#aven.ask

[dykeninthdoctor]

obama when he legalized gay marriage: for deancas 💕

HERE'S HOW PUTIN CAN STILL RESIGN

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You asked for prompts, so maybe Rhodey/Tony with the Avengers meeting Rhodey for the first time and realizing how devoted Tony is to him? Like Tony has been doing that Trademark Stark thing but then the team sees him with Rhodey for the first time and realizes THIS is the real Tony.

thank you for the prompt!!! this was so much fun to write, i hope you enjoy!!

Tony Stark is an enigma.

He wears expressions like they’re masks, and wields words like they’re weapons, and takes people apart with one piercing glance.

He’s more than a man, he’s a paradox; he isn’t made of flesh and bone and blood, no, Tony Stark is made of gears and wires and lines of code that run the solutions to every possible problem before they happen.

It’s terrifying.

Natasha looks at him, and to her, he’s a mirror; Tony reflects what they all want to see. And mirrors are not glass. She can’t tell what’s real, can’t see through him at all, and she hates it. It makes her feel weak. She tries breaking the mirror, breaking Tony, but it doesn’t work. Even at his lowest point, sitting across from her and Fury in the diner, he reflects what she wants to see–a broken man. And yet, not a broken mirror.

Steve doesn’t know what to think of him; he is nothing like Howard, and yet he is everything like Howard. Steve sees Howard in the way Tony balances five conversations at once, the way Tony knows he’s the smartest person in the room and acts like it, the way he carries himself with his hands constantly in motion. It makes Steve ache for the time he left behind.

Bruce only sees an equal in him; their minds attract each other like magnets. But magnets can repel each other, can become polar opposites so very easily, and as Tony starts pushing, Bruce lets himself be repelled, because it’s easier than answering Tony’s questions that strike too close. Bruce doesn’t know how he does it, how he can find someone’s heart in minutes, especially because Tony acts like he doesn’t understand people at all. It’s fascinating, and confusing, and not a magnet Bruce wants to draw in.

Clint thinks it’s all a show; Tony acts like the people he grew up around, performers who used flashy tricks to distract the audience from their real movements. Tony is a magician, Clint realizes, after he reviews the footage of the days he missed, and sees things no one else caught, sees the bugs he plants and the seeds he sows, because Tony was too busy distracting them all with his words.

He’s a myriad of things, a collection of lies and half-truths, and the Avengers don’t know what to do with him.

-

“I don’t know what I’m gonna do with you,” Tony hears, and he knows he’s covered in engine grease and that there’s probably some in his hair, but that’s not really the point. Then there’s arms wrapping around him, a chest pressing to his back, lips against his temple, the smell of jasmine lotion surrounding him, Rhodey slotting into place behind him.

It’s embarrassing how long it takes Tony’s brain to register the facts, and he turns around so quickly he gets whiplash.

“You’re home!”

“Clearly I’m less interesting than that engine that you’re working on.”

“I haven’t slept in two days,” Tony says, just to watch Rhodey get that crinkle in his brow. He kisses it. “I missed you.”

“Missed you too, genius.” Rhodey’s lips trail across the exposed skin of his shoulder. “You’re wearing my sweatshirt.”

“When am I not wearing your sweatshirt, honey bear?”

“When I’m taking it off of you,” Rhodey says, punctuating it with a bite.

“Oh, yeah, fair point–“

Rhodey cuts him off with a kiss.

-

Steve walks in on them first, in the kitchen, where Tony’s sitting on the counter with his legs crossed under him, drowning in clothes that are too big for him and mismatched socks, wearing a smile that’s as blinding as the sun.

He feels like it’s a moment that needs to be captured in time, but only for the two men in front of him, a moment that he wasn’t meant to see.

Tony doesn’t look anything like Howard as he draws Jim Rhodes into a kiss.

Steve leaves, and if he draws the smile on Tony’s face and gives the picture to Jim later, that’s between them.

-

Natasha finds them during movie night, when Tony’s sleeping on top of Jim Rhodes, head pillowed on his chest and arms wrapped around his waist, bare feet hanging out at the end of the blanket that covers them both. The movie plays as background noise; even Natasha can see that Jim’s only got eyes for Tony.

When she comes closer to pull the blanket over Tony’s feet and Jim mouths a silent thanks to her, she sees Tony’s face, half-pressed into Jim’s neck.

He looks content. No mirror to reflect what she wants to see, only glass to show her what Jim Rhodes always sees.

Jim’s gaze shifts to meet hers.

“Wanna watch?” he asks softly, motioning towards the T.V. with a brush of his hand across Tony’s back.

The offer is surprising, but what’s more surprising is when she sits down, and Jim lets her put Tony’s feet in her lap to keep the blanket from slipping off of them again.

Neither of them watch the movie much, and Natasha realizes, as Tony starts to stir, and is greeted with a soft kiss from Jim, that the mirror doesn’t need breaking to show her the real Tony Stark.

