#i feel like everyone always forgets what a bamf tony is

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IronDad fic recs

Here. I’m a french reader, but I’ve read A LOT (like...a lot) of IronDad, so, eventually, here my fic rec. (I tried to class it by categories, but well...) (it’s gonna be very long, guys)

 Peter Parker has anxiety 

Don’t let me get me, by hopeless_hope 

He picks up his phone and sends a quick text. "hey, happy! i’m not feeling too hot today, so i think i’m gonna have to cancel. tell mr. stark i’m sorry!"

He stares at his phone, waiting for a response. It never comes, and Peter sighs sadly. There was a part of him, a small part, that really hoped he was wrong. His insides burn, and he curls up tighter into a ball and turns off his phone.

(No one’s going to try to contact him anyway.)

or

Anxiety has a way of convincing Peter that everyone hates him. Tony has a way of proving him wrong.

Midnight Oil, by @jolinarjackson

After everything that has happened to Peter over the last year - or five, really - he shouldn’t be worried about something as mundane as the ACT. When he fails it, though it sends him into a spiral of self-doubt, which only gets worse when Peter realizes that he doesn’t seem to be able to fix whatever is broken.

Tony Stark has anxiety 

do you even remember what the world looks like ?, by @iron--spider

Tony’s heart has been working on overdrive since this whole thing started. Friday has a countdown clock plastered on the heads up display, but it feels like hieroglyphics to him at this point, like some ancient language he could never master.

Because when Peter Parker is missing, things start losing their meaning real quick.

“Should be around here,” Rhodey says on the com. May is still on the other line, listening in, because once a certain amount of time goes by without word from Peter, things move into Extremely Worried Aunt territory. They’re already in Tony Is Panicking territory, and when both of those territories overlap it’s never a good time for anybody.

Time? What the hell is time? His mind is blanking numbers out entirely. Minutes are seconds are hours are years.

not like megatron, by @iron--spider

“Hi! This is Peter Parker, I can’t get to the phone right now, so leave a message and I’ll call you back later! Hopefully not too much later, but don’t get your hopes up!”

Tony knows that message by heart. He’s heard it hundreds of times, in a greyer world, and it sends shivers down his spine as he climbs into the car.

He doesn’t think about that place. That half-world. No way, that’s done, that’s over, that’s history.

“Hey, kid, don’t you know it’s bad etiquette to go and disappear on your birthday? Not allowed, really, really bad vibes from the universe. What’s going on with your suit? I wasn’t watching. Nope. Just got an alert. What’s going on? Uh, call me back.” He clears his throat and hangs up like a moron, driving out into the street.

Hypothermia trope (i really like it so if you have any suggestions...)

i knock the ice from my bones, by hopeless_hope

Peter tries to move his legs through the water, dread filling him when they don’t move, and he just hangs there, doing anything and everything he can not to focus on the feeling of ice clinging to his bones. He feels sluggish, the world blurring around him, and he rests his head on the ice, not even registering the cold anymore.

He’s just so damn tired.

“PETER!” he hears someone yell, but it’s all muffled, and he lazily drags his eyes up to see a figure descending towards him.

Somewhere, in the back of his mind, he thinks, This is not how my vacation was supposed to go.

or

While on what's supposed to be a relaxing vacation with the Starks, things for Peter quickly go south, and he finds himself on thin ice. Literally.

Ice Ice Baby, by @wolfypuppypiles

If Tony, Bucky or pretty much anybody that knew Peter had seen him that morning they would have smacked him upside the head. Helping people was great, everyone should give it a go, but when helping people puts you in danger it’s not so smart anymore.

AKA Peter can't get from Avenger tower to the subway without giving his winter clothes to homeless people and ends up with a severe case of hypothermia

Candle in the Window, by @madasthesea

Finals are over and Peter just wants to go home. The weather has other ideas.

Burn This Out, by @ephemeralstark

It's summer and Peter is free to be Spider-Man all day which is great, but it's summer and Peter is out as Spider-Man on the hottest day of the year which is not great.

Or, Peter gets heat stroke because he can't thermoregulate and things could not go worse for him.

(yeah, it’s not an hypothermia, but it’s linked to the fact that Peter can’t actually thermoregulate)

Post-Endgame (really like this trope too lmao)

the first birthday after, by iron_spider 

(Endgame spoilers. But The Thing doesn't happen.)

The rain falls harder and Tony turns, his neck creaking and cracking, and he sees Peter asleep over by the window. He’s holding a small, flat box, and he’s slowly slipping to the right side of the easy chair he’s in.

Tony thinks about letting him sleep, but he finds himself speaking anyway. “Pete,” he says, his voice rough and raspy.

Peter immediately startles awake. “Happy Birthday,” he says, almost like he’d fallen asleep practicing it, planning to say it as soon as he woke up. He blinks at Tony, shivering a little bit, and then he smiles. “Happy Birthday. Happy Birthday.”

Tony snorts, smiling back. “Thanks, bud,” he says.

Second Best, by Rowan_M

Tony had adjusted to parenthood quickly when Morgan came along, and was always conscious of making sure Peter isn't left out ... Almost always. When Peter gets hurt while taking care of Morgan, Tony obsess over his daughter and takes his anger out on Peter, without even checking to see if he was okay. Steve finds Peter later that night in serious pain and in need of immediate medical attention.

Or, Peter gets hurt while taking care of Morgan and Tony basically ignores him.

when you’re feeling empty keep me in your memory, by JkWriter

after everything with thanos he forgets it's his birthday. he just assumed everyone else did too.

All For You, by @ironxprince

Three weeks after the snap that saved the world, Peter learns he was the reason behind it. He learns that Tony risked death, and now has to live with the ramifications, both physical and mental, all because of him.

This doesn't sit right with him.

you save everybody, but who saves you ?, by @iron--spider

Tony doesn’t sleep, because he can’t, because too many things are plaguing him, most of all where Peter is and what he’s doing. Tony has a good view of the hallway through the windows to his room, and he stares and stares until his eyes cross, until he hallucinates, until he knows he’s going insane.

He sees Peter sneaking into the med bay at about four in the morning.

The kid’s mask is off and he’s got two short, harsh slashes across his cheek, and he’s bleeding from a slice across his neck. His suit is ripped in a few places and he’s holding onto his middle, and Tony can see his hands are shaking.

It’s like something splinters in Tony’s already broken brain, like his world narrows and there are hazy edges, both weakness and strength entwining in his veins when he sees Peter struggle up onto one of the beds in the main atrium, starting to tend his wounds without calling anybody to help.

BAMF Peter Parker 

Pizza, a Movie, and... an Attempted Kidnapping ?, by Pogokitten

“Tony. We’ll be fine,” Peter tells the man for what must be the tenth time in the last half hour.

Peter’s sitting on the couch of his and May’s apartment and building Legos with Morgan as they both watch their father’s methodical, yet anxious, pacing. He’s dressed to impress, as is Pepper who is watching the scene slightly exasperated.

“Are you sure? We can ditch the gala, kid. Just say the word,” Tony offers, halting in front of his kids.

Or: Tony and Pepper leave Peter in charge of Morgan while they go to their first gala since the third snap. Peter is expecting a calm night in with his adopted sister, but some thugs throw a wrench in his plans.

he’s good like that, by @iron--spider

“Get the hell outta here, boy,” the man says. “Or you’re gonna watch your boss die in front of you.” Then he grabs Tony by the shoulders hard, and shoves him down to his knees. The gun is louder now, like it’s filled with words that are eager to be shouted, and Tony winces when he feels the barrel press against the back of his neck. His knees weren’t ready to hit the ground that hard, and he tries to keep the pain from reaching his face.

He must fail, because Peter looks pissed.

“You’re not gonna shoot him, mister,” Peter says, somehow still trying to maintain a respectful tone, despite the clear anger written all over him.

stark robotics and technology conference, by @iron--spider

Peter leans against the wall while Tony chooses their floor, and the doors close. “Do you, uh, want me to do some interning stuff? Like go and get you coffee? Make sure the, uh—programs are all ready? Make sure the paintings are straight in the ballroom? Make sure the chairs are—”

Tony snorts. “Kid, I just thought you’d enjoy this. May told me about when it came through Queens but you two couldn’t make it because she was working and didn’t want you to go alone, and I thought, after all the shit you’ve been through lately, that you deserved something fun. No interning for you. That’s just an excuse.”

Peter remembers that. It was six months after Ben died, and he wasn’t gonna bother May too much about the conference. He didn’t know how much tickets cost anyways, or if kids his age could even go.

He really hung onto the idea of Iron Man after Ben died. Peter held him closer than ever.

Peter and Tony fighting 

dinner and a jailbreak, by killerqueenwrites

“I’m not your kid!” Peter shouts.

“Don’t walk away from me, I’m not done–“

“You’re not my dad!”

