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FIC: When Trouble Came (Avengers, Steve/Tony, E)

When Trouble Came (87848 words) by Sineala
Chapters: 16/16
Fandom: Marvel (Comics), Marvel 616, Avengers (Comics)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
Characters: Steve Rogers, Tony Stark
Additional Tags: Fix-It, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Pining, Depression, Getting Together, Romance, Love Confessions, Suicidal Thoughts, Alcoholics Anonymous, Past Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Past Drug Addiction, Past Drug Use, Past Child Abuse, Post-Marvel Comic Event: Secret Empire (2017), Post-Marvel Comics Event: AXE Judgment Day (2022), Comic: Avengers Vol. 8 (2018)
Summary: After the defeat of the Progenitor, Tony is surprised to find that Steve has changed his mind and would now like to take him up on his offer to relax in the hot springs. Steve, more depressed than Tony has ever seen him, would like to compare notes on their respective judgments and find out how Tony's been doing in his newly-sober life. He'd also like to reveal a few long-held secrets about his feelings for Tony -- and there's more than one surprise here.

Remember me? I used to write fic! This is mostly unedited, but also it's been sitting here for about three years and I mostly just wanted it off my hard drive. Thanks to Blossom for cheerleading this while I was writing it.

This is about 90,000 words of meta disguised as fic, about Judgment Day and about how much I hate Cantwell's Iron Man run. Steve and Tony spend this entire story conversing in the Avengers Mountain hot springs. Then they fuck. That is the actual plot. There is also a short epilogue from Steve's POV, coming soon. They go to a different room for that one.

(When I say "short," I mean "35,000 words.")

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第四年第三百四十一天

部首
弓 part 1 gōng
弓, a bow (as in archery); 引, to pull/to guide; 弛, to loosen ( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=57

语法
2.5 Uses of 吧
https://www.digmandarin.com/hsk-2-grammar

词汇
表情, expression; 表扬, praise ( pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-4-word-list/

Guardian:
也许我们就可以用谈啸把郑意给引出来, maybe we can use Tan Xiao to pull Zheng Yi out
要不要去医院看一下吧, shouldn't you go to the hospital and let them take a look?
我特别期待老楚知道你是你的时候脸上是什么表情, I'm especially looking forward to the look on Lao Chu's face when he finds out who you are

Me:
你松弛一下吧，别这么紧张了。
感谢老师的表扬。

Style File: Lily Collins, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu and Ashley Park Promote EMILY IN PARIS in Venice

Posted by Lorenzo Marquez

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Lily Collins, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu and Ashley Park can’t stop, won’t stop serving looks on the seemingly endless publicity tour for Emily in Paris, season five. This show must be one hell of a hit for Netflix, because this is one pricey-as-hell promo tour. First, a photo op in Venice:

AT THE TRAIN STEP PHOTO OP
Lily Collins in Lanvin

How does a photo opp differ from a photo call, you may be asking? It would appear that the former requires more cutesy posing and more interactive backdrops. Anyway, this is very chic and restrained. The open back is a sexy surprise.

Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu

The dress is fun, but the boots are too much with it.

Ashley Park in Georges Hobeika

It’s what all the well-dressed train-travelers are wearing. Honestly, this is kind of gorgeous, but it looks very silly in this setting. Granted it would look out of place in any setting that wasn’t a bedroom, but this feels more like red carpet fashion than train station fashion.

AT THE PHOTOCALL
Lily Collins in Schiaparelli Couture

But that’s probably missing the point, since every single outfit these ladies are wearing on this tour is red carpet-ready. No one’s doing dressy-casual for this one. This is an interesting design, but it feels like Balenciaga trying to do Iris van Herpen. The effect is simply too sloppy and awkward to be fabulous.

Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu in Ferragamo

This is a lot of fun and she clearly loves it. The color looks amazing on her. Our only quibble is with the length. This would work better at gown length.

