de-li-cate

Jasmine/🇭🇰 and in the death of her reputation she felt truly alive

[sapphothetical]

dress details in paintings

Vittorio Matteo Corcos // Édouard Bisson // Heinrich August Georg Schiøtt // Édouard Bisson // Carl Timeon von Neff

[b-seraph]

on the unspoken gay history

Michael Lassell - Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love 1850s–1950s - Richard Siken - Joan E. Biren - Sappho - Joan E. Biren

[duocatt]

idk if it counts but DUM-E had deffo, like, low-key-kinda very gently punched tony in the face. very gently. a small boop. not entirely comfortable because he is made of metal, but it was an Attempt at Affection that may, kinda, be considered a "cheek kiss"

consider,, platonic rhodeytony (tonys like 15 xjskfj) doing the Physical Affection bc tony is hella touch-starved and:

[heisenbergchronicles]

BrBa Pilot mini-comic by Jens K in Tromsø, Norway

Links: Web site / Tumblr / Twitter

[reputstion]

1 MINUTE COUNT DOWN

I AM NOT CALM

[reputstion]

sorry i’ve never seen you live and probably never will be able to :( i love you so much and i hate that i’ll never be able to tell you this but i just want you to know you, your music and your lyrics and your videos and your talks and just YOU, have been by my side on all my worst nights when no one else was. i love you more than words could say. @taylorswift

[reputstion]

been crying for the last two hours bc i messed up the procedure and would now not be able to participate in my local City of Lover concert ticket giveaway. I know i’m buying Taylor’s albums because i love her and i support her work, not just bc i can use them to enter the contest but it’s completely devastating me right now that i’ve lost my chances bc of my own stupidity and i’m still buying the same amount of albums, but won’t be eligible to enter anymore. i just hate myself so much i’ve screwed up everything in my life and i just honestly wish i could remind myself every time that i never succeed at anything and should just stop trying.

[reputstion]

taylor’s cute little “lovERRR” right after the line “and at every table i’ll save you a seat” is so fucking cute

[reputstion]

taylor watching me sing “My heart’s been borrowed and yours has been blue, all’s well that ends well to end up with you” on repeat in a shitty melody i made up in my head for the past week:

[reputstion]

every time taylor releases a new song and it doesn’t load on my phone at exactly the SECOND it’s released i start crying and thinking that it’s too late now and nothing matters

[reputstion]

WE’RE GETTING LOVER IN LESS THAN ONE (1) HOUR

[reputstion]

yes i think taylor swift is the most gorgeous person on this earth what about it

[reputstion]

Gorgeous is one of my absolute favourites on rep why do y’all bully her so much 😭😭😭😭😭

[reputstion]

the reputation magazines really are the best thing that have ever happened to us huh

[knightinironarmor]

little 616 tony things to remember:

