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[stevetony_elf]

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Username: magicasen

AO3 Username: magicasen

Comics Steve/Tony: 616 (all eras, but especially anything CW and after (Hickman, v4, SE, etc.), 1872, Ults, Noir, Bullet Points

Other Fandoms/Ships/Characters:

616: Peter Quill/Richard Rider, Gamora/Peter Quill/Richard Rider

MCU: Endgame-era Steve/Tony (romantic or gen), Steve & Morgan, Shang-Chi & family, Tony & Wenwu


Other Marvel: Civil Warrior, AA
Other fandoms: When They Cry series (Higurashi/Umineko): GouSotsu Satoko & Satoko/Rika, The Culprit character from Umineko
Likes:
For family stuff: fluff and happiness, “passing on the torch”, children not repeating the same mistakes their parents/parental figures made, introspection, impossibly happy dream-worlds

For friendship stuff: lots of good-natured ribbing and teasing, the more reserved characters being surprisingly open for brief moments, teaching each other new things

For shippy stuff: repression, wistfulness, denial of feelings, pining, bittersweetness, leaving things unsaid, emotional intensity, loyalty, self-sacrifice for the sake of the other person, UST, melodrama, sweetness, silly shenanigans, banter. For tropes: wingfic, fake relationship, time travel, groundhog day, multiverse shenanigans, canon-divergence AUs, identity porn, Capwolf, royalty/knight AUs, childhood friends AUs.

Dislikes: Rape/non-con, infidelity, humiliation/embarrassment, A/B/O, pregnancy. Steve/Tony-specific: Tony’s daddy issues, mismatched Steve/Tonys as endgame pairing (ex. MCU!Steve/616!Tony, etc.)

Non-fandom related requests/anything else?:
Cute animals (especially partial to penguins, cats, and dogs) but I really do love all creatures. Lesbian/WLW content or recs. Trans fiction recs. Your favorite quotes/poetry/short pieces on writing, or romantic quotes that give you OTP feelings. Links to cute merchandise (official or fan-made) or commissions for any of my fandoms. I also would love nice comments if you don’t have anything in particular to rec or leave!

Comments

[quietshade]

Happy New Year Magicasen!

I have a wlw rec for you: Dickinson! It's an Apple TV original that should cover some of your craving for wlw content and poetry for a little while.

If you watched Hawkeye you'll recognize Hailee Steinfeld. She's really good here. :D
https://youtu.be/iBMeB6xG4rE

[magicasen]

Hi hi!!! Sorry for the late reply. And thank you for the rec - I haven't heard of this series and I do ave a fondness for Emily Dickinson's poetry :D :D :D thank you so much for alerting me to a new thing. And thank you for the kind comment and hope to see you around in the server more this year!

[pywren]

This is my favourite poem by E.E. Cummings. It has this amazing otherworldly feel to it!


'pity this busy monster, manunkind'


pity this busy monster, manunkind,

not. Progress is a comfortable disease:
your victim (death and life safely beyond)

plays with the bigness of his littleness
--- electrons deify one razorblade
into a mountainrange; lenses extend
unwish through curving wherewhen till unwish
returns on its unself.
A world of made
is not a world of born --- pity poor flesh

and trees, poor stars and stones, but never this
fine specimen of hypermagical

ultraomnipotence. We doctors know

a hopeless case if --- listen: there's a hell
of a good universe next door; let's go

E. E. Cummings

[magicasen]

Hi pywren!!

This is a beautiful poem, I love how, to me, it gives off a fast-paced vibe, of trying to outrun nature and not looking back. Thank you for sharing these lovely words!

[jetblackfeeling]

ao3

[magicasen]

Hi agron!! THEY ARE SO CUTE I LOVE THEM SO MUCH AHHHHHH see further in AO3 :)

[veryvincible]

Hi, magic!!! You are a joyous presence always and I am so glad to have stumbled into the server and gotten the opportunity to meet you and chat with you! Here are some penguins that I doodled for you--



Feel free to do whatever you'd like with them, lol! A painting (as you know) will also be coming your way, and maaaybe something extra. ;)

I hope you had a wonderful holiday season, and have a great year to come ^^

[magicasen]

Hi cass! Thank you so much for the nice comments, I also love talking to you on the server ;w;

ALSO THE PENGUINS AHHHHH. I immediately right-click saved it and will TREASURE IT OMG. I love their outfits so much, and I'm extra charmed by Steveguin's little fish. THEY ARE SO CUTE THANK YOU SO MUCH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[sineala]

Happy... Valentine's? Wow, it's been a while.

