11 Bookmarks by ambig_21
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“Cardinal,” Pope Innocent said without looking up. He was signing something, slowly. “Sit.”
Lawrence sat.
“I need a favor,” the Pope said. He didn’t sound tired, exactly. Just past the threshold of fatigue into some stranger, steadier state.
Lawrence waited.
“There’s a visitor,” the Pope went on. “He believes he’s here for an audience.”
Still, he didn’t look up. Just turned a page, signed again, then closed the folder and laid the pen down with the kind of care that made Lawrence nervous.
“Bellini can’t take the meeting. I won’t.”
A pause.
“You will.”
(In which Lawrence speaks on the Pope’s behalf, and learns that being heard can be its own kind of closeness.)
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15 May 2025
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the second resurrection of lingering demons by helloitisiafellowgay
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
31 Dec 2022
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Harley’s phone rings, and it takes a moment for it to even register, a moment longer to pick it up from the bathroom floor and wrangle his fingers enough to accept. The resounding static on the other end threatens to swallow him whole, and he might just let it.
”…Harley?” Pepper’s voice cuts through the white noise, and she doesn’t sound like herself. He listens to her breathe on the other end of the line, a long shuddering exhale. “Sweetie, did you… did you—?”
The words won’t come out the first time, just a scratchy sort-of wheeze. Stale air, cosmic vacuum, migrating glacier— he tries again, coughs this time like that will help anything. ”I watched it.”
For one, fervid moment, Harley wishes that he’d just dismissed the email, kept working on his homework. Never elected to join this monstrous reality in which Tony Stark might be capable of sexually abusing Peter on camera and waiting eight years to send it to their entire family.
Willful ignorance has never been such a compelling siren song luring him out to sea, never tasted so saccharine tucked in his back molars as it does right now.
He’s ravenous for it.
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06 Feb 2023
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Mr. Stark's Home for Idiot Teenagers by OffToNewPastures
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
22 Dec 2019
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Peter is there, slumped over the kitchen island, slowly cramming spoonfuls of Double Chocolate Cookie Crisp into his mouth, hair tousled and sticking up every which way, and Tony realizes with sudden clarity that he’s fighting a losing battle. Maybe not today, maybe he can put it off for a while, but someday he’s just going to have to give up and love this ridiculous kid.
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In which Tony Stark learns object lessons about love, sacrifice, death, friendship, and parenthood; and makes his peace with the unfortunate reality that his penthouse will be crawling with asshole teenagers every weekend for the foreseeable future. Follows canon...loosely. Ahem.
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- Part 1 of The Idiotverse
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04 Nov 2022
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going up in the world (in your esteem, actually, but that's my world) by Sunpops1
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe
04 May 2022
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But here he is. A pre-programmed contact in his phone like Peter put him in there himself. Tony Stark.
Peter guesses he shouldn’t be surprised. It is a Stark phone. Tony is an eccentric billionaire. This is a logical conclusion.
“Mr. Stark?” Peter says, in disbelief, after he picks it up. He asks: “Is it really you?”
“Hey, we need to take pictures,” Tony says.
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Or: The Stark internship becomes a real thing. They take pictures.
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29 Sep 2022
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the world is not kind by thwip--thwip (Trickster88)
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Spider-Man - All Media Types, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types
03 Jun 2019
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The first time Ben Parker meets Tony Stark, he punches him square in the face.
Tony bites back a curse and ignores the way his eyes water as he looks back up at the man. Ben’s not angry, which is part of the reason the punch took him by surprise. They’re lucky the door is closed, or Happy would have tackled him to the ground.
“Did that make you feel better?” Tony asks, the sarcasm in his tone biting, but Ben takes it as a serious question.
“No.” If Tony didn’t know any better, he’d say the man almost cracks a smile. It’s hard to tell, and Tony’s never met a man he can’t read, but Ben doesn’t look angry (seriously, why doesn’t he look angry?), even though that punch felt angry. “...Maybe a little.”
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Or, May dies instead of Ben. We’ve seen Ben’s legacy – but what about May’s?
