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relevantlyirreverent:

vengerturtle:

“Jarvis’s holographic keyboard designs were replete with exotic symbols and undefined characters. Meinerding adapted keyboard characters from sources as diverse as mythology and electrical engineering figures…The net result of such subtleties reinforces that the mind of Tony Stark is so advanced that he and Jarvis are essentially speaking to each other in a language uniquely their own.” - The Art of Iron Man

Is it weird that I think Jarvis and Tony have a really beautiful relationship? I think everyone gets attached to their electronics (especially when they break) but Tony created Jarvis and probably gives him more of his attention then he does any other creature in existence. That’s Tony’s baby.

It’s beautiful… and delightful when compared with the comics’ Edwin Jarvis character…

sirdefnesaur:

So. This panel.
For movieverse shippers who won’t recognize the context, this is powerless!Steve and his on-and-off-but-currently-on girlfriend, Sharon. Steve has reverted back to his pre-serum form, and he believes it’s because he’s lost faith in America, in The People, in the serum, in himself.
Tony and Sharon are trying to get to the bottom of what took out Steve’s serum.
Here, we see Sharon return from a battle with some weird robot guy that I won’t get into, with the answer to why Steve has reverted back.
Which is great, really, every girlfriend a guy or girl could wish for.
Except how she puts it.
I know how to fix you. Fix you.
As if he’s broken. As if he’s a problem in need of a resolution. baby!Steve can’t be Captain America, he’s (obviously) physically incapable of being Captain America, but baby!Steve is every bit a part of him that Captain America is.
Here, we have Steve doubting himself and his abilities, which is quite normal for a superhero. Srsly, if you don’t doubt yourself at least a dozen times before breakfast, you haven’t met enough galactic overlords. 
I’m just saying: Steve doubts himself, okay. But his girlfriend confirming exactly what he’s feeling?
I know how to fix you?

On the other hand, Tony Stark.

Concern, instead of like hey, you’re useless this way we gotta fix you.

and then.

Here, have some Tony purposefully going to find Steve and reassuring him when he can’t reassure himself. See that tablet in his hand? You think he went looking for Steve to give him updates on the test results, right? So did I. Nope, he’s just there  to give Steve the kind of comfort his girlfriend isn’t giving him.
Speaking of, you sleep in the same bed as Steve Rogers and you don’t notice when he shrinks in the middle of the night? Like, what even. If I slept in the same bed as Steve holyshit Rogers I’d be a freaking octopus. I’d know when he breathed at the wrong angle, let alone reverted to half his size and then back again.
Point is, Tony not only knows what Steve’s struggling with, he’s the only one who tries to convince him that he hasn’t lost faith. The nanothings cause the change, Steve’s doubt might cost him his faith in himself. Sharon goes for the nanobots, Tony goes for Steve.
And one last thing.



Our Steve. Oh, Tony, you’re not very subtle.

“Steve holyshit Rogers.”  Yes.  Amazing.

Also, Tony Stark, with all his fronting and all of his inner demons and personal issues… seems to frequently be the only person to believe in other people when they are down or when others have lost their faith in them.

Here, it’s Steve in comic-verse.  With Avengers movie-verse, it’s Banner.

So is Tony the glue that would bind the Stark Spangled Banner?  You know, I wouldn’t have thought so before this.

(Source: sirdef)

lolprincemicah:

ishouldbebritish:

dederants:

hemostcertainlywillnot:

madetoruleyou:

Excuse the fuck out of me.

Some of us live in places where the only place you can buy comics is Barnes and Noble.

Some of us don’t like comics because of the decades of continuity, complicated multiple universes, and the fact that, while there is a huge amount of talent in the industry, there are countless comics that have been tainted by poor writing and artwork.

Some of us prefer films because it is more relevant to our interests.

Some of us don’t have the income or time to spare to enjoy comics.

You don’t need to have read the comics to appreciate or be a fan of a character.

This attitude of superiority from people who are “real fans” because they read the comics makes me rage so hard.

Maybe people would be more eager to read comics if comic fans were more inclusive.

Oh, you wanna throw in “You can’t like Loki because you never read the old Norse runes.”, too?

It’s a matter of taste. Personally, I’ve never enjoyed reading comic books because I find them to be a) too expensive, b) hard to come by, and c) too complicated for me to understand what with all the new timelines, multiverses etcetera. It’s just not my cup of tea. I try to read as much as I can, but when I do, it’s usually stand alone graphic novels that exist in “their own universe”.

Saying “you’re not a real fan because you haven’t read the comics” is like telling someone “you can’t like banana ice cream because you’ve never tried bananas”. Oh, I’m sorry, never mind then, I’ll just stop liking this character, because clearly you’re much better than me since you’ve read the comic books. Do you want a parade, too? Maybe a monument? A T-shirt that says “I LIKED IT FIRST”? It’s just silly, and this kind of behaviour angers me so much. There’s no prize, you don’t win or gain anything by putting others down, so please, just don’t. It will only make you look silly in front of millions of fans who appreciate the character and story. Plus make you look like a huge ass.

Where I grew up, there were no comic book shops, nor could I find any at the local library. But I liked to read Belgian and French bande dessinée (comics), like Astérix, Tintin and Les Schtroumpfs. Some of you elitist comic book fans probably enjoyed the Smurfs as kids, right? Or liked to read Tintin’s adventures? Well, if you didn’t read those comics in French, clearly you aren’t real fans, because the original is in French, and only those who read the original are true fans, and those who like adaptations better are not, right? There. Have some of your bullshit.

^ to the creator of this post and everyone that has reblogged. There are too many people that feel they are more “real” fans just cause they have “read the very originals” or some bullshit like that. 8C /rage

Yeahhh.  I knew of the comics, knew some of the characters, but I never had the money as a kid or later to collect them, so why bother reading one in every 150 when the stories wouldn’t make sense?  Comic book stores aren’t libraries, they don’t really like it if you stand in there for hours reading comics you can’t buy.

And libraries where I was then didn’t HAVE comic books.  Not real ones.

I have a few Batman and Star Wars universe comics from back in the day… maybe a Spiderman.  But I just never plugged into a subculture of comic fandom. *shrugs*  I watched some of the cartoons, too, but didn’t sit in front of the TV all day.

I have always had a thing for Norse myth, and Loki has been my favorite mythological character for ages, but I don’t consider myself any more of a Loki fan than someone who didn’t know that name existed until “Thor” or “Avengers” came out.  It’s simply part of the myriad reasons I happen to like the character.  If Susie and Tommy Joe read the comics, then that’s part of THEIR reasons to happen to like the character.

In the words of Tom Hiddleston, the actor who PLAYED Loki (teehee, like you don’t know, Tumblr…), “Having compassion for a character is no different than having compassion for another human being.”

You don’t have to know every scrap of information ever written about or said about a person to feel things about / for them, do you?  No. 

Same with characters.  *nod*

Oh, and there ARE Loki fanBOYS, too, people.

chocolateisforever:

What if Loki had his “Ultimate Loki” suit on in the Avengers?? :D

(This thought firstly popped in my head when Tom Hiddleston posted this pic of Marvel’s Ultimate Loki on his twitter as one of his inspirations for the role: http://twitter.com/#!/twhiddleston/media/slideshow?url=pic.twitter.com%2Fo44Pqivv )

But guys. THIGH HIGH BOOTS.

SERIOUSLY NOW.

BLAHAHAHAH…, omg… that image.  “Ultimate Loki”… Omg.  Hiddles, you are amazing.

And you, too, Choco.

Because Loki’s got ice in his SOUL.

And because stick figures are fun. :D