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stevetony_elf ([personal profile] stevetony_elf) wrote in [community profile] yougavemeastocking2024-12-01 05:14 pm

2024 Stocking: Sineala

Please leave stocking stuffers for Sineala here as a comment. Comments will be screened until reveals date!



Username: [personal profile] sineala

AO3 Username: [archiveofourown.org profile] Sineala (Discord: Sineala)

Comics Steve/Tony:
  • 616 (anything vol 1, but especially early canon, the period of time where Steve was a commercial artist, and the Iron Man second drinking arc; Avengers volume 3; New Avengers volume 1 before the SHRA starts; Avengers volume 4; the fallout from Secret Empire; AXE Judgment Day; Fall of X; current canon)
  • Bullet Points
  • Marvel Adventures: Avengers
  • Twilight
  • Ults (1610)
  • Ults (6160)


Other Fandoms/Ships/Characters:
Other Marvel Comics Ships and Characters:
  • Ships: Carol/Jess, Carol/Wanda, Steve/Batroc, Steve/Clint, Steve/Tony/Carol, Steve/Tony/Thor, Steve/Tony/Jan, Phyla-Vell/Heather Douglas, Stephen Strange/Clea Strange. Also cool with Steve & Tony's canon relationships (yes, including Emma), and including all of Tony's evil exes (esp. Whitney). My favorite of Steve's exes is probably Bernie Rosenthal.
  • Gen: Jan Van Dyne, Doreen Green, Carol Danvers, Clint Barton, Tony and/or Steve's friendship with any of the above

Star Trek: TOS:
  • Kirk/Spock



Likes:

Canon-divergent AUs, time travel, the multiverse, soulmate AUs, telepathy, identity porn, fix-its, pining and UST and idiots in love, aliens made them do it/fuck-or-die/sex pollen, fake dating, presumed-dead, transhumanism (does not have to be portrayed positively), exploration of canonical disabilities, sad men crying, repression, internalized shame and/or homophobia, historical queer experiences, praise kink, banter, fic set at the time the canon was released (like, Silver Age fic set in the 60s), fighting some of those really weird villains with bizarre powers that haven't appeared seriously in comics in a while (e.g., Paste Pot Pete), truth serum, tentacles, xeno, Capwolf, AI Tony, Steve and Tony liking SF/F, hurt/comfort, angst with a happy ending, BDSM (including D/s universes), crack treated seriously, sex farce (with feelings), cuddling, the kind of genderswap where everyone is lesbians.

I have zero preferences as regards who tops, bottoms, doms, or subs, if you decide to go there.

Here are some prompts, if you'd like them Do what you will with them. Or do something completely different. (I am aware that some of these I have asked for before and also received. I just want more! They're good every time!)


  • Tony's D&D summer camp. Or he can make the rest of the team play tabletop games. More generally, Team Game Night.
  • There's a plot point in one of those 1960s Marvel prose novels where Tony lies to a villain and claims that a lot of different people are Iron Man, and that one of those people is Captain America. So: Steve has to fill in as Iron Man and be Tony's bodyguard because for some strange reason Iron Man can't just accompany Tony to this fancy event. For maximum identity porn shenanigans, the other Avengers think he is the Real Iron Man and tell him a bunch of things they would never have told Steve. Hey, Shellhead, were you ever gonna tell Cap about that crush you had on him?
  • Let's give Steve some impotence! Steve needs a broken dick too.
  • Piercings! Use your imagination.
  • Surely Steve didn't mean to sext Tony. Or did he?
  • Established relationship Steve and Tony roleplay as their early canon selves.
  • Due to some kind of magic spell or something, Steve and Tony cannot touch! But they also cannot be far apart. They have to stay in the same room and cannot touch each other at all! What a terrible time to realize you're in love with someone. Hard mode: Commander Rogers.
  • Early canon. Tony is being blackmailed either because he's sleeping with Steve specifically or because he's generally been queer with other guys. There are pictures. Tony's been paying. Steve finds out.
  • Bodyswap! Fun possibilities include: Ye olde "are you jerking off in my body" trope. For some reason we have to pretend we are not bodyswapped and Tony is really terrible at giving speeches about freedom to Steve's Nazi villains (Steve is also bad at flying Tony's suits). Steve being concerned that Tony's physical experience of life feels so terribly painful. Tony feels terrible about it because it turns out there are other ways it is bad to be him, like, Steve now no longer has an eidetic memory and also is not enjoying having a normal refractory period and Tony is miserable because he was pretty sure his brain and his dick were the only things he had going for him. Steve's just out here like "I still love you respect and admire you but why do I need to drink three cups of coffee before I can function? This is so inconvenient."
  • Twilight: Sad Twilight Brain Jar Tony gets a hug. From Steve.
  • Pick a kink that you think is really unusual, extreme, or hardcore and do the absolute most loving and tender version there could ever be.
  • Fall of X AU where Tony is still pretending to be drunk at the Hellfire Club and Hydra Steve (either as Captain Krakoa or just himself, dealer's choice) starts visiting (possibly as a guest of Feilong) and Tony has to be nice to him while dying inside a lot.
  • Steve cannot stop thinking about Tony being queer after Tony comes out to him and decides that all of his weird feelings and his jealousy are clearly a sign of homophobia and Being A Bad Ally and he needs to work on his issues and stop imagining what kissing Tony is like.
  • Make one of them a dragon. Make both of them dragons. Make everyone dragons. Dragon dragon dragon.
  • Just gonna keep requesting "anything about baseball."


