#reioka writes

[ifdragonscouldtalk]

I LOVE SPONES

I’m so self-conscious about my Star Trek writing @ifdragonscouldtalk I hope this is okay.

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“Doctor,” Spock said.

Leonard sucked in a deep breath, then let it back out slowly. “Yes, Spock.”

“You’re bleeding,” Spock said frankly.

Leonard pinched the bridge of his nose, trying to stave off a headache. As it was stress induced, he doubted it would help, but it made him feel better for trying. “We are hiding in a crevasse from what look like ancient Greek minotaur, Spock. The cut on my hand is the least of my worries.”

“As this open crack is in stone and not a glacier, I’d say it’s more accurate to call this a fissure than a crevasse,” Spock informed him.

Leonard gripped his hand into a fist and took another deep breath, letting it back out in a hiss. “We are hiding in a fissure from something that tried to gore us with its horns.”

“We do not know the makeup of the microorganisms on this planet,” Spock said, in a tone that somehow conveyed both sass and concern. “Do you have a hydrospray, Doctor?”

“Cracked it in the attack,” Leonard admitted.

Spock nodded once and began tearing at his sleeve. “Then we will have to rely on more primitive measures,” he said, wrapping the scrap of fabric around Leonard’s hand and tying it tight.

Leonard wrinkled his nose, but he managed a vague ‘thanks’ before they heard the sound of minotaur grunting, and Spock rolled on top of him to hide him from danger.

[ifdragonscouldtalk]

@aurumacadicus i love ur rut idea and wanna raise you to a different fandom because i constantly have omegaverse Thoughts

Imagine spock, technically an omega but functionally... a vulcan, who have ever different sexes/genders than humans, and so has experienced one (mild) heat and many mild suppression shots, and jim, big (lol) bad (nah) alpha (this is true) of the ship (most people would actually say this is scotty) beginning a very sweet relationship. Spock ain't no blushing virgin but okay he's not super adventurous and maybe vulcan has different views of sex than earth and maybe he just enjoys how loved and sweet jim makes him feel when they engage coitous ("we make love spock, please") so maybe it slips his mind the finer points of human sexuality for awhile until jim starts getting weirdly aggressive and territorial.

Okay, this is fine, he can handle this!! A rut can't be that different than pon farr, and even a strong human like jim cant hurt him too badly without serious effort. He can totally handle this. :) (he is both scared and horny.) "Spock, buddy, I'm gonna have to lock you two in," Bones tells him, and he thinks haha, another funny human joke! ... right? Only Bones is dead serious, and normally maybe he wouldve laughed but he kinda wants spock to actually know what he's getting into.

"Pardon?"

"I can lock your door too, if you don't want him getting in there and scenting and destroying everything. Yknow, the one in the bathroom?" Spock isn't sure how to answer. Bones keeps going. "You might want access though, in case you need to nest. His rut might trigger your heat, yknow? It's HIGHLY unlikely, but you might want that safety net, if you don't mind some ripped pillows. We can move the breakables now if we're fast enough and he doesnt hear me with you."

Turns out Jim is one of those alphas who's kicking snarling growling grabbing breaking in a rut and Bones had to deal with his territorial bullshit all through the academy. Luckily Bones never keeps anything of value anyway. Spock thinks Bones expects him to be scared by this, but instead something ancient and unknown to him in his vulcan blood purrs and stretches at the thought that he should willingly be allowed to go in that territory and be part of it.

Spock learns A LOT of things about himself during Jim’s rut :)

[sea-owl]

Do you have any Stony fanfic recommendations?

I want steve to be an absolute mess for Tony

Let me check my AO3 bookmarks. Hold on.

*runs off to AO3*

*comes back*

Okay, so to start, @aurumacadicus who is also known as Reioka on AO3, has to be my favorite. The horn dog Steve posts are wild and almost always makes me laugh. Everytime I try to write Stony I try to draw inspiration through the spirit of aurumacadicus.

An AU where kings Steve and Anthony are set to be married for alliance. There's this knight named Tony, though, who is driving Steve mad.

Steve a little awkward in this one. I find it really cute though. Basically Amora curses the Avengers to fall in move with one another. Steve fell in love with Tony except Steve's been in love with Tony.

This one has to be one of my favorite Stony fics. So this one is set in 616 and does get sad at times because Tony is a depressed bitch. After the strain of SHRA and all that followed, Tony has taken himself out of the superhero game and just wants to gain enough back of his shares to his company to make sure it stays with him. Steve now the head of SHIELD can help with that but in exchange he wants Tony to work for him. Steve's desperate need to have Tony near starts out subtle but really shines through at the end.

This one got some dark Steve in it if you like that. Steve just wants to keep Tony by his side is that too much to ask?

This one has one of my favorite tropes, identity porn. Rumors spread of Tony Stark and Iron Man dating, Tony does not help himself by confirming those rumors. Poor Steve is confused.

This one is set in Avengers Assemble universe with some jealous Steve. Steve and Tony made a marriage pact, but just as the date of expiration was coming to an end Tony introduces Carol Danvers aka Captian Marvel to the team. Steve thinks she's Tony's girlfriend.

Steve likes seeing Tony in his things like the possessive little gremlin he is.

Steve is high off his ass when he wakes up from surgery. The first thing he notices is the ring on Tony's left hand.

This one is another favorite. Steves across the multiverse are bombarded by MCU Steve's memories as he travels to put the stones back.

This is set in the branch timeline in Endgame. Steve has a size kink.

