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YAS best day ever! Today I bring you 13 fics that have made me feel real bad inside (complimentary).
I mean it when I say these doves are dead. Heed the tags and warnings.
a shell without a star by @kiyaar
Hydra has ruined everything Steve has ever built, starting with Tony and Sharon – and he has the photographic evidence to prove it. Tony has survived him, at high physical cost, and inexplicably refuses to leave Steve’s side. Every day they try to outrun the damage and every day Hydra’s long shadow is fast at their heels.
A canon-divergent post-Secret Empire road trip, in which no one escapes unscathed.
one of my favorite WIPs. this one feels like it was written for me. it lives in my mind and in my heart and I am so honored I am able to witness its creation.
and if you read aswas and love it, you should also read:
half of me to take by @kiyaar
Meditations on Tony and Sharon's time in captivity, set prior to the events of a shell without a star.
a collection of drabbles! so fun! so painful!
head like a hole by @starvels
The Superhuman Registration Act has passed. The superhuman community is a ticking bomb. Steve does what he always does in war: fight to win.
This time, the war front takes Steve to the caged enemy of the state known as Iron Man.
or:
"I don't want this," Tony says, voice cracking.
"I don't want this either," Steve says, and continues.
do you love an extremely problematic (complimentary) omegaverse? me too, me too. world building so good and smut so hot brain go brrrrr.
Open Your Eyes by @dirigibleplumbing
Tony, back in his physical body, is the personal captive of the Hydra Supreme Leader. He expects to be tortured; he doesn't expect to be raped.
I spent the entire time going oh no oh noooo while reading this one, which means it's Good. Also, it's a gift for me eheheheh :3
Sodom by @resurrectedhippo
Memorandum for: C. DANVERS (Avengers Clearance Alpha, Power Level 8) and Dr. R. RICHARDS (Power Level 7)
Notable Captives: Tony Stark (Iron Man) and Steve Rogers (Captain America)
skrulls! torture! mutual noncon! yay! this one has a really fun format, too.
Devil Went Down by @ironlawyer
Hydra Steve wants to make Tony feel good. Tony just wants it to be over.
Tony definitely isn't feeling good but I just had a lot of fun reading this one!
Hypnagogic by @ghosthan
[Hypnagogic state: the period immediately before sleep, or between wakefulness and sleep, during which hallucinations can occur.]
“Fine. You want an enemy?” Steve says, bloody saliva dripping from the corner of his mouth, “I’ll give you someone to hate.”
also read this one today, like, just now! amazing, beautiful, flawless, so painful!!! aaaaaa!!!! there is fic *and* art here. stunning work.
refrain by @starvels
“What can I do,” Tony recites.
“You,” Steve says sweetly, “can get fucked.”
Steve lets in the first man: over 6’2”, beefy, bald, hungry, but professional in his deferential nod to Steve.
Tony closes his eyes. Lays back on the bed. Spreads his legs.
this one ALSO has a cool format: a collection of drabbles that tell a story.
Sins of Omission by @kiyaar
A Post-Civil War, Pre-Secret Invasion AU where Steve is dead, Tony's a mess, and everything sucks.
In which Tony deals poorly with Steve's death, falls off the wagon, sees ghosts, and misses a lot.
Oh, and the Skrulls are about to invade.
this one isn't new but it's new to meeee!!! I finally got to read it this year and it made me cry real tears at least three different times. this is ALSO one of my favorite WIPs.
Beautiful by @lorenoline
Tony steps into the suit repair room and the air punches out of him all at once, heart squeezing like those lonely days with nothing but a bottle, an electrical cord, and a chestplate he hated almost as much as he hated himself.
In the center of the near-frozen room, there’s a metal coffin, identical to the one currently hidden in the depths of the Arctic Circle by Namor.
this is what happens when I ask for necrophilia in ygmah stockings. 👀
Sky by @resurrectedhippo
For the prompt: “Hydra Cap/Tony non-con.”
*WARNINGS* for child torture, rape, and graphic violence.
oh this one is so painful. horrible horrible situation. fucked up (complimentary).
