#and they feel so much like westhallen

[shrinkthisviolet]

Getting back into Downton Abbey has given me yet another OT3 to add to the list: Matthew/Mary/Lavinia

[kitkatt0430]

I am already intrigued by Hartley/Barry/Cisco with the same shitty ex (Eobard) mention

So I'll have to take my time to workshop this some, but the event isn't until July 14th so I've got plenty of time to shine this idea up. But.

AU-land here, where Professor Thawne works at CCU. Or did. He's being fired after a grad student - Barry - came forward to admit that he'd been taken advantage of by the Professor and now lots of current and former students are coming out of woodwork because Thawne threatened their grades if they didn't sleep with them or etcetera.

There'd be some establishing flashbacks as they all had very different experiences with Eobard. He wooed Hartley then stole his research and ruined Hartley's relationship with his parents by outing him to them. While he was in the screwing Hartley over stage of things, he took up with Cisco who was able to get out of the relationship before things went sour and was only really aware in retrospect that it was a very toxic and power imbalanced relationship for him and that Eobard probably pitted him against Hartley deliberately so as to prevent them from realizing how he was using them. Barry was not directly one of Eobard's students but quickly realized he was being used for a.) his research and b.) as revenge on his parents for his mom snubbing Eobard when they were much younger... well...

So they all meet on campus, Barry's worried that this could affect the PhD he's about to finish up, Hartley and Cisco are reluctantly apologizing to each other and admitting they've got more in common with each other than they realized... and both vowing to make sure that Barry gets his degree since he was the first one out of so many who was brave enough to speak out about what was going on. And the three of them wind up at the campus coffee house just talking until a ridiculous hour of the morning when one of them jokes about this being what a nice first date really ought to be like. And...

They're like... why not? Why not have this be their first date? Why not go on more dates, to see if they work as a trio.

Fast forward to Eobard catching sight of them a year later and realizing they're on a date. His three most hated exes. And they're just kind of like 'ah, thanks, if you hadn't been a shitty, toxic influence on our lives then we never would have found such a healthy relationship with each other afterwards.'

Eobard - *life ruined, steaming with rage, blaming these three in particular for rallying the rest and Barry especially for being the first domino*

Hartley/Barry/Cisco - *too busy being happy together to give Eobard the time of day*

Admittedly, there's room for a canon AU in there too as an alternative take on the prompt. But I feel like a non-canon AU gives more breathing space for having Eobard date and break up with all three of them separately before they all meet up with the intention of destroying his reputation beyond repair.

I'm eying several other prompts on there going oh this one's a good Westhallen prompt (Love triangle? No!) or thinking how I've never written Len/Mick/Sara before but the criminal 4 criminal 4 criminal one could be fun for them, there are several I'm kinda going 'hmmmm, Barrisco???'... and I haven't done Oliver/Felicity/Dig since Telephone, but the friend group goes through trauma prompt does seem very them...

So I'll see what I write between now and July and maybe I'll hit a few of these. :D

[avatarskywalker78]

don't ever forget (you're part of us) for the Director's Cut ask game?

Okay, so this fic - part of flufftober 2021 - was only my second ever Westhallen fic, and much like the first was born out of the belief that they deserved better, especially Eddie, after his experience being held captive by Eobard, and the idea of Iris and Barry leaving their boyfriend love notes because he's been struggling recently just really called to me. This was one of the first to establish the 'No Zoom S2' and Eobard just being dealt with instead of listened to because the latter in particular had always bothered because why?? Would you ever have trusted him?? And knowing I could just pop that in the background without having to put in a lot of lead up was great.

The love notes were definitely my favourites, though, even though only two are actually shown. First we have Iris's:

Dear Eddie, I just wanted to let you know that I love you so much, and you’re one of the kindest, sweetest, and most supportive people I know. Love, Iris

This one did involve little projection on my part because he is one of my faves, but only a little because this is pretty clear in canon and I'm pretty sure everyone in Team Flash and beyond can see this. And then I had Barry's:

Eddie, You’ve always been a good friend, even when I haven’t deserved it. When I tried to save you after your arrest, you ended up being the one comforting me – you saw what the real problem was and no one ever really had before. You’ve no idea how much that meant to me back then. You’re the best friend anyone could have – and the best boyfriend. Love, Barry

While the show did have a few missteps in S1 (Barry's entitlement and the waterfront cheating kiss) for the most part Barry and Eddie had a pretty solid friendship, and that moment was one of the absolute highlights, because we have Barry, the hero of the show, actively prepared to break the law because he can't bear to lose someone else he loves - and Eddie, the would-be rescuee, accused of murder with a lot of evidence against him, stopping him because he has faith that Barry can exonerate him the right way. It's one of the best moments of the episode and the show and I wanted Barry to tell Eddie just how important this moment was.

And for a little while I considered writing out every love note, but I ultimately decided against it because I think these two set the stage well enough that I could just summarise the others - the two of them telling Eddie that they're lucky to have him, that he's an integral part of Team Flash (because that was definitely one of the roots of his insecurities, feeling like an outsider), and that he's one of the best parts of their lives.

In any case, the three of them get to talk it out in the last scenes, Eddie feeling so much love towards them for realising he was starting to spiral and stepping to help how they could, reminding him that he is loved and that he is important - striking back at Eobard's claim of his 'footnote in history' status becuase he will never be a footnote to them, not ever, and Eddie thinks he's very lucky indeed, and I felt that was an excellent place to end it.

Director's Commentary Ask Game

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Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love 💗

doesn’t everyone (Free Rein - Pin Hawthorne with PinMarcus pre-ship) - this one is never likely to have many readers given how small a fandom it is, but the reactions I got from my betareaders alone made this one so worthwhile to write + I hope it makes the few people who read it who are similarly LGBTQ+ feel seen. 

Between Hope And Fear (The Flash - Hartmon) - This one was very cathartic to write about COVID fears, but I think it also had a very poignant mix of angst and satisfying hurt/comfort.

Tell Me What Were We Meant To Be (The Flash - Snowbarry) - I just had so much fun writing this Elementary AU. Plenty of angst but also a cute ending!

it's the little things (The Flash - Westhallen) - My first proper Westhallen fic holds a special place in my heart. I’ve yet to write more for the ship (so many plot bunnies though) but I love this OT3 and really enjoyed exploring all the dynamics as part of this, plus it ended up very cute and them all getting a break for a change, not much angst at all.

Mind The Gap (Fringe - unrequited Linc/Liv) - This is more poetry than prose. I loved capturing all the quiet moments and thoughts that Linc’s love might be hiding in.

[icedteaandoldlace]

pretty sure ive already sent some of these ships as bingo for u before, but i'll fucking do it again: SNOWWEST, E-1 KILLERSNOW, KILLERSNOW OF THE E-1 AND E-2 VARIETY, WESTHALLEN (eddie, not eobard) AND FINALLY...... olivarry :3

Snowwest

This is pretty much my only Caitlin ship besides Snowstorm, and also one of my only consistent fanon ships (in other words, one that I always like and don't just need the right set of circumstances to get on board with). I love the crumbs of their friendship that we got in canon, and I wish we'd gotten more of them!! 😭

E-1 Killersnow

I'm mostly neutral on them, and that's probably because I have such mixed feelings about them due to their canon development. Before Frost showed up, the foreshadowing of her emergence indicated that Caitlin had a tendency to repress her emotions, and that she had an edgier side that she didn't always let show. So when Frost did show up, I was prepared for her to be an extension of Caitlin that Caitlin had to learn to come to terms with, and eventually she'd become a balanced version of both sides. Then I saw a gifset someone made with the caption that they were girlfriends, and I thought that was an interesting take, because that would make Frost a whole separate individual who just happens to share Caitlin's body, and the idea of them navigating dating under those circumstances would be very interesting. And then, of course, canon decided to turn them into sisters, which I can also see the appeal of, but the whiplash that retcon gave me makes me reluctant to refer to them as such. Tbh I still see season 3 Killer Frost as Caitlin, and I see later-seasons Frost as a completely different character, and seasons 4-5 Frost goes back and forth, so it makes for very inconsistent feelings about them. And of course, I headcanon Frost as aroace and Very Much Not Into Anyone, so I'm not super invested in any ships involving her.

