#tonystarktogo

[crystalclearmist]

The new Professor in Defense Against the Dark Arts was a mystery. No one new him or has ever heard of him existing, despite his obvious British accent and familiarity with Hogwarts. He fought like a men possessed and taught like he has done so for years. He had experience he shouldn't have, beyond that most duellers and aurors.

And most shockingly, Tom realized when the sleeves of Professor Potters robe turned to ashes under his continued assault, he must be the unluckiest wizard alive.

His newly revealed Soul mark, as bright green as the killing curse itself, spelled "Avada Kedavra"

@tomboy014 @derinthescarletpescatarian @tackyink @tozettastone @tonystarktogo

Writing meme

rules: post the last line that you wrote and tag someone for every word in the line.

Tagged by @crows-murder! Given I just finished a chapter...

“Miss O’Neil,” Bishop said blandly, coming to a stop by the fire. “And… friends. I do look forward to the story behind this.”

tmw you're just hangin out by an innocent bonfire in the street and the government gets involved smh

I am not tagging that many people lmfao so: @wasted-and-ready, @punctuated-equilibrium, @technicallysublimechild, @controlledspontaneity, @consultingjedi, @calliopechild, and whoever else wants to take this as a tag <3

[tonystarkstoga]

For the #torture-sock-verse, since @tonystarktogo asked me a bunch of question - and of course I need to answer them.

like now we have Loki knitting and Tony being himself but is this going to be a longer process?

With Loki knitting and Tony essentially being himself, most of the Avengers were going back and forth between trying to fix the situation with SHIELD and waiting anxiously for the whole thing to blow up. Overall, it was quite... domestic. Besides the ongoing negotiations, things were calm: Steve took up drawing again and ended up drawing Loki, who had unintentionally fallen asleep during a movie. Bruce was cooking for everyone, making sure to bring some variety to their meals, since he'd travelled so much. It was almost easy to forget that they weren't all entirely comfortable with Loki in the tower, and that there were people who wanted to take Loki back to SHIELD, and that sometimes Loki screamed at night.

Is Tony the only one who gets Loki's things?

When Loki finds the drawing of himself, he steals it, or so he tells himself, ignoring the fact that it was left on the coffee table for him after everyone had cleared out of the room to let him sleep. The next day, a pair of socks appears on the coffee table while Loki is nowhere to be seen. Nobody touches it until Steve arrives. He chuckles and rolls his eyes at the familiar red-white-and-blue pattern. Whether it's a tease or a compliment, he accepts it graciously and is henceforth seen wearing his socks around the tower.

After every meal, Bruce finds a new pair of Socks dangling from the door handle of his private rooms. He's quite sure Loki does not know what the sock on the handle symbolises to most people, but he also doesn't bring it up. His socks come in all kinds of colours, but are mostly reminiscent of the meals he's made - a brownish yellow curry colour with some red and green flecks is his favourite pair. Soon his collection is only surpassed by Tony's, who finds a new pair every morning right next to where his feet first meet the floor when he leaves his bed.

Is he the only one who wears them?

The only time Natasha gets a pair is when she stabs Clint. Granted, she insists it was an accident, but Clint had been running his mouth about Loki and their whole situation, either not noticing or ignoring Loki's presence. He only dared to speak because Tony wasn't around, but it seemed Natasha didn't take too kindly to his words either. Loki hands it to her as he leaves the room, and whether he had planned them for someone else or for her in the first place is just as unclear as whether it was a trick of the light or they had really just changed their colour to black.

What about the others? They're probably sceptic, considering the last time they left Tony alone he got himself stabbed by Loki?

Everyone is a little worried when Tony decides one evening to head to Loki's room, because Loki hasn't come to dinner, and it's Bruce's turn to cook. They'd advise him against it if they thought it would do any good. But they also know that if anyone has a chance of helping Loki figure out whatever is going on, it's Tony.

[hello-shellhead]

Happy Birthday @tonystarktogo!!

Here’s a Tony and a swedish Princess Cake for you!! :D <3

[feelingsinwinterold]

What I’m Writing

Tagged by the lovely @tonystarktogo <3

Do Dis: List all the things you’re currently working on in as much or little detail as you’d like, then tag some friends to see what they’re working on. This can be writing, art, vids, gifsets, whatever.

Dragon!AU: In an universe where the royal lineage gets dragons at some point in their life, generally around their tenth year, Tony doesn’t get his. He’s without a dragon and year after year remains alone. While most people don’t care and love their prince, some others whisper about his missfortune in dark corners of inns and bars. One day someone uses it against the Stark family and triggers a bloodshed. Bang: I’m participating for the Winteriron Bang of 2017. Still working on it, almost done though! I just need to keep at it x). Porn!Identity AU: While on an outing to do the groceries, Bucky get abducted and thrown into a cell. At his awakening, he’s quickly joined by someone else. Someone he knows a little bit too much... and maybe not enough at the same time. Wanna taste more? I finished writing this and will probably post it in a few hours. Misunderstandings and a little bit of angst with fluff. It’s short, a little over 1k.

Thank you so much for tagging me, love! I wasn’t expecting it at all. I’m tagging @tisfan @chibisquirt @everyworldneedslove @mistrstank @akira-of-the-twilight Of course there’s no pressure. I mean, you don’t have to answer it if you don’t want to. Lots of love! <3

[kiragecko]

Okay, I just finished reading @tonystarktogo‘s ‘As Subtle As Cognitive Recalibration’ MCU Avengers Time-Travel Fix-It fic. It was great!

I now need more Avengers fic. I AM going to see if their other stuff scratches the itch, but I know my weaknesses. By ‘Avengers fic,’ what I actually mean is ‘ @galaxystew​ fic.’

