2023 Stocking: magicasen

[stevetony_elf]

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Username: magicasen


AO3 Username: magicasen


Comics Steve/Tony: 616 (special fondness for anything post-volume 3 Avengers, especially Heroic Age, post-Secret Wars, and current canon)


Other Fandoms/Ships/Characters:
616: Peter Quill/Richard Rider, Gamora/Peter Quill/Richard Rider, Peter Parker/Johnny Storm, Emma Frost/Tony Stark
MCU: Endgame-era Steve/Tony (romantic or gen), Steve & Morgan
Other Marvel: Civil Warrior
DC Comics: Batman & any Robin or Cass

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, children growing up and realizing their parents/parental figures are flawed humans too

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 friend AUs.


Prompts (all 616):
Identity porn-ish: Steve’s rogues gallery keep kidnapping Tony Stark, b/millionaire industrialist, because he’s dating Captain America. Weirdly enough, Captain America is not too worried about his poor civilian boyfriend getting kidnapped

Social Media/Fandom story about Captain America/Iron Man RPF, otherwise known as CapIron – set during any canon era

Based on the Captain America/Iron Man (2021) mini-series – Steve/Tony fucking in Tony’s brownstone. Additionally, Steve and/or Tony being wistful after the events of Duggan’s Invincible Iron Man #1 after the brownstone gets exploded because it was the place they got together ;_;

Bad/Emotionally unavailable dad Steve (with Ian Rogers or a kid OC of your choice)

Your take on whether Steve cries before, during, or after sex

Tony’s feelings for Steve get inadvertently revealed to Steve without Tony’s knowledge or consent (truth serum -> convenient memory wipe? Tony confessing to Steve in a dream when he doesn’t realize that it’s the real Steve? Etc.) How does Steve react/keep up the status quo/take the next step?

Steal the BARF technology from MCU – I want to see Steve and/or Tony using it to relive moments/arguments with each other

I am always a sucker for “character in the most terrible time in their lives falls asleep and wakes up in a happy time/alternate happy universe/dream world/etc. When they fall asleep in the AU world, they wake up back in their horrible life.” Steve or Tony :)

Steve getting jealous of Emma/Tony :)

Dislikes: Rape/non-con, infidelity, humiliation/embarrassment, 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.
“Problematic”/dark trans & lesbian/WLW book recs, mostly partial to SFF., or video game recs (can be VNs or with gameplay). For video game recs, I'm down for thematically queer-coded in addition to explicitly queer works too. I can do anything that's available on Steam/PC.
Funny shorts/TikToks
Your favorite quotes/poetry/short pieces on writing, or romantic quotes that give you OTP feelings.
I also would love nice comments if you don’t have anything in particular to rec or leave!

Comments

[lomku]

Hello!! Happy New Year and Valentine's Day and Merry Christmas too while we're at it.
Anyways. I have FINALLY finished your MTH 2020 fic, here it is! https://archiveofourown.org/collections/yougavemeastocking2023/works/53647651

It ended up quite a bit different from the outline I showed you, but the broad strokes are the same. Thank you for your unending patience, I hope you'll enjoy the fic.

Thank you for taking care of the 616 server and making it a fun place with great events like this one. Cheers!

[magicasen]

Hi hi! Omg life has been so much lately BUT I AM SO EXCITED TO READ THIS!! I really love that it's based off the new Secret Invasion :D thank you so, so much! Happy stockings and I'm glad that the server is a source of joy for you!

[dirigibleplumbing]

Hi magic! Happy stocking day!
I recently read and adored Nicola Griffith’s Spear, a queer Arthurian knight retelling, and immediately set out to read more of Griffith’s stuff. I think you’d really like her novella Slow River, which has a “problematic” WLW storyline and other dark themes, plus absolutely gorgeous prose. It’s more of a character study than a complete story. There are three timelines: a present-day narrative; a narrative of how the protagonist made it after escaping from kidnappers; and flashbacks to when the protagonist was a child.
Also, I visited Earth-616 and took a screenshot of the Reddit community for the RPF ship Cap/IM while I was there. Enjoy! (Bigger pic on my tumblr.)

[magicasen]

Hi dirig! Thank you so much for the rec - I've never heard of her and will check it out.

Also A;LSDFKJA;S THIS IS THE BEST SCREENSHOT EVER, thank you for sharing this bit of Earth-616's internet with us :D I need to know how much of the HydraCap post is wank over HydraCap. I'm surprised it's not a banned topic along with SHRA hahahahahh

"It's parasocial and creepy to use their first names" made me snort, accompanied by the thirst photos. I love it so much, thank you again!

[dirigibleplumbing]

Heh, HydraCap probably should be a banned topic in the community (and the community is currently quarantined, in part because of HydraCap discussion/thirst) but I think the way the timeline is telescoping at the moment means that it happened pretty recently and the mods are still catching up to Tony being alive again and trying to figure out if news about the Tony/Emma nuptials are off-topic or not.

I'm glad you enjoy, I loved this prompt! Yours was the first reddit edit (say that 10 times fast) I made, and it inspired all the others.

[msermesth]

Hi! Thanks for all you do for fandom. I thought your 616 in-universe rpf idea was pretty fascinating so I ran with that.

Wishing you well on this random February day!

[magicasen]

Hi hi - I left a comment on AO3 but THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THE LOVELY FILL. I need to do a deep dive into 616's CapIron fandom...

[nostalgicatsea]

HAPPY LEAP YEAR YEAR AND YEAR OF THE DRAGON, MAGIC!<3 Grateful to have another go around the sun with you here on this Earth as a friend. :)

OHHHHH, DO I HAVE A DARK LESBIAN BOOK REC FOR YOU. I've been waiting for ages to rec this. PLEASE READ CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS BY NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH. It's my favorite book of last year. I'm obsessed. The social commentary, nuanced characters, and amazing action scenes are top notch. It's rare to have someone write action scenes this well, but I could visualize this in my head like a movie.

