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There are a lot of bad things every day but I think standing in the sun and watering the strawberries really does make everything a little less bad 🍓

YEESSSS!! 😩😩

And then you’re so excited about all your new ideas but you’re also so frustrated!! ☹️

What they don't tell you about writing is that as you write, you discover scenes and entire plots that you hadn't accounted for that need to be written. So you can spend two hours writing and editing only to realise you're further away from the finish line than you thought you were when you started

Being a writer is so nice because I just realized that all the headcanons I have about my OCs can easily become canon if I want to and that made me feel so … powerful.

J-I-M-K-I-R-K [the kirk chappell roan edit]

I am crying. I’m definitely crying.

So I saw No Way Home again, and there’s this scene where Peter and Stephen first meet in the Sanctum that doesn’t get talked about enough.

Peter: I’m really sorry if I wasted your time.

Stephen: You didn’t…

Just the way Stephen says that line drives home the the idea that not only did he genuinely want to help Peter, but he also wanted Peter to feel like he can trust him and to still come to him when he needs help. This and the insistence of not being called “sir” really shows just how much Stephen has softened himself around Peter.

the re-reads: a fic rec

There are certain fics that I find myself always going back and re-reading, no matter how long it’s been since they were written/posted. Lately, I’ve been doing some re-reads. 

I guess my comfort fics. My absolute faves, no matter when they were written. :) As always, no specific order. 

PREVIOUS FIC RECS HERE!

(divider by @whimsicalrogers​)

Bucky x reader:

Call Me Baby by @angelwidow​​​ Biker!Bucky x reader

“Returning to Brooklyn for the summer after a year of travelling from city to city, you hadn’t expected to find your best friend, Peggy Carter, hopelessly in love with a biker, and when she decided to introduce you to the rest of his club, you hadn’t expected to fall for one either — that was until you met one with pretty eyes and a habit of calling you baby.”

Sugar by @softlybarnes​​ 40s Bucky x reader

“By a miracle of fate, Bucky Barnes does not fall off of the train. He does not spend decades as a brainwashed assassin. Instead, he goes home to Brooklyn to spend his life with a girl he adores, a snarky nurse that he met during the war.”

Safe Place to Land by @sunlightdances​​​ Modern!Bucky x reader

“You and Bucky are both standing up for Steve and Peggy’s wedding. Checking in at the hotel for the weekend, you’re horrified to realize there’s been a problem. A big problem.“

Bud Light Bottle by @subtlebucky​​​ Modern!Bucky x reader “you’re over guys and relationships, even if the stranger hitting on you at the bar is stupidly attractive and actually makes you laugh. luckily, he has a solution.”

Sleepy by @sunflowers-and-bucky​​ Bucky x reader

“Reader wakes up without Bucky at her side and goes on a quest to get him back to bed.”

Spilled Wine by @sunmoonandbucky​​​ King!Bucky x servant!reader

“You’re nothing more than a servant who happens to warm the bed of the king.  At least, that’s what you thought you were.“

Howlin’ For You by @invisibleanonymousmonsters​​ Biker!Bucky x reader

“When Y/N gets an unreal deal on her first home, she wonders why her neighbor scared away all the other buyers. Despite being cautious, she wonders why the town has given Bucky Barnes a bad name.“

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SEBASTIAN STAN as Mickey Henry in MONDAY (2019) — Dir. Argyris Papadimitropoulos

this scene is purely sebastian stan

Words cannot describe how I feel about this (and how true this is) 😍😩😍

Bucky really went from a cranky scowling old man who never smiles to that Cool (gay) uncle who pulls up 2 hours late to the family cookout with sunglasses, cake and level 100 swagger

Now that's character development

You ever think about how Tony probably wanted to meet Peter just as much as Peter wanted to meet Tony? Definitely not for as long a period of time, but Tony’s in the middle of all the Accords shit, his life is kind of going to hell and his friends are basically abandoning him and he’s in the search for allies when he finds this new supe in Queens. And he and FRI do a little investigating and oh shit, new guy is a kid. A fifteen-year-old kid, an orphan whose uncle just died in a tragic accident, who’s on a scholarship to genius science kid school and chooses to go out at night and stop car wrecks? Protect local bodegas? Beat up attempted muggers and rapists in alleys and web them up for the police? 

