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We owe it to everyone not in this room to try

#steve rogers #lovely #MCU #captain america

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The triple update voters claimed a decisive victory, so here you go my friends!

Here they are!

From This Wound (The World)

a garden (you never get to see)

The Man Behind the Curtain (Pay No Attention)

I have only managed comment replies on one of the three, but will get to the rest tonight. Thank you all for being the most patient and amazing humans. So much love to you all.

#tony stark #fic saturday #from this wound (the world) #a garden (you never get to see) #the man behind the curtain #stony #steve rogers #bucky barnes #d/s au #iron winter

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Hey Marvel fandom pals!

I know it’s been an inconsistent couple of years for me posting-wise, and I wanted to use the holiday season to say a big thanks. What fic gift would you prefer to receive this year, friends?

#fic #end of year present #poll #love you marvel fam #love you 3000

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#if I do not reblog these scenes assume I have perished #worst spies #love them so

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I've seen people say the found family trope is queer because it's about "choosing" rather than being "given," and while that's true, I think there's another reason people often gloss over or misunderstand:

found family is queer because the labels don't always fit.

sometimes a character falls somewhere between a brother and a cousin. sometimes they're a big brother, a father figure, and a weird uncle all at once. sometimes they're a sibling when a third character is present, but a parent when they aren't. sometimes any attempt to label them just falls short.

often when a lot of people are fighting over what traditional family role a member of a found family is, I find myself thinking, "maybe you're all right, and all wrong, too. maybe there isn't just one label. maybe it's a found family, so it's queer."

#yessssss #found family #queerness #this is the most compelling thing I read this week

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So I’m applying to a Master of Arts for counselling program (eek!) and I can’t stop laughing at how much I want to make my whole letter of intent about how I put all the characters I write through therapy so this was basically destined to happen.

#therapy #therapist #only tangentially fandom related

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I know, I know, it's a Saturday, but these days I'm discovering that if I wait until Friday then a post may not happen. So here we go! It's Dissolution time!

#tony stark #steve rogers #fic friday #but not really #fic saturday #stony #d/s au #dissolution

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THANK YOU FOR SAVING ME. | TONY STARK throughout the MCU

#tony stark #iron man #mcu #ho yinsen #irondad #sob

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This week's The Man Behind the Curtain might be one of the most personal things I've ever written. I'm terribly proud of it, and will also need at least a week to recover from putting Tony (and I) through this!

#fic friday #tony stark #steve rogers #stony #the man behind the curtain

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a garden (you never get to see) is updated this week, and it might be my fave chapter of the story. nbd.

#fic friday #you great unfinished symphony (you sent for me) #tony stark #steve rogers #peter parker #d/s universe

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besides the well-known fact that tony stark's arc reactor literally powered his heart and symbolised his second chance at life, it's been not just alluded to but clearly stated by marvel from the very first iron man film that it represents his heart:

this point is made very clear again when it's used to portray his death:

of course they did this; they're such obvious metaphors that are easy to rely on for beautiful visual storytelling. they undoubtedly were aware of the potential for these scenes and carefully considered them since the beginning.

but you don't really get to use each of these moments more than once if you want them to matter, so they had to choose which one of tony's stories needed to be told through carefully picked parallels.

and who did they use them on?

yup, that's right. steve rogers. steve, who literally ends their painful fight by breaking his heart.

steve, whom tony literally hands his heart and says "here, take this" while he's devastated, disappointed, and at one of the lowest moments of his entire life.

so, platonic, romantic, alterous — the intricacies of his feelings don't even matter. they're only for tony to know.

but what we as an audience know, what we were explicitly told by marvel, is that the feelings tony had for steve were so strong that they were the equivalent of getting his heart actually shattered into pieces, and being reduced to offering your desperate, mourning heart on a platter as a way of saying "take it all, there's nothing left of me that you don't own now".

these were not accidents. we were meant to understand how profound his feelings were. so many things spiraled out of their falling out — the entire universe's faith was at stake as a result. tony was not indifferent to him. his problem was that he felt too much.

tony's achille's heel was always steve rogers, and that will forever be the backbone of the marvel universe.

#why are the stony posts killing me today #oh gawd #stony #steve rogers #tony stark

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I’m so happy for them

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#fuck yeah unions #click clack moo #if you know you know

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bad news, i found a new stevetony thing to be emotional about :'(

tony is the only one who's even remotely keeping it together when the avengers are processing natasha's death- that moment was tough on steve to the point where he couldn't make eye contact with anyone and had a hard time getting words out:

tony asks steve so gently if natasha had any family and steve says "yeah, us." thor is in denial that natasha is dead, he can't accept that she's only been gone a minute and they're already treating her like she's never coming back, and he's looking back and forth between both of them, confronting both of them about it:

and tony was originally sitting with steve, facing towards him, but then he gets up so that thor's attention is on him and not steve:

and when thor looks to steve about using the stones to bring natasha back and specifically calls him cap, tony is literally standing in the way between them and not budging an inch, shielding steve and carving out a small space for him where he can just process his heartbreak:

PROTECTIVE TONYYY

#oh no #oh nooooooo #oh good now this scene can break me in new ways #steve rogers #tony stark #stony

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#honestly my reaction every time Tony is on screen #love this #divorced dads Tony and Steve are my fave #like I hate civil war and yet this vibe is just #chef’s kiss #stony #steve rogers #tony stark

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'did you know?' & 'whatever it takes.'

robert downey jr and chris evans in avengers: endgame (2019)

#oh no #oh my heart #stony #steve rogers #tony stark

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We are officially in IM1 territory this week folks, and I am in perpetual dread and excitement for writing this much angst. Join me if that’s your kind of thing!

#fic friday #tony stark #bucky barnes #from this wound (the world) #d/s au

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Yep! And I also find it entirely unsurprising that the fandom olds called out as especially creepy earlier in this thread identify as mothers. Because there is nothing that folks tend to despise more than the idea that mothers are still, like, people.

In other words, this is an ageism thing, but it’s not just an ageism thing. It’s also a misogyny thing, and specifically that form of misogyny that depicts people who reproduce and ID as women as wholly subsumed by their parenthood—or highly sus if that’s not the case.

I’m two people’s mother, okay? And I love and adore my kids and fully believe they are getting the care and attention and time they need from me. And I wouldn’t give up fandom. Not for my kids, or for other people’s children who for some reason have decided that my entering into a reproductive relationship with other tiny humans makes me less of one myself.

Miss me with that take, thanks kiddos!

“middle aged women shouldn’t participate in fandom” and you think it’s teenagers that are writing those brilliant, incisive 100k fics of your favourite characters

#young writers are great #but the idea that fandom has an age limit is silly #also often misogynistic at its rotten core #nope #ageism #sexism