Anybody know of any Avengers fic that reads exactly like Galaxysoup’s stuff, but isn’t, since I’ve memorized all of her fic? It is a pickle, this situation I find myself in.

[tonystarkstoga]

"But... why." It doesn't even sound like a question. The words and the look Loki shoots him are a statement, they are a judgement on the state of Tony's mind, because clearly he must have lost it to decide that turning his back on his own people to help Loki was the right thing to do. Tony does not react right away. He looks Loki over as though he's considering to simply accept the unspoken judgement, and his shoulders start to move into a shrug - but he stops himself.

Why indeed? More than a small part of him agrees that Loki needs to face consequences - punishment even. He does not care for Loki any more than he does for any other alien person trying to take over earth or simply harm others. But there is a reason, and it hurts to realise it fully.

"Because I've been tortured. And SHIELD torturing you made me wonder how different they really are from the people who held me captive." It was mental self-preservation, really. At least that's what Tony tries to tell himself.

K I know you're already into the weekend buuut.. how about Tony saving a villain (I love Loki so maybe him?) from some...less than humane conditions? Interrogation or just general conditions that Tony just morally cannot abide perhaps?

“Tony.” The sound quality of Tony’s non-standard Starkphone is excellent, which is why there is no missing the hesitation in Steve’s voice.

“Yes, Cap?” Tony prompts after a long moment of silence. He’d make a joke usually, but he’s currently got his hands full and really isn’t in the mood for a verbal sparring with America’s national icon.

“You wouldn’t know anything about why SHIELD declared you an enemy of the free world some twelve minutes ago, would you?” Steve asks finally. 

“Fury and I had a difference of opinion,” Tony says, curses under his breath. “And by the way, Cap, I’m deeply insulted that it took you twelve minutes to call me. You do know that I could have been dead by now or enacted DEFCON 1 protocol, right?”

“Tony.”

“It doesn’t exactly inspire my confidence, is all I’m saying.”

“Tony. Did your difference of opinion involve blowing up the helicarrier – the same one we’ve spent the past two months restoring to its former glory – knocking out fifteen trained agents and freeing a subdued hostile?” Steve asks, and even his question mark sounds exasperated.

“I did not blow up the helicarrier.” Tony is insulted. He hopes he sounds insulted too. “You would know if I had, believe me. All I did was rip out a couple of doors and blow through the landing pat. Nothing that can’t be fixed.”

“Oh for– Two weeks, Tony. Two weeks. That’s all I asked off you. Two weeks of not doing anything crazy until me and Thor are done clearing things up over here.”

“Yeah, well, change of plans.” Tony pulls out his professionally equipped first aid kit from under his work bench. “Besides Point Break is gonna take my side in this.” He shoots the currently unconscious form of Loki, resting on his emergency sleep couch, a quick look. “Trust me.”

Steve sighs. “Of course he is, Tony. We’re your team and we’ll back your play. But, for future references, I’d appreciate it if you wait with  starting wars with international spy agencies until I’m not half a world away.”

Tony thinks back to Loki’s screams and– 

“Noted. But this really couldn’t wai– Wait. What are you saying?”

“I’m saying we’ll be there in ten minutes, Stark.” There’s an audible smile in Steve’s voice. “And you better have a damn good explanation for this.”

aka in memory of the team we could have had. aka that time Thor tried to murder SHIELD.

[lilianox7]

@tonystarktogo not precisely what you wrote, but I found those sketches inspired by your AU and thought I'd clean them up a little and share them :D

[tony-stark-deserves-love]

There are two amazing Pro Tony Stark/Pro Iron Man blogs that I have followed for years now. @salty-ironstrange-shipper and @tonystarktogo

I highly recommend checking them out as they are both more active than I am and publish a more original content.

[aurumacadicus]

@tonystarktogo here’s the thing: I am operating on the idea that Steve has either been tranquilized or catatonic the entire time. And with the Serum they’re using tranquilizers that would knock out an elephant. The doctors keep easing him off because THAT IS TOO MUCH MEDICATION but whenever Steve isn’t silently clutching at Tony he’s just... fucking screaming. Like if he’s not holding Tony he believes that Tony fell and died and it’s his fault. It’s been a week since the battle and it’s a wonder Steve still has a working voice and liver.

So he doesn’t even notice he’s bruising Tony.

And when Bucky tries to get Steve to let go he flips the fuck out because he thinks Bucky has come for Tony to take him to the grave with him, because he saw Bucky fall, HE SAW BUCKY FALL, and Tony fell too and now Steve’s alone and it’s all his fault for not reaching far enough, moving fast enough.

So the next time the doctors talk about easing up on the medication again, Bucky curls around Tony protectively. (Tony won’t stay away. He should. Steve will feel awful when he snaps out of it and finally sees the bruises he’s left on him. Bucky doesn’t understand why Tony feels the need to punish himself for being human.) Bucky winces when Steve clutches at him, even lets out a frightened noise when Steve gets a hand around his metal arm and it creaks. He has no idea how Tony accepted this grip without even flinching.

Still. That seems to do the trick, holding the both of them. Steve’s hands loosen and then stroke over where he’d gripped soothingly, and he looks so confused to have them in his lap but not displeased, and he says “I had the worst fuckin’ nightmare in the world” and Tony and Bucky glance at each other nervously before giving Steve shaky smiles.

And then Tony’s face crumples because he can’t lie about this, and he whispers, “It wasn’t a nightmare, Steve.” Steve stares at him, says, “It’s gotta be a nightmare. You fell, but... you’re here.” “I did fall,” Tony says gently. “Thor went after me and brought me back up.”