Peter fitting in after the Blip isn't as easy as Tony hoped it would be. He wants his kid back, but they can't seem to stop fighting.

and then Peter goes missing.

my old man, by parkrstark 

"I just want to help you. I want to help you understand what's wrong here and how to stop it. I used to be the same way until my father showed me how to be a man." He glanced back at Peter to sneer. "He's old enough to know better by now, but it's not your fault you didn't know how to teach him." "Teach him what?" Tony asked even though he didn't want to know the answer.

"Discipline, of course," Junior said with a wink.

--

Tony takes Peter on a weekend trip to try and change his mind about college and things go wrong. Then, they go even more wrong.

Between how it is and how it should be, by @frostysunflowers

''Doesn’t Captain Rogers ever…wonder,'' Peter winced as he fumbled for the right word, ''where you are?''

Bucky smirked. ''Steve’s a regular mother hen. Used to be me that worried about him.'' He gave Peter a pointed look. ''Better question is, isn’t Stark wondering where you are?''

Soulmates trope 

presumed dead, by killerqueenwrites 

Tony gets his first soulmark when he’s fifteen, his second when he's thirty. He's forty-six when his third appears, and forty-eight when it fades to grey.

did you see the flares in the sky ?, by justt-ppeachy

‘hi’  

One simple word was displayed proudly on the inside of his right wrist. Tony wasn’t sure when this word showed up or how long it had been there.

A line formed underneath the word and Tony could almost feel the pressure on his arm from the marker his soulmate was using to push one phrase from their skin into his.

‘i loev yu’

The letters were written slowly and messily as they showed up upon his wrist while he watched in disbelief. Not sure if he was hallucinating or just going insane, Tony rubbed at the writing, wondering if they would disappear once he looked again.

The words were barely recognizable, but they were still the best thing Tony had ever seen.

IronDad Fluff (yeah)

peter wearing tony’s hoodie, by killerqueenwrites 

Tony’s used to his clothes going missing. His MIT hoodie doesn’t often leave his closet, though, which is why he notices its absence straight away. There’s a lifetime of safety and comfort in this old hoodie, for both of them, and that’s all Tony could ever wish to give Peter.

Career Day, by @superhusbands4ever

“Hey, sorry I’m late,” Peter’s enhanced senses picked up the familiar voice from outside the door. “I had a meeting this morning and then I got lost looking for the class… anyway, I’m here for Peter? Peter Parker?”

He frowned at hearing his name, still unsure what exactly was going on. He watched as his teacher continued to stand and stare out the door for a minute before seemingly remembering herself and taking a step back.

“Of course! If you could just go sit next to him until your turn, he’s in the back on the right side.”

The man stepped through the door and Peter gaped with the rest of the class as Tony Stark, in his signature suit and goatee, sporting a pair of red sunglasses and carrying a suitcase walked through the door.

Kryptonite, by forensicleaf 

The kid is acting weird.

Tony tries to figure it out.

father’s day, by @iron--spider 

It’s Father’s Day, and Tony never really had a father. Not in the real sense of the word, not in the way that counts.

Peter Parker doesn’t have a father, either. Not anymore, anyway, not since he was little, and the amount of years that have passed since then outweigh the amount of time he got with Richard Parker.

Tony wouldn’t call himself Peter’s dad. He wouldn’t, he doesn’t, he doesn’t think of himself that way, no way, no way.

He stares at himself in the mirror. He pulls down on his cheeks, makes his eyes water. He runs his hands over the roughness of his jaw and sorta hates everything about himself right now, because he’s acting like a goddamn idiot. It’s Father’s Day and he’s not a father. He doesn’t know why the hell he’s pining for something that isn’t his, shouldn’t be his, can never be his. He isn’t a father, he isn’t Peter’s father, so there’s no reason on God’s green earth for Peter and him to do something for Father’s Day.

ain’t no valley low enough, by @iron--spider (yes, again, ‘cuz she’s the best)

Peter snorts. “You know I didn’t apply anywhere in Florida.”

“Please, kid, you know all you have to do is write a beautiful essay with my recommendation attached to it and you’re in. You’ve got the scores.”

Peter has a list. Of all the places he applied to, all the places he got into. A lot of it was encouraged by the adult role models in his life, some of it by Ned daydreaming about places like California and Colorado. Mostly, Peter just applied everywhere he could think of, because he’s known for a long time that Tony was gonna help May pay for it, and he didn’t wanna limit his options. Thinking about college has been strange for him, strange to the extent that he had a full blown panic attack about it in the middle of Avengers taco night last month. He can’t really understand it, doesn’t get why it feels like the end of the world—because he’s experienced the end of the world, and it’s not which campus has a bowling alley and which school has circus classes. But he nearly blacked out all the same, sobbed in Tony’s arms on the balcony until Tony proposed this. The road trip.

and when it’s hard, i’ll place your head into my hands, by hopeless_hope

“Tony,” Pepper sing-songs to get his attention. “Your mother hen is showing.”

“What?” he snaps indignantly. “I am not a mother hen. This is just... concern. Of the average kind. Perfectly normal.”

“Of course,” Pepper humors him, and he shoots her a dirty look as he types out a quick text to Peter.

or

It's been five days since Tony's heard from Peter, who's away at college, and Tony is not coping well. (Neither is Peter.)

Peter likes cuddles (and Tony too, but he always denies it... until he can’t)

my arms will hold you (keep you safe and warm), by parkrstark 

“So, you’re telling me your body...is going through Oxytocin withdrawals?” Tony asked slowly.

“Cuddle withdrawals,” Peter corrected him. “Mr. Stark cuddles.”

TW : Rape/non-cons

make me strong, by parkrstark 

It all started when Tony introduced Peter to Skip Westcott. He just didn't know until it was too late.

(There is a lot more, but I can’t find it rn ;-;)

5+1 

5 times peter clung to tony, by parkrstark 

... and the one time tony clung to him.

You are my Dad, you’re my dad, boogiewoogiewoogie, by Hittinmiss

“Peter? What’s going on kid?” Tony asked, him popping up on the phone’s screen.

“Hey da-” Peter started automatically before immediately noticing his mistake, the look on Ned’s face proved that yes, he almost called Tony Stark dad. He needed to try recover quickly because the look on Tony’s face seemed confused, especially with his slight pause. “-aaaaaamn Mr. Stark I really like your shirt. Where’d you get it?”

Smooth.

---

5 times Peter called Tony Dad and the 1 time Tony called himself Dad

5 Times Tony Took Care of Peter..., by As_Clear_As_Crystal 

“Think if I coded a sign into your suit that says ‘Baby on Board,’ maybe criminals wouldn’t be so enthusiastic about murdering you?” Tony asks airily, poking at the bottom of Peter’s foot.

Peter halfheartedly kicks at Tony with his toe. (“That’s offensive, Mr. Stark.” )

- - -

aka: Five times Tony took care of Peter, and one time Peter took care of Tony.

5 times Peter is stuck with Tony, by @iron--spider

(...and one time he’s stuck alone.)

“I wonder if Pepper’s reported me missing yet,” Tony says, with an exaggerated sigh. “I wonder if this is some kind of scheme to kidnap me or something.”

“I think the ride’s just broken,” Peter says.

“Today of all goddamn days,” Tony says, exasperation clear in his voice and in his eyes. “Ruining our trip—”

“It’s not ruined,” Peter says. “Look, we’re hanging out."

“Real quality time,” Tony huffs. “Us, a few other trapped members of the general public, and a handful of animatronic pirates. Drunk pirates. Repeating themselves.”

5 times tony forgot peter was just a kid, by @parkrstark

...and the 1 time he didn't.

Or the one where it was hard for Tony to remember that the kid fighting next to him was still just a kid.

can i get a good night’s sleep ? can i PLEASE get a good night’s sleep ?, by peterstank 

The doors open and there’s Peter, perched on a gurney with his shirt gone and a whole lot of blood staining his side. He’s bent awkwardly, clearly trying to feel his way around whatever wound he’s got.

“Um,” Tony says, approaching, “What.”

Peter looks up and—yeah, he’s lost a lot more blood than Tony had originally thought. His face is completely fucking drained. “Hey,” he says, offering a jaunty wave before returning his attention to his side. “I got shot.”

“Oh!” Tony nods. “Oh, okay. What the fuck, kiddo?”

or: five times peter doesn’t sleep + the one time he does

Five Times Peter and Tony Had Each Other’s Back, by Sahiya

... and One Time They Needed Help.

Peter is Tony’s Biological Child

I Had the Dream Again, by Skeeter_110

Peter calls Tony in the middle of the night crying.

Congratulations, it’s a Boy, by capiocapi 

"Sir, I have the results.”

“Okay, Jarvis. Hit me.”

“It’s a match. 99.9% chance that he is your biological son, which is the percentage needed to be recognized by law as a biological parent.”

Tony’s stomach did a funny swooping dance. “Great. Congratulations to me then, eh? It’s a boy.”

