I proudly present my FrostIron Bang fic - In Dreams We Share

[nia_kantorka]

Hey lovelies!

After I've been talking about it for more than 4 months, posting day has finally come.

Title: In Dreams We Share
Author: nia_kantorka
Artist: dbananza/ dbza-art
Pairings: Loki/Tony Stark
Rating: NC-17 (explicit)

Warnings: canon typical torture, descriptions of past relationships (including het sex scenes), Pre-Avengers: Age of Ultron (Movie), Oral Sex, Anal Sex, switching implied, Hand Jobs

Summary: When Loki and Tony are hit by some accidental magic, they begin to share each other’s dreams and memories. What should have been a veritable disaster turned into an unforeseen opportunity along the way.

Notes:
A big thank you to my brainstorming partner and first reader, candamira, and to my fabulous beta, gracerene, who put this story into shape though they had a million other fandom things to do! You both bore with endless Marvel universe chatter and my whining—that’s worth gold medals in patience and support. anemonen, thank you for your help with the Norwegian phrases!

I’m so honored. The wonderful and talented dbananza claimed my first FrostIron story when it was only half finished, and fell in love with this Loki and Tony. Her artwork is one of the most stunning things I’ve ever seen. It was a blast to work and chat with her, and hope the latter won’t cease. Thank you very much, D.!!!

From both of us a big thanks to Plumadesatada for organising another (and our first) FrostIron Bang and answering all our questions!

Disclaimer: These characters are based on the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which belongs to Marvel Entertainment Group and associates. No copyright infringement intended.

And because D.'s art is so, so stunning I just have to show it off:

Comments

[candamira.livejournal.com]

I'm stunned by the art and the glorious story you wrote. I absolutely love and admire both your works! Characterisations are spot-on here, and the basic idea sparking off the events taking place in this fic is ingenious. I'll return later to squee some more (because I have so much more to say), but I'm afraid it would give too much away if I started my song of praise right now. ;-)

[nia_kantorka]

This art. I'm so in love with it. D. did a fantastic job, and I love to see her art post getting all the likes on tumblr. Well deserved. :D

Aww, darling, thank you! I'm so happy you had as fun reading it as I had writing this story. And people are lovely and a few already told me they want to read more. So, I'm going to write some more. Relaxed and all, but I'm already looking forward to it. :D You're the best. I know I talked quite a lot about this one and it was probably sometimes hard to endure. ♥

[capitu]

I'm so happy for you and proud, Nia! <333

That art is all kind of gorgeous!

[nia_kantorka]

Aww, thank you, angel! This is the first time since Victor and Victims that I'm really, really proud about something I wrote. Feels good. :D

Oh yes. She's an amazing artist. Most of the time her pics aren't of the easy variety, but I love how colorful they are and that you will see more and more things the longer you look.

[blithelybonny.livejournal.com]

Okay that art is absolutely STUNNING, and I am super stoked to read this!

[nia_kantorka]

YES. That art. I'm so glad to be finally able to share it. :D

Hope you'll enjoy it, hon!

[shiftylinguini.livejournal.com]

yayyyyyy your fic!!!! I'm so happy you did it!! :D:D:D

<333

[nia_kantorka]

Thank you, hon! I'm quite proud how this one turned out. :D
<333

[besamislabios]

The art is gorgeous, the colors and composition are amazing, I love the abstract look.

I'm glad you had such a wonderful collaboration with the artist.

Was this your first time doing a big bang?

[nia_kantorka]

Stunning, isn't it? I'm super proud of that art. The fact that my words inspired such a talented person to draw such a beautiful pic I mean. We're eager to collaborate again. :D

Yes, it was my first bang. The ones I've seen on LJ that could have tempted me all had word counts of at least 25k. This one was about harmless 7.5k or more and that worked great for me. Well, and the pairing of course. It was quite inspiring. <3

[my_thestral]

What a lovely enticing story! That art just pulled me in, at the very beginning, it's so colourful, sexy and full of details to admire! And I loved the concept! What better way to get intimate with someone than sharing their dreams - well, in their case, more like nightmares, but talk about intimate in this case, so much more so!
I loved it how their essence was music (I can totally tie Jethro Tull into Tony's character!) - and rock music with metal elements at that, ha! I don't know too much about the character, but Tony Stark sounds like a badass member of my generation! I really liked it how you built up their relationship from annoyance, through confusion and mistrust, to eventual admiration, realisation how much they had in common and, in the end, intimacy - they were practically living inside each other's mind, how could they not? I loved how you described Loki (OMG; he's like my perfect man, long hair, green eyes, yum!) and there are such great story-telling details in this story, such as describing Loki's shifty, adaptable perspective of the world with morphing silver-grey colours - very poetic and demonstrative at the same time. It was very nicely portrayed how Loki felt validated through this one man that cautiously admired him, and how it made Tony feel that he found someone that understood what it meant to grow from an under-appreciated child to a self-made man, well, demigod. :)
I admit the horse-riding adventure made me giggle, because I was immediately swamped by the memories of my own awkward experiences, but it lead to a lovely, hot sex scene in the end, so you won't hear me complain! I think the most satisfying thing for me was the end, how their essences couldn't be torn apart - and they didn't much care or worry anymore because they've found the one kindred spirit in each other. I was utterly impressed with how much background knowledge of the both universes you put into this story, and dammit I wish I knew more about them as well, so I could give you a more competent, and better formulated comment. Lovely story, gorgeous characterisation, flawless writing. Very impressively done, Nia dearest, I know why I missed your writing! :)

[nia_kantorka]

Awww, darling you're best. Reading my story even though Marvel isn't even your kind of thing. Thank you for that alone!

This comment is brilliant and I'm so glad you liked them both and what you learned about them here. There's a difference between the movie version and various comic versions. I picked most from the movies and some of it from the comics and even a bit of Loki's background from Norse mythology. He really had kids with both the mentioned women, though the Edda tells nothing of them being a pair on their own. :) Anyway it was fun to mix things and I had a blast working with colors and music and sensual descriptions to show the growth of their relationship.

The riding scene was actually inspired by Tony's actor (RDJ) who's at least wary of horses. I stumbled upon this trivia while I goggled a million things for this fic. How fitting that the Iron Man actor was afraid of an animal used for non-electronically traveling. Of course I had to use it. :D How convenient that Alfheim does have an enchanted forest and you just can't teleport everywhere. ;p

Anyway, I'll stop now before I tell you the whole story of putting a story together. It's not that interesting, is it?
Thank you again for all your support and for being a gorgeous friend who always cheers me on.

Luv u bebe!