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I’m obsessed with the idea of Tony slowly getting to know Peter just by listening to his voicemails (after Peter gets Tony’s number and starts sending him updates instead of Happy). As time passes, Peter is convinced that Tony hasn’t listened to any of them so he starts getting more and more unhinged and saying way more than he would ever say to Tony’s face and Tony is just lurking, growing more and more fond of this kid that rambles to his voicemailbox.

Peter’s still a shy bean to his face, so he doesn’t mention that yes, he actually does listen to the voicemails in fear of Peter stopping.

And then one day Tony slips up and mentions something that Peter told him in a voicemail and Peter is completely mortified. You mean his mentor actually listens to them? He’s heard Peter regale his most embarrassing school stories and gush about his childhood crush on Thor? He thinks his life is over until Tony panics and tells him that receiving the voicemails is one of the best parts of his day. Peter stares at him like a lost puppy and Tony shies away from the feelings and everything’s as awkward as usual.

But that night, a voicemail comes in, and it’s no different than any of the others. Peter yammers like his heart depends on it, and Tony can’t help but feel that it’s an acknowledgement of the fact that yeah, they may have a difficult time talking to one another in person, but they both care, and maybe if they keep trying, they can make this father-son thing work.

And Tony thinks that next time a phone call rolls in, he just might answer.

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All three inhabitants of the lake house feel guilty on father’s day.

Morgan knew her dad liked to be in his workshop. She saw him go in there a lot, especially when he was scared, and he always came out happy again. Her mom said that her dad goes in there to be happier, that that he likes being in his workshop so much, so they shouldn’t worry when he’s in there for a long long time. She knows he likes spending time there. And she thought father’s day was supposed to be about her dad, so why doesn’t he go to his workshop on his day? Is it her fault? Is it because she’s distracting him? She tries to tell him, but it just makes him sadder. He says he wants to spend time with her, but when he thinks she’s asleep, he goes to his workshop immediately. It’s her fault. she knows it.

Pepper is never sure where tony’s head is at for father’s day. she doesn’t know if she should mention Peter, if she should distract Morgan so that he gets some alone time, if she should call up Rhodey for a visit, anything. He always looks particularly haunted on father’s day It’s not bad enough that Morgan notices, thank goodness, but she knows him well enough to see it. Should she distract him? Should she give him space? She asks, and he says that he’s happy for anything, he just wants time with his wife and child. The best gift she ever gave him for father’s day was something she found in the SI files - the permission slip for peter’s class field trip to SI, where peter wrote tony’s personal number as his emergency contact. Some part of her knows that father’s day is both appreciating what he has and what he’s lost.

Tony spends father’s day trying to find non-mechanical things to do with Morgan, remembering the fathers days in his own dads workshops as a child, wondering what fathers days looked like for Howard while tony was at boarding school, and trying not to feel like he shipped Peter to his own boarding school, by letting him get on that spaceship. Tony spends father’s day trying to convince himself that he’s done better than howard. He never fully convinces himself.

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Celebrating Father's Day (making Iron Man and Spider-man bracelets)

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field trip to stark industries fic but it’s post-NWH and it’s peter community college class and peter’s first time back in the building after being forgotten.

and the building makes it very clear that AIs were immune to the spell.

bonus points if it’s an au where tony survived, and he’s very curious why his tech is reacting so strangely to this random kid

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Imagine Tony spending his time stranded in space debating over and over how he’s going to tell May that her nephew is dead.

Imagine him being so hyper focused on his guilt and the massive loss he just experienced that, on top of the fact that he’s horribly malnourished and exhausted, he doesn’t even consider the idea that she might be gone too.

IMAGINE Pepper trying to get him to finally rest in the med bay after he gets back, but he refuses to calm down, insisting repeatedly, “No, no I need to call her— Pep, give me your phone. I— I need to talk to her!“ With no explanation.

Pepper keeps refusing, begging him to stop worrying for one minute and just rest, until she finally asks who the hell he would need to call so badly anyway, since everyone important to him should already be at the compound by then.

“I need to call May, Pep, she— she needs to come here, I need to tell her!“ Tony explains urgently, tugging on Pepper’s hand weakly and looking anxiously around the room for anywhere Pepper might have set her phone.

The realization of just how out of it Tony is hits Pepper hard, and all she can do is keep trying to calm him down until she finally has to say “Tony! listen to me. May’s gone.”

Tony blinks at her. “What?”

“Happy couldn’t get a hold of her after it happened, he— he went to the apartment and she was… she wasn’t there, Tony. You don’t need to call her.”

