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batcavescolony · 2 years
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I don't think huge hulking muscles work for Kon. Superman has this aura around him of 'God among Mortals', that's how his Clark Kent Superman identity works. But to me Kon doesn't have that, like maybe he's fit but not massive.
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ironfey-42 · 9 months
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This is for day 3 of the IronStrange Week Day 3 (5/16) : The Cloak of Levitation | Tony’s AIs and Bots.
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Doctor Strange (2016), Iron Man (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Tony Stark/Stephen Strange, Peter Parker & Tony Stark, Stephen Strange & Peter Parker, May Parker (Spider-Man) & Tony Stark, May Parker (Spider-Man) & Peter Parker, Cloak of Levitation & Tony's Bots, Cloak of Levitation & FRIDAY, Cloak of Levitation & Tony's Bots & FRIDAY & Peter Parker Characters: Stephen Strange, Tony Stark, Wong (Marvel), James "Rhodey" Rhodes, May Parker (Spider-Man), Cloak of Levitation - Character, Peter Parker, Dummy (Iron Man movies), Butterfingers (Iron Man movies), You (Iron Man movies), Friday (Marvel) Additional Tags: IronStrange, IronStrange family, Post-Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 (Movie), Married Life, Married Couple, Superfamily 2.0, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 (Movie) Spoilers, Fluff, May and Peter are part of Tony's family, Tony adopted Peter with May's approval, The Parkers live with Tony, so does Stephen, cuz they're married
Summary:
Stephen ends up loosing the Cloak for three days. He searches everywhere until Wong tells him to try looking at the Compound. Rhodey tells him to try the mansion. May tells him to check the lab. Also whats with all the small smiles on their faces?
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For the past three days, Stephen had been looking for the Cloak. The Cloak of Levitation, a relic that chose him and had become instrumental in saving Stephen’s life many times. The Cloak had mysteriously disappeared causing Stephen to panic a bit, as it had become one of his best companions. The Cloak was very loyal and surprisingly expressive and Stephen had missed its presence. He had searched all over Kamar-Taj and all three Sanctums as discreetly as possible seeing as Wong would have his head for losing it and also lecture him on how important that relics of power must not ever fall into the wrong hands and blah blah blah.
“God fucking damn it!”  Stephen cursed as he fell onto the acanthus patterned couch, next to the grand staircase inside the New York Sanctum.
“Huh?” wondered Wong having heard the curse as he passed the stairs and walked down to where Stephen was.
“What have you done, Stephen?” Wong asked reaching the couch that Stephen was at, the look Wong gave Stephen made his already severe looking face even more severe.
“Nothing,” said Stephen sulkily in a slightly terrified voice seeing as he was afraid to tell Wong that he just lost one of the most important relics in all of magical history.
“Seeing as you’re in your tunic and are missing the Cloak, I’d say that you lost the Cloak of Levitation,” stated Wong, a small smile slowly lighting up his severe looking face, “and what have I said about how important it is that relics of power must not fall into the wrong hands?”
“Not to lose it because people can do bad stuff with it and what’s with that smile on your face?” questioned Stephen looking up at Wong, “and I’ve looked everywhere in all three Sanctums.”
“You haven’t tried looking at the Compound or Tony’s mansion yet,” stated Wong.
“No, I haven’t,” revealed Stephen, his face going red as the mention of his husband’s name brought up the feeling of butterflies and warmth in him.
“Well try looking there,” suggested Wong smiling again as he walked back up the stairs.
Stephen sighed as he stood up changing from his tunic to his casual clothes as he went up. Stephen lifted his arms in front of him and made the circular motions that would allow him the open a portal in space in front of him. Orange sparks coming into life as the portal opened giving him the inside view of the Compound in front of him. He walked through thinking that with the Cloak on he would have made an awesome entrance with the Cloak making itself bigger and even grander, but no can do. He looked around the common area of the Compound and saw Rhodes on the pale blue couch, the braces around his legs shining in the sunlight. Stephen was amazed how far Tony’s inventions went from weapons to tech that could help people. He could see Rhodes scrolling through a StarkPad while sipping coffee. Rhodes had looked up seeing the orange golden sparks of the portal closing.
