hello ^_^

howard was cold, mean, and distant but tony finds out later in life, decades after howard's death, that howard was actually very proud of him even before he actually did anything; he viewed tony as his "greatest creation" and believed he'd "change the world" with howard's life's work that he was making FOR TONY and leaving behind FOR TONY. but again, he didn't know this until way after howard was gone because the man never bothered to tell him to his face.

in homecoming, tony has already developed a one-sided relationship with peter in a sense- he listens to peter's voicemails, cares about peter's input, and remembers little details about him, to the point where HE already believes they have a father/son bond and compares his relationship with peter to his own relationship with his father TWO separate times... but he does all of it from afar and doesn't actually show peter (except for when he drops little bombs only after the fact- "like that lady that bought you the churro" "i did listen, kid") and this causes a lot of major miscommunication between them and leads peter to believe that tony doesn't really care about him at all.

and this is why it'll always be sad to me that we only got hints about how their relationship changed in between homecoming and infinity war. so much potential, so much we could've and should've seen. but from what we can infer, while they definitely did have a better relationship than howard and tony (the end of hoco definitely slapped some sense into tony, they both trusted each other a lot more by iw and were visibly more familiar), their communication was still limited. like, the hug tony gives him in endgame seems like it was the first time they'd ever actually hugged based on peter's reaction ? so they loved each other very much, we know that for a fact, but they didn't show it to each other much.

marie howe, what the living do | the chronicles of narnia : prince caspian (2008) | briton rivière, una and the lion (1880) | the chronicles of narnia : the lion, the witch and the wardrobe (1950) | saint gabriel, orthodox painting | wikipedia | the chronicles of narnia : the lion, the witch and the wardrobe (2005) | the chronicles of narnia : the last battle (1956) | gustave courbet, la biche | unknown | salvator rosa, san giorio e il drago | hilary mantel, wolf hall | coldplay, talk | briton rivière, the king drinks (1881) | rosa bonheur, chevreuil se désaltérant | unknown | ocean vuong, quote | anne carson, antigone | sir edwin lanseer, the desert (1849) | natalie diaz, a brother named gethsemane | laurel, how the lights get in | david gerrold, the girl who was silver

hazel/leo — i hope we find each other in every life.

“and i do think about the friends i lost in my lifetime — i wake with their memories over me. if i wrote songs, i’d write about that” - taffy brodesser-akner

like I know cold assassin Arya is a popular Fanon narrative, but come on??? the books literally go against this interpretation of her at every turn?

After traveling for weeks in unhygienic, tiring conditions, she doesn't take a bath when she has a chance, and this is her reasoning:

"Arya did not dare, even though she smelled as bad as Yoren by now, all sour and stinky. Some of the creatures living in her clothes had come all the way from Flea Bottom with her; it didn't seem right to drown them." - ACOK Arya II

This is a girl with a bleeding heart that reaches and tries to hold everyone and everything in it!

Even people she feels repulsed by, the lowest of the low, such as the soldiers who raped and murdered--she still can't look away.

When she sees the northmen in cages:

"She looked at their filthy hair and scraggly beards and reddened eyes, at their dry, cracked, bleeding lips. Wolves, she thought again. Like me. Was this her pack? How could they be Robb's men? She wanted to hit them. She wanted to hurt them. She wanted to cry." - ASOS Arya V

But still she gives them water. Despite everything, despite her own experiences with violence and threats of rape.

#My Arya Stark variants

I just love the idea of Clarisse as this woman who is one of the best warriors in the seven kingdoms, to the point where people have to change the rules of the tourneys when she's participating just so she doesn't kill anybody

Elaborating a bit more on the AU (and explaining the roses). Basically, Lady Clarysse Sand is the illegitimate daughter of the last lady of an extinct house and A Warlord From The Other Side Of The Narrow Sea (Allegedly. Pjo people, yall know who that is). She is from Dorne. However, one of her other siblings from Daddy's side eas legitimised and became lord, and he needed people on his side who could fight and be loyal, and yknow. There's money and a castle involved. So Daddy sends Clarysse to Bro Bro. And Bro Bro's House's crest is tangled thorns like she has on that brooch near her chest. They're rose thorns.

Now, Lady Clarysse is absolutely amazing and leads the vanguard of his army to victory every time. That makes her one of his favourite siblings and the one he's closest with. That means her budget for clothing, weapons and armor is massive, the money he gives her plus the massive amounts of cash she earns during tourneys. She might be about as rich as he is for a good amount of time. Eventually, he gives her a piece of land and a sword and she decides to revive her mother's house, which i'll probably call House Rue, but we'll see. But she spends a lot of her time making sure things run smoothly at Primrose Hall, so i might give her land there instead. That's not completely defined yet.