Rec Week 2014 Roundup

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Rec Week 2014 Roundup

non-Civil War fix-its/When Doombots Attack!

Fic

616

Title: Incursion
Creator: scrtkpr
Summary: When Steve and Tony are taken down in the heart of Avengers Tower by alternate versions of themselves, their counterparts reveal a threat to both the foundations of the multiverse and to the foundations of Steve and Tony's friendship.
Recced by iloome here

Title: Make it Right
Creator: laireshi
Summary: It was just a dream, Tony thinks, and ignores the gut feeling telling him otherwise. He really must have fallen asleep, and it was all just a dream, he didn't betray Steve like that …
Recced by enmuse here

Title: Relativistic Heat Conduction
Creator: SakuraTsukikage
Summary: Age of Ultron-based, but not entirely canon compliant. Written for the 2013 Cap-Iron Man Reverse Big Bang. Ultron has attacked, obliterating most of the world's superheroes and resistance in a matter of hours. The remaining heroes band together and share what strength they have to get through it, to survive, and defeat Ultron once and for all. Steve Rogers grieves in the wake of the disaster and the heroes' defeat, and no one knows if he will be able to provide the leadership they need--but Tony Stark isn't about to let him slip away that easily.
Recced by evilmissbecky here

Title: Family Old and New
Creator: Pookaseraph
Summary: When Ian Rogers finally comes to Earth from Dimension Z, his father is in no state to help him adjust, which leaves him relying on the Avengers, unable to forget the violence of his home, and hiding the secret he's sure they will hate him for.
Recced by salmastryon here

Avengers Assemble (Cartoon)

Title: Sparky, the Avenger's Robodog (aka Doom Should take Better care of his Things)
Creator: love_in_the_stars
Summary: After a routine battle with Doom, Tony stumbles across one of his damaged and abandoned Doom Dogs. True to Stark impulsiveness, Tony gathers its wounded pieces and takes it home to rebuild.
Recced by salmastryon here

Steve pining and angst/Steve vs modern technology

Art

MCU

Title: Mechanic AU
Creator: ironfries, Vespasiana
Summary: What it says on the tin. Tony is a mechanic and Steve is the guy who brings him small home appliances to fix.
Recced by dragonofmemory here

Fic

616

Title: Greyscale
Creator: jazzypom
Summary: Steve draws Tony, and after all these years, he's now seeing him for the very first time.
Recced by dragonofmemory here

Title: Things to do in New Jersey when you're dead

Creator: dorcas_gustine
Summary: Tony misses Steve. Tony brings Steve back. There's something wrong.
Recced by salmastryon here

Marvel Adventures

Title: The Captain and the Prince
Creator: Penumbren
Summary: Steve has had a crush on Tony for years. Captain Rogers heads up the castle guard when Prince Anthony returns from his studies abroad. What's a poor captain of the guard to do when his past crashes into his present?
Recced by [Bad username or site: Steve has had a crush on Tony for years. Captain Rogers heads up the castle guard when Prince Anthony returns from his studies abroad. What's a poor captain of the guard to do when his past crashes into his present? @ livejournal.com] here

Title: Community Service
Creator: valtyr
Summary: Matchmaking is harder than it looks.
Recced by dragonofmemory here

Title: Bizarre Love Triangle
Creator: panickyintheuk
Summary: Once the idea was in his head, he’d started picking up on all kinds of things, like the way Stark talked about Iron Man with such affection, and seemed to share so many of his mannerisms, and was constantly working on ways of improving the suit. It was obvious.
Recced by dragonofmemory here and by salmastryon here.

MCU

Title: The Only You for Me
Creator: blue_jack
Summary: “It’s okay. I know what Tony says about me.”
Recced by jazmin22 here

Title: Confined Spaces and Misunderstandings Do Not A Good Plan Make, Clint aka This Is Why Steve Is The Tactician
Creator: LadyMerlin
Summary: An elevator, a spilled drink and a ripped shirt, some terrible misunderstandings, and a breakdown of wills. In which everyone's finally had enough of this UST bullshit, and Jarvis is a very, very useful ally.
Recced by jazmin22 here

Title: Harlem Shake (I Won't Dance, Don't Ask Me)
Creator: theladyingrey42
Summary: It's only by chance that Steve happens to head down to Tony's workshop on the day they're filming the video.
Recced by jazmin22 here

