fic rec and art rec

[psocoptera]

Story: The Last Love Song of Anthony E. Stark, by jibrailis. Avengers, Tony/Steve, 42K words. Amnesia, which, yes, I will always click that link. But also mythology and epic journeying and some really powerful character moments.

Art: fishing. Not fanart, just... art art. I had to view it big to really see it, hence no image here. I'm vaguely tempted to buy a print, although heck knows we have plenty of un-hung art already, and for all I know it would be too dark to see anything, printed... has anyone ever bought prints from DeviantArt? What was the quality like?

Comments

[antimony.livejournal.com]

Nice rec -- and it's really nice to see a fanfic author come into their own -- that author wrote a few stories in one of my big fandoms (Ace Attorney) a while back, which weren't bad, but weren't anything special, either.

Also, I may be reading way too much Avengers stuff. sob. I do not need a fandom primarily in a medium I have serious issues with. (Not like, ethical issues. More that I really have a great deal of trouble parsing comics, and generally don't enjoy the actual process of reading them.) It started mostly because I loved the Iron Man movies and all the Avengers filming stuff in Cleveland was making me nostalgic. (That and it finally pulled up a pairing other than Tony/Pepper, which I saw explode after the first movie and really didn't feel then; the second one was more convincing, but it didn't make me want fic.)

[psocoptera.livejournal.com]

Oof, I am the worst at putting author names in my recs. I think it's because I don't for Yuletide recs and thus don't get in the habit. I have added that.

For what it's worth I think most Avengers fic is based on, like, the trailer, or something? Or, really, at this point, based on other fic, given how booming a fandom it is. Heck knows I've never read any of the comics (nor seen the Captain America or Thor movies) and I feel like I'm keeping up okay. I did see both Iron Man movies (loved the first one, loved some scenes of the second one) so I'm sure that helps.

... the Avengers movie is taking place in Cleveland? I mean, that's fine, nothing wrong with Cleveland, it just feels less iconic than, um, some other places, to me as someone not from there...

[antimony.livejournal.com]

No, it's taking place in NYC, Cleveland is just playing stunt double for a bunch of those street-fight scenes. :) And also for some in Stuttgart, apparently.

I'm just usually a bit of a completionist; while I don't mock Doctor Who fans who won't watch the old series, I generally only hang out in the spaces where you're expected to know details of shows that were thrown away by the BBC before you were born. And I have a bunch of fannish friends who are old-school comics fans and are kind of amused at the whole explosion of fandom.

[psocoptera.livejournal.com]

That's fair about completionism. I practically don't read anything for which I *have* seen the canon (a lot of what I read, by volume, is TV show slash, despite not watching TV, although I'm more likely to rec in fandoms where I feel like I actually have some idea what I'm talking about ::grin::) but I can see how that isn't everyone's cup of tea.

That makes sense about just shooting in Cleveland. Again, not to diss Cleveland, but it doesn't really seem like a place where, for instance, Tony-Stark-billionaire-jetsetter would choose to hang out? (I've never been to Cleveland, but in my head it is definitely filed under "ordinary America" and not "glamour hotspot".)

[antimony.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't tend to read fic for stuff I'm not already into, except occasionally when it's someone I know writing it.

He's probably been to a lot of terribly boring conferences there; it's in the middle of the country, a bunch of big convention centers, and hotels are cheap. Also, NASA has a major center there (apparently there was filming at one of the facilities, although not the one I worked at). But no, it is not sexy.

And now I have Tony Stark monologuing on how Boeing Phantom Works? Recipe for mediocrity because St. Louis is just. not. sexy.

[psocoptera.livejournal.com]

I bet Tony Stark has people to go to boring conferences for him. (And then he shows up for the last five minutes of the keynote, asks a disruptive but insightful question, and vanishes again...)

[snarkyshark2.livejournal.com]

Wow! I love that print! You should definitely buy it - but contact the artist first with your concerns about it printing dark. I'm sure they can handle it :)

[psocoptera.livejournal.com]

Good point about contacting the artist, thanks!