#I'm watching because I love Barry and I love Grant and I need to know how it ends but t I'm just so disappointed

[winchester-with-wings]

The final season of The Flash has been so disappointing...

There have been some small moments, I’ll admit that. It was great to see Oliver in tonight’s episode, a great callback to the origin of the Arrowverse! But aside from that, season nine has been so...ick?...bleh...UGH!

It feels like the writers were just phoning it in and didn’t care anymore about how the show--and ultimately the Arrowverse--ended and I think it’s a true disservice to the fans.

Characters we love are being written off or killed off, and then forgotten about. Caitlin died off-screen and no one grieved her. Joe left town but they didn’t want to write off Cecille, so they have a weird arrangement for a couple raising a little girl. 

Little to no effort to acknowledge characters from previous seasons like Cisco. No one ever talks about him even though he and Barry were so close. Why the hell wouldn’t he be at their baby shower or Barry’s 30th birthday?!

Introducing characters that we won’t even have time to get to know or care about like Khione.

The Red Death storyline was terrible with bad writing and bad acting.

Random villains we barely remember keep showing up. Seriously I have look them up because this show was never really good with “Previously On...” recaps

A ridiculous “will they/won’t they/who cares” between Chester and Allegra

Cameos from side characters from the Arrowverse, instead of committing to bring in the bigger characters. Like bringing in Nia but not Kara. And Diggle has been dropping in on all the shows as if they’re teasing a spin-off or something. Was he going to be the Green Lantern at some point? WTF?

Finally...Failure to follow through on the Hall of Justice. seriously...if this is the end of the official Arrowverse, they should’ve used this opportunity to tie things up. “Superman & Lois” is doing well but they haven’t relied heavily on the Arrowverse tie-ins. “Legends of Tomorrow” was canceled with a freaking cliffhanger. Honestly...”Stargirl” seemed like it was taking place on another Earth but it did a better job of honoring the Justice Society of America in their last episode, than Arrowverse was with the Hall of Justice.

UGH! I’m just so frustrated! I’ve never been so disappointed in a show I’ve followed and loved from the beginning. It almost makes me feel like I wasted my time watching and loving this show....all for the network and writers to put out a final season that shows they have no idea how it was supposed to end and now it just needs to be put out of it’s misery.

[jasntodds]

I really liked titans portrayal of Gotham city and the Gotham tv series portrayal of the city, and this may sound ridiculous to say but at least for my liking there is not enough Gotham in the batman movies I get that the focus is on batman and whatever loon he's facing but giving some deeper focus to the nitty gritty and utter strangeness of the city and 'average' Gotham citizens is something that I just require lol

I really did not know all that, oh my gosh you're telling me we are legit not gonna see that little bastard (said with such affection) Jason todd version ever ever again because one dude wants his universe to be the only one!?- that is some playground level nonsense and honestly with this many characters and this many storyline possibilities it is just unfair not to make a bunch of universes and that way fans can pick and choose which ones they wanna follow. Like I know some people didn't like the arrowverse (I fucking loved it) but if there's different options you don't have to watch the one you don't like cuz it's not the only one available y'know

Bruce killed the Joker for Jason (that is so huge) heaven above let titans live on for a little bit 😢 a redhood spin off with him attempting to clean up his own mental state and Gotham city with Barbara's help and we could've gotten to see more gotham villians heck Tim could have been included here and there in it cuz he's Robin now, bestie I wanna pull my hair out. And the fight scenes in titans was like near netflix Daredevil level beauty, the brutality shown in some characters (ahem dick and jason) contrasted with how you know that they're good inside that their heart is in the right place (esp dick) but you can visibly see the brokenness

I'm just getting back into titans now, it took forever where I am for season 4 to come on netflix and I still haven't watched s4 yet (I did skip all the way til nearly the end just to watch the episode with redhood lol but oh my seeing Tim be robin was cool)

I kinda really need to see Jason dealing with what he did to poor Hank (hank was one of my favs I cannot believe he didn't get to just nicely retire with dawn 😢)

Okay no but you're right!! I started rewatching Gotham like 2 weeks ago actually lmao and the pure joy the cutscenes bring me just because the city looks so GOOD is insane hjdgfkdh Both Gotham and Titans did a really good job at showing how gritty and gloomy Gotham is while also allowing it feel very organic and completely normal for everyone living there. (like the Titans being a little confused with Gotham stuff happening but you have Dick, Jason, and Babs just rolling with the punches). Tbh I think every Batman related movie/show needs to show the city more like Titans and Gotham because I think showing how Gotham IS explains a lot of why Bruce and the rest of the batfam and villains are the way they are

