ext_2209 ([identity profile] amonitrate.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] crack_van2009-09-02 08:28 pm

Magic Mirrors Never Lie by RD (PG-13)

Okay, I thought I was going to rec something funny after that last one, and this one starts funny... and introduces another one of my favorite themes, clones. There will be more clones, I promise.

Fandom: MARVEL COMICS -- Iron Man movieverse
Pairing: Tony Stark/Tony Stark. Sort of.
Length: 2,800
Author on LJ: [personal profile] th_esaurus
Author Website: [profile] fic_saurus
Why this must be read:

Well, if this doesn't convince you, I'm not sure what will:

"Planning something ridiculous?" Jarvis asked him, when Tony had him take a full-body scan, butt naked, and to extract the DNA from a couple of blood samples. "Pretty much," Tony replied.

Tony solves his problems with SCIENCE and SHINY TECHNOLOGY and yeah. Clones are just a logical extension of that tendency.

This story manages hilarity and creepiness and angst and spot-on characterization all in one package. It sucks you in with the very Tonyness of Tony's solution to having to attend boring events when he'd rather be saving the world, and then... runs with it.

"And what happens when you get bored of it?" Pepper insisted, her fingers bunched tight into her palms. "When you get older and it doesn't? When it's no longer useful?"

Indeed.

Magic Mirrors Never Lie

[identity profile] time-testudinem.livejournal.com 2009-09-03 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
Hi. You don't know me, but I stumbled on your LJ about a week ago while surfing. I am whole heartedly blaming you for turning Iron Man from a comic I never read and a movie that I thought was pretty good, into a fandom thing of great sqeeage. Needless to say, I am thrilled to see you reccing here this month, and look forward to reading whatever you put forward, especially if it has to do with Iron Man.

Runs off to read story. Bye!

[identity profile] besyd.livejournal.com 2009-09-09 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
You crack dealer, you.

[identity profile] besyd.livejournal.com 2009-09-09 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, Clones.