Ashley Park in Antonio Grimaldi

Drop-dead stunning. This one might have photographed poorly in a red carpet situation, but it’s gorgeous in the daylight, even if it screams evening.

AT THE COCKTAIL RECEPTION

Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu (in Elie Saab), Lily Collins (in Alessandra Rich) and Ashley Park (in LaPointe)

How does a cocktail reception differ from a photo opp or photo call? Who knows? It’s not like the outfits are any less eye-popping.

We suppose we should give them all credit for showing up in a distinctly different sheer. We’re surprised to admit we like Philippine’s skirt, since we normally hate tiered skirts. That top is awful, however. Lily’s look is probably one of the most basic she’s worn on this entire tour. It’s fine, but it’s not very interesting. As much as we dislike sheer dresses, we’ll take them over a blazer with a beaded curtain trying to pass itself off as a skirt. Not even you can make this one work, Ashley.

AT THE PRESS CONFERENCE

Darren Star, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Lily Collins (in Patou), Ashley Park, Eugenio Franceschini

Not a premiere! Not a photo call or photo op! No, it’s merely a press conference where everyone dresses like it’s one of those things. Not that we’re complaining, of course. We love ourselves a meaty publicity tour with a lot of high end looks involved. Philippine’s dress is gorgeous. Lily’s is cute, but the top and bottom halves are kind of fighting with each other. Ashley, just wear a skirt. Like, a real skirt that someone sewed instead of these wispy scraps of lace pretending to be skirts. You’re wearing a fancy diaper, girl.

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ABOUT THE NEW SEASON:
Now the head of Agence Grateau Rome, Emily faces professional and romantic challenges as she adapts to life in a new city. But just as everything falls into place, a work idea backfires, and the fallout cascades into heartbreak and career setbacks. Seeking stability, Emily leans into her French lifestyle, until a big secret threatens one of her closest relationships. Tackling conflict with honesty, Emily emerges with deeper connections, renewed clarity, and a readiness to embrace new possibilities.
Creator / Executive Producer / Writer: Darren Star
Executive Producers: Tony Hernandez, Lilly Burns, Andrew Fleming, Stephen Brown, Alison Brown, Robin Schiff, Grant Sloss, Joe Murphy
Starring: Lily Collins (Emily Cooper), Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu (Sylvie Grateau), Ashley Park (Mindy Chen), Lucas Bravo (Gabriel), Samuel Arnold (Julien), Bruno Gouery (Luc), William Abadie (Antoine Lambert), Lucien Laviscount (Alfie), Eugenio Franceschini (Marcello), Thalia Besson (Genevieve), Paul Forman (Nico), Arnaud Binard (Laurent G), Minnie Driver (Princess Jane), Bryan Greenberg (Jake), and Michèle Laroque (Yvette)

All episodes of EMILY IN PARIS Season 5 will premiere on December 18, 2025.

[Photo Credit: Courtesy of Netflix, Courtesy of Balenciaga – Video Credit: Netflix/YouTube]

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Current Music: KiNG MALA - cult leader

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If you're devil, how come you're not wearing Prada?

+ Managed to finish up nearly all my Christmas shopping today, huzzah. My brother is getting a bunch of cheeses and some spreads and crackers, I just need his gf to send me a picture of his comics shelf so I can order him a book to round it out.

I do need to do wrapping though. To think I used to love doing that back in the day.

+ Also found a Christmas calendar at 40% off, so now I'll have something to open every day after all. It's from the Finnish brand Lumene and if half of it is as good as the eye cream I've already tried, I got a real bargain.

+ Very sad to hear about the loss of Rob Reiner, and it just keeps getting sadder as I read about all the wonderful things he did and stood for.

+ Please tell me more of you are watching Pluribus? The last episode was the best one yet, and I find myself suddenly willing to go to war for one of the characters. But that whole episode, oh man. Ten out of ten. I even double dipped and downloaded a couple of episodes so I can make some damn icons. *mutters about stupid streaming apps*

+ Also I am now watching watch alongs for IWTV on yt. I need more people to be blathering on about these vampires. Still taking a predictable chunk out of my fic reading time, and now I'm down to one buffer rec for Rec-Cember. Somebody tell me to shape up.

