#fuck Howard stark seriously

[kandisheek]

FIC REC WEEK 9 – AUs

Watch Him Suck Up That Gas by ItsMayBiTheWay

Pairing: Steve/Tony Rating: G Words: 777 Tags: College AU, Dentists, Roommates

Summary: Tony is feeling a little loopy, he knows there is a reason for it but can't seem to remember why. But he is sure there was a reason! And the handsome blonde stranger sitting across him is not helping with thinking straight... OR: Tony goes to the dentist to get his teeth pulled and gets high out of his mind with the sedatives.

Reasons why I love it: This fic is so fucking cute! It's short and fluffy and sweet, the perfect treat if you're looking for a little pick-me-up. Loopy Tony is adorable, and Steve is just the best. I love this fic, and I bet you will too!

time stolen with you by Areiton

Pairing: Steve/Tony Rating: T Words: 1,853 Tags: The Last of Us AU, Survival, Post-Apocalypse

Summary: This is just time stolen from a dead world. It doesn’t make it any less beautiful.

Reasons why I love it: The wording throughout this fic is so beautiful. Watching Tony figure out his new life in this changed world is fantastic, especially once he's joined by Steve. And those last few paragraphs made me tear up. This fic is wonderful, and I hope you give it a shot for yourself!

But I'm Broken Too (And Spoken For) by pptiny

Pairing: Steve/Tony Rating: G Words: 3,183 Tags: Crackfic, Cinderella AU, Humor

Summary: So, Steve is Cinderella. Who knew? A Cinderella AU that clearly makes no sense.

Reasons why I love it: Fucking Fairy Godfury, I'm howling. This one is crackfic at its finest. It's funny and adorable and doesn't take itself too seriously, which I love. Also, Steve and Tony bantering in the kitchen like two lovesick idiots is good stuff. This fic is great, and you should definitely read it!

My Best Friend's Wedding by jellybeanforest

Pairing: Steve/Tony Rating: M Words: 5,086 Tags: No Powers, Stripper Steve, Closeted Tony

Summary: Howard Stark pressures his son to marry the daughter of a fellow industrialist, socialite and heiress Joanna Nivena. Tony reluctantly agrees, but his best friend, Rhodey, disapproves because: A: Tony isn’t a pawn in his father’s business plans, and B: Tony is gay. He is not about to let Tony make the biggest mistake of his life. So, Rhodey takes him to Las Vegas for his bachelor party and hires the first male stripper Tony shows any interest in for a private dance in the back rooms.

Reasons why I love it: Poor Tony, man. I'm glad he figured out what he wanted in the end. And Rhodey is such a good bro, my god, we could all use a friend like him, epilogue shenanigans nonwithstanding. Although that was fucking hilarious. I love this one, and I hope you give it a shot!

Eclipse by cooookieee

Pairing: Steve/Tony Rating: T Words: 1,375 Tags: Angst with a Happy Ending, Mythology, Reincarnation

Summary: They had all the time in the world, and yet they weren't able to live at all. (Steve rules the Sun, and Tony the Moon)

Reasons why I love it: The whole concept of this fic is so fucking cool! I love all things mystical, and this fic does it so well. Steve and Tony as the Sun and Moon make so much sense to me, and their love for each other is as lovely as it is bittersweet. I especially love the way they find each other again, it's so good! Definitely check this one out!

#marvel #stony #fanfic #ficrec #fic rec #fanfic rec #a year in fanfic recs #AUs

[captainsophiestark]

Fallen Angel

Jack Thompson x Reader

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Written for Fictober 2022! Requested by @islayosterholt​

Fandom: Marvel

Prompt: “No, anything but that”

Summary: Y/N has been working with Peggy since the start of the Howard Stark case, and now she's sitting in an interrogation room facing Daniel, Dooley, and the man she thought she might love, Jack Thompson. But when he disappoints her just like all the other men in the office who made assumptions about her and her association with Stark, is there any chance for him to repair the relationship? Or are they done forever?

Word Count: 2,551

Category: Angst, fluff at the very end

Putting work into an AI program without permission is illegal. You do not have my permission. Do not do it.

I huffed and stared up at the ceiling, trying not to completely snap as the door to the interrogation room swung open. The past few weeks had been nothing but complete chaos, largely caused by Howard Stark. After being wrongly accused of turning traitor and robbing his own vault of crazy, terrible inventions, he'd asked Peggy to get involved and help prove his innocence. And, as Peggy needed help and we'd spent quite some time bonding over being two smart, capable women who were completely ignored by our idiotic male coworkers, she'd come to me.

And now we'd both been arrested, literal feet away from the real culprit. Three cheers for the SSR, who couldn't apprehend a Russian spy if she looked them in the eyes and smiled.

Peggy and I were occupying separate interrogation rooms, but I could imagine she was going through the exact same treatment as me, if in a slightly different order. I'd gotten Daniel as an interrogator first, then Dooley. Then Jack. Jack Thompson, who seemed to snap at everybody in the office but me. Who'd stopped telling me to file things and take lunch orders after I snapped at him about it, and who I thought might have been working towards asking me on a date.

Much like Daniel and the Chief, he'd completely disappointed today.

He'd come in here with the same attitudes as all of them. It wasn't even that he thought I was guilty, it was that he thought I was some weak-willed, swooning damsel who'd, with Peggy, fallen for the charms of Howard Stark and crossed lines under his influence. If I really wanted to go rogue and take down the SSR, I would've done it, and none of them ever would've caught me. But when I'd said as much to Jack, he'd just scoffed and rolled his eyes.

So now, here I was, staring at the ceiling in an attempt to keep from completely losing my mind.

"Y/N."

I sighed heavily and finally dropped my stare from the ceiling to Jack. I fixed him with a very unimpressed look, and he looked right back with a grim expression of his own.

"You need to talk."

"Okay. Let's see... this is stupid, you're all terrible, sexist detectives-"

"No. You need to give me something I can use about this case." I just stared back at him, completely deadpan, as he leaned forward across the desk, closing the distance between us. "C'mon, sweetheart. You've been on the other side of that glass behind me before, you know what I can do. And any minute, the Chief's gonna come in here and order me to do something I really, really don't want to do, if you don't give me something."

I rolled my eyes. "No, anything but that," I said, my voice dripping with sarcasm.

"Y/N-"

"No, seriously Jack, come on. Does nobody here realize that I've taken a punch before? That I was an intelligence operative working behind enemy lines? That I was caught, and I survived it? Trust me Jack, you've got nothing on a fucking Nazi. And contrary to your apparent belief, I'm also not some breakable doll that got wooed by Howard Stark and has since been cast aside, ready to shatter at the prospect of some questions and fists. You bastard."

"Well, sweetheart, excuse me for not quite buying into your whole act when Stark had enough of a hold on you to convince you to betray your country. And ALL OF US."

I scoffed, absolutely no humor in my laugh.

"Holy shit, I can't believe I ever liked you," I said, mostly to myself as I shook my head. The anger had almost reached a boiling point in the pit of my stomach now, and it was taking all my self control not to flip this table just to make a point. "All you fucking see when you look at me is a doll. Some pretty, breakable thing that you wanted to play with, but now that you think she's got a dirty dress, you've decided she's trash, and it's time for you to move on."

