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incorrect marvel quotes this is for @superfandomqueen for the stevetony secret santa i hope this made you laugh and merry christmas!! 😊

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stevetony + textposts about the multiverse (Check image descriptions for information about each universe)

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In one timeline we kiss but the stars don’t come down. In another you set a world on fire for me but I perish in the flames. Somewhere there’s a final space where your hand on my face is the punchy climax to an epic saga, where the way our mouths meet takes the breath right out of people’s throats. One universe has us right, of all the millions stacked on millions. So it’s not this one. I can live with that.

— Elisabeth Hewer

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Hey

Fave each iron man movies scenes??

Hey, firstly thank you so much for asking this question. Tony Stark is my absolute favorite and I love him so damn much. These are some of my favorite Iron Man scenes from each movie he appeared in (in no particular order): 1. Iron Man (2008)

The press conference after returning from Afghanistan. This will always remain such a pivotal moment for me because this is where his newly found character development shines. Tony Stark is known for his masks and witty remarks, but in this scene, you see the man changed from his time with Yinsen and in the cave. Yes, his escape from the cave is a truly iconic moment but this scene showed the human side of him.

"I saw young Americans killed by the very weapons I created to defend them and protect them. And I saw that I had become part of a system that is comfortable with zero-accountability. I had my eyes opened. I came to realize that I had more to offer this world than just making things that blow up. And that is why, effective immediately, I am shutting down the weapons manufacturing division of Stark Industries."

" I shouldn't be alive... unless it was for a reason. I'm not crazy, Pepper. I just finally know what I have to do. And I know in my heart that it's right." Again, I love when characters have their world turned on their axis because the development that comes from it. This moment is important for Tony and the dynamic of Tony and Pepper.

And of course, the "I am Iron Man" will always remain iconic.

2. Iron Man 2 (2010)

The senate scene?! We didn't know it at that time but that was Tony Stark standing up to Hydra. And at times we forget that Tony isn't just a superhero. He was a businessman for so long before that and watching him argue in front of that senate was amazing.

"Well, you can forget it. I am Iron Man. The suit and I are one. To turn over the Iron Man suit would be to turn over myself, which is tantamount to indentured servitude or prostitution, depending on what state you're in. You can't have it." "I've successfully privatized world peace. What more do you want? For now! I tried to play ball with these ass-clowns."

"Please, it's not about me. It's not about you. It's not even about us. It's about legacy. It's about what we choose to leave behind for future generations." So much of Tony's character is about him creating his own legacy, accepting the mistakes of his past, and moving forward to create a legacy of peace.

The whole montage of him discovering the replacement for Palladium. Really puts the focus on the 'Genius' part of him. And Tony Stark The Mechanic is always a treat to watch.

The Iron Man yes, Tony Stark no scene with him saying "You can't afford me" after Fury says that he is a consultant. I don't know I just love that scene.

The chaos of the Iron Fam was at peak in this movie! The Monaco Race, with Tony yelling "I was attacked" and then the Stark Expo showdown of him yelling "I was gonna make you an omelette." Pepperony is chaos and I love them.

3. The Avengers (2012)

I can't talk about this movie without mentioning the "Genius, Billionaire, Playboy, Philanthropist." This line changed lives (mine).

There are so many interpersonal relationships at play in this one. I love the "His name is Agent" and then Tony offering to fly Phil to Portland. You can see how much he was clearly affected by Coulson's death. The way he makes Bruce relax and we see the beginning of the Science Bros. The establishment of his and Steve's arc.

When he discovers Loki's plan (I just love the way he says "Son of a bitch)

His whole conversation with Loki in the Tower. "When they come, and they will, they'll come for you." "There's no throne, there is no version of this, where you come out on top. Maybe your army comes and maybe it's too much for us, but it's all on you. Because if we can't protect the Earth, you can be damned well sure we'll avenge it." He was one of the first ones to refer to the team as the Avengers and that just shows how much he wanted that.

The flying of the nuke into the space scene. Because this bitch has really been ready to die since day fucking one.

