[cowardsexual]

they throw stratt in jail for life but world renowned, white european political prisoners don't get the short end of the stick in terms of prison arrangements. she's not in some overcrowded unsanitary hole of a women's prison, she was the most politically powerful leader on earth for god's sake. she was put there by important people already in charge, people who would still want to keep in contact with her from time to time. no, she'd have her own nice, clean cell: a bed, a desk, her own bathroom. she'd be allowed phonecalls and letters and meetings, they probably wouldn't allow her unmonitored internet access but they would bring her newspapers and maybe even leave her a tv so she can watch the news.

but most importantly she would eat well. the food would be good. it wouldn't be anything restaurant grade, but it would be clearly something prepared for her. and she would look down at her plate and her brain would run leclerc's calculations for their global food resources and she would ask herself how many people in her world are going hungry because there's systems in place to keep people like her fed like this. and her throat would close around every bite.

[tojisloft]

has this been done?

[cedardivine]

no wait yknow what. it gets its own post

everyone gets onto eva stratt for the "think about it long time" vs. "you have three hours" thing but

operating on book canon a little bit: if grace couldn't do it-- if he said no*-- the alternative was to scramble and fly in the next most qualified volunteer, who had 0 training, 0 knowledge of astrophage, and was not an astronaut. three hours could have been three hours of training for that replacement. three hours could have been three hours of preparation for grace, if he said yes

eva stratt gave grace three hours. not to decide, necessarily, because the decision was going to be made the way it was no matter what. but three hours to come to terms with it, to grieve, to mentally prepare himself. three hours that could have been spent giving humanity a better chance to survive

she borrowed three hours that she didn't have to give grace space to process. to get himself together and come to her, teary-eyed but resolved, and say yes.

and he still said no to her. she gave him everything and he said no. he forced her to force him. she gave him three hours she didn't have. i feel so sick about eva stratt

[toxiccoworker]

not the first person to make a weather boy joke and certainly not the last

[forgotten-emerald]

[yallstillhere]

Come get this dick-fil-a

[yallstillhere]

I’m tired of y'all reblogging this every Sunday

[yallstillhere]

One of you shit heads are saving this post and waiting until Sunday to reblog it

I will fucking find you

[the-dragonian]

hey! Guess what? It’s sunday

[your-local-blackhole]

>:3

[galaxygaymeronyt]

It’s dick-fil-a Sunday, people!!

[ravioliet]

huge fan of when characters love each other and are closely bonded in an explicitly nonromantic way. however ☝️ i am very much not a huge fan of what happens when characters like this are introduced to fandom

[random-embers]

adding to my aro4aro ironfox exes au:

they met at that conference where grace called that guy a staggering waste of carbon. tony saw it and loved his vibe.

[ridingcthulhudick]

Aromantic Tony Stark guys

When Tony’s a kid he knows he’s not supposed to be much interested in romance, but here’s the thing about being a child genius. Most people forget you aren’t actually an adult because you fake being one so well, so people ask all the time who he has a crush on. The answer is no one, he has gadgets to build and that is far more interesting than the romance movies he’s been forced to watch with friends. But people don’t think that’s an acceptable answer and it’s Obi who finally thinks to ask something different. Instead of the dreaded “who do you have a crush on?” its “well there must be someone you think is smart and cute.” Which, okay, duh. There’s this girl in his class and she makes the best comments when people underestimate her ability to build things and he can relate because people underestimate him too, hazards of being a kid in college.

When Tony’s doing his Master’s degree everyone is going to insane lengths to find a life partner but he doesn’t really care. Not because he doesn’t want someone to spend the rest of his life with, but because he’s never bought into that “go to school, get married, have kids, live out your American Dream” bullshit that gets pushed onto people all the time. When someone asks who he wants to spend the rest of his life with he says Rhodey because he couldn’t think of anything better than living the rest of his life out with his friends. People laugh, and someone calls him immature because you can’t live with your friends, Tony, you can’t live out your college days forever. Except that wasn’t what he was trying to do, he just didn’t want to get married and have kids, Rhodey was there for the company, not because he wanted to spend the rest of his life partying (though he wouldn’t mind that either). Rhodey notices how crestfallen he looks but Tony dodges the subject and Rhodey never brings it up again.