"A doll can't usually take out agents like you did. We still have guys in the hospital-"

"Whatever, Jack! The point is, you don't see me as a person! You just seem me as some tragic, fallen angel, caricature of a woman that you don't actually know anything about. You think you do, sure, but you only know the version of me you made up in your head."

Jack opened his mouth to speak again, but I didn't give him the chance.

"You wanna know what the worst part is, by the way?" He hesitated, looking at me warily, and I decided that was enough of a yes. "I actually, really liked you. And I thought you liked me too. That you saw me, and respected me, and liked me as a person. But you didn't. You don't know anything about me."

Jack actually took a step back as he blinked a few times, floundering like a fish. He stared at me, actually looking a little hurt, but I couldn't have cared less. Any hurt he felt was of his own making. I'd just woken him up to the truth.

Before Jack could get himself together enough to speak, the interrogation room door swung open and the Chief walked in. He clocked the look on Jack's face, but didn't comment on it as he spoke.

"Stark's butler just showed up with a signed confession," he said, and I frowned. Whatever Jarvis had just done, I had a feeling I wasn't particularly going to like it. "He's flying here now to make a deal, that includes her and Carter going free."

Jack managed a nod as the Chief came over to me and unlocked my cuffs, then pulled me to my feet.

"You, Carter, and Jarvis are gonna wait in the conference room until Stark gets here," said the Chief, taking my arm and firmly leading me to the door. "And in the meantime, you can clean out your desk."

I gritted my teeth and tried to keep it together as I let him lead me out. I could only imagine what picture Howard's confession painted of me and Peggy, and just thinking about it was almost too much for me to stand.

As I passed Jack, I could see him staring at me out of the corner of my eye, clearly trying to get me to look at him. I stared straight ahead, my expression making one thing perfectly clear: I knew he was looking at me, and I was intentionally not going to give him so much as the time of day.

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I swirled the amber liquid of my favorite drink around in its glass, staring at it with my shoulders hunched as I sat at the countertop of my favorite bar. The place was pretty dead, but I certainly wasn't complaining. I'd come here because I wanted to be alone, anyway.

After Jarvis had tried to get me and Peggy out of trouble with a forged confession, Peggy had taken matters into her own hands and told Daniel, Jack, and the Chief about the vial containing Steve's blood. It was enough to convince them to believe us, at least slightly, and we quickly realized just how close at hand our problems actually were.

Everything had gone down hill very quickly, with Dottie taking down a few agents and Dr. Ivchenko, the scientist we'd 'rescued' from Russia, killing the Chief before completely escaping us. The next 48 hours or so were filled with a frantic attempt to save New York City and Howard Stark along with it, and by some miracle, we'd pulled it off. We'd been in the middle of a crisis, so I'd worked with Thompson without making a fuss about it, but I also hadn't spoken to him any more than absolutely necessary. He'd tried to engage me in conversation a few times, but I'd always shut him down.

Now, I was here, sitting in my favorite bar and trying to come to terms with everything that had happened lately. I'd asked Peggy out for a drink to commiserate, but she apparently had something pretty important to do tonight, and so had regretfully turned me down. Even though Daniel had apologized to me earlier, I was still coming to terms with my frustration at how he and everyone else had acted, so I didn't really want to go out with any of them. Which left me sitting here alone.

A sorry sight if you looked at it from the outside, but after the absolute rollercoaster I'd just gotten off of, I really didn't mind.

I took a deep breath and raised my glass to take another sip when someone took a seat at the barstool directly next to me. I looked over to see none other than Jack Thompson, a cautious smile on his face as he stared back.

"Hey, Y/N. Fancy seeing you here."

I stared back at him with a completely blank expression. Out of everyone in the office, he was the number one person I was trying to cope with my feelings about tonight. I was still very, very pissed at him, and I refused to give him an inch.

Jack cleared his throat and glanced down, and I noticed a slight blush rising on his neck and cheeks. Good, he should be embarrassed.

"Listen," he said, finally looking back at me, all traces of the joking attitude gone. "I'm sorry, alright? You... were right, about a lot of things."

"Like?" I demanded, showing no signs of warming up. Like hell I was letting him off easy.

"Like the fact that I didn't see you as an equal or really a person. And that I didn't see you as particularly strong or smart, despite the evidence to the contrary. And that it was all too easy for me to believe that Stark had suckered you into some scheme you didn't really understand with a few charming words. And I was wrong, on every single count."

I watched him carefully, trying not to show just how much my heart jumped with hope at his words. Jack was never this heartfelt, even in the few moments of sincerity we'd shared before this whole mess, and it honestly meant the world to me. But I also had too much self-respect to completely crumble after a paragraph of an apology.

Jack stared back at me with more vulnerability than I'd ever seen in his warm, brown eyes, then turned to the bartender as he walked past.

"Excuse me, sir? Can we get another rum and coke over here, please?"

The guy nodded and moved off to make the drink, and I raised an eyebrow as Jack turned back to me.

"Good guess on the favorite drink," I said, finally speaking. Jack smiled a little, clearly relieved to be free of the silent treatment, but he managed to keep his excitement in check.

"Not a guess. It's what you drank all night when you and Carter came out with me and the rest of the boys after Russia."

Now it was my turn to fight a smile tugging at the corner of my lip. The bartender came back and set the drink down in front of me, and I carefully took a sip, trying to use the pause to squish the warm feeling in my chest a little bit.

"Listen, you were right about everything you said to me in the interrogation room," Jack continued. I took a slightly longer-than-planned sip of my drink, then set it down on the counter and fixed him with my full attention. "I don't know you very well. But I do like you, a lot, and I'd like to get to know you better. So... can I take you on a date? Hudson's maybe, tomorrow night?"

I shook my head at Jack, even as a full smile finally broke out on my face. I just couldn't fight it anymore.

"Alright, what's your excuse for knowing my favorite restaurant?"

"...I might've asked Carter."

I laughed, and Jack smiled as the sound rang through the bar. It felt good to feel this way again, and to be talking with Jack like we used to when it was just the two of us.

"You know what, Jack? Yes. I'll go out to dinner with you tomorrow night." A massive grin spread on Jack's face, but I held up a hand before he could get too far ahead of himself. "But don't think this means you're officially off the hook forever. This has to be a permanent attitude shift, Jack, not just something you figured would work to get me to stop being mad at you for now."

Jack nodded, his smile replaced by a much more serious look.

"It will be. I've never... I've never actually felt this way about someone before, Y/N. I've been on plenty of dates and found plenty of girls attractive, but... I've never been happy to just talk before. For hours, without doing anything else. But that's what we did the one time the Chief actually let you work the night shift, and... it was fun."

I grinned at him and leaned forward a little, my tone teasing. "Jeeze, Jack, you don't have to sound so surprised that it was fun to talk to me."

"You know what I mean," he said, rolling his eyes. I just laughed. "And by the way... I do know you can take a punch. But that doesn't mean I want to punch you."

That only made me laugh harder. Jack shook his head, looking a little wounded and defensive, but I could see the corner of his mouth tugging up anyway. He turned and got the bartender's attention while I got a hold of myself, then quickly glanced back at me before placing an order.

"You mind if I join you for a drink?"

"Not at all, Jack," I said, giving him a genuine smile. He smiled back, looking seriously relieved, before giving his order to the bartender. I scooted my chair a little closer to his, then met his eyes again, this time from a much closer position.

