Nnnnnnnngh. You know how much I love this. Thing I did not squeak about before:
She gets back a badly punctuated Blackberry e-mail saying that he's really looking for 'phtoos taken in washington dc in mid nienties.'
That still makes me cackle every time. I get e-mail like this EVERY DAY.
Tony is three years old, but already learned that neither of his parents is going to pick him up at a party. He stands by Obadiah's knee and sticks his arms up straight in the air. Obadiah absentmindedly picks Tony up and carries him for around for forty-five minutes.
Oh God. The dissonance between that story and the part where Obadiah tries to friggin' KILL him thirty-odd years later is... it's just like this story, fragmentary and complicated and all these little facets of their lives that can't ever be put together into one simple piece.
Christine is pretty sure that she now knows more about his personal history than anybody else alive.
Oh God. Yup, that's where my heart broke. She's the one who knows the most, and she's a goddamn reporter who might use that information in ways that cut him open. Par for the course for Tony.
or that his mother was the one who had been a child prodigy, building a working calculator in her father's backyard at eight and, at fifteen, telling Howard Stark how to fix his car
Oh, MARIA. All the glimpses of Maria in this kill me, but this in particular because if you change the names and pronouns, Tony was his mother all over again. Gah, gah, GAH.
I love going back to that first DOOMTHREAD occasionally and seeing where we've gone from that. It's like the font of all things since. Granted, we still don't have those t-shirts...
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She gets back a badly punctuated Blackberry e-mail saying that he's really looking for 'phtoos taken in washington dc in mid nienties.'
That still makes me cackle every time. I get e-mail like this EVERY DAY.
Tony is three years old, but already learned that neither of his parents is going to pick him up at a party. He stands by Obadiah's knee and sticks his arms up straight in the air. Obadiah absentmindedly picks Tony up and carries him for around for forty-five minutes.
Oh God. The dissonance between that story and the part where Obadiah tries to friggin' KILL him thirty-odd years later is... it's just like this story, fragmentary and complicated and all these little facets of their lives that can't ever be put together into one simple piece.
Christine is pretty sure that she now knows more about his personal history than anybody else alive.
Oh God. Yup, that's where my heart broke. She's the one who knows the most, and she's a goddamn reporter who might use that information in ways that cut him open. Par for the course for Tony.
or that his mother was the one who had been a child prodigy, building a working calculator in her father's backyard at eight and, at fifteen, telling Howard Stark how to fix his car
Oh, MARIA. All the glimpses of Maria in this kill me, but this in particular because if you change the names and pronouns, Tony was his mother all over again. Gah, gah, GAH.
I love going back to that first DOOMTHREAD occasionally and seeing where we've gone from that. It's like the font of all things since. Granted, we still don't have those t-shirts...