#mary and richard parker suck

[i-have-one-braincell]

You mentioned not liking some parts of the show (usm), could you elaborate?

Oh boy where do I start😭😭

A few obvious complaints would be the fourth wall and overuse humour. The humour just felt very forced and shoved on my face and the fourth wall wasn’t helpful, if anything, I found him to be pretty annoying but not as annoying as Marvel’s Spider-Man, I couldn’t go past the first two episodes of msm unlike usm😅😅. The fourth wall did work well in the Deadpool episode since Deadpool is the KINGG of fourth walls break unlike Spider-Man, it basically felt as if Peter was another version of Deadpool with the constant fourth walls.

At least it changed in the last seasons but the show at that point kinda sucked for me.

Another complaint would be the characters. I love the team, I really do, but they just were kinda bland for me. They were assholes to Peter and never saw them interact with each other if it wasn’t Spider-Man/ SHIELD related. I wouldn’t mind if the show started with them disrespecting Peter and then visually appreciating his leadership and learning about his reasoning why he does what he does up to the first 2 seasons, in the show they just act like coworkers or kids forced to partner up for a school project. It unforgivable on my part that they wouldn’t appear again in the 3rd and last seasons since I actually grew to care for them in the 2nd season.

SHIELD was also an issue for me. I HATEDDD how Fury just spied and followed a 16 yr old boy just to recruit him and taking over his school life, the only normal part of him being Peter Parker without the need for Spider-Man. As well as the amount of cameras in his house which honestly was pretty disgusting😭 like why do they need a camera in the bathroom and the bedrooms????? I understand the intention but c’mon, the bathroom and bedroom???

A small ick of mine would be the lack of THE Johnny Storm and Fantastic 4 in the show. We had THE Thing, aka Ben Grimm, and freaking HERBIE, A FREAKING ROBOT FROM THE GROUP AND YET THEY DONT GIVE US JOHNNY STORM😭😭😭

I would KILLL for Johnny and Spider-Man to appear together and have an episode together to see them interact. Spider-Man would’ve geeked out with Reed Richards, he would have a pure sisterly relationship with Sue Storm. I was just soo disappointed😭😭

And to top it off, the main MAIN complaint of the show would be Spider-Man himself and how the writers handles him.

Aside from his fourth wall breaks and humour being annoying to me, his voice was slightly annoying😅. I would blame it on the direction of the writing since Drake Bell voicing Peter Parker in The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes was very well done, he was given a proper script in that show but in usm, he just…was eh. I gotten used to his voice in the show but it’s not my favorite, I usually prefer Josh Keaton from Spectacular Spider-Man or Yuri from the PS4/5 Spider-Man games voices when I write Peter in my fics.

I very much hate how a ton of Peter’s struggles were stripped away. Such as balancing school and Spider-Man, his grades dropping, his relationship with Aunt May, finding a job to support him and his aunt, how his relationship affects not just Harry but to MJ as well.

In the show, nearly everything was solved for him. He doesn’t stress about school and his grades cuz SHIELD is now taking care of that issue for him. He doesn’t worry about a strained relationship with his aunt since Aunt May is already working alll day and can sneak out easily without her knowing so no stress about curfews. Apparently money isn’t an issue in his life despite living in a 2-story house in Queens, New York that expects the yearly income to live there being over $44k(got that from GOOGLE 💀). Peter not interacting that much with Mary Jane is odd since apparently they knew each other for years, much longer than Harry, and yet Peter interacts and prioritizes Harry more than MJ throughout the seasons.

It honestly just feels as if the Peter Parker life is slowly being stripped away by his Spider-Man alter ego. There’s more Spider-Man struggles than Peter Parker struggles and it gets even worse in the last season with the SHIELD Academy since its JUST Spider-Man in the season. He eats, sleeps, and most likely showers and poops with the costume on💀.

The entire point of Spider-Man is maturity. He’s a kid forced to grow up into an adult after Uncle Ben died with Aunt May being the only one in his life to protect and support. The show just took away that struggle from Peter and it was just extremely disappointing to not explore Peter’s life. They focused more on having Spider-Man being a cool character than focusing on how cool Peter is as a person aside from being Spider-Man.

This show has a soft spot in my heart. I grew up with the show and introduced me to characters like Iron Fist and White Tiger but the premise wasn’t well handled.

#i had to include my rant of the lack of Johnny Storm #show had a good premise but the execution was a bit of a let down #asks #i would still pick this show over msm tho #sorry 😭😭😭

[soralinklokidottirofmirkwood]

Little Kitten: babysitter Peter x Baby Stark reader.

Age: 2 months old. reader is Peter's neighbors newborn daughter but what he doesn't know is that they are SHIELD scientist that are related to his idol and mentor. Civil war doesn't happen, Peitro lives and this is before Home coming.

Peter is sitting in his living room, watching T.V, holding you, his neighbors 2 month old newborn daughter and feeding you your formula. It was just a normal Friday afternoon, he had just gotten home from school, changed for his patrol, stopped a few robberies and muggings, got home at six and decided to goof off the rest of the day until his neighbors knocked on his door to ask him to watch over you while they went away on a business trip.

Flashback two hours ago:

"We know it's last minute Peter but we'll pay you." Your mother said apologetically. Peter didn't mind watching you he absolutely adored you "No need to worry Mr and Mrs L/N! I love Y/N, I don't mind watching her." As Peter says this your father pulled out his wallet and gave Peter the money "Thank you Peter. Your really helping us. Ohh M/N we have to go our plane leaves at midnight and it's six thirty." Your father told your mother as he gave Peter your Diaper bag and gently put your pink baby carrier down with you sleeping in it. They kissed your tiny forehead and gave Peter a list of things and a spare key in case he needed something from your apartment.

End of flashback:

As Peter is sitting he hears a small cough meaning you were done eating "Done eating princess?" He asked you while gently prompting you on his shoulder to burp you. As he is gently patting your back you let out a huge burp "wow Y/N that was a good one." Peter said happily making you squeal from happiness as your little tail sways. Peter's phone rang "Hey Ned what's up? Ohh sure bring the snacks. Alright see you when you get here." Ned hangs up and Peter sees that you have fallen asleep. "It is eight. Mr L/N said she falls asleep at this time. Good thing Mrs L/N said she had her bath already." Peter said to himself about to put you in your bassinet until he heard the door opening and closing seeing his aunt May come in "Welcome home Aunt May." Peter said "Thank you Peter. Ohh Y/N is here?" she asked noticing you asleep in the 15 year olds arms "the L/N's dropped her off at six thirty. They had an important business trip at the last minute." Peter told his aunt who gently kissed your forehead "Did she eat?" She asked Peter who nodded "Alright I'll take over since you and Ned are having your Sleepover/ Movie marathon." She said "No you can go to bed. You've been at work and deserve a break." Peter said while Putting you in your bassinet as you suck on your pacifier. May accepted the offer and went to take a shower. As soon as she left a knock is heard "Ohh Ned is hear." Peter said walking to the door and opening it revealing his best friend "Hey man. Ready for our sleepover/Movie night?" Ned asked enthusiastically but quietly seeing you asleep in your bassinet."yeah. let's get this party started." Peter said helping Ned with the snacks.

In the Morning:

Peter and Ned are in the living room watching TV with your in your swing while May made breakfast but the channel the boys were on turned to the news and what they heard was devastating. "A SHEILD Jet Carrying two well known scientist M/N and F/N L/N who are actually M/N and F/N Stark the aunt and uncle of Tony Stark was attacked by two HYDRA jets at 1:30 AM. They were carrying copies of documents that the late Richard and Mary Parker were carrying with animal DNA." Peter, Ned and May were shocked "Your neighbors are related to Tony Stark?" Ned asked "I've been babysitting my mentors/idols cousin?" Peter asked "Does Tony know about her?" May asked "Maybe we should head to the tower. To see if Mr Stark is okay." Peter said "Great idea Peter." Said his aunt "but we may need to go to the neighbors apartment, Y/N's running out of diapers and needs more clothes." Ned said revealing that you only had 3 diapers left and one outfit.

In your parents apartment: your Nursery.

They entered your apartment to see it clean "looks like they cleaned before they left!" Ned said as they crossed over the living room into your nursery and began packing your stuff into over night bags "alright that's all her clothes along with her favorite stuffed animals." May said putting you in a cute pink onesie with a matching bow carefully with your ears and tail.

At the tower:

The trio entered the tower with you in your stroller, May Pushing you, Peter carrying your bags and Ned carrying your bassinet "welcome back to the tower Peter, Ned, May and unknown baby. How ever Mr Stark and the other avengers except for Mr Laufeyson and Mr Barnes are in a meeting with Mr Furry you are welcome to wait in the living room!" FRIDAY said as they entered the elevator. May took the car-seat part out so the boys can fold up the stroller so they don't end up rolling dirt on the expensive looking carpet. They entered the living room to see Loki and Bucky sitting on the couch Loki reading a book and Bucky flipping through channels "Hi Mr Bucky and Mr Loki." Peter said to the god of Mischief and ex H.Y.D.R.A assassin who both smiled at the trio "Hello son of Parker, son of Leeds and Lady May." Loki said as Bucky had a curios look "who's baby is that?" He asked pointing to a sleeping you in the car seat as Peter gently put you down "Mr Stark's little cousin. Pete's been her babysitter since she was 10 weeks old." Ned said causing Peter to lightly punch him "DUDE?" Peter said blushing "Boys behave!" May said taking you out gently since you just woke up Loki and Bucky could only stare at you. Loki got up from his seat, put his book down and gently rub your fluffy ears making you purr and squeal in delight "Greetings young Stark." Loki said to you "she's really Tony's aunt and uncles kid?" Bucky asked lightly petting your head with his flesh arm "yes. I honestly didn't know until I heard the news this morning." Peter said as he took you from his aunt making you squeal more "she seems to like you Peter." Loki said smiling at the sight of you patting Peter's lap in excitement until the sound of a door opening and closing was heard along with voices. The avengers entered the room furious "I can't believe Eyepatch sent them on this trip knowing they have a 2 month newborn baby." Tony said angrily walking into the room with the other hero's who agreed and plopped onto the couch "Pete did you and that Lizz girl finally get together? And are those cat ears and a tail?" Tony asked gesturing to you "Mr Stark, she's your cousin. Your aunts and uncles child. I've been babysitting." Peter said giving you to your adult cousin who is amazed along with the other avengers "A human with animal features? Amazing!" Bruce said gently rubbing your ears earning a purr from you making Natasha, Wanda, Clint, Peitro and Sam squeal from your cuteness "awww she's cute." Wanda fan girls "I wanna take her home to my farm." Clint said wanting to hold you "how is this possible." Steve asked in wonder "I'm not sure all I know is that Mr and Mrs Stark was transporting copies of documents with animal DNA that my parents had." Peter said making everyone freeze in shock "I didn't know they were SHIELD agents or related to Mr Stark until this morning." Peter said gently "I can't believe my aunt and uncle had a child but didn't tell me. Until I heard it from the news and Furry today." Tony said bouncing you up and down lightly in his arms making you squeal in delight.

At night:

It had been a long day for everyone. May, Loki, Bucky and the older avengers started decorating a room close to Tony's room for your new nursery while Peter, Ned, Vision and the twins are watching you.

It was 7:30 by the time the avengers finally finished your new nursery "She's going to love her new room." Tony said proudly while May and Nat folded and put away the last of your clothes "Peter should have given her a bath by now." May said looking at the time seeing how it's almost your bedtime.

Peter is washing off the lather from your body as your playing with the rubber bath toys excitedly "Alright your all clean princess." Peter smiled at you as he dresses you.

Tony walks into the bathroom "ohh Pete good timing. Y/N's new nursery is ready." Tony said gesturing for Peter to follow him.

Tony and Peter stopped outside a door next to Tony's and Pepper's room with your name on it "Alrighty kids here we are." Tony said as he opens the door.

When you saw the room excitement bubbled up within you making everyone smile "She really loves the room." Clint said. All the excitement has made you sleepy "Alright everyone I wanna put my baby cousin to sleep." Tony said taking you from Peter's arms "good night princess." Peter said kissing your head along with Ned and May "see you tomorrow kiddo." Ned said "See you in the morning sweetheart." May said all the other avengers, Loki and Bucky gladly kissed your forehead and said their good nights. Tony gently placed you in your new crib, tucked you in, gave you a kiss to the forehead, turned on the nightlight and turned off the light.

3 weeks later:

It was the day of your parents funeral. All the avengers, Pepper and May are going while Peter, Ned and MJ stayed to watch you and Morgan with Friday on baby mode "The funeral will be aired live on the news, there is leftover pizza in the fridge for you three and Morgan and baby formula in Y/N's cabinet." Tony told the three teens who managed to console Tony "You have nothing to fear Mr Stark." Ned told the billionaire "alright we'll be back late by 11:00." All the adults gave you and Morgan goodbye kisses before they left.

After the funeral finished Peter, MJ and Ned played with you and Morgan all day. They took you to the park for fresh air, MJ was pushing you on the swing, Peter, Ned and Morgan played on the slides. Then they took you to the mall and found cute avenger themed onesies and plushies including Spider-Man onesies and plushies for you and Morgan paying with one of Tony's credit cards. After the mall you and Morgan were given bathes and changed into your new spider man onesies. After being cleaned Morgan, MJ, Peter and Ned had pizza for lunch while You drank formula.

After lunch the three teens played with you and Morgan more. Morgan and the boys build Lego models, MJ was drawing and you played with your new plushies on your play mat. After building up a model of the Death Star the three teens decided to put on a movie.

At night:

All of you are sitting on the couch with you cuddling Peter. At the middle of the movie it was 10 and all of you fell fast asleep and the adults came home early "That was one long after party." Clint said taking off his tux blazer and loosing his tie while the other male avengers did the same while Wanda, Natasha, May and Pepper took their heels off. All of them walked into the living room to see the most adorable site before them Peter, Ned, MJ and Morgan are all asleep on the couch with you asleep on Peter's chest and Morgan asleep besides Peter, you and Morgan wore spider man onesies but you were cuddling a spider man plushy "Awww." The girls said together taking pictures Tony gently took you from Peter, Thor took Morgan to bed and May gently shake's the three teens awake "Good work you three. And I see you used one of my credit cards." Tony said gesturing to your onesie and plushy "ohh we went overboard with shopping. We saw these cute onesies and plushies at the avengers store then we saw a spider man merchandise store we just had to buy the stuff." Peter said showing the receipt which Tony gladly took "At lease they aren't super expensive." Tony said looking it over "Still though thank you for watching the girls." Pepper said paying the three teens for her husband "No problem Mrs Stark." The three said together happy to help when needed.

#platonic #MCU #marvels #tony stark #pepper potts #natasha romanov #thor odinson #loki laufeyson #clint barton #spider man #the avengers

[haghottie420]

Blazed (Smoking Weed is Gay) (16830 words) by GreendaleHumanBeing Chapters: 7/7 Fandom: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man/Deadpool - Joe Kelly (Comics), Deadpool - All Media Types, Deadpool (Comics), Spider-Man (Comicverse), Deadpool (Movieverse) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Peter Parker/Wade Wilson, Past Gwen Stacy/Mary Jane Watson Characters: Wade Wilson, Peter Parker, Johnny Storm, Gwen Stacy, Mary Jane Watson, Weasel, Reed Richards, Tony Stark, Aunt May, May Parker (Spider-Man) Additional Tags: Bisexual Peter Parker, Stoner Peter Parker, Recreational Drug Use, Weed, So much oui'd y'all, John Waters references, Wade Loves John Waters, Burnt Out Peter Parker, Peter is like 26, ACAB, Twilight References, Banter, God so much banter, Kissing, Texting, Gratuitous Emojis, Bisexual Gwen, Nosy MJ, Capitalism sucks, Shitty Day Job, Sister Margret's is Hellhouse, Merc Bar, Weasel is perpetually stoned, Can you imagine how many weed strains are probably named after avengers here omg, Johnny Storm is a good dude, Bisexual MJ, Gwen Stacy Lives, Brunch, Peter Parker Needs a Hug, leftist peter parker, I'd give it all for MJ and Gwen, Tony Stark Has Issues, Tony Stark Is Not Helping, Tony Stark Is A Dick, Sexting, Finally some horny stuff, some angst too, Angst, Peter Sulks, Peter Parker is a Little Shit, Stoner Aunt May, She's finally here, Peter Parker Loves Wade Wilson, Insecure Wade Wilson, More weed smoking, Gwen's GF reveal, John Waters, twilight - Freeform Summary:

Peter is burnt out. Wade has been watching a lot of cult classics. Everyone tells them they're in love. Five times these fucking nerds smoke weed together.

Peter’s high is fading into a disgruntled sleepiness. Does Johnny not understand simple math? Peter is a washed-up hero disenchanted by even being a hero by night. He hustles to make it up to communities affected by his past reckless hero-ing. And the rest of the time he’s a washed-up grad student turned line-cook. Smoking weed at the end of long days wondering how long he can keep up. Why would anyone waste their time with him romantically? Even Peter doesn’t like wasting time with himself.

