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For this Mirror, Mirror challenge, I partnered with Holly, and the prompt we came up with was Arranged Marriage based upon the ideas of "Steve is at risk of losing his independence when he comes out of the ice because reason, and he has to marry Tony or lose that independence" + "The military will have claim on him for assignments/experimentation, if someone else doesn't have a stronger one."

I ended up playing a little fast and loose with it, and also ending up taking what I originally planned as a Serious Body Horror story into the tsum-tsum universe, where it became equal parts, well, still pretty heavy body horror if considered from a tsum point of reference, and also flat-out crack. Plus I got to pun a lot. This one was challenging, but also genuinely a lot of fun!

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This little bit of fake-clickbait is inspired by FestiveFerret and melaniehoping's amazing "Trashiverse" tabloid edit set from the 2020 Games. I wrote the content, but just don't have the actual time to create the multimedia piece, sadly, so that part will have to be up to the imagination.

Threats and Menaces is basically the 616 version of TMZ or the like, whatever sensationalistic celebrity gossip tabloid site. I envision this article as a multimedia segment on their web site, probably with the headline and introductory text on a teaser page, then a link to another page with a video and the actual top ten list, plus, of course, a bunch of obnoxious ads all over the place.

For Cap and Iron Man's further comments, and that complete "Top Ten Superhero Lies" list, click here!

(Click-through would lead to a page with the embedded video of Cap and Iron Man on the street with big TV-style mics shoved in their faces, looking beaten to within an inch of their lives, starting the interview by brushing off the "are you ok, do we need to get you to a hospital??" questions with "I'm Fine" responses, and then answering some vapid questions.)

(And then the actual list, which I envision reading something like this:)

10. A-OK.
9. Nothing to worry about.
8. Nothing broken.
7. None of this blood is mine.
6. No doctor needed.
5. Not a scratch.
4. Feeling no pain.
3. Never better.
2. It was worth it.

And the Number One Lie told by Superheroes:
(drum roll, please!)

1. I'm Fine!
 

[FICLET] Pretend to Be His Darling
Team Kill fill for the 2022 SteveTony Games ( stevetonygames )
Work Type: Fic (301 words)
Universe: Ultimates
Bingo Square: Touch-Starved
Challenge: Fairy Godmother (wish granted for Jaz - "Ults!SteveTony: Tony who keeps calling Steve "Darling," and Steve who's convinced he can not stand Tony")
Content Warning: Steve's Internalized Homophobia and use in his thoughts of homophobic slurs (albeit relatively mild ones)

Well, we needed the Touch-Starved square for the current blackout-in-progress again, and my brain supplies fodder for this all too easily. This one's a little internal monologue for Ults Steve, as a granted wish for Jaz. I pretty much live in Ults vol 1, where Steve's still not long out of the ice and has A Lot to figure out, about himself, the world now around him, and definitely his feelings about Tony. He's got some major denial going on here, including his internalized homophobia, and thinks of Tony in derogatory terms for being gay or at least bi (not specified). For this small ficlet, I kept that to fairly mild words, not that it makes the sentiment itself any less ugly.

Stark was vile. Callow, coarse, loose. Bent. Everything Steve couldn't stand and would never be.

And Stark just wouldn't stop touching him. He hated it. Hated it. A hand in the small of his back while they walked. Or cupping his shoulder, with that stifling extra squeeze. A slap to Steve's chest to punctuate Stark's latest vulgar joke, when he'd made himself laugh and wanted Steve to join in. One to Steve's ass, once. Once. Steve had rounded on him in a heartbeat, teeth bared and fists at the ready, and Stark had faded back across the room, deceptively fast on his feet.

He hated that Stark's hands were warm. He hated every time it made him remember how cold he felt. It was fine. Easy enough to fix: work up a healthy sweat on another long run, or power-lift another hefty round of weights in the gym. No such thing as training too hard, or being too fit.

He didn't want Stark to do it again. The ass slap or any of the rest. He did not. He didn't need the excuse if he wanted to punch the guy. Feel his knuckles make contact with the brittle jaw under that sissy-looking line of facial hair. Man should grow a goddamned beard if he was going to.

...a way to touch him back, the voice in his head whispered. No, he did not want to do that. That was the voice on the wrong shoulder. The voice he would turn from, without fail.

[FICLET] Don't Have to Ask Me Twice (But Feel Free)
Team Kill fill for the 2022 SteveTony Games ( stevetonygames )
Work Type: Fic (395 words)
Universe: Ambiguous
Bingo Square: Insecure
Challenge: Fairy Godmother

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Here's a touch-starved Steve, hugging and laying hands on himself when there's no one else to give that to him. Or at least, he's still in the "idiots" stage of "idiots to lovers," and hasn't figured out that Tony would fulfill all his touching needs and need it just as much.

I'm a little afraid the drawing just looks like he's clutching himself in wound-pain, rather than touch-starved pain, but -- at least there's some kind of emotion showing, I think?

Clearly I'm dealing with anatomy and perspectives that are above my current skill level, but then again, I guess that's how we get better, and stuff. No reference except for looking at a photo to get an idea when I was drawing (uh, pun inherent, not intended) a blank for how to do his hair. I mean, all in all -- I've gotten a lot better in the last few months, so I'll give myself that credit.

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"A fluffy deathfic collab." Brainstorming in the Discord, my original idea was this:

What if there's a fic where tumor-Anthony kills Tony. Like becomes a boy, and then murders him.
Or else, Tony dies of the cancer and Anthony murdering him is the form in which he perceives/experiences it?

After some expressions of pain from a few people (yay!), Loran suggested, "Ant could come collect him? Like friendly?"

She felt she could and would like to write a fic to explore that idea, and I said I could outline it. So the collaboration began, under the original working title "Sweet Reaper," and turned into this fic.

OUTLINE for last night of sadness:

-- After Steve's canonical death, Tony's cancer returns.

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I think there would be potential to polish up this sketch a lot further, ink it, and pen in the lettering. But using the challenge hour, I was able to make these pencil head sketches (from references) of both Steve and Tony.. (I just noticed I forgot to tidy up the placement of Steve's ear after working out the rest of his head shape and features... oh well, this is the challenge result... *points back to the first sentence, saying that there would be potential to polish this up further*)

The Liars' Paradox can take a variety of forms, but the upshot is that the statements create a mutual contradiction - a paradox. I find it an appropriate representation of the major conflicts Steve and Tony have had in their 616 canonical relationship.

[Edit] I took about five minutes to tidy up that ear a little because it was driving me crazy. The original version is still the official fill, meeting the challenge time. But here's the touchup. And also the Cap reference image I used, screenshotted from my phone (mirror-flipped for the direction I wanted him facing on my page). So pretty. Sadly, I don't know who or where this art is from. The Iron Man reference I used is one of Valerio Schiti's armor designs.