Title: Love among the Hydrothermal Vents
Creator: DevilDoll
Summary: In which Namor has a thing for Steve, an octopus has a thing for Tony, and Steve and Tony eventually have a thing for each other.
Recced by dragonofmemory here

Title: Keep Me Warm
Creator: Pheylan
Summary: Steve Rogers hates the cold. But he loves being an Avenger. And he likes Tony Stark more than he wants to admit.
Recced by dragonofmemory here

Title: Sleep Protocol
Creator: 51stCenturyFox
Summary: You might assume that Steve Rogers, a super soldier, wouldn’t have any sleep-related problems, since he is an optimal physical specimen in the bloom of health.
You would be wrong.
But you know, there are certain conditions.
Recced by dragonofmemory here

Title: What Rough Beast
Creator: immoral_crow
Summary: Steve Rogers, super soldier. It’s amazing really that it takes them all so long to work out just what the serum can do… but given enough time all things become apparent. This is a story about love, and loss; the things we would do to be true to ourselves and true to our hearts; and the prices you must pay to do that.
(There is a more detailed description at the end, in case you want more warnings and spoilers)
Recced by salmastryon here

Title: History Lessons
Creator: MemoryDragon
Summary: Steve hates modern television shows and history. Tony is determined to remedy both of those, provided they can survive each other.
Recced by salmastryon here

Title: User Interface
Creator: AlchemyAlice
Summary: Steve dares to stick his head into the workshop on a Tuesday which had so far been filled only with paperwork, and as soon as he actually comprehends what he's seeing, he kind of just wants to forget the filing and the G-33 forms and just stay down there forever.
Recced by salmastryon here

non-powered AUs/sentient household appliances and other AI shenanigans

Art

MCU

Title: Mechanic AU (comic)
Creator: ironfries & vespasiana
Summary: Tony's a mechanic, Steve's apparently hopeless with all appliances. Maybe. It's sort of an excuse to keep Tony. (Yes, courtship by way of fixing little appliances.)
Recced by enmuse here

Fic

MCU

Title: The Silent War
Creator: inukagome15
Summary: Thor loves his Pop-Tarts, Clint likes the microwave, Natasha likes coffee but doesn’t want anyone to know, and Bruce and Steve cook. Or that time when everything in the kitchen refused to work, but none of the Avengers want to admit why.
Recced by inukagome15 here

Title: It's All in the Mind
Creator: inukagome15
Summary: The adventures of Tony as a mutant; how he learned to accept himself and his subsequent growth into his own. Hijinks ensue.
Recced by inukagome15 here

Title: That Damn Tank Top
Creator: inukagome15
Summary: Fill for a tumblr prompt. He’d never seen Tony like this – so stripped down of his usual armors and completely in his element. Or, Steve sees Tony in his tank top when he's in his workshop and likes it. A lot.
Recced by inukagome15 here

Title: Artificial Intelligence
Creator: kyaticlikestea
Summary: Fed up of seeing Tony and Steve dance around each other, the various gadgets of Stark Tower collaborate to become the best wingmen in history.
If only they were any good at it.
Recced by Recced by inukagome15 here

Title: So No One Told You,
Creator: Kari_Kurofa
Summary: Between them there're three apartments, a disgruntled downstairs neighbor, and a coffee shop with a barista who threatens them with tasers. Which, as a whole, that description sounds way more simple than it actually is.
Recced by Recced by inukagome15 here

Title: In Which Tony Stark Builds Himself Some Friends (But His Family Was Assigned by Nick Fury) (SERIES)
Creator: scifigrl47
Summary: Slow-build Steve/Tony among a Team-as-Family storyline, lots of AI fun and other adventures...
Recced by jazmin22 here and enmuse here

Title: Tale of the Bots (series)
Creator: scifigrl47
Summary: When Tony Stark was seventeen years old, he built his first AI. On that day, he ceased to be his father's creation, and became a creating force in his own right.
That one act likely saved his life, and not always in the most obvious ways.
Recced by enmuse here

Title: Your Barista Is...
Creator: PaxieAmor
Summary: Steve Rogers walks into a coffee shop. It's nothing that he expects, but everything he needs.
Recced by enmuse here