Bucky sees Steve’s hands gripping into fists and grabs Tony, leaps off the bed, and just in time, because Steve just--just fucking rips off the rails on the sides of the bed and throws them with a snarl, and Bucky feels more than hears Tony make a terrified sound against his throat. He curls over Tony protectively in the corner because Steve is between them and the door and he’s just going ape-shit, destroying everything in reach, ripping out his IV, flinging the IV stand through the window, flinging the bed frame into the wall.

That would be bad enough in and of itself, but having to hear him shouting, “What’s the point!? What’s the point if I can’t save the people I care about?!” is crushing. Steve can’t save everyone. He’d run himself ragged doing that. And it hurts to know that Steve believes he should do it anyway.

(I might head canon that Steve has anger issues that he’s very good at hiding until he can’t anymore.)

Please consider: The Avengers being called out, Tony’s suit failing, Tony grabbing a weapon off the enemy and protecting himself with that as Steve and Bucky make their ways over to give him backup. The battle being won. Them laughing together. Tony walking over to see to his armor.

The Big Bad having one last move. The ground cracking open.

Steve and Bucky struggling to keep their footing, turning to face the baddie, but then the shrill scream of “STEVE” cutting through the air. Turning. The suit gone, fallen between the cracks. Tony clinging to the edge of the broken street, scrambling for it, slipping backward.

Steve running for him, hand reaching out, for a moment unable to tell whether it’s Tony’s hand or Bucky’s he’s trying to grab.

Tony reaching back for him, but not enough. Steve having to watch as Tony slips through his fingers just like Bucky did all those years ago.

Bucky having to grab Steve to keep him from throwing himself down after Tony. Steve screaming, struggling to crawl into the hole Tony had fallen down.

(Thor diving to get Tony. Thor bringing Tony back up, shaken but no worse for wear. Steve continuing to scream for Tony until someone finally, mercifully, tranquilizes him.)

((Steve screaming when he wakes up. Bucky realizing that perhaps his fall affected Steve more than he thought.))

(((Tony curling up in bed with Steve as he cries and cries because the Serum was supposed to fix him, help him save people. Being unable to save two of the people he loves most dearly anyway.)))

[bulkyphrase]

Everybody & the Avengers Team

I've got a new fic rec list for you!

The stories in the "X & the Avengers Team" tags focus on one person's relationship to the Avengers team as a whole. Courtesy of AO3's tag browse and Excel, here's a ranked list of the top 20 most popular pairings:

Tony Stark | 2470 total, 240 OTP

Peter Parker | 2255 total, 85 OTP

Steve Rogers | 602 total, 56 OTP

Loki | 387 total, 26 OTP

Natasha Romanov | 308 total, 35 OTP

Clint Barton | 268 total, 46 OTP

Bruce Banner | 244 total, 15 OTP

Thor | 209 total, 7 OTP

Avengers Team | 174 total, 24 OTP

James "Bucky" Barnes | 156 total, 7 OTP

Wanda Maximoff | 143 total, 4 OTP

Phil Coulson | 105 total, 9 OTP

Darcy Lewis | 91 total, 6 OTP

Matt Murdock | 60 total, 8 OTP

Sam Wilson | 53 total, 5 OTP

Nick Fury | 41 total, 5 OTP

Harry Potter | 40 total, 0 OTP

Pepper Potts | 31 total, 1 OTP

Vision | 29 total, 2 OTP

Stiles Stilinski | 25 total, 0 OTP

In chart form, if you like charts:

Notes:

The numbers after the names are the number of stories tagged with that ship. OTP means the number of stories where that is the only relationship tagged on the story. Numbers are accurate as of July 2021.

Story Recommendations

For your reading pleasure, included below is at least one fic rec for each pairing except the crossovers from non-Marvel fandoms (apologies to Mr. Potter & Mr. Stilinski). Most are gen fic, and even in the ones with a romantic pairing, romance is not the focus.

Tony Stark

As Subtle As Cognitive Recalibration by petroltogo (Teen, 8949) tumblr: @tonystarktogo

Standing inside his penthouse, listening to Rogers, Barton and Banner explain to Fury how they just happened to stumble over the Tesseract on a routine security check of Stark Tower’s roof and wouldn’t you know, they’ve managed to fight off the looming alien invasion before it could really start and secure the missing overpowered nightlight is one of the most surreal situations Tony has ever had the displeasure of experiencing.

Peter Parker

the worst field trip ever by shrill_fangirl_screaming (Teen, 3420) tumblr: @i-am-having-an-emotion

"We're on a field trip," Peter said. "To here. And Tony decided to be our tour guide and absolutely embarrass me, so can you please help get him under control?"

Which is how Peter Parker, architect of his own destruction, ended up with not one but two superhero pseudo-dads being annoying on his school field trip.

Steve Rogers

Do You Remember Being Happy? ('Cause I Sure Don't) by GalaxyThreads (Teen, 11022) tumblr: @galaxythreads

That seems about right. He doesn't know how he knows that, though. He does have vague memories of an annoyed fondness at finding peanut butter in some sort of jam. Thor's doing, because he doesn't see the point of using two knives when one works just as fine. He knows that. How does he know that? He knows all those little details, though, almost innately. How can he know these strangers so deeply?

Everyone else below the cut!

Loki

Proprietary by TheThirdMarauder (Teen, 7639)

No, Loki simply wants the Avengers conquered. The details of whom, how, and when matter not. Unless, of course, said details interfere with Loki's plans. Then, well, then none can fault him for protecting his own interests.

Loki has always been exceptionally good at lying to himself.

Natasha Romanov

What Girls Are Made Of by enigma731 (Teen, 4613) tumblr: @enigma731

She rolls her eyes but does as he’s indicated, using his shoulders to leverage herself up onto his back, her arms around his neck and her legs hugging his waist.