“Hey man, what’s up?” greeted Rhodes putting down the StarkPad on the couch as he stood up, the braces on his legs whirring.
“You wouldn’t happen to have seen my Cloak, have you?” inquired Stephen, “I’ve been looking all over the three Sanctums and Kamar-Taj.”
“You should try the mansion,” Rhodes said, a small smile appearing on his face. Stephen felt that warm fuzzy feeling of butterflies bubbling in him again at the mention of the mansion, knowing that Tony would be there. Tony had a mansion close to the compound, but it was far away enough that people who wanted to visit had to drive or fly to the mansion. The mansion was Tony’s safe haven from all the stresses of the world now that he sold the tower.
“Then I’ll just portal over there then and thank you, Rhodes,” Stephen said, watching Rhodes walk towards the kitchen area.
“See ya, man,”
Stephen opened a portal, picturing the common area of the modern mansion, in his mind. The main entrance leading to the living room lined with small branches in tall glass vases. The living room was open, light coming in through the floor to ceiling windows. The grey velvet couches casting shadows upon the glassy looking floors. The house was extravagant as one would expect of someone with a lot of money, but looking around, Stephen would call the aesthetics of the interior to be simple, Tony only having what needed necessities necessary for living in a house. He looked around and could see the influences of Pepper and May in the house having added trinkets to make the house more lived in. On the couch, he could see a backpack with all its contents on the floor and table and May at one of the tables near the living room working on her laptop. May looked up having seen the sparks of the closing portal.
“Hey, Stephen, if you’re looking for the Cloak, it’s in the lab with Tony and Peter,” May said, Stephen sighed in relief, that feeling of the panic of losing the Cloak having dissipated, “Thank you so much!!!”
Stephen walked to the entrance of the stairs that would lead him to Tony’s lab, the walls going from silver grey to clear bulletproof glass as he kept walking down. F.R.I.D.A.Y. having opened the glass door to the lab alerting Peter and Tony to Stephen’s presence. Stephen could see Tony and Peter looking up in the air, the holograms glowing blue lighting up their faces. As he walked into the lab, he expected to find the Cloak, but he found no trace of the Cloak anywhere.
“Hey there, babe,” cooed Tony walking over to Stephen and pulling him into a hug and Stephen melted.
“Hiya Doctor Dad!!!!” yelled Peter also walking, well he looked like a newborn foal learning to walk, it was surprising how as Spider-man, Peter was graceful and so sure of himself, but just being himself, a high school student, he was so unsure of where to place his feet. Peter joined in the hugfest.
“Where’ve you been for the past three days?” asked Peter his eyes big and bright as all three of them broke out of the hug, with Peter bouncing on the balls of his feet.
Stephen decided to go with the truth, “I’ve been at Kamar-Taj and all three Sanctums looking for the Cloak,” his face going pink as he saw the small smiles that appeared on both Tony’s and Peter’s faces, “okay seriously, everyone I’ve talked from Wong to May today all had that same small smile on that’s on your face right now. What is happening?”
Peter and Tony both looked at each other and it looked like Peter was trying to contain all of his excitement at wanting to tell Stephen. He was hopping up and down switching from one leg to another. Tony fondly watching Peter bubbling with excitement, the small smile on his getting bigger making his face light up along, his honey whiskey eyes shimmering with happiness.
“This way,” said Peter leading Stephen to an area near the back of the lab, with Tony following them. Stephen finally saw the Cloak and was about to call for it when he saw what the Cloak was doing. The Cloak seemed to be playing with Tony’s bots Dum-E, U, and Butterfingers. It looked like they were playing some version of catch the ball, but instead of a ball, it was a hologram, a hologram of F.R.I.D.A.Y. The hologram giving F.R.I.D.A.Y. a humanoid form, the form of a 19-year-old with red auburn hair and pale skin in a simple v-neck shirt and jean shorts. The hologram of F.R.I.D.A.Y. seemed to smile with glee, the sound of her laugh actually matching up with the hologram, as she moved to avoid the arms of the bots and the Cloak.
