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Origin Stories: What got you aboard the Stony ship and how long has it been?
New to the ship? Shipped it since Tony and company defrosted Steve in the comics? What made you love it enough to join a random community of like-minded folks? Is it really OTP for you or are you sailing on all kinds of ships?




Oh, man... It's probably really typical, and I mean, I think it started long before; a seed was planted in my brain, but the moment that made it all come to light, the moment that was a catalyst for me falling deep into this, was in some comic, I can't remember which one, but Tony knew Steve's bagel order. And I just sat there like, "Jesus... that's it. They're married."
Lol, the bagel test. Yep
I was re-watching THE AVENGERS after another sleepless night in December 2014 when I noticed something different about the Steve-Tony confrontation on the helicarrier when before it was just your usual pissing contest confrontation. I couldn't help but notice some UST. I thought it was just me, because I was depraved and I wasn't getting any sleep (I was a borderline insomniac during this time because I was waiting for the release of the bar exams which I took earlier that year, in October). But I sought confirmation in the internet and found the Stony fics archive in Tumblr and the first fic I happened upon there was Lenalena's WAIT AND SEA. And I got hooked! I devoured one fanfic after another after that, finding something to do since sleeping was out of the question.
When I've felt like I've read my fill, a story started to get a hold of me and refused to let go, so I knew I had to write it--and that led to the birth of WWW.STEM.ORG.
Stony has a special place in my heart because I remember that, on March 26, 2015, it was Chapter 11 of STEM that I was writing when I got a call from a friend telling me that I had passed the bar exams and that I was already a lawyer. When something that monumental happens in one's life, whatever it was that had got me through that automatically commands a special place in my heart. (Like Drarry of the Harry Potter fandom got me through my mom's passing and that, too, holds a special place in my heart...)
:D
A fellow lawyer! Cool!
Woooow, I have no idea how long it's been. I grew up reading a lot of DC and some Marvel and some of that was Iron Man and a little Avengers, so I had the epic Steve/Tony friendship at the back of my mind when I fell into Superbat hard in the 90s. There wasn't much Marvel fandom centered around the characters or airings that got me going at the time. I think I discovered Resurrection, Reconstruction, and Redemption around 2008 or 2009 and vaguely got back into following Marvel developments at the time.
It took me years to muster up the courage to become more than a lurker in the fandom though and even more to actually create for it, because all the fic was so good. So it was MCU and my reawakened love for all things Iron Man that made me start dabbling with Marvel gen fic and then delve back into comics finally to write the OTP. 616 is where the shipping was at for me at the time - and still mostly is. The MCU dynamic just wasn't the same and it took me longer to actually write shippy MCU stuff. (By now it's probably 616 and Noir with some dabbling in other verses for me. And now CA:CW of all things makes me want to write all the MCU Stony...)
As far as ships go, I've always been multi-fannish and multi-shippy, but I have a selected handful of pairings that are intense and among my OTP-type pairings this one is probably the one that is like a burning inferno.
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Well, you're not alone there :P
We all owe so much to RRR, though, don't we :D
XD So true!
I had this girlfriend. She really liked comics. We got together around the same time I was discovering that Iron Man - whom I had previously only known (and fallen REAL HARD FOR) through MCU in his solo movies - was actually an Avenger. I learned about this approx. 2 days before Avengers hit. And then I had some watching to do. I think I mainlined everything, in order, in a day and a half, and then I sat in a theater and thought, gosh, this is really magical. I came out thinking Tony/Bruce was what was going to happen for me, but then. THEN.
Then it was almost summer, and my girlfriend and I were leaving to go to different coasts, and she gave me this package, and it was an IM collection and I'd never picked up a single comic in my life, but I read this one cover to cover. I think Fraction's run was wrapping up during this time, but I wasn't there yet, I was looking up everything, EVERYTHING, I read so many comics that summer, and I stumbled from v2 to v3 to v4 and then Civil War had to be investigated, and I read the whole thing and then I read those two fucking issues and I was CRYING by the end, which was startling and also wonderful, because how often can fiction move me to tears? Not often. And here we are.