❄️ ❄️ ❄️ ❄️
Rec-cember Day 14

The Good Place
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Wildgoosery (10,103 words). Ah yes, the show that gave us an endless fun array of AUs to frolick in. And this is a delightful entry.
There’s a knock at the door. The weather here is perfect and mild — because of course it is — so they had left it standing open. This means that nothing obscures Eleanor’s view as an Amazonian gazelle of a woman steps theatrically into the doorway, one elegant arm sweeping up to rest upon the frame.

It occurs to Eleanor that this woman must have knocked on the outside of the house, then waited the exact right amount of time to make this entrance once Eleanor and Michael would be looking, but before they’d thought to shout “Hello?” or glance at each other or otherwise spoil the moment. Honestly, it’s pretty impressive, points for drama and also for wearing heels despite being damn near six feet tall.

“Ah, excellent timing!” Michael says, pleased. “Eleanor, this is your soulmate, Tahani.”

Tahani extends her hand, angled down and slightly curved. “Charmed,” she says, with the fanciest fucking accent Eleanor has ever heard in person.

“Soulmate! Wow!” Eleanor says. The position of Tahani’s offered hand makes her feel like she’s expected to take it in her own, bow over it, and kiss one elegant knuckle at a time, but she’s not really butch enough to pull off that kind of a Prince Charming maneuver, not even in flannel.

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21 multifandom icons for the iconcolors amnesty round

Every 20 rounds (about once a year), there's an amnesty round at

iconcolors where you can make as many icons for as many of the previous palettes as you like. I made 21 icons for seven palettes this time. Enjoy!

( 21 multifandom icons, most from Heated Rivalry, then The Lost Ballad, then everything else )

I love comments, and if you have concrit for me, I'm open for that, too. All my icons are free to take and use, credit is appreciated. The list of makers whose textures and brushes I like to use is here in my resource post.

Previous icon posts:

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113 Hazbin Hotel - episode 2x01 ("New Pentious") icons, batch 1

See the rest here at

kommsussertod

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Rec-cember Day 15: Firefly

A quick one, because tonight I'm shattered. In the unlikely event someone isn't familiar with the show or the movie, Fanlore has a good rundown.

My main ship back then was Mal/River (now that I'm older I'm slightly squicked by the age difference though River is so much more powerful that Mal that this redresses the balance a little), so my recs reflect this. Also, Firefly seems to be the little black dress of crossovers, as it goes well with any fandom. I remember reading loads of very fun crossovers, unfortunately I had only a handful saved in my bookmarks.

No Power In the 'Verse by vialethe. 24K words. Mal/River. Having no choice but to feel, River cherishes all the more deeply the ability to act. If only she knew what action to take." A believable and gorgeously written take on this unlikely pairing. Very good River voice, which must be a bitch to get right.

I Fall by Kass. Mal/River. River knows what she wants. Probably the first story that made me fall for this pairing. It's adorable how persistent River has to be and how flustered Mal is.

Whiskey and Wry by musesfool Mal/River. There's a difference between what a man wants and what he knows is right. Exquisite yearning, lovely character voices.

Good Luck Charms by Nary. Pre-series Wash/Zoe. Lovely backstory for one of the best married couples in TV.

And Then It Went all F*ing Stargate by indyhat. Firefly/Generation Kill. Gen. Spot-on character voices. Hilarious.

The Pitt

never waste a Friday night by morphosynctactic. Trinity/Whitaker. Don't hit the back button! I know they have siblings vibes. Yet this works. It's tremendously in character. And hot. And sweet. And hilarious. You would think that sleeping with Trinity Santos (who isn't actually that into him) would rip Dennis' self-esteem to shreds. But it turns out that when she texts him "i thought your dick was going to be kind of weird but it’s pretty solid” and "your fingerblasting is adequate" he knows that's the truth and nothing but the truth.

