Welcome to @cap-ironman Rec Week 2026! Remember when this was a rec blog?
Today's theme is works that feature weddings, marriage, divorce, and other ritual law joinings. Apparently I hate weddings(?) because all my marriage-related recs are for fake relationships, which is a top-tier trope.
And please leave a moment of silence for Turn Your Face Towards the Sun by Verdandi (Zifnabsdragon), a lovely marriage of convenience fic taken from us too soon :(
All my lists for previous rec weeks are here!
If Through a Door by jibrailis (@jibrailis) (MCU | Explicit | 44,036 words)
Summary: Tony is accused of murder on an alien planet; Steve marries him to bring him home.
The Opposite of a Problem by Sineala (@sineala) (616 | Teen And Up Audiences | 2,490 words)
Summary: "I promise to love, honor, and probably not obey you, and, uh, take you as my totally-unlawfully-wedded husband, in sickness and in health, forsaking all others, until death do us part, or for at least the next seventy-two hours."
(Or: Tony and Steve get fake-married for the sake of the mission.)
Also available as a podfic read by exmanhater (@exmanhater)
More below the cut!
What Happens In Vegas by sabrecmc (@sabrecmc) (MCU | Explicit | 161,971 words)
Summary: "What the hell, Tony?" Rhodey demanded brusquely. Tony winced and drew the phone away from his ear. "You’ve got cops and Feds all over the hotel. I’m watching you perp walk out of the police station on repeat on CNN. They’re saying you tried to bribe Stern? Fox News has you selling weapons on the black market, and God that picture they’re using is the one from Bali in ’09. You look like shit. They wheeled Stern out and put him in an ambulance, by the way. Got some paparazzi swearing you decked the guy. Now they’ve got ‘copters following it like he’s OJ."
"Yeah, don’t worry, Sourpatch, I’ve got it covered. Uh, though, I should probably tell you that, purely in the interests of national security and the greater good, I kind of had to fake marry that stripper-gram you sent. Thanks for that, by the way," Tony added quickly.
Playing the part (remix) by nanasekei (@elcorhamletlive) (MCU | Not Rated | 10,713 words)
Summary: "We have five days of this ahead of us, Cap. Call me crazy, but I think if we don’t spend the entire time fighting over every little thing, we might have a chance of actually pulling this off."
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Tony tells a joke, that turns into a lie, that turns into him having to pretend to Steve Rogers' husband for five days. Just his luck.
Right All My Wrongs by Sineala (@sineala) (616 | Teen And Up Audiences | 1,091 words)
Summary: Tony needs to clean up his act. Fury has a suggestion. Steve has a proposal.
Also available as a podfic read by Amanita_Fierce (@amanita-fierce)
Strong as Death by babesrgrs (MCU | Explicit | 9,231 words | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings)
This is part 1
Summary: Steve is hit with a curse that has unexpected consequences, and Tony, who's never going on a diplomatic mission ever again, has a religious experience. The sexy kind.
Between the Shadow and the Soul by babesrgrs (MCU | Explicit | 13,763 words)
This is part 2
Summary: "So, wait. You and Steve are actually married?"
"Space married. I don’t know. I don’t think it’s that important."
Pepper was incredulous. "Obviously, it is. If your marriage is recognized across the galaxies, this might not be the only time it comes up. Tony, it’s a contract with a lot of implications, especially if we start to deal more and more with alien species. What if Earth starts to recognize the marriage? You could be prosecuted for bigamy. That’s a felony, Tony."
Tony blinked. Of all the things he expected Pepper to latch on to.
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Tony and Steve try to navigate the aftermath of an alien curse.
Use Your Words by wtf_dk (@dragonflies-and-katydids) (MCU | Explicit | 12,731 words | Rape/Non-Con)
Summary: "Why does anybody come to Las Vegas?" Tony asks the owner of the gun pointed right between his eyes, and god, he's going to get so much shit about this later, from every single person currently listening in at S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters. "We're getting married."
The effect is immediate: silence falls at a speed Tony couldn't match even in the Iron Man suit, and every head in the hotel room jerks toward him. Several people go literally slack-jawed.
Including Steve, unfortunately, which doesn't do much for the credibility of a lie that needs all the help it can get.
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It's a stupid lie, but in Tony's defense, he didn't expect anyone to call him on it.
Ngl I simply do not care about doomsday lmao like sorry MCU but you killed Tony and ruined Steve, you get zero dollars and negative eleven billion percent interest from me anymore 🤷🏻♀️😂
Steve's MR skin🏖️ (This is a cropped version because, well... you know how sensitive Tumblr can be. If you'd like to see the full version, it's available over on X)
I'll be making an NSFW version for Patreon soon, so stay tuned! 🔥
🧡 Patreon | Ko Fi | ✅COMMISSIONS OPEN any couple inside or outside of Marvel and OCs.🧡
So I do 3D modeling and printing as a hobby, and a few weeks ago I designed wheel guards meant to prevent office chairs from running over cables and clothes... or your pet's tail.
I got the idea from cowcatchers old locomotives used to have.
Anyways, yesterday I uploaded the model to Thingiverse, and just hours after uploading it, the Community Relationship Manager of the whole website left a comment suggesting I enter the model into a competition that's currently being held on the site.
So I did... and now it's in third place not even a day later. First place is $500, but the competition still has a month to go.
Then the Community Manager contacted me again, telling me they want to feature my model in an upcoming design promotion.
Just, what is happening? I mostly made this thing for myself in, like, an hour, and now it's suddenly super popular? This is all a little bit overwhelming 😵💫
Other models I worked on for weeks didn't get nearly as popular. I swear, it's impossible to predict what people will like.
Anyways, if you want to print the wheel guards yourself, you can get the model here or here.
I also made a quiet version you can stick furniture felt pads on.
big fan of the idea that Stark Industries starts selling basic household appliances once the weapons manufacturing gets dropped. SI toaster. SI curling iron.
But with this idea I also need there to be a “stark industries households” youtube channel that is, technically, an official SI channel. But it’s not in the slightest used for marketing or anything of the sort. Tony is the only one with the password and every video uploaded is tony going through how to use that machine.
Someone can’t figure out how to empty their damn fancy vacuum and they look up the model on youtube to figure it out, and are greeted by the CEO of the company doing a WILDLY informal tutorial on how to use it and common issues and such.
The videos are often shot by DUM-E or U. Tony often looks very disheveled, and sometimes there’s unrevealed projects just sitting out in the background. Tony acts like he’s talking to an audience of five people and usually there’s five or six videos uploaded back to back, CLEARLY shot in one sitting.
(Tony likes doing them because it’s a very simple way to ease the “Tony stark dead at ___” headlines without doing a damn press conference. The videos also make people a bit less intimidated by him, and he rarely gets to interact with his creations in an authentic way with an audience.)
the notes asking for drunk steve/tony recs are old (and can’t be replied to anyway), but for those who might still be interested:
(what unmakes) a good man by fohatic (10.3k, rated E)
written for the prompt: A lonely, out-of-his-own-time Steve gets way too drunk on Asgardian liquor at the Christmas party and comes on to Tony. Tony knows better than to do anything about it, but exactly what you want is hard to resist.
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