You know its meant to be if you are sobbing uncontrollably over fictional characters.
I wrote about my SUPERHERO I mean STEVETONY origin story as well in tumblr :))
I was first a huge Spiderman and X-men fan because of the 90s cartoons. Thought the Avengers were boring. Steve and Tony were always like parents to Peter Parker though, so in the back of my mind I just accepted them as the canon Superhusbands.
I could pinpoint the exact text and pic that made me ship them though.
I saw the SHIP MANIFESTO in scans_daily livejournal: (http://ship-manifesto.livejournal.com/204146.html), and then I saw this panel of the cuddle and fly while reading Young Avengers:(http://66.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lr6fk9yfU91r2idyio1_500.png) They looked so good together and were such DADS and HUSBANDS. I fell fast.
I wasn't active because I was intimidated with the comics fans, lurked when the Avengers movie came out, then decided to be active last year when I read fanfic by RurouniHime and Ylixia and all the fanfic by the authors answering in this thread lmao hi guys I stalk you all. I also decided to be active when the SteveTony community were so welcome with me (other fandoms tend to be...not so accommodating).
They're my OTP, but I like and will read their canon ships if they are also featured in a SteveTony story (Steve/Peggy, Steve/Sharon, Tony/Pep, Tony/Trudeau LMAO) with the occasional sexy Tony/Star-Lord & Tony/T'Challa & Tony/Doom fanart & fic.) I will always draw SteveTony though, in all multiverses.
For Steve I really believe Peggy is his first love however, so I do not personally enjoy Peggy erasure fanfic unless it's an AU of course. I like side pairings with Stony, such as RhodeyCarol, PeterMJ, BuckyNat or BuckySam, HappyPep, etc)
That Young Avengers panel is the best. They're such a power couple.
joins you for starkquill and doomtony feels
Am I too late? I always love these kinds of posts.
I was a big Marvel fan as a teenager (in, uh, the 90s), starting with the X-Men cartoon, and I got into the comics -- but all X-Men, so as far as I was concerned Captain America was this guy who showed up and was a dick to mutants (really, this is basically his role in X-books) and I had the vague idea Iron Man was an engineer with a drinking problem. I got out of comics around the time Ults started. (I blame Ultimate X-Men.)
I watched all the MCU movies in the theater anyway, read all the MCU fic, but I didn't really see the ship. And then Winter Soldier came out and I thought, hey, that movie was really good, maybe I should check and see if I missed anything in the comics. And then, oh, man, had I ever missed things in the comics. This was why people shipped it! Because they were already in love! So, yeah, I am probably the only person who walked out of Winter Soldier shipping Stony. :)
And then, yeah, I read The Confession, which I had kind of assumed was fanon because Tony was clearly desperately in love with Steve. Surprise! Canon! And at that point I was and am basically gone. And here I am.
I have other ships for them (okay, mostly other Tony ships) but, yeah, they are my OTP, at least in 616.
Same. I was obsessed with the Spiderman and X-men 90s cartoons and I had the same vague initial ideas of Steve and Tony as well (I thought Steve was just a jingoistic character, Tony was just the alcoholic omg I feel so bad about it now lol).
I love how even Marvel creators basically just flat-out say that Tony loves Steve though with The Confession. EVEN THE TITLE ITSELF PUSHES THAT IDEA. :D Confession made me ship it in 616, too.
I like how so many of us clearly found The Confession a formative experience.
The thing I think my past self would not believe about Marvel fandom is that it's all Avengers now. Because, seriously, Marvel comics slash fandom from the late 90s onward was a thing, but it was all X-Men. All X-Men. There was no Avengers fic. Not even gen fic, I don't think. My teenage self would never believe me. (And then I'd tell my teenage self that Bobby Drake was canonically gay now and so were Rictor and Shatterstar and they got together and my teenage self would be really happy. I think comics slash fandom is, apparently, very very good at successfully calling which characters end up gay.)
