#pepper gets her way

[airas-story]

Autumn Wedding

“No.” “Absolutely not.”

The words mixed together and Tony glanced to the side to see that Stephen looked just as disturbed as Tony did.

Pepper crossed her arms. Tony could hear the menacing ‘tap, tap’ of the toe of her shoe against the tile of the floor that meant only bad things for Tony.

“It is your wedding, Tony,” she said. “Under no circumstances are the two of you running off to Vegas and getting married in some… drunken ceremony.”

Tony pouted. “I don’t see why we should be denied the opportunity to be as irresponsible as we like. And no one said it was going to be drunken.”

“Tony will be perfectly sober when he marries me,” Stephen agreed. “Too many jokes about drunken mistakes, if not. I refuse to put up with those. But Vegas is an excellent option.”

“No,” Pepper said firmly. “I have run your life for over a decade at this point, Tony. I reserve the right to run this. In fact, I claim running your wedding as my reward for all of my hard work.”

That made absolutely zero sense. “I’m pretty sure you had a nice salary as your reward,” Tony pointed out. “But also, why would you want more work as a reward for all of your work?”

“Because without me this will be a mess.” Pepper shook her head, she gathered up the documents she’d brought into the room with her when she’d overheard his and Stephen’s plans to just run off to Vegas the next weekend they both had free.

“But Pepper,” Tony started.

Pepper arched an eyebrow at him, daring him to finish his complaint. 

Tony decided it might be better not to. “Fine, but only if you can convince Stephen.” Hopefully Stephen held out longer than Tony had.

She turned her gaze to Stephen whose face was a picture of stubborn defiance. “Oh, that’ll be easy. All I have to do is promise not to tell Christine that he was planning on getting married without inviting her if he lets me run things.”

Stephen blanched. “You know what, now that I’m thinking about it, having you help us plan our wedding sounds like an excellent idea.”

Tony winced, because yeah, if he’d just been threatened with Christine’s wrath, he’d have changed his mind, too.

“Excellent.” Pepper’s smile was entirely too smug. And really, Tony was starting to think she got her way a little too often. Not that he was about to tell her that. “I’m thinking an autumn wedding.”

Autumn!? “That’s months away,” Tony complained.

Pepper looked unswayed by his protest. “That’s me rushing it. Do you know how much effort goes into preparing a wedding?”

“Absolutely none if you run away to Vegas,” Tony muttered under his breath.

Pepper narrowed her eyes at him, which meant that he had absolutely been heard. 

“Not that I’m going to do that,” he added. He sighed as long-sufferingly as he could manage. “I can wait until fall.”

“Exercising a bit of patience will be good for you,” Pepper said. She handed him the paperwork. “Now go through these, I need your signature on them by tomorrow.”

Tony made a face, but accepted the paperwork. “Fine. Can our wedding colors be red and gold?”

“Seriously?” Stephen asked, and this time he was the one who sounded unimpressed. Where was his loyalty? Tony had an image to maintain. “Red and gold?”

“No,” Pepper said. “This is going to be a tasteful wedding.”

The outrage. “Red and gold is tasteful.”

“Not your idea of red and gold,” Pepper said. “Which is why I’m in charge.” She turned toward the door. “Paperwork, tomorrow.”

Tony let out a mournful sigh as she left. “You know, I’m an expert at refusing to listen,” he said, turning to Stephen. “We can still run to Vegas.”

“Christine would kill me,” Stephen said, sounding bereft. “Then you. Then bring us back to life so she can kill us again. And Pepper will help her.”

Tony sighed. “Autumn wedding it is.”

#ironstrange #fic #stephen strange #tony stark #pepper potts #pepper gets her way

[oldgaysbrainrot]

Reminder that even if we didn’t get a Raeda kiss on the mouth we got a ton of tiny kisses

#i will never get over this scene #the way raine immediately calms down when they realize its eda #the way eda smiles so wide and looks so excited and relieved and immediately peppers them with kisses #the way they accept all of it and happily lie in her arms #i miss them so much #raeda #the owl house #raine whispers #eda clawthorne #daisysraedabrainrot #watching and dreaming

[andisupreme]

One funny thing about my little lady, Tidbit, is that she looks so sweet in photos. So angelic.

