#docdracula

[tincanmans]

Have you seen the new avengers unlimited comic?? Yet another scene with stevetony blatantly paralleled with an actual couple shklhsfkkgshkgfk

I DID! this page was insane. gonna put it on the ever growing pile lmaooo

[sineala]

favorite tony whump moments in canon??

There are a whole lot of really good choices but I think for "largest amount of whump in the shortest amount of time" a case can be made for the miniseries The Iron Age.

Iron Age Alpha features Tony getting into a time-travel accident that also more or less causes the world to end at the same time. So here he is, having been thrown into the past, with a time portal that is closing (so he can't get back to fix this), into an alleyway in the rain. He is currently on fire, so in a very short time he is shirtless in the rain, and he's just going to sit here in this alleyway in the rain and cry because all his friends are dead and it's all his fault.

This is Peak Tony Stark. I think the only way this would become even more Peak Tony Stark is if (a) he were drunk at the time (though he will very shortly meet his very drunk past self so the alcoholism is definitely a part of the plot) or if (b) he also had to remove his pants and were actually naked in the rain. But half-naked and sobbing in the rain about his dead friends is very close to rock bottom.

By the time we get to Iron Age #3, Tony is having a vision of his dead friends in a dream, after he passes out. He briefly thinks they are real and alive again but then they remind him that they are, in fact dead:

In fact, they are dead and he killed them. It was all his fault.

So I think it's pretty hard to imagine a situation that could be worse.

(This is also the miniseries where he accidentally hits on his past self, yes.)

My bonus pick, because I have just reread it (they just put it in a new trade paperback, actually), that hits a lot of similar themes is New Avengers: Illuminati #1 (2007), in which Tony is captured by Skrulls and stripped naked (yes, there is a theme here, and also, yes, he's actually naked this time), which is a problem because he needs his armor to survive:

This issue is actually set right after the Kree-Skrull War so I'm not entirely sure he actually needs his armor to survive at this point in canon (and furthermore he definitely has a secret identity so everyone should be way more surprised about Iron Man being Tony Stark than they actually are) but we will just ignore that for the sake of the whump. These whumpy facts are things that are presented as true in this issue so let us currently take them as fact.

Right. So. Naked and imprisoned and possibly dying from his heart problems, here's Tony.

Anyway, the Skrulls decide that a fun thing to do would be to pretend to be the Avengers and tell him that they've come to rescue him.

Tony sees through their plan and knows they are Skrulls, but the reason he knows this is because HE DOESN'T THINK HIS FRIENDS WOULD REALLY RESCUE HIM.

So it's not really as whumpy as Iron Age (at least, not to the same degree) but it's pretty hard to beat Tony's sincere belief that none of his friends would come save him from Skrulls as, you know, an extremely heartbreaking truth about canon.

[robertdowneyjjr]

wait is it greedy to pose another prompt?? rhodeytony + feelings realization <3

noooo never greedy, especially not when you’re requesting a god tier ship that deserves more love 💙

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It is utterly ridiculous that it’s taken over twenty years of friendship and Tony being kidnapped for the fourth time since they’ve known each other for Jim to realize he has more than just platonic feelings for his best friend.

Utterly ridiculous and completely stupid.

Because Jim had always thought he was a relatively smart guy, but this. This is just fucking idiotic of him. For him to have wasted all those years and only figured out how his heart feels now, when the stakes are so much higher and Tony has disappeared into the Afghan desert for almost three months.

This just can’t stand. More than just a military guy, Jim is a rocket scientist. And if he can figure out rocket science, then he can figure out how to find Tony. And once he does, he’s not going to waste any more time. He’s going to take the only man that matters into his arms and lay it all on the line, bare his heart and soul to him and hope for the best.

His superiors believe they have the authority to stop him from taking a jet over the desert skies to keep searching for Tony? They can think again.

Jim’s not a quitter. And he’s not quitting on Tony.

[persephonesfill]

have jensen & misha always been like this or did something Occur on the set of supernatural S15 👁️👄👁️

it's been so long since i've been in the supernatural fandom but to me this is DEFINITELY a recent development. if destiel goes canon AGAIN i'm going to scream

[sounds-of-some-day]

thoughts on MCU stevesharon ?

