Marvel Rants

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Ok, can I just say something? Who came up with the Starker ship? I just... I just don't understand.

I can't comprehend how someone took the beautiful father-son relationship between Tony and Peter and twisted it to make Tony a pedophile.

I know this is random and judgmental but it's just so disgusting and frustrating to be looking through Iron Dad fan art and see one you think is super sweet until you see the caption and realize what the person was thinking about.

Peter is a flipping teenager and there is nothing about his and Tony's relationship that says anything but father-son.

I just hate that everyone makes everything romantic anymore to the point of making Tony Stark a pedophile instead of someone who took a kid who'd lost both of the father-figures in his life under his wing and basically adopted him as his own son.

It's like people can't comprehend anything but romance anymore, no matter how messed up that makes something. It starts with refusing to accept something like the fact that Clint is married and he and Nat are best friends and nothing more, and then it escalates to THIS.

I don't know. It just makes me mad, I guess. I know it isn't real and people are going to make characters do messed up things and misread relationships and everything else and there's nothing we can do to stop them, but I just...

Marvel really means something to me, and I know there are so many people who feel the same way. And the Iron Dad relationship was what really made me fall in love with Tony as a character... It made me look back one his entire character arch and just really see him the way he is. Furthermore, Spider-Man Homecoming was what really made me fall in love with the MCU. And a HUGE part of that was Tony and Peter in that movie.

These movies get me through a lot, okay? Reading and writing fanfiction and watching YouTube videos about them and watching them over and over and over again... It lets me escape from so much.

And I would have never found that place without Tony and Peter, because I never would have fallen in love with the MCU without Tony and Peter.

Their dynamic... It just... It means so much to me. It connects with something inside of me like little else... Bucky and Steve's friendship is similar, and I'm probably going to write a rant about it soon, but like I said... I wouldn't have ever gotten here without Tony and Peter, so can people just... Stop corrupting it like this.

So I guess I'm just very protective of their relationship, and I hate it when people twist it in any way. Just like my rant from the other night.

And Starker... It's like the pinnacle of that. Of one of the purest relationships you'll find in any movie ever, and then you do that to it. It doesn't just ruin the relationship... It ruins the characters. And that's why it kills me so much.

So I'm sorry... That was a lot, and it was pretty random, but I just had to get it out.