And yet the two facts you need to know about her are

The moment a piece of trash appears, she's stealing it. The moment I'm done with something and it becomes "trash", she has teleported onto the desk or my lap and it belongs to her now. She's stolen flosser picks out of my goddamn mouth. I can't have open garbage cans because that's just a new spawn point for Tidbit Treasures. I keep finding hoards of wrappers and pens and trinkets she's stolen. She stole a mini pride flag. I woke up to a scuffing noise once and turned on my phone light to see her dragging my sneaker away like the NYC subway pizza rat. Goblin behavior. Prize-motivated. Is just intelligent enough to have a sense of right and wrong and deliberately make the choice to do crime when the option presents itself.

It's difficult to know when she's actually seriously mad because she only has one urgency level when it comes to complaining. Which is an 11 on a 10 point scale. Any wrong against Tidbit receives the exact same level of screaming. She'll reach the same decibel level when I drag her into the shower for a flea bath as when I gently nudge her closer to pet for a few seconds. (And it's only the initial relocation she loathes, of course. After a moment when the relocation is over she's purring over getting pet but how DARE I move her somewhere without her say so.) From the gravest injustice to a minor momentary inconvenience, all is met with a righteous AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!

And yet because of my living circumstances, I haven't had anyone around to socialize her with so the moment a stranger walks in the door, this noisy, annoying (<3) opinionated little Creechur completely disappears. Goes ghost. My dad swears he wouldn't know I have a second cat if he didn't see her in my window from time to time. It feels like she's purposefully acting like a shy little baby around others just to undermine me and my stories about her. She's doing this on PURPOSE. IT'S ALL YET MORE CRIMES.

#I love her <3 #don't get me wrong she's a criminal mastermind but she also hops up to snuggle me the moment she hears me moving around in bed in the morni #and she loves Buster so much #salt and pepper the two of them #but also godDAMMIT TIDBIT WHERE IS MY STUFF #she stole an actual $20 from me once which for a cat is grand larceny #oh and that's Her Blankie by the way #it was MY softest blanket--a gift from my aunt--and THIS TOO SHE STOLE #anywhere this blanket gets set out she's on it

[ineed-to-sleep]

I'm watching Berserk and I may or may not have hyped myself up to turn my vampire ocs into dark fantasy characters. mmaybe

#sketch tag #so uh. pepper is kind of a guts basically jdjgkckkc #they're both in an army and they butt heads a lot bc pepper is big and stronk but very impulsive and reckless #but there's no griffith situation or anything like that it's just that vince worries abt her #and he's way more restrained as a fighter and a strategist. maybe a commander or second in command #and just like in vtm he's very paranoid and afraid of change. so he worries abt her and is also unhappy in the army but too scared to leave #so he broods a lot and mopes around and gets on her ass abt her recklessness #and just like in vtm pepper is impulsive and has a lot of pent up frustration and she uses the battlefield to release all of it #sometimes overexerting herself and nearly getting herself killed #she also wants to leave bc she's not sure she believes in what they're fighting for anymore. but then she loses her coping mechanism #things change when they have an argument where he reveals he cares abt her sjfjjfkf YES very cliche I am thriving #and she's dismissive at first but after being alone for a bit his words start sinking in #and when they're on a battlefield again there's a moment where they have to retreat and she's about to absolutely not listen to that #but then she has a change of heart bc she remembers what he said + she cares abt him too so she doesn't want him to be hurt by her actions #neither by him getting worried nor trying to come to her aid and putting his life at risk #so she retreats #and he's very happy abt that he thanks her later for what she did #and then she's like yeah sure I guess I didn't die but also guess what. I'm bored #everything she wanted to release back there she just didn't. so she's still frustrated and especially bc she had to admit defeat #and she's an extremely proud person. she's irritated #and he's like aight. I'm gonna fight you then #and she's like what. and he's like yeah #so he picks up a sword and throws another one to her and there's a *sexual tension play-fight* hell yeah babey #I'm having sm fun w this au can you tell jejfjckckkc #eventually they do desert the army they're in bc things get worse and pepper decides she no longer wants to be a part of it #and in a fight or flight moment she pushes vincent to make a decision and he leaves with her #and like the story is only getting started there bc then there'll be some big misteries in the story they're gonna uncover #which. I haven't figured out what they are yet #but either way akhhdskfha I'm having a lot of fun w this #sleep.txt

[fauvester]

Grand babbee cardassian has broken me… also more Jocasta content pls we love a quiet queen

GRANPA GARAK! A DISIPLINARIAN!