Dislikes:

Extremely graphic violence/maiming (esp. no eye injury please), mundane modern no-powers AUs, anything in the realm of kidfic or age-related kink (pregnancy, actual kidfic, daddy kink, age play) (mentoring teenage superheroes is fine, Ian Rogers is fine if he's currently an adult), piercing play, underage, cannibalism (Ultimatum is not fine), animal harm, infidelity, secondhand embarrassment. No Hickmanvengers pls. (CW is fine.)

(I realize I have a prompt that says "piercings" and a DNW on "piercing play," but I just don't want to see needles going through anyone's skin -- having a piercing is a yes, the on-page act of getting a piercing or playing with needles is a no from me.)

I am totally 100% fine with Very Bad Things Happening To Steve And Tony but I would prefer them not actively trying to harm each other (accidental harm is definitely fine, including mind control), although people who look like them (e.g., Hydra Steve, Skrulls) trying to harm them is fine.

No permanent major character death, please (unless the death is canon, like Twilight). Ambiguous or bittersweet endings are fine (as well as happy endings); I would prefer to not have something ending in unremittingly bleak everyone-dies darkness.

Non-fandom related requests/anything else?:

I always enjoy pictures of dragons, cute dogs and/or wolves, as well as horses and horse-adjacent mythological creatures.

I also always enjoy book/comic/game/TV/movie recs for LGBT science fiction/fantasy. (Or LGBT history/general nonfiction.)

Video game recs of any sort would be great. I have a Mac and a Switch (and an iPhone and iPad). I like games that you don't have to have good hand-eye coordination to play, like turn-based RPGs, deckbuilders, or puzzle games. (Action games are okay if they are playable one-handed.)

I would enjoy some DW-sized (100 x 100 px) icons of comics (especially ones of amusing speech bubbles).

[personal profile] massivespacewren 2025-02-11 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
An art for the prompt "wilight: Sad Twilight Brain Jar Tony gets a hug. From Steve." because I love those two old men and they're so saaaad <3
Not QUITE a hug, but still, Brain Jar Tony deserves some warmth.

I tried to make it look like the comic a bit, idk if it really worked. Anyway! I hope you like it!


sineala: Detail of The Unicorn in Captivity, from The Hunt of the Unicorn Tapestry (Default)

[personal profile] sineala 2025-02-24 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you so much, Wren! This is absolutely beautiful! I think it really does look a whole lot like the comic -- I can see the similarities to Acuña's style in the kind of blocky way the brushwork looks (am sorry, I do not know Art Words) and the character styles themselves and the colors! Really impressive!