You're so right! Exactly! I was even resisting reading Avengers-only comics while reading YOUNG Avengers lmao because I thought they were boring, now Avengers are everywhere and Cherik has taken over X-men fandom instead. :))) I credit a lot to RDJ and Chris Evans' chemistry for injecting new interest into these characters.
I actually had the perception that the DC slash fandom was more active than the Marvel slash fandom during the 2000s? Or maybe I'm wrong??? I mean I was reading Apollo/Midnighter (technically Wildstorm) and being active there, then Clark/Lex (thanks Smallville LMAO) and Nightwing/everyone or myself lol. Deadpool/Cable had some fans though, then when Civil War happened Stony was huge.
That is so true. I was heavily in DC and I knew of tons of X-Men fic writers, but there was basically no Avengers fic at all. And I loved the X-Men, but none of the Marvel fic writing fandom pulled me in that deeply at the time, but I remember reading lots of X-Men fic on comic book fic archives.
But so true about Bobby! XD
I would agree that in the late '90s and early 2000s DC slash fandom was much more active. I was pretty much on every Dick Grayson/anyone site back then and it was huge. And there was no blib of Avengers fic back then, as far as I recall.
Dick Grayson/anyone is still my default state LOL. I'm curious, what was X-men fanfic like? I shipped only Rogue/Gambit but wasn't curious enough to find fic for it (I was still in my weaboo anime phase).
Going back to topic of Stony, I found the Stony shippers through scans-daily at livejournal especially the ones dedicated to Civil War & posting Tony in a red thong/TonyxArmor lol. So I would credit part of the rise of online stony fandom to the funny people interacting in scans-daily. xD
I kind of remember the DC slash fandom from the 00s. Bruce/Clark was huge, and I remember a lot of support for Cassie/Steph. And of course, Boostle.
Haha now that I think about it, both my main comic book ships from that time featured a major character who had died. Boostle and Stony, man. Angst for DAYS.
I walked out of TWS looking for fic and ended up in Stony, too, lol! I know, I know, there is Stucky all over the place, but it just didn't really do it for me. So, you are not alone!
I've been trying to remember what got me into Stony, and I honestly can not! I know that when I first started fangirling for the MCU I was reading a lot of Stucky and Wintershieldshock, because the fic that suckered me in had that, and then there was a reinforcement cycle. And I still ship Stucky pretty hard, but the recent canon actually turned me away from it (CACW), because Barnes is just so obviously not ready to be sexing anyone after that. So I have to have some mental "fix" for that before I can ship him, and it just gets in the way.
I was shipping Stony side-by-side with Stucky for a while before watching CW, though, and I can't remember why. I know it has to have been a good fic or two that got me into it, I'm just not sure which one! I think Good For You was probably one of the, er... "responsible parties" on that, and Copperbadge's fic, too... Hmm...
I also noticed a trend, and I'm curious to see what people say: MCU-based fans seemed (to my unscientific observation) to be more likely to ship Stucky, and comics fans more likely to ship Stony. Yes? No?
I don't know anythings about comic fan ship stony, but for me I fell in love with this pairing through fanfic from comic verse, when You truely understand the foundation of their relationship, The pairing is the breathtakingly wonderful! (This came from the person who have never heard of comic book until CA:WS came out. My country doesn't sell comic books. )
I actually started after Avengers Age of Ultron, which is kind of late I guess. Read some fics, then researched online and realized that there's so much history between the two of them from the comics.
I started reading the comics a little bit after that, but I do pick and choose to balance the amount of angst I can take at one go... Seriously though, there are really these moments of Look At Them! in the comics which I really really enjoy. Not just angsty ones but they-are-best-friends moments too. For me the whole they-are-best-friends concept which is so much more obvious in the comics just don't really show up in the MCU, which is a bit of a pity.
And yes they are my OTP. Definitely. I do read other ships, but I find that I just don't really enjoy them as much.
Civil War, definitely lmao! Thorki used to be my main marvel ship because I wasn't really into the superhero genre, but I loved all the mythological aspect of Thor. I did ADORE Tony/Iron Man tho. (I design interfaces for a living, and my fake customer/app user is always Tony Stark. Some clients are so tickled by this!)