You Are My Sunshine, by @iamconstantine

Tony Stark had always been a man of science and he always would be. It was his personal and fundamental belief that everything had an explanation. His eventual encounters with Norse gods, alien life, and sorcerers did kind of quake this a little bit, but still.

One thing that had always confounded him as the one thing that had no scientific explanation was fate. Murphy’s law, Finagle’s law, the butterfly effect, the domino effect, the snowball effect, and the wisest of all: “Shit happens.”

So how peculiar was it that one of the greatest things to ever happen to him began with a tray of champagne?

Serie i love you more than anything, by @iron--spider 

The highs and lows of Tony unexpectedly becoming a single dad at 31– from Peter’s early baby years, all the way past the defeat of Thanos

May’s abusive boyfriend trope 

A Peter Parker Problem, by @spagbol99

Peter Parker was back from the dead. At least that is what everybody told him. He'd been snapped out of existence until some sort of time travel and an active death wish by his mentor had saved him and the universe. Just your average sort of life for a 16 year old from Queens.

Peter comes back to find May has a husband and a kid. A new family he has to fit into. But he has done it before, he can do it again.

The only thing that feels solid is Tony: the Blip and fatherhood have mellowed him and Peter loves the bond they have now. He knows Tony would be there for him through anything. But Tony needs to focus on his own recovery - not small time Peter Parker problems. When things at home take a turn for the worse, Peter decides that he'll handle it himself. He is Spider-man. He's been to space and fought aliens. He can get through anything. After all, if May is happy, he is happy, right? Right?

(again, I’ve read a lot more but can’t find it...)

Peter Parker Whump (everyone’s favorite trope)

Danger Pizza, by alice_in_ink

The window was pushed open, and Iron Man’s head popped into his bedroom. “Here’s where I’m confused—why lock the front door but leave the fire-escape-accessible windows unlocked?” He clambered through said window. “Seems like a safety hazard.”

Peter eyed the metal suit as it straightened to a standing position. “Did you break into my window to kill me?”

The face plate lifted, and Tony’s eyes quickly looked over the teen. “Christ, kid. It looks like you’re halfway there.”

...

A wild night on patrol leaves Peter with a broken back, and boy, does he want to be able to move without dying. (So he calls Anthony Stark, obviously.)

If You Can’t Catch A Breath (You Can Take The Oxygen Straight Out Of My Own Chest), by @losingmymindtonight

"And I would hurry. Little Peter is about to be under quite a lot of pressure, and it might get a little hard to breathe.”

I’ve Got You, by @thedumbestavenger

Peter runs into a Copycat Vulture out on patrol, from there, everything escalates.

Meetings and Migraines, by AllThingsGeeky

Peter has another migraine at an unfortunate time and despite his best efforts he can’t ignore it forever.

The Most Important Thing In The World, by S0lstice

Peter’s door creaked and began to bend under the force of the crowbar and for the first time since regaining consciousness, fear began to press into him. Something very bad was happening and it was happening fast - too fast for his sluggish mind to keep up.

He went with his instincts instead, the first one always being, Help Mr. Stark.

Friendly Fire, by @jolinarjackson

Finding a careful truce with the government, the “rogue Avengers” are allowed to return to the Compound where they are put under house arrest. Peter coming to spend one week at the Compound during his summer break couldn’t have come at a more inconvenient time as the opportunity to bond a little more with his mentor is overshadowed by a conflict he doesn’t quite understand. When he starts to develop a mysterious medical condition, however, the former team is forced to work together – not just to protect Peter’s identity from the DODC, but also to find the cause for his illness before it’s too late.

“He’s my kid,” Tony said, his voice hoarse. “He’s my kid and I failed him.” He covered his eyes and took a few deep, shuddering breaths. “All I ever do is fail him.” Natasha knelt down in front of him and cupped his face in her hands, waiting for him to meet her eyes before she said, “Right now, he doesn’t need you to fix this. He doesn’t need you down here. He needs you over there, in the medbay, by his side.” She thumbed tears from the corners of his eyes and ignored the ones running down her own face. “You haven’t failed him yet.”

alarm bells and panic levels, by @iron--spider

Tony lands heavy on the dock, the wood splintering hard under the metal suit. He’s having trouble breathing, his nose is bleeding, he most definitely has more than the recommended amount of broken ribs. But none of that fucking matters. The sky is clear, the assholes are down, but there’s one thing missing.

He looks over his shoulder when Rhodey lands too. His suit is dented in a few places but other than that he looks alright. His face mask flips up and Tony lets his mask retract.

“Where’s Peter?” Tony asks, his voice rough with the amount of yelling he’s been doing. Fuck these stupid assholes. They were supposed to go mini-golfing today. The kid had been looking forward to it for weeks.

Rhodey looks around, breathing hard through his mouth. “I thought you knew.”

there’s something wrong, by @iron--spider

“I’m sorry, Pete,” Tony whispers. “We should have checked you for something like this when we were resetting your arm and checking on the concussion. Goddamnit. We didn’t think.”

“He poisoned us both?” Peter asks, trying to open one eye to look at him.

“Yeah,” Tony says, brushing Peter’s hair back from his forehead. “He’s dying. He got the brunt of it, a nice fucking cocktail of bullshit, including mercury and a bunch of other toxic shit—”

“Am I dying?” Peter whispers, voice breaking.

Fitting In (Tiny Spaces), by aloneintherain

Peter's trapped beneath a collapsed building during a mission, hurt and unable to move. Luckily, his comm still works. Unluckily, the Avengers don’t realise how bad of a state Peter is in, and Peter isn’t inclined to tell them.

“Spidey, they’ve got reinforcements. We’ve hit a bit of a snag here, and I don’t think anyone will be able to help you for a while. Think you can sit tight while we deal with this?”

The pressure on his lower back and legs was becoming too much. Peter swallowed thickly, fighting down panic. He could handle this.

“Yeah,” Peter said. “I can do that.”

Collections/Series (’cause I could make an inventory of all @iron--spider stories, you know, but you have to read all of her work, if you haven’t yet) (God she doesn’t even know who I am)

iron dad bingo, by @iron--spider

stay at home, by @iron--spider

whumptober, by @iron--spider

Whumptober 2019, by @marvelous-writer

Day in the life of the Iron Family, by @marvelous-writer 

The Tumblr Archives, by @losingmymindtonight

Everything comes back to you, by @losingmymindtonight

Nice work, kid, by @madasthesea

Irondad Bingo 2019, by sahiya 

The Adventures of Spidy-son and Iron-dad, by eva7673

Tony adopts Peter (why everyone kills May, btw ?)

Accepting the Tides, by @emma--anacortes

Tony had dragged Peter from the depths of despair after May's death. It was normal that he'd grown to care a little about him, right?

Yeah, okay. He freaking loved the kid.

So naturally he would feel a little weird when Richard Parker randomly shows up in Peter's life. Naturally he'd feel protective, nervous, and confused because where has Richard been all this time? And why does Tony feel sick every time he sees him around Peter?

All he knows is if Richard hurts his kid, Tony's gonna give him hell.

Series Out of Darkness, by @starryknight09

“Is this Peter Parker?”

“Yes…”

“This is Dr. Nguyen. I’m sorry but your aunt’s been in an accident and we’re going to need you to come to Queens Memorial as soon as you can.”

Peter's life shatters with a phone call. The last person he expects helps him pick up the pieces.

[flowingriver24]

22, 23, 27 mcu 💖 (also, hope u feel better sooooon)

thank you

22. Popular character you hate?

MCU steve. I literally just cannot stand him, like I know some people stopped liking him after cw but I just never liked him ever since I saw him in Avengers 1 (which was the first movie I watched that he was in). Fanon steve can be okay at times though.

I’m not going to go into a rant but I have like a long list of reasons XD

23. Unpopular character you love?

I have quite a few. Pepper, Rhodey, Happy, Carol. I know I’m forgetting some but people need to stop sleeping on these characters!

A lot of fics with Tony being shipped with someone else love to hate on Pepper. She’s such a strong, powerful character and yeah maybe she made mistakes but she’s human. Just because it’s not a pepperony fic doesn’t mean people have to hate on her. Give me bamf Pepper any day.

Rhodey, where do I even start. He’s such a strong, powerful story with his own arc and everything. He’s loyal, strong, caring what more could you want? And people always tend to forget about him. He’s played such a major role and he’s pretty much ignored. Oh and they also seem to forget about Rhodey and Tony’s friendship, like no Bruce or Steve aren’t Tony’s bestest closest friends who have known him the longest, that’s Rhodey. Steve and Tony don’t even get along.

Happy, ok he’s only in the IM and spiderman movies but how can forget about him. He’s clearly close to Tony and very trustworthy and loyal. And he’s just mentioned as a driver even though he was Tony’s bodyguard, not his driver.