♡
and two self recs, because I also cook the doves, even if tiny ones:
comeuppance by annthonystark
It's the thing wrapping itself around his leg that wakes him up.
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Tony wakes up in a cave with HYDRA's tentacle monster.
this isn't your usual "Tony is fucked by monsters and he enjoys it really". no. he is having a bad time here.
wish/suck by annthonystark
He just needs Steve to come, he just needs to get through this.
He needs this to be over.
*slaps tumblr post* this bad boy can fit so many hydracap fic recs in it!! anyway, have some hydracap throatfucking :))) <333
Please return us to a world where Notp and squick are used for a ship you don’t like instead of just making up a load of bullshit about how immoral it is or w/e lol
a short selection of concepts and phrases that used to be commonplace in fandom and we’d really benefit from making that a thing again:
NOTP: the opposite of an OTP (One True Pairing). It is a ship a fan strongly dislikes. The word is a portmanteau of ‘no’ and ‘OTP’ and thus is not a contraction of any particular phrase.
Squick: anything that is a deep-seated, visceral turn-off. Squicks may be shared by many fans or be specific to one; one person’s kink may be another person’s squick.
YKINMKATO, or kink-tomato: Your Kink Is Not My Kink, And That’s Okay: used to indicate support for fannish diversity and to distinguish between disapproval or kink shaming and simply having different taste.
DLDR: Don’t Like, Don’t Read: a phrase used to warn against complaints about an aspect of fic or meta. A “live and let live” philosophy of fandom, which places the responsability for avoiding content one doesn’t want to see on the side of the fanwork consumer, rather that on the creator’s.
SALS: Ship And Let Ship: similar to the above specifically about shipping tastes.
YMMV: Your Mileage May Vary: a phrase used to acknowledge that any given individual’s personal opinion on the topic at hand may differ due to their own tastes, standards, values, experiences, etc.
As the OP points out, all of these crucially imply no moral judgment of what they’re designing.
(definitions lifted more or less wholesale from fanlore’s relevant pages)
some of you weren’t around for the fan fiction dot net purge of 2002 (when they banned explicit content and mass-deleted thousands of fics) and the livejournal purge of 2007 (when they deleted hundreds of blogs, disproportionately targeting queer & kink content) and it shows
CAP-IM Recs – Eat the Dead Dove: works that are unrepentantly dark
I salute @cap-ironman for today's theme!
When I first sampled the stevetony dead dove platter, I wasn't sure. Bit rich for my blood. I had previously read dark stuff in other fandoms. But I was very much into my Avengers Tower fic where everyone gets their happy ending, as I'm sure many of us prefered during lockdown.
These days, I find it cathartic.
Especially when it comes to comics canon, which – owing to the very medium – has a terrible habit of glossing over heinous actions, horrific trauma, and the bowing weight of canon events upon the sliding time scale. Trying to stuff all that canon into 15 years is crazy.
And so, I turn to fanwork that makes it so much worse (don't worry there are a couple of MCUs in there – I love a nasty lil MCU fanwork). Also features a very rare thing for me – Omegaverse recs.
Here's hoping you're not accessing this on a work or educational establishment device and that we're all adults here. I will add the occasional warning if the tags on the fic are not clear enough.
FYI: Most (all?) of these contain rape/non-con and/or consent issues.
The Devil's Groom by SomeA
This predates the dead dove term but it certainly counts. Iron Maniac and an evil version of Steve that isn't Hydra. They are obsessed with each other. Do take the tag of mentions of necrophilia seriously. What I like about this one, apart from the nastiness is how it casts disquiet in our 616 pair.
What You Have Tamed by tsukinofaerii
Semi mirror!verse fic. Tony gets pulled into another universe where Steve's side won Civil War, Tony died, and Steve took control of the government. By the time they get 616!Tony back, he's slightly broken and convinced that Steve owns him and can't make any decision without Steve. And gained the 'distressing' habit of offering his body to Steve and waking him up with blow jobs.
