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Peter (swinging in through the window in the spidey suit, taking his mask off): Mr. Stark! Mr. Stark! Guess what! Guess what! Guess what!

Tony (who is in the middle of fixing Dum-E paused his tinkering at the whoosh, lips twitching to a smirk which he hid by drinking coffee): What, what?

Peter (beaming so wide): I made three friends today! Well four if you count the elusive one who approached me but shied away from the others. I named them Stephy, Stacey, Gwen and Michie!

Tony: Aha, and what are they this time? Birds? Bees? Iguanas?

Peter (still smiling, brings out a phone to show him a photo): They're cats Mr. Stark! And they're so cute, I love them so much! See. One white, one cream, one grey, one black. They're all cat colors!

Tony (shuffles the kid's hair): Hm-hm. Nice going Underoos. Looks like a menagerie.

Peter (suddenly goes shy): Uhm, could we- I mean if it isn't too much, sir, and only if it isn't! Err, could we maybe, if it's alright with you, go to the petting shop for my birthday?

Tony (felt his eyebrows rising automatically, looking at the camera, knowing Friday is already making a list of pet stores he could acquire): You want a pet? Is that your wish?

Peter (looks down): Ahm, no, I just...ahm, I just thought it'd be fun to pet some cats and dogs with you. It'd be a memorable experience, but uhm, you don't have to if you're busy or if...if you'd rather not. No pressure Mr. Stark! I mean, I just thought I'd ask.

Tony (face softening into a smile): Of course. Tell you what, meet me outside your apartment 10AM tom. We'll get breakfast, go to the pet shop and then the other three places I planned to take you to.

Peter (eyes widen): Really? You'd spend the day with me Mr. Stark? But aren't you busy or something?

Tony: Nope. Not at all. All free for my favorite spiderling.

Peter (is unable to hide his excitement and went for a hug): Thanks Mr. Stark!!

Tony (finds himself squeezed by his favorite half arachnid child, not really complaining and patting his kid in return): There, there, Underoos. There, there.

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Later, several people will receive a meeting cancellation and request to reschedule.

President Elis, Nick Fury, Steve Rogers and the entire board of Stark Industries.

And when they reach out to Pepper Potts to ask what the heck, her polite and professional answer would be simple and concise.

"Code S," she would say, and they would all perk up into a knowing smile, understanding and accepting the code for what it is.

Code S. Reserved for one specific boy from Queens who happens to be Friday's, every Stark employee's and every affiliate's and partner's top priority over everything as per the mandate from Tony Stark himself. Everything else will be put next in line if the code is triggered.

There's even a video/threat attachment to the email to discourage anyone who dares disobey or violate the terms and agreement.

Officially, it stands for Code Superior. In front of Tony and Peter, the avengers sometimes call it Code Spider-man, even if Peter has no idea about the mandate and signed agreement that anyone who needs Tony Stark/Iron-Man to work with or for them has to sign. But they all knew it meant something else anyway.

ABSOLUTELY yes, I was always wondering like WTF HOW like how is that even possible if he is super strong?😭how Nat can knock him off, even with her techniques, I thinks it’s really REALLY hard to win against spiderman, with all his senses, his powers and abilities. He would feel that she would do the punch before the punch itself, so she could win only by confusing his senses but idk how she or any other avenger would do that. I thing their advantages are 1) experience and techniques (but that alone is not enough to win against spiderman) 2) team..I think that is the only way they could win against spiderman. Steve + Nat + Clint against Peter — there is a high chance they could win (with proper plan) maybe Tony or Hulk could win against him, but not the Nat or Clint.

If x charity aims for £10, but gets £15, would you expect then to give back the extra five or give it then to another charity? No. Any extra costs go into the “rainy day” fund; sometimes servers crash or break, sometimes false reports are made that require the legal team, sometimes you need to hire coders or what not to implement new features or fix bugs or deal with broken code … 

The money they aimed for is the bare minimum, which goes towards things like basic server costs and domain names and legal advice and so forth, but they don’t just “pocket” the rest (as people claim). It’s not a business. It has no advertisements. It needs some “rainy day” cash to function. 

You can’t ask a charity to give money to another charity. 

