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[angeeelatin]

Master List

Series

Tomato Soup Cake (completed)

Peter's List of Impossible Things

What Makes a Hero? (completed)

Peter Parker & Stark Industries

Three Idiots

The Peter Parker Guidebook for Dummies

Ned Leeds, the Filipino Friend

Compilations

Marvel One-shots

Daiya no Ace Fics

Author's Personal Favorites

Prompt Fics

Marvel Fics

Bulletsproof

Peter finds out his new suit is actually bulletproof. Naturally, he needs to call his (dad) mentor to thank him.

Cake.

Steve just wants to show how much he loves his family by baking them a cake. More specifically, a tomato soup cake.

Cravings.

Peter wants tomato soup cake. It goes as well as you expect.

Or: Tony tries to stop himself from spoiling Peter and fails.

What's up, Danger?

Peter has always been reckless; ready to sacrifice everything and take on the world for his family. He knew it gave May and Tony so much grief. However, faced with this decision, his life or the world's – his life or his family’s, the answer was obvious. He guesses that this would be the last one - his last decision. But if this decision could guarantee the joy and happiness of his friends, his family. If it would save so many people. Then, he supposes, it's alright. After all, with great power, comes great responsibility. So...

He snaps.

Home Alone, starring Ned Leeds

Some enemies of Spiderman finds out that Ned Leeds is a close friend and they decide to kidnap him. Unluckily for them, Ned Leeds is a Filipino and is trained in the art of throwing tsinelas™

or: Ned Leeds stars in his own movie, Home Alone

Of Recovery and Desperation

Losing an arm is hard for anybody. With the aftermath of Endgame, Peter tries to settle into life without his arm. He's actually been doing really well! Until Tony finds him sobbing over cat videos and the need to go out as Spider-man again.

Or: Tony Stark gets Peter a cat and a sunflower to satisfy Peter's caring tendencies.

Home (is where the family is)

Tony gets a new intern, Harley. Peter is excited but Harley is decidedly not.

Peter doesn't get it.

Then, Harley blames Peter for something that was decidedly not Peter's fault and Tony took Harley's side.

Now, he gets it. Seeking comfort, he turns to his spider gang for help. Unfortunately, Peter was unaware that interdimensional travel meant that his atoms were split apart and put back together. Relatively painless, but on paper? He was practically dead.

Obviously, Tony Stark gets notified that his protegee was in critical condition and calls the calvary

The Video Journal of Peter Parker

Ned tells Peter to get back into video making so that he'd have something to do. Creativity or some bullshit like that.

Or: A collection of videos that Peter shot for fun.

Done.

Reaching out to shake Mr. Beck's hand, Peter's spider senses suddenly go haywire.

Wincing, Peter numbly shakes his head and tunes out the conversation. Why were his senses going off? There were no threats here! He literally walked into SHIELD's base and shook Beck's han- Beck. They went off when he touched Beck.

Something isn't right here.

Or: Peter goes off at Beck and Fury bc he isnt dumb

What it takes (to be a hero)

The Avengers find out that Peter Parker is Spider-man and they have some thoughts on it.

Or: Peter Parker gives the Rogues a wake-up call on actions and consequences and what it truly means to be a hero.

(Newsflash: it isn't the equipment or the fancy spandex.)

Peter Parker: CEO-in-training

In the aftermath of the Civil War, Stark Industries announces that they're releasing a line of medical equipment, offering high school internships, committing to a variety of research and most importantly, distancing themselves from SHIELD and the Avengers. Instead, Tony Stark makes the New Avengers with the UN.

The result? An overworked Pepper Potts and Tony Stark.

Enter Peter Parker, their worried son who forces them to go on a vacation and, in the process, gets roped into becoming CEO for the next two weeks.

Itsy Bitsy Spider

Peter makes himself an army of Spider AIs and forgets to tell anyone.

Or: How Peter convinced the New Avengers that he could talk to Spiders

Double or: How Peter's class found out he was the heir of Stark Industries in the stupidest way possible.

Squad Goals

Peter Parker, Stephen Strange and T'Challa all meet in the soul stone.

This results in some chaos

Interviews

Peter accidentally got mistaken for a model and got interviewed by the best reporter in the business.

Or: How the internet discovered and fell in love with Tony Stark's personal intern and oblivious bean, Peter Parker

The Art of Speaking

As a kid, Peter knew that he was a genius. Not to toot his own horn or anything but most things came easy to him. He didn’t really have to study for his exams, instead he preferred to study more interesting topics, like glowing plants. They were just so interesting.

One of the things that came easy to him was learning languages. It was simple to Peter. They all had meanings and rules. There was a logic to languages that made it easier for him to understand him

or: Peter knows how to speak a lot of different languages and his dad is really proud of him.