He gets up early every day to pick fresh fruit from the garden for his grandkids. Elim III is his Little Regnar. Lim thinks he's going to spoil them rotten (the orphanage and the dirt floor gardening shed that they lived in was CHARACTER BUILDING. it made him the MAN HE IS TODAY.)

JOCASTA LOVE.... she's truly an underrated queen.. here maam ms head scrub nurse you dropped your crown 👑

She cares about outward presentation as much as any Cardassian, but especially hair (cardassian hair being much thicker and coarser than human fur.)

also she refers to julian as Dr Bashir at work just out of propriety and respect. most people don't know that they're father and daughter simply because she does not care to tell them. they just think she's his favorite because she's good at her job and gently takes no shit

^ scenes that play before the least pleasant vacation miles has ever been on

#dee s 9 #garashir adoption au #HEEHEE I LOVE GRANDPA GARAK... walking around with a cane but looking supremely dignified.. #old age would look very well on him i think #julian just looks like a salt and pepper pipecleaner #APBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBT bebe belly #you see. im going into peds. for purely academic reasons. #also jo doesnt need to bully julian she just shoots him a 😬 and hes instantly a medical student #getting his wrist slapped by the scrub nurse for breaking sterile field #like 'shes so scary but its cause shes riiiiiiight ughhhhhhhhh' #thank youuuuuuuuuuu for nice oc asks.... 🥹 i love them..... #i truly cannot decide if i like jo better with the braid coronet or the jadzia bouffant. maybe both. fancy bitch #shes such a girlygirl iskra wants to be one but can't be assed to comb her hair every day with proper oil and do scalecare #jo is lovingly buffing garak's nails before broadcasts so he looks his best #and initially using WAY too much hair oil on julian. takes weeks to wash it all out

[landgraabbed]

after seeing which marriage candidates that made the shortlist would be best, i decided to remove gage from his current living situation bc mason maker sucks

#p #kynseed #hes ugly and i love him #not all the scrumpy men being there and looking the same from the back lmfao #some of the wedding guests are so random ig this is what happens when you're besties with everyone to get the extra tips sjsfdjsfd #i was rly going for ned but i'm not going to get in the way of his and thomas' love #and celia salt is so cute but her quest was all abt child labor like LADY. no thanks....... #and all the pepper ladies who for some reason are so close to moth in age but are all obsessed w/ pranks (same as lewis flushing) smh...... #so gage it is

[rithmeres]

*starts listening to the thg playlist*

augh -1 health

oof -1 health

ugh! -1 health

mmf -1 health

ugh! -1 health

augh -1 health

etc

GOOD that’s the effect i wanted >:)

#i wish so badly that i could annotate it. when will my husband (8tracks annotations) come back from the war #i made a rule that i was not allowed to take any songs from the soundtracks #until it was all finished and then i can pepper the best ones in sparingly #(abraham’s daughter & gale song & everybody wants to rule the world r going on there for sure) #i wanted to make myself get really creative without the crutch of the soundtracks although they r bangers #like we HAVE to start with the woods by daughter because it’s about sisters. #and if you forget that the hunger games is a story about a girl who loves her sister you have lost the plot #o children by nick cave is about children killing and being cleaned up and shipped off on a train. like ok #eat your young is self explanatory #so is kill our way to heaven (really digs into the mentality of a tribute imo) #glory and gore is on there because i genuinely thought lorde made that song for the movie #die first? well that’s katpee to a T (people who call them everlark u are boring and people who call them peeniss that’s too much for me) #(i think katpee is the funniest ship name ever so i’m using it) #who are you really is like who are you. really. but also i have nothing left to lose / see me bare my teeth for you !!!!!!!! #GOSSIP BY MÅNESKIN. FINNICK SONG. SIP THE GOSSIP DRINK TILL YOU CHOKE. #17 by ladytron :| also a finnick song perhaps :| but works for the other victors also :| they only want you when you’re 17 :| #AND THEN FEED THE MACHINE IS SO MUCH FUN RAAAAAAAAA WTF IS A LABOR UNION HEY (HEY) YOU (YOU) FEED THE MACHINE #if you only listen to one song on the playlist is should be that one because its just such a banger #wires by the neighborhood is like help me kill the president we’re gonna send him straight to hell (and it rules) #and then feel something by jaymes young is about a young person who is emotionally damaged beyond repair 🙃 had to end it on that one