At bad moments throughout Civil War, I just imagine Tony sitting back and like, pulling up the stupid YouTube Channel you just know Peter and Ned had when they were eleven. Tony looks up the articles on Peter’s science fair wins, he’s got FRIDAY constantly watching CCTV in Queens for this kid, trying to see what he does next. Trying to make sure he doesn’t die. 

All before Tony ever meets Peter. 

And then, then Tony meets Peter and it all goes to shit, because goddammit, the kid is even more impressive, more wonderful and amazing and good in person, and Tony just sits back and accepts the fact that, fuck, yeah okay, I guess I’m your dad now, deal with it. 

Old Man

No idea where porn got the idea that men snorting and grunting like dying wild boars in quicksand during sex is hot, give me a guy who whimpers. Let a guy quiver and moan helplessly in my arms and watch me become consumed with lust for him. Last time I was I was in bed with a man and I got it just right, he made this high-pitched sort of sobbing moan and had the nerve to apologize for it like he was embarrassed and there I was so turned on I couldn’t even tell him how much. The idea that male posturing must be maintained even while drowning in pleasure is so fucking stupid, I want to hear all those little sounds that are both super hot and telling me I’m doing something right for someone I really want to make feel good.

ACCURATE REPRESENTATION OF THE TEEN TO YOUNG ADULT TRANSITION

Peter Parker really went from a “don’t tell me what to do” 15 year old

To a “please, for the love of god, tell me what to do” 17 year old.

accurate representation of the teen to young adult transition

Deleted Scene - Peter & MJ on the Plane SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME (2019)

Love this 😍😂

throwback to this absolutely iconic and chaotic vid of chris and tom roasting the hell out of each other

I can’t stop watching this 😂😂

i wish somebody looked at me like the way he looked at that onion

I’M CRYING

Peter struggles a lot with his memories of Tony’s death. He’s a little ashamed of how much it bothers him. He’s an Avenger, after all. Death shouldn’t leave these kinds of scars.

But it did. It had. The images of Tony slipping away, the smell of his charred skin, the way his breaths had wheezed in, out, then shuddered to a halt, arc reactor flickering into nothingness…

The memory of Tony’s hand falling limply away from Pepper’s was always playing in the back of his mind.

But most of all, he couldn’t stop replaying the fact that Tony hadn’t said anything to him. He’d just laid there, still and silent. Peter hadn’t gotten any last words, final comforts. All he’d gotten was hazy eyes and a bucketful of trauma.

There was no escaping the memories, no running from the horror that bubbled in his throat whenever they resurfaced. And he knew he couldn’t survive like this. Maybe even more so, he knew that Tony would never want him to.

So, he goes to Pepper.

There were only two people on Earth who truly understood. Sure, Steve and the others had watched from afar, but Rhodey, Peter, and Pepper had been on the frontlines. They’d been close enough to hear his last breaths, to see the life dwindle out of Iron Man’s eyes.

He could’ve gone to either Rhodey or Pepper, of course, but he chose her because the memory of Tony’s death wasn’t the only one that he could recall with frightening clarity.

In the settling moments, the ones that came in the shockwaves of that final breath, Pepper had kissed Tony’s cheek. Peter had felt like throwing up. Rhodey had held him back, steel arms around his stomach.

“Rhodey,” Pepper had gasped, “Rhodey, let him come, now. Let him… Just let him come.”

He’d been released, and he would’ve face-planted if Pepper hadn’t twisted around to grab his arm, steadying him as he sunk to his knees in front of Tony’s body.

“Mister Stark?” He whimpered. He’d reached for Tony like a child, hands grasping helplessly just inches from his motionless chest. It was a physical call for action, a plea to be held.

Tony hadn’t answered it, was far past that, now, but Pepper had.

She had pulled him into her chest, chin resting on the crown of his head. “Shh, sweetheart. It’s alright now. It’s over. It’s… It’s all over.”

“Tony?” At any other time, he would’ve been ashamed of how cracked and desperate his voice was, of his entire reaction in general. But then, he’d been strangely detached, out of control. “Tony.”

Pepper had been the one to guide him as he tucked himself against Tony’s chest, had been the one to rub his back as he sobbed. Eventually, she’d been the one who’d rocked him while Rhodey scooped Tony into his arms, to carry him back. To carry him home.

Although the memories were hazy, he knew that she’d stayed with him once he slipped into shock, too. She’d filled the role of May, of Tony, without missing a step. And she’d done it all while struggling under the weight of a loss that even Peter couldn’t begin to comprehend.

