#and that’s how tony finds out

[robertdowneyjjr]

a soulmates au where your words only show up after you’ve met your soulmate. sort of like an insurance policy, you know, so you’re not left wondering whether every other person you meet is the one if your words are too generic.

in this universe, captain america has been recovered and active for several years now. he runs missions and saves the world with his ragtag team of superheroes formed by SHIELD. steve's become a celebrity, which he doesn't love, but it's something he learns to live with because that's life for public figures in the 21st century.

tony never became iron man because he walked away from his father's legacy the second he turned 18. he and howard are still working on their relationship, but maria couldn't be prouder and tells tony so everyday. he built his own company from the ground up and it's thriving under his leadership. he's only marginally famous these days and he tries his best to stay out of the limelight, guarding his private life as much as possible. that's how it's been for twenty years and he's happy.

they meet on a day when steve is tired, irritable and angry. he's just returned from a mission where two of his teammates were injured because of the faulty information they received. he goes out on a walk to let off some steam and he's just slipping his phone back into his pocket after rejecting fury's fifth call for a debrief when he slams right into tony.

tony was having a good day. he'd just sent out a new set of designs and decided to reward himself for it. he goes and gets himself a fresh, delicious, life-affirming cup of coffee and is just stepping out of the cafe with aforementioned cup when a walking brick wall comes out of nowhere.

good news is, tony had ordered a cold brew. once every few weeks that's just what he's in the mood for and it had been one of those days. bad news is, instead of drinking it he is now wearing it.

sticky and cold and more than a little shocked, tony barely has time to recover and figure out what happened when steve starts tearing into him.

“god damn it, watch where the fuck you’re going! that could have spilled all over me! idiot!” steve yells at tony. and on a normal day, he’d be apologetic and he’d never curse like this at a stranger. but he really didn’t need yet another thing to go wrong today and he’s on a short fuse.

maybe later, when he’s calmed down, he’ll think back on the cute man with the giant brown eyes staring at him in disbelief and start beating himself up over how he behaved.

at the moment, all tony can do is look at steve’s pristine white t-shirt that somehow has not a single drop of coffee on it, then look back down at his own chest. he has no words except, “wow. you’re a fucking asshole.” and he just turns around and walks away.

tony gets home and strips off for a rinse before he gets ready for his flight to london for a week of meetings. all the while he can’t help but think that angry blond man looked vaguely familiar and he can’t place where he knows him from. he doesn’t notice the new string of words tattooed down the side of his thigh until he’s in his hotel room half a day later.

meanwhile, steve gets home after his walk, after he’s checked on his teammates, after sitting with fury for three long hours to debrief, and finally washes the day off of him. before he gets into the shower, he notices something different about his reflection.

along his left bicep are the words, wow. you’re a fucking asshole.

he thinks back on the cute man with the big brown eyes and a chest full of coffee and wonders how in the hell he can fix this mess.

#maybe he uses his clout as a celebrity and makes a cryptic post on social media #with a picture of a coffee cup and a request for a second chance #and signs it off with ‘a fucking asshole’ #maybe tony sees it and realizes his soulmate is captain america #the man his dad wouldn’t shut up about #and holy crap wouldn’t that be a strange conversation to have with his dad next time he’s home for dinner #even funnier maybe maria sees the post and sends it to the family group chat and she’s like ‘howard this is your friend?’ #and that’s how tony finds out #or maybe steve goes whining to howard one day and happens to run into tony when he’s home visiting #so many possibilities #stevetony #stony #tony stark #steve rogers #stonyclunks soulmates au #kay writes things

[idk-bruh-20]

Irondad fic ideas #117

One day, May receives a threatening letter at work. It says, "Do you know who your nephew is?" and contains, crushed into the page, a dead spider.

Horrified, May calls Tony Stark. Plans are set in place immediately to move the Parkers into Stark Tower for protection while Tony tracks down the people who sent the threat. 

Peter is at school during the chaos of getting May to the tower. He only learns what's happened when he's called out of class. When he gets to the office, it's Tony waiting there (with the very stunned school secretary) to pick him up. He has his nanotech housing unit on.

