So, um... I've read pretty much every Steve/Tony fic there is (no seriously, I've been through every single page on AO3 and every rec list I could find), and this is one of my favourites ever. And I don't say that lightly. I love that Steve actually dealt with figuring out his sexuality rather than just that "oh huh guess I'll have sex with a man now" thing that so often happens in slash fic - which is fine, there are lots of ways to skin a cat, but it's really refreshing to read something where it's properly dealt with. And the sex is realistic, in terms of Steve's inexperience, without not being hot. And there was a lot to love about this but my favourite part was "and also I have this whole metaphor thing I came up with where symbolically --" because I've totally mulled over that metaphor myself, and cycled between finding it totally apt and then sort of disregarding it and focusing on the two of them just as people, which is basically what happened here, so, yeah. I could fangirl a good deal more, but I will stop before I embarrass myself.

- panicky