Nope!! I'm assuming we'll see a version of Jason and Dick (at the very least) at some point but they won't be Titans versions and won't be the same actors. LITERALLY WHAT I'M SAYING!!!! I physically do not care what his role is. He shouldn't be able to just be the only one (again same goes for Marvel). But yes exactly!!!!! Like if there are different universes with a bunch of content for all of them, then like................that's more money?? lmao At the end of the day, studios like making money and if there is only one universe and 1 version of the characters, like you said, some people won't want any part of it because they won't like it. But, if there's another universe for them to watch, they might like that one!!! I have NO desire to watch The Flash movie and it kind of ruins it because actor. But, the show?? It's one of my favorites and I loved Grant Gustin as Barry and Keiynan Lonsdale as Wally jkdfhgkdj (I mean the whole cast of the show tbh is so good). I know James Gunn probably thinks it'll work because he worked for Marvel and it worked for them but DC isn't Marvel lmao AND IT SHOULDN'T BE. DC should be different, that's what makes it fun but having to watch 30 fucking movies to understand shit is not fun when I don't like Miller or Momoa or the kid from Santa Clarita Diet who's gonna be in the Superman movie please I don't wanna watch THOSE to watch the shit I want to see (Blue Beetle, I will watch you soon). I wanna watch Titans lmao

OMG BUT TIM WAS SUPPOSED TO BE APART OF THE SPIN-OFF 😭😭😭 That's part of why I'm so angry. Jason is my favorite batfam member, immediately followed by Tim. And those two don't get along often in comics so ya know, the show was NICE and the spinoff could have been EVEN BETTER. (I also just adore Jay as Tim. He will also be MY Tim Drake). I could actually write a whole think piece of morality of Dick and Jason IN Titans lmao because yes the fight scenes were ALWAYS so good (I love the one in the alley in season 1 episode 1 with Dick as Robin idk and Dick and Jason's fight in the words in season 3 episode 4) but yeah no they did such a good job with showing how they can pull their punches but also fight to the death if they really need to but that doesn't make either of them bad. For both of them, it's about the greater good and they just have different viewpoints of what that means because they're both absolutely fucked up (which is also great because it goes the same in the comics and it makes them SO MUCH more interesting as characters). It shows no one is all good and no one is all bad.

jfghdfgfh omg it took so long!!!!! I hope you enjoy season 4!! It definitely wasn't as good as 2 or 3 imo but it was fun!! Episode 9 is really good!! I still smile like an idiot whenever I think about that episode with Jason lmao Tim finally gets his Robin suit thinking he's hot shit and Jason's like "Dude is gonna get his dumbass fucking killed LOL". Episode lives rent-free in my mind forever

Same though!! I need to know like what he did ?? Did he reach out to Dawn to offer an apology?? Did Tim tell Jason he met Hank when he died?? I don't know how he'd ever get over the guilt but I'd love to see the angst that could have brought us!! I wasn't a huge Hank fan but I was still jaw on the floor shocked when it happened and I felt so bad for him skdfh like poor Hank he didn't deserve to be exploded

[lightninggavemeabs]

S1E1 commentary cuz why tf not

okay who fucking knows if I'll keep up with this but I want to try it.

Season 1 is one of my absolute favorites, I think the storytelling is exceptional and it really set the foundation for the rest of the show. I've rewatched this so many times because I love it to death. I mean, right from the beginning. That intro sticks in people's heads. It's iconic. We see the flash running impossibly fast, and then cut to barry running pathetically slow. It's perfect.

The characterization of Barry Allen is subtle and immediate. We immediately get to see him interact with his coworkers, his superiors, in a way that shows his personality perfectly. He's clumsy, but brilliant enough to be kept around. He's a hard worker when he's not totally distracted. He's also a little bit goofy.

There's also the interaction between Iris and him in the lab where he tells her she looks amazing and for like half a second he has this disappointed look on his face that tells the audience everything they need to know and it's really a testament to Grant Gustins talent that we could get that information about their relationship in like two seconds.

Then of course we get Wellses speech, which I feel needs to commentary. We also get to watch our protagonist, our hero, fail to stop a crime. He gets his ass kicked and it's fun! Because we know what happens next, or most of us do.

It really amazes me how much of the storytelling in this show is dead silent. Barry walking around his lab, alone, listening to the news, looking at his murder mystery board, only for lightning to strike. It's the night that changes his life but it seems so innocuous.

And then we meet Caitlyn/Cisco who I immediately fall in love with because he's playing Lady Gaga for that guy in a coma that's just around?? for months??

And then when Barry's discovering his powers and he just starts running super fast through the city and crashes into some van? Not to mention: there is canonically a random laundry guy who knows who the Flash is. He saw Barry run and he saw his face. Really the most goated character because he doesn't say shit.

Also, there's the

Barry: You seem kinda depressed

Caitlin: because I am

it's something that definitely should make me laugh but I always have a little chuckle at it because it's like Barry, you dumbass.

I really love the music that's playing when Mardon shows Barry his powers.