This feels like it could have been a missing page right from that rooftop scene! It is so gorgeous and I keep looking at it in awe. It also captures the pathos of Twilight to me where they just CAN'T TOUCH (I think I have imprinted on this from Kirk/Spock, lol) and they desperately want to. I love the idea that Tony can still feel the warmth of Steve's hands through the jar even though they can't touch -- I never thought of that before and now I am just going to keep thinking about it, possibly forever and ever. <3

I am really glad you made this! Eee. Thank you!

[personal profile] massivespacewren 2025-02-25 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
thank youu! <3
The rooftop scene was already so freaking good, so many feelings.
I really love Acuña's style, so this was a joy (and pain) to try and recreate.

Twilight is such an amazingly angsty canon, and I can't say no to a sad brain jar Tony. Tony with more body modification he didn't ask for, and a robot body?? hell yes. And YESSS, the whole "CAN'T TOUCH" makes it just so good. the LONGING! The YEARNING!

The first Tony jar, where Steve takes him from would probably be too big and well insulated - but with how small the jar is? And his head still being organic? WARMTH is already so good to feel, but it's still not QUITE a touch ;_; MY HEART!
(That said, since it's not the same jar as the one before... they must have taken him out of the jar to put him into the new one? How dangerous/damaging do you think that is for Tony? Do you think in the few moments where they transferred him, Steve was self-indulgent enough to touch his cheek? Would Tony be awake for such a transfer? I haven't really thought about the fact that it's a different jar, and now I suddenly have many thoughts about that...)

You also asked for games - have you ever tried marvel champions? it's a living card game you can play cooperatively with friends, or alone. I like it a lot, and it's playable online. If you ever want to play, let me know (idk if you're the type to better learn from a manual, or from learning as you play).
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[personal profile] mobiusonajetski 2025-02-19 08:01 am (UTC)(link)
Hey Sine!

Confession: I started researching and writing something for one of your prompts... but every time I work on it I realise it needs to be longer and way more developed. I currently think it needs to be 20-30K! So it's had to go on the back burner for now.

But! Instead, please enjoy a homage/guessing game for nine of your most delightful fics!

Direct link to download here
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[personal profile] sineala 2025-02-24 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
OMG thank you so much! I did not imagine that this moodboard was a thing that could exist and I am delighted and flattered and I spent like half an hour trying to remember what I named my damn stories. I will go drop a guess on the AO3 version in a bit. This was so much fun. I bet other people would absolutely love it if you wanted to do it for other people's fics too. Ooh, or if you mixed a bunch of different authors' work together. That would be extra hard. Man, I should remember this the next time we want to hold games for the serverversary.

Also lol I cannot believe I was sourcing Hot Batroc Pics for you for this.

I am also deeply curious about what prompt you were so inspired by! I am also happy to cheerlead via DM if you like. Also given the fact that I find it incredibly hard to write things shorter than like 20k, I am also delighted that apparently I am inspiring longfic. Maybe I just have Long Ideas.

Thank you!
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[personal profile] mobiusonajetski 2025-02-24 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I can see myself making more of these! I do think I might take a break from moodboards for a couple of months though. I've been meaning to make one for one of my own fics, but I need a rest first.

That's very kind of you to offer to cheerlead! It's the early canon blackmail prompt.

In this case Steve is not involved in the photos – they're not together yet. Steve gets on with Iron Man, he's on the fence when it comes to Tony. The photos sure are compromising. Tony gets to ruminate on this and other unhappy topics whenever he charges his chestplate. And if you're famous in the early '60's, you want to keep your blackmailer happy, in case they decide to sell those photos on to someone more powerful...
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[personal profile] sineala 2025-02-24 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooh, that sounds like an awesome fic! I cannot wait. :) :) :)
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[personal profile] dirigibleplumbing 2025-02-19 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy stocking day, Sine! I drew you an octo!Tony.


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[personal profile] sineala 2025-02-24 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Tentaclessssssss. Ok ok armsssssssss. Whatever.

