Intro Post

myshittyironmansideblog

Love that very bi man

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Subtext:

Literal text (notice the naked man in Tony’s bed):

A male (!) villain insinuating Tony can’t resist him (because of his “playboy” reputation, which is a big “hmm”):

This speaks for itself:

Tony waxes poetic about Steve’s attractiveness:

Actually Tony calls Steve handsome a lot; it’s kind of a thing:

Oh and that time Namor called out Tony for sleeping with Madame Masque (after Tony said she looked like Doctor Doom) and Tony trying to swerve the convo:

That time the media was openly suspecting Tony Stark was HIV positive (this is from a comic in 1992 when AIDs was still thought of as a disease that primarily afflicted gay/bisexual men):

… Just saying, the subtext (and even the text) has been there for a long-ass time. Tony’s dating profile being set to woman and men was just more evidence on top of the pile. 

myshittyironmansideblog

Tony is so obviously bi, T'Challa knew.

Even the evilness of Victor Von Doom isn’t enough to keep tony from acknowledging how handsome he is.

starkravinghazelnuts

More of Tony swooning over Doom (added by @i-gotta-go-good-day-bitch in the replies but i wanted to keep the ones above too). 

Also added by @i-gotta-go-good-day-bitch, implications Tony and Rhodey were/are more than friends:

And I forgot to add this classic. A gutter note during the development of Iron Man vol 3 implied Tiberius and Tony had slept together (given their relationship was very much portrayed like them having been exes, this isn’t a shocker). (Link to @whatjanesays‘s blog who originally posted these images)

“better roll” meaning “roll around the hay” (so saying sexual partner). The “Ru” here is talking about Rumiko Fujikawa (who, while broken up with Tony, slept with Tiberius). 

silverloke

Biron Man

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How about this:

image source | hat tip @takupaku

ssironstrange

somehow he got even more bi since this last went around. god bless

joetavis

BIRON MAN

raptor-claw

someone sedate this man.

prideandprejudice

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005) + Joe Wright’s DVD Commentary

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ALT

drew a constant mood on the mind

snowstories

My biggest tip for fanfic writers is this: if you get a character's mannerisms and speech pattern down, you can make them do pretty much whatever you want and it'll feel in character.

Logic: Characters, just like real people, are mallable. There is typically very little that's so truly, heinously out of character that you absolutely cannot make it work under any circumstance. In addition, most fans are also willing to accept characterization stretches if it makes the fic work. Yeah, we all know the villain and the hero wouldn't cuddle for warmth in canon. But if they did do that, how would they do it?

What counts is often not so much 'would the character do this?' and more 'if the character did do this, how would they do it?' If you get 'how' part right, your readers will probably be willing to buy the rest, because it will still feel like their favourite character. But if it doesn't feel like the character anymore, why are they even reading the fic?

Worry less about whether a character would do something, and more about how they'd sound while doing it.