Johnny actually has the gall to turn around and glare at Peter before turning back to his phone.

flame emoji smoke emoji clown emoji (12:53 AM): you need to work on that ‘self loathing’ shit flame emoji smoke emoji clown emoji (12:53 AM): tht motherfucker is head over dick 4 u

(Since I've written this fic about two years ago, it's gotten a lot of traction lately! So much so that I'm working on aa sequel rn :) I just wanted to share this news w. the COMMUNITY as a whole <3)

#my fic #spideypool #stoner peter parker #burnt out bisexual stoner peter parker #wade wilson #peter parker #stoner spideypool #they smoke a lot of weed #they're just like me fr #fic rec

[bidgies]

2, 3 & 5? :)

Thank you for asking :)

2. Did you reread anything? What?

Yep! I reread Legend by Marie Lu which I first read when I was a teenager. I bought the original English version some years ago but then it was just on my to-read-pile for ages and this year I finally got to it. Still was as amazing as the first read

I also reread Der Scherbensammler by Monika Feth, which is a book I read over and over as a teenager and the only one I was downright obsessed with in the series because of Mina (one of the characters, for those who don't know it). Also still held up very well to my memories

3. What were your top five books of the year?

Okay, let me see...

5. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

This was a very delightful lighthearted murder mystery about some retired old people who solve cold cases in their free time and then decide to solve the actual murder that happens at their retirement home. I still need to check out the rest of the series because this book was really fun

4. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

I was a huge Hunger Games fan back in the day so I had to read this and I actually think this is quite good for a prequel. I was prepared to hate it but it's actually good. Snow is such an odd choice for a main character and POV character because he's such a fucked up human being but also that made the book really interesting

3. The Deep by Rivers Solomon

This was a rather short book but the way it wove intergenerational trauma and memories into the fantasy setting of a sea-dwelling society felt really good and meaningful

2. She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

This was a really awesome historical retelling with fantasy elements that felt super natural and believable. Also I vibed with the gender vibes of the main character. Surprised me by how good it was

1. This Is How You Lose The Time War by Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar

I got sucked in by the tumblr propaganda and it was so worth it. This book is so good but I'll save the detailed thoughts for another ask I got

5. What genre did you read the most of?

Fantasy. 10/23 books

#answering asks

[poems-of-a-lover]

nick watches spiderman

oh boy okay. agh. here we go. right off the bat the opening is just SO good??? its so sick and for what??? the soundtrack to both films also is very clearly 2010s pop music or whatever but still im a fan. shoutout to 2012 and 2014 specifically (bc thats when the movies came out KJHKJASHG)

peter playing hide and seek with his father in the beginning of tasm is very cute until u realize why his fathers hiding =]

AGH. richard parker.

oh yeah i forgot abt the office. so richards office gets broken into and like ransacked bc oscorp employees (????) were looking for his data on the spiders. is this ever stated in either film? no.

anyway! time to abandon our child and leave the country! - richard and mary parker

we learn basically nothing abt mary btw like we have noooo idea who she is shes just there

OKAY ALSO in the first film when theyre leaving richard says "be good" and just shuts the door. in the SECOND one he holds peters hand and rubs his thumb over it then says it and leaves. idk why its different its probably just a mistake but i noticed

FLASH THOMPSON this flash is soooo interesting he has such a fun character

peter being a scrawny brunette white boy and a skater and photographer in like the 2010s and also somehow being single is baffling to me

anyway hes abt to get his shit kicked in

remember how i said flash is a fun character? hes not rn he kinda sucks BUT he gets better

like he hits peter a few times but he gets better i promise

SHOUTOUT TO GWEN shes awesome she doesnt suffer from "only worth being a love interest" disease she actually has a full character

also her checking on peter after the fight is so cute

most of her character development and stuff comes in the second film bc it focuses on their relationship more but its so fun

"ben parker dont u even think abt leaving that filthy box in my kitchen" "these are my bowling trophies" "oh well then by all means please leave that filthy box in my kitchen" I LOOOOVE MAY AND BEN

ben is such a fun father figure for peter. like he says he doesnt know how to parent and take care of him well enough but honestly? he does a pretty good job

THIS. GODDAMN BRIEFCASE. THIS BRIEFCASE RUINS SO MUCH.

"guess who sold it to him? your mother, thats how they met" AGHHHH THATS SOOOO CUTE anyway whatever back to peter

oh yeah the photo of richard and curt. the start of it all. KGJHSKJGH this causes so many issues for everyone now

peter parker in glasses. i wanna be him.

im genuine peter parker is like prime gender envy for me i wanna be him soooo bad

THE DOOR LOCK he managed to build his own remote controlled door lock its so fun

ben is suchhh a good character to compare to richard. bens not even blood to peter but he treated him so incredibly well. and ik richard was in danger and thats why he left but he also just left his son. its more complicated than that for sure but at this point chronologically thats all we know

curt and richard working together is soooo interesting bc richard was just out here working for everyone JGHSKJHG

"youll find your badge to the left" [peter looks for two seconds] "are you having trouble finding yourself?" MAAM GIVE HIM TIME KJGJKSHF

like yes he snuck into this very important building and stole an internship slot from someone else but still!! let the man find a fake name!!!

GWEN oh yeah gwen is dr connors head intern she is so incredibly smart JKGHJSKHGKJ like u see her intelligence a lot more in the second film but shes so smart and i love her so much im a gwen stacy fan

each of the spiderman villains (or marvel in general) either want revenge or to make the world perfect. or both. gimme somethin new. /LHLH ITS FUN I ENJOY THE LIZARD PLOT

"hes second in his class" "second?" "yeah" "are you sure about that?" "im pretty sure" peter and gwen my beloveds <333

they have such a fun relationship and it drives me crazy theyre so cute jhafkjhskj even when theyre not together theyre still like. friends. (dont think abt the second movie we're not there yet)

i wish i was watching this with someone so i wouldnt have to explain whats happening on screen while also giving thoughts abt it. whos gonna step up and watch spiderman with me.

PETER. HE JUST BROKE INTO THE BIG SECRET SCIENCE LAB> U CANT JUST.

hes a little stupid

this might go without saying but if ur arachnophobic i do not recommend watching the first movie bc this whole lab sequence is just a shit ton of spiders. the second movie should be good but this one is. not.

anyway peters touching things and its not going well for him

OH YEAH CURTS TALKING ABT NORMAN okay so dr connors work is strictly to work on curing norman osborn bc he has retroviral hyperplasia (the osborn curse) hes not actually working to help ppl, thats not what he was hired for, hes here to help cure norman so that he doesnt die from this disease that no ones cured yet

so what theyre essentially doing is trying cross species genetics to see if some animal with like. self healing abilities. (like a spider) would cure norman if used in the correct way. thats also what richard was working on with him but we dont learn abt that for a while.

ANYWAY MY FRIEND IS DOING STUFF SO IM GONNA PAUSE HERE. ILL PICK BACK UP ON THIS LATER TONIGHT <3

#nick watches spiderman #loooove this movie. here are my thoughts for the first like 20 minutes of it JKGHSKJGHKJ

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

The Birds, the Bats, and the Spiders

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/ub6oaAq

by Athenas_Cat

Peter and Teresa had a pretty intresting life. First being born to Mary and Richard, to parents that hated eachother but loved, maybe, their kids. Well at least Mary does. After jumping the dimentional barrier they were raised by Ben and May. After being dusted they arrive back in their universe. With a mission. Read as they learn, heal and kill, not necassrly in that order. Seriously I suck at summarys, pls just read.

Words: 2251, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, DCU, Batman - All Media Types, X-Men - All Media Types

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death

Categories: F/F, F/M

Characters: May Parker, Peter Parker, Teresa Parker, Infinity Stones - Character, Tim Drake, Jason Todd, Dick Grayson, Bruce Wayne, Selina Kyle, Damian Wayne, Duke Thomas, Barbara Gordon, Cassandra Cain, Stephanie Brown, Rogues Gallery (Batman), Mary Parker (Marvel), Richard Parker, Ra's al Ghul, Talia al Ghul, Roy Harper, other people too i guess, X-Men (Team), mentioned in passing, kinda - Character

Relationships: May Parker (Spider-Man) & Peter Parker & Teresa Parker, Peter Parker & Teresa Parker, Peter Parker & the Infinity Stones, Tim Drake & Peter Parker, Peter Parker & Jason Todd, Dick Grayson & Peter Parker, Peter Parker & Bruce Wayne, Peter Parker & Harleen Quinzel, Pamela Isley & Peter Parker, Pamela Isley/Harleen Quinzel, Selina Kyle & Peter Parker, Peter Parker & Damian Wayne, Peter Parker & Duke Thomas, Barbara Gordon & Peter Parker, Cassandra Cain & Peter Parker, Stephanie Brown & Peter Parker, All of these with Teresa as well, Except the ships, You will have to find those out in the story

Additional Tags: Hydra Kidnaps Peter Parker, Peter Parker Needs a Hug, So does Teresa, they all do, Peter Parker Acts Like a Spider, Peter Parker Has a Knife, As does Teresa, They are deadly siblings, Peter Parker knows many languages, Protective Batfamily (DCU), Good Sibling Jason Todd, All the batkids are good siblings, Fuck Canon, I killed Canon using a batarang, Peter Parker Has Siblings

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/ub6oaAq

#IFTTT #bruce wayne #batman #the dark knight #the cape crusader #gotham #dc universe #ao3 #ao3feed

[enchantedlokii]

It’s Okay

Rating: PG-13

Warnings: language

Characters: Peter Parker, Tony Stark

Mentioned: Richard Parker, Mary Parker, Ben Parker, May Parker, Ned Leeds, Michelle Jones, Howard Stark, Maria Stark, Edwin Jarvis

@whumptober2020 Day Eleven: Crying

Peter was used to having bad days. They came often, if he were being completely honest. But he was lucky. Most kids his age who had been through what he had been through would be a lot worse of than he was. After losing his parents and then his uncle. . . He knew that people worried about him. May worried about him. Ned worried about him. Michelle worried about him. Even his teachers seemed to always have an extra eye out for him. Because he was seen as troubled. He was one of the kids they wouldn’t be surprised if he did something horrible to himself or to someone else. Because it would make sense.

The only person who didn’t seem to be so worrisome about him was Mr. Stark. He imagined it was because the man understood. Peter knew about the car accident; that his parents had been killed when he was young. Sure he was older than Peter when it happened, but he still understood in a way that others didn’t.

What Peter didn’t realize was the fact that this meant Tony was able to see right through his facade that he had started to adopt whenever he was upset.

“Hey, Mr. Stark,” Peter greeted as he stepped into the workshop. He was quick as he went to his desk, putting his backpack down beside him. Normally, the two would work on separate projects unless they needed an extra set of hands. “What are we working on today?”

“Hey, Kid,” Tony replied, glancing up over his shoulder. “I left you some papers over there. Was hoping you could take a look at them. Something isn’t coming out quite right and I can’t find it.”

Peter nodded and picked up the stack of papers, taking out a different colored pen and starting to work through them. He huffed as he got stuck, struggling to remember how the particular equation worked. He scribbled out a piece of his work and tried again, hoping it would work out this time and he could move on. He wasn’t really up for complex calculus today. Or anything, really, but he knew that he couldn’t just ditch on Tony. Especially not now.

“You alright, Pete?” Tony asked, causing Peter to freeze. He put his pen down and turned around with a small smile he hoped was convincing.

“I’m alright,” he told him. “Just having a bit of trouble figuring this out.”

Tony raised an eyebrow and Peter knew immediately that the man didn’t believe him. “What’s up, Underoos? I know that look.” His voice was gentle, more so than normal, and his tone made Peter want to tell him the truth, but he knew he couldn’t. Because this was the last person who saw past everything that happened to Peter and just saw him for himself.

“I’m fine, Mr. Stark,” he pressed, forcing his voice to stay even. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“You’re a terrible liar, you know,” Tony pointed out, standing up and moving his seat to be next to Peter. “I won’t force you to talk about it, but I can tell something’s bothering you. It would make me feel better, and would make you feel better whether you believe it or not, if you didn’t keep whatever it is inside.”

“What makes you think that?” Peter asked. He wasn’t sure exactly if he meant the fact that the man knew something was bothering him or that he would feel better opening up, but he was up for an answer to either.

“Because I used to be the same way,” he said with a small shrug. “Still can be, honestly, but I’m working on that. My dad always said that men aren’t supposed to show emotion and I believed him because everyone loved him. I thought that it would make me weak to tell anyone that I was upset, and it. . .” He trailed off, seeming uncertain whether he should continue or not. He cleared his throat and put a hand on Peter’s knee. “Let’s just say it almost didn’t end well, alright? I don’t want you to have to go through the same sh*t I did because you think you can’t talk to someone.”

Peter felt his breath catch in his chest as he guessed at what the implication might mean. He didn’t dare ask, but he had a good idea. “I don’t want to bother you,” he replied finally. “I’ll be fine, really.”

“You could never bother me, Kid.”

Peter shrugged, uncertain. He could feel tears threaten to spill and didn’t dare try to speak in fear his voice might crack. He felt a hand rest on his back and his lip quivered a bit. “Peter, have I ever told you about Jarvis? The real Jarvis?”

Peter glanced up at the question, a bit confused. He shook his head, still not opening his mouth to form a real answer. He could tell from the look in Tony’s eyes that he knew why, but the man didn’t mention it. Instead, he continued speaking.

“When I was growing up, he was around more than my parents were. He was more like a dad to me than my real dad was, really,” he told him. “Still, I was afraid to talk to him about the things that most kids would talk to their dads about. The yucky stuff. Because I thought that all men must think that made us weak. So, when I was upset about something that had happened at school and Jarvis picked me up, I acted like everything was fine. He saw right through it.”

Peter smiled a bit at that. Because it sounded a lot like the situation he was in right now.

“He asked me what was wrong,” Tony continued. “And at first I wouldn’t tell him, but then he told me something that I have never forgotten. Do you want to know what that was?”

Peter nodded slowly. He had a feeling that whatever it was would be enough to send him over the edge. He knew that’s what Tony wanted, too. He wanted him to break, and not with foul intentions. He wanted to help. Peter knew that. He just wasn’t willing to accept help from him.

“He told me that when people care for you, they’re there for you for the good and the bad,” Tony explained. He moved his hand to Peter’s shoulder and gave it a small squeeze. “I’m not going to make you tell me what’s going on. It’s okay if we’re not there yet, but I hope that you’ll tell someone what’s wrong. And I hope you know that you can always talk to me, okay? I care, Peter.”

Peter took a shaky breath and nodded, unable to keep the tears at bay any longer. He let out a small sob and bent over, his body shaking as he started to cry. He was surprised, even after the conversation, when Tony pulled him close, pressing his head against his own chest and rubbing the back of his neck. “It’s okay,” he whispered. “Just let it out, Buddy.”

Peter wrapped around him and buried his face into the man’s chest, just above where he knew the arc reactor once was. He found hismelf clinging to his shirt as if he would disappear if he were to let go. “Please don’t leave me,” he whimpered. “Please don’t leave.”

“I wouldn’t dream of it,” Tony promised. “I’m not going anywhere.”

And he didn’t. He stayed there until Peter’s sobs died down and he loosened his vice grip on the man’s shirt. “Feel better now?” he asked, one hand still rested at the base of Peter’s neck.

Peter nodded against his chest. “A-a little,” he admitted. “This probably sounds really dumb, but I-I think maybe I just. . . I let it all build too long.”

“It’s not dumb,” Tony assured him. “It happens sometimes, and that’s perfectly okay. It’s perfectly normal. It’s okay to get worked up and need to let it out. Don’t let anyone tell you it’s not.”

Peter sighed and slowly pulled away, glancing down at his feet as he clasped his hands together. “You’re going to worry about me all the time now,” he murmured, bringing a hand up to wipe his tears on his sleeve. “Aren’t you?”

“I’ve always worried about you, Pete,” Tony told him. He must have noticed the way Peter deflated, because he moved a hand to the boy’s chin and lifted it until he looked him in the eyes. Peter would have hated it if it weren’t for the soft expression he gave. “People worry about you because they care about you. There’s nothing wrong with that.”

“But—”

“No, there’s no buts to it,” Tony interrupted him sternly. “Do you not worry about the people you care about? About May? Your friends?”

“Yeah,” Peter replied quickly. “Of course I do.”

“How is it any different that we worry about you?” he asked gently. When Peter didn’t replied right away, he continued. “I’m going to take a wild guess and say you’re tired of sympathy.”

Peter blinked in surprise. “How do you know that?”

“Because I get it,” Tony shrugged. “You think that people only worry about you because you’re an orphan. Because you’ve lost people you love. Because you’re different than they are. You’ve had it happen so much that it’s hard to know who really cares and who’s just acting. Trust me, Peter. I understand how that feels. I know it sucks. I know you’re worried that people are going to turn their backs on you when you need them most. And I promise you— I swear on my life that I will never do that to you.”

“This isn’t going to change anything?” Peter asked quietly.

