#coldwestallen

[leonard-cold]

[asexual-fandom-queen]

a top tier ot3 is just 3 people with more Big Switch Energy than you even knew was possible

[qlala]

wish i could draw so i could draw barry, len, and iris as the “three tickets for challengers, please” meme

[coldflasher]

stole this from a post about interview with the vampire's daniel molloy (a king) but this is soooo coldwestallen coded

you know len gets the biggest kick out of involving himself in westallen's arguments, especially when he's the cause of them (which is often the case). he's sat there stirring the pot, making sly little digs to get them both more and more heated and loving every minute of it

barry's like "you're not helping" and len's like "oh i think i am" 😏 and barry gives him that exasperated look that's 90% of the reason westallen are fighting because without fail barry responds to len's bullshit by rolling his eyes and not actually doing anything about

iris is like. this close to calling joe and asking to borrow his gun knowing he would 100% give it to her if len was the one she planned on pointing it at...

[coldinpantsreboot]

I'm not a fan of ColdWestAllen, but I'm thinking about them on Earth-2 and damn, it's hot. Mayor Leonard Snart can be verbally humiliating, and Detective Iris West threatens physical violence when some asshole thinks he can hurt their sunshine Barry Allen. And, yes, Iris and Barry are officially married and Leonard is just a "family friend" but the real close people know they're together.

[tiffanybluesclues]

Continuing the adventures through my unwritten fic notes, I'm wishing so hard that I had written this one. It looks like WestAllen fic but I know I planned it as part of a ColdWestAllen week, so that swerve I mention toward the beginning probably meant I was planning a heel-face turn for Len or something.

[calciumcryptid]

None of you know pain until you find a ship that you adore so much but it is only able to exist in one continuity and everything else you are building and adapting with your own bare hands because one of the characters is typically OLD AS FUCK.

[kitkatt0430]

17, 18, and 19 for choose violence asks :)

17.) there should be more of this type of fic/art

Barrisco

Barrisco should be the most popular slash ship for the Flash. And I say this as someone who has definitely written more ColdFlash and enjoys the enemies to lovers trope a great deal. But Cisco is there for more seasons, his canon friendship with Barry strongly mirrors Barry's canon romantic relationship with Iris, and they are each other's heroes. Honestly, I get why Grant himself thought that if the show hadn't been WestAllen endgame that Cisco would have been Barry's romantic partner.

Honestly I want to write more of this ship myself and get it to the point where I've written more Barrisco and Barriscowest than ColdFlash/ColdWestAllen/ColdFlashWave. Be the change you want to see and all that jazz.

18.) it's absolutely criminal that the fandom has been sleeping on...

So in Season 3 of the Flash it was revealed that Earth-19 had it's own version of the movie Gladiator. This movie was called... *drumroll in HR's honor*

Sweaty Men

If you forgot this little fact or think I'm joking, the Arrow Wiki corroborates that this was indeed a joke straight from the show's canon itself.

Now specifically it's the fact that Gladiator has gotten a sequel that amuses me. As we get Gladiator II, I keep wondering... is there a Sweaty Men 2 coming out on Earth-19 despite the first movie being less than popular? Maybe it was a sleeper hit after reaching DVD sales. Maybe the sequel is a low budget made for tv movie?

The fact that I haven't seen any jokes about this yet is so sad. Though to be fair this is my first time bringing it up on Tumblr too.

19.) you're mad/ashamed/horrified you actually kind of like...

Hmmm, this is a tough one. I mean, I enjoy Eobarry without being particularly horrified or ashamed. And Eobard killed Barry's mother, framed Henry for said murder, and attempted to systematically control/destroy Barry's life. (Honestly that just makes writing the ship a challenge - how do I make this incredibly toxic ship appealing to me and any curious readers? And I like challenges, they're fun puzzles to solve.)

I think to some degree I'm still mad that I like the final retconning of Hartley's backstory. They gave him a boyfriend who spent his first appearance as a sexy lamp (if you can replace a character with a sexy lamp and the plot does not significantly change...) in a magic science coma. And focusing on Barry's face fuzzed out the first Hartley/Roderick kiss like it was being censored.