I didn't used to think much of Steve. A) The tall blonde all-american hero never felt like he was 'for me'. (Yes, i lol now that I realize Cap was meant exactly for minorities ;p) and B) I rather liked him better in the CA movies than in the ensemble cast? Why make him so mean to Tony? idk, but then Civil War. Yeah.
I saw the trailer and had some feels, but it wasn't until I discovered the SteveTony moments on cap-im and realized the extent of their 50+ year relationship that something just flipped in my brain and suddenly everything was stony. I read a lot of fanfic at first, because I was terrified of having to broach The Comics. Luckily, I got over myself and found the courage to try Night in Madripoor and IM Noir and now? Hahahahaha I have like 18 unread volumes on my ipad, including Civil War I. Boy oh boy, I am Bracing For The Feels.
Still, for all that we're supposed to love our OTP equally, I've got a not-so-secret preference for Tony. But I love his and Steve's whole 'leader-consort, oceans rise, empires fall, we'll see each other through it all' aesthetic. And when that gets too much, I have the AA cartoon to fall back on. There's so much to unpack there. I love how they're both so deeply competent and their flaws are just the right kind of tragic. I love how they can be both terrifying and exceedingly generous (sometimes even to each other hah!).
If not with each other, I also ship Tony/Rhodey and Steve/Thor. Stuckony is seriously growing on me tho, but like someone mentioned in another thread, I like them as a V with Tony in the middle :D.
offers feels blankets in advance Also, that probably goes without saying, but--when you read CW, remember to read the Iron Man tie-ins and Casualties of War. (Well, and The Confession, obviously). They add SO MANY FEELS. Like all of Tony-writers just ship stevetony. It's great.
I have to say I also ship thorki--and I think it's kinda similar in dynamics to CW stevetony? Like, "here's this extremely important to me person that I can't live without but also can't agree with".
Ooh, thanks for the recs! And hilariously, I accidentally read The Confession a long while ago. Bear with me, I'm the person who thought comic books were only available to Real Nerds in specialty stores, but imagine my surprise when they were just lying around in my local bookstore! I picked up the CW book thinking it had something to do with the movie, casually flipped over to that page and wow, that was powerful. That said....um, how do you find the tie-ins? Is it just the CW:IM titles?
Yesss re, the Thorki/Stony dynamic. Now, I really want to read a stevetony with some of that truly-deeply-madly aesthetic of some thorki fics.
I saw The Confession panels on the cap-im shippy moments list way before reading any comics too, and I really couldn't believe that sad love letter was actually canon.
I think the title goes IM:CW, but yeah xD To be exact, Iron Man 13-14 (here, covers: http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Iron_Man_Vol_4_13 and http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Iron_Man_Vol_4_14). Casualties of War is its own thing titled just that (http://s246.photobucket.com/user/dioszine/media/CivilWar-CasualtiesofWar-IronManCaptainAmerica.jpg.html).
omg Good luck with reading 616 Civil War. So many asshole characters, but great SteveTony moments. u)/
I secretly read Stuckony rarely but only with Tony as that delicious sandwich lmao so yes to this!
I started shipping Steve/Tony after TWS, so I am probably the only person who watched that and ended up in Stony, lol. I think I was just sort of ready for a new ship, because it had been a long time (X-Files, I guess) since I really shipped any couple particularly hard. I loved TWS, and ended up trying to find fic for it or anything at all online, which eventually led me to videos on YouTube, which led me to ann2who's great Say When video (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkjkbCv_vtrR4enLhriTnxpWZ6gFHxfa7).
Down the rabbit hole, I went! That was the fire and the passion that I was looking for, as it turned out. I was hooked. Didn't hurt that I find both Chris and RDJ attractive, so the pairing worked really well for me. I'm so damn picky about who I find attractive, that is very unusual. I think I blew through most of the fic on Ao3 over the course of a couple of months. It was great to discover that there was this rich comic book history between them and already so much lore and fic out there! Not to mention all the post-Avengers fic. So, I was late to the party, but there were still plenty of leftovers for me, lol.