“You know,” he says blithely, “this isn’t really what I tend to picture when I think of a hot girl riding me.”

Natasha groans, deciding that if his sense of humor gets them arrested, she’ll kill him herself. “Just go.”

Clint Barton

Dear Clint Barton (circa age 7) by pollyrepeat (Teen, 4221)

With a normal person, this might count as blackmail material, but a) this is a case of mutually assured destruction if ever there was one, and b) Fury is immune to embarrassment. Not just in the regular, Tony Stark way, either, oh no. Things that could possibly end up being embarrassing to Fury get somehow warped and changed until they go from mortifying all the way over into useful and/or good for his image. It’s like a superpower.

Carrying Clint’s small child self around on his shoulders more than once has probably already hit the interagency rumour mill as an example of Fury’s innate awesomeness: good with rocket launchers and small children.

Also available as a podfic!

Bruce Banner

They're Not Wrong by Trumpeteer34 (Teen, 10163)

As Tony began to pace around the hole in the road to keep himself from shooting repulsors at the nearby buildings in a fit of rage, Thor began to study the nearby area. There was no sign of either the Hulk or Bruce Banner beyond the crater. The surrounding area, aside from the rubble of the fight, held no clue as to their friend’s location.

“Guys, he’s gone,” Tony growled into the communicator on their private line, drawing Thor out of his darkening thoughts. “Someone tranqed him and took him. He’s gone.”

Honorary mention goes to the Responsible Science series by @letteredlettered - the stories don’t have the "Avengers Team & Bruce Banner" tag, but they could, and they are amazing. The best Bruce Banner writing I've ever come across.

Thor

Fortunately, I Am Mighty by onward_came_the_meteors (General, 3062)

Steve was the first one to speak. “Are you okay?”

Thor nodded. Which was a bad idea, as it turned out, because now there were little gray lights flashing in front of his eyes. “I’m fine.” Absolutely everyone narrowed their eyes, and he added, “But, uh. Could we possibly not get back in the car just yet?”

Avengers Team

Civil Wasn't by onward_came_the_meteors (General, 7123)

"We're having an ideological conflict here," Tony stated with disbelief. "Are you telling me you still want to go out to dinner?"

"It's a standing engagement, Tony," Rhodey reminded him.

"Not you too—"

"We already had to reschedule from Friday when Natasha was..." Rhodey frowned. "What were you doing?"

The question was directed toward Natasha, who shrugged and said, "Spy stuff."

James "Bucky" Barnes

You Know How I Feel, aka, The Adventures of Bucky and Muffy the Dinosaur by ifeelbetter (Not Rated, 4511) tumblr: @ifeelbetterer

“As you may have heard, Bucky Barnes, a.k.a. The Winter Soldier, recently rescued a tiny part-robot dinosaur during the Avengers’ battle with Dr. Doom in Antarctica,” the other newscaster explained. “Pictures of Barnes and the dinosaur were posted on twitter by fellow Avenger, Clint Barton, a.k.a. Hawkeye, and immediately made Barnes’s new pet America’s sweetheart.”

“Her name’s Muffy,” said Steve."

Wanda Maximoff

and the woman was young again by Mira_Jade (General, 3669)

Tony Stark called them the Cap's Kooky Quintet, and sometimes the term amused her – causing her to lift a sardonic brow where someday a smile would truly smile. She enjoyed the presence of comrades – true comrades – and she enjoyed the way their minds wove and bound together about each other to fluctuate against her senses as one. There was something soothing about being in their midst, and even when their loud and brash ways – their painful Americaness - rubbed her raw and drained on her, it was ever the knitting of their minds that soothed those moments over, and made them inconsequential.

Phil Coulson

Coulson's First Day of School by storiesfortravellers (Teen, 3055)

Coulson looked up at him. “I like drawing pictures with Mr. Rogers. I like having tea parties with Ms. Potts. I like it when Dr. Banner reads me books, and I like it when Natasha teaches me things. And I like when you play with me. You do really good voices when we play action figures. And you’re the only one who lets me do stuff like jump off the high diving board at the pool or eat three cupcakes or play tackle with kids at the park.”

Clint didn’t realize that. He was pretty sure that meant that he was doing something wrong.

Darcy Lewis

Beginner Yoga for Dummies (Darcys) and Sad Hobos by chailover (Teen, 3434)

Darcy had a theory: crazy attracted crazy, working kind of like gravity. It was pretty much her explanation for her life after Thor. And if she had thought the type of crazy Thor attracted was bad, be it Loki or the Warrior Three and Sif, or the dark elves and the Convergence, it was still nothing against what the Avengers manage en masse.

Matt Murdock

Double Blind by smilebackwards (Teen, 2381) tumblr: @smilebackwards

Stark snaps his fingers. “You can’t see half of my inventions. This explains so much about you and why you’ve never been properly impressed by me.”

“Does it?” Matt says, ambiguously.

Sam Wilson

Bystander by scribblemetimbers (Teen, 52029)

“I just want you to know,” Sam says loudly, cautiously raising his hands, “That I’m very poor and very sleep-deprived and literally the only thing you can kill me for right now are my notes.” He pauses. Wait. On second thought: “Please don’t steal my notes.”

“I’m not—I’m not a mugger,” Not Mugger rasps out, and for all that he looks about to keel over and die, the man actually manages to sound offended.

Nick Fury

Bedtime Story by dixiehellcat (Teen, 2532) tumblr: @deehellcat

Fury snorted. “I have to check in with the duty officer. I’ll be back in, let’s say twenty minutes. I expect all of you to have whatever your pre-bedtime routines are completed, and be in here pajama’ed and ready to be read to.”