E-2 Killersnow

Earth-2 Killer Frost is much more clearly depicted as Caitlin Gone Evil, and season 2 had a fuzzier, less developed concept of doppelgängers than season 3 and onward, so to me it just kind of seems like shipping Caitlin with herself, just with a different life?? Idk if that makes sense. I do enjoy the one-sided aspect of them, though. Killer Frost was definitely feeling some type of way about Caitlin.

Westhallen

BINGO! These guys are mixed feelings city. I can't really see them working out, but there are aspects of it that have potential. Like, I feel like any couple combination of them could work out (in an alternate timeline) with the other as their bestie third wheel, but given the love triangle in canon, I feel like they'd just be constantly at each other's throats if they tried to all be a thing together. It may be the Dan, Vanessa, and Olivia threesome storyline in Gossip Girl shaping my view of this, since they had a very similar trio dynamic. Also the fact that I've never read any fic for them, so all I have is their canon dynamic to base my feelings on. That said, props to the Westhallen fandom for their use of that "there's three people in this relationship" line. My hat's off to ya. 🎩

Olivarry

I may be alone in this, but I've just never seen Barry and Oliver as being that close. They have some good moments here and there, but it seems like the majority of their relationship is just clashing over crime-fighting styles. I just don't really get it. Of course, the erasure of Cisco as Barry's best friend among the Olivarry fandom doesn't help my enthusiasm level any. On that note, I actually enjoy Olivibe's interactions more than Olivarry's, and I'm waiting for the day someone decides to do something with that.

[raywritesthings]

I am blaming you and the few times you’ve reblogged posts and hinted a Iris/Barry/Patty trio for planting seeds in my head about them. Specifically Iris being exasperated by Barry and Patty for their tendency of making (terrible) puns.

Ahaha, yesss!!! Very happy someone is picking up my not-so-subliminal messaging.

I’ll be honest, I stopped watching Flash after s2 (not cause Patty left lol I just got bored), and I heard that they put a lot more work into selling Barry/Iris as a couple which is fantastic and makes me happy for them. But from the two seasons I watched of them… I almost don’t really ship them unless it’s as part of a polycule of some kind. They just work better with a third person in the mix to me, I feel like it helps bridge some of the barriers the writers wrote into the relationship in those earlier seasons.

I love Iris/Eddie/Barry (Westhallen) a ton, like they are god tier. But an AU where they didn’t happen because they didn’t all figure out they each liked each other until it was too late and Eddie dies, so then Barry starts dating Patty while still trying to get over Iris but Iris slowly realizes she’s crushing on Patty while still trying to figure out what she really feels for Barry and Patty is really enjoying dating Barry but also Iris is so sweet and pretty? Yes, I could very much get behind that concept as well.

Or hell, AU where Eddie lives and then they all four somehow end up in some type of arrangement. Why not?

That all said, happy to know someone out there is enjoying my Patty-related (and specifically Barry/Patty/Iris - Wespallen?) reblogs.

[afaims100arrowversefavs]

35. Eddie Thawne lives (The Flash)

 I don’t want to quote Ralph here, so I will just say instead, that Eobard came back, several times, so he kind of died for nothing. Yes he stopped Eobard and saved Barry in the moment back then, but still they should not have killed him. It was Eddie, we are talking about! He was just nice, and Iris loved him, and Barry loved him, and they lost him, and that is not fair, consedering it didn’t stop Eobard for long. So what if he had lived?

Well of course, we would have gotten more Westhallen-Love-Triangle stuff. After all Eddie and Iris did get engaged, but Iris also had admitted she did have those kind of feelings for Barry after all around the end of the season, so no, there wouldn’t have been a Westhawne Wedding, even if some fans would like to claim that. I mean, we might have gotten a Wedding Episode, but no actual marriage. Of couse the whole „my descendant will turn out to be evil and kill Barry’s Mom“- thing would have played a big role going forward – Ralph did say it, Eddie might have done that instead, which would have led to arguments about kids with Iris. Maybe not even in bad falling out way, but there would have been a discussion about it.

Of course Eddie would have remained Joe’s partner, which also would have meant that the police would have stayed more invvolved in the storylines in the second half’s of Seasons 2 and 3. It also would have meant we wouldn’t have gotten Patty in the same way, we got her. She might have joined the Meta Human Task Force still, but it would have been more of a „three cops against the rest of the world“-thing, which actually could have been nice, if they spun it rightly. I guess they would have still made Patty into Barry’s Season 2 Love Interest and it’s hard to tell how this would have gone. I mean, I would know what I would have done with Barry’s Love Life, if Eddie had lived, but sadly the show would not have dared to ever go down the Polyam Westhallen Road, so maybe the twist would have been that Eddie and Patty might have ended up together by the end of the Season.

Would Eddie have become a Speedster and/or evil? I don’t really think so. The going evil story was basically Caitlin’s, they would not have done that with two members of Team Flash. And I don’t think they would have made Eddie into a Speedster, if he would remain good. They got Wally after all for the other Speedster-Part. They might have done a storyline for a single episode though, where Eddie gets powers and becomes semi-evil and spills out some truths about how Barry’s and Iris’s relationship was hurting him. What we might have seen, though, might have been an Evil Earth-2 Speedster Version of Eddie. A Zoom-Underling of kinds, who might have forshadowed the whole „Evil Speedster inside of me“-Notion, in the same way they did with Killer Frost from Earth-2 for Caitlin. And remember, Harry’s Watch did not detect Meta Abilites in Caitlin in Season 2, they did manifest in Season 3, because of Flashpoint we assumed, but it turned out she had them since she was a child, so they might have strechted how much Eddie is not a Meta, only to turn that around a season later – they might have even red herringed us into believing him being Savitar – only to turn it around later again, because like I said, I don’t believe they would have made him into a Meta, unless they would have made him evil, and they would not have made both Caitlin and Eddie turn on the Team and would have definitiyl prioritized Caitlin. If he would have become a Meta, and or evil, this would have lead to writting him of the show eventually, so if it would have happened after all, he would have been redeemed, talked down or whatever, and would have left the city or died after all at a later point of the show, probably again because of Eobard. But this is an Eddie Thawnes Lives Storyline Speculation, not an „Eddie Thawne lives beyond Season 1 only to die later“-one, so let’s just say, he would have stayed the other Police Liaison for Team Flash and disrupted Barry’s and Iris‘ personal lives for some more time.

 Did I do that in one of my Fanfics: In several ones.

[afaimsarrowverse]

Ten Favorite Ships from the four main Arrowverse Shows:

Rules: For this list Crossover Pairings were excluded if one partner is confined to their own show. However if the character changes show later he or she is on the list. This is my blog, this is my list, it is in no way objective, everyone is entiled to their own opinion, so please don’t reblog or answer just to tell me how much you disagree with me. You can’t quantify love, well except with stupid lists like this, just because a ship is not on this list does not mean I don’t like it - except when it does - so…. yeah, here we go

  10 besten Ships „Arrow“:

 10. Merlance (Tommy Merlyn/Laurel Lance)

 I always liked the unlikely story of Tommy Merlyn actually conquering Laurel Lances heart.

 9. Overarcher (KaraX/Oliver QueenX)

 While I don’t think our Kara would ever really give Oliver a shot, this one was undoubtly True Love, well at least for Oliver X, Kara X did love him, yes, but she was much more in line with duty than he ever was. Which is what actually makes this dynamic this interesting.

