#old stevetony

[day-dream-fever]

[westernwoodblogs]

Just realized all these years later as I scrolled down memory lane that @mirthandstar never posted their truly gorgeous commission they did for me. I hope you're doing well out there. Thank you for my old men, I do infact look at them everyday.

[soliloquent-stark]

steve: 'this story is a tragedy because it didn't have to end this way'

tony: 'this story is a tragedy because it was always going to end this way'

alternatively titled: the world's leading authority on waiting too long and the end of the path i started us on

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I wish I told him. I wish I could tell him now. I wish to carry him with me forever.

Steve holds onto the thought as he falls asleep next to someone else, in the body of a man back in his time but forever out of it, obsessing over unspoken words and hoping to remember the heartbreak when he wakes up.

He's terrified that if the pain fades away, so will the memory of Tony.

gif quote source: @supreme-leader-stoat

[heydocpotts]

for @the-faultofdaedalus thank you for donating to my kofi, rowboat ❤️❤️❤️

buy me a coffee? ☕️✨

[sunnysideprincess]

@soliloquent-stark wanted kitty Tony and I told her I'd draw him asap

Bonus: drooling doggo steve because Tony is wearing Cap's pants and boots

[perlmutt-perl]

For what Good is a Man

Art: @perlmutt-perl Fic: @atoastbw

Summary:

It's Tony birthday, but despite it being his special day, he's filled with uncharacteristic self-doubt. Luckily, he has his friends and family to cheer him up. In particular, his husband is more than happy to prove his love for him, in more ways than one.

For the Reverse Big Bang 2023, organized by @cap-ironman. I had the great pleasure of working with ATOASTBW, who's not only a great author but also a lovely human to be around. I'm happy to have a found a friend in them. 💙

Happy belated birthday Tony Stark! 💙✨️🎁🥰

[robertdowneyjjr]

so none of this is what any of you asked for, but part 3 of the stonyclunks soulmates au @stark-and-shield @polizwrites @soliloquent-stark

(parts one and two)

tony spends his flight home from london agonizing over what he should do next.

on the one hand, his feelings about captain america haven’t changed. if anything, he’s now even more adamant that he wants nothing to do with him, because not only does tony now have proof that cap is a total dick, he also now feels like all that childhood trauma?? was the result of a lie. now he knows that he grew up being compared to someone who isn’t even really as great as his dad made him seem. so maybe now he has some validation (and vindication) that howard was wrong. but still, he could have just done without the years of feeling like he wasn’t good enough.

on the other hand, he’s a hopeless romantic at heart and he’s always dreamed of meeting and growing old with his soulmate. he grew up surrounded by them — his parents are soulmates. ana and edwin jarvis are soulmates. aunt peggy and uncle daniel are soulmates. that nature-defying love has always been the shining example of what real happiness is to him and he’s been desperate for it since he was 25, the average age when people meet their soulmates. the fact that he lived until he was 38 and still never met his soulmate had hurt him everyday. and sure, he’s happy in other ways. he’s content with how his life has turned out. he has amazing friends. he has a family that supports him. but god, he wants to share it with someone who he knows is fated to be his.

now, he’s kind of annoyed that he and his dad have another thing in common, what with howard not meeting maria until he was in his 40’s. and at this point he’s starting to think that being soulmates with captain america is some sort of sick cosmic joke that the universe is playing on him.

also he’s really, really pissed that the words that are permanently marked on his skin are so ugly.

at dinner before their night at the opera, tony tells maria, “mama, i met my soulmate.”

“oh that’s wonderful, antonio! tell me all about them!”

maria can hardly contain her excitement, and tony feels awful that the news he’s about to share isn’t worth her feeling this happy about.

“it was two weeks ago, a total accident. he was really mean,” he explains softly. if they weren’t in public right now he might even have just shown her the words on his thigh, but he knows her protective instincts would rear their head immediately and she’d skip the opera just to get started on hunting down the man who spit such vitriol at her son.

“oh. well, has he apologized for it?” maria asks. “i hope he has some basic manners, at least. i won’t allow someone who treats my son such poorly into the family, whether you’re soulmates or not.”

“he… has. quite dramatically,” tony says, thinking about the instagram post that had been causing a media frenzy for a week now.