Title: Haaaave you met Steve?
Creator: theapplepielifestyle
Summary: “Kids, I’m going to tell you an incredible story. The story of how I met your father.” An Avengers/HIMYM crossover.
Recced by enmuse here

Title: Got the Cream
Creator: YourFavoriteRobot
Summary: Steve is coasting through life after leaving the army without making any real connections to anyone around him. Until a mischievous deity turns Steve's only friend, his cat Tony, into a human being.
Recced by enmuse here

Title: Apartment 5A
Creator: toraten
Summary: An AU in which Steve Rogers edits comic books and Tony Stark is Tony Stark.
Recced by enmuse here and jazmin22 here

Title: And I'd buy a big house where we both could live
Creator: shinkonokokoro
Summary: Missing: Tony Stark, billionaire businessman, heir to Stark Industries, reward: none. Only Steve didn't know that when he picked up the waterlogged unconscious man from the bank of a river.
Recced by enmuse here

Title: Confidence Trick
Creator: tsukinofaerii
Summary: FBI Steve chasing Hacker Iron Man, and then things get interesting...
Recced by jazmin22 here

Title: Looking for Heaven
Creator: foxxclub
Summary: Ex-stable boy Steve and Lord Tony enter marriage of convenience and try to pretend they aren't head over heels in love&lust with each other.
Recced by jazmin22 here

Title: Down on the Farm
Creator: tellxmebby
Summary: Tony laughs, throwing an old rag at the blond man, who bats it away in the air. "Fuck you."
"Mm," Steve rolls back under the car with a newly fitted socket, "maybe later."
Steve grins up at the chrome above him at the lack of response. It must take Tony a minute to recover, but when he does Steve hears him huff.
Recced by jazmin22 here

Title: My Life Belongs To My Country, But My Heart Will Always Be Yours
Creator: renai-chan
Summary: Crown Prince Anthony of Stark tries to keep his relationship with Sir Steven Rogers a secret from his father, but when Archduke Obadiah Stane is assigned to be his guardian in the king’s absence, their relationship becomes Obadiah’s leverage for control.
Recced by jazmin22 here

Title: The Tony Stark Relationship Primer (Steve and Tony Make a Porno & Kiss and Tell)
Creator: uraneia
Summary: Steve needs to make some quick cash to cover his mom's TB treatment and hospital stay. Bucky convinces him to try porn. Steve's not sure he'll be able to go through with it... until he meets Tony, the guy he's supposed to do his screen test with.
Recced by jazmin22 here

Title: Upon Waking
Creator: winterstar
Summary: A story of recovery. In a world without superheroes, Tony Stark, the disinherited son of a billionaire, goes to Afghanistan as an embedded media star, only to be held hostage for months until he’s rescued. During his recovery, his therapist Doctor Bruce Banner prescribes an unusual treatment; volunteer work at a rehab center. He meets an eclectic assembled group including a vet who thinks he’s Thor, a physical therapist who might be a spy, and an all American hero, Steve Rogers. It is Steve Rogers, the soldier in a coma, who captures his interest and, eventually, his heart.
Recced by jazmin22 here

Title: Don't Look too Closely (all the angles are oblique)
Creator: shaenie
Summary: “I’m removing Captain Rogers from this base, but not from active duty. I want him as SHIELD’s liaison to Stark Industries first and foremost. He’ll report directly to me,” Fury says. “As it is, your identity as Captain America is not public knowledge and it will remain that way until I say otherwise. That said, if you think you can get Tony Stark to work with you if you disclose that information, you have permission to do so.”
Recced by jazmin22 here

Title: Taking
Creator: ifitwasribald
Summary: Shameless smut with nothing remotely resembling a plot.
Recced by jazmin22 here

Title: The S.T.U.D.
Creator: ann2who
Summary: The unexpected and somewhat bizarre story of Steve Rogers and Tony Stark falling madly in love with one another…
…over an A.I. fucking machine.
Recced by queenelfina here

Title: Tony Stark: Appliance Whisperer
Creator: Alex51324
Summary: After Tony over-reacts to some SHIELD agents breaking a microwave oven, Steve begins to wonder if there's something the team should know.
Recced by dragonofmemory here

Title: JARVIS and the Pizza Girl
Creator: ohmyloki
Summary: JARVIS makes a friend.
Recced by rakelnott here

