sitting down to leave official thoughts, and, oh. OH. just. there is at least one bit of each of these that really grabbed me, made me pause. The "photonic Morse code;" Tony actually contemplating cloning (you're so right, that's exactly where a technological industry titan with only recently-discovered morals would go first); Tony sleeping with others and, yes, telling her about it, because he's still a bit of an asshole but only a bit; proposing nontraditionally and her not actually responding; Jarvis secretly calling the paramedics while Tony loudly panics; etc etc etc.
and of course the entirety of the last paragraph. This part: he's had as much love and happiness as a man like him, much less a superhero, can expect from life. He has no right to ask more. is making me cry again with reread. You got it, right there, that complexity and richness and grown-up-ness of who they are for each other.
I always get so excited when you get fired up about a fandom I like, cause I know there's just going to be, like, stellar gems of ideas flying out of you.
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Date: 2008-05-18 11:38 pm (UTC)just. there is at least one bit of each of these that really grabbed me, made me pause. The "photonic Morse code;" Tony actually contemplating cloning (you're so right, that's exactly where a technological industry titan with only recently-discovered morals would go first); Tony sleeping with others and, yes, telling her about it, because he's still a bit of an asshole but only a bit; proposing nontraditionally and her not actually responding; Jarvis secretly calling the paramedics while Tony loudly panics; etc etc etc.
and of course the entirety of the last paragraph. This part:
he's had as much love and happiness as a man like him, much less a superhero, can expect from life. He has no right to ask more.
is making me cry again with reread. You got it, right there, that complexity and richness and grown-up-ness of who they are for each other.
I always get so excited when you get fired up about a fandom I like, cause I know there's just going to be, like, stellar gems of ideas flying out of you.