Got this changing sequin pillow for Black Friday! I don’t think I’ve ever spent money better! Perfect for my Stony shipping ass! How can I show RDJ so he’ll put it on Facebook like he does with other Stony things?
Here is the fully SFW cut for my art of the wonderful fic made to make you blue by the wonderful @gottalovev! I was so happy to draw something for this and ended up getting really into the opening scene, so that is where this little piece is from!
Ah, yes, I relate to Steve a lot too! Thank you for answering these! 🙂
I don’t hide it at work either. I have a huge framed poster in my office, a Lego Cap on my desk with Steve and Tony Dorbs and a Cap statuette, and a shield keychain. I even got a Captain America valentine last year from the Reference Department.
But yeah, when I’m walking to my car and I’m going over my terrible day (I have a very micromanaging dean right now), I think about what Steve would do. Except I can’t take out my issues with a vibranium shield. And that’s how I end up writing fanfic.
B – A pairing–platonic, romantic or sexual–that you initially didn’t consider, but someone changed your mind. Well, I didn’t get the appeal of Steve/Thor at first – the pairing felt very much like “dating your brother” but I have a multi-shipping friend who talked me into trying a few fics when I was talking about trying to find something to scratch a particular itch (brothers-in-arms type fics). Now she’s trying to talk me into T’Challa/Eric, so far I’ve been resistant.
N – Name three things you wish you saw more or in your main fandom (or a fandom of choice). More Avengers Assemble and Marvel Adventures Avengers fic for Steve/Tony. More fantasy AUs that aren’t king/knight AUs – like fairies or elves or something like that. And definitely more humor fic – good humor stuff is hard to write so I really appreciate authors who try and we could use a lot more humor and silliness in the fandom.
P – Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas). This might have been done already – how Steve as a famous quilt or knitting teacher and Tony is a new student getting into quilting or knitting. Or maybe they are rival teachers/designers and there’s friction and then hate sex in the yarn aisle … I know embroidery but I don’t know knitting that well to write this.
Z – Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go! (Prompts optional but encouraged.) Hmm, I think that we really need in the Steve/Tony corner of the world are more off-the-wall, crazy and fun fics. At the height of Stargate Atlantis fandom, authors were doing all sorts of off-the-wall stuff like one character was a sentient rainbow and the other character something else and they fell in love. That sort of thing. I found myself writing a lot of Cap and Tony fic that were them in uniform and doing the superhero thing over the past two years so I need to get back to the AUs too. But gosh for all the CACW-inspired fic that’s terrific out there, I would like to see a big helping of Steve and Tony lost in a video game stories (not AvAc) or they are rival flying carpet salesmen or office buddies playing pranks on each other or pokemon trainers …
K – What character has your favorite development arc/the best development arc?
Hmmm, this is actually pretty hard to answer because I have favorite characters but it’s not like they have development arc in their canon, just things that happen to them and they react and the reactions are fun. So I’m going to cheat and say the development arc for Apsley Cherry-Garrard who wrote a memoir of his experience on the Scott Expedition (Worst Journey in the World) – he goes from being excited and naive about the expedition leadership to being significantly changed by the experience of going on under-prepared expedition to the Antarctic.
V – Which character do you relate to most?
Captain America/Steve Rogers! I was going through a very difficult time at work (my dean at the time was having a nervous breakdown on the job and it was just awful for everyone concerned) when I first saw the Avengers and then CATFA. And I was just absolutely inspired by Steve’s struggles in both movies and the particular role he plays with the Avengers both in comics and in the movies. I also get the struggle between the personal and the public that Steve has (discontent with leadership while having to lead and that jazz.
Our annual Remix event is around the corner! Next week, on December 1st, we’ll have information available for the upcoming Remix Exchange, Remix Relay, and Remix Madness challenges, so stay tuned and get excited!
In the meantime, you can see all of the wonderful Remix works created in previous years in the 2016 Masterlist, 2017 Masterlist, and 2018 Masterlist from earlier this calendar year.
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