and Tony's characters since they both have ties to WWII and an Ally loss could cast a different light on it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_High_Castle
Ooooooooooooooooh
It's an AMAZING show! And I think a SteveTony AU would be pretty interesting!
Especially if Steve is still Captain America, don't you think? Though he'd be an excellent member of the resistance even if he wasn't. Oh! and if he were the pre-serum version! That'd be even better! Now I can't decide which I'd like better, both have such potential! It'd be nice if someone would write this.
Steve as Resistance, yesssss! :D
And what if Tony's with the Reich (not that he believes it, but the family's all in that), and then he ends up getting involved with the resistance and helping them from the inside??!
Yes! Exactly! I was thinking like what if Howard was folded into the Reich, obviously losing a lot of wealth and influence, but not treated as an ordinary citizen either. Anyway, he's working with the Nazis and REALLY bitter about it. Maybe he's also secretly working with the resistance. Anyway, Tony totally grows up without really hearing anything beyond the "good work" his father does with the Reich, certainly nothing about Howard's involvement in wwii or his maybe involvement with the resistance, so Tony just goes along, working with the Reich until something happens and he's helping with the resistance! Maybe he meets Steve at the same time.
omg yes, that's perfect!
Ugh, my need for this AU just went up so much! hahaha