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2025 Cap-Iron Man Holiday Exchange and Community Gifts Creators Reveals & Masterpost

This year, 76 wonderful works were created for our annual event!

Thank you all very much for participating, whether it was by writing, arting, submitting the prompts for the Community Gifts, cheerleading the creators, beta reading, leaving comments on works or guessing the creators! We hope you had lots of fun.

Here, finally, is the masterlist revealing the creators of each work created for the Cap-IM Holiday Exchange and Community Gifts event!

Please remember to mind the tags and warnings for individual works, and leave kudos and comments on those you've enjoyed!

Event masterpost

Were your guesses right? Are you surprised at something? You can post your reactions in our Cap-IM Discord server here!

And finally, if you participated in the event, feel free to post your work wherever you want now! We will be reblogging every tumblr post tagged with #capimexchange in one of the first five tags.

Thank you for a great event to start 2025 on!

🖤 annthonystark, Kiyaar, Neverever, and starvels Your 2025 Holiday Exchange and Community Gifts mods

#stony#capimevents#capimexchange#capimholidayexchange
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Dodged A Bullet: A Civil War Exchange - DAY 10

Hello, Bullet Dodgers, it's time for day 10 of bullet treats!

Stop by the niche 616 channel in YGMAH to speculate on our mystery authors’ identities! All will be revealed on 9/11.

Today's work is:

Fic: The Untold Adventures of the Invincible Cosmoknight for @jetskiithejester

Word count: 30,214
Tags: Angst, Slice of Life, Hopeful Ending, Developing Relationship, Slow Burn, Earth-10208, Infidelity, Repression, Compulsory Heterosexuality, Frottage, Steve Rogers as Commander of the SHIELD Avengers (Heroic Age), Disability, Artist Steve Rogers, Canon Divergence
Summary: A year ago, Steve successfully swayed public opinion against Superhuman Registration. Now, the SHRA has been dismantled, he runs SHIELD, lives in a lovely home with Sharon, and has everything he wants.
Right?

Remember to praise the fan workers, for they keep us fed. Please do not let the secrecy of the exchange keep you from commenting! Secrecy is important but telling someone their fic gave you heart flutters is more important. Consider commenting logged out, with a sock, or using other subterfuge.

Go forth, enjoy, and stay tuned for more!

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So. In the recent Civil War exchange I was so, so lucky to receive EIGHT CHAPTERS / 30K of beautiful fic. I'm still leaving comments on each chapter but I really think you should read it, it's wonderful!!

The Untold Adventures of the Invincible Cosmoknight by @dirigibleplumbing !

READ HERE

I keep pinching myself. Fic BY Naomi FOR me?? Featuring comp het Steve and the most wonderful narrative within a narrative? It's SO good.

#my fic#stony#marvel#marvel 616#reblogs
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2025 Cap-Iron Man Exchange Gifts unveiled on January 3

It’s the tenth day of reveals! Each day we will be revealing gifts created by 2025 Cap-Iron Man Holiday Exchange or Community Gifts event participants. The gifts will remain anonymous until January 7, giving everyone a chance to enjoy the works and guess the identities of creators. (Remember, if you've got a work in the collection, please remain anonymous until after creator reveals!)

Here are today’s gifts!

★ Island Boys for Thahire (616, 4523 words)

Steve's been hired to hunt down the Gentleman Pirate Stark during the Golden Age of Piracy. Stark blows up his ship and they are deserted on Ocracoke Island. They need shelter and find a deserted house.

★ Open Your Eyes for annthonystark (616, 10759 words)

Tony, back in his physical body, is the personal captive of the Hydra Supreme Leader. He expects to be tortured; he doesn't expect to be raped.

★ Sodom for starvels (616, 6072 words)

Memorandum for: C. DANVERS (Avengers Clearance Alpha, Power Level 8) and Dr. R. RICHARDS (Power Level 7) AUTH: CO, SITE HB-1019 Preparer Initials: M.H. Co-Signer Initials: N.F. SPECIAL REVIEW: COVERT ACTION IN SUR KARA EXECUTIVE SUMMARY MISSION #AB5291-R1-E1 Staff Report concerning Off-World Intelligence Activities Notable Captives: Tony Stark (Iron Man) and Steve Rogers (Captain America)

★ wish/suck for resurrectedhippo (616, 1421 words)

He just needs Steve to come, he just needs to get through this. He needs this to be over.