I don’t get why people don’t like Carol? She is very powerful I mean everyone is always going on about Wanda’s powers coming from the mind stone but her’s came from teh Tesseract so she’s so powerful to. I just love her story and her little found family with Maria and Monica is just perfect.

27. Least shippable character?

Peter. He’s 16 and so many people are shipping him with all sorts of characters (like st*rker ugh). Not all characters have to be romantically paired with someone?? And there’s literally Ned or MJ who are his age.

Send me a salty ask

[dontcallmecarrie]

Hell hath no fury like that of a mother scorned

for this ask meme.

Right off the bat I can tell you a few things, just seeing this: it has ‘Maria Stark-centric’ written all over it, and, given I’ve got a boatload of Stark Family Feels™ especially where she’s concerned [no, really; I’ve got an entire AU going on that is just me playing with BAMF!Maria in various scenarios], I think you can see where this is going. Heads up for not being Howard-friendly, plus some not-very-family-friendly stuff all-around:

Here’s the thing: it takes a special sort of woman to marry one of the most prominent ironmongers in America. Takes a spine of steel and nerves to match, being the wife of not just one of the biggest weapons companies in the country, but also one of the founders of a vague yet menacing government agency and in the spotlight 24/7. 

Funny, how that doesn’t make it into the history books. Funny, how everyone forgets a smile is nothing more than a baring of teeth.

Everyone forgets, apparently. Not that Maria minds—it makes holding down the fort so much easier when everyone’s underestimating her. When just about everyone dismisses her just as Howard’s trophy wife, or the mother of his child. 

Well. Makes it easier for her to work, anyway. Makes it a cinch, to play things up with PR, when the world does half the job for her, of painting her as something soft and warm and demure, when she’s never backed down a day in her life. 

…which does not always bode well, actually. 

Here’s the thing: her marriage’d been crumbling for a while now, between Howard’s nonexistent work-life balance, and his alcohol problem on the rare occasions he was home. They’d had fights—what couple didn’t?—but lately things’ve gotten increasingly strained, to the point where he’s breaking plates and she’s white-knuckling the silverware. But that, she can take, that’s not where she draws the line. 

No, her limit is when her soon-to-be-ex raises a hand against their son. 

Here’s the thing: Howard has all the power in this situation, if they were to ever file for divorce. He’s got the money, and the influence— if he wanted to, he could get sole custody from whatever judge he wants, and they both know it. 

It takes a month, for her to make the arrangements. To call in favors, to get the money without raising any alarms and raise hell on the way out. 

Because Howard made the same mistake almost everyone else had: he underestimated his wife. Forgot that he wasn’t the only one with access to sensitive documents, when he took his work home, and between the SHIELD paperwork and the business deals at SI, well…

The same day Maria walks out with her son, a suitcase, and two bus tickets, Howard can’t do a thing about it. Not when he’s busy putting out all the fires that arose from a myriad of leaks, because suddenly now the press is aware of SHIELD’s existence, and of Operation Paperclip, and of Obadiah’s dubious connections. Howard can’t do a thing about it, and the trail quickly goes cold even as rumors of double-dealing start to float around. 

And in the meantime, a single mother and her eight-year-old son move into a small town, and settle in. 

They make waves at first, of course—especially Anthony, because he’s shaping up to be a whiz with computers— and years pass. Tony almost singlehandedly starts the school’s robotics club, and things only go up from there. 

Howard never really stops looking, but now he’s got not just one, but three people to find, and given how much of a hassle it’s been just to find Steve? Yeah, that’s not going anywhere. Doesn’t help that JARVIS is constantly monitoring anything that’d indicate they’ve been found, either. Add in the spectacular mess Maria left behind for him to deal with […which actually ended up fixing the bulk of stuff later on in the MCU, including uncovering Obadiah and HYDRA], plus the letter she left behind, and it is very, very obvious she’s not about to go back anytime soon. Not sure if he’d remarry or not, because on the one hand, Maria burned just about every bridge there was, but the other hand, he wants to find his son [prodigy heir to the throne and all that].

Irony is, it’s the Winter Soldier who ends up finding them, because of Reasons.

Completely by accident, mind, because he got loose when Maria did what she did and HYDRA burned, and so you’ve got this mostly-amnesiac assassin stumbling into the picture. Tony has a field day with his arm, Maria has a heart attack because she thinks he’s one of Howard’s men, and what you get is Tony growing up with Bucky as an uncle figure because Maria quickly ends up taking him under her wing as well.

Years pass, and things continue in this vein. Tony has a great childhood with people who love and support him the best they can despite sharing a tiny motorhome with a leaky shower and iffy plumbing, which is way, way better than the vague memories he has of an empty mansion and—well. 

…you get the point. just— the idea of Maria taking absolutely no prisoners where her family’s concerned. None. Because it takes a special sort of woman to marry one of the biggest names in the arms industry, and if you go after her child she won’t just annihilate you, she’ll salt the earth as well. 

Bonus: Tony ends up going to college, making waves along the way because hello, genius, and starting his own company. In green energy, and robotics, instead of weapons, because here he’s allowed to explore what he wants and between DUM-E, You, and JARVIS, it’s pretty damn obvious where his interests lie. Not sure if Howard’d ever find out, but if he does it’s a very, very bitter pill. Especially because he’s seeing all the potential his son had, and that his wife basically stole his legacy away, combined with how successful Tony is now, is…well, not pretty. 

there’d be a bittersweet ending in here somewhere, probably. 

[goddessvicky]

Into the process

So, I thought it might be interesting to see how I plan out my scenes. Or no one could care. Either way, I’m putting it down here.

Dialogue has always been the easy part for me. I hear people’s voices in my head so clear. Mannerisms, ways they describe things, the use of nicknames... all of that is the easy part. 

Once I have the dialogue and general idea of the scene, then I flesh it out, build things up around the scene. It’s like I grabbed a giant slab of marble, and I know what I want it to look like at the end, and I just make the marks on the stone and start chiseling it away. The dialogue are those first few hammer falls, when I know the rough outline and use it to temper the whole piece.

The rest is finesse and fleshing it out the rest of the way.

This bit of wording I’m doing has started to solidify in my head and I’m starting the rough pesudo-first outline (the original was shared with @octobergryphon and I think I remember her saying how frantic it looked like because I wanted to get it all out of my head before it faded.)

This is the second rough outline with the words and the characters and spefic scenes. I’m including below what it looks like. There’s a little bit of spoilers I guess, but really it’s nothing that hasn’t been seen before in all kinds of fics. So, without further ado (should this interest you in any way) here is the TERRIBLY ROUGH and DEFINITELY NOT FINAL stream of consciousness for one of the scenes toward the beginning of the story!