4. Iron Man 3 (2013)

Iron Man 3 did such a good job of portraying the human side of the superhero gig. The mental toll and exhaustion it takes on a person. Tony famously has skeletons in his closet and for them to be brought out in such a manner was so important for his character. "A famous man once said, ‘we create our own demons'. Who said that? What does it even mean? It doesn't matter; I said it because he said it, so now he was famous and then basically getting said by two well-known guys. I don't, uh... argh. I'm gonna start again. Let's track this from the beginning."

You hurt Tony's people, and he comes after you. "My name is Tony Stark and I'm not afraid of you. I know you're a coward so I've decided that you just died, pal. I'm going to come and get the body. There's no politics here it's just good old fashioned revenge."

Him having fun with his bots and Jarvis. I love his workshop scenes so much.

" Nothing's been the same since New York." "You experience things and then they're over, and you still can't explain them. Gods, aliens, other dimensions. I'm just a man in a can. The only reason I haven't cracked up is probably because you moved in. Which is great. I love you. I'm lucky. But honey, I can't sleep. You go to bed, I come down here. I do what I know. I tinker. I... Threat is imminent. And I have to protect the one thing that I can't live without. That's you. And my suits, they're, uh... Machines. They're part of me." This was his most vulnerable moment till now. And just how much he loved Pepper and was scared of losing her.

Scenes with Harley just stole my heart and you could see that Tony would turn out to be a good dad.

His escape from Killian the first time. His break-in the house. Him without the suit is still Iron Man.

"I guess I'd say my armor was never a distraction or a hobby. It was a cocoon. And now, I'm a changed man. You can take away my house, all my tricks and toys. One thing you can't take away... I am Iron Man." The internal monologue of Tony in this movie is the chef's kiss.

5. Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

The 'language' scene (I am a sucker for Steve-Tony banter), the "please me a secret door", the "guys, lets talk" and then "good talk" I love the in-fight humor.

"And I am the man who killed the Avengers" "I wasn't ready. I didn't do all I could…” “It wasn't a nightmare. It was my legacy. The end of the path I started us on.” The visions Wanda showed Tony, the guiding force behind his motivation to build Ultron, the guilt and responsibility he lives with and the fact that no one on the Team ever finds out about it.

"Aww junior, you are gonna break your old man's heart." Ultron was his child in the way all his creations are and their interactions were always so layered.

"We're standing three hundred feet below it. We're the Avengers. We can bust arms dealers all the live long day, but, that up there? That's... that's the end game. How were you guys planning on beating that?" The together conversation, the Endgame conversation, his fears laid out and exposed in front of his team.

"That would end the team. Isn't that the mission? Isn't that the "why" we fight, so we can end the fight, so we get to go home?" This conversation is so pivotal for both Steve and Tony because it showcases their ideals clashing. Tony pushing to end a fight before it begins because he doesn't want any more blood on his hands and Steve striving to fight the fight because he knows the cost of loss.

" I see a suit of armor around the world." " I've seen colder." Such a badass line!

6. Captain America: Civil War (2016)

"There is no decision-making process here. We need to be put in check! In whatever form that takes I'm game. If we can't accept limitations, if we are boundary less, we are no better than the bad guys." "That's good! That's why I'm here. When I realized what my weapons were capable of in the wrong hands, I shut it down and stopped manufacturing." Tony changed his life, turned it around so that innocent lives could be saved and for him to turn back and see that his legacy still ended up with innocent blood on his hands, it was important for him to ensure that accountability was maintained.

"Gimme a break! I'm doing what has to be done, to save us from something worse." The conference room scene of him pleading with Steve to try to hold the team together.

"I'm trying to keep... I'm trying to keep you from tearing the Avengers apart."

Him fighting Bucky without the suit!!!

Him and Natasha after Bucky escapes.

His first meeting with Peter!

The pain on his face and in his eyes when he finds out about his parents and the "I don't care. He killed my mom." "He is my friend." "So was I."

The Rhodey and Tony scenes.

7. Spider-man: Homecoming (2017)

" No, this is where you ZIP IT, alright? The adult is talking! What if somebody had died tonight? Different story, right? 'Cause that's on *you*. And if you died, I feel like that's on me. I don't need that on my conscience."