"So... what do you want to talk about, Jack Thompson?"

"I'm up for anything. As long as it's with you."

I beamed at him and leaned into him, shoulder to shoulder, and he wasted no time wrapping one arm around me. Maybe it was the alcohol making me a little giddy, or the fact that Jack Thompson, the most stubborn man in the office, had just given me a sincere and heartfelt apology while admitting he was wrong, but I couldn't stop a happy laugh from bubbling out of me. I'd almost killed him in the interrogation room a few days ago, but now, I was glad I hadn't.

We had a lot more to do together, after all. And for the first time since all this ridiculous nonsense with Howard, Dottie, and everything between had started happening, I was really looking forward to it.

#fictober22 #marvel #agent carter #jack thompson #jack thompson x reader #marvel fanfiction #marvel imagine #marvel one shot #agent carter fanfiction #agent carter oneshot #agent carter imagine #jack thompson imagine #jack thompson fanfiction #jack thompson oneshot #1940s #SSR #daniel sousa #peggy carter #chief dooley #agent carter season 1

[gnar-slabdash]

Leverage Mark Showdown -- First Heat Contestants

Where the nominator left comments (or fun extra descriptors), I’m including their comments, cause those are way better than what I’d come up with. Where they didn’t leave comments, you’ll have to settle for mine :P

Mark Doyle The Bottle Job I genuinely liked him as a character, he was sleazy but so fun. The accent was fun, he was an easy mark, and he screamed like a girl. One of my fave episodes cause of him.

David Lampard aka “Truffle Jackass” The French Connection Job who the hell meets “gnar slabdash the n is mostly silent” and just TAKES THAT at face value

“His Honor Mayor Brad Culpepper III” The Three Strikes Job and to a lesser extent The Maltese Falcon Job TONAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

Ian Blackpoole The First and Second David Jobs The man has balls, okay? I’ve said it before -- a disgruntled, disheveled ex-employee pulls a gun on him, and his response is to calmly ask if he’s going to kill him, then invite him to his party, offer him shrimp, and call his ex wife over to see him. Ice cold.

Mark Vector The Morning After Job he's a bitch and a sleaze and it was so satisfying seeing him go down

Greg Sherman aka “The Blowfish” The Boiler Room Job my ultimate love-to-hate. I always spend the episode going WHY DO I HATE THIS GUY SO MUCH before remembering oh yeah it’s cause he’s the bad guy, I’m supposed to hate him. BUT I HATE HIM SO MUCH!

Victor Dubenich The Nigerian Job, The Radio Job, The Last Dam Job man you guys had a lot to say about this one! here goes: - he's awful but he's also how they came together - i like the actor that plays him - THE OG. mr inciting incident. my most underrated man saul rubinek. the absolute balls on this guy. might even still be out there you never know - Not only the first and the one who accidentally helped bind together a world-class team and eventually sent them after himself - twice;  but also the first echo/cast-caĺlback to the Nero Wolfe series. - He consistently thinks he's better than the crew, but Nate keeps outsmarting him anyway. Plus, the fact that he and Latimer forced Nate into calling back some old favorites, there's a number of reasons to love The Last Dam Job. I will never get over the hacking with a clam thing - Because he came back with a revenge plan and because he started this whole thing when he screwed the team over - this guy kinda kickstarted the whole thing by being greedy and selfish enough to try and double-cross not just a group of thieves, but a man who was ROYALLY screwed by the system literal months prior by using his dead kid against him. He's arrogant, but just smart enough to be a threat as of The Last Dam Job, and even then his insistence that he "knows" the team better than Nate after all these years is one of the things that leads to his downfall. Seriously, fuck that guy.

Judge Roy The Bank Shot Job He commits to the bit, okay? I WILL turn this entire episode into a western and I WILL be the black-had domineering bad guy and I WILL refuse to have any semblence of self-awareness about it at any time!

Gabe Erickson The Real Fake Car Job Matthew Lillard is great, and I absolutely loved "Nobody's plotting to kill you, you idiot!"

Starke’s Crew ( Marcus Starke, Chaos, Mikel Dayan, Apollo)  The Two Live Crew Job They were so fun and I absolutely adored their interactions with our leverage crew.  Scott Roemer The (Very) Big Bird Job The Carey Elwes? The Howard Hughes cosplay? The fact that he thinks he stole and destroyed the entire Spruce Goose?

Jack Hurley The 12-Step Job - It was nice to see a mark that’s not a POS and have the team ‘help’ once they realised that - He was a genuinely great guy who's just a fuck up. I get it.  - He is just too excitable and honest and keeps getting into shit way over his head but is too sweet to really hate - I really enjoyed having a Mark who "redeemed" themselves to. Plus, hes a goofy character, and seeing him a second time when I didn't expect it made me double take and laugh on my first watch.

Monica Hunter The Three Days of the Hunter Job - she's horrible and interesting and you get the most satisfaction from seeing her go down. also the bit where she's being interrogated by the army and she's like "it's okay I know that there *totally aren't* any secret bases ;-)" and the guy is so tired and like "yes that's bc there aren't any secret bases" and she's like "I know you have to say that ;-)" and he's right - rip girl you would have loved qanon - I love conspiracy theorists who don't even really believe in the awful stuff they make up (+ it's a terrible human being with the face of aunt zelda)

William Quinn & Tobey Earnshaw The Juror #6 Job He was a fakeass hippie played by Brent Spiner. She was trying so damn hard to be a chessmaster it was embrrasing. Can I make it any more obvious?

Eddie Maranjian The Order 23 Job Man there’s a few marks I can’t help but feel viscerally bad for cause of how the crew preys on their fears and neuroses that they can’t help. So a little sympathy, and also like, affinity crimes are nasty fucking things but in terms of story it’s a nice change of pace from the usual white guys playing chess from their lofty towers

Caroline Cowan The Low Low Price Job Oh another one that I kinda almost feel bad for for how much they freaked her out. This is a good matchup!

#leverage #favorite mark poll #bracket poll

[bisamwilson]

hey dear!! 9, 12 and 18 for the choose violence ask game 💖

hello dear! thanks for the ask <3 (from this list)

9. worst part of canon

sam continually getting sidelined in the mcu. his story got pushed aside a hell of a lot for bucky's storyline in tfatws (and some of the writing to resolve what we did get of sam's story... oof) and now he's barely in any other projects and we get so little news of him. avengers con in ms marvel had like 2 or 3 different uso show girls but no captain america sam wilson????? seriously???? not to mention the fact that cap4 seems to just be a hulk movie with sam added in. it only ever gets more frustrating with each piece of news or each little scrap of sam they give us

12. the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them

at least in a lot of the circles i'm in people hate peggy so i'm doing peggy. i know she's popular elsewhere but i so rarely see peggy love so here we go

peggy's a complicated character. she's tough and she's clever and she's strong and she's bullheaded and she's done horrible things bc she thought it furthered her end goal, and people hate on her for the latter, which i do understand, but like. it's no different from a lot of the characters people love that did something similar? tony made a robot that tried to destroy the earth bc he thought it was gonna be beneficial. nick fury actively authorized and participated in building a program that could eliminate anyone deemed a threat from space at the push of a button, because he thought that's what was needed for national security/safety. peggy fucked up, sure, but it's not like she didn't do a lot of good as well.