Thank you so so much! This is beautiful and I love the pose and of course the red/gold theme he has going on -- all the colors are great, including the fish in the background! I really love the way you've done the light here; I think it looks really nicely underwater, especially with the darkness of the background. <3 <3 <3

I hope he has an Octo Steve in this universe. Or, I mean, any Steve, I guess Steve doesn't need to be an octopus, but they would be so colorful together. :)
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[personal profile] dirigibleplumbing 2025-02-24 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm glad you like it!! And I like to think he has this Steve to be colorful with :)
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[personal profile] sineala 2025-02-24 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Yess, perfect!
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Hi Sine! <3

[personal profile] tinystark616 2025-02-22 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy stockings day!

First of all, thank you for making this event possible, it's one of my favorites and one of the events I look forward to the most now. It really makes me happy. Also, your fics are one of the reasons why I got into 616 in the first place (and the reason why i wanted to red Ults and watch Star Trek TOS), so like, thank you. I love how you always reply to comments on your fics and talk to me and everyone about them, that's always so nice.

I made you a moodboard! I know you like the second drinking arc, and I also love it, so I thought this would be fun. Or, you know, sad.



I'm also leaving comments on a couple of your fics on reveals day as a little stockings surprise!! <3

I hope you like these! Have a great week <333
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Re: Hi Sine! <3

[personal profile] sineala 2025-02-24 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you so much! Honestly half the reason I post fics is to try to lure people into comics fandom so they will come talk about comics with me and I am delighted that my plan has worked! I wasn't anticipating also getting people to watch TOS but I will take it. :)

The IM 182 moodboard is great. Honestly the winter weather here has been so terrible lately that I will probably use this as wallpaper and be grateful that I am not stuck in a blizzard. The angst, it is so good. Maybe my favorite IM issue? IDK, I would hate to have to pick. But this is such a good moodboard! Thank you!
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[personal profile] msermesth 2025-02-22 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Hello, I made a little thing for you here. I really appreciate all you contribute to fandom and really enjoy all the book clubs that you organize.
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[personal profile] sineala 2025-02-24 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you so much! I really love the drabble and will go leave a comment there in a bit!

I am also glad you like the book clubs! I mean, I like running them anyway, but it's nice to know that I am not here yelling into the void. :)
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[personal profile] starkparade 2025-02-23 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
Dear Sine,
Happy Stockings! Thank you for all you do for this fandom, all the wonderful stories and knowledge you share with us! Also, personally, for reaching out to me with such a heartfelt message back when I was still just a newbie and mentioned on the POTS server that I was nervous about asking for a beta and posting my first stevetony fic. It meant the world to me!

I'm so sorry that despite all that, I didn't have the guts to take you up on your kind offer, I didn't want to bother you with my silly little MCU fics, especially when I look up to you as a writer so much.

So I can't believe I'm saying this seven months later, but I wrote a fic for you! I'm still new to writing comics stevetony, this is only my second attempt after my Twilight fic. I did a whole bunch of research though, and somehow it ended up being my longest stevetony fic to date. I chose your Impotent Steve prompt, and Man Out of Time as the setting for the fic since you said in the server book club that it's your very favorite Captain America comic. I tried my best to craft something I thought you'd like, so I hope you'll enjoy this ❤️
My Home in Your Time by starkparade (Explicit, 15k)

Please also enjoy these photos of my grandparents' old doggies as an extra treat 🐶



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[personal profile] sineala 2025-02-24 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
OMG OMG OMG Thank you so much! Dogs AND 15k of Steve's broken dick set in, indeed, my favorite Cap comic; it is so great that you remembered that and I really am touched by your thoughtfulness.

I have not had a chance to dive into the fic yet but I am going to get to it soon. :) :) :)

I am also glad I could make you feel welcome to the fandom! I try to pay attention when people are new because when I was new to this fandom, it was definitely the most confusing canon I'd ever been trying to follow, and everyone was so nice to me, and I just try to pay it forward because I remember how much it helped to basically have people I could ask all my canon questions.
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[personal profile] nostalgicatsea 2025-02-23 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
Hi, sine!<3 Happy belated new year and Valentine's Day. For video game recs, a friend recommended Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, which is a puzzle adventure game by the guy who made Ace Attorney. I haven't played AA, but I played a little bit of Ghost Trick and it's a LOT of fun! I think you'll have fun. It's about an amnesiac ghost with supernatural powers, and his journey to rediscover his identity. It's on Steam and Switch!

