Stocking: casseroli || ironmanwithaplan

[stevetony_elf]

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Username: ironmanwithaplan (casseroli#9904 on Discord)


AO3 Username: ironmanwithaplan


Comics Steve/Tony: 616 (IM+Avengers Vol 1/Vol 3 and are favorites, CW era + first and second drinking arcs for Tony are nice), Ults


Other Fandoms/Ships/Characters: Characters-- Tiberius Stone, Janet van Dyne, Carol Danvers, Frank Castle, Tony Stark AI


Ships/Dynamics: Carol/Rhodey, Jan and Tony, Jan and Tiberius Stone, Jan and Steve, Tony and Stephen Strange, Steve and Frank Castle, Bucky/Natasha


Fandoms-- Mass Effect (Garrus + Thane content, especially), Elder Scrolls


Likes: Canon divergence, nuanced takes of abuse (with "cycle of shame" type stuff), character studies, parallels/comparisons between characters (especially with Tony Stark and Tiberius Stone, or with Tiberius Stone and Steve Rogers), victims of abuse/mentally ill characters who are not at their best in the beginnings of relationships/friendships (overly suspicious, prone to emotional dysregulation, defensiveness, etc.), alcoholism storylines, bottom/sub 616 Tony, BDSM (masochistic/humiliation kink 616 Tony is a plus), Ults Steve/Tony with shifting dynamics in the bedroom (Ults Steve bottoming/subbing or topping/subbing is very good always), apocalypse stories (nuclear fallout, zombies, whatever), war, space, wars in space, holiday-related angst, holiday-related fluff, hapa Jan van Dyne (no specific ethnic preferences, but half-filipina Jan has been slowly taking over my mind), proposals, identity porn, darkfic (noncon, torture, whatever your heart desires), happy/sad/ambiguous endings (fluff would be very nice! I just have fewer preferences here)


Dislikes: Steve being Tony's caretaker/Tony being Steve's, resentful/angry Tony (no judgment, just not my thing), Steve's moral code being treated as objectively invalid, abuse victims being Healed By Love very suddenly, overly-arrogant (even as a front) Tony, A/B/O, kidfic, mpreg, age play, underage, incest


Non-fandom related requests/anything else?: pictures of pets (I am trying to get better at drawing animals and would like animal pic donations)! art of prehistoric life (cambrian era is sick, as well as the more generic "dinosaur" eras), holiday songs you enjoy, links to funny novelty items online. Sci-fi and nonfiction AI-related book recs would be sick, as well as historical fiction featuring romance and/or war. also if you have any art/fic/whatever you're very proud of (even if it's from a fandom not listed) please let me see it

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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!!

"bottom/sub 616 tony" by jetblackfeeling (dw) / wingheads (ao3)

Re: you gave me a stocking 2020

[ironmanwithaplan]

This is absolutely stunning!!!! I love the highlights; they add so much character and they're such a pleasant contrast to the beautiful dark shading. I really adore how confident you are with your shading, too. That's one of the technical bits about art that I still haven't gotten a hang of, so every time I see it in other people's works it just takes my breath away. Tony's eyes are gorgeous here, too, and the anatomy is lovely.

Thank you so much!!!

[welcoming_disaster]

Hi dear!

I wrote you a fic and it lives here: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/yougavemeastocking2020/works/28679199

it's about 8k of BDSM with a barely there plot. :)

[ironmanwithaplan]

Hello, my love! Holy fuck!

I'll leave my comments for the fic itself, hopefully to prompt others to praise your work like you deserve. I cannot be more excited. 8 thousand words!!!!! 8,000 sexy, sexy words!!!!

[lomku]

Cass! Happy New Year and Happy Valentine! I am so happy to have gotten to know you, it's always a pleasure to speak to you. You're a fantastic content creator. Your art is so clean, and it always makes me feel things when I see it!! Your fics are quietly thoughtful and they always make me pause. I'm looking forward to continuing our relationship.
Now, for your gifts:
Here is Steve wearing a certain sweater you once mentioned to me...

And here is Mr.Steal-your-man himself, Tiberius Stone!!!

(if you want, I have a textless version too)

Much love from me!

[ironmanwithaplan]

OLUKA!!!!!!!!!

Oh, goodness. Oh, I love them so much. I love them so dearly. Oh my god. Oh my goodness.

Steve's lovely sweater!!! And Ty is in such a good Ty outfit!!! Your color choices with shading are always so pleasant, and I love the shadow behind Ty. The anatomy on Steve is excellent too; weird little compliment, but I love the arch of his left shoe.

Thank you so much!!!

I'm happy to have gotten to know you too. I think about you often, and hearing from you is always such a pleasure. :')

[dirigibleplumbing]

Hi ironmanwithaplan! I have some links and things for you.

Holiday music:
- I adore John Fahey’s Christmas album (Spotify, youtube)! 1960s folk guitar. Good stuff.
- And you probably saw Daveed Diggs’ “Puppy for Hannukah” song but it’s amazing and my fave.

