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for @cap-ironman big bang 2024! (full drawing embedded in the fic) thank you so much to kiyaar for this incredible must-read masterpiece and to dirigibleplumbing for such a great cover art!! please check out their works below!

a shell without a star by kiyaar on ao3 fanart (a shell without a star) by dirigibleplumbing on ao3 and tumblr

With the start of a new Big Bang era, we wrap up Big Bang 2024!

Sign-Ups for BB 2025 close TOMORROW, September 8th. Read the rules and sign up HERE.

We want to thank all BB 2024 participants and we hope you had fun!

Here’s the final list of 6 amazing fics of 20,000+ words and their accompanying artworks, created specifically for this event. Enjoy all these wonderful fanworks, and remember to give the creators love if you haven’t already!

A Hundred Visions And Revisions by KandiSheek (M for fic/T for art, MCU, 23,737 words) ★ Art by Laidraws 

In the age of Galilei's discoveries, Tony is fascinated by the prospect of a larger universe. Steve is one of the conservatives trying to keep the old world view alive. Their new favorite subject is dragging each other's opinions through the mud in their poems, and Tony is more than happy to feed into this feud. Because he hates Rogers. Hates his poetry, his sharp wit, his handsome smile, his – Oh, wait.

Team Masterpost

Spotlights: Kandisheek | Laidraws

love is all we have left by tinystark616 (E for fic/G for art, MCU, 22,222 words) with art by msermesth and starvels

While stranded in space, Tony records a message for Steve, thinking that it's his last chance to do so. But he gets rescued and brought back to Earth, so now he has to process his defeat, guilt, grief, and of course, his feelings for Steve.

Team Masterpost

Spotlights: tinystark616 | msermesth | starvels

The Hard Way Home by msermesth (E for fic/E and G for art, MCU, 42,303 words) with art by @ladygigiart ★ Art by scriptserpent

Storm chaser Steve lost Bucky and five years of his life to a tornado he wasn't prepared for. So when he's dragged back to Oklahoma for science, he goes under the condition he's only staying the week. Everything changes when he meets a rival storm chaser named Tony.

Team Masterpost

Spotlights: msermesth | LadyGigi | scriptserpent

a shell without a star by Kiyaar (E for fic/G for art, 616, 39,486 words) ★ Art by wingheads ★ Art by dirigibleplumbing

Hydra has ruined everything Steve has ever built, starting with Tony and Sharon – and he has the photographic evidence to prove it. Tony has survived him, at high physical cost, and inexplicably refuses to leave Steve’s side. Every day they try to outrun the damage and every day Hydra’s long shadow is fast at their heels. A canon-divergent post-Secret Empire road trip, in which no one escapes unscathed.

Team Masterpost

Spotlights: Kiyaar | wingheads | dirigibleplumbing

The Ghost and The Machine by starvels (E for fic/M for art, 616, 43,112 words) ★ Art by sheepl

The nature of creation is to change. When Tony first creates an AI copy of himself, he does it on a time crunch, without thinking about the code's longevity. Wrenched awake from his coma following Secret Empire, Tony hacks Rhodey back to life and comes face to his own digital face. A face that has been walking around, building a life separate from Tony’s, saving the world, saving Steve. Steve too, has been wrenched awake. He’s driving westward, letting the bleeding horizon drip into ink blots over the spots of his life Hydra has ruined. And when Tony’s AI shows up on the road, Steve can’t help reaching out to touch the blue outlines of that familiar, yet not-familiar face. TS-BE-V3.27 flits across the country between both of them, and doesn’t belong to either of them. No matter what the admin credentials say.

Team Masterpost

Spotlights: starvels | sheepl

Parent Trap by Neverever (T for fic/T for art, MCU, 20,523 words) ★ Art by snowzapped

Peter and Harley meet up at camp and find out that their twins. They swap places to see what their other father is like and then there is a crisis that must be resolved. Tony and Steve haven't seen each other for ten years until now. What will happen?

Parent Trap AU, just like it says on the tin.

Team Masterpost

my art for @kiyaar's big bang fic, a shell without a star. check out @jetblackfeeling's art, too!

Rating: Explicit

Universe: MCU

Summary: 

Storm chaser Steve lost Bucky and five years of his life to a tornado he wasn't prepared for. So when he's dragged back to Oklahoma for science, he goes under the condition he's only staying the week. Everything changes when he meets a rival storm chaser named Tony.

Note: My Cap-IM Big Bang 2024 entry. Featuring art from @ladygigiart and @scriptserpent that you need to see.

Read msermesth's story and see lady gigi's art on Ao3 here!

Title: Parent Trap

Writer: Neverever

Fanworker: Snowzapped

Universe: MCU

Rating: Teen for fic, Teen for art

Work Warnings: no warnings apply

Fic Wordcount: 20,523 words

Fic Summary:

Peter and Harley meet up at camp and find out that their twins. They swap places to see what their other father is like and then there is a crisis that must be resolved. Tony and Steve haven't seen each other for ten years until now. What will happen?

Parent Trap AU, just like it says on the tin.

Link to fic on AO3

Link to fanwork on Tumblr

Read Team Foxtrot's spotlight interviews here:

As we countdown to the close of Big Bang 2025 Writer Sign-Ups, join us in celebrating our Big Bang 2024 Teams! This week, our spotlight is Team Delta. On deck today is writer @kiyaar who teamed up with @dirigibleplumbing and wingheads (@jetblackfeeling), talking about: a shell without a star!