Boss, two thermal signatures just appeared in your rooms. Pepper home early? No, Ms. Potts' plane isn't due to arrive until ten. Where'd they come from? Nowhere. Frowning, Tony spun in his chair, narrowing his eyes at the door behind him. What do you mean, nowhere? A window, a jet, the elevator? I quite literally mean nowhere. They weren't there, now they are. Should I respond as if they're a threat? Are they a threat? Who is it? Based on the facial recognition, one of them is Doctor Stephen Strange, retired neurosurgeon. The other is Steve Rogers. his steps falter. What would you like me to do, boss? Have countermeasures ready. Find out what you can about Strange and send it to me. Not sure how you managed to get past security on your way up, but you should know that authorities were already informed of your arrival and will be here momentarily. You might want to call that off, Stark. The last thing we need are police involved You just broke into my home. Out of necessity. Tony shifts his gaze from Strange to Tony. Rogers. Tony. What is this. How'd you get inhere. WHY are you here. My name is - Stephen Strange, yeah, I know. neurosurgeon. Was in an accident, ruined your career. Illustrious. Didn't I donate money to a charity of yours? Once upon a time. I see you've taken a page out of Point Break's book. Not sure capes are in this year this isn't a cape, it's a cloak, and trust me, you don't want to make it angry i wouldn't like it if it was angry. How about you tell me why the hell you broke into my place and why I shouldn't have Friday put this whole place on lockdown until the cops get here One, it wouldn't matter where you were, I could have found you. Second, the fate of the world is at stake. *blink* Oh, you thought I'd be surprised? News flash, the world is at stake every day. More so since we lost some of its best defenders. They didn't lose you, Tony I wasn't talking about me. - glare - the world. stakes. forget the foreplay and just get on with it I had a vision and I saw - a vision yes you had a vision yes *sigh* and I should care about this because I see now why you fought with him it was more complicated than that was it? Look, I don't care what stupid thing you two broke up over (both glare) all I know is that if we don't all work together, then we have absolutely no hope to win the war that is coming. What war? - Steve THE war.The one you wouldn't prepare for. The one Bruce and I created vision for. The one that let the chitari destroy half of Manhattan. THE war. There is a force in this universe and his end goal is here, on this planet. Who Most know him as the Mad Titan. You'll know him best as the creature who gave Loki the scepter. What's he want among other things, he's after this *shows time stone. Explains infinity stones* And this is imminent it's coming are we talking weeks, months? I'm not sure Then how the hell We need to start now. I know <i>why</i> we lost. yeah? This. This animosity. whatever you guys have got going on needs fixed. You know, Barnes said the same thing, but I don't care. I don't care if your delicate feelings were hurt or that you're no longer best friends, my sole worry is the fate of this planet. If we work together, we survive. if we don't, everything we know will cease to exist. So go to therapy, beat the hell out of each other, I really don't care, but not working together is no longer an option. Tony looks to Steve. You believe him? I traveled here in a circle of orange sparks. He wasn't lying about being a magician I'm not a mag... you know what, I don't care. Call me a magician, but I am telling the truth. What's it going to take to get this set right? ... It's going to be hard to work together when I can't enter the country. Yeah... about that... what there are wheels in motion what does that mean? it means that Rhodey and I have been digging to find something on Ross, something that invalidates his version of the accords his version? Oh, you'll enjoy this part because it involves your "friend" Steve frowns Ross was working with Alexander Pierce. what. how did you - I've been watching Ross for a while now. After the bullshit he's done to bruce. i wanted to make sure he was on the up and up. Turns out he worked with Pierce. He was a second spear in Pierce's plan. You foiled the helicarriers and his plan, so they went with their contingency. The accords. Just another power grab from the rot already inside the system. The paper trail was hard to piece together, but we made it work what are you saying I'm saying that in *looks at watch* thirty-six hours, documents will be provided to the president proving that the Accords wren't what they were touted to be. They're going to go away? No. I still believe one-hundred-percent that we have to have some kind of oversight, but the Accords aren't that any longer. I've got a meeting with the world council next week. I'm sponsoring a different kind of agreement, and I have it on good authority that, in doing so, all the charges issued under the original accords will be vacated. Tony - Don't get me wrong, there's going to be SOMETHING put in place, but for the time being, you and yours will be allowed to return home. Tony, why did't you - Did you mean it? Mean what? What you said. in your letter. About being here if I needed you? absolutely. 100%. Look, I might have a good handle on how this whole 'family' thing goes, considering my old man and the man I saw as an uncle selling me out to terrorists then trying to kill me, but I'm under the assumption that families fight, but they always come back. If what Mister Magic says is true, we fall divided. I don't know about you, but I'm getting pretty tired carting around this chip on my shoulder. Could use another set of hands. What was it you said? The safest hands are our own? Well, here's your chance to share the load. I thought you said the authorities would be notified the second I showed my face yeah. well, I lied. Took that page out of your book, but I'm willing to erase the last chapter and start on Act II if you are. See? That wasn't so hard. Where did you find this guy? He found me. And Bucky. In Wakanda. Ah. Right. Wakanda. You know, I should have guessed that. T'Challa said you reached out I like his sister. Smart as a whip. She really is. So what comes next? I guess we come home. And home is... Here. If you'll let me. Seems like it'd be a good idea to have everyone under the same roof. Either a great idea or a horrible one. Guess we'll find out which. But if I'm staying here, then - Yeah. I know. I don't like it. I know. But Siegfried sans Roy here seems to think we need all the manpower we can get. I'm sure the new arm Shuri designed will be up to the task. Tony - Let's just, not, okay? Give it a week, your name will be cleared, and we work on building something better than before. Stronger. Being engaged to Ms. Potts seems to be helping your overall demeanor Seriously, Rogers, you let David Copperfield bamf you through time and space. Not time. Just space. Right. You've probably had enough of the whole 'time' thing by now. You're not wrong. I'll take you back to Wakanda in a few moments. Stark, a word? *Steve walks to window, looks down on New York from Avengers Tower. Thinks about coming home. Nostalgia AF*

[doobler]

Lowkey hate Brucen/at it seems extremely forced if anything nat and cap probably have the most chemistry out of everyone on the team but yeah nat was ruined in the movie

Ok but are we forgetting Clint/Nat??? Like??? They have INCREDIBLE chemistry but they decided Clint needed some totally out of place family. But yeah, before AoU, Nat and Bruce interacted, what. Once?Thor doing the "the sun is going down" thing as a JOKE was more empathetic and genuine feeling than when Nat was doing itPlus I find Johan/sen as an actress just very unlikeable, I don't like her at all as NatBut yeah fucking. Guh. Taika Watiti should've directed all the Avengers movies with Ryan Coogler. Ragnarok and Black Panther are proof that Marvel movies have so much fucking potential but they keep getting fucked by really dumbass directing/casting choicesAlso while I'm airing out my grievances, Paltrow as Pepper is so fucking annoying. Pepper is Tony's ROCK. She's a fucking badass in her own right. She's confient and sure footed and level headed and a fucking BAMF. But because of Iron Man she just always seem so whiny and static and unwilling to be understanding in the face of facts and it's so fucking annoying.Spiderman:Homecoming spoiler but.....When they teased Tony proposing to Pepper, I fucking gagged. Like. There's so little chemistry, Pepper is shown as Tony's bitchy babysitter in the MCU, why would you marry someone like that???? Ugh

[wanderingcas]

Week 7: Season 12 Inspired Destiel!

[Thank you, everyone, for your wonderful submissions to Week 6 of Spn Fanfic Submission Thursday!! There’s some absolutely quality fics in this list, so check them out. If you want to participate in next week’s fic submissions, check out the schedule!

Please signal boost so we can get these great fics circulating!]

Things That Will Probably Not Happen in Season 12 by @expatgirl

Three fics from Mary’s POV as she tries to adjust to being alive again, tries to understand her sons, and the guy that seems to live with them. The fourth fic is from Dean’s POV, as he tries to understand the same things.

Teen and Up; Mature for the 3rd fic, 8.7k words. (Complete)

[POV Mary Winchester, POV Dean, Weird family dynamics, Hugs, Swearing, Dissociation, Blood, Prayer, Blow Jobs, Feelings]

Warnings: Mild eye trauma/ mild body horror (not shown), brief suicidal thoughts

Dean (and Cas') Top 13 Zepp Traxx by @pantheonofdiscord

Dean eases Baby down the frontage road, trying not to look in the rearview mirror as his home gets smaller and smaller behind him.

He’s done this a hundred times. He’s driven down this road in the soft morning light, heading out to some little town in some distant corner of the country. This is a job like any other.

“It’s not like we’re never coming back,” Cas says from the passenger seat.

Dean and Cas and the open road, to the tune of Led Zeppelin. A post-series story in thirteen parts.

Explicit. 82k words. (Complete)

[Dean/Cas, road trips, mutual pining, getting together, case fic, post-series, angst, fluff]

And Back Again by @funnywings

Takes place after the finale. Mourning, loss, and a game of spot the difference between the Cas that used to be and the one Jack brought back. Happy ending guaranteed. 

Teen and Up. 4k words. (Complete)

[Angst, Happy Ending, Dean’s POV, 12.23 Coda]

Warnings: Temporary MCD

This Isn’t How It Was Supposed To Go by @nox-lee

It’s been excruciating all this time without Dean and now he’s finally here. Cas wants to soak Dean in, wants to scrub him clean of the prison grime and smooth away the new lines that have formed on his hardened face. He wants to breathe him in and re-catalogue every freckle. Instead he watches Dean disappear down the hall and slam his bedroom door.

This isn’t how it was supposed to go.

Explicit. 3k words. (Complete)

[12x09, 12x10, coda, angst with a happy ending, smut]

Heaven Help Me by @righteousdemondean

Coda to 12.23 “All along the watchtower” Teen and Up. 647 words. (Complete) [angst, hurt no comfort, dean-centric, drinking mention, alcohol abuse mention, character death]

Please Come Back by @spn-akf-yana

Even months after the events with the portal, neither Sam and Dean have given up on bringing Cas back. Jack doesn’t to begin with know his true heritage so he tries to help, but not knowing how to raise the dead, he opens the portal again, which just brings up bad memories and things become even more complex when he finds out who he is.

Teen and Up. 9.9k words. (Complete)

[angst, post-season 12]

Rebirth by @mrswholmeschester

Set right after season 11, this story explores the new dynamics now that Mary is back. Dean finds out something about himself as he and his family try to find Pandora's box to trap Lucifer. 

Teen and Up. 16k words. (Complete)

[Destiel]

Rage by @darkheartinthesky

Castiel was always too stubborn for his own good–too stubborn to die, even. As Castiel sits recovering, Sam and Dean prepare for their biggest fight yet. Meanwhile, come Hell or high water, Mary Winchester is getting back to her home world.

Teen and Up. 50k words. (WIP) 

[S13 Fic, Hurt!Castiel, Caretaker Dean, Dean Winchester vs Feelings, Supportive Sam, Angst with a Happy Ending, BAMF!Mary Winchester]

Warnings: Graphic imagery, violence

Feather by @ialwayscomewhenyoucall

Dean mourns Cas after the events of “All Along the Watchtower”

Teen and Up. 336 words. (Complete)

[12x23 coda, angst, grief]

alive by @babybluecas

Cas is standing right before him: same coat, same blue eyes—so radiant and alive, as if they have never lost their light.

