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Avengers ad campaign S.H.I.E.L.D. ran in 2012, featuring Steve and Tony

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Tony Stark: *speaking Italian*

Steve Rogers: I know, I know.

Clint Barton: You speak Italian?

Steve Rogers: No. I just know the phrase, 'this is all your fault' in every language Tony speaks.

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Are there any fics where Cap is involved in the events in Iron man 3 or 2?

Here is the list for Steve and Team involved in Iron Man 3.  For Iron Man 2, there are a few that I can think of:

IT ISN’T BUTTING IN TO SOMEONE’S STORY TO LEAVE COMMENTS AND KUDOS!

Brilliant Idiot by Gothic_Lolita: Tony is dying because of a faulty arc reactor, but Steve refuses to let him give up.

Iron Man 2: The First Avenger by HepG2:  It becomes immediately clear that Anthony Stark – in the way those brown eyes are sharp and searching, warm with years of practiced professionalism –  is nothing like his father.This isn’t a good year for Tony Stark. SHIELD is smothering him with a new recruit who may or may not be here to spy on him, or Stark Industries. His arc reactor is leaking palladium into his blood. He wants to do some Iron Man-ing solo because teamwork can go screw itself in the bush. Plus, the government and engineers-cum-terrorists are slobbering all over his armour tech. And that’s just the appetisers. He’ll probably be too dead to get to desserts, to be honest. Which is a shame, because he’s only beginning to know Steve Rogers.

Say When by @stark-spangled-lovers: Book 1 of the Say When series. An alternate version of Iron Man 2. What if Steve was unfrozen early? What if instead of Natasha, Steve got assigned to help Tony while the genius was slowly dying of palladium poisoning? What if he never revealed his identity to him until the very moment the Avengers first came together, forming a team?

Darling, Keep the Lights On (Until I Get Home) by capsicleironman, Lets_call_me_Lily: When Steve Rogers is awoken from the ice early, he is assigned as the personal assistant to Tony Stark, the man on TV with the strange glowing light in his chest. The plan was simple - protect and gain intel. It was supposed to be just another job, but then again, nothing in Steve’s life has ever gone according to plan.Iron Man 2 Divergence where Steve ends up working for Tony instead of Natasha, and his interest first in the arc reactor and then in Tony himself, leads him through the events of the Avengers, Iron Man 3, and Captain America 2.

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infinity war!stevetony + if the world was ending

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by ぬ

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all politics about ai aside if you use it to create fanwork you're just a fucking dweeb

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BE MAD BE SAD BUT DONT U DARE GIVE UP

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DEI does not mean lower standards.

You are thinking of white privilege.

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Ok breaking containment for this one because I need everyone who will listen to hear this.

Women who suffer bad cramps are told cramps shouldn't affect school/work/etc, but no one ever investigates further because no one can possibly know if what someone experiences is just typical pain or something much worse.

Well after 15 years of stage 4 treatment-resistant endometriosis that came with pain as bad as, if not worse than, actual labor contractions every month, all the while being told I was 'typical' and 'just had bad cramps', I've finally been healed (another post for another time). I have had what everyone describes as the elusive 'normal period pain' for several months now, and I am begging you to look me in the eyes and listen because I need everyone who can hear this to hear this.

I have been on both sides of this. I have the hard-earned knowledge of what a period 'should' feel like.

If you have to put in any effort to hide your cramps, you need to get help.

Even during of the PEAK OF CRAMPING (i.e., as bad as your cramps possibly get), you should still be able to stand, speak, walk, eat, work, and sleep with no problems. These tasks should require very-little-to-no extra effort beyond what you would normally do when you aren't on your period. When you do these things, you should feel grumpy and a little bit icky and maybe a twinge of nerves and NOTHING MORE.

If you have to sit in the corner and hope no one approaches you because you can't speak or stand without showing pain, even slightly, you need to get help. If your pain is showing on your face, you need to get help. And most importantly, IF YOUR PAIN DOES NOT RESPOND TO 1-2 TYLENOL OR IBUPROFEN, YOU NEED TO GET HELP.

Your period cramps should make you grumpy. Your period cramps should make you feel a little icky and tired. Your period cramps should make you feel your insides existing/moving a bit and a twinge of nerves that makes you groan slightly then the "pain" should stop there, NOTHING MORE.

If your cramps put you on the floor but you make believe you're the captain of a ship who has just been stabbed and has to hide it to fight on, and you force yourself to power through the day, please understand: you are not okay, that does not make you okay. Just because you can power through the pain doesn't mean you aren't sick. If you have to force yourself through any basic task beyond the effort it takes you to do when you aren't on your period, and I am holding your face and looking you in the eye as I say this because I need you to hear me: You aren't normal. You don't 'just have bad cramps'. You are sick and you need to get help.