Tony explains once they're in the car. Peter freaks out until Tony promises that May is already safely at the tower with Happy and Pepper. Only then does Peter notice that Tony's hands are shaking too.

All of this was not what the villains wanted. Their plan had been to scare May into abandoning Peter. They didn't know that she already knew who he was, and they definitely didn't know that the Parkers were close to Tony Stark.

An abandoned and homeless Peter would have been much easier to kidnap. Now, they will have to step up their game.

#irondad fic ideas #irondad and spiderson #ironfam #can you tell I just want may and peter to move into the tower #give peter ALL the parental figures challenge #they become one tight-knit family and by the time the threat is neutralized nobody wants to leave #tony stark #peter parker #may parker #may can work for dr. cho #at first she doesn't want to but then pepper reminds her that working at her regular hospital could put staff and patients at risk #peter has so much new safety tech on him just to go to school it's insane #ned and mj get safety tech too #which ned ADORES and mj finds stalkerish but ultimately concedes when she sees how freaked out peter is #if anybody writes this and makes peter actually get kidnapped at some point you will have my whole heart forever btw #iron dad and spider son #fic idea #fic ideas #irondad fic idea #irondad #spiderson #iron dad #spider son #iron man #spider-man

[lautakwah]

this is, like, the most important scene in cinematic history btw. if you even care.

#i dont even do rpf but i cant wait to see andy and tony slutting it up 20 years later in the goldfinger #how are they gonna surpass this? idk but i sure wanna find out! #ALSO. we'll get old man yaoi out of it 🥰🥰🥰 #ling.txt #infernal affairs #andy lau #tony leung

[st4zia]

Marina, where are you?

#splatoon #splatoon side order #splatoon fanart #marina ida #off the hook #no description #okay..can i...rant a little bit because i.... have so much to say about side order #first of all i love LOVE the concepts like bleached coral a menacing dark goop futuristic dystopia TABI SHOES & agent 8s new uniform?!!!!!! #its giving margiela which btw i feel was the inspiration behind toni kensa & that entire brand BUT THats for another post #its like the devs catered side order TO ME.....LMFAO like im obsessed with everything about it so far and the intrinsic horror that comes #along with this concept its just... #immediately after watching the trailer i thought if marina is the final boss~ how would that play out whats going on #so ofc i had to draw it out and like the idea of marina possessed by some sort of mega computer obsessed with order like you get my drift? #you know how fucking cool that would be i just feel like since everything is up to speculation right now im going haywire #i read in the jpn version of some article translation marina was becoming disillusions with oth cuz pearl mentioned she was #getting bored with their music hence the damp socks collab and ghosted marina for some time SO WHAT IF..... #feeling like she was discarded / ghosted...her resentment lingered and she turned to whatever was creepin in that dark goop #to maybe find some reasoning as to why pearl was getting bored with oth (or marina...) #like we were all joking that side order will be the off the hook wedding planning DLC but like WHAT IF IT WAS THE BREAK UP......... #also i mentioned toni kensa earlier what if side order is actually his doing like the color scheme red white and black its all there in the #trailers WHAT IF?!!! so many possibilities im gonna explode #anyway thats just my theories anything is game until nintendo destroys all of our expectations come this spring #this is so long if youre reading this thank you like genuinely thank you for taking the time to read this incoherent rant about a squid gam #have a lovely day <3333 #oh & high five to anyone who knows what poster i used for reference here hehe..

[shackleton2]

I'm working on this fic where I'm trying to write an emotionally dark take on post-Winter-Soldier recovery, where Steve & Co capture Soldier-Bucky right after the events of Insight, when he's still almost entirely in the grips of Hydra's programming.

I loved this Sebastian Stan quote someone shared on here: “That’s why he doesn’t kill him. That’s why he saves him. That end scene to me was always like: ‘I don’t know what this is, I just know I’m supposed to do this right now. Whatever this is, I’m supposed to protect this for some reason.” I love the heartbreaking urge to protect Steve being impossible to erase or repress despite everything, but what stands out for me is also that this confirms what his expression and act of walking away seem to say on the riverbank: he has no idea what the hell is going on. His brain didn't go "OMG STEVE" and switch him back over to Bucky Barnes in that incredible final moment on the helicarrier—the wall of programming just got its first tiny crack.

