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@comicsohwhyohwhy replied to your post “wow okay it’s 6 am again but THE RBB IS DONE (mostly. um. i have to...”

WEEEEEEEEEEEE

@katherinebishoq replied to your post “wow okay it’s 6 am again but THE RBB IS DONE (mostly. um. i have to...”

Yooooooooooo, good job!!! Congrats!

@tinctoriawoad replied to your post “wow okay it’s 6 am again but THE RBB IS DONE (mostly. um. i have to...”

congratulations!

thank you all <3 now it’s the dreaded edit time :D

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WIP meme: ache

There's an awful, familiar lassitude in his limbs, an ache all the way down into his bones.

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well, this was... very hot... wow

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tinctoriawoad answered your question:so i signed up for marvel is marvel. anyone else...

They’re allowing treats! I think I’m going to do that instead of committing.

i really want to have the full exchange experience xD but yeah, treats are fun, if i have time between two RBBs and the normal exchange assignment i’ll try too xD

i have graduated and i have unrealistic writing goals

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For your recent fic question meme: Love Across the Multiverse (since it's one of my all time favorites...how I have not had it bookmarked before is both mystery and tragedy). 1, 4, 5, or 15.

I'm glad you liked Love Across the Multiverse! I'm really happy with how it turned out, myself.

1: What inspired you to write the fic this way?

So I had the square "aliens made them do it" for my Cap-IM Bingo card and I really wanted to write it because, well, AMTDI. Yay. But I couldn't think of a good plot to hang a story off, because when I think of Marvel aliens, pretty much they just want humans dead and are uninterested in their sex lives. Like, do the Kree or Skrulls or Shi'ar care if you have sex? I think not! Does Thanos or Galactus? REALLY NOT. So basically I could not think of aliens who could make them do it! I was bemoaning this in the #cap-im chat and Memorydragon suggested a Mojoworld story. Because, sure, on Mojoworld they are invested in making people kill each other on television but doesn't that mean they could also be equally invested in making them have sex with each other on television? It sounded great to me.

And you'd think that then I would have been able to write the story, but I... couldn't. Because, see, I was picturing it as a 616 story. And the problem is that in 616, they love each other. There's no tension. If aliens tell 616 Steve and Tony they have to have sex with each other, they will take this as the opportunity to do everything they have always wanted to do with each other, and they will touch each other with reverent, trembling hands (as that one Tumblr post says). Which would also be nice, but it wasn't the story I wanted to write. I wanted a story where they were attracted to each other (so that they would still be up for this) but were really hesitant about this and basically not, you know, massively in love.

And then it occurred to me that I was clearly describing an Ults story, because Ults Steve is repressed as fuck and is not quite sure he wants to admit to liking this guy, and Ults Tony already has a canonical sex tape (that Steve has canonically seen!) and is a fabulous, fabulous human being and has a whole lot of fondness for Steve but is not obviously 100% gone on him in the way 616 Tony "Steve, I look at your handsome face, into your clear azure eyes" Stark is. And then once I figured that out I wrote the whole story in, like, two weeks. But I still thought it would be interesting to play with the idea that I'd wanted it to be 616 by making it so that the people on Mojoworld had also been trying to get 616 and had settled for Ults.

4: What's your favorite line of dialogue?

Tony shrugs. "Craft services. Did they not take you to craft services?" His eyes light up in glee. "Do you not get to go there if you punch someone?"

I think this pretty much sums up the story: bizarre reality TV show! Steve is angry! Tony finds Steve delightful! Even when Steve is grumpy!

5: What part was hardest to write?

Is "all of the sex" a fair answer when the story is, like, 75% sex? For the first half of it I had to remember that Steve actually couldn't see Tony and it is surprisingly difficult to try to write sexy fic when you're like "okay, whoops, I forgot I can't describe how this looks!" And then the rest of it, well, the sex was the primary way characterization was getting expressed, and that is really tricky to pull off and I am jealous of everyone who can consistently write like that, because I sure can't.

15: What did you learn from writing this fic?

Did you know that Mojo is canon in Ults too? Surprise! Human, but canon. I didn't actually read it, but, you know... it's in Ults X-Men somewhere. Also I learned that Wiki has a table of everyone who died in Ultimatum and how they died and it's kind of funny and sad at the same time because OH GOD ULTS. I can't even believe I like Ults, sometimes.

(Anyone got any more questions? Seriously, I'm just sitting here watching EMH; it's not like I'm getting any writing done.)

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tinctoriawoad replied to your post: When you see this, share 3 random line…

4 and 6 (in particular) are so tantalizing! What is the scar from?

I’m glad you found them interesting! Four is from a story where Steve and Tony meet each other when they’re young and fall in love before things go sideways as many first relationships and high school romances do, lose contact with each other after they break up, and then meet each other again about a decade or so later due to certain circumstances. (Steve reluctantly carries out a mission to spy on Tony for SHIELD because there’s a “morally dubious” vigilante out there named Iron Man who may have a connection to Tony Stark, and Steve needs to find out who he is, what his relationship is to Tony, and if Tony has gone to the bad side (Iron Man’s destroyed a few SHIELD bases for unknown reasons).) It’s a story about two people who know everything about each other, but who’ve also become very different people at the same time and who have to learn to love each other again. Basically, it’s a reconciliation fic mixed with identity porn on both sides.

Anyway, to answer your question, Steve got the scar from some sort of adventure he had when he and Tony were teens, but it was erased when he got the super soldier serum, and Tony notices that when they’re having half-sweet, half-angsty sex. It’s a physical reminder of how they both know things about each other that other people may not know, but they’re also unfamiliar to each other in certain ways too because of their long separation. Steve gets a bit emotional about that, especially when Tony says he misses the scar and is all tender about it, and then gets even MORE emotional when he sees Tony’s scars from Afghanistan (they weren’t there before! They look so painful! HE WAS IN AFGHANISTAN. HE SHOULD HAVE SOMEHOW BEEN THERE FOR TONY, NEVER MIND THAT HE HADN’T KNOWN WHERE TONY WAS AND HADN’T TALKED TO HIM IN YEARS WHEN THAT HAD HAPPENED). :D

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WIP meme: "regret"

"Like I was saying," Tony says from next to him, voice shading into sarcasm, "I'm positive this is another Earth. He's from here." He raises his voice to his double. "Can I help you with something, or did you just come to gawk?"

The other Stark blinks a few times. "Just wanted to see how you were doing with your fella." The accent isn't Tony's and the slang definitely isn't Tony's, and Stark is looking at Steve knowingly, like he means something else by the word. Steve bristles hard in a mix of anger and something that, bizarrely, feels a lot like regret, at the idea of being Tony's fella. He isn't Tony's anything. Stark's gaze goes between Tony and Steve and finally settles on Steve. "Excuse me. I think I misspoke." "Yeah, I think you did," Steve says, tightly.