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Gaslighting

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# like godmother like godson

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Happy MCU Superhusbands!

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Tony Stark alignment chart. Tag urself.

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I like to think that AvAc Tony is the reincarnation of MCU Tony, born with an injury to the same arm that once wielded an Infinity Gauntlet. Except this time around, he gets to live in a world where his life is a little easier, and all he has to worry about are study dates with Steve and dance-offs at his robot-staffed bar.

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stevetony tropes

Because there isnt a list

Steve bringing Tony sandwiches when he’s in the workshop for too long

Steve reminding Tony to sleep

Steve drawing in Tony’s workshop

Tony buying Steve art supplies

Steve punching the ever living shit out of Ty Stone (at a Gala)

Steve’s love for Tony’s curly hair

Steve’s love for Tony’s appearance every morning (Disheveled, sweatpants, tank top, small and tired)

Tony always smelling like oil, grease, coffee, and a hint of his shampoo, and Steve loving it

Steve hating Tony’s press smile.

Steve calling Tony sweetheart & doll

Steve and Tony talking about Howard

Tony loves and is raised by “Aunt Peggy”

Peggy giving Steve her blessing

Making food/watching TV at 4 am

Soooo many Gala dates (that arent explicitly dates but both of them are still nervous and stupid)

Steve yelling “Tony!” when he gets hurt during battle

Tony teaching Steve how to dance

Steve either not knowing what to do during sex but immediately picking up how to do it well after mere moments or Steve going “I was in the military, tony” and gives Tony surprisingly mind blowing sex that he was not expecting there is no in between

Steve blushing no matter what

Tony’s inability to recognize Steve courting him.

Tony loving Captain America when he was younger. This includes, but is not limited to, Tony & action figures, Tony & being compared to Steve by Howard, Tony & having Impure Thoughts about Steve growing up, etc.

Steve defending Tony at Press Conferences/Steve getting angry at the media for slandering Tony

Steve coming out accidentally when yelling at Alt Righters for using his image to further their homophobic agenda

“We had gay men in the 40s, Tony.”

Tony calling Steve honey bunch, sugar, handsome man, hunk, darling, Spangles, etc

Tony calling Steve “Rogers” to distance himself but Steve insists on Tony calling him by his name.

Steve petting Tony’s bots and playing w/ them. Tony melting at it.

Steve spooning Tony and holding one arm around his waist and the other holding his arc reactor

Steve’s serum and its… helpful capabilities in bed that Tony cant get enough of

Steve big. Tony small.

Steve and Tony’s unofficial son, Peter Parker

Steve and Tony being referred to as Mom and Dad

“You gave me a home.”

Steve getting heart eyes at Tony and his charity donations

Steve getting super jealous/possessive when someone tries to flirt w/ Tony.

Tony thinking this (see above) is a Huge Turn On.

Tony thinking he is undeserving of Steve’s love because “he’s Captain America”

Armor Kinks. Uniform Kinks.

Steve giving Tony his dog tags

Identity Porn. Steve isnt sure if he loves Tony or Iron Man more, but he is kind of sure they might be fucking each other….

Falling into another dimension where they’re married

Earth 3490 (see above)

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stevetony + favorite quotes. “One was life. And one was death.”

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Tony and Peter

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I’ve got your back, brother.

(Endgame comics 8th May onwards.)

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Thank you Maru for your generous donation on my ko-fi page! ♥♥

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[id: Two color images. The first is a drawing of Natasha in a pool taking a smiling selfie. Behind her Clint flails in the water. A social media text box is above her head with the text: Out here living my best life. Second image is a text chat. Steve Rogers: Clint is drowning. Natasha Romanoff: This ain’t about him.]

A re-draw of this image

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So.

As you might imagine, my inboxes have been flooded over the last few days.  My fic represents, for a lot of people, either their start in Avengers fandom, or the safe place they retreat to when the angst and infighting and shipwars got too intense.  Which I get, and I appreciate, and I’m so glad if my old fics can give people a little happiness, even after all this time.

But there’s a thread I keep picking up in comments, that kind of worries me.

That things that happened in the MCU have taken the fandom away from them.  That the way things happened in Endgame have left people distraught, or angry, or just grieving.  And a lot of people have worried that they’ve ‘lost’ these characters.

And look.

Look.

I say this as a fandom old.  I say this as someone who reads comics.  Who came from the Trek fandom.  Who’s lived through bad movie adaptations and subpar ghostwriters and writing staff changes that have destroyed tv shows before they had a chance to really fly.

Don’t let canon take anything away from you.

You can be disappointed in a thing.  You can have your heart broken by a writer.  You can hope against hope that something that means the world to you will be ‘true,’ but don’t let a corporation take your heroes away from you.

Every one of us has to pick and choose what we keep and what we leave behind.  But every single version of Captain America has been fanfiction since Jack Kirby and Joe Simon put their pens down.  He’s owned by a corporation, and they can decide what’s on screen, who gets paid to write him, who gets the big platform.  They get to decide canon.

But canon is meaningless.

Canon is a way to win an argument in a bar or in a schoolyard.  It’s knowing publication dates and issue numbers and who wrote what arc and when the reboots happened.  It exists.

But when I think of Hawkeye, canon is only part of the picture.  I do think of Matt Fraction’s run on the comics.  I do think of those early years, sneaking my brother’s issues of West Coast Avengers.  I think of the weird, wild, off beat run of Secret Avengers.  But I also think of @dr-kara’s art of him.  I think of fanfic long since deleted, that introduced me to the fandom tropes of Clint living in the vents.  I think of the Tumblr posts, diving deep into the psychology of trauma, into his place as the most human and the most pointless of the original six, into a thousand stupid memes.  Caw-caw, motherfucker.  I think of the comments I got, telling me he was OOC.  I think of the Hawkeye cosplayers I’ve met, including the one guy who was in full gear at Star Wars Celebration in Florida.  I asked him why, and he shrugged and said, ‘Clint would’ve.’  I agree with him.  

I think of the first time a friend put a bow in my hands, and showed me how to shoot, wobbly and uneven, at a straw target all the way across the yard.

I think of the bruises that dotted my arms afterwards.

So canon can add new things.  Take bits away.  Make me think.  Make me hurt.

But nothing canon does will ever cause him to be different, not on any fundamental level.  Clint Barton started forming in my head when I was eight years old.  He belongs to Marvel, but the version I carry with me has a lot more sources than that.

Guys, this is a long way of saying: find your own version of the character.  Find what you need in a fandom.  And think of canon like that one fic that has a million kudos on AO3 and you just. Don’t.  Know.  Why.  That one fic, that everyone talks about, that you just can’t stand.

If canon doesn’t work for you, then discard it.  And move on.

But don’t let a corporation take a character you love away from you.

Don’t ever let that happen.

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616 and mcu 😤

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Endgame Thought

Please tell me I’m not the only person who saw Steve come back at the end of Endgame with that wedding ring he won’t tell anyone about and thought: “He’s done it, hasn’t he. He’s gone and married Natasha Stark.”

I can’t be the only one

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