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i know its been a while since it came out but im preeetty sure this is exactly how CATWS ended
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Day 01: Canonize That! Fanart you think should be canon
Kicking off this year's Cap-IM Rec Week (thank you @cap-ironman for organizing it), it's time to rec some fanart! And boy oh boy, do I have a lot of things I wish we could have seen on the big screen or in the comics. So here we go:
This, because the fact that we didn't get this in Endgame is a crime:
💬 14 🔁 3077 ❤️ 9033
This, because in my mind this is them sleeping in the same bed at Clint's, and I need it personally:
💬 4 🔁 294 ❤️ 1079 · After a fight
This, because Steve and Tony need some private time at the lake house:
💬 0 🔁 112 ❤️ 379 · It'd be so nice, right? Right? If we could take it all off and just exist And skinny dip in water under the bridge Ste
This, because if they HAD to kill off Tony and Steve, they deserved to share a kiss first:
💬 1 🔁 49 ❤️ 147 · Don't Look, I Think We Made The Sun Cry Drew this for the POTS Reverse Trope Bingo 2024, fill for square Y5: Last Kiss,
This, because I want Tony to be a part of CA:TWS and rescue Steve from the Potomac:
💬 0 🔁 855 ❤️ 2097 · The last time
This, because the Tattoo AU is canon, and you're not going to convince me otherwise:
💬 16 🔁 704 ❤️ 2088 · Happy Pride! prints are now available in my shop ⚡ pineapplebread.bigcartel.com
This, because it's peak mom-and-dad dynamic Stony:
💬 3 🔁 275 ❤️ 1410 · Oh, look, Mom and Dad are at it again. Poor Clint...
This, because we've been robbed of the romantic hug-and-fly:
💬 1 🔁 717 ❤️ 1558 · 2021/04/20
This, because the fact that Marvel 1872 isn't a centaur AU bugs me every day:
💬 0 🔁 22 ❤️ 105 · A picture for the "You gave me a Stocking" event! Prompted by @willidothefandango , who wanted centaur sherrif Steve wit
This, because it's one of the cutest representations of Avengers Family I've ever seen:
💬 27 🔁 10850 ❤️ 17434 · all of the avengers are t-shirt-stealing gremlins 😤
Tony doing some maintenance on Bucky’s arm while he takes a much needed nap <3
(unfinished piece that isnt cooperating so imma just give it to yall as is😭)
-Distant Fire-
Hmm. I am considering.
--
Learning that the vigilante Iron Man was Tony Stark had really put a wrench in SHIELD's plans. The general idea had been to somehow sway Iron Man onto their side, get him to work with them. Natasha had even muttered that blackmail had been on the table after a particularly large Stark property was razed to the ground. When his identity had been revealed in battle, even Fury had looked shocked.
Steve had come to realize Tony Stark was not a man who could be leveraged. He had more money than God, could charm the right politicians, and had the military in the palm of his hand as they hoped for more Stark weapons someday. As a last-ditch effort, Steve had asked for a meeting with him to see if they couldn't come to some sort of agreement. It was dangerous for Iron Man to continue being a vigilante. With SHIELD, he would have some sort of protection. And he'd realized, watching Tony tap away at his phone, clearly only having accepted the meeting to see if they'd come, they had nothing he wanted.
"We could leak your identity to the media," Natasha had started with, and Tony had laughed, genuine mirth in his eyes as he asked, "Who would believe you?" And Steve had to admit, until the golden mask had been blown off and he'd seen Tony's bruised face underneath, he wouldn't have believed it himself.
"The insurance companies covering the damages of your blown up buildings might have something to say," Bruce had added, looking vaguely pained, and then had looked nauseous when Tony had replied, "I own the buildings. I don't put in claims." A quick text from Maria Hill confirmed that an agent had checked and it was true. Tony never made an insurance claim on any of the buildings that Iron Man damaged or destroyed.