[tonystarktogo]

I heard you mention IronWidowHawk and 👀👀👀 Clint and Natasha are on a mission and they're closing in on their mark but then they realize the guy their mark's talking to is Tony?!? "I missed you," Tony says when they try to scold him. "That's very sweet but please don't talk to black market arms dealers when you miss us," Natasha tells him. "I just wanted to see how his kids were doing, they go to college in the states," Tony complains. Clint and Natasha didn't even know their mark HAD kids.

Heyyyy!! It’s great to hear from you again, especially with such a brilliant prompt! How are you doing?

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Tony, being Tony, is outraged. On their behalf. Because whoever dared to send them into the field on this little information and with such shoddy background checks is just asking to get them killed and Tony. Will. Not. Stand. For. It.

Clint is pretty sure that means he’s missing the entire point of Natasha’s lecture, but he’s a little annoyed at the half-assed files himself, so he’s willing to let it go. Or, well, not let it go. But unleash his fuming boyfriend on whichever agent has the misfortune to be responsible for their mission details, before he sits him down and has another talk about Things That Tony Is Well Capable Of Doing But Should Not Do Anyways For The Peace Of Mind Of His Partners.

It’s a list that just keeps on growing.

To be fair, both Nat and Clint come back home injured often enough to give Tony is fair share of grey hairs too. It all balances out. Still, it’s the principle of the thing.

You just don’t want your civilian boyfriend to chill with his black market contacts in the hopes of running into you on a mission.

Actually, some people might say you don’t want your civilian boyfriend to have black market contacts, but those are the kind of people that have a stable 9-to-5 job that doesn’t involve dodging bullets and hot-wiring the car of a drug cartel leader, so what do they know?

Natasha, always the most practical of the three, doesn’t let Tony run wild on an unprepared SHIELD agent in the end. And it’s not because she’s worried about Tony – more like, she’s worried about SHIELD realizing exactly how much Tony can do when he puts his mind to it. And he always does when it involves them.

So really, it’s for the best of everyone that Natasha stalks the unfortunate desk jokey home, drops from the ceiling when he’s about to go to bed and explain in very simple words how you dispose of a body in a well-surveilled city like New York City.

In theory.

Their handler isn’t impressed, but neither were Clint and Natasha with their clusterfuck of a mission and the fact that, in the end, they call Tony two hours after insisting he goes home because someone needs to get them useful intel and Tony is going to rub that in for ages, so that’s alright.

Tony does indeed rub that particular misfortune of theirs in for ages. But that’s okay. Clint knows how to shut him up. 

(Passionate kisses are all well and good, but nothing trips Tony up and makes him dissolve into a blushing, stuttering mess like a soft kiss on the edge of his lips or his forehead or the tip of his nose.)

“Next time you meet a black market arms dealer, please tell us?” Natasha asks because their relationship has taught all three of them the value of a good compromise.

“Okay,” Tony agrees sleepily and cuddles closer.

Which is why neither of them should have been caught off-guard when, three weeks later, Tony sends them a text consisting of gonna meet up with an old buddy, love you byeee with a lot of heart and gun emojis at the end.

[feelingsinwinterold]

One day, Steve goes to the place Tony has designed for him so Steve could draw, paint and art his way through life, and finds Tony. Steve’s shield is on the table beside Tony and there’s paint spread and smeared all over it. In front of the genius stood a colorful canvas. Clearly Tony’s making.

Tony, covered in paint and holding a brush : “Sorry, couldn’t find the palette.”

Steve: Tony... you don’t paint.

Tony, grinning and sticking his brush in bright pink paint: Oh, I don’t?

Steve: Is it payback for using a tablet as a wedge?

Tony, keeping eyecontact as he gently brushed bright pink over the canvas: Definitely is.

[lovelyirony]

Attractiveness is Relative

@reioka did an au where bucky is noticing that he only dates attractive people (hello natasha romanoff) and then sick, disaster tony comes into his apartment looking for honey, and bucky decides “i’m in love with you immediately, no contract pending” 

Bucky Barnes hadn’t exactly noticed that he dated wildly attractive people. It was only after he came back home from visiting a couple friends down deep in New York City that Natasha mentions it. 

“You’ve only dated really hot people,” Natasha said at the time. “People that you shouldn’t go for because they’re way out of your league.” Now Bucky was about to argue, but then he remembered he dated her--she knows government secrets, can make any drink taste better than anything, and is also insanely out of his league. 

So yeah, that could be true. It is. So Bucky shrugged and went back to binging the newest YouTube series about murders. 

Life goes on, he talks with Steve, and then the new neighbor showed up. No one had seen him--Bruce said he was a recluse, only coming out to see one of his friends or to get a package from the mail room. Not much else--he was a real night owl. Usually, Bucky would try and see them and visit in the hallway so they had a nice raport, but the man was insanely hard to find unless you stayed up until four in the morning. At that point, Bucky was usually in a bad state of meeting people, so that plan was out. 

It was also weird because Steve knew him? He actually was friends with Tony and had gone to dinner with him and Natasha? Apparently Bucky’s the only unsociable goblin besides Bruce in the building, which was weird to think about. 

“I have friends besides you, you son of a bitch,” Steve mutters when Bucky expresses surprise to have learned about this. 

“I didn’t know that,” Bucky snaps back. “Pass me the cookbook, I’m making lasagna.” 

But then there’s this knock on his door. It’s cold as shit outside, Bucky’s currently in about five different layers of clothing, his nose is beginning to look like Rudolph’s, and he doesn’t want to answer the door. But it could be Clint with pizza, or Natasha with some major tea about coworkers. 

It is a man who is wearing about the rattiest bathrobe Bucky has ever seen, socks pushed down at the ankles, hair that looked like it was stuck up by electricity, and a face that screams ‘I’m sick as fuck right now.’ 