So, I want to preface this by saying that I am not opposed to Steve/Sharon (I think that's his main love interest in the comics?). And I am not even necessarily opposed to Steve/Sharon in the MCU. But...I think the MCU completely fumbled this from the very beginning to the very end. Here's how:

The beginning: by making Peggy a much more important part of Steve's life (and also a romantic love interest) in the past it does make the whole dating her niece thing a bit odd, BUT, I think they still could have made it work, if they hadn't continued to just completely screw it up every step along the way.

The above problem was compounded by having their "romance" (I'm using quotes because can we really call it a romance?) develop in the same movie where Steve loses Peggy, a movie in which both what Peggy meant to Steve, and Sharon's familial relationship to Peggy are highlighted.

The romance comes literally out of nowhere. Up until the point of their kiss, they are presented as co-workers with a deeper connection that to me feels like it's built more on friendship and mutual respect. The thing about this is, there was actually a deleted scene with Steve and Sharon in a café after Peggy's funeral, and that scene actually makes their romance feel a lot more natural. Chris and Emily have great chemistry in that scene (of course, I think Chris could have chemistry with a lamppost), and if they really wanted to go the romance angle with them, that scene never should have been cut (and maybe they should have added in a couple more...)

The romance disappears just as quickly as it appeared. Literally I don't think Steve and Sharon appear in the same scene in the entirety of the rest of the MCU. (I could be wrong about this, it's been a while since I've watched it.)

Steve goes back to Peggy. Like, ugh, this just compounds the problem in number one, and makes it 10x worse.

And the final nail in the coffin, TFatWS outright says that Steve doesn't come back for Sharon after the airport battle in CW, and just leaves her to fend for herself after she stuck out her neck for him and broke the law for him and then she became a villain, because the MCU just had to get in one last post-Endgame character assassination of my boy.

So, essentially, this is a ship that I actually think could have worked, but it needed to be handled with a lot more nuance and care (something the MCU isn't exactly known for) and since it wasn't, what we're left with is a ship that feels like it was forced into the movie to counter the growing popularity of Stucky. This of course didn't work, which is why we got Steggy in the end.

What's my pick for "give Steve a girlfriend" if we had to have one? Natasha all the way. Their chemistry in TWS was amazing, and it's a relationship that would have felt totally natural and realistic. Ball completely dropped on that one.

[avengerscompound]

wait mcu valkyrie is brunhilde??

Yes! Tessa has said so several times. The whole bisexuality thing is because Brunnhilde in the comics is bisexual. But even if that wasn't the case, using the name King Valkyrie still makes no sense. King is a title. Valkyrie is a title. It's like saying Emporer detective. Or she's a boss battle in a video game, you fought all the regularly Valkyrie, and now you're about to hit King Valkyrie. Drives me absolutely bonkers. And it drives me crazy they won't name her as Brunnhilde on screen because all the racism Tessa has gotten has been based around that fact and she was basically chased off Twitter trying to tell people it was that character.

[frigidlyauthorial]

miss misa 4 bingo

miss misa there are so many specific things that are wrong with you including having two death gods fall in love with you and deciding to get obsessed with a gay conservative instead

[lightsonparkave]

Kick back and while away the last hot, lazy summer days with these Round 35 submissions.

If you missed out on participating, remember that you can always submit something for a round that already ended. You can find out more information about that in the guidelines.

You can see all of the prompts for Round 35 here. In addition to looking at this master list, you can search for works by rounds, creators, work types, ratings, and universes on this page and peruse the Lights on Park Ave AO3 collection.

Round 36 has now begun and will run until August 31. In celebration of the three-year anniversary of Lights on Park Ave, all of the prompts from the past year are up for grabs. The prompts can be found here.

FIC

AU

“all the world is only you and me” - illogicalkat Steve has trouble breathing, when the air gets this thick.

“Bonfire Promises” - Infinitywrites/@infinitywriters-blog​ As the age-old tradition goes, desired Alpha and Omega are bonded during the new moon night in a bonfire. And a Bonding in a Midsummer New moon night is considered very auspicious by the elders. The elders say the bond would last the seven lives the Alpha and Omega will have if they are soulmates. Though Steve scoffs at the story from his elders, secretly he loved the magic of being bound to one’s soulmate for all of eternity. (Or)Bonfires, Bonding and Soulmates

“Kings of Summer” - @gonetoarcadia A bonfire. The last night of summer. Confessions in the dark. Tony did always want to dance after the sun went down, and Steve wanted everything, even if it hurt.

MCU

“Burn Baby Burn” - @docdracula (also on Tumblr) “Wait a minute, you’re telling me you never wear sunscreen?”