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[stevetony_elf]

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Username: starvels || discord: dinostarus#2785

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Comics Steve/Tony:

• 616 (early canon, civil war, infinity, avengers vol 4, empyre)
• Ults
• 1872
• 3490
• Noir
• Multiverse in general

Other Fandoms/Ships/Characters:

• Marvel: Carol/Jess Drew, Carol/Jess Drew/Rhodey, Billy/Teddy, America/Kate, any queer combo of Young Avengers, Bucky/Natasha, Bucky/Sam, Danny/Jessica Jones/Luke, Doom/Tony, MCU Annie/Dan/Eddie/Venom, Eddie/Venom
• Other Comics: DC - Koriand'r/Raven Roth. Image Comics: The Old Guard - Nicolo/Yusuf (Nicky/Joe), Andy/Noriko(Quynh)
• Inception: Arthur/Eames, Ariadne/Arthur/Eames
• Other Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series (Gen/any ships), Avatar: the Last Airbender (Gen), Fullmetal Alchemist (any ship but Ed/Winry), The Witcher Games and TV (any combo of Eskel/Geralt/Jaskier/Yennefer). & more as i love to branch out and read fandoms i'm not in!

Likes: superhero realism, established relationships, queer/trans/gender explorations, disability/addiction focus, hurt/comfort, character studies, travel/heavy worldbuilding including detailed AUs, open/poly relationships, BDSM/RACK, consent play, nonlinear/atypical narrative structure, transhumanism, sci-fi or speculative fiction,

some prompts that have been swirling around my harddrive!
• strange holiday traditions and times at the mansion/tower/town/whitehouse/etc - hectic and heart-filled
• sometimes, tony and steve's unhealthy relationship reminds tony too much of addiction
• AI tony somehow in civil warrior steve's suit
• tony fucking his way through space w the gotg, steve back home getting a rundown of all the fun times and maybe having some of his own
• the intergalactic house of pancakes and a week of avengers multiverse brunches
• for what it's worth, steve would like to say he didn't know the handkerchiefs were a code
• tony choosing/coding what ID verification to use for the avengers, especially why he chooses a skrull detector for steve(new avengers vol 4, issue 10)

Dislikes: a/b/o, bdsm au, kid!fic, deaging, underage, cheating, mpreg, high school/college AU, prolongued or psychological torture without hope or healing, characters that are treated as children, natasha stark as a cis woman, racism/transphobia/sexism etc. treated as jokes/non-critically. homophobia unless its the sexy internalized religious guilt kind wink wink.

Non-fandom related requests/anything else?: any queer media/speculative fiction recs are always appreciated. i am an enthusiastic audience for any and all of your houseplants/succulents/trees/fungi photos or gushing! recently delved into gaming a bit more so i always love recs for that or people sharing playthroughs/essays, etc on what they love. obscure knowledge learning recs are beloved (videos or books or podcasts).
i love collabs and doing fic/art/playlist exchanges (original and fandom) and i'm always up for an impromptu book club.

Comments

[nostalgicatsea]

HAPPY BELATED VALENTINE'S DAY, DI! Thank you for gifting the fandom with your gorgeous stories.

I'd rec some Arthur/Eames fics because I was in the Inception fandom back in the day as a lurker, but I have a feeling you know all the ones I can think of. Mm, writing about this makes me want to go back and reread some old favorites now.

Let's see..I think I recommended this already in the server, but if you like sci-fi and speculative fiction, one of my favorite books last year was The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey. It's a slim book so you can get through it in one sitting. I'll copy what I wrote to ki: It's about a scientist named Evelyn who finds out that her now ex-husband cheated on her with her clone, Martine, whom he made with research he stole from her and the two women having to figure out what to do with him when Martine kills him. Sharp, icy, restrained writing, with a headstrong scientist who is harsh with everyone, the satisfaction of a man who sucks being offed, and the dilemma of having to deal with not only a clone of you, but your work being misused in such a horrific way!

Queer media recs that I got over the past 12 months!