she's more than handy in a fight. she disobeyed direct orders to help steve go to azzano and rescue bucky and the rest of the 107th. she was an important part of mission planning for the howling commandos, to the point that we see all the commandos that are left by the time agent carter happens respect her as a leader. she willingly drops the last bit of steve's blood, which is one of very few things she has left of him, into the water because she knows it could be used for horrible things, even though it killed her to do it. she disobeys orders again to try and clear howard stark's name, and doesn't give up until his name has been cleared. she gave us the absolutely fantastic line "i know my value. anyone else's opinion doesn't really matter"

i just think peggy's a genuinely interesting, morally complicated character whose flaws people would celebrate as being interestingly morally gray or whatever if she wasn't a woman in the middle of a favored white man ship is all. and i think she's more than what people make her out to be

(also her and steve knew each other for two years, which is practically a lifetime in wwii, before steve went into the ice. stop making the "left for a girl he knew for two weeks" jokes. they're inaccurate and they discount a very important relationship steve had during the war, even if you don't think he and peggy would last based on the experiences steve had in modern times)

18. it's absolutely criminal that the fandom has been sleeping on...

sarah wilson! i wish i saw more content made of her, and i want to see more fics where she's not just sam or bucky's voice of reason, and she gets to have her own storylines, or just gets to have fun with her brother/brother-in-law

send me a # and i'll answer the question from the "choose violence" ask list!

#thanks for the ask love! <3 #livingincolorsagain #ask #ask game #ask meme #marvel

[statichvm]

— GUESS MY TYPE (no seriously what the fuck)

ALEC HARDY (broadchurch) // BUCKY BARNES (mcu) // JESSE CUSTER (preacher) // CHLOE FRAZER (uncharted) // JOEL MILLER (tlou) // FAITH SEED (fc5) // HOWARD STARK (mcu) // ANTHONY BRIDGERTON (bridgerton) // THE TENTH DOCTOR (do i have to say it out loud)

i was tagged by @leviiackrman to post my nine favorite characters and have people guess my type in the comments.

it’s okay. i don’t know what’s happening here either.

tagging @jackiesarch @florbelles @blackreaches @shallow-gravy @stevegrants @multiverse-of-themind @adelaidedrubman @belorage @marivenah @risingsh0t @chuckhansen @queennymeria @shellibisshe @indorilnerevarine and @loriane-elmuerto to also put yourselves on blast. godspeed.

#my only type is i’ve never trusted a blonde man #christ i need to lie down #tag memes #personal ramblings

[fluffyprettykitty]

Young RDJ makes my world shake 🤤 yessss, mark's hair is really good too, I love him, he's such a nice man

Thank God you're getting this requests, the world needs your work, seriously!

My other Marvel favs are Scott Lang, Dr. Strange and Loki. 😍

(also I have to admit that a I have a huge crush on young howard stark, come on, that man is so fucking cute, his little face 😔)

Yes I really love him in "only you" and of course, kiss kiss bang bang, the best!

Aw thank you so much, that is so sweet of you to say and yeah I'm very glad my writing has a reaching ☺️

Aw, I love them too. I tried writing for Stephen but unfortunately I couldn't 😔 but I would love to write for Scott in the future he's such a sweetheart! Literally therr are so many characters out there! My top five has always been :sam, tony, Matt, bruce, nat.

And yeah dominic cooper is so good looking. Has that oldschool suave thing. High recommendations are fleming which is an action/ spy show with a weak storyline but wonderful visuals and the preacher of course. Dominic is delicious there!

#mailbox #nonnie time

[yarpharp]

People be like "why'd you stop loving Marvel? They have so many shows and stuff you should be in eternal heaven."

Sweetie, Endgame was HORRIBLE and I will never forgive them. Bucky? Jilted at the altar of friendship. Somehow Steve went back in time and married Peggy??? And voluntarily allowed his best goddamn friend in the whole fucking world TO JUST ROT IN HYDRA HANDS??? WILLINGLY IGNORED??? Steve Rogers? The dude who literally almost overthrew the entire espionage branch of the fictional American government to save a brainwashed and traumatized Bucky Barnes who didn't even know his own name???? That man??????? And I mean, what about Howard? Are you telling me he willingly let Howard Stark get assassinated by his brainwashed murder machine best friend?

And like, really Steve? You left Sam the shield but you didn't inform him of EVERYTHING ELSE? Help him train up before you fucked off to the past? Maybe give him some really helpful pointers in how to HELP AND COMFORT THE BEST FRIEND YOU FUCKING ABANDONED IN THE PRESENT????? Seriously Sam had to put up with all sorts of shit because of your dumb shit.

There was other stuff too about Endgame that pissed me off or I didn't like but THE ENTIRE THING WITH BUCKY, STEVE, AND SAM absolutely boggled my mind and fucked with me personally.

Literally the only post-Endgame film I consciously went to the theaters to see was Spider Man No Way Home because I wanted the bizarre nostalgia of seeing Andrew Garfield reprise his role. Das it.

So yeah actually I didn't stop loving Marvel, I just stopped loving the film and TV media for it.

#marvel #im sorry but #that movie ruined the entire TV-Movie franchise of Marvel for me #im a comic exclusive bitch again #mcu #marvel cinematic universe

[pinbitch]

i can’t stop thinking about how overwhelmingly, unnecessarily cruel “iron man: yes. tony stark: not recommended” actually was

tony’s childhood was defined by not being good enough for howard, and canon implies that he spent a lot of it being compared unfavourably to steve rogers (not steve’s fault, but that doesn’t diminish the scars left on tony): “that’s the guy my dad never shut up about?”. “he never told me he loved me, he never even told me he liked me. so it’s a little tough for me to digest when you’re telling me he said the whole future was riding on me”. “god i hated you”

then in iron man 2 tony finds out that howard was a founder of shield. that’s a significant part of his father’s life that tony was just... never told about. he didn’t even know shield existed until iron man 1. why tony never knew is never explained, personally i think peggy and maria put their foot down and said tony wasn’t to be involved for his own protection, but we simply don’t know. tony doesn’t know either, but i can hazard a damn good guess at what he’s assumed. the most logical conclusion, to tony, is that this is yet another thing howard didn’t think he was good enough for, yet another way he let howard down. so the avenger initiative is a way for tony to work with shield and prove howard wrong (and i do think howard’s involvement was the reason tony went from “i don’t want to join your super secret boyband” to “how can you approve me but not approve me?” in the same way peggy was what sold steve on shield)

but there’s more! a big theme of iron man 2 is LEGACY. tony is super focused on what he will leave behind after he dies, and, by extension, what howard leaves behind. tony explicitly states that the stark expo is about legacy, moments before he metaphorically brings his dad back from the dead to address the audience via a recording. then tony finds out about a huge part of howard’s legacy that he wasn’t (in his interpretation) deemed fit enough to participate in, at the same time as he sees the “what is, and always will be, my greatest creation, is you” video. setting aside how dehumanising being referred to as a creation is, and the fact that in that video howard still doesn’t manage to tell tony he loves him, those two conflicting messages must be super painful and confusing