Title: 99 problems (and the dice ain't one)
Creator: kellifer_fic
Summary: Tony's life is almost perfect. He lives in a converted warehouse full of friends (and one frenemy), has a job that leaves him plenty of time to think about other things and a regular Friday night campaign. If his best friend, Steve Rogers, hadn't moved away to New York and left him behind, then perfection would've been achieved.
Tony can roll with the punches though and he's almost all the way over that little bump in the road (shut up Bruce, he totally is) when Steve moves back, looking taller and broader and more confident than ever and Tony's left with a converted warehouse full of friends (and one frenemy), a job that leaves him plenty of time to think about other things, a regular Friday night campaign and the uncomfortable realization that maybe he's in love with his best friend and has been since he was sixteen.
Recced by rakelnott here

Title: When Darkness Sleeps Beside You
Creator: rufflefeather
Summary: Steve meets Tony Stark at a party while he's there escorting another woman. He's not opposed to making a quick buck but things don't go as planned.
Recced by rakelnott here

Title: The Billionaire Hooker's Deceived Artist
Creator: tsukinofaerii
Summary: During Tony's senior year at MIT, his partying habit finally hit the edge of his parents' patience. When Howard and Maria cut him
off from his usual sources of money, he decides to turn to less conventional ones.
Recced by rakelnott here

Title: If At First
Creator: kellifer_fic
Summary: Where Tony is stupid and Steve has been waiting for a long time.
Recced by rakelnott here

Title: Bulletproof
Creator: foxxcub
Summary: At age fifteen, Steve Rogers had been in love with Tony Stark.
By age twenty, he’d (mostly) gotten over it. And then he promptly became Tony Stark's fuck buddy.
Recced by rakelnott here

Title: Clueless, or: How I Learned to Stop Being a Selfish Prick and Love a Capsicle
Creator: withthepilot
Summary: Okay, so you're probably thinking, This guy seems like a total douche. You're half right.
But seriously, I'm a completely normal teenager. A normal genius-billionaire-philanthropist-playboy teenager. Who goes to a school for government agents and superheroes in training. Every morning, I get up, trim my goatee, take a shot of Jack Daniels (which Ke$ha totally stole from me, by the way), and pick out my school clothes.
A Clueless AU, starring Tony Stark.
Recced by rakelnott here

Title: Olympics 'Verse
Creator: sirona
Summary:
Five times Beijing 2008 Olympics Gold Medalist Tony Stark thinks it's going to be no more difficult a job to get ready for London 2012, than what he has just achieved. That is, of course, before Coach Fury comes to visit, and offers him a once-in-a-lifetime chance to be a part of something much bigger than himself. Swimming AU.
Recced by rakelnott here

Title: Loose and Tight in All the Right Places
Creator: Clio_jlh
Summary: The Avengers, led by Tony Stark, have been kicking around the Williamsburg scene for a couple of years now. When bassist Pepper Potts finds them a new guitarist who completely changes their sound, they also get the attention of SHIELD Records' top A&R guy, Nick Fury.
But on the bill with The Avengers on their big night is Spies Become Soldiers, formed by Williamsburg vets Natasha Romanoff and Clint Barton, who wanted to take their music in a new direction. They've only been playing together a few months, but they've already got a lot of buzz surrounding them, and the songs to back it up.
Recced by nevereverposts here

Title: Midnight
Creator: Comedia
Summary: Tony Stark decides that taking a shortcut through a dark alley is the best idea ever. Not unexpectedly he gets attacked, but someone comes to his rescue. It’s not the muscular knight in shining armor he’d normally wish for in this kind of situation, but the scrawny man who ends up saving him proves to be one of the most intriguing people he’s met in quite some time.
Recced by the_kinky_pet here

non-powered AUs/sentient household appliances and other AI shenanigans

Art

616

Title: N/A (this is one of the art pieces for Conjugate)
Creator: Jwaneeta
Summary: The picture shows the various New Avengers sporting their new powers
Recced by salmastryon here

Fic

616

Title: Sins of Omission
Creator: Kiyaar
Summary: A Post-Civil War, Pre-Secret Invasion AU where Steve is dead, Tony's a mess, and everything sucks.
In which Tony deals poorly with Steve's death, falls off the wagon, sees ghosts, and misses a lot.
Oh, and the Skrulls are about to invade.
Recced by evilmissbecky here

