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Inspired by this and this post :
So I had a shitty day today (my sister is moving out and it’s killing me because I fucking love my siblings) so I went to the Ironstrange tag to cheer up a bit and I found two posts (links are above) very amusing and it gave me an idea. So what if Stephen and Steve are like frennemies because they both have a crush on Tony? In the beginning they won’t stand each other but eventually they’ll bond trough their attempt to sabotage one another. Since I ship Ironstrange it’ll end with Ironstrange for me but if there’s Stony shippers out there y’all totally can end it with Stony I’m a pacifist shipper. The only condition is to bring a lot of humor AND NO BASHING !
Idk it probably sounds dumb but the idea made me smile.
OH MY FUCKING GOD.
ROBERT YOU WANT TO KILL US!!
-I'm not jealous at all
Chris pls, you want that bromance with Robert too </3
If you know what i mean... hard sex
Let me fuck love that man
Love my Patriotic Boy Scouts and their Broody Sarcastic Boys
So it was an ABO dynamic an both Tony and Steve were both Alphas. And I think Tony was reluctant cause they were both Alphas but Steve was all it doesn't matter? There was a little fight for dominance but Steve won and Tony ended up liking it???
I love and hate civil war both with a passion.
I mean it's so important to stony within the MCU, without it we'd never have the 'here is my heart' metaphor, when Tony gives it to Steve, we'd never have longing gazes in Endgame, the pain between them, overshadowed by the yearning that you can just feel, the 'you trust me? I do', so I love it, I do. I love the divorce for them, somehow it makes sense that those two would break apart, because that's just who they are. They love each other, but the world comes first, and they love each other but it's complicated, and in the end they will love each other.
I still hate Civil War, too though, because it is also so important to their core relationship. And it broke my heart. I feel like, while in this timeline it wasn't, it could have been prevented.
But it doesn't matter, because they love each other anyway, in whatever way all their shared, complicated history allows them to. As much as they allow each other to, respectively.
Just Civil War.
My favourite Divorce Movie of all time.
something about steve and tony both having a piece of each other to hold onto in the 5 years they spent apart; the shield steve surrendered and the arc reactor tony gave up and it being representative of the most core parts of themselves. something about them reuniting after half a decade and literally getting a part of themselves back when they see each other.
He’s never beating the gay allegations
dude omg I was obsessed with these videos
My brain decided to throw back when I discovered Stony 10 years ago, I remember thinking “wow this video is so good!” and started watching all these videos EVERY SINGLE DAY for like a month 💀 [I still remember one with the song “future husband” by Meghan trainor]
at that time I didn’t know about AO3 or Wattpad (tumblr either) so I just assumed that those videos were the only thing about that ship and oh god the obsession I developed 😭
Just realized all these years later as I scrolled down memory lane that @mirthandstar never posted their truly gorgeous commission they did for me. I hope you're doing well out there. Thank you for my old men, I do infact look at them everyday.
besides the well-known fact that tony stark's arc reactor literally powered his heart and symbolised his second chance at life, it's been not just alluded to but clearly stated by marvel from the very first iron man film that it represents his heart:
this point is made very clear again when it's used to portray his death:
of course they did this; they're such obvious metaphors that are easy to rely on for beautiful visual storytelling. they undoubtedly were aware of the potential for these scenes and carefully considered them since the beginning.
but you don't really get to use each of these moments more than once if you want them to matter, so they had to choose which one of tony's stories needed to be told through carefully picked parallels.
and who did they use them on?
yup, that's right. steve rogers. steve, who literally ends their painful fight by breaking his heart.
steve, whom tony literally hands his heart and says "here, take this" while he's devastated, disappointed, and at one of the lowest moments of his entire life.
so, platonic, romantic, alterous — the intricacies of his feelings don't even matter. they're only for tony to know.
but what we as an audience know, what we were explicitly told by marvel, is that the feelings tony had for steve were so strong that they were the equivalent of getting his heart actually shattered into pieces, and being reduced to offering your desperate, mourning heart on a platter as a way of saying "take it all, there's nothing left of me that you don't own now".
these were not accidents. we were meant to understand how profound his feelings were. so many things spiraled out of their falling out — the entire universe's faith was at stake as a result. tony was not indifferent to him. his problem was that he felt too much.
tony's achille's heel was always steve rogers, and that will forever be the backbone of the marvel universe.
-Steve and Tony in heaven seeing the new “cap”-
Steve: That really just ruffles my feathers!
Tony: Please just say fuck, cap.