Joe West ranting about how Henry killed Nora because he's so certain that nobody has any weird magical powers is so painful to watch sometimes, especially when Eddie comes up and confirms Mardon's alive immediately afterward. Yikes.

"You're not a hero, you're just a young man who was struck by lightning" - Wells Season 1

Okay, fuck these police officers who let a child sneak in and see his mother's corpse you're doing a bad job. Also, Joe is like, guess I'm a father of two now (oof)

And then the cut to him talking to the Arrow, because obviously he needs a mentor.

And the "Cool." "Cool." it's so lovely.

also "I am god" "Shut the hell up" IMPECCABLE

convinently knocking eddie out so Joe can learn about Barry's abilities. That was a plot concussion.

"he can do it, I know he can do it" because Cisco has always been Barry's biggest fan. Right from the beginning, he believed in the Flash. Do you think he knew what the flash would someday become?

and everyone smiling in the control room once mardon's dead. beautiful.

joe, with tears in his eyes, apologizing for not believing Barry for all those years, truly breaks my heart. Joe West, dadliest of dads. The conversation between Barry and Henry, too, is completely heartbreaking. Henry saying that Barry needs to stop worrying about him and live. It's beautiful.

"I've made some new friends" YEAH YOU HAVE BARRY.

and of course we end on the obligatory 'harrison wells is not who he seems' scene. this whole season is basically this happening. we also get our first glimpse of THE newspaper. this episode is an incredible start to an incredible season.

I think i'll do one of these on every episode i feel deserves one. I don't know how many that will be., Anyway I'm going to go try baking bread. See yall :)

[donotcallmeelsa]

@ofheroicspeedster

{I felt a crippling level of guilt right now as I stood here in front of Barry. Barry was right... We never lied to each other. He was the one person I could always tell anything to, but this situation felt different. I was afraid to tell him the truth because I didn't want him to look at me like I was a monster. I was scared... I didn't know what was happening to me, and I had a sinking feeling that me saying the words aloud would ruin all of our lives. Then today happened, and I saw Barry was in danger so I acted... My frozen alter ego appeared in order for me to save Barry's life from that meta. The fear of something happening to Barry trumped my fears of letting him see what I was becoming. In the end though, Barry looked at me like I was a monster, and I realized my initial fear had become a reality. All that to say, I was leaving Central City... I didn't necessarily know where I was going to go, but I knew I needed to get as far away from here as possible. Barry stopped me though before I could cross over the city line, which left us standing here in front of each other now. It felt like we were at an impasse. Barry was mad at me for keeping this secret from him, and I still felt like a monster. What if I accidentally hurt Barry or Cisco because I couldn't control my powers? I wondered in dread as I watched Barry close the gap between us, and then I felt his hand take a gentle hold of my wrist. By now my own hands were shaking... I was afraid of what all of this meant. Would I become a threat to the people I love the most? Would I end up needing to be locked up on that island Oliver Queen sent metas who wreaked havoc on others? I wondered in building concern as I heard Barry's offer to help me} Barry, what if I can't control it? What if I end up hurting you or Cisco? I could never live with myself if something happened to either one of you because of me. {I admitted. All of this playing into the reason why I was so afraid to tell them the truth about me. Grant it, I had planned to tell Barry today when we were having coffee, but then the meta attack happened and my plan basically went to hell, you could say} For the record, I'm sorry you found out the way you did. I had planned to tell you during our coffee this morning, but then that meta attacked, and nearly killed you, so I couldn't just sit back and do nothing. I knew the risk I was taking by you finding out that way, but protecting you from further injury or worse was the risk. {I confessed as my heart was beating rapidly. I just wish there was a way to fix me so I wouldn't have these meta powers at all}

@donotcallmeelsa

We save innocents; but how come it’s harder to save those we care about. The ones we love. 

Barry Allen he was the fastest man alive. He had no limits. He would race against time, alter the universe in order to protect his own future and those he loved. He wasn’t the same dork he was years ago. He had a big heart; someone who was willing to sacrifice himself. For the greater good. He was hero in his own nature. He worked daily as a Forensic Scientist. He was the guy that found the answers; the dug through the scut; the finger marks, he was the one that had to solve the mystery. Not that it was a humor that he always needed to save others in danger when he wasn’t strong enough. He wasn't fast enough to save his own mother; the night that haunted him to this day. The yellow lights; the red flashes that consumed him. Barry was a saver, he tended to lean into the hero methods. He had formed a family within Star Labs since he became the impossible, the remarkable the Flash. The man that ran faster than life. He had people he called family outside of Joe and Iris. Cisco was his man; the man that came up with the name. The look; the red suit that I wore each night or day when crime came knocking on my door. I was consumed with the heroics. But I also noticed the people around me. I noticed that Caitlin had been silent, she’d been shaky as they say. 

