#alittleflashvibe

[vexic929]

for the ship ask game, i'm not going to be cringe. i'm so very curious about Singhaway and, if you want, also any Hartley ship of your choosing!

yesssssssssssss of course I will always talk about my boyyyyyyyy <3333

Singhaway

1. What made you ship it?

the comics but particularly these panels here <3333

2. What are your favorite things about the ship?

they are so sweet and so good together but they're so REAL too like this part is so painful but a very realistic, human problem for them </3333

3. Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

they should've happened in the show!!!!!! they set it up SO PERFECTLY I will scream about this til the day I die lol

for the second ship I'm choosing

Eddie x Hartley

1. What made you ship it?

I genuinely don't remember I think it just popped in my brain suddenly and refused to leave lol <3333

2. What are your favorite things about the ship?

there are 0 canon interactions so there's endless possibilities! bitter exes? instant attraction? enemies to lovers? all of the above? yes pleeeeease!

3. Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

not really because I think I'm one of like a handful of people if any that ship it XD

[angst-is-love-angst-is-life]

thank you so much for your tags, they always make my day ❤️

honestly, i can easily imagine Zoom stopping several times on the way to beat Barry up, probably even taunt him and remind him the last time something similar happened and how Barry still hasn't gotten closer to being able to beat him and so on. i mean, Barry does heal fast so it wouldn't be weird that he woke up in the cage with not so many bruises or anything, doesn't mean he didn't have them at some point i guess?

I’m happy you enjoy them!!

OOOOOOOO YES! I’d never considered that but it would’ve been a nice parallel to Enter Zoom.

And since Cisco was in that gifset it got me thinking— Within the taunts, Zoom can also tell Barry that he’ll kill Cisco once he finds him and Harry, and that Cisco won’t be able to save him this time (since Cisco ofc saved him in 2x06).

[icedteaandoldlace]

you like Ralvez too omg! <3 also also i loved your remark about how they have similar energy with Barrisco in that one post and, if it's okay of me to ask you, could you elaborate on that similar energy? like how and what you think and like about it?

CERTAINLY!

So it isn't really something I've thought over in depth, it's just, y'know...similar energy. But I will try to gather my thoughts about it to answer this.

So for starters you've got Spencer and Cisco who already have a lot in common, just as characters, the most obvious thing being that they're both geniuses/nerds. And there's the fact that Barry and Luke both show up in their lives, and all of a sudden they have someone who is enthralled with their nerdy tendencies. In Barry and Cisco's case it goes both ways, because Barry is also a mega nerd who didn't really have any friends before becoming the Flash, other than Iris, so he and Cisco are kindred spirits right from the start, and they geek out together over things they both find cool.

Meanwhile, with Ralvez, Spencer is the nerd who has a group of friends who all love him, but often get bored or annoyed when he goes on one of his infodumping tangents, and then Luke shows up and finds all his useless facts fascinating, so Spencer can yap at him all he wants and it's a good time for both of them.

Also, with both ships, there's just this effortless, comfortable chemistry between them that doesn't take them any time at all to develop. You look at them and they just look like they've been besties forever, even before they've known each other for very long. It's the greatest thing.

(Not to mention the heart eyes.) And to me they seem like such an obvious choice for the fanon ship to get into, yet they somehow get overshadowed by other, conflicting ships that are more popular in the fandom despite imo not making as much sense.

Of course, there is also the fact that they're both crime fighting duos, in different ways (Barry and Cisco are superheroes, Luke and Spencer are FBI agents), so that's fun, because they both get to take down bad guys, and all four of them have an innate desire to help people, which is very attractive to me (and to each other. what?)

And they're protective of each other. 👀

There's a fair amount of touching and standing close to each other and exchanging glances as well.

And then there's this parallel.

Which I've only just noticed, but it is 😙👌🏻👨‍🍳 perfecto.

Overall, they're just some great guys who really, earnestly love having each other in their lives, would go to great lengths to keep each other safe, and are wholesome and adorable and fun to watch together. They're great friends who would also be great as couples, and they deserve all the love. 💖

[strivia]

if i may ask about Stray Gods, of all the playthroughs you've played and seen, what is your favorite version of Aphrodite's route? your favorite choices during her song The Ritual and its outcome?

