stony au where they send steve to spy on tony instead of nat:))

best idea of my life tbh

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tonys hair is cute and soft

And here are the other two illustrations I did for the @reforgedzine! I've been wanting to do matching art nouveau illustrations for these two for a long, long time and I'm very happy I finally got a reason to do it! I really like how these turned out! :D

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This is one of the illustrations I did for the @reforgedzine that I can finally show you all! And yes, it's my favourite — warm colours, soft lighting, and tooth-rotting fluff. Plus some really impressive metal texturing, if I do say so myself.

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tony gets kidnapped on his way to a business meeting or something and he goes with it because they’re in a pretty crowded area and he doesn’t want some innocent bystanders getting hurt in the scuffle. the team will notice eventually and his overprotective boyfriend captain american is going to 1. notice very quickly and 2. freak the fuck out, so he’s not really risking much here

also these kidnappers are sort of stupid and he’s not really worried about escaping later. except even though they’re stupid they mention things about the avengers and shield that they really shouldn’t know so tony decides to stick around to see if he can figure out if they lucked into hacking past his security (not likely) or if there’s some sort of mole

except the leader and the underlings get in an argument right in front of him because apparently they were supposed to capture captain america, not iron man, and the guy who grabbed him is like no, no, this is better! we have his boyfriend so we can lure him here instead!

meanwhile tony is just stating in disbelief that these idiots manage to string two thoughts together. there has to be mole. or someone else really in charge. or something.

and the leader is like fine whatever. he takes tony’s phone and opens the contacts and snorts, “this is what you have him saved us? pathetic”

tony looks at the contact labeled <3 <3 love of my life light in the dark wind beneath my wings <3 <3 and is sort of glad he’s gagged so he can’t say anything

he still doesn’t really know what’s going on and jarvis is still trying to hack their system an there’s no harm in sticking around a little longer since these people are. you know. idiots

except approximately fifteen minues later rhodey is busting down the wall and taking out all these guys in thirty seconds flat and tony slips out of the ropes that he’d undone about five minutes after being put into them (thanks nat) and pulls down the gag and says, “i thought you were on radio silence on a mission in ghana”

“i thought you could be trusted on your own, so it looks like we’re both wrong,” rhodey says. “what were you playing at?”

“i would have told you not to come if i’d known you’d get the message,” he protests. “i was working an angle here, okay, jarvis are you into their systems yet?”

“yes,” his trusty ai says from his phone from one of the kidnapper’s pockets. “tracing the origin of their financial backer now.”

“you really didn’t have to stay kidnapped for jarvis to do that,” rhodey points out, brushing him off and checking him for injuries.

tony shrugs. “i didn’t want to risk one of them getting away and tipping them off. take care of them i could. do it before they got a signal out without the suit? maybe not.”

this very reasonable discussion is interrupted by the rest of the avengers coming in swinging and then left blinking except for steve who feels the need to fuss over him while tony whines and complains and pretends he doesn’t love it

he says they were after steve anyway, he was just bait and steve frowns and is like well, why didn’t they try and contact me then? we knew something was wrong because of the stark industries security footage

and natasha, the sneak, has picked tony’s phone from the kidnapper’s pocket. he lunges for it but she skips back from him and says, “well it looks like they tried. they just messaged the wrong person”

steve takes the phone and sees the contact name and that the kidnappers sent the message we have your boyfriend and if you don’t do exactly what we say you’ll never see him again and is like. this is what rhodey is saved as in your phone?? what am i??

“look, the things is, it’s not like i actually use anyone’s contact, or look at it, i just tell jarvis who to call, so you really shouldn’t take this personally,” tony says.

steve types in his own number and stares in disbelief. “captain? i’m saved in your phone as CAPTAIN?”

“okay well when you gave me your number we weren’t dating and also you were being very mean to me at the time, so,” he says, resisting the urge to hide behind rhodey because he doesn’t think that will help

steve turns his gaze to rhodey. “what is tony saved as in your phone?”

“i really don’t think that’s relevant,” he answers, looking back at the hole in the wall like he’s considering flying out of it.

“jarvis, what’s tony saved as in rhodey’s contacts?” steve asks.

tony says, “j, don’t-“

“sir is saved in colonel rhodes’s contacts as baby,” jarvis answers.

clint is laughing so hard he’s going to break a rib. natasha raises an eyebrow, which is about the same thing

steve’s face is pure betrayal

“it’s because he’s an infant,” rhodey says, “and very needy and he throws up on me a lot.”

“hey!” tony scowls. “i haven’t done that in years!”

“and when you were texted about your boyfriend being kidnapped, you just knew it was tony?” steve asks.

rhodey shrugs. “well, who else would it be?”

even steve doesn’t have an answer to that

“it’s purely platonic,” tony says reassuringly, “carol would scratch my eyes out.”

steve scowls and sulks until tony changes his contact name

except now he’s in tony’s phone as captain handsome. he tells himself it’s an upgrade

Commission for the lovely @ishipallthings for an upcoming story they’re writing (and you should definitely keep an eye out for!)

Thank you so much for all your trust and for the always wonderful experience of working with you 💙 You’re one of a kind and the fandom is lucky to have you.

Tangled up and washed ashore

I feel that we as a fandom are not being sufficiently appreciative of Tony’s explanation of the fight with Ebony Maw being “He’s from space. He came here to steal a necklace from a wizard.”