And, sure, Pepper had always been kind to him, but she’d taken more of an interest in him after… well, after. He knew it was probably only out of a lingering need to protect whatever Tony loved, but he clung to that connection all the same.

So he skips school, comes to the cabin when Morgan’s at playgroup. The conversation he needed to have wouldn’t feel right with her in the house. It would feel wrong.

As soon as the door opens, he can see Pepper’s surprise, see the reprimand on her lips, but then she takes in the look on his face, the bags underneath his eyes, and she ushers him in.

She makes him sit on the couch, offers him tea. He shakes his head, just curls into himself until she finally sits beside him.

“What do you need, Peter?” She asks, voice soft. Peter wonders if that’s why Tony fell in love with her: because her ability to gentle was good for his rough edges.

“I… I keep thinking about it.”

Pepper didn’t need clarification to at least understand the ballpark of his meaning. “Oh, Peter. It’s normal to feel the… the loss of presence in your life-”

He shakes his head. “No, no. I mean I keep thinking about it. About the.. the moment. It won’t stop playing in my head.”

“That moment that he…?”

“Yeah.”

The moment that he died.

“What bothers you about it?”

It feels like a ridiculous question at first. What bothers him about it? Well, the fact that Tony died, for one. The fact that he was just sixteen and confused and watching something horrific happen without the gravity of the moment really registering until after, until it was too late to really process it at all.

But then… but then he realizes that there was a reason behind why it bothered him so much. That despite the generic awfulness of the whole experience, there was one aspect that stung above everything else. One fact that he was constantly tangling himself up in.

“He didn’t say anything to me,” he whispers, voice breaking. “He… I don’t even think he knew that I was there.”

He would’ve comforted me. He would’ve said something stupid, smiled, cracked a joke. If he’d known I was there, he wouldn’t have acted the way he did.

He wouldn’t have just laid there.

“He knew,” Pepper murmured, and she said it like she never once doubted that it was true.

He wanted to believe it. God, he really, really wanted to believe it.

“How do you know?”

“Because I saw him recognize you, Peter. He… He wasn’t at peace until he saw your face. Didn’t you notice him look at you?”

“I… I don’t know.”

If he was being honest, he hadn’t been seeing much of anything at the time, besides the blur-wobble of unshed tears.

“He did.” Pepper tilts his chin up, the same way Tony used to, when he refused to look at him after a rough day at school or on patrol. “He looked at you like he’d be alright if that was the last thing he’d ever see. And I don’t think… I don’t think he could talk, sweetheart.”

“He talked to you.”

He hated how petulant it sounded, how childish and resentful. Of course Pepper deserved those final words. She was Tony’s wife, the mother of his child, the love of his life. What right did Peter have to resent Tony’s last gift to her?

But Pepper didn’t seem upset. She just smiled, genuine and sad. “And you heard how it sounded, didn’t you? He was trying not to scare you, Peter. At least, not anymore than he already had. You were so frightened. I think he knew that if he said anything, it would just make it harder for you to accept.”

He felt a sob threaten to crawl up his throat. When he spoke, his voice was strained with it. “He just… he used to talk so much.”

“I know. But, honey,” Pepper’s thumb swiped under cheek, caught a tear he hadn’t even known had fallen, “sometimes we don’t need to say anything to tell someone we love them.”

“Did he… Do you really think he…?”

“Loved you?” At his reluctant nod, Pepper laughed. “Peter, look outside. Half the birds, half the children, half of everyone: they’re all there because of you. Tony stitched the universe back together just so that you could live in it. If that isn’t love, what is?”

And for once, Peter didn’t really know what to say, either.

Let In Light (At Christmas Time) 4/12

Tony hates the 16th.

FF.net I ao3 I masterpost

Sunday, December 16th: snowball fights

When his phone rings he considers, for at least two heartbeats, ignoring the call. It’s F.R.I.D.A.Y. who ends up answering the phone for him with only a slightly judgmental jab in his direction. Most of all his A.I. sounds worried, though, and maybe a little helpless. He should stop trying to program himself friends, he thinks, they’re still just ones and zeros not people.

It hits him how much he misses J.A.R.V.I.S. and the thought makes his mind spin more and more and more until it stumbles and screeches to a halt at Pepper’s voice.

“Tony? Are you there?” Her concerned voice echoes through the speakers in the cold lab and he’s not sure how he feels about it. He’s not sure whether he wants to be alone or wants to be held, whether he wants to break down or soldier on.