Of course! Personally, I really love Green choices with a red final choice. I love the Lost in a Moment version, and Eros' part in that version, I just 🥺😭

But I really like the opening parts of the blue versions too, not the blue chorus though. 😅

Eros' part in a red/blue first choice, green chorus and red fourth choice also hits hard. I heard that version in this compilation.

Admittedly I have a hard time wrapping my mind around all the potential variations of the songs @_@

[clairedsfield]

carlos ft. crave by pmore

[star-labs-intern]

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[vexic929]

🖇️Barrisco! please! <3

this was delightful to make they're so sweet omggggggg <3333

[angst-is-love-angst-is-life]

now you got me curious and i have to ask, what would the angstified version of my hc be? i really need to know now, i think.

Referring to my tags in this post

Oh I was just thinking about one of them (specifically Barry for reference) getting kidnapped/going missing and the other waking up alone. Cisco opening his eyes to the other side of the bed empty, the initial moment of ‘oh it’s fine he’s just out somewhere’ to ‘no no no’ and remembering whatever happened the previous day. And when they inevitably rescue him, Cisco wakes up and the first thing he sees is Barry, safe, sleeping across from him.

[icedteaandoldlace]

3, 12 and 30 for the Ao3 wrapped? <33

3. What work are you most proud of (regardless of kudos/hits)?

Just from fics posted this year, I think You Cannot Predict Emotion. It was tricky getting Barry's decision to change the timeline to feel like a plot twist when you already know from the previous fic that he does, and I'm very pleased that I was able to pull it off. It was also really fun and really interesting getting to play with Barry's dark side, and exploring all the complicated feelings he would have about being driven to go against his own ideals to save someone he loves. There was a lot to cover, and I just love that it turned out the way it did.

12. How many WIP’s do you have in your docs for next year?

Difficult to say. I have several that I'm working on on-and-off and there's no telling which ones will end up getting the most progress made on them. I would love to get chapter 2 of Nights That Never End finished and posted next year, and I also really really want to get Into the Fire completed (which is my main focus at the moment). It's coming along nicely, it's just longer than most of my other WIPs. Also, this post by @shrinkthisviolet gave me the push I needed to keep working on a post-Mirrorverse fix-it fic I was starting to have doubts about. The fic isn't about Iris, to be clear, or Barry, but it is about addressing trauma that canon glossed over, and the tone is a good bit heavier than the show's writers were willing to go, so I got a little worried about how it would be received. But that post was a good reminder that it's still worth writing, and that I'm not the only person bothered by the way that storyline was handled.

30. Biggest surprise while writing this year?

Barry being the root of Caitlin's anxiety in Right At Home was super unexpected. I had such a difficult time trying to get into Caitlin's head for this fic, because I knew I wanted her to be presenting as the more confident one, when really she's even more nervous than Kamilla is, but I didn't know what she had to be nervous about. I'm not really sure how the idea even came to me, but once I figured out that she was feeling insecure because of the decline in her friendship with Barry, everything started to fall into place.

[shrinkthisviolet]

im curious. why do you ship flashvibe. i see them as just best 100% platonic bros and i cant imagine them romantic

Ooh this would be a better question for @alittleflashvibe (who can absolutely feel free to hop in with reblogs or comments or whatever, really 👀) but I will take a crack at it myself:

So first of all, let me preface by saying, none of this is going to be me going “see?? No platonic explanation!!” because that’s a) canonically false and b) nonsense. Barrisco, for all that I do ship them, is canonically a friendship, and I value that highly. You can absolutely choose to interpret this all as solely platonic, and that’s totally fine! Their relationship is strong either way, and it’s not “better” or “worse” from either perspective. So just keep that in mind.

Second of all, I’ll assume you’re someone who’s open to shipping Barry with guys (otherwise this discussion is sorta pointless 😅).

Third of all, this will include comparisons to Westallen because...duh, they're canonically romantic, and I need a point of comparison. I love both ships, mind you, this is simply for academic purposes.

