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If you're like me, sometimes you need the full text of Civil-War-era Tony's letter to Steve in the event of his death from "What If? Fallen Son" (2009). So here it is in its entirety!
If you notice any typos on my part, please let me know.
I put line breaks wherever the text was broken up, either by being in different sections of a panel or different panels/pages. I preserved the ellipses, though I didn't double them (in many cases a section of text would end in "..." and then the next section would also begin with "..."). I also didn't double up line breaks and ellipses.
Steve, I hope you never have to read this, old friend, because if you do, it means something terrible has happened. It means I'm dead. I suppose it shouldn't come as much of a surprise, really. During my years as Iron Man, I've racked up hundreds of enemies who wanted to do me inā¦ and after recent events, probably a few old friends who feel the same. It's funny, though. I always prided myself on being a futurist--constantly thinking a leap ahead of everyone else. Apparently, that leap wasn't nearly far enough. But this letter is about looking forward--not back. It doesn't matter what killed me. All that matters is what happens nextā¦ and the legacy I've left behind. I'm not talking about Iron Man, either. The suit is nothing without the right man insideā¦ and there aren't many I'd trust to pilot. Rhodey. Pepper. Happy. Maybe Jarvisā¦ though he was never really the hero-type. And you, Steve. Whether you believe it or not, I always trusted you. Even during the darkest days--during the war--I never stopped believing in you. No one did. But like I said, this isn't about choosing a new Iron Man. There was a world before him, and there will be one after. This is about my ideas--the plans and inventions that I hoped would make the world a better place. This is about making sure those things don't fall into the wrong hands. I don't even want to imagine the suffering that could causeā¦ That's where you come in it. I need your help, Steve. I need you to keep an eye on things now that I can't anymore--which is a lot to ask, I know, after what I've put you through. Still you're the only one I trust to make certain everything I was working for doesn't fall apart without meā¦ and to ensure that the threats that I wasn't around to predictā¦ don't end up blindsiding us in my absence. Our war may be over, Steve, but we both know that it won't be the last one. When the time comes, the world will still need heroes. And when the fighting is over and history is writtenā¦ I can only hope that we will be remembered as more than just heroes. I hope that we will be remembered as I will always remember usā¦ As friends.
And the typeface used in the comic is--or is very close to--Lucida Handwriting Light, which used to come free with a lot of Microsoft products.
I also have a rough mock-up of the entire letter.
#what if? fallen son#marvel#marvel 616#616#resources#reference#tony stark#iron man#captain america#steve rogers#posts I created#marvel civil war#616 civil war#civil war 616
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If you read The Art of War, there are so many elements regarding deception and preparation that very neatly tie in (along with some of Machiavelli's warnings) with the actions Jason ended up taking when he returned to Gotham.
But I've always wondered if Jason was amused when he found the line: "Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death."
#this is such a lazy post (even for me lmao)#I'll make a longer post about this post exams#but here's a something or other#It was one of my favourite details in either utrh or outlaws when we got to see what Jason read#Did he find it ironic that he as a fallen son no longer stood with his commander?#Did he wonder if a master strategist like Bruce knew it too?#batman#dc comics#bruce Wayne#EDITED: To add full quote#the art of war#Jason Todd#sun tzu#Red Hood
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Iāve fallen into the inevitable Destiny brainrot so here's my goofy little titan guy I forgot to post earlier on here
#the shitness from Destiny 2 ate my son#Iām so stoked for the Final Shape expansion itās gonna be so awesome hopefully#hereās my silly little exo titan oc#please help me l've officially fallen into the inevitable Destiny brainrot#digital art#destiny the game#destiny art#destiny 2#destiny fanart#destiny oc#destiny exo#destiny titan#the shitness#the witness#idk what else to tag#im all out of tags at this point#whaalless#skajillies
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The worst part about reading in a genre where you have low expectations (in this case, Christian historical fiction) is that when a book impresses you, you have no idea if it's actually good or if you're just overly impressed because it was a fraction of a degree better than the usual garbage.
