FICDUMP!

[wired_lizard]

SO. IT'S INDEPENDENCE DAY. The one day of the year when I stop angsting endlessly about what my country is and instead celebrate what my country should be. Wants to be. Can be. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Equality and justice for all. Belting of glorified old drinking songs

Comments

[quigonejinn]

OK. OK. I just read both of them in one long, delirious binge despite knowing absolutely nothing about Captain America except that sometimes, he has wings on either side of his head.

Here is the question I consequently have: what the fuck do I need to read in order to get in on this canon?

[wired_lizard]

*giggles madly* WE GOT ONE!

Okay, so I am only sortof going to be able to answer that question, because I am still trying to figure that out myself. That being said--well, okay, first off, some fan resources. Scans of slashtastic moments, as gathered up by the Steve/Tony comm. And an awesome ship manifesto by elspethdixon, which provides a quite coherent summary of a lot of the relevant canon, and a nice load of squee.

Most of the rest of my reading has been wandering into bookstores and devouring books. Here are some things I've enjoyed and/or found useful for writing:

Comicscanon!Tony:
- Demon in a Bottle, one of the claaaaaassic arcs. Somebody's controlling his armor and using it to kill people, and it's the first time his alcoholism smacks him in the face. The titular issue is kind of infamous. (Favreau hs said he wants to do this shit in the movies, so I kind of suspect Iron Man II is going to be Tony confronting the old ethanol.)
- Armor Wars, a character portrait of Tony Being An Ass Out Of Guilt. Also his first big break-up fight with

[wired_lizard]

COMMENT LENGTH EXCEEDING HOGOD.

The Whole Civil War Mess:
So that was one of those enormous crossover events that involved, like, every single fuckin' title in the Marvelverse, and I have come nowhere near to following all of it, but I recommend the following four volumes to get a lot of the main stuff:
- Civil War, no subtitle, just Civil War. The miniseries at the core of it. Covers a fair amount of the politics on both sides, and the really big dozens-of-supers-on-each-side-and-Steve-and-Tony-beating-the-shit-out-of-each-other fights.
- Civil War: Iron Man, which is two issues of actual Iron Man, mostly covering Tony being broken into little pieces (which is a lot of what this story does), and two one-shots. "Casualties of War" has been described as a slash fic with the sex scene replaced with a fistfight (and a fistfight which gets about 60 times more poignant if you've read the Demon in a Bottle arc.) "The Confession" is, well, no, I can't even fucking describe it. There's a summary in the ship manifesto above. I have a .cbr

[quigonejinn]

OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD. SERIOUSLY. THANK YOU. COMIC FANDOM, NOT QUITE SO SCARY NOW even though I just a smackdown from a comic fan about using a fanon movie!verse middle name for Tony.

Oh my God. I'm reading that ship manifesto right now. It's brekaing my heart into itty, itty little pieces. Holy shit. I just read the Confessions summary, and oh my God. I don't think it could have hit djkajflkdfdf.

In short, yes, I would love that CBR. Oh my God. And I had no idea that Bendis wrote so much of the canon for it -- I have this, like, molecular level crush on his work for Powers.

[truthiness_aura]

The links, they do not work for me.
/pout
MOMMY WANTS PORN, DAMMIT!

[truthiness_aura]

Fixed. Off to read smut. Bless you, my dear.

[wired_lizard]

Ehehe, I didn't do a thing. Apparently the site was down for a few hours while I was off watching fireworks.

Enjoy!

[runenklinge]

where have you been all this time?
Wow, these awere awesome!

That is how the stupid Skrull Invasion should end! Stupid Civil war - OMG, you´re brilliant!

Wow! Please say you´ll stick around cap_ironman!

Woot!

ps: you rule!

[wired_lizard]

where have you been all this time?

Eheh, in other fandoms. I do that. And writing Iron Man movieverse fic, because I'm a newbie movie fangirl who got sucked into comics by the slash. And the angst. Can't forget the angst.

*grins* Thank you!

And, yeah, I think I've got a few more fics in me yet. :D

[runenklinge]

who got sucked into comics by the slash. And the angst. Can't forget the angst
I (like many, many others) got sucked in by elspethdixon and seanchai´s RRR-Verse.
Which contains slash and a bit of angst^^

And, yeah, I think I've got a few more fics in me yet. :D
Awesome!

re: Off Grid

[hohaiyee]

Oh my god, I can see them camping and I now have the craving for baked beans. By the time I read to the part about the ticks though, I nevar want to go camping. Though all those times I've wandered through the suburban meadows in skirts...how deep can those things burrow? Snopes CONFIRMED that embedded ticks can send you into a coma!

I wonder if there is a gross version of snow white or sleeping beauty out there involving ticks. You can cross it over with the frog prince.