“It’s not going to change anything,” Tony confirmed with a reassuring smile. “Except that now you know that you can come to me for anything. I don’t care if it’s something as trivial as a girl not liking you back, I’ll be here to listen. I’m here for the good and the bad, Pete. If you want me to be that person.”

Peter smiled at the implication of his words. He was willing to be the figure in his life that Jarvis had been to him. He told him that Jarvis was like a father to him more than his own father, and he had just openly admitted that he would be that for Peter. He cared for Peter in the way Jarvis had cared for him. He had even, for the first time, given Peter a real hug. He had broken the invisible barrier that they had been playing jump rope with for months.

Carefully, and a bit uncertain still, Peter leaned forward to wrap Tony in another hug. This time, the few tears that escaped him were happy tears. “Thank you, Mr. Stark.”

“Anytime, Kiddo,” Tony replied, hugging him back. “Anytime.”

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[ao3feed-spideytorch]

Should I actually be worried?

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by Nanerich

There's no way to talk around it - Peter is head over heels smitten with Johnny Storm. The only issue: every time Peter gets close to someone, they die, turn evil super-villain or get kidnapped on the regular. Is that really something Peter can risk?

Words: 3072, Chapters: 4/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Fantastic Four

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Major Character Death

Categories: M/M

Characters: Peter Parker, Johnny Storm, Mary Jane Watson, Susan Storm (Fantastic Four), Reed Richards, Ben Parker

Relationships: Peter Parker/Johnny Storm, Peter Parker & Mary Jane Watson, Fantastic Four (Team) & Peter Parker

Additional Tags: Whump, Angst with a Happy Ending, Negative Zone, Romantic Fluff, Fantastic Four #587, The Amazing Spider-Man #657, Mary Jane ships it, Peter Parker Needs a Hug, N - Freeform, Bisexual Peter Parker, Bisexual Johnny Storm, Sue is a great big sister, and Reed and Ben are great bros, starts fluffy, then angsty, then whumpy, kinda happy end, sorry in advance, I suck at tagging, major character death off-screen

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[lyssismagical]

moments of gold and flashes of light

Parkner Week Day 3: “I am very small and I have no money.” / college au / no-powers au

(This is like a Rhodey/Tony!MIT Parkner AU)

(TW: Implied Child Abuse)

 Working at a café on the outskirts of a college campus meant good business, decent tips, and weird hours. A good job for Harley who needs to work weird hours to keep up with his classes, and he makes enough to afford essentials and to keep his head above water in the debt.

It also means he sees a lot of very tired students at those strange hours.

He gets an elbow in the ribs from his coworker, Cassie, who points across the café at an occupied table.

“An order?” Harley asks, forehead creasing. They don’t normally take orders from tables.

“No, we have a policy about sitting in here without ordering. I need you to ask him to either buy something or leave before our boss notices,” Cassie says. She glances down at her watch, frowning at the time. “There’s only a few hours until we’re done, anyways.”

Harley hates the policy. It makes sense why they have it, they’re going to lose a lot of business if the café is always full but nobody’s buying anything, but it doesn’t make it any easier to kick tired teenagers out in the middle of the night.

He sighs and lets Cassie take over the registers as he makes his way to the boy at the table, straightening his deep purple apron as he goes.

“Excuse me?” he says, wincing when his voice cracks.

The boy at the table’s head jerks up, eyes wide behind a thick pair of glasses. He looks young, younger than most people Harley sees coming into the café, but he’s hunched over a stack of textbooks and papers, what looks like a year three astrophysics textbook on top. There’s no way he’s old enough to be in his third year of university.

“Yeah?” the boy asks. He tips his head to the side in question, the light hitting his face and showing off the deep, dark bags under his eyes.

“We have a policy here, you have to buy something to stay.”

The boy winces, hands patting the pockets of his jeans. He pulls out an old wallet, faded Stark Industries logo on the back barely visible, and pops it open.

He rifles through the things in his wallet, dropping a few on the table including a library card, a Booster Juice loyalty card, and a Stark Industries ID. He finds a dollar bill, but otherwise comes up emptyhanded.

“Shit, sorry, I don’t have any money,” the boy says, eyes wide and glassy. He grabs his backpack from between his feet and starts going through the pockets, but they seem just as empty. “I’m so sorry, I guess I used the rest of my cash on rent, and I don’t- I’ll just pack up and head home, no worries-”

“You like coffee?” Harley blurts before he can stop himself. It’s not like he really has much leeway with his budget, but a couple dollars for an obviously stressed, very cute boy seems like a good investment. “I’ll cover it for you. Give me just a moment.”

As soon as he gets a confirming nod, he heads back to where Cassie’s working, and makes a quick coffee with extra caramel, and digs out his wallet to drop a few dollars in the register.

“You’re buying coffee for him?” she says, amused and shaking her head.

He shrugs, looking over his shoulder at where the boy is still watching him with his wide, doe eyes. “He had a third year astrophysics textbook. I felt bad.”

Cassie laughs, rolling her eyes at him. “The store’s pretty quiet anyways. You should make yourself one too, and take a fifteen.”

Harley’s not about to pass up that opportunity, so he moves quickly to make himself a matching coffee, and then he heads back over to the boy.

“Mind if I sit?” he asks, sliding one of the coffees over to the boy. “I’m in my second year at MIT, so maybe I could lend you a hand? Or at least be a nice distraction?”

The boy smiles, nodding and gesturing to the chair opposite him. “I’m Peter Parker. Third year at MIT.”

“You seem… young.”

Peter laughs, fingers curling around his coffee with a pleased hum. “Yeah, I’m eighteen. Graduated high school at fourteen, started here at fifteen.”

Harley’s jaw drops open in surprise. He’s nineteen, and in the year below Peter. It’s a bit of a shock. “You’re graduating university at nineteen? Isn’t that a bit scary?”

“I’ve got a job lined up at Stark Industries in New York. I’ve been an unpaid intern every summer for four years, so it’s not as scary as you’d think.” He looks down at his homework, textbooks and binders and loose papers, and frowns. “Stressful, for sure. But scary, not so much.”

As much as he wants to comment on a lot of that, especially about how he’s apparently been interning for SI since he was thirteen, he doesn’t want to overstep any boundaries and he doesn’t have a lot of break left.

He sips at his drink, listening intently as Peter starts rambling about how annoying one of his profs had been the other day, the reason he’s up all night studying at the café. Peter’s pretty, especially when he gets passionate about something, eyes lighting up behind his thick frames, blush high on his cheeks, hands gesturing vaguely. Harley hasn’t made many friends since he left Tennessee, only Cassie and Kate from an off-campus extra-curricular. Peter seems like the kind of person Harley would really enjoy being friends with.

“Harley!” Cassie calls out, much too soon for his liking. “Your fifteen’s up.”

Peter frowns noticeably, finishing off his coffee. “I’ll probably stick around for a bit, if that’s alright?”

“Yeah, of course. And come back whenever, yeah?”

“I’m sure I’ll be back in no time, in need of quiet and caffeine.”

* Turns out, Peter’s not lying. He starts showing up every Thursday night and every few Wednesdays like clockwork, always with his old backpack filled with books and binders, and always with enough for a coffee to make sure he can stay.

Whenever Harley takes his fifteen, he spends it at Peter’s table, sitting across from him and chatting about anything and everything. They trade numbers after three weeks, texting every so often whenever they’ve got the chance. It’s nice to have finally made a friend outside of Gwen and Kate. (Especially a friend as kind and pretty and genius as Peter Parker.)

“Everything okay?” Harley can’t help but ask when Peter shows up, nearly two months after meeting.

Peter’s the same as he always is, backpack slung over one shoulder making his posture lopsided, eyes wide behind his pair of thick glasses, hands shoved into the pocket of his oversized MIT sweater, buying a coffee with extra caramel. Except his eyes are red-rimmed and his voice is thick and scratchy like he’d been crying.

Peter shrugs, shoulders hunched up around his ears. “Not really. When do you take your fifteen?”

“He’s taking it right now,” Cassie buts in, elbowing Harley in the ribs. She’s already got Peter’s coffee ready, sitting on the counter, and she’s pouring a second for him. “Take your thirty, I’ll cover for you.”

Harley won’t argue with that, wanting to comfort his new friend. He links their arms together and heads for one of the booths in the far corner instead of their usual table, worry squeezing his chest. It’s only been two months but he cares about Peter a lot. More than he thought possible.

“It’s stupid,” Peter says, but he clutches his drink close to his chest, eyes watery and hands trembling. “My parents want me home for Winter Break.”

“So?”

Harley would kill to be able to afford a flight home to Tennessee for Winter Break. He has to save up all year just to afford making it home for the summer, winter and spring breaks have to be spent on campus or with Gwen who has an apartment in the city. He misses his mom and sister like crazy when he’s away for so long.

Peter scoffs, glassy eyes rolling. “They suck. I’m sure you’ve heard of Richard and Mary Parker before. Yeah, they’re not about to get Parent of the Year awards.”

“Why not?” Harley asks. He certainly knows the two of them, they’re famous scientists, alumni from MIT as well. It’s hard not to know them. “If you don’t mind me asking, of course.”

“They don’t care, they never did. Most of my childhood was spent with nannies or babysitters while they were out for business or other things they wouldn’t tell me about. The only time they ever cared was when they were telling me off for blemishing their reputation, or to tell me I needed to work harder if I was ever going to be allowed to get their company.”

Harley frowns, trying to empathize with his pain. He’s never been in a situation like that. In Rose Hill, you could get away with doing pretty much anything, nobody had reputations at stake, consequences were few and far between. Harley once landed himself in jail for a stupid night with people who weren’t really friends. Nobody cared, Harley even became pretty good friends with one of the officers who arrested him. His mom didn’t even have to pay to get him out.

“That really sucks, I’m sorry,” Harley says.

Peter shrugs again, chewing on his bottom lip. “I got a B on a test in astrophysics a month ago.”

“I remember.”

“They’re going to kill me for that. A B is essentially an F in my house. To them, I failed.”

Harley’s frown deepens and he reaches across the table to grab Peter’s hand. “You studied so hard for that test, you were sleep-deprived and upset because of that argument with your roommate. That wasn’t your fault. And either way, a B’s still a good grade.”

“Not to my parents, it’s not.”

“Why does their opinion matter? You’re an adult, they don’t have to control you anymore.”

Peter lets out a humorless laugh, eyebrows furrowing as he tries not to cry. “I don’t have a choice. I have to go home for the holidays and I have to take over their company and I have to do what they tell me to do. They control my money, they pay for my tuition, they’re all I’ve got. I don’t have anything else.”

“I’m sorry,” Harley says again, he doesn’t know what else he’s supposed to say, doesn’t know how to make this any easier for him. “Well, if you need anything, feel free to call. I’ll be here all Winter, so I’ll be available to talk if you need to.”

“Thank you.” Peter’s voice breaks and he doesn’t catch the tear in time for Harley not to see it. “I honestly don’t know what I’d do without you. It probably looks like it, but I’m not just using you for coffee.”

Harley smiles, squeezing Peter’s hand. “And I promise I’m not using you for answers to future tests. You may be a genius, but I’m not a cheater.”

“Good because I have a proposition. I only leave on Saturday, and I need an extra set of hands to pack up my dorm room? My roommates already gone, so it’ll just be us and we could watch some movies afterwards? If not, don’t worry about it-”

Harley grins, finishing off his coffee. “I’d love to. Tomorrow afternoon? I have the day off work, but I’ve got a class until two, so I’ll come over after that?”

“Sounds perfect.”

* “I’m going to miss you,” Harley says, watching Peter make a little pile of the bags they’d packed the night before from his bed. Peter’s got a mid-afternoon flight, so he needs to be out by noon. “That’s three Thursday nights without you at the café.”

Peter smiles softly, turning from where he’d set down his backpack at the door. “I’m going to miss you too. Three weeks and I’ll be back to bothering you all the time.”

Despite knowing it’s a joke, Harley rolls his eyes. “You’re never a bother.”

“I’ll call you? I live out in California, so I’ll try to remember the time zone differences, but don’t hate me if I accidentally call you in the middle of the night.”

Harley turns his head into the pillow, smiling dopily at Peter. “I told you, call me whenever. I want to hear all the gossip about your stupid parents.”

“Well there will be plenty of gossip, so be careful what you wish for.”

There’s a pause as the reality of everything sets in. Three weeks without each other after only two months together seems unfair. Harley’s going to miss Peter a lot. He’s been ignoring the crush that’s been festering over the past couple weeks especially. He doesn’t want to hurt their very new, budding friendship, especially not when Peter’s under so much stress as is, but last night, watching movies on Peter’s bed together on his laptop, it really solidified the crush.

“I should get going,” Peter says miserably. He slings his backpack over his shoulder again, glasses askew on his nose, dark circles under his red-rimmed eyes, hands shaking.

“You want me to drop you off instead of taking a cab? I wouldn’t mind driving. We probably even have time to stop for a quick coffee.”

Peter smiles brightly, big enough to show off his dimples and light up his eyes. Harley gets off the bed, taking off his red MIT sweater, leaving him in an old t-shirt from the diner his mom works at, and hands the sweater over to Peter.

He wants to say so you’ll remember me or a reminder you’re not alone but he can’t say it. Instead he says, “You look a bit cold.”

“Thanks,” Peter murmurs, flushing softly. Harley reaches out and straightens his glasses before slinging the duffel bag on the floor over his shoulder.

“Let’s get going then.”

Peter picks the music, old Disney movie soundtracks, and Harley drives, paying for coffees on the way to the Boston airport. They don’t say much, humming along to the music to keep from saying too much, but linking their hands together which says just as much.

When they get to the airport, Peter insists on Harley staying in the car.

“Three weeks,” Peter promises, blinking back tears.

Harley offers a smile, squeezing Peter’s hand. “Call me, it’ll feel like no time at all.”

The younger boy opens his car door and looks like he’s about to slip out of the car, but he turns back to Harley, eyes wide and glassy. He leans across the center of the car and kisses Harley hard.

“I’m sorry-”

Harley reaches over, cups Peter’s face and pulls him back in to kiss him again. “I really like you, like a crazy amount, I didn’t want to say anything because I love having you as a friend, but I do really like you.”

“I really like you too. I didn’t tell you but before you talked to me that one day, I was always going into your café just to see you but I didn’t think you noticed me.”

“You’re going to miss your flight,” Harley says, brushing his thumb over Peter’s cheekbone and frowning disappointedly.

Peter huffs out a breath, pushing open his door. “I’ll call you? We’ll talk about this?”

“Of course. Call me whenever,” Harley says, stealing one last kiss. “Go before you miss your flight.”

The younger boy grins so bright, finally slipping out of the car, backpack over one shoulder, leans back to blow a kiss, and then he’s gone.

Harley has to pause for a second, smiling up at the ceiling of his car, before he feels ready to leave the airport, and Peter, behind.

Three weeks.

* It takes a week and a half for Peter to call, and when he does, he’s crying.

“This sucks,” Peter starts, voice trembling and thick with emotion. “Being home sucks and missing you sucks and everything sucks.”

“Hi to you too, and merry belated Christmas.”

“Sorry, yeah, merry Christmas, happy holidays, hi, how are you, and all that. I wish I were in Boston so much.”

Harley lets out a short laugh, sprawling out on his bed, phone pressed against his ear. “I wish you were here too, if that helps. What happened?”

“My parents were totally pissed about my B like I knew they’d be. And when I tried to tell them about you because I was excited, they told me I’d find a nice girl to settle down with soon enough.” Peter chokes out a sob, voice tipping towards angry. “I know I’m bi, so maybe, but it’s not fair.”

“No, it’s not fair. Some people are like that. I remember coming out as gay in a small town in Tennessee, it wasn’t received very well.”

Peter sighs sympathetically. “I just- I don’t even want their company, you know? I want to work at Stark Industries like how I’d been interning, but I don’t have a choice. I’m the heir, the papers were signed, it’s mine as soon as I graduate so they can retire.”

“You’re a genius, and legally an adult, find a way to un-sign them. Or when you get jurisdiction, terminate the company. There’s still options, there’s still ways you can get where you want to be.”

“I know, I just- I don’t know. I wanna go home. I want to see you.”

Harley smiles softly to himself, shaking his head. “I know, I miss you too. But you’re halfway done, you can do it, and I’ll be there at the airport for you when you get back.”

“I know we said we’d talk about it but I really don’t think I can handle-”

“No, no, of course.” Harley doesn’t mind. He’s kind of liking this in-between stage they’re living in. Not dating, no labels, but definitely something more than friends. “In case you needed a confidence boost, you’re a genius. You’re the smartest person I know and I know a lot of people. According to Gwen, you’re the nicest person too, and I agree. You’re very sweet and kind. Plus, have you seen yourself? You’ve got a lot going for you.”

Peter laughs quietly, tears finally fading. “You’re too nice to me. Maybe being around you is going to make my ego too big.”

“I don’t think that’s possible,” Harley says, lightening up. “You’re too humble for that. Oh, I’m not supposed to tell you this, but apparently, Gwen did notice you first, and she purposefully sent me over to your table that first day.”

“Really?”

