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[stevetony_elf]

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Username: resurrectedhippo
AO3 Username: resurrectedhippo
Comics Steve/Tony: 616, 1872
Other Fandoms/Ships/Characters: Tony/Ru
Likes: Psychological horror, dark fic, and angst. All the hurt, no comfort. No happy ending or redemption needed. Major Character Death, mental health issues, terminal illness, graphic violence and torture. Non-con, especially if Tony is on the receiving end. Hydra Cap, angry, dark, violent Steve. Bitterness from both Tony and Steve. Bad sex that ends with either Tony or Steve crying. Exploring self-harm and suicidal thoughts. PTSD. Mutual pining. Hydra Cap. Bad soulmates/anti-soulmates. (Maybe Steve and Tony are soulmates but they cause each other's downfall. Oh, you mean canon?) Choking. Spanking. Brain delete where Tony doesn't remember Steve. Horror, tragedy, trauma, and unhealthy coping mechanisms. Tony breaking his sobriety. Sad. Sad. Sad. Crying. All the angst.
Dislikes: Puppy play, age play, incest, daddy kink, mpreg, pure fluff.
Non-fandom related requests/anything else?: I'd be happy to receive recs to books, film, playlists, and fics. :)

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you gave me a stocking 2020

[jetblackfeeling]

hi!! i hope you like this stocking stuffer. wishing you're safe and having a fantastic day :) if there's anything wrong in this, pls don't hesitate to let me know and i'll try to fix it. thank you!!

"tony breaking his sobriety" by jetblackfeeling (dw) / wingheads (ao3)

Re: you gave me a stocking 2020

[resurrectedhippo]

*picks up jaw from floor*

Thank you very much!! This hurts and it's so beautiful, I can't stop looking. I love Tony's expression and the way he holds the wine glass. Everything hurts. This is fantastic. Thank you so much!

[ironmanwithaplan]

[resurrectedhippo]

This is gorgeous! Thank you very much. I can't stop looking at it! Tony's expressions and the colors you used are so lovely. Thank you, thank you, you feed me the TonyRu content I'm hungry for. Happy Valentine's day <3 <3

[lomku]

Happy New Year! I've enjoyed talking with you about fandom a lot, and will forever be grateful for the amazing beta work you did for me. If you want me to beta anything for you in the future, just say the word! Thank you very much for organizing the s4 event as well!

[resurrectedhippo]

thank you very much oluka! It's always a pleasure to chat with you and learn from you! I love how Cap and Iron Man look so happy in this picture! <3

also *eyes steve's package*

[lomku]

This got dirty fast XD

[dirigibleplumbing]

Hi hippo!

I have an 1872 playlist that I think is very cool. That said I’m into traditional American folk music, old time, and Appalachian music, so it might not be to your taste. But, I mean, that’s the 1872 vibe! There are a few regular indie kinda songs on there too. The playlist is meant to tell the story of 1872 in roughly chronological order, starting with Tony’s flashback of the war up through and then through canon, except I added a Steve resurrection at the end :P

And this is a Hydra Cap snippet that I probably won’t end up using for anything, because it’s very similar to a scene in Lay Me Low. I’m posting this here on the two cakes principle. I hope you like it! TW for noncon, mention of torture.