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

When all of your pirate mutuals succumb to the Gaimen angels derangement and you can't join in the fun because you just do not give a fuck about them 😔

#dont read the tags im being a hater if you like good omens keep scrolling im not trying to yuck your yum or whatever im just venting #its not just the christianity thing either they're literally so not compelling to me #like this is why i get offended when people compare them to Ed and Stede Ed and Stede aren't boring like that #Azeriphael and Crowley need to loosen up and commit murder or something #anyway Pepper was my favorite character in the first season i think she should be allowed to commit arson #if season 2 had been about her going to college and being annoying in sociology class and coming up with a plan to overthrow the government #i would have already watched season 2 #but its about that angel and that demon who queerbaited yall for 2 and a half decades? yawn #its like oh boo hoo you're on different sides you dont want to break the rules #theyre fuckin rules sickos Crowley way less so than Azeriphael but still #but i also like Crowley more than Azeriphael #I think Crowley would be a mediocre blorbo with a good aesthetic if his whole arc didn't revolve around an angel with religious trauma #Like the characters I enjoyed were Anathema and Pepper and Madame Tracy and Shadwell were funny if not necessarily compelling #Crowley was fine if he wasn't attached to Azeriphale but Azeriphale fell incredibly flat #he has no fucking teeth #no shade to the actor #like I wouldn't mind Azeriphale as a character if the narritive didn't constantly keep trying to get me to care about his internal conflict #because the internal conflict of not wanting to dissapoint sky daddy is not a vibe #all of that on top of my distaste for chritian aesthetics and it's just.... #it's not the show for me #anyway incredibly unsurprising to me that Zira asked Crowley to become an angel again he would be like that #yassss king try to change your boyfriend into what you want him to be. jfc I can't with his heavenly ass #I just can't care about that kind of a rules sicko the way I can't care about Izzy unless he's a problem to be overcome

[thevaudevillescene]

Yesterday, while talking about my serving job, my office coworker said, “You ever feel like you’re in a Broadway show, like it’s just the same thing repeating night after night?” I said, “Absolutely. There’s a song in the Beetlejuice musical where he goes, ‘I do this bullshit, like, eight times a week,’ and I swear I think of it every single day on my way to work.”

A couple of weeks ago a woman at one of my tables asked if I’m “in the theater” and I said no, and she was like, “oh, you just seem like you have that personality.” I don’t need to join the local theater, ma’am, I already act for a living at this job. You’re simply seeing through the cracks in my carefully crafted but summer-worn worksona. I said to my coworker, “I was just assigned theater kid by this woman,” and they said, “She probably clocked that you’re gay but she’s too straight to realize it so she was like, ‘She must…do theater.’”

#so don’t be freaked. stay in your seats. i do this bullshit like eight times a week. #so just relax; you’ll be fine. drink your $50 wine and take a breath. #<- truly me whenever customers start getting pissed about fucking anything #my patience is wearing SO thin which is how i know it’s august #last week i let a table know their food was on its way and asked if they needed anything before it came out #and the guy goes ‘yeah when’s our food coming?’ i was like ‘..AS I SAID-’ #last night a woman asked if she could sub out pasta for a vegetable and i said ya the options are blah blah blah #she was like ‘a veggie sauté? what’s that?’ i said ‘it’s a mix of vegetables.’ ‘but what’s in it?’ #i just flipped her menu over while holding eye contact with her and pointed to the description on the menu #my other favorite: can i get you anything else to drink besides water? coke diet coke sprite iced tea lemonade club soda? #‘can i have a root beer?’ ‘do u guys have dr. pepper?’ #…… #COKE. DIET COKE. SPRITE. ICED TEA- #‘oh okay i’ll have a pepsi’ #AND I HOPE YOU DIE. I HOPE WE BOTH DIE.

