These last few days of school mifhht seem pointless to mqost highschoolers, but I have a portfolio to ad in to the arqt department to be recomended for AP Art, a huge English project due tomorrow whch I haven’t een able to help out with too much because of the Physics program I went to on thursday and friday, an in-class essay that needs to be made up scince I wasn’t there for those two days for the Physics program, I need to mke SURE I have the classes I want for next year scheduled and ready to go, I have a MAJOR history project due which is heavily compter oriented (and both of my comptuters have decided to screw me over - yay!) and it’s due tomorrow, I have to organize a club out of personal interest, I have drum mazor auditions on friday (hectic), I’m still trying to have a social life to ward off just a fraction of the stress, and I somehow need to show my family that I truely do think about them…
If I seem a little stressed out… Now you know why.
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You can’t get much happier than a pig in muck, or so we are told.
But when this little piggy arrived in the farmyard she showed a marked reluctance to get her trotters dirty. While her six brothers and sisters messed around in the mire, she stayed on the edge shaking. It is thought she might have mysophobia - a fear of dirt.
Owners Debbie and Andrew Keeble were at a loss, until they remembered the four miniature wellies used as pen and pencil holders in their office. They slipped them on the piglet’s feet - and into the mud she happily ploughed. [x]
WOW GREAT NEWS
#THIS IS THE HAPPIEST I’VE EVER BEEN #LIL BOOTS #LIL PIG IN LIL BOOTS #EVERYTHING’S SO LIL #ANIMAL FRIENDS](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4r47z2OX01r6bovho1_500.jpg)
You can’t get much happier than a pig in muck, or so we are told.
But when this little piggy arrived in the farmyard she showed a marked reluctance to get her trotters dirty. While her six brothers and sisters messed around in the mire, she stayed on the edge shaking. It is thought she might have mysophobia - a fear of dirt.
Owners Debbie and Andrew Keeble were at a loss, until they remembered the four miniature wellies used as pen and pencil holders in their office. They slipped them on the piglet’s feet - and into the mud she happily ploughed. [x]
WOW GREAT NEWS
#THIS IS THE HAPPIEST I’VE EVER BEEN #LIL BOOTS #LIL PIG IN LIL BOOTS #EVERYTHING’S SO LIL #ANIMAL FRIENDS
Okay can I talk about this for a sec? No? Tough, because I’m gonna go ahead and do it anyway. Because this little exchange was so indicative of their relationship that I wanted to die.
We already know that without the armor, Tony sees himself as nothing. “Iron Man yes, Tony Stark not recommended”, right? There’s more than a touch of bitterness when he throws that exchange back at Coulson in his first scene. We know about his issues with his father, we know about his drinking, we know that he watched a man sacrifice his life in a cave in the Middle East so that he, Tony, could live.
Steve doesn’t. And yet almost by accident, he finds Tony’s weak spot, sticks in a knife, and twists. Steve’s trying to shame him, trying to hold Tony accountable for actions that he, as a soldier, sees as reckless and irrresponsible— he’s already furious with Tony for needling Banner, which potentially endangered the lives of everyone on the ship (He can’t know, of course, that Tony recognises something in Banner, a control on his inner demons that he can only envy; Tony knows what it’s like to have a monster inside of him that he can barely contain) and Tony’s devil-may-care attitude is the final straw. Steve sees right through Tony in a way few people do; but not deep enough, no, because if he could fathom just how deep Tony’s scars go (and if he wasn’t being influenced by Loki’s sceptre, just behind him) he wouldn’t have said those things.
Because hey, Steve is lashing out here. You saw him in the gym; all that coiled rage, the flashbacks, the way he destroyed that punching bag. Steve’s in as much pain as Tony right now. Not that anyone’s interested. They just want him to put on the suit and be glad they won the war. Tony’s comments earlier about Steve being “not of use” made their mark. Steve already feels outdated and useless. Tony represents everything Steve doesn’t understand about the new century, everything he hates; he’s an unreliable jumble of technology, ego and pop culture references Steve doesn’t understand. Oh, and Tony used to make weapons. Big weapons. How d’you think Steve felt when someone filled him in on the advances in warfare that happened while he was asleep?
And Tony? He’s having his insecurities thrown back at him by a living legend, by the man his father admired above all others; a man Howard Stark spent years digging through the ice for when he should have been caring for his son. Steve is talking, but I’m pretty sure Tony’s hearing his father.
“The only thing you fight for is yourself. You’re not the guy to make the sacrifice play.”
Half of that sentence is true. Tony does fight for himself; he fights to redeem himself every day, not because of the body count his weapons have amassed (Natasha’s not the only one with red in her ledger) but because he doesn’t see himself as worthy of anything. Of the suit, of the few friends he has, of his money, of his life. He fights every day to prove to himself that he deserves to exist. And that is why he would make the sacrifice play. In a heartbeat. If he doesn’t deserve to be here, it’s only right he die for someone who does. And Steve just told him “yeah, you’re right, you don’t deserve to be here. I know guys worth ten of you, and they’re dead, and you’re alive.”
It’s awful, really, how much these two men are capable of hurting each other.
And yet. Underneath the barbs and the anger and the hurt, this exchange shows exactly why they work so well together.
“…to lay down on the wire and let the other guy crawl over you.”
“I think I would just cut the wire.”
“Always a way out.”
That. That right there. Tony is a master at thinking on his feet, at improvisation, at taking risks that tend to pay off. He’s brilliant, but volatile. And Steve is strategic, methodical, noble almost to a fault. Tony could come up with solutions Steve would never even dream of, and vice versa; when Tony spends time hacking into SHIELD’s servers, Steve investigates on foot. They are exact opposites, in personality and skill, and that’s why they’re the unofficial leaders of the Avengers. The differences that drive them apart in this scene are what’s going to make them unstoppable later on. Because they’re not half as good at anything as when they’re doing it next to each other.
I-
I-
I just
I just
Fuck, man. F u c k
Oh, my god.
This is so much more completely heart wrenching once they get to the end of the invasion, because Tony? He doesn’t so much lay on the wire, as he does trip it, scoop the live mine up and run with it for the nearest enemy foxhole.
When Steve’s staring up at the portal, hesitating to give that command, he’s not hearing ‘Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist.’
He’s hearing, ‘You’re not the guy to make the sacrifice play.’
And all he can do is hope and pray, because dear God, how wrong he was.
YOU GUYS
YOU GUYS
STOP IT
STOP IT
I HATE YOU ALL OH MY GOD I HATE YOU
STOP GIVING ME SUPERHUSBANDS FEELINGS
STOP IT
STOP IT
*sobs*This is one of the most well written character analysis I’ve ever read and there’s also a hole in my chest now, I think a heart used to be there but apparently it got super-crushed.
This whole in my chest is brought to you by: Superhusbands.
God this is amazing..
