mandylasers:

I’m so jumping on board with the whole superfamily concept. IT’S JUST REALLY CUTE.

Dedicated to Mako because she’s wonderful!

nogutsnoglory:

who missed me defacing their favourite superheroes, huh? HUH?

tugamaggie:

rdjinspiringlybeautiful:

imjustheretolurk:

natasharedledger:

Was he married?

#it just really gets to me how tony will go out of his way to hide his kindness #he offers the most extravagant things like it’s nbd #”i’ll fly you to portland pfft whatevs” #he jokes that phil’s first name is ”agent” and yet #he knows about the cellist #and wants phil to have a love life #and offers to fly him wherever so he can have it #and then pretends he’s not sure when steve asks him #because god forbid anyone finds out that tony stark gives a shit

((I think my soul just died.))

tony is a genius who probably has millions of thoughts firing through his head all day long. he’s so far ahead of everyone else that it’s hard for him to interact on a normal level. here he is completely and utterly focused on the tesseract, probably trying to find out how and when and why it work, but he hears a passing comment by phil about this cellist and probably without thinking stores it away in his brain - and to everyone else, remembering whether or not someone has a significant other is usually kind of important. it’s a social convention ‘normal’ people adhere to (which is shown with pepper there asking about it) but for tony to remember is a big fucking deal. asking about someone’s love life is not something he normally thinks about; he’s got hundreds of designs and schematics running through his head at any given moment. so many ideas that he just wants to make all the time. however, tony catches on this little tidbit, stores it in his massive brain, and not only recalls it later, but tries to help.

**

All this and:

It wasn’t the offer to fly Coulson to Portland that got me, it wasn’t even the way Tony looked shattered when Fury was talking to him and Steve, or even Tony’s face when his eyes snagged on the blood in the room, it was the scene with him and Loki when he says “And there was someone else you pissed off. His name was Phil.”

Because even though no-one else mentions him, Tony doesn’t forget.

**

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Uh oh! That boy startled Iron Man and he inadvertently blasted Thor’s foot with his repulsors. It takes more than that to harm an immortal of Asgar but he’s lost his grip on the machine! And unless I move fast shell-head could end up like a crushed soup can!  

Tony: Thanks, Cap but I could have handled that myself, you know!
Steve: I know, old friend but I didn’t want to take any chances!  

From Avengers v1 #218

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the-listening:

scornandritz:

The rebloggable version, for all of those who wanted it!

(Click to read. It’s going to be tiny tiny tiny in the pictures.) 

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takeaship:

Tony and Steve, The Avengers (2012).

#This fucking scene. #That damn look on Steve’s face. #Because now he realizes what he said before was wrong. #Because now he understands that you didn’t need to take away Iron Man to see what Tony was underneath. #Tony Stark is Iron Man. #And Iron Man is Tony Stark. #The suit and Tony were one. #And with or without the suit, Tony Stark would always be the guy to make the sacrifice play if there was no way out. #Steve thought that Tony would never get what it was like to lay himself down for everyone else. #But it was Steve who didn’t still didn’t understand that purposely giving your life up without trying to think of other ways out wasn’t the greatest thing. #Because you left people behind. #And looking down at Tony, thinking he was dead, Steve finally realized that. #And now he wished that Tony had found a way out of this one.

#ALL THE FUCKING FEELS THIS MOVIE GIVES ME GODDAMMIT.

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juliedillon:

ugh, goddamn it, what am I doing, I have real work to to do. X(

Spoilers for the avengers movie. :p 

(pose referenced somewhat from a screenshot :p)

thedailywhat:

Comic Book Boycott of the Day: Conservative group One Million Moms is at it again, directing its not-quite-a-million members to boycott Marvel and DC Comics due to recent announcements from both companies about their futures of their gay characters.

DC has revealed that a major character is soon going to come out as gay, while Marvel announced the engagement of superhero Northstar to his boyfriend, Kyle.

These events don’t sit will with One Million Moms, whose anti-gay agenda has also led them to protest the wedding of Archie Comics’ first gay character, Kevin Keller.

“Children desire to be just like superheroes,” said the group in a statement. “Children mimic superhero actions and even dress up in costumes to resemble these characters as much as possible. Can you imagine little boys saying, ‘I want a boyfriend or husband like X-Men?’”

The statement goes on to accuse the publishers of trying to “indoctrate [sic] impressionable young minds.”

Marvel and DC have yet to respond to the homophobic comments.

[towleroad.]

"I don’t think it’s terribly controversial to note that women, from a young age, are required to consider the reality of the opposite gender’s consciousness in a way that men aren’t. This isn’t to say that women don’t often misunderstand, mistreat, and stereotype men, both in literature and in life. But on a basic level, functioning in society requires that women register that men are fully conscious; it is not really possible for a woman to throw up her hands and write men off as eternally unknowable space aliens — and even if she says she has, she cannot really behave as though she has. Every element of her life — from reading books about boys and men to writing papers about the motivations of male characters to being attentive to her own safety to navigating most any institutional or professional or economic sphere — demands an ironclad familiarity with, and belief in, the idea that men really are fully human entities. And no matter how many men come to the same conclusions about women, the structure of society simply does not demand so strenuously that they do so. If you didn’t really deep down believe that women were, in general, exactly as conscious as you, you could probably still get by in life. You could probably still get a book deal. You could probably still get elected to office."

Jennifer duBois, Writing Across Gender (via florida-uterati)

To apply a bit of intersectionality to this…women of color and the many marginalized communities we belong to—especially communities of color—have been saying this for a minute.

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Reblogged for commentary! 

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thedailywhat:

Heartwarming Tearjerker of the Day: Four-year-old comic book fan Anthony Smith is deaf in his right ear and has hearing damage in his left. He also refused to wear his hearing aid (which he calls “Blue Ear” because it is blue), because “superheroes don’t wear hearing aids.” So in a long-shot attempt to help her son, Anthony’s mom emailed Marvel for ideas.

“She didn’t know a specific person to write to here at Marvel, and even figured it might get caught in our spam filters, but she sent it in anyway, because that’s the kind of great parent Christina is,” said Marvel editor Bill Rosemann. “And it was her inspiring effort to help her son that touched so many of us here. As a fellow parent of a toddler, I can understand where she’s coming from, so I forwarded the email around the rest of Editorial, asking what we could do to help, and like when Cap yells, ‘Avengers Assemble,’ the gang leapt into action.”

Not only did Anthony receive an image of the superhero Hawkeye, who lost 80 percent of his hearing back in the ’80s and wore hearing aids — Anthony also received a drawing of a brand-new superhero: “Blue Ear.”

Now, with his hearing aid back in, Anthony is able to “fight battles and help people.” His preschool, for hearing-impaired kids, recently hosted a superhero week to inspire the students to overcome their limitations.

DON’T miss the video. It’s the best thing you’ll see all day.

[death+taxes / robot6]

#Holmes is like #oh my husband is so badass it’s cute #wait FOCUS ON THE CASE

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teamdowney:

The only thing that Tony Stark loves more than himself is food.

Tony Stark + Junk Food = OTP

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