When Crazy Equals Genius

Tony Stark dies at the age of 57 of a heart attack. Looking for closure, Peter decides to write Tony's biography with the help of their close friends and family.

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In that moment, stepping out of his suit and taking the time out of his day to actually talk to his mentee, I understood that Tony wanted me to be better than him.

What he never knew; what I never told him was that there would never be anyone that could be better than Tony Stark himself. […]

An excerpt from page 57, written by Peter Parker.

Making of a hero

After Peter rips them a new one, the Avengers realize that they have a long way to go.

or: How the Avengers finally understood what it means to be a hero.

The Field Trip

Or: how peter's team decided enough was enough and invited midtown over to SI to deal with their baby boss' bullying issue . Surprisingly, they didn't have to do a thing.

At SI, Peter Parker bows to no one, especially not to an entitled brat like Flash Thompson or this asshole from the military who came to stir up trouble.

(un)answered questions

The CCTV footage of Tony and Steve's fight is released to the world.

What did Sam think of it?

Beauty (in its simplicity)

Peter Parker didn't have a lot of hobbies. Sure, he had Spider-man and his job at Stark Industries but he didn't consider them hobbies, more like really intense part-time jobs.

So yeah, he didn't have a lot of hobbies.

In fact, he'd go as far as saying he only had one or two hobbies. After taking up Spider-man, he had developed a liking to photography and then later, after he realized the amount of trash and waste lying around New York, he had taken up on making jewelry.

Specifically, bracelets.

Or: How Peter came out to Tony

Peter has a gun

Sometimes, when the days get really bad; when the insults get too close for comfort; when he still sees a shadow of red on his hands, he'd go out to the range and just shoot, shoot and shoot.

Every time, when Peter would arrive, the people, staff or regulars, at the range would get ready to see a show.

Peter Parker, nephew of the late Ben Parker, never, never ever, missed a shot.

Or: Peter Parker has a gun. that's it, really

I'm Still Breathing

Tony woke up to too-bright lights and white walls all around him. It felt suffocating. But, he supposed, this was a feeling he was used to. Being Tony Stark and Iron Man and genius, playboy, philanthropist was just so tiring sometimes.

Or: Tony Stark post-Siberia

Lack of sleep (and the antics caused by it)

When he was sleep-deprived, Peter Parker had absolutely no filter.

Like lightning during a thunderstorm, it was both entertaining and terrifying to watch.

or: 3 instances where someone found a sleep-deprived Peter, no context.

Aftermath

"You're saying that this… teacher… had heard Peter being harassed and bullied by this boy and decided to reprimand Peter instead?"

Nodding in agreement, she answered, "Yes, ma'am. Other employees around the company agreed with my assumption, especially the cafeteria ladies. They said he was harassing Pete during lunch as well."

Hearing this, Pepper's expression hardens. "Thank you, Amanda. I'll look into this. Leave this matter to me."

Or: Pepper Potts mama bear manifesting / Midtown is going DOWN

Peter has a weird neighbor

18:54 | Queens, NY, USA | Peter Benjamin Parker

Good afternoon, Mr. King T'chaka, sir. This is Peter Parker. I'm 10 and I live in Queens. I'm sending a message to let you know that I have a neighbor who is really, really weird and I don't like him. He has a dog. It's really mean and tries to scare the cats away and he just lets him! He's really evil, Mr. T'chaka, your majesty, sir. Also, I think he's been selling something called Vibranium out for a few months now? I don't really know who he is cause his name is hard to pronounce and even if I don’t like him, I don't want to mispronounce his name cause it's disrespectful, you know? Anyways, please come get him and never let him come back. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Peter Benjamin Parker.

P.S. Take the dog with you.

Or: a Peter Parker meets Shuri before Tony Stark AU

Ace

Looking at them weirdly, Peter said lightly, "Well, I didn't become the police precinct's ace honorary detective by sitting on my ass, now did I?"

"What."

"What?"

"Peter, I thought the NYPD hated you?"

Tilting his head like a confused puppy, Peter looked at Tony weirdly. "Huh? I've been working with the NYPD since I was seven or eight. They love me."

or: no one really knows that the police worked well with Spider-man

The Bracelet Conspiracy

It started with one video.

Everyone at Midtown knew that Flash Thompson was a clout chaser. It was really telling with all the LIVE videos he'd have in between classes or during field trips. Something about Flash mob? Anyways, the important thing was that everyone at Midtown also knew that Flash Thompson not so subtly had a conspiracy YouTube account.