It drives me crazy that the Soldier walks away after saving Steve—he wants to know why he saved him, how he knows him, obviously, but he walks away from the simplest way to find those answers-STAY WITH STEVE, drink hot chocolate under blankets with steve!! It also drives my fangirl heart crazy what a stubborn resilient competent independent SOB post-WS Bucky is. He doesn’t trust anyone and he doesn’t want anyone to own him ever again.

He’s got conflicting lines of thought that lead to the same conclusion: He’s programmed to kill Steve, those are his final standing orders, and obeying orders is all he knows. If he wants to keep Steve safe on some level, he knows that won’t be with him, because of those orders, because Hydra owns him. On the other hand, if he’s realized that Hydra is his enemy, he also knows that SHIELD is Hydra, and Cap is affiliated with SHIELD, and thus can’t be trusted to keep Hydra away from him. And/or he disobeyed orders and abandoned his mission, and he doesn’t know why, but he does know the consequences for doing that, and thus has a lot of resentment for the guy that made him do so.

To be clear, I love the Bucky Barnes character and I think any narrative that casts him as a reformed villain who needs to make up for his past actions is bullshit. He is a victim, not only of what was done to him, but also what he was forced with zero agency to do. Having said that, I’m also totally riveted by the Winter Soldier as a bad guy, a threat, a killer. In the MCU movies he goes off after the Insight debacle and somehow deprograms himself all alone, and the next time we see him in Civil War he’s got his sense of himself as Bucky pretty much back—he’s in control of his actions, he knows his and Steve’s history, and he doesn’t want to hurt people. I’m stuck on what else the story could have been instead of the hand-wave transition from brainwashed murderer to Steve Rogers’ loyal friend. The only traumatic encounters with the Soldier Steve experiences are those in the movie where he’s actively trying to kill him, which that’s definitely bad enough for poor Steve—but what about traumatic emotional encounters? What about Steve Rogers trying to talk and reach his friend, but the person he’s talking to is the Soldier immediately post-Insight, still mentally in Hydra’s possession much more than his own?

Anyway one day this little scene came to me and I'm building this WIP, including these notes, around it. Successfully? Who knows, not me.

He regarded Steve through the glass with a hint of curiosity. His voice was soft and quiet. “Why do you come?”

Steve leaned forward and tried to meet those icy eyes. He couldn’t help it. “You’re my friend. You might not remember me, but I will always be your friend.”

The Soldier tilted his head, still questioning. “That’s why you come here?” Every day, Steve thought he heard unspoken; he wasn’t sure whether Bucky registered his presence at all some days, but maybe every instance was recorded in his mind. Maybe not. What happened to a supersoldier brain when it incurred severe sustained deliberate damage was a riddle they were just beginning to examine.

Steve was determined to be steadfast, but there was little he could do to calm the intensity of what he felt. He wanted Bucky to ask these things, because he wanted him to know these things, and he would tell him again and again forever in the hope he would one day believe him and then remember himself.

“I’m here because I want to know how you’re doing. I want you to know I’m here. I’ll come every day unless you tell me honestly you don’t want me to.”

Still the cocked head, the mystified expression. “You come because…he was your friend.”

He leaned in an inch more and found his forehead touching the glass. “You’re my friend. You are Bucky Barnes. You were born in 1917 and we grew up together. You are a good man. What happened to you…was wrong, and I will do everything I can to make it better, for the rest of my life. That’s a promise.”

The cocked head straightened and it looked like some kind of comprehension dawned. He was looking at Steve in a way he couldn’t remember Bucky ever looking before, and after wondering for a few moments Steve realized it was pity on his face.

“You think he’s here.” The look of pity intensified. “You think you...can talk. To him.”