“The Cloak has been here the whole time playing the bots and F.R.I.D.A.Y,” informed Tony smiling once again, Peter had joined the bots and the Cloak in trying to catch F.R.I.D.A.Y. Tony seemed to have finally figure out how to make the hologram more solid and allowing F.R.I.D.A.Y. to have some sense of touch to feel as the Cloak finally caught F.R.I.D.A.Y. causing the two to hit the ground, laughing as Peter grabbed her hand allowing her to get up.
“Hey Doc, Boss,” voiced F.R.I.D.A.Y. her Irish lilt ringing with laughter walking over to them. The hologram of F.R.I.D.A.Y. shimmering along with the laughter. When standing next to Tony the height of hologram F.R.I.D.A.Y. was up to Tony’s chin. Stephen heard the whirring of the bots moving closer to the three of them, the swoosh of the Cloak following close behind.
“You had me worried you know,” told Stephen to the Cloak, the Cloak somehow giving him a sheepish look. The Cloak swept over to the bots to somehow tell Stephen that it wanted to play with the bots, “just tell me where you’ll be next time.”
F.R.I.D.A.Y. having walked to Stephen gave him tap on his arm, he stood there amazed having felt the tap, “Can I hug you, Doc?” questioned F.R.I.D.A.Y. giving him her version of puppy dogs eyes.
“Peter, did you teach her the puppy dog eyes already?” groaned Stephen, as he was not immune to Peter’s puppy dog eyes like Tony and May seemed to be.
“Probably,” said Peter his face shining bright with mischievous happiness. Stephen opened his arms allowing F.R.I.D.A.Y. to step into them wrapping her slim arms around him.
“Group hug,” yelled Peter and everyone including the bots the Cloak joined in. Tony hugged Stephen from the back, and Stephen felt his arms wrap around him, Peter joined from his left side and the bots all in the front with the Cloak covering them too.
“Fry, call May down here to join the group hug,” asked Tony, his voice a bit muffled as his face was close to Stephen’s neck allowing him to feel Tony’s hot breath.
“Already did Boss,” F.R.I.D.A.Y. told them, Stephen turned his head to find May already in the lab and joining in the group hug, taking the only space left which was the right side. Stephen was happy that he had found a man to love, gaining a bigger family in the form of the bots, F.R.I.D.A.Y. and the Parkers. The warm fuzzy feeling he had for Tony now included everyone in the group hug
“F.R.I.D.A.Y. please take a picture of this moment,” requested Stephen, and he knew that he would cherish this moment forever.
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sprinklecipher · 9 months
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What Do You Call That Bug: Bug Map Survey Results 2.0
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The results are in for wave 2 of my survey about the vernacular names for a particular kind of bug! Before I get into it, I should mention that I’ve left the survey open to allow for possible future waves of data analysis, so if you haven’t completed the survey but would like to, you may do so here (be aware that the survey contains a photo of the bug in question!). Also, if you’d just like to see a photo of the relevant bug, you may do so here.
Including the data from wave 1, I got a total of 1,091 survey responses. I’ll include a detailed breakdown of the sample at the end for reference, but the important things to know are that a majority of respondents (78%) are American, and that I advertised the survey on both Tumblr and Reddit (r/SampleSize) this time, so I’ve included a couple of Reddit vs Tumblr subsample comparisons.
With that out of the way, onto the results!
Names for That Bug
Here’s how often each of the names for That Bug were selected, specifically among respondents who were familiar with the bug (how I defined “familiar” is included at the end, for the curious):
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For the sample overall, “Jerusalem cricket” is solidly the most commonly-selected name, being chosen by a majority of respondents (57.2%). “Potato bug” was a distant second at 34.1%, followed by sand cricket at 17.8%. All other terms were fairly uncommon, with a selection rate of ~5% or less.