“Yep. She thought I was getting too lonely, after spending over a year in Boston and only making two friends, and not seeing anybody, so she was hoping something would happen between us, which I guess it did, so I owe her one.”

Peter laughs again, then goes quiet for a moment. “I need to get going soon. Dad’s taking me to meetings all afternoon. I hate going, people only see me as a stupid kid or as competition.”

“Prove them wrong, stand up for yourself, or at least get me on the phone so I can stand up for you.”

Far away from the door there’s a shouted, “Get your ass out of bed! We leave in thirty and if you’re tie’s on wrong and I have to reteach you, I swear to god, it’ll be the last thing you do!”

“Was that your dad? Threatening you?” There’s already a protective edge to his voice like Harley will fly all the way to California just to stand between Peter and his dad.

“They’re normally empty threats,” Peter offers like it’s no big deal. “He prefers yelling more than anything. Mom says he’d probably do worse if it weren’t for the cameras on us all the time.”

Harley’s mouth falls open, anger flooding through his chest like a wildfire. “You should stay with me this Spring Break and Summer. There’s plenty of extra space in Gwen’s apartment and in my childhood home. I don’t want you back there.”

“You’d want me around for that long?”

He nearly chokes in surprise. “Of course I would. I want you always, whenever. I don’t want you home again if I can help it. It’s obvious it’s not good for you.”

Harley doesn’t know how their relationship will fare, how they’ll be in two months, in six, he doesn’t know if he could convince Peter to stay away knowing the anger it would cause, he doesn’t know if it’ll be enough to keep Peter safe. But he knows he’d do anything to try.

“I’ve gotta go before my dad’s head explodes. I’ll call you as soon as I can and we’ll talk more about these plans, ‘kay? I miss you.”

“I miss you too. Only another week and a half left.”

* Harley has to wait at the airport for three hours because of a flight delay and the longer he waits, the more he itches to see Peter. They still haven’t talked, so Harley isn’t even sure if greeting him with a kiss is allowed, but he doesn’t know how much he cares. He’s been thinking about it for three weeks, lord knows Gwen’s losing her mind with his constant rambles about Peter, and he’s pretty positive Peter will be just as desperate.

He sends another text to Peter, letting him know the area he’s waiting in, and waiting to see if it switches to delivered which would mean he’s landed. It does and Harley can barely contain an excited squeal.

If I run, I can be there in 3

Harley sends back a quick, please, which goes unanswered.

He keeps half his attention on his watch, slowly ticking down, and half on the people walking around him, waiting for the mop of brown curls to make their appearance.

At two minutes, thirty seconds, he sees Peter.

“Peter!” he calls out, ignoring some of the dirty looks people shoot him, and lifting a hand into the air.

Almost immediately, the boy starts running faster down the last stretch of hallway, dropping his duffel a few feet away, before launching into Harley’s awaiting arms.

Harley has to take a few steps to rebalance them, arms winding around Peter’s waist and kissing him hard. Peter’s legs are around his waist, hanging onto him like a lifeline, hands in his hair. Eventually, Peter’s smiling too wide to continue kissing, pulling back to let out a giddy laugh.

“I missed you so bad. I know it was only three weeks and I know we’ve only known each other for a few months, but I really like you, and I didn’t think I would miss you as much as I did, but every day without you felt like a marathon. I don’t want to skip the conversation, but I just want to know that this is real,” Peter rambles.

Stealing another kiss, Harley tightens his grip on the younger boy. “Yes, god yes, I couldn’t stop thinking about you, every day for the past three months, and I want this to be real too. I want to be your boyfriend, I don’t care how soon or crazy it is.”

“My boyfriend,” Peter echoes, lighting up in a smile. He kisses Harley again and then hides his face in the crook of Harley’s shoulder, nodding. “Yes please. I would love that.”

They hold each other for a while longer. Long enough for the majority of the baggage pick-up to clear out, long enough for Harley’s knees to start cramping and his cheeks to hurt with how wide he’s smiling.

“I’m not letting you go back there,” Harley says because it feels necessary. “I’ll find a way for you to stay until you graduate.”

Peter smiles pulling back enough to kiss his forehead. “Good, thank you, I didn’t want to go back.”

“Time to go home, boyfriend?” Saying it makes Harley giddy with pure joy.

His mama’s going to freak when she hears about Peter, she’s only ever wanted what’s best for Harley, and Peter’s that. He’s the best for Harley. It doesn’t get better than him. And he’s going to do everything in his power to be the best for Peter too.

Taglist: @littlemissagrafina  @spideygirl2003 @romeoandjulietyouwish @c-artara @shadedrose01 @likeaphoenix13 @pj-hermes-tonystark-obsessed  @you-get-killed-walk-it-off @kitkatwinchester  @emo-girl10 @justme--emily  @hold-our-destiny @imalivebecauseirondad @spiderman-peterman @dykeragee @maryserrao @heeeyitskay {Let me know if you wanna be added or removed}

#lyss writes #parkner week 2020 #parkner #parkner fic #peter parker #harley keener #gwen stacy #coffee shop au #no powers au #harley keener/peter parker #oops this is unedited #also I know it's supposed to be day seven and i'm only on three #I'm sorry oops #I'm going to try to write another one for tonight and then two for the next two days and finish on monday #hopefully but don't hold me to that

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January 8, 2021: R.E.D. (2010)

Time to continue the action-comedy trend by getting away from the buddy cop trend, and hitting a different style of comedy: the ensemble. I’ll talk about this more during Comedy April, but one of my favorite comedies is an ensemble comedy. That would be 1963′s It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.

I cannot properly explain how much I love this movie. It’s only grown over the years, and I WILL get into this one day. Don’t know HOW...but I WILL.

Anyway, what do I mean by the ensemble? It’s a cast composed of many big names, especially those famous or popular at the time the film is made. Nowadays, superhero films tend to be our ensembles, as well as some other action films that I’ll get to later this month.

But in today’s case, the ensemble is different. Rather than purely action or comedy stars, they’re kind of all over the genre map. But ere we go, here’s the list of stars:

Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Karl Urban, Mary-Louise Parker, Brian Cox, Richard Dreyfuss, Ernest Borgnine, James Remar. Seriously. LOOK at the list of people up there. That’s one hell of an ensemble. None of them particularly well-known for comedy, and that’s handled in a surprising way. Which movie is this?

R.E.D. is definitely an interesting movie as action-comedies go, but let’s get into it, shall we? SPOILERS AHEAD, as a warning heading forward!

Recap

Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) is a retiree living in suburbia, reading romance novels, and calling Sarah Ross (Mary Louise Parker), a girl working in the GSA pension office. Sarah Ross is most likely the Inevitable Love Interest of this film. The two decide to meet up in Kansas City, where she works.

But no time for that, as a group of masked assailants invade Frank’s house to kill him. But, see, it turns out that Frank’s ex-CIA. He handily takes them and turns the tables, then goes into the basement to prepare. Meanwhile…

Not very subtle, huh? I feel like the neighbors know what’s going on at this point. Frank takes on the rest, the house collapses, and he makes his way to Kansas City...directly into Sarah’s apartment. She freaks out (appropriate reaction), as he warns that people are trying to kill her, because they know how he feels about her via their (likely surveilled) phone conversations. She’s not buying it.

So he kidnaps her.

Good start, building trust, establishing boundaries, good start.

We now cut to an opulent estate, where The Butcher/Executioner/Judge Dredd Karl Urban is killing a man. He’s playing William Cooper, a CIA agent tasked to kill Frank. After Frank drops off Sarah at a motel (still kidnapped, remember), he goes to meet Joe Matheson (Morgan Freeman), another retired agent living at a retirement home, with his…

...hobbies. Using his connections, they discover that the hit quad after Frank also killed a reporter. The plot thickens. Sarah escapes, and calls 911, a call which was intercepted by Cooper. A fake cop nearly kidnaps her, but Frank saves her. Cooper catches up, leading to…

OK, yeah, that was a cool shot. Literally. Frank sets up Cooper to get arrested by the local police, and escapes with Sarah to New York City. There, they meet the mother of the NYT reporter killed, and discover clues that lead them to the NYU library, and a book with a hitlist hidden within it. They discover that everyone on the list is dead except for a Gabriel Singer. However, tempered with that, we get some unfortunate news.

Joe’s dead. Which sucks, I honestly liked Joe. He was already dying of liver cancer, but he sadly was assassinated by a mysterious assailant.

Anyway, back to Cooper. He goes to visit the Record Keeper (Ernest Borgnine), who gives Cooper the mostly redacted case file of Frank Moses. An extremely effective black ops agent in his day, the now older Frank’s been marked “RED,” or “retired, extremely dangerous.”

FLORIDA! There, we meet the paranoid and flighty Marvin Boggs (John Malkovich), who lives in the swamps of Pensacola trying not to get killed. He lives underground in a bunker whose entrance is a broken-down car, and I love it a lot. I love it a whole lot.

Turns out Marvin was given doses of LSD every day for 11 years while working for the government, which made him understandably paranoid. My MK Ultra senses are tingling, and Marvin retrieves a file detailing a case in Guatemala from 1981, in which Frank, Marvin, and everybody else on the hit list was involved. And with this, Marvin gets the pig.

I can’t wait to find out what the pig is. Because I know it’s gonna be some crazy weapon. And I’m excited for it. Now, we head to Mobile, Alabama to catch up with Singer (James Remar), the only living person on the list. Marvin then briefly holds a random bystander hostage, and he might be juuuuuuuuust a little unstable.

They meet Singer, and he explains that his job on the Guatemala mission was to carry a passenger in the middle of the night, for unknown reasons. Singer’s quickly assassinated from a helicopter after giving this information, and may I just say...these guys aren’t subtle about their assassination techniques. I feel like somebody would notice this stuff happening, throughout the entire movie.

Anyway, a group of assassins comes in to kill the group of 3. Including this person.

Nice. And as if that wasn’t enough, we now discover the purpose of the pig. It contains a grenade launcher. Of course it does. We get a cool firefight in which Marvin hits a grenade like a baseball, and Marvin and the woman from before face off in a Western standoff. And then…

Yeah. This is awesome. Seriously, I’m loving this so far.

Next destination, as our guys head to the Russian Embassy, where we meet Ivan Simanov (Brian Cox), an ex-KGB agent and former enemy of Frank Moses. The two catch up in a funny exchange, and they reminisce over their old days as agents and assassins. Almost sweet in a macabre way. Frank’s there to ask Ivan for help in breaking into the CIA, using schematics that they probably have.

Using the assistance of Sarah (who’s enjoying this a LOT, apparently), they get into Langley, making this the second movie I’ve seen this month where the protagonist breaks into the CIA. There, they meet the Record Keeper Henry, who immediately helps them, and gives them the Guatemala file. They also find out about Cooper, leading to Frank meeting him at his office, where a kickass fight ensues to some kickass music.

Frank’s not looking stellar after this fight, not that Cooper’s doing great either. They escape by setting up an explosion, stealing a firefighter’s uniform, and escaping to an ambulance There, they’re greeting by Marvin and…

Joe! He escaped, and killed the assassin. Now, it’s Joe, Frank, Marvin, and Sarah on the run in an ambulance. But Frank isn’t doing great, as he was shot in the struggle with Cooper. They head up to Chesapeake, Maryland, to the Eagle’s Nest. It’s there that we meet Victoria Winslow (Helen Mirren), yet one more R.E.D. agent, and a talented assassin as well.

They discover that the file has one redacted name, which is found on the reporter’s list as Alexander Dunning (Richard Dreyfuss), an arms trafficker and gangster, apparently protected by the CIA. Using Joe as a pretend buyer, R.E.D. infiltrates the mansion, as Dunning sneaks Joe into a safe room, where their negotiating can take place. Soon though, though, Frank and Marvin join in, and it turns from negotiation to interrogation.

We find out here that the Guatemala mission was meant to clean up the destruction of a Guatemalan village performed by the current vice president, Robert Stanton. Yikes. Apparently, he went nuts and murdered the entire village. And so, the hits are meant to cover up with war crimes, allowing him to run for President without fear of persecution.

After that reveal, Cooper calls the trio; looks like the mansion’s been surrounded by FBI, who were surveilling Dunning’s mansion anyway. Cooper, who’s been in doubt about the motives of this mission, tells Frank to surrender, and he’ll hear his side of the story. With little option for escape, Joe, who’s dying anyway, volunteers to take his place, as they know he will most likely be killed immediately.

And unfortunately, they’re right. Joe’s shot and killed, and Frank and Marvin escape with Victoria’s help. In the escape, however, Sarah falls and is captured by the agents. They escape with the aid of Ivan.

They need to get Sarah out of Cooper’s custody, while also deciding to end the cause of this: Vice President Stanton. Frank makes it into Cooper’s home, and calls him from there. This, of course, is a threat meant to protect Sarah. He also tells Cooper that he plans to kill the Vice President, who will be at a gala that night.

Vice President Robert Stanton (Julian McMahon) announces his intention to run for President, as Cooper, Victoria, and Ivan watch on. Ivan sprays a gas throughout the ballroom, while Victoria blocks the doors. Ivan causes a distraction, claiming the smell of gas (which he’s caused), then pulls a fire alarm. The Vice President is routed through the back entrance, where Victoria and Marvin are waiting with a machine gun.

They rig it to autofire, and chase the VP back through the building. Victoria’s shot in the process, and Marvin detonates a smoke grenade to aid their escape. He then rigs up a bomb to his chest and chases the VP away, into a vehicle driven by, of course, Frank.

Cooper’s defeated, and Frank has the VP, offering to trade him for Sarah. Cooper calls his boss, all of whom head to the rendezvous point. And alongside Cooper’s boss arrives Alexander Dunning. Surprise! He kills Stanton, and is in command of Cooper’s boss. And Cooper is NOT happy about that.

Cooper kills his boss, Marvin and Victoria kill the bodyguards, and Frank and Marvin kill Dunning. Cooper lets the REDs leave, unencumbered and free. But Ivan reminds Frank of his favor to him, and I smell a sequel as Frank and Sarah kiss.

Whew. That’s R.E.D.! And what a fun ride it was! Might not have come across in this recap, but this movie is hilarious fun, and I’ll explain exactly how in the review section, coming up next!

#R.E.D. #red 2010 #red film #red movie #R.E.D. 2010 #R.E.D. film #robert schwentke #bruce willis #morgan freeman #john malkovich #helen mirren #karl urban #mary-louise parker #brian cox #richard dreyfuss #julian mcmahon #enrest borgnine #james remar #frank moses #marvin boggs #victoria winslow #Ivan Simanov #william cooper #365 movie challenge #365 movies 365 days #365 Days 365 Movies #365 movies a year #a movie a day #movie challenge #action january

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BEANSONBREAD AWARDS 2020 - BEST ALBUM

AWARD NO.2 - BEST ALBUM OF 2020

PAST WINNERS

2019 > Self Esteem - ‘Compliments Please’ (see full list HERE)

2018 > Kero Kero Bonito - ‘Time ‘n’ Place’ (see full list HERE)

2017 > Richard Dawson - ‘Peasant’ (see full list HERE)

2016 > Blood Orange - ‘Freetown Sound’ (see full list HERE)

2015 > Holly Herndon - ‘Platform’ (see full list HERE)

2014 > FKA Twigs - ‘LP1′ (see full list HERE)

2013 > These New Puritans - ‘Field Of Reeds’ (see full list HERE)

2012 > Django Django - ‘Django Django’ (see full list HERE)

2011 > Shabazz Palaces - ‘Black Up’ (see full list HERE)

2010 > These New Puritans - ‘Hidden’ (see full list HERE)

2009 > Animal Collective - ‘Merriweather Post Pavilion’ (see full list HERE)

2008 > Wild Beasts - ‘Limbo, Panto’ (see full list HERE)

2007 > Animal Collective - ‘Strawberry Jam’ (see full list HERE)

2006 > Safetyword - ‘Man’s Name Is Legion’ (see full list HERE)

2005 > Animal Collective - ‘Feels’ (see full list HERE)

2004 > Devendra Banhart - ‘Rejoicing In The Hands’ / ‘Nino Rojo’

2003 > Dizzee Rascal - ‘Boy In Da Corner’

2002 > The Streets - ‘Original Pirate Material’

2001 > The Beta Band - ‘Hot Shots II’

2000 > Outkast - ‘Stankonia’

1999 > The Beta Band - ‘The Beta Band’

1998 > The Beta Band - ‘The Three EPs’

1997 > Radiohead - ‘OK Computer’

1996 > Beck - ‘Odelay’

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THE RULES - No Re-issues, Live Albums, Compilations, or EPs.

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SPECIAL MENTIONS for these collections

Bulbils (Richard Dawson & Sally Pilkington) - 50 lockdown albums

Dean Blunt ‘Roaches 2012-2019’

These New Puritans ‘The Cut (2016-2019)’  

Hudson Mohawke ‘B.B.H.E.’ & ‘Poom Gems’

Various Artists ‘Paul Institute - Summer 2020’

Various Artists ‘Return To Y’Hup - The World Of Ivor Cutler’

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***SPOTIFY PLAYLIST FEATURES TRACKS FROM TOP 80 ALBUMS (coming later) ***

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WORTH A MENTION (in no order) - A bunch of albums i enjoyed but didn’t quite make the final lists and others i just didn’t hear enough to be considered properly.  A list for future me to revisit.