Teen and Up. 898 words. (Complete)

[Angst, Castiel’s return, post-season 12, pre-slash, pining]

Warning: Major Character Death

You’re Me and I’m You by @deservetobesaved 

A witch’s spell causes Dean and Cas to switch bodies, much to Sam’s amusement. Dean pretends he’s super annoyed about it (not really) and Cas is just adorable.

Teen and up. 1.5k words. (Complete)

[fluff, crack, body swap, s12, canon divergence]

Conversation Hearts by @mittensmorgul

Following the events of 12.11, Dean takes stock of the things he remembers, and the things he’s always tried to make himself forget. If he can’t make his own words, maybe store-bought is fine.

Teen and Up. 4k words. (Complete)

[Valentine’s Day Fluff, Episode: s12e11 Regarding Dean, Dean Uses Actual Words, even if he has to borrow them from terrible candy, Fluff, Dean rode Larry, and squished a bunny, Love Confessions, First Kiss]

Welcome home, Cas by @xbooksandtea

“Cas,” he whispered, and he was able to hear the blood rushing through the veins in his ears. Shimmering lights were dancing at the corners of his vision. His skin felt both burning hot and ice cold at the same time, the way he imagined it would feel if you dove into a pool while someone branded you with a burning claw – the way that left scars.

General Audiences. 1.6k words. (Complete)

[fluff and angst, reunions]

Memento Mori by @cas-essence

Dean is annoyed to find out that they forgot to wrap up the case of Benjamin’s stabbing. Still, he finds himself intrigued as he is told that the dead angel had owned an apartment and he, Sam and Cas drive back to have a look around. Old wounds are opened and start to heal as Cas is finally able to say goodbye to one of his siblings properly.

General Audiences. 8k words. (Complete)

[ep 12x10, hurt Castiel, hurt/comfort, team free will, pining dean, fluff and angst, Angel headcanons]

Good Scotch (Is the Way to Dean’s Heart) by @braezenkitty

A sort of coda to 12x13, inspired by 12x14 and this post, and set between the two episodes. Dean’s pissed about Mary lying to them and putting lives in danger—for putting Cas’ life in danger. He’s angry and he needs some comfort and distraction. He also needs another bottle of scotch. Castiel provides.

Teen and Up. 3.5k words. (Complete)

[Alcohol, Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Winchester Coping Mechanisms, First Kiss, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Canon Compliant]

Careless by @lies-unfurl

Castiel has always obeyed Ishim.

Explicit. 1.5k words. (Complete)

[Angst, Hurt No Comfort, Hurt Castiel, Castiel Whump, Episode: s12e10 Lily Sunder Has Some Regrets]

Warnings: rape/non-con, suicidal thoughts

Angels Calling by @hefellfordean

Post s12e17: Castiel has tracked down Dagon and Kelly Kline with the help of other angels, after the Winchesters and Eileen let her go, and calls Dean for help. Dean has to deal with Cas’ return to Heaven and is worried about what that means for their relationship.(Basically my guess about what would happen to Kelly Kline before the final episodes aired)

Teen and Up. 2.7k words. (Complete)

[Canon Divergence, Established Relationship, Hurt/Comfort, BAMF!Cas]

Just Pretend by @thursdays-fallen-angel

After Sam’s footsteps crunch over the gravel and disappear into the house, the only sound remaining is Dean’s ragged breathing, and the thundering of his own heartbeat in his ears.

General. 2k words. (Complete)

[Angst, 12x23 spoilers, Fix-It]

Hymnal by @humanformdragon

When Castiel meets Mary on the way to the Bunker, they end up talking about the past, and about doubt, and about decisions. Castiel recalls a past Christmas, one where Anna was ordered to carry out God’s will in a village no-one now remembers, and he finds he isn’t so sure of when his first steps towards Falling were taken.

General Audiences. 7.8k words. (Complete)

[Castiel and Mary talk, Conversations, Destiel is background, Mostly me musing on Castiel’s past, s12 time frame]

May I Have This Dance? by @thefiendishfangirl

Mary takes a quiet moment to teach Castiel to dance.

Teen and Up. 1.1k words. (Complete) 

[slow dancing, fluff, implied smut, supportive mary, cockblock sam]

Untitled by @deanwinchcester

Based on this post. Cas can sense lies and confronts Dean on the “you’re our brother” line.

General Audiences. 369 words. (Complete)

[first kiss, 12.19 coda]

lifeless by @casitels

Dean brings Cas’ hand to his lips, and for a moment, he leaves it there.

General. 196 words. (Complete)

[Coda, Episode: s12e23 All Along the Watchtower]

Warnings: Major Character Death

the (not so) reluctant big spoon by @woefulcas

dean and cas get some much needed time together while sam works a case with eileen - sleepy morning cuddles ensue

General Audience. .5k words. (Complete)

[hunter husbands, extreme fluff, sleepy morning cuddles, dean likes being the little spoon but he wants to wrap himself around cS ok, it’s a struggle, s12 should have had more fluff and cuddling and i’m bitter about it]

The Way Out by @awed-frog

Things are going pretty good, which is why Dean should have seen it coming. Sam and Toni are so in love it’s disgusting, the big monsters are all gone or dead, and Dean and Cas - yeah, okay, so they kissed and now they’re kind of together, okay? Shut up.

No, the second Dean had caught himself thinking about food processors and beach holidays, he should have fucking known his happy ending would turn around and kick him in his fucking teeth. And now it has, and they’re supposed to get on a damn plane and put on monkey suits and have Christmas dinner at Lord and Lady Bevell’s, and Dean just can’t - he can’t face it, he can’t breathe, he can’t even see through the injustice of it all, because Cas - Cas -

Mature. 67k words. (Complete)

[Angst and Feels, Pining, Friendship, Time Travel, First Kiss, First Time, Declarations Of Love, Team Free Will, Young Winchesters, Profound Bond, Canon Compliant]

softly; because we are screaming by @cuddlemonsterdean

He’d tried, all through dinner. Fuck, did he try. They’re a family and families eat together. But the food just didn’t wanna go down. As if there were still words locked in his throat, words of hurt and accusation, and they were in the way. The more he tried to get past them, the harder it got to talk. Like his insides were torn between heaving it all up and keeping everything inside.

Teen And Up Audiences. 1k words. (Complete)

[implied/background Deancas, implied one-sided Crowley/Dean, 12x14 Coda]

Warnings: implied panic attack, implied selectively mute!Dean

Season 12 episode codas series by @whichstiel

A series of 24 episode codas for season 12 - one unique story for each episode, plus a bonus story for that Endverse prop photo from episode 2. Features Destiel, Rowena, Mary, Crowley, Lily Sunder, the Banes twins, and Saileen.

Generic to Explicit, 32.5k words. (Complete)

The sun cannot fall from the sky by @the-idiot-under-your-bed

Coda for 12x23. “Just know that no matter what anyone says, they love you. I love you, and Dean loves you. Just, don’t give up, ok? Come back home.” 

Teen and Up. 1.3k words. (WIP)

[12x23 coda, angst, wayward sisters are there too, anger, canon character death, character return?]

The Death of Reservations by @60r3d0m

Maybe at some point, he had stopped believing. But not believing hadn’t stopped him from ducking into the room that he had prepared for Cas’ return every month. Not believing hadn’t prevented him from dusting the shelves and washing the sheets and accumulating stupid knick-knacks for Cas to have because they had reminded Dean of him.

But now Cas is back.

Before Dean can call him, he’s standing in the doorway (coda to 12.23).

Mature. 616 words. (Complete)

[Love confessions, caretaker Dean, Castiel in the Bunker]

All Was Well (Previously: Fuck You) by @hunterangelkisses

Dean might never admit it, but this was all he needed in life: him and his Baby and Cas (who was his second Baby, really) and his brother and Eileen, his mom would be back in a few days… Jody had called to check in earlier with stories about the girls, and even Donna had called the day before to tell them how things were going in Stillwater. In other words, here it is, the sweetest, fluffiest fic ever as a giant FUCK YOU to Bucklemming (or Fucklemming, as I’ve been calling them) and the other SPN writers.

General Audiences. 1.7k words. (Complete)

[fluff, established relationship, marriage proposal, fix-it for 12x21 There’s Something About Mary]

Balance And New Beginnings by @hekate1308

Dean turns his back on his family and the legacy of the Men of Letters when he learns Sam and Mary have been working with their British counterparts behind his back. Joining Cas on good-old-fashioned hunting trips, occasionally aided by Crowley, he soon learns there are more good monsters out there than he ever thought possible. And they need a protector.

