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My Son, My Sun - Chapter 1 - Wordsplat - The Avengers (2012) [Archive of Our Own]

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[multiple-fandomimagines]

Chapters: 6/6
Fandom: The Avengers (2012), Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark, (Eventual)
Characters: Tony Stark, Peter Parker, Pepper Potts, Phil Coulson, Natasha Romanov, Steve Rogers, Clint Barton, Bruce Banner, Thor (Marvel)
Additional Tags: Family, Eventual superfamily, Parent Tony Stark, Humor, Fluff and Angst, Domestic Fluff, Superfamily
Summary:

Just before the events of Iron Man, a baby is left on Tony’s doorstep. He wants nothing to do with it at first, but his time in Afghanistan changes his mind and Tony vows to become a better man for his son’s sake.

[little-jar-of-dragons]

Oh, god, I think this story has been deleted. Links on tumblr are the only way I know it actually existed and I didn’t dream it up. It’s a great story, though, does anyone know if it could be archived somewhere? I’ve never tried the wayback machine before but I might have to for this one. 

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[pigeonbits]

Here’s HSTHETE, the 24 hour comic I drew this year!  Thanks to everybody who followed along on twitter this weekend as I posted these pages <3

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Probably about to expose my age here but this is gonna bother me. Does anybody else remember the stony fic where steve gets hit with some alien ray gun that’s supposed to force an enemy into giving into base desires (like running away from the battle field out of fear) but it only makes Steve give into his attraction to tony? This was old too like back when I regularly searched fanfiction.net when AO3 was in its infancy …. I keep thinking about it cause tony was trying so hard to not take advantage of the situation and Steve just wanted to be in his space constantly it was so cute …. please tell me someone remembers this I swear I didn’t make it up

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Work Hard, Play Harder

[imaginestevetony]

They’re like the upper 1% but hear me out:

Non-Powered AU where Tony’s still a Genius, Billionaire, (maybe) Playboy and Philanthropist and on his spare time, likes to drive.

And race Crown Prince Thor in Monaco.

They’re also friends with NASCAR driver Bucky Barnes.

And upcoming F1 driver Princess Shuri of Wakanda.

They’re all good friends and would hang out outside of Monaco, too. They help each other out in business, too. They’re all into Green Energy and one of their biggest project is to revolutionize the racing car so it could be better for the environment. 

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[little-jar-of-dragons]

Somewhere in space in the hospital wing of a ship.

Alien - “Human Steve! I have excellent news! We found your severed upper appendage in good enough condition that we think it can be reattached - “

Human - “What?”

Alien - “Uh … Your arm? We found it and instead of the mechanical prosthetic we think - “

Human - “Wait, that friggin mutant snake thing didn’t eat it?”

Alien - “Oh, no, no, no! It would seem that it did not like the taste as humans are not a part of it’s natural or native diet, as you can imagine. For that matter the ‘snake thing’ was a fairly standard specimen for this planet - “

Human - “You mean to tell me that fucker ripped my arm off and didn’t even have the decency to eat it! Just dumped it somewhere to waste? Offended. I am. Offended.

Human’s equally human friend standing next to him staring at a tablet - “Rude. Just rude.”

Alien - “…”

Alien - “…”

Alien - “So … do you want the arm reattached or not.”

I was watching a shark attack documentary the other day, in which said shark took off a man’s arm and later the arm washed up on the beach. All the man had to say about it was, “Took my arm the least the shark could have done was get a meal out of it instead of letting it go to waste.” 

[dragonsrequiem]

The arm was attached with minimal lasting damage. The bewildered alien retreats to the lounge, where they stare obliviously into their evening nutrients with what they’ve seen the humans refer to as a “1000 mile stare”.

(The American humans, that is. When they asked one of the non American humans what a mile was, they were assured it was a ridiculous measurement form utilized solely by Americans and not to worry too much about learning it unless they wished to engage in continued dialogue with the weirdest portion of humanity aside from the Australian humans.)