 8.      GreenAtom (Oliver Queen/Ray Palmer)

 A very underapprecaited Ship that I love dearly. Ray und Oliver together have so much potential.

 7. SmoakDetective (Donna Smoak/Quentin Lance)

 Quentin needs love, and while Donna is not the first person you would think of when you would think of a potential partner for him, she is the best fit for the role. She challenges him and makes his day brighter. And he treats her well.

 6.      Olivarry (Oliver Queen/Barry Allen)

 As unlucky as Olivers Love Live is, maybe that’s the case because the actual love of his live happens to be a man which he is not willing to admit to himself.

 5.      Raylicity (Ray Palmer/Felicity Smoak)

 Cute and entertraining those two are actually a much better fit than Oliver and Felcitiy, maybe only a little bit too simelar as Oliver has pointed out.

 4.      Nysara (Nyssa al Ghul/Sara Lance)

 We love Sara and we love Nyssa, why shouldn’t we love them together?

 3.      Throy (Thea Queen/Roy Harper)

 This is the one ship that everyone agreed on was to be endgame.

 2.      Lauriver (Laurel Lance/Oliver Queen)

 This was supposed to be endgame, and the fact that it wasn’t is frankly just an insult to anyone who knows anything about Green Arrow in the comics.

 1.      Cannarow (Sara Lance/Oliver Queen)

 So here it is my Arrow OTP.

 Die 10 besten Ships „The Flash“:

 10    Elongsue (Ralp Dibnyh/Sue) Dearborn

 This was supposed to be an epic love story with endgame potential.

 9.      Eobarry (Eobard Thawne/Barry Allen)

 Fanboy Eobard might have come to hate Barry, but a part of him never stopped loving the scarlet speedster as we all know.

 8.      Elongflash (Ralph Dibny/Barry Allen)

 I frankly never understood why people did not ship them more and there are so little fanfics about those two, I mean it’s a classic love story really.

 7.      Allenbert (Barry Allen/Julian Albert)

 For a long time I thought that that would be the reveal about Julians problem with Barry. Appearantly so did the actors.

 6.      Jocile (Joe West/Cecile Horton)

 They are cute and sexy together, have a mature realtionship that presents new obstacles the navigate around together, and it’s an eternal shame that their planned Season 5 sub-plot was cut short

 5.      Coldflash (Leoanrd Snart/Barry Allen)

 Leonard flirts with everything that moves, but Barry has a special place in his heart.

 4. Westhawne (Iris West/Eddie Thawne)

 And he was ready to fight destiny itself. For Iris. And she did love him. A lot.

 3.      Thallen (Eddie Thawne/Barry Allen)

 Barry und Eddie were crushing hard on each other, there is no denying that.

 2.      Westallen (Iris West/Barry Allen)

 Westallen ist destiny in every timeline, in every universe, it’s a as simple as that.

 1.      Westhallen (Iris West/Eddie Thawne/Barry Allen)

 This is how you solve a love triangle, that does not need to be one, when all three parties have certain feelings for all the other members of the triangle.

 Die 10 besten Ships „Supergirl“:

 10.  Lanvers (Alex Danvers/Maxwell Lord)

 Yes, I know Alex is lesbian, but this ship ist just too yummy.

 8.      Killiam (Kara Danvers/William Dey)

 Frozen burn realtionship that deserves to pick up speed. Kara deserves a love life, please!

  9.      Karolsen (Kara Danvers/James Olsen)

 Back in Season 1 of Supergirl I actually shipped this.  I loved Kara and genuinly wanted her to get the guy of her dreams. I mean she got heart eyes, ever time James walked in the room, but she also was adult enough to stettle for „just friends“.

 7.      Dolsen (Alex Danvers/Kelly Olsen)

 Kelly is a much better fit for Alex than Maggie ever was, because she is less selfcentered and much more willing to compromise and they are more simelar. And in the end all the obstacles those two faced they were willing to overcome together.

 6.      Overarcher (KaraX/Oliver QueenX)

 While I don’t think our Kara would ever really give Oliver a shot, this one was undoubtly True Love, well at least for Oliver X, Kara X did love him, yes, but she was much more in line with duty than he ever was. Which is what actually makes this dynamic this interesting.

 5.Brainia (Brainiac-5/Nia Nal)

 Brainy and Nia and their relationship were the only genuine good things about the first half of Season 4.

 4.Winniac-5 (Winn Schott/Brainiac-5)

 I am one out of two persons in the world who ships this, but I ship it hard.

 3.      Clois (Clark Kent/Lois Lane)

 Clois has been done very compelling by many other actors before, but the Arrowverse-Version still managed to get their own spin on it and to come across super sweet.

 2.      Sanvers (Maggie Sawyer/Alex Danvers)

 Ah, Sanvers, they took the world in storm and didn’t we love them.

 1.      Karamel (Kara Danvers/Mon-El)

 Their chemistry jumped from the screen right into our hearts.

Die 10 besten Ships „Legends of Tomorrow“:

 10.  Saramaya (Sara Lance/Amaya Jiwe)

 I really don’t know why everyone is going on about Kendra and Sara, when they could be going on about this ship were there is actual tension and actual chemistry there.

 11.  Coldray (Leo SnartX/Ray Terrill)

 Those two are just two cute and sadly were wiped out of existence by Crisis, but I still love them.

 8.      Atomsteelwavevixen (Ray Palmer/Nate Heywood/Mick Roey/Amaya Jiwe)

 I prefere Steelatom and Vixenwave as bros, but as a foursome those four rock the libido and the Waverider.

 7.      Captains3 (Sara Lance/Rip Hunter/Leonard Snart)

 Given that Sara and Rip, Sara and Leonard und Leonard and Rip would not last together, my solution to this would be to get together as a threesome.

 6.      Constangreen (John Constantine/Gary Green)

 We love Gary, and Gary loves John, and John does actually love Gary.

 5.Avalance (Ava Sharpe/Sara Lance)

 At this point Avalance is cleary planned to be endgame and rightly so.

 4.Hellcanary (John Constantine/Sara Lance)

 Two broken souls, two players who played which each other and found solace in each others arms – two bi-sexual icons together

 3.Vixensteel (Amaya Jiwe/Nate Heywood)

  I loved the star crossed romance between Nate and Amaya, and the fact that they defied history and was heart broken when they gave up after all.

 2.      Timecanary (Rip Hunter/Sara Lance)

 Out of all her many suitors Rip is the one I would want to see her ending up with.

 1.      Atomwave (Ray Palmer/Mick Rory)

 This is my Legends-OTP and I am still not over the fact that Ray is out of the show and so is this ship!

[kickassfu]

Welcome, Dear Customer

Happy bday @westhallen this was probably not quite what u had in mind, but i hope you like it!!! I wish I could make u a gifset, as you’d like but i don’t know hoooow so you get this xD Love you <3

On FF.

Welcome, Dear Customer

It truly was a magical coffee shop; it was welcoming and warm, open to anyone who needed it. It smelled of baked chocolate cookies and fresh brewed coffee, it felt like home away from home - like, for that moment, you belonged there. Humans always managed to find it someway or another, walking in dazed, and leaving with a lighter heart and a smile. Caroline built Mystic Falls, as a safe haven for whoever needed one, whether they were a werewolf, a witch or a vampire, enemy or friend, all were welcome. Although if anyone started trouble, she would deal with them swiftly and promptly.

She was open and friendly to anyone, but there had been a new patron that managed to get on her nerves; Caroline still wasn’t sure what he was yet, he managed to hide it quite well, but she was sure he was special. Something different, maybe a hybrid of sorts? He was infinitely intriguing and could get under her skin fairly easily.

