#character: felicity smoak

[arrow-v-flash-polls]

who had the Best 100th ep

invasion (arrow

what is past is prologue (flash

wvrd error 100 (lot

its a super Life (supergirl

Not every show makes it to 100 episodes but these four did, so which one had the best episode to mark the occasion?

Thank you for the suggestion anon. This should be an interesting result.

[lacrimae23]

ANOTHER 'FELICITY-HATE' RANT. THERE ARE QUOTES SO DON'T READ IF YOU'RE NOT COMFORTABLE WITH READING HATEFUL COMMENTS!!!

[quotes]

"How I hate this moron. It's been a long time since there was such a crappy [i couldn't find accurate translation for English language, sorry. in my native language it is meant to be even more insulting] character in the series."

"did you know that the actress playing that whiney felicity is only 24 years old? i would give her at least 30 some"

"Best Arrow ending so far. I was moved. It was just too good to be true. Our dear Felicity is finally up out of her wheelchair and walking on her own. She will finally be able to fall down the stairs and break her neck."

"- Oliver really needs to start killing people again.  - Starting with Felicity."

"THIS FELICITY IS THE WORST CHARACTER I HAVE EVER WATCHED SERIOUSLY AND THE ACTOR IS A COMPLETE WOOD" "Felicity's character used to be pretty cool, but after the last episode even I wouldn't mind if she flew out the window"

[quotes]

just a few "lighter" examples from my own playground (Arrow fandom from my country) (i knew i shouldn't even visit this website with films/tv shows and its Arrow page. i know this part of this website's community all too well) and i'm sorry because i usually try not to generalize but all of this was written by men of course (and i know this; in my language you're using form of verb which indicates your sex) and some other person wrote something which in this particular case i agree with: "why nobody likes felicity" thread

"Because she helped defeat Slade and that's basically where it started. HOW DARE an IT girl in a ponytail and stilettos have the nerve to humiliate the great Deathstroak like that. She started to be hated when she became more independent and strong. Annoying when her opinion actually mattered and her decisions affected the plot and the main character. And already when she put HER in the first place for the first time is already a chapel. This is no accident. Still too many guys feel threatened by "strong female characters" and that's the problem. And it's that kind of strong, in a way that can be applied more to "real" life."

there are maaanyy reasons why people can hate felicity (or every other character) but i think that in the most part these are the guys who don't like a strong female character, who actually has an opinion that affects the plot, her opinion counts, oliver or/and digg [so men of the show] listen to her opinion etc. it's somehow wrong, right? she should be just 'nerding in the corner' or something. and she's not a human being, so she's not entitled to human emotions. [BAN EMOTIONS!] she also can't make mistake, right? right.

and i know that in season 4 we can have strongly different opinions about the break up [i think we ALL can at least agree that this drama was so unnecessary ech] but i saw all too many men just hating on felicity because HOW DARE SHE DUMP A MAN WHO DIDN'T TELL HER ABOUT HIS SON KEPT SECRETS FROM HER LIED TO HER FACE FOR A COUPLE OF MONTHS DIDN'T LEAN ON HER WANTED TO LIVE ON AN ISLAND ALL OVER AGAIN - ALONE [...] HOW DARE SHE, STUPID WOMAN! yeah, so there's no 'okay, so i don't agree with her, but maybe she has her point. maybe he hurt her, maybe she couldn't be with him after that. or maybe she just run, because she was scared, or maybe she wanted partnership from him, she wanted to be a team [...], or maybe she's just a human and-blah blah blah". NO! she's stupid, how dare she, but at the same time - it's kinda good because now writers can un-alive her somehow, and show will be great again! yupi!

yeah, so amazing

so when i did this GIGANTIC rant yesterday or- when i wrote this rant, again? doesn't matter, anyway- i was writing about this kind of hate. maybe less insults and more "i think she shouldn't leave him because-[...] and it affects my opinion of her- blah bla blah something-something" and i would be cool with it even if felicity is your least favourite character of the series. it's cool! you don't have to love her, you don't have to like her or tolerate her, but stop hating like t h a t

//also, i wanted to apologise for the sound of my rants. i know they can be "passive-aggressive" and sarcastic (can't help myself, sorry) but i saw this hate too many times and had bottling everything up in me and now i just can't help it and be a little too much on the offensive[??] sorry about that, really. all of this is just frustrating. so sorry

AND I KNOW I SHOULDN'T BE DOING THIS TO MYSELF AND READING ALL THESE COMMENTS BUT SOMETIMES MY EYES DISCONNECT FROM MY BRAIN OR SOMETHING OR MAYBE I'M A MASOCHIST IDK nevertheless, these comments exist, and this knowledge is sad for me, welp

stay safe, stay strong 💜

[m-cristiny]

[mynameisgreenarrow]

[talesofliia]

"Women, whether subtly or vociferously, have always been a tremendous power in the destiny of the world." – Eleanor Roosevelt, "It’s Up to the Women"

These fictional female characters have always been among my favorites. They've been a great source of inspiration for me, and I'm truly grateful for such amazing role models, even if they're only fictional. 🦸🏻‍♀️✨

[takaraphoenix]

Dear Anonymous Shithead

why is this shit on the DCU (Comics) tag? Fefe and Olishitty not part of the comics. Get the hell out there with that bitch.

1. The cringe of using crap fake names for both Felicity and Olicity, in a comment on AO3, is... absolutely the level of childish behavior I’d expect from someone who can’t just scroll past fics about ships they dislike but have to click on them and leave shitty comments on them to let the author know how Very Very Upsetty they are that the Bad Bad Ship uwu exists. Makes me feel like I’m interacting with a toddler, so I’ll try to use simple words, kay kiddo?