He’s tired of existing. Just tired.

“Physically?” he asks, trying to gather even an ounce of normalcy in his voice, “I’d say that’s an affirmative.”

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You’re a candle in the window on a cold, dark winter’s night 

Somebody sent me a prompt for ‘Don’t you own any Christmas decorations’ and I can’t remember who cos tumblr ate the ask! So whoever it was, this is for you! <3

also on ao3

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“Morning.”

Tony looks up from his coffee, giving Peter a smile as he shuffles into the kitchen. “Morning, Underoos. Sleep okay?”

Peter wiggles his hand in a so-so gesture as he slips into a seat at the counter. “Managed a few hours.”

Tony nods, grateful for the honesty in a way that he knows Peter can sense. “Dreams again?”

“Not really,” Peter shrugs his shoulders, “just…couldn’t sleep.”

It’s hardly the worst thing in the world. There’s plenty of reasons why it can happen; something as simple as napping too long in the day or worrying about something that will ultimately be alright in the end.

But this isn’t like that.

Tony knows what it’s like to be haunted, to be stretched so far between the space of restless and exhausted, and he can see the same stains of it all over Peter’s face, the way it presses into his shoulders and knots his posture. 

It’s inconsistent. Sometimes a light shines through the darkness; a smile here, a real laugh there, a sassy remark that has Tony raising his eyebrows and chuckling in relief to hear it. 

And then sometimes, like today, the darkness surrounds Peter like trick glass, trying to taint him a shade of convincing that doesn’t quite fool Tony’s gaze. 

Peter meets his eyes as Tony goes for another sip of coffee. 

“It’s…uh, it’s the first of December today.”

Tony stills for a second, just enough for his coffee to gently splash against his lips and trickle into his goatee. 

The first of December. 

How could he not have noticed? How did he not realise it was approaching? He’d just last week gone over a ridiculous amount of dates with Pepper for meetings, conventions and galas that he would in no way be attending, and somehow this had completely slipped his attention. 

The first of December means that it’s been four months since Peter moved in. 

Four months since May collapsed in the middle of the tinned food aisle at the grocery store. 

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soft things Tony did for Peter

1. Made a Stark Industries program to announce new scholarships for promising students from urban city schools like Midtown of Science and Technology only to get a chance to meet Peter.

2. Made a user interface to the entire Stark Industries network, databases, and satellite systems for him. Practically his legacy and company.

3. The same interface allows Peter backdoor entrances to some of the world’s largest telecommunications companies. Kid’s set for life. 

4. EDITH contains incredible hacking capabilities to a large amount of communication systems. Peter has protection for life. 

5. Built Item17A a.k.a the Iron Spider Armor by taking inspiration from his own Mark XLVI armor and similar to his Mark L armor incorporating miniature arc reactors and a neural-reactive interface that responds to Peter’s mental input. The suit has self-contained environmental protection and the capacity to be stored in a container larger than Tony’s housing unit for the Mark L armor. 

6. Made a natural-language user interface a.k.a. Karen, not only designed to work alongside and aid Peter but to provide comfort and safety in case Peter needs someone to talk while doing the superhero gig.  

7. He practically gave all of his artificial intelligence interfaces and Iron Man armors to Peter given that the glasses he gifted him enable communication with FRIDAY, EDITH and can command any armor to protect Peter. 

8. Installed and created security features such as the Baby Monitor and Training Wheels protocols to restrict, protect and aid Peter in any given situation. 

9. 576 web-shooter combinations.

10. The first suit he made for him contained not only a reconnaissance drone, x-ray vision, a heater, a parachute function, and retractable wingsuit components but the suit tracks and records everything Peter does as Spider-Man so he can have protection 24/7.

11. He had a suit synthesizer suite full of schematics of various Spider-Man suits taking inspiration from Peter’s first homemade version to variants of suits in-between. He was ready to make more for him or build some of them with Peter.

12. Tony protected Peter’s identity and minimized his involvement as Spider-man so the Accords didn’t affect him by not only asking for daily updates on Peter’s life but tracking his every move in the superhero gig, recording his lastest interactions with criminals/villains and overseeing/covering every mistake Peter made by using his joint venture with Damage Control. This means that if he was alive, Quentin Beck would be toast. 