He tapped the book under his arm, then left with the usual dramatic swish of his long coat. Bruce scratched his head. “Did…he just say be ready to be read to?”

Pepper Potts

Pepper and the Avengers (Which She Knows Nothing About) by rebelmeg (General, 6696) tumblr: @rebelmeg

The Avengers, that mismatched group of hurt and heroism, was one of the most important things in Tony Stark’s life. So, naturally, Pepper had made them an important part of her life too.

Vision

039. Intoxicated by aimmyarrowshigh (Teen, 100) tumblr: @aimmyarrowshigh

It might be nice to fit in, just this once. To lose a bit of composure.

Vision floated over to the refrigerator and, with some timidity, pulled off a magnet. He stuck it to his forehead.

[tonystarkstoga]

“That’s almost the exact opposite of what I was going for.”

Another prompt for the ongoing prompt-thing I’m doing with the amazing @tonystarktogo ! Enjoy my bitterness about a certain someone. 

“That's almost the exact opposite of what I was going for."

Oh and wasn’t that the understatement of the century? It was also very likely not what he should have said, as the bags kept flying past him, only inches away from his face. Was she aiming for him? Strongly reminded of a similar incident, Tony tried to remember if had threatened any terrorists lately. Nope, none. In fact, he hadn’t threatened anyone and Pepper had no reason to… or did she? Sprinting up the stairs to their shared bedroom, Tony started before he had even reached the end of the staircase.

“Look, I just… listen, stop for a while, can we just… can we talk about this?” He came to a stop in the doorway and was hit in the chest by dufflebag. Briefly, he wondered why Pepper had so many bags. Had she bought them all, just for this or had she always had them, stashed away behind some door? It stung to realise that it wasn’t terribly unlikely that she’d had a way out from the start. Tony wasn’t known to be exactly… companionable.

“We already talked about this,” Pepper snapped, out of breath from packing and throwing things. She didn’t even pause when Tony caught the next bag with both hands. Before he could speak up, she turned, and lifted her hand to stop him. “We talked about this when you decided to choose your hobby over your girlfriend, Tony. We talked. About this.”

And for a moment Tony was confused, and tempted to simply say ‘no we didn’t’, because he honestly didn’t think they had. Because if they had, Pepper would know it wasn’t a hobby. Wouldn’t she? She would know that it wasn’t a choice he could make. Wouldn’t she? She would understand… wouldn’t she? It was the realisation that, no, she wouldn’t; no, she hadn’t, that really left Tony speachless.

“I thought you were done with this,” Pepper said instead, gesturing at the floor. Tony guessed she didn’t mean the room, but rather the workshop that was two floors underneath them. “The suits, the… obsession.” She spat the word like it was a bad habit, grimacing. “How long has it been since we even shared a bed, Tony?”

“The last time we shared a bed almost got you killed,” he said automatically. Sure he missed sleeping next to her - but he was still glad if he could sleep at all, and he wasn’t going to risk hurting her, even though he had recalibrated the suits and everything.

“You need to get your mind straight, Tony. You can’t live like this!”

Suddenly, Tony was very aware of the bag in his hands.

“No,” he said, nodding his head slowly. He sounded resigned, but the frown on his face cleared up as he looked up at her. “You can’t live like this.” And that was it. He set her bag on the floor and - left. Just turned and left. Because really, it wasn’t about him, anyway.

[petroltogo]

Summary: There is a moment, when Sawada Iemitsu looks down at his five year old son, his cute, shy, perfect little Tsuna, and the voice in his head — that irritating, always spot-on instinct his family is renown and feared for, the intuition that has never once led him wrong — tells him this boy will burn everything you hold dear to the ground.

In which Tsuna’s understanding of what it means to be a superhero differs from the norm, not that anyone cares. [They probably should have.]

*

Tagging everyone who was interested in this ‘verse which started out on my side blog @tonystarktogo but I’m gonna keep it on my main blog from now on because this one is not focused on one specific fandom: @serendipitystears, @lirial89, @peaceful-fury, @shady-tavern, @in-the-gardens-of-inspiration and @peculiarlylostdreamer

[aurumacadicus]

I DID NOT SEE THIS AH

@lovelyirony why? Why??? You see me trying to heal from my CW salt and you give me this????? (Not that I’m complaining because FUCK all of this makes so much sense, wtf the fuck, why)

Tony Stark and whatever else he is to you

@tonystarktogo and @reioka both of u need to stop making me feel things and write things but since its angst i decided to write to u both (sorry if i’m annoying lmao u inspired me) 

Not everyone knew the true Tony Stark. Everyone knew the silly grin, the flashy eyes, and the style that was somewhere in between Versace Hobo and Billionaire-to-the-Max. They knew he was smart, he flaunted it, and that he had an ego about as large as the Empire State Building. They knew about his Iron Man suit, his business ventures, and his vacations. More than that, who he dated. 

Tony had bared his all to the team. Talking and talking until he couldn’t breathe right, laughing at some godawful Star Trek joke Clint made, listening to Thor talk about Asgard and how he missed his girlfriend, watching the nature documentary that no one else would watch with Bruce, and defending Natasha against the media when they asked too many questions that they never asked the men. (What’s your diet like? What underwear do you wear under the suit? Did you ever sleep with Captain America? Why don’t you ever smile for pictures? You’d look prettier if you smiled a bit more. Tony defends these questions with teeth bared, grinning like a shark.) 

And oh god, Steve. He made sure Steve knew the basics of technology, how to use the new amenities. The inflation adjustments, his own space. The lost look that he always had looking at the others. Tony wanted to make sure Steve had the best, after losing all of the best people. Because this was his team, his own. It was secretly nice to have a team. 