1. How long have you been creating stevetony fanworks and what drew you to the pairing?

I have been smashing stevetony together like sad action figures since 2012. my girlfriend gave me an iron man omnibus in 2012 and that led me to tony comics and I read the confession (2006) by the end of that summer and thought. this is where I will stay for some time.

2. Why did you join BB?

I got covid in october 2024 and was frankly astonished that I lived through that experience. so, after, I wanted to spend more time doing things that please me and I decided I wanted to live Creatively Large while I still could, and I’d never successfully finished nano or done a BB! and here we are.

3. What was your favorite thing/part of the process of about creating this piece?

I like writing stories that explore steve’s more undesirable character traits. I am a huge proponent of anger issues steve, but what if anger issues steve plus profound moral injury. what if. Steve’s trauma prevented him from being the thing we need him to be. so. rolling around in that. also, feeding my betas little torture treats.

4. What do you hope people connect with or take away from this BB piece?

I started writing this in 2018, and it was softer and more reconciliatory and hopeful. the circumstances have evolved, and with it, my tale: steve is not very heroic in this story. he has an addiction problem. he is in flight. he is letting the people closest to him down and he postpones doing the right thing, because it is hard. and still. in the end. the fight returns to him anyway. I would like people to realize. running from the fight will not save you, because the fight will always boomerang back to you.

5. What fic in your portfolio are you most proud of?

Eidolon, which I recently wrote for @starvels for an exchange - it is perhaps the most hopeful thing I have ever written and ever shall write and I am proud of how I existed in liminal fantasy tech headspace in order to write it from AI tony’s POV.  also proud of the porn in that. it’s hard enough to choreograph a threesome when everyone is flesh.

6. If readers like this, what other works of yours should they check out?

– your favorite consciousness, a very dead dove that explores. what if hydra got his hands on AI tony.

– eidolon, which explores. what happened to AI tony in secret empire.

7. Tell us about a work you are currently creating or hoping to publish soon that we should get excited for.

this big bang has grown a 20k+ prequel! it explores what happened in tony-sharon’s time in captivity. it is like a reverse memento situation for tony. terrible things happen. I am also writing [redacted] for the civil war exchange, which is a slightly-more-miserable-than-canon exploration of [redacted!] 

Title: The Hard Way Home

Writer: msermesth

Fanworker: LadyGigi and scriptserpent

Universe: MCU

Rating: Explicit for fic, Explicit and Gen for art

Work Warnings: natural disasters

Fic Wordcount: 42,303 words

Fic Summary:

Storm chaser Steve lost Bucky and five years of his life to a tornado he wasn't prepared for. So when he's dragged back to Oklahoma for science, he goes under the condition he's only staying the week. Everything changes when he meets a rival storm chaser named Tony.

Link to msermesth's fic and LadyGigi's art on AO3

Link to scriptserpent's fanwork on Tumblr

Read Team Charlie's spotlight interviews here:

As we countdown to the close of Big Bang 2025 Writer Sign-Ups, join us in celebrating our Big Bang 2024 Teams! This weekend, our spotlight is Team Alpha. Today we are interviewing writer @kandisheek who teamed up with @laidraws, talking about: A Hundred Visions And Revisions!

1. How long have you been creating stevetony fanworks and what drew you to the pairing? I saw Infinity War in 2018, went on to binge the entire MCU in order to understand the context and instantly fell in love with Stony. I'd been in a bit of writing slump for a while, so later that year, when I saw that Kinktober was happening, I decided to jump back into fanfic writing. And the rest is history!

2. Why did you join BB? Cap-IM events have become a major part of my fandom life over the years, and I've had a blast with them every single time. Last year was my first BB, and I'm already signed up to do it all over again this year!

3. What was your favorite thing/part of the process of about creating this piece? The poetry for sure. I've always loved to write poems in my spare time, so getting to do it for a fanfic was super fun. Especially because in the fic Steve and Tony mostly use their poetry to diss each other.

4. What do you hope people connect with or take away from this BB piece? I know it's a very niche topic, but I've always been fascinated by Galileo Galilei, his discoveries and his trial, which is why I wrote this fic in the first place. So I hope that it might be an incentive to learn more about this particular time in history.

5. What fic/art in your portfolio are you most proud of? The easy answer would be Keep Boredom At Bay and the entire Dick Pic Verse - it has definitely shaped my fandom experience, and writing it was some of the most fun I've had ever since I started my writing journey.

6. If readers/viewers like this, what other works of yours should they check out? Honestly, this fic is so far outside my usual MO that it's hard to recommend others like it. So instead, here are some other AUs that I've written: Some More Equal Than Others (Steve goes undercover to rescue supernatural wildlife from an illegal zoo and meets Tony the chimera) Sharing The Drink They Call Loneliness (Married Tony comes to terms with being gay, feat. pianist Steve) Gift of Consequence (Steve needs to save his sick mother, and his last resort is stealing from dragon Tony)

7. Tell us about a work you are currently creating or hoping to publish soon that we should get excited for. Kinktober is around the corner, and I've got a lot of stuff planned for this year, so watch out for that!