We were friends; but I could tell she was hiding a secret. What secret I had asked myself a billion of times. But each time I tried to fumble my words out to ask I felt frozen on the spot. I felt like my heels had hit the ground and instead I just nodded lamely. I realized I couldn’t be a helping hand if the redhead wasn’t able to let me in herself. She’d been a helping hand for me; through my years of being a hero. I was okay because of her. Which is why last night when I was laying in bed I impulsively sent a text. One I thought but never thought I’d send. It was asking for coffee; a meet up this morning. 

Was I nervous? Yeah but not because I liked Caitlin in a more friendly manner. It was because I felt uncertain for the first if she’d show. If she’d want to be seen here today. I could feel her pain; that she was hurting. All I wanted to do was help her. But I was left in the dark. I had changed rather quickly this morning; into a plain blue shirt; and jeans. Casual as I paced the sidewalk leading into jitters; a place of comfort; a place where the male was able to be himself. Barry Allen the dork; not the mask he wore at night. This was the version he wanted for Caitlin a trusted friend in the storm. Pausing his pacing at the bench; he slowly lowered himself down to the bench pending her own arrival if the female decided to show. 

And that was huge if; all I knew was I wasn't giving up now; not on her.

[barry-j-blupjeans]

Number 4 with Lup and Taako? :3

4. "You're the worst, I love you so much."

((40 fluff prompts - still accepting!!))

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If this was any other situation, Lup would have hoped it would work. The plan was shitty and awful and terrible, but she would have loved it. Right now, however, there's too much at stake for what will go down.

Lup and Taako hadn't swapped places and pretended to be each other since they were six and a half. She had told Taako at the time that it was just "weird" and "I like being me because people think you're stinky". Underneath all of that had been the incredibly obvious trans explanation, but she hadn't had the vocab to say it like that. Still, Taako went with it. It wasn't fun to pretend to be each other if one of you felt bad the whole time.

That reason alone is one of many reasons why this was a shitty plan. Lup didn't have to pretend to be Taako- thank god, because that awful little chin beard he was trying to grow was disgusting- but she had helped Taako pick out an outfit from her closet. And she had sat in the back of the bus with him the whole way to school, halfway paralyzed with anxiety and halfway elated with how incredible this horrible plan was.

It was lunch period. Lup was standing against the wall, leaning just enough around the corner to see the classroom Barry hung out in during lunch. Taako was sitting next to her, applying eyelashes that Lup insisted didn't make a difference but did make him look more like her nonetheless. Maybe she needed to start wearing fake eyelashes.

...Did Barry like people with long eyelashes?

And speaking of the devil, the door on the far end of the hall opened and Lup jerked back around the corner as Barry stepped through the doors. The hallways were otherwise deserted, but no one was going to tell them to go back to the cafeteria as long as they didn't make too much noise. Taako stood up and cracked his knuckles.

"Relax," he said, patting her on the arm as he passed. "Taako's got this."

As she watched him round the corner, Lup wasn't sure if she was more worried that Taako did have this or if Taako didn't have this.

"Hey!" Taako said as soon as he was out of Lup's view. Barry's shoes made a very loud squeak against the floor as he, presumably, came to a stop.

If Taako could pull of convincing Barry that he's her, then getting this date was in the bag. She was trying not to think too hard about actually going on the date, because if she couldn't work up the nerve to tell literally the hottest guy she's ever seen that she wanted to go out with him, how was she gonna go on a whole date?

But then, if Taako was convincing, and Barry did believe him, did she want to go on a date with someone who thought she looked masculine enough to be her twin brother? Granted, Taako had shaved his awful beard for this, but still. Lup didn't know if she could stomach that.

"Uhm, hey Taako."

Fuck. Fuck, she didn't actually know if she was happy or crushed about this.

"It's Lup, actually," Taako said. Lup sunk down onto the floor, putting her head in her hands.

"Oh, shit," came Barry's voice. "I'm sorry. Hey Lup."

"Hey," Taako said again. This was hell. Lup was in hell. "Nice lunch you got there."

"Oh, uh, thanks," Barry said. "It's pizza day."

"Sure is, sure is," Taako said. "Listen, Barold. What're you doing this Friday?"

"Uhm." Lup was going to explode. She was gonna get Lup guts all over this hallway and the custodians were going to have to mop all that up. They didn't get paid enough for that. "I mean, I've got chess club, but that ends at five. And the kid who tutors me is gonna have his bar mitzvah Saturday morning, so I'm probably gonna have to go to bed pretty early for that-"

"So you're free after five is what I'm hearing," Taako said.

"I- I mean, I guess, yeah."

"Great!" Maybe they'd bury Lup in a spooky graveyard and she could come haunt Taako for this. Maybe she could torture him forever with her enteral screaming soul for this idea. "Hear me out- you. Me. Buds and Beans coffee shop and then a walk. Sound good?"

"Are you-" Lup peaked around the corner just enough to see Barry blink at Taako. His face was steadily growing redder. She pulled back. "Are you asking me out?"

