#idreamofpants

IT’S SUCH GOOD THOUGH

I don’t think I did mention jello -- I do mention food a bit but usually in the context of the Jarvises cooking it, and they’re much more focused on solid traditional cooking, particularly traditional European Jewish cooking in Anna’s case. 

I don’t really know much about how Terrible Seventies Food interacted with class in the US, but I can take a few swings. I know in the early part of the century gelatin was considered sort of special and classy because you had to have a fridge to make it, and not many people did, but I think by the seventies it was a sort of middle-class-with-aspirations kind of a good. A lot of the “horrifying food” we see on the internet comes from food advertisers, who were aiming at the middle and upper-edge of the working classes, and it’s frequently aspirational in nature. 

I don’t think the Starks ate much jello salad, though mousses, perhaps, and maybe occasionally some kind of protein-in-aspic. Maria always struck me as Old Money, and while Howard is self-made he’s also vastly self-assured, so he doesn’t need to impress anyone. 

That being said, I’m willing to bet Clint has EXTENSIVE experience with jello salads and other Gallery Of Regrettable Food style horrors, and Bucky and Steve probably think they’re very classy, so I bet there’s like...jello-salad night at the penthouse they all room in, at least once a week. Especially since Coulson is a midwestern-bred military brat and probably got a lot of the same foods Clint was exposed to. 

So like -- Clint and Phil are experimenting with corn in gelatin, Steve and Sam are splitting a bowl of whipped fish, Bucky is eating something with more mayonnaise than is really ideal, and Tony paid a chef at a local five-star steakhouse to bring him a rare filet mignon with new potatoes for him and Jan to eat because oh my god, these savages. 

Natasha will eat anything, but Clint found out she secretly likes orange jello with mini marshmallows in, so they ALWAYS have orange jello with mini marshmallows in.

When they finally get together, is Matt going to be touching Foggy'd belly all the time? Is he going to insist on being the big spoon to put his hands under Foggy's shirt? Is he going to think he's being smooth and discreet while Foggy sees through him? Is Matt gonna rest his head on Foggy's stomach? IS HE GOING TO KISS IT ALL THE TIME BEFORE GOING DOWN ON FOGGY? This is important. For world peace or something.

YES TO ALL OF THE ABOVE

I AM GOING TO RETURN TO THESE THOUGHTS AT A POINT WHEN I DON’T HAVE TO BE AWAKE IN FIVE HOURS BUT NEEDED TO RELEASE THEM INTO THE UNIVERSE

thank you, although I’m really more of a vessel than the source. xD

Bucky may not be an artist like Steve, but when he looks at Tony, he gets an itch to paint a portrait and fill it with every detail, every beautiful flaw he's fallen in love with. He wants to capture it all because he knows there's no chance for him to touch with the kind of reverence Tony deserves.