To check out all of this year’s gifts (so far!), head over to the 2025 Captain America/Iron Man Holiday Exchange AO3 Collection.

When your gift is revealed, please be sure to comment and thank your gifter!

If you’re the creator of a gift that’s now been revealed, you can reply to any comments and stay anonymous — AO3 will automatically show you as "Anonymous Author" until the creator reveals.

Finally, you may want to change the publication date of your work to today’s date so that it shows up at the top of AO3's feeds. AO3’s guide is available here and we have a more detailed version here.

Happy holidays, and we hope you enjoy all of the revealed works!

♥ Your 2025 Cap-Iron Man Holiday Exchange and Community Gifts mods

#stony#capimevents#capimholidayexchange#reblogs
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2025 Cap-Iron Man Exchange Gifts unveiled on December 31

It’s the seventh day of reveals! Each day we will be revealing gifts created by 2025 Cap-Iron Man Holiday Exchange or Community Gifts event participants. The gifts will remain anonymous until January 7, giving everyone a chance to enjoy the works and guess the identities of creators. (Remember, if you've got a work in the collection, please remain anonymous until after creator reveals!)

Here are today’s gifts!

★ Involuntary Cowboy Christmas for icrowler (MCU, 6615 words)

Fed up with his irresponsible behavior and less then stellar lifestyle, Aunt Peggy sends her nephew to stay at her ranch out west in Lehigh, Shield Star Ranch, for the holiday season. Expecting nothing but grief and misery, Tony's misfortune might just turn around when he meets resident ranch hand, Steve Rogers.

★ A Single Thin Straight Line for citsiurtlanu (616, 30077 words)

After getting shot on the courthouse steps, Steve jumps through time, revisiting his most painful memories, as he struggles to process his feelings for Tony in the aftermath of the Civil War. What lays between them has always been fraught, as Steve guards the shameful secret of his soulmark. When Steve starts jumping through different realities, will he seek happiness and find a way to forgive Tony and himself – or accept that to be Captain America, Steve Rogers can't have a soulmate?

★ Start Your Engines for soliloquent (MCU, 3597 words)

Hotshot rookie racer Tony Stark is a week away from the World Championship when his parents die in a car crash. He tries to outrun his grief across the California state line, but ends up stranded in the desert instead. Of course the only mechanic in a hundred mile radius would hate him on sight, right? If only Tony could figure out why he looks so familiar...

★ A Timely Rescue Late One Christmas Eve for zeerat (1872, art)

Tony had not been feeling up to the crowds at Timely's Winter Festival this year. So, he slipped out of the crowd and went for a wander in the fading light. He hadn't expected to wander too close to the old Roxxon silver mines and the Savage Mountain.

To check out all of this year’s gifts (so far!), head over to the 2025 Captain America/Iron Man Holiday Exchange AO3 Collection.

When your gift is revealed, please be sure to comment and thank your gifter!

If you’re the creator of a gift that’s now been revealed, you can reply to any comments and stay anonymous — AO3 will automatically show you as "Anonymous Author" until the creator reveals. Finally, you may want to change the publication date of your work to today’s date so that it shows up at the top of AO3's feeds. AO3’s guide is available here and we have a more detailed version here.

Happy holidays, and we hope you enjoy all of the revealed works!

♥ Your 2025 Cap-Iron Man Holiday Exchange and Community Gifts mods

#capimevents#capimholidayexchange#stony#reblogs
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2025 Cap-Iron Man Exchange Gifts unveiled on December 30

It’s the sixth day of reveals! Each day we will be revealing gifts created by 2025 Cap-Iron Man Holiday Exchange or Community Gifts event participants. The gifts will remain anonymous until January 7, giving everyone a chance to enjoy the works and guess the identities of creators. (Remember, if you've got a work in the collection, please remain anonymous until after creator reveals!)