“my greatest creation is you” also highlights that the only approval tony ever got from howard was because of his intelligence. fury tells tony that howard believed he would finish what he started and it’s all about tony’s brain, not the heart that truly defines him. the things tony builds are the only part of him howard ever appeared to value

so shield is howard’s legacy, and tony is howard’s legacy, and after the events of the film tony is ready to bring those two sides of his father’s accomplishments together. and then shield, this representation of everything howard did that tony wasn’t enough for, turns around and says “iron man: yes. tony stark: not recommended”. that’s an outright rejection of tony the man in favour of tony the machine, from something that is practically his father’s ghost, yet again. it’s a reaffirmation of every negative thing howard ever said about tony, everything tony believes about himself

and that, kids, is why “iron man: yes. tony stark: not recommended” is unfathomably cruel, and i continue to be incredibly salty at shield

#mcu #iron man 2 #tony stark #tony stark meta #pro tony stark #shield meta #fuck howard stark #seriously fuck that guy #and fuck shield for playing with the ways he fucked tony up #i have a few theories on WHY shield did what they did here #but the fact remains that none of them justify this kind of cruelty

[blackberrywidow]

Howard, trying to explain to Tony why he’s such a jackass from whatever flashback hell A4 has planned: You don’t understand what it’s like to be a father Tony! You have no idea what it takes to raise a child, the things you have to do to make sure they succeed in life.

Tony: I may not—

Peter, miraculously dropping out of the ceiling in full Spider-man mode: The fuck he doesnt! Mr. Dad is a thousand times better at parenting, you neglectful, abusive—

Tony: Pete, NO!

Pepper and Rhodey, also appearing out of nowhere: Peter YES!

#marvel #howard stark #tony stark #peter parker #pepper potts #rhodey #iron dad #spider son #iron man #infinity war #avengers 4 #seriously though #if howard stark does make an appearance #tony better finally have his moment to tell him what a complete fuck up of a father he was #no happy reuinions #no forgivness #just tony finally being able to move out of his fathers shadow #free of guilt and regret #original

[agostobuwan]

i won’t say (i’m in love)

implied stevetony | tony’s been in love before. or, he thinks it might’ve been love.

~1k words, tony-centric, tony and his relationships

——

There was Tiberius in college. He was older, way too old for a kid who’d barely learned about sex. In hindsight, he shouldn’t have been hanging around that crowd at sixteen years old, but he wanted everyone to know that he was cool. That he wasn’t just some bumbling teenager, too smart for his own good, too small to be taken seriously.

He somehow got Tiberius’ attention, which happened to be more coveted than an internship at NASA those days. He was the first person in his life who didn’t look at him like a little kid, and Tony couldn’t get enough. The twenty-year-old took him under his wing, and Tony followed him like a freshly imprinted duckling. He went to the same parties, drank the same beer, took the same drugs. He preened under Tiberius’ attention and was sour when he didn’t get enough of it. It was then that he learned how it felt to be envious and how it felt to be in love.

Not that Tiberius knew anything about Tony’s burgeoning crush on him. That, Tony kept tightly sealed in his chest.

But it didn’t take long before Tiberius got tired of him—which Tony should have anticipated right from the beginning, but back then, it felt like his entire world was caving in. He wasn’t the same kid stumbling around MIT’s campus with a backpack too big for his small frame, but that didn’t matter anymore. Tiberus was already graduating and moving on.

Not even a year later, he met Sunset. Her hair cascading in long, brown waves down his shoulders and back. Her lips always painted a deep shade of red that always reminded him of blood.

So he really should have seen it coming when she had plans to stab him in the back.

But she was his savior when a sudden car crash took his parents’ life. She was there to pick up the broken pieces Howard and Maria left in their son. She cleaned him up and showed him the kind of love he was desperate for. She saw him at his worst, and his vulnerabilities made him an easy target.

He took over the helm of Stark Industries, and Sunset was with him every step of the way, an ever-present shadow looking over his shoulder. He thought she was just clingy, but he should have suspected something was wrong when he came across copycat versions of Stark tech being sold from a shell company based in California.

He traced that shell company all the way back to the one and only Sunset Bain, using the AI program he created that summer. And with all the evidence he needed, he dumped her. Not without suing her first, of course.

Rumiko was only meant to be a fling when he visited Japan for a business trip. She was pretty and a good lay in bed, but then, it also turned out that she had a nice sense of humor and the kind of smarts that could keep up with him.

That business trip fling ended up becoming a full-blown, two-year relationship, and Tony, in his naïveté, really thought that she was the one. By the time their second anniversary rolled around, he already had a ring custom-made. All he needed to do now was pop the question.

And he was going to. He had a whole thing planned with dinner and a walk through the Japanese gardens. That is, until he caught Ru fucking Tiberius Stone of all people in his own damn bed.

He didn’t think he was a petty kind of person, but after he kicked them out, he melted down the ring meant for Rumiko and turned it into a coaster.

He swore to himself that he was going to stop falling in love with powerful women, but when Ms. Pepper Potts came along, he already knew he was done for.

She was the complete opposite of him, and yet, that was the very thing that attracted him to her. She had her whole life put together, while she worked hard to bang his life into shape.

She was his personal assistant, and that was a big no-no in the corporate world. But that didn’t stop him from trying his best to woo her. And woo her, he did. Giant stuffed bunnies (she hated them). Strawberries (she’s allergic). Her own titanium alloy suit of armor (no comment).

But unlike the others before her, Pepper had a sense of order that he clung onto. She was his rock, his foundation, and he really did think that she was the one he was going to spend the rest of his life with. But it turned out, women, hard-set on running his company and then the whole world, can’t keep living in the shadow (and danger) of his genius.

After all the years spent mending his heart just to break it again, Tony thought love was off the table for him. He tried with Pepper, whose patience could power an entire city, and they still decided to stay friends.

Maybe he wasn’t meant for love. Him and love were a chemical reaction that just didn’t work. Things exploded. Or imploded. And he was tired of cleaning up the mess. (Not that he ever cleaned up his mechanical mishaps. He had helper bots for that.)

He had a lot of room for hate, though. And boy, did he hate Steve Rogers.

The prodigal son who finally came home. The golden boy who could do no wrong in his father’s eyes. The ultimate standard of man that Tony Stark could never live up to.

Their first meeting had been tumultuous, and it only seemed to set a precedent after that. But then, he almost died, and he woke up to a pair of blue eyes staring down at him and a boyish grin that made his insides melt a little.

Oh, shit.

He was fucked.

#stevetony #stony #stevetony fic #stony fic #my fic #tony stark #tony

[iamnmbr3]

Disney really doesn't fucking know how to deal with complex and morally gray characters + trauma at all. i know everyone loved fatws and i did too for the way sam's character was handled but the blatant victim blaming bucky and the writers saying "he should feel guilty" is so damaging. and this new loki trailer just further amplifies that to the show producers, such things are just easily dismissible/comic relief. its disgusting and sends a very wrong message. i really expected so much out of both these shows but in some aspects im just disappointed

They really don’t! I haven’t seen fatws but I know some people raised issues about the handling of trauma in it. I certainly know the way Bucky’s trauma was handled in the MCU movies was a big yikes for me. MCU!Bucky isn’t a grey character. He really is a victim who did nothing wrong. And yet they treat him like a reformed villain which is bizarre. In Civil War the narrative frames him as someone who only Steve could be loyal to or have empathy for. They talk about him like a criminal on the run, not like a victim of torture and mind control even though we are explicitly shown in Winter Soldier that he had 0 agency and that as soon as he breaks free of Hydra’s control over him he stops killing. The Russos also said he had to go back into the ice at the end of that movie to “atone” for what he did. Like. What?!?! Atone for what? He didn’t choose to do any of those things. He literally had no power or agency at all. The framing is nonsensical. And it’s really bad messaging because it plays into the extremely harmful message that victims of torture are to blame. Which is. Gross.