“Honey?” The man asks. His voice is nasally. Bucky’s at a loss for words. Said man takes this as an invitation to rummage through the cupboards, except he knows where the honey is? 

“Bucky, what’s up?” 

“Steve there is a man in my house who looks like he’s about to keel over and die.” 

“Seriously? How old is he?” 

“My age, maybe? I don’t know, he looks like shit.” The man turns, rolling his eyes at Bucky. “He just sassed me.” 

“That’s Tony. I told him he could come over if he needed anything. Check back with him in a couple hours to make sure he doesn’t die, okay?” 

Tony turns. 

Bucky decides that this man? He looks like death warmed over, or perhaps an actor’s dying career, but the fact is this: Bucky can tell he’s cute underneath all of the sick. 

“I’m going to date the fuck out of you,” he whispers as Tony collapses on the couch with a sound that sounded like “hawarrgh.”

[naferty]

@reioka  replied to your post “For the incubus and demon au can we get the interaction between Tony,...”

Now i'm imagining Bucky just frothing at the mouth like "HIS DUMB ASS IS EXACTLY THAT CARELESS HAVE YOU LEARNED NOTHING NATASHA"

LMAO "steve wouldn't be that careless" I'm crying because how naive can Natasha be

In Natasha’s defence, Steve has lived on his own for decades and managed to keep himself alive with no trouble. Sure he’s done the occasional unrecommended deals every other month, but he’s always come out with all his arms and legs on and working, and besides he’s one of the strongest demons out there. Hardly any ‘creature out there can hurt him, so she’s not too worried. He’s lasted this far for a reason.

“Nat more than half of those decades Steve’s lived through he’s had someone keep an eye on his ass. I had to keep his ass safe when we were younger. Punk picked fights with anyone. He nearly got into it against a damn reaper. We barely escaped. And if not me then whoever he’s dating at the time. They may not have mentioned all the of them but I bet you anything the Carters probably lost count of how many times they had to drag his ass out of the fire. If it isn’t for us he’ll make a permanent home in it and like it!” 

Nat reluctantly nodded, seeing his point, but still. “I don’t know about you, but if him living like this lands him that adorable incubus as a mate I might start joining him.”

Bucky gives her a look of heartbreaking betrayal. 

“Don’t give me that look. You were thinking the same thing when you saw him.” 

“Fair enough.” 

Nat grins. “So... you nearly got into it with a reaper? How did you both get out of there alive?” 

Bucky actually looks embarrassed, rubbing the back of his neck. “We didn’t even know it was a reaper. This was way back then. Not even 500 hundred years old yet. Didn’t know what a reaper was until one day the town went all quiet and there was this guy just walking around like nothing, searching for something. Minding his business. Reason why Steve tried to pick a fight? He saw him take an apple without paying and wanted to teach him a lesson about stealing.” 

Natasha covers her mouth, stopping her laughter. 

“The thing reveals itself, shadowy, terrifying. We didn’t get a good look at him before I grabbed Steve’s arm and bolted right off. Escaped with our lives by falling in a lake. No one believes us when we say we escaped a reaper.” 

But Natasha does. She believes her boys are stupid enough to run into a reaper and somehow escape it by, of all things, falling in a lake and hiding. 

Her mate and his best friend are idiots, but she loves them. 

She can’t help but feel a little sorry for the little incubus for getting the worst deal bound to his being out of the pair. But just a little. She doesn’t feel bad having the little incubus be part of their lives now. 

He’s just so delicious looking. And who knows? Maybe he can help James keep up with her at last. 

[arukou-arukou]

Natasha HATES watching Steve and Tony bicker. She knows it's just their personalities, and they love each other underneath it all, but dear GOD is it annoying listening to them snipe at each other and inevitably hit too close to home and then they stop talking to each other but both start talking to her until they work it out. It's very tiring. Just because she helped them get together doesn't mean she's their relationship's nursemaid. So when Bucky and Sam get together she screams bloody murder

(Oh no. Oh no. I have sad ideas about this. Sad ahoy!)

Tony Stark and Steve Rogers have never heard Natasha Romanov yell ever. Not in the five years of knowing her. Not when the world was ending or when a villain was getting away or when the quinjet was about to crash. At most, Natasha would give a slightly louder grunt or command. Not yelling. So when she slammed her coffee cup down on the kitchen table and shouted, “ENOUGH!” they both shut the hell up. And waited. In her bathrobe, shoulders hunched, hot coffee splattered over her hands and the table, she looked less like an assassin and more like a sitcom housewife. And yet there was something in the line of her body, the way her hair fell down to curtain her eyes, that made everyone in the kitchen suddenly and immensely afraid to breathe.

“You,” she hissed finally, pointing at Tony. “You are a coward. You have someone, someone you love. He’s standing right there. And he loves you, too. And all you can do is doubt him and push him away because you’re afraid.” She spits the word like a curse.

“And you!” Steve flinched as she rounded on him. “You hide everything from everyone. You stare at us and keep it in and keep it in and keep it in until it explodes with monumental stupidity.” It was like being slapped in the face, the way she spat her words at him. “You are lucky to have each other, so why don’t you grow up and act like it.”

It would have been better if she’d stomped out, but she was silent as an owl sweeping away, and in her wake, Tony and Steve felt smaller, younger, and stupider than they’d felt in a long time. Even Clint, sitting on a bar stool and uninvolved with the argument, felt himself shrinking inward. After a painful silence which stretched so long Tony thought he’d seen the morning shadows move, Clint rose and poured out a coffee refill and a fresh mug. “She’s never told me much about it. Just enough that I know there was someone. Someone she cared about. And she lost them. Never got to tell them.”

He left with the mugs, and Tony and Steve remained, cowed and ashamed.

