Tales from the ArtSide

Ellen - 30-something, artist, photographer, wannabe novelist, comic nerd, shameless and ferocious defender of Tony Stark.

[ellonwheelz]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Soooo, yeah, awkward hello in case I still have any followers... It’s... It’s been weird. But good. But weird. I’ve not been on a grand spiritual journey or anything, but I have spent a good year of self-examination in regards to my mental health... Turns out I needed to change some things. And I’m getting there. I am... Anyway, I’m creating again. IronStrange this time for fic. It feels good, just to have fun with something like this again.

[ellonwheelz]

City beautification is on point this year. #stratfordontario #canadaday

[ellonwheelz]

I said goodbye to my constant companion of five years this week. This humble insulin pump has seen me through crazy working conditions, and a surprising amount of emotional turmoil despite my uneventful life. As you can see, she has battle scars. I actually had a hard time pulling the battery out to send it back to Medtronic. So long Agatha. You've been a trooper. #diabeticproblems #diabeticlife #diabetes

[ellonwheelz]

Had to say goodbye to this old soul today... So long, Dakota, Undisputed King of the Bush. Who wandered at will, but always wandered back again. You were a true gentleman of dogdom.

[captainheroism]

#just a smiling!tony to make your dash your blog your life a better place ◡‿◡✿

[ellonwheelz]

This smile cures what ails.

[starlightervarda]

Not A Perfect Soldier, But A Good Man

Steve became my favourite Avenger, or Marvel character, back in 2011. I remember being in the cinema, with very low expectations, and watching the movie unfold with mild interest.

Then I saw this scene. 

Steve proved himself to be very complex in scene, he didn’t mindlessly hate Germans, he saw them and HYDRA as bullies just like any other and he wanted to do something about it before they could hurt others. He didn’t make it about him, he didn’t make it about America or Germany, he made it about the basic fact of him defending the Little Guy, whoever and wherever they may be.

Steve inspired me, despite his many shortcomings, his poor health and his many rejections, he kept on trying because helping was not something he could avoid. He wanted to help in any way he could, and then he volunteered without a thought to Erskine’s experiment as a way to help, even if it wasn’t his initial idea of being soldiers. Then they benched him, turned him into a propaganda machine, but the second he got wind of Bucky being MIA he went into battle, with or without army permission and saved not just what concerned him, i.e., Bucky or just Americans, he saved everybody. He accepts everybody as long as they’re good people just like he formed the Howling Commandos, a multi-ethnic and multi-national team, just like he trusted Natasha, an ex-Soviet spy, and Erskine, a German during a time where everyone hated and mistrusted Germans. He doesn’t make assumptions, he doesn’t mindlessly hate, and he certainly doesn’t hurt people who don’t hurt others.

Steve is not just America’s hero, he is everyone’s hero. He may break the law, work around it and disobey orders but it’s all for the greater good, because that’s what Steve Rogers is. 

Not a perfect soldier but

Before he is your icon, your Avenger, your propaganda, your soldier and captain, Steve Rogers is a good man.

Which is why this breaks my heart. I look up to Steve, I identify with him, I love him and it’s unfair for some jackass looking for shock value to do this to me and everyone else who loves Steve and what he, as a man and as Cap, stands for.

Steve Rogers is my hero and you can’t take him away from me, not like this.

[fhosdfoisdhfodsi-deactivated202]

tfw ur bro is doing some dumb shit u shouldn’t approve of but u love him anyway

[textsfromthe-avengers]

Submitted by @madmoll

[fuck-me-barnes]

On Steve Rogers #1, Antisemitism, and Publicity Stunts

Captain America: Steve Rogers #1 had a big reveal about the character, and it's offensive, given the character's history and origins.

Look, this isn’t my first rodeo. I know how comics work. He’s a Skrull, or a triple agent, or these are implanted memories, or it’s a time travel switcheroo, or, or, or. There’s a thousand ways Marvel can undo this reveal—and they will, of course, because they’re not about to just throw away a multi-billion dollar piece of IP. Steve Rogers is not going to stay Hydra any more than Superman stayed dead.

But Nazis (yes, yes, I know 616 Hydra doesn’t have the same 1:1 relationship with Nazism that MCU Hydra does) are not a wacky pretend bad guy, something I think geek media and pop culture too often forgets. They were a very real threat that existed in living memory. They are the reason I can’t go back to the villages my great-grandparents are from, because those communities were murdered. They are the reason I find my family name on Holocaust memorials. They are the perpetrators of unspeakable, uncountable, very real atrocities.