"Sure am, hot stuff," Taako said. Lup crossed her fingers. Held her breath.

"That's-" Barry let out a little sigh. "This isn't very funny, Taako."

"I'm Lup," Taako said again, in probably the most unconvincing Lup voice Lup herself had ever heard.

"No, you're not," Barry said, not unkindly.

"Could Taako do this?" Taako asked and there was a moment of silence. If Lup hadn't been considering clawing her eyes and ears out, then she would have looked around the corner again. Instead, she was filled in by Barry saying,

"Striking a cool pose doesn't make you any less Taako," Barry said. Taako scoffed. "I'm- Taako, I'm really not sure what you're trying to do, but it's not... yeah, it's not funny. Like, I bared my heart and soul out to you about my feelings and this is... not cool. I'm, uh, I'm gonna go eat my lunch."

There was the sound of footsteps again.

"Well, hang on, wait a minute," came Taako's voice again. "Lup asked me to do this-"

"You told her?" Barry asked. Lup looked around the corner again to find that Barry had turned fully towards Taako. He was clutching his lunch tray very tight. "You promised not to!"

"I didn't tell her anything!" Taako said. "She asked me to do this because she likes you! But she's scared of messing up your friendship! Don't ask me to explain it, ask her!"

"You gotta stop, Taako," Barry said. His shoulders slumped slightly. "Lup is the- the bravest, kindest, most- most-"

"Beautiful," Taako supplied.

"Beautiful girl I know. Even if she did like me back-" Lup's brain short-circited a bit here. "Then I doubt she'd be nervous to talk to me about it. She punched a kid in front of the principal." She saw Taako open his mouth, but Barry cut him off. "Also! Also, she's way outta my league. I mean, it's Lup. Who doesn't love Lup? Why would she choose someone like- like me, when she could have, I don't know, literally anyone else."

"Hey," Taako said, elbowing him. "You've got plenty of good traits."

"Like what?" Barry replied flatly. There was a silence, where Lup met Taako's eyes over Barry's shoulder. She swallowed, feeling like there was a lump in her throat. Barry sighed at the lack of response. "See? That's what I'm-"

"You're really nice," Lup blurted out. Barry whipped around and seemed to nearly drop his lunch tray in shock. From behind him, Taako gave a thumbs up. "And you make me laugh."

"Lup, I, uh," Barry said, a little breathlessly. "I didn't know you were-"

"You're really good at making me laugh, actually!" Lup said. "And you made school a little more interesting when you started coming. Who am I kidding, you made it a lot more interesting. And you treat me like a human instead of just like, a basket case because of my background or like I'm hypersensitive to everything because I'm trans. And you made me cookies when I got sick even though they were awful, but I ate them anyway because you made them and also I was hungry-"

"Lup," Barry said.

"And you're right, I do think I'm brave, but that's in physical situations and this is just- I'm not good with the emotions part, Barry." She grimaced, holding onto the wall for support because otherwise, she felt like she was just going to melt through the floor. "And like, yeah- yeah I can punch people or whatever but I don't wanna be rough with you because I like you and anyone who ever told you that you're not good enough for me is a lying piece of shit.

"I just- I didn't wanna mess it up," she said. "And if this did mess it up, then I'm blaming Taako."

"Hey!" Taako said. "Is this plan working or is it not? 'Cause from Taako's POV, it's lookin' pretty damn good-"

"You're the worst," Lup said. "I love you so much. Please get out of my sight."

"Noted," Taako said. He plucked one of the sides from Barry's lunch tray- the glazed carrots- and threw up a peace sign before scurrying to the door. Lup waited until the door was closed to turn her attention back to Barry.

"I, uh," Barry said. "Wow."

"It was a really bad plan," Lup said.

"Yeah, uh, not the- the cleverest you two have had," Barry said, but he was grinning, and he was grinning at her after she just said all that shit, and-

"Barry... do you wanna go talk somewhere for a while?" Lup asked, before she could stop herself. "Before lunch ends, preferably."

"Yeah," Barry said. "I do."

[vynsvision]

Hi Evan! I'd like to know a little more about your interests! Judging by your blogs, you have many! Who/What is your favorite:

MCU character?

DCEU character?

LOTR character?

Movie?

TV Show?

Book?

Musical Artist?

Give as much or as little detail as you want! :)

Aaah oh gosh hi!!! Sorry, my notifications are weird, (I exclusively use the tumblr mobile app) so I am JUST now seeing this!!

I do have a lot of blogs, haha. I like sorting things.