They were pulled from their thoughts by a friendly tap on the tray near their resting tentacles. Appreciative for the consideration and lack of physical touch, they turned their gaze to the human known as Sheila. “Humans Sheila! Maybe… could you explain something to me?”

After the human nodded in affirmation, the befuddled alien explained.

“Human Steve encountered an angry reptilian based lifeform which severed his arm.”

“Steve never cleans his hands as well as he should. Lemme guess, it choked and now there’s an incident.”

Puzzled, the alien spoke up. “Negative. It failed to consume the arm and we ended up being able to reattach it…”

They paused in confusion when they noticed that the Human Sheila was bent around her abdomen as though in agony while making those bizarre noises common to pleased earthlings.

“He tasted so bad it got spat out??? He must have been— so very— Offended!!!” Sheila’s volume increased in her mirth, while the alien waved tentacles worriedly and considered summoning medical personnel. The humans must share some cultural obligation to consume enemies if vanquished, they finally decided. They would have to update the multi galactic database with this.

[little-jar-of-dragons]

A beautiful addition thank you for this

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Soft head canon that even though they never say it out loud, the male Avengers always subconsciously take a big brother role with Natasha without meaning to. Like she’s noticed, and she doesn’t need them to do this obviously, she can handle herself, thanks very much. But it’s kinda cute when they tell her to be careful and look out for this one guy or snap at a baddie to shut his mouth when they make a gross comment to her. So, whatever, she let’s it slide.

However, there is video evidence of a reporter asking Tony ‘flirts with anything that moves’ Stark and asking how hot it is to work out with The Black Widow and Tony wrinkling his nose and saying something to the effect of, “Gross, that’s my sister,” with barely any hesitation. A small chorus of agreement from the others following shortly after. That is also the only video evidence of Natasha, just barely smiling ever so softly, as she watches Iron Man and her other boys stumble through the rest of the questions like the idiots they are. 

She doesn’t need them to defend her honor or whatever, but … it is awfully sweet. 

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[little-jar-of-dragons]

Sometimes, I think about this scene because it’s probably my favorite scene in the whole movie, but also because my brain likes to conjure up a situation where, instead of Pepper sending Morgan, Nebula a.k.a: best big sis ever was there and busts through the cabin door with whatever the space equivalent of a single action pump shotgun is and she’s like, “I WAS TOLD YOU REQUIRED ASSISTANCE,” aiming right at the ‘intruders.’ 

And Tony is just … a tired but proud dad and is calmly, “Where did you even get that, I confiscated the weapons.” Morgan is giggling behind Nebula, Pepper is exasperated, Steve is so confused and terrified because where does Tony keep finding these people and why is his immediate response to adopt them??? 

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Don’t Go Talking Classics Out of School: Medusa

[notbecauseofvictories]

by now, most of you have probably seen this post about how “Athena gifted Medusa with ugliness and the power to turn men to stone as a way of protecting her from further violations of her person…As the original myth tells it, she lived in solitude because she did not wish to be around men after what Poseidon had done. And Athena gave her the power to never be at the mercy of a male again”

In addition, it makes some claims about how the image of Medusa’s head was found on the lintel of women’s shelters, and it was patriarchal Rome that subverted this myth into the one of rape and victim-blaming and turned her ugliness into something shameful.

….EXCEPT REALLY NOT

first let me say, I am all for reinterpreting and retelling Greek myths! People have been doing it down the ages, and I love the Romantic fixation on Prometheus and Freud’s fetish for Oedipus and tumblr’s fascination with Persephone/Hades. And I am definitely all for reclaiming stories that have been used to shame and silence women.

But I am also allergic to those retellings being retroactively fitted back into their sexist framework. On top of this being just plain old revisionist history, it does a disservice to why we needed to retell it in the first place.

Medusa was (probably) not natively a feminist heroine and her head was not hung above doorways of women’s shelters (not sure if Classical Greece had anything recognizable women’s shelters, my research hasn’t turned up anything.) Ancient Rome is not automatically more patriarchal than Ancient Greece, because Greece was pretty damn gross in a lot of ways and their myths are not exempt from that.

Let’s unpack the history of Medusa, shall we?

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