They are definitely my OTP. I can't seem to really enjoy anything beyond them, though I have read some truly wonderfully written Stucky fics. I just...I don't know, Steve and Bucky work better for me as brothers in arms and best of friends. I think I like the drama and angst with Tony. I also love how they seem so different, but actually are a lot alike when you get down to it. I love how well they can complement each other, how they butt heads, how they are better when they are working together, but part of that is the struggle of getting them there. They have to earn it, and that is really great for storytelling.
Not to mention that we have this wonderful community of fans, some of whom have been fans for decades, so it is really great to have those kinds of people around, as well as the new people (like me).
I was late to the game too, I would say. I thought of them as a ship when Avengers came out but the few years following I was in college full-time and working full-time as a manager so I didn't have time for anything, sadly. Those years were also depressing for me so finally when I invested myself into the fandom (about a year ago-year and a half) because of my love for both Cap and Tony, I realized I hadn't been so emotionally invested in to something in a long time.
Now, my love for them grows everyday and if I see any merchandise with either of them on it I have to fight to not buy it haha. And it is awesome how great the community is and how many universes we get to see them together.
This is one of my favourite things about them.
It really does help that Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr have such great chemistry, doesn't it? :D
Oh yes it helps A LOT!!!! I got myself more hooked to Stony because of those two because it's them I imagine in my head whenever I read or write Stony fics...
re: fire and passion you know it's a good pairing when they tried to kill each other ;)
also glad to know i'm not the only one who doesn't ship stucky. i 100% get the appeal, it just doesn't work for me. i think because i was first exposed to them i the comics where bucky was, like, 16 and steve was in his 20s. the brotherly vibe was cemented for me
tony and steve though? i first starting shipping them after 616 civil war. how could you not? the event that spawned 1000 fics
I never really started shipping them in the MCU until I started reading earlier-than-civil-war comics, and that was sometime after the Avengers movie came out. old-school stony where they are actually friends who likes and look up to each other is so good....
I still don't really ship them in the MCU itself because their relationship compared to the comics where they are actual soul-mates/married-couple/team's mom and dad, is just kind of underwhelming? I do love mcu stony fanfiction though, I love that people can take the bits and pieces of what could have been and tap the ship's potential. MCU shipping did grow stronger with CACW however, it was really good and dramatic.
I love the actors in the MCU, but I totally agree that it's not as satisfying on-screen as the relationship in the comics. Except for CACW, which had so many moments that made me sad -- which, like, that is not as GOOD as them having bonding moments in the comics. :/
CACW had SO MANY stony moments and it's just so sad in the context of the film, I completely agree.
(I'm thinking TeamMom!Tony and coffee grounds in the disposal.) I miss them actually loving each other, and being on the same team, and fighting together. ugh. :(
ugh me toooo why can't they bicker about coffee grounds while also teaming up to do a thing all of them together? Woe.
Thank god for Avengers Assemble and EMH tbh
I do agree and believe that MCU stony shipping actually grew stronger with CACW, which is an interesting development that parallels the rise in stony shipping with the 616!Civil War.
I don't recall when I started shipping it time wise. I think it was sometime after the first Iron Man movie came out. I started dipping my toes into the comics scene. The Confession really is what sold me on it. So much angst. So much love. Then the movies came out and I was sorta hoping to see the Steve/Tony friendship on screen. And wasn't exactly thrilled, really, at first because it was so antagonistic compared to Steve&Tony at the outset of when they met in the comics.
I later came to enjoy the MCU variation of Steve/Tony, though I tend to prefer 616-verse fics to them. I also have a bit of a love of Ultimates Steve/Tony, although the content of those tended to have a sharp decline after the first two volumes.
Then there was Earth's Mightiest Heroes, which I loved watching.
And now Avengers Assemble which is a gift. Truly a gift. The Steve/Tony is so strong in that one.
1872 was wonderful and broke my heart in turns. I want like another 4-issue series of 1872, the prequel to the one we got. And all it contains is Steve and Tony.