Fave mcu character is probably at the moment Yelena Belova. Florence Pugh as a person and her performance as Yelena are just. Yeah. <33333 Marvel overall I will always love Gwenpool (bbg for the WIN)

DCEU would be Wonder Woman aka Diana Prince. Or Bruce Wayne/Batman, but only Bruce as Bale!Bat or Battinson. Barry Allen's Flash (specifically Grant Gustin's Flash show) is the character that got me into DC in general- I was one of those kids who was MCU OR DC??? MCU all the way!!! Bleh!!! Which is kinda pathetic but cute now because I've grown :)

Lotr, well, Lee Pace's Thar... Thranduil. I have to admit. I thought his name was Tharanduil for YEARS until I followed you and then I regularly see it as just one A and I... Blush. Embarressed. But yeah him or honestly Sam Gamgee. I dont think a lot about LOTR though (and Middle Earth/Tolkienverse) very often because both the Hobbit trilogy and LOTR trilogy have endings that break my heart. I knew the endings before watching, I knew what it was going to be, but watching the performances and reading them again is bittersweet beauty that I can't often handle emotionally.

Movie????? Oh pal! Well. My Letterboxd favorites currently are: Clue, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Gray Man, and The Batman. The Scarlet Pimpernel... I'm thinking of getting a pimpernel flower tattoo because I love that movie so much. And the flowers are pretty :) Before I changed them this year to The Gray Man and The Batman, I had Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol and Batman Begins as the action movies. Honestly I would change out The Scarlet Pimpernel with Where Eagles Dare if I didnt just NEED people to know how important Sir Percival Blakeney is to me. My original standard. He is THE most man of all men. God, I love him so much. You're either Percival or you're no one, if you're interested in pursuing romance with me. Tony Stark or Steve Rogers or any other superhero/vigilante came years after Percy. They could never measure up. But I digress. (And its not like anyone is pursuing me romantically. That im aware of.)

TV show, well, I dont think I have a favorite. I struggle to rewatch tv shows since, for instance in Criminal Minds (which i have seen the entirety of), I can't rewatch because I know what each character goes through. And I can remember the plot of the episode from the first scene, before the title sequence. Although I do love Criminal Minds and Peaky Blinders a lot :)

I dont read a lot but I do love Dune and Shadow and Bone series!

I usually listen to pop-ish music, and artists I usually circle back to are Hozier, One Direction, Owl City, Jon Bellion. I just had a pretty good and long The Neighbourhood phase and I do return to them frequently as well. Also For King & Country and MercyMe, which are Christian groups :)

[cheryls-blossomed]

the amount of times I've rewatched the trailer is almost embarrassing at this point. but did you know it's been a year of Iris being stuck in the mirror. It's called her mirrorversary, and that makes me so sad. but barry saying "Give me back my wife." destroyed me. I keep rewatching the trailer for my Westallen scenes😭 but what are your thoughts about it I'm curious. Sorry for ranting lol.

No need to apologize at all; I love reading your thoughts! Please feel free to gush away always! And yes, while technically not a year in the show’s time continuum, 6x10 aired February 4, 2020, so it will be a year for us viewers. As for my thoughts, it’s perhaps easiest if I bullet-point them:

I loved the opening frame, and the callback to 1x20, coupled with Barry’s voiceover of, “Come back to me,” speaks to two very integral themes to Westallen’s love story. First, one of the reasons that I do really like the Mirrorverse story-line is that it reverses the position we have frequently watched Barry and Iris in. In other words, Barry has to go where Iris cannot follow. And so it is always Iris saying, “Come back to me.” “Please come back to me.” However, when Iris is snatched into the mirror, she has now gone somewhere that Barry cannot follow, and so he is experiencing now what she has often experienced. It makes the heartbreak of Barry’s, “Come back to me,” all that more palpable in light of the parallels. Secondly, of course, is the notion of their shared lightning rod connection, and what the choice of the frame from 1x20 could potentially mean within the context of this story.

Barry’s desperation and determination to save Iris is heartbreakingly palpable. His devastation is so visible; there were so many frames of him in tears, and his pain is so visible. Equally, is his determination. “Give me back my wife,” and the anger he directs at Eva when he demands this. Him entering the Mirrorverse. “I’ll never stop fighting to reach you.” Because simmering beneath his devastation is his defiance, his determination that he will stop at nothing to save Iris. It’s that anger that I really liked seeing.

I’m obviously very sad™ about Iris, and it’s so poignant and soft and telling that in her moments of trauma, her coping mechanism is imagining herself reunited with Barry and on a date, just laughing with him. I’m obviously kind of, sort of heartbroken at the thought of Iris further traumatized and having to relive so much of her past trauma as well.

Curious about the Thawne-esque tease at the end. 

Also the frame of Iris with her hands in front of her, screaming? Where’s that arc about Top lying to Barry about Iris being Mirror Mistress? That was a thing in the comics, and we know Top is coming back, so idk if they’re going to pull from that, but that image of Iris just sort of reminded me of that arc in the comics.

Grant’s acting and Candice’s acting from the trailer alone was great. 

Also the trailer’s theme was clearly the Paragon of Love desperately working to save the love of his life, and I just love that so much.

