fic: dreaming electric (avengers, steve/tony)

[jukeboxhound_backup]

Dreaming Electric
MCU || NC-17 || Steve/Tony (Tony/Pepper breakup, bawww) || ~48,000 words

New York City is still rebuilding in the wake of the Chitauri army when the biotech virus Extremis is released, upgrading a lone domestic terrorist into a posthuman threat. Tony would’ve been happy to keep going on playing with alien tech in his lab, saving average citizens as Iron Man, and pretending not to notice these other people moving into his tower, but sometimes a person just can’t have nice things.

My artists: waferkya (link pending) + angelicfoodcake.  Please give them some well-deserved love.

• Dedicated to tir_synni, whose notebook I accidentally destroyed with yakisoba and so repaid with actually finishing this (plus a new notebook).  She and my BFF gave me feedback; all remaining mistakes are my own and my stubbornness'.
• Warnings: referenced past child abuse; some disturbing and violent imagery; a very small amount of subtextual internalized homophobia; a few mentions of anti-Semitism, racism, and political extremism.
• Spoilers for Marvel’s oneshot Item 47.
• Movie-verse with the substantial use and abuse of 616 canon (see endnotes for more specifics).
• Questionable use of science, programming, a couple non-English phrases, and too many references to pop culture and science fiction.
• Some characters get little to no face-time because I ran out of time and, since this is technically for the Cap and Iron Man community, I wanted to stay focused. I’m working on companion bits for Rhodey, Natasha, and Pepper in particular.
• If anyone’s read my FFVII stuff, a couple asides might be familiar. Whoops.
• Have a music download.
• Posted to AO3 because I don't have the time to fight LJ's word limits right now.

( "I wonder what counts as AI porn?" Tony wonders out loud. "Shoving a plug into a socket? Siri and her filthy little dirty-talk?" )

Comments

[spellhorn.livejournal.com]

ffffff. Just finished reading. I had been looking forward to this story since you first mentioned it. The 27th couldn't come soon enough. And let me tell you, this totally lived up to my expectations. I just loved everything about this story so much. Is there going to be a sequel, because you left room for one. I would certainly love to see it. Or anything more for this verse.

Also, awesome job on the fanmix too, lots of fun.

[jukeboxhound.livejournal.com]

:DDD Yaaaay, you make me happy. I was afraid that by following the original Extremis arc too closely it'd end up an uninteresting rehashing of events, so, yes, yay, thank you.

I dunno if I'll write a sequel - I don't exaggerate when I say I'm a slow writer, and it's often hard for me to carry a solid plot through a long story. I definitely want to do little sidestories for Rhodey and Pepper, given how important they are in Tony's life and yet don't get much (if any) development in the story. I'm also paranoid people will think I was bashing Pepper somehow and I'd like to give something from her side.

I'm glad you like the fanmix. :D It's not my usual style anymore, so I was having some trouble with it.

[shiri-matakami.livejournal.com]

You are beautiful <3

[jukeboxhound.livejournal.com]

YOU FLATTER ME UNNECESSARILY

it'll get you everywhere

[shiri-matakami.livejournal.com]

I FLATTER AS I SEE FIT!

Also I love you and your icon makes me smile at inappropriate moments.

[jukeboxhound.livejournal.com]

THEN WE ARE EVEN, MY GOOD COMRADE, FOR CLOUD FLYING THROUGH THE AIR NEVER FAILS TO MAKE ME LOL AND MENTALLY INSERT A DOPPLER-AFFECTED CRY AS HE SOARS INTO THE DISTANCE.