“I do love you, Steve. I…I know I don’t say it enough.”

“Shut up,” Steve hissed, stepping in close to sweep Tony into a hug. “I’m sorry. I’m sorry.”

(Nat is never as worried about Sam and Bucky. Their words are like gentle friendly elbowing, good-natured and carefully meted. When one or the other is hurting, they’re better about protecting each other, not digging in with precision strikes. They’re still annoying as hell, though, and she separates them on the quinjet, because otherwise it’s like listening to toddlers argue in the back seat.)

[sierranovembr]

New Poly Fic Rec List!

My final fill for this round of @tonystarkbingo - a list of my favorite poly fics posted during the timeframe of Mark V. This fills square K5: Polyamory or Open Relationship for Card 5045. 🎇 Let's Avocuddle by Reioka Tony has an Only Fans. Steve and Bucky enjoy helping him, even if Bucky does have to convince Steve not to tell Tony he loves him every time they help. Group: Stuckony (Steve/Bucky/Tony) Rating: Mature Word Count: 8748 Review: Hilarious and sweet and sexy. Reioka's humor shines in the boys' interactions, especially Tony's utter lack of modesty and Bucky's willingness to give Steve shit. Steve might just steal the fic for me though; I love the way he loves Tony through his photographs and how insightful he was (the guacamole!). Very fun read and reread. 🎇 The Way to His Heart: A Guide to the Care and Feeding of Tony Stark by NotEvenCloseToStraight When Tony agrees to a cooking date with a new boyfriend, the Iron Man immediately panics because he DEFINITELY cannot cook at all and desperately needs a recipe that will disguise his kitchen disaster-ness and general food gremlin tendencies. The team steps in to help Tony learn to cook. They share their favorite recipes, put the kitchen back together after the inevitable mess, and try hard to not let the truth of everyone’s collective crush on the genius slip. Group: Tony/Everyone Rating: Not Rated (Teen) Word Count: 23409 Review: NCTS is always a delight, and you'd be hard pressed to find the Avengers loving Tony more than they do here. I'm also a huge fan of fic featuring the characters cooking that includes the recipes! Basically, this fic could not be more my jam if it tried. Between the banter and the yearning and the adoration, it's a wonderful fic to read again and again. 🎇 Goin' Down the Bayou by iam93percentstardust When Bucky suggests that he and Sam take a few months to help his sister-in-law with her business, he expects to see the bayou, a few gators, and a whole lot of shrimp. He isn't expecting the mer who accidentally gets tangled in their nets or for the mer to fit into their lives like a missing puzzle piece. Group: Bucky/Tony/Sam Rating: Mature Word Count: 9477 Review: I'm always thrilled to see more for this trio, and this one is such a great example of how well they work together. The first meeting between married, human Sam and Bucky and mer!Tony was hilarious and also sets up the potential poly relationship very deftly. Tony works so well as a mer - somewhat *other* in his personality and reactions, but Bucky is so smitten anyway. The pacing is great, and the ending filled me with happiness for them. 🎇 Two's A Party, Three's A Really Good Time by Anonymous When Tony's not consumed by his projects, he's so animated and lively. Even his hands talk while he's rambling, swaying in the air accompanied by sharp flicks or lazy spins. He's just… Tony. And that indescribable part of him is what made Bucky think he'd be so good for Steve. It's only now, with Tony looking up at him with mirth in his eyes and his smiles tugged up into a teasing curve, that Bucky realizes that Tony would've been so good for him too. Group: Steve/Tony, Bucky/Tony (v-shaped poly) Rating: Teen Word Count: 4078 Review: A coffee shop AU that is just so sweet! Bucky is so loving despite his clueless state, and it's just a real treat to go along with his POV through Steve and Tony falling for each other and then his own eventual happy ending. 🎇 Not just friends (they were roommates) by justanotherpipedream Ty refuses to take no for an answer when Tony ends their relationship, so Natasha offers Tony her room in the loft. Tony's not sure what to expect when moving into an apartment with three roommates, but thankfully, Bucky, Sam and Steve welcome him into the fold. Group: Bucky/Steve/Tony/Sam Rating: Teen Word Count: 7303 (WIP)

Review: This fic uses an interesting writing style, with each short chapter focusing on different members of the poly group. Featuring some of my favorite tropes with these guys (battles over coffee! banter! Nat pointing out their obvious attraction to the guys!) I'm always excited to see a new chapter of this work.

🎇 I Gave You My Life, You Gave Me My Soul by newtypeshadow, Sagana_Rojana_Olt

When Bucky, held hostage, kills himself to keep Tony safe and Steve from being forced to trade lives, he has no idea that Tony and Steve will use his sacrifice to not only resurrect him, but give him the life he's always wanted. Group: Stuckony (Steve/Bucky/Tony) Rating: Mature Word Count: 6974 Review: This wonderful fic features impressive world-building and visceral emotions. Bucky's death and Stony's despair at the beginning are a gut-punch, but the happy ending is so sweet and their progress towards it so tender. I instantly bookmarked and look forward to my next re-read.

[iam93percentstardust]

hey! i hope you’re having an amazing day. this is just me popping in your inbox to say that’s youre one of my favourite writers and you got me really interested in winteriron (honestly one of the cutest ships) are there any fics/authors ii could reccomend?