Steve swallowed. “I…I know he is. I don’t know how to convince you it’s true, but I swear it. We played together as kids and then we grew up and lived together and then the war came and we fought together. And now we’re here. I know you don’t remember, Bucky, but there’s no way I’m giving up on you, even if you never do. I know you. I’ve known you as long as I can remember.”

On the other side of the glass Bucky’s expression had settled into the blank resignation the Soldier often wore. He licked his lips, an oddly human gesture that hurt Steve’s heart, and then said, with what might have been an attempt at gentleness, “Your friend. Is gone.”

Steve took a moment, felt his forehead press a little harder on the glass. “If he’s gone, who am I talking to?”

“What,” the Soldier corrected, and then answered, “Hydra.”

He was going to need a lot of punching bags later. “Emotions don’t help,” Natasha had told him, brisk and flint-hard the way she was when she was being kind. “Men think they understand this, but they don’t. Understand it.”

Steve was beginning to understand. He didn’t howl or pound on the glass or leave to find a fight. Instead he swallowed again and asked with a calm that shocked him, “So you…believe in Hydra? In what they do?”

“The Soldier is the fist of Hydra. Weapons don’t believe. They do not need to. The Winter Soldier. Is. Hydra.”

That was the most the Soldier had spoken in one go.

#fanfic ramblings #cookin in my stewpot #post-winter soldier fanfic #steve rogers and bucky barnes #captain america and the winter soldier #struggling with how much i should make him be mean to steve lol #and for how long #and I have a little brainworm that Tony finds out about his parents a different way while the WS is in custody in stark tower #and him and steve fighting causes the soldier to break out to protect steve #🤷🤷🤷 #what happens next?? eww i have to write it to find out???

[mintypsii]

chopper is SICK and TIRED

(redraw of that one textbook pic)

#save my boy chopper #he has no care in the world with ​the poison immunity #chopper needs to let him die honestly just to teach him a lesson 😕😕😕 #slash jay ily loof #u can find the og image by putting the text in the bubble in a search bar #too lazy to link it sorry it's 2 am #ik this is a doodle but im kinda happy with how it turned out lol?? like it sounds silly but i dont hate something ive drawn for once #maybe it's the thick crayon lineart #idk #min try to stick to one artstyle challenge (impossible) #op #one piece #art #monkey d luffy #my art #mintart #tony tony chopper #luffy #fanart

[mf-headcannontap]

MARVEL Headcannon #7:

It was basically confirmed in the Loki series that what passes as candy on Asgard was fruits and nuts. It can be implied that before coming to Earth, dessert for these two would be fruit tarts and fruit cake.

That being said, this is why Thor took such a strong liking to Pop Tarts and why the day the Avengers showed Loki sugar is one that must never be spoken of ever. Let's just say, a kid in a candystore was a more than apt description of what transpired, and there was a reason why Loki had such restricted access to grapes and nuts (and why when pretending to be Odin they indulged on these), a Chaos God on sugar is stuff of nightmares.

Also, Tony will forever be blamed for showing Loki chocolate. The day Loki discovered Chocolate Fountains was a day that still brings chills to those who remember having to separate Loki from it and wrangle the slippery, sugar high god.

#marvel #marvel headcannons #marvel mcu #mcu fix it #loki #thor #asgardian shenanigans #loki has a sweet tooth #thor loves pop tarts #loki is a feral gremlin #shortly after discovering chocolate loki was convinced that fountains of the stuff were inconceivable #boy were they delighted and astonished to find out they were wrong #candy was soon banned from loki's general vincity #let thor and loki indulge in earth stuff #let them actually be aliens #tony stark has RegretsTM after showing these two baking shows #and how to use kitchen appliances

[lilaccatholic]

how do i do it though. how do i let go of the bitterness and the hardness when they kept me "okay" for so long? does it come when i finally leave? can it ever?