Crossposts: https://digthewriter.insanejournal.com/440927.html

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The Calm in a Small World. CHAPTER 15: The Baby

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Write every day: Day 15

Writing was on my to-do list, but unfortunately it had too much competition, and now I'm too tired. How about you?

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Day 14:

china_shop,

goddess47,

badly_knitted,

chestnut_pod,

trobadora,

sanguinity,

cornerofmadness,

carenejeans

Bonus farm news: Today I ate common salsify root for the first time. Tastes kind of like sunchoke/Jerusalem artichoke?

Zooey Deschanel Promotes MERV on WATCH WHAT HAPPENS LIVE WITH ANDY COHEN

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Back in the aughts, when we first started celebrity style blogging, we routinely used to wonder when and if Zooey Deschanel would ever retire her twee preferences and her love of tights. We probably wouldn’t have predicted that she’d still be working the same look over fifteen years later and we almost certainly would have suggested that doing so represented a mistake on her part. After all, good style isn’t about locking yourself in to one look permanently, it’s about evolving that look over time. Well, here she is, fresh from 2008:

Honestly? We’re not mad at it. It’s a legitimately cute dress, even if it feels, like so many of her style choices, a little juvenile. The sheer tights are her one concession to modern style (she was all about the opaque ones back in the day), but it’s clear you’ll pry her Mary Jane clodhoppers off her cold, dead feet.

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ABOUT THE MOVIE:
When their beloved dog Merv loses his spark after their split, Anna (Zooey Deschanel) and Russ (Charlie Cox) are forced into the world’s most awkward co-parenting arrangement. Hoping to shake Merv out of his funk, Russ takes him to Florida for a much-needed getaway—only for Anna to show up unexpectedly. As Merv slowly gets his groove back, turns out fixing their dog’s broken heart may lead to a few sparks of their own.
Directed By Jessica Swale
Cast: Zooey Deschanel, Charlie Cox, Chris Redd, Patricia Heaton

[Photo Credit: Charles Sykes/Bravo – Video Credit: Prime Video/YouTube]

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Schiaparelli Fall/Winter 2025 Holiday Evening Wear

Posted by Lorenzo Marquez

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RUCHED CAPE DRESS

BUSTIER BONES DRESS

PAISLEY-PATTERN LONG DRESS

HONEYCOMB SHIRT DRESS

BUSTIER DRESS

EMBROIDERED ASYMMETRICAL SKIRT

TROMPE L’OEIL SWIMSUIT DRESS

SKELETON DRESS-COAT

EMBROIDERED BUSTIER DRESS

[Photo Credit: schiaparelli.com, Courtesy of Schiaparelli]

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Watched the weather report today.

Today's temperatures: Started below 20, "feels like" in the single digits. But not to worry, within a week we should be in the 50s!

And they just said that, with no commentary, like it's not absolutely bizarre to go from 19F - 56F within a single week in December.

And it's not just the high temperatures that are bizarre, the low ones are too. I can't speak to the decades before 1990, I guess, but NYC weather used to be temperate - we got more snow, but that's because the winter temperatures were in the snow range - close to the freezing point, not so warm it melted, not so cold that it just didn't happen.

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Writing in 2026

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Random fashion pondering

I used to have this skirt by Kambriel. I have since sold it on to

sistawendy , and it looks fabulous on her. But I miss the idea of the skirt.

I'm pondering buying yardage of both those fabrics to make myself an ankle-length version. I'd be making it myself, because if I asked the Madwoman in the Attic to make something with both those patterns together, her head would explode.

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'SNL' Won't Prepare You For Sarah Sherman's HBO Special 'Live + In The Flesh'

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You can easily lose your way in the haze of success, bending and breaking your sensibilities to fit into what's perceived as a more pleasing shape. But as SNL star Sarah Sherman proves in her first HBO comedy special, Live...