Hi there! Thank you so much! I love this ship so much, they’ve got such potential for both fluff and angst. They really are one of my favorite ships to write and I’m glad I was able to write so much for them this year. I certainly do have plenty of recs for you, starting with my favorite authors:

@riotwritesthings: started writing last year, I highly recommend just about everything Riot writes but especially Road Hazards, Melt into Me (Your Words are My Own), and When is a bed not a bed? (When you’re not in it)

@hddnone: so many stories and all so good! Has nearly 100 Winteriron works on ao3 and you will not regret reading any of them, though fair warning that some of them are Team Cap Critical. Especially recommend Honey Pot, You’ve Got Mail, and A Bit(e) of Danger

@monobuu: mostly an artist but sometimes writes stories as well. i recommend Ravioli, Invincible Summer, and Meet the Fam

@tisfan and @27dragons: can’t make a Winteriron rec list without including the both of them. They work together a lot but you should definitely take a look at their own stuff as well. I recommend Safe and (the) Sound, Kiss Me Thru the Phone, and Stark, Naked

@ad1thi: currently taking a bit of a hiatus and working on non-Marvel works but I love everything Adi writes, particularly her entire Bollywood but Make it Gay series, which isn’t always Winteriron but wonderful nonetheless. I recommend the Greek Gods AU, 1000 Lives (For You), and we’re connected

@the-winter-writer: lots of smut and all absolutely fantastic! I like Precious Treasure, Winter Wings, and Instinct

@rayshippouuchiha: definitely an iconic writer for this fandom. Really great if you’re looking for genderbends. Writes a lot of absolutely incredible fics and not just for Winteriron but my personal favorites are The (Not So) Great Pretender, Fearful Symmetry, and The Mistletoe Kiss Polka

Finely Honed (jaqen_hgar): once again very iconic. you’ve probably read at least one of their works even if didn’t know. I recommend Shameless, Today’s Forecast, and Practice Makes Perfect

@lovelyirony: mostly writes ficlets here on tumblr and a multishipper (I don’t know why I’m saying that like it’s a bad thing, I’m a multishipper), also a fan of Sharon Carter and that’s the thing that made me follow her so you know

@amethystinawrites: I only recently started working their works but I’m loving everything I’ve come across so far. I recommend Tech Support and I Won’t Hold My Breath

AvocadoLove: also writes a lot of Stony and Stuckony, which I love a lot, but for their Winteriron works, I recommend Amalgam and Dead Man’s Switch

Dracusfyre: another one I’m new to. I literally just started reading their works today so I don’t have any recs for them yet but one of my friends loves them so I’m going to go with you should definitely take a look at their works

Eirlyssa: has some anti-Team Cap works so keep an eye out for that if that’s not your thing but writes very good Winteriron. I recommend Guide Me Home (Guide My Heart) and Always (I’ll Be There)

@imposter-human: one of the first MCU blogs I ever followed! I recommend childhood memories, speak my language, and lost in translation

As for specific works I like:

Four Strings and Second Chances by Vashoth

It was reluctance to let one of his finest inventions ever out of his grasp that made him take a couple days over a week to send the arm to Pepper’s office. But all things considered, Tony figured that sending finest prosthetic that had ever come into existence--literally grasping an olive branch--was one of the classiest gifts he’d ever given. He’d included a note and everything. ‘Barnes,

Can help with installation. Or not. Up to you. --Stark'

Who is the Mechanic? by @akira-of-the-twilight

The Asset watched as his handlers brought in a stranger—a man with a metal object stuck to his chest that was hooked to a car battery.

The handlers shoved the man onto the stool where many who had operated on the Asset’s arm in the past had sat before.

“Asset,” one handler said, “meet the Mechanic. He will be responsible for the upkeep of your arm. Should anything malfunction, kill him.”

The Asset eyed the Mechanic. The Mechanic was glassy-eyed and unresponsive.

He’d probably be dead in a week.

The Fix by SleepsWithCoyotes

Right, because Tony...Tony fixes things. He remembers thinking that, not for the first time.

Paths are Made by Walking by @potrix-the-queerschlaeger

The road to recovery is long, winding and a different one for every person walking it. Bucky chooses to help himself the only way he knows how; by doing what he does best.

Or, alternatively; the one in which Tony is a mess and accidentally kick-starts Bucky’s protective mother hen instincts.

The Evidence by StrivingArtist

Didn’t notice. Right. Sure. Two brilliant minds, two super spies, and a god didn’t notice when the chattiest man they knew stopped making sound. They just seemed happier than before. Brighter and more cheerful than before. They just seemed like they were more comfortable with him around when he was stone silent.

Fuck it.

He knew they noticed.

And he knew they liked him better this way.

Shadowed Hearts and Winter Souls by NotEvenCloseToStraight

The mid-1800s and Antonio Carbonell Stark is caught in a scandal with his lover. Desperate for a chance to escape the trouble and his own broken heart, Tony accepts a proposal from a mysterious Russian heiress and flees the country.

Natalia Romanova is in trouble of her own and has enough secrets to make Tony's head spin but somehow they settle into a fake marriage and calm day-to-day together, and everything works... until her half brother comes home and their life is disrupted again.

James is somber and silent, brutal and nearly broken and scarred, a soldier of the resistance. His heart is cold and gaze like ice, but his hands are hot and lips are warm and Tony finds himself ignoring the blood on James's palms and the shadows in his soldier’s eyes, and falling in love.

When danger lands at their doorstep, Natalia and Tony have to pack up and leave, running away in the middle of the night and leaving their men behind.

The distance between Tony and James gets longer every day, and Natalia has been keeping a secret for that can’t be hidden much longer. With no place to call home and a thousand miles between them and the men they love, what are Tony and Natalia supposed to do?

Puppy Love by Reioka

Bucky is learning to become a person again. When some guy starts crying all over Natasha's dog, he decides he's doing better than he originally thought.

