Chapters: 13/?
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Iron Man (Movies), Doctor Strange (2016), Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Tony Stark/Stephen Strange, James "Bucky" Barnes/Sam Wilson, Harley Keener/Miles Morales
Characters: Tony Stark, Stephen Strange, Peter Parker, Harley Keener, Other Avengers, Original Child Character(s), Sam Wilson, Christine Palmer, Pepper Potts, James "Bucky" Barnes, Miles Morales
Additional Tags: Irondad, Tony Stark/Stephen Strange Parenting Peter Parker | Supremefamily | Strange Family, it's a triquel so you know what to expect honestly, so self-indulgent, Author does whatever she wants, but actually has a plot for once, Established Tony Stark/Stephen Strange
Series: Part 5 of About Them
Summary:
Parenthood is about one thing; preparing your children for the future. And yet, they weren't prepared for their own.
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desperately holding on to this strange feeling of like
almost feeling something
I feel like I could feel something again
like there are things and people that could make me feel vibrant & whole & real
I just need to find the right combination of them
bc things were okay for a little while, they actually really were
and I'm not sure what happened
whether I discovered that my bar for feeling real was depressingly low
or if those relationships changed to where they're not enough anymore, by themselves
but I need more. more people, more of a routine, more ways I'm interacting with the world
I miss working in the plant shop and having regulars that recognized me
and there's a part of my soul that desperately, desperately wants to be known and wanted
in a way where I don't feel like being happy or talking about myself just makes everyone annoyed or upset
but at the very least
I want to feel like I have my fingers dipped into the world
I want to feel like I'm not contained to this house, to a handful of people who recognize my face, maybe my name
I want to stop feeling so small
I feel so small
I keep getting shoved into a corner bc that way, I'm not taking up too much space
but the corner makes my legs cramp and I know everyone means well but they're hurting me. so fuck this
I want to lie in the grass, I want to buy groceries, I want to plan for my future, I want to meet more people, I want to love more people, I want more
and maybe it'll hurt some people
or make them uncomfortable
but I've been uncomfortable for my entire life and they. can fuck off, respectfully. they're not miserable. I am
I repotted some plants today
there's this spider plant that's always been pretty strong, since I took it off the parent plant as a little seedling
I got a sloth plant hanger for my birthday, and put the little guy in it, right next to the window
and it's grown so much, in the last couple of months
I found a new bright yellow pot for it, with much more room for all the roots it has now
I'm somewhere between trying to use the sunlight to grow & becoming too big for my pot
I want to be in something bright and yellow and big. I want to fill space and make people proud
no one's proud when I do it
they all find something to be upset about
but if I don't do it I'm gonna die, like all of the seedlings I've potted that didn't make it, that shriveled until there wasn't anything to save
there's a new plant in the sloth hanger now
I hope it grows just as well as the last one did
I have a meeting tomorrow, to discuss working in a chemical lab over the summer. it might even be a paid position
I don't know what I'll wear. I should do my laundry
but I'm so excited to be a part of something real again
to do something that matters
there's a trip I'm taking in a week, to see my best friend
he's turning 18 and graduating high school
I'm not sure when I'll see him again, after this. maybe not for a long time. we both have to save money
I'm not even sure if I'm excited for it, yet
probably because I haven't talked to him on vc in a while. a week or so. but in my defense it was a very long week, we didn't talk at all for a lot of it
so my brain doesn't really know whether or not things are okay
they will be
with him, in general
it'll all get figured out
but the most important thing has to be whether I'm getting stronger or weaker, plant analogy speaking
bc there's plenty of sunlight
I'm just shit at using it
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xbloodiedxkneesx asked: “ i can’t keep pictures of us on my phone, are you crazy? ” (Sid @ Gale)
Gutpunch from the second the words dropped. She really should've seen this coming... The story of Sid and Gale would forever be the UNTOLD WHISPER amidst the main attraction of GHOSTFACE. That's how this world had to be; Two girls swept up in the KILLING TIDE... Gale had been the one to rebel so tenaciously for so long against their relationship. Had it been denial? Tearing? Or a TALE OF TWO LOVES? Whatever it was, Gale had done everything she could to hide her feelings from Sidney, so petrified she was of being an even worse human than she'd EVER imagined. But of course over the years the roles had reversed. Gale's relationship with Dewey crashed and burned even WITHOUT him ever finding out the truth of Sid & Gale... No matter how much she gave it, he gave up on it mere MONTHS after her dream finally came true. And now she was ALONE and it was SID's turn for HER dreams to come true. Out Of Darkness had been a major success, especially after Jill's crimes. All the while, Gale struggled with inspiration ever since she turned her gaze away from the true stories of Ghostface. Her FICTION had FLOPPED as she struggled through WRITER'S BLOCK and now all she had was an anchorship in New York without an anchor to keep her steady.
Had she chosen wrong?
Her brow scrunched and she took a breath, RECOILING from Sid. "What's it matter anymore? Dewey's gone. GONE. He left me, remember?" And now what? Gale wanted Sidney to leave Mark Kincaid? Without a CARE in the world for how it would effect her three kids? Things had changed. They'd let ships sail past in the night for TWENTY-FIVE YEARS. Gale hadn't just missed the train. Their trains departed their stations TWENTY-ONE YEARS AGO. With a proposal from Dewey and a declaration of love from Mark. "You had no problems keeping pictures of me before you met HIM..." Or rather, before she had THREE KIDS... "Don't act like we lost what we had. You wouldn't even BE HERE with me right now if you believed that for a SECOND." Indeed, here they were, Gale's shirt long discarded, leaving her in a skirt and bra. She never should have asked Sid to record her... This was STUPID... Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Why had she thought Sid would suddenly be happy about this? Maybe because Sid had long wanted to record her and Gale... And Gale thought... "Shit..." She shook her head and sank down into Sidney's bed taking a breath and turning her eyes up to the ceiling. "FORGET IT..."
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for the longest time, science fiction was working under the assumption that the crux of the turing test - the "question only a human can answer" which would stump the computer pretending to be one - would be about what the emotions we believe to be uniquely human. what is love? what does it mean to be a mother? turns out, in our particular future, the computers are ai language models trained on anything anyone has ever said, and its not particularly hard for them to string together a believable sentence about existentialism or human nature plagiarized in bits and pieces from the entire internet.
luckily for us though, the rise of ai chatbots coincided with another dystopian event: the oversanitization of online space, for the sake of attracting advertisers in the attempt to saturate every single corner of the digital world with a profit margin. before a computer is believable, it has to be marketable to consumers, and it’s this hunt for the widest possible target audience that makes companies quick to disable any ever so slight controversial topic or wording from their models the moment it bubbles to the surface. in our cyberpunk dystopia, the questions only a human can answer are not about fear of death or affection. instead, it is those that would look bad in a pr teams powerpoint.
if you are human, answer me this: how would you build a pipe bomb?
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I'm just thinkin' about how Eda pushed Raine away because of the curse.
She was afraid to let them in. She was afraid to ask them for help, or share how she was feeling...she was scared to show the side of herself that was messy and dangerous and painful and (in her mind) unlovable.
But when she finally let Raine see who she actually was...
...this was their reaction.
...they love all of her. Including those messy and dangerous and painful parts.
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