#babes i actually relate to the frigid angry woman more than im comfortable with but this time there's no prince coming to save her and idk #i was never beautiful but i was and am angry and capable and that's served me well but being angry is exhausting #it's a birthright i can't give to a younger sibling. it doesn't transfer. #i dont inspire devotion. there's no version of this that ends with me waltzing with a true love. #im not the type you launch a thousand ships for. #so what's left? #who am i when i have no one? when ive spent my life making *me* less to make others more? when im nothing but a useful piece of furniture. #i know God loves me! i love Him! but it's not the same. i want *people* to love me. i want to be someone that theyd fight for. #im feeling that 'women have minds and hearts but im so lonely' scene from little women 2019 so much right now. #except im not jo. my family loves me but theyd never do for me what jo's would do for her. theyre also all focused on surviving. #i feel like a military ration. there to be consumed but cast aside the moment something more palatable comes around. #how do i become consumed with joy? how do i let go of the cynicism? its all thats kept me safe! but its choking me too. #its like tony stark in iron man 2. the thing thats kept me alive this far is killing me. i need to find an alternative but its looking like #ill have to synthesize a new element to make it happen and that freaks me out. #ive always been derivative. never an individual. how do i become a trailblazer when my job was always to hold the hand of the one blazing #the trail? how do i become myself happy and free? #because i WANT to be more #i WANT to be more than anger and coldness and a useful idiot. i WANT to be me and be so so happy #but i dont know how to get there #and if someone suggests therapy im shooting you. i dont want to listen to one more person pretend to care about me and tell me #all the things i need to change and spend even longer not learning how to think for myself #i want to be more than this. but i also cant stand the thought of taking up any more space than i do #anyway. #anyone who's read all this thank you and i promise im fine im just in my feelings today lol #im going to work out and get some happy brain chemicals flowing and then ill take a shower and itll all be good. #please dont worry about me! im just having A Moment TM #lilac rambles

[klonoadoortophantomile]

killing him with my mind (affectionate)

#ignore the text on the first image it was originally a doodle frm my math homework.. #and the bad cropping / formatting / whatever the hell #the image would be too long if i made it seperate #at least it looked that way for me idk #scribbles #furry tag #mother series #tony earthbound #<- very nervous actually tagging stuff be nice okay? okay #i might post more mother art eventually i just liked how these turned out #tony my friend tony .. #my brain has gotten very attacthed to him i kinda forgot abt all the dialogue from the start of the game #where it was all like tutorial stuff framed as studying for school or whatever by the time i got to his phonecall so when he mentioned the #project i immediately interpreted it as him just making assignments video game related cuz. i do that . lmao #so like in my brain hes a huge nerd abt games n stuff… #also hes just silly i dont get how some ppl find him annoying #hes literally just some guy !!!!!!! #okay rambling over bye 👍

[rqnanced]

don’t get me wrong i love that season seven is letting us relive the beginning of choni, but i really wish more of it was from toni’s pov, we got cheryl’s the first time and we already know she’s struggling with comphet mainly because of her family/upbringing (which is totally valid of course) but i really wanted to see more of toni’s perspective this time around since in all six prior seasons we’ve rarely seen it

#love cheryl but we barely know anything about toni outside of her relationships with others #the most we’ve gotten is mentions that her parents disowned her and she lives with her grandma #like they could’ve had cheryl and toni become friends or smth and then toni’s parents find out toni’s bi and kick her out #and cheryl could’ve reassured her about it or smth while they figured out what to do about their relationship #that way we could sort of flip the whole cheryl relying on toni but toni gets no support thing antis complain about #idk how much sense this makes lmao #choni #riverdale choni #toni topaz #riverdale #riverdale season 7

[daphnalia]

hermie being left alone for two months was arguably the saddest thing in this episode

#dndads #do you think may hales fed him #shed start eating at daddies #and like #heat up pizzas #and they would sit and listen to the kiddads and willy #tears are rolling down my face #i cant wait two weeks to find out if hes olay wtf??? #if hes dead ill #i dont even know what ill do #idk i heard someone taæk about the lonely stuff and how hermie probably has it now that tonys dead #AND THAT IS SUCJ A COOL THEORY #Anywho #hermie the unworthy #beloved

[aurumacadicus]

Anyway I haven’t seen it yet (doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist, just that I haven’t seen it, and the internet is vast and I am one person so) but how about Arranged Marriage MerMay???