There's a new narrative-heavy game called Lost Records: Bloom & Rage that just came out, and a longtime mutual I know is utterly enamored with it and her enthusiasm made me curious so I'm going to check it out. I don't know much about it, but she has good taste in games and it's set in 1995, following a group of girls (who are queer? Or at least one or two are?). Copying and pasting the summary from Steam here: "Film your summer of 1995 and create memories of a lifetime with your new friends. 27 years later, confront the dark secrets that made you all promise to never speak again after that fateful summer."

And I don't think this is what you're thinking of for LGBT science fiction/fantasy, but I highly recommend All of Us Strangers. There's a fantastical element to it, and it's so beautiful and it'll break your heart and heal it (I ugly cried A LOT haha). It's one of my favorite movies ever, and I want everyone to see it. Here's the summary:

One night in his near-empty London tower block, screenwriter Adam has a chance encounter with mysterious neighbor Harry, puncturing the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam finds himself drawn back to his childhood home, where his parents appear to be living just as they were on the day they died 30 years ago.
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[personal profile] sineala 2025-02-24 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooh, hey, thank you for the recs! All of Us Strangers has been on my to-watch list for a while but I never got around to it. Similarly, I think I bought Ghost Trick for the... 3DS? DS Lite? Whatever it was on originally, and then never played it. I should, you know, do that.

I've never heard of Lost Records, but I'm adding it to my wishlist right now! :) :) :)
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[personal profile] kiyaar 2025-02-23 06:34 am (UTC)(link)
Hello. I love to mod with you, and I love our migraine commiseration, and I love every time you have let me read one of your works in progress, and I love the way you can squeeze my heart with your stevetony works and I'm really glad we're in fandom together. Thank you for many, many hours of relief and dreaming and escapism via your astonishing body of SteveTony work. <3
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[personal profile] sineala 2025-02-24 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I am really grateful you asked me to mod with you and am glad to be in fandom with you! Sorry about all our terrible brains!

Brains permitting, whenever your BB is done (I think excitedly about getting to read the end, every few days or so, no pressure) I have, like, probably 200k of fic you have not read if you want to just zone out on my fic I have sitting here and have not posted and could honestly probably take some cheerleading on. The angry Cantwell fic is even done! I think I have a Trek chapter you have not read!
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[personal profile] magicasen 2025-02-23 08:55 am (UTC)(link)
Hi Sine! As I love telling you every year we do this, I am still so lucky we met over a decade ago in this fandom and that we can still call ourselves friends! ♥ Thank you for being a great friend and co-mod!

I managed to make a fill for you, and I know it's a gift for you, but I wanted to thank you because it really inspired me. I really, really hope that I can break myself out of this writing rut to expand on it further because I have more SCENES and a potential OUTLINE for an actual longfic, but here you go as a start!!

--

@ JeffPassan

BREAKING: Left-hander Tony Stark and the New York Avengers are in agreement on a one-year, $15 million contract, pending physical, sources tell ESPN. Stark, 32, returns to the Show after several years away, including the last year in the NPB with the Hanshin Tigers. The two-time Cy Young winner joins the crosstown rivals of his former team.

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Sources: Tony Stark and Avengers agree on 1-year, $15M deal

Jeff Passan, Senior MLB Insider

January 7, 2025, 06:16 PM ET

Left-hander Tony Stark and the New York Avengers are in agreement on a one-year, $15 million contract, sources told ESPN on Monday. The former Yankee star returns to New York to join the crosstown rivals.

"I keep my promises - 🥌🧔🏻" Stark teased on his Instagram story, before the deal was announced.

The deal includes an additional $1.5 million in performance bonuses, sources said.

Stark's accolades should speak for themselves: Rookie of the Year, two-time Cy Young winner, two-time Gold Glove, and four-time All-Star. In his remarkable 2018 Cy Young-winning season, he posted a 1.96 ERA over 192 innings. Stark's fastball averaged 97, and his slider had a compelling argument for being the best in the world. The then-best pitcher in the game accomplished one of its rarest achievements by throwing a perfect game against the Blue Jays on June 16, the 24th in the history of the Major Leagues.