Describe Your Perfect Date by ali_aliska

After getting turned down by Bucky, Tony decides it’s time to move on from his massive crush. He tries online dating—Pepper’s idea, not his—but the only thing worse than getting rejected is getting rejected and finding out your soulmate-level match is Clint Barton, all in the same day.

Clint, of course, does not let opportunities like this go to waste, but he’s driving Tony nuts for a good cause, he swears.

Bucky’s just trying to do the right thing and fails spectacularly, but it all works out in the end.

Rocket Science by marsmaywonder and orbingarrow

Sleep-deprived and under-caffeinated, grad student Tony falls asleep in a conveniently empty classroom and wakes up in the middle of Bruce’s Physics 101 course. After seeing a groggy Tony fumble a simple question, actual-student Bucky offers to tutor him. In a moment of “oh no; he’s cute” panic, Tony takes him up on it. Now, in addition to his already complicated life, Tony has to figure out the answer to the incredibly messy question: “How do you look like you’re failing the class, when you literally wrote the book?”

What’s Good for the Goose by Taste_is_Sweet

For this nonny prompt at the Imagine Tony and Bucky comm on Tumblr:

"A soulmate AU where an immortal goose shows up one day to lead you to your soulmate, the challenge is surviving the goose." (Full prompt in notes.)

We all have soulmates, and every soulmate pair shares an animal guide. The Guide is there to lead you to your One True Love, and they represent the aspects of the psyche that you both share. They appear when you're about to meet your soulmate, and often materialize in moments of great personal crisis, offering hope and support. There are stories upon stories about how someone's Guide appeared to lead them to their One True, or how the barest glimpse of their Guide eased their hearts and gave them hope in the midst of despair. The newly-rescued almost always attribute their Guide with giving them the strength and courage to hang on.

Animal Guides are ephemeral, ethereal, and elusive. They are, most often, no more than a warm presence or flicker out of the corner of one's eye. They are incarnate symbols of perseverance, optimism and hope. Foretellers of happiness, and the grand destiny of love.

Except for geese. Geese are assholes.

and so, we unfold by TheKitteh

Senbazuru. Thousand Cranes.

An ancient Japanese legend that promises anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes will be granted a wish by the gods. Some stories believe you are granted happiness and eternal good luck, instead of just one wish, such as long life or recovery from illness or injury.

Bucky’s not big on believing in any legends, not after all that has happened. He just wants to create something for a change, not destroy.

He needs to prove himself that he can be trusted to handle something delicate. He doesn’t need a promise of a wish come true. He just,- needs to do this for himself.

He doesn’t need noticing how sad, tired Stark looks. Doesn’t need to want to do something for the man, when he can barely do anything for himself. --- Tony simply goes through days and motions. He deals with the Avengers, with R&;D, with the rewritten Accords. All of it, it’s nothing new really. He just wants to get things done.

What’s new is seeing Barnes hunched over the coffee table, one step away from ripping a glossy magazine apart in the middle of the night.

And why the hell Barnes keeps looking at him during the days after like he’s a puzzle to be solved?

Welcome to the Winteriron fandom! We’ve got a lot of incredible authors and artists both and this is just the tip of the iceberg!

[aninconsistentwriter]

My Top Stony fics

So awhile back I posted that I wanted to start reviewing fanfics. So to start I thought I’d post my top fics based on the ships I follow. I’ve been on a Stony kick for the last 6 months? or so. So here’s some of my favorites and why. All these fics are on AO3

(and yes, I really like ABO fics, ok?)

*A More Perfect Union by Romanoff

So this is an ABO fic with Omega Tony. By the end it’s more stuckony than stony but Steve and Tony are definitely the main pairing. This author did such an amazing job at world building. They created a comprehensive world and didn’t use ABO as an excuse for men to have babies, which I feel is the attitude towards some ABOs. The character development is also top notch. I have read through this fic probably six times (and the author recently posted the final chapter!)

*Stars Fading, but I Linger On, Dear by ChibiSquirt

I love me a good Soulmate AU. I also love a good smol!Steve fic. I further love a sassy teen Tony fic... so this fic is basically my version of fanfiction chocolate cake. If that makes sense. The writing is superb. The world building and character development is amazing. While it’s on the slow burn side of relationship development, it doesn’t drag and I love how the couple comes together.

*Stetsons and Schoolteachers by NotEvenClosetoStraight

Ok, I’ll admit it, I’m a slut for NotEvenClosetoStraight’s fanfics. I have a Pavlovian response when I see that she has updated ANY of her fics and she somehow makes me fall in love with couples I never would have explored before. But, damn do I love her Stony fics. I love the sass she gives both Tony and Steve. I also adore how she writes ABO. There is just the right amount of gender politics involved while I also get my fill of filthy filthy smut. Plus, she just writes the fluffiest cuddling I’ve ever read. This fic is one of my top multi chapter fics she writes and I revisit it regularly. If you wish to follow her writing, she is very active on tumblr and has extensive master lists @not-close-to-straight.

*Rockabye by BladeofNebula

This is an ongoing series set in the ABO world (yes, another one). The first fic is three chapters of amazing slow burn building, sassy Tony and smitten Steve. Plus, there’s twin babies and I am all for that. This author has some of the best humor and I’m always excited when I see that she has added to this series. Plus, Steve is a fireman in this series and I am 100% here for it.

*Delectable by TenSpencerRiedPlease

I love a good one-shot and I genuinely feel that this author is the master at them. They are beyond funny (I often find myself laughing out loud). This is an ABO heat smut fic that is both smutty and funny as hell. Plus this is a smol!Steve fic and you guys know how I feel about that!