As a combination of sadness and relief crashes down on him, Tony can only shake his head no.

Pepper gives a sad nod before asking him again to please just lie down. He does, staring at the ceiling with an unseeing gaze, his mind disoriented and reeling.

The Parkers are gone.

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I’ve been thinking a lot lately how one of the first things Tony said to Steve Roger, former enemy, who he hadn’t talked in maybe a year, was: I lost the kid.

And he didn’t say Peter. He didn’t say Spiderman. He said THE KID. Like it was a well common fact EVEN TO STEVE ROGERS who the kid was. What Peter meant to him. I’m gonna go crazy thinking about that.

This is one of the million reasons no one can convince me they didn’t spend a lot more time together after Homecoming. That Peter didn’t show up at the lab, THERE’S EVEN A AD WHERE TONY TELL HAPPY TO INVITE PETER TO A PARTY BECAUSE HE LIKES THE KID, he listened to Peter’s audios to Happy, he was so close to Peter in a way that EVEN STEVE ROGERS KNEW WHO THE KID WAS AND TONY IMMEDIATELY HAD TO TELL HIM ABOUT HIS LOSS.

I go insane sometimes thinking about the year gap in Homecoming and Infinity War (year or a few month I don’t remember exactly). What did they do together, how they bonded, how Tony every day found himself loving this nerd kid so much. He had a picture of Peter in his house. He grieved Peter for FIVE YEARS.

Said picture, always nice to tell, WAS WHAT PUT HIM TO INVENT FUCKING TIME TRAVEL AND BRING THE WHOLE WORD BACK. Tony wasn’t gonna do it. He didn’t lost Pepper. Or Morgan.

But he lost Peter.

I go crazy sometimes thinking about these two and the phrase “I lost the kid” was a lot in my mind lately oh how I wish to know exactly what happened in the year gap

But also not because I’m good with the fics and hcs and sometimes it’s just good to know that they bonded and saw each other as father and son but WE create the content for it!

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HIHIHIHIHI I LOVE YOUR IRONDAD TEXTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! if its not too much to ask, how do you make them? is there a specific app you use?

AHA THANK YOUUU 🫶🫶🫶 it makes me sososoooo happy that people like them ☺️🤭

And I do use just this random app I found its called ChatTales I think LMFAO I just found it on the appstore by searching like texting story I think theres a million apps like it that come up but this one seems to work pretty well for me I think theres a lot of like options for the layout and stuff you can do

My only problem with it is that it doesn’t let you actually put images in your story thing unless you PAY for it which is annoying but I just edit them in with a photo editing app cause I’m not no sucker😼

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oh how i miss them i’m literally going to get sick

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Love your texts between Tony and Peter! Peter is so gen z and Tony is just done

AHHHAA THANK YOU OMG

Man people like those sm and I remember the first one I was nervous to post it because I was like well maybe its dumb but I also think its funny so whatever a few people might think its funny too idk BUT THEN SO MANY PEOPLE LIKED THEM 😭 and now I gotta make even more 😼 I cant wait

All the people liking my stuff has been making me sososoo happy I love this blog im so glad I did it I love tumblr I love all the little people in my phone so thank you little people I LOVE IT WHEN YOU TALK TO ME

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A saga of the boy who cried wolf (Peter) being falsely accused of treason (marked absent from class) and narrowly escaping death (Tony grounding him from spidermanning)

More posts like this here!! And look another here! 😛 probably more to come sometime I dunno

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im on a n2n kick so heres a wip (when im in a ‘haunting the narrative’ competition and my opponent is peter parker)

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as much as I want to (and do) believe that tony stark was a better father because of his relationship with peter, I wonder if there weren't moments where the traumatic experience of losing peter caused him to falter in ways that most parents wouldn't.

were there moments when he was afraid to let morgan in out of fear of losing someone else he cared about? were there times growing up where he was far too protective and anxious in a way that bordered on paranoia about her safety?

what if one day, he woke up wanting to take her into his workshop? but then he remembered he used to do that with peter? and then he hesitated, because what if he was doing it for alterior reasons? if peter were here, would he be offended or feel like he was being replaced? was he subconsciously looking to fill a peter-sized hole inside him with morgan? oh god, but that wouldn't be fair to morgan? but what's he supposed to do? just never show her this side of his life? that also wouldn't be fair to her? and he just continues to spiral until he's paralyzed and can't do anything at all? were there moments when this brown-haired, brown-eyed, innocent, sweet, kind child looked up at him, looking so much like peter that he had to go into the bathroom and throw up??? ... I'm just saying.