And then again with Loki they ignore his trauma or turn it into a joke. And listen. I know lots of comedies have things in them where if it were serious it wouldn’t be funny. No one’s out there being like “OMG Gru was gonna shrink the moon and causes mass death due to flooding. he’s so evil’ because that movie is just a comedy. But like. It’s not a comedy specifically making fun of trauma. And also it’s presented as a comedy from the get-go. Loki (and his trauma) were presented and played seriously. And resonated with many, many people because of that. So to suddenly turn it into a joke once again sends a horrible message. It doesn’t send the message of “oh this is just a comedy it’s not too serious.” It sends the message that we should laugh at Loki’s pain because it’s Loki, because he doesn’t deserve better, because that kind of trauma is a joke and isn’t serious. The trauma of characters like Tony Stark or Thor was at least somewhat acknowledged...though again the MCU is very spotty with this and there are a lot of very bad moments with those characters too. But with Loki we never really get an acknowledgement of the trauma at all. We just get it minimized and retconned and ignored and laughed at. And it honestly feels sickening. And it begs the question: what is it about that character that his pain is a joke? The fact that he’s feminine/queer/other/ND coded makes it feel like the message is that people like that don’t deserve sympathy. Or dignity. 

Marvel presents abusers like Thanos or Howard Stark as sympathetic. They encourage audiences to empathize with them and give them another chance and appreciate their “good sides” while also encouraging audiences to laugh at victims for being “weak” or “whiny”. It’s really quite perverse. 

#asks #Marvel #MCU #loki tv series #Marvel ridiculousness #disney critical #do i need to tag #loki tv series negativity #? #Loki #Bucky

[statticscribbles]

Initial

Summary: Marvel, One shot, Bucky/Stark ftm Reader; Soulmate AU where your soulmates initials are on your body

TW: Transphobia; misunderstanding of transitioning.

”You’re telling me I have a brother?” Tony glares at Steve who grins a little, nodding.

“Mhm, could have more; you know how Howard was..”

“Hah, yeah sounds just like my shit dad.”

“Probably a half brother I’m guessing?” Bucky’s half asleep coffee pot tipped to almost fill his mug before he shrugs and chugs straight from the pot.

“CLINT! You taught Barnes a bad habit.” Tony shouts and Clint laughs as he drops from the ceiling.

“Please don’t do whatever he was just doing too.” Steve grumbles and Bucky laughs a little.

“He was fixing a light.”

“Babe I could’ve gotten Dum-e to do that.”

“He works hard enough as it is..” Clint traces his fingers over his initials on Tony's neck. Steve laughs when Tony swats his hands away.

“He doesn’t work at all, stop. Seriously, it’s weird.” Tony huffs but doesn’t do anything when Clint resumes his tracing.

“Aww frosty bitter about not having initials?”

“I have them.” Tony turns to Steve for confirmation who nods.

“It’s not me; someone he never met; most likely dead.”

“Definitely dead, but I met him.”

“Buck? Really?” Steve looks excited but then worried.

“Yeah part of the program.. Not sure really who he was; if he was like me or, they just found him and…”

“What is it?”

“They changed something about him; made him more efficient…”

“Efficient?”

“He failed something; this was a second chance for him.”

“A second chance? I thought Hydra just killed rejects.”

“Yeah.”

“The Red Room is the same; but they noted the initials; wanted to see if it worked.” Fury’s not grinning but there’s a shimmer in his eye.

“So you’re saying Hydra what? Took a Red Room kid? I thought they didn’t train men.”

“Not since wolf spider’s failed; but yes, they train girls; their widows.”

“So what Hydra took a failed widow and chopped her up to make another winter soldier?” Tony grimaces.

“They took your sister; kidnapped her.”

“Half sister..” Tony comments and Fury laughs.

“You really think Howard wanted his first born to be a girl?”

“So what; dear old dad fucked up my sister; forcer her to be a boy and then when she got taken he figured good riddance and shifted all his neglect to me?” Tony huffs.

“Well I was always a guy; but I appreciate the concern brother dear.” You step from behind Fury and laugh a little.

“You know about me?”

“I’ve been a shield agent for about five years.”

“Really?”

“Yeah when Hydra’s transitioned to using the Asset under Strike team asshole; I was let go; shall we say.”

“Letting go means killing to them..” Steve frowns and Bucky nods slowly.

“Normally yes, but Y/N here was pushed to be an undercover operative; he was well known in the office. When the Strike team went down, Y/N would have been collateral damage but we know a thing or two about preventing that..” Fury smirks and Tony arches an eyebrow.

“You sure you’re not trying to use Y/N, my darling brother as leverage against me and Barnes? I mean finding out you have a brother; and his soulmate is a teammate; it would make sense to go that route.”

“It would, if you had something I wanted; I’m just repaying old debts; consider everything settled.” Fury nods and you grin back.

“Thanks Nick, we’re good now.” You laugh when everyone turns to you clearly wanting an explanation.

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[aurumacadicus]

I wish you would write a fic where Howard is the ultimate helicopter dad even once Tony is a legal adult with a job and living on his own aka Howard goes to the bar/club/brunch/yoga practice with Tony and is terrified of being replaced.

I’m so happy everyone knows I’m always down to write “actually a good dad” Howard lmaooooooo:

Tony gets kidnapped once at the age of five. Peggy and Jarvis disappear for three hours and return with a very giggly boy, and Howard crumples to the ground when he realizes that things could have been so much worse if he didn’t have such good (and dangerous) friends. Tony doesn’t seem to have any lingering trauma, but that just means they’re lucky, and it could happen again.

So he keeps a closer eye on Tony, invites him into the workshop to show him things, has Peggy and Jarvis teach him self-defense, urges Tony and Maria into the kitchen so he can learn to cook and not depend on others for (possibly drugged) food, and does not make playdates for Tony outside somewhere with security.

Tony decides to go to MIT at fourteen to get away from his overbearing father, not because he actually wants to leave high school. There’s a setback when his parents convince the dean to let him live off-campus and Howard pops in on him every day regularly, but Maria actually takes him aside and explains that it’s not really fair to make him, at fourteen, room with an eighteen-year-old, and as he’s still a minor, they still have a responsibility to care for him.

Howard only stops showing up every day regularly when he comes to visit Tony and he gets a wooden chair to the head and a stern talking to by some kid named James Rhodes who had him mixed up with an older student who was hounding Tony for an “in” to work at Stark Industries, and well. James Rhodes has made it clear he can and will protect Tony, and he’s over a lot, so. He allows Tony a smidge more freedom. (“Did it physically hurt you to do that?” Peggy asks him, and Howard bellows ‘yes’ loud enough that it makes Jarvis drop a glass in the kitchen.)