Now most people will tell you if your cramps are beyond a 3 out of 10 on the pain scale, you should see a doctor. While this is usually true, you have to consider chronic pain CAN AND WILL BREAK YOUR PAIN SCALE. Most people will only compare pain they currently feel to pain they may experience one day but probably never will. "Sure these cramps feel bad now, but if I had a leg amputated with no anesthesia, that would hurt WAY worse, so this pain can't be that bad-" No. Your pain is what it is, objectively, full stop. My cramps were at a 10 out of 10 every. Single. Time. And nobody told me claiming they were a 6-8 because I thought to myself 'what if I lose a limb one day?' was completely wrong. 10 pain is 10 pain. And if there's something that hurts worse than that, guess what. The thing you are experiencing right now is still a 10 out of 10 on the pain scale. Just because you experience it every month doesn't mean it's magically not as bad is it is. And if your pain is worse than a 3 out of 10, you need to get help.

Now when I say get help, I mean find the root cause of your pain. You can't just throw drugs and hormones at it without knowing what it causing your pain. Endometriosis, fibroids, pcos, cancer, adenomyosis, polyps, thyroid issues, there is always a cause. And if you leave it untreated, it will grow and get worse to the point where it resists treatment and the drugs and hormones you've been throwing at it for years don't work anymore. You have to find a doctor that will investigate. If your doctor tells you you 'just have bad cramps' get a new doctor. I know you've been told that but please hear me: no one ever just has bad cramps. A healthy human body doesn't spontaneously cause itself pain so bad you can't stand up; there is ALWAYS a cause.

I was sick for more than 15 years. My entire life was put on hold and now I'm in my late 20s trying desperately to play catch up for everything I missed. I want to pick up 12yo me, spin her around, and tell her she doesn't have to die before she finally stops hurting. I don't want anyone to suffer the same fate I did simply because everyone told them they were normal. A little twinge of pain here and there is normal, suffering is not. I promise you your pain is real, it is not normal, and dear heavenly day I am begging you you need to get help now.

TL;DR: There is no such thing as 'just bad cramps.' If you feel anything more than grumpy, icky, and pain greater than a 3 out of 10, you need to find out what's wrong with you before it gets worse.

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I saw these meme YEARS ago, & it's been tickling the back of my mind today:

After immersing myself in Marvel fics for the last year, I'd like to update it a bit:

I can think of exactly ONE billionaire who decided to spend her wealth & her life doing good for others: MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Jeff Bezos.

Good for her, but that's not what I mean.

In the nearly 20 years that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has dominated the US box office, not a single billionaire has shown the kind of moral courage to change that Tony Stark showed in the original Iron Man.

They haven't looked at their product, their company, their legacy, & said, "We're hurting people. We need to shut this shit down."

They didn't change direction, see the damage that still remained, & then take direct action to make amends.

Don't get me wrong: Robert Downey Jr. certainly turned his life around.

However, he isn't leading a major defense contractor. He still isn't a billionaire. He can do a lot of good with his money--and he does! His life-turnaround just isn't in the same category as the character he plays. He isn't the counterexample I'm looking for.

Imagine if the co- founder of Google, Larry Page, worth $137 BILLION dollars, decided to put as much effort into saving the world as a fictional Tony Stark did.

What would he do? If he has a moral crisis about his company, similar to Stark's, maybe he could shut down Google's AI insanity, that steals jobs & pumps pollution into our air, & re-direct his focus.

Maybe he could fund a program to help Americans switch to electric cars, to reduce pollution?

Maybe he could cough up six billion dollars to end world hunger?

Maybe he could save all the rural hospitals that are shutting down?

He could afford to do ALL of that, & still have billions left over!

Larry Page is just one of the 75 billionaires on the Forbes list, & I picked him at random. There are over 3000 worldwide billionaires left---and NONE of them have done this type of thing!

THAT is the fantasy: that someone with Tony Stark's level of money & power will have a life-changing experience, & will then start doing good.

We have no reason to think it will ever happen.

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Stained glass ao3 logo :P

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the oceangate rabbithole is un-fucking-paralleled. what do you mean they left that thing outside in the snow in canada for the entire fucking winter. of course it imploded literally the next time they put it in the water. holy shit.

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Even when I try to write about fascism I write about plants

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Where is Bucky Barnes when we need him?

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Those who understand understand.

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seeing mon and kleya’s thrilling escapes from coruscant makes leia’s first reaction to luke and han even funnier. leia must’ve heard about these highly skilled rebels but then when she gets captured, she gets a hillbilly farmboy and an idiot smuggler to rescue her