cap_ironman | Rec Week: Mournful Monday

For this glorious and dark day we’re asking you for all your favorite fanworks dealing with angst and dark themes. We all love Steve and Tony, but sometimes they're just not very good at being happy, are they? (And sometimes we don't want them to be happy anyway.)

Note: Please mark major warnings for your recs, and if you have time, let us know why you’re reccing it!

Schedule and links to previous days:
Funny Friday, July 1st: Humour / Fluff
Throbbing Thursday, July 7th: Porn / Romance
Weekly Wednesday, July 13th: Action / Adventure
(Not So) Terrible Tuesday, July 19th: Hurt/Comfort
Mournful Monday, July 25th: Dark / Angst
Synergy Sunday, July 31st: Works created for cap-ironman community challenges, exchanges, and bangs
Wacky Saturday, July ???: Keep an eye out for this rogue day of the week, for all works too wonderful to be confined to a sensible schedule!

For anyone new to rec week you can find out more at our Rec Week intro post.

This year we have three ways to share recs:
1) comment on the day's livejournal post (this one here!)
2) reply to the day's tumblr post
3) post to tumblr with the tags #capimrecweek2016 and the day of the week (#mournfulmonday for today)

Have fun! And remember that you can go back and add more recs to the previous days if you missed out or thought of something new, even after a new day has rolled over. While we especially encourage works produced in the last year, old favourites are welcome too!

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These are all MCU Civil War-compliant!

Zugzwang (http://archiveofourown.org/works/6796828/) by Woad
Warning: Major character death
Summary: His package comes back marked "undeliverable."

UGHHHHHHHH is it weird that I was looking forward (but dreading?) to seeing one of them die especially after the Russos said the ending was controversial and it didn't happen? It felt anticlimatic. Anyway, I love this. A LOT.

Promise (http://archiveofourown.org/works/7371121) by Woad
Summary: After Siberia, Ross makes good on his threat to put Tony in one of the Raft's cells. Written for TRB Breakout.

I guess this could be recced under hurt/comfort too, but I love how twisted this is. IT'S SO TWISTED, AND I LOVE IT. Also, this is less painful than Zugzwang (no death!) while somehow managing to be more painful at the same time.

Love is the Funeral Pyre (http://archiveofourown.org/works/6802081) by Antianeira
Summary: Tony doesn’t know what the feeling is in his chest when Steve drops the shield like it means nothing. Disappointment is too cheap. Grief, maybe, for the Steve Rogers he thought existed but maybe never was. His eyes burn. Loss is like good scotch; it grows in intensity with age and burns just as strongly. And this loss has been forty years in the making.

Tony grieving in Siberia and afterwards over Steve in the context of his feelings towards Steve when he was growing up and what Steve meant to him during all those years and the things that have gone wrong in his life. I wanted a fic about how Steve's betrayal and Tony's broken trust had many layers to it beyond "I trusted you as a teammate/friend," and this covered it.

Saudade (http://archiveofourown.org/works/7570219) by aslightstep
Warning: Major character death (not Steve or Tony, though)
Summary: A deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for an absent something or someone that one loves. Moreover, it often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might never return.

Steve and Tony before, during, and after.

TOO MANY FEELINGS ABOUT THIS SO I'LL JUST LINK MY FIC REC FROM TUMLBR HERE (http://nostalgicatsea.tumblr.com/post/148028672119/saudade-aslightstep-marvel-cinematic-universe).

I'll come back with more later! :)

Edited 2016-07-27 20:47 (UTC)

Rec Week: Mournful Monday

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