#also also i have the idea that barry really got into the criminal thing bc someone in the department was in some way responsible

[coldflash-corner]

Also this Barry still clearly has a GIGANTIC crush on Snart, and they definitely do their whole totally-not-flirting routine everytime they talk

Which makes it fun for the other people involved XD

Concept in my head, also writing prompt

so, i have an AU.

Maybe like, an alternate earth that like, Flash Barry crosses into

mayb not

where snart became a cop, for whatever reason, but still has some of his jaded personality- he doesn't think cops are perfect. full stop. But he is trying to make the streets a safer place, at least

And Barry in this world, ends up in the criminal sphere, and he is partners with Mick. But not quite the same master thief type thing that Mick and Snart were in the main universe, tho def illegal measures taken nonetheless

With Barry and Snart being the same kind of rivals they were in the show, but get this

Barry is still the one trying to "save" Snart, from his issues, while not addressing his own. While Snart keeps the line with Barry open because he sees that Barry is trying to do good, just in not so good ways, and sees Barry as someone worth not giving up on just yet

Anyway idk, just. Thinking about it

[coldflasher]

For the meta writing asks: 1, 4,11 please!

1. Tell us about your current project(s)  – what’s it about, how’s progress, what do you love most about it?

Well with it being me I have approx 938382 WIPs haha, so i'll TRY to give a brief outline haha (*note, this did NOT end up being brief at all, a thousand apologies.)

- Hades/Persephone ColdWestAllen fic. Len is Hades, Barry is Persephone, Iris is kiiiinda Demeter in that she represents home and family etc etc. Basically, Barry needs Len's help and makes a deal that he'll spend six months out of the year with Len in the criminal underworld (see what I did there?), paying off his debt, and then the other six months with Team Flash. It's gonna be ColdWestAllen endgame but there's a LOT of angst and mess before they get there >:) Progress on this one is steady, but it's gonna be LONG, I'm estimating at least 250k when all's said and done. As for what I love about it - basically everything? This one is my baby and I love her, mostly cos I've never written coldwestallen before and they're an absolute delight, but also cos it's so angsty and complex! Len and Iris' dynamic is probably my absolute fave part though

- Body Swap Fic - Been working on this one today! Len and Barry are enemies with benefits. They swap bodies during a run-in with a meta and neither particularly wants their friends and family to find out about their, ahem, arrangement, so they agree to just... pretend to be each other until they can figure out how to switch back. Predictably, chaos ensues (Len is a terrible CSI, Barry is an even worse crime boss, it's a whole thing.) I'm not very far into this one, only a few chapters, but I'm obsessed with it :D What I love about this one is that (if I do say so myself) it's really funny. I'm leaning hard into the puns and ridiculousness and it's a real comedy of errors so I'm having a blast!

- Michael Snart Fic - This is a continuation of my super long fic, Aftermath, which was basically a rewrite of s1 but Barry and Len were dating the whole time. This fic is basically my combined rewrite of s5 (which I loved) and 6a (which i did not.) Aka Barry and Len's adopted kid shows up from the future, inadvertently triggers Crisis (which is totally different to how it panned out in the show) and they all have to handle the fallout. This one has kind of stalled - I have every intention of going back to it, I have maybe 20k-ish written, but no progress for a while now. My fave thing about it is probably Len having meltdowns bc he thinks he's a crappy dad but he's actually a surprisingly good one (aside from the fact that he sent a teenager back in time to stop Crisis by himself but we'll just ignore that haha)

- The Vegas Fic. Barry and Len get whammied by a meta and fall in love and immediately become convinced that running off to get married in Vegas is the Best Idea Ever, and Team Flash and the Rogues have to chase them across the country to try and catch them before they tie the knot. When I tell you I've been working on this on and off (mostly off though 😅) since 2017... I wrote the first draft in summer 2017 when i was Very Depressed, so it was BAD. I rewrote maybe 90% of it during first lockdown and that draft was Pretty Good, Actually, but then I... put it aside again and I haven't worked on it since. I just need to pull my finger out cos it's so close to done at this point it's just ridiculous. What do I love about it? Well, the sheer ridiculousness of it, mostly. The ridiculous PDA between Barry and Len. The way the love spell wears off at the worst POSSIBLE moment. The Vegas hijinks. It's just great, honestly

- Len/Savitar One Shot. This one's an AU, kinda like if Doomworld Len and Savitar wound up together. Everyone thinks Savitar is just Len's boy toy and he's the weak link in the Rogues, so they kidnap him to use against Len and discover they have made a terrible mistake... this one's mostly drafted, it's a short one so shouldn't take too long if I really put my mind to it, just needs finishing up.

