#arrowfam week 2021

[nightmareinfloral]

Do you have arrowfam fic recs?

i’ve been busy reading arrowfam comics rn so i haven’t read that much fic but these are some ones i have read and enjoyed:

anything by thequiver and vlrnlr

hum along til the feeling’s gone forever by roseworth

working 9-3 by pennysparrow

arrowfam week 2021 by cissie-queen-jones

[arevolutionapproaches]

Day 6 for @arrowfam-week-2021 “I will always find you”

I just adore Roy and Dinah’s relationship

[thequiver]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Green Arrow (Comics), Green Lantern (Comics) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Connor Hawke/Kyle Rayner Characters: Connor Hawke, Roy Harper, Mia Dearden, Wally West Additional Tags: background DickRoy, Mentioned Kyle Rayner, Mentioned Oliver Queen - Freeform, mentioned Dinah Lance - Freeform, mentioned Emiko Queen, no capes AU, Arrowfam Week 2021, Connor is a college student, Good Sibling Roy Harper, good sibling Mia Dearden, technically fake dating, but also blind dates, Connor's anxieties around his family, Connor's family loves him SO MUCH, mentioned Sin Lance Series: Part 4 of We're a family. We're a forest. We're a quiver., Part 1 of Arrowfam Week 2021 Summary:

"Think of you always." - Good Old Fashioned Loverboy by Queen ---- Wally laughs when he shows up at the coffee shop. “Roy didn’t.” Connor groans. “He did. Mia helped.” “....You’re joking.” “No, they’re desperately trying to set me up.”

[miadeardn]

know i'll stay right there with you

“You wanna head inside?” Connor asks quietly.

Mia takes a deep breath, then shakes her head. “No. You can go, though. I’ll be okay.”

“It’s okay,” Connor replies. “I’ll wait until you’re ready.”

Mia’s chest shudders on her next breath, and Connor’s eyebrows draw together worriedly. He gently lays his head on top of hers.

“I’ll stay right here, okay?” Connor murmurs. “I’m not going anywhere.”

mia's having a bad day, and connor makes sure she knows she's not alone.

arrowfam week 2021 day one: nicknames + "i'll stay right here, okay?"

[lesbianspeedy]

7 and 13 with mia for the comic ask game?

loving comics ask game

7. Who’s your favorite author (fanon or canon)?

OOOOOOOO okay okay. fuck okay. i think i have to say kevin smith. i mean i have to. i have to. he was fucking excellent at portraying mia's trauma responses and wasn't afraid to show the darkness of her past. obviously winick did so much for her character and no one working in the industry at that time could've done her H.I.V diagnosis arc better. but <kevin3

thats the canon, for fanon...okay i have a lot of mutuals that all write excellent fics (go read everyone's arrowfam week 2021 fics theyre all so fucking good i cant wait for this year's)...but i do........yeah i do have to say pennysparrow on ao3 (@thelittleredheadedmusician on here) Accelerando is literally fic of all time

13. Share a comic panel you like with [x] in it.

this is a current favourite of mine, he picks her up like a sack of potatoes

[marybatson]

I won’t tag this or anything so it’s just u and me tonight my loves but I’ve been reflecting a bit abt why the fanonization of billy batson + cap marvel w the aid of iterations like yj, the animated movies, the dceu movies and also just. n52 in general really is such a sore spot for me and feels so odd and strange. and it’s truly just because the family part of the marvel family is now purely an.. objectification. the family are props to aid the plot or billys own personal growth. like besides mary and freddy being literal shadows of who they used to be (the weird antisemitist new take on freddy included) but darla, pedro and eugene being cast have never felt like a genuine push towards the heroism they’re supposed to represent.

genuinely try to think abt it. you think of wonderfam, aquafam, batfam for gods sake, and every individual member of the family has a real title, real arc, real backstory that fleshes them out, builds their goals and desires and mistakes. makes them slip into the hero mantle that fulfills their “family”. I think of even jaime reyes’ family, who aren’t heroes at all, but have genuine quirks and rhymes and reasons to their relationship with jaime, and feel full and real. eugene is an asian boy who is good at games. in the ten or so years eugene has been a member of this family, in the few instances we see him, has he ever gotten a genuine moment alone with billy or anyone outside this family to develop his goals and reasons for wanting to not only actively use the Power, but stay as a hero? besides the power making him and his siblings cool and badass? using this logic, how can we fully ever accept him or darla or pedro as the Power-wielding heroes of color they are versus the one notable white boy most recognizable as the leader of this family? it’s just so distasteful and racist. I can tell u the backstory of at least one member each from the wonderfam and arrowfam without even reading their comics but with an outsider looking in, n52 shazamfam has like. nothing to tell except everything comically reduced to “billy loves his family”