- calling his date’s friend for help on what to wear - green sunglasses pink superstar jacket - facing the world but sinking into an existential crisis when a kid doesn’t like him - praying he’s not drunk when he wakes up in the morning - aggressively longing for inner peace - high key avengers nostalgia - asking and remembering stark industries employees names - personally lending a hand in the rehabilitation process of known criminals - “don’t you believe in dreams?” - broken mirrors - divine comedy references - “malory” and “captain america” passwords - the “&$&@ it, fire everything” protocol - waking up in a hospital and, “don’t sedate me, i’m an alcoholic” - to a little girl “don’t be frightened. i’ll be right back. and one day, you can sing me a song” - riding on the back of the motorcycle - using pictures of his girlfriend as a bookmark - “this is a heist movie” - stark datashades - the blonde clean-shaven steve rogers-esque undercover look - casually owning a captain america costume - sad post-mortem videos - growing up as a “sensitive boy” who cried ~too much - james bond references - drawing heart shapes on fogged glass - getting his nose broken trying to defend a woman from harassment - keeping wedding pictures of happy and pepper on his mantelpiece like an actual grandmother - having vivaldi play as soon as he steps into the house - extreme sports junkie - “the drink or the dream?” - talking about both “tony stark” and “iron man” as entities separate from each other and separate from himself - a part of him is dead and the other is screaming in pain - space fascination - rollerskates - being scared of the dark - feeling bad about killing sewer rats and lizards - FEAR OF COCKROACHES - horoscope nerd - e X t r e M e horoscope nerd - wanting to die but not dying because he doesn’t think he has done enough even though he also thinks he’s done too much lol “necessary monster” - weird choices for sleeping places - the “grinding but hollow feeling” that makes him want to drink - slipping AA sayings into casual conversation - tony’s personal christmas shopping = christmas shopping for people at the homeless shelter he funds - christmas wish: “someone to watch over me” - hating magic - hiring anyone who demonstrates valor on the spot (pepper potts, happy hogan, marcy pearson, etc) almost like he’s knighting them 😎 - broken bones and coughing blood inside the armors - when the suit fails: “don’t be a coffin” - disturbing medical protocols - the creepy satanic undertones in several of his nightmares - not believing in heaven and hell but believing he’d go to hell if it existed - also high key wondering if he IS in hell - to be continued

[dawittiest]

- buying out entire disneyland to go on a lunch with a woman he just met

- making a black woman head of stark enterprises in case of his death

- making RHODEY head of stark enterprises in case of his death

- code names “mother hen” and “papa bear”

- being “uncle tony” to cassie lang

- “damn you for making me do this” when forced to kill a terrorist

- “i hate when you look at me like that”

- basically adopting babyvengers

- being carol’s sponsor

- considering a baby of a woman he lived briefly on the streets with one of “the people close to him” to the point that actual supervillain kidnapped her to get to him

- keeping signed photos of his girlfriends next to his bed like some kind of 40s dweeb

- giant avengers pictures aka tony stark decorating 101

- letting his chestplate battery run out to the point of heart attack on daily basics

- *tony stark jumps into the bushes* *iron man jumps out* ‘i took mr stark to safety’

- being the worst at secret identity, seriously, THE worst

[knightinironarmor]

[clutches chest]

[knightinironarmor]

- DRINKING THROUGH STRAWS - being cool with it when people give him liquor as a gift - kitty mug - driving fast and recklessly when upset - wanting his armor to inflict psychological terror in his enemies* - (*so long as it doesn’t scare kids) - not being able to hug the woman he loved because of his breastplate - feeling bad about himself while iron man. quitting iron man. feeling bad about himself for quitting iron man. taking iron man back up. feeling bad about himself for taking iron man back up - re: iron man: “i hate you almost as much as i need you” - “the iron scream” - “the golden ghost wins” - not counting villain deaths as clean victories - literally always ending up in his underwear around rhodey for some reason - the mullet - forbes 500 crop top - white tuxedos - “i’m SO ANGRY I COULD BREAK THIS –” [carefully places thing back on shelf] - being the consummate avengers “wet blanket” - casual self-destruction - and extended periods of attempted self-care - guys please he tries SO HARD - bambi arbogast - decorative medieval armors - “i’ve GOT TO” - “oh lord” - counting corporate designer suits as casual wear - drinking coffee in the shower - repulsor wristwatches - why does he call it prison 42? “knowing stark, it’s gonna have something to do with his mother” - thinking rhodey is the better iron man - rambling about economics when a girl he likes makes him nervous - stark industries tour dates - counting happy and pepper’s relationship issues as part of his own personal life problems??? come on tony - “i’d come home for you” [intense look] “okay so anyway” - physically incapable of just walking past a homeless person - like literally 4 separate stories immediately come to mind in terms of tony talking to homeless people - [funds construction of the maria stark park] child: “tank you mista stark” tony: “worth every penny” - booping?? a kid’s?? nose?? - [doesnt want to do a thing] [little girl holding plushie toy asks] “of course! if you’re asking so nicely how can i refuse” - “captain handsome” - the bitchface triumvirate - fucking like. draping all over steve rogers as the man walks. constantly - “if i only had a heart”