One night Maria starts getting texts one evening while she’s trying to relax since Howard is.... out somewhere, he didn’t really say. Finally, she sighs and picks up her phone to find multiple ‘come get your husband!!!!!!!!’ texts from Tony, along with pictures of Tony covering his face in embarrassment at a club while several women are hanging all over Howard, clearly simpering for him. Howard, to his credit, looks absolutely bewildered by the turn of events. Maria stares at the TV, where she is watching a very interesting documentary, then looks at her glass of wine that she’d been about to nurse while waiting for Ana to return with the liquor for cocktails. She thinks about it for only a moment before she texts back, “Perish. Don’t let your father have anything blue” and then shuts her phone off.

Anyway it only comes to an end when Tony is twenty-eight and gets a protective boyfriend and Howard was up in arms about it up until Tiberius Stone approached Tony at one of Maria’s galas and Steve just straight up coldcocked him mid-word.

“Do we seriously need to give your dad a key to our new place,” Steve asks Tony desperately.

“He’ll just break in if we don’t,” Tony says, like it’s a reasonable argument. “And I don’t know why you’re so up in arms about this when it’s really my mom you really have to fear.”

“Fuck,” Steve whispers to himself, rubbing his face tiredly.

#aurumacadicus answers #ask meme #wish you'd write meme #stony #Anonymous

[amarriageoftrueminds]

I love those theories that Steve was referring to meeting Bucky in heaven when he told Fury he had a date, I mean us stevebucky shippers may be delusional as hell but at least our takes would make much more sense than what was established in canon lmao

It's funny how Steve seems more upset by not being dead (reunited with Bucky) than by being cut off from the almost-date.

And he wakes up thinking Hydra has captured him and yet apparently doesn't spare a single thought about what that means for, y'know, Peggy and Howard et al??

And he wakes to find Peggy is (presumably) dead and the first thing he does is... crack a joke? 

The thing about the after-credit-scene is that it's really meant to be a prologue to Avengers, and the Avengers movies chose to entirely ignore Steve's solo movies (in the same way they mostly ignored Tony's and Thor's and Bruce's).

It's almost like someone read Whedon a summary of each so he didn't have to actually watch them.

So he went, 'oh, the Cap movie had a woman? ok so he's missing the woman' and he doesn't even know about Bucky.

(Seriously, until IW, the only indication the Avengers movies gave that Bucky even existed was one line about Steve and Sam looking for him, without mentioning him by name. Up until that point, if you'd never watched the Cap movies, you'd be like 'who are they talking about?? who is Steve looking for??' And then IW it's like 'who is this guy and why is Cap hugging him?'

Which is IN. SANE.)

And A1 had Steve thinking about the other Howlies and the voice of a woman he barely knew, wasn't even dating, while punching a bag; and then crashing the Valkyrie... even though his 'death' had nothing to do with them but was all about avenging (and reuniting with?) Bucky.

OF WHOM THERE IS NO MENTION??

It skips straight from the other Howlies, to Peggy’s voice, to the Tesseract/Valkyrie, with no mention of any other person being involved in that at all, no mention of the person who picked the Howlies, or whose rescue caused Steve to become Captain America in the first place?

Fucking seriously?

You know why! 

And Steve’s feelings of alienation in modern-day Brooklyn (in scenes which were cut because Whedon’s a bellend) are, also, all about having grown up and lived there, with Bucky?

(But STILL no mention??)

Missing a dance with her being a 'nightmare' vision doesn't make any sense, either, because Steve chose not to dance with her when he had the chance.

(Remember in CW where he was like 'Tony you chose to do that.' His whole speech on the Valkyrie was about Bucky and choice!)

AOU wants to retcon that he regrets 'waiting too long.'

But CATFA showed him being fine with not dating Peggy; not initiating kisses with her, not dancing with her, but going drinking with his buddies instead. (Fine with Stark and Bucky hitting on her, too!)

He was chipper AF about not dating her!

(And then, hilariously, AOU can't even pretend he was that bothered about seeing her in his nightmare vision. Because... well, who was she really, to him? Someone who said she would be available for him after the war? Her and every other woman! Just another Cap fan!)

No wonder they couldn't do anything with Steve and Bucky in IW or EG: they're sequels to movies that didn't know Bucky even existed, let alone that he was the lodestone to Steve's compass.

But even accounting for Bucky's influence, in matters of his personal life, in making the Big Decisions, Steve has always been absolutely certain of himself. Nobody makes him do anything he doesn't want to do. He doesn't choose to do things he will regret, or regret the things he chooses to do.

It naturally follows that he doesn't regret the things he has chosen not to do.

He chose to crash the Valkyrie. He chose not to date Peggy.

By reversing those two decisions EG reversed his entire character.

#long post #hey nonny #toAyourQ #dat's me #endgame steve is a skrull #antiendgame #anti st*ggy #whedon hated bucky and thought he should've died #but loved HA for TALENT RELATED REASONS I'M SURE #so... 💅🏼 #bucky barnes #bucky meta #meta #mcu #mcu meta #p*ggy meta

[darealsaltysam]

marvel’s what if is actually so fun. like yeah it’s goofy as shit sometimes and the plot of each episode has to be very simple and “villain of the week” style but it’s so fun. the first two episodes so far have made me grin like an idiot (apart from the sad parts sigh but those are rare luckily)

some examples of things i’ve ADORED so far;

BUFF peggy and SMOL steve and their whole dynamic

steve still caring about people and doing whatever he can to help them. he hates bullies and he’ll fight them, little guy from brooklyn or not

HOWARD STARK. THAT’S IT. THE WAY THEY WROTE HIM, THE WAY HE WAS PLAYED, THE WAY HE WAS ANIMATED. NO OBJECTIONS.

how hydra had a completely different plan, which makes sense, since it’s a different universe!!!

peggy coming out of where loki normally came out, shifting the universe completely

T’CHALLA AS STAR-LORD. NEED I SAY MORE.

the change of star-lord ACTUALLY being known, but not wanting it, as a complete juxtaposition to quill and his general cockiness

the ravagers being good guys and sticking together as a FAMILY!!!!

taserface, nebula, AND FUCKING THANOS all being good guys???

just the whole thing with thanos. again it’s goofy as shit and would NEVER be taken seriously in a movie context. but this little one-off animated episode?? ITS PERFECT. the little jokes about the genocide plan, his dynamic with nebula, THE “NOT CRAZY, MAD” LINE??? i love him. i love him i want more of him good guy thanos my beloved

nebula’s hatred for thanos in the movies being replaced with just general “ugh, dad” kind of an attitude. like YES it boils down the movies so much but WHO CARES this is all for fun!!! and this is fun!!! i had fun watching them!!! im HAPPY for them!!! more of this!!!!!!

nebula with long blonde hair,,,, actually happy,,, and cool and badass and,,,, yeas

carina getting her revenge on the collector and letting everyone he “collected” go instead of just dying... holy shit yes

thanos telling okoye about his plan and the “genocide, but random” thing being referenced.... god can you guys tell i really loved thanos in this he was fucking hilarious

i. i love it here. i love it here so much. i can’t wait for more. thanos!gamora or something similar seems to be teased and some loki stuff was in the trailers so??? very excited!!! can’t wait!!

god this show is just so fun. defo gonna rewatch the t’challa star-lord episode like. ten more times lmao

#marvel #marvel what if #t'challa #black panther #star-lord #nebula #thanos #the collector #carina #yondu #peggy carter #captain america #steve rogers #bucky barnes #okoye #howard stark

[breadqueen95]

Hi! I love your Bucky Christmas headcanon and I was wondering if you would something similar for Tony? I’d especially love to know what you think his favorite traditions are from his childhood, since he has such a strained relationship with his father but a good one with his mother.