Still House Plants / Fire-Toolz / Lomelda / Jerskin Fendrix / Zebra Katz / The Bug / Lorenzo Senni / Diamond Soul / Wilma Archer / Black Dresses / The Fantasy Orchestra / William Carkeet / Bonny Light Horseman / KA / Yung Lean / BlackPink / Rural Internet / Okay Kaya / Future / Belan / Tame Impala / Banoffee / JARV IS / Grimes / Whitmer Thomas / Jeff Parker / The Massacre Cave / Porridge Radio / Selena Gomez / Teyana Taylor / Sparkle Division / Cecile Believe / Lyra Pramuk / Waxahatchee / Happyness / Khruangbin / Bananagun / OHMME / Drakeo The Ruler / Missterspoon / Juice WRLD / Lonnie Holley / Jiafeng / October Drift / Roisin Murphy / KeiyaA / Dizzee Rascal / Salem / Tiña / The Weeknd / Aaron Cartier / Dana Gavanski / A.R. Pinewood / The Cool Greenhouse / Royce Da 5’9’’ / Rachel Aggs / Karl Band / Four Tet / Georgia / Sonic Boom / Kali Uchis / Luis Pestana / Salac / David A Jaycock / Klein / Temple After Faith / Roman Noseband / Dylan Henner / G.S. Sultan / Hinds / Jess Williamson / Coby Sey / Randolph’s Leap / Matthew D. Gantt / Stephen Kerrison / Katie Gately / Snails / Juniore / Good Dog / Lil B / Kamaiyah / Ryuichi Sakamoto / The Big Moon / Zoe Mc Pherson / Holy Fuck / Ovrkast / Reol / Andy Shauf / Ethan Gruska / Poliça / D Smoke / Sign Libra / Chara & YUKI / Wiley / Bad Bunny / Shirley Collins / Jordana / Gaika / DJ Python / North Americans / Michael / Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith / Lido Pimienta / Everything Is Recorded / Lwesberg / Sufjan Stevens & Lowell Brams / Rhodri Davies / LA Priest / Ian William Craig / Flohio / Irreversible Entanglements / Islet / Westside Gunn / Empress Of / NNamdi / Warm Digits / Baxter Dury / Kehiani / Eels / Emmy The Great / Owen Pallett / Elysia Crampton / The Beths / Julianna Barwick / Liv.E / Jimothy Lacoste / Ben Frost / J Hus / Sylvan Esso / Haiku Hands / Ariana Grande / Jean Dawson / Food House / Nuala Honan / Helena Deland / Boldly James / Headie One / Oliver Coates / Lowkey-E / Bree Runway / Warren Ellis / Boldy James & The Alchemist / Young Knives /  Little Dragon / The Garden / Melt Yourself Down / Quakers / Kamasi Washington / Mogwai / Gil Scott-Heron & Makaya McCraven / Eyeliner / ‘The Whalebone Box’ OST / Special Interest / Teyana Taylor / Nadine Shah / Tricky / Moor Mother / Nick Storring

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2020 RUNNERS UP (in no order)

William Basinski ‘Lamentations’

Hook ‘Crashed My Car’

Vic Berger IV ‘Late Enough To See The Moon’

Nines ‘Crabs In A Bucket’

My Morning Jacket ‘The Waterfall II’

Firestations ‘Dream Home’

Moses Boyd ‘Dark Matter’

Dick Dent ‘Life’s Hard’

Nicholas Stevenson ‘Dead Arm, Vol.2’

Otto ‘Clam Day’

Pa Salieu ‘Send Them To Coventry’

Undermedvetenheten ‘Undermedvetenheten’

Martha Ffion ‘Nights To Forget’

Adrianne Lenker ‘Songs’

Happy Spendy ‘You’re Doing Okay’

Mark Korven ‘The Lighthouse’ OST

21 Savage and Metro Boomin ‘Savage Mode II’

Yorkston/Thorne/Khan ‘Navarasa’

Three Queens In The Mourning & Bonnie Prince Billy ‘Hello Sorrow / Hello Joy’

Shopping ‘All Or Nothing’

Megan Thee Stallion ‘Good News’

Obongjayer ‘Which Way Is Forward?’

Mush ‘3D Routine’

Geoff Barrow, Ben Salisbury & The Insects ‘Devs’ OST

Luke Abbott ‘Translate’

Spinning Coin ‘Hyacinth’

Princess Nokia ‘Everything Sucks’

Fleet Foxes ‘Shore’

Julia Holter ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’ OST

Sufjan Stevens ‘The Ascension’

Nicolas Jaar ‘Cenizas’

Pottery ‘Welcome To Bobby’s Motel’

Jessie Ware ‘What’s Your Pleasure?’

Jung Jae II ‘Parasite’ OST

Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist ‘Alfredo’

Doves ‘The Universal Want’

Brigid Mae Power ‘Head Above The Water’

Bab L’ Bluz ‘Nayda!’

James Yorkston ‘That Summer, We Flew’

Oklou ‘Galore’

Angel Olsen ‘Whole New Mess’

The Lemon Twigs ‘Songs For The General Public’

Marie Davidson & L’Œil Nu ‘Renegade Breakdown’

Gupi ‘None’

Alexia Avina ‘Unearth’

John Bence ‘Love’

Colin Stetson ‘Color Out Of Space’ OST

King Krule ‘Man Alive!’

Against All Logic ‘2017-2019’

Willie J Healey ‘Twin Heavy’

Jam City ‘Pillowland’

MXLX ‘Maximum Amounts Of Extremely Fucking Yes (Vol.1)’

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THE TOP 80 ALBUMS OF 2020

80. Poppy ‘I Disagree’ 79. ThisisDA ‘Mud Hype’ 78. Fenne Lily ‘BREACH’ 77. Gorillaz ‘Song Machine’ 76. Soccer Mommy ‘Color Theory’ 75. 1995 Epilepsy ‘1995 Epilepsy’ 74. Jabu ‘Sweet Company’ 73. Actress ‘Karma & Desire’ + ‘88’ 72. Chloe x Halle ‘Ungodly Hour’ 71. Dirty Projectors ‘5EPs’

70. Beatrice Dillon ‘Walkaround’ 69. Matmos ‘The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises In Group Form’ 68. Blanck Mass ‘Calm With Horses’ OST 67. Eartheater ‘Phoenix: flames Are Dew Upon My Skin’ 66. Sega Bodega ‘Salvador’  65. Savage Mansion ‘Weird Country’ 64. Kelly Lee Owens ‘Inner Song’ 63. Daniel Blumberg ‘On&On’  62. Clementine March ‘Le Continent’ 61. HAIM ‘Women In Music Pt.III’

60. Dua Lipa ‘Future Nostalgia’ 59. Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs ‘Viscerals’ 58. Darkstar ‘Civic Jams’ 57. Lil Uzi Vert ‘Eternal Atake’ 56. This Is The Kit ‘Off Off On’ 55. Shabazz Palaces ‘The Don Of Diamond Dreams’ 54. Princess Nokia ‘Everything Is Beautiful’ 53. The Orielles ‘Disco Volador’ 52. Oro Swimming Hour ‘Pteradactyl’ 51. MXLX ‘Serpent’

50. Dan Deacon ‘Mystic Familiar’

49. Jay Electronica ‘A Written Testimony’

48. Fiona Apple ‘Fetch The Bolt Cutters’

47. Galen Tipton ‘Ungoliant’

46. Knife Liibrary ‘MARKS: Songs For Those I Have Killed’

45. Deerhoof ‘Future Teenage Cave Artists’

44. Caribou ‘Suddenly’

43. Working Men’s Club ‘Working Men’s Club’

42. Seamus Fogarty ‘A Bag Of Eyes’

41. Field Music ‘Making A New World’

40. Cornershop ‘England Is A Garden’

39. Lambchop ‘Trip’

38. Katy J Pearson ‘Return’

37. Amaarae ‘The Angel You Don’t Know’

36. James Ferraro ‘Neurogeist’

35. Hen Ogledd ‘Free Humans’

34. Spectres ‘It’s Never Going To Happen And This Is Why’

33. Laura Marling ‘Song For Our Daughter’

32. Bill Callahan ‘Gold Record’

31. Bob Dylan ‘Rough And Rowdy Ways’

30. A.G. Cook ‘7G’

29. Good Sad Happy Bad ‘Shades’

28. SAULT ‘Untitled (Black Is)’

27. Run The Jewels ‘RTJ4’

26. Clipping ‘Visions Of Bodies Being Burned’

25. Thundercat ‘It Is What It Is’

24. Pictish Trail ‘Thumb World’

23. Jessy Lanza ‘All The Time’

22. Yves Tumor ‘Heaven To A Tortured Mind’

21. Sorry ‘925’

20. Yaeji ‘What We Drew’

19. A.G. Cook ‘Apple’

18. Wesley Gonzalez ‘Appalling Human’

17. Pet Shimmers ‘Face Down In Meta’ & ‘Trash Earthers’

16. Arca ‘KiCK i’

15. 100 Gecs ‘1000 Gecs And The Tree Of Clues’

14. Tara Clerkin Trio ‘Tara Clerkin Trio’

13. Richard Dawson ‘Republic Of Geordieland’

12. Phoebe Bridgers ‘Punisher’

11. Perfume Genius ‘Set My Heart On Fire Immediately’

10. Charli XCX ‘How I’m Feeling Now’

9. Rina Sawayama ‘SAWAYAMA’

8. Dorian Electra ‘My Agenda’

7. Alabaster DePlume ‘To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol.1’

6. SAULT ‘Untitled (Rise)’

5. Tim Heidecker ‘Fear Of Death’

4. Moses Sumney ‘græ’

3. Oneohtrix Point Never ‘Magic Oneohtrix Point Never’

2. Crack Cloud ‘Pain Olympics’

1. The Flaming Lips ‘American Head’

#list #Awards #2020 Awards

[wadey-wilson]

CHARACTER CHEAT SHEET: PETER PARKER / SPIDER-MAN

Peter Parker’s abilities, traits, and history can be complicated, so I gathered up all I know from comics and all the website I’ve visited in my life, revisited them, and put them together. I hope that the Marvel fanfictions writers will find this useful, especially that more and more Spider-Man fanfics are written nowadays.

[fun fact about the hyphen between ‘Spider’ and ‘Man’ - the creators of the character used it to differ Spider-Man from Superman.]

Full name: Peter Benjamin Parker

Spider-Man aliases: Spidey, Webhead, Webs, Web-Slinger, Wallcrawler/ Wall-crawler

Date of birth: - comics: Peter is a Libra, making his birthday sometime between September 23rd and October 22nd. - MCU: August 10th, 2001

Characteristics: - gender: male - current height (age 28): 5' 10" / teenage years height: 5' 5" - current weight (age 28): 167 lbs (76 kg) / teenage years weight: 140 lbs (64 kg) - eyes: hazel - hair: brown

Family: - Richard Parker, Mary Parker (parents, killed in a plane crash, spies) - Benjamin Parker (uncle, killed by a thief) - May Parker (aunt); (- Teresa Parker (sister) ) (- William Fitzpatrick (maternal grandfather, killed) )

Address: - grew up on: 20 Ingram Street, Forest Hills, Queens - currently living in: Queens

Core personality traits: - loner - neurotic (anxiety, fear, jealously, loneliness, worry, envy, frustration) - funny and witty, yet respectful (uses humor as defense/coping mechanism and to distract an opponent) - strong willed, brave - nerdy/geeky - shy, socially awkward - caring, loyal, kind, trusting, considerate - always worried, cautious, hopeful

Intelligence: - he graduated Midtown high with the highest scholastic average in the school's history - Octavius stated that Peter's “smarter than all of them” - Peter’s more intelligent than anyone he knows and he doesn't understand why Peter doesn't use all of his intellect - Peter's IQ is 250, making his position in the Highest IQ Ranks of Marvel characters in the top 5 (it's a made up universe, ok)

Equipment:

Costume: - in the early days after the spider bite when peter was making money via wrestling, peter made a costume because a TV producer told him it would sell as an act along with the wrestling - he created a mask to avoid the embarrassment if he lost a match, later it served him to protect his identity and hide his fear during fights

Utility Belt: - a utility belt holding extra clips of webbing (later: Spider-Tracers, Spider-Signal), placed on his waist under the suit (- recently upgraded to hold cartridges of different types of webbing, freeze capsules, new Spider-Tracers as well as a newly upgraded Spider-Signal that has a UV light setting for forensic analysis.) (- in the MCU, the belt was changed into clips on the hip height of the suit)

Web-shooters: - he first created the web-shooters so they can give him the advantage over pro-wrestlers  - they're made of materials that don't trip metal detector alarms (the material changes as the comics go, it's plastic, carbon fiber, and so on) - they're pressure sensitive - work only when peter taps on them twice very quickly with his middle and ring finger. the pressure, though, is really big, given the super strength. in that way, the web-shooters don't go off in a fight or when he shakes someone's hand. it also means that an average human wouldn't be able to use them, given that they need a certain degree of pressure put on the trigger. - over the years Peter's learned to use the web-shooters in more ways than just shooting single strings - he can make a parachute, web up a cast for a broken arm, a shield, and more and more variations he needs at the moment - from marvel.com: “the webbing [is a shear-thinning liquid (virtually solid until a shearing force is applied to it, rendering it fluid) whose exact formula is as yet unknown, but is related to nylon. On contact with air, the long-chain polymer knits and forms an extremely tough, flexible fiber with extraordinary adhesive properties. The web fluid's adhesive quality diminishes rapidly with exposure to air. (Where it does not make contact with air, such as the attachment disk of the web-shooter, it remains very adhesive.) After about one to two hours, certain imbibed esters cause the solid form of the web fluid to dissolve into a powder. Because the fluid almost instantly sublimates from solid to liquid when under shear pressure, and is not adhesive in its anaerobic liquid/solid phase transition point, there is no clogging of the web-shooter's parts." 

Superpowers:

[fun fact no2: he's holding back in every fight and on daily basis - both in the intellect and physical departments.]

Mutations: - he's got harder bones and tougher skin, hard for a syringe to pin through - his organs' tissue is most probably stronger to not get squashed under the pressure of impact forces (such as g-forces while he's swinging)

Strength: - he can bench press up to 10 tons but it was stated that it’s the average strength he uses - he's holding back a lot (supporting the weight of the Daily Bugle building, landing a private jet with  a landing weight between 175,000-215,000 pounds, breaking through Iron Man's armor, even breaking through eight of Doctor Octopus' carbonadium tentacles, lifting a large pile of iron-debris equivalent to the weight of a locomotive approximately 130 tons) - he can jump to a height of several stories in a single bound - he’s strong enough to knock out people with normal durability with as little as a tap to the head - he can throw a human sized and weight object across, like, New York

Speed, agility, reflexes: - his perfect sense of balance is complemented by the generally elastic nature of his body - he can adjust his position by instinct, which enables him to balance himself on virtually any object - he can outrun moving cars - according to the comics, he can run 70-115mph - it was stated that he can go around 120 mph when swinging the fastest he can - he's agile and quick enough that in a combat fight the foe can only see a blur, dodging attacks and bullets the second they’re put in motion - according to the official bios, his heightened reflexes are about 40 times better than the ones of an average human  (with the help of spider-sense, he can dodge a bullet before it’s even shot)

Spider-sense: ( a form of unconscious precognition / extra-sensory perception tuned to danger or threats that might cause him physical or mental injury) - it can make Peter feel off when his loved ones are in danger - it can differ a loved one/a very close friend and a foe (best example: Aunt May once sneaked up on Spider-Man and smashed a vase on his head) - it can help Peter navigate in the dark - it’s a bit off and overwhelmed and Peter doesn’t react to it right when he’s very tired or distracted or when there's too much danger around (like in a big fights with many opponents and weapons) - when it goes off and “buzzes” without imminent and instant danger, Peter may think it’s just gone a bit bonkers, therefore he doesn’t react it much. - it helps with instinctive shooting webs at places that won’t crumble under Peter’s weight - it reduces stuff like the need to look sideways when crossing the street or the need to cover up 100% when Peter changes in an alleyway - Peter was banned from playing poker with F4 because the spider-sense helps him detect when someone is bluffing - sometimes it takes control over peter when there has to be less thinking and more reacting done in a fight - it can hurt peter when it's triggered hard enough

Healing factor: - he can heal from bullet wounds, concussions, broken or sprained bones, and third-degree burns in a matter of days - his body produces less fatigue toxins than ordinary humans which allows him to exert himself for days - he can go a couple of days with no sleep; - he's got a weirdly high tolerance to radiation - he can hold his breath for eight minutes or more

Metabolism: - he’s got a bottomless belly - high metabolism means he needs more food to function, but then again he can go without food because of the healing factor - he can even shrug off some toxins - the toxin resistance makes it harder for someone to knock him out with toxins (such as drugs, for example)

Enhanced senses: - he’s got enhanced sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste - they can be as much of help as of a nightmare. each of his senses was enhanced which means he can hear his neighbors as they roll over in their bed, but going to a concert isn't that fun

Wall-crawling: - according to Spider-Man Vol 1 #26 it’s a mutagenic, cerebellum-wide alteration of his engrams resulting in the ability to mentally control the flux of inter-atomic attraction (electrostatic force) between molecular boundary layers - which basically means electrostatic attraction between Peter’s skin and a solid surface - it’s mentally controlled

Quotes/mottos:

“That's not why you do it. You do it 'cause it's the right thing to do. [...] Now it's my turn. [...] I'm going to give it my all. [...] I'll never quit.”