I am very glad to know you and I very much enjoy co-modding the server with you! You are a great person and your friendship means a lot to me! <3

You said you wanted quotes ,and I recently discovered the Twitter account queerlitbot which tweets out excerpts from queer literature and poetry. I think it's really neat! Also I know a lot of people in fandom get OTP feelings from Richard Siken's poetry and there's also the sikenpoems Twitter that specifically just does his poetry.

You also wanted trans fiction recs, and the last trans novel I read was For the Love of April French which is actually one of those millionaire BDSM romances, and the heroine is trans (the hero is a cis Black guy), and the author is also trans, and the whole thing is actually really incredibly sweet. And mostly I was amazed that this was actually published by Harlequin -- I've never actually read a Harlequin novel before -- but I guess this is what modern mainstream romance fiction is actually like now! Way more queer than I was imagining!

<3 <3

[magicasen]

Hi Sine!!!!! I've said it already but likewise - I'm very glad we've been friends and co-mods for so long!

I followed the queerlitbot Twitter! Always enjoy more queer stuff on the TL heheh. And that rec sounds really fun, intense, and sexy! I'll put it on my list heheh. Thank you again!

[nostalgicatsea]

HAPPYYYY VALENTINE'S DAY, MAGIC! AKDJLFASkfjksdlfjs I tried to see if I could write the Tony & Wenwu fic for you before reveals and it didn't happen, unfortunately. Well, I did write a few lines, but I didn't progress much beyond that. But I AM working on it! Thank you for understanding my Wenwu feelings and being on this Tony & Wenwu train with me because thinking about them is deliciously spicy.

Since I failed at my attempt to finish before reveals, here are some other stocking stuffers:

A cute video of a dog that can't figure out what to do with the big stick she got.

I wasn't sure if you wanted links to commissioned pieces for your fandoms or commission slots, but in case you wanted people offering commissions:

- Sop might be up for Steve/Tony. I don't know if they ship it, but they at least don't mind it because they made a beautiful Steve/Tony commission before. They don't think they'll post Marvel commissions anymore because of rampant reposting, but I think they're still open for private commissions! :)

- heydocpotts/anthon-e has a Ko-fi. If you donate $9+, you can get a sketch. Super sweet and I wish they'd up the amount a little bit because their work is worth so much more than $9 imo!

- heylous also has a Ko-fi where you can donate a small amount to get a sketch! If you want something more detailed, you can also discuss rates with them.

- Eriot has both art and rotoscope commissions open!

I don't know any artists who specifically are into Umineko or Higurashi, but if I find any after I finish Umineko at some point in the distant future, I'll send you links although you probably know everyone. And haha...I think you know the one Quill/Rider artist I know, unfortunately, but I'll run to you immediately if I encounter another Quill/Rider-shipping artist in the wild.

OH! And some cute merch. Grace's shop is going to reopen tomorrow so maybe one or both of these will be in stock then:

- glitter + dried flowers + magic Steve/Tony bottle charm

- Steve and Tony's last brain cell shaker charm

OKAY, I'M BACK AGAIN TO ADD ANOTHER THING. I'm not sure if this qualifies as a short piece as it's a whole book, but it's an essay collection so it's made up of short pieces. If you haven't read How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee, I highly recommend it. It was one of my favorite reads last year and it's one of those books I want to shove in everyone's face and yell, "READ IT!"

[magicasen]

Hi sea!! YES I'M ALWAYS DOWN TO TALK ABOUT WENWU AND TONY :D

Ahhh cute doggy! I love her ;;;;;

Thank you for all those links! And yes I did mean Steve/Tony artists who were taking commissions :D I definitely will bookmark those for a time when I feel like treating myself heheh. Also those Steve/Tony charms are sooo cute ;_; those are definitely on my list too!!!