"What if we started rumors that made Stark Industries stock tank?" Clint asked, genuinely curious, and Tony had simply clasped his hands on the table, smile friendly, even as he delivered a warning, "My CEO, Virginia Potts, might have something to say about people trying to mess with the stock market." Natasha had looked genuinely (if quietly) terrified at the invocation of Ms. Potts' name, so Steve took that to mean that getting on the wrong side of the business itself was the worst out of the three ideas.
"You have nothing I want," Tony continued, laughing, and spread his hands, gesturing at the room around him. "I'm set. I'm weeding out the weapons my ex-manager dealt under the table on property that I own without trying to make any money from insurance. No one has been hurt. In fact, Iron Man attacks when the buildings are mysteriously empty. You can hardly say I'm endangering anyone. Any other fights I get into, I make sure I don't attack first."
"You're good at goading people," Steve muttered under his breath, and grit his teeth as Tony just laughed again.
"And! I'm already contracted at SHIELD as a contractor," Tony added, crossing his arms over his chest smugly. "And Pepper has the terms of my contract ready for when you try to make me step one toe outside of it. She has been chomping at the bit to get back at you ever since she realized they'd sent an undercover agent into our company."
"...I thought Pepper liked me," Natasha said after a moment.
Tony gave a somewhat sympathetic shrug. "She's petty. It's not you she's mad at, just SHIELD as a whole. Well," he added before anyone else could say anything, looking at his watch. "Your ten minutes are up. Bye!"
"Seriously!?" Steve sputtered as Tony bounced out of his seat and began strutting out of the room. He found himself shoving his own chair back and standing.
"Steve, he's got us," Natasha sighed, but Steve ignored her. He'd dealt with Howard. He could figure out how to deal with Tony.
Steve followed Tony out of the room, lengthening his stride to catch up. Tony wasn't running, but he was clearly in a hurry, still checking his watch and looking around as he made his way toward the elevator to his private quarters where it was waiting, doors opened. Tony spared him an annoyed glance as he turned to face him, but Steve threw himself into the elevator before he could close the doors on him. He opened his mouth to say he'd known Tony's father.
"JARVIS, penthouse," Tony cut in flatly, and to his embarrassment, Steve tumbled onto the floor when the elevator jerked violently upward, as if on purpose.
"Ow," he wheezed, pushing himself up off the floor.
"Serves you right, Captain Trespass," Tony said, unimpressed. "And you will leave my penthouse after I do, or I'm having JARVIS treat you like an intruder and shooting you."
Steve sucked in a deep breath, then managed, "It's rude to outstay your welcome."
"And yet! Here you are," Tony huffed, raising an eyebrow at him. "I don't know what you expect to say. Natasha and Bruce dealt your strongest cards, and I've trumped them." He paused briefly, then added, "And don't try to bring up my old man. He's not the in you think he is. In fact, you're lucky I didn't punch you in your perfect teeth the moment I saw you."
Steve frowned, but before he could say anything or ask what that meant, the elevator slowed to a stop, and Tony was out the doors before they were even opened all the way. He lunged out after him before whatever JARVIS was could lock him inside and take him back down. He needed to figure out a way to get Tony to join them.
"There must be something SHIELD can do for you," Steve tried, stumbling after him as he walked toward the landing pad outside. "I can convince them. Just try me."
"I can get whatever I want," Tony sighed, turning to walk backwards so he could give Steve the full benefit of his rolled eyes. "I can buy it, or bribe for it, or even just hack in myself. Just face the facts, Steve. I'm not joining your stupid secret boy band."
Steve didn't know what that meant, because he hadn't gotten to boy bands on his list, but he understood the gist. "There's always something," he began, even though he was starting to understand that Tony was leagues ahead of him in arguments. He had an answer for everything. Steve couldn't expect to outwit him until he did some reading up on Tony and Stark Industries as a whole. "I have a lot of pull. Just try me."
Tony came to a stop and scowled at him. "Yeah? Then you better drop to your knees and bark like you want it."
Steve blinked, mouth dropping open slightly as he took the words in. He saw the corner of Tony's mouth twitch, and he knew immediately it was because he was ready to smirk in victory. He thought he'd won. Captain America would never go down on his knees, too proud, too powerful.