There's probably more if I were to wrack my brains but I think that's quite enough to be going on with 😂

4. Share a sentence or paragraph from your writing that you’re really proud of (explain why, if you like)

Okay, bear in mind that this is unedited and needs cleaning up, but I like it so far! The prose is ~fancy~ haha. I feel like sometimes in my writing you can really see the influence of my degree and it's always nice to see that I got some use out of my 9k a year lmao. This one's from Hades/Persephone!

The change in him was immediate, the sudden stillness. Frozen like one of Len’s icicles. The chill in him only intensified, his unease ramping higher like the music in a horror movie reaching a new crescendo, the scrape of bow against violin string as intense and wrong as bone scraping together. For a moment they were still as a photograph. Then Len realised that Barry wasn’t still at all. He had begun to tremble, not the usual overflow of energy translating into static, but a full-body shiver like an animal trapped in a predator’s view. His expression hunted, not so much the animal caught in the trap but the animal after hours of captivity, with the metal teeth of the trap sunk into skin like a vice, like his skin was the tree growing around a foreign object.

“Run,” Barry croaked.

Len glanced sharply at him. He’d seen Barry happy, angry, upset, in pain, frustrated, even anxious - but he’d never seen him scared. Not this terror. It was the kind of fear that lived in you, a primal thing, like the fear of monsters under the bed. Something lurking in the dark with nowhere to run.

11. What do you envy in other writers?

I mean, everything. This fandom - and other writers in general - are scary talented. But mostly I think I envy anyone who has the ability to focus on one thing at once cos my brain NEVER takes a break. I'm always having new ideas and I want to write ALL OF THEM and consequently nothing ever gets finished.

Thank you :D

Ask me a question about my fics/writing? :D

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RULES:   tell  us  one  favorite  character  from  ten  shows  &  tag  ten  people.

1. Wally West, for the sake of this, I’m going with the Justice League Cartoons Wally. I just loved how happy, bubbly, sassy, and determined he was. Like some villains wouldn’t take him seriously at all then they’d get their ass handed to them. This version of Wally was the reason why I got into comics in the first place. Hence Wally West will always be my Flash.

2. Dean Winchester; when this show started I originally liked Sam, but as I continued with the show Dean quickly became my favorite. He’s just so-- poor Dean, I feel like he tends to get the short end of the stick sometimes or that he gets screwed over often. Of course he gets right back up, and he’s always there for his family, and for his friends. He’s kinda broken, but that sort of makes him more lovable. 

3. Eleven; Stranger Things fuck yes, of course I had to put her on my list. To be fair the whole cast was pretty awesome. It was hard to pick a favorite. But  I had to go with the powerful, ass kicking smol known as Eleven. And if you don’t know you, you’ve got to check it out bc wow, where have you even been.

4. Hannibal; fuck I loved this show, I just completely, and utterly loved it. Will was a close second, but I had to go with the main bad. And that’s our dear Hannibal. The charisma, the manipulation, the chase, I enjoyed every minute of it. Especially his interactions with Will, I wish there had been more.

5. Dana Scully; I am suck a nerd, but c’mon the original x-files was pretty awesome even though like when I was exposed to it I had no idea what was really going on because I was very small. I use to watch it with my dad, like they were reruns by then, but she quickly became my favorite. Even if Molder wasn’t too bad as well. 

6. Okay so it’s a tie between Criminal Mind’s Spencer Reid, and Penelope Garcia. Two adorable, lovable, and very capable dorks. They’re both just... ugh, yes to all of it. But I also feel the need to wrap them into blankets because they’re too precious for this world.

7.  Merlin; from well, Merlin the BBC show. You do not understand the fondness I have for this warlock. He’s just.... he was this little ray of sunshine, that was also sassy, salty, and could kill you without a second thought by season 5. Fuck me this character deserved so much more. And Because I can, I’m tossing in Arthur Pendragon too, I won’t lie I love this asshole, I love the potential he could have had if the writers gave him proper development. 

8. Sebastian Smythe; I was first heard of Glee from my now sister-in-law, but it was only till I started rping Barry did I decided to look into it. Listen, I was a theater kid, I was that brat that loved musicals, and tortured my family with them. Well. My little brother was my main victim. Anyway. I wasn’t too interested in the show itself. But the I found out Grant was on it, and I had to check out the episodes he was in. And ofc that’s how I found Sebastain Smythe, and I regret nothing. Well. Yeah, no regrets here. 

9. Lowell Tracey; iZombie. He’s my son. I love him. Someone protect him. Just. He’s the sweetest Zombie you’d ever met, and he was too good for the world. 

10. Lastly I’ll toss in Barry Allen.............. mostly because I can’t remember what other shows I watched or liked. Lo l

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