By the time Tony is an adult he has a pretty bad reputation for being a womanizer, but he doesn’t understand it. All the women (and men, but people don’t talk about that) he’s slept with were all consenting adults, and he made sure to tell them point blank he wasn’t looking for romance. They all knew what they were walking into before they got there, and they all sighed NDA’s after too, for good measure. But people hated him for only ever having sex with women (but never the men), and everyone he slept with was cast as a victim in Tony Stark’s Womanizing Way’s and he just didn’t see the problem. Why was he a bad person for only wanting sex? Why would it have been less demeaning if he was dating the women (or men)? They all made informed choices and for the life of him he had no idea why everyone hated him so much for not “settling down” with someone, he just didn’t have an interest and he was getting really fucking sick of people asking. 

He doesn’t think about romance for a long time, he has no time between Afghanistan, Obadiah, dying, the Avengers, everything else. It isn’t until Steve starts asking questions about all those damn letters in the LGBT+ acronym that he stumbles across the solution to his lifelong problem. 

The Avengers put him in charge of research, probably because they all think it’s hilarious when Steve gets an accidental sex talk from Tony but he thinks making Steve blush is hilarious too so he’s fine with looking things up. He makes sure to read a little on each letter so he at least has some idea of what he’s talking about but it still takes awhile to find “aromantic”. When he looks over the term’s definition- not experiencing romantic attraction- he’s immediately interested because he knows exactly what that’s like. 

He reads for hours before Natasha and Steve finally hunt him down in the lab, finding him surrounded by articles, blogs, and various websites because things finally made sense. He wasn’t a horrible womanizer (okay, so he was a pretty crappy person then, but not because he only wanted sex), he was aromantic. He hadn’t had crushes or whatever because he was aromantic, he hadn’t wanted to “settle down” not because he was emotionally stunted or immature, he was aromantic. 

And suddenly things were put into prospective for him, plus he got the pleasure of watching Steve blush when he explained in excruciating detail how he had come to the conclusion that platonic relationships and sexual relationships had been all he was ever interested in.

[thudworm]

You all have no idea how here I am for aro!Tony. And re: “what about Pepper?”- It is not at all uncommon for aros be in romantic relationships, unsure of why it doesn’t seem ‘right’, especially before finding aromanticism as a concept and realising that it applies.

[savelavonsullivan]

Very fond of the Eridians named Adrian and Rocky

[random-embers]

rocky mate bad as hell statement

[natalieironside]

"'I don't know' isn't an answer" alright man then I'll just. Fuckin. Enter my philosophical mind-palace and check the fuckin akashic records. Real quick lemme just catch and cook and eat the Salmon of All Knowledge. Tell me ur question again so I can real quick climb to the highest branches of the Yggdrasil and lay it at the feet of Freda the all-wise Queen of Heaven. Dickhead.

[random-embers]

bro just relax. I'm trying to study you in your natural state and you're hyper-awareness is really messing up my results right now

[laugoscos]

I'm rewatching Iron Man 2 because of my sister, and all I can think about is Pepper x Natasha reluctant-teammates-to-lovers yuri (with a side of aromantic Tony Stark for funsies)

[mushroominawaterbottle]

there is the line between bisexual and aroace and i am using it as a jump rope

[random-embers]

might be unintelligable, but tony stark (mcu) x ryland grace (project hail mary) except they're both aromantic.

they have a really good, like, year of dating and then suddenly realize separately-but-at-the-same-time that they are aromantic and they fuck up while trying to come out to each other which starts an argument that leads to them breaking up. they don't see each other again until tony is trapped in space with nebula and they have matching "IS THAT MY FUCKING EX?????" reactions because why would they expect to see their ex in space???

it's been bouncing around in my brain for the last couple of days. the comedy potential. the angst.

grace (and rocky, of course) going to earth for like. diplomatic reasons. or something. and the avengers having to deal with the fact that tony somehow dated the random ass guy that was thrown into space. like, before the whole "thrown into space" thing, grace was a normal middle school teacher. it is utterly baffling to everyone that he's also somehow tony's longest lasting "romantic" relationship.

[voidsetup1]

and out of the darkness - you you you you you

[lemondoddle]

[Description: a looping bouncy animation of grace and Rocky from project hail mary. Grace throws himself onto rocky for a hug, smiling and nuzzling his face to the top of Rocky's xenonite covered carapace. Rocky brings a claw up to ruffle Grace's hair and grace throws himself even more on top of rocky, rocky wrapping his arms around grace. End description.]