Another Steve has so thoroughly tortured Tony (plus got him to implant his own mind control chips) and regular Steve is having a Bad Time.
within our eyes there lies a scission by @deervsheadlights
Sometimes, you're convinced it's all some karmic joke, made by the universe at your endless and excruciating expense. Sometimes, you think The Portal killed you and this is your hell. Your eternity.
Even if it were, you would never know for certain, and that's what terrifies you most.
As much as I enjoy the sex pollen trope, let's be real it's a hellish premise, and this MCU fic builds on that.
Open Your Eyes by @dirigibleplumbing
Tony, back in his physical body, is the personal captive of the Hydra Supreme Leader. He expects to be tortured; he doesn't expect to be raped.
Obviously, content warning for Hydra Steve. Nasty stuff – note the pairings before you read.
Grab; tremble. by @the_casual_cheesecake
Steve is a decision-making man, a leader. He is the first to stand when problems come knocking. He is a man of action. His first instincts are always right.
Steve sits up in bed, head in his hands, and waits for his instincts to kick in, tell him what to do, because he is reeling with betrayal, his body buried under five tons of paralyzing anger.
_________
or: Steve remembers, and he goes to face his monster alone.
Technically not a dead dove. Still leaves you in a very bad place. Hickmanavengers, set when Steve remembers.
Eventually by One and Five Nines
Just a lil comic about a Marvel Ultimates dystopia where Tony is very unwell and owns Steve as a sex slave. As wholesome as it gets on this list.
Take My Body Home by @kiyaar
After the events of Superior Iron Man, Tony sells Extremis to the highest bidder and finds himself living as an expatriate in Russia.
Steve's never been good at letting go.
I consider this a dead dove because of the extreme psychic damage it gives me every time I read it. I try bracing for it, it doesn't work. Exquisite work.
refrain by @starvels
“What can I do,” Tony recites.
“You,” Steve says sweetly, “can get fucked.”
Steve lets in the first man: over 6’2”, beefy, bald, hungry, but professional in his deferential nod to Steve.
Tony closes his eyes. Lays back on the bed. Spreads his legs.
I think reading this changed my brain chemistry. The series of drabbles, the atmosphere, the way they can never part from each other. Blissful and horrible.
as alive as you need me to be by @kiyaar
The war dies when they're done killing each other. After, they have to live.
I sent MJ my prompts for the Cap-IM Holiday Exchange which were somewhat darker than what I usually go for. The conversation went something like this:
MJ: So you're asking for a fic by ki?
Me: Nooooo. There are... like four people who could write for me
Ze cracked the code before writing had even begun, haha.
Anyway, this fic goes far, far, beyond my little prompt, it takes my breath away. Exceptionally crafted.
you can think that you’re in love, when you’re really just in pain by @oluka's evil twin
Every day, they take Steve, and every day, he comes back a little less pristine.
They're captured. Steve hates Tony. And he's too stubborn by far. It doesn't end well.
Sodom by resurrectedhippo
Memorandum for: C. DANVERS (Avengers Clearance Alpha, Power Level 8) and Dr. R. RICHARDS (Power Level 7)
AUTH: CO, SITE HB-1019
Preparer Initials: M.H.
Co-Signer Initials: N.F.
SPECIAL REVIEW: COVERT ACTION IN SUR KARA
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY MISSION #AB5291-R1-E1
Staff Report concerning Off-World Intelligence Activities
Notable Captives: Tony Stark (Iron Man) and Steve Rogers (Captain America)
Vile, vile fic involving skrulls. Really distasteful. Except I totally will read again. Because it fucked me up in the right way.
lent by @starvels
After being successfully reverted back to his normal moral self, Tony Stark is tasked with trying to prevent the next incursion in an entirely new way. One that requires magic, infiltration, and of course, his former best friend who wants nothing to do with him.
Reluctantly together, Steve and Tony enter incursion planet Earth-6006.
But the Earth-6006 they discover is a grotesque mirror of Earth-616, one that neither Steve, nor Tony may find themselves capable of escaping. In fact, they may just carry it back home with themselves.