I started playing Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective because Erica recommended it and even though I only played a bit, it's a lot of fun! The guy who made Ace Attorney is behind this if that's of any interest.

And I want to talk your ear off about your prompts very badly because they're excellent. I'm obsessed. OBSESSED. You have the best ideas.

[magicasen]

Hi sea!

OMG, thank you so much for the rec! This sounds lovely and definitely fits the vibe of what I was looking for!

I've heard good things about Ghost Trick - I definitely need to add it to my Steam wishlist heheh. Thank you and here's to another year of friendship!! o/

[avengersnewb]

Hello!!
I was hoping to write some more of the CapIron fic I started for your prompt last year but, uh, words are what. who knows, maybe I'll have words next year to finish that one, or write something else for your awesome prompts :)
Thank you for all you do for us in the server and this event, you're awesome!
This is one of my all times favourite poems by one and only Misha Collins from his book "Some Things I Still Can't Tell You", called These Hours, which always always makes me cry when I read it:

I want more time,
More of you.
I want more youth,
More good years
With un-sore hips
And late-night lips.
I want to travel
Back to our beginning
So I can re-learn you
And re-earn you,
This time better.
This time,
I’ll savor and
Remember everything.
This time, time will
Slow down in
All the right places
And fly by when
You fly away.
This time, I’ll make
Einstein’s relativity
Bend to my will.
This time,
These hours will be
Our hours.

[magicasen]

Hi Ven!

Thank YOU for being around the server and making it a more joyful place!

What a beautiful poem, and my SteveTony brain is definitely comparing it to them T_T thank you for sharing!

[thahire]

Hey ✨

I've got A LOT of quotes/poems that remind me of SteveTony 😂 Most are angsty/bittersweet but that seems to be your thing too, so here you go:

1, 2, 3,4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11

[magicasen]

Omg Thahire, thank you for sharing so many beautiful poems! And yes, angsty/bittersweet is my thing, ESPECIALLY when it comes to Steve/Tony!

I especially love 1 (this especially gives me MCU vibes ouch), 3, 6, and 11. OTP feelings T_T <3333

[sadisticsparkle]

As always, thank you for the impecable modding. Reading your comments always brightens my day. :)

So the most clearly F/F VN I have now I... haven't played, but hey, maybe you can play it first and tell me: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1111370/A_Summers_End__Hong_Kong_1986/ A Summer's End. I have listened to the soundtrack tho, it's pretty good. And have you played In Other Waters: https://store.steampowered.com/app/890720/In_Other_Waters/ ? It has some interesting gameplay, I really love the worldbuilding, and the design is great.

But also! Have you read Bunny by Mona Awad? That's one weird, dark book with a lot of queer subtext and a nice, deranged look at writers.

[magicasen]

Thank you, sparkle :D I'm always glad to see you around the server too! And thank you for the recs, I'm building up a nice little collection of games/books to read heheh

[starvels]

hey magic! just wanted to drop a stocking and say thank you very much for being such a warm presence and moderating our silly-fun lil stockings with such kindness and flexibility!

two little recs to throw your way:
c.l. polk is a delightful, trans, fantasy author that i've followed for a while that writes nicely textured and historical fantasy works that deal w things like serial killers and grief and institutionalization and more. i enjoy their worldbuilding!
maya kern, well known for her wonderful size inclusive skirts and art, is also an author! exploring fantasy and complicated unhealthy relationships through a delightfully gender and politically nuanced lens, summarized by this fun blurb: what do you do when you're a dragon and the prince you're in love with is getting married? fuck his wife.

i hope you can enjoy either of them. <3 may the year ahead treat you so kind!

[magicasen]

Hi star! Thank you so much for the recs and for being such a lovely fellow server member <3

[sineala]

MAGIC MAGIC MAGIC HI. I left you for last because I was like "ok I gotta think up A REALLY GOOD COMMENT" and I still have no idea what to say other than that I'm still just really, really glad I met you on IRC way back when and my journey through Steve/Tony fandom would not have been the same without you and I just feel really lucky to know you.

I am just still so glad to be in fandom with you and modding this server together. <3 <3 <3

Oh, wait, I do have a problematic queer book rec, combining, uh, being problematic AND cute animals: Feed Them Silence by Lee Mandelo is a novella about a researcher who undergoes brain surgery so that she can experience the mind of a wolf and the wolf's experiences and also it's about her marriage to her wife falling apart while she just goes, like, full wolf-obsessed.

[magicasen]

Hi sine!! I know - it's hard when we've known each other for a long time but I will echo back to you that I'm glad we've met through this fandom and am very lucky we will continue to be fellow Illuminati!!

That novella sounds amazing, thank you so much for the rec! Werewolves are forever my favorite from the horror creature genre o/

[phoenixmetaphor]

Hihi magic! Gift for you !

[magicasen]

UOHSFHDHS I left a comment on AO3 but THANK YOU SO MUCH THEY'RE GORGEOUS!!! AAAA.

[keirkieran]

Happy Leap Day!

I don't have anything fandom for you but here's some tiktoks of cats and dogs.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLJqYm6X/

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLJq83ar/

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLJqDyXu/

[magicasen]

Hi keir!! Thank you so much for the cute videos. I love when dogs and cats are friends so much. Unfortunately my family's cat and dog tolerate each other at most so I will live out the dreams on social media! And omg Templeton is a menace!! I love him a;ldfkja;sl