Joe’s speech rubbed me the wrong way, but that could be because I’m still annoyed with how he was written during the arc and less so because of the specific speech.

[romanogersgirl]

Reasons Why The Flash Sucks:

1. It's on The CW.

Do you know any great show(s) this network has produced? Smallville doesn't count, neither does Charmed, both of those amazing shows were broadcast by The WB before the merger of UPN and The WB to make the abhorrent CW channel. Please name a show that stood the test of time on that network. That had amazing writers, characters and episodes that we can all remember. You can't. This network is a cancer. They produce garbage shows. One Tree Hill. Supernatural. The 100. Jane the Virgin. Yes, even The Vampire Diaries overall. Ever since the takeover of Mark PEDOwitz in 2011, shortly after the founding of The CW, the quality TV drama has downsized dramatically. Relationships over character and story development have become more important. When a low budget gives the unfortunate opportunity to produce the worst CGI on screen, your writing better be top notch. And it hasn’t. The network is a curse, just imagine the creative quality Flash would have, say, it was on Netflix? Basic cable, even paid channels like HBO.

2. The PC pandering.

The casting of Iris West from a white red head with green eyes to a black woman wasn't needed. Is it that hard for the producers to create a new black character with their own set of qualities? Apparently so. And now, since the beginning, it has been as it always is, impossible to criticize a character without being branded a racist. It is not racist to want comically accurate characters if you intend on doing an adaptation. Casting is everything. I don't have to tell you how important casting the right person for a specific role is. It's a make or break. Not only that but the writing for this character is the worst I’ve seen. Iris West has been the most irritating character and actress on the show thus far.  Watch Season 4 and judge it with an open mind. And black people who are reading this, do you want leftovers from white people or do you want your own strongly built original character? Think about that.

3. The writers are lazy.

This ties into who is currently running and hiring staff at the network. It just appears anyone can write on a TV show, almost with no sound credits to their name. These new writers haven't proved themselves worthy of much. They don't care about the characters we love to see. It feels like I'm watching a show written by 12 year olds. I can't stress enough how important it is to hire writers who plan what they write. If anyone with a brain in their skull were to read last season's scripts, they could probably do a better job than the ones being paid. The show can benefit from shorter seasons so we can finally do without direct filler episodes like "Run, Iris, Run."

4. Barry isn't allowed to be the lead character or have friends.

This one is pretty clear. We saw none of this for the past couple seasons. Go back and watch Season 1 and compare it to now. They aren't the same show. The main reason a lot of people loved the show was the fun Barry was having fighting crime and saving the city with his new friends. Joe had a purpose as a cop. Iris had less screen time because she is only a love interest. Caitlin Snow and Cisco Ramon have actively been with Barry from the beginning. The entirety of last season they weren't even fighting crime together as meta humans. The forced introduction of Ralph Dibney took away from their screen time, from Caitlin’s screen time no less. And Iris is the leader even after Barry came back? Why is that? What exactly was happening in the writers room to make that think we wanted to see Iris Kardashian as THE LEADER for the entire season? Especially when Barry came back as THE FLASH, the only definitive leader of his own show title.

5. Grant Gustin is a business man now.

On his IG he's formed a new business with his a colleague and he couldn't be happier. He's been promoting it non-stop. One thing I rarely see is posts about the show. Grant has 6.6 mil followers on his own while the official Flash show IG has 3.6 (mostly bought/other CW hires). Grant doesn't care about the show anymore and I don't blame him. If not even the star cares, why should we?

[sssssssim]

finally all caught up with Arrow, Flash, and Supergirl. While the crossover was kinda cool there were some moments I loved and some not so much. But I just really have to commend the scene where Iris walks down the aisle to Barry. Grant Gustin always kills but damn, the emotion on his face and tears in his eyes were something else. I know he's engaged in real life so I wonder what was going through his head! lol. While I used to ship Olicity back in the season 1-3, I'm glad

2) they got their endgame but HATE how it happened, with Felicity literally yelling and interrupting WestAllen. They couldn’t have written it so WestAllen were at least official and then moved on to Olicity? That bit just really rubbed me the wrong way.

(3) I’m glad Barry didn’t run away from the Devoe murder scene in his apartment, it was really nice how they shot that scene to parallel what Barry said to Iris at the beginning of the episode. And while I can understand Oliver reacting the way he did to the tip of someone on the team selling him out, I definitely think he went too far because now he has no team and it’s hard to come back from what he did. But I mean I guess if Diggle can forgive him for kidnapping Lyla then the team will too.

HI, HELLO, LET’S TALK ABOUT IT

Yes, the walking down the isle scene was absolute perfection. Grant just hits you in the feels, every now and then, when he has an emotional scene. He’s an amazing actor, and beyond that, I think that he understands Barry, and it shoes on his acting. Engaged or not in real life, he gets how much Barry loves Iris, and how much the wedding day meant to him. So of course he acted the hell out of that scene.