why this ties to n52 billy characterization is huge because without being equals with his family, he’s the sole dependent champion- every huge event or big bad fight relies solely in his hands, every interaction w any other dc character is representative of not just himself, but his entire family which is kind of odd (meaning the others have no thoughts or feelings of their own??). in shazam 2021 where he’s in tta and goes on the journey to save freddy and recover their powers, there’s no excuse whatsoever for why darla and pedro and eugene and mary can’t go against his will to go it alone and join him because they too are holders of the power so why aren’t they feeling any sense of responsibility either? I mean there are arguments to be made there w the three youngest, but n52 mary is college-aged. she should be feeling the responsibility more than anyone, but ofc she was just a messenger to this system. let alone freddy. my god we can talk about the murder of freddy freeman when n52 arrived. but essay for another day lmfao just know that relegating one of the most iconic disabled heroes in history with the most interesting goals and ambitions of the marvelfam to a literal damsel in distress in 2022? y’all r going to hellll lol.

and the same for mary bc not her being another thing billy has to protect when she’s saved his hide a billion times before. and also has been inexplicably rid her fascinating and compelling backstory. their personalities used to be so encompassing and vast but now it’s just “supporting billy in sidelines”. that’s why the simplicity of “billy loves his family, they love him too” is so out of tune. just bc they love each other doesn’t mean they need to get along all the time. the amount of times freddy n billy fought, or billy and mary or whatever billy was angsting abt tht week made them actually real and made them. you know. EQUALS.

I know a lot of this is bc we’ve never had a long running shazam based title in so so long so there’s no time to fit any of this but we wouldn’t need 50 issues to establish that all these kids are supposed to be just as faceted as each other. they don’t even have to be a team, or be good at fighting with each other (BECAUSE THEY WOULDNT NEED TO.. they’re literally like superfam when they all fight together at once - too overpowered so almost useless). at least that’s the point anyway, though writers choose to nerf them bc again. they’re props to them. what is this about each member of the family getting only one power/letter from the acronym ? ordway dividing the power was messy enough but now these kids have a 1/6th of the power? (I don’t think this is confirmed, but the implication was there in the movie as well which was a bad sign djjwjdjdje) tokenizing these kids to make them seem like a mob rather than individuals will be the death of me

[mouthlessmaiden]

what do u recommend comic wise to get into the arrowfam? i think that’s what they’re called anyways….. thank you!!

ok so the first comic that really established the arrowfam was green arrow vol. 3 (2001). issues 1-10 were when ollie was brought back to life and established mia dearden as a character, setting the groundwork for the arrowfam. that volume really brought the arrowfam in as a concept, with connor hawke and mia becoming more involved instead of just ollie, roy, and dinah like it had been previously.

if you wanna get into green arrow in general, green arrow: year one is a good place to start! the mods of @arrowfam-week-2021 have some excellent reading lists, like here for dinah, here for ollie, here for connor, here for roy, and here for mia. these are all far more complete than any i could hope to cobble together. good luck getting into the arrowfam, and enjoy!

[arrowfam-events]

The week has come to an end, but the projects haven’t

We want to thank everyone who submitted over this week for making our event successful. We love all the fics and art that were submitted and we can’t wait to see what else will come in. We the mods never stopped cheering every time we saw a new project had been posted.

The week may be officially over, but we are still accepting submissions (since we know life can get busy and we don’t want that to stop you from creating something). The Arrowfam server is also considering a few ideas of what events we can hold next, and we will keep you posted on what we decide to do. Thank you everyone!

[fletchingsandstars]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Green Arrow (Comics) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Connor Hawke & Oliver Queen Characters: Oliver Queen, Connor Hawke Additional Tags: Connor gets shot in the head, Ollie panics, Arrowfam Week 2021, lots of blood, Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Ollie is a good dad, Don't leave me, Canon Compliant Series: Part 7 of Arrowfam Week 2021 Summary:

Connor got shot and Ollie has to get him to the hospital

[thequiver]

I’m always a sucker for Green Arrow: Quiver and think it gives what’s sort of a nice explanation of all the things that came before, and while Green Arrow (2001) that immediately follows that has MANY issues that I’ll gladly talk about at length, if you want the classic fam that’s where to go.

Unlike Batcomics, Green Arrow is typically written as one run, and barring reboots you can typically find a fairly cohesive and continuous narrative across different runs. Unfortunately this does make it harder to get into the comics by just reading a particular arc as you’d sort of be coming in mid-story and many arcs are split across an entire run rather than just being a few issues in a row.