13. Built a nanite infinity gauntlet, a time machine, cracked time travel for Peter using him as his main motivation. 

14. Tony second-guessed everything he did, even his own life as a superhero believing nobody could live up to Iron Man, not even himself but he never second-guessed Peter to the point that he didn’t have a problem sacrificing himself because he was sure Peter was up to taking over the job and his legacy. Tony sees and will always see Peter as his better half. 

15. Had a room ready for Peter at the Avengers Compound.

16. Years of trying to convince Tony to give up the superhero life, the suits, and all the madness, it wasn’t Pepper the one that made Tony give it up. It was, unfortunately, Peter’s death. He officially walks out of the Avengers, retires, lives in the middle of nowhere and cuts himself off from civilization and only comes back when Peter gives him the inspiration to do it all over again. 

17. Indirectly called Peter his first chance at parenthood and often refers to Peter as his kid. ‘My guy’, ‘I lost the kid’.

18. Remembers random details about Peter’s life like his apartment floor, his daily reports and the clubs he’s attended in school.

19. He has invited Peter to his lab to show him stuff he thought Peter would be interested in. 

20. Takes responsibility of Peter despite being afraid or damaged in any way. Taking Peter back to his apartment despite having one of the most heartbreaking fights of his life, laughs with Peter and makes sure he’s ok. Goes to space to get Peter despite that being one of his main fears for years.

21. Pulling out the biggest weapon ever at the first sight of Peter being in danger. 

22. Vowing to protect Peter the same day he was willing to have another chance to love him.

23. Makes every experience a teachable lesson for Peter. Always taking him to school in every situation.

24. Cute nicknames like ‘Pete’, ‘Young buck’ and ‘Spiderling’. 

25. Knighting him into an Avenger.

26. As stated by the directors, Tony considers his personal life becoming fuller and more important to him the moment Peter enters in it.

Feel free to add more.

Not gonna lie, I cried writing this 

That last comment is like... so wrong. It is NEVER okay to spank your children and it doesn’t matter if you do it with or without a reason. My parents never laid a hand on me and my siblings, and we didn’t grow up “throwing tantrums in Walmart”! You’d never spank your (grownup) friend because he/she did something wrong, so why should it be allowed when the one who’s being spanked ist a defenseless child?! Yes, disciplining your children is right and important but you can do that WITHOUT physical abuse - just with words. I know that children don’t always listen to what you say and more often don’t behave. But that can’t and mustn’t be an excuse for taking advantage of the fact that children are smaller and weaker than you and can easily be “corrected” by physical “gestures” you’d hardly use for a misbehaving dog.

Beside that - maybe those people who spank their children or think that it’s okay to do so should think about what physical contact means to children. When they are small and can’t talk physical contact is all they’ve got. They learn their worth and importance through this form of contact and it’s their only way to communicate. Imagine what it does to a little human being (or any kind of being) if you take that contact, that medium, that TRUST and use it against them - just because it acts in a way you don’t like.

Spanking children isn’t okay. And there’s no excuse or reason that could change this.

(Sorry for writing so much in probably so bad English. I’m not a English native, but I couldn’t scroll past this without commenting on it.)

the spanking debate isn’t all that complicated. you’re either ok with hitting small kids who are completely defenseless and literally at your mercy, or you’re not. supporting the first option makes you a bad and dangerous person, and unfit to be a parent, and im sorry to say but there’s no way around this, no excuses or loopholes. it is what it is

Is there a specific Peter/Tony overprotective moment that warms your heart the most?

YES!

All of Infinity War. 

He was so overprotective with him in this. Always standing between him and other people, standing close by, standing in front of him. Never taking his eyes off of him, getting defensive all the time for him, not minding the close contact at all (probably because he needed it too)

never taking his eyes off of him…

Me basically. And literally.

I love this SO MUCH

IronDad Bingo: Holidays

Tony laughed as Peter came bounding in to the lab, cheeks flushed from the cold. It took Tony a second to realize that Peter was carrying something, a little too concerned with how red his cheeks were - making a mental note to readjust the heaters in the kid’s suit. 

“Where’s the fire, kid?”

Peter smiled, planting the package - a present, from the haphazard wrapping job - on the lab desk. “Happy Boss’ Day, Mr. Stark!”

Tony blinked, before turning to face him. “Happy… what?”