Title: Exactly Under the Star
Creator: posyvanilla
Summary: Complete AU; takes place in a future in which humans have begun to colonize planets, and borrows heavily from situations in current Marvel canon. New Avengers meets Dark Reign meets Firefly.
Norman Osborn is ruling the (not so free) world, Tony Stark is leading a motley crew of superheroes in an attempt to regain their freedoms, and Steve Rogers may not be as dead as everybody thought.
Recced by salmastryon here

Title: Conjugate
Creator: Valtyr
Summary: The New Avengers get their powers switched around. Peter sniffs people. Steve sticks to things. Logan lies around and drinks beer. In a surprising twist, Steve and Tony make out.
Recced by salmastryon here

Title: Sea Stars
Creator: Muccamukk
Summary: Steve comes back to life somewhere entirely unexpected; Tony doesn't remember being a hero; something is rotten in the province of British Columbia, and the 2010 Olympics are doomed.
Recced by salmastryon here

Title: W.I.P.E. (Per Expectations)
Creator: tsukinofaerii
Summary: An AU of the events covering SIEGE and immediate after. When Tony is rebooted after deleting his brain, he's left with no memory of anything, and lingering programs that keep him from finding out everything he missed. Sometimes you just need to start over, but there's always a place in every plan for a backup.
Recced by salmastryon here

A:EMH

Title: It's Tradition, You Know
Creator: missbecky
Summary: It's Steve's first Christmas out of the ice, and the Avengers' first Christmas as a family, and Tony is distressed when everyone else leaves the mansion for the holidays, leaving it up to him to give Steve the holiday experience he thinks Steve deserves.
Recced by stray_heart here

MCU

Title: Until You're Ready
Creator: exfatalist
Summary: Of course, the only way he could get back to normal was to put an end to the friendly, concerned harassment of his teammates and stow his own embarrassment over the whole ordeal.
So, really, actually, Tony needed to get laid.
“Cap, I need you to pop my cherry.”
Recced by stray_heart here

Title: Show Me the Way
Creator: housestarktech
Summary: Time bending adventures.
Recced by stray_heart here

Title: Someone to Love
Creator: Blue Jack
Summary: What does it matter that it’d been because of Loki and his damn magic? He’d fallen in love with Steve once. He can do it again.
Recced by the_kinky_pet here

Ultimates

Title: The Emperor's Fury
Creator: valtyr
Summary: Steve is an ex-gladiator. Tony wears a toga. Together, they litigate civil cases. Also a surprising amount of boating.
Recced by the_kinky_pet here


Fluff/Rock 'em Sock 'em Steve

Fic

MCU

Title: The Art of Kissing
Creator: inukagome15
Summary: Short stories about kisses shared between Steve and Tony. It's still in progress, but each chapter is self-contained and I'm taking prompts.
Recced by inukagome15 here

Title: The Kissing Game
Creator: nightwalker
Summary: A series of short Steve/Tony fics all about kissing. And flirting. And biting, in one. No one's had any on-screen sex yet, but I'm working on it.
Recced by evilmissbecky here

Title: There's Something Aboot Steve
Creator: epicycles
Summary: "You know, it makes a lot of sense," Tony mused aloud, once all the shouting was over. "You're so polite, you like maple syrup, you wear a lot of plaid."
Recced by entropy_house here

Title: Anti-virus
Creator: marinarusalka
Summary: Steve didn't think he could get sick any more. He was wrong. Tony didn't think of himself as the caretaking type. He was wrong too.
Recced by dragonofmemory here

Title: Structural Integrity
Creator: Penumbren
Summary: Steve’s stuck somewhere he desperately doesn’t want to be, and doesn’t get the help he expected.
Recced by dragonofmemory here

Title: ´Sleep Protocol
Creator: 51stCenturyFox
Summary: You might assume that Steve Rogers, a super soldier, wouldn’t have any sleep-related problems, since he is an optimal physical specimen in the bloom of health.
You would be wrong.
But you know, there are certain conditions.
Recced by dragonofmemory here

Marvel Adventures

Title: Heart Burn
Creator: nightwalker
Summary: There was a dragon and now Tony's mostly naked and it's all Reed Richards' fault.
Recced by dragonofmemory here