I loved Avengers Academy (the game) before I dropped it do to problems with TinyCo's business practices.
Steve/Tony is a hardcore love of mine. I have Captain America and Iron Man posters all over my house. I have a bunch of plushes and funkos of them.
I went looking through my gmail to see if I could find the start date of my love and found a comment I'd made in a chat over four years ago: And it doesn't help that since Tony's the very definition of a hot mess I'm totally in love with him emotionally broken asshole genius is like my Achilles heel
I don't really ship Steve and Tony with anyone else. (Even if I wrote a Tony/Rhodey fanfic after CA:CW. That doesn't count) I don't read anything but Steve/Tony in Marveldom. I am not a big fan of poly ships. Though, I'll read them from time to time. Except, and I'll own this, but since Marvel has canonical parallel universes, I do love when there's Steve/Tony/alt.Steve, specifically. (Tony/Steve/altTony is okay, but I definitely prefer two Steves with one Tony.)
There are side pairings in Steve/Tony fics I'm more partial to than others. (Like, Sam/Bucky is a fave side-pairing of mine.)
There's just something about pairings that have a lot of love, yet still are sort of antagonistic--at least vaguely that I'm drawn to. And Tony and Steve really do fit it. When they work, they really work. But when they fight, it's a disaster.
I love Ults Steve/Tony too--and Ult Tony is just such a sad little kitten. He needs Steve love! And wow, 1872 is my absolute favourite AU verse. Such a shame there was only one issue :P
I am also getting into Ults!Steve and Tony because it's so fascinating how they're both assholes in that 'verse LOL. I'm not a big fan of poly ships as well, and like you enjoy the side pairings for my Stony!
I got back into this fandom in the pre-Avengers months. But, you know, since the movie hadn't been released yet there wasn't THAT much fic, so I was soon reading pretty much every verse I could get my hands on! And when that was over, it was onto the comics. I definitely need constant new material to be inspired and keep my interest, and this pairing is chock-full of that! Right now my interest is mostly in AvAc and AA, but I fluctuate a lot between universes (I'm not quite ready to rewatch CACW at the moment because my heart needs some time to prepare!).
616 has to be the all-time OTP though <3 even when I'm not as into the 616 comics line, there are still great little AU spinoffs showing up like Secret Wars: Civil War or the Civil Warrior. And yes, they're definitely an OTP :D even when I try reading fic for other pairings, no matter how well-written it is, I don't really have that pre-existing emotional investment that lets me really get into it.
Omg, when I saw Marvel had created the Civil Warrior and the story behind it I nearly died inside. I love myself some angst but I mostly enjoy happy endings especially between these two cause they have enough canon angst as it is lol
I really love how "Tony dies in CW, Steve puts on the armour" is a repeated narrative in Marvel too :D
Agreed. We always have new material with SteveTony so it really maintains your interest and devotion! 616 is my ultimate OTP too.
I read the Resurrection Verse back in 2007, and liked it since, stayed as a lurker till CA:CW.
I... aesthetically can find some E fics featuring someother people pleasing, but can't romantically ship them with anyone else (There's a reason I commissioned kelsk for the in every universe, in every way, I'll be yours piece) , not even polyamory.
Then you have the NoTP that I've mentioned before, but that's 99% due to the fandom rather than the ship itself.
"the-ship-that-must-not-be-named" :P
I feel you on that.
I'd say for me it started around MCU The Avengers. Both Tony and Steve are my favorite Marvel characters and I always loved the way they interacted. I didn't jump into the fandom back then though. I was always so busy with full-time work and school I didn't have time to explore my love for them separately and together. So I didn't really think much about it. I'd say especially the last year and a half is when I started looking up fics for them and began to get into the fandom.
They are my otp and I can't get enough of them. I've explored the comics a bit but not much but I'll read anything with them in it. Now we have so many different universes it's so much fun to explore them all. Avengers Academy, Avengers Assemble, etc. I used to write fan fictions all the time years ago and stopped cause my love for it died but Steve/Tony brought me back into it when I thought I'd never do it again. Wrote my first oneshot but I haven't posted it yet. This is actually the first time I've reached out to talk to people about them.