[angelmydear-deactivated20210714]

That scene in iron man where Obadiah stane is buttoning up Tony’s shirt (after he shows him the arc reactor) gives me the creep

[ssironstrange]

There’s a lot about obadiah and Tony that are fucking classic tells of a toxic relationship women so often find themselves in. It’s creepy because its real. Same with the scene of obadiah taking the reactor out of a helpless, paralyzed Tonys chest. It’s rape without the sex. It’s the nightmare so many of us have lived or live in fear of. I’m honestly so glad they made Tony to be the “damsel in distress” if only for the fact so many more people can now realize these things.

[marvelsfemalepresentingnipple]

“It’s rape without the sex” That scene always gave me the absolute creeps and this post really finally helped me put my finger on why that was. Especially as he had essentially been roofied.

[ssironstrange]

Yeeeeeup. everything about it has always made me see direct parallels to sexual assault. i hate it and it makes me sick to my stomach but it’s such an important and masterfully done piece of cinema.

 tony has been incapacitated. his consent cannot be given and yet he is aware of whats happening. obadiah is gloating over him - and it doesn’t help matters that he’s almost straddling tony, only furthering his power play. and not only is he gloating, but he’s blaming tony for this. it’s tony’s fault he’s in this situation. furthermore, obadiah was someone he trusted like family, and about the last person he would expect this from. and for the cherry on top, the camera is off center and tilted, almost putting us in tony’s perspective, making everything feel just so many kinds of uncomfortable as he’s being assaulted.

[theoutermenace1986]

Thank you.

THANK YOU.

I’m honestly glad I was not the only one skeeved out by this because honestly - I’ve been wanting to say it for years, but I was always terrified that someone would say I was just reading into it too much.

I mean…let’s be frank (especially if we are talking about parallels to rape/sexual assault):

Tony was a playboy - he was not shy about his drinking, sexual history, or lifestyle. He had garnered a reputation for it. While fun loving and a good time kind of guy, he makes sure that consent is present during any liaison.

Here’s Obediah - this huge wall of a guy, acting like a friend and mentor. It gives him an in to be close, touchy-feely under the guise of a friend. Tony trusts him, hence why the closeness doesn’t bother him. That’s just how Obie is! Right? Right….

Tony has a traumatic encounter that changes his entire life….and no one takes him seriously. Pepper, Rhodey, Obediah - they are all guilty of trying to tell him that he just needs to sit back and get over it/get his mind straight/threaten to walk out on him because they think he’s crazy.

Huh….what does that sound like? Sounds like dismissal - a regrettably loathsome reaction many have towards victims of trauma and while not malicious (except for established douchebag Obediah), it can make bad situations worse and gives Obediah the perfect in for Tony’s downfall (the injunction, claiming it’s for his own good, all that jazz…exerting a shit ton of power over Tony and simultaneously trying to strip Tony of what power he has left)

To make matters worse - the scene itself where Obediah assaults Tony: Tony is alone. He is vulnerable. Obediah overpowered him, incapacitated him, but left him fully aware of what was going on. He penetrated him without consent (the mechanism literally punched in and pulled his “heart” out), gas lit him to hell and back by using not only his own past but his father’s past to justify his treatment bring “deserved”…..and then leaving him broken and for dead.

The reason a lot of people didn’t view it that way: we don’t normally see a man - especially an outgoing superhero type - being stripped of his agency in a brutally visceral manner. Its s shocking scene to begin with….but it gradually gets worse when you put it through the lens of a rape victim.

If that isn’t a giant parallel for sexual assault, I don’t know what is.

[ssironstrange]

Oh and the fact obadiah has basically been grooming tony since he was a teen, robbing him of bodily autonomy, pressuring him and forcing him into situations he doesn’t particularly want to be in, and always asserting his dominance with grabbing/holding/touching, or in some cases like OP pointed out, even dressing him. Obie is a predator in every sense of the word, and way too similar to how a rapist behaves for it to be a coincidence.

