Some Favorite Quotes: Natasha is just as stoic and scary when she's walking around the kitchen in yoga pants as she is when she's jabbing Tony in the neck with a needle. She spends about ten hours a day attempting to become even deadlier than she already is, and enjoys ambushing Steve and Thor at random opportunities, sending them grunting face-first into the carpet. Tony thinks it's kind of cool, like living in a video game.
He lives in a house with an immortal party planner and a twenty-six-year-old guy who was born in 1917. Anything is possible.
This technically isn't a thing two straight guys would do, Tony thinks, but he's too drunk and miserable to care. Plus, he's only about 92% straight anyway. Steve, on the other hand, is probably 150% straight, minimum, so together they add up to almost two and a half straight guys. When you look at it like that, this is practically the least gay thing Tony's ever done.
the pain that comes from loving another person so much you can barely stand it, and then having to go on without them.
but there are others who are with him in this thing he's doing who can stand should to shoulder with him, and he never feels like he has to compensate for their shortcomings, or carry their weight. He's unique, but he's not alone.
Tony feels like he can't breathe for a second, momentarily undone by the knowledge that it's him making Steve look like that, him.
Just finished reading a fanfic in the Marvel Avengers universe: "Semaphore" by Devildoll, and found it a good, humorous read. It portrays the slow bringing together (romantically) of Steve (Captain America) Rogers and Tony (Iron Man) Stark. As it contains sex scenes, it won't be suitable for young readers, but the writer has a deft touch with humor, aptly captures the voices of both men and has a very delightful "original character" in Miriam, a little old lady who's Steve's neighbor (and contemporary) and who can (and does) drink Tony under the table (more than once). Thor holds her in awe.
This is a nice long fanfic, told from Tony's point of view, showing the bringing together of the team, Tony's relationship (and breakup) with Pepper Potts, and the transition of Steve from "frenemy" to friend, and then to something more. It's particularly good at showing the trials and self-doubt of Tony, who has never had a healthy romantic relationship, with baby steps forward, and then crushing steps back.
It all works out in the end (yay for happy endings!), and is just the thing to read after a hard day.