Now, about Olicity. Yeah. It’s a touchy subject. I, too, am hella happy that it finally happened. And I do understand why everyone is so pissed about it, I do get it. But, to be honest, I got over that pretty quickly. I don’t care how it happened, I just care that it happened, ya know. Yeah, it kinda sucked for Barry and Iris but I mean……..I have been waiting for Olicity to happen way before I’ve been waiting for WestAllen to happen, ya know? Sure, they could have had Digg marry WestAllen, and then have Olicity marry back in Star City, ya know, with Thea and William and the team. But … it happened, man. FINALLY. Yay for that. We’re used to the Arrowverse having dodgy writing. We’re supposed to be used to it by now.

Yes, it’s good that Barry didn’t run away. I think, psychologically speaking, his brain will handle being in jail better than being on the run. I just hope he won’t meet a lot of prisoners he helped put there. It’ll be an interesting story arch to see, I think. I kinda love Devoe because he’s so different from all the other villains we’ve seen on the Flash. I mean, I hate him, but I like watching what he comes up with.

I don’t know what to say about Arrow, really. Beyond Olicity and William, I’m feeling very detached of the situation. I don’t care about anything except for them three, to be honest. I don’t care that much :))

I like how you haven’t mentioned Supergirl and the Mon-El situation. That didn’t even register on your list of things that need to be discussed.

[barry-j-blupjeans]

other 22 blupjeans?

22. "We'd make such a cute couple."

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"Barry," Lup said, the most serious he had ever heard her. "I need you to take me to the prom."

"Wh- what?" Barry asked, flushing. "What???"

"Listen," Lup said, taking his hands. "I have a plan."

Was Barry sick? He felt sick, all of a sudden. He was ninety percent sure this was a fever dream. Granted, he hadn't felt sick a few minutes before. He and Lup had been sitting on top of the brick wall that boarded their high school, watching as everyone started leaving school after the last bell had rung. As seniors, they both had their last period off.

And it was good, doing his homework next to Lup. Or at least pretending to do his homework while he subtlety looked at her out of the corner of his eye. In a non-creepy way. To be fair, she had been staring a few times too. Barry tried not to think about that. She had probably been staring to make sure he wasn't staring, which was perfectly okay.

But then she had actually looked up at him and said things and ughghhhhh Barry was so deep down into crush town, he was suffering. He couldn't tell Lup he liked her, because that would ruin their friendship, and if he ruined their friendship, then that's like, four of his other friendships ruined because of course everyone would side with Lup, she was perfect-

"Taako's gonna ask Kravitz to go with him tomorrow," Lup said urgently. "So I need to be there to make sure neither of them kills each other. Or kisses each other. I don't know which one is worse."

"Kill- kills each other?" Barry got out and Lup nodded gravely, like this whole thing made sense. Maybe it did. Something about being around Lup made his brain go stupid.

"They might," Lup said. "Like, six months ago Taako was like "oh I hate Kravitz, he's the worse" and now he's like "Lup, how well do you think Kravitz kisses?" Like, I don't know Taako! I don't want to know! You shouldn't want to know, you broke his nose! Barry, tell me, if you liked someone, would you break their nose?"

"If they asked me to?" Barry said, still blushing very much.

"If they- yeah, but he- he didn't!" Lup said. "And I don't understand why Kravitz doesn't understand that! He's an asshole, Barry. He stole first chair from me."

At the start of the school year, the orchestra director had reorganized the chair order to account for skill. Lup had been the violin section's first chair for the past three years. This year, Kravitz had transferred to their school and taken the first spot. Barry, personally, thought Lup should have it. But Kravitz was good. Lup said Kravitz was good, even if it was begrudgingly.

"So," Lup pressed on. "I need to go to Prom to make sure he hasn't like- cast a spell on Taako or whatever. And I'd go with like, a friend group, except everyone has already got a date-" this was true, their friend group had been very quick to all pair up with someone. Except for Barry and Lup. "But you don't and I'd rather not be a third wheel all night so I'm asking you. We'd- we'd make such a cute couple, so it's perfect! No one would suspect a thing!"

Lup was flushed by the end of her speech. Barry assumed it was from how passionate she was about it.

"That makes sense," he said. "I- yeah, Lup, I'd- I'd love to go to Prom with you." God, even the words made him flustered. But he had to ignore it, because Lup swept him into a big hug, nearly toppling them off the wall. When she pulled back, she was grinning, eyes sparkling.

"You've got no idea how much this means to me, Barry," she said, sounding tearful. "Should we bring stakeout things? D'you think they'd let me bring binoculars to Prom?"

"Um," Barry said. "We can try?"

"I like your spirit," Lup said, nodding determinedly. "We're gonna save Taako."

"Yeah," Barry said, transfixed by the passion in her voice.