The last thing Steve found himself wanting was to give Tony that satisfaction, so he immediately dropped to his knees, jaw set. "How's this?" he growled, glaring up at him.
To his surprise, Tony froze where he was, mouth dropped open to gape at him. It was better than the smirk he'd almost given him, Steve figured grimly, but it wasn't giving 'I'll at least think about it' vibes like he'd hoped. Then he noticed that Tony's cheeks were quickly filling with color. He looked... embarrassed? Scared? Mortified seemed the only correct term. Steve blinked up at him, surprised. He'd read enough about Tony Stark to know that he was... quite experienced, he decided. But Steve had managed to catch him off guard. He felt... powerful, for a moment. Victorious.
Tony must have noticed, because he rallied quickly, turning on his heel to stomp toward the landing pad. "JARVIS, remove Captain Creep from the premises," he barked, even though Steve could see that his ears were now turning pink, and he couldn't help but grin viciously even as he stood and backed his way toward the elevator. This was something he could work with.
.-.
The next time Tony showed up at SHIELD for a contractors meeting, Steve managed to get himself assigned as his escort to the conference room. Tony started talking as soon as he saw him, apparently not willing to give him a moment to speak. He was going to try and ignore what had happened and his response to it. Steve swallowed back his urge to smirk as he paused to open the door for him.
"Well, good talking to you, hope to never see you again," Tony added as he moved to step through.
Steve leaned in so his lips almost brushed Tony's ear and murmured, "Woof." Then he pulled back, grinning, as he watched Tony's face flood with heat. He turned and left before Tony could gather his wits and punch him in the teeth like he'd warned him he should have.
I cannot emphasize enough "Steve was SO normal about his attraction to Tony Stark until Tony told him to bark." Steve has carefully kept that part of himself locked down tight because 1) it's impolite and 2) why would Tony Stark ever want him right? And he's a contrarian so of course when Tony expects him to storm off in a huff because obviously he has too much pride to get on his knees and beg it is SO EASY for him to do the opposite. And then to his surprise Tony blushes and runs away and it unlocks the persistence hunter in him because suddenly there is a chance that Tony Stark From The Cover Of Forbes Might Fuck Him.
Steve will bark, beg, and crawl to get his hands on Tony and he's not ashamed about any of it and it is one of the most terrifying things about him to Tony because That Is Captain America. Cap wouldn't take a knee of defeat if his life depended on it but he dropped to his knees so easily when he told him to. And as hot as Tony thinks it is, it also scares the shit out of him, because he's seen the focus Steve has in battle and the idea of him turning that focus on getting them both off is really fucking daunting. What if Steve tries to get revenge for the "get on your knees and bark" comment? He couldn't even argue that he didn't deserve it.
Steve does not want revenge and he is even less ashamed to go to his knees for someone he cares about but he only realizes how scared Tony is when he starts to drop to his knees in his gear and Tony chokes out "don't. I can't see you do it in uniform please." Steve wants to howl in frustration he wants Tony so bad and he knows that Tony's attracted to him LET HIM BARK. LET HIM BEG. WHY DOES BEING IN THE CAPTAIN UNIFORM MATTER. But he doesn't because Tony looks terrified in a way he hasn't before even though it makes him grind his teeth and grip his hands into fists so tight his leather gloves creak as he says "Okay. Whatever you need."
Steve eventually asks for another meeting with him and Tony only agrees because he thinks the other Avengers are going to be there but instead it's just Steve dropping to his knees and begging "Please put me out of my misery. Tell me to fucking stop or say yes, just do something. You win. I'll never drop to my knees again just make a decision I am dying here" and Tony doesn't know how to say stop because he really does want it so he just says "okay" and Steve has been panting after him for MONTHS now so he takes it as acceptance and Tony barely has time to yelp before Steve has his hands on his ass and is burying his face in Tony's groin with a possessive growl. Tony thinks he shouldn't find it hot but digs his fingers into Steve's hair to pull him closer anyway.