“With great there must also come great responsibility.”

“Life sucks sometimes... but it's always worth living.“

“Everyone can be saved.”

Other:

- the Spider-Man mask supposedly muffles and changes Peter’s voice enough to be unrecognizable - Peter’s a NY Mets fan - Peter’s witty personality works on every hero’s nerve except for Deadpool (Wolverine one stated that being in company of one of these two is a nightmare, and being in company of both of them is one of the worst things he’s gone through) and Tony - the adhesive skin allows Peter’s mask to stick to his face in case someone tried to pull the mask off - he’s a skilled photographer.

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We’ll Find Our Way Back To You

Whumptober 2020: Prompt 11

Psych 101 | defiance, struggling, crying

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Peter looks around at the wreckage and clings tighter to his parents in fear. He hears his mother let out a moan and quietly cries.

“Mommy,” he whispers tapping her on the face before turning and giving his father the same treatment.

Richard Parker slowly open his eyes before looking to where the insistent noise is coming from. When he sees his son crying and squished to his chest his eyes widen and he looks around.

The plane crashed.

Mary is awake now too and the two parents exchange a grave look before moving to comfort their son. Mary takes Peter into her arms while Richard tries to move as much of the wreckage off of their laps before standing up.

“Stay here,” he looks back to Mary while pulling his gun out of his holster and heading to the cockpit. Mary pulls hers out from her holster and continues trying to soothe Peter.

In the cockpit the pilot and copilot are both leaning forward and further inspection reveals fatal injuries to them both. Richard sighs sadly while shutting their eyes, then he goes back to his wife and son. When he gets back he can see a quiet Peter sitting in his wife’s lap sucking on his thumb harshly.

“They both are gone,” Richard glances at Mary before looking down to Peter. “Hey baby, don’t cry we’re going to go home soon, okay?” He puts on his biggest smile in the hopes of making Peter feel better.

Peter just nods. Burying his head back into his mother’s chest.

“What are we going to d-“ Mary’s mouth snaps shut as she hears yelling from outside the plane.

In the direction of the only unblocked entrance seems to be where the voices are currently coming from, which are getting louder by the second. Richard glances to the window then back to Mary sadly.

“We can’t make it out but maybe Peter can get to safety. There’s a town not too far from here,” Richard whispers quickly to his wife running his fingers through his sons hair. Hair he might never run his fingers through again, now.

“Alright, we don’t really have any other options right now do we?” Mary smiles sadly before they both look down to Peter as the voices get even louder.

“Okay baby, Mommy and Daddy need you to be really brave and do something for us, you think you can do it? It would really help us,” Mary says while rubbing her thumb over Peters tiny knuckles, Peter nods looking up with teary eyes.

“We need you to run as far that way as you can,” Mary directs pointing North. “Don’t stop until you get to the buildings, no matter what, okay? Do you think you can do that for us?”

Peters eyes widen and he shakes his head frantically, his thumb falling from his mouth. “No, I wanna stay with you,” Peter cries.

“We’ll find you, we’ll be back with you soon, but you have to go now baby.” Mary looks over her shoulder and to Richard before picking Peter up quickly.

“Yeah bud, your Mom and I will come get you when we can okay,” Richard smiles down at his son.

She pulls her wallet out of her pocket and Richard quickly hands her his, “You run to the buildings and you give them these and tell them that you need help and that these are your mommy and daddy’s, okay?” Mary says smiling at Peter while putting the wallets into Peters tiny hoodie pocket.

The door to the plane flies open and men start to storm in.

Mary quickly pushes Peter out the window, “Run Peter, run! Don’t stop no matter what!”

Peter cries before getting up and running to where his mommy and daddy told him to go. When the men start yelling louder he sobs, but he doesn’t stop.

He has to be brave and help his parents, he needs to get to the buildings.

. . .

Mary and Richard squeeze each other’s hands tightly before letting go as the men storm over to them. They fight back as much as they can but in the end, they wind up restrained in the back of a small airplane.

They will get away from them, and they will see their son again. They’ll find a way back to him, no matter what.

#whumptober #peter parker #mary parker #richard parker #fanfiction #plane crash

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Marvel Teen Romance: Solo Boys Edition

Romance in today’s superhero comics sucks. 

There are two categories of love interests when it comes to teen boys in romance in today’s Marvel.

First category is shared with the women: two characters on the same team. This is easy and standard for superhero teen on teams and is not covered in this post.

Second is for exclusively characters with solo books: one dimensional love interests who only serve to fill in a role.

Very few of the romance in male character’s books work today because the romantic partner is not defined. They are placeholder roles. Their depth is written with the same amount of enthusiasm as a person filling out an application in the cases of characters that aren’t in team books only which is completely different for males in teen books.

This is partly because most of the characters with solo books do not have a lot of time to give the supporting cast depth so love interests often turn into one note characters that could best be defined as “This is so and so’s girlfriend.” 

This is extremely prevalent in Marvel teen boys solos and you want to know how you can spot how this is happening? When you the character does not have a last name or their name is not mentioned upon introduction of said character.

Yes, this happens a lot for the teen solo male characters to which I personally had to dig just to find out who these girls were. And yes, they are all in mlw romances canonically. There is no canonically openly gay male character with his own solo book.

It is frustrating because there is no excuse. You are Marvel. You literally created Peter Parker and Mary Jane. Luke Cage and Jessica Jones. Reed Richards and Sue Storm. You have an entire goddamn cinematic universe with well-defined romantic subplots but somehow when it comes to solo characters, fuck actually giving romantic love interests depth. Peter Parker probably has the largest love history in Marvel but almost all of them have a fucking last name. For fuck’s sake, even his supporting characters have better defined romances almost all of the characters on this list.

Warning: the reason I put a “?” for a lot of these characters’ sexual orientation is because I am not going to assume. They have to earn any confirmation of being straight from me by doing three things: when the idea of romance is brought up they always think girlfriend, actively deny being interested in the same sex, or call themselves straight. Only one character has done that on the boys side.

Miles Morales aka Spider-man

Orientation: Heterosexual

Love Interests: Barbara Rodriguez(current), Starling, Lana Baumgartner, Rachel Leigh, Katie Bishop, Tomoe the Technogolem, Spider-Gwen, Olivia

Miles Morales is the exception to the flaws of today’s teen male heroes for Marvel because of all of his love interests are actual characters in which he has unique relationships with. None of them are one note characters and they are diverse in ethnicity, race, and background. They range from his best friend’s having crushes on him(Lana), bad girls who want to tempt him into turning bad(Katie Bishop, Rachel Leigh), super powered girlfriends(Spider-Gwen, Starling), and fully fleshed out girlfriend who does not know that he is Spider-man or knows but has not told(Barbara Rodriguez).

Most importantly, they have a relationship with Miles through either his being Spider-man and just him or both.

Just like his predecessor, Miles’ love life starts and begins around his identity as Spider-man. And that is intentional because as much as Peter is probably one half of the most prolific comic book romance in history, he is fucking terrible at giving advice. Peter Parker stupidly told Miles not to tell his loved ones that he is Spider-man because villains target them all of the time. Mind you, this was 616 Peter Parker who told him this, not Ultimate Peter Parker because Mary Jane was the first person he told about his being Spider-man. Miles does not know that Peter has a guilt complex the size of the Australian Outback so he stupidly follows his advice until he meets one Katie Bishop.

How or when Katie and he hooked up is unknown, but we can say that it happened during Miles’ brief retirement from Spider-man. When Miles eventually resumed the mantle, he felt bad about lying to his girlfriend so he tells her.

Oh...this didn’t work as well as he thought. Gee I wonder what the problem is?

One problem: Katie Bishop is part of Hydra.

And this is why you should ask political affiliations should be major criteria in partner searching: one minute you are dating and watching movies, seems to really hate Inglourious Basterds for some reason. Then after making out awhile and becoming serious, they slowly reveal things about themselves. All of sudden, you realized that you have been dating a Nazi.

So after that disaster ended via “New Universe, who dis”, Miles is actually terrified about telling any love interest about his dual identity and fervently clings onto Peter Parker’s terrible advice that further complicates his relationships going forward because he misinterpreted the situation with his relationship with Katie. He should have learned that keeping secrets from each other is bad all-around because Katie never told Miles that she was a card carrying Hydra member because that would turn him off from her(I mean he is black for fuck’s sake). Miles, while having no reason to share his past with her while they were dating because he was no longer Spider-man, should have not completely abandoned his superhero sense, Neither of them trusted the other enough so the relationship was doomed from the jump.

 This is where Barbara Rodriguez, Lana Baumgartner, and partially Spider-Gwen comes in.

Spider-man (2016) is an awkward jumping point because Bendis no longer had the Ultimate Universe as the backdrop for Miles. If I could advise anyone who was interested in Miles Morales comics, I would tell them to skip most of 2016 run because Bendis was over the place. He introduced a lot of bad ideas like Miles moving away from the Spider-man identity, the Venom web strings thing replacing web shooters, Miles becoming a secret agent, and etc. Just a lot of dumb shit. But one thing that Bendis did establish was that Miles is a hormonal teenaged heterosexual boy who has girls on the brain all of the time.

It is a over arching subplot of both Ganke and Miles trying to get girlfriends. Ganke keeps shopping Miles out to girls and Miles kind of indulges him. Until Miles goes to Earth-65.

Gwen Stacy knows Miles is Spider-man, but she is from another dimension and while they share the same mantle, Gwen’s attraction to Miles is dubious because every dimension she has been in up to the point that she met Miles, a Gwen Stacy is either dead, miserable, or evil. The one alternate reality that she has seen where she is happy is that she is married to Miles Morales with children. All of this on top of the fact that Gwen is being blackmailed by her worst nemesis as well as her father being in prison equates to Gwen is stressed and is desperate for any sort of comfort. She does not have any feelings towards Miles that go beyond platonic and it helps that of all the Spider-people, Miles is one of the few that don’t resemble Peter. 

And you shouldn’t trust Miles’ feelings because he is a horny teenaged boy who spent the majority of Bendis’ last run pining after every girl who just so happens to smile at him. No really, Miles had crushes on Kamala, teenaged Jean Grey, Cassie Lang, some girl that broke up with him before they started dating, and Spider-Gwen. He was just happy to kiss a girl but not really because she is from another dimension. And right after that, he gets into a thing with Lana and Tomoe the Technogolem so really, it is not really a thing, but the movie felt compelled to make it so in spite of spitting in the face of every goddamn Spider-man theme ever created.

Lana Baumgartner aka Bombshell, however, at least is in the dimension Miles currently resides in and also is one of the two who has been in both the Ultimate and 616 universe when Miles made his switch. Now I am not sure how much is still canon with Bombshell making the switch over to 616, but her relationship with Miles is a lot like Peter’s and Black Cat’s in that she used to be bad, but now she is good and Miles is like her best friend. Regardless, aside from Ganke, Lana is one of the few people who Miles can confide in and Lana, in spite of going to Midtown, relates to Miles on multiple levels.

It wasn’t until Miles left to avenge her getting beaten up by Hammerhead that Lana started actively pursuing Miles or stating that she kind of always had a crush on him which is not at all reciprocated because he correctly deduces that Lana is dealing with Florence Nightingale effect. Of course, he may have underestimated her feelings for her because from that point on, Lana keeps texting him and he keeps ignoring her.

And finally Barbara Rodriguez. 

Barbara, unbeknownst to both Miles and her, is from the Ultimate Universe as well. Apparently when Miles made the switch, Molecule Man wanted to thank Miles and not revived all of his dead family members, he also made sure would be loved ones like Barbara were around. It is kind of like an alternate dimensional fated lovers thing and since Barbara is the last thing Bendis created before he went to DC, she is Miles’ Mary Jane Watson. Saladin Almed took over writing duties for Miles and under his pen, the relationship between Miles and Barbara has been the focus of his run.

Barbara does not have any superpowers and what we know is that she is an aspiring rapper/singer who at least half of her family is undocumented immigrants or not American. She is a hip-hop head, has a bit of a mischievous streak(she convinces Miles to skip school to go to a Hip-Hop museum exhibit), and loves to banter.

And she also knows that Miles is Spider-man but because of very stupid advise from one Peter Parker, Miles keeps lying to her. This puts a strain on the relationship which is worsened because Barbara feels indebted to Miles because him being Spider-man saved her. She just wishes that Miles told her instead of lying about it.

While Miles and Barbara are dealing with this melodrama, Miles meets another girl: Tiana Toomes aka Starling.

She is the granddaughter of Adrian Toomes aka the Vulture aka one of Peter Parker’s worst enemies. Miles meets her in the middle of Tiana’s One Woman Quest for Vengeance against Tombstone and they fundamentally disagree on how to deal with Tombstone.

After all Tombstone is dealt with, Miles and Tiana kind of connect except the obstacle of his need to preserve his secret identity gets in the way.

Miles fails to realize that his secret identity is there to protect not just him and his loved ones, but ensure that he has a normal social life. There is nothing to be gained in keeping a secret from friends about who you are especially if it puts them in danger. Yes, Miles is right in not telling Tiana, who is related to a guy who would gladly attack Miles to get back at Peter Parker in someway, and I am a bit annoyed that he even considered revealing himself to Tiana who he has every reason to not trust on that level, but not Barbara who he promised to share with once he felt comfortable. It is not out of safety that he doesn’t tell Barbara which is exactly the case when dealing with Tiana. He doesn’t tell Barbara because he believes he is keeping her safe and...he isn’t. It just shows that you don’t trust her.

Miles is the only male teen hero that Marvel has who has starred in a solo comic book and has an in-depth romantic history as well as in-depth and detailed love interests. He is the only one in a period of 20 years. That is sad.

Sam Alexander aka Nova

Gender: Male

Orientation: ?

Love Interests: Carrie, Jinin, Lina

And now we are shifting from character whose history is in-depth to another whose can’t be asked to give his romantic interests a fucking last name. The writers of Nova have no excuse. Nova unlike the majority of characters here has had at least 50 issues which is 40 issues too many to have a character who was present in the very first issue to not yet have a fucking last name.

Carrie appears in the first issue of Sam’s Nova where Sam is moping about his dad being picked on because his father is the school janitor. Carrie has very little depth, but there was enough depth that would amount to an introduction.Carrie is friends or at least hangs out in the same skater clique as Sam’s bully, Karl. Karl loves to rag on Sam’s dad working as the school’s janitor and honestly, Carrie kind of likes Sam, but she is friends with the asshole as well so it had potential of being interesting.

You’d think that after this introduction that she would be more prominent, but nope. Carrie’s appearances became more sporadic in Sam’s Nova in which Sam shows that he is as emotionally dense as the sunken Titanic. The series shifted away from Sam’s school life to focus on Sam’s quest to find his father and his mother and sister. Sam doesn’t see Carrie a lot so you as a reader can’t be blamed if you don’t know that she exists.

Carrie doesn’t appear until another 4 issues later(4 months) where she is hanging out with Karl and the skater clique in which she prevents Karl from spontaneously egging Sam’s home out of boredom. And of course, Nova appears.

In which, she immediately recognizes that Nova is Sam because girls who like boys are apparently more perceptive or at least Sam’s mask is nowhere near as concealing as he thinks with the whole mouth being visible.

Next issues she confronts Sam about it and of course like an idiot, he lies because apparently it is superhero 101 to lie to your girlfriends about who you are when it is really fucking obvious.

The lie is unnecessary because Sam’s villains or would be villains could easily track down Sam due to him being a Nova. They go beyond taking his loved ones hostage. It is honestly beneath them to do so and the closest that a character has done so in Nova was Kaldera and she didn’t need to know what Sam looked like or his name. Nova’s secret identity or need of one is useless.

Carrie confronts Sam again about the Nova issue and when Sam tries to pull a Spider-man, she completely chews him out for it.

From this point on, Carrie’s appearances were sporadic and carried a somewhat hostile tone with her getting sick of Sam’s shit and also the bulk of Sam’s adventures being away from school. Carrie becomes the babysitter for Sam’s sister when his mom is busy being a single mother and Sam is out in Space doing space shit. And again, not a whole lot of depth here. And then suddenly for no apparent reason and actual use of story telling...Sam and Carrie start randomly dating.

After this, she barely appears and then she is dropped off the face of the Earth. Now I would cover Jinin and Lina, but it is a waste of time. Both characters are one note and have fewer appearances than Carrie.  Point is that Sam’s romance history is indicative of an overall problem with male teen heroes in the modern age. They don’t bother with making the romantic interest as an actual character. Their role is to essentially warm the bed and house while the hero is away.