If you want to start with older comics I can’t recommend O’Neil’s run followed by GL/GA, and then the Grell’s works enough (both his actual Green Arrow stories ex, Wonder Year, Hunter’s Moon, etc, but also Shado: Song of the Dragon). O’Neil and Grell actually talked and communicated about their shared vision for the characters and their stories and it’s SUCH a compelling narrative and it really shows Ollie at his best and worst but that he’s always a man striving to be better than he was the day before.

I’m personally a huge fan of Silver Age Ollie and Roy cause they’re soft 🥰

Connor’s time as Green Arrow is largely defined by Chuck Dixon’s writing, and while he writes a great Connor, he writes a VERY VERY BAD Ollie and as such I wouldn’t recommend reading Dixon’s run until AFTER O’Neil’s and Grell’s (coincidentally Dixon picks up that consistent narrative from Grell so this works nicely).

Mia is introduced in Quiver and is then featured in the 2001 run mentioned above.

Emiko is introduced in the N52, but I’d primarily recommend her appearances in Green Arrow: Rebirth, I also have some criticisms about Rebirth that I’d be happy to link you to, but overall it is a good starting place to help ease new readers into Green Arrow, but it should be noted that Rebirth only has Roy and Emiko and not Connor and Mia.

The current Robin run’s Connor isn’t Connor. N52 Roy isn’t Roy (Rebirth Roy is also pretty far off). N52 Mia is not Mia. Just….. don’t go there for your own sake.

Additionally! You can’t really find things for these characters in their own tags BUT at @arrowfam-week-2021 we have reading lists, meta, fanart, etc. for the characters available under the character tag for convenience!

Hope this helps!

What's a good comic series you'd recommend to someone who's never picked up an arrowfam-related comic and who knows little about them?

I've been interested in reading beyond batfam lately and arrowfam is on my list of supers I'd like to know more about

Thanks!

I always recommend people start small with any comics family! So definitely the Arsenal mini! I want to recommend Snowbirds Don't Fly but without the added context of the rest of GL/GA u may get the wrong idea about Ollie (he's such a good dad). I also really like those old Seven Soliders of Victory stories even if Roy is blonde. And the Stargirl one shot that came out this summer has some great Emiko moments and again the 7 Soliders! Lian has some great moments in Titans vol 1 as does Grant so Roy's kids thrive there but quality may be an issue foe some of the issues. Im rambling now and Im at work so im basically gonna pass the buck to

@thequiver and @overheard-over-chili

🧡🧡🧡🧡

[arevolutionapproaches]

And for the final day of @arrowfam-week-2021 have some angsty siblings!

[thequiver]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Green Arrow (Comics) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Oliver Queen & Eddie Fyers, Mia Dearden & Roy Harper & Connor Hawke & Oliver Queen, Mia Dearden & Roy Harper & Connor Hawke & Dinah Lance, Lian Harper & Roy Harper, Sin Lance & Roy Harper, Dinah Lance/Oliver Queen Characters: Oliver Queen, Dinah Lance, Roy Harper, Connor Hawke, Mia Dearden, Emiko Queen, Lian Harper, Sin Lance, Eddie Fyers Additional Tags: Arrowfam Week 2021, Fantasy AU, the fam plays Dungeons and Dragons, references to Wally West being a magnet for cults, implied one sided Eddie Fyers/Oliver Queen, the oddie agenda, is alive and well folks, Warning:, unfriendly reminder that Ollie took Dinah to see the touring production of Cats Series: Part 4 of Arrowfam Week 2021, Part 7 of We're a family. We're a forest. We're a quiver. Summary:

“Rather Go Out in a Blaze of Glory” - Could Have Been Me, The Struts The Arrowfam play Dungeons and Dragons..... with..... shall we say varying success rates......

[forever-carlyle]

(filling the piggyback ride prompt) 

[arevolutionapproaches]

Day 2: forehead kisses for @arrowfam-week-2021

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Day1 for @arrowfam-week-2021

[thequiver]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Green Arrow (Comics), Justice Society of America (Comics) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Mia Dearden & Grant Emerson, Mia Dearden & Roy Harper, Grant Emerson & Roy Harper, Lian Harper & Roy Harper, Roy Harper & Lian Harper & Grant Emerson Characters: Mia Dearden, Grant Emerson Additional Tags: barely there Roy Harper, Mia and Grant should be friends and I will DIE ON THIS HILL, Grant's story is inherently exploitative and Ollie wants to rattle the chains of oppression, change my mind, Ollie's not even in this fic I just had to share that, Arrowfam Week 2021, For Someone Who Doesn't Like to Feel Things, You Sure Feel a Lot of it Out Loud Series: Part 8 of We're a family. We're a forest. We're a quiver., Part 5 of Arrowfam Week 2021 Summary:

“Me, I Carry Too Much Baggage” - I Want Love, Elton John Alternately: “Some Mia and Grant, with none blowing up Roy’s house.”