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I’m obsessed with the bit in the Hobbit films where Thranduil tells Legolas to go find Aragorn— because if you care enough to dive through the layers of obscure knowledge it takes to understand the timeline, then you’re also the exact kind of LOTR Film Nerd who knows why the moment actually doesn’t make sense.
Tiny brain: “oh cool Legolas will find Aragorn”
Small brain: “ummm actually in the first Hobbit film it says that The Hobbit take place 60 years before Bilbo’s 111th birthday in lord of the rings? So wouldn’t Aragorn be a baby?”
Medium brain: “ummm actually if you watched the extended cut of The Two Towers, it’s made clear that Aragorn is a descendant of Numenor who has an abnormally long lifespan. He is 87 at the time of Lord of the Rings; 60 years earlier, he was 27, a very reasonable age for him to have made a name for himself as a ranger.”
Large Brain: “Ummmm actually in the book it’s confirmed that there’s a twenty-year gap between Bilbo’s 111th birthday party disappearance to Frodo leaving the Shire with the Ring. The Hobbit quest happened 60 years before Bilbo’s famous birthday party. 87-60-20=7 years old. Aragorn would be a lil guy. He would not yet be Strider, the timeline makes no sense.”
Giant brain: “ummm actually the screenwriters have confirmed that the 20 year gap is not canon in the film’s universe. First, it’s really not portrayed as a 20-year-gap in the films— it’s written and shot as if it were a couple months. The screenwriters were also aware of the implications of removing it. For example, in a behind the scenes commentary they discussed how their portrayal of Frodo is much younger than the version in the book —because they removed the 20-year gap. Film!Frodo is an innocent youth going out on his own for the first time, in contrast to the book’s more mature adult— and that deeply affects his characterization throughout the trilogy.
We can consider Legolas’s journey to meet Strider an official canon confirmation that the 20-year gap did not happen in the film’s universe. So the timeline makes sense!”
Galaxy brain: “okay, but even if the timeline works with the LOTR films, this new backstory doesn’t work with the LOTR films’ portrayal of Legolas’s character.
In the Hobbit films, it’s retconned that Legolas went to find Aragorn because he was so overwhelmed by all the death he witnessed in the Battle of the Five Armies. It’s retconned that he has a mother who died when he was young, and a grief-stricken father, and that he’s constantly Angsting over both. it’s also retconned that Legolas was in unrequited love with a grieving woman who loved a dwarf tragically killed in battle. Legolas feels he can no longer stay in the Woodland Realm because of all this loss, which is why he decides to find a new purpose with Aragorn.
But in the Lord of the Rings films, part of Legolas’s character arc is that he’s witnessing death and mortality up close *for the first time in his immortal life.* He’s a fae magical immortal who’s not used to death affecting him personally. This character arc is unique to the films. (it is not reallllllly in the books, and doesn’t jive with the way Tolkien writes elves in general— but it is the way the films chose to rewrite Legolas’s storyline. )
film!Legolas reacts to Gandalf’s death with bewilderment, acting lost, as if he’s experiencing emotions that are entirely new to him. This acting decision is discussed explicitly in behind the scenes materials. Legolas has rarely encountered this kind of death, not in a way so close to him personally, so it’s hard for him to even comprehend. Legolas’s unfamiliarity with mortal death continues through Boromir’s death and into the Two Towers, where he gradually grows more worried over the lives of Aragorn/ the people of Rohan. He reacts with bewildered anger when told to leave Aragorn for dead, and then lashes out at Aragorn when he thinks that everyone at Helm’s deep will die (only to receive the response: “then I shall die as one of them.”)
This character arc ends in Return of the King, with a famous bit of dialogue that does not appear in the books. Gimli says he “never thought he’d die side by side with an elf,” and Legolas cheerfully responds “what about side by side with a friend?” Mortal death goes from something Legolas finds distant/unfamiliar, to something he accepts as a natural part of living among mortals.
