Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do

Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do is a Steve/Tony 616 AU by copperbadge. Set in Chicago during the Prohibition era and featuring Steve as a detective and Tony as the king gangster, it was written for the 2013 Cap/Iron Man Reverse Bang. Based on a single piece of art by Lienwyn, she in turn created four more illustrations based on the story.lienwyn. Tumblr post, 16 May 2013. (Accessed 16 june 2013)
There is a podfic of the story by jellyfishfireAin't Nobody's Business If I Do Podfic. Posted 8 Sept 2019. Accessed 10 Dec 2021. available as well as a further snippet of Pepper and Natasha meeting on copperbadge's Tumblr.Natasha and Pepper Snippet. Posted 22 Mar 2015. Accessed 10 Dec 2021. The fic is reasonably popular in the fandom for a niche AU, with over three thousand kudos and 900 bookmarks on AO3.Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do. Posted 16 May 2013. Accessed 10 Dec 2021.
==The Fic==
Written for a reverse bang centered around the Steve/Tony pairing, Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do is based off a picture of Tony lounging while Steve looks on sternly as illustrated by Lienwyn. This art was then claimed and turned into a story by copperbadge which has been praised for its accurate depiction of Chicago and use of '30s slang.Anonymous Comment on AO3. Posted 16 May 2013. Accessed 15 Dec 2021.Comment by Deleted User. Posted 5 Mar 2016. Accessed 15 Dec 2021.Comment by Survivah. Posted 8 Jul 2013. Accessed 15 Dec 2021.Comment by backbone89. Posted 17 May 2013. Accessed 15 Dec 2021. This accuracy can be traced back to the fact that copperbadge lived in Chicago for almost a decade by the time he wrote the story. It is frequently praised by people who don't usually enjoy AU fic for still being in-character even with the setting changes.Anonymous Comment. Posted 20 May 2013. Accessed 15 Dec 2021. The summary for the fic is as follows:
After reading the story, Lienwyn was inspired to draw four more pieces of art, for a total of five, which are displayed throughout the text of the story in both the DW and AO3 versions of the story. She had this to say about the process:
The fic was initially posted on both LiveJournal and Dreamwidth, as well as AO3, but following the 2017 TOS changes at LJ, copperbadge deleted his LiveJournal. However, the fic is still available on Dreamwidth, and on AO3 where copperbadge posted an additional coda in 2016.
===Artwork===
Lienwyn posted the series of art pieces she created for the fic to both Tumblr and DeviantArt. She wrote of creating the additional four pieces of artwork,
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===Follow-Ups & Other Fanworks Inspired By the Fic===
In 2015, copperbadge posted an additional snippet in the 'verse of the first meeting between Natasha and Pepper, following an Ask request for a Natasha/Pepper historical AU. In 2016, he added a coda to the fic (described as a "sort-of, could-be sequel") in the form of a fourth chapter on AO3. The coda, Nice Work If You Can Get It, was inspired by a conversation with scifigrl47 and WandererRiha about Steve as Tony's "kept man", and is set 5 years after the original fic.
In 2019, jellyfishfire posted a podfic adaptation of the fic to AO3.
Ain't Nobody's Business also inspired Way Back When We Were Infamous by oldtonyharrison, three pieces of artwork in which Steve, Tony and Pepper (and later also Clint and Darcy) are depicted in a Prohibition-era setting. oldtonyharrison also cited boombangbing's Magnetic series, a Steve/Tony/Pepper series, as inspiration for the first two pieces of art.
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