New Avengers story: "Accommodations"

[resonant]

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.

Comments

[ecaterin]

OM NOM NOM...that was delicious bedtime reading - thanks, Rez!!

[copperbadge]

I HAVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT AVENGERS A LOT LATELY, and I came to the conclusion that it is very weird for them to all be living in some kind of superhero commune, and I was like, "I should do a story about that". And now I don't have to, because you did! And it's awesome! And I'm commenting here because I don't have an AO3 login.

But yes. It is awesome and so are you, and I love that you did "Five Things" but all as one scene for the This Is A Bad Idea section. That's a new twist on the structure I haven't seen before.

[hazelhawthorne]

Awesome!

[resonant]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed.

[resonant]

Ha! I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought the Stark Dormitory for Avengers required explanation. There are probably all sorts of stories to be told there -- like whose food is always getting eaten until they put all manner of threatening notes on it, and whose late-night music is the reason for that expensive soundproofing.

I love that you did "Five Things" but all as one scene for the This Is A Bad Idea section. That's a new twist on the structure I haven't seen before.

I, uh, did it that way because I tried it the conventional way and I couldn't get it to work. So necessity was the mother of etc.

[resonant]

Thank you!

[copperbadge]

I do think it makes for great fanfic fodder, all of them sharing space. I'm currently on about the fourth iteration of "Steve Rogers Discovers The 21st Century" and there's an entire bit about the Avengers Communal Refrigerator, and how the "one shelf for everyone" rule did not work because everyone knows food tastes better if you steal it.

And another bit about how Thor's the only one of them who gets regular sex, and when he does, NOBODY is unaware of it.

[resonant]

Bwah! Probably Tony would solve the Communal Refrigerator Problem by getting a separate commercial refrigerator for each Avenger. Possibly even a separate kitchen. (And then somehow everybody winds up keeping all their stuff in a little dorm fridge in the game room or something.)

Do you want an AO3 account? I don't have a code lying around, but one time I filled out the request form, filling in "someone I like would like to have an account" in the "Reason" section, and they issued me one; it worked once and it might work again.

[copperbadge]

Tony would design a line of tupperware that keeps stuff cold ALL ON ITS OWN, except tupperware gives him the creeps.

I've heard it's pretty easy to get an AO3 account, but I don't really use it that often. I've not considered getting one to leave feedback before...everyone who's recc'd it has been on me to put my fic there, and I like my fic where it is. HM, must consider.

[resonant]

Advantage of putting your stories on AO3: people can subscribe to you and get notified when you post one. Assuming you would post one.

Dunno -- I love archives; I love databases in general, and being able to search up, down, and sideways, and collect hit statistics. (Not aware of any way to put a hit counter on a story to find out where the readers come from, which I would like very much.) Anyway, if you want me to grab you an invite, let me know.

[copperbadge]

I like archives in terms of stats and such, but I got really tired of them because after a while I would post to LJ and then have to go post to like, five goddamn archives. I felt like my work was really scattered.

And no way in HELL am I moving all my shit again. But I suppose I could post the new stuff there. Still a pain to post to two different places (when I already post one place and post links in two others) but it's true that AO3 has become a single source where one can usually find most fanfic written in some of the smaller fandoms.