Respondents were allowed to select multiple names, but most only selected a single term (249/320, or ~78% of the familiar respondents). However, among familiar respondents who selected more than 1 name, nearly half specifically selected the combination of “Jerusalem cricket” and “potato bug” (32 selecting that combination vs. 38 selecting some other combination of names).
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A number of respondents wrote that they would just call That Bug a “cricket”, which I considered too general to group with the other names that are more specific to That Bug. A pretty solid handful of folks guessed that it might be a mole cricket, but that’s actually a different critter (although it does look very similar and so it is understandable that it could be confused for That Bug). A few folks also guessed that it was a weta, which also looks quite similar and is in fact fairly closely related to That Bug, being part of the same superfamily (Stenopelmatoidea).
Names by Region
Here’s how the selected names varied by US region:
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“Jerusalem cricket” was the top name across the board, but how dominant it was over “potato bug” and “sand cricket” varied a bit. “Child of the Earth” also appears to be more common in the West than elsewhere, which is worth examining further.
What happens when you look at the more specific sub-regions? Let’s find out!
“Jerusalem cricket” is reasonably common everywhere (although it ranges from being selected just under half the time to roughly 2/3rds of the time):
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“Potato bug” varies much more dramatically by sub-region, being selected by a majority of respondents in the Pacific West but occurring much less often elsewhere, including the neighboring Mountain West, where it was only selected ~13% of the time!:
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“Sand cricket” was somewhat uncommon across most sub-regions with a roughly 20-30% selection rate, on average, although it was notably less common in the Pacific West than anywhere else (only ~6%!):
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Finally, “Child of the Earth” occurred rarely or never in most sub-regions, but emerged as a somewhat uncommon but not outright rare term in the Mountain West:
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Notably, every single familiar respondent from New Mexico (n = 4 only, but still) selected “Child of the Earth”. It was also selected by a handful of respondents in Arizona and California, lending credence to it possibly being a Southwestern regional term.
Overall, one of the striking differences across sub-regions is the extent to which “Jerusalem cricket” is selected relative to “potato bug”, as shown here:
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Notably, the Pacific West, unlike all other regions, showed a preference for “potato bug” over “Jerusalem cricket”. This was fascinating to me, so I looked into it a little more, and it appears that this is driven predominantly by Californians preferring “potato bug” (66%:45%), since Oregonians and Washingtonians preferred “Jerusalem cricket”:
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It’s worth noting that a few other states besides California (Illinois, Michigan, South Carolina, and New Hampshire) show numerical preference for “potato bug” over “Jerusalem cricket,” but each of them has very small sample sizes (<10 familiar respondents), so I wouldn’t take the pattern too seriously for those other states.
Sample sizes for state-level maps are generally QUITE small (the sub-region maps are already probably pushing it a bit, tbh), but what if we throw caution to the wind and look at the most commonly selected name for each state anyway? HUGE asterisk to this map in that a pretty substantial majority of states are based on very small sample sizes and so this should be taken with a MAJOR grain of salt, but here’s what you get (it’s probably the closest I’ve come to my original Bug Map vision so far ~):
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Shout-out to the sole Rhode Island respondent who was able to unilaterally dictate that Rhode Island, in contrast to all other states, would have “sand cricket” as the state’s preferred term for That Bug on my silly map. That’s the kind of power I aspire to every day :)
Anyway, to sum up, “Jerusalem cricket” is generally the preferred name for That Bug, but “potato bug” is its most common name in California (and potentially a few other states), and “Child of the Earth” is its preferred name in New Mexico (and may generally be a regional term in the Southwestern US).
Familiarity with That Bug
Overall, 29.3% of respondents were familiar with That Bug. And, unsurprisingly, given that it’s a North American insect, Americans were significantly more familiar with it than non-Americans, with 34.3% of American respondents recognizing the bug, compared to 11.3% of non-Americans.