Honestly, all of the scenes of Tony and Peter in Homecoming are comfort scenes. But the panic in Tony's voice in this scene, the way he felt responsible for Peter, showed just how much Peter meant to him.

"If you're nothing without the suit, then you shouldn't have it." Who better to know about this than the man who was once told that "You are nothing without the suit"

8. Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

Tony finally finding out after years of sleepless nights that his worst nightmare has come true when Bruce tells him about Thanos.

"you throw another moon at me and I'm gonna lose it"

Peter and Tony dynamic!

Thanos and Tony showdown

9. Avengers: Endgame (2019)

"Part of the journey is the end" "When I drift off, I will dream about you. It's always you."

"God, it feels like a thousand years ago. I fought my way out of the that cave, became Iron Man. Realized I loved you. I know I said no more surprises, but I was really hoping to pull off one last one."

The starting monologue of Tony in this movie breaks me. Him thinking that he is going to die in the same place he had nightmares for years.

"I lost the kid"

"I said we'd lose. You said, "we'll do that together too." Guess what, Cap? We *lost,* and you weren't there." "And I needed you" "No trust, liar" I had been waiting for this moment since the Civil War, for Tony to tear Steve apart.

Him looking at Peter's photo and deciding to do this all for him.

Him and Morgan were absolutely adorable.

"Resentment is corrosive and I hate it" Of course he would show up to fix everything again.

"Do you trust me?" "I do"

"No amount of money ever bought a second of time."

I think a lot of Endgame was Tony finding closure, not just for his present but for his past as well.

"You know its a trap right?" "Yeah, don't really much care" The Big Three fighting Thanos.

"Everybody wants a happy ending. Right? But it doesn't always roll that way. Maybe this time. I'm hoping if you play this back, it's in celebration. I hope families are reunited, I hope we get it back and something like a normal version of the planet has been restored, if there ever was such a thing. God, what a world. Universe, now. If you told me ten years ago that we weren't alone, let alone, you know, to this extent, I mean, I wouldn't have been surprised, but come on. The epic forces of dark and light that have come in to play. And for better or worse, that's the reality Morgan's gonna have to find a way to grow up in. So I thought I better record a little greeting, in the case of an untimely death, on my part. I mean, not that death at any time isn't untimely. This time travel thing we're gonna try and pull off tomorrow, it's got me scratching my head about the survivability of it all. Then again that's the hero gig. Part of the journey is the end. What am I even tripping for? Everything's gonna workout exactly the way it's supposed to. I love you 3000." SCREAMING, CRYING, THROWING UP.

"And I..am .. Iron Man."

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it takes every ounce of strength tony has, but somehow, he manages to resist homewrecker steve's seduction when he shows up at his house.

alas, tony is only human; the next day, he decides to give the debauchery plan a try himself.

dedicated to @meidui for saying 'tony is the kind of man you put on a slutty little leather jacket for and show up at his lakehouse and first you wreck that old man's marriage and then you wreck his bedsheets' and @frankthesnek for saying that tony copying steve's outfit is a form of courtship. 💗

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Iron Man (Movies) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark Characters: Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Obadiah Stane, Howard Stark Additional Tags: Angst with a Happy Ending, Canon Compliant, Canon Divergence - Avengers: Endgame (Movie), Character Study, Tony Stark Needs a Hug, Title from a Taylor Swift Song Summary:

You live life as who you are supposed to be.

Till he makes you realise you could be more.

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HUMANITY WILL HURT YOU & LOVE YOU & CRY WITH YOU; ON THE WORLD LOVING YOU

the good place // unknown author // sally rooney // judas h. (@judas-redeemed) // coldplay // unknown

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( @grumpycakes On the occasion of her birth, the start of a story about birthdays, and getting everything you want, even though it's nothing you know how to ask for. Happy Birthday, Mel!)

-Another Year Around the Sun-

“Are you-  Are you going to get that?”

Tony squinted at the schematic floating in the air in front of him.  “Does it look like I’m going to get that?” he asked, taking a careful sip of his coffee. It burned the entire way down, and he exhaled on a cough.  “Jesus, this is foul.”

“Yep.” Bruce gave him a slight smile from behind his safe, boring cup of tea.  “Just like you like it.”