But they never took an interest in him. Bruce skipped out on the mechanics documentary, even though it directly related to nature soon enough. Tony would always text him, make sure that he knew what was going on. Bruce barely responded, save for the smiley face emoji. Thor would always like hearing about Midgard from Jane, claiming that Tony talked like he couldn’t survive. (Maybe he couldn’t, his lung capacity certainly told him so.) Natasha merely gave him an eyebrow. (He could handle it himself he could handle it himself he could handle it himself.) Clint looked at him blankly over a vague joke about Star Wars. “Man, you’re a genius, how unfair is that?” Clint says one day when Tony comments on it. “Half the time, we just pretend to understand your ramblings.” Steve smiles at that. 

They don’t get him. He talks and talks and talks and tries to be nice and accommodating. But his talking runs out, and he can analyze expressions. He just hadn’t. They’re annoyed when he rambles about a new invention for Natasha or Clint because they think that he’s trying to brag. 

Tony talks still. They’re not taking him away, even if they don’t like him. It’s happened before. He still bares his all. Natasha would notice the change. He still asks Bruce if he wants to see a screening about the Titanic. He still makes stupid puns and talks too much and talks and talks mainly about things. 

Bruce notices sometimes. He asks about how Tony’s venture into gardening worked out. “I made myself a cute flower crown,” Tony says proudly. 

But he makes no bones about who he is. He’s a beneficiary. But he hopes. To have those “hey, wanna go out to lunch today?” moments like Natasha has with Steve. Like how Thor and Clint have debates over their cultures. (”Thor, I’m only gonna say it once: no one fucked the Nyan cat.”) 

He’s on the outside. He’s looking in at all these happy idiots, wishing he was one too. But he isn’t. And there’s nothing that can change that. He has an iron backbone, he should be able to deal with his teammates not knowing things about him, like his thing about being handed things. Like not knowing that during MIT, he made up this game with Rhodey. Like that he spent twenty-six hours straight working on the new prototype of Widow Bites. (”Thanks,” she says casually. “Me and Bruce are going out. Don’t tell Clint, otherwise he’ll want to join in.” It’s not like Tony would want to. He’s just the mechanic.) 

And yet, when that whole thing they’re calling Civil War comes out, why the hell is he surprised? Why is he surprised that Captain America, Steve Rogers, would want to stick together as a team? Tony was never part of it. He sees the others, what’s left of them, leave with a bond that Tony has never had. He’s just the consultant. The funding man. The billionaire. He’s not Tony, a friend. He’s Tony Stark: Genius Billionaire Playboy Philanthropist. He was never a friend, and now he’s the Enemy. (They certainly never added on anything else; they didn’t know him.) 

[ad1thi]

@justlous-art asked for stevetony/buckytony to stuckony on twt so i made another rec list!! some of these are established stevetony to stuckony, some are established buckytony to stuckony and some are just them meandering into a relationship,,but hopefully some of them are what you were hoping for!! @iza-rukia13 also requested to be tagged!! 

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stevetony to stuckony

Being Stubborn: @potrix-the-queerschlaeger (part of a series)

Tony is no stranger to people disliking him on sight, hating him with or without reason, but with Steve it’s different. There’s something about Steve, an invisible pull that draws Tony in, makes it impossible for Tony to take the easy way out.

He craves the confrontations with Steve, looks forward to them with an almost perverse glee, his head heavy and foggy with want. Tony wants, he needs. Wants it from Steve, needs it from Steve.

Whatever it is. Tony isn’t sure yet, but he’s determined to find out, no matter what. No backing down.

The Soulmate(s) You Are Looking For: @potrix-the-queerschlaeger​

James doesn’t say anything, just holds Tony’s hand, his face open and full of affection. Tony swallows hard, stomach flipping funnily, but before he can decide how to react or what this means, James’s eyes flutter shut, fingers twitching once around Tony’s before he’s asleep again.

Steve brings Bucky home to the tower. It doesn't go the way Tony imagined it would.

Captain ‘Socialist Rage Muffin’ America: @baffledkingcomposinghallelujah

It takes three months of dating Steve Rogers for Tony to understand why Aunt Peggy once shot at him in sheer frustration.

Alternately titled, Honey, I committed treason again.

just our hands (clasped so tightly):  @daeshikoba

One call out to investigate a disturbance at the cemetery changes everything, and maybe, just maybe, gives them all a second chance. Love doesn't stop for anyone or anything. Not even death.

Penny Candy and Sparklers: @striving-artist

James Buchanan Barnes: formerly the Winter Soldier, formerly Captain America’s right hand man, formerly a sergeant, formerly a dock worker, formerly Stevie’s best friend.... currently a glorified prisoner of Prince T’Challa.... had trouble wrapping his head around all those former selves. He spent too much time thinking about all the bits of him that he kept gluing back together to pretend he was a person anyone would want to keep. He spent even more time picking at the cracks, pointing the flaws out to himself. Only thing he did more than that was make sure no one else noticed how far he was from human.

So, James Buchanan Barnes, who didn’t know what to call himself, who didn’t know how to go forwards, agreed, and moved back into the tower where his best friend lived with a husband orphaned by the Winter Soldier.

The thing is: @/orphan-account

Falling in love can be hard enough to deal with on its own. Falling in love when you are a recently-reintegrated superhero, who spent the past 70 years as a brainwashed HYDRA assassin, is a bit tricky. It gets trickier when the person you're in love with is a genius, billionaire, philanthropist, superhero. It's just messy when said person is Captain America's boyfriend.

But Bucky's handling things fine. He's fine.

The Mission: @haunted_frost, @thxngam 

"He's hot," Tony mumbled.

