#I’ve never thought abt that before

[galaxy---ghost]

Halbarry Week Day 7: Free Day

Haley Jordan & Betty Allen

[deathishauntedbyhumans]

WAIT i’m. oh man.

in the new timeline. fred’s name is still fred. there’s NO reason for this bc he wasn’t raised by fred jones sr and he wasn’t named fred jones jr. his last name is, presumably, chiles or some hyphenated chiles-reeves situation. but everyone is still calling him fred. the doylist explanation for this is obviously that they didn’t want to change his whole-ass name bc he’s a very well-known cartoon character and that would be one helluva schtick to pull in the last 5 minutes of the show. HOWEVER. as a watsonian explantion: do you think brad and judy named him after fred sr anyway? he would have been their teacher… if he had a strong positive impact on them, maybe in the new timeline he’s still named after his not-dad, too :’)

[toytle]

Hi! I love your art style it's like. Breathtaking. And your hcs on barry are some of my favourites of all time?

What do you think of "The Ballad of Barry Allen by Jim's Big Ego as an analysis of Barry's character?

are you asking or are you telling me 🤨 lol THANK YOU i put all my headcanon power into him <3

for the ballad, i love their song stress, and this isn’t bad at all as far as fansongs go. but there’s a reason i don’t include it in my barry playlist, and it’s ultimately bc it doesn’t fit my narrative haha

the song was made in 2003 and i haven’t read many comics before then, so idk how well it aligns w barry’s characterization prior to flashpoint, but i’m basing my playlist off post-flashpoint, so that’s where a lot of the differences will lie

for starters, the song only includes one half of barry’s relationship to his superspeed, and it’s important to me that a barry interpretation includes both sides of that coin. instead, it’s playing on the idea of the dark side of the hero fantasy, an inherently optimistic genre. which, fair, being a superhero sounds like a nightmare, but that angle is less novel to me when that’s the extent of the analysis (and i’m a little over the whole “i hate being a superhero” storyline in general, personally). the song is basically abt how much it would suck to have superspeed bc the world slows to a crawl and you’re left behind bc no one else can keep up w you. and it’s true, that is a very real setback! especially for someone like barry who’s already prone to self-isolation and time management issues! but what does the song actually have to say abt him as a character?

the thing is, barry isn’t a “i wish i wasn’t a hero” kind of guy. he’s a “could i be so strong [to give up the flash]? or do i love the thrill of these powers too much?” kind of guy. he’s a “knowing what i know now… if i could go back in time… maybe i would’ve been somewhere else the day lightning struck my lab and electrified those chemicals, ready and willing to forfeit a life of dodging deathtraps and battling villains… who am i kidding? there’s no going back. no do-overs. like everyone else, superheroes can only follow the path destiny has laid out for them, whatever lies ahead.” kind of guy. yes, barry is caged by his superspeed, but it would be misleading to not present it first and foremost as the very thing that frees him. it’s a double-edged sword that gives him purpose, and that freedom in obligation is what motivates him to keep going. as a wise man once said, “all you can do is go forward.” (“thanks.��� “superman is pretty smart isn’t he.” “hm.”)

i think the real kicker for me was this lyric: “i’ve got time to think about the past… how my life was so exciting before i got this way.” my sincerest apologies to mr. allen, but he does not feel complete to me without his mother’s death or his father’s false imprisonment. this backstory contextualizes everything for me. his life was NOT exciting before his superspeed, it was lonely and full of escapism, either in his sci-fi/comics or his dedication to finding justice. i am of the belief that barry didn’t truly start living until he got his superspeed, over 2 decades of waiting around before he rly understood freedom and what it meant to live for himself. i get what they’re trying to do here, but this is what i mean when i say it feels like the song characterizes barry around the concept of his speed rather than how barry’s speed defines him as a person

ik i can’t expect a 4min song to include every aspect of a character’s timeline/development/nuance (esp before some of that even existed lol), but my issue isn’t that it doesn’t cover enough ground—it’s not bad that they had a theme and stuck by it, i actually love the lyrics from a speedster perspective. my issue is that i don’t think this is a good framing for barry’s character as a whole. for all his regrets and suffering, barry is optimistic to the point of denial. choosing this to be The theme to represent barry just. doesn’t feel like barry to me. it’s more like barry is the placeholder subject as an excuse to sing abt superspeed

if this was somehow less overtly a “BARRY ALLEN FANSONG” and maybe more metaphorical or even non-fandom, then it would be a dif situation and i might have dif opinions. at the end of the day, this has more to do w my pickiness than the quality of the song, and the fact that it even exists is so exciting for me as a barry allen enjoyer first, human second. but if you’re going to call smth a character study, i Will be getting my hopes up

[snoopysfriendwoodstock]

does the rest of the us have any opinions on minneapolis at all?

