stargraven | Entries tagged with team angst

I mean, there's trash and then there's garbage. End of the Games, just throwing anything and everything at the Bingo card. Here's some "Huddling for Warmth."

"Tony..."

"Yeah, Steve?"

"You know I... hate the cold..."

"I know, babe. I'm sorry."

"Tony..."

"Yeah, Steve?"

"You're so warm."

"I'll keep you as warm as I can, babe."

"Tony..."

"Yeah... Steve...?

"It's really cold."

"...huddle closer... babe..."

"Tony..."

"Yeah..."

"Is it getting colder?"

"I... can't really tell..."

"Maybe I can hold you a little tighter..."

"That'd be... nice... babe..."

"Tony..."

"...hhhmmmm?"

"You're not so warm anymore..."

"...not so cold anymore..."

"Tony..."

"Tony?"

"...hmm..."

"No. no, Tony, c'mon, Tony!"

"...mhere..."

"Stay with me, baby, please stay..."

"..."

"Tony..."

"Tony?"

"Tony, Tony, no, wake up, Tony..."

"Tony, I'm not gonna make it without you..."

"Tony, I can feel the tears freezing on my face..."

"Tony, I'm so tired... I'm just going to close my eyes and go to sleep with you..."

"Tony..."

"mmm, tony, s'warm, let's stay'n bed t'day..."

"love... you... tony..."

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Username: wynnesome, steward of subversion
Work Type: Fic
Bingo Prompt: Mutual Pining (opposite day)
Content Warning: Implied MCD
Extra Prompts: None
Main Universe: 616

Another MSPaint art for "Mutual Pining."

www.dm-gremlin.com/stuff/imagespace/200810-HeLovesMeNot.bmp

Iron Man and Captain America He Loves Me Not with flower petals mutual pining

Iron Man and Captain America He Loves Me Not with flower petals mutual pining

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Username: wynnesome, steward of subversion
Work Type: Art
Bingo Prompt: Mutual Pining (opposite day)
Content Warning: Oblivious Idiots, I Am Not an Artist
Extra Prompts: No Drawing Tablet/Drawn in MSPaint, Black and White
Main Universe: 616

Edit for "Dog Tags."

The original panels are from the Mark Waid story "The Persistence of Memorabilia," in Captain America #600, wherein, shortly after Steve's death in Civil War, Tony buys his original Avengers identicard at auction for two million dollars. I edited one of the panels to show a (very roughly drawn) version of his dog tags, instead, and altered some dialogue from the previous page to place alongside it. Then I added "was it worth it?" as a callback to the heartbreaking scene in The Confession, along with a quote about love and grief, and some song lyrics about prices paid and costs, from a sad and beautiful Rush song.

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Panel edit to show Tony buying Steve's dog tags for $2mil with quotes

Panel edit to show Tony buying Steve's dog tags for $2mil with quotes

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Username: wynnesome, steward of subversion
Work Type: Edit
Bingo Prompt: Steve's Dog Tags (opposite day)
Content Warning: Implied/Referenced MCD
Extra Prompts: It Wasn't Worth It, Non-Square Images, Song Lyrics, Quotes
Main Universe: 616

More bonus prompt smush for the Games.

He was the winged death, sent to kill the vampire king.

This was his destiny. No matter the generous, kind leader who gave him a home, the years they'd been best friends, the villains they'd fought side by side.

Every battle, every friendly sparring match, had taught him. His target's tactics. His weaknesses.

This night would be the final round.

He discarded the shape of the pudgy cat, growing lean and sleek, his tan fur lightening to liquid-silver white. Extending his wings and his deadly claws, he launched.

They clashed mid-air, he and his mortal foe, the Iron Mouse, too, taking his true form.

This was his destiny, no matter how the soul-bond flared when the rat-scourge sank its fangs into his throat, the opening he'd left to let him reach its heart.

He was the winged death, born to kill the vampire king.

It was done.