"Yep."

"We're fucked, huh?"

Rule #3: Do Not Fuck Your Best Friend's Boyfriend (In An Air Vent Or Otherwise): @tonystarktogo

Bucky is very, very good at getting himself into trouble. Example: He's been on site less than ten minutes and already he is forced to hide in a fucking air vent from a bunch of security guards who weren't even supposed to be in the building. Where he promptly makes out with his best friend's boyfriend. While said best friend is on the comms with them.

At least the first part he gets to blame on Clint.

buckytony to stuckony

It’s Raining Inside: @potrix-the-queerschlaeger

Jealousy, ugly and burning, flares up in Steve’s heart at the sight of Tony in Bucky’s arms, and even though he’s loath to do so, Steve has to admit the main reason he isn’t storming right over there to pull them apart isn’t anything noble or selfless, but the fact that he doesn’t know whose place he’d rather take.

Or; five times Steve feels like he's the third wheel, plus the one time Bucky and Tony show him how wrong he is.

Too High A Bar:  @/ezazahaz

Tony and Bucky know neither of them is good enough for Steve. The thing is, nobody else is either. Good thing Steve has friends to protect him from all his unworthy suitors.

This Might Just Work:  @/Odsbodkins

Bucky Barnes is unwillingly dragged along when Nick Fury goes to talk to Tony Stark about the Avenger Initiative, as a little demonstration of the bigger universe Tony's just joined.

Please note: Chapter 3 contains Iron Man 3 spoilers.

The Stars Through Her Soul: @ficlicious

When Toni was seven, her soulmarks manifested: a red star edged in silver under her right collar bone, and a white star edged in blue under her left collar bone. Mama told her never to show them to anyone, because the Starks have enemies, and those enemies could use the soulmarks against her. She didn't see how. They were only stupid stars that didn't do anything but feel cold.

By the time she's fifteen, she learns more about the marks, and the men they signify. Red Star wanders in and out of her life without seeming to remember her from one encounter to the next, and she's pretty sure White Star was lost decades ago. Soulmates, she decides, are useless flights of fantasy, because hers certainly aren't the supportive life partners all the stories say they're supposed to be.

But she's a grown-ass woman now, and it doesn't really matter if she wants them or not. It really doesn't matter if she's a loose cannon, and one is with SHIELD and the other with HYDRA.

They're hers and she's theirs.

And she really doesn't like it when people take her stuff.

(Beta'd by the ever-fabulous LunaMax1214, silvershadowkit, Medie and justanotherpipedream)

just sort of fall into a relationship

If Only: @/Wix 

The Avengers have tracked down the Winter Soldier and brought him into the fold, but Bucky isn't really back yet and Steve's hurting from the distance between him and his first love - and then there's the whole thing with Tony. It's okay though, they'll figure it all out...probably.

Operation: Knuckleheads: @festiveferret

Bucky is enjoying his new, post-Winter Soldier life at Avengers Tower, until he discovers that the constant tension between Steve and Tony was caused by a recent (and mysterious) breakup. Determined to make his friends happy, Bucky gives himself a new mission: figure out what went wrong, and get these two idiots in love back together again.

[aurumacadicus]

@tonystarktogo Okay Sam hates it because he’s a normal person but now I’m just imagining the piercing scream non-normal Tony would let out the first time Steve slapped bubblegum to one of his walls. “WHAT ARE YOU DOING. WHAT ARE YOU DOING STEVE.” He can’t even comprehend this. He is going bananas wondering why Steve would ever think it was okay to put used bubblegum on his walls. “THIS IS WHY EVERYONE DIED OF DISEASE IN THE FORTIES, STEVE.”

(Bucky probably does it too and Tony wordlessly programs Dum-E to bring up his fire extinguisher and spray the super soldiers whenever they do it. Problem is sometimes it takes Dum-E a while to get to them, so it takes time for Steve and Bucky to figure out why Dum-E keeps finding them and spraying them down.)

Tony uses bubble gum to piss people (and Fury especially) off. It works marvellously.

Natasha uses bubble gum as a terrifyingly effective weapon. (It turns out that you can in fact kill a man in eleven different ways with a gum.)

Steve uses bubble gum the way other people use tape. (JARVIS is nice enough to clue him in that no, people don’t actually tape papers against the walls using bubble gum in the future. Steve keeps it up because Sam hates it.)

Bucky uses bubble gum to threaten people. The first time everyone cracked up at the mental picture, but it turns out the reality of it is decidedly more horrifying than anyone expected. Natasha is intrigued.

Clint uses bubble gum to start awesome Who Can Make The Biggest Bubble contests. They only get more awesome once Tony starts cheating by experimenting with the ingredients.

Thor uses bubble gum the way Darcy taught him to: as a way to prove his epic-ness by always chewing the whole package at once. (Yes, Jane regrets leaving them unsupervised.)

Sam uses bubble gum to stop his continuous commentary of how idiotic everyone around him is. It turns out that you can in fact chew a gum sarcastically.

Bruce is so done with this shit. Bubble gum is hence forth forbidden in the Avenger’s Tower.

(Hulk keeps a secret hoard in his room.)

[lovelyirony]

Criminals AU

@tonystarktogo lmao hey sorry but I love this AU??? i won’t do it the justice it deserves, but here’s my interpretation of it: 

Tony’s only consolation in life was the fact that not one boy, but three boys wanted to date him. Otherwise, his life was shitty as ever. Stane Industries sucked. The only reason he was in it was because the technology was slightly better than the other competing brand, and Hammer outright refused to hire him. (Something about Starks and Hammers always being rivals. What a dick.) The pay was awful, and Obie pretended like Tony was still a little kid. He wasn’t, and he knew exactly what Obadiah was doing. The only problem was, no one believed Tony when he told them that Obadiah Stane was doing dirty deals. So he kept quiet about it, occasionally checking in with the FBI office about it. the stupid officers didn’t think that he was telling the truth. He didn’t have enough evidence. 