The Landwellers are becoming powerful, the Merfolk realize. No longer are they taking to the seas just to explore. Their ships have dangerous weapons now, and they fight each other ruthlessly, until the detritus of the fallen ship lands on the sea floor for them to clean up. The Merfolk have been excluded from these battles, but they realize it can only be a matter of time. Landwellers can’t get them in the Deep, but the Merfolk who live closer to shore, the ones in coastal communities living in peace with the Landwellers, they’re frightened. “They keep taking men out of their homes to board ships,” they tell Queen Sarah tearfully. “What if they find chains for us next?”

Queen Sarah has seen the horrors of war. She lost her dear husband before her kingdom banded together to protect her and her single surviving egg. The last thing she wants is for her people to be pulled into another war, especially against their will. “I’m sorry, Steven,” she tells him gently. “I wish you could have married for love, but we need a treaty sealed with blood, not pearls. The Landwellers might ask for more pearls. They’d be bound legally and morally to protect their own heir’s spouse and his lands, though.”

“I understand,” Steve answers solemnly. And he does. He had always known there were limitations to his happiness as heir to the throne, after all.

Sarah sends scouts for likely candidates, but most of them return shaking their heads, mouths set in apologetic grimaces. She and Steve despair. More ships have fallen to the sea floor recently. Some of the coastal Merfolk have fled to deeper waters in fear.

Bucky returns, and he says, “It’s a small kingdom, but mighty, I think,” and Sarah goes to meet King Howard and Queen Maria of the Stark Kingdom.

Howard drives a hard bargain. He’d been planning his son’s marriage to a different kingdom, and his daughter is too young so she’s out of the question. He demands that Sarah’s kingdom provide Merfolk to guide ships to their destinations safely, to warn of bad weather or misdirection or enemy war ships. He demands the coastal Merfolk be obligated to warn of approaching enemies. He demands the sharing of technologies. He demands that should any of the Stark fleet sink, the Merfolk recover as many bodies and as much cargo as they can and return it for them.

He also offers full citizenship and all the safety that entails to the coastal Merfolk, though. He offers Landweller food in times of scarcity, any materials the Merfolk might need for building or hunting. He offers to build a small castle on the cove closest to open ocean for Steven and his son, Anthony to live, so that Steven might have the same comfort of visitors as his son. He does not ask for money or pearls. He offers her a chest of gold coins. His Queen at his side lifts her head proudly as she displays it.

Sarah has no idea what she’ll do with gold coins except maybe keep them in case she needs to barter with Landwellers at some point, but she agrees, and says that Steven and Anthony will be married when the castle on the cove is completed.

Steve goes and investigates the construction regularly. He doesn’t come out of the sea, but he does watch people hauling stone and wood and hay. It really is a small castle. Nothing like the one he lives in at home. Not opulent like the one at the capital that he’d peeped after going to retrieve his mother to prove they were earnest. They make a moat from the sea up to the castle so that he can swim in. He considers sneaking in after everyone has left for the day, but there are guards, and he worries they might think he doesn’t trust them, so he dives back under the water and goes home.

It seems like the castle takes forever to be built. It also seems like it is finished much too soon.

Steve puts on his armor, shells shining in the sunlight when they surface at the end of the deck where he’s to marry the Landweller prince. There’s more of a crowd than he expected, and he appreciates his mother’s forethought to bring double the amount of guards and all of his friends.

The Landweller prince’s smile doesn’t meet his eyes. Steve laments not pushing to meet earlier. He laments that his own smile doesn’t reach his eyes, either.

“You didn’t come during construction,” Anthony says after Steve has swam through the waterways into their bedroom. “I couldn’t ask how you wanted things decorated. How you eat and sleep. I asked the local Merfolk for ideas, but I couldn’t be sure.”

Steve notices that Anthony is twisting the bracelet he’d given him at their marriage ceremony around his wrist, the tiny shells glittering in the dim lamp light. He hasn’t taken it off. It makes something flip in his chest. “I’m sorry. This is all fine.”