Tony saluted him with the cup.  “Just like I like it,” he agreed.  His phone stopped buzzing, and he gave it a look, nursing his coffee along with his grudge.  As expected, it started vibrating again a moment later, shaking against the top of the workbench.  “Jay, put him on the block list.”

“He will simply call the main line,” Jarvis said, with the sort of infinite patience only his AI could manage.

“And I expect you to hang up on him,” Tony said.  

Bruce leaned across the workbench.  “It’s-”  He glanced up at Tony, his brows drawing up tight in an expression of concern.  “Are you, I mean, is there-”

Tony took another sip of his coffee, letting the cup hang in front of his face as he punched the surface of his phone with one finger.  The call connected, and there was a single second of silence, and then-

“HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE BIRTHDAY BOY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUST TO YOU,” Rhodey howled into the phone with the sort of glee only a long time friend could muster when doing something unforgivable.  On the other side of the workbench, Bruce rocked back on his stool, his eyes going wide with shock. “WE HEAR THAT YOU’RE THE BIRTHDAY BOY, SO WE’RE SINGING LOUD AND TRUE, EVERYONE WILL KNOW THAT YOU’RE A SPECIAL BOY, IT’S THE LEAST THAT WE COULD DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-”

“Die in a fire,” Tony said, and hung up on him.

Bruce was clutching his tea with both hands, his shoulders up around his ears, his expression horrified.  “What was-”

“There was a diner down the street from MIT,” Tony said, making a minute adjustment to the schematic with a flick of his fingers.  “And they sang that hellish ditty if you told them someone in your party was having a birthday.”

“Okay,” Bruce said, drawing out the word.  

“Yeah, well it turns out that if you pre-tip the staff a twenty, they’ll sing it any time you ask.  Such as every Sunday morning.  When you’ve dragged your hungover, barely functional best friend into said diner with the promise of pancakes and coffee, and instead betray him with singing waiters who are just enjoying seeing him suffer.”  Tony took a sip of coffee.  “It was my birthday every single Sunday for two solid months.”

Bruce put down his cup.  “Okay,” he repeated.  “Why did you continue-”

“Honestly, I probably wanted the attention,” Tony mused.  “And the pancakes.”  His phone rang again, and he picked it up, putting it on speaker with a flick of his thumb.  “How did you pass the military psych evaluation?  In that you are clearly a sociopath?”

“Happy birthday,” Rhodey said, his voice full of glee.  

“Actually, not my birthday,” Tony said, trying not to smile.  “I had it legally changed specifically to avoid these sorts of betrayals.”

“Great, I can now call you randomly every day until I find the new one,” Rhodey said.  “Gonna be our daily tradition.”

“I am blocking your number,” Tony said.  “And by ‘blocking you,’ I mean, I am going to hack my way into every single cellular service in this country and make sure you get a busy signal any time you call anyone for any reason at any time.”

“A normal, rational response from a well-balanced man,” Rhodey mused.

“Says the man who memorized a song deliberately designed for trauma and has used it to harass me annually for literally my entire adult life,” Tony said.  “Why would you memorize that?  Why would you do that to yourself, let alone me?”

“You say that like I could possibly forget it, it’s an ear worm,” Rhodey mused.  “And I heard it every Sunday for like three months.”

“Whose fault is that?”

“Should’ve done less Saturday night drinking, and we wouldn’t have had to do Sunday morning penance.”

“You are the worst, you are a terrible friend, I don’t know why I even talk to you.  I have replaced you.  I have other friends now, better friends.  Know what Bruce gave me for my birthday?” Tony asked, gesturing at Bruce, who was staring down at his tablet, trying to hide his smile behind the rim of his cup.  “Coffee.  Terrible coffee, but coffee.”

“Your favorite,” Rhodey said.  “Hey, Bruce!”

“Hey,” Bruce said, raising his voice to be heard.  “You coming for the party on Saturday?”

“Be there with bells on,” Rhodey said. “Can we hang out in a corner somewhere and avoid the frightening rich people that always end up at Tony’s parties?”

“God, please,” Bruce said, wincing.  

“You’re no longer invited,” Tony told Rhodey.  “Disinvited.  I’m sending a drone to shred your invitation.”

