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Writer Appreciation Thread: Kiyaar
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Kiyaar is honestly one of my personal favorites. Yes, the stories are often dark, but they feel true in a way that just really seems to get at the underbelly of both Steve and Tony. And they are simply just amazingly written. Evocative language, great plots, wonderful, deep characterizations. Absolutely brilliant.
My favorites: Sins of Omission Yes, it is brutal (and, sadly, still a WiP), but it ends on a hopeful note. It is hugely plotty, deals with a lot of the unhealthy issues that get at Steve and Tony's relationship in 616 and realistically addresses some really tough story lines. As with everything Kiyaar writes, the actual writing is incredible.
Plunge Beautiful, heartbreaking and stunningly written. Run, don't walk, to read it.




Sins of Omission was one of the fics that cemented my SteveTony allegiance. It was just painful and sad but also oddly therapeutic for me.
Plunge is one of my all-time favorite fics from any fandom. I never cry when I read fics even if I'm affected by them, but Plunge was one of the extremely rare ones that have either devastated or touched me (or both) enough that I couldn't help but cry. It was such good pain. I re-read it a year or two ago, and it was still as painful and stunning as the first time.
I still haven't managed to read SoO because I know it's a WiP that hasn't been updated in a while, and I'm afraid that I won't be able to stop reading once I start it and it definitely isn't something you should binge read. I thrive off angst, but I'm scared of this one!
DON'T TALK TO ME ABOUT PLUNGE. That fic has broken my heart & destroyed my soul multiple times. /sobs
THIS MESS WE'RE IN http://archiveofourown.org/works/1111607
Explicit 10321 words
Summary: Steve is a troll, Tony is obliging. Everyone gets done. Set in that fictional interval during Secret Avengers where Steve is a Commander and he and Tony are actually on speaking terms. Unrepentant porn.
Comments: OH MY GOD THE BEST BEST BEST. Sassy Bottom Steve gives me life in a way I cannot adequately describe with words or gestures.
Rusted Wheel (or How the Civil War Might Have Ended)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/480721
Kiyaar
Teen
3183
Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
Tony was on the steps of the Courthouse and took the bullets for Steve.
Comment: I'm always a sucker for CW AUs where Tony dies instead of Steve (can we have more of them please?), and this one is just perfect.
Especially because there are so many hints that Tony is going to be the one who dies in canon? In his visit to Washington with Peter in Amazing Spidey, Tony is talking about the Lincoln memorial and how much he admired Lincoln, and wonders if he could do what Lincoln did, and Peter is like, "well, that didn't go so well for Lincoln so it's pretty great you don't have to find out" and Tony just like... doesn't say anything??
Honestly the whole thing makes so much more sense if you go into it with the expectation that Tony is going to die in BOTH Civil Wars. I honestly feel so cheated.
erm, sorry to hijack the thread but it was just on my mind today.
Beside You In Time
https://archiveofourown.org/works/4090747
Kiyaar
Explicit
37144
Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
The world is ending: Tony is evil, Steve is old. So there's nothing to stop him from making the (terrible) decision to travel back in time in a last-ditch effort to spare them both: by killing Tony's past self to spare them both from ending up where they've ended up. The Universe has other plans. An honest-to-god fix-it for Superior Iron Man, Hickman's entire run, and pretty much everything since Tony decided it was a good idea to take Extremis way back in 2005.
Canon-divergent from Avengers #44.
Written for the Cap-Ironman Reverse Big Bang 2015.
Comment: Kiyaar's famous for her heartbreaking angst, and even though there's a world of that in this fic, it's also a fix it for pretty much everything 616's put us through, and one of my favorite fix-its ever.
Love this one, too. So many great works!