This is similar to the changes the films make to Arwen’s character, vs the original book. In the films, both of the “young” elves have arcs about encountering death up close, and yet continuing to love the mortal world. The films contrast them with the “older” wearier elves like Elrond and Galadriel. Obviously this theme is more of a focal point in Arwen’s plotline, but it’s also relevant to Legolas. (And! In early drafts of the Two Towers, Arwen joined Aragorn at Helm’s Deep— I have a theory that the scenes where Legolas worries over Aragorn’s death were originally written for Arwen.)
So!
if you care enough about the Lord of the Rings films to understand that “there is no twenty year gap,” that Frodo is a young ingenue instead of middle-aged adult, that the films have their own storyline/characters/timeline separate from the books, and that therefore the timeline of Legolas meeting Strider can make sense …
….then you also probably care that Legolas had a specific character in the LoTR films, and this new backstory contradicts it.
Giving Legolas a new core motivation where “he’s overwhelmed by angst/grief from encountering too much death” undercuts his entire characterization in LOTR, which was meant to be about encountering mortal death up close for the first time. It also cheapens really impactful moments from LOTR— like Orlando Bloom’s performance after the death of Gandalf, where he really captures the idea that this fae immortal is struggling to comprehend the ordinary human emotion of grief.
And that’s why so many critics get that moment in The Hobbit wrong XD. People always try to critique it from a timeline/continuity perspective, when in reality, the timeline continuity makes perfect sense!!! The actual problem is the way it poorly attempts to retcon Legolas’s entire characterization. And IMHO that’s a much more serious flaw than a continuity error. It’s not “making a math mistake,” it’s undercutting the meaning of Legolas’s story in LOTR.
Super Mega Galaxy Brain: “nothing in the hobbit films is canon except the pieces I like”
some people think writers are so eloquent and good with words, but the reality is that we can sit there with our fingers on the keyboard going, “what’s the word for non-sunlight lighting? Like, fake lighting?” and for ten minutes, all our brain will supply is “unofficial”, and we know that’s not the right word, but it’s the only word we can come up with…until finally it’s like our face got smashed into a brick wall and we remember the word we want is “artificial”.
I couldn't remember the word "doorknob" ten minutes ago.
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Everyone keeps talking about "the writer's barely disguised fetish". But I still haven't heard about "the writer's barely disguised huge ass pet peeve"
It's a crime to leave this in the replies
babe are u okay ur crying about closeness lines over time by olivia de recat again
This speaks to me so viscerally it hurts. It also helped me get modern art in general? Like. These are just lines…but they convey so much because of the words supplied. That’s awesome!
Like, I’m gonna be thinking about this one for a while now. I wonder about the lines of my own life and how tangled and lost it feels to try and understand but to think about slices of it…
Hmm… yeah, I really love this.
there are two competing sects on this website - one that uses the word "spicy" to mean "neurodivergent" and one that uses the word "spicy" to mean "sexual content." i do not like either of them
I use spicy to describe food
my food is mentally ill and I’m putting my dick in it
Twilight
You’ve heard of “don’t monetize your hobbies”; get ready for "don’t master your hobbies".
Your hobbies are here to help you decompress and have fun. They do not have to be disciplines you toil over for expertise, unless that is something you genuinely enjoy doing.
It’s okay to enjoy language-learning without ever becoming fluent, or even conversational. It’s okay to like playing guitar even if you only know a few clumsy songs. You can read books and never finish them, bowl without ever scoring even halfway to perfect. We’re here to explore and play, and we cannot do that if we’re chasing perfection in everything we do.
And this opens you up to the world of hobbies you're not naturally very good at.
It's natural to gravitate towards things you're good at, because being good at something is fun. But there is an entire world of hobbies out there you're extremely bad at which are also incredibly fun.
Pride Pockets 18--All Dressed Up and Bound
Kink belongs at Pride. I will keep writing it until people stop flinching. You can find this fic on ao3 (here). Anyway it's 8K so look out for under the cut.