“It was an email.”

“Even easier,” Tony said.  He spun in a circle, one hand sliding through the air and pulling up a keyboard.  “Worldwide computer virus.  Targeting you and only you and your invitation.”

“How do you not know how your invitations went out?”Rhodey asked. “Was this entire party set up by a planner or something?” 

“Of course not, that would be stupid,” Tony said.

Bruce took a sip of tea. “Stark Industries’ PR department planned this entire party.”

There was a beat of silence.  “Tony…” 

“I don’t need the disapproving voice out of you, and it’s not your problem, you’re uninvited,” Tony said, his fingers dancing over a holographic keyboard.  “If you show up, you will be escorted off of the premises by someone, probably Nat, I owe her a favor, she likes throwing men around..”

“That’s a shame, I’ll just have to keep your birthday present.”

Tony’s fingers stilled.  “What did you get me?”

“Doesn’t matter.  I’m uninvited.”

“You have a chance to buy your way back into my good graces,” Tony said.  “What’d you get me?”

“A terrible bootleg Iron Man shirt I found in a street market in Guatemala,” Rhodey said.  

Tony braced a hand on the workbench, considering that.  “Terrible good or terrible bad?”

“Terrible terrible,” Rhodey said.

“What the hell is terrible terrible?  What do you think that even means?”

“It’s TERRIBLE terrible, and it’s a shame you’ll never see it and find out.”

“Fine!”  Tony tossed his hands in the air, ignoring the way Bruce was laughing.  “You’re re-invited.”

“Ooooooooh.”  Rhodey hummed to himself for a moment.  “I’ll check, but I have a very busy social calendar, I’m not really sure I can squeeze in another party this late, should’ve gotten an invitation out to me a lot sooner if you wanted-”

“Shut up,” Tony said, grinning at his schematic.  “You absolute embarrassment.  You need to show up, Pepper says that Nicholetta Hertz has asked if you’re going to be there three separate times.”

“Nicholetta-”

“She was at the product release thing last fall?” Tony shifted some parts around in midair.  “Tall?  Gave the keynote speech?  Wore a halter top dress and a pair of Converse high tops?”

There was a beat of a pause.  “She wanted to know if I was coming?”

“Asked three times,” Tony said.  “Pepper asked me to check if you were dating anyone.  I told her that you’re a loser who is apparently getting into birdwatching-”

“It’s fucking interesting and god forbid I go outside without a gun strapped to me-”

“So no, you’re not dating anyone.”  Tony paused, grinning.  “Nicholetta likes to hike.”

“Don’t try to match make, you’re bad at it.”

Tony straightened up, his head snapping in Bruce’s direction.  “Did you hear that?” he asked, gesturing at the phone.  “Did you-  I can’t be the only one who heard that.”

Bruce braced his chin on one hand. “I, I heard it,” he said.  “And I might, possibly, agree with it.”

“Man’s got sense, I always said that the man’s got sense,” Rhodey said.  “Don’t try to match make.”

“Fine, I’ll tell Pepper you’re not interested.”

“No, Pepper can do all the match making she wants,” Rhodey said.

Bruce was laughing, Tony could tell he was laughing, and he decided for the sake of his friendship that he wasn’t going to acknowledge it.  “Saturday.  Seven PM.  If you don’t have the literal worst t-shirt I’ve ever seen in my life, I’m going to sell something to the US Air Force that you will regret for the rest of your long, painfully long career.”

“TERRIBLE terrible,” Rhodey said.  “I’ll be there by six, I need to mock your outfit for at least half an hour before the rest of your guests show up.”

“Luckily, if my outfit is that bad, you’re bringing me the perfect thing to wear.  To my own birthday party.  In front of the New York elite, every superhero I can stand, and a bunch of the most vindictive reporters in the country.” Tony ripped a piece of the holographic schematic free and tossed it across the workshop.  “It’ll be great.  We should just take pictures of every person as they first catch sight of the terribleness.”

“I love a party with a theme,” Rhodey said.  “Saturday.  Six PM.  Bruce, wanna spend the rest of the night watching Tone try to guess who all his guests are.”

