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the series tag here. Here on AO3. Okay so this was the first of this series that I thought about, and it’s inspired by @hundredthousands-art’s art here https://hundredthousands-art.tumblr.com/image/677287318243196928 (it doesn’t look anything alike but it was very similar in my memory) (psst you should go look at their other works it’s gorgeous) and by my love for the image of giant whale bones at the bottom of the ocean, as seen here (and in general giant ribs and spines, which are the coolest thing ever, including those of, like, boats). So Tony’s thing could have been his brain, obviously, because his real superpower is that he’s smart. But. The arc reactor is the thing that’s his, visually. Also the source of his power (as the thing that powers the suits) and his greatest weakness (as in you remove it he dies, and also it has strong negative side-effects on his everyday life). And it’s a running joke in the movies, “proof that Tony Stark has a heart“, and it’s a running theme in some comic runs that he’s deeply kind. So yeah, Tony’s heart. fill for @tonystarkbingo, prompt [Picture of Tony working in the workshop, the reactor shining through his shirt]

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Post-endgame. After Tony pushes himself too hard during PT Steve carries him to bed. My poor boys are just exhausted.

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Art for "Hero is a Relative Term" by the terrific @riotwritesthings

Rating: Teen

Summary:

Another day, another kidnapping, and Tony’s biggest concern is that he’s never going to live this down.

Clint is going to mock him forever and Natasha is going to give him judging looks and next time he tries to run out to grab burgers for everyone Steve is going to make him bring an escort. And that’s not even getting into what Bucky is probably going to have to say about this.

Good thing Tony is an old pro at making his own escapes.

Link on Ao3

Bonus fill for @winterironmonth Prompt - SFW Friday: Powerless

And a shirtless version 🤭

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Losers 💕

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Bucky jewelled arm sketch request from my secret Twitter few months back!

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ones that look like these half body ones:

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Inktober

Day 9 : The Magic Bird

Sam Wilson

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Avengers couples question: who proposes on a whim, who counts down the minutes and plans the seconds until they propose at the perfect moment, and who never does because they assume the other will eventually?

Bonus, who proposes to get free cake at a restaurant/at a baseball game to get on the jumbotron?

Anon, this was such a good question, and even though I am so behind in replying I have been thinking about it a lot since you asked.

Here's the scenario in my head: Steve and Tony have been dating for years now, and the other Avengers know that (1) Steve has bought a ring, and (2) he is being insufferable about finding "the right moment" to finally pop the question.

So when Steve backs out of his own elaborate plan for the third time, Natasha starts a betting pool about how long it's going to take him to stop chickening out. And as we might expect, this quickly devolves into chaos, because everyone starts cheating to try to skew the results in their favor. Clint lowballed everyone, so now he's stuck trying to plant rose petals and candles everywhere to make every situation seem more romantic (or, on one disastrous occasion, planting fireworks in the vents to try to scare Steve into a near-death confession). Thor accidentally picked the wrong year (Midgardian time is so confusing), so he's trying to scare Steve out of proposing by making up increasingly elaborate fake Asgardian bachelor-party rituals that Steve will have to complete before the wedding.

And Sam picked a date two months away, so he's taken to trying to stall Steve by proposing to whoever's nearby any time they're at an event that seems potentially atmospheric. He proposes to Rhodey when the team goes wine tasting in upstate New York. He proposes to Natasha when they all rent a cabin in the Shenandoah Valley. The only problem is that the first time he tries this with Bucky (at a group outing to go ice skating at Rockefeller Center), Bucky says "yes" immediately, and Sam almost trips into the wall. Because Bucky is dead serious, and they have definitely never been on a date.

Of course, that's the thing that finally gets Steve's back up enough to face his fear of fucking this up, because he may sometimes doubt whether he can live up to everything he wants to be for Tony, but he'll be damned if he's going to let Sam and Bucky lap him before they'd even made it to first base. He pops the question that night over a bottle of wine he'd bought on their first date together, and Tony texts the group chat to gloat about having won the betting pool.

Steve and Tony get married eight months later, and though Sam and Bucky have more than rounded the bases by then (in fact, they share a moto, a Costco membership, and two cats), that's the night they decide to take the next big step: identifying all the hotels in New York City that will upgrade your suite if you say it's your honeymoon.

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Bodyguard!Steve + Tony.

Bonus points if there’s some id porn and Steve doesn’t know his boss is freaking IRON MAN.