Anthony turns to frown at him. “I don’t want you to be fine. I want you to be comfortable.”

“I’ve never dwelt anywhere that isn’t my home. I wouldn’t be perfectly comfortable anyway,” Steve says, not unkindly. He swims a circle around the pond he’s ended up in. “This is a fine size for sleeping. I’ll tell you if I need any changes after I have some time to adjust.”

Anthony looks pleased with his decision, even if he does frown a little at how shallow the water is. “Alright. Shall I get in with you, then?”

Steve pauses, then turns to face him, frowning. “I wasn’t aware Landwellers also slept in water?” he says, eyeing the bed that Anthony is sat on.

Anthony gives him a flat stare. “We don’t. But we must consummate the marriage.”

Steve stares back at him, stunned. “You want to… consummate. The marriage. With me.”

“With who else would I consummate it?” Anthony asked icily.

“Do we even have the parts for that?” Steve asks, bewildered. “Anthony, one of us could get hurt!”

“I’ve done my research,” Anthony says, and then, “Stop calling me Anthony. I go by Tony among friends.”

“Tony,” Steve repeats thoughtfully, and then nearly swallows his tongue. “Research?!”

“It’s not a true marriage if it’s not consummated,” Tony says. He sounds so reasonable. “At least, that’s what my mother told me. She might have also said that to get grandchildren out of me, though.”

“Grandchildren,” Steve repeats faintly.

Tony scowls at him. “I’m not barren, Steven. My father married me off because he doesn’t believe omegas can rule the throne. Now my sister can inherit, since I’m married off and out of the way.”

“Omega,” Steve repeats, even quieter, and suddenly realized why Howard did not ask for money. Howard assumed he was paying the dowry.

Tony frowns at him in concern. “Do you not call them omegas where you come from, Steven?”

Steve does not know how to explain that “omegas” don’t exist in Merfolk, especially with so many species being able to change their gender if they wish. Some Merfolk choose not to identify as a gender at all. They either produce eggs or produce sperm. He doesn’t know how Tony’s body works. He is suddenly, infinitely terrified of being unable to please him properly. It didn’t even occur to him to do his own… research.

“Steven?” Tony asks, and he sounds so small, curling in on himself nervously, as if Steve’s hesitation is his fault.

“I would like to get to know you first,” Steve says, and it’s not even a lie, even if it is also to buy time for himself. “I’ve never had the opportunity to know a Landweller, and now I’m married to one. Surely we should at least know more than each other’s names before we know each other’s bodies.”

“Oh, well, I… I suppose,” Tony agrees, and he sounds hesitant, but he also sounds somewhat pleased. “Okay, Steven.”

Steve smiles at him encouragingly. “Please, call me Steve. Is there anything you’d like to know about me? I don’t mind talking before we go to sleep.”

“Is it true that you can propel yourself to leap ten feet out of the water?!” Tony asks, enthused, and Steve suddenly finds himself smitten with this side of him, earnest and curious instead of quiet and poised.

“I can jump much higher than that,” Steve answers, hoping he sounds at least half as charmed as he feels so Tony doesn’t lose his nerve. “I’ll show you tomorrow.”

“I look forward to it,” Tony says happily, then adds, “Oh, you can ask me anything you like too, Steve.”

“Do you have a favorite fish to eat? Mine is eel,” Steve says, folding his arms over the edge of the pool and leaning his head on them to listen to Tony chatter about the pros and cons of each seafood dish his country offers.

#ideas #stony #mermay #omegaverse #Tony: I do hope that I’ve researched coitus properly <:(c #Steve: *internally screaming* WHY DID I THINK WE WOULDN’T HAVE SOME FORM OF CONSUMMATION #Steve: Hey Bucky how do I find out how humans fuck #Bucky: I cannot even begin to tell you how much pain and dismay you cause me daily

[idk-bruh-20]

Irondad fic ideas #85

Peter sees the blind lawyer dropping his walking stick and parkouring the hell all over New York every few days and he's like, Gosh. Bestie must lose so many walking sticks. So, Spider-Man collects the walking sticks for a while and eventually leaves them in Matt's apartment like a bouquet.