With all that said, let’s begin! And since this got long, the rest is below the cut :) enjoy!

Heart Eyes:

Okay so we know Barry does this a lot, right? Almost exclusively with Iris (his canon best-friend-who-he-has-a-crush-on -> girlfriend/fiancée -> wife)…and with Cisco. Cisco, too, does this a lot. Observe, if you will:

This post by the amazing @icedteaandoldlace (who can also hop in if so inclined), compares the Westallen proposal and the "the unvierse wants us to be bros" speech. No, seriously. Look at how alike the scenes are. Barry's heart eyes in those scenes...IMMACULATE! He doesn't give those heart eyes to anyone else

Bonus: notice Cisco’s reactions when we do see them. Earnestly hanging on Barry’s words…and Barry’s encouragement gets him to smile 🥰 just like Iris whenever Barry encourages her (see: the s4 scene when he encourages her as Team Leader and she smiles sincerely through her tears)!

Also...this parallel: "You've always been my hero" ~Barry to Cisco as he's walking toward sort-of-death + "The Flash may be the city's hero, but you, Barry Allen, you're my hero." ~Iris to Barry in her vows

Physical Touch:

Physical touch is canonically the way Barry shows his affection/love (“we all know touch is your love language” is a canon line of dialogue). He does it with Joe, Henry, Iris…and a lot with Cisco, who constantly touches/hugs Barry too:

Something interesting about that last one…I feel like I’ve seen that one somewhere before:

(I made that gif :D)

Oh and uh...remember when I said we'd get back to talking about Cisco doing something risky to save his life? Let's talk about that for a second.

Let's talk about how Iris and Cisco react to losing/the prospect of losing Barry post-s3/s4 and s6:

Post-s3:

Iris: Quits her job, becomes Team Leader in Barry's absence so she can use her skills to help out, wanting to honor Barry's words ("keep growing, keep loving, keep running, for me") and knowing Cisco can't lead the Team alone because he's strung out. Argues with Cisco about getting Barry back, because she is understandably worried that it'll make things worse, cost them someone else...and/or Barry will either already be dead, or will die as a result of their actions (i.e. she fears losing Barry all over again)

Cisco: Hyperfocuses on saving Barry ("quits his job", so to speak, because he's not being Team Leader as Barry intended), uses his skills to help out by building a Quark sphere to save Barry, goes forward with his plan despite Iris's misgivings so he can honor Barry's words ("he also said that everyone would look to me after he was gone. So look to me."). In the aftermath, modifies the suit extensively because he fears losing Barry all over again)

s6:

Iris: Is distraught and horrified at how easily Barry accepts his death, tries to talk him out of it. She takes up the charge of recruiting Ryan Choi, Paragon of Humanity, empathizes with him about his fear, draws on their similarities to convince him.

(She does not pull risky manuevers here, since it's E90 Barry who saves our Barry, but she did back in s3, when she shot Savitar, a speedster and her almost-killer (and also a future version of Barry), to save Barry's life)

Cisco: Makes a risky call to try and save Barry's life, defends himself fiercely when Barry gets upset about it, is distraught and horrified at how easily Barry accepts his death

Bonus:

it's relief in Barry's eyes there, and worry. Barry was mad at Cisco earlier in the episode, but...in this moment, none of that matters. Cisco's doing something risky to save his life (as he canonically does often) and Barry's relieved but also terrified it might go sour. And...well, you saw from one of the gifs earlier how enthusiastic he was once this rescue succeeded - he beamed up at him, all "you've always been my hero" (canon quote) and took his hand to be helped up, just like in a fairytale.

Just a couple of guys nerding out together 🥰

Barry using a shared memory to prove he's not an imposter 👀

Iris and Cisco teaming up to pull Barry out of the Speed Force! Note that Cisco almost succeeds at this 👀 he only fails because Barry is not yet ready to leave - by the time Iris tries, Barry is ready. I've always thought Cisco could've pulled Barry out of the Speed Force too, lightning-rod style.

This post compares some Westallen and Barrisco moments! Specifically, some Iris and Cisco reactions to Barry (very similar, you'll note!)