Or: How everyone found out that Peter Parker secretly has a bracelet business and gives away his bracelets to the Avengers via Flash Thompson ranting about the secret qualification needed to become an Avenger: the infamous bracelet

Moving Forward

Still, Tony knew his the kid was brilliant. Hell, he saw his brilliance nearly every day since he woke up from his coma. That, however, doesn't explain why his the kid was currently telling him to create boundaries.

Tilting his head questioningly, Tony asked, "What exactly do you mean by that, kiddo?"

Staring at him with a deadpan tone, Peter gave it to him in black and white, seeing as telling him indirectly didn't work at all, "It means stop taking everyone's bullshit."

or: how Tony cut off Nick Fury post-CW

Collections

Peter liked to keep things. Or more accurately, just… never throw them away. It wasn't really to the point that he'd say he had a hoarding disorder. He was just fine with the idea of throwing them away. It's just… what a waste, you know? They’d find some use later on, he was sure.

Naturally, this extended to his activities as a science nerd and, later on, his vigilante persona. This may or may not have… caused some problems.

Or: Peter Parker finding things to give to the Avengers in his pile of random things.

T'challa's revenge

Barnes has pissed T'challa off. He had caught him doing the unforgivable.

Internally fuming, T'challa knew that Barnes knew just what exactly he was doing and still, he kept doing it! That bastard.

Now, T'challa wasn't petty. Really, he wasn't!

He wouldn't go as far as hitting the guy.

What he would do, however, is mess with him a little.

or: we didn't see too much of little shit!t'challa so i decided to write a continuation specifically for t'challa

Field Trip 2.0

Because the Academic Decathlon team won nationals this year, they were awarded with field trips. Yes, field trips. Plural. Because they had already visited Stark Industries, their destinations this time were a bit more diverse in location. They were going to the White House, and Pym Technologies.

For some reason, Peter has higher clearance than he should have.

Or: I introduce another character into the Peter Parker & SI- verse, Hope Van Dyne

Little Things

Today, he talked someone off of a building, told someone that today is worth living

Was it?

Or: an introspection fic

Home

Peter Parker was a student, intern, hero, friend, son and so many more. How does he handle it? Naturally, in Peter Parker fashion, he doesn't. Instead, he overworks himself.

It's all fine until it isn't.

Sometimes, Peter Parker needed saving too.

Or: Peter Parker got himself into a hostage situation. Naturally, the Avengers are more than willing to grant these dumbass kidnappers their death wish.

The Peter Parker Rulebook for Dummies

Dropping the books on the table, Tony sighed, "Okay, pass these around. They are important."

Flipping through his copy, Sam's head was filled with questions. What the fuck? "Tony, what is this?"

Waving a hand, Tony turns to the hologram presenting the words, 'Peter Parker Rulebook for dummies'. He said, "What is says on the tin. Pepper and I are leaving in a few minutes and Happy and May are off frolicking and doing things that I refuse to think about. As such, you, the Avengers, will be tasked with the important mission of handling Peter Parker."

or: Tony Stark has a guidebook to Peter Parker. Here are the first 100 rules.

Aegis

For the first time in two years, captured through cameras and preserved for the rest of time, Spider-man didn't pull his punches. He didn't calculate his strength.

Spider-man let loose.

He was going 100%.

And as he did, the world goes quiet.

Or: how it finally hammered home for Steve that saving the people was just as important as saving the world

Peter Parker Guidebook for Dummies Vol. 2

"What the hell do we do now?"

Staring at the broken chandelier and the spider-child that was still sleeping at the corner of the ceiling despite the amount of broom whacks he had received, Rhodey just laughs brokenly, "Check the guidebook. Just. Check the fucking guidebook. Tony and Pepper need to rest. We have nothing else to turn to."

Or: Tony Stark has a guidebook to Peter Parker, here are rules 101 to 200.

Déjà vu

In another life, Peter Parker doesn't get bitten by a spider.

But one would find that there would always be variables that stay the same, no matter how many universes and worlds you look at.

That just happens to be Peter Parker and Tony Stark's relationship.

Because the world works in weird ways and Peter Parker doesn't need to be a crime-fighting spider to be a genius. Sometimes, even when you take the road not taken, there are things that are just fated to happen.

or: Tony Stark, Happy Hogan and Pepper Potts all meet Peter Parker. The kid feels familiar for some reason.

Ineffable

Turning to look at the area, road wrecked to high hell, Spider-man said simply, "I did what I had to do." Brian stills for a moment, shivers running down his spine making him shudder slightly, blood turning cold despite the summer heat. How simple. Do what you have to do.

Brian didn't know it yet.

But, he was looking at the future of heroics.

Or, at least, that's what everyone watching the livestream felt.