[amethyst-noir]

I hate, hate, hate this scene. It makes me so uncomfortable that I can barely watch it. IM1 has some of the most vicious, brutal scenes in the MCU and glosses over much less than the following ones.

It’s a brilliant movie but a painful one as soon as you look beyond the shiny armor.

[ironman3s]

okay i dont normally reblog stuff like this, but i’ve mentioned in tags tons of times that their entire dynamic creeped me out. I’d never talked about it this in depth before but yeah, he definitely used touch as manipulation, and I believe he touched tony more than any other character this entire movie 

(yes i spent way too much time making that.)

When Tony gets back from Afghanistan, gets out of the car with the burgers, Obadiah has at least one of his hands on him the entire way into the building. As someone else mentions – he buttons up tony’s shirt which - yeah tony has a busted arm, but he unbuttoned it relatively easily – so the creep factor still applies. and then you’ve got the other examples too. Also the fact that they’re business partners//mentor/mentee//father/son dynamic …. and obadiah deadass calls tony shirtless. like i dont know much about grown men but im pretty sure thats not that common even among friends. 

and anyway if we look at the other characters who touch tony in this movie, it’s rhodey and pepper and christine. Tony in this movie doesn’t initiate touch nearly as much – he usually reacts to it (e.g. even though he’s the ‘playboy’ christine is the one who takes the lead in sex. rhodey is the one who initiates almost all of their contact, etc). after this movie that changes. You can definitely see him start to initiate almost all touch, except with pepper and rhodey (e.g. him poking bruce, him slapping steves hand off him, but putting one on steve). this is definitely a way of asserting contol over a situation – idk if the writers did it purposefully…probably not, but it is interesting. one could argue, i suppose that afghanistan/torture is the cause, but….i think him being scarred by obadiah is more likely.  

also, Obadiah used tony’s name. A Lot. We don’t really think about it bc with the Avengers it’s always last name, last name, last name. (the ones who call him tony are easy to notice – fury, pepper, rhodey, sometimes steve). But Obadiah uses Tony’s name a lot more than seemingly necessary. And we all know calling people by their first names is a way of acknowledging them as a person, but also it also indicates familiarity/fondness aka a bond. Someone compiled a video of it. 

[sabrecmc]

I was thinking again last night about all the new Stony fans we’ll have stumbling around here soon.  They’re going to get to read Relativistic Heat Conduction and Sins of Omission for the first time. I’m a bit jealous of that. Twice-Told Tale. Tales of the Bots.  They’ll figure out who Wordsplat, FestiveFerret, itsallavengers, the Kinky Pet, blue_jack and copperbadge and all these other incredible authors are.  They’re going to get to read Nostalgia for the first time.  *sigh* Maybe migrate over to tumblr, wondering if anyone else is maybe into this ship, like I did.  Hours and hours of amazing fics to read and people to meet, endless scrolling, fanvideos, finding all the beautiful art, all in front of them.  How cool is that?  I don’t know, it just fills me with happiness to think about.  

[t0nystark1er]

Also when they discover the multiverse! MCU started me here but I remember discovering all the stevetonys! That Steve and Tony are always in each other’s lives! 

That no matter how messy 616 is, tony and steve always rotates on each other. There’s grumpy steve and darling tony in Ults. EMH with thot and smol stevetony. Danny boy in 1872. They missed AvAC but there’s a lot of fanworks to enjoy. THAT EARTH 3490 IS CANON! And also practically married in Avengers Assemble. 

[sabrecmc]

Right???  Like, I knew there were comics, but when I first came to Stony, I had no idea that Steve and Tony were Like That in the comics.  Boy, are they in for some fun awakenings!

Oh, and on the flip side, maybe a bunch of us MCU folks finally get around to reading the comics?  It could happen, lol.