The bell on the door rung, and she sighed, his smell always made her hunger rise and her composure to fall. Smiling brightly, - although faked, no one but him had ever noticed - Caroline said warmly, “Good morning.”

He smiled back at her, knowing full well she couldn’t treat him like she did the other customers, no matter how much she tried and sat down at the counter right in front of where she stood. “Good morning love. Did you miss me?”

“You were here yesterday.” she muttered, rolling her eyes.

“What was that?”

“Nothing, dear customer. Thank you for always coming by, have you decided what you’d like yet?”

“One of your special coffees please. And I’ve said it again and again, call me Klaus.”

There were many special coffees, for any and all species, things that called to their inner beings, but the one Klaus asked for was made especially for him. She didn’t like doing it, not sure what made her buckle to do it the first time or what made her keep doing until now. She felt exposed, and vulnerable, feelings Caroline didn’t appreciate feeling - but she did anyway.

Carefully she brewed the coffee; it was mesmerizing, he could never look away from her dainty, lithe fingers, as she used her own special brand of magic to make coffee or cookies, or killing someone.

It was by chance that he came across this place, he liked the feeling of it but felt it was off, as if something was trying to invade his very being, and then he had seen her. Glorious in all her being; all smiles and kindness at the surface, but deep inside there was something powerful and sometimes dark that drew him closer. He had tried to stay away, but it didn’t last long until he broke and came to see her again, and the next day, and the next one, until he craved every part of her.

As he saw the drop of blood fall from the tip of her finger into his coffee, his eyes turned yellow in anticipation of her taste. Licking his lips, Klaus lost himself in her smell and restrained himself from taking a bite of her tender flesh.

“Here it is, hope you enjoy.” Caroline said, her skin feverish from the way his eyes always devoured her, but doing her best to not show how he truly affected her. One way or another, he always got on her nerves, but not because he was annoying, - no - it was the way he looked at her. The way he acted around her, the way he talked, the way he looked, it was his very self that rattled her.

Klaus took his time, sipping the hot coffee slowly; the magic and her blood intertwining, and sinking into his body, that feeling lasted a while and he could still feel her inside him - it was ecstatic, but never quite enough. He wondered how long it would take for her to finally let her guard down around him; it didn’t really matter, he had time - plenty of it - and he’d wait however long it took.

“Perfect as ever, Caroline. My tongue is still tingling from your taste.”

“Please refrain from saying misleading things on my place of business.” Caroline almost called him a pervert, but he was still her customer - maybe after hours she would.

The bell rung once again, and she looked up to see two humans walk in, hand in hand, and in love - it was nice. Although most humans that came, did so when sad or upset, it wasn’t rare for a loving couple to find her coffee shop. Maybe it was the shop’s atmosphere, but the man’s eyes suddenly lit up, as if he couldn’t wait any longer and he kneeled on the ground.

“Elena, will you marry me?”

The beautiful, long haired girl in turn seemed surprised, and started crying, falling to the ground in front of her boyfriend - fiancé? - and hugging him tight. “Of course I will Stefan. It took you long enough, I almost asked you to marry me instead.”

They sat down in a far away table, kissing and hugging, as if it was their last day on earth - it was adorable, and maybe slightly annoying. Caroline took their orders, and said they needn’t pay, it was her little gift to their future happiness.

Klaus looked bored through it all, and she couldn’t help but ask, “Not a fan of displays of affection?”

“With you, I would be.” he said, and she wasn’t sure if it was another one of his jokes.

“I’m too smart to be seduced by you, Klaus.” she flirted subconsciously. When she realized what she said, Caroline wanted to hit her past self for slipping out of her work personality. Although Klaus seemed delighted by her slip up, which made her even more embarrassed.

“That’s why I like you.”

Oh no.

Now he was flirting back.

This was not good.

She was enjoying it.

“Sorry, I need to go clean some tables. It’s almost time for closing up, my apologies dear customer.”

One step forward, two steps back, in the same place as before but not quite. She already had him in the palm of her hands, and it was only a matter of time until he had her in his.

[habibialkaysani]

I'd love to hear about your top Flarrowverse OT3s , or OTmores(especially your opinions about Oliver/Felicity/Laurel and Oliver/Tommy/Laurel)?

dude. DUDE. are you kidding me. do you know how much I love merlancequeen. literally my friend @theprincessandthepie made a wonderful video about them and apparently the whole time she was going through my merlancequeen tag. 

like???? I have so many feelings? because I ship it all - merlance, lauriver, toliver, all of it. so the idea of the three of them in a polyamorous relationship fills me with joy because that would have been so much better than the shitty love triangle it ended up being. like, imagine if tommy went to laurel’s, wanting to apologise to her, and he finds oliver and laurel making out, same as before. only this time they talk and end up having a threesome. isn’t that a much better idea?

I like oliver/felicity/laurel but tbh I don’t have the same nostalgia for them like I do with merlancequeen because with merlancequeen we got scenes with the three of them quite regularly in season 1. so I feel robbed of that now, whereas with oliver/felicity/laurel, altho totally plausible and something I would absolutely write, I just don’t have that same… yearning? I guess? 

as for other couples in the flarrowverse. I was always a fan of james/lucy/kara because again, that is a love triangle gone good. same with westhallen and atomic hawkmates. and I would be so down with canarrowestallen as an ot4. and laurel/cisco/lisa or laurel/nyssa/felicity maybe. 

also I know you didn’t ask for this but I’mma say it anyway - haromione. as in, harry/ron/hermione. imagine how perf that would be. I totally ship it, anyway.

edit: totally forgot to mention smoaking canarrow. I literally wrote a threesome fic with them in it lmao. sleepover saturday

[shrinkthisviolet]

Iris and Wally for the character ask thingy? :)

Iris West-Allen

favorite thing about them

She’s so tenacious, I love her for it! And her strongest superpowers are her belief and investigative skills—I find that inspiring

least favorite thing about them

Her “three list” in s1

favorite line

“It’s okay. A girl’s gotta be her own hero every now and again” and “All the information I have on Black Hole will be immediately released…so tell your friend to stand down.” That’s our girl, standing on business!!

brOTP

Iris & Cisco, my sunshine twin babies 💞

OTP

Westallen, Westhallen, Barriscowest!

nOTP

Iris/Eobard

random headcanon

She and Caitlin became friends post-s1 via bonding over losing their fiancés. Caitlin found the grieving process much easier this time around—not because the loss hurt any less, but because she had someone who Got It, who knew exactly how she felt and didn’t try to placate or soothe her. Iris, for her part, was ALSO glad to have someone who let her feel her feelings without trying to placate or soothe her—it felt good. They smashed more than a few things together to let out some of the pent-up grief…and by the time Iris was ready to move on with Barry, by the time she and Caitlin had that talk, it came from a woman who knew exactly how Iris felt, exactly what her hesitations were, and encouraged her to go for it anyway

unpopular opinion

Apparently even liking her is an unpopular opinion lol but here’s one: song i associate with them

song i associate with them

Seeing Green by Nicky Minaj!

favorite picture of them

Look at her!! Adorable 🥰 and this is one of my favorite hairstyles of hers

Wally West

favorite thing about them

How considerate he is! It’s not a trait the show often showcases, but he worries about Iris enough to go to the hospital and sit by her bedside even after they fought, he’s racing specifically to raise money for his mom’s medical bills, he wants to be a hero to help people (not just because he thinks it’ll be cool to have powers—when he thinks there’s a chance of him not getting powers, he specifically says “So you think, just let it go? Give up on wanting to help people?”), etc. He’s got a bigger heart than people give him credit for!