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Natasha stopped in her tracks as soon as she saw Tony. She’d expected him to be getting ready for movie night, slipping into well-worn sweatpants and a soft t-shirt. They hadn’t had a real sit-down with the whole team for several weeks. If it wasn’t Avengers battles keeping from them from meeting up, away missions or business trips had. Just that morning at breakfast, Tony had been chattering on about how he’d finally gotten Bruce onto his and Clint’s side and they’d be able to bully Steve and Thor into watching Escape from New York. He’d been so excited at his victory that he’d about vibrated out of his seat.
Now, though, he was standing half-in the closet, the fingers of his right hand tapping over his chest and the arc reactor. He barely glanced in Natasha’s direction before he very carefully and deliberately took a half step to turn so more of his back was to her. He was still wearing his sleek Tom Ford that he’d put on for a business meeting earlier. He was still wearing his shiny loafers.
Natasha waited a beat, just to see if he’d speak, then said, “We can skip movie night.”
Tony made a sound of genuine distress. “I don’t want to skip movie night.”
She took a careful step toward him. “Do you think you’ll be in any condition for movie night?”
“I—” Tony began, then stopped, ducking his head. He swallowed thickly, then managed to croak out a despondent, “I don’t want to miss it.”
Natasha bent over a little so she could see his face, cataloguing the dismay and resignation in his expression before he could notice and shutter it away. It had been a long time since they’d gotten to have a team movie night. But, she was beginning to realize, it had been a long time since Tony had gotten to relax at her feet, too.
“I’ll put on the lace,” Tony said after another minute, shoulders sagging, and lifted his other hand so he could begin to unbutton his vest and shirt. His hands were trembling. It could have been because it had been so long since he’d gotten to go down. It also could have been disappointment that he was missing out on movie night, though.
Natasha sucked in a deep breath, held it for three seconds, then let it back out slowly as she stood up straight again. She crossed her arms over her chest, considering, as Tony walked over and carefully laid his jacket, vest, and shirt over the back of the nearest chair. “We can… skip the lace,” she offered after a moment.
Suddenly thinking of a mostly mute Bucky.
After decades of being trained to only speak when spoken to (and still being punished for speaking at all more often than not) and enduring an unspeakable amount of brain damage, Bucky doesn’t speak much. At first, Steve is nothing but heartbroken for his friend. He remembers the days before the war when Bucky would talk and talk, telling Steve all sorts of stories like they had no end. And when he sang… It was like heaven to Steve’s ears, hearing problems be damned. Of course, Bucky got quieter during the war, but he wasn’t anywhere near as silent as he is now. (Hell, he doesn’t even make any noise while walking now. It’s a little unnerving and Steve has been jump scared in his own home more times than he’d care to admit.)
Steve is nothing but adaptable and supportive, though. For a while, he simply communicates with Bucky via interpreting his looks and gestures alone. He slips up and misunderstands Bucky every now and then, but they get along so much better than they reasonably should this way. No one else understands how they do it so easily. When Steve’s asked, he just shrugs and says, “I’ve known him since I was six.”
It isn’t too long though before Steve reveals that he’s learned some sign language to teach Bucky. To give him his voice back, in a way. Bucky picks it up with little issue. After learning the basics, the first thing he signs to Steve is, “Punk.” Steve is so surprised that he laughs. And laughs and laughs. By the time he’s got himself under control, he’s treated to the sight of one of Bucky’s rare smiles, warm and full of affection.
It takes a while, but the next time Steve sees that smile is when he and Bucky are alone in Steve’s bedroom, sitting on his bed. They’re close, so close. The air is thick with a tension that’s always existed between them, ready to burst now. Bucky’s eyes are trained on Steve’s lips and he keeps signing one thing, over and over. “I love you. I love you. I love you.” When they kiss, it’s everything Steve could’ve dreamed of and his heart soars when he hears Bucky make a sound, a soft little moan. When they finally part, Bucky’s smiling so brightly that Steve is helpless to fight back a smile of his own.
“Love…you,” Bucky whispers. It’s so quiet even Steve’s heightened hearing hardly picks it up. If his heart was soaring before, now it is singing.
“I love you, too,” he whispers back, reverent and so, so fucking grateful.
ive been saving this one for a hot minute HAPPY BIRTHDAY TONY STARK !!!!!!!!!