Amadeus Cho aka Brawn

Gender: Male

Orientation: ?

Love Interests:Delphyne Gorgon, Lady Hellbender, Enchantress(Hulk brained consented without Amadeus being conscious...so rape?), Vision, Luna Snow

It took nearly 20 years to develop a love interest for Amadeus. 20 goddamn years. It wasn’t even developed. It just randomly happened.

Eventhough I was rooting for Cindy Moon/Luna Snow, I’m just glad that it happened.

Victor Alvarez aka Power Man

Gender: Male

Orientation: ?

Love Interests: Ava Ayala, Iowa Bryant

Victor is criminally underused. He should be tied to both Iron Fist and Luke Cage, but he kind of went the way of the teen hero in the 2010s: shipped off to any team that needs a token black guy. Before he went down that role, he was being mentored by Danny Rand for awhile. Anyone who knows Victor knows that him being mentored by a snooty rich white guy goes as well as Jason Voorhees and pre-marital teenaged coitus.

Victor goes to school, apartently he is a budding thespian and actor, and he can’t even focus because his head is in the clouds.

Dayyuuuuuuum. I mean she talks like she stepped out of the 20s, but I understand the awe. Iowa is probably the most peculiar of the love interests here because she has this flapper-esque dialogue that is just out of place. So out of place that Victor suspects her of being tied to the resident old timey bad guy that both he and Iron Fist are searching for.

Long story short: Nothing happens to this item. She is remarkable because at least she has a last name.

Next is probably a more popular character: Ava Ayala aka White Tiger. Victor joins the Mighty Avengers and his initial thoughts of the honorable and dutiful Ava Ayala...

Awww, he gets the mush mouth when he gets flustered around pretty girls. Ava Ayala and Victor’s chemistry starts slow as Ava is a bit of a tortured soul as she constantly wants to live up to her brother’s example.What with Gideon Mace killing her brother and Arcade torturing and killing some of her old teammates: she just wasn’t in the headspace of looking for relationships. When Gideon gets loose, Ava decides to let the Tiger out and the team had to stop her from mauling her brother’s killer. 

Ouch...

White Tiger eventually gets put down by the team. Victor, being the dogged nice guy that he is tries to find a way to relinquish the hold the Tiger God has on his crush. Luckily, Ava puts the God-Spirit in check, herself. After this, the two continue to support each other and form somewhat of a bond. For Victor, it was romantic and for Ava, it was mostly out of camaraderie.  But after a cosmic near world ending experience that involved all of the Avengers merging their minds together thus sharing each other’s souls to one another, they finally become official.

That is one way to undercut development and get straight to the point. I mean there is not a pick up line the world that equates to soul melding and fighting off the bad guy.

Anyway, they stayed an item for awhile. There really isn’t a lot of content.

Mighty Avengers ends, but they both get enlisted into the AIM Avengers. During this transition, they broke up because Ava is all work and no play. She is married to the idea of being a superhero so much that she doesn’t value her own health. Victor broke up with her.

They don’t get bac together btw. After AIM Avengers, Victor joins the Champions while Ava joins up with Captain America. He does try to make a pass at Ironheart, but that gets shut down quick.

Rayshaun Lucas aka Patriot

Gender: Male

Orientation: ?

Love Interests: Brianna

I am not going to waste my time or yours.

This is Brianna. He asks her out on a date, but then she gets promptly turned into a mindless vampire and that shit is a bigger turn off than cis straight men. 

He joins the Champions and hits on the Red Locust, but she is kind of too gay Ms. Marvel to care.

Robbie Reyes aka Ghost Rider

Gender: Male

Orientation: ?

Love Interests: Lisa

Not going to waste your time and mine, again. 

Lisa literally just shows up. No introduction. She just happens.

And this is from the first series. In the next series, written by the same writer, she just disappears. So nothing of note happens and you wonder why fangirls ship him with Amadeus.

So this all of them. No, I won’t do Alpha because...no. Anyways, the girl solo’s are next(we are talking Ms. Marvel and Kate Bishop) so it should be more fun and gay. And then we will get to the big team teen love fest bonanza which is super gay and super fun.

#Miles Morales #Spider-man #spider-man: into the spider-verse #Into the Spider-verse #Nova #Sam Alexander #Amadeus Cho #Brawn #Totally Awesome Hulk #Victor Alvarez #Power Man #Rayshaun Lucas #Patriot #Ghost Rider #Robbie Reyes #Spider-Gwen #Katie Bishop #Barbara Rodriguez #Starling #Tiana Toomes #long post #lana baumgartner #bombshell

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TSB Week 17 Roundup!  And you wanna hear something crazy awesome?  We have over THREE HUNDRED FILLS so far for this round of TSB!  WE ROCK!

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Read on to check out what was created for the TSB this week!

Title: The reason Nick Fury doesn’t do vacations Collaborator: Fighting_for_Creativity Link: AO3 Square Filled: T4 - Abductions Ship: WinterIronFury Rating: Teen Major Tags: Hurt Bucky Barnes, Hurt Tony Stark Summary: Tony and Bucky wanted to go on a trip with their third Nicholas Fury.However Nick refused, Bucky and Tony got abducted and…Tony never thought he would see tigers in that state. Word Count: 5473

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Title: Cherish the Living - Chapter 13 Collaborator: 27dragons Link: AO3 Square Filled: S5 - Iron Dad Ship: WinterIron Rating: E Major Tags: Gore, Alternate Universe - Zombies Summary: Tony grew up on stories of the time Before the virus, but that’s a world that’s long ago and far away. He now travels a route between the various walled settlements, trading goods and repairs for bread and board, and carrying news from one villa to the next. It’s a dangerous life, but one he’s used to and well-suited for. That is, until a cluster of zombies gets the drop on him.Bucky is a Nomad, one of a band of enhanced humans who have sworn to wipe out all zombies and put an end to the zombie plague – one at a time, if necessary. When he rescues Tony, he’s just doing his job. Agreeing to escort Tony to the next villa is a bit above-and-beyond, but it’s nice to have company after so long on the road alone. He didn’t expect the trip to forge a bond between the two of them that not nothing – not even death – could break. Word Count: 49,317

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Title: Cherish the Living - Chapter 13 Collaborator: tisfan Link: AO3 Square Filled: Adopted - Next Generation Ship: WinterIron Rating: E Major Tags: Gore, Alternate Universe - Zombies Summary: Tony grew up on stories of the time Before the virus, but that’s a world that’s long ago and far away. He now travels a route between the various walled settlements, trading goods and repairs for bread and board, and carrying news from one villa to the next. It’s a dangerous life, but one he’s used to and well-suited for. That is, until a cluster of zombies gets the drop on him.Bucky is a Nomad, one of a band of enhanced humans who have sworn to wipe out all zombies and put an end to the zombie plague – one at a time, if necessary. When he rescues Tony, he’s just doing his job. Agreeing to escort Tony to the next villa is a bit above-and-beyond, but it’s nice to have company after so long on the road alone. He didn’t expect the trip to forge a bond between the two of them that not nothing – not even death – could break. Word Count: 49,317

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Title: Forget me not Collaborator: Doc Olive Link: AO3 Square Filled: R2 - Animals Ship: Stucky Rating: Teen Major Tags: sick fic, Hanahaki-related vomiting Summary: Bucky's tired and feeling sad and rejected and also a little love-sick. Natasha takes care of him. And there are cats Word Count: 3543

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Title: Better Than Good Collaborator: hddnone Link: AO3 Square Filled: S4 - You Can’t Trademark That Ship: Stuckony Rating: E Major Tags: Unreliable Narrator, Fluffy Smut, Biting Kink? Summary: “I don’t think you understand that I can buy this entire hotel.”Steve masked a sigh. “I do understand, but you’re forgetting that we’re undercover.“Though Steve didn’t know why it was he and Tony that were playing the couple when it was Tony and Bucky who were actually dating. Steve was happy for them, he just - wanted. Word Count: 7096

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Title: Like A Virgin Collaborator: RoseRose Link: AO3 Square Filled: K4 - Kink: Rushed Sex Ship: Stony Rating: E Major Tags: Steve Rogers is Not a Virgin, Bottom Steve Rogers, Steve Rogers Loves to Suck Cock, Mild Humiliation Kink, Face Slapping, Bisexual Steve Rogers Summary: Steve is tired of being thought of as a virgin, especially by Tony. A unicorn is his breaking point, and he tells Tony (while the team is there) exactly how not a virgin he is.Otherwise known as "Steve loves to suck cock, and wants to suck Tony's" Word Count: 2125

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Title: Evening Comfort Collaborator: SierraNovembr Link: AO3 Square Filled: T2 - Clint Barton/Hawkeye Ship: StarkSpangledWinterHawk Rating: Gen Major Tags: Polyamory, OT4, Cuddling, Grumpy Tony Stark Summary: Sometimes you just have to crawl into bed before dinner. Or, Tony has a bad day and gets some comfort from his boyfriends. Word Count: 1275

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Title: Post Heist Debrief Collaborator: MagicaDraconia16 Link: AO3 Square Filled: A5 - Tony Stark/Stephen Strange Ship: pre-James "Bucky" Barnes/Tony Stark/Stephen Strange Rating: Teen Major Tags: Thieves, no-powers, rivals, amateur porn, striptease, minor swearing Summary: This is the grand tale of Ali Baba and the For- uh, just a sec...Actually, this is just the tale of three thieves, who reluctantly band together and then decide that maybe, just maybe, the others might have something worth stealing. Word Count: 4165

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Title: He was tired - Chapter 20 Collaborator: Fighting_for_Creativity Link: AO3 Square Filled: S2 - Reunion Ship: Mary Parker/Richard Parker/Tony Stark (past), Past Pepperony Rating: Teen Major Tags: Fighting, Tony Being Callous, Dubious Actions,Slight Description of Wounds, Swearing, Violence, Family Fluff at the End Summary: Tony rescues Peter, for which he has to fight a tiny bit.Peter is healing and a vigilant is stopping crime in NYC.Some family fluff at the end. Word Count: 26,884

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Title: Rightwise King Born Collaborator: Doc Olive Link: AO3 Square Filled: S1 - Comics Ship: James “Bucky Barnes & Tony Stark Rating: Gen Major Tags: N/A Summary: Bucky and Tony wake up somewhere very foggy. Very very loosely inspired by the Avengers vol. 1 #225, The Fall of Avalon (1982).  Word Count: 344

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Title: Unstoppable Forces Collaborator: Doc Olive Link: AO3 Square Filled: S5 - Writing Style: Colorful Description Ship: Stucky, IronStrange Rating: Teen Major Tags: Vomiting References, Hanahaki Disease Summary: Tony sees the big picture, while Nat works to get Bucky to Tony and Stephen's apartment. Word Count: 5422

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Title: blue as the night sky Collaborator: HogwartsToAlexandria Link: AO3 Square Filled: T4 - Dressing Room Ship: Pepperony Rating: Teen Major Tags: AU - No Powers, Married Couple, Trans Pepper, Post-Top Surgery Shopping, Fluff Summary: He paced the little corridor between the cublicles, wishing she'd let him order her a tailor so they could do this at home. "It's not as fun," she'd said, and Tony had understood what she meant, he thought.They were in one of the best ready-to-wear gala dresses shops he knew. The walls were a cream color, the curtains of the cubicles too, and the floor were black, polished hardwood. It was beautiful. She was gorgeous.  Word Count: 826

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Title: The New Curtains Are Hideous Collaborator: periwinkle promise Link: AO3 Square Filled: K2 - Spy, Secret Agent, Assassin or Hitman Ship: IronWidow Rating: Teen Major Tags: None Summary: Her husband is not all he seems to be ... Mr & Mrs Smith fusion Word Count: 970

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Title: Save Yourself (Let Us Help)  Collaborator: RomanceByFaye Link: AO3 Square Filled: R3 - Abuse Ship: WinterIronFalcon Rating: Mature Major Tags: Abuse, Physical Abuse, Abusive Relationship, Domestic Abuse Summary: Sam and Bucky are rudely awakened in the wee hours of the morning by another one of Steve’s drunken visits. He's probably looking to crash on their couch...Only, the person currently buzzing their apartment incessantly isn’t Steve at all.But that doesn’t mean Tony Stark isn’t in need of shelter. Word Count: 2235

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Title: A Heat of Reprise Collaborator: hddnone Link: AO3 Square Filled: R1 - Heat Fic Ship: Stuckony Rating: E Major Tags: A/B/O, Alphas Steve and Bucky, Omega Tony,  Dirty Talk, Breeding Kink Summary: It’s Bucky’s first time with Tony’s heat, and he spills the beans about what he and Steve used to do with omegas, back when.“Steven Grant Rogers, what have you been hiding?”“It’s a thing that we used to do.” Steve’s voice was rough and quiet. “It wouldn’t - it would never have worked without Bucky, so it didn’t come up.“Tony knew Steve could talk dirty, but he’s not heard it quite like this. Word Count: 4034

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Title: Best to Use Discretion Collaborator: ceealaina Link: AO3 Square Filled: T1 - Polyamory or Open Relationship Ship: Stucky, Stuckony Rating: E Major Tags: Alternate Universe - No Powers, Accidental Polyamory, Voyeurism, Exhibitionism Summary: Tony knew he should turn away and pretend he hadn’t seen anything. They were maybe a story below him, within yelling distance if the windows opened, and while it could be argued that they’d made the choice to fool around on a rooftop in New York where just about anyone could see them, they still hadn’t consented to Tony watching them. Somehow, he couldn’t make himself look away. (AKA: Tony accidentally watches Steve and Bucky banging on a rooftop. Things escalate from there.) Word Count: 9122

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Life as a Super Powered Omega Sucks (Chapter 1)

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Summary:  Peter just got invited on his first lengthy Avengers mission, one that will prove whether he's fit to continue operating as a hero on the streets of New York. Unfortunately, he's also an omega disguised as a beta, and on the week of starting his heat. Unable to miss out on the mission for the sake of his future, he goes anyways, equipped with a dangerous quantity of heat suppressants and an optimistic outlook. However, he wasn't prepared to end up spending most of his time with Alpha and long term friend Wade. Will he survive the mission and get back in time to spend his heat at home? Or ruin his health and suppress his heat long enough that he can prove his worth to SHIELD and the Avengers?

Peter Parker wasn't exactly ashamed of being an omega. Sure, he hid his status like the plague- masking his scent with an artificial beta spray, using heat suppressants at any given chance, only going off them when it was guaranteed he had a free weekend to spare, and wearing clothes that highlighted his un-omega-like toned arms when he was feeling particularly insecure about it- but it wasn't out of fear of being seen as such. But if you needed a picture painted of why he chose to hide his biological assignment in lieu of presenting himself as neutral, the one word he could begin to create it with was ‘Alphas’.

Alphas secreted dominance with them wherever they went, leaving their cocky, charismatic scent all over public spaces. School was no different. From the days of 7th grade and up, when puberty started hitting Peter's classmates and kids were presenting left and right, the alphas took total control of the hallways. Big man Flash was the first to show clear signs of an alpha, and the rest of his crew of alphas and wannabee-betas fell right in line behind him. With the rise of Alpha-Beta and Beta-Beta relationships being accepted in society, omegas were far and few. Male omegas were even rarer, making up just 25% of the omega population. History taught the extremely fertile gender was previously discriminated against harshly by those that believed them to be nothing more than baby-making machines, and nearly eradicated, as only Alpha-Omega relationships could produce omegas. However,as the omega population went down, closely followed by birth rates, everyone had begun to realize the necessary role omegas played in re-population. As such, omegas were presently celebrated and respected; lusted after and worshiped by alphas and betas alike.

But that was mostly in their later years. Before alphas started to develop their sexual drive, they reveled in the chance to show their power over others, and omega girls tended to be their target. Peter saw kids shoved into lockers, thrown in trash cans, and pushed around on a daily basis. He’d only known 2 omega boys in his life, and the teasing had gotten so severe they eventually moved to homeschooling. Luckily, he hadn't presented, and when he reached 14, he was officially declared as a beta by the school nurse, giving him a pass to fly under the bully's radars at least a tiny bit more effectively.