So crime was forgotten about for a while when he first met Steve. Steve was working as a barista at a coffee shop, and had yelled at a customer for trying to grab a lady’s ass. Steve didn’t look more than 105 pounds, but he packed a voice and speeches that seemed to be written on the spot. (His friend Sam said that his valedictorian speech was so beautiful that their hardass principal (who had an eyepatch how fucking cool is that) smiled. 

Steve, it turns out, had two other boyfriends: Bucky and T’Challa. At first, this caused a lot of Bad Complications that Generally Did Not Go Well for Everyone. But Tony doesn’t focus on that because eventually things worked out and now he’s with the whole crew now! He loves it (them). 

The thing that Tony does not know is the fact that Bucky, T’Challa, and Steve are really criminals. Yeah, Bucky has a lot of tattoos and chops onions better than anyone else Tony knows, but he’s also killed over a dozen men and women and also has no remorse for a Thing That Happened in Russia. (With love.) Steve is great at art and has a couple pieces that sold at the last art fair, and he also can talk for hours about how great Hedy Lamarr is, (without her we wouldn’t have Wi-Fi! Fun fact) but Steve forges everything for a living. He can forge the Queen of England’s signature. T’Challa, while baking the best damned chocolate cake Tony has ever had and always talks science with Tony when Bruce can’t hang, is a cat burglar. Fact of the matter is, he could and would steal the Statue of Liberty. But Tony doesn’t know all this. 

And honestly??? they would kind of like to keep it that way. Their beautiful boyfriend, who has the mind the likes that no one has seen since Obadiah locked it away, who makes fun of Rembrandt and Einstein and refers to Madame Curie as if he personally knows her, cannot know that his boyfriends are internationally wanted for crimes that aren’t really crimes so much as vigilante justice. 

What makes things worse is the fact that Tony has the most dangerous friends. He made friends with one of the top FBI agents, Pepper Potts. She’s had the best record for four years straight. Tony says that she likes tequila and knitting, adn that’s all he said. T’Challa nearly fainted when he saw the woman in the apartment, dressed in jeans and a t-shirt, discussing the merits of wine from California versus wine from Italy. 

And then, they met Rhodey. Even if they didn’t know his history, the man would be terrifying. He already threatened each of them, and he doesn’t even know that they’re, you know, criminals. Steve ended up researching him, and he’s a man that has no existence. Absolutely none. Even Bucky has a little bit of a trail. Rhodey? Nope. There’s no proof he was ever alive. 

Of course, there’s also Bruce Banner. He’s a shy IT consultant, and they thought he would be the normal friend. He is not. Bruce has...anger issues. To get those out, he joined an underground fight club and is known as “Hulk.” He also has a thing for hacking secret government websites, not that Tony knows about that. But the others do. 

Finally, Natasha. She’s scary in the fact that she shows almost no emotion, she’s a PI with one of the best reputations, and she knows everything. Even the criminal thing. That’s mainly because a.) Steve sucks at hiding things and b.) Steve sucks at undercover. (Bucky and T’Challa are trying, goddammit.) 

It’s a lot to take in, a lot to hide. Tony cannot know that they’re trying to take down his boss, because Tony has this weird habit of going “I owe everyone everything because of some self-sacrificial reason.” He’s worse than Bucky in that regard. But they like him, and they’ll do anything to make sure that Stane is put down. 

This includes date night going nearly terribly because they catch sight of Obadiah Stane at their restaurant and are frantically trying to get him to not see them. In the end, T’Challa bumps into him, grabs his keycard for Stane Industries, and they pay the bill. 

After they wish Tony goodnight, they have a break-in. The security is honestly one of the worst in the world, and the only reason that they’re still standing is because Tony works until three in the morning sometimes to keep them out. It’s tiring, stressful, and he’s great at it. But he doesn’t get paid overtime. 

“Move over,” Steve hisses at Bucky. “I’m the one with the small fingers, let me type.” 

“You also have shit vision even with your glasses or contacts, so no,” Bucky says right back. 

“I love both of you, but neither of you know how to type using the homerow method,” T’Challa answers simply. “I’ll do it.” 

And then the light flicks on. 

“Hey boys,” Tony answers simply. Their mouths are open. “What, thought I wouldn’t catch on that you’re trying to hack into Stane Industries and ruin his reputation?” 

“Let us?” Steve asks. “I could write about thirty-six pages on why your boss sucks, sorry babe, but--” 

“I know that,” Tony says with an eyeroll. “But I have something planned. Tomorrow is the party he throws every year with his executives. It’s kind of one of those things where people at home can see how weirdly expensive things are and how much money rich people waste. I’m planning on the presentation being every single crime he’s committed in a four-year window. You in?” 

“From when you said ‘I know that,’ I was already in. How did you figure us out?” T’Challa asks. 

“No offense, but you guys suck at hiding it. Even you, Bucky.” The man with the tattoos pouts. “I have a friend who works for the FBI and has some of her best friends in the CIA. Rhodey shouldn’t even exist, Natasha has ties to the Russian mob and knows everything about everyone, and Bruce...he can break bones and security networks. Safe to assume you guys are a piece of cake.” They smile. 

“You’ll be a great addition,” Bucky adds. 

“We’ve never had a computer genius before,” T’Challa prompts. 

“We’ll see,” Tony says. “For now, I need to get a suit. I want to look great while Obadiah Stane is dying on the podium from horror.”