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Username: wynnesome, steward of subversion
Work Type: Fic
Bingo Prompt: Sparring (opposite day)
Content Warning: MCD, Murder (non-graphic)
Extra Prompts: You Gave Me a Home, Wings, Royalty AU, Vampire AU, Soulmates
Main Universe: Earth-8311 (Larval Earth - Spider-Ham)

I'm really, really tired, and I couldn't resist the "Mutual Pining" pun.
Drawn with a mouse in MSPaint. I use the term "art" in a very loose sense.

www.dm-gremlin.com/stuff/imagespace/200808-MutualPining-AllFirYou.bmp

Captain America-Iron Man Mutual Pining-All Fir You

Captain America-Iron Man Mutual Pining-All Fir You

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Username: wynnesome, steward of subversion
Work Type: Art
Bingo Prompt: Mutual Pining (opposite day)
Content Warning: I Am Not an Artist
Extra Prompts: No Drawing Tablet/Drawn in MSPaint, Black and White
Main Universe: 616

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Edited panels from Iron Man #182. In the climactic comic of the "Iron Man Second Drinking arc," Tony is at rock bottom with his alcoholism, huddling up with his pregnant, fellow alcoholic friend, trying to survive both her labor and the terrible blizzard about to hit that night.

In the original page, the upper left is a different panel. I substituted this one from the previous page to make the sequence more concise for purposes of the edit. Instead of saying "a little," he offers her a "Taste?" from the bottle of liquor he pawned his coat to buy. She declines, because there's no time like the present to quit drinking for the sake of your about-to-be-born child. The next two panels are unedited until the final, bottom right speech bubble. In the original, instead of having his mind on what Steve would think of him in his current circumstances, Tony is thinking about "Armor. Armor I used to wear that I thought made me invincible."

Sorry, Armor, had to toss you aside in favor of Steve this time, for the sake of Games points!

www.dm-gremlin.com/stuff/imagespace/200730-IM182-Huddling-Emerson.jpg

Comics Edit Iron Man 182 Tony Thinking About Steve w Emerson Quote

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Username: wynnesome, steward of subversion
Work Type: Edit
Bingo Prompt: Huddling for Warmth (opposite day)
Content Warning: None
Extra Prompts: Non-Square Images, Quotes
Main Universe: 616

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Now, this is the kind of thing I intended to do for the Games. Tight, quick, little ficlets I could produce spontaneously and in batches, if not en masse. Unsurprisingly, writing-brain said a lot of otherwise.

Hard to complain about more writing coming out; it's just that longer ficlets/short fics take longer to finish, and I can't make as many. Still, I've managed several under 500 words, building my confidence that brevity is not unattainable, but merely unreliable.

This one's for the "Anniversary" square. Title refers to the traditional anniversary gifts for the 20th, 40th, 45th, and 50th years.

They were amazing together. They were not good together.

It was better that they made the split, saw other people, they both agreed.

As they found other loves, they were happy for each other, genuinely so.

Tony felt real joy for Steve when he was back, after the Hydra debacle was done, and able to rekindle things with Sharon. And Steve's eyes and smile were warm when he told Tony how good he and Janet looked together.

That didn't mean it wasn't hard. One day a year, above all, was the worst. The one day they let go of trying to pretend it didn't hurt.

The years one or both of them were with someone, it was dinner. Steaks and reminiscing over bottomless nonalcoholic beverages, dessert and coffee and longing looks exchanged long into the night, and not one single touch.

The years they were single, they didn't stop touching -- hands and lips and cocks and hearts beating under every inch of stripped-bare skin -- till morning.

They didn't wear them, but both had kept their rings.

"Happy anniversary, Steve."

"Happy anniversary, Tony."

They were earth-shattering together. They both agreed, it was better they had made the split.

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Username: wynnesome, steward of subversion
Work Type: Fic
Bingo Prompt: Anniversary (opposite day)
Content Warning: None
Extra Prompts: None
Main Universe: 616