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if u rearrange the letters in Anthony Edward Stark, u get

we r a tad sad n horny, k? ty

and i think that sums up who we are as tony stans pretty well.

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The problem was, Steve thought, that he still had those old values. People called him old-fashioned or a man of his time and it was true. He liked holding doors open for his dates, and helping them into cars, and walking on the outside of the sidewalk, and paying for their whole meal. He liked the idea of providing for them. And yeah, some people liked receiving this treatment at first, but the shine would wear off, and then they'd get testy.

"It gets a little old," Sharon had finally told him, eyes soft and sympathetic. "Being treated like I'm being protected all the time. I'm perfectly capable of protecting myself, Steve."

Steve hadn't known how to explain that he knew that. He wasn't doing it because he thought she couldn't; he'd been doing it because it was what came naturally to him. (He thought, later, it was because that was what his ma had been looking for after his dad died. Someone she could lay down her load in front of and he would take care of her. He wanted to be the kind of man his ma would have been proud of. But it was different, now, and he was struggling to learn that.)

So when he finally got the courage to ask Tony out, he figured it was just another thing Tony would make fun of him for, at least good-natured. Tony liked teasing the people he cared about, after all, and Steve gave him a lot of ammunition.

"Oh, what a gentleman," Tony said as Steve opened the door of the car he was borrowing for him, and there was the teasing Steve had expected, but there was also something a little sincere. Steve thought Tony might have even blushed a little as he offered him his hand to get inside, too.

It made Steve wonder when the shine would wear off for Tony. When his irritation would show because Steve never let him pay for dinner, or movies, or even for their coffee from the cart at the park. When he'd snap that he wasn't an invalid and could get into cars just fine on his own. When he would remind Steve very sternly that just because he didn't have the suit didn't mean he was helpless, and he could walk on the outside of the sidewalk sometimes. That he'd humored him enough, and Steve needed to get with the times, especially if he wanted to keep up with a man always looking toward the future.

"Steve," Natasha said in surprise when he'd finally admitted it on hour seventeen of being stuck in a cell together, waiting for rescue. "I don't think Tony is ever going to get tired of the way you treat him."

"Yeah?" Steve asked, too tired to keep the hope out of his voice.

Natasha blinked at him, slow and judgmental. "Steve, I don't know if you've noticed, but Tony gets annoyingly giddy when you guys come back from a date. He's used to being taken for everything he has so other people can get a leg up. You never let him do anything that he would have been expected to do for other dates." She narrowed her eyes. "He still blushes when you get him flowers, Steve. Tony can't fake a blush."

"Oh," Steve said, feeling like an idiot, but it didn't stop the grin from spreading across his face. Natasha made him feel like an idiot regularly, so it was mostly par for the course anyway.

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“Is it dark, where you are? Can you count the stars where you are? Do you feel like you are a thousand miles from home?”

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Bonus :

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Tony Stark & Steve Rogers in Avengers Assemble 1.26 The Final Showdown

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Like he said: Captain’s orders.

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villain steve x tony 

빌런 스팁 좋아!! 근데 색깔 눈부셬ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

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FIC REC WEEK 16 – DARK FIC

MASTERPOST

Here are all the fics I recommended this week. For the more thorough recs, see the posts by clicking the corresponding numbers:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

A More Perfect Union by romanoff (1)

The Laird in the Water by jellybeanforest (2)

Stars and Stripes Forever by Anonymous (2)

Not In Kansas Anymore by fohatic (2)

Anxious Jitters: Series by Naivelittleprincess (3)

Blood And Frost Bite by thegreennoodle (4)

The Secret Side Of Me by sweetNsimple (5)

What Rough Beast by immoral_crow (5)

Apricity by nostalgicatsea (5)

Things We'd Held in Secret by Dira Sudis (dsudis) (5)

I Wish You Were a Monster by Anonymous (5)

Kiyaar (6)

Take My Body Home 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Rusted Wheel, or How the Civil War Might Have Ended Our Love Is a Ghost That the Others Can't See Accretion

close me in the dark (let me disappear) by WhenasInSilks (7)

Hold Me Tight (or Don't) by UisceOneLove (7)

Your Definition of Love (Is Different From Mine) by quantumdragon (7)

The Blues by resurrectedhippo (7)

An Empty Hell by Diomedes (7)

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dear god why is this show like this. who let this be made (*loves it*)

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My second fill for 2023 @marveltrumpshate is done!

Thanks so much to betheflame for your donation/bidding on me!

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Steve : “We need a plan.”

Tony : “I have a plan.”

Steve : “It can't involve self-sacrifice.”

Tony : “..I have no longer plan.”

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Tony Stark & Steve Rogers in Avengers Assemble 1.26 The Final Showdown

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AGE OF ULTRON (2015)

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2012!stevetony + ship dynamics

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#sometimes tony stark doesn’t need an armour to fight with shit

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one of my favorite tony quotes 😭

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Boop