#visionforhumanity

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It Can't Rain All The Time || Jubilee and Vision

Even with the Fortier win and all kinds of legal battles having been won for mutants it wasn't easy for people like her in this country. There was a lot of "I'm fine with it as long as they act human in public" and "I'm not genophobic, but I don't think I could date a mutant." There were also larger acts of hate, like the clinic being bombed and closed as a public nuisance for the foreseeable future. Still, Jubilee usually managed to have more good days than bad, today just happened to be one of the bad ones. She kicked at the ground, swinging her feet as she sat on a stone bench and watched the water come down the glass walls of the conservatory in waves. She should be at the clinic, instead she had finished with classes and come to the botanical gardens in the hope of distracting herself from...everything. She sighed and rested her chin in her hand, wishing she had a middle name she could go by on days like this, cause Jubilation wasn't cutting it.

[youbutfaster]

Have you ever caught yourself forming an instantaneous opinion about someone based exclusively on superficial information?

He does that a lot, yeah. He calls it trusting his gut, but it means it can take him a while to warm up to people and really trust them. 

[visionforearth]

The grazing of livestock -- especially in delicate ecosystems, like the arid Southwest, is one of the most destructive things humans are doing on the planet. We must stop sacrificing the future. 

[troublealwayscomesround-blog]

✄ for a favorite movie.

Raiders of the Lost Ark is way up there on the list. Something about running around the world looking for missing artifacts and magic and keeping it all away from evil Nazis... well, it spoke to him.

The other ones are okay too... just don’t talk to him about The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull unless you’re really and truly prepared for the rant coming your way.

[starklycontrasted-blog]

✄ for a favorite movie.

Jackass: The Movie.

What more needs to be said? 

It’s fucking hilarious. 

It’s one of the things Tony can relate to - trying something, just to see how it’ll turn out. 

(”Activate hand controls. We’re gunna start off nice and easy; we’re gunna see if ten percent thrust capacity achieves lift. In three, two, one--”)

These are his people.

This is a pick me up, something to have playing in the background when the newest blockbusters have been exhausted and he needs something mindless, something stupidly funny; something that when he looks up mid-soldering has him going back to it with snorted laughter and U attempting some of the stunts on DUM-E whilst Butterfingers encourages them, video camera in his clamp.  

[starklycontrasted-blog]

@visionforhumanity

He could go to any church, but this is the one his mom brought him to as a child. It’s where he was baptised, where he had his First Holy Communion and where he had his Confirmation.

(Yeah, he’s a godless son of a bitch now, but what’re you gunna do about it.)

It’s the church where his parent’s funeral was held; where Jarvis’ funeral was held. 

It’s the eve of their deaths and he won’t make it tomorrow - he’ll be too fucked up, too busy, whatever excuse works best - so he’s come down now to pay his respects. 

Well. He’s lit two candles, stuffed a hundred dollar bill into the donation box, and his dad can go fuck himself for all he cares. 

He’s making the Sign of the Cross when he hears a noise and he looks up, abandoning it on ‘Holy’ and lowering his hand, giving a nod over to priest. “Father.” It looks like he’s sorting through Bibles... how thrilling. 

“No altar boys to see into manhood today, huh?”

[troublealwayscomesround-blog]

✭ :An obscure interest

It’s not obscure exactly but Nick likes to cook and he’s collected recipes from all over the world that remind him of places and people. He’s also very good at talking relatives of agents he’s close to into sharing their secrets. He’s got Jasper’s mom’s sopa marinera recipe as well as tips from Melinda’s mom for Yi mein.

He also take a lot of joy out of reverse engineering dishes after finding out friends and family enjoy them. 

[starklycontrasted-blog]

✭ :An obscure interest

A not so obscure interest is the fact that Tony’s got a whole storage container of all the Captain America memorabilia that he’s collected throughout his fanboy years - some of it is his and some of it is his dad’s, who totally was a bigger fanboy than Tony. 

He’d rather admit that than his “obscure” one, which is silly really. 

It’s silly really but -

He’s got drawers and drawers filled with old mechanical pocket watches. 

Don’t ask why or when he started collecting them, because he has no idea. 

He doesn’t have time for old technology - even his own - but there’s just something fucking awesome about watches with gears and shit, how everything fits into place and works; something to do with his hands when he needs to get out of own head for a little bit and sitting at his desk, working the joints to keep them running smoothly, taking them apart only to put them back together again, calms him like nothing else. 

He’s got JARVIS, who alerts him, whenever one pops up online that he hasn’t got, regardless of the condition - he’s plenty of spare parts; tubs and boxes full of them - but he’s the only one who knows about it.