Instead, he lets his lips tug into a wry, helpless smile. How simple a reason, yet… how complex underneath. "Gotcha."

or: the aftermath of aegis as seen through social media among other things

Revelations

When Peter Parker had crash-landed into their tiny little circle and promptly made himself a home, it was obvious that everyone had had to change and adapt to the new circumstances a little.

It was a process and a half but by the end, Peter Parker had slotted himself into their small little family quite nicely, as if he was always there.

This process, however, wasn't something that Rhodey had consciously done.

Or: Peter Parker and his relationship to the Iron Family as seen through the eyes of James Rhodes

Nothing (holding me back)

When Peter gets shot by a bullet that nullifies his spider powers for a short period of time, shit gets real.

or: Peter Parker's impulse control is 98% just his spider senses and right now, they are nonexistent. Cue: Tony Stark's headache

Peter Parker and how to be a vigilante: a saga

Peter Parker realized that he had to train before going out as a vigilante. He can't save people if he didn't know how to throw a punch after all.

or: a Peter Parker gets mentored by Happy Hogan and Matt Murdock AU

The lack of noise (is more haunting than you know)

They started calling him, Spider-man, the hero of the people. It was a title that he had, in the months that followed, never fell short to uphold. And…

It was a title he died upholding.

or: Peter Parker is dead. This is the aftermath

The Holidays start on September

Peter is sent to Ned's for the week for safekeeping while Tony and Pepper are off to a meeting. This week, however, is the first week of September and the Leeds haven't finished decorating for Christmas yet.

or: Ned Leeds is the Filipino Friend™ and for Filipinos, Christmas starts on September 1.

From the vault

Tony Stark wrote a guidebook to Peter Parker and here are some short one-shots related to that.

[ 01 | 02 | 03 ]

Beware the monster (it stares at you)

Spider-man was a monster, yes, but he was also a safeguard. Because here, he finally realizes that the people of Queens were able to sleep at night knowing they were safe not despite the fact that Spider-man was a monster but because he was a monster. He is reminded that Spider-man was a hero and for mutants like him? That meant the world.

Go, little Rockstar

Tony Stark had only ever wanted for Peter to be safe.

or: Tony Stark and Peter Parker's relationship through the years with bonus Ironfamily

The Inter-club Competition

It's time for the annual inter-club competition and everyone is paying attention to the academic decathlon team, not because they won the national title but because everyone was aware that the decathlon team… Didn't really have any other talent?

At least, that's what they thought. Enter Eugene Thompson and Peter Parker. Academic decathlon rivals. Frenemies with an ongoing streak of vindictive pranks And… Dancing with the stars enthusiasts.

Rainbow Skittles

Peter has a cat named George who he loves very much. Unfortunately, Tony, his dad who isn't actually his dad didn't get the notice that George is a cat and not Peter's boyfriend. Cue, existential crisis

Man Amongst Giants

Tony Stark is dead. Every news channel seemed to forget that they were trashing him just a few months prior. Pepper Potts is not handling it well.

or: In the aftermath of Endgame and Tony's death, Pepper releases a documentary and book about the life of Tony Stark. A socmed fic.

Daiya no Ace Fics

Baseball (and things associated with it)

Eijun loved two things: Baseball and Miyuki Kazuya. Through baseball, he found Miyuki Kazuya. Kazuya was his star. The one thing he strove to reach. He inspired Eijun to keep pushing; keep furthering his limits. Pitching to him made Eijun's spirit soar. It had a distinct sound, a distinct feeling. Baseball and Miyuki Kazuya were, to Eijun, nearly one and the same.

That was why, when he saw Miyuki Kazuya kissing one Furuya Satoru by the wooden shed behind the buildings one evening as he was storing his tire, he felt like his whole world fell apart.

What now?

Groceries

Eijun and Kazuya never meet at Seido, instead they meet years later when their baseball careers have already taken off. How? By Eijun being an idiot and using Kazuya's Instagram DMs as a grocery list, of course.

(It's not like Eijun conveniently forgot that he was also, in fact, famous, right?)

Room 5 Shenanigans

If there's one thing everyone at Seido knew, it's that Room 5 consisted of three kinds of people: the demon, the milder demon disguised as sunshine incarnate and Asada. However, the two demon senpais, Eijun and Kuramochi, by some miracle, had yet to convert their newest angelic kouhai, Asada, into the amazing world of pranks.

At least, that's what the team thought.

or: Kuramochi and Eijun are going to stay at a hotel for three days to visit Mochi's mom. Obviously, they leave behind their angelic kouhai Asada with a mission:

"If they ask, just tell them some made-up answers." "How do you want me to tell them, senpai?" Grinning positively feral, Youichi cackled and reached out to pat Asada's shoulder, "We'll leave it up to you." Nodding slowly, Asada hesitantly agreed. "Alright, senpai, leave it to me."