[butters-flower-mom]

I've thought about the possibility of Pepper becoming her own supervillain even though Butters refuses to take her in as his sidekick. She wears a little panda costume and calls herself Pandamonium. She wants to prove to Butters she can be evil too but she's not at all good at it and the cutesy costume doesn't help. For example, her method of attacking the heroes is to try to crush them with bear hugs. In her imagination she's a terrifying wild animal trying to brutally maul the enemy to death but to everyone else she looks like a Care Bear.

#this way i get to lowkey make pepper a furry #also she has healing powers which makes her even less suited for villainy #she can literally kiss a boo boo all better #listen she's my oc and i get to make her disgustingly adorable #south park #pepper posts #lotus talks to herself

[daydreamerdrew]

Iron Man (1968) #58

#not Tony once again reacting to an improvement of his heart issues #with that he might be able to have the positive romantic relationship he’s been denying himself #but this time with a woman who was interested in him and so he purposefully orchestrated events and drove away from him #to get her to marry someone else #to make sure he didn’t get into a romantic relationship with her #because of those aforementioned heart issues #it’s actually interesting to me that he acknowledges his absurdity here #one of the letters in the letters page of the previous issue has someone say that they like the Iron Man that is #‘A true hero- one without neuroses or phychoses’ #which was surprising to me because I like Tony because of the issues he has #he’s that stereotype about a man who doesn’t want to go to a doctor about a health issue taken to a fantastical extreme #him insisting on dealing with heart attacks completely on his own over and over again is inherently reflective of a mental problem #on account of it just not being ok behavior #and he’s stuck in this pattern where he sabotages his own romantic relationships #and because of how interconnected his issues with his heart problems and his approach to his superhero responsibilities are #which both really emphasize not being vulnerable #even if things are going ok in one respect he’s able to use the other way as his reasoning to do that sabotaging #marvel #tony stark #pepper potts #my posts #comic panels

[midnightsilverchelly]

I'm going to say it, but I'm honestly glad that Last Cookie Standing is ending soon, since it means that we don't have to watch them butcher the characters much longer.

Even if the series isn't canon and that it was just made for fun...

I have to admit that I had hope for it and even being excited for it with my friends, since I thought they would give some really nice/cool moments which we could all yell about together and talk about in the tags...

But instead they ended up just flanderizing the characters, make meme references, and throw in multiple moments where it seems they are introducing a plot point, only for it to lead to nowhere.

Regardless, I'm going to keep watching since I made it this far, and I might as well finish it considering we are near the end and who knows....

Maybe there's a tiny chance of something being good there. (Although I'm not holding my breath.)

#Cookie Run #cookie run kingdom #Last Cookie Standing #For example: the team up between Affogato Cookie + Chili Pepper Cookie and Caramel Arrow Cookie + Rye Cookie #Milky Way Cookie getting the immunity necklace #The team up: the way they mirror each other. They could have done something interesting there #Instead; the team up with CA and Rye goes nowhere + Affogato and Chili Pepper didn't even last a episode #With Milky Way Cookie; What's the point of giving her the necklace if you're going to kick her out anyway? #It serves no purposes besides doing Milky Way Cookie dirty / making the necklace a waste of time #Considering Licorice literally used his necklace in the same episode when he finds it #I'm sorry if I sound super negative but I really needed to talk about this

[monmuses]

// *im considering bringing out my FNAF OC while the hype is still on high.....