Losing a mother is something different from losing a father, but either way, it hurts.
(Endgame spoilers but it sure as hell ain’t compliant.)
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27 Sep 2022
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what if there is no tomorrow? by iron_spider
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Iron Man (Movies)
20 Oct 2018
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"Tony, talk to me. What's going on with you? You're freaking us out."
Tony keeps making his snow angel. He moves his arms and legs back and forth and stares up at the bright blue sky until Peter moves a little closer, eclipsing the sun. He narrows his eyes and stares down at him like he's insane.
Because he is insane.
"Peter," Tony says, beginning the conversation he's had so many times before. "Do you trust me?"
"Of course," Peter says.
"We're in a time loop. I'm Bill Murray. I remember everything, you guys don't, we're...we are trapped. We're trapped, buddy. I've done this over and over. And over. And over and over and over. I don't know how to fix it. So I'm...giving up. I make snow angels now. And that's it."
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27 Sep 2022
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ain't no valley low enough by iron_spider
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
16 Apr 2019
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Peter snorts. “You know I didn’t apply anywhere in Florida.”
“Please, kid, you know all you have to do is write a beautiful essay with my recommendation attached to it and you’re in. You’ve got the scores.”
Peter has a list. Of all the places he applied to, all the places he got into. A lot of it was encouraged by the adult role models in his life, some of it by Ned daydreaming about places like California and Colorado. Mostly, Peter just applied everywhere he could think of, because he’s known for a long time that Tony was gonna help May pay for it, and he didn’t wanna limit his options. Thinking about college has been strange for him, strange to the extent that he had a full blown panic attack about it in the middle of Avengers taco night last month. He can’t really understand it, doesn’t get why it feels like the end of the world—because he’s experienced the end of the world, and it’s not which campus has a bowling alley and which school has circus classes. But he nearly blacked out all the same, sobbed in Tony’s arms on the balcony until Tony proposed this. The road trip.
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- Part 4 of iron dad bingo
Bookmarked by ambig_21
27 Sep 2022
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flight of the navigator by sagemb
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Man (Movies), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
06 May 2018
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Tony Stark, on leave between wars. Or: an aftermath and a precursor.
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- Part 2 of two of the same understandings
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- 1/1
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26 Sep 2022
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this isn't a game by iron_spider
Fandoms: Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man (Video Game 2018)
18 Mar 2019
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Peter will admit to himself that he wasn’t ready, he wasn’t ready to face Fisk, wasn’t ready to deal with what went down between them or how it went down, and he’s surprised it even came out in his favor.
He’s got a notepad file that’s set to send off to both Tony and May if he ever dies, and Karen knows exactly when to send it. The moment she’s sure his heart has stopped beating, and stopped beating for good. He was sure, when he was swinging up the layers of Fisk’s tower, that they’d be reading those words. He still kinda worries that he’s stuck in some kind of last moments before death, synapses misfiring, lying there broken amongst the glass and blood and lamenting the people he’s leaving behind.
“Hey,” Tony says, scooting forward again. He shakes his head, bracing his hand on Peter’s other arm, and despite the nervous energy in the room, the touch is calming. “The guy’s a dickhead. Old school mafia wannabe. And I am proud of you, honestly,” he says. “I just…you know how I hate this. How we all hate this.”
(Spider-man PS4's plot, set in the MCU)
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24 Sep 2022
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Names by possiblyobsessed
Fandoms: Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Man (Movies)
01 Oct 2018
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Sometimes it's hard to have a world famous, billionaire, superhero as your father figure. Just ask Peter Parker.
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5 times Peter almost calls Tony dad and 1 time he does (kind of)
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24 Sep 2022
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the way the pavement feels right before it catches bruised kneecaps by helloitisiafellowgay
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
07 Nov 2021
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Peter’s got more muscle memory attributing to the subtle imploding of his trachea than in the act of leaving before it gets to that point.
He’s thinking of strawberries, and handcuffs, and water tinged red for just a bit too long.
His wrists are still sore.
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Bookmarked by ambig_21
24 Sep 2022