least favorite thing about them

I love him, I do, and I don’t fault him for being mad that Barry proposed to Iris out of fear (nor do I blame him more than Barry, as some morons do), but…he should’ve confronted Barry privately about that. Maybe with Iris, but not with everyone else

favorite line

“I'm fast, really fast. I might even be the fastest man alive. And when I'm running, there's no greater feeling in the world. I can move through the city like a guardian angel, protecting people who need me.” Speaks to that need for speed that he’s been chasing since s2…and calls back to when his biggest disappointment of not having powers was feeling like he couldn’t help people!

brOTP

Wally & Barry and Wally & Iris ofc

OTP

Wallylinda/Wallinda!! They’re canon in my heart idc

nOTP

Hmm well I don’t like Wally/Jesse, but I like them platonically, so…does that count 😅

random headcanon

Wally is absolutely the fun uncle who indulges Nora and Bart’s every whim, no matter what Barry and Iris have to say about it. Nothing too unsafe ofc, moreso things like sneaking them sweets late at night, or letting them stay up past bedtime…or taking them for a little time travel spin in a fully controlled environment, Barry, I’d never let anything happen to my niblings!

unpopular opinion

People being more mad at him for revealing that Barry proposed to Iris out of fear than they are mad at Barry for proposing that way in the first place is absolutely wild. Obviously Wally should’ve confronted Barry privately, not in front of anyone, but don’t act like he was more in the wrong than Barry

song i associate with them

Everybody Loves Me by OneRepublic!

favorite picture of them

He's so confident and happy here 🥰

character ask game!

[kitkatt0430]

role reversal AU with Barry and Iris? :)

So I've written a couple of these before - and I no doubt will again. [I Know (Do You?) and Hurry Up (To Slow Down)] I do enjoy a good role reversal for these two. :D

So in a role reversal specifically from Iris' point of view, I think she'd initially promise not to tell Barry when Joe asks, but quickly realize from Barry's interest in metahumans and the Flash that keeping him in the dark is pretty cruel. Instead of trying to gaslight him about it or talk him out of investigating, Iris would come clean. Forewarned is forearmed and Iris wants him to be safe about things.

Depending on how long it takes for Iris to tell him, Barry may or may not be upset about it. But if he's upset? He gets over it pretty fast. Iris has always been amazing and his hero and so he's so proud of her for being everyone's hero now.

Eobard is not thrilled. In retrospect he realizes that it isn't that surprising that Iris West had the right genes to become a speedster considering Wally West is destined to become a speedster. Or was destined. What does Eobard know. Maybe Linda Park will become a speedster. *he's waving hands wildly while Gideon wonders if she can get smoke to come out of his ears if she says yes*

since Iris was still in college getting her Masters degree at the time, there would be focus on her trying to maintain her GPA while juggling Flash duties and frustration with EoWells perhaps not respecting her class time, maybe her pointing out that she's not exactly getting paid for her Flash work inspires him to create an internship for her so that she does get paid and can't complain about that anymore.

Because, honestly, Iris doesn't have the Jitters job anymore. it's not her fault she couldn't work while in a coma but what are the odds a part time barista job would get held open for her that long?

There's so many ways things could play out relationship wise. I've done both the Westallen and Westhallen routes, but why not some Barriscowest? Or Snowestallen? Snowest & barrisco? Thallen and Newsvibe (is that what Iris/Cisco is called? that's what I'm going with) There are a lot of possibilities and I do enjoy so many different ships.

Iris and the pipeline... I don't know where she'd stand on that. I'd like to think she'd be against it and so that's the track I'd take writing another one of these AUs, because Iris is the voice of reason. But canon probably would have put her on the pro pipeline train if she hadn't been sidelined like she was. :/

I think Iris would probably try harder to talk things out with the metas. Not always a good idea, but she's much more likely to try to de-escalate a situation than Barry is. So she'd probably be able to talk Shawna down, but trying to empathize with Hartley would likely end with him taking advantage of her sympathy. Though she'd also be less sympathetic towards Snart since, unlike Barry, she doesn't really have the experiences Barry has that made him empathize with Len.

Iris would be tempted to go back in time to save Nora because she loves Barry and she wants him to have his mother. Whether or not she actually does it depends on how her conversation with Henry goes. He was not in favor of changing the timeline to save Nora even though he no doubt wanted her to have a chance to live, so he might be able to talk Iris out of it if he can articulate his feelings on the subject well enough.

a lot of this has focused on Iris, but I think Barry would settle well into back up. He'd probably still get a chance to be a battle couple with her similar to the incident with Tony in canon. Maybe the return of Becky Cooper turns out to be a bad thing when she turns out to be a powered stalker with a crush on Barry?

Barry's also got a pretty close friendship with Cisco and Caitlin already by the time Iris wakes up, which I think would factor into Iris ultimately deciding to tell him pretty quickly. Keeping the secret would not only be potentially putting Barry in danger but damaging his new friendships and Iris wouldn't want to do that to him.

[coldtomyflash]

@meenadhawan, I’m actually really glad you brought that up! (Though for the record, Wentworth Miller is biracial, but I recognize the complaint that he’s still light-skinned and the way colorism functions in this instance).

I actually struggled on whether to include Cisco or not in my “Barry is bi in canon” post not for reasons related to race, but because of Barry and Cisco’s dynamic being a lot less “I’m distracted by this dude’s arms and can’t stop flirting with him or getting all up in his space” and more “he’s my best friend and we’ll find each other in any universe.” 

One thing I mentioned at the outset of that post was that Barry often doesn’t fall into the traps of toxic masculinity - he shows his feelings, he cries, he cultivates close and intimate friendships with men and women that deal in emotional authenticity. And I wanted to make sure that I didn’t end up implying “man who shows his feelings and connects with males” is automatically “man is queer” (because I think that promotes those toxic mindsets such that men are only “allowed” to be emotional if they’re queer).

With the way Barry responds to Cisco, most of the examples are that more emotional connection-based type. He’s close and intimate with Cisco, deeply caring. And in the space of that post, I didn’t know how to address that without it coming off as “if two men close and intimate, it must be because they’re in love and not because they have a healthy friendship because straight men don’t have feelings.” That’s a failure on my behalf to articulate things well. Basically, I can write about Barry being in love with Cisco more easily than I can write about him having a passing attraction to Cisco?

The other reason was because most of the examples I could find that didn’t fall into that category (because there are a few) ended up looking more like attraction from Cisco to Barry and not vice versa (because I’d say Cisco is the one presented as most bi in canon, which I think I briefly touched on in the post).

All this being said, being white and raised in a white and racist society means there’s always potential that implicit racism affected my actions. I fully acknowledge it happens and that I’m far from immune to it, even as I work hard to unlearn and push back against racism. So I’ll keep working at it and try to do better in the future. 

Beyond that, and getting closer to what I most want to accomplish in this post, I actually ship flashvibe but don’t ship olivarry, thallen (outside of westhallen anyway), or Barry x Hartley (which was mostly an aside) and think there’s more canon evidence of Barry having a deep emotional connection with Cisco than there is between him and any other (non-father-figure) man on the show by a mile, but I do think it looks a little bit different than the examples in the other post, for reasons I stated above.

SO! 

With that in mind, and since we’re here (and what I just took like 500 words to get to), why don’t we actually take a look at how Barry and Cisco interact in canon through a deliberately queer lens? 

One thing we see between them, a lot, is body contact. We’ve got them close in each other’s space for photos that they take extra time to take.

And then holding on to each other as a first reaction to shock and fright.

(Cisco also holds on to E2 Barry the same way but more protectively, and Barry-2 rolls with it)

(There’s also, somewhere out there, a gif I can’t find with Barry standing in front of Caitlin and Cisco with, I think, him holding on to Cisco’s hand or arm protectively).

Not all examples are mutual. There actually is an example (probably more than one, but one I can easily find) of Barry getting up and cozy into Cisco’s space in a way that’s arguably unnecessary.

