Accommodations

Five reasons the Avengers don't want to live together, and five reasons maybe they do, after all.
Steve Rogers/Tony Stark -- PG-13 -- 3,600 words
Many thanks to astolat and terrio for beta.

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I've come to the conclusion that these things are not companions to actual writing, but substitutes for actual writing. Nevertheless, I can't resist. Stolen from misspamela and dira:

Post a random sentence (or three whole paragraphs) from every WIP you're currently working on, even if it's very short. Then invite people to ask questions about your WIP. With any luck, you'll get talking about writing, and the motivation to take that WIP one step closer to completion will appear as if by magic!

The Tony/Steve one code-named "Avengers slumber party":

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and a strange Commandos-era OFC/OMC(/Steve[/Peggy]) thing that nobody is going to read, "Tolleranza":

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In the past week, I have had three dreams in which the kidlet and I were responsible for trying to rescue babies, cats, or both. (Once we failed, once the dream caught us in mid-rescue with the ending still uncertain, and I can't remember how the third one came out.)

The spouse is nowhere to be seen in these dreams. I think it's kind of cool, though, that the kidlet now figures in my dreams as an ally in difficult and important work.

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The Ballad of John Henry's CEO

by Resonant

When the owner was a little baby,
Sittin' on his nanny's knee,
He looked out the window at the old steel yard,
Said, All this belongs to me, lord, lord,
All this belongs to me.

Well, the owner said to the captain,
These new steam drills work a treat.
They work all day, they work all night,
They don't need to rest or eat, lord, lord,
Don't need to rest or eat.

The captain said to the owner,
If you no longer need these men,
They don't work all day and collect their pay,
Who will ride your railroads then, lord, lord,
Who will ride your railroads then?

The owner said to the captain,
Captain, don't you curse and frown.
You can't fight fate, gotta automate,
Keep the cost of production down, lord, lord,
The cost of production down.

When the captain told him 'bout John Henry,
The owner he laughed with glee.
Said, I pay John Henry for his strong right arm
But I get his pride for free, lord, lord,
I get his pride for free.

The captain said to the owner,
Which one will win the day?
The owner said, That's nothing to me.
I get my tunnel either way, lord, lord.
I get my tunnel either way.

John Henry died in the evening.
The captain began to weep.
The owner he ate a nice beefsteak
And went and had a good night's sleep, lord, lord,
Went and had a good night's sleep.

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The missing notebook has been found!

It was in my gym bag, which means that if I swam as often as I should, I would have found it a lot sooner. It's like that joke about the mother and the silver ladle.

Anyway, yay for not losing many hours of work.

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If you went away and came back under another name*, what name would you choose?

* sockpuppet? flounce? faking your own death? needed someone to argue with? suffering under the demands of excessive fame and fortune? defaulted on one too many challenges? can't bear to be associated with the Sentinel stories you wrote in the twentieth century?

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So I wrote Steve Likes Tony in four days, using Written? Kitten! and e.ggtimer. And what have we learned from this exercise?

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OK, I knew I was old because my kid, who was in utero when I started reading slash, turned thirteen today. But it's been ten years since cesperanza accidentally launched 101 Ways To End Up In A Shack In Canada.

I was still a beginner back then, and I can't even tell you how much the shack challenge influenced me; the 500-word length made it possible to explore new pairings, and I learned to spot the juicy center of a story and zero right in on it. It made such an impression on me that when I was writing Breaking and Entering, and I wanted to send Arthur and Eames somewhere that represented ultimate safety and comfort, I put them in a shack in Canada completely by accident.

So now we're doing it again! The details on the anniversary celebration are here, but the short version is that everyone's invited to spend 500 or so words getting pairings old and new into shacks in Canada. (Rumor has it there are actual cities in Canada, but as I've never been there, I prefer to think of it as entirely full of shacks.)

Works in this year's challenge are collected on the Canadian Shack 2011 collection on AO3. I wrote And One Way To End Up In a High-Rise On Lake Shore Drive, a little Fraser/Kowalski story, for old time's sake.

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If you'd rather read the whole finished thing, it's up now.

Steve Likes Tony on my site
Steve Likes Tony on AO3
Avengers movieverse -- Steve Rogers/Tony Stark -- 3,100 words -- NC-17
One of them is very confused.

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