[returnofthejudai]

This is a really good read and raises a lot of the points I’ve raised while being more cohesive.

[ellonwheelz]

Great read. Fantastic read. Read it.

[sliceosunshine]

Anyway

Here’s a wholesome pic of Captain America socking Hitler in the jaw

[monstroushellbride]

Thanks, my friend. I really…I really needed that today.

[sliceosunshine]

Here, have another:

[ellonwheelz]

Reblog for justice...

[asenseofcontentment-blog]

Jack Kirby, born Jacob Kurtzberg, and Joe Simon were two Jewish men in a dangerous time who did something extraordinary. They created a true American hero who stood up for the little guy, like them. They created a political statement by putting Captain America on the cover of their comic knocking Hitler out with one good punch. This led to the two men receiving death threats. Both men served in World War II, fighting against the Nazi regime.

It is so incredibly disrespectful to these two men to write this new story line of Captain America. The writers have already said it isn’t a Skrull, or a LMD, or brainwashing… this is the new direction they are choosing to take the character in. In light of this new development I encourage everyone to remember the men behind the incredible Cap we have had for all these years and to take a stand against the new series. Don’t buy it, don’t reblog it, do not show anything but opposition to it.

And always, Remember Jack Kirby and Joe Simon

[immaplatypus]

where is the lie

[africabytotos]

ok but i want luis from ant man to do a recap of all the mcu films just before infinity wars comes out????

[stevestark]

okay so like, it all started with Iron Man right? like you know Iron Man, dude who doesn’t know know Iron Man, you feel me? anyway so like before Tony Stark was Iron Man he was just Tony Stark, you know? but like he was still fly as hell, like dude had a different chick every night and like that’s not my style but you know game recognize game. so anyway Tony was like, mad cool and always partying and making badass weapons and shit.

but then he like got attacked by his own weapons and he came back and was like ‘Bro, I gotta stop making these weapons, they do bad shit in the wrong hands’ you know? so he tells his company they gotta stop but then he makes the Iron Man suit and the bald dude who used to run his company is like ‘bro, I need that suit and also I tried to kill you’ and it’s not cool, man, it’s like, dang this guy ran his company and shit and now he’s gonna do him like this? 

but like, Tony’s Iron Man so he wins and stuff and then this dude with an eyepatch is like, ‘yo, homie, I need you on this team, help a brother out’ but Tony’s like ‘nah dude I work alone’ and eyepatch guy is like ‘mhm’ and like you know that’s not gonna be the end of that. 

Keep reading

[ellonwheelz]

Reblog for Luis love...

[storyhoard]

Tony Stark is my hero because i need a hero who struggles. Not just with criminals, villains or any outside force, but with more of their own demons than they will ever let anyone know. 

I need a hero who finds themself again and again face-down in the mud and shattered remnants of their own mistakes but /always/ manages, somehow, to get back up. No matter if someone pushed them there or if they tripped on their own faults, they pick themself back up and /keep going/. Not because they have to, not because the world’s at stake, but just because they’re trying so hard to be /good/. 

Tony Stark is my hero because he’s had his trust betrayed so many times, but it hasn’t turned him angry and bitter like too many other characters. Because no matter how deep in the dark he gets, he never stops caring about the world, about /people/. 

Because his brain moves at a thousand miles an hour and I know what that’s like, how isolating it can be. Because he’s always wearing some kind of mask or another, because he’s /always had to/ and I know what that’s like, too. Because he carries his own shit on his own shoulders, and built his own superpowers with his mind and his skills and his own two grease-stained hands.

I just fucking love Tony Stark. 

[ellonwheelz]

Forever reblog

[tonysbadlanguage-deactivated202]

A little backstory as to why I'm so attached to Tony Stark

I was in rehab 13 years ago for alcohol and cocaine abuse.  While I was there, I had my comic trades and one of them was Demon In a Bottle. I read Tony’s struggle, I empathized with it and I saw I had to change. So don’t ever tell me that Tony Stark isn’t a hero because as far as I’m concerned, he saved my fucking life.

[ellonwheelz]

Didn’t go through a structured rehab, but getting clean was tough. It was a story that I needed and learned a lot from. It resonates with those who’ve been there.

[theironman]

[ellonwheelz]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

One-shot where Tony and Rhodey make each others night a little easier to bear post Captain America: Civil War. Pre-slash or slash if you squint. Or hetero life-mates. You choose.