Yeah, I think death goes with the territory of being a superhero, but accepting limitations isn't, and ahahha. You know Jarvis would do it. I bet the little fire-extinguisher robots were running around actually being helpful. Stark's relationship with the little artificial ecosystem he's got running around the house just fascinates the hell out of me.
<3333 By the way. Would you happen to have any Iron Men recs?
Love this. First Iron Man fic I've read, and I think you've spoiled me for it. I love the sparseness and eloquence of your writing, and I adore how each one had me envisioning an entire new story about what could happen next. The first one may be my favorite, though.
If you want recs, let me know. I'm starting to collect them, and <33333333333.
I love the Tony/Pepper dynamic so, so much. I mean this fic came about because I got really excited about all the different ways to spin out one idea, but I couldn't sit down with any one idea long enough to write it. Clones! No, pregnancy! No, Tony's conception of self if he can't save Pepper!
The clone idea was totally my favorite, in terms of "future plot spawning." It's such a fantastic, classic, cheesy comic-book idea that could be so wonderfully dark and creepy if done right. Ahem. Not that I'm trying to nudge you to write it or anything.
This and this are my hands-down favorites so far. Both came to me through swingchick, who's my enabler. The first is Tony and Pepper on a New Year's Even in the future, and the latter is one where TONY BUILDS PEPPER A ROBOT, OKAY. It makes me do the dancing squeal of joy, and those authors have both have other, solid pieces.
And yeah. The idea of Tony cloning Pepper fascinates me. Fascinates me. There's the angle that Tony's expertise is in mechanical engineering, not biological engineering, but that just makes him want to try it more. And tying it back to his parental-loss issues.
Kdj;lgkjd;lfkjadf. Help me think through this idea, and a cloning Pepper fic you will get.
You know what's really gorgeous? Tony and Pepper watching fireworks on a New Year's Eve sometime in the future. This fic only coalesced in my head after your "Give Us a Hand o'Thine" made me start thinking, hard, about alternate futures for Tony and Pepper.
sitting down to leave official thoughts, and, oh. OH. just. there is at least one bit of each of these that really grabbed me, made me pause. The "photonic Morse code;" Tony actually contemplating cloning (you're so right, that's exactly where a technological industry titan with only recently-discovered morals would go first); Tony sleeping with others and, yes, telling her about it, because he's still a bit of an asshole but only a bit; proposing nontraditionally and her not actually responding; Jarvis secretly calling the paramedics while Tony loudly panics; etc etc etc.
and of course the entirety of the last paragraph. This part: he's had as much love and happiness as a man like him, much less a superhero, can expect from life. He has no right to ask more.is making me cry again with reread. You got it, right there, that complexity and richness and grown-up-ness of who they are for each other
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Yeah, I think I'm officially fired up about this fandom. XD I can't remember the last time I posted two fics within a twenty-four hour period -- and yeah, I can't exactly guarantee the second one is any good because it's an order of magnitude more ambitious, but my God, I love the scope for playing in this. I love it. So much.
And I'm so glad that you liked this. So, so, so glad. I'm still really ridiculously proud of that bit about Jarvis calling an ambulance because really, Tony is so profoundly incapable of the problems of everyday existence.
Oh man, yeah. Tony settling is such a weird, strange notion, but at some point in growing up, he's going to have to learn to do that, isn't he? And if he really does have a happier, more fulfilling life, it seems like it would be the natural thing.
SO WHY IS IT SO SAD.
<3333 The idea of Tony and cloning has crawled into my brain and has taken up residence.
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<3333 By the way. Would you happen to have any Iron Men recs?
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I love the Tony/Pepper dynamic so, so much. I mean this fic came about because I got really excited about all the different ways to spin out one idea, but I couldn't sit down with any one idea long enough to write it. Clones! No, pregnancy! No, Tony's conception of self if he can't save Pepper!
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The clone idea was totally my favorite, in terms of "future plot spawning." It's such a fantastic, classic, cheesy comic-book idea that could be so wonderfully dark and creepy if done right. Ahem. Not that I'm trying to nudge you to write it or anything.
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And yeah. The idea of Tony cloning Pepper fascinates me. Fascinates me. There's the angle that Tony's expertise is in mechanical engineering, not biological engineering, but that just makes him want to try it more. And tying it back to his parental-loss issues.
Kdj;lgkjd;lfkjadf. Help me think through this idea, and a cloning Pepper fic you will get.
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(Came here by way of swingchick!)
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You know what's really gorgeous? Tony and Pepper watching fireworks on a New Year's Eve sometime in the future. This fic only coalesced in my head after your "Give Us a Hand o'Thine" made me start thinking, hard, about alternate futures for Tony and Pepper.
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just. there is at least one bit of each of these that really grabbed me, made me pause. The "photonic Morse code;" Tony actually contemplating cloning (you're so right, that's exactly where a technological industry titan with only recently-discovered morals would go first); Tony sleeping with others and, yes, telling her about it, because he's still a bit of an asshole but only a bit; proposing nontraditionally and her not actually responding; Jarvis secretly calling the paramedics while Tony loudly panics; etc etc etc.
and of course the entirety of the last paragraph. This part:
he's had as much love and happiness as a man like him, much less a superhero, can expect from life. He has no right to ask more.is making me cry again with reread. You got it, right there, that complexity and richness and grown-up-ness of who they are for each other ( ... )
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And I'm so glad that you liked this. So, so, so glad. I'm still really ridiculously proud of that bit about Jarvis calling an ambulance because really, Tony is so profoundly incapable of the problems of everyday existence.
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There are so many bits of this that I loved, but that, Tony for once settling, even with something he didn't know he could be comfortable with.
And man, those "death" ones broke my heart. I loved/hated (because it BROKE me) this image:
he sees her leaning against a concrete block, with about a ton of i-beam steel where her torso should be.
Because it's beautifully tragic that the only time he listens to her is when she's dead. And oh, my heart.
I loved how you played with the sort of world they live in, where something like:
For a sudden, ludicrous moment, all Tony can think about is cloning.
can be so temptingly within reach. Because Tony would think that.
Loved all of this, wow.
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SO WHY IS IT SO SAD.
<3333 The idea of Tony and cloning has crawled into my brain and has taken up residence.
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