[sadiecoocoo]

Okay this is the first time I’ve hyperfixated on Star Wars since I’ve gotten tumblr and you guys are gonna make me hyper focus on any scene with Cody and obiwan

I thank you all for this

[abigail]

btw besties !!! i did meet my favourite musician and he did write the thing for me that i wanna get as a tattoo :-) yippie !!! ♡ ♡ ♡

[sammygender]

im new here- is dean abusive?

imo yeah. smarter people than me have written dissections of the way he treats sam & others (he’s also Awful to his psuedo-son jack, but i haven’t gotten to that season yet), i’ve probably reblogged a bunch of them.

he certainly doesn’t mean to be & i don’t say it to condemn him as a person or as a character & i’m still very attached to him & he loves sam very much (not that that makes a difference in whether u abuse someone or not) - but the way he treats sam a lot/some of the time is emotionally abusive and sam is clearly badly impacted. s4 and s8 come to mind as his worst moments also ofc moc era - after that there’s less interpersonal conflict (up to where i am at least) but that’s because sam mostly stops disagreeing with dean not because dean actually gets much better <3 spn is cycles of abuse show after all. family is hell. dean’s learnt pretty much everything about how to behave from his abusive father and as a result. well. cycle continues

[frogatz]

monthly calypsoworld tag ramble :]

[wundrousarts]

Some theories, thoughts, and answers to questions that are in the works that I need to attempt to write out sometime, but probably won’t until I eventually reread Hollowpox on my eternal reread:

What led Squall to try and revolt? Was it a decision by himself, with others, or was there a third party involved? What is true and what isn’t?

What is the fallout and aftermath of Mog’s actions at Courage Square, and what might her future as a budding Wundersmith in Nevermoor look like?

Christmas Eve: is it a Distraction, is there a Ghostly Hour involved, is it related to the Massacre, and how could it relate to modern Nevermoorian religion and Squall’s exile and Eventide activities?

Maud: does she have a knack or some sort of power, how and when does she use it, what is her dynamic with Squall based on, and why is he so scared of her?

Miscellaneous Silverborn Masterpost additions, on a rolling basis as I (or anyone else!) thinks of things.

[dreamertrilogys]

hi yes sorry i’m back temporarily (again) (un)fortunately the blogging spirit seems to be unkillable. anyway i was thinking abt whether i should remake b4 i start uni next yr but see the issue w that is then who’ll like all my posts when i start uni man i’ll need support from my mutuals then..

[seventh-district]

so uh. that 2.2 Special Program, huh

[danothan]

coming to terms w the fact that i might have to be a fake hal fan forever

[abnormalpsychology]

thrilling sequel to my poll from back in January

[jackienautism]

i’m tired of being silent. please please please i can’t be the ONLY person on this goddamn planet who can’t fuckijg stand dylan

[astrababyy]

Re: Rhys gloating: It’s actually so in character for him to do this because all of his actions canonically are to rile up Tamlin. Literally I can’t think of a single decision he’s made that doesn’t directly link back to Tamlin somehow. I’m fully convinced that if SJM decides to kill off Tamlin, that’ll be the end of the series because Rhys will no longer have any motivation—winning over Tamlin.

Lmaoo. Rhysand truly is low key obsessed with Tamlin. I don’t mean this in a mean way to you, anon, but the way you word it — which is true tbh — just brings me back to that crack ship Tamsand or however it’s spelt. Rhysand fixates on Tamlin sooo much. He’s genuinely so obsessed with making this man’s life miserable.

Like, he just wants Tamlin’s attention sooo bad. He wants this man all for himself. That’s the real reason he did all of it, guys. Poor Rhysie just wants his Tammy’s love and affection. He’ll be so broken if Tamlin dies. He’s just so misunderstood 🥺

On a more serious note though…

Maybe Rhysand feels like he has something to prove. We know that Rhysand does feel guilty for a lot of his actions over the years, but it’s kind of like he can’t bring himself to stop. He can’t put himself in the mindset of a person that’s trying to be better than that.

And that could be why he’s got this obsession with proving how much better he is than Tamlin — especially with the whole thing about riling him up. Proving that Tamlin will snap back, get angry and violent is like vindication for him. It proves that there’s someone worse or smth. Idk. I could never really get into his character so idk his mindset or personality that well.

On another note, with Tamlin in the series (I think @/worldsnotsaid has talked about this before), he’s used so much as a narrative punching bag that without him around the story won’t have anyone to compare the characters to. It’s kind of like “yeah, this character sucks but at least he’s not as bad as tampon over here” yk?

[strawbubbysugar]

Skipping an update for tomorrow bc I had a super long day- zucker got sucked into a gelatinous cube, etc etc, you get it