A Catcher's Guide to Pitchers (Seido Edition)

Sometimes, the catchers of Seido need somewhere to put all of their information, right?

or: a sneak peek into the Seido Pitchers Google Document

[angeeelatin]

Prompt

AU where Ned and Peter are captured by the Avengers, interrogated separately and both have wildly different answers

10 mins ago:

Ned: We robbed the bank.

Peter, in the other room: No, no, we didn't rob the bank! We made a loan! A LOAN! It's different!

Steve: You walked out of the room in masks. and duffel bags filled with cash. and all the guards knocked out.

Peter: So, they weren't very aware of the loan. Big deal!

it seems i have disappeared for a bit so here take a prompt ive been trying to write but can never seem to flesh out how i like it

[angeeelatin]

Hi buddy! I miss you! Where you go?

hello!! took a bit of a break but I'm back! hopefully I'll be able to put something out soon <33

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[cosmologicalhedgehogephemera]

I found this on twitter by user Kingfisher & Wombat. https://twitter.com/UrsulaV/status/1568685612168892423?cxt=HHwWjsC-2ZjQi8UrAAAA Thought it was too good not to share. First comic in quite a while that’s got me in tears, ‘cos it felt like hope, and, well, what with everything…

[t-poserat]

If you can, please donate to the Internet archive, links in the description. The loss of the archive would be devastating for dozens of reasons.

[definitelynotcecelia]

I know the Library of Alexandria comment sounds like an exaggeration. It absolutely is not. As of May 7, 2022, the Internet Archive holds over 35 million books and texts, 7.9 million movies, videos and TV shows, 842 thousand software programs, 14 million audio files, 4 million images, 2.4 million TV clips, 237 thousand concerts, and over 682 billion web pages in the Wayback Machine. It’s been operating since 1996, the loss of knowledge would be impossible to ever completely come back from.

The lawsuit from Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, John Wiley Sons, and Penguin Random House alleges there have been significant revenue losses because of their controlled digital lending program. For context, most libraries in the US also use CDL to distribute books to their patrons wherever they are but those programs are run through for profit companies and the libraries are often paying a very high fee to so their patrons can have access to digital books. The Internet Archive’s program is completely free but they have a policy of not digitizing and lending anything less than 5 years old.

The lawsuit goes on to note that authors often own larger shares of their revenue of digital vs. print copies of their books. So the publishing companies, seeing that they’re underpaying their authors, are essentially blaming a library for being free instead of bumping up what authors earn on print copies. The Internet Archive’s 5 year policy is designed to protect authors anyway as that’s when books typically make the most money.

[definitelynotcecelia]

Hey by the way The Internet Archive is also one of the most cited places on Wikipedia. If it goes down a good chunk of Wikipedia will go back to “citation needed” or citations will lead to dead links.

[joelcoen]

it would be so funny if the queen dies this week

[cipheramnesia]

Imagine, Boris Johnson tries to set up a visit with her but she dies instead, and then we can add the Queen of England to people who would rather resign than deal with him.

[voicesbyzane]

I think a lot about how in Ice Age 1 a huge theme is the slow but unstoppable advancement of the human species as they start to threaten previously unchallenged megafauna (hunting the pack of the antagonist sabertooth and killing Manny the mammoth’s family) and then in all the sequels they just fuckin disappear

[twinklecupcake]

I think a lot about how the first movie was actually pretty somber and dark with moments of lightheartedness and comedy, about three animals who had lost their own families finding family in each other while trying to return this baby to his own family… The first sequel, while wackier, touches on the existential dread and loneliness Manny feels at being the apparent last of his kind, his exhilaration at meeting another like him, and the question of “be together because we want to be, or we HAVE to be?” as well as Ellie having been part of a found family herself… ….and then the franchise from then on out turns into “wacky animal hijinks.”

[sky-squido]

OKAY FOR REAL i rewatched the original ice age a little while ago for nostalgia and this movie is GOOD you guys—i literally rewatched it all over again the next day. there are a couple of key things i noticed:

1. they know how to shut up. the animals know how and when to shut up. yes, even the comic relief one. do you have any idea how important this is? yes, they play it for laughs when diego first confronts manny and they fight and then diego stops, clears his throat, and asks manny politely for the child (which was brilliant, by the way, i laughed aloud), but aside from that, when there’s a serious moment, they let it be serious. when manny accepts the baby from the mother, when he sees the paintings of the mammoths on the cave wall, when he returns the baby to its father, these are moments where everyone is dead silent, even sid, and the music is soft and heartwrenching and the next line is rarely, if ever, a joke that undercuts the prior moment. they let these scenes linger and it really makes this feel like an emotional, somber, serious movie with fun character interactions rather than a comedy that makes cheap appeals to emotion.