And there you go! As mentioned, none of this is me going "AHA see, Barrisco is definitely romantic", but moreso pointing out why I ship them via their parallels to Westallen (which is widely considered one of the It Ships of DC in general, especially for Barry). Hopefully this changed your mind, and if not, hopefully you enjoyed the ride anyway!

(and I meant what I said: @alittleflashvibe and @icedteaandoldlace, feel free to weigh in. Same for any other Barrisco shippers! I'm sure I didn't get everything, though I did try to hit the major highlights)

[strivia]

✨️when u get this u have to put 5 songs u actually listen to, publish. Then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool)🎶✨️

Landmines by BELLSAINT

Gentleman by Jeremy Shada

BOYSHIT by Madison Beer

Anne Bonny by Karliene

Rolling In The Deep + Sidi Mansour by Wardi & Friends

[clairedsfield]

early sneak peek of the main title song from upcoming hulu original musical romantic comedy series Up Here, premiering March 24.

[kitkatt0430]

RULES: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

tagged by @sophiainspace ^_^

So I... have a lot of WIPs, so I'm just going to do the first ten that I think someone else would find the most interesting to hear me ramble about a bit.

Eobarry fuzzy morals

In This House We Are Home

Arrow Redux - Episode 4

Recalculating

Flash - Dollhouse

Inner Chill

Poly Bingo B1 - Westhallen

Tales of the Old Republic

The Jedi in the Carbonite

Spirit of Hope

tagging @fezwearingjellybananas @avatarskywalker78 @shrinkthisviolet @the-devil-in-the-details-666 @alittleflashvibe @bottomoftheriverbed @strivia @terrie01 @negative-speedforce @angst-is-love-angst-is-life and anyone else who'd like to play ^_^

[the-feral-gremlin]

Tagged by: @alittleflashvibe

Rules: Post the last sentence you wrote and tag as many people as there are words.

Sentence:

The great thing about computers. Felicity thinks, sitting at her desk and pretending to be doing something mildly important. Is that they weren’t complicated. They didn’t break her trust because she knew them so well. They were comforting. Familiar.

Safe.

No pressure tags: @frosty-the-killer-doll @dapperenby13 @blaze5681 and anyone else who wants to!

[vexic929]

"Friend Vexic" I love that lol <3333 I don't have nicknames for everyone cause my brain usually just recognizes people by their usernames but for some of y'all who I've been moots with a while

@negative-speedforce Revan (unsure if I pronounce it wrong, I say it like raven the bird lol)

@angst-is-love-angst-is-life sorry you are simply Angst or Queen of Barry Whump or Bisexual Boop Barry (cause that's your icon) to me

@shrinkthisviolet Lavi (my brain has also called you Morgan tho on accident lol)

@practically-an-x-man Pax

@starstruckpurpledragon Starstruck

@autisticharrywells like Revan, you are Harry to me sorry lol

@witchy-self-shipper Witchy

@alittleflashvibe FlashVibe or Barrisco sorry bestie lol

I also just call all y'all bestie (and like everyone else, if you'd like me to call you something different let me know!)

I kinda wanna start a chain 🤔

~Tag your friends/moots/humans and share what you call them~

@larz-barz - Larz

@muichirolover14 - Mui14

@shycroissanti - Shy

@c00kietin - Cookie

@gyutarowritings - Gyutaro

@kitkat-moon - KitKat

@mooechi - Mochi

@night-mince10000000000000000001 - Night

@rosalinastan1 - Rose

@dreamcorechild - Dream

Let me know if you’d prefer to be called something else

[star-labs-intern]

WIP tag game!

List all the titles of your current WIP

Tagged by @autisticharrywells !! Thank u 🩷

I'm so bad with naming fics lmaoo so much of my stuff stays untitled until I get ready to post 😂 but here we go!

Goodbye Doesn't Mean Forever

The Sidewalk Rule

Falling in Love (working title) - does it count as WIP if all I did was outline?

I still have like ... two or three untitled p0rn scenes that I'm not super happy with /may never see the light of day lol

Would love anyone who sees this to do it!! But I'll tag @kitkatt0430 @icedteaandoldlace @alittleflashvibe if anyone wants to do it!