The first time Steve takes out his cock, Tony is on the floor of his cell, trying to catch his breath and take stock of whether his ribs are broken or just bruised and how much blood he’s lost. Steve pulls him up by the neck so he’s sitting on his knees, trying not to look at Steve and what he’s doing, what he’s wearing.
“Gorgeous,” Steve breathes, running gloved fingers over Tony’s bruised face. “Such a mess.” The caress wanders down, over the metal collar around his neck, down his bare shoulders, over the marks left by Steves fists and boots.
Tony’s body aches, and he thinks in another life he might raise his manacled hands, try to swat Steve away, say something glib. But it’s Steve, and Tony should have known something was wrong, should have prevented this, should have saved Steve. He’s so tired, everything hurts, and he doesn’t want to invite another beating. He tells himself he’s giving himself time to recover, to build a way out.
(He doesn’t believe it.)
Steve’s hands go to his belt then—the buckle is the Hydra symbol, and Tony thinks he might be sick just looking at it, before he even realizes the import of what’s happening. Steve drops the belt with a clatter, unbuttons his jacket so it falls open, and begins undoing his fly. He tugs his erection out, and oh god, what if he—what if Steve wants to—
What if Steve doesn’t want to? What if he’s doing this to remind Tony of what he’ll never have, or just to frighten him, or—or Tony can’t think what, can’t make sense of it—
What Tony says out loud is, “Don’t.” His voice shakes, and he doesn’t know whether to be more ashamed of how he’s terrified and begging, or of how this is something he’s spent hours picturing to himself.
Tony tries to back away, his bruised knees protesting as he shifts his weight, but Steve wraps a hand around his neck, keeping him in place. Tony thinks that if it weren’t for the collar, Steve would be choking him.
“I love seeing you like this,” Steve says. He’s smiling and stroking himself with his free hand. His cock is inches away from Tony’s face. If he tried, Tony could lean forward and taste it. He wonders if Steve’s going to make him, going to force his mouth open, shove it down his throat.
He doesn’t. He wraps a hand around his length and works it back and forth. Tony’s imagined this, more times than he’d care to admit, all the way down to the leather gloves. Except these gloves are green instead of red, like an inverted image, and Tony wants to shut his eyes, to look away, but he can’t.
“I’ve been hard since you started whimpering,” Steve tells him, like it’s a juicy secret. “You break so beautifully.”
Tony wills himself not to make a sound now. His eyes are burning, his vision blurring, and it takes him a moment to realize he’s holding back tears.
Steve climaxes with a triumphant exhale, come spurting hot and wet over Tony’s face. “Gorgeous,” Steve says again, reaching out to spread his spend over Tony’s skin. He swipes it over Tony’s lips.
Then he’s tucking himself away, buttoning his jacket and buckling his belt once more, businesslike.
Tony allows himself to close his eyes.
“Think about me,” Steve orders before he leaves.
Tony doesn’t know how he can think about anything else.

[resurrectedhippo]

Hi Dirigible! I'm listening to your playlist right now! I like it a lot, I actually know some of these songs, though I think I fall more into the "Americana" category with my tastes. I'm excited to listen to the rest and discover some new goodies in your playlist!

My reaction to the snippet: *screams* *sobs* *shakes fists* this is excellent, dirigi! I love the suspense and tension you build throughout. Especially this line: Steve drops the belt with a clatter, unbuttons his jacket so it falls open, and begins undoing his fly. He tugs his erection out, and oh god, what if he—what if Steve wants to— AND "You break so beautifully." Yes, yes, Tony truly does.

This hurts, it's fantastic! Thank you very, very much for showing me this!

[dirigibleplumbing]

Yay, I'm glad you're liking the playlist! It has literal cowboy yodeling on it so I wanted to be sure to add a disclaimer :D (Cowboy yodeling isn't my main thing but, yeah, some people are also turned off by Tim Eriksen's drones or just banjos or who knows what.)

And I'm so pleased you enjoyed the snippet, too. Happy Valentine's Day, Hippo!

[sineala]

Hey hey hey! I am just going to rec some books, films, and playlists, then, with no theme except Things I Think Are Cool and I hope you like them too:

• The Monterey Bay Aquarium has some Spotify playlists that are Extremely Chill and have hilarious names.
  
• Russian Ark is a gorgeous movie (from Russia, obvs) that is a very unique fantasy set in the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg and is basically just about a guy wandering through the Winter Palace and interacting with all the art and architecture, and its claim to fame is that it was filmed in one continuous shot. For an hour and a half. It's REALLY COOL.
  
• Incubus is a B&W horror movie from 1966 and it is one of only a few movies filmed entirely in the constructed language Esperanto. (I thought it was the only one but apparently there are more.) Also it stars a pre-Star Trek William Shatner.
  
• One of my favorite fantasy series that I reread every few years is Barbara Hambly's Windrose Chronicles, which is a (het) romance/fantasy about a woman from our Earth who falls into a fantasy world and falls in love with a wizard there. Except there is a very good chance that this guy is secretly harboring the soul of his onetime wizard mentor who was extremely abusive to him and was A Very Bad Person in general and she can't tell whether she should trust him or not. Based on your taste in 616 fic, I think you might enjoy all the angst here. There are other books in the series but the bulk of it is a duology, The Silent Tower and The Silicon Mage.
  

I hope some of that is to your taste.