2. the way they characterize manny at the beginning is SUPER interesting to me. by the end of this movie, we know manny is a big softie who was deeply wounded by the loss of his family. we as the audience don’t know this yet, though, and the first time we catch a hint that there’s something deeper going on here, it’s when manny firmly, sharply insists to sid that partners should be loyal to each other. it’s not an obnoxiously blatant “hey i have trauma” flag, since it could be interpreted as the writers playing with the monogamy of mammoths and promiscuity of sloths, which i’m fairly certain they bring up in this movie, if not one of the others. still, though, it strikes that perfect balance of not making the Oh Frick Manny Had A Family reveal later on completely blindside us while also not telegraphing it too obviously. at the beginning, manny is clearly a loner who wants nothing to do with sid, but to avoid making him come off as a straight-up jerk, they make it abundantly clear in the introductory sequence that he has a strong moral code that he holds himself to (”I don’t like animals that kill for pleasure”). i just thought this was really well done, opening the movie with a scene that demonstrates both that manny is a complex character who comes off as cold but cares deeply (which sid basically sees straight through and i love it) and that sid is incredibly unlikable and as such nobody likes him. i didn’t realize it at first, but that’s such an interesting move. we open the movie with sid getting abandoned by his family, but then we find out how annoying he is and go “oh, well that explains it.” but then he tells manny all about how they regularly do their best to ditch him and it’s so clear that he’s just too pure and innocent to hold any malice towards them. under it all, though, it’s clear that he’s lonely, too, and has been for a while. these characters have depth, and feel like people, and every quiet moment just drives it home even more that they really don’t have anyone except each other.

3. DIEGO! we stan. i think it’s really interesting how instead of just throwing these characters into the world together, the writers make it clear that they had other people, before, but those people either were toxic and ditched them (sid’s family), were toxic and needed to be ditched (diego’s pack), or were loving but torn away by circumstance (manny’s family). i dunno, it just adds a really interesting layer of depth here. but anyway, diego’s arc was just really well done. he’s only there to get the kid, and though he does start to enjoy himself, he still has his mission. but when manny risks his life to save diego’s and sid makes that comment pointing it out, you can SEE how he starts to linger, starts to dread, the guilt builds up until he TELLS THEM. that’s so important! he tells them!!! there’s no stupid, “liar revealed” plotline where they figure out that he’s been tricking them because he comes clean himself, without provocation or pressure, and they do eventually forgive him and that’s SO important. diego wasn’t being honest with them, was living a lie and planning to betray them, and he made the incredibly difficult decision to stop in his tracks and come clean on his own terms because he knew it was the right thing to do. there were So Many Ways the writers could have handled that reveal, but to have diego just stop, think, change his mind, and confess was SO GOOD. also the dynamic between the three of them was just really, really great. i’m so emotionally attached to these early-2000′s CGI creatures okay.

4. speaking of which, this movie is surprisingly good-looking. like it came out in 2002. that is IMPRESSIVE. manny’s fur holds up shockingly well and my suspension of disbelief was never fricked up by poorly rendered CGI graphics. props to blue sky, man.

5. okay point five is lowkey the whole reason for this rant because it’s a really really cool point i only noticed on my second watch through: the parallelism. why does diego have to kidnap this baby? because his pack’s leader (soto, apparently) wants to eat it alive as revenge for the humans killing half of his own. why does manny want to rescue this baby? because he, too, is a parent who lost a child and doesn’t want the humans to go through that. but, wait, hang on a minute, how did he lose his child? oh, yeah, the humans killed it and his wife right in front of him. both soto and manny lost most of the people they care about to the humans—these humans, specifically, since they seem to be the only community in the area—but where soto swears revenge, manny doesn’t want them to go through what he went through, even though this very act could be what perpetuates that. and they acknowledge it in the movie. diego mentions how this baby is gonna grow up to hunt them and sid counters that maybe the fact that they saved it means it will remember their kindness and things will change. but the whole movie carries the somber atmosphere of a tragedy because, as someone else mentioned above, the humans are steadily encroaching and all of these creatures are going to go extinct, and this one act of kindness may not have the intended effect and may soon be lost to the uncaring tides of history, but that doesn’t make it any less worth it. manny isn’t doing this to try and make a statement or change the humans’ behavior, he just wants to prevent them from going through what he did. calling this story one of “breaking the cycle of violence” cheapens it, i feel, because the humans are hunting the mammoths, not out of malice, but out of necessity for furs and meat and bone and tusk. it’s nothing personal—they’re predators. but still, manny seeks them out to return their baby to them. and when the baby’s father is raising his spear at manny when he’s trying to return it, you can just see that look in manny’s eyes, that he’s begging this human to understand, but he’s prepared to get speared if it means this kid gets to be with his father and MY HEART, YOU GUYS.

