don't you ever stop long enough to start?

Title: A Fool's Name For Fate (3/9)
Pairing: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 7,440
Warnings: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Tony automatically turns his whole body toward the open warehouse door, his responsibility to the guided tour utterly forgotten as he watches the man’s muscular frame shift and stretch underneath his sinfully tight white undershirt. He turns and bends to lift up a long, heavy backdrop roll – singlehandedly – and the curve of his ass beneath his dark denims is spectacular. A tool belt is slung loosely around his slim waist, and doesn’t that do something to Tony, he doesn’t even know what.

Title: A Fool's Name For Fate (1/9)
Pairing: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 2800
Warnings: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

It’s 1949. Hollywood’s system of powerful studios and contract stars is fading fast as a new decade looms. Tony Stark thinks he’s just the type of forward-thinking, madcap genius that can solve the dream factory’s woes, and maybe he can.

If not for a certain distraction named Steve Rogers, the golden boy who should clearly be twenty-feet high on the silver screen yet seems determined to stay hidden behind the scenes. Tony’s used to getting what he wants, but now he’s not sure what that is. Or rather, who that is.

Title: My Lost City
Author: elise_509
Artist: digitalwave
Beta: romelwen
Pairing: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
Minor Pairings: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers (past), Pepper Potts/Tony Stark
Rating: Mature
Word Count: 42K
Warnings: mentions of PTSD, anxiety attacks
Spoilers: IM3, AU Spec for Cap 2
Summary: Both Steve and Tony return to Manhattan after their separate missions. While Steve searches for shadows of the New York he knew, Tony tries to overcome his anxiety and re-claim the place that was once his home. As they both attempt to remember how to love their city, they might also learn how to love each other.

FIC MASTER POST | ART MASTER POST | SOUNDTRACK: Vol. 1; Vol. 2

I wrote 22K of my marvel_bang fic (basically from scratch, I had only one scene ready) in the past three days in order to meet the 80% complete deadline tonight. Just turned it in! Phew.

I'm going to try to finish it up completely this week before school really kicks in but I have a feeling I'm really going to wish I hadn't done this.

Or maybe not.

My story feels pretty weak right now, but I can probably shore it up after I get it *completed*. First things first.

2 Fandom Related Questions:

1) Does anyone know of fandoms wherein fans identify themselves using gendered language? (besides Bronies and Pegasisters?)

2) Does anyone know of any MSCL fan communities/fans that were/are centered particularly around queerness? I have an academic friend trying to write about Rickie Vasquez and since I was a 12 year old girl when I was in the original MSCL fandom, I wasn't really aware of that part of it at the time.

Happy New Year, everyone! I hope 2013 brings everybody wonderful, amazing things.

Thank you to gottalovev, bbmarcello, halfdutch, haldoor, keyweegirlie & romelwen for the lovely holiday cards! Lou, your artwork is so beautiful, I swear that every painting you do just gets more and more amazing. Ju, ILU tons and tons! Thank you for the super sweet gift, I adore it.

I caught up on the entirety of New Girl on Friday and I think I may just despise it. And is there supposed to be chemistry between Nick and Jess? There's not even a hint of a spark between them. While I was watching NG, I kept seeing previews for The Following on Hulu, the pilot of which I already saw earlier this year. Word to the wise, it was one of the worst pilots I've ever seen. People were actually laughing at it, it was so, so bad.

I also watched Skyfall and was utterly shocked by how wretchedly sexist it was. I mean, I'm no crazy fool, I hardly expect James Bond to be some ode to equality, but when folks were happily saying that this Bond felt more like a classic Bond pic, I thought they meant in terms of style and the Aston Martin and Bond just bedding some more beautiful women, which I can deal with because what is Bond but straight male fantasy. Didn't quite expect the barrage of misogyny that rained down.

Last two episodes of Haven...eh. Mixed feelings.

I'm going to NYC on Saturday to visit my friends (Going to see Newsies on Broadway, yay!) and then on Tuesday heading home to Buffalo to visit the fam. My aunt wants to go see Les Miserables with me so I've been waiting on seeing it. It's so hard for me to wait on seeing movies, it's silly but true.

I'm watching The Wire right now, which is amazing and interesting thus far, even if not the kind of show where I have a driving need to see the next episode. Idris Elba is so gorgeous. He's sexier with his real accent but still. Damn.

Thus far, as you can probably tell, I have accomplished pretty much nothing during my break from school. I've basically been sitting around and watching TV. I'm pointless!

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The Magnum P.I. helicopter in the background of a scene in tonight's H50 episode made my day.

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