Unfortunately, being born as the child of a purebred omega and a groomed Alpha such as Mary and Richard left you more susceptible to presenting than other children. So when Peter awoke when he was 17, a few years after he'd taken on the Spider-Man persona and met Mr Stark, sweating and clawing at his clammy skin mid-heat, he knew the universe was doing whatever it could to fuck him over. Besides just school bullies being an issue when it came to his identity, another major reason he had to conceal any evidence of his omega status was the fact that he was Spider-Man. Not only would he most definitely be looked down on by his enemies or perceived as weak, but with the Avengers hardly taking him seriously as it is, and police on high alert searching for an alpha with superhuman strength, he didn't want to risk losing any more respect from the public. He wasn't totally popular at the moment. Besides, being known as an omega, especially a male omega, publicly would narrow down the search quite a bit. What was he, one of 20,000 in all of New York City? Luckily, he'd been pretty successful in hiding it so far, even on days such as today when he was on the week of his heat and could feel the hormone changes already. There was some big-name-but-secretly-evil private investor from some big-name-but-sketchy company that had been quietly investing in illegal technology on the terrorist level, or at least that's what Peter had gathered so far. He always did have some trouble figuring out what Coulson was actually saying, especially when he was distracted by...everything. Particularly a shiny-- "And we can count on you for that, right, Spider-Man?" Oh yeah. That was him. "What? Yeah, yeah, of course." Peter flashed his biggest grin to show he had definitely been listening and not spacing out like the 20 year old kid he was, but Coulson obviously couldn't see it through the spandex of his mask. All intimidating and slightly patronizing pairs of eyes turned back to stare at him, and he felt himself melting into his seat in guilt. Coulson drew a long sigh, rubbed his temple, then turned back to the map projected on the screen. "So, to repeat for Spider-Man, this point of investigation on the building will be a stealth mission. We'll send Natasha and Steve to the ground floor to  take out the heaviest of the security, and once they take notice of you, Spider-Man should have plenty of time to access the elevator shaft and descend to the bottom floor unnoticed. Once you're there, you need to find a way to get Tony in so he can disable the bombs placed on each level. That way, our agents can effectively infiltrate the premise with as little resistance as possible, end the weapons trade in Cabo, and place as many of the workers under arrest as we can.” Now Peter was a little confused, mostly by how he had spaced out all the way from the Russia plans to Mexico, but he was at least a little too proud to raise his hand and ask.

“We already have your escort ready for your portion of the mission, Spider-Man, so don’t worry about that piece. We’ve already made contact and he shall be there tomorrow when you depart.”

“I need an escort?” Peter earned an intense frown for his comment, and he shut himself up right away. “I mean, yeah. A-Okay with Me.”

“Intelligence gathering will begin tomorrow. Meet here at 4 for your flight. Yes, Clint, 4 in the morning. Don’t be late, and don’t forget to bring any supplies you may need for a mission that may take up to two weeks. The majority of your time in Russia will be spent on hold as back-up, in case something goes awry, until we make our move on their transportation facility once we’ve acquired enough data. Keep that in mind when packing. ” With that, Coulson officially ended the meeting and began to gather up what he had brought over. Peter was happy to escape, until he realized what exactly Coulson had said. Two weeks? No, there was no way he could be gone that long. His heat was due sometime around Friday, maybe Monday at latest. Tomorrow, Tuesday, at earliest. He couldn’t go on a trip with the Avengers when it was so close. That would be a story he would never live down.

“Yo, hey, Mr. Stark.”

“Kid.”

Peter side-stepped Captain America as he shuffled past, ending up in front of the man who had brought him into this line of business in the first place. He wasn't aware of Peter's omega status. Mr Stark hardly trusted him enough to allow him to be an Avenger in the first place, so Peter had hacked into Karen's programming with Ned's help to keep her from relaying omega-related health information to anyone else but himself. "Hey, uh, he said this mission was going on for 2 weeks?”

“Yep.” Mr Stark answered as he shoved his expensive tablet into its case, depositing it in his bag. “Homework standing in your way?”

“No, no, that’d be totally uncool.” Peter mentally crossed that off his list of excuses he had prepared. “I just don’t know if I can like...keep my cover that long. I have a lot of people that expect to see me every day. I don’t think the flu will work again.”

“Then use the Stark Internship papers I signed.” Mr Stark sighed thickly, turning to face Peter with an impatient expression. Peter internally cringed, able to see the extra stress he’d been under reflected on his face. He was five seconds from being scolded. He could feel it like a truck about to run him over. “Tell them you’re going on a school trip. Use my card and book hotels for proof. Figure it out. You’ve known since yesterday it was this long.”

“I...you’re right.” Peter relented. Guess there was no helping it, then. He’d just have to make sure to make the mission went by fast. And bring as many heat suppressants as possible, no matter how ineffective they were on him. “Sorry. I’ll get it sorted.”

“Good. This is your chance to prove we can trust you as a part of this team.” Mr Stark continued, walking past Peter and towards the door. Peter kept up with him easily, shadowing him through the hallways of the tower. “You’re young, and that’s kept SHIELD off your back for years. Don’t let this mission be the reason you have to give up everything you’ve worked towards.”

“It’s that important?”

“It’s that important.” Mr Stark repeated back.

Peter hadn’t even begun to consider this may be some sort of test to allow him to continue to operate in New York without proper jurisdiction. However, that made sense. Why else would an entire important section of the mission be dedicated to him? Or at least he assumed it was important. He wasn’t paying attention during the rest to find out what anyone else was doing. In fact, what was the goal of their mission again-- ?

Mr Stark’s shoulder came up close to Peter’s face too fast,and he realized too late he had stopped walking. He barely managed to catch himself before he rammed into the taller man from behind, taking an uncomfortable step back. Mr Stark turned to face him with a suspicious expression, slight worry maybe-possibly mixed in there somewhere. “You’ve been acting weird since yesterday.”

Peter swallowed. Pre-heat brain. But he couldn’t say that. “I guess so? It’s probably just because I’m around all of you guys and-”

“Cut the crap. What’s up? Why are you so determined not to go?” Mr Stark eyed him, as if he could see through his facade if he stared long enough. “Are you hurt?”

“What? No, I’m fine. Totally good.” Peter insisted, only realizing his missed opportunity once it was too late. “I think I’m just tired. I’ll make sure not to stay out too late tonight for patrol.”

“Maybe stay home and sleep the entire night. I’m sure New York will survive for a night.” Mr Stark still didn’t look like he believed him, and Peter almost preferred being ignored.

“I’ll think about it.” Peter agreed, though there was no way that was going to happen when he was already going to be gone for an extensive period of time. “Anyways, thanks for the talk. I should really get working on my excuses and alibis and stuff.”

“Right. Try to take it easy.”

“Will do.”

Peter peeled out of the conversation before Mr Stark could press it any further. He sprinted through the hallways of Stark Towers, pushing on each window until he found the one that was actually able to be opened at this height, indicated by a small rush of wind detectable only to his sensitive ears. His gloved hands pressed lightly on the surface, letting the glass pane swing out after some resistance. Peter crawled up onto the sill, his path home highlighted between the numerous skyscrapers littered along the streets. The cars honking below gave a rise to his adrenaline, and then he was falling, leaping from the building to give himself enough distance not to hit the wall, but free-falling like a bullet through the wind. 10 stories or so down he finally caught his fall, webs shooting out from both wrists with a distinct thwip . His arms jolted at the end of his dissent, before he was soaring again through the air, waiting until the last second possible before he would let another strand sail out and grip onto a pole or a ledge. All the while, calculations of heat suppressants and calendar days ate through his brain. He was sure this mission was just going to last a couple days, and the 2 weeks warning was just precautionary. They’d be in and out within a few days, and he’d be home and in bed by Saturday at the latest. They were the Avengers! It didn’t take that long for these kinds of things.

Probably.

"Hey Karen?"

"Yes, Peter?"

"Falsify a good health report if Mr Stark tries to check on me. Also, can you tell me how much is in my bank account? Suppressants are pretty expensive."

"Of Course, Peter." Karen responded, making Peter smile as he felt slightly less alone. "I believe you have about 3 doses remaining at home, and can afford a pack of 12 from the budget pharmacy in Northwest Queens."

Shit. "Thanks, Karen." Peter would just have to make do somehow.

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Peter was not awake, by any means, the next morning.

He had followed Mr Stark’s advice and passed out before midnight. However, that still meant he only got a few hours in before he had to be up and packed by 3. He shoved a few days of civvies into a bag, rolled up tightly to conserve space, basic toiletries and underwear, and of course packed the rest of the space with necessary tools in case he got unlucky enough to end up in heat; a week’s worth of heat suppressants (enough for a normal metabolism to last a month, but he was unlucky enough to burn through a day’s worth in a few hours), 2 bottles of faux scent to mask his, and anti-anxiety medication to take the edge off if he was in a difficult spot. With that, he snuck a quiet breakfast and left Aunt May a note, before taking off with toast in his mouth towards the hangar he was told to meet in.

Peter was surprised to find himself to be the only one in full uniform. Mr Stark had his suitcase in hand but had made no attempt to wear it even partway, Steve had on sweatpants and a long sleeve shirt, in similar style to Sam, though his wing containment unit was in his arms, Clint hadn’t even changed out of his pajamas, but he did wear his bow over his back, and Natasha was in her bodysuit without any of her normal accessories layered on. They were still waiting for Peter’s supposed stealth mission escort, as well as Scott Lang, but otherwise Peter felt quite out of place.

“Don’t tell me you’re a morning person, too.” Clint walked in front of Peter, eyeing his suit with a yawn that made him look half-asleep still. “Sam and Steve exhaust me even thinking about waking up this early. I can’t be the only one thinking this is ungodly torture.”

“I’m running on pure adrenaline right now. I only got a nap in last night.” Peter admitted in a low voice, stretching to work the soreness out of his muscles. Usually he could sleep in short spurts and still have some energy for the day. Today, however, his body decided to try to shut down every 5 minutes and force him into a coma. “Honestly, I hope this plane ride is long enough to get a couple extra hours in-”

“I KNEW OUR LOVE WOULD PREVAIL.”

“Oh no.” Peter blanched, and didn’t even dare turn around. “Please tell me it’s not who I think it is.”

“No one told you?” Clint tsked, giving Peter a pitying look. “Yeah, sorry. He’s the only one we felt complimented your skills enough to be your escort.”

“Spidey, we’re finally official teammates! Or I guess I’m more like your babysitter. That just takes all the sex-appeal  out of it. Ooh, wait. I’ll be the professor, and you can be my favorite student I give after school lessons to.”

“Please tell me this is a joke.” Peter swallowed hard, able to smell the alpha behind him from where he stood. Apparently he was the only one that noticed how intense of a scent the man carried with him, as no one else seemed as repulsed by the air.

“Sorry, dude. Can’t always get what you want.” Clint threw Peter a grin that was so smug he wanted to wipe it off his face. However, he made a mental note not to try to attack any of his teammates no matter the situation, and turned to face his battle head-on. Clint passed by the red-clad newcomer with a short, but crisp, high five, and gave the spider one last wiggle of his fingers. What a jerk.

“Heeeey, Deadpool.”

“I thought they were kidding when they said you were on this mission.” The mercenary - or ‘in the process of retiring from murder’ mercenary- crossed the distance on the roof, standing inches above Peter. He wasn’t intimidating, however. More like… a giant, annoying man-child.

Who Peter also happened to be sort of really good friends with. Like, to the point they played video games maskless at Wade’s Manhattan safe house and split pizzas when on patrol. And Deadpool knew his name and face. But he wasn't Peter's first pick to accompany him on a mission Peter was trying to prove that he was mature enough to be on.

“Ouch.”

“Not that there’s anything wrong with you, Pumpkin. But you gotta admit, if I get asked to join in on missions before you, something seriously needs to change about your job performance.”

“Pretty sure they only brought you along as a bullet shield. So you could distract the bad guys with your giant mouth.” Peter shot back, though all in good humor.

Wade made a dramatic gasp, one gloved hand shooting up to cover his lips in true theatrical fashion. “I guess it’s good my kink is getting used.”

“That’s...A weird kink to have.”

“Does it turn you on?”

“Not at all.”

“Don’t knock it ‘til you try it.”

“Hey, Tweedledee and Tweedledum.” Mr Stark’s voice sounded behind Peter, jarring them both from their banter. “Get ready to board.”

“Aye aye, Captain.” Wade saluted in response, then glanced back down at Peter. “You’re sitting by me, right?”

“Definitely not.”

“Awww, Spidey!”

“Let’s go.”  Natasha ordered, her head peeking out from the corner of the craft.

Wade threw out his hand with a gentlemanly “after you.” Peter, unable to resist a moment of humor and making Wade laugh, half-courtesy’d in return and made his way towards the short ladder leading into the plane.

The inside of an Avenger’s aircraft wasn’t anything like Peter had pictured. Being sponsored by a billionaire apparently didn’t reap the benefits of travelling in style; rather than being filled with alien tech, or super advanced spy technology, or even genuine leather seats, the inside of the plane was rather bland. It featured a cockpit illuminated with buttons and levers that Peter hadn’t the slightest clue their true intention, only slight privacy given to the designated pilots at the front. Behind that rested a computer Peter had to resist the urge not to immediately ask to study, as well as spaces in the sides for weapons and storage. The seats were spaced so that there were 8 passenger seats, stretching along the length of the plane. Peter situated himself in the back, close to the hatch they used for for entering. Somehow, having an escape route made him feel more secure than the claustrophobia he would feel trapped between two well-respected heroes. Or maybe he was just self conscious. Either way, he sat himself down as far from the others as he could get, and shoved his backpack in his lap.

Wade decided to take the spot right next to him, despite 3 other seats remaining open, and Natasha -looking as judgemental as ever- took the space across.

“The Itsy Bitsy Spider ran up the water spout. Down came the rain and washed the spider out!” Wade apparently became quite the comedian under pressure, pulling out his katana Bea - or maybe it was Arthur- to start sharpening the length. Both the spider-themed heroes gave him an irritated look, Peter a bit more disbelieving he would bother one of the scariest members of the team, before Natasha cleared her throat.

“I’m sure I could find a way to make sure you don’t come back from death, if you keep this up the entire ride there.” The ginger commented dryly, crossing her legs in a way that Peter felt he was a second away from witnessing Wade’s true demise

“That would be my lucky day, cupcake.” Wade grinned back, sliding his katana back into its holster. Despite his cool exterior, Peter knew he thought Natasha was hot shit that could beat him to a pulp. “I’m quaking in my suit. I don’t know if I’m scared, or excited, but probably both.”

Scott swiveled in the chair placed just in front of the computer he had claimed, the metal loudly squeaking to catch their attention. “I am not dealing with you two arguing for 12 hours.”

“15 hours.” Bruce mumbled, though he remained primarily focused on a notebook filled to the brim with incoherent scribbles.

“I am not listening to you arguing for 15 hours!” Scott corrected, folding his arms in a fatherly fashion.

“I don’t even remember you being invited, LadybugBoy.” Natasha’s subtle but annoyed comment instantly sent Wade into a fit of laughter, jolting her from her anger. The change of Wade’s attitude was just enough for her to relinquish her dangerous atmosphere for a moment, and she settled calmly back in her seat.

“It’s Ant-Man.” Scott mumbled indignantly, which only served to make Wade laugh harder. The ex-convict turned back to his computer to rest his head, and for once in his life Peter saw Natasha crack an expression similar to a grin.

The conversation seemed to settle their nerves, as well as at the 4 AM call time, because the Avengers grew completely silent within the hour. Clint dozed off first, followed by Bruce (after he injected himself with some tranquilizer he often kept with him), and Natasha dropped into some weird relaxation that was close to sleep, with her body still tensed and at the ready to fight at any time. Scott was still sulking by the time Peter felt himself start to fall asleep, a yawn being the first sign of his body begging for a nap. Wade seemed to notice immediately despite the mask, because a gloved leather hand wormed its way to the top of Peter’s head to try to pull him in to his shoulder. Peter didn’t budge, giving Wade a deadpanned look. “Dude.”

“What?” Wade asked innocently, his arm retreating back to his side.

“I’m not sleeping on you.”

“I am the best goddamn pillow you will ever use.”

“We’re on a plane with the Avengers.” Peter said in an awkward whisper as if it wasn’t obvious, crossing his arms stubbornly.

“You don’t have to be shy about our secret relationship, Spidey. I’ve already told everyone you’re my lo--”

“Friend.” Peter cut in, groaning and sitting back in his chair with a huff. He had to admit, the seats weren’t very comfortable, and his stomach was tight with anxiety. Talking with Deadpool was easing at least a little bit of the pressure.

“Friend with benefits. Just as exciting without the emotional attachment. I like your style.” Peter didn’t really have the energy to argue against Wade’s ramblings, so he just let his eyes slip shut and tried to focus on staying awake, figuring he could just rest his eyes for a few minutes. Eventually his body grew numb enough he was a little more comfortable, and the rest was doing wonders for his scattered brain and anxiety.

His eyes shot open again when they hit turbulence, and he realized he had been passed out for an extensive period of time. Long enough that nearly everyone was asleep, including Wade, who was passed out on Peter’s arm. Peter stared at him for a few minutes, trying to decide whether to push him away and save himself the embarrassment of anyone seeing, or let him continue to slumber to make up for the nights he’d let Peter stay over on his couch and eat his fridge dry.

He ended up choosing the latter after an extensive internal debate, though most of it was because his arm was completely asleep under the weight of his large head and leather mask, and he didn’t have the strength in it to push him away. It worked out fine in the end, once Peter had grown tired enough to fall back into sleep, when Wade’s head created a hard pillow for him to drop his cheek on. And that was how they spent their flight, until Wade roused and immediately started teasing Peter for falling asleep on him, to the point he got up and changed seats out of annoyance.

There was a reason Peter had said no to sitting by Wade. He was an asshole. Comfortable, but still an asshole.

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