I think this is the most extreme of all Superior Iron Man fics! Deeply troubling for Tony and Steve to have to witness THAT.
OMEGAVERSE CORNER
I'll save you my whole spiel, but essentially omegaverse is a full on horror trope to me, and so I only enjoy omegaverse fics that lean into that.
Cleanest I've Been by @kiyaar
Tony, Steve tells him, like he is delivering news about a death, and the joke is on him. You're malnourished, he starts. You're. He falters. You're bondsick.
No shit, Tony says.
I can still feel you, Steve says, in his softest voice. Like he is terrified.
Tony considers that in the space of a second before he's floating away again.
MCU, set at the very beginning of Endgame. When Tony and Nebula get back. Medical body horror / a bond failing / badwrong ending.
The Price of Freedom by resurectedhippo
After the events at the bunker, Tony and Steve share a cell in the Raft. There's a price to pay in trying to survive.
Juicy MCU prison fic – with bonus Trish from Jessica Jones. Enduring a heat with the person you hate the most – because Ross wills it.
head like a hole by @starvels
The Superhuman Registration Act has passed. The superhuman community is a ticking bomb. Steve does what he always does in war: fight to win.
This time, the war front takes Steve to the caged enemy of the state known as Iron Man.
or:
"I don't want this," Tony says, voice cracking.
"I don't want this either," Steve says, and continues.
Deeply upsetting 616 Civil War fic on the nature of reinventing yourself, transhumanism, and the choices we make in war. I felt such mounting horror the first time I read this.
The Marvel universe, both in the comics and in the cinematic universe, has gone through multiple story arcs over its lifespan bringing in many heroes with many fantastic backstories. Today we are shouting out Samuel “Sam” Thomas Wilson for this Fandom In Color feature.
Sam started in the comics in 1969 as just a man who worked to train birds, who joined forces with Captain America to take on Red Skull, eventually evolving into the first iteration of the Falcon with his powers being his connection to the birds he is featured with like Redwing in the comics and his mechanical wings to fly. He was one of the first mainstream Black heroes, partnering with Captain America in many different iterations over the years and, eventually, in both the comics and the cinematic universe, taking up the historic mantle. Sam Wilson is one of the most popular and public faces of Captain America’s successors.
In Fandom spaces, Sam is featured often as the group therapist. Sam served in the United States Air Force as a pararescue team members and was a highly respected veteran working at the Washington D.C. V.A. hospital with other veterans to help their transition leaving the military. It was his invitation and companionship that he offered to Steve Rogers that created a bond over the men being in and surviving their military service. Due to this introduction, and his natural compassion brought out in his MCU appearances, lead many fans to headcannoning and writing these tropes with tags such as Sam is Everyone's Therapist, Up All Night To Get Bucky where Sam is featured alongside other Avengers to save Bucky, and even being placed as a matchmaker to fix up his friends found often in the tag Sam Wilson is a Good Bro. Continually, fans and writers alike have relied on Sam Wilson’s character as one to support and carry the team both with his abilities with advance strategies and levelheaded approach but also his emotional capacity with his continued empathy despite all that has happened to him. With his newest MCU feature, “Captain America: Brave New World” finally bringing Sam to stand as his own hero and getting his flowers to be the main protagonist.
Cheers for our newest Captain America and all he has done to earn the title, as his story progresses both in the comics and the MCU we will see more of our beloved Sam carrying the star-spangled shield with the dignity and hope that started with Steve Rogers for our future generations.
Are you looking to read more on the newest Avenger? Come on over to Fanlore to see his full history and some featured fanworks!
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i'm a bit behind schedule but here are some fics that cover everything from meet-cutes at weddings to getting divorced and back together. i love digging through my bookmarks for rec lists because i always end up experiencing the joy rediscovering old favourites that i had forgotten about. thank you to the wonderful mods of @cap-ironman for organizing this event and reminding me how fun rec lists are <3
as always, if you end up reading and enjoying any of the fics, please leave kudos and tell the author what you enjoyed about it - even if it's just a string of emojis 💖
watching seabirds fly (Nightcap Remix) by @ishipallthings | MCU | G
A beach wedding had sounded romantic.