(Gets right close to his face too, look at their smiles).

One thing I said I tried not to do in the other post was imply that men can’t be close and physical with one another without being queer (hence why I didn’t include any hugging gifs even between Barry and Oliver), but if we relax that rule for a sec, these two do take their excuses to hug when they get them:

Both in joy and in grief.

(That scene actually kills me, if it’s the one I think it is, from 1x16 where Cisco had to reveal Barry’s identity, and Barry just hugs him after and blames himself for Cisco being in that position. There’s a lot of love between these two).

And there’s this little arm touch:

They’re both very physical people, I think, and connect a lot through little touches and connection.

(Though it doesn’t always work out...)

(Barry going in for the hug, or at least some type of contact - denied).

Then there’s the way they get each other, of course.

I love their mutually knowing glances.

(There’s enough times where they share a glance or a joke in the background that if you just watch them you’ll end up grinning a lot, they’re often teasing one another or mutually judging someone else together...)

And although I found this scene manipulative, I do appreciate that Barry has staunch faith in Cisco’s goodness and he’s saying how he’ll support Cisco through learning about his powers:

Because every now and then, Barry also looks at Cisco like he’s in awe of him:

And one of their first and genuinely more flirtatious scenes (to me) was Cisco telling Barry that he makes the toys, and the way they both ended up grinning about it. Barry when he’s confident and smirking or grinning is a Barry who feels like he’s flirting.

(The moment Barry fell in love with Cisco? Maybe, maybe not. But definitely the moment *I* fell in love with Cisco).

And no flashvibe post is gonna be complete without discussing the obvious signs of how much they mean to each other.

Barry would never let Cisco die, not even to get rid of Thawne once and for all.

(As if there was a question of that, honestly, Barry loves Cisco, however you perceive that love).

And Cisco finding Barry in the speedforce is evidence of their incredibly deep connection.

But the scene that’s always killed me (and I think it was the deleted scene, or am I remembering wrong?) is when Cisco’s telling Barry that he doesn’t want to lose their friendship or their current life.

And Barry reassures him on that, about how he sees their friendship, and more or less how he can’t imagine his life without Cisco now.

(Which, ultimately, ends up sounding more romantic than not. It’s hard to imagine Barry saying that to someone else, really. I know it’s got a family spin on it, but it was the moment where I was kind of like: oh, that could be love.)

And you’ve got their cute goodbye right after, Cisco a little grieved but supportive, holding Barry’s arms.

  And there’s there’s little moments. I love this one because it does have more of Barry’s confident, glowing side, and is one of the moments I thought of that remind of him flirting.

(Look at these dorks and their smiles and the way Cisco adjusts his hair after. I’m telling you, Cisco’s crush on Barry is real, at least in S1).

And there’s other random examples, like when Barry runs back in time in 2x17 and we get both versions of Barry proving their friendship to Cisco with details of their friendship history.

And then Barry running to the future too, and us seeing that despite future!Barry being, uh, Not In A Good Place, Barry and Cisco’s connection is eternal:

You’ve got moments where Cisco keeps Barry focused.

And ones where he teases him, like when Barry is temporarily somewhat blind and Cisco’s in his ear (because he trusts Cisco enough to guide him on dates, and literally to just guide him around).

(Smooth, Barry, I think Cisco was impressed by your skills).

And I think, somewhere out there, is a line from S1 or early S2 about how on many days, Cisco would love to have Barry’s life? I can’t remember the episode, but it spoke to me a bit of that admiration/crush stuff (though again, was more evidence for Cisco being bi than Barry being bi).

So in sum, I think we can read Barry’s connection with Cisco through a queer lens, and if we do, we do end up seeing a lot of examples that could be evidence of either or both of them having feelings for one another. With these two, it still feels more to me like genuine feelings and depth than it does a passing attraction or the flirting wanna-check-him-out-gotta-be-subtle thing that I was alluding to in my other post where Barry gets distracted by Oliver’s arms or Eddie’s body (but if you can think of any examples where we see this between Barry and Cisco, please send those examples my way!).

And I think we can read Barry and Cisco as being really good friends with a healthy intimate connection, and I never want to take away from that by saying that men who hug or have inside jokes or who trust and build one another up are necessarily “more than friends” because I genuinely think that’s a dangerous statement to make.

But if Barry is bi, he’s definitely got lots of romantic potential with Cisco.

[purpleyin]

2020 Fic Writer’s Year In Review

So 2020 in review because I like doing stats, there’s something comforting about working them out for me. Even if 2020 was not all that good a writing year.

I actually started writing this post in February but I stalled at the whole favourite lines part because I like to link to the fics and so it sat in my drafts for aaaaagggges and I’m finally getting to it again in May!

For anyone who got tagged in this post and is wondering why, that’d be because there’s a section way way down in the post for ‘Writers You Should Read’ where I am reccing you. :)

Word count written: 90,283/104,000

Word count for posted stories: 63,662/156,000     

Number of fics: 34  - I included fics/fic chapters and ficlets I do with moodboards if they were about more than 100 words

(I also made 5 fanmixes + 1 fanvid)

Fandoms written for (for posted works): The Flash, BBC Sherlock, Legends of Tomorrow, Stargate Atlantis, HP Series, Uncharted

(for the vid - Mass Effect: Andromeda + Game of Thrones for 1 fanmix)

Shortest Story: If I only count fics that have dialogue that’d be the snippet of Killergold Jurassic Park AU I did for Femslash February, at about 300 words.    

Longest Story: “A Matter of Time” my angsty/whump Hartmon timeloop fic I did for the Hartmonfest exchange, that’s about 8.5k words.

Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you’d predicted? 

So I did decently by my writing goal, 90k out of 104k, even though that wasn’t much compared to the previous year. I thought I’d done less, because I didn’t feel very productive, but I guess half my problem was writing things that didn’t get finished. I was hoping to finish more WIPs in general from prior years too and so get more posted than I written but I didn’t really manage that, oh well. I have 35 new WIPs awaiting finished from 2020. No clue if that’s better or worse than last year, may need to start keeping track of them somehow.  

What pairing/genre/fandom did you write most? The Flash was my most written for fandom to no surprise. Most written pairing was Savisnow but Hartmon almost beat it out in 2020, very close with both at around 17k words each. Genrewise it was largely angst and whump as usual.

What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January?

For pairings - I would have to say either McKay/Sheppard/Weir or Coldvibe.

McKay/Sheppard/Weir I didn’t expect because it’s such an old fandom and I was only into it in passing. Somehow I had a resurgence of squee for the fandom and a moodboard plot bunny that demanded to be more so ended up a ficlet. It was more not!fic than proper fic but I unexpectedly enjoyed making it.

Coldvibe was another I didn’t expect to write anything for. Moodboards, yes, and I did a fair few but actually writing a snippet with dialogue in it to go with my Elseworlds AU I wouldn’t have predicted at the start of the year I don’t think.

Genre - I definitely had a higher than usual fluff % though, it’s becoming easier to write with practice I suppose. I never expect fluff! I certainly also didn’t expect to write 2 quarantine/lockdown fics...

Fandom - unexpected was Game of Thrones. Because what I made was for Braime, which I love but I’ve otherwise only lurked in that fandom.  I did a fanmix and a moodboard with short blurb and that was more than I thought I’d ever do.

Did you take any writing risks this year?

I branched out into several pairings I’d not written full fics for before (Snowest, Westhallen) and I started posting my Savisnow multichapter even though it’s WIP slow posting and hardly going to be popular because it’s niche.

But probably the riskiest fics felt like ones that I wrote where I was worried what if I got wrong somehow (like my Iris with mirror powers oneshot or Hartmon ASL day fic) or that were very heavy emotionally like my Hartmon quarantine fic.