Thank you for the book rec!!! I haven't heard of it and it sounds lovely ;;;;;;

[keirkieran]

Firstly, as it happens I DO have a pic of a penguin that I think you'll enjoy.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B9ZowrH31UpEUT1wmqBdAFR3194Yd1n1/view?usp=sharing

I didn't make it but it's in my studio atm.


Secondly, I did start a fic for you on the likes: sweetness, silly shenanigans, time travel (sorta), identity porn, childhood friends AUs (sorta). Below is a snippet of the fic.



High silver walls surrounded Steve on four sides. There were no windows but there was a walkway going around the top two stories above him. It was all lit by strange white lights and there were no windows and the only doors were silver and solid on the far wall. It looked like a gigantic cell built to hold some terrible monster. There was nothing in there at all but himself, a weird big dish thing painted like a 4th of July decoration and laying on the floor a little ways away, and another kid he’d never seen before. It was a boy, probably his age and a negro. He was wearing colorful clothing that reminded Steve of something he’d seen at the museum, but way nicer and oddly modern looking. Steve felt more than a little shabby in his third hand clothes. Especially with how the kid was looking at Steve.

He had no idea where he was or how he got here, but he was 100% certain he didn’t belong here.

“Hi? I’m Steve,” he said, sounding way more confident than he felt and sticking his hand out like his ma had taught him.

“Where am I?” the other boy demanded in a strange accent. “Why am I here? Did you bring me here?!”

Steve lowered his ignored hand. “I didn’t! I- I don’t know where we are either! Don’t you know? I thought-”

“Of course I don’t know! Is this a kidnapping? My father won’t stand for this!” he shouted and stepped towards Steve, fists bared.

That the other boy was clearly stronger than him was hardly a blip in Steve’s brain. He hadn’t done anything wrong! He wasn’t going to be blamed! “Dat’s baloney! Why would I kidnap you? I don’ even know you! Don’ go crying to your old man on me! We were both dumped ‘ere, ya dummy.”

“D-don’t call me a ‘dummy’!” the other boy replied, clearly thrown off by Steve’s reply. “If you didn’t kidnap me, who did?”

“I dunno. An’ stop acting like a dummy an’ I won’ call ya one,” he pointed out, bringing a hand to his chest. The shouting was a mistake. His ma always told him not to and now his lungs felt tight. He had to calm down.

“Well… How did we get here? Where is here?! Are we locked in?”

“I. Don’t. Know.” Come on lungs… just do your job. It’s fine.

“This is…” the other boy continued, looking around the big empty room with worried eyes. “I was just home…”

“Me, too.” Steve’s voice came out a bit wheezy as he tried to count his breaths like the doctor said to.

“My family will be looking for me. They’ll have the guard sent out immediately… They’ll find me in no time.”

Steve couldn’t pay him much attention and anyway, it felt like he was mostly talking to reassure himself. He’d closed his eyes and was doing his best to calm his busted lungs, while trying not to think about the weird room they had been magically dropped into. And may be locked inside. And were people going to watch them from those walkways? They looked like that’s what they were for… His imagination was doing him no favors at all and his breathing was just getting worse.

“Hey. Hey, are you okay?” the other boy asked.

Steve nodded messily. “Fine. I’m fine.”

“You don’t look fine…”

“I just have… bad lungs…” he wheezed, finally opening his eyes. “Just gotta… relax. ...I’m fine…”

“What, asthma?” he asked and when Steve nodded again, he continued. “Do you have a- a- a thing - an inhaler?” The boy made a weird squeezing motion in front of his mouth.

“A what?”

“For your asthma? Don’t they have them where you come from?” The boy looked shocked and Steve was sure he’d be beet red if not for his lungs refusing to let him have air. Whatever an inhaler was, it was something the other boy thought was basic and he didn’t have it. Maybe they only had them in Africa. “Inhaling” really sounded great, though.

“You’re turning blue! Come on, we need to get someone.” Suddenly the other boy had an arm around Steve and started helping him to the big metal doors.

He wanted to complain. He hated being treated like a crippled baby, but… it was hard to argue when he couldn’t get enough air to talk. So he was quickly taken to the doors and then the boy pushed a button on the side. To Steve’s surprise the doors opened with a pleasant ding to reveal… a very tiny room?