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john watson’s life: a summary

John: *wistfully wishing for a happy life*

life: *gives him sherlock*

john: 

life: *takes sherlock away*

john:  

life: *gives mary instead*

john: :/    :\      ok i guess…

john: *in a stable domestic relationship with mary* :-)

life: *gives back sherlock*

john: *looks at mary* *looks at sherlock* *is conflicted* :|

life: *mary and sherlock gets along and both exist in john’s life*

john: this is good compromise :-) 

life: *mary shoots sherlock*

john: wtf :///

life: *sherlock is sent to excile*

john: 

life: *excile canceled*

john: 

life: *mary gets shot to protect sherlock*

john: oh ffs @life all i want is a peaceful life….

life: *gives rosie and co-parenting with sherlock*

john: finally…

I‘m crying about this

i feel cheated with that ending and with the movie in general. They didn't show tony's grief for peter at all! they made him move on and they only put that one scene we already saw on the spot. i'm so mad with the writers for this!

Hi!

I’m going to respond only on this ask because I’m guessing you’re the same anon because the other asks say the same thing. 

First of all, I want to say this: I feel you. I really do. I’m mad too. However, I’ve watched this movie too many times and I managed to pick up on some things about Tony’s grief throughout Endgame. While I agree they should’ve put more of Tony’s grief on Endgame, I think RDJ made a great job at showing Tony’s emotions regarding Peter. This man is so talented with his eyes and expressions, it’s incredible. 

Let’s look at Tony’s fears first. This is the man that constantly feared for Peter’s life on a daily basis since meeting him. He lived with this fear of losing him for two years of his life.

And his fears became a reality in IW. He lost. This is Tony Stark, he doesn’t give up. He tries and tries and he never rests until he gets things done. Until everything is alright. In this movie, he actually gives up. After losing Peter, he finally gave up. This is where the “Peter’s death is going to change him forever” comes to play. He changed.

Throughout IW, Tony went fear after fear, impact after impact on each scene. He was living a never-ending nightmare. One that he already had an idea on how it was going to end.

 Remember this scene? Strange told Tony that If it comes to saving him or the kid or the Time Stone, he wasn’t going to hesitate to let either of them die. And this is Tony’s reaction:

(YES, I actually made gifs for this)

He knows what’s at stake. He doesn’t really care about his life, he’s thinking about Peter here. He’s aware that Peter might die and right after this, he makes the kid an avenger because what else can he do? And the rest of the movie is just like that. Him fearing for Peter’s life over and over again. 

Until Peter actually dies at the end and his worst nightmare comes true. Keep in mind that this is the first time we see Tony Stark cry. This is the first time this man cries after all the things he’s been through.

Now, the first thing he says after he comes back is “I lost the kid”. Tony, again, didn’t care about his well-being, he was thinking about Peter. Thinking and repeating in his head the horrific nightmare over and over again. This is exactly what was on his mind the whole time he was on that ship. He desperately looks at Steve, trying to make him understand his loss. 

Notice here how he avoids looking at Peter’s picture. This right here is what triggers him to lash out on Steve, to call Steve a liar, telling him he needed him and that he doesn’t have any options for him anymore because they lost. Because he lost. Because he feels like there’s nothing left to do. 

He then marries Pepper and ta-da! Morgan. He cuts ties with the Avengers for 5 years and tries to live his life as peaceful as he can. Then Scott and the others come to his house and ask him for help with time travel stuff and Tony is in perpetual denial the whole time. This is his reaction when Natasha says there’s a possibility to bring everyone back.

What is interesting for me in this scene is that Tony is the one that told Steve that he lost Peter and in this part, he’s telling him that he’s got his second chance right here (Morgan), who do you think it was his first chance? Peter. He’s looking at Steve like he’s trying to make him understand. He told Steve he lost someone with as much importance as Morgan already and is very clear that he’s scared. Natasha said it herself. 

Then this happens: 

He starts getting hope. Since this part, he starts letting that same fear he felt those two years between hoco and iw come back. This is his reaction at the prospect of actually getting an opportunity once again. 

Then he tells Pepper about it and she tells him they were really lucky and that not many people got that opportunity and he says this: “I can’t help everyone” which can easily translate to this = “I couldn’t help him, I failed him”. 

He then tells Pepper that he can stop it right there and I just want to say, this is Pepper, the same woman who tried to make him give up the suits and the superhero life a bunch of times. This is coming from her: “But would you be able to rest?” I bet he hasn’t really slept much in those 5 years. And the answer is on his face:

No, he won’t be able to rest. He can’t.

And then throughout the whole process of time travel, you can see he’s starting to get his hopes up. This is him when Clint confirmed that time travel worked: 

And this: This breaks my heart. This hopeful smile.

