FF->PP Post 15: TRYING TO WRITE, have a cookie

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Yup, trying to write. Conversation around me extremely entertaining. Have a bit of an action scene that I'm not going to be able to finish for ages. Stella's first mission with the Howling Commandos, because nobody else besides Nick Fury will take her. She's ambushed; they think she's lost.

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The deafening bark of the cleanup frag, right on schedule, jumps all the men half out of their skins.



Fury smiles to himself and lights up.



The fire's behind her as she comes out of the night, striding over the broken ground, no sign of pain. Six feet of muscle and leather and stars, silhouetted against the burning battlefield, with blood and muck and triumph on her face.



Men jolt to their feet, swear, murmur in awe.



Stella drops her shield, cracked and scarred from gunfire, between Fury's feet.



"I think I need a better one."



Fury looks up with a slow, triumphant grin. "Welcome back, Captain America."

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Comments

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

Six feet of muscle and leather and stars, silhouetted against the burning battlefield, with blood and muck and triumph on her face.

Oh Jesus, I think I'm in love.

[wired-lizard.livejournal.com]

I think this fic is unofficially titled Everybody Loves Stella. :D

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

Is it weird that reading your genderflip makes me want to write movieTony Stark/comic Captain America so much it hurts? Jesus fuck.

[wired-lizard.livejournal.com]

Oh god, fan brains work in such interesting ways. And that would be SO interesting. movie!Tony is, compared to comics!Tony as he has evolved over the years, so much more carefree and blithe and hedonistic...I think he'd alarm Steve in ways that comics!Tony wouldn't, and that would be such an interesting dynamic...

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

Am I wrong to read the Andrea in your fic as being more comics than movie? Because the hard edge underneath it and the father issues and stuff. Yes.

Additionally, I don't know very much about Steve. Sometime, when you're not running around like a crazy woman, trying to write at an obscene AM in the morning, you should tell me what I need to read. Because, yes. I get that same sense of dismay. On the surface of things, movie Tony takes his superpowers, either gained (the suit) or inherent (the brain, the hands) so casually. And the identity thing has to throw Cap for a loop, from what I've seen peripherally on Alias.

(Also. Also. gabby_silang started writing this one Tony/Rhodey/Cap threesome fic once with a freshly dethawed Cap in modern Berlin. The last I saw of it was pre-porn, but MAN. IT WAS SO GOOD. Rhodey was full of hero worship; Steve was disoriented, and Tony was horny.)

[wired-lizard.livejournal.com]

Totally comics. This is entirely comics canon, and I'm really trying to, as much as my knowledge permits, keep it reasonably close while still doing the whole, y'know, genderflip thing. And getting everybody into the right place at the right time in the most interesting emotional state, which sometimes entails changing things.

CRAZY WOMAN. Ahem. I actually do not know THAT much of what to read in terms of, like, trades and story arcs, because most of my Steve knowledge has been gleaned from his appearances in other things and stuff from scans_daily. (Because the folks there post a lot of Cap because they generally love him.) But I intend to look into this in the future and I shall share my knowledge, ohyes.

The identity thing--it's not like Steve has ever done too well with the secret identity thing with regards to himself. After a while, he gave up and just went entirely public, at a time when this was, I think, relatively rare. But he is very on with the concept of other people having protected identities--dude, like, to the point of going to civil war over it--and would probably see Tony publicly dropping his identity like that as rather irresponsible. Because people are going to be coming after Pepper and Rhodey and everyone who works at SI and so forth.

(And I need to read that. OMG.)

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ANDREA STARK ANGST PAIN DUBCON AT 9:07AM IN THE MORNING, I HOPE YOU HAVE GONE OFF TO YOUR RIGHTEOUS REST AND REWARD AND MY FRIEND AND OH GOD, MUFFLED SQUEAK.

Share your knowledge. Share your knowledge. What would Cap's response to irresponsibility be? Trying to change Tony's ways? Telling Tony straight out? Because the mind yearns to know for reasons that . . . I will think about when I'm not thinking about how effective the Muffled Squeak scene was.

Just read the bit about Thor finding Mjolnir, and oh dear God, I love this genderflip so much it's not even funny.

HOPE YOU ARE SLEEPING WELL.

[wired-lizard.livejournal.com]

RIGHTEOUS REST, ALL RIGHT, I SLEPT FOR LIKE 22 HOURS.

And I still can't quite find my higher brain functions. Should compile links list to awesome stuff on scans_daily at some point. And try to figure out comics!Steve and movie!Tony, because now my brain is still kind of BIRTHDAY CANDLE CHEESECAKE JELLY BEAN BOOM about anything that doesn't involve the genderflipped ones.

Oh, Andrea. Fucked up in ways that aren't even on Tony's map. And also so much radically younger too--she's just 21 when she builds Iron Man in Vietnam. Either that or 22 when she manages a hostile takeover of Stone Industries, becomes the first female CEO of an internal munitions company, and starts organizing the Avengers, ALL while doing the superhero thing too. (But it was either that or--make her older when she starts the Iron Man thing, more around Tony's age? She'd've been under Ty's thumb for a decade or more. So much more damaged.) She's probably going to crash really, really hard in a few years, but that's out of the scope of this fic.

Donna. XD Once everyone's IDs get blown (which is inevitable, if only so that Ian realizes he is SO outnumbered), you just know she will team up with Jarvis to mother everyone. Most spoiled Avengers ever.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

She'd've been under Ty's thumb for a decade or more. So much more damaged.

I've been trying to write movieTony-as-raised-by-Obadiah for the past, oh, say, week, and it is fucking hard. I can't even begin to wrap my head around the fuckedry, so it ends up being this long, rambly exposition, and dlgkjdlf. BAH. My brain is going BIRTHDAY CANDLE CHEESECAKE JELLY BEAN BOOM over it.

TWENTY ONE. Oh holy shit. I can't even imagine. Hostile takeover. And.

Donna. Thor. It's what you get when you mix names that KIND OF SOUND ALIKE, at least in my BIRTHDAY CANDLE CHEESECAKE JELLY BEAN BOOM brain.