Courting Conundrums by Reioka

This is an ABO series (this is the last one, I promise!) that explores the intracacies of courting between an Alpha and Omega. The humour is top notch and the relationship exploration is so meaningful. I love how this author, who writes the longest one shots ever (and I am SO here for it) doesn’t have Tony and Steve just jumping into bed. Boundaries are explored and respected. Peggy is a protective aunt who isn’t above shooting Steve for being dumb (she doesn’t actually shoot him, I promise). The word count per fic may seem intimidating since each one is single chapter, but they are SO worth it.

*I Wanna Hold Your Hand by NotEvenClosetoStraight

Doctorate caffeine addicted student Tony? Check. Smitten Steve? Check. Tony being an outrageous flirt while being a sleep deprive disaster and not realizing he’s asking out super hunky barista Steve? Double-fucking-check. I love this one shot and I love this author (as stated above) enough that I had to include two of her fics on here. If you’re having a crappy afternoon and need a good laugh with a quick one shot... choose this one.

So, I had a couple more fics picked out but... this post is really long and I feel like no one is going to read it because of that.... so I’ll end here and maybe do a part two?

[aurumacadicus]

I posted 1,619 times in 2022

That's 185 more posts than 2021!

1,265 posts created (78%)

354 posts reblogged (22%)

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I tagged 1,507 of my posts in 2022

Only 7% of my posts had no tags

#real life tbh - 221 posts

#me - 196 posts

#movies - 135 posts

#delete later - 102 posts

#family stories - 95 posts

#writing updates - 90 posts

#aurumacadicus answers - 88 posts

#stony - 81 posts

#books - 77 posts

#my photos - 76 posts

Longest Tag: 133 characters

#to be clear: pepper and happy asked her out separately and may panicked and threw a picture frame at them and she fuckin nailed happy

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Sometimes… using spark notes…. Is better.

315 notes - Posted June 8, 2022

#4

Reverse Indiana Jones where archaeologists from looted countries break in to steal back antiquities from White Museums. I know it’s been mentioned before but no one mentioned this idea, which is: It’s a different archaeologist from each country and they get together to plan a heist. The group as a whole is called Indiana Jones but in the group their code names are all “Your favorite pet’s name is your first name and the most common last name in your country is your last name.”

Bonus: Some of these archaeologists know the others because hey they read papers and go to conferences but they are absolutely committed to the joke.

375 notes - Posted January 24, 2022

#3

When I say Iron Man is the best MCU movie I mean that in a “it was made before the MCU became a behemoth, it really wasn’t expected to be as loved as it was, it was a perfect storm of everything falling into place and if it had been made later in the series it would have been just as soulless as the later films and shows” way. Like yes it’s also a “because I love Iron Man” way but it’s also the movie that started it all. If they’d made Endgame with even a fraction of the fun and joy and genuine love and care for the character that Jon Favreau had, it would have been a better movie.

The actors literally didn’t know what was happening around them in the scenes they acted in in Endgame. In stark contrast, Iron Man only had the story and action details down pat, not dialogue, and the actors could play around with what little script they did have, ad-libbing most of the film, so it comes out more natural. Jeff Bridges even said he was uncomfortable not having a whole script because he liked knowing all his lines beforehand, but “realizing it was like being in a ‘two hundred-million-dollar student film’ took the pressure off of him and made it fun.” Endgame could never.

512 notes - Posted September 4, 2022

#2

I’m thinking of an Identity Porn AU where Steve came out of the ice, looked at SHIELD for two seconds, then went “nah” and fucked off to go be Nomad. He’s still Captain America sometimes, when he needs to be, but most people think he’s a phony, so he sticks to the Nomad costume for most things, including interacting with the Avengers (the only one of whom he can identify is Natasha, and who immediately clocks him because “you’re built like Cool Ranch, Steve.”).

Of course, because he has rapport with Natasha, he follows her on Twitter, and right now she’s in a battle with someone whose handle is simply “TheMechanic,” but whose name is “NomadRawMeChallenge.”

“You really need to learn how to be appropriate on the internet,” Natasha had tweeted.

“What I really need is Nomad to raw me until I’m too dick-stupid to tweet,” TheMechanic had replied.

And, well, Steve is just a man, okay? He thinks it’s funny that TheMechanic has a tweet chain fifty-seven tweets long that’s just an ode to the deep V of his costume, or the obviously drunken ramblings of how he’d been an equestrian when he was younger so he could absolutely “ride Nomad hard enough his eyes fucking cross under that dumb domino mask.” Sometimes Natasha begs him to filter himself and TheMechanic belligerently asks her if she thinks his ass deserves to not be fucked and if she really wanted him to shut up she should prove her strap game.

“What’s a strap game?” Steve types into google, and mostly just has more questions, because it looks like TheMechanic wants Natasha to prove she’s got guns on her.

But again. Steve’s just a man. So one day when he’s feeling a little horny, he recklessly tweets to TheMechanic, “Hey,” and then a selfie he’d taken the night before on a rooftop right before he’d taken down some AIM thugs trying to steal from Stark Industries. He doesn’t get an immediate response but that’s okay. The guy doesn’t have to be online all the time.

Steve is just tucking his phone into his pocket when Iron Man flies into the room—literally flies, repulsors leaving scorch marks on the carpet. Steve opens his mouth to scold him.

“NATASHA WE HAVE A CODE RED NOMAD TWEETED ME HELP WHAT DO I SAY,” Iron Man bellows, and Steve nearly swallows his tongue. “Oh hi Steve, hope I’m not interrupting. NATASHA THIS IS IMPORTANT,” he shouts, turning back to her.

Natasha lets out a bark of hysterical laughter. Steve can only surmise that it’s because his mouth is still hanging open and he’s staring at Iron Man like he’s a ghost.