Here are today’s gifts!

★ alone and flowered with frost for EllyAvon (616, 5412 words)

There's a bluebird in the Arctic Circle. It's like a bad poem, Tony thinks. Or maybe a good one, what would he know. The sound of birdsong over the howl of frozen wind is certainly remarkable.

★ In a Love Affair with Iconic Style for wingheads (MCU, 16730 words)

Steve accidentally tells the world he's dating Tony while Tony is in France making a business deal. But they're not dating. Tony turned him down the one time he got the courage to ask.

★ Home for the Holidays for gryvon (MCU, art)

When two men find themselves alone for the Holidays they find out that they were never alone, and they have always had each other. Now they have to rush against time to go for home for the Holidays and to each other and their found family.

★ Only this once, I have you for KandiSheek (616, 6225 words)

Steve & Tony got lost in a strange world together. But when Steve became a werewolf and got in rut, Tony took it upon himself to help his best friend (and secret crush) through it.

To check out all of this year’s gifts (so far!), head over to the 2025 Captain America/Iron Man Holiday Exchange AO3 Collection.

When your gift is revealed, please be sure to comment and thank your gifter!

If you’re the creator of a gift that’s now been revealed, you can reply to any comments and stay anonymous — AO3 will automatically show you as "Anonymous Author" until the creator reveals.

Finally, you may want to change the publication date of your work to today’s date so that it shows up at the top of AO3's feeds. AO3’s guide is available here and we have a more detailed version here.

Happy holidays, and we hope you enjoy all of the revealed works!

♥ Your 2025 Cap-Iron Man Holiday Exchange and Community Gifts mods

#capimholidayexchange#stony#reblogs
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Halloween Fic Rec!

Here's something different: a Practical Magic fusion fic, featuring a witchy Tony Stark! Super atmospheric and weird in a fun way -- a great one to cozy up with after dark, to get into that Halloween mood...

The Moon and the Sea - Chapter 1 - dirigibleplumbing - The Avengers (Marvel Movies) [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
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Steve has lived his whole life in the coastal California town of Nublado. He’s spent the last few years trying to move on from a traumatic event in his past, and he finds new joy when he befriends—and quickly falls for—reclusive local billionaire Tony Stark. Then Tony abruptly breaks things off and won’t reply when Steve reaches out. Steve’s friends Clint and Nat have his back, at least. But… is someone following him everywhere? What’s with the human teeth Steve and his friends found while they were out fishing? How did the Scarlet Witch know so much about him? And why are there so many crows around?

#thanks for the rec!#stony#reblogs
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2025 Cap-IM Holiday Exchange and Community Gifts!

The Holiday Exchange is Cap-IM's end-of-the-year fanwork exchange for SteveTony works. Everyone who joins will be matched, to secretly create a Steve/Tony fanwork for another participant. At the end of December, the gifts will be posted anonymously. Then in January, the creators will be revealed! All types of content and fanworks are allowed. All things SteveTony are celebrated.

💖 Join now to get a gift of your deepest Steve/Tony heart's desires! 💖

Or read the rules section below for other relevant information.

Community Gifts is the annual gift giving event run in tandem with the Holiday Exchange. It is a way for participants to give gifts to the community without the pressure or commitment of the Holiday Exchange. Prompts are collected anonymously from anyone who wants to submit one, and after they’re published, everyone is welcome to fill them.

💝 Inspire a fellow SteveTony and submit your community prompts now! 💝 Or read more info on Community Gifts rules section below.