#basically lately anytime i read a christian fiction book that isn't romance-based i find myself surprised by the quality#i do think that some christian publishers are getting better#and trying to tell stories that dig deeper into real faith and messy issues#instead of making only vapid squeaky clean prayer-filled tropefests#but i'm not sure *how much* better#because anything above the low bar feels like great literature#the most recent is 'in a far-off land' by stephanie landsem#and let me tell you setting the prodigal son in 1930s hollywood is a genius concept#i have some issues with the history and the mystery#but the characters!#it has been a long time since i cried this hard over a book#several chapters of solid waterworks#(and i also have the issue of figuring out if it's actually that moving or if i'm just hormonal/sleep-deprived)#i keep thinking about this book but also i worry about recommending because what if it's actually terrible by normal book standards?#(also the author DOES NOT understand the seal of confession and i was SHOCKED to find that she's actually catholic)#but also looking at the reviews makes it clear that if most of christian fiction is vapid garbage it's these reviewers' fault#here you have something that's digging into sin and darkness and justice and mercy and these people are just#'how can it call itself christian fiction if it only mentions god at the end?'#are we reading the same book this WHOLE THING is about god! and humanity and our fallen nature and how this breaks relationships!#your pearl-clutching anytime someone tries to get even a tiny bit realistic is destroying this genre#i'm gonna run out of tags so i'll stop now
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#(you imagined me. what else could i do but love you?)#fallen london#seeking mr eaten's name#smen#flmp#mp#are ya seeking son#honestly was a toss up between cerise and erzulie#being given the option of cheating when no one would find out in the nadir#plus the text for erzulie was so good#(no i did not take the easy out)#but otoh yeeting my classic short story down a well was cathartic#i WAS proud of myself thanks
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fuck it .heres my edgy sniper oc. this is tumblr im not gonna get shamed for this
ft my spy oc theyre so in hate š©·
#tf2#team fortress 2#tf2 oc#tf2 sniper#hes so fun to draw im obsessed pls help#i love making edgy supernatural tf2 ocs#this guy here is a fallen angel but he has a son whos a demon#unrelated to those two . there is also a dog a vampire and a robot#what tf2 did yall play ššš#my tf2 stuff is like so far removed from the game and its lore atp theyre closer to being the freaks than the mercs#tbf that is like aoart of tjeir lore#theyre secondary picks to the main mercs and bevause of that theyre all kind of crazy and weird#the red lore specifically is comically edgy cuz its fun! but it is also played like completely straight#spy is the only edgelord on blu ynless u wanna count the engie#reverse emesis blue ig#lore for reading this far: the sniper and spy used to date and be on the same team but the sniper fucked up the spy's life and moved to red#also they have 2 kids. the red scout and the blu scout. im not gonna go into the logistics of that rn#sniper is quite literally like 500k years old. spy is like in his late 40s#ok sorry for my weird cringe lore its just fun to be cringe sometimes i cant rlly help it#thats it though ummm . bye
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Slott did a lot of lame boring things but it is funny how little of an impact those two damn kids he gave Ben and Alicia have made. I've read almost every issue of his damn run and I cannot remember their names. One is a blue boy the other is a green girl but other than that they have the same fucking personality. I can't believe he killed the moloids for this.
#brieuc.txt#fantastic four#BEN HAS A SON AND A DAUGHTER ALREADY! FRANKLIN AND VAL!!!#Slott's dedication to the nuclear family dynamic by erasing exactly what made the FF unique is proof he does not understand them#The Fantastic Four have never been a cut and dry American family they only APPEAR that way to larger society.#Congratulations you have fallen for the ''respectable'' veneer they project to keep society happy.
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The (rare) smile that has the entire Los Diablos Rangers on an absolute chokehold (and he has no idea about it š©)
#sidestep#fh#fhr#fallen hero#fallen hero: rebirth#fallen hero: retribution#oc art#i've been drawing damien like a flustered wet cat in headlights so maybe its time to draw what the rangers actually see#as my son it is my firm belief that he's hotter than any of the rangers#as long as he gets over his debilitating self-image and existential crisis#gets 7-9 hours of regular sleep#reduce his coffee and increase water intake#actually participate in his therapy sessions#and definitely putting the head honchos of The Farm 6 feet under#art#my art
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still trying to figure out this character design, he doesn't look like the same person in any of those, I swear he'll get a hearcut in the next game
#fhr#fhr sidestep#fallen hero#fallen hero rebirth#sidestep#fallen hero retribution#oc#my art#what is consistency?#I don't have it#maybe one day I'll learn#still got that severe brainrot#boy hasn't been happy in 8 years but he's still kicking#lucas basri#fallen hero mc#he's so smart but so stupid#my son
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hozierr
hozier!!!
#answering asks#chair asks#chair!!#ohhh woag son of nyx is crazy fascinating#no lyrics??? i think?? wild dude#it kinda slaps though it feels like background music for one of those video games that partially changes your brain chemistry yāknow#itās so like. ethereal. and ephemeral#it reminds me of this one game i played i really liked#idk i canāt describe it but itās so so rad#not what i expected#okay okay all things end#waghh this oneās pretty#it doesnāt hit quite the same as some of the others but it is interesting#we begin again!!!!#i have never known a silence like the one fallen hereā¦#yeag. pretty song dude#woag i like the bit at the end when thereās like a chorus that joins in#ouhhh and now itās just the chorus wagh#yeag!!! son of nyx slapped especially cackles
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New Like Dropped:
Me, obsessed with Cal Kestis and the Mantis crew.
