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Can you tell I love @hundredthousands​ art? Because I really love their art.

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🎉 HELLO!!! i can’t believe i have 2,000+ followers!!! what the hell!! (this happened a while ago but i was so focused on finishing my stony bingo card and now that it’s done, i need something new to focus on… lol.)

SO FIRST OF ALL, THANKS FOR FOLLOWING ME, i never thought i’d get to this many followers lmao i love you all?? i figured a fun way to celebrate is a… 

✨✨✨ fic raffle ✨✨✨

here are the mechanics:

must be following me, obv

one reblog = one entry. one entry per person (likes won’t count)

let me know if you’re reblogging from main, if it’s not obvious!

winners will be announced on July 28 12NN GMT+8! you can reblog this from now until then.

the prizes:

winner: 3-5k fic!✨ 

runner-up: 1-3k fic!✨ 

so as some of you may know… there are quite a few prompts in my inbox. but winning means i’ll work with you on the outline for the fic, and ask you about certain plot points—like a commission, but for free! hooray. the goal is for me to have the fic up within a month, at most.

feel free to blacklist firebrands fic raffle because i will be reblogging this a bunch of times hahaha

OK SO below the cut are things i can and cannot write for you. please go through it before joining. and thanks again!!! 🎉🎉

Welllllllll, this turned out ridiculous. And nonsensical. Yay!

(For the record I felt baited into making this into an ode about @festiveferret​​, but then again, I really can’t blame you for my own one track mind. :P)

I hope you enjoy this silly!

“Tony, I’m almost certain that the most emblematic Canadian animal is a moose.” Steve sighed, again, even as Tony waved a ferret in his face.

“See, this is where you’re wrong,” Tony replied. “You’re the Captain of America Steve, not Canada, so keep up.” Tony winked, then made the ferret dance some more, its slender body like jello wrapped in fur. Steve wasn’t even certain how they ended up here. There was a call to the Avengers PR line, an agreement that a Canadian zoo is a perfectly reasonable place to hold a meet-and-greet and Steve really had no one else to blame but himself, for ending up face-to-face with a domesticated polecat and a grinning Stark.

“Tony…”

“No. I have it on strong authority that ferrets are curious and strong, that sounds Canadian to me.”

Steve chuckled. “Individuals of every country are strong and curious–”

“You would say that, America.” Tony smirked, eyes dancing under the lights of the mustelid display. “But trust me on this one,” he leaned closer to Steve, making the hairs on the back of his neck stand up, as he whispered conspiratorially in his ear, “It’s all about the ferrets.”

This one made my heart hurt a little - Thanks for the prompt!:

They’d gone to battle together before, Tony couldn’t even count how many times; but this was the first time they’d gone into battle since Bucky had kissed him. Smoke billowed overhead, the debris of the fight all around him, the stench of a charred car almost enough to derail him from his single-minded focus: he needed to find Bucky.

The asphalt was hard underfoot as he ran, fast, down the street before taking off into the air, the suit forming around him, pressing into his bruised ribs. 

It was too soon–they’d only shared their first kiss last week. And for them to be torn apart before even having a chance to–

Tony cut off his thoughts because he hadn’t lost anyone yet. He scanned every street, looking the the familiar shoulder length hair, the stride he’d be able to place anywhere. Where are you, James Banes?

The panic swirled, morphing into shock and then a cold, endless, pit of fear. He’d lost so much already. He wasn’t ready to lose James too, not when they’d just found one another. 

Their first kiss seared into his mind. It happened an embarrassingly short time after their first sparring session. Tony had held his own but ultimately ended up on the mat under James. Being only human, he tried to keep his body from reacting but James saw right through him and fucking smirked. Then he slammed their lips together. 

God he hadn’t tasted enough of the man, hadn’t ended enough of their arguments with heated embraces–

A bullet whizzed by, very intentionally in front of his trajectory. Tony followed it back to its source because only one man on the ground today was that precise. Perched atop a skyscraper was James, leg up and sniper resting across it. Pure relief flooding Tony, stopping in his throat and breaking free as a sob. Between breaths he was halfway across the sky and flying straight into the man’s arms. 

“Hey,” Bucky said, casual, like they hadn’t just been risking their lives. 

Tony lowered his helmet, shaking his head with relieved laughter, hands coming up to frame James’ face. “Yeah. I’m going to need to kiss you. Hard.”

Happy Thursday, have some angst!

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“Steven. Grant. Rogers.” 

Steve’s hand flexed around his shield and he turned back to look at his husband, standing haloed by the light of their kitchen. 

“They don’t need you,” Tony pleaded. “They don’t.”

“You’re wrong,” Steve growled. “Bucky said - “

“Bucky said they could use the help in logistics, which means we stay here and send out the drone cameras -”

“Drones will never be as good as human instincts, Tony, we’ve talked about this-”

“-but if they get shot, my husband doesn’t die,” Tony roared. “The serum is weaker! Your healing factor is down by at least 60% and if you go in there-”

“It’s my job,” Steve ground out. They were both frozen in their places - like gunslingers in an old west shootout. 

“It’s not,” Tony whispered harshly. “You told Sam and Bucky and Nat to take care of it. You spend hours and hours with Peter, teaching him leadership theories and talking about how to be a good man and still hold this all in your heart, and you retired. You went back in time, you fixed it all, and we decided together to be done.”

“We decided to be done unless they needed us,” Steve corrected. “And Bucky-”

“If I called Barnes right now,” Tony took a step forward, “what would he say?”

“He’d-”

“Would he say that he used the code word? I doubt it, because that activates my suit. Would he say that he begged? Doubtful, because he knows what today is,” Tony continued, his voice even but Steve could tell that his emotions weren’t. 

“He should have come home today,” Steve ground out, “he should have been ours…”

“I need you here,” Tony pleaded. “I never say this, we promised to never… but Steven, if you love me, I need you to stay. I’m calling in the husband chips. If we can’t do today together… please don’t do this. Please don’t run.” 

Steve heaved out a sigh that came out a sob and let the shield clatter to the ground.