Stony Fic

Summary: Tony and Steve used to have sex sometimes, no strings attached. Steve was okay with that, really. But now he's Commander Rogers, Tony doesn't remember the war that tore them apart, and oh, he's also accused of committing a murder. Steve's supposed to keep an eye on him, but being in close quarters with Tony once again proves more difficult than he imagined.

Words: 11k

Notes: LISTENNNN I’m always, always on the lookout for angsty one-shots that milk the angst for everything it’s worth and then it all ends well... that is the kind of content that gives me life. And this fic HIT ALL THE SPOTS. Oh my god. The sadness, the horniness, the hurt, the alternate universes meeting, the eventual effort at communication... agh. Please. Someone hold me.

Summary: The Winter Soldier refused to speak to anyone, sitting in the apartment - which was his cell and he knew it no matter how fancy it was dressed up - silently waiting for either an order or for something to stir up enough emotion in him to make him leave. What he gets is a child who won't stop breaking into his room.

OR

The one where Bucky is found early and only likes little Tony.

Words: 5k in 3 chapters

Notes: Though this features eventual Steve/Tony, it isn’t specifically Steve/Tony-focused. It is primarily about Bucky and Tony’s (non-romantic) relationship. I don’t remember how I found this fic but there was something about it that, despite the trauma involved in ickle Tony’s childhood, was so comforting for me. I loved how it was so straightforwardly written, almost like a children’s book. Really unique and really lovely!

Summary: Steve Rogers was recently recovered from the ice. It's fortunate that Peggy knows just the person to help Steve get better acclimated to the future. That person just happened to be a whirlwind of energy and flirtation.

Words: 2k

Notes: Here’s a newer fic to round out this active week of posting. This is a very cute pre-slash snippet that features a great take on a young Tony who’s more open and audacious about his, uh, appreciation of a newly-defrosted Steve. I’d gladly read a whole ‘verse of this Tony showing Steve the ropes ♥

Summary:  A little more shameless smut.

Words: 5k, Part 6 of a 6-part series (which I also highly recommend), Steve Rogers Never Was a Boy Scout

Notes: alsjlajdllajkds it’s Smutty Saturday again yo! I don’t know how to describe how well this fic hit all my Dom/Sub kinks. It’s so wrong in all the right ways. It’s easy to go overboard with kinky smut, but what I love about this is that it’s still so well-written and in character without sacrificing the grittiness and bad-dirty-wrong-ness of the kink - which, true to its title, is the focal point of this fic. As always, mind the tags before reading!

Summary: It turns out, in the 21st century, Steve's best friend is an eighteen-year-old genius named Tony Stark. This might be trouble.

Words: 18k in 4 chapters

Notes: HOW IS THIS NOT ALREADY ON MY REC LIST. This was glorious, incredible, just an absolute pleasure to read. There’s an innocence to this version of Tony that I can’t get enough of, and I love all his layered interactions with Steve. It’s been five years since this fic was posted, but to this day, I am hard-pressed to think of a better character summary of Tony Stark than this bit of dialogue: 

It makes me sob whenever I think about it. 😭♥

Summary: In which Steve and Tony are oblivious, and everyone else... well, isn't.

Words: 3k

Notes: I love the trope of accidental kissing. Everything about it is ideally in place for maximum entertainment value: the regular setting, the team audience, the reaction of the giver, the reaction of the receiver, the follow-through action... it’s just all so entertaining. This fic in particular has great, snappy dialogue, and it’s set in the 616 verse which means it has even more characters with even more varied reactions. Good stuff.

Summary: Celestial Navigation: 18 year old Omega!Tony finds himself Bonded to Captain Steve Rogers. He isn't happy about it until he is.

By request, here is CN in one place without other stories and artwork.

Words: 211k words in 10 chapters (YES, you are reading those numbers correctly)

Notes: HOW... Did I ever even miss out on writing a rec for this? It’s just inexcusable. It’s just there whiling away in my bookmarks folder. Okay, listen, I know this is probably redundant and most of you know about CN, but I still want to write a rec for it, goddammit. It’s legitimately one of the best A/B/O fics out there. It is unabashedly, shamelessly itself and that is precisely what makes it so gripping and amazing. It plays up the tropes, the angst, and the smut adjacent to the A/B/O genre, but it does it so meaningfully and so beautifully that you can’t look away. This is one of the longest fics out there, but every word is used with so much care and intent that I found myself reading it as slowly as possible toward the end just to savor every moment. It just builds and builds and builds and y’all, I am not ashamed to admit that I wept throughout. Gah. I don’t even know. I can’t put it into words. Go read this if you haven’t! And even if you have, if you’re anything like me, go ahead and gear up to re-read this again sometime soon. ♥

Summary: In which Bucky comes back, Tony is doomed, and the Avengers want their breakfast.

Words: 9k

Notes: And so begins my efforts to clean out my To-Rec bookmark folder! I have so many fics bookmarked to read and to rec, I figure I might as well make a dent on them. This one is an oldie but an absolute goodie! I hesitate to use the phrase but this was definitely way ahead of its time in terms of fandom ~drama~ and all that, but it handles it in a great way and I love it for that. So much angst but it’s beautiful how everyone - Steve and Tony aside - is so hilarious and fluffy about it. Though it stands very well on its own, since I’m so late in writing up a rec for it, I should also add that part of the charm of this fic is that you can see how much fan characterizations of characters have evolved since 2012 ♥ Yay!

Summary: After the end of Infinity War, MCU Tony finds himself on Earth-616. Facing alternate universe Steve and Tony who are still recovering from their own disaster, he gets ideas on how to save his world and maybe even fix his relationship with Steve.

Words: 15k

Notes: Oh, man. This is just!!!! Gah. This fic combines every rare thing I have wanted to read (or read again!) in fic: the multiverse, selfcest, jealous!Steve, post-Infinity War interactions. It’s just so much what makes fanfic great. I read this at 8AM and wept into my pillow at one point. I don’t think I had realized before reading this how viscerally afraid I was of the possibility of Tony’s reunion with Steve being one of fear and Steve-related PTSD. That is a whole thing here and it hurts so much to read, but it just makes their interactions just much more layered and meaningful, for characters for either ‘verse! Read this! And if you have any nice, non-sad-ending post-IW fics to rec, send ‘em in! ♥