#Cal is my son now#He is also Cereās son#I also love Cere and Greez and Merrin and Kata#And Merrical#cal kestis#greez dritus#cere junda#nightsister merrin#kata akuna#bd 1#I canāt believe I almost forgot the cutest droid to exist#Honestly though what a crew#Finally finished watching the games#jedi fallen order#jedi survivor#And am now on my way to the bookstore to get#Jedi battle scars by Sam maggs#jedi survivor spoilers#slight spoilers#star wars
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i wanted to show off my home and then got distracted by cannibal neighbours before remembering what i was doing
#sotf#sons of the forest#just a day in the life :)#i sit in my seat. i kiss my wife. she gives me berries. our husband collects sticks. the neighbors are rude.#gotta find virginia a nice outfit next#also if ur wondering what i was doing w that plank: i thought it had fallen off the platform#it hadnt tho#most of the time when enemies arrive i just snipe them from my perches#so no need for any walls rn tbh#when i reload the radio goes back to its original place but the camp its from is rly close#so i just go and get it again lmao#otherwise i always got the tunes#for those who dont know anything abt this game:#those guys attacking are mutant cannibals that escaped from some facility and now live on the island#theyre not very nice#theyre cannibals by choice btw they know how to get food. theyre just like that.#white boy wednesdays ig
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Wow, this weasel sure is, something. I haven't seen my stats so low since I got myself a talkative rat right at the start of the game.
#fallen london#weasel of woe#i know my shadowy isnt at the cap yet#ill get around to it...#eventually#everything else is#i swear#-except kataleptic toxicology but whatever-#the question marks is just in case for spoiler#if you know what it is then#no you dont lol#hehe#after all#its impossible to know what it is right?#riiiight?#ahem#anyway#i am enjoying this weasel#thank you failbetter#he is my son and i shall name him gareth
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The Pathways Novel is the holy grail of young Tuvok characterization because I can just sense so clearly through the page how insufferable he would be to talk to
#and let me tell you? insufferable IS affectionate with a million hearts drawn around it#A girl confessed her love to him and he basically grabbed her by the shoulders and said Sophie....please get ahold of yourself!#Remember WWJD!! and she has to be like '.....y e ah ok. yeah. sorry.' and then they parted ways forever#Tuvok at the monastery observing the other initiates like I'm the only one who /really/ gets what we're going for here but who am I to judge#I think the line is something like 'Tuvok despised what he thought to be the partaking in unncessary luxuries but he trusted that the elders#knew best'#I think Tuvok's life is just going through different particular types of Difficult-To-Talk-To#crybaby kid to know it all teen to wannabe priest to holier than thou initiate to when-I-was-your-age dad#then he FINALLY started chilling the hell out#AH I keep saying 'monastery' its a temple#I love Tuvok him being earnestly annoyed by others has fine-wined into dry remarks while definitely NOT rolling his eyes#Tuvok cares SO much is the thing. <3 guy who is full of not-love#Guy who makes terrible horrendous first impressions but then eventually worms his way into your heart (VERY unintentionally hes NOT trying)#It'd be funny if everyone liked T'Pel right away in contrast hehe...<3#Tuvok's parents' characterizations in that book are NOT canon to me though#also there's a funny moment where Tuvok is complaining about how their sons are (in his opinion) not disciplined enough#and when he looks to T'Pel for her opinion she's just fallen asleep#and he considers waking her up despite the fact that she JUST gave birth before going hmm.....better not.#Wise Choice Friend HEHEHEH....g od...dumbass <3
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to get a good idea of how much i love sons of the fallen, the review im currently writing for its recently released companion novel, beyond the storm, is *squints at laptop screen* ā¦..six pages long.
and iām not even finished.
#ā£ļø#maybe this is the universeās way of telling me to finally make my own book blog for fuckās sake#iām really sad about this because i donāt want to cut anything down but like also the way iām writing itā#iām just sad the people on goodreads might not see my full thoughts of everything about this series as a whole š#because thatās basically what this is. a reflection of sorts šš½ but itās also my downfall because goodreads just had to cut me off#ācharacter limitā i meanāthe NERVE#sons of the fallen#booklr
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I know it was you.
Better Call Saul Five-O
#better call saul#better call saul edit#bcs#bcs edit#mike erhmantraut#a sword day a red day#i wonder#would things have been different if matty had been going to turn them in?#if he'd died for something?#anything. even as selfish as that?#because mike is just so empty and purposeless#and that fixation on meaning#'you killed him for /nothing/.'#i don't think it would've changed the ending#no matter what mike goes and avenges his son#but would mike have fallen into such a pit of despair if#right or wrong#he could've blamed someone else for what happened to him?
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