I found a Tony Stark

I decided I like this icon because you can see Tony, he's working, he's creating something, and all his brilliance is showing. The whole glowy heart thing is an easy metaphor but it works. And with his hand glowing too it looks like he's catching hold of something, like when he's working on the hologram displays, like he's got an idea in his hand ready to be made real. But it's also ready to blow shit up. So, all the parts.


I've been thinking about what I'm looking for in Avengers fic and something I read for college about how a lot of stories are about making us look for solutions in the idea of the good master. Like, if there are bad masters, we don't look for systemic wrongs, we don't think hey maybe we should get rid of masters, we just invent the ideal master, and then write romance about them to make it all kinds of desirable. I don't know, I read it a bunch of time ago, I can't find it now, but that's how I remember it.

So, what is it about the Avengers that is desirable? ( Read more... )