Thanks and congrats!

(Btw I’m super excited for the next chapter of reflections! The series is like crack! I’m am irrecoverably addicted!)

omg hi hello!!!!! thank you SO MUCH for saying that about reflections it seriously means the fucking WORLD. i'm in the process of writing ch.5 and now that i'm on break i'm hoping to get it out soon!

BUT YES ONTO OUR FAVORITE SASS LORD HERE WE GO

tony stark x fem!reader

like every traumatized avenger in that compound, tony has a love hate relationship with the holidays

it's a lot better than when he was a kid and he'll be the first to admit that

but he never used to understand what everyone meant by saying that christmas was the "happiest time of the year"

happy for who? couldn't have been his dad, that's for fucking sure

if anything it felt like his dad just got angrier this time of the year

he worked up until he couldn't, usually when maria guilted him enough that it got him out of the lab for an evening or two

but christmas with his mom...that was one place where his happiest childhood memories live

maria and tony had always had a very loving relationship. it was like she knew she had to offset the coldness he got from howard, and she took extra care to make sure he always knew how loved he was

there were a few traditions maria made sure she and tony celebrated together

as musically gifted as she was, she had to include that in some way

howard was always pushing science and technology. tony was a brilliant kid, absolutely. but he needed some of the arts in his life

she always had christmas music playing. whether it was from the old timey record player she kept in pristine condition, or the grand piano she always seemed to be tinkering with, the stark house was never quiet if she had any say about it

she'd play that music loud and proud as she and tony decorated the large house together, laughing and giggling as the weight of all the expectations on the pair of them melted away

that tradition fell away as tony got older. he drifted away, got angrier, acted out

that last christmas they spent together in 1991, maria actually took him aside before she left and said

"next year. you and me. we're breaking out the old records again. you're not getting out of this one, kiddo"

it's hard to keep even an ounce of positivity toward the holiday when he lost the one person who made it worthwhile

he lost any sort of appreciation for it after that, preferring to ignore it altogether if he's being honest

he was really confused and a little put out the first year he spent christmas with the avengers

everyone was getting in the spirit, celebrating, getting happier...he just didn't get it

so tony tried to hide away from everyone those first few years. buried himself in his work, forced himself to forget

because fuck did he miss his mom. he misses her every day. christmas only makes it worse

then you come along

you're not the biggest fan of christmas yourself, but ever since joining the avengers along with wanda and pietro (he's still alive in this one go with it), you think it could be nice to celebrate with a family

it's everyone's first year at the compound. your relationship with tony is new, only a few months at this point

as much as he loves being with you, he still gets a pit in his stomach this time of year

so he'll quietly excuse himself with a kiss to your cheek or your shoulder, mumbling some excuse about work

you know him better than anyone, and you know he's struggling

someone tell tony he's easier to read than a picture book hello you're not fooling anyone bby

you know enough about his past to know that this is the hardest time of year for him, even past his issues with his family

on one of those nights, he ducks out of a christmas movie night last minute

as everyone gets sucked into the movie, you wander downstairs to find him tinkering away at something

his mouth is pressed into a thin line, and that dark brown hair of his is all mussed, like he's run his hands through it a million times since being down here

"i don't blame you. some of these christmas movies are way too sappy"

he glances up at you, tired smile on his face (he can't help but smile around you)

"yeah. never really got that kind of stuff"

"that's okay, me either"

you plop down on a stool next to him at his bench. he doesn't even hesitate as he wraps an arm around your shoulder, kissing your temple

"we can make our own traditions, though. just for us."

he doesn't know what to say at first, so he just kind of sits there and thinks about it

"if you hate the whole idea, that's absolutely fine. fuck the holidays who even cares--"

"do you like christmas music?"

tony wasn't even going to say anything, never bring it up

but he knows maria would absolutely love you. he knows without a doubt that if she were still alive, she'd want you involved with the christmas music decorating as soon as possible

you're the first person he wants to share it with. so he does

"i love christmas music"

so, even with residual discomfort in his stomach, he grabs your hand and pulls you out of your seat, all while asking FRIDAY to start playing some old holiday classics

he doesn't have any decorations, so he figures this is a good placeholder until he can get a few small ones for you to put in your shared apartment

tony holds you close as you dance, twirling you among the scrap metal and countless gadgets he and bruce have around the lab

it's here, right in this moment, where he tells you he loves you for the first time

as he presses his lips to yours, tony finally admits it to himself

christmas can be okay. as long as he has you

after that, tony just feels........warm????? all the time?????

the only time he even slightly understood the whole holiday hype was when he was with his mom, and now.......

he gets it

and he finds himself wanting to TRY things with you

but just you at first. baby steps

he opens up about it to you, exploring the holidays and how he wants to see what the big deal is

you guys start by decorating your shared apartment at the compound

nothing too big at first; just a tree, a couple of strings of lights, little knick knacks here and there

as he's holding you on the couch one night, fingers tracing along your back under a warm sweater, tony looks around the apartment and really feels......

cozy?????? tony stark feels COZY??????

all he knows is that he wants MORE OF IT. IMMEDIATELY

MORE YOU AND MORE CHRISTMAS

SERIOUSLY WHY WAS HOWARD SUCH A FUCKING DICK ABOUT IT THEY COULD'VE BEEN HAVING FUN THAT WHOLE TIME

and we all know this: tony only knows go big or go home

it starts with him adding more decorations to the apartment. but he doesn't want the space to get overwhelming, so he branches out

he starts quietly adding decorations to the lab

then to the communal kitchen

he ABSOLUTELY steals you away with those stupid cute puppy eyes of his asking

"honey i bought more lights and i need an extra hand"

how can you say no to him he's having so much fun WE'RE HEALING HIS INNER CHILD HERE HELLO

then you ask him if he wants to try other things, like maybe baking something together, or taking a walk in the snow

of course he wants to try all those things it's extra time he gets to spend adoring you?????

but what's even more surprising if that he asks if you think he should start including some of the team

this of course leads into him asking peter to host a christmas movie night with the classics he can't miss

"mr. stark we already did that you said you had to work?"

"forget that happened i'm traumatized and trying christmas"

when sitting there with everyone, tony starks to feel a little panicky again

all the togetherness just reminds him of childhood stress

but as soon as you sit next to him, you're comforting warmth pressed right against his side, it slowly melts away and he relaxes into you

throughout the night, he's reminded all over again that family can be something you choose. he feels happier with these idiots and with you than he ever did growing up

later on that night, after everyone's gone to their own separate rooms for bed, tony has you wrapped up in his arms and you're dancing together again

he gets you under one of the archways and he stops, murmuring in your ear

"one more tradition i wanted to try, sweetheart"

of course it's mistletoe are you kidding

but even as you rolls your eyes, you're kissing him softly in the gentle twinkling light of the tree

he whispers against your lips

"thanks for being my family. i love you"

"thank you for being mine. i love you too"

"even with my daddy issues?"

"even with your daddy issues tony now shut up and kiss me"

AHHHHH OKAY HERE IT IS I HOPE YOU LIKE IT!!!!

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