⚡ SCHEDULE ⚡

  • September 18: Exchange sign-ups and Community Gifts prompt submissions open
  • October 9: Exchange sign-ups close at 10:00 PM EDT (what time is it for me?)
  • October 10-13: Matching period
  • October 14: Assignments sent out at the latest
  • October 24: Community Gifts prompt submissions close at 10:00 PM EDT (what time is it for me?)
  • October 25: Community Gifts prompts list is posted
  • December 17: Finished exchange assignments are due at 10:00 PM EDT (what time is it for me?)
  • December 25: Start of gift reveals
  • January 3: Community Gifts are due at 10:00 PM EDT (what time is it for me?)
  • January 7: Creator reveals
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BIG BANG 2024 CREATOR SPOTLIGHTS - TEAM DELTA

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 artist @dirigibleplumbing who teamed up with @kiyaar and wingheads (@jetblackfeeling), talking about the art they created for: a shell without a star!

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

I started reading stevetony the end of 2016, which is when my lifelong chronic illness started catching up with me and disabling me. My friend sent me a rec list of mostly stevetony fics, and from there I was hooked. I lurked around for a while, then eventually started doing my own drawings and writing my own fic.

2. Why did you join BB?

I always check out the summaries available for artist claims, and I fell in love with ki's piece!

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

It's a tie! I loved collaborating with ki, discussing inspiration and color schemes for the cover, and talking about related fics we loved. It was also an absolute blast getting to read snippets of the fic ahead of time!

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

I was trying to create a visual mood more than anything else. The restricted color scheme was a big part of that. There are some neat details in the art, too, and I hope people take the time to find them.

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

It's not much like my usual work, but I'm really proud of this edit I made of a 1980s artist Steve's desk.

There's also this Dean Winchester piece, this Tony/Hydra Cap one, and this de-serumed Steve in the Captain America Tribute Room.

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

Other than the art above, I have some fics with related themes and contents:

Lovely Dark and Deep, in which Steve and Tony are alone in the woods while Steve deals with a rage serum.

Lay Me Low, my Tony/Hydra Cap fic.

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

I've written 40k of a Steve/Tony Civil War angst and reconciliation fic, which opens with Tony surrendering to Steve during Casualties of War. I'm hoping to finish that and start publishing it soon! I'm also writing [redacted] for the Civil War exchange, which deals with the way that [redacted] always [redacted] but [redacted] despite it all.

We're so glad you enjoyed collaborating so much, dirigibleplumbing! Read 'a shell without a star', view dirigibleplumbing's art post here, and stay tuned for Team Delta's official BB post tomorrow!

#go read ki's sad novel!!!#stony#capimevents#capimbb2024#marvel#marvel 616#reblogs
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Stony fic rec!

Don't Ask by @dirigibleplumbing

Summary:

Steve has a secret. Steve also plays a lot of truth or dare. Tony notices that Steve always picks “dare,” and starts daring him to pick “truth” instead. What will Tony think if he finds out what Steve’s hiding?

Why I love it: light-hearted, funny, and sweet, a great little pick me up (appropriate for AvAc, hehe). Makes me think wistfully of the fun college days, when all your friends are nearby (though my college days were sadly lacking in giant pillow forts)

#thank you for the rec!#stony#marvel#avac#reblogs
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July 22 of Cap-IM Rec Week: Stony Definition

Works that defined Steve and Tony characterization for you!

Facts and Compromises by ElnaK

Steve couldn't stop thinking about the fact that Tony might, in fact, be bisexual, but asking about his crush's sexual orientation after so many years was another matter, and there was a lot left unsaid between them that had to get out before they could even think about that.
That was, supposing that Tony was, in fact, bisexual.

Boxed In by dirigibleplumbing

At the height of Civil War, Steve is captured by men dressed in US Army uniforms and taken to a secret blacksite. Imprisoned there, too, is the person Steve thought was to blame: Tony Stark.

Slant Rhyme by dirigibleplumbing

Steve gave up on finding answers and closure regarding Civil War when he learned that Tony had erased his memories of the past year. Now that alien tech has created a psychic link between them, Steve finds that even direct access to Tony’s consciousness won’t illuminate what Tony does remember, because he’s actively trying to block Steve from everything that crosses his mind. Still, Steve discovers plenty of unexpected thoughts and feelings in Tony’s head…

respiraro, si te videro by starvels

Tony spins around and comes face to face with Natasha Romanova with a gun trained on him, Logan Howlett with one clawed arm out towards him and - worst, worst of all Steve Rogers. Tony stares at him, at this Skrull in full Commander of SHIELD regalia, looking at him with his deep blue eyes all wide and sincere and knows for sure that the Skrulls have found the way to beat him, because there’s no way he can look this Steve in his eyes and kill him.
“Steve,” Tony breathes and then he cusses.
Way to reveal your own weakness, numbnuts, Tony thinks furiously and that’s all the time he has before the Skrull raises its gun at him.