2. Felicity is literally a comic book character. To act like the character of Felicity Smoak herself has no business in the DCU (Comics) tag just shows that you don’t know shit about the comics. She’s been around for a while, in different forms (as Ronnie Raymond’s stepmother, as a Batgirl in Bombshells), but specifically thanks to the New 52 we know Felicity Smoak exists in the main timeline in current continuity.

3. But the DCU (Comics) tag includes all the comics, like, all of them, as an umbrella term. And, you know, due to the concept of reality itself, everything is a part of that. If you write about DC stuff and want to keep it all under one umbrella, that is the umbrella.

4. And, hey! Want me to introduce you to the concept of fanfiction? It’s this super neat thing where I can make characters fall in love and be happy together, even in the medium where they aren’t canonically together?

4.1. Fun fact: Authors  can cherry pick their fanfiction canons and I love to mix em up between canons of movies, cartoons, shows and comics. This also relates to 3.), because I put the actual DCU and the Arrowverse into a blender and just press the button on that.

4.2. And in all of them, Felicity Smoak exists. Every single reality I create, whatever DC medium the starting point, even if in canon, Felicity didn’t exist. If I write for it, now Felicity Smoak explicitly exists in it.

4.3. This story, in particular, does not take place within the canon of the Arrow show. It very specifically takes place in the comic continuity. For reasons. People like you are the reason. ;)

5. Please learn how to use AO3. This story is nearly a year old, I have no fucking clue how you just... dug through the past year of all the fics in the DCU (Comics) tag totally unfiltered or whatever, but this fic is properly tagged to include both Felicity as a character and Olicity. So if you are such a sensitive little bitch, learn how to use the tools this website provides you with and filter your user experience yourself, but don’t leave shitty reviews like this on properly tagged fanfiction.

6. Fuck you.

7.

[maidmerrymint]

Felicity Smoak is my comfort character. That is all.

[ilove-superheroes]

Maybe Felicity was just lonely in her relationship with Oliver that is why she felt betrayed by his secret

I believe that the big outrage against Felicity is because she remains misunderstood and unexplored.

What made me fell in love with this show at first was the amazing character building of Oliver in s1. When I fist saw Amell without the beard in the hospital meeting Moira, with his perfect body and face, I was like - who is this Ken. But then the show cared so much about building Oliver as a character that I couldn't not fell in love with him, with all his flaws and pain. We see him scared on the island, hungry, helpless, desperate. Than we see him watching himself in the mirror with all his scars, having nightmares and sleeping in the rain. Watching his loved ones from a distance wearing a mask - all these small scenes where they build his state of mind even with out a dialogue.

The thing is they never gave Felicity the same treatment. In the whole show she had one origin episode, which was more about introducing a comics character - her boyfriend.

Her wheelchair aftermath episode was weird. We never had a character moments with her where she tries to do everyday things and struggles, or looks her self in the mirror, or have a ptsd - like Oliver had all these moments in s1. Instead we saw how Oliver is caring her around and being there for her all the time and she still leaves him, which makes every fan angry. So it feels like the writers wanted us to be angry at her, and not really understand her.

The only character moments she had were in s1 and 2 and were connected to how she is in love with Oliver.

People say s4 was Felicity and friends, we had her mother, father, Curtis, she is CEO and saves the day and so on, but this is all plot building and never a character building. We never see her emotional state of suddenly meeting her father, or having a flashback with her as a kid when he leaves, or understand why is she not close with her mother, or what it is like for her to be suddenly a CEO. She is just given all this stuff as an accessories but not as a character building.

It would have been so different if we had just little scenes were we see her how she feels, how she reacts to certain situations, how she shares personal things.

I feel like Laurel was treated similarly in s2 with her drinking. They did not spend time and scenes to show us why Laurel really drinks and how she feels but rather how she screws things up and is obnoxious to others. Example: the scene where she goes on a date, drinks wine and gets pulled over felt like we need to see what a mess she is and how she acts irresponsible, but if they just showed us a little scene with her at home where she looks at Tommy's picture and remembers his death, or how she remembers dragging her drunk father home, or how she almost dies, or puts Oliver's picture face down as he left her again, and when the guy calls her for a date she first refuses because she is hurt and not ready, but then accepts as he allures her with a case - I think would have been kind of different.

But lets get back to Felicity, it would have been completely different if they gave her a character moment where we understand why she leaves Oliver- maybe she was lonely with him - he had all these friends and team, while she has just him, we see her notice him sneaking around, or maybe explore her abandonment issues with her father and that is why she feels Oliver sending William away was wrong, and so on.

[tiredgatt0]

Badass Felicity Smoak is the best

[all-i-do-is-live-in-daydreams]

my favorite characters are either the sweetest ever but are still strong and could probably take care of themselves but would never hurt a fly unless they're loved ones or other people are in danger or they're violent and sarcastic and maybe somewhat rude and they might also k word people and they probably have a tragic backstory also AND they are definitely emotionally constipated and there is probably no in between

[arrow-v-flash-polls]

Invasion was the first of the crossovers to be spaced out over three of the shows. With one storyline it still managed to make each episode fit the style of each individual show. Which part of crossover was your favourite?

[itachi86]

lol felicity's face when oliver calls nyssa his wife

[m-cristiny]

Arrow 🏹

[madwomanwithawarehouse]

i don't trust people who insist on giving characters nicknames in fic that no one in canon has ever used

[stonercosplay]

Arrow cosplay photoshoot

Hello everyone! Here you are my first photoshoot as Arrow! These pics are very natural.

I will upload some edited ones in some weeks, with a photoshoped background and so, but I think they're pretty good this way so I want to show them to you!

Hope you like them!!

All the pics are done by Limoninfinito: https://www.instagram.com/limoninfinito/

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