“Natasha this is important I only have one first impression,” Iron Man hisses. “I need to ride that dick. I have been horny since the first night I saw that stupid costume NATASHA HELP ME.”

“I’ll just leave you two to work on this,” Steve says hastily.

It’s only his super hearing that catches Iron Man mournfully asking, “Do you think your hot artist friend would be willing to pity-dick me if Nomad turns me down?”

“Oh my god,” Natasha chokes out, voice full of mirth, and Steve hates that this is probably the most fun she’s had in literal years.

579 notes - Posted March 28, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Just had the funniest fucking crack idea: Pepper and Rhodey require written essays from Tony’s prospective beaus now. He is ridiculously codependent with Rhodey and Pepper thinks it’s hilarious so she encourages it. Why do they like Tony? How do they feel about him? Why do they think they deserve him? Rhodey and Pepper are mostly doing it for shits and giggles but sometimes an essay alarms them enough to put their feet down and scare someone off. But mostly it’s for fun.

“What the fuck is this,” Rhodey asks as Steve hands him a sheaf of paper. It looks a lot like one of his dissertations from college. It’s professionally bound and everything.

“Natasha told me that people who want to date Tony have to submit an essay on why they should be able to for you and Pepper to read,” Steve answers earnestly.

Rhodey does not burst out laughing in his face, but only because he’s flipped to the back page and sees Steve really did write a fucking dissertation on why he should be able to date Tony. It’s almost three hundred pages. Even his dissertation at MIT wasn’t that long. “Uh, okay,” he finally says, for lack of anything else, and then, “Oh my God. A citation page.”

“I had to go through some stuff about me and Captain America as a whole to state my case and Bruce said I needed to cite my sources because apparently I can’t just say ‘my life,’” Steve huffs. “Especially if I’m arguing against it.”

It’s APA format to boot. Rhodey stares at it. “Okay.” He looks up at Steve. “Did you get this professionally edited, or…”

“Natasha edited it and Bruce went over it for citation errors,” Steve answers, enthused again. “I wanted to be thorough. I really like Tony.”

“Okay,” Rhodey says again, wondering if he can just skim it. His phone vibrates. He picks it up to look at the text.

Jim fuck oh my god look at this

He opens the picture and immediately wants to weep at how fucking funny it is.

Tony is an asshole. He steals my coffee in the mornings and makes fun of my shirts and is an idiot for not realizing I wear them on purpose because he likes to stare at my muscles. In this section I will list why 1) he is stupid, 2) I like that about him, 3) he must be blind, and 4) I would like to simultaneously throw him down the garbage chute and also very delicately kiss the laugh lines around his beautiful eyes.

“I’ll go sit with Pepper and read this behemoth,” Rhodey chokes out, forcing back tears of mirth. He gets up and moves toward the elevator.

“If you have any suggestions on things I could change, I’m open to them,” Steve tells him seriously, and Rhodey loses the battle and starts cackling before the elevator doors close.

Rhodey is almost put off by the section labeled “Intercourse: Why It Would Be Great” but it’s mostly just cited pictures of Tony labeled “look at this shit. How am I meant to go on. Who allowed him to wear these pants.” Well, first of all, Rhodey, and second of all, it was the eighties and everyone was wearing them.

609 notes - Posted January 21, 2022

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[ifdragonscouldtalk]

One day im gonna get reioka to write me the smuttiest spones sybian saddle smut that ever smutted and im gonna DIE

[bloody-bee-tea]

reioka hat auf deinen Eintrag geantwortet “Hey! So I wondered if you could help me out; I believe I sent you a...”

Holy shit and I thought I felt bad about my fifty unanswered asks

Yeah, sure, rub it right in, make me feel even worse about this ;)

[tonystarktogo]

HC that Tony is a health food junkie and Clint is decidedly Not and the first time Tony realizes that Clint has eaten nothing but pizza for three days he screams in horror. Clint doesn't understand why Tony's so upset but he figures he can eat a salad every once in a while to make him happy. He's not going to eat kale though, no matter how much Tony insists.

Clint is okay with some vegetables and avocado is surprisingly tasty, but he draws the line at those weird, green “smoothies” Tony tries to force down his throat. For one thing, smoothies are supposed to be made of fruits and they’re supposed to be yummy. Not... whatever that is.

(At least now Clint knows where DUM-E learned his questionable kitchen skills from. The poor bot never stood a chance.)

For another Clint would never betray his coffee like that. And unlike Tony he can’t chuck down questionable amounts of liquid through sheer force of will.

Much to Clint’s expressive disgust, Tony’s obsession (it can’t be called anything else, there’s diagrams and food group tables and how the hell did all these nutrition information videos land in his YouTube queue?!?!) with his diet actually does make him more -- *urgh* -- healthy. SHIELD physicians (who had long given up on him) are delighted.

Clint is forced to get creative with his mid-meeting snacks to give the doctors the Clint-Special Aneurysm™. It’s a little inconvenient -- the things Clint puts up with for Tony’s sake -- but all the more rewarding every time he manages it.

And also has the lovely side-effect of traumatising the new recruits.

(Meanwhile, thanks to the Clint-Trauma, Tony now pays much closer attention to the eating habits of the rest of the team. Sam and Natasha will not be amused.)

[van-dyne]

As soon as someone writes that fic please link it on your blog!! I love tony and Nat bro and sister feels

Will do, we need more Tony and Nat as siblings fics!!!!!! pretty please 💖🥺

meanwhile, here’s one (1) I’ve read before and it’s really great!!!!

The Sibling They Never Wanted (But Needed)

by Reioka

It seems like the Avengers have to break up a fight between Tony and Natasha at least once a day. Sometimes more. It’s kind of hard to believe they’d kill for each other until it happens.