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Comics Steve/Tony: 616, Noir, Ultimates

Other Fandoms/Ships/Characters:
MCU:
- Ships: mainly Steve/Tony, but also Bucky/Nat, Sam/Bucky, Sam/Rhodey, Dottie/Peggy, Steve/Peggy (CA:TFA/briefly post-Endgame leading to Steve/Tony/former relationship only)
- Gen: Rhodey & Tony, Nebula & Tony, Natasha & Tony, Steve & Natasha, Steve & Thor, Tony & Thor, Steve & Tony & Thor, Steve & Peggy, Carol & Nick Fury, Harley & Peter Parker

AvAC:
- Ship: Steve/Tony
- Gen: Tony & Jan

Knives Out:
- Ships: Ransom/Tony Stark (leading to Steve/Tony? Lol), Ransom/Marta (more on Ransom's side than Marta's especially because of their last scenes and the last shot of Ransom looking at Marta outside the house)
- Gen: Ransom & Marta, Harlan & Marta, Benoit & Marta, Ransom & Linda, Harlan & Ransom, Harlan & Linda

Russian Doll:
- Ship: Nadia/Alan
- Gen: Nadia & Alan, Nadia & Ruth, Alan & Ferran

Band of Brothers:
- Ships: Winters/Nix, Lipton/Speirs, Babe/Roe, Gene/Renée
- Characters: Eugene Roe, Dick Winters, Lewis Nixon, Joe Liebgott, Bill Guarnere, Don Malarkey, Carwood Lipton, George Luz, Ron Speirs. Actually...all of the BoB guys.

Generation Kill:
- Ship: Brad/Ray
- Characters: Doc Bryan, Brad Colbert, Poke Espera, Nate Fick, Pappy Patrick, Ray Person, Rudy Reyes

Likes:
I’ll throw a whole list out there because I’m very open to a lot of things!
- AUs (gangster, magic, sports non-powered, high school or college, supernatural, horror, sci-fi, etc. You name it! I love AUs)
- canon divergence
- character studies
- parallels/similarities between characters
- angstttttttttttt (if it's a longer fic, preferably a happy ending, but I like bittersweet and sad endings too)
- soulmates
- found family
- outsiders finding companionship with each other
- family issues/difficult family relationships
- war-forged bonds
- disillusionment in a belief system
- one-sided or mutual admiration
- grudging respect turning into something more
- slow burn
- mutual or one-sided pining
- multiverse
- telepathy
- self-sacrifice
- amnesia
- time travel
- reincarnation
- fake relationship
- relationship of convenience
- hurt/comfort
- de-aging
- dream world
- presumed dead
- temporary or permanent death
- post-breakup
- getting back together
- miscommunication or bad communication
- substance abuse and recovery
- grief/mourning
- parental/child relationships
- Tony’s family issues
- dark Steve
- pre-serum Steve
- road trips
- love/hate relationships
- enemies/friends-to-lovers
- identity porn
- betrayal and forgiveness
- protectiveness/possessiveness
- legacy
- explorations of emotional/physical trauma/substance abuse
- witty humor

Dislikes: One character cheating on or raping the other character in a ship, OOC (crack is fine as long as the characters retain their personalities), mpreg, incest, adult/minor romantic relationships, partner abuse in a ship, tooth-rotting fluff without plot, Avengers fics with Darcy in them.

Non-fandom related requests/anything else?:
- Anything cute, interesting, or funny with dogs! Or just any animal really.
- Fic recs of any of the ships, characters, or fandoms mentioned above (also open to Harry Potter and Naruto because I feel like those are very hard to find and I never really read Harry Potter fics, strangely. I’m in the mood for good worldbuilding or relationship studies, something with good emotional beats, or something very plotty)
- Fanart, fanvids, graphics, fanmixes, edits, gifsets of my ships, favorite characters, Chris Evans, or RDJ
- Your favorite recipes or easy, healthy recipes for someone new to cooking or baking
- Kitchen/cooking tips and must-have kitchen items
- Links to favorite Etsy shops
- Links to favorite jewelry brands
- Book recs (non-fiction, all-time favorites, your favorites of the year and decade)
- Poetry recs
- Cool/unusual/"hidden gem" places (landscapes, favorite spots in your hometown or place you've traveled to, restaurants, shops, architecture)
- Self-learning language tips and resources

Comments

[the_casual_cheesecake]

Happy holidays Sea! I hope your year is off to a good start :D

I have some book recs for you!

My favorite book right now is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams: a trilogy in five parts. It's a wonderfully satiric sci-fi story about god, the universe, and everything.

The second favorite, sometimes favorite is also a classic: Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. Which is about a mentally disabled man named Charlie who enters an experimental quest for intelligence accompanied, and mirrored, by a lab rat named Algernon. It's a riveting, bittersweet tale of the human mind, I highly recommend it.

My favorite novella is a Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez, which is the story of a murder that everyone knew was going to happen that nobody stopped, told 27 years in fractions by the people who remember it.

My favorite short story collection is Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman. I'm fond of all his books, but something about the stories in Trigger Warning touched me greatly. I also highly recommend the audiobook read by the author, I think he did a magnificent job on it.

PS: a couple of books that I'm particularly attached to: Alice isn't Dead by Joseph Fink, which is a queer, horror road trip and a superhero story (though the book doesn' say so), and Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, which is a surreal adventure about ghosts and prophecies.

Do feel free to come and yell at me about any of those if you read them, and have a great year! :D

[nostalgicatsea]

I hope you had a wonderful holiday season and your year is off to a great start as well!<3 A few years ago, I did something that was probably inadvisable and read Hitchhiker's Guide in one sitting. Well, not really, but I sped through it in a day or two (or three?) instead of trying to stretch it over a period of weeks which I feel like you should do with a tome of its size haha.

Flowers for Algernon KILLED me when I read it as a kid, and I read it again a few years back too. It's exactly as you said. Poor Charlie and Algernon.

Kafka is one of my friend's favorite Murakami books, but I never read it even though I read his other works! I'll have to check it out as well as all the other recs you mention which sound very, very interesting. *heads off to Goodreads to add them so I don't forget* :)