MCU Gen: Fic, fanart & recs

He’d learned about digital audio pretty early on — where SHIELD had gotten their poorly-chosen baseball game recording, how people listened to music nowadays, and so forth — but it had taken him a while to realize why songs that should have been achingly familiar to him all sounded off. He’d first thought it was the computer he was playing them on, then realized it wasn’t when he was given his first CD and Bing Crosby had sounded like he was supposed to. He’d let it go — too much else to learn about the twenty-first century — and simply stuck to the CDs and then the records he’d started to buy once someone had found him a working turntable. Once he’d had the time and the leisure and the understanding to investigate why nobody else seemed to mind what was wrong with digital music, he’d put aside his hard-earned independence and asked Tony instead. He’d meant it as a peace gesture; it had been shortly after the Battle of New York, when their alliance had still been fresh and delicate in its newness and had needed reinforcement away from the battlefield. And Tony had responded, both to the reaching-out and the actual question, and understanding lossy-versus-lossless-compression had become another link between them.