(In which Steve and Tony sneak away for a moment by the beach on their wedding day, and deals are made).
To Liars and Saving the World by magicasen | Ultimates | E
When Tony's life is in danger, Steve does the only thing he can do to save his teammate: he makes an honest man out of him. Steve and Tony's sham marriage is only supposed to be a blip in their history that no one has to know about. But when they're outed to the press, and with ghosts from his past coming to haunt him, Steve must come to terms with the idea that his own feelings for Tony might not be a lie.
Swingin' Party by @sunnysideprincess | AU | T
It’s his sister and his best friend’s wedding, and Tony is not allowed to have sex with his ex-husband.
you'll wait a long time by nanasekei | MCU | E
Steve and Tony share a moment during a wedding. Things escalate from there.
Alternatively: Four weddings, a funeral, and one very emotionally stunted idiot.
you’ll share your whole life through by @ayapandagirl | MCU | G
Steve and Tony’s wedding of convenience (aka they get married to save the universe which is convenient for everyone)
we were meant for love by @starvels | AU | T
Steve and Tony meet at a wedding and fall in love.
Everything is good and easy and wondrous and Steve will fight the next person that calls him and Tony a cliché that won’t last.
Just For Now by @ifmywishescametrue | AU | T
Tony and Steve have never gotten along, but when Tony lies to his mom about bringing his boyfriend to his cousin's wedding, he needs someone to play the part. Lucky for him, Steve agrees, and the two might just get a little more than they anticipated out of it.
for better or for worse by earliebirb | AU | T
Sitting quietly like this, Tony can almost pretend that nothing has happened, that this is just another normal day of Steve waking up in bed next to him. Married and in love with no threat of divorce looming on the horizon.
Of course, that is before he catches sight of Steve’s bereft ring finger.
He wonders how long it has been since Steve’s ring finger is empty.
He wonders if he should start taking off his own, too. He wonders if Steve wants him to take it off.
He’s not really sure he does have a choice in this—the werewolf has fangs that can rip his throat out and claws that would disembowel him without a second thought. Whatever it is that the werewolf wants with him, he’ll give it if it means he lives through this night.
Perhaps the werewolf picks up on this attitude somehow, because its head ducks down to lick at the fine trail of golden hairs below his belly button and Kiran can’t help but gasp, hips jolting up at the sensation, dreadful anticipation filling him.
I’m back with some more original fiction!! If you’re into werewolves, knotting, miscommunication, mutual pining, full shift werewolf sex and more…come check it out!!!
TODAY’S THEME IS EAT THE DEAD DOVE: that bird is dead and it’s delicious. Show us your deadest doves: fanworks that put the lads through hell and plumb the depths of depravity and trauma. Anything that leaves you feeling dead inside (complimentary) is welcome.
To rec, simply REPLY to this or any other daily Themed post on any platform, or make your own reclist or post:
DISCORD - use the #look-what-I-found channel
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DREAMWIDTH - the perfect option if you want to rec anonymously!
Don’t forget to let us know why you’re reccing the work and please mark any major warnings. Do keep in mind: Discord and other socials are increasingly walled garden space; fan creators cannot see you gushing about their work in server/chat, so PLEASE make sure you return to the source and leave creators the praise they deserve! Most importantly, HAVE FUN curating.
"it's ok to show (x) in fiction as long as the bad guy gets punished!" the bad guy doesn't have to get punished. in fact the bad guy can win altogether. the bad guy can entirely get away with it. hope this helps
and this part might make some people's head explode but: characters can be written to forgive things you personally wouldn't ever forgive. not everything is written as what you'd perceive to be the right choice. not everything is a self-insert & protagonists don't have to be relatable.
i am leaning in real close and telling you stooooop talking about how bad your fic summaries are!!! homie you're not being modest or honest, you're shooting yourself in the foot. who wants to read a fic where the first thing the author says is how bad what they've made is???
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