“well, good. he should know you’re to be treasured,” maria sniffs. “when will i get to meet him?”

“i haven’t seen him again since. i don’t know if i really want to.”

“why not, bambino? you’ve always wanted to meet your soulmate.”

“mama… it’s captain america.”

maria looks around the restaurant. “where? i thought howard was with him tonight. crazy old man, still thinks he’s in his prime and trying to keep up with people half his age.”

“no, mama. my soulmate. he’s captain america.”

“oh. oh dear.”

“yeah.” tony picks up his fork and starts eating again. “i think i might just be better off dying alone.”

maria doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry. suddenly all the excessive whining from steve that howard has been telling her about makes a lot more sense. she knows that steve is a good man. maybe not perfect like howard always made him out to be. but kind, nonetheless. he would be good to tony, good for him, she’s sure. tony just needs to give him a chance.

but also, like she said, tony should be treasured. if steve wants to make up for how they started off, he needs to pull out all the stops. tony deserves nothing less than the best, after all. and to be honest, maria thinks she might enjoy watching steve grovel a bit. she’s also looking forward to making fun of howard for having such an idiot as a best friend and future son-in-law.

so she starts planning.

“tonio, darling, why don’t you stay over at the mansion tonight? ana was just saying we haven’t had brunch with you in ages.”

“sure, mama.”

under the table, she texts howard.

M: is steve still pouting about his life?

H: unfortunately. i’m just glad beer does nothing for him. i can’t imagine how much worse this all could be if he were drunk.

M: poor boy. maybe he’s also feeling a bit lonely. there are plenty of rooms in the mansion if he doesn’t want to go home to an empty apartment tonight.

H: he might like that. i’ll let him know.

[luvindowney]

Steve & Tony - The Art of Avengers Infinity War

Still not over the fact that they didn't see each other in this movie

[em1ree]

concept: the black dog but it's stevetony

[carsonian]

reading any iteration of "you gave me a home" in a stevetony fanfic

[gavemeahome]

stevetony icons

[rainbowsuitcase]

What If... Tony gets injured on a mission and suffers memory loss

And the last thing he remembers it that he and Steve started dating.

Except they didn’t. It was a cover for the mission and the weeks of faked closeness did not bring them closer at all, it actually made them hate each other more.

Which is why Steve is confused that Tony seems to be perfectly happy about it now. All this time, he'd though Tony detested the idea of being with him, even just for show, but now here Tony is.

Still soft from the pain meds, he's asking Steve about their first kiss and first date and first everything, complaining, "I'd been waiting for you to ask me out for so long and now I don’t even remember it!"

[airlocksandaviaries]

New haircut anyone wanna admit they have a crush on me before 2023 end etc etc

[frankthesnek]

Steve taking Tony out for a Sunday drive on the back roads in one of his vintage convertibles as a date.

That's all just this thought 🥰

[valyrfia]

Me 🤝 You: supporting the red & blue theory by shipping Lestappen and SteveTony

ABSOLUTELY! Honestly, Lestappen keeps the spirit of (at least MCU) stevetony alive with the Enemies Who Know the Other is Their Only True Equal to Acquaintances Who Are Weird About Each Other to Obsessed Lovers trope, and yeah it does make me laugh a little that red and blue are their Symbolic Colours. I could write a thesis on this, but it's of ZERO surprise to me that there's a strong overlap of past stevetony/current lestappen (much the same way I'm not surprised with the overlap of past stucky/current maxiel).

[nostalgicatsea]

Last Words of WIP Meme

Tagged by @ishipallthings who destroyed me with her response to this meme. The actual last words I wrote are incomprehensible unless you have the whole picture, so here’s the last thing I wrote for another WIP only a few days before (my post-Endgame soulmate AU that I need to actually sit down and finish one day):

“What?” he asked Tony.

“You’ve aged. And I missed it. Last time I saw you, you were so young.” Tony smiled at him in a way Steve couldn’t decipher, neither fully happy nor sad. “I still see you like that.”

And a bonus line for fun that’s cryptic due to lack of context:

“And you think you know what’s best for me, don’t you?” Tony said contemptuously.

Tagging: @oluka​, @sineala​, @kiyaar​, and anyone who wants to do this!