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I haven’t really been following anything to do with the MCU for a while… but after watching NWH I started to miss the Avengers a lot so I went back to rewatch Endgame :)

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A Marvelous Light AU

So....a while back I wrote this post, wherein, I said I wanted a Stony AU based on Freya Marske's book A Marvelous Light. Well, I couldn't get the idea out of my head, so I commissioned @sreppub to make the AU a reality.

I'll probably never actually write it but it does live quite vibrantly in my head.

So, here's magician Tony doing what he loves best (research) while trying to help non-magician Steve find a cure for a curse that is threatening his life. And Steve, trying desperately not to fall madly in love with him.

Tony stood near the center of the library floor, shirtsleeves rolled to mid-forearm, one hand turning the page of a thick book splayed open on a table while the other idly twisted the silver chain around his fingers.

Looking at him, Steve realized that before this moment he'd never seen Tony Stark look even the slightest bit comfortable. But here, surrounded by old, dusty books, and his robots, which diligently brought him whichever tome he required, Tony looked relaxed, content even, for the first time since Steve had met him.

Tony caught his eye, and Steve quickly looked away, his face growing warm as a flush spread across his cheeks and down the back of his neck.

Oh, he was going to be in so much trouble.

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I completed my fill for @marveltrumpshate 2021 for the lovely @iam93percentstardust !

To have been paired with one of my fave authors and idols is just beyond amazing.

Thank you so much for such a wonderful and lovely prompt 🥰🥰🥰

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Thor!

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hiya annie! i check out your dreamwidth sometimes (old hand at these things) & noticed you've been reading a fair bit these days! does your reading ever factor into your fic writing? or other forms of writing that you do? always curious about the writers behind the fics i love, and since you read a lot of non-fiction, i'm even more curious about what you think. also, if it's not too personal, i'd love it if you could share some of your esp faves!! looking for more stuff to read atm ty xoxo

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Hello, hi, thanks for the ask! My reading definitely influenced my fic writing more in the past, mostly in terms of style and rhythm, before I figured out the writing styles I'm most comfortable with. I tend to be way more relaxed about fic-writing these days, so I think the main takeaway from reading non-fiction would be picking up interesting words or topics I can use as throwaway topics in fic. Like, what thing have I just read that Tony can mention off-hand in casual conversation, maybe hypersonic flight? That kind of thing. Though I do like picking up new words or terms through reading and that may subconsciously influence the way I think. Maybe?

OKAY BOOK RECS! These are all non-fiction, and I've posted about these before on my dreamwidth so you might've seen them, but here's a bunch I've really enjoyed:

I just read First Man, a biography about Neil Armstrong by James R. Hansen, it's very readable if you're interested about early NASA, the space race, and what the life of the first man of the moon was like after he came back the Earth. It does get a bit technical in places but it also humanizes a lot of the people involved in the US space program. Armstrong's fellow Apollo 11 crewmate Michael Collins has an autobiography, Carrying the Fire, which is REALLY witty, you might've seen some of Collins' quotes around tumblr, and this book is that, but MORE. (Aldrin has an autobiography as well but I haven't read that yet.)

Christina Thompson’s Sea People, which is about the investigative history on how the original Polynesians colonised the Polynesian triangle, of where the early settlers came from, how they navigated to get to the islands, what routes they took, and so on. Goes all the way to modern day with the resurgence of Polynesian navigation. (Related to this I have the book Hawaiki Rising by Sam Low on my To Read list but haven't been able to get it yet.)

Stacy Schiff's The Witches: Salem, 1962 is as you can tell from the title about the Salem witch trials, and it is a dark chapter of US history that I only knew some of the broad strokes about before, and in my opinion this book is not just interesting for giving context for how it happened and what happened afterward once the dust cleared, but is good reading to understand how groupthink and community hysteria can happen.

John S. Croucher and Rosalind F. Croucher's Mistress of Science: The Remarkable Story of Janet Taylor, a biography about scientist Janet Taylor, who built compasses and navigation equipment in a field dominated by men, and who published maps and navigation documents for sailors during the height of the Age of Sail. If you're into the Age of Sail era this is also cool for how Taylor's career spanned the industrial revolution until sail started to be replaced by steam.

Maria Konnikova's The Confidence Game, which is about the psychology of scams, and how conpeople take advantage of their victims. Scams are so rampant these days so it's been something I've been thinking about a lot, and this book just hammers it home that intelligence level doesn't preclude anyone from being a victim, and there's no "right" way to exist in society if you want to never ever get duped.