Here’s how the familiarity rate varies by sub-region:
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Overall, respondents from the Western US were more familiar with That Bug than were respondents from Eastern states, with the Pacific West having the highest percentage of respondents who recognized the bug (45.8%) and the Mid-Atlantic having the lowest among Americans (22.8%), although the familiarity rate among Mid-Atlantic respondents was still twice that of non-Americans (11.3%).
 Tumblr vs Reddit Comparisons
A significantly higher percentage of the Tumblr sample was familiar with That Bug (34.8%) compared to the Reddit subsample (17.3%), with this pattern extending to both American and non-American respondents:
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I suspect this difference is likely due to the tagging and reblogging features of Tumblr meaning that the survey was likely seen by a greater proportion of “bug enthusiasts” on Tumblr compared to Reddit.
In support of that explanation, the Tumblr comments about the bug were more likely to be positive rather than negative in tone (47:34), while the reverse was true for the Reddit sample (16:6; a statistically significant difference, fwiw, at χ2 = 6.55, p = .01):
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From this, I would suspect that the Reddit familiarity rate is probably more accurate to the general population, although I would suspect that it is probably still inflated from the “true” percentage, since respondents had to opt-in to filling out a survey about a bug to be counted at all.
The Reddit/Tumblr subsamples were otherwise generally pretty similar to each other.
Conclusions
In sum, That Bug is relatively obscure, with only around a third of Americans and a tenth of non-Americans recognizing it. Among those who did recognize it, That Bug was most widely known as a “Jerusalem cricket”, but its other names saw some use, too. “Potato bug” was the most common term for it among Californians, for example, while New Mexicans preferred “Child of the Earth.” And, of course, our esteemed Rhode Island representative went with “sand cricket” ~
Personally, I’m from the Western US, and before doing this project, I’d never heard of the term “potato bug” used for anything other than roly-polies (and, based on the comments, I’m not the only one with this experience). It’s fascinating to me how these common names can refer to wildly different things, without people even necessarily being aware of the potential alternate meanings!
I do wonder, however, whether a subset of respondents might have selected “potato bug” because they’d heard the term before, but potentially had (without their knowledge) only heard it being used to refer to a different kind of bug entirely. I don’t have a great way to test that currently, but I am considering doing a follow-up survey about that some day.
Anyway, that’s all for now! Thanks again to everyone who completed the survey or who read any of this! <3
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Other Stuff
Wave 1 results post
Familiarity definition: Respondents were considered “familiar” with That Bug for the purposes of this analysis if they did NOT select the “I am unfamiliar with this bug” option AND provided a valid name for the bug, either by selecting one of the provided options OR providing a specific name in the “other” text. Overly vague responses (e.g., “cricket”) or names of other bugs (e.g., mole cricket) were not considered valid names for this purpose.
Sample details: Here’s a couple of tables with the sample broken down by source and region. The non-parenthetical numbers are the total responses and the parenthetical numbers are the number of “familiar” respondents.