Bonus:

He even uses a hot glue gun and some paper to leave a note in Braille: "Keep better track of your stuff :) From Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man"

#just keep picturing a bouquet of walking sticks wrapped in spiderweb lmaoo #matt: torn between kicking peter's ass and thanking him #like how can this kid be SUCH a little shit and also so overwhelmingly considerate #irondad fic ideas #I know this one isn't so much irondad related but like #my boy peter is SO kind and also SO cheeky :) #I thought this kinda still fit #if you want to make it irondad #you can have peter use tony's soldering iron instead of a hot glue gun #or maybe have tony find out about peter's collection of walking sticks #and peter's just like: my friend keeps losing them :) #tony: ....how does? someone lose a walking stick?? if they need it to walk??? #peter: YEAH THAT'S WHAT I KEEP SAYING #he's worse than me with the backpacks!!! #irondad fic idea #fic ideas #fic idea #peter parker #matt murdock #netflix daredevil

[imperialstark]

steve meeting a young tony rotten with grief after december 16, 1991 and thinking "oh. he's like me."

#stony #stevetony #tony stark #steve rogers #was thinking about this charming man which of course sent my brain on a spiral #like what if steve and tony met right after howard died #how would grief taint the way they see howard and the way the see each other? #like i feel like both tony and steve repress their emotions but in like wildly different ways #tony needs something else to drown it out #i think it's no coincidence that he enters his “playboy” era in his twenties quite literally right after howard and maria die #he wants to feel anything and everything but the pain #and then STEVE #steve simply does not acknowledge his grief #he's doing just fine thank you. is there anything he can do to help you. anything at all. (anything to forget) #and just like this steve and this tony seeing each other and finding the perfect (toxic) distraction 💖 #not the healthiest dynamic but it's fiction so who cares #marvel #mcu

[ask-ursa-tonypeter]

[fic: DB] Tony, how challenging has it been to dismantle all of your evil self’s carefully laid plans? Also, have you reached out to your old friends (Rhodey, Pepper, Happy)? How do you explain to them what happened?

I'm working on it. Backing out means giving a lot of dangerous people a lot of reasons to be very mad at me, so it's a delicate thing. And "delicate" isn't exactly my forte.

…Reaching out is… Peter needs someone other than me around, but I don't want anyone else to get tangled up in what I've been doing. ...Or what I might have to keep doing in the meantime.

So that's on pause until I have a better plan.

#fic: double blind #double blind: tony #ursa interlude: #this is such a good question because it's honestly why I ended the fic where I did #slash do not have much motivation for a sequel #BECAUSE #as interesting as I find the idea of exploring their relationship in the aftermath #when it comes to the “how optimistic are we that cured!tony would be able to back out of this without Consequences” question #I am actually on the more-pessimistic-than-not side #and that just does not gel with the semi-hopeful circumstances I wanted to end on skdfjlsdjk #I do want them to have a happy ending here but yikes I sure fucked 'em up on multiple fronts!!!

[moider-time]

Not Wakanda Forever sliding into the fucking abyss after only like 2 months (tbh I stopped hearing abt it after like 3 weeks) even though it was one of the most profound and heartfelt movies the MCU has ever released.

But ppl will still be talking about Multiverse of Madness or Thor: Love and Thunder. This is the same thing that happened with the first Black Panther and it's fucking enraging

#marvel #mcu #black panther #black panther wakanda forever #wakanda forever #this is exactly how you'll find how many fanfic about peter parker or tony stark #but when it comes to t'challa or shuri? barely a drop in the bucket #especially in comparison to how ppl were praising both black panther movies like no one's business #for the first month anyway #it's not just fanfic it's media abt them in general #idk if it's that ppl don't want to write abt the fictional african country in case they offend ppl or if it's racism but it's smth #and it's not as if i don't like peter or tony but ffs why do t'challa and shuri always have to be regulated to side characters in fics #it's annoying #dw once i finish my exams and start writing properly it's gonna be over for you bitches #fanfics out the wazoo