But, in a show of irony for the "Iron Man", his most memorable moment in the game's brightest spotlight left an entirely different legacy.

In Game 7 of the 2019 World Series, Stark, then the undisputed ace of the Yankees rotation, came out of the bullpen in the bottom of the 10th inning to face the top of the San Francisco Mutants order to preserve a 1-run lead. He struck out his first batter faced, and got the second to fly out to center. The pieces were in placed for the Yankees' first World Series win this century. The next few fateful minutes, however, saw the tower of cards topple. Stark issued a walk, followed up shortly by an uncharacteristic balk, his first ever committed in the Major Leagues. But New York was still set to celebrate, when Stark induced a slow roller groundball to his right: an easy put-out to first base. But Stark bobbled the ball in his throw to first, and was beat out by the runner. The 2018 Golden Glove winner was charged with an error, and faced his next batter with runners on first and third. Baseball history was created out of Stark's nightmare, as he gave up a walk-off 3-run home-run to blow the save, and the World Series.

The next season, Stark didn't make it to his first start of Spring Training, leaving the field after warm-ups. The news soon followed that he would be out for the season with a torn UCL necessitating his second Tommy John surgery.

In 2021, Stark returned to the New York Yankees and allowed a dreadful 6.01 ERA in 12 starts. The former ace was designated for assignment before the All-Star Break, and cleared waivers to be optioned to the minor leagues. It was unthinkable for someone who was once baseball's first overall pick in the draft, and no. 1 prospect.

Many pitchers struggle to regain their form after a second elbow reconstruction, oftentimes losing a few crucial ticks in velocity. But, beyond the unsurprising dip in his fastball speed, many also believed Stark to be battling a case of the yips. In his 2021 season, his walk rate soared, he threw more wild pitches than his prior three seasons combined, and he committed the most errors for any pitcher in the AL. The yips, and its causes, are as mysterious as they are aggravating to athletes and fans of any professional sport. But, it was hard for fans not to hone in on that fateful Game 7 tenth inning, and divide Stark's seemingly Hall of Fame-bound career before, and his struggles to remain relevant in the Major Leagues after.

2021 marked Stark's fall from glory on the diamond. But, unthinkable tragedy struck off the field. Stark's father and mother, Howard and Maria Stark of Stark Industries, died in a car crash on October 30. It was the two-year anniversary of Stark's blown save.

In 2022, the then-free agent Stark turned down multiple multi-year offers from teams looking to refind his form, opting instead to sign a minor-league deal with the Yankees, with a non-roster invite to their spring training. However, a week before pitchers reported to camp, Stark took to Instagram to announce that he would not be participating in baseball for the season to focus on Stark Industries affairs as the sole heir to his late parents' company. He signed off his announcement with a promise: "Iron Man will return."

Stark did not return to baseball for the 2023 season. However, 2024 came with a surprise announcement that Stark would be taking his talents overseas, joining the NPB in a 1-year deal with the Hanshin Tigers. With the Tigers, Stark put up a servicable 3.39 ERA in 22 starts (The NPB trends toward a pitcher-dominated league.)

In 2025, 4 years after he last stepped foot on a Major League Baseball diamond, and 6 years after he was one of the brightest stars in the game, Stark fulfills his promise to return to the United States. He joins an up-and-coming Avengers team, headlined by catcher Steve Rogers and outfielder Thor, and joining a rotation that includes former-teammate right-hander James Rhodes. If the Avengers can get the best version of Tony Stark to the mound at Avengers Field, the team will be a serious contender to watch.
Edited 2025-02-23 18:55 (UTC)
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[personal profile] sineala 2025-02-24 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
OMG OMG OMG. I know I already told you how great this was but this was so great.

I love this universe you have created where everything is the same, including international leagues, except the NL is apparently made of Marvel.

a perfect game against the Blue Jays on June 16

I see what you did there.

