i’m doing it wrong. probably.

[She/Her] Part of the Danny Phantom Phandom. Loves Netflix’s Daredevil 💜 Batfam, Ninjago and Irondad 🕷❤️ [Anti-ST*RKER — Anti-Pompeous Pep — No Batcest]

[withmemoriesofstars]

crying to hurt/comfort irondad fanfics may not be the best thing to do when you cant sleep but also its the most emotion ive felt in like 6 months so its okay

[ironspider-noctis]

Peter, after a mission: Hey dad, I’m tired! Tony, switching to dad!mode: Hey tired, I’m- wait. Did you just call me dad?

[aryacontrast]

no but i honestly just can’t get over how big of a deal irondad and spiderson is. tony spent almost a month in space, a place he’s always hated and felt traumatised of, yet the first thing he said when he landed on earth was how he lost peter—like that was a bigger heartbreak than almost dying in the very place that haunted him for years

don’t even get me started on tony calling morgan his second chance, which indirectly meant that his first chance was peter. tony had other kids that he may have treated as if they were his own, but the title belongs to peter because he was the one who flipped the switch and actually caused tony’s change of character

and out of all of tony’s ownerships, edith was his most expensive one ($15B) and he left it to peter with a message that he knew peter wouldn’t get bc it “wasn’t a star wars reference” like oh my god guys ofc this fandom will not die easily when we can come up with so many scenarios out of all these canon events

[seek--rest]

Why is Irondad/Spiderson popular, anyways?

This is bait, I know it

While I have MANY and VARIED ideas for why irondad was (is???) so popular that range everything from internalized-or-maybe-just-outright racism and misogyny, to projection of their own daddy/parental issues, to the still-racism-but-somehow-more-palatable-for-white-people two white guys syndrome, I think the simplest answer is the clearest:

It’s interesting.

Canonically in the MCU, Peter and Tony are set up as a mentor/mentee relationship where you have Iron Man— who was the flagship character of the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe and incredibly popular— being an anchor towards the Avengers, audiences, and the entire ecosystem of that world, being put in proximity to Spider-Man— THEE most fucking popular character of all fucking time that is internationally known and BELOVED— at the perfect moment.

Criticisms of that dynamic aside, the CANONICAL relationship of Peter and Tony is fucking RIFE with potential, interesting dynamics, a world of comics to pull from and entangle with. Add in fandom’s obsession with white men and it was truly A Time™️

Despite what large swaths of the fandom thought, I’ve never been an irondad hater. I’ve written 120+ fics (at least tagged!!!) of the two of them, used to co-mod irondad discords, and was ACTIVE for years because of how much I loved the potential and the interesting stories people could tell about them.

However, irondad fandom and their starker-lite, racist ass, misogynistic as hell complex can fuck off.

[stxrlvci]

this was so fun to draw since i dont cross hatch digitally hehh

it's supposed to be tony and peter but tonys mask is very hard ti draw for me

og under cut

[bestoftweets]

[soopermax]

this is what happened when peter came out to tony btw

[hood-ex]

[mistithewitchirl]

Danny Phantom is everywhere bro... like im sure the show is great but can i just read my irondad spiderman fics in peace?? its cool tho i have a collection of unfished spiderman fics to read i'll live.

/lh

[squint-at-heart]

It suddenly occurred to me that to Peter, calling Tony by his first name IS calling him dad. Peter's father died when he was so young that to him, the people that raised him are people he refers to as Ben and May. Saying Tony is more significant than saying Dad.

[mcu-fandom]

Thinking about in canon, how Tony told Peter he had connections with MIT that he could use for Peter, how Peter did ultimately apply and got into MIT, how very likely it was his dream school

But then No Way Home happened, and with everyone forgetting him so did his acceptance into MIT. And so he watched his friends go off to Boston without him. And he’s happy for them, but he can’t help but feel bitter on how much his life derailed.

And if you want to take headcanons into account, where Peter and Tony talked about MIT a lot and Tony was so confident Peter could get in that he even gave him his old MIT sweatshirt then that would make it even more sad.

Like imagine Peter tucking the sweatshirt deep into his closet because he’s too ashamed to look at it, just another reminder of how he isn’t who his loved ones wanted him to be.

[heaven4lostgirls]

frank calling peter “kid” has me choking back tears. I’VE PLAYED THESE GAMES BEFORE

[livelove-fangirl]

When I'm in a "I would do anything for Peter Parker" competition but Tony Stark is already there (I have no idea how to figure out time travel) (I've already lost)

[wadey-wilson]

i relate to tony stark bc i too would stop in the middle of a battle on a big-ass battlefield where death awaits on every step just to look at peter parker and hug peter parker

[wadey-wilson]

all the hell: *breaks loose*

tony:

[irondad3000]

because he missed his kid but also because he wasn’t sure if he’d survive to do it afterwards

[archerinthevents]

You can't tell me that Tony wouldn't have adopted Ned, too, if he actually got the chance to meet him. We're talking about a kid with the skill to get past his own firewalls. Yeah, he's coming home with him and he's getting a room right next to Peter's.

[animusbell]

you can't come to my birthday party? aw dang, (remembers it's bad to guilt trip people) this doesn't matter to me at all (remembers to demonstrate that i am affected by you to affirm your positive presence in my life) but while you're away i will die (remembers not to guilt trip again) unpreventably. unrelated to you. don't worry about it. (remembers to express care through actions and not just words) you're in the will.

[apple4me]

Tony Stark talking to Peter:

[charlesoberonn]

Heartwarming story: Little girl doesn’t have to do anything to fund her dad’s surgery because his expenses are covered by his country’s universal healthcare.

[charlesoberonn]

Human determination: Man bikes 18 miles to work every morning because he wants to and not because he can’t afford a car and would be fired if he’s late.

[charlesoberonn]

Spirit of Brotherhood: Neighbors host housewarming party for elderly resident who doesn’t need help in paying rent because his pension is more than enough.

[hyperlexichypatia]

SO INSPIRING: Local middle school students bake dozens of cupcakes because their home economics class is doing a baking unit. Their school is fully funded with everything they need.

[blandandtasteless]

This feels like calibrating my normal detector

[uhhhj13iguess]

something i'm excited to see in this new wave of peter parker fics with BND is peter's absolute desperation. my man is at his fucking lowest, broke and alone and utterly destroyed, and i cannot WAIT for the desperation and sheer need that is about to come out in these fics

[minimarvelh]

Tony: *tries to get the last piece of pizza*

Peter: *bites it from Tony’s hand*

Tony: what the heck kid..

Peter: I bit it so it’s mine now.

Tony:

Tony:

Tony:

Tony: *bites Peter’s hand*

Peter: what the frick man??

Tony: that was way easier than trying to finalise adoption papers.

Peter, squeaking and dropping the pizza: wHaT?