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remo963 · 2 years
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Wasp (A wasp is any insect of the narrow-waisted suborder Apocrita of the order Hymenoptera which is neither a bee nor an ant; this excludes the broad-waisted sawflies (Symphyta), which look somewhat like wasps, but are in a separate suborder. The wasps do not constitute a clade, a complete natural group with a single ancestor, as bees and ants are deeply nested within the wasps, having evolved from wasp ancestors. Wasps that are members of the clade Aculeata can sting their prey.The most commonly known wasps, such as yellowjackets and hornets, are in the family Vespidae and are eusocial, living together in a nest with an egg-laying queen and non-reproducing workers. Eusociality is favoured by the unusual haplodiploid system of sex determination in Hymenoptera, as it makes sisters exceptionally closely related to each other. However, the majority of wasp species are solitary, with each adult female living and breeding independently. Females typically have an ovipositor for laying eggs in or near a food source for the larvae, though in the Aculeata the ovipositor is often modified instead into a sting used for defense or prey capture. Wasps play many ecological roles. Some are predators or pollinators, whether to feed themselves or to provision their nests. Many, notably the cuckoo wasps, are kleptoparasites, laying eggs in the nests of other wasps. Many of the solitary wasps are parasitoidal, meaning they lay eggs on or in other insects (any life stage from egg to adult) and often provision their own nests with such hosts. Unlike true parasites, the wasp larvae eventually kill their hosts. Solitary wasps parasitize almost every pest insect, making wasps valuable in horticulture for biological pest control of species such as whitefly in tomatoes and other crops. Wasps first appeared in the fossil record in the Jurassic, and diversified into many surviving superfamilies by the Cretaceous. They are a successful and diverse group of insects with tens of thousands of described species; wasps have spread to all parts of the world except for the polar regions. The largest social wasp is the Asian giant hornet, at up to 5 centimetres (2.0 in) in length; among the large https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg4BCFsNjxL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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cyberdelph · 4 years
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supreme family by @OhYo_in_d
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marvel-lous-things · 6 years
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Karen: you have 69 open wounds on your torso
Peter:
Peter, actively bleeding to death: nice
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Tony, after spending too long on the internet to learn gen z humour: if i die then y’know haha. #yolo imma rite. haha whip dab haha.
Peter, t-posing: fuck yeah mr. stark u hit that mofo.
Stephen, crying: what does this even mean??? how are you doing that with your mouth????
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Conversation
Stephen: Peter, we need to talk about your professionalism.
Peter, standing on a chair: Those are some mighty brave words for someone standing in lava.
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byeronman · 6 years
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supreme family house rules (NON-negotiable):
start another pot of coffee if you finish the last one
but under no circumstances whatsoever make it decaf
always ask yourself, “would an idiot do that?” before doing something. if they would, do not do that thing
knock before entering. please.
the only ice cream allowed in this household is Stark ravin’ hazelnuts hunka-Hulka-burning-fudge
no opening portals anywhere in the house without a warning beforehand (addendum: any talk about the Mayonnaise Meltdown of ’16 is strictly prohibited)
Peter is not allowed within five feet of the blender
do not buy/bring home any pets without consulting other members of the family first
only people under the age of 18 are allowed to say ‘yeet’
attendance to lasagna Fridays is mandatory
always clean up after yourself in case Pepper or May drop by
violence is never the answer even if Tony is being a little bitch
apologize when you hurt someone else’s feelings
be loving, respectful, and kind to one another
family comes first
bold text is stephen, italics are peter, normal is tony
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kogla · 6 years
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-…with 6 arms just like a spider!! It will be the best costume ever!!
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saieras · 6 years
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What they see:
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WHAT I SEE:
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“Peter sweetie you’re doing amazing but I think we’re gonna crash.”
“Dad if you would just let me drive for one second—”
“Petey dear, that’s no way to talk to your father.”
“Thank you, Stephen honey. He’s been so passive aggressive lately!”
“dAdS wE’re g0nNa cRaShHhhh1!!1”
“Magic seatbelts, everybody!”
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Edit: Since this post kind of took off... Check out my fic if you like iron dad/spider son! I’m very proud of it :)
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r2d2-bih · 6 years
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peter parker upon meeting doctor strange for the first time: so are you more of a harry potter wizard, a wizard101 wizard, or a wizards of waverly place kinda wizard?
stephen strange: what the fuck
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a13then · 6 years
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peter: and yeet means to throw something.
tony: oh okay.
[later]
tony: *throws things at the villain* Y E E T
strange, groaning: why did i choose to save him again?
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unfortunatelyevent · 6 years
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tony: you can't tell anybody about our wedding yet
stephen: i only told wong because he's my best friend
wong: and i only told peter
peter: and i told many, many people
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cyberdelph · 4 years
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 /  by @mafi_MARVEL
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marvel-lous-things · 6 years
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