Anyway, I love those two so much and I love them together. My love for them is growing rapidly and it's kind of scary lol
No regrets, tho, right?? :P
If you're comfortable with it, I hope you decide to share your fic! I'd love to read it :D
No regrets whatsoever :) I'm just glad to finally be talking to people because no one I know irl ships them xD
And yes! I'd love to share. I'm proofreading it at the moment. The universe is Avengers Academy and Tony finds Steve's journal and maybe reads it o_o
LOL same, about the real life thing hahha. I'm so happy this little community exists now! :)
Oh my god, your fic sounds so goooooood! Now I'm more excited about it!
That sounds great! We need more AA fic!
THIS SOUNDS GREAT. (Tony's so nosy!)
Ohhhhh! An Avengers Academy fic?!?!?! YES PLEASE!!!!
I love thinking about these two across all the different canons, and how in pretty much every single one they always have an important relationship <3 Good luck on your fic! Instead of getting me back into fandom, this pairing kind of got me started writing fic, period!
I know! It's so great to have all these universes to see them interact in different yet similar ways. And it's a great playground for fan fiction writers too, lol. Thanks :) Seems the power of Stony compelled us lol
I've never read any of Tony's or Cap's comics. I didn't even know they were a ship until I saw The Avengers, and people started making superfamily gif sets hahahaha. So I went to look for some fics on AO3, and the rest is history. That's probably why MCU!Stony (followed by AA!Stony) will always be my favorite. I don't feel as close to 616!Stony. Chris and Robert are it for me! :)
AA Steve and Tony are so married though :D
IKR??? It gives me SO MUCH LIFE! :')
Well, I'm the person who'll say "Civil War". The 616 one, in general, but I hadn't shipped them in MCU until CACW happened and just destroyed everything I knew about my life :P
I made a post about it on my tumblr, but the short version is--I've read the ship manifesto by elspethdixon. I've read Civil War, and more importantly, The Confession. I read somewhere that "Tony hates himself" and I read his angstiest comics--Iron Man vol 4, starting with Extremis, ending with Director of SHIELD, and I was gone. I still am. I'll never be free (nor do I want to, honestly).
As for MCU . . . I also have a long post, lol. It comes down to--CACW Tony was like 616 Tony for me. My favourite Tony. And there was so much pain, and I loved it, and it just makes more sense if Tony was in love with Steve, right.
Steve/Tony is my main otp forever, but that doesn't mean I don't have other ships. Other Tony ships, even. Currently Doom/Tony comes to mind (I have a weakness for sad mages) :) But my other OTPs include Doctor/Master or Charles/Erik, and really, there's a pattern.
Agreed on the CW part. I love melodrama :D "Friends-turned-lovers" just isn't enough for me. There needs to be a point in the relationship where hate-sex is totally possible!
"It's not a true ship unless they punch each other" :P
Omg I had to Sit Down after Extremis too; that was a good issue. Your 616 stony fics are such a gift, btw. I'm slowly going through the Bingo! tag and your stuff is seriously the reason I decided to love myself and pick up some comics!
Oh my god, that's such a nice thing to say _ Ahhh, thank you!
Extremis is just the best, isn't it? Quality Tony content, and the art. Adi Granov is a gift.
Definitely agree with the CW bit for me. Literally the first Marvel comic I read was "The Confession" back in 2011 because I was looking forward to the Avengers movie and that was the first comic I picked up at my school library. I already had some context for Civil War due to reading stuff online, but I was Not Prepared.
I think one can't be prepared for The Confession. Like, even if someone did warn you, who would believe Tony's really in a canon comic crying his heart out over Steve's dead body? I still don't believe it. (It still makes me cry, too.)
I ALSO READ THE SHIP MANIFESTO OMG <3
I avoided 616 Civil War (After reading the Young Avengers it was just...such a downer series that I couldn't handle huhu) until the last minute and then I read the Confession and I was like
I'm hurting but this is gay A+++
This is a very good summary of The Confession XD
Also, the ship manifesto is the best.