I was reading this to [personal profile] lysimache and she stopped me after the paragraph about the tragedy of Tony's WS G7 blown save in extras to complain for like five entire minutes about how Gerrit Cole apparently feels no shame for the moment in Game 5 last year where he failed to cover first and, she believes, lost the Yankees the series. So I think she is a fan of your universe here, presuming that Tony feels the appropriate amount of shame for his actions which I guess he does. (She does not read any Avengers fic except baseball AUs, pretty much.)

Thank you for giving SF the win, though. :) I would definitely love to watch the San Francisco Mutants.

Also nooooo his blown save AND his parents' death. Ouch.

OH NO NOT THE YIPS. Nooo. I feel like the yips are the one thing where baseball acknowledges that sometimes people might acquire mental health problems. And then they named them the yips.

Honestly given that there is an actual player whose nickname is Thor, I think it's pretty great that you have put actual Thor Odinson here. :)

I am REALLY REALLY excited about Tony's future with the Definitely Not The Mets and I cannot wait to see how extremely normal he and his catcher Steve Rogers are going to be about each other. I'm sure it will be Very Normal. Honestly, I think you can already get away with pretty much anything; there are curated photo collections by actual sportswriters of Madison Bumgarner and Buster Posey hugging each other after WS wins with quotes about how this hug was the first time they told each other they loved each other. Also I have just finished reading an article about how Tarik Skubal has just bought his catcher and himself matching engraved Rolexes. So really I would believe anything.

(There was an r/baseball thread about what questions people have about baseball that they have never asked and someone asked "what do pitchers and catchers talk about during mound visits" and someone was like "I pitched in college and the catcher is mostly just trying to calm you down and help you relax and it's usually a lot of dirty jokes." I think about this a lot.)

Aaaaaaanyway. I really enjoy this!
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[personal profile] phoenixmetaphor 2025-02-23 09:07 am (UTC)(link)
please accept my squiggle

dragons dragons everywhere. sorry the panels aren’t super clear (i was too lazy to clearly define a border so that it reads a little better that steve and tony are facing off and not standing next to each other). and also i put Tony’s sword in the wrong hand. I was very punch drunk. I am very punch drunk.

anyway i am sure they will figure out the misunderstanding sooner rather than later, tho Tony might have to eat a bit of shield first.

Thank you as always for being my dear friend!!! I would say more but. Punch drunk. We will talk soon anyway, i am sure!
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[personal profile] sineala 2025-02-24 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I am looking at the timestamp on this and really hoping you got some sleep.

Maybe Tony uses his sword in either hand! :)

Anyway, DRAGON DRAGON DRAGON DRAGON thank you! I will go leave you a comment on the actual AO3 in a bit and will definitely talk to you soon anyway. :) :) <3
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[personal profile] starvels 2025-02-23 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
hi sine and happy new of year! may the months ahead offer you many a warm, cozy dragon and toasty goal to dive deep into.
for your stocking this year i have prepared two recs and two DW icons!

recs: one sci fi and one fantasy, both of which absolutely consumed be while i was reading and for many hours after: to be taught if fortunate by becky chambers and piranesi by susanna clarke! hopefully they can offer you the same emotional adventure!

DW icons: both from issue 2 of DOS, the delightful hallucination scene

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let me know if you want these in bigger resolution!
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[personal profile] sineala 2025-02-24 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you so much for the icons! And the recs!

I have read one book by Becky Chambers and I thiiiink it was that one? All the titles blend together. But I did like the one book and should probably read the others. I know I own and did not read Piranesi, but I did really like Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell so I think I will probably like this one too.

[personal profile] kandisheek 2025-02-23 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey there, Sine! I've been a huge fan of yours for a long time - you're one of my favorite writers, and any day that you gift us with a new fic feels like Christmas to me. Thank you for everything that you do for this fandom, you're truly amazing <3 Since I watch a lot of movies, I'm going to recommend you some of my favorite LGBTQ+ films, I hope you enjoy them, if you haven't seen them already!

The Handmaiden (2016)
Fire Island (2022)
Milk (2008)
Boys Don't Cry (1999)
The Danish Girl (2015)
Drei (2010)
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[personal profile] sineala 2025-02-24 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you!

And thank you for the recs! I think I've only seen Milk; I can't remember if I've seen Boys Don't Cry. But I will definitely add them to my queue.