They don’t “pocket” excess money. They have a publicly accessible budget - waaaay more info than most charities, in fact. In it, you can clearly see where each dollar goes. (Also, you are vastly underestimating either how much traffic AO3 gets or how much servers/hosting costs.)                    

In my experience, people who don’t work in web design and hosting just have no concept of how heavy a load something like AO3 would have. Not only is the traffic absolutely buck wild, but the quantity of data that archive needs to store is fuckoff crazy. I’m talking “more than the library of congress” crazy. The only reason it doesn’t require Netflix levels of data serving is that it’s text based rather than video.

AO3 is in the top 300 websites in the world, and the top 100 in the US. It is the number 2 literature website.

Number 2 in the entire world. JSTOR is 20.

It sees about 6 million people a day. About 250k an hour. Each of those people is loading multiple pages, many are running searches that execute on literally hundreds of potential variables per search. The demands involved are astronomical.

JSTOR, btw, makes 85 million dollars a year.

It’s 18 ranks below AO3′s traffic, and takes in 650 times the amount of money.

But let’s say you think that’s an unfair comparison. Would you say that the Project Gutenberg Literature Archival Group- another text based archive that handles literature operating outside traditional copyright requirements- is more similar?

Because it sees all of 4% of the traffic that AO3 handles.

Care to guess its budget?

Double that of AO3.

AO3 is doing shit on the kind of shoestring budget that I fully, 100% cannot comprehend. And that’s just the archival service.

The 130k also pays for the OTW’s legal team, which they use to defend the right of fandom to fucking exist.

OMG wait, you gave me two ideas😭💔💔

Pepper: Tony, you need to sleep

Tony, who didn’t sleep for 2 days: No, Pep, I can’t, I need to finish this project, it just can’t wait-

*one day later*

Pepper: Tony, you.need.to.sleep

Tony: Pep, just two more minutes, I swear..

*two hours later*

Tony: that’s not fair, only one minute passed I-

Pepper: okay, honey, can you just hold this for me?

Tony, not paying attention: yeah, yeah, put it whenever *waves his hands in the air inexplicably*

Pepper: thank you *goes to him and takes his coffee cup away*

Tony: hey, hey, hey, what are you do-

Pepper: *puts sleepy Peter in his hands*

Tony: what?..

Pepper: shhhh be silent, dont wake him up! he worked on his biology project the whole night and fell asleep only two minutes ago.

Tony: aww baby.. why didn’t you sleep the whole night? nothing is more important than your sleep

Pepper: *side eye*

Tony: but-but why didn’t you let him sleep in his bed?

Pepper: babies are always better sleep in their parents’ hands. it is scientifically proven.

sleep-deprived Tony: oh yeah ..that makes sense* starts slowly rocking him*

15-year old Peter, who is rocked on Tony’s laps: *slighty opens his eye* how long should I do this?

Pepper: 15 more minutes and you get +1 hour Minecraft time before bed

Peter: Listen carefully, Mr.Stark..

Tony: *listens*

Peter: *takes his hand* Life is a journey.

Tony: *waits*

Tony: *waits*

Tony: that was it?

Cooper: dad, i'm cold.

Clint: Are you cold? Huh, It’s only -1°C. Okay, hold my scarf, but don't tell your mom that you are cold or she will kill me.

Peter: yeah, it's a little chilly.

Tony: *turns around and stares wildly* Wait, you're cold and you're telling me this NOW??

Tony: And if Cooper hadn't said that he was cold, would you be silent????

Peter: n-no..mr.Stark..i..

Tony: oh, now we're talking. I told you to wear more layers, but of course you never listen. *takes off his coat* And now I've got to make sure you don't FREEZE to death. *throws tens scarves on Peter* Could you be any more annoying? Ugh..*takes somebody else's hat*

Peter: m-mr.Stark..I'm not too cold, just a little..

Tony: baby spiders, who are freezing to death, don’t get to talk. I'm calling Happy and he'll pick us up right now. And come here-

*hugs Peter and kisses the top of his head, hands rubbing his shoulders* is it warmer?

Peter: *snuggles closer* ..yeah..

Clint and Cooper: *look confused*

Clint: *looks puzzled at Cooper* do you want a hug?