“An elevator?” the boy asked and helped Steve in while Steve was left wondering how it could be an elevator when there was no elevator man inside or gate. But the African kid seemed to know all about it and he hit one of many buttons on the inside. “There has to be someone here,” he said and the elevator started to move all on it’s own.

The first floor they stopped at was empty. Some kind of weird lab straight out of one his scifi magazines. The next floor was empty too, showing just a hallway of the same gray metal and no one answered on either floor when the other boy shouted for help. Fortunately the third floor had someone. Unfortunately the person that was there was another kid, also a boy, white with black hair. His dark blue eyes were wide with shock at the sight of them. Steve told himself he was not going to cry when the new kid replied that he didn’t belong here either and had seen no grownups.

“You’re the first people I’ve seen! What’s wrong with him?”

“Asthma. Have you seen anything medical?”

“Doesn’t he have an inhaler?” the new kid asked and Steve’s face scrunched up silently. What’s an inhaler? And this room… Even struggling to breathe he could see it was as foriegn as the other rooms. Somethings were familiar like the couch but so much was completely strange.

“No, he’s got nothing. We need a doctor or something.”

What could a doctor do? His doctor just told him to breathe slowly… His lungs were just junk. Even his ma could only- “Tea…” he weazed out. “Ma… gives… tea…”

“Tea?” the negro boy asked dubiously, but the new kid sprang into action.

“I can make tea! I help Jarvis with tea sometimes!” he cried and started opening doors till he shouted “A kitchen!” as he rushed in, the first kid helped Steve get to the couch.

“Okay… Okay just… rest?” the boy said, clearly lost but trying. “That other kid will get you tea.” Suddenly something clattered loudly in the kitchen followed by bangs that may have been cabinet doors. “Probably.” Steve was liking this boy more as things went. Generally other kids just yelled for help or left him when he got an attack. He hated being babied, but he also hated the idea of being alone through this in this weird place.

For a few minutes, Steve did his best to just focus on his breathing through his nose and counting like the doctor told him. In the background there was strange beeps and more bangs from the kitchen. There was no kettle whistle but there was suddenly a sharp yelp. The boy with him looked torn on whether he should check but before he could the white kid came back with a steaming mug.

“I got it!” he proudly shouted as he came up to the couch as fast as he could.

Gratefully, Steve took it and bent his head over the steam.

“I put in honey. Jarvis does that when I’m coughing.”

As the steam opened up his lungs a little Steve could manage a little smile. “My ma… too.”

“I’m Tony,” the new boy said.

“Steve.”

To his credit, the first kid looked a little abashed. “My name is T’challa.”

[magicasen]

THAT IS A LOVELY CAP PENGUIN!!!!! I adore the style so much, I'm glad you get to look upon him all the time!

And omg, the idea of baby Tony and Steve (and T'Challa) all getting to time travel and meet is so charming. I also find it really sweet that even baby pre-serum Steve was a little leader! fjfsldkaf; I can't wait to see where this goes if you choose to finish it - but what's here is already so adorable. They have such vastly different childhoods, it gives such good food for thought! Thank you so much!

[festiveferret]

Happy stockings! Here's a gang of ne'er do wells, skipping school and looking for trouble no doubt! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKHTm6H7Dts

[magicasen]

Happy stocking!!

Omg those unsupervised trouble makers must be up to no good! (fjslkdf;sjs baby Emperor penguins always make me cry they're so much floof thank you!!)

[starvels]

hi magic! happy holidays and new year from me and this silly baby kitten who wish you nothing but the best!

here are some happy animal pics to hopefully bring you some winter warmth and smiles!







and i just wanted to say thanks for always being so kind and such a bright presence in the server and with all the organizing you do. you make our space so great! happy valentine's day!

[magicasen]

Hi star! OMG I LOVE. ANIMALS. THEY ARE SO CUTE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA thank you so much for the good chemicals fjs;lkdfaj; and thank you so much, I'm so glad you like the server and I love having you around! Happy very late Valentine's Day? Happy stocking!!

[phoenixmetaphor]

Please forgive me for dropping a link and running, but here you go! Thanks for helping make the server so great <3. Merry stocking!

[magicasen]

MERRY STOCKING! I LOVE THE BOI ;;;;;