6. FOUND FAMILY FOUND FAMILY like i know found family isn’t really all that hard to come by, but this movie is REALLY explicit about it in a good way! they make the distinction between a pack—a group who wants you for what you can do for them—and a herd—a group who regularly looks out to see what they can do for you. and a saber-tooth tiger leaves his PACK to join this HERD! and they joke that this is the weirdest herd they’ve ever seen, but a carnivore has just joined a herd and that makes me feel SO MANY FEELINGS

ultimately, ice age is a movie about choices. manny’s choice to return this kid to its parents, even though he lost his own kid to those very parents, diego’s choice to come clean about his betrayal and his choice to join a herd even though he’s a carnivore, manny making the choice to risk his life to save diego, diego making the choice to return the favor, and all three of them making the choice to not give up hope that they can find a new family again after losing what they had before. this is a movie in which characters are more than the way they were born, are more than the circumstances of their lives, are more than what happens to them. they make choices and their choices matter and they choose to be kind, even when they have absolutely nothing to gain from it and everything to lose from it.

i guess you could say this movie aged nicely.

thank you and good night

[vilmublue]

Also, I’d like to point out that the reason the people in the movie look like that is that they’re Neanderthals, not Homo Sapiens.

[introducingmiggymackerel]

“When God sends me to hell, I want him to hesitate” vs. “I have ascended to Heaven to take on the Kingdom of God” fight

[angeeelatin]

Man Amongst Giants

read it on AO3

Relationships: Peter Parker & Tony Stark, Pepper Potts/Tony Stark, Tony Stark & Steve Rogers, Tony Stark & James Rhodes, Peter Parker & Happy Hogan

Characters: Peter Parker, Tony Stark, Pepper Potts, Steve Rogers, James Rhodes, Happy Hogan, Morgan Stark

Tony Stark is dead. Every news channel seemed to forget that they were trashing him just a few months prior. Pepper Potts is not handling it well.

or: In the aftermath of Endgame and Tony's death, Pepper releases a documentary and book about the life of Tony Stark. A socmed fic.

[ Go, little Rockstar ]

Words: 8305 | Chapters: 1/1 | English

[shymagnolia]

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

[shymagnolia]

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

[flagellant]

…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment

likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post

[coffee-or-hot-cocoa]

i need all the help i can get for finals

[finnglas]

Hey so

the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like. 

So you know. 

This might be the real one, y’all.

[labelleizzy]

My life is pretty good but definitely sharing this out for all my folks who might need it!

[saturnsrightarm-deactivated2022]

maybe my life will finally change for the better

[ithinkhobiknows]

I NEED ALL THE HELP I CAN GET FOR MY EXAMS

[7th-seraph]

what if every Tumblr user suddenly looses their mouse?

[bardofspades]

J = Next Post K = Previous Post L = Like N = View Notes Space = Show Photo Shift + R = Reblog Shift + E = Add to Queue Z + Tab = Switch Blogs

[itsblueandboxy]

[tyleroakley]

THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING.

[starkstrider]

I just reblogged this with the command, shit

[enjolrasjosette]

Do you know how much this helps people who have trouble with the mouse? (Me, other disabled people) thank you

[femmecrip-deactivated20151212]

Yup, I use these when my hands get particularly weak (like now)

[spiritofcamelot]

Alt + R is the new command to reblog Alt + Q is the new command to queue

[silentwalrus1]

i had a thought today like man, my ancestors would probably not approve very much of me being such an extravagant glutton, but then i was like wtf are u kidding. those dumbasses didn’t live on a fuckin potato ass diet for no minimalism. they didn’t do what they did, whatever the fuck it was, for me NOT to fucking eat my bodyweight in sashimi!!! they would be fucking ecstatic to see me making the most of my opportunities for plenty. they would be fucking cheering me on. every lice-covered cossack and illiterate serf and three-toothed yak herder in my lineage is with me in this restaurant, and they are going absolutely apeshit watching me try to fit an entire samosa in my mouth

[silentwalrus1]

i love this idea that the ancestors are following modern people around like a rappers yes-man as we eat food #‘fucking superb you funky little descendant’

me, standing in front of the burger king counter like the blithering hunger gibbon i am: i’ll have… uhhh… double whopper with fries. thank you. large please

the 500 mongolian tatar and polish jew ghosts behind me: [ERUPT INTO WILD SCREAMING AND HIGH FIVES] 

[pochowek]

can you believe there is a painting of cossacks going hogwild out there that fits this situation perfectly

[shymagnolia]

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

[shymagnolia]

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

[flagellant]

…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment

likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post

[coffee-or-hot-cocoa]

i need all the help i can get for finals

[finnglas]

Hey so

the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like. 