Meanwhile, Sam is growing more and more lonely until one day, he looks in the mirror and doesn’t recognize the man staring back at him. Is it too late to return to the brother he’s let down so many times before?

General Audiences. 54k words. (Complete)

[Dean/Cas, Eileen Leahy/Sam Winchester, Season 12 AU, post-12x14]

You, You’re Everything by @spearywritesstuff

Castiel tells Dean about his last days in his female vessel. Ishim said that humans were dangerous and that being close to them made one weak, but twice now Castiel has tested that theory, once in 1901 and now with Dean.

General Audiences. 1.7k words. (Complete)

[Coda for 12x10, Lily Sunder Has Regrets]

Say it Again? by @a-fandom-life-for-me

Back in the bunker after the events of 12x12, Dean is furious with Castiel and his deathbed “I love you.” The sexual tension reaches its breaking point and Dean discovers just how much Castiel actually loves him

Mature. 8k words. (Complete)

[Fluff and Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Season/Series 12, Season/Series 12 Spoilers, Wingfic, Angel Wings, Men of Letters Bunker, Bunker Sex, Castiel in the Bunker, Sam Ships It, Grace-Powered Orgasms, Angelic Grace, Grace Kink, Soul Bond, Love, Anal Sex, Rough Sex]

O’ Christmas Tree Series by @osirisapollo

This series was written before we really knew how terribly anti-family Mary was going to be. It’s based around Christmas/New Years and has the whole Winchester family (including Cas!) happily celebrating the holidays together. Dean/Cas get together series, starting with a ficlet on how Dean figures out his feelings for Cas.

Teen and Up. 13.5k words. (Complete)

[Tooth-rotting Fluff, Warm and Fuzzy Feelings, Sam Ships it, Mary Ships It, Holidays, Humor, First Kiss, Family Feels, Everything is Fine and Nothing Hurts]

Still Missing (Gotta Tell You Something) by @profound-boning

“I hope they don’t come for you, Cas. God knows what would happen if they somehow found out about the Bunker. If they…”

Dean cuts himself off and Castiel strains to pick up more. Dean’s longing is still strong, and a tug from Sam’s soul echoes in Castiel’s grace. After so many years, Sam is a brother in all but blood to Castiel. And Dean, well. Dean says “you’re our brother” and also “I need you” and Castiel can’t help but think maybe Dean doesn’t always say what’s really in his heart.

General. 2.4k words. (Complete)

[Canon Compliant, Episode: s12e09 First Blood, Coda, POV Castiel. Mutual Pining, Love Confessions]

[creepingsoul]

Team Tony Stark: Post-CA:CW Prompt 1

Okay so imagine post the clusterfuck that was CA:CW Team Cap wants to go back to the U.S./or they need his help with Buckys treatment (B.A.R.F.) and so they try to contact Tony. But they can’t. Because he got rid of the phone ((ugh the phone) because obvs he knows they’re in Wakanda -no i don’t need your sanctimonious flip-phone Rogers stuff it- and that letter was just plain offensive) and well they’re fugitives so their options are fucking limited. So while trying to see how they can get a message to him they notice that he communicates with someone on the downlow all very hush hush and they get curious (hence using their superspies to get info (i imagine the Black Widow joined them)) and guess who they find on the other end of the communication (messages, skype, phone calls, e-mails, letters)? HARLEY! So they’re like ‘wtf is Stark doing with a kid’ and they somehow manage to kidnap him (using T'Challas jet since it has a no detection thingy?) and T'Challa is pissed because ‘wtf were you thinking kidnapping a child?? You’re FUGITIVES IDIOTS! And that’s practically Tony Starks kid do you have a deATH WISH?!?!?’ And they’re all like ‘Stark has no kids, he doesn’t know we’re here, it’s just for a little while don’t worry’ and T'Challa is practically having and aneurysm because he has been getting to know Tony Stark (repairing the Accords) and he fucking knows that Stark knows that he knows that he knows that Team Cap is in Wakanda (he just doesn’t give a fuck (as long as they’re under surveilance and out of the way not fucking up another country he’s fine with it)) and these idiots have no fucking idea who they’re dealing with, because he has seen Stark dealing with the UN, the WSC, the military, the media, fucking everyone and twirling them around as he wants, and he has seen his eyes, they’re ruthless, dark (Siberia broke something in him, but Stark men are made of iron and he’s had no heart since he got the Arc Reactor taken out maybe he never had one, Starks don’t cry and they don’t break, and he’s a mechanic he can fix anything but it doesn’t always end up how it was before) and he knows that he’s treading on a very fine line before he snaps and he regrets that this may be what pushes him over the edge (he has seen Stark increase security around those he lets inside his walls Peter, Pepper, Rhodey, Vision, F.R.I.D.A.Y., Happy, and he didn’t know about Harley but after what Team Cap told him about their interactions it’s easy to see he considers him a son) and he will consider this an attack no matter what the misguided ex-Avengers meant to accomplish by doing this, and he has no wish to see the destruction Stark will bring, because no matter what the ex-Avengers think about Tony Stark being helpless and a civilian he used to be the Merchant of Death and you can’t sell Death without distributing your share of it, (he knows Tony Starks history, people think Iron Man was born from the ashes of Tony Stark in a dry cave in Afghanistan like a Phoenix, but Tony Stark never burned and the only ashes that got left behind were those of his captors those of the people who thought they could control him and break him (Stark men are not weak) and Iron Man was not born on a cave because Iron Man is Tony Stark and Tony Stark is Iron Man there is no one without the other (Stark men are made of Iron) and he will do what he thinks must be done, he will dirty his hands, mark them with red (they forget he made a conscious decision of killing the terrorists both in the cave and Gulmira (funny how people forget what they don’t want to believe)) and he may have not hurt the ex-Avengers during the war when he considered them family, but family they are no more (not since Siberia ‘did you know Rogers?’ ‘Sometimes my team keep things from me’ the feel of hands on his reactor, a shield breaking his metaphorical heart, the feel of death trying to pull him under, the cold seeping through the suit, his mothers screams stuck in his head and the burning of betrayal (and resignation-he always knew they would leave, everyone leaves)) and now they have taken his pseudo-kid ('you know what keeps running through my head?’ 'Where is my sandwich?’) and the last good will he had left towards them was used when he ignored Ross’ phone call (he let them escape, less chance of commiting murder if he can’t see them) so there are no safeguards in place that will save them from his hands, from his retribution, haven’t you heard it’s not good to rouse a beast (but they’re blind aren’t they? They see prey not a predator (it’s always good to be underestimated, makes them easier to take down 'Iron Man yes… Tony Stark not recommended’)?

So I want my BAMF! #smolchild Tony Stark to put Team Cap in it’s place by being the ruthless son of a bitch we all know and love.

+Harley having a watch!gauntlet like Tonys from CA:CW and using it against them, maybe locking himself in a room and threatening them if they come closer (with Shuri looking smug (because we all know she doesn’t like Team Cap (they’re too entitled)) and she is happy to see them being put in their place and she thinks that if anyone is willing to threaten enhanced individuals in favor of Tony Stark with such fierce determination then Stark must be worth getting to know) ++T'Challa/Tony building relationship (IronPanther is bae) +++Tony has become a pseudo-father/uncle to practically every enhanced (or not) kid around (Kamala, Peter, Harley and his sister, Cassie Lang, Cooper, Lila and Nathaniel Barton (because you bet your ass that he evacuated them from their living spaces before Ross could get to them (or the masses))), Vision and F.R.I.D.A.Y. (because it may hurt him but Vision is basically his grandchild (from both Ultron and Jarvis) and FRI is like another daughter (she’s practically a baby)) and the kids are pissed at Team Cap (because they saw Tonys injuries (he can no longer wear the Iron Man Armour (the shield did a vast number on him, his lungs and his artificial sternum))) maybe they had to use the Extremis (or I would love if he needed to use an Arc Reactor again (maybe in a smaller size/scale so it doesn’t get too deep since it’s obvious it causes problems with his lung capacity (it was pretty fucking deep in his chest(miracle he still could breathe))) and he’s fucking lucky he survived, so they’re petty towards them (specially Kamala, Peter and Harley) ++++ And Team Cap is like 'wtf’ 'why are you defending 'Tony Evil Overlord’ (trademark pending)

Practically I just want Team Cap to see how BAMF! my #smolchild is, for Tony to recuperate his self-worth by being surrounded by people who actually see him and see the good in him, and for him to have a #TonyStarkProtectionSquad

This post ran away from me I swear. 😂😂 It’s so long like damn! But I wanted to rant and share so here it is peeps. 😘

[chiisana-sukima]

( @ameliacareful) Yeah, @denugis‘ take isn't far off from mine, although mine is more about the anger part than the forgiveness part. But the alien-ness/bit of inhuman-ness, yeah. I was thinking he looks in that panel like he’s fae or a changeling- you know, not the disney kind of fairy, but the kind that steals children and drags them off to live in a dream and then returns them after all their loved ones are dead and buried. Which really, is pretty much what he was the victim of, except it was a nightmare and Dean and Cas are still alive (and Jody, but they mostly became friends after he returned. Does he have any other people left alive who he cared about before he went to Hell? I forget).

