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I DID! this page was insane. gonna put it on the ever growing pile lmaooo

There are a whole lot of really good choices but I think for "largest amount of whump in the shortest amount of time" a case can be made for the miniseries The Iron Age.

noooo never greedy, especially not when you’re requesting a god tier ship that deserves more love 💙

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It is utterly ridiculous that it’s taken over twenty years of friendship and Tony being kidnapped for the fourth time since they’ve known each other for Jim to realize he has more than just platonic feelings for his best friend.

Utterly ridiculous and completely stupid.

Because Jim had always thought he was a relatively smart guy, but this. This is just fucking idiotic of him. For him to have wasted all those years and only figured out how his heart feels now, when the stakes are so much higher and Tony has disappeared into the Afghan desert for almost three months.

This just can’t stand. More than just a military guy, Jim is a rocket scientist. And if he can figure out rocket science, then he can figure out how to find Tony. And once he does, he’s not going to waste any more time. He’s going to take the only man that matters into his arms and lay it all on the line, bare his heart and soul to him and hope for the best.

His superiors believe they have the authority to stop him from taking a jet over the desert skies to keep searching for Tony? They can think again.

So, I want to preface this by saying that I am not opposed to Steve/Sharon (I think that's his main love interest in the comics?). And I am not even necessarily opposed to Steve/Sharon in the MCU. But...I think the MCU completely fumbled this from the very beginning to the very end. Here's how:

The beginning: by making Peggy a much more important part of Steve's life (and also a romantic love interest) in the past it does make the whole dating her niece thing a bit odd, BUT, I think they still could have made it work, if they hadn't continued to just completely screw it up every step along the way.

The above problem was compounded by having their "romance" (I'm using quotes because can we really call it a romance?) develop in the same movie where Steve loses Peggy, a movie in which both what Peggy meant to Steve, and Sharon's familial relationship to Peggy are highlighted.

The romance comes literally out of nowhere. Up until the point of their kiss, they are presented as co-workers with a deeper connection that to me feels like it's built more on friendship and mutual respect. The thing about this is, there was actually a deleted scene with Steve and Sharon in a café after Peggy's funeral, and that scene actually makes their romance feel a lot more natural. Chris and Emily have great chemistry in that scene (of course, I think Chris could have chemistry with a lamppost), and if they really wanted to go the romance angle with them, that scene never should have been cut (and maybe they should have added in a couple more...)

The romance disappears just as quickly as it appeared. Literally I don't think Steve and Sharon appear in the same scene in the entirety of the rest of the MCU. (I could be wrong about this, it's been a while since I've watched it.)

Steve goes back to Peggy. Like, ugh, this just compounds the problem in number one, and makes it 10x worse.

And the final nail in the coffin, TFatWS outright says that Steve doesn't come back for Sharon after the airport battle in CW, and just leaves her to fend for herself after she stuck out her neck for him and broke the law for him and then she became a villain, because the MCU just had to get in one last post-Endgame character assassination of my boy.

So, essentially, this is a ship that I actually think could have worked, but it needed to be handled with a lot more nuance and care (something the MCU isn't exactly known for) and since it wasn't, what we're left with is a ship that feels like it was forced into the movie to counter the growing popularity of Stucky. This of course didn't work, which is why we got Steggy in the end.

Kick back and while away the last hot, lazy summer days with these Round 35 submissions.

If you missed out on participating, remember that you can always submit something for a round that already ended. You can find out more information about that in the guidelines.

You can see all of the prompts for Round 35 here. In addition to looking at this master list, you can search for works by rounds, creators, work types, ratings, and universes on this page and peruse the Lights on Park Ave AO3 collection.

Round 36 has now begun and will run until August 31. In celebration of the three-year anniversary of Lights on Park Ave, all of the prompts from the past year are up for grabs. The prompts can be found here.

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AU

“all the world is only you and me” - illogicalkat Steve has trouble breathing, when the air gets this thick.

“Bonfire Promises” - Infinitywrites/@infinitywriters-blog​ As the age-old tradition goes, desired Alpha and Omega are bonded during the new moon night in a bonfire. And a Bonding in a Midsummer New moon night is considered very auspicious by the elders. The elders say the bond would last the seven lives the Alpha and Omega will have if they are soulmates. Though Steve scoffs at the story from his elders, secretly he loved the magic of being bound to one’s soulmate for all of eternity. (Or)Bonfires, Bonding and Soulmates

“Kings of Summer” - @gonetoarcadia A bonfire. The last night of summer. Confessions in the dark. Tony did always want to dance after the sun went down, and Steve wanted everything, even if it hurt.

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