Book recs:
- For AI-related scifi, have you read Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch trilogy? Ancillary Justice is the first one. It’s about a she/her AI who used to be a spaceship and have many bodies and now finds herself confined to a single body. She’s on a quest for vengeance. Also, she really misses her captain.
- The Loyal League series (An Extraordinary Union, A Hope Divided, An Unconditional Freedom) by Alyssa Cole is a romance trilogy set during the US Civil War. Each one is about a different m/f couple. It’s one of my very favorite romance series.
- Some other favorite romance novels include: Any Old Diamonds by K.J. Charles (late Victorian m/m); A Seditious Affair by K.J. Charles (Regency m/m, the second in an excellent series, but in this case the 1st book would sliiightly spoil you for this one so I usually tell people to start with this one. Also because it's probably my all-time favorite romance novel); The Heiress Effect by Courtney Milan (Victorian m/f); The Countess Conspiracy by Courtney Milan (Victorian m/f, from the same series as Heiress Effect, all of them are good but these two are my faves); Pansies by Alexis Hall (contemporary m/m with hints of identity porn and enemies-to-loves but not really); When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole (contemporary m/f, described as "Get Out meets Rear Window"); Hither, Page by Cat Sebastian (post WWI m/m).

And:
Since you like prehistoric animals and mentioned drawing animals, I recommend checking out James Gurney, if you haven’t already. He’s the illustrator behind the Dinotopia books, and he has a lot of blog entries—and several books—about his process and his technique. He creates whole miniature scenes, sometimes with toy dinosaurs, and then lights them and uses the resulting photos as drawing reference. He shows how he uses photo reference, uses himself as a model, how he plans his pieces, and lots more. He links to a lot of great resources, too.

[ironmanwithaplan]

This is so in depth!!! I've seen some comments you've left on other stockings, and your recommendations are so thoughtful and sweet. Ancillary Justice sounds absolutely wonderful, and I'm so excited to deep dive into James Gurney. You've given me so much to add to my to-do list this year and I couldn't be more grateful. I don't know what string of words would be able to convey how "aww!!" I am reading this message, so I figured I'd just tell you like this.

Thank you so much!

[citsiurtlanu]

Hello! I am here to donate a couple of pet pics! They are my (well, my stepdad's, technically) Jack Russell Terriers. Sadly neither is with us anymore but I hope you enjoy them!

My chubby girl: https://i.imgur.com/VYWshyU.jpg

And my donut boy: https://i.imgur.com/Z09PNe3.jpg

[ironmanwithaplan]

VERY GOOD!!!!

I have a donut girl of my own and donut animals are truly peak. Your chubby girl is so cute too!! I love her head and her silly little expression. I'm sure they were the most wonderful dogs. Thank you!!!

[sineala]

I don't know if you'd also like recs for books ABOUT dinosaurs but in case you do I absolutely have to put in a rec for The First Fossil Hunters by Adrienne Mayor, which is a book about how people in Greece and Rome saw all these bones lying around and interpreted them as the skeletons of mythic heroes -- I mean, you see a giant femur, you figure it belongs to a giant person, right? -- who are all taller than regular people, by the way, and there's a chart of how tall they thought all the heroes were as measured by the size of the bones they found. It's pretty cool. I also recommend the relatively recent TV series Prehistoric Road Trip which I think is still streaming on PBS. It has a lot of prehistoric life!

My rec for "historical fiction featuring romance and/or war" is probably going to be anything by Mary Renault, assuming Ancient Greece is your brand of historical. She was very, very, very good at Ancient Greece; her most famous work is probably the Alexander trilogy (Fire From Heaven, The Persian Boy, Funeral Games). Also, hey, she was gay and Alexander was... probably also pretty gay!

[ironmanwithaplan]

That absolutely is my brand of historical, and I am so, so very excited to dive into this author, as well as the other recommendations! I've loved content similar to The First Fossil Hunters, and it's always wonderful to scoop up more!

Thank you so, so much! I seem to have a lot to read. :)

[magicasen]

Hi Cass! I think you're super cool and your art is absolutely gorgeous. I'm so happy that you've been talking more in the server this past year and I'm looking forward to getting to know you better!

Here is my cat Luna https://i.imgur.com/Lg6qoJH.jpg
and my doggo Lucky! https://i.imgur.com/427bjQc.jpg

Happy Valentine's Day!!

[ironmanwithaplan]

Thank you, Magic! I'm looking forward to get to know you better as well. :)

Luna and Lucky are so, so cute!!! They both have the funniest expressions. They look very comfy and well-loved. Thank you for the pictures!!

[nostalgicatsea]

Hi, Cass! Happy belated Valentine's Day. Here's a funny pillow I came across last week that I think counts as a novelty item. :D

[ironmanwithaplan]

It ABSOLUTELY does!! I will eat it. Thank you so much! :)