‘My Secret Santa’ Banks on a Good Star To Bring Home a Sappy Script

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If you've let the auto-play preview of My Secret Santa run on Netflix, congratulations, you've basically seen the entire movie. It's a simple, silly movie that is proof of concept I could have been playing Santa at my family's Christmas...

Trailer: Bob Odenkirk Stays in His Action Era in ‘Normal’

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Did you watch Nobody and Nobody 2 and think to yourself, "Gee, I know Bob Odenkirk is a gifted dramatic actor and a comedy legend, but I could watch him beating the crap out of goons forever"? Did you watch...

Okay, nobody has entered the beaver lodges to check for sewing machines - yet

[F]irst wild beaver spotted in Norfolk in 500 years and Wild beavers may have spread further than we realise:

It is not clear whether the Pensthorpe beaver, whose sex and age is unknown, was illegally released into the reserve by activists using a practice known as beaver bombing. It is possible it wandered of its own accord into the Wensum – an aquifer-fed chalk river whose name is derived from the Old English adjective for “wandering”.
“It could be a naturally dispersing wild beaver,” said Emily Bowen, a spokesperson for the Beaver Trust, a charity that aims to restore beavers to regenerate landscapes. She said that there were established wild populations in eight areas in England at the moment.
Wild beavers have also been spotted in Kent, Hampshire, Somerset, Wiltshire and Hereford, she said. Norfolk has some captive beavers but none have been reported missing.

Maybe it's a sinister beaver underground conspiracy....

And if we are talking aquatic mammals, see also otters: otters’ revival in Britain. Still rare only 20 years ago, the charismatic animals are in almost every UK river and a conservation success story.

White storks to be introduced to, believe it or not, Dagenham.

A rather different story: voyaging owls: Two burrowing owls stowed away on a cruise ship out of Miami, and are now living the high life at a Spanish resort before returning to the US next month. We think they may have been in flight from being a threatened species in Florida....

Zoe Saldaña in Chanel at the AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH Miami Special Screening: IN or OUT?

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We kind of like what Zoe Saldana wore to the Miami screening of Avatar: Fire and Ash, although we’re not sure if we actually like it on the merits or if we just appreciate that she’s been taking more risks with her style lately. After years of defaulting to the most generically minimal frocks she could get her hands on, she’s suddenly picking things with real shape and personality to them:

It’s funny. We’ve spent years proclaiming our dislike of black-backed florals but we can’t help thinking we’d like this more if it was a black dress. Something about the black, yellow and red embellishments look harsh to our eyes. It also feels like an odd dress for this time of year, although it’s certainly seasonally appropriate for Miami. The more we look at it, the more we realize that it’s everything below the knees that bug us. Those red flowers look like cheerleader pom poms. Still, it’s bold, bright and interesting, which is half the battle for any red carpet choice. Since these selections are dwindling as the holidays loom, this may be the last dress we get to put up to a vote this year, so let’s hear it:

Zoe Saldana’s Floral Explosion:

IN or OUT?

Style Credits:
– Chanel Dress Featuring a Deep V-neckline and Floral Embellishment from the Spring 2026 Collection
– Cartier Jewelry
Styled by Petra Flannery | Hair by Mara Roszak | Makeup by Vera Steimberg

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ABOUT THE MOVIE:
With “Avatar: Fire and Ash,” James Cameron takes audiences back to Pandora in an immersive new adventure with Marine turned Na’vi leader Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), Na’vi warrior Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña), and the Sully family. The film, which has a screenplay by James Cameron & Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver, and a story by James Cameron & Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver & Josh Friedman & Shane Salerno, also stars Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Oona Chaplin, Cliff Curtis, Britain Dalton, Trinity Bliss, Jack Champion, Bailey Bass and Kate Winslet.

[Photo Credit: John Parra/Getty Images for 20th Century Studios, chanel.com – Video Credit: Avatar/YouTube]

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