steve: 'this story is a tragedy because it didn't have to end this way'
tony: 'this story is a tragedy because it was always going to end this way'
alternatively titled: the world's leading authority on waiting too long and the end of the path i started us on
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I wish I told him. I wish I could tell him now. I wish to carry him with me forever.
Steve holds onto the thought as he falls asleep next to someone else, in the body of a man back in his time but forever out of it, obsessing over unspoken words and hoping to remember the heartbreak when he wakes up.
He's terrified that if the pain fades away, so will the memory of Tony.
This is really powerful to me. Logan is freaking out because tonight is the night that everything is supposed to go bad in the worst way. So young Jean Grey gathers some of his closest friends to stay up with him through the night. As someone who suffers from PTSD, this means so much. I can’t begin to describe how many nights I had to stay up by myself just shaking until the sun came up. These people are all class.
My brain just hit an old hyperfixation (is this what it's called? I hope I used the word right) and oh dear am I losing my mind now. I need to write a story I think. About this one old guy. He's unhinged. There's so much information about him and yet not enough. I want to explore his character so much. He's definitely a criminal - at least he was one - and I'm 95% sure he can do actual real magic, and he's a musician and an artist and an actor and a magician and a philosopher and a traveler and a conman and so much more and also I think he's some kind of immortal. Maybe he just has a VERY long life. It's strongly implied he was a pirate at some point of his life. He started a cult by accident several times. My conspiracy theories about him include him being a secret god.
He's also a freaking round blue raven. Someone save me from my mind.
It's Tony birthday, but despite it being his special day, he's filled with uncharacteristic self-doubt. Luckily, he has his friends and family to cheer him up.
In particular, his husband is more than happy to prove his love for him, in more ways than one.
For the Reverse Big Bang 2023, organized by @cap-ironman. I had the great pleasure of working with ATOASTBW, who's not only a great author but also a lovely human to be around. I'm happy to have a found a friend in them. 💙
Captain America: Civil War was my favorite MCU film for the longest time but rewatching it recently made me sad. There’s so much needless fighting. I remember watching it in theaters and it was such a satisfying follow-up to Age of Ultron because it actually had weight to it, but I also remember getting out of the theater and realizing that no, Avengers 3 would not have all the Avengers together. There was a rumor floating around at the time of Age of Ultron that in the third Avengers film they’d face off with the Guardians of the Galaxy, and that blew my mind. Then Civil War came out, and THAT blew my mind, but if they didn’t get together at the end of Civil War, how could they face the Guardians together? Civil War saved the MCU, but it also kind of broke it. It was the beginning of the end of the arc, and it was the first Marvel film where nobody won and nothing was resolved.
Actually, know what I'd like to do. I'd like to see a superhero team comprised of characters from all the companies DC bought out. Maybe I can turn my Canadian Justice League into this. Add in Captain Marvel/Shazam and some other Fawcett folks, Blue Beetle and The Question stuff from Charlton, Plastic Man from Quality, etc. Because DC got those characters in a way that I don't like, and it's time that we do some punching back. Restore the old characters to their old pinnacle! See if we can't find a place for them in this new era.