Vocabulary

since there is a lot of nostalgia for the avengers/mcu fandom circa 2012, here are some of the most commonly used tropes in fanfics and fanworks that we all just, for some reason, accepted (feel free to add more!):

they all live in the Avengers Tower and have their own custom rooms/floors designed by tony

clint in the vents

thor loves poptarts and coffee and all the food in general 

movie nights!

taco/pizza/sushi/etc dinners where one of them is assigned to wash the dishes afterwards

bruce does yoga and can cook all kinds of cuisines

natasha cleaning and sharpening her knives

steve struggling with the Internet

tony rarely sleeps, he’s always in his lab creating new suits and equipment for the team. coffee is his main source of sustenance until steve or bruce convince him to sleep and eat something pls

steve, in his downtime, draws draws draws. bonus points if he does it in the workshop while tony is working

tony and bruce Sciencing Out

steve is the momma hen, tony the dad (or vice-versa tbh)

nick fury/coulson/maria hill act as the Avengers’ publicists

clint/coulson (ok y’all i read some of those fics AND THEY WERE CUTE OK DONT @ ME) 

loki pops up every now and again pretty much as a glorified magical prankster

bruce loves tea and is always brewing that matcha 

clintasha

team teaches steve and thor about modern life and pop culture

natasha is the sage and constant source of wisdom 

thor always speaks IN! A! BOOMING! VOICE!

“what really happened in budapest” 

rhodey and pepper also make appearances. and in the latter part of that era, sam and bucky

sleepovers in the living room! where they sleep all huddled together!! :(((

Tony Ward spring 2017 rtw

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is it you who changed or is it me

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Witch Work by Neil Gaiman.

Artist Documents Tender Notes Over Acrylic Illustrations From Her Travels on a Moleskine Notebook

American artist Missy H. Dunaway documents her travels across the US, Europe, Turkey, and Morocco with extreme romanticism and poetry. Dunaway illustrates on her Moleskine journal a beautiful scenery with acrylic paint from her time in a specific location, then autographs each painting with a sweet excerpt of nostalgia.

She often composes goodbye notes on her journals, as she bids adieu to each city. Each cityscape portrait reveals a tender thought or memory of heartbreak or a desire for wanderlust.

Some of the lovely anecdotes read:

“Standing in Asia. Looking at Europe. Thinking of New York.”

“I moved to Istanbul (alone). I’ve been looking out my window more than usual.”

“I’ve discovered I have the gift to feel at home jus about anywhere.”

“I’ll press you in a book.”

“I was staring at the blinking lights  of an airplane and waiting for sleep when a shooting star passed across my view, clear as day. I haven’t seen a shooting star in a whole decade.”

We highly urge everyone to click on each image to read the stunning passages. You can find these notebooks and more of her original work in her Etsy shop.

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Random Headcanon: That Federation vessels in Star Trek seem to experience bizarre malfunctions with such overwhelming frequency isn’t just an artefact of the television serial format. Rather, it’s because the Federation as a culture are a bunch of deranged hyper-neophiles, tooling around in ships packed full of beyond-cutting-edge tech they don’t really understand. Endlessly frustrating if you have to fight them, because they can pull an effectively unlimited number of bullshit space-magic countermeasures out of their arses - but they’re as likely as not to give themselves a lethal five-dimensional wedgie in the process. All those rampant holograms and warp core malfunctions and accidentally-traveling-back-in-time incidents? That doesn’t actually happen to anyone else; it’s literally just Federation vessels that go off the rails like that. And they do so on a fairly regular basis.

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