Stocking: Kiyaar

[stevetony_elf]

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Username: Kiyaar (Kiyaar#1044)
AO3 Username: Kiyaar
Comics Steve/Tony: 616; faves include Hickmanvengers, Secret Empire, IM vol. 3, the 2nd drinking arc, Anything around Secret Empire before or after
Other Fandoms/Ships/Characters: Dean/Cas, Any Witcher content involving intense Geralt whump
Likes: angst, bdsm, dark fic, torture, noncon, death, explorations of chronic illness, imposter Steve/tonies, betrayal, established relationships, unhappy endings, really miserable/brutal stuff, porn
Dislikes: children, marriage, family-centric stuff, fluff
Non-fandom related requests/anything else?: SFF recs, pictures of unearthly places on earth, articles about breaking/Cool science. Playlists or music recs! I love fic recs too! ESP Witcher recs right now.

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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!!

"porn" by jetblackfeeling (dw) / wingheads (ao3)

A Very Angsty Holiday To You

[ghosthan]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/28598505

[nostalgicatsea]

Happyyyyy new year, ki! Here are some SFF recs that I hope you'll enjoy.

1. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - I love this little book. You can finish it in one sitting, and it soothed me and brought me peace last year, something we all sorely need during these times. I really think you'd like this book too. It's so hypnotic and wonderful. There's an underlying darkness to the whole thing too.

2. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke - If you like historical fantasy fiction, this is the opposite end of the spectrum from Piranesi. You can clock someone over the head with this book. It's that big. The characters are all flawed and irritating in the best way, there's a whole magical society, and there's a faerie world!

3. Vicious by V.E. Schwab - Best friends-turned-enemies! Two sides, neither of which are good (it's more morally dubious/bad vs. worse). Interesting superpowers that you get through violent circumstances! Very cinematic and very much something that I liked as someone who likes superhero stuff (though, again, there are no heroes in this story...but that's something I like too).

[ironmanwithaplan]

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/yougavemeastocking2020/works/29092710

[sineala]

Happy very belated birthday! I was determined to finish something for you for this because you definitely deserve an approximately-birthday story! Also you are a great person!

Now that I look at your listed likes for this stocking, I see that I have written in exactly zero of the canon eras you have listed. However, in my defense, I would like to say that you asked for this.

Have a fic: Packing Heat.

(It is 4,000 words of filthy porn. Also I couldn't quite figure out a set of tags that exactly reflected the content of this story, so I am pretty sure that this is the weirdest use of the tag "Risk Aware Consensual Kink" that has ever existed. Also I got to create a new pairing tag. Hooray.)

[dirigibleplumbing]

Hi, Kiyaar! I drew you a picture of Tony suffering, but with, like, metaphors or something.


Recommending music always feels so iffy to me buuuuut I have two angsty playlists to share: Director Stark Tears, which makes me cry despite being my own playlist; and in the morning Tony Stark will be sober... or dead which definitely has several of the obvious songs one would expect on a 2nd drinking arc playlist but hopefully a few that are new to you as well.

Places: (if I post enough of these, there are probably some you haven't seen before, right?)
- Fairy circles of Namibia
- The painted hills at the John Day fossil beds. I'm mad there's never been a Star Wars movie (or TV show) shot here.
- Lake Hillier, a pink lake in Australia
- Nevada's fly geyser
- The Crooked Forest in Poland
- An abandoned Wizard of Oz park
- Rainbow mountain in Peru
- Leftover Star Wars sets in Tunisia
- Abandoned dinosaur amusement park