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Oh you know just thinking about Tony’s face when he realizes Peter is about to die vs when he sees him again I’m really normal about it

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This was actually a blatant lie I like them extremely severely immensely co dependent

I like my irondad and spiderson just a little co dependent

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OH MY GOD I TOTALLY FORGOT I MADE THIS EDIT LIKE A YEAR AGO?? I cant believe I FORGOT 😭 I was so proud of this one im actually joyous now that im remembering it

I ACTUALLY I HAVE A FEW MORE THAT I FORGOT ABOUT AS WELL SO stay tuned 😉😉😉 wink wink

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Soft spot in my heart for Tony Stark’s genuine soppingwet pathetic vibe. Common consensus is that this guy is mr confident heartbreaker or whatever meanwhile in actual canon he’s saying shit like ‘I needed u and u weren’t there’ / ‘u were supposed to be my frienddddd’ / ‘u lied to me how could u 💔’ like omg bro could NOT be more romantic heroine sad little yearning losercore if he tried.

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It's been 3 days since Tony's birthday, but on May 29th in another universe --

"Mr Stark!" Peter says excitedly, his hand holding the gift behind his back.

His mentor is amused. "Kid, I thought you dropped that eons ago."

"Mr Stark," Peter says purposefully, like the name itself bears a great significance to him.

Now Tony gives in and laughs. "Yeah kid that's my name."

Peter buzzes. "Today is your birthday."

Tony squints at him. "Uh-huh. Am I to worry about you conspiring something with my offspring?"

Peter almost sighs dramatically. He didn't expect Morgan to maintain the secret about the party completely. But he purely blames Tony's dad sense more than anything.

He merely shakes his head. Tony raises his brow as retort.

The anxiety Peter tried to mask with unfiltered excitement crashes in his veins. He grips the frame he held behind him more tight. The thought about overstepping boundaries has been a worry of his, despite the whole heart-to-heart conversation about being part of the Stark family after the Hulk brought the other half of the populations back with the Snap.

Tony frowns at him, the silence not sitting well with him. "Pete? What's going on in that head of yours?"

This is it. Peter extends the photo frame to Tony, his eyes closed. "Mr Stark, I just thought that it'd be a great idea to put together some pics and got the frame done. I've no idea if this is a good present for you cause I've no idea what to even get for you but gosh I hope you'd like it ---"

"Kid, breathe."

When the frame leaves his hand, Peter opens one of his eyes to witness the reaction. He expected a smile, a pat in the back and maybe at the most, a hug.

He didn't expect to see Tony visibly tearing up.

Peter's breath stutters in his chest. Oh gosh he totally misstepped Mr Stark definitely hates it ---

Tony's words are tearfully. "Kid, this is beautiful."

The frame was filled with collage of photos. Photos starting from the baby pics of Tony's which Peter got from Rhodey -- at absolute swearing of secrecy, one from Tony's graduation at MIT which was merged with Tony standing with Peter at his graduation from the same college. More photos from Tony as Ironman, some with the avengers but those were weighed out with the one took with Spider-man and War Machine.

But maybe, the photos that moved Tony visibly were the one with his family. Pics with Pepper at the wedding after the first Snap and the vow renewal after the Snap was undone. There were some with Rhodey and Happy. Some with May and him -- their bond strengthening after their kid has left their nest to make his own name. Many, many moments with Peter and Morgan.

But the one at the centre, the one that Pepper snapped at one of their many movie nights. It was the one with Peter dozing off with his head in Tony's chest, Morgan safely tucked in Peter's arms. The look of pure, unadulterated adoration in Tony's eyes at the serenity of the moment.

Below that are the words, half Peter's handwriting and the other Morgan's.

Happy birthday daddy!! reads Morgan's part.

We love you, dad, reads Peter's.

And that was enough to bring forth the tears.

At Tony's delayed reaction, Peter asks almost hesitantly. "You.. like it right, Tony?"

Holding the frame with one of his arms, Tony pulls Peter into a tight hug with the other. The kid has definitely grown taller than him but doesn't have any issues with burying his face between the crook of his neck and shoulder and fitting himself perfectly into the embrace.

"This is the best gift I've received ever, Pete." The sigh of relief speaks words. Tony presses a kiss into the kid's hair. "Thank you, kid."

Once upon a time, Tony Stark didn't do thanks. Time has eroded into his abrasive self and left him as a parental person at the end. And he wouldn't have any other way.

Peter only shakes his head. "Thank you, dad."

This is the best birthday that Tony could've ever celebrated, surrounded by his people, surrounded by the feeling of pure love.

Tony Stark simply wouldn't have it in any other ways.