Do you have any fanfic or general writing goals for the new year?

Finish more already started fics! Literally that is the main goal this year. Start less stuff, finish more old stuff. I need to be more disciplined. I may not always feel like writing a certain thing but with so many WIPs there should be something I want to make progress on surely no matter my mood.

I also still have 4 bingocards to do - Bad Things Happen, DCTVGen, Hartmon (overdue but eh, if I post stuff it’s still good to do) and WIPbingo now.

From the past year of writing, what was your...

Best story of this year: I think my Westhallen ‘it’s the little things’.

Most popular story of this year (by kudos): This is hard to say when the top fic is “Why Should I Trust You” that is multichaptered and cross year so I can’t tell how many kudos it got last year specifically...it has 166 total. Otherwise, for new fics in 2020 it was ‘with one’s own hand’ a Hartmon fic with 44 kudos.

Personal favorite: It’s so niche but my Savisnow Valentine’s fic is my fave.

My favourite fic to write: The 2nd chapter of One Way Or Another. It was also tough to write but the not quite Frost!Caitlin back and forth with Savitar was strangely satisfying to write out. Also I cackle at the end of chapter angst.

Most fun to write: Definitely my Coldwestallen fluff/teasing heatwave ficlet.

Story with the single sexiest moment: Alas I wrote none this year on my main account and only 1 on my secondary PWP account so there’s no true competition there.

Most “holy crap, that’s wrong, even for you” story: Honestly can’t think of one, wasn’t really a darkfic kinda year. The few Savibarry things I created (a fanmix and 2 moodboards including a short ficlet) are probably the most likely to fall under that category for the pairing alone.

Most challenging to write: The Hartmon timeloop fic, because the plot needed to be good enough and getting pacing right was hard too.

Funniest fic: I don’t do funny much but I’d say the heatwave ficlet again.

Fluffiest fic: My Westallen coffee shop AU probably? Or the Westhallen fic.

Saddest fic: This one is hard to judge. I suspect One Way Or Another is overall saddest, because Savitar, but the Iris has powers one is fairly sad too given her inevitable trauma from being in the Mirrorverse. My Uncharted fic ‘Slip of the tongue’ is also post-breakup so quite morose/regretful.

Fic I’m proudest of writing: Probably the Hartmon quarantine fic, ‘Between Hope And Fear’ because it was a hard subject to deal with for me emotionally at the time. It was cathartic to write but then it looks like from the response that it resonated with several people so I was glad to have been able to write it.

Least popular fic: Going by kudos or hits, my Uncharted fic with only 4/35 but it is a tiny/kinda dead fandom. My Iris fic also was next least popular with only 9 kudos & 52 hits - I’ve only written for her a handful of times as I get a little nervous about if I can write her well enough and I never know if some Iris fans might avoid me due to ship wars.

Biggest disappointment: I wasn’t disappointed in anything I posted but I was least confident about my Snowest fic, ‘Love isn’t a science’.

General writing reflections: I should try and do more variety. Experiment more. Let myself write more shortform stuff again. I get a lot of grand ideas but I need to accept not everything can be long fic. It’d be nice to have some stuff somewhere between longfic and moodboard blurbs as those seems my current two extremes 90% of the time. I should probably worry less about fact checking canon stuff and handwave things more.

Writers You Should Read: My answer wasn’t initially gonna be much different than last year and I’d generally say check out my bookmarks on AO3.

But then I thought more and realised there’s definitely some other writers I found in 2020 and a few others I want to mention.

@voldiebuns has lots of great short fics I enjoyed a lot when I hadn’t many spoons to read fic.

@violetteatime writes great Hartmon.

@astrid-goes-for-a-spin I really enjoyed their Iris and Westallen fics.

@dance-is-life27 has some lovely Snowestallen.

@finalfantasyx writes very thoughtful Snowbarry that is also Iris-friendly.

Check out @tygermine if you want humourous/fluffy Dramione and she also has a lot of Merlin fics.

@jessequicksters is a great writer and got me reading some Flash pairings I’d not considered before.

@secondratevillain has a lot of fab Rogues fics.

@joanthangroff for great DCTV gen in particular. 

@letmetellyouaboutmyfeels who has such great Timeless fics, especially for Garcyatt, but also has started writing great Witcher fics too.

Favorite character to write: I think this year that’d be Hartley, but Savitar is still up there for the same odd reasons as before.

Favorite opening lines:

I don’t think I have any favourites for this.

Favorite closing lines:

A break that created something else, each shard a possibility, a new path to see herself another way.

- from After Image (Iris, The Flash)

Because words are her thing and all Rodney really needs to understand is he doesn’t have to be perfect, he can just be, the same as John is with her. That’s all they really need.

- from my McKay/Shep/Weir College professors AU ficlet (SGA)

It’s her turn to blush then, and that brings out a smile from Barry that makes all his previous smiles seem dull in comparison.

- from my Westallen Coffeshop AU (Barry/Iris, The Flash)

Other favorite lines:

'I can do that' and 'We ought to be able to manage it' and so many variations of those have been uttered by him over the years. All permutations on the theme of him not exactly promising to borrow/beg/steal an object for the client themselves per se. 'I could do that for you', with the words 'I won't' left off.

{...]he blames Elena for her moralizing him – changing his perception from shades of grey to a stronger contrast.

- from Slip of the Tongue (Nate, Uncharted)

there's nowhere to go. Except there's that tug inside her, like a whisper of gravity, that says, there's here.

- from After Image (Iris, The Flash)

Hunter, who turned out to be less bring-home-to-your-mom material and more of a wants-to-take-you-home-in-the-trunk-of-his-car kinda guy.

- from my Snowbarry Little Shop of Horrors AU (Barry/Caitlin, The Flash)

But it makes Cisco swallow hard because that isn’t the Piper outfit he’s most recently seen Hartley in. This is the outfit he made for Hartley, erased from existence like every other part of their friendship.

- from my Hartmon Alice in Wonderland Fusion (Cisco/Hartley, The Flash)

[polyamoryinfandoms]

Headcanons for the last day of losfpolyamshipweek! Day 7: Free Day, aka “Headcanons for every other polyam ship I can think of and ship but didn’t write about” 

Westhallen: Video montages are such a thing with these three. Any birthday or anniversary present, and it’s presented in a video. Whoever is watching at the time is guaranteed to have tears streaming down their face. 

Clark/Winn/James: Oh my god these dorks. James and Clark will sometimes go out and fight crime together while Winn helps out in the van - and when they know it’s a one-hero job, James will either go out and photograph Clark or Clark will go out and sit in the van with Winn furiously typing up a storm praising Guardian for his heroic exploits. 

When Winn is in the van he’s snarky af. He once kept mimicking a villain after every sentence and Clark couldn’t stop giggling. The villain legitimately stopped his monologue because he was so offended.

Rip/Miranda/Jonah: Oh my god. The time parents. Miranda and Jonah never got the chance to meet so Jonah is very nervous about meeting her, though he never vocalizes it. But when she meets him, she gets a huge smile and hugs him and thanks him for helping Rip and being such a source of strength for him. 

When Miranda and Jonah eventually get together, it feels just as natural to Jonah as falling for Rip did because he felt so welcomed. Also, the two tend to team up on Rip when it comes to doing the chores or being dumb about the team so they got along really quickly. 

Rip and Jonah are Dads(TM); they take Jonas’s phone once trying to figure it out and tried taking a picture. It ended up being a 20 minute video of their foreheads. 

Jonah and Jonas are great together because they’ve both heard so much about each other. Jonah was far more worried about meeting Jonas - he’s never interacted with kids after all, but Jonas is super excited and Jonah realizes that Jonas loves the gory old West stories that Jonah has (Rip does not approve of these stories). 