Most Faithful Mirror by Kiyaar

After the events of Fear Itself, Tony is in rough shape. Feelings and porn ensue.

Until I Fall Away by Sineala

Tensions are high between Steve and Tony after Steve finds out the Illuminati exist. He says a few things to Tony that he probably shouldn't have... and he doesn't say a few things to Tony that he probably should have. Then Zeke Stane murders Tony, and Steve can no longer say any of it. But there's a funny thing about superheroes: sometimes they get second chances.

@cap-ironman

#stony#marvel#omg thanks for including my fics!!#reblogs
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Rec Week 2025 Survey

Cap-IM Rec Week 2025 is coming soon and we'd love to have your input!  This year will be the 15th anniversary of Rec Week and we'd like to go big.

Rec Week runs for seven days and features a different topic every day. Rec Week will be July 21 through July 27.

Here is a spreadsheet with the themes from previous years and our rec lists from previous years are here.

We would love to have your input on potential topics. Please submit your ideas and suggestions by June 10. Rec Week 2025 topics will be announced towards the end of June.

Thank you!

Link to Survey

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We're extending the survey through June 15 -- please send us your recs week theme ideas!

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Stony Stockings 2024 Reclist

I'd like to rec the lovely gifts I got through the stockings events of the Put On The Suit MCU SteveTony 18+ Discord Server and the You Gave Me A Home 616 SteveTony 18+ Discord Server. (I also sneaked in my 2024 Captain America/Iron Man Holiday Exchange gift.) These events made me feel so loved, and I'm in awe of the wonderful fics and edits I got! Truly some of my favorite flavors, and I'm so lucky to be friends with many of these talented creators who blessed me with these amazing gifts ♡

can't keep the sun from rising (MCU, E, 1.8k) by @thahiree

Post-CW, Bitter Hook Up Tony sidles up to him, naked as the day he was born. "One last kiss for the road, honey?" he asks, one eyebrow arched, and enjoys the pain that flits over Steve’s features. — Tony and Steve spend one night together post-Civil War.

One More Night (MCU, E, 3.2k) by @tinystark616

Post-CW, Bitter Hook Up Meeting in the middle of the night to have sex is becoming a habit. They both think this is a bad idea, but neither of them can stay away from the other.

hold your broken dream up high (MCU, T, 2.1k) by @soliloquent-stark

Grief/Mourning, Sad Ending “Some days, Steve wonders if he made it all up. How could he have a wife he loves, children he treasures, a life carved from peace — and still miss one man more than he’d miss a limb?” —⎊— or: An exploration of Steve’s decision to go back to the past. 💭

Broken Machine (MCU, E, 8.2k) by @seventinel

Amputee Tony, Intimacy Issues Tony thought of how much easier it would have been if he didn’t think of Steve and all that they could have had in a different world, if they were different people. If only he was just Iron Man in that last moment of the battle, without still being Tony Stark, would the Stones have taken more, or less than the half of him that was missing now?

if i didn't speak it (it wouldn't be real) (MCU, E, 3.3k) by @xwinterdreamsx

Amputee Tony, Intimacy Issues Tony was very uncertain how he felt about that inevitable destination: having sex with Steve. A long-held fantasy of his was now something Tony thought of with extreme trepidation. Because sex meant taking off his clothes and Steve seeing him and touching him and Tony—he wasn’t sure how to deal with that.

One for the ruin (MCU, T, 1.1k) by @sunnysideprincess

Friends with Benefits, Protective Steve It starts as two friends seeking comfort. Late night run-ins turning into something else.
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