#✨{𝔬𝔲𝔱 𝔬𝔣 𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔤𝔞; (𝔬𝔲𝔱 𝔬𝔣 𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔯𝔞𝔠𝔱𝔢𝔯) #// *i made her to be an animatronic to help with any sensory-sensitive kids #// *or those who struggle with being alone with others #// *shes made of fur that helps with kids being able to touch something and keeping themselves happy #// *same with her tail. its a way to play with them #// *she can walk on all fours like a panther or on both legs #// *shes VERY tall and lengthy but she keeps watch for the kids #// *shes an 'observer' type of animatronic. never really gets in people's way #// *but she Knows A Lot #// *her name is Pepper :)

[maitaitiu]

they are siblings!!!!!! yes i make the rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#oc: shinon #rival arven #pokemon scvi #digital doodle #tstac #can u guys believe arvens names are all from mints......... pepper is actually from peppermint..................... son boy son boy #shinon on her way to back up another friend as they confront their terrible mother #i swear. after [EVENTS] arven is just. hes going to get legally adopted by shinons mom. you are a yanagi now young man. #this was a quick doodle really...... which is why theyre both kind of off model. but i needed to get this idea out of my brain ive been #thinking about this all day. shinon can and will run and leap at everyone she cares about to hug them #tstac: sky #tstac: aftermath

[medicinemane]

My stomach sounds like some manner of beast right now, just kind of "mhhhrmmhhbbhh"ing, like some sort of creature snuffling and grumbling

#it may in fact shock you that a single potato did not in fact fill me up #but that's what was on offer tonight #and... and between there not being a lot that I'm up to scavenging in the first place and my stomach not making me feel great... #kinda makes it hard to feel like trying to track down something to eat #what I wouldn't give to have like... a dozen big hamburgers and a spinach or romaine type salad #doubt I could eat it; but it's what I'm feeling like might actually get me out of food deficit if I did manage to eat it all #I don't want sweets; I want food; but my mom loves using her money to pick up sweets and it's like... #a couple really nice quality burgers... even... 2... maybe 4 if we're honest; that's what I'd love #maybe a classic style; a bbq one; something with some spicy peppers on it; and then... surprise me with the last one; just no tomatoes #(and only good quality lettuce; you can put it on there but only if it isn't iceburg) #if only if only if only... if only I had a fuck ton of money or if only I had the skills to make that for myself #man I could go for some food right now... just a burger; that's what I'm really craving #like I said; that sausage patty earlier just made me hungrier so I feel like I need meat #and I fucking know all those SEO articles always say there's no way you need more protein in fact you're getting too much #but I just... I want just a massive amount of meat; a mountain of it... or fuck; don't care; you get me whatever it is in it that I'm wanti #and you put it in a vegan form I don't care... I just want whatever it is I'm wanting; and it's taking the form of burgers #Just like... if I had like 50 burgers in the fridge and I could heat one up any time I was hungry #I might actually be full for once after like a week (and maybe out of burgers) #I know I'm better off than most people; I know I'd be fine if I just wasn't so stupid and lazy #but I'm so fucking hungry and have been all my life #a decent meal that comes around more than once a month (that it's rare it comes around that often) #what an amazing idea; you know? #that month where I'd bought that like month of $1 big burger coupons for smashburger... that was maybe the one time I was almost full #only meal of the day most of the days... but fuck... one big burger every day is at least something

[phoenixiancrystallist]

Month 3, day 8, I hid the guide so I could see how things are working without it, and the answer is eyes are hard. So I'm going back to focusing on just one facial feature, in this case the mouth. Next I'll do the ears, and I'll finish the face off with the eyes. Gotta save the toughest bit for last!

After I'm done with the face as a whole, then I'll do the hair and zipper pulls, then I'll tie everything down and make it clean (and probably do a lot of fixing things when I do that), then color, and maybe some super simple shading. After that? Who knows! It's still a ways off, so I've got plenty of time to figure it out XD

#the great artscapade of 2023 #art #my art #my animation #walk cycle #oc: mizu #I made beef ramen for dinner and added these beef sticks my workmate gave us #she's a regular provider of meat snack stick bc her hubby gets bribed with them a lot #by ''bribed'' I mean ''given free samples for being awesome'' #that's how bribes work right? [/sarcasm] #anyway I also put in onion salt and garlic powder and red pepper flakes and black pepper #and I put in too much red pepper flakes ): #it was super tasty but it burned my mouth off #now I bet you're thinking ''lol silly white girl can't even handle red pepper flakes'' #and you'd be right #I'm a weeny baby pants #but I can usually use way more red pepper flakes and it doesn't murder me like this #it was a different brand than my usual so maybe they use hotter peppers in their blend than what I'm used to #I should have just stuck with my cayenne #cayenne has never betrayed me