-

Bruce comes across them in Tony’s workshop, where Tony’s lying on his stomach across a workbench, focused on a holographic blueprint of the War Machine armor, arms and legs dangling off the edge of the bench like he’s a little kid. Jim Rhodes’ fingers are loosely entwined with Tony’s from where he sits on stool, looking at the same hologram but in a smaller size.

Before Bruce can say anything, Tony rolls off the bench with no verbal warning; Jim catches him anyway.

They stand up together, and then suddenly they’re working together in a seamless dance of passing parts and trading kisses, the moon orbiting the earth, or the earth orbiting the sun, and Bruce thinks that maybe he does want to draw in the magnet that is Tony Stark.

-

Clint’s the last person in the Tower to see them, and when he does, they find him, rather than the other way around.

He’s sitting on the roof, because open air clears the clutter in his mind, and he hears the door open behind him.

They don’t even notice him, too wrapped up in each other, Tony tugging Jim outside, his quips and tricks and words turned soft, and they’re met with a smile that’s just as soft. None of it is a show, not for Jim Rhodes.

Clint clears his throat.

“You two should get a room.”

“Christ, birdbrain, warn a guy!” Tony yelps. His hand doesn’t leave Jim’s, and his face doesn’t change, and Clint thinks that maybe the curtains have closed for real, and the show is over for the Avengers, too.

-

Tony Stark is still an enigma.

But now, the Avengers understand him a bit better.

They understand that he belongs to Jim, and that Jim belongs to him, and that they are each other’s. They understand that if they don’t try to learn who Tony is, it won’t work, because the only person who can know him without any effort is Jim Rhodes. They understand that Tony will be what they want to see, that he will be abrasive and sharp, that he will be polarizing, that he will put on a show, unless he is with Jim Rhodes. They understand that Tony is not what they thought.

It’s still terrifying.

But it’s terrifying because Tony’s love is terrifying, all-encompassing, and they’ve only experienced a fragment of it.

It’s a miracle, they think, that Jim Rhodes hasn’t burned up yet.

Then again, Tony Stark protects his own.

[dykeninthdoctor]

All I can think about is the fact that the reason Putin hasn't spoken out about Destiel (in spanish) is because he can't be seen supporting something former US President Barack Obama clearly loves and dedicates time too without upsetting his already failing relationship with Trump.

We Are Living In A Timeline

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ASPENN HELLO. IDK WHEN U SENT THIS BUT I JSUT SAW IT !!!! HOW HA VE U BEEN

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look what i found aven ^_^

bout to start posting my bottom loki memes if you keep this up

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i'm glad that i'm following you tbh bc the symbolic aspect of c!phil's character (and his relations w c!techno and c!wilbur) gives me about five illnesses within the brain and i'm glad someone else feels the same way he's probably one of my all time fave things abt the Lore ahdhfnwjsj. i went on a ramble about the dichotomy between his role in "saving" l'manberg by killing c!wilbur vs his role in bringing about its end, to my mcyt/dsmp gc and i think none of them really got what i was taking aboitjdhsjwjdd

cc!phil be like: i'm going to create thee most compelling character you have ever heard of. he is an ancient being who has lived for so long that even he has forgotten, with the moniker of "angel of death" because wherever he goes blood stains the earth, and battle is a familiar friend to him. he has wings that are damaged from when he shielded his son from his own mistake, and that same damage is reflected in the grief and regret he feels over the choice he made to kill that same son, who he protected only minutes before. he does not find value in material possessions, yet he has an enderchest full of objects that have sentimental value. when he spars with his old friend, the blood god, the strength they possess is enough to rip apart mountains and scar the earth. his wife is a being larger than the universe who has the ability to reshape reality, and despite her reign not extending to the server he resides in currently, she has torn a hole in reality in order to grow a forest for him. he will slaughter without a care for the life he is taking. he has not been open about his emotions Ever in his life. god he's so neat

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please what's happening with those fine young spn men???

fine young men i am experiencing so much right now. first jackles announces a prequel focused on thee abusive father and then jared airs their beef on twitter ass out in front of god.

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fadsjk i'm a little scared to ask but-

what's goin on over in the spn fandom o_o

loaded question here we go

first off jensen ackles aka dean and his wife daneel ackles aka thee cas girl (gn) announced a spn prequel that they would be producing about john winchester aka the blueprint for abusive fathers. understandably a loss for the spn community but oh what's this jarpad aka sam with the steel chair?? mans tweets that he is "happy for jackles" and that he "wished he'd heard about this some other way than twitter" AND THEN QRTED A FAN AND WENT "FIRST I'VE HEARD ABOUT IT. I'M GUTTED." AIRING THEIR SHIT ALL OVER TWITTER. THEN HE TWEETED @ING THE WRITER THEY PULLED WITH THEM FROM SPN ONTO THE PREQUEL WITH THE PHRASE "ET TU BRUTE." AND CALLED HIM A COWARD SKJDFNHGKJL. AND THEN HE DELETED ITTTTTTTT