“It’s, uh, it’s a problem when you don’t set your own guest list,” Bruce agreed.

“Hanging up on you now,” Tony said.  

“HAAAAAAAAAPPY BIIIIIRTHDAAAA-” Rhodey started, and Tony hung up on him.

He braced both hands on his workbench, his chin dipping in a nod.  “I need better friends,” he said.

Bruce nodded.  “Don’t think that’s going to happen,” he said, his voice apologetic.  His eyes tipped up, and he smiled.  “But…”

Tony turned, following his gaze, just in time to see Steve bounce his way down the stairs.  He hit the ground, his feet skidding as he headed for the lab door.  Almost against his will, Tony smiled, watcihng with affection as Steve punched in his door code and tossed it open.  

He grinned at Tony, his cheeks flushed and his hair still damp from a morning shower.  “Happy Birthday!”

Tony grinned at him.  “It’s way too early for that much enthusiasm, Cap.”

“Get used to it.”  Steve strode across the room, snagging a sweatshirt off of the hook as he passed it.  “Let’s go!”

He tossed the sweatshirt at Tony, and Tony’s hands came up to catch it with more instinct than grace.  But he managed not  to end up with it draped over his head, and he counted that as a win.  “Go?  Go where?”

“Birthday,” Steve said, stopping as the bots rolled up to him.  With a grin, he gave each of them a quick high five.  “Hello, boys, Bruce is babysitting today, you’re all going to be good for him, right?”

“They will not,” Bruce said, smiling down at his tablet.

“First of all, if there’s any bot sitting to be done, Jarvis is going to be doing it,” Tony started, tossing the sweatshirt onto the workbench. It didn’t land in his coffee.  He was doing great today.  “And second, go WHERE?  I have a prototype processing, the fabrication units are working on the next phase of the build, and I have six other projects to-”

Steve came around the end of the workbench, his long legs eating up the distance, all of the bots trailing behind him like the stupidest little Disney parade.  “Bruce.”

“Bruce?” Tony parroted.

Bruce raised his cup, still looking at his tablet.  “Bruce.”

“Doctor Banner and I have the situation well under control,” Jarvis said, his tone crisp.  “Should your expertise be required, we shall reach out to you immediately, but you are not nearly as indispensable to this part of the project as you might like to imagine.”

Tony’s eyebrows arched.  “Rude.”

“Bruce has got the workshop, Pepper’s handling the business side of things, Thor’s camped out on the tower roof and promised he’ll take care of any Avengers problems, Natasha is leading Fury on a wild goose chase through Vatican City right now,” Steve said.  

“I wondered where she’d gone last night,” Tony said.  He blinked.  “Wait.  You’ve just sidelined my work, my company, my superheroing and the less than secret spy organization that spends a third of its time trying to annoy me.  That’s like, four of the five things that try to kill me on a regular basis.”

“He’s the man with the plan,” Bruce said, sipping his tea.

Tony was pretty sure this shouldn’t be a turn on.  He was pretty sure it was anyway.  “So that just leaves-”

“Coulson just dumped a 8000 piece puzzle onto the kitchen island,” Steve said, his arms crossed over his chest.  “And Clint’s going to find it in-”  His head cocked to the side as he considered.  “Jarvis?”

“He is currently on the elevator now,” Jarvis said.  “Three minutes.  Twelve seconds.  And counting.”

“Thank you, Jarvis.”  Steve grinned at Tony, wide and bright and perfect, and Tony went a tiny bit dizzy for a second.  “Five out of five.”

“Clint hates puzzles,” Tony pointed out.

“Yes, he does.  He also can’t resist color matching and shape recognition.  He’s going to be saying curse words in languages no one here even knew existed,” Steve said.  He straightened up, and reached out, picking up the sweatshirt.  “Birthday.  Let’s go.  I’ve got plans.”

Tony considered the sweatshirt.  Considered Steve.  “What kind of plans?”

“Best birthday ever,” Steve said, and he said it with such conviction that if Tony wasn’t already head over heels in love with him, that would’ve sealed the deal.  Steve held the sweatshirt out to him, a bribe or a peace offering, Tony couldn’t tell.  But he held it out, with a quick, hopeful little smile.  “Don’t you trust me?”