Book:
- Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
This is a contemporary novel, but it deals with queer/trans/gender exploration, is a really great character study-type book, and it's so dramatic, messy, and I don't know. I was sucked into the world immediately and the prose is just so good. I think there are some things that people are divided on, but hey, it might be something you're interested in!

TV shows:
- Arcane
Summary: Amidst the escalating unrest between the rich, utopian city of Piltover and the seedy, oppressed undercity of Zaun, sisters Vi and Jinx find themselves on opposing sides of a brewing war over clashing convictions and arcane technologies.

Note: This is a show based on the game, League of Legends. I don't know a single thing about LoL, but I enjoyed Arcane. The animation is BEAUTIFULLLLLL and really unique, like paintings come to life, and I really liked the world it was set in. And you have a queer female protagonist!

- Killing Eve
Summary: Eve's life as a spy is not adding up to what she had hoped it would be when she started. She is a bored, very smart, MI5 security officer who is very desk-bound. Villanelle is a very talented killer, mercurial in mood, who clings to the luxuries of her job. Eve and Villanelle go head to head in a fierce game of cat and mouse, each woman equally obsessed with the other as Eve is tasked with hunting down the psychopathic assassin.

Note: The seasons got wobblier as they went, but wow, the acting! The tension and suspense! Enemies-to-lovers???? Two sides of the same coin, two women who bring out the worst in each other and are drawn to each other like magnets because they're soulmates.

Movies:
- God's Own Country
Summary: In Yorkshire a young unhappy farmer is living with his grandmother and sickly father. He numbs his frustrations with drinking and casual sex until a Romanian migrant worker sets him on a new path.

Note: This film wasn't what I expected, but that was good because it made me think about it long after I finished watching it. I can't believe the director never went to film school and he was in his late 40s when he made this! It was his first film! Anyway, it doesn't try to romanticize anything. The countryside is brutal and miserable. The characters, at first, aren't tender with each other because their circumstances prevented them from being that way, but much like there's beauty to be found in the wilderness, both in delicate things that manage to survive their harsh settings and in the strange allure of raw, tough, uncompromising surroundings, there's beauty in their relationship too, in the prickly moments and quiet, soft ones! They learn how to love each other!

- The Handmaiden
Summary: A woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a plot to defraud her.

Note: I am OBSESSED with this movie. Obsessed. It's sumptuous, it has twists that keep you on the edge of your seat, and it's a mish-mash of genres. It's a gothic romance. It's a caper. It's a dark comedy. The romance between the two women is so breathtaking and UGUhhghUGHGhhgHG please watch it if you haven't! I will say, though, that it's very explicit as a warning so it might be something you want to watch by yourself haha.

[starvels]

thank you so much for these sweet words and recs! fwiw, you should absolutely go back and read some a/e fic. it was all so phenomenal. ✨👌

& you have a great grasp on what i like bc i loved god's own country, killing eve and arcane VERY much indeed! love how you describe them all though. especially god's own country. ugh, it's brutal and miserable! they aren't tender, but then, they learn how to love each other!!!! it's such a gritty, real, tangible story. sits on the tongue like a crispy chip. yes!

i have detransition baby on hold at my library too so hopefully i will get to consumer that as well. the others are on the list !! :''))

[nostalgicatsea]

I was so well-fed in the Inception fandom. It was like Marvel in that it felt like a huge playground/sandbox to mess around in even as a lurker! And I feel like a bunch of A/E authors jumped over to Steve/Tony in the early days of the Marvel fandom so that was nice too.

YES, I love that God's Own Country is as you described. You don't get to see that kind of love in the media imo. As much as I love Call Me By Your Name (the novel), not everyone is in an environment where they're (more) able to explore their sexuality and be equipped with the resources and support to do so safely and an understanding of what's going on. Like sometimes queer people can be two working-class dudes who do manual labor and aren't academics who know about culture or whatever! But they're just as valid and the way that they love is valid.

I hope you like Detransition, Baby. Let me know what you think of it!