This is him when he managed to get the stones on his gauntlet. The relief on his face is heartbreaking. He is getting his boy back. Finally. They’re so close.

This part is very important and you might not see it well in here but maybe when the HD version is available you might be able to catch on his expression. When Thanos says he’s going to create a new world, one teeming with life that knows not what it has lost but only what it has been given. A grateful universe. The contempt, the rage, the grief, and the fear are back at full force. This is the alien that killed his kid, the last time Tony saw him Thanos wiped out his kid out of existence. 

Then after EVERYTHING, he finally gets his kid back and he can’t even believe it. And no, it was not necessary to kill him but this is the face of a man that knows he can finally rest. He got Peter back and that was the most important thing to him.

Sorry, this was long but this is my interpretation of Tony’s grief. We didn’t get much but he loves Peter and that never is going to change. 

This is beautiful and melancholic and unbelievable sad. But it sums up humanity in a perfect way and reading this gives me hope that there are still a few good people out there.

gosh but like we spent hundreds of years looking up at the stars and wondering “is there anybody out there” and hoping and guessing and imagining

because we as a species were so lonely and we wanted friends so bad, we wanted to meet other species and we wanted to talk to them and we wanted to learn from them and to stop being the only people in the universe

and we started realizing that things were maybe not going so good for us– we got scared that we were going to blow each other up, we got scared that we were going to break our planet permanently, we got scared that in a hundred years we were all going to be dead and gone and even if there were other people out there, we’d never get to meet them

and then

we built robots?

and we gave them names and we gave them brains made out of silicon and we pretended they were people and we told them hey you wanna go exploring, and of course they did, because we had made them in our own image

and maybe in a hundred years we won’t be around any more, maybe yeah the planet will be a mess and we’ll all be dead, and if other people come from the stars we won’t be around to meet them and say hi! how are you! we’re people, too! you’re not alone any more!, maybe we’ll be gone

but we built robots, who have beat-up hulls and metal brains, and who have names; and if the other people come and say, who were these people? what were they like?

the robots can say, when they made us, they called us discovery; they called us curiosity; they called us explorer; they called us spirit. they must have thought that was important.

and they told us to tell you hello.

Scenes I need...

Peter Parker: -on meeting Loki, offers his hand- Hi, I’m Peter!

Loki: -shakes his hand- Loki of Asgard.

Peter: Aren’t you like…a bad guy?

Loki: It varies from moment to moment.

Peter: So like…on a scale of one to ten, ten being the worst evil imaginable, like…killing puppies, and one being I’ll spit on your hotdog…where are you right now?

Loki: …maybe a three?

Peter: Cool. Lemme know if it gets above a six.

Loki: -thinking- I like him.

Wow... this is absolutely perfect ☝🏻

Why the SPN mixtape scene from 12x19 is screenwriting gold, and should be taught to the next generations of screenwriters everywhere - analysis

20 seconds. Two lines of dialogue, three gestures, a couple more camera angles. Episode 19, season 12 of a genre TV show “Supernatural”. A single strike of screenwriting and cinematic genius. The mixtape scene.

Robert Berens and Meredith Glynn, I bow before you.

This scene should be used as an example for future screenwriters how you can put maximum of meaning into minimal time and dialogue. Should be analyzed and taught at universities everywhere, how to achieve the most using the least. How to write for TV, where you only have less than an hour to built something spectacular.

WOW.

Let’s just peel off all the layers of these 20 seconds of footage and these 13 words. 13 WORDS.

(Cas knocks, Dean doesn’t say anything. Cas opens the door, apologizes for disturbing Dean in his room, and then takes a cassette tape out of his left inside coat pocket, and puts it on the desk, while tapping the label on it that says “Deans (sic!) top 13 Zepp traxx”.)

Cas: Um, I just wanted to return this.

Dean: It’s a gift. You keep those.

13 tracks. 13 words. The future. So number thirteen is important for the future. I mean, are you trying to tell us something here, writers?

(Dean takes the tape, oustreches his arm, and gives it back to Cas. We see Cas’ hand grabbing the tape, and taking it back.)

That tiny scene is ENORMOUS from the perspective of the narrative and the characterization. Let’s see what we can get out of it. (Prepare yourself: it’s gonna be long. Damn, how much meta can you write based on 20 seconds of television and two lines of dialogue?) (Hint: A lot.)

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Please watch this video if your sad.

(No kitties were hurt.)