What I love about that moment is that it shows just how good a communicator Tony is in a combat situation and how accustomed he is, by now, to command. He knew Peter wouldn’t blow him off if he said something ludicrous, so he gave him exactly what he would need to understand the situation in two bare bones sentences. He said less than a haiku. He didn’t even have to say which side he and Peter were on, because “from space” and “came to steal” implied that information.

And then when they actually got hold of Strange, all he had to say was “That’s the wizard” and Peter knew a) exactly what was going on and b) exactly what to do. 

@knightinironarmor

#you could actually see some of that in the first avengers too#when he and steve were working together to get the helicarrier engine going#and it became clear to tony that steve wasnt going to be able to keep up with the scientific lingo#he i n s t a n t l y switched to SEE THE RED LEVER? IT WILL SLOW DOWN THE ROTORS LONG ENOUGH FOR ME TO GET OUT#STAND BY IT WAIT FOR MY WORD#in im3 when hes trying to communicate his plan to a dozen panicked people on free fall and he’s like#YOU KNOW THAT GAME BARREL OF MONKEYS?? COME ON GRAB A MONKEY#and very simply explains that he’ll electrify people’s arms so they won’t open their hands#the way hes able to communicate with harley that he should use that non-lethal anti-bully thing that tony had given him earlier#but without tipping off savin that an attack was incoming#tony’s super adaptable in battle situations#tony stark#mcu#infinity war#avengers 3 tags via @knightinironarmor

TONY STARK & KAMALA KHAN Marvel’s Avengers (2020)

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I’ve been thinking of this for the last goddamn year:

Okay, so, we know Tony had that goddamned flip phone in infinity war.

But listen, listen; Tony Stark is the kind of man who has enough work to do that it could last him for ten lifetimes. Plus, he’s Tony, the genius who uses technology like it’s a part of him. 

So imagine the effort he’d have to put into keeping a burner phone in him all the time. All.The.Time. Meeting after meeting, every time he goes out, as Tony or as Iron Man (maybe he even had a special place in the suit for it, before he used nanotech). Every interview he might take, all the time he spends working in his workshop, the phone is always within reach. Also, since he keeps it on him all the time, it means he has to keep it charged all the time-

And come on, we’re talking about Tony here, it’s a miracle the man remembers to eat.

Never mind the fact that he could just have Friday save the number (because Tony is a sentimental bastard, is what he is, so of course he had to keep the phone), but we saw in Infinity War that he was reluctant in calling Steve. So that means, short of global (universal) catastrophe, even if Tony was dying, he’d rather pull himself out of the trouble than call Steve. So why keep it in him all the time then? He went three years without using it, clearly he had no intention in doing so, so why?

Well, a phone works both ways.

Maybe Tony wouldn’t swallow his pride and call Steve unless there were drastic circumstances involved, but that tells us one thing; he didn’t keep the phone in case he needed Steve.

He kept it in case Steve needed him. 

Love that very bi man

Subtext:

Literal text (notice the naked man in Tony’s bed):

A male (!) villain insinuating Tony can’t resist him (because of his “playboy” reputation, which is a big “hmm”):

This speaks for itself:

Tony waxes poetic about Steve’s attractiveness:

Actually Tony calls Steve handsome a lot; it’s kind of a thing:

Oh and that time Namor called out Tony for sleeping with Madame Masque (after Tony said she looked like Doctor Doom) and Tony trying to swerve the convo:

That time the media was openly suspecting Tony Stark was HIV positive (this is from a comic in 1992 when AIDs was still thought of as a disease that primarily afflicted gay/bisexual men):

… Just saying, the subtext (and even the text) has been there for a long-ass time. Tony’s dating profile being set to woman and men was just more evidence on top of the pile. 

Tony is so obviously bi, T'Challa knew.

Even the evilness of Victor Von Doom isn’t enough to keep tony from acknowledging how handsome he is.

More of Tony swooning over Doom (added by @i-gotta-go-good-day-bitch in the replies but i wanted to keep the ones above too). 

Also added by @i-gotta-go-good-day-bitch, implications Tony and Rhodey were/are more than friends:

And I forgot to add this classic. A gutter note during the development of Iron Man vol 3 implied Tiberius and Tony had slept together (given their relationship was very much portrayed like them having been exes, this isn’t a shocker). (Link to @whatjanesays‘s blog who originally posted these images)

“better roll” meaning “roll around the hay” (so saying sexual partner). The “Ru” here is talking about Rumiko Fujikawa (who, while broken up with Tony, slept with Tiberius). 

Biron Man

You’re alive.

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What’s so interesting is that the character came out of a similar time of unrest – Stan Lee talked somewhere, I think maybe he’s quoted in Marvel The Untold Story, about how he wrote Tony Stark specifically as a challenge. He wanted to challenge himself in the 1960s to write a character that basically would piss off hippies but be so likeable they couldn’t hate him. He wanted to write a rich warmonger who was still charming enough that people who were against war and hated the rich would enjoy reading his adventures. And the thing is, it did work, though not perhaps in the way he expected. I think he said Tony Stark got more fanmail from women than most of the other books at the time put together. 

Reminder that I had three separate accusations of being a Tony Stark hater on “Act of Creation,” which… is possibly the second most sympathetic charcter piece I’ve ever written.

FANDOM.

i’m crying they just left him

Tony: “So how do you want me? On the table? Against the wall? All over the floor?”

Steve: “Happy”