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He walks by just when Tony says „oh yeah I do cook myself“

And Peter, completely forgetting about the interview just scoffs and says „yeah. When you need to apologize for forgetting something again“

My late writing partner, @von--gelmini, lost his battle with liver cancer in October of 2020.

Let me point you to something on his Ao3 account:

specifically, allow me to draw your attention to his 136 posted works.

Today, I also stand at 136 works on my own Ao3 account.

The next thing I post will be #137.

This will be the very first time, since our collaboration started in 2011 (2010? It's hard to remember, those were LJ days) that I will have more published works than he did.

@von--gelmini (also @starker-stories) was practically a full-time writer. The 136 works on Ao3 represent a small fraction of ALL his writings. There was Livejournal, along with hundreds of thousands of words of private fiction written with various partners, sometimes for years upon years. As a man living on disability, Von wrote constantly.

Now, having written without him for the past six years (and mining our of our original character writings to develop as recognizable pairings you'll recognize) I am at a very strange milestone.

I want my 137th Work to be something special - I won't be at this milestone again.

Now I just have to decide what that is.

@mrstarksbaby @serrabloodsong @sheris532 @vaguekiwi @bri-loves @professional-benaddict @starkeristheendgame @starker-sorbet @spidyirony @starkercrossedlovers @starkerdayss @darker-soft-starker @starkerflowers @starkerintheparker @sinditia @ironstarker @starkeristheendgame @cutepandaprincess @itfeelssogoodmrstark

You'll be happy to know I have posted Work Number 137 - which will be a sequel to a lovely fairy tale @mrstarksbaby and I created in 2022.

My late writing partner, @von--gelmini, lost his battle with liver cancer in October of 2020.

Let me point you to something on his Ao3 account:

specifically, allow me to draw your attention to his 136 posted works.

Today, I also stand at 136 works on my own Ao3 account.

The next thing I post will be #137.

This will be the very first time, since our collaboration started in 2011 (2010? It's hard to remember, those were LJ days) that I will have more published works than he did.

@von--gelmini (also @starker-stories) was practically a full-time writer. The 136 works on Ao3 represent a small fraction of ALL his writings. There was Livejournal, along with hundreds of thousands of words of private fiction written with various partners, sometimes for years upon years. As a man living on disability, Von wrote constantly.

Now, having written without him for the past six years (and mining our of our original character writings to develop as recognizable pairings you'll recognize) I am at a very strange milestone.

I want my 137th Work to be something special - I won't be at this milestone again.

Now I just have to decide what that is.

@mrstarksbaby @serrabloodsong @sheris532 @vaguekiwi @bri-loves @professional-benaddict @starkeristheendgame @starker-sorbet @spidyirony @starkercrossedlovers @starkerdayss @darker-soft-starker @starkerflowers @starkerintheparker @sinditia @ironstarker @starkeristheendgame @cutepandaprincess @itfeelssogoodmrstark

Sure, maybe Tony hasn’t been around much lately anyway. So, if he were to get in, he would have no idea what the company is doing. Pepper has been managing all that for over a year. Maybe more.

Tony’s been mostly focused on the empty whiskey bottles and replacing them with new ones immediately.

“Go somewhere, get away. And come back when you’re a better man.” Pepper said with such love and contempt that it scared Tony.

And so, here he is. In the middle of nowhere, in the middle of March. A rough month, mostly grey, as one waits for spring to start for real.

His cabin is hardly a cabin, a mansion is more accurate. But, the garage is the most important part. When he left, Tony had three of his cars shipped to the cabin. If he can’t drink, he has to work. His motorised beauties keep him occupied.

There aren’t any neighbours for miles, and the nearest town is a 30 minute drive. At first, Tony felt the silence suffocate him, but then birdsong and the melodies of the wind started changing him. Just a bit.

Maybe Pepper was onto something.

One day, Tony is in his garage finishing up when he hears whistling. He hasn’t been in town for a week, so the sound of a human startles him, riling up his feelings in an unfamiliar way.

The next day, Tony spots a figure on a bike, pedalling just behind some trees so he cannot get a proper look.

Two days later, a knock on Tony’s door. But, Tony is outside and he rubs his hands into an oily towel. He gets a good look at the figure now, and he guesses this is the same person he has heard and caught glimpses of.

“Hi.”

The young man jumps nearly a foot into the air, chuckling breathily as he spins around.

“Shit, sorry. I didn’t know you were there.”

“Here I am. And here you are.”

A wide smile, so bright it nearly blinds Tony. He shines brighter than the March sun.

“I’m Peter. I live nearby. I figured I’d come say hi.”

“It’s a pleasure. I’m Tony. You wanna sit down? I could get us a drink.”

But with this idea I also need there to be a “stark industries households” youtube channel that is, technically, an official SI channel. But it’s not in the slightest used for marketing or anything of the sort. Tony is the only one with the password and every video uploaded is tony going through how to use that machine.

Someone can’t figure out how to empty their damn fancy vacuum and they look up the model on youtube to figure it out, and are greeted by the CEO of the company doing a WILDLY informal tutorial on how to use it and common issues and such.

The videos are often shot by DUM-E or U. Tony often looks very disheveled, and sometimes there’s unrevealed projects just sitting out in the background. Tony acts like he’s talking to an audience of five people and usually there’s five or six videos uploaded back to back, CLEARLY shot in one sitting.