“Want to hear about the time your dad got drunk and burned down a saloon?” Rip: “No.” Miranda and Jonas: “Y e s” 

SnowParkWest: HUGE dorks together tbh. When they realized they liked each other Iris tried being smooth and she ended up being exactly like Cisco and going “Yeah so uh - maybe we can all talk about that, over dinner, maybe? Or coffee, if that’s less formal.” 

Caitlin was equally flustered and would “”casually”” try to invite Iris and Linda out, or say she thought they’d love to write about doctoral stuff for the paper. That’s literally what she said. “Maybe you want to write about...doctoral...stuff.” Linda immediately agreed lmao

Cisco, quietly snickering in the background: “Doctor stuff, you guys are so-” Iris, Caitlin and Linda: “Shut up Cisco.” (He’s not even offended, he just keeps eating his jello and snickers every time they fail at flirting.) 

Nate/Ray/Amaya: So Ray/Amaya aren’t dating actually; this is a V relationship - Nate found out that Ray was dating the Hawks back at home and both he and Amaya got really interested in what that meant and Ray is always up for explaining stuff, especially polyamory, so they sat through a presentation that lasted 1 hour and 43 minutes. Amaya asked a lot of questions and really liked the idea and told Ray so  (which made him beam). 

Nate at the end: “Um, so. Are you willing to date anyone else?” (He was not subtle, but thankfully for him, Ray is oblivious). Amaya later helped him properly ask Ray out by planning a long movie marathon and sneaking in their own video message asking Ray out (it was in the form of the Star Wars intro opening btw). 

Rogue Canary: Every year without fail, Sara will buy Len and Mick a present for their wedding anniversary. She knows she doesn’t need to, but she knows they don’t make a big deal of it and she figures someone should celebrate the two.  

So Mick and Len celebrate their wedding anniversary quietly, and Sara will have casual, spur of the moment dates with Len. Trio wise - they don’t have any traditions or anything, but occasionally they’ll take the jumpship to a bar and inevitably leave when they start a bar fight or the bar is burned down (or both). It’s one of their favorite activities.  

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Rules: once you have been tagged you are supposed to write 92 truths about yourself. At the end, choose however many people you want to tag!

I was tagged by @elenaxrodriguez thanks babe!!

LAST…

[1] drink: coke. always coke. [2] phone call: my bff [3] text message: same [4] song you listened to: city and colour, thirst [5] time you cried: earlier today watching long island medium (the purest and most cleansing cry you could ever experience)

HAVE YOU EVER…

[6] dated someone twice: what does that mean? gone on 2 dates with the same person? dated, broke  up, then dated again? yes to the first, no to the second. [7] been cheated on: nope [8] kissed someone and regretted it: definitely [9] lost someone special: yes [10] been depressed: all the time [11] gotten drunk and thrown up: only the morning after thank god

LIST 3 FAVOURITE COLOURS: [12] blue [13] red [14] silver

IN THE LAST YEAR HAVE YOU… [15] made new friends: if this website counts then yep! and i love you all so much!! [16] fallen out of love: not this year, nope. still waiting. [17] laughed until you cried: doubtful, but possible. [18] found out someone was talking about you: yup. people suck. [19] met someone who changed you: nope. nothing changes. ever. [20] found out who your true friends are: that happened a long time ago [21] kissed someone on your facebook list: AHAHAHAHAHAHA no.

GENERAL… [22] how many of your tumblr friends do you know in real life: i follow a couple ppl i know irl but they’re not active at all and we don’t talk about it, it’s not a shared interest. [23] do you have any pets: yup! my python houdini :) [24] do you want to change your name: no way dude, i’ve been through a lot with this sucker [25] what did you do for your last birthday: tried to pretend it wasn’t happening [26] what time did you wake up: today? a bit earlier than usual. around 2:15pm. [27] what were you doing at midnight last night: probably giffing and watching a haunting [28] name something you cannot wait for: getting some fuckin $$$$ so i can finish my movie! [29] when was the last time you saw your mother: last saturday [30] what is one thing you wish you could change about your life: i wish i could stop being single [31] what are you listening to right now: drunk history XD god this show is amazing [32] have you ever talked to a person named tom: yup! went to school with one. [33] something that is getting on your nerves:  fuckin everything gets on my nerves. i just thought about that for like 3 minutes and decided the list is too long. everything. [35] elementary: what about it? [36] high school: are you looking for a name? [37] college: i spent way too many years in college, but that was a long time ago. i followed my sister out of town and did theater school for a year before deciding i hated the town and people and needed to come home. so i did my undergrad and grad school here at mcgill, then couldn’t find a job so did another degree in toronto, which was also useless. there was a time i was seriously considering staying in school forever and doing a phd, but there’s this thing called money.....and universities have already taken most of mine :/ [38] hair colour: reddish brown [39] long or short hair: i’ve always wished for long hair, but it never goes much past my shoulders [40] do you have a crush on someone: not a REAL one.....but there’s this guy called tyler posey.... [41] what do you like about yourself?: i care a LOT about things. i also hate it though. [42] piercings: my ears and tongue [43] blood type: no clue [44] nickname: div/divs [45] relationship status: single [46] zodiac sign: gemini [47] pronouns: she/her [48] fav tv show: teen wolf, obvs [49] tattoos: nope [50] right or left handed: right

FIRST… [51] surgery: does dental count? it should. that shit’s scary as fuck. had it a few years ago. [52] piercing: oh i have no idea when i got my ears done....maybe 10? [53] best friend: this girl jillian. we were best friends thru all of elementary. she took my deserts. [55] vacation: my family did a cross country US trip when I was 3. i have some strong memories, it’s weird. [56] pair of trainers: what? shoes? no idea?

RIGHT NOW… [57] eating: not eating, smoking. what else is new XD [58] drinking: i already told you that.... [59] I’m about to: another chapter on this edit i’m doing [60] listening to: STILL DRUNK HISTORY geez [61] waiting for: the weather to go back above zero [62] want: a steak [63] get married: right now? is this a proposal? [64] career: what’s that.

WHICH IS BETTER… [65] hugs or kisses: hugs [66] lips or eyes: eyes [67] shorter or taller: taller [68] older or younger: younger [69] romantic or spontaneous: romantic [70] nice arms or nice stomach: arms [71] sensitive or loud: sensitive [72] hook up or relationship: relationship [73] troublemaker or hesitant: troublemaker

HAVE YOU EVER… [74] kissed a stranger? yep [75] drank hard liquor? certainly [76] lost glasses/contact lenses? all the god damn time [77] turned someone down: of course, and i hate it more than almost anything [78] sex on first date? does it have to have been a date? wtf is a date. i’ve had one night stands, yes. [79] broken someone’s heart? yes and good riddance, he deserved it. [80] had your own heart broken? many times, fucker is on it’s last threads [81] been arrested? eheheheee oh the STORIES my friends [82] cried when someone died? yes [83] fallen for a friend: FUCK OFF

DO YOU BELIEVE IN… [84] yourself? sometimes [85] miracles? yup [86] love at first sight? yup [87] santa claus? the guy who comes down the chimney or the saint he’s named after? [88] kiss on the first date? definitely [89] angels? hmmmmm. well there’s this angel called tyler posey....so i guess they do exist

OTHER… [90] current best friend’s name: nathaniel [91] eye colour: blue [92] favourite movie: like, ever? it’s such a long list. but the eternal faves are titanic, romeo + juliet, sleepers, dogma, and the basketball diaries. yes. the 90s were important to me.

since this was fun i’m actually gonna tag some people! don’t feel like you have to @wellsjahasghost, @westhallen, @xproskeith, @tylerstitties, @archieandsrew, @paullwalkers, @maliia-tate, @stilinskikissme along with anyone who was sweet enough to read this whole thing. you’re the real MVPs <3