SFF:
Maybe I'm recommending things you already know but here goes!
- The Vanishers by Heidi Julavits. Featuring academia, psychic attacks, and lots and lots of women characters.
- Among Others by Jo Walton. Okay maybe this is really popular and everyone already knows it? But if not. This is a story about being young, disabled, nerdy, and new in town. There's also magic, fairies, an evil biological mother, and eventually a scifi/fantasy book club.
- I think that everyone should read Samuel R. Delany if they haven't already. He's a Black queer author who's been writing since the 1950s. My favorites are his space operas, like Nova -- which is a sort of bonkers Grail story that includes a fight on a lava planet and a brain in a jar -- and Babel-17 which is about an API wlw poet and linguist saving everyone through her badassery. Note: his older stuff contains a lot of outdated terms, plus slurs (including words that were considered slurs at time of publishing, plus some that weren't). There's also Dhalgren. I wouldn't say I recommend it, exactly. It's 300k words of experimental 1970s... experimentation. It's about a lot of things, including the process of writing, as well as sexual identity, racial identity, identity generally, cities and urban culture, white flight, and lots more I'm forgetting. There's a chapter called "Palimpsest" that's literally a palimpsest. But also I'd love if someone read Dhalgren because then I could have someone to talk to about it.
- Event Factory by Renee Gladman can be hard to get your hands on but is absolutely worth it. Gladman is a queer Black poet and this novella(?) is about a linguist traveling to an unfamiliar city-city state. It's very much a spiritual successor to Dhalgren.

[phoenixmetaphor]

An art for you!

Merr Stocking! Tell Panda I love her!

hydra cap torturing/loving tony

[resurrectedhippo]

Hi Kiyaar, I wrote you a fic set during Secret Empire: https://archiveofourown.org/works/29419842

I hope you like it!

[citsiurtlanu]

Hello! Not quite sure if this counts as unearthly places, but I'll just drop off a link to a photographer's site who takes neat pics of glaciers and icebergs! https://www.abstract-landscape.com/

The Stuff of which Stockings are Made

[stargraven]

After typing that subject line, I feel like I should now be writing you a dystopian AU in which Steve is gone, Tony is alive and desperate and miserable and trying to save the world, and the pair of socks Steve knitted for him - all Tony has left of Steve - are falling to tatters on his feet.

Then again, for this to be a fic for you, Steve probably got... infected, zombie-fied, or whatever, and turned on Tony, and Tony had to incapacitate and lobotomize him with the knitting needle. So he's not really dead, he's just stashed somewhere alive but destroyed, and needs his brain fixed, a little. He feeds himself and sits blankly, knitting strings of half-raveled stitches.

It's probably called something like "The Darned and the Damned." "Darning Be Damned?" "Damned in the Darning?" "The Stockings Be Damned?"

Uhhhh ok, I'm tired and that's random. And farcical. But also tragic, perhaps? :D

Aaanyway.
Thank you for another year of modding the server and contributing to making it the Fandom Home that it is. And for being a good friend, always offering support and commiseration. I wish there were less to have to commiserate about... but until that day. I long for the world bring you a better relationship with your body, and better than the doctors who seem to get at least as much wrong as right at every turn.

I love Panda, and please give her some of whatever pets and smooches she wants, from me.

Also I'm going to share with you a comics solicit for a series starting this week that I hope is half as good as it sounds:

https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/DEC201747

I don't know what the feel and flavor of the comic will end up being, but I also realized that the premise itself seems like it could be a ready-made Steve-Tony fusion. Steve, for whatever reason, has been reduced to this "jumble of organs in a bio-suit," and of course Tony is the mechanic... "Queer monster love story" ensues... yes, PLEASE!

Also, I do have a Witcher fic rec, which has a happy ending, but only after many, many words of *brilliant* and agonizing horror. If you've read it, that's awesome. If you haven't, please have a very horrific and wonderful treat:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/24837040/chapters/60079303

I will leave you with these Stocking Season Greetings...
-wynnesome

[lomku]

Happy Valentine! You are one of my favourite authors of this fandom, and a source of inspiration for me when I write. Thank you for modding the 616 server and organising events such as this one. I wish you safety and good health for 2020.
I think you might enjoy listening to Muse.

[magicasen]

Hi Ki!!!! Thank you so much for being a fellow co-mod and in general being a great person to talk to and a source of support, especially over this past year! I appreciate you greatly, and please tell Panda I love her.

I think you might like the Machineries of Empire trilogy? I think that Jedao is the sort of insane genius yet fascinating character that I also think you'd enjoy. Otherwise I know that Sine likes this a lot too but Murderbot is so much fun and an entire mood.

[stargraven]

I see that dirigibleplumbing sent you a compilation of links of amazing places on earth, but I thought you might also like dirigible's link set to me, which is amazing animal constructions - crazy nests built by various birds and insects. So passing that gift along! (Scroll a little down past the art to see the links!)

https://yougavemeastocking.dreamwidth.org/13170.html?thread=184946#cmt184946