So you know. 

This might be the real one, y’all.

[labelleizzy]

My life is pretty good but definitely sharing this out for all my folks who might need it!

[saturnsrightarm-deactivated2022]

maybe my life will finally change for the better

[ithinkhobiknows]

I NEED ALL THE HELP I CAN GET FOR MY EXAMS

[funnytwittertweets]

[6stronghands]

I worked a cash register in a crappy grocery store on Friday the 13th, the day the schools got word that they were going remote because of the virus. 

There were horrible people. I don’t need to go into details because we’ve all heard them or read about them or experienced them firsthand. 

But most people were just scared and anxious and trying to take care of their families in spite of bad local and state and national leadership and terrible messaging and limited personal resources. They were intense, but understandably so. 

My bosses weren’t great, not on any level, from CEO to shift managers, but that’s not news, most of us have been exploited and abused in our jobs before and during Covid. 

We weren’t allowed to wear masks because the store thought it would freak out the customers. Some people quit on the spot, but precious few because it’s not the kind of job you work if you have a ton of options. A woman came through my line and she was wearing a cloth mask with a pretty botanical print. I complimented the design and we bonded over love of fabrics and crafts. She asked about the store mask situation, I explained store policy, she shook her head, left with her groceries, and I kept working the endless line. She was back four hours later with a mask for me. She’d gone home, put away her perishables, sat down at her sewing machine, made a mask for a stranger, and then gone back out into crazy traffic and crowds, just to find me and give it to me. She gave it to me in front of the floor manager, and explained to the manager that she was worried about the employees, and my boss had to let me wear it (out of a weird mental loophole of  ‘customer is always right’ even though no other employees were allowed to wear one that day and for a few weeks afterward, which sounds insane, but it’s true). 

Another woman had come through with a ton of cheese, really cool fancy stuff. I’m in the cheese fandom so we had a good time chatting. She left with her groceries and I kept working the line. About an hour later, she was back in my line again with more fancy cheeses. I rang her up, bagged her food, handed it to her, and she handed the bag to me and said “This is yours, I’m grateful for all the essential workers but I don’t know how to tell you guys or keep you safe, so I’m just doing this.” She’d put her groceries in her car, gone back into a madhouse, picked out cheese for an anonymous cashier, and WAITED IN LINE FOR AN HOUR so she could give it to me personally. 

Toward the end of day, after credit card machines had gone down five times in as many hours (do you know what it’s like a for an entire grocery store to go cash-only for overlong periods of time on March 13 with a building full of scared customers? Do you know how funny or charming or lighthearted you have to be with that many intense people on the verge of freaking out? Sometimes being a cashier is like being a goddamm standup comedienne or therapist or surrogate mom I swear). Anyway, a guy came in toward the very end of my overtime and the card reader went down again and this customer didn’t freak out. He started SINGING. He stood there and sang to me until the computers came back online. I’ll never forget him or his sweet voice or that moment in time, ever. 

I know things are bleak right now. I know they’re going to get worse. But I see acts of bravery and kindness all day, every day. Every. Day. People are channeling their despair into personal outreach that doesn’t get witnessed by many people because it’s usually one-on-one type stuff. I do a ton of climate & political stuff, as well as all my odd jobs, so I see a lot of different demographics in a lot of different situations, all of them stressful, and yes, there are sociopathic assholes in all of those settings, but there are ALWAYS always people being good and brave and looking for ways to connect or care for or support other people in a myriad of ways.

I don’t believe in very many things at this age but I will go to my grave defending the goodness of humanity. We may be isolated, we may be headfucked and heartbroken, but we are still fighting the good fight. That’s as real as all the bad stuff. 

[yuugisbarber]

There’s fanfiction…. And then there’s FANFICTION. The kind of shit you happen upon at like 3am or some other ungodly time because you were trying to find a fix for ur fixation at the time and you are just SUCKED IN and every sentence feels like a line of cocaine and it has quotes and imagery that permeate your brain and it’s the shit that sticks around in your consciousness forever and it never goes away and it’s always going to be one of Those Fics.

[lokorum]

valleys of the young

[creating-a-mess]

100 year old Galapagos tortoise with a few weeks old Galapagos baby posing for a new family photo, and its own baby photo from 100 years ago.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

love that for 100 years people have looked at these beasts and thought “heehee what if the big one wore the little one like a hat”