“I mean, I did before you said those exact words and now I’m sure that it’s a terrible idea,” Tony said, just to hear him laugh.  He took the sweatshirt, being careful not to grab Steve’s hand instead.  That would’ve been just embarrassing.  “Can I eat breakfast at least?”

Steve wrapped an arm around his shoulders, force marching him towards the door.  “That’s step one!”

Tony looked back over his shoulder.  “Help.”

Bruce gave a little wiggle of his fingers.  “Haaaaaaaappy Birthday,” he sang.

“This is going to be terrible,” Tony said, and he was honestly looking forward to it.

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You don’t simply become an adult: you become a product on the sexual marketplace, regardless of your own will.

It announced my femaleness, it invited certain ways of being looked at, sometimes touched. It betrayed me. I couldn’t dispose of it, so I hated it instead.

This divides you: you learn to see yourself from the outside, as an object, through the imagined eyes of men. You lose your space in the world, and any part of you that goes beyond the strictly minimal can start to feel like grotesque excess.

I don’t know of any (…) word that describes my desire to discipline and punish myself into something safely un-sexed.

I didn't hate my body because I wasn't a girl; I hated it precisely because I was, and because of everything I feared or knew that being a woman might mean.

— Sarah Ditum (review of Hannah Barnes' Time To Think)

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Every single odd number has an “e” in it.

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hate how so much of adult friendship relies on updates, experiencing your life through pictures and tidbits. we had it good with childhood friends, could spend years and years basking in the same circumstance. now i just float through clouds of strangers, hungry for something solid and warm. yes i carry your heart within mine, yes i see the world through your eyes. but in that very moment i still feel alone, still know it's poor substitute for same room, twin smiles.

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no, I'm not in love with her. I want to spend the rest of my life with her. I want to make her breakfast in the morning because I know exactly how she likes me to make cinnamon rolls and for her to make dinner because she refuses to tell me how she makes the best baked potatoes. I want her to sit next to me in the studio while I paint and she tells me about her day at work. I want there to be a bed for my dog next to the tree for her cat she cannot live without. I want to fall asleep next to her on the couch during a movie only to wake up and carry her to bed in her own room while I go to sleep in mine and rest easy because I know I'll wake up to her in the kitchen scrambling to braid her hair and make tea at the same time. There is nothing romantic about it. I love her, but I am not in love with her. I know she is not mine. I simply want to live my life with her.

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stevetony + textposts about the multiverse (Check image descriptions for information about each universe)

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It's been awhile since I felt compelled to make text posts. But these two really gave me no choice.

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notes on a lonely history of love

when fleabag said “you know how to love better than any of us thats why you find it so painful” and when hill house said “i loved you completely and you loved me the same. the rest is confetti” and bly manor said “to truly love another person is to accept the work of loving them is worth the pain of losing them” and when the good place said “if soulmates do exist theyre not found theyre made. people meet they get a good feeling and then they get to work building a relationship” and when schitts creek said “ive spent most of my life not knowing what right was supposed to feel like. and then i met you and everything changed. you make me feel right” and when maria semple said “i felt so full of love for everything but at the same time i felt so hung out to dry there like nobody could ever understand. i felt so alone in this world and so loved at the same time” and when jim croce said “i looked around enough to know that youre the one i want to go through time with” and when house comes with a bird said “’where do you see yourself in a year?’ with you ‘and the year after?’ at your side ‘and the year after?’ always with you ‘and after?’ in your arms ‘i want a dog’ lets get two” and when russian doll said “you had no obligation but you loved me anyway, right?” and when ted lasso said “if there was something i could do or something i could say that would make you happy just being with me id do it” and when superstore said “i hated how you believed that life could be better than it was. but here we are. and my life is so much better than it was because of you” and when everything everywhere all at once said “i would have loved doing laundry and taxes with you” and when jenny slate said “im stuck here in a cycle and i am getting older but i am not growing up and my heart is getting soft dark spots on it like a fruit that has gone bad or is soft because too many hands have squeezed it but then put it back down” and when brandi carlile said “me out in my garden and you out on your walk is all the distance this poor girl can take without listening to you talk” and when 

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