wynnesome

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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http://www.dm-gremlin.com/stuff/imagespace/200909-Dogtags-2Million-Bravado.jpg




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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.

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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)

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.
 

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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

I had this cool little brain flash about doing an edit to the Police song "King of Pain," with Steve's and Tony's endless cycle of angst as a time loop to fill that bingo square, and using the song title as an unconventional conception of a "royalty" trope,

It turned into three nights of editing and laying out panels, and three separate collage-style edits to move through the progression that I'd had in mind. Each of the three stands on its own, and together they function as a trilogy, covering the parts of the song that I wanted to illustrate.

I mean, I guess for the three nights' worth of work, I'm at least ending up with three fills out of it...

The full-size files are large, and even the sized-down versions are pretty big. Click to zoom, for best ease reading the text and seeing some of the details of the panels.

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www.dm-gremlin.com/stuff/imagespace/200728-KingofPain3-RepeatRefrain.jpg




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Username: wynnesome, steward of subversion
Work Type: Edit
Bingo Prompt: Time Loop
Content Warning: None
Extra Prompts: Non-Square Images, Song Lyrics, I Remember
Main Universe: 616

I had this cool little brain flash about doing an edit to the Police song "King of Pain," with Steve's and Tony's endless cycle of angst as a time loop to fill that bingo square, and using the song title as an unconventional conception of a "royalty" trope,

It turned into three nights of editing and laying out panels, and three separate collage-style edits to move through the progression that I'd had in mind. Each of the three stands on its own, and together they function as a trilogy, covering the parts of the song that I wanted to illustrate.

I mean, I guess for the three nights' worth of work, I'm at least ending up with three fills out of it...

The full-size files are large, and even the sized-down versions are pretty big. Click to zoom, for best ease reading the text and seeing some of the details of the panels.

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http://www.dm-gremlin.com/stuff/imagespace/200728-KingofPain1-EndlessReign.jpg

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Username: wynnesome, steward of subversion
Work Type: Edit
Bingo Prompt: Time Loop
Content Warning: Canon violence and canon MCD
Extra Prompts: Non-Square Images, Song Lyrics, It Wasn't Worth It, Superior Iron Man
Main Universe: 616