#Felicity Drake

[hmslusitania]

I just think that Tim Drake, fan of both blondes and computers, would have a just absolutely life-ruining crush on Felicity Smoak if they existed in the same universe

[the-feral-gremlin]

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Does anoyone else recall these promo videos. I recently stumbled on them again and i can't pick a favourite. So I thought I'd see what you guys pick, which do you like most?

If you've never watched the promos you can find the vids below cut.

[blazethecheeto]

Things Arrow Characters Absolutely Have Said Pt. 7

Felicity: I was going to suggest we do Marilyn Monroe and JFK roleplay, but I’d get way too into it.

Oliver: What- how?

Felicity: You’d be like “come to bed … Mr. President” and I’d be like, “I need to increase the amount of American military advisors in South Vietnam by a factor of 18.”

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William: I drink to forget but I always remember...

Mia: You're drinking orange juice.

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Thea: I want to wake up with you every day for the rest of our lives.

Roy: I wake up at 4:30 AM every day to train.

Thea: I want to see you at some point every day for the rest of our lives.

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E-2 Laurel: How are you gonna carve a gigantic pumpkin?

Rene: The same way I make onion rings.

Rene: *grabs a chainsaw*

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Curtis: What if mayonnaise came in cans?

Felicity: Well that would suck because you can't microwave metal.

Oliver: Good morning to everyone except those two people.

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Dinah: If this plan goes down the drain, where should we regroup?

Rene: The afterlife, I guess.

[m-cristiny]

[wrightedgar]

[dinahlaurellancesource]

3.11 || 7.05

[admireforever]

Like Crazy

[takaraphoenix]

Family Trees of the Multiverse: Arrow Family

This was honestly such a headache. Oliver’s sired way too many kids with too many different women. As usual, color-coded to make it easier to see who exists within the same continuity; if it’s just black that means their existence is consistent, but if it specifies [Prime Earth] then that means the character was only introduce into the comics during the Prime Earth era (same goes for New Earth).

Colors, as following (though you’ll also see on the tree since I specify each continuity/Earth):

Prime Earth: black

New Earth: red

Arrowverse: green

Earth-11: light blue

Earth-16 [not the YJ cartoon; The Just comics]: pink

Earth 16 [the Young Justice cartoon]: brown

Earth-22: dark pink

Earth-49 [Injustice]: yellow

Earth-167 [Smallville TV show]: dark blue

Earth-203 [Birds of Prey TV show]: lavender

While I try not to double-portray - since most different versions of a character still align - the fact that Arrow already used Shado in another capacity and thus made Kazumi Adachi Emiko’s mother made me double on that, though I still think that she can be considered a version of comic!Shado.

Also, because this part looks messy even to me, regarding the Black Canaries. Dinah Laurel’s last name is usually Lance, these days Drake Lance (with the Lance being married-into for some reason), but in the BoP TV show, her last name was Redmond. Likewise, her mother’s name in the BoP TV show was Carolyn Lance, while New Earth’s continuity named her Dinah Drake and Prime Earth has, far as I could find out, not given her any name at all yet.

And though the YJ cartoon doesn’t come up otherwise, I did find it noteworthy that Bernell was confirmed to be Cissie’s father in the show, since her parentage appears to not have been brought up or confirmed either way in the Prime Earth era so far.

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Arrow through the years 🏹💚

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Not so easily swapped with and other thoughts on racebending

When it comes to racebending characters and the like, there are cases where they can’t be easily racebent. Consider how something like Death Note built on animism, as Japan is predominantly animist, that if you were to make all the characters Cameroonian you’d also have to change the underlying religious subtext as Cameroon has a substantial Christian population. You’d get Witch Note instead with Light and Misa using demonic familiars to get to where they are, committing acts of witchcraft so alarming that a detective like L is sent to investigate those cases. I have thoughts of racebending the Death Note characters, but transporting the characters to Cameroon involves adjusting them to its particular cultural and religious context.

A Mortal Kombat that’s actually made by Asians and Asian Americans would have a more intimate relationship with Asian cultures, histories and philosophies in a way regular Mortal Kombat would never have, it would also be a Mortal Kombat that’s much less orientalist as this would be built on the lived experiences of the programmers and game developers supposing if they’re actually Asian or Asian American themselves. The Superman stories, with its immigrant undertones, would turn out very differently if its creators were indigenous Americans. Turning Superman into somebody who’s indigenous American effectively undoes or cancels the character’s association with immigration, especially if you have entire communities indigenous to the Americas for centuries and even millennia.

I’m pretty much addressing stories and characters where they can’t be easily race-swapped due to the underlying cultural contexts they take place in, especially if it’s particular to certain communities and cultures that can’t be easily exported onto others. Then there are characters that are rarely ever racebent, not necessarily so much due to an intrinsic quality, but rather certain communities and people project a lot onto them. Racebending Felicity Smoak is far less common than racebending Jason Todd and Tim Drake, in part because so many white women project themselves onto her that makes racebending her usually unexplored in fandom. It would also make a canonically racebent Felicity even more controversial because they project a lot onto her.

Or for another matter, Superman, where there’s a tendency to uphold him and his cousin as white American in a way Pete Ross, Lana Lang, Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen don’t get to be. They could easily be European immigrants and still be accepted as American, which is kind of racist not just to nonwhite immigrants but also to indigenous Americans themselves. And why reimagining Superman to be indigenous is practically impossible given the context and how white people project themselves a lot onto Superman and Supergirl. There was one Japanese American actor who played Superman before, but he’s the exception to the rule.

So in Superman’s case it’s a combination of something intrinsic to how he’s conceived that can’t be easily adapted to indigenous communities and also white people projecting a lot onto him, so sometimes certain characters can’t be easily racebent due to these two factors working together. It is possible but not particularly easy and smooth.

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Arrow on Facebook: before their families chased them off of social media

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I find these two episodes of Arrow to be the most nail bitting and intense viewing experiences, which is more intense for you?

[blazethecheeto]

Things Arrow Characters Absolutely Have Said Pt. ???

Siren: *Screams*

Dinah: *Screams louder to assert dominance*

Felicity: Should we do something?!

Oliver, observing: No, I want to see who wins this.

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Dinah: Why can't any of you ever clean up after yourselves?

Rene: I have a person who does that for me.

Dinah: Yeah, ME.

Rene: I'm glad you agree.

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Siren: How do I make a date really romantic?

Oliver: Be mysterious.

Siren: Okay.

*later, while on a date with Felicity*

Felicity: So where are we going?

Siren: None of your fucking business.

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Oliver, bleeding out on the ground: Blood loss? No, I know exactly where it is.

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Diggle: God, give me patience.

Rene: I think you mean 'give me strength'.

Diggle: If God gave me strength, you'd be dead.

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Felicity: Blackmail is such an ugly word. I prefer extortion. The X makes it sound cool.

[m-cristiny]

Arrow 🏹

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Happy Birthday Anton Yelchin!

Born March 11, 1989

Died June 19, 2016 (27)