[resurrectedhippo]

Hi Sineala, thank you so much for these recommendations! I'll definitely check them out. I've added Incubus and Russian Ark to my to watch list for next weekend. I'm excited for it!

Thank you again for running this event, the 616 server, and for all the stories you give this fandom. I hope you the rest of your weekend! :)

[magicasen]

Hi Hippo, and happy Valentine's Day! Thank you so much for being a part of the server and I hope yo continue to hang around so we can talk more!

I am trying to think of darker recs that are not Ki's since I assume you've already read hers :)

Noir Zombie AU: https://archiveofourown.org/works/8538460

I like dorcas_gustine's angstier stories, especially these two! https://archiveofourown.org/works/3468 and https://archiveofourown.org/works/4259

[resurrectedhippo]

Hi Magicasen, thank you very much for these fic recs! I've only read "I’ll remember best of all, all the things we didn’t say" how did I miss the other two?! I'll be adding this for my to read this week. It looks great and I'm excited, particularly for the Noir Zombie one! I hope you also have an excellent V-Day, and looking forward to chatting with you more. :)

[welcoming_disaster]

Hey hippo!! Here is a (slightly late) drabble, for just a tiny bit of Hydra!Cap content. I hope you enjoy it, and happy Valentines.


It’s not a big spider. With its little, elongated brown body and smooth, thin legs, it’s the kind of thing Tony would have dismissed, before, as a house spider. Well acquainted with dangerous animals, he knows there’s nothing at all this one can do to him.
The chain of the handcuff rattles as he tries impotently to shrink back further from it, to stop its soft insect body from touching his skin.
“Jesus,” he says, “won’t you just kill that?”
Steve sets his cell phone down. “There’s no reason to kill it,” he points out, as the spider climbs over Tony’s bare leg, “it keeps the flies down.”
Steve has never been afraid of any critter, Tony remembers, except bedbugs and mice. There had been a time when Tony had made fun of him for the latter fear.
“I don’t care what you do with it.” He says. “Just get it off.”
Steve reaches over and sets his hand, palm up, on Tony’s bare thigh. His skin is warm and dry. Tony watches with bated breath as the spider crawls into his cupped palm.
Steve’s never been overly sweet with him. He doesn’t try now.
“There you go,” He says, running his free hand over his skin where the spider had crawled over him. It’s a confident, firm touch, the kind of touch that implies familiarity instead of sexuality. “Nothing to be a baby about. You’re fine.”
Tony shifts his shoulders, feeling the familiar muscle ache from his hands bound over his head. Steve’s set the spider on the wall, where it makes its way up the coarse green fabric of the flag Steve had pinned up. Tony’s eyes follow it as it crawls over the curve of a tentacle, into the eye sockets of the skull.

[resurrectedhippo]

Hi Lena, thank you very much for this Hydra Cap content! I love how you're able to pack so much into this drabble. The imagery, the dialogue, and the ending, wow, fantastic job! If I didn't know this was already HydraCap, I would have been shocked to see the green fabric of the flag and the Hydra symbol. This was lovely, thank you again. And happy Valentine's day to you, I hope enjoy the rest of your weekend! <3

[nostalgicatsea]

Happy belated Valentine's Day! :) Here is a film rec:

- The Handmaiden by Park Chan-wook is so sumptuous and dark. There are so many layers to it, and it's a WLW story.

And here are three fic recs! I'm sure you read some of these, but they're some of my all-time favorite dark/angsty fics:

- I’ll remember best of all, all the things we didn’t say" - dorcas_gustine (7,567 words)
Steve comes back and everything's gonna be alright. ...Right?

- Before the Darkness Swallows You" - Veldeia (30,837 words)
Steve was gone.

Tony was all alone in the dark, the blackness of the damp, rock-walled corridor only occasionally broken by the fluttering fluorescent lamps in the ceiling.

He wasn’t afraid of the dark. An abandoned mine was by no means the scariest environment he’d ended up in. Still, he’d have been crazy not to be afraid of what lurked in these shadows.

- "W.I.P.E." series - tsukinofaerii (57,702 words)
An AU of the events covering SIEGE and immediate after. When Tony is rebooted after deleting his brain, he's left with no memory of anything, and lingering programs that keep him from finding out everything he missed. Sometimes you just need to start over, but there's always a place in every plan for a backup.