This is the same conversation where Sam tells Toni I was just wondering how far I’d have to walk to get back to town after I kill you. And her. But you first.That’s not even a threat exactly, although of course it *is* obviously a threat too. But like the panels above, it’s the same kind of contemptuous your bullshit human-level evil is beneath my regard, you’ll do your petty little thing, and then after i kill you in passing, i’ll go back to dealing with the gods. SPN doesnt show us this side of Sam very often, but I feel like when people say Sam is the scary one, this is what they’re talking about.

(cut for tmi)

I thought 12x01 was a pretty good episode. The hurt/bamf!Sam love was totally on point (if only they hadn’t fucked it up entirely by letting buckleming write 12x02).

But it also initially made me vaguely, but deeply, uneasy in a way I couldn’t put my finger on, and I couldn’t figure out why, and then me and @hazeldomain got into an argument with a bunch of posters in which we were both saying the torture seemed kinda lame and they were all, that’s realistic torture what’s your problem.

And I was thinking, huh, yeah, it *is* realistic torture, what *is* my problem? And blah blah some other stuff that isnt relevant to this particular discussion, but then following on that, I had the thought, sort of fully formed with no affect attached to it at all, well given that she’s cool with killing monsters even if they’re innocent, if I needed something from Sam and had her value set, I’d just round up five monster kids, line them up in front of him, and shoot two. There, all done, he’ll tell her anything, why bother with the bullshit.

And then I went to bed and hugged my stuffed puppy and cried for like two days. I mean, I’m fine (I feel compelled to tell everyone, in a very Winchester-like way), but becoming fine for me depended on abandoning the idea that catharsis and integration are necessarily always awesome ideas. There are some things that mostly just need to be respected and contained.

I love the glimpses of anger we get from Sam, like in American Nightmare, when he gets all pissed at the awful mother and says God doesnt care, her actions are her own. But that’s like, human scale anger? Sam’s relationship with Lucifer isn’t human scale. And I feel like that’s what he’s accessing here; not even the actual relationship stuff itself, but the knowledge that he has it, and that it makes Toni contemptuously small- just a tiny bug of a human- in comparison.  

[midnightluck]

Undertale/Bioshock Infinite

SPOILERS FOR BOTH GAMES

so remember that scene from the avengers where Tony says a science thing and Bruce says a science thing back and Tony goes, "Finally, someone who speaks English!" You remember that scene? Okay but imagine it with Sans and Elizabeth and Sans is like, "here, c'mon, this way, i know a shortcut" and she takes his hand and they step into a shadow and out onto the snow, and she goes, "was that a quantum fold? No, wait, it was--more like a quantum entanglement. And you nudged it just enough to force it to carry us down a specific path. Huh. Can you sense the weak points in the weave of reality or are you opening them at will?" and Sans just looks up at her all super starry eyed and is like, finally! Someone who speaks English!

But it's kind of a perfect pairing! Like, and not even romantically? Platonic soulmates, cause Elizabeth is still not over being haunted by the idea that every dude she has really strong feelings for is somehow her dad and Sans is a goddamn skeleton, he doesn't do sexings so well? So they like wander through the lighthouses together and OH how much would she love the blasters, it's like little mini perfectly controlled songbirds and he summons them for her to dance with ohhhh

I'ma call it Timeline Shenanigans and Elizabeth will show up and stomp the reset system and Sans will be in perfect awe of her and she will be so broken (post game Elizabeth) that she like doesn't even register his puns for a while? But she looks at him and sees that he suffers like she does only for less (but nobler) reason and how bamf he can be, and she takes him to save all the Papyruses and he gets her to slow down and actually live again omg it would be so sad but precious

His shortcuts plus her tears, they can go literally anywhere in space and time.

m3h: Never allow the Twins and Gaster to meet.

They show up behind a few Comstocks just long enough for a blaster beam, cause it makes her laugh. She helps him save a few Gasters and they watch what that does to timelines. They go to all the Parises.

They occasionally open tears to pull Paps through, sometimes for pasta, sometimes to monologue at misguided idiots. It's always a crap shoot as to whether or not the tear they shove him back through actually takes him home. He has his own hilarious adventures through the au Undertales because close enough, right? So he makes friends till the next time they summon him again.

it would be SO CUTE like they're at this cafe in alternaParis mark 3 and Sans goes, hot damn this raviloi is amazing, hey, Liz, darling, ya mind? And she's like, pfff, anything for you, ~darling~, because it's a fancy place so they're pretending to be over the top flirty (which he always is, and she sometimes deigns to ply along) so she opens the tear and he pulls the rift and suddenly Paps is stumbling out into the restaurant holding like a bouquet of wilted flowers, a broken bone and a frying pan, and he just kinda stumbles to a chair all shocky-like and is like, "that universe is was the worst, never send me back there again plz" and they're like yeah sure whatevs here try this pasta! And of course he perks up and is like, this is amazing! so they get him a plate of it to go and she opens a tear and he shoves Paps back through and it's probably the right original verse he came from this time, probably, at least close enough, so they get dessert and prance down the boardwalks, changing universes through tears whenever the music stops and snatching random bottles of super expensive wine to chug and giggling and meanwhile Paps is like, wowie that pasta is good gee I wonder where i am this time, sigh.

It would be "Sans and Elizabeth Do the Timeline (And Also Bonus Papyrus's Exciting Multidimensional Travel Which He is Resigned To Because Sans Is Too Lazy To Make Sure He Gets Back Home Correctly)”

 He like, doesn't mind it at all, cause yeah he gets to see new places and meet all kinds of new friends, and Sans doesn't really worry 'bout him cause he's always making sure the timeline he's sending Paps to has at least a Sans in it, and he ditches him relatively close to said alternaSans so he knows Paps will always be okay. And besides, Liz is pretty good about choosing safe tears. Okay, so Underfell that one time wasn't the best choice, but Papyrus is too aggressively adorable and trusting to really get hurt.

So they're in like, I dunno, Columbia or Rapture or something and Sans is like, holy shit, a flying/sunken city, this is so cool, hey, hey, Liz, let's show Pap! And Liz has grown a bit jaded over tears and sans is really chill about them, so they both revel in Papyrus's neverending awe of their wonders, so they always drag him away to show him cool shit. Anyway, so they pull Papyrus through as per usual and Sans is like, "hey, check it out bro, the city is actually--what. what is that. what is that on your face." "NYEHEHE WOWIE THE CITY IS FLOATING THIS IS INCREDIBLE" "no shut up hang on what the FUCK HAPPENED TO YOUR FACE Papyrus" and Liz is already tracing back the tear and she's like, "this cannot be allowed to stand" because she loves watching Papyrus discover all the things too, and tho she knows how awful the worlds can be, here is someone who truly does not ever deserve that. So she says, "Hey, Paps, there's an ice cream shop over there with a billion flavors, my treat" and she says, "here's the door Sans, I'll reopen it in twenty minutes, do have fun and s h o w  t h e m  a  b a d  t i m e" And drags Paps off to be distracted and he barely even notices Sans is gone until he's back and Underfell was ~never the same again~ But the upside is, in the shared trauma of afterwards, no one in that universe dared to touch their Papyrus or Sans again, for gear of a cuddly blue Sans coming back to rampage indiscriminately and Sans suddenly gets all the respect too and the brothers get a bit closer cause of it.

But even like the first few times they did it, Paps was like sitting slumped at a table with Alpyhs and Undyne because he can't find his brother and is all mopey and worried and the two are like, "don't worry, I'm sure he's fine," and all the other platitudes and then pop, a tear opens right behind his chair, he gets blue'd and dragged back through it, and the tear closes. The two barely have time to react before it reopens and he comes marching back through with presents and new types of pasta and a nyehehehe that is so loud and cheerful and he's like, oh! You guys are still here! I'm so sorry for being a bad host, were you waiting long? And they're like, no, two seconds, srsly, u ok? but what about your brother-angst? and he is like pfft, Sans is fine, look at all this cool junk he got me! And so now everyone in his home universe is just like, oh Paps disappeared again, wonder where he's off to now, sigh

"Fear not, friend, I the gREAT Papyrus shall--" *POP* "uh. what?" "No, no, it's cool, he does this.”

PAPS BRINGS BACK AU MEW MEW KISSY CUTIE DVDS each one has little changes or big changes from different worlds alphys goes sPARE

Oh god right, so for their birthday or some such shit Paps talks Sans into talking Elizabeth into finding an anime-centric world with like virtual anime theme parks and shit and they kinda plan a thing only forget to tell the pair, so they're just arbitrarily kidnapped and ditched in this anime paradise and it takes them a bit to get over the fact