But having a boyfriend is the superior option to being reconciled with his homophobic parents. Would I prefer that Hartley got both a boyfriend and his parents apologizing for being shitty (and genuinely meaning it)? Yes. But if I have to pick one, give the man a boyfriend and chuck the parents out. (Give him a sister too, but whatever, it's too late.) And Roderick/Hartley was better handled in S9. Though Roderick was really only in one episode and still kinda a non-entity, he did get more of a personality this time and his on screen kiss with Hartley was front and center. But what was there was genuinely sweet and a relationship I was happy to see made Hartley happy.

Yet Roderick is still kind of a sexy lamp even in S9. But still better a sexy lamp boyfriend than an offscreen reconciliation with his parents who said they had no son. And yet I can still be angry that reconciliation was taken away from him and barely poked at with a stick even when it was canon...

[sproutwings]

20 Questions for Fic Writers!

The lovely @crestfallercanyon tagged me for this weeks ago, and I haven't been ignoring it - I just didn't get around to it sooner. Sorry!

How many works do you have on AO3? 380 (382, technically, because two are still anon/unrevealed exchange works.)

What’s your total A03 word count? 1,123,214

What fandoms do you write for? Currently, mostly DCU, The Flash and a bunch of tiny fandoms, but I've been writing fanfic for ages, so I went through quite a few fandoms.

What are your top five fics by kudos?

a) cut me open, take my heart (DCU, JayTim, 1744 kudos) b) A Bird in the Hand (DCU, Dickstroke, 1694 kudos) c) Hook(er), Line and Sinker (The Flash, Coldflash, 1586 kudos) d) No Shortage of Blood (Original Works, Starving Vampire/Vampire Hunter Having A Moral Crisis, 1453 kudos) e) Portrait of the Artist as a Middle-Aged Man (Gossip Girl, Dan/Blair/Chuck, 1149 kudos)

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not? I always try to, but sometimes it takes a while to get around to it. /o\

What’s the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

I have no idea. I used to write a lot of angsty stuff back when I was younger but the older I get the more I gravitate towards fics that leave the characters in a... well, maybe not necessarily in a good place exactly, because I tend to ship a lot of dysfunctional ships and write unhealthy relationship dynamics, but I don't want the characters to feel hopeless and unhappy in the end, so even when they're in a bad situation, they're making the best out of it.

A very old, very angsty fic of mine is Too Close To Touch (Harry Potter, various permutations of Draco, Harry and Hermione). I don't know if it's the angstiest overall, but it occasionally still gets comments so it's fresh in my mind despite having been written almost two decades ago.

What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Oh no, this is similarly hard to answer. Maybe Throw Away the Plan (The Flash, Coldwestallen)? Most of my endings seem to be "the main conflict of the story is dealt with, the ship kisses and things are okay-ish for now". 🙃

Do you get hate on your fic? Maybe once or twice, but nothing dramatic or memorable, luckily enough.

Do you write smut? Sometimes.

Do you write crossovers? No.

Have you ever had a fic stolen? Yes! Someone copied a few of my fics word by word, replaced the names and posted them as Kpop RPS. D: D: D: I got the author to take them down, but they did it with a lot of people's fics and eventually AO3 banned them.

Have you ever had a fic translated? Yes, a few! I blanket allow translations, as long as they're credited properly and not posted anywhere but AO3.

Have you ever co-written a fic? Yes, but it was a really long time ago, and coordinating was pretty stressful. I prefer to work on my own schedule.

What‘s your all-time favourite ship? Noooo, don't make me choose. I love so many ships! If I absolutely had to pick one, it would be Tommy/Bubonic from Eye Candy, but it mostly depends on what I'm in the mood for right in that moment.

What’s the WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? There's Coldflash BDSM fic based on a long-forgotten Tumblr prompt I would have loved to write one day, but it would be far longer than anything I'm comfortable writing and it's only 'in progress' in so far that I have a few dialogue snippets from it written down yet.

What’s your writing strengths? Character voices and snappy banter, probably.

What’s your writing weaknesses? Plot!!!! As you can see by every fic I've written where the characters get captured or attacked by some nameless villain for nebulous reasons. I always handwave stuff like that because I simply can't bring myself to care about it or put any thought into it. 😅 Sorry!

Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic? As a reader, It always throws me out of the story. :(

First fandom you wrote for? The X-Files! Mulder/Krycek was teenage Sandrine's first fanfic obsession. (Though technically, I wrote terrible Star Wars and The Three Musketeers fic long before I knew what fanfic was! But I've decided that doesn't count. 😅)

Favourite fic you’ve ever written?

(never been) so much at stake (OW, Vampire Moonlighting As A Barista/Exhausted Vampire Hunter In Search Of Caffeine) is probably the best, but The Biggest Score of All (The Flash, Coldflash) has my heart!

I'm supposed to tag people here, and I'm terrible at this, so @waysheswings, @sunherirai, @moriavis, @zeroducks-2, @hithelleth, @elasticella - if you want to do this, consider yourself tagged and if you want to ignore it, pretend I never mentioned your name. And anyone else who sees this and wants to answer, you're also tagged! Yes, I mean YOU. :D

[leonard-cold]

I’ve been wanting to engage the coldflash fandom more and I’ve got some qs for you! — what’s your favorite:

Coldflash episode?

Barry Allen Episode (could be from outside the flash too!)

Leonard Snart focused episode? (LoT or the Flash)

And also…

What’s your favorite fanfic? (Or list a couple)

What gifset do you always reblog?

No pressure on asking but I hope that these are fun questions ❄️⚡️

hey anon

my favorite coldflash episode is probably infantino street. it felt like the writers showing us a glimpse of what could've been in an almost painful way but i just love watching them work together and it was a beautiful farewell to a beloved character that acknowledged how important these two were for each other. we could've had it all... but at least we'll always have infantino street

my favorite barry episode is a tie between 'the runaway dinosaur' and 'the last temptation of barry allen' (tho i haven't watched the show beyond s6 yet so always subject to change)

my favorite len episode... hm. for the flash it's probably 'going rogue' bc i love when he gets to be an asshole and gets away w it 😂 i mean, i know it's controversial but i also love 'doomworld' bc its so fun to see wentworth give us his best disney villain acting 😆 i actually hate most of s1 of legends (big l for me that this is the only season my fave character is in and i can barely stand to watch it...) so if i had to pick one it'd probably be 'white knights' just bc it's low stakes fun watching len be his little con-artist self

there are so many great coldflash fics out there honestly, i remember saying i was gonna make a rec list bc i specifically wanted to rec more recent fics... but then i didn't 😅 so anyway, my fave fic is 'tell me what you want me to say' by giraffeter (here), i actually had to stop myself from reading it over and over again bc i was worried i was going to make myself sick of it which would be an absolute tragedy bc that fic is so amazing and addictive, i could gush it all day like a schoolkid with a crush 😍

bonus point for any fic crestfaller has ever written for the ship, i cannot pick one, her work always makes me go stare at the ceiling for a little while it is *that* good (edit bc i forgot to link them but you can find her coldflash fics here)

(and i know this was abt coldflash but my fave coldwestallen fic is 'that old switcheroo' by sandrine, which you can find here)

idk if there's a gifset that i always reblog in the way you mean bc i rarely reblog anything spontaneously haha, i schedule two posts a day and i pick them by looking through my bookmarks

these questions were definitely fun, not sure my answers were all that interesting lmao, but in any case thank u for your interest 😊

[asexual-fandom-queen]

I think I’ve realized my favourite OT3 dynamic is “my babygirl boyfriend went and caught feelings for that sadboi, so I guess now he’s OUR crush”

[qlala]

hello miss Q! I saw that cute pokemon drawing that you reblogged on your main blog and I didn't know you liked pokemon! I wouldn't presume to ask for an AU (🥺) but hypothetically... what pokemon would you give team flash and the rogues? or, at least, Barry and Len? (and Iris...? I haven't forgotten that you promised us a coldwestallen fic 🥺😫🙏)

oh friend you know i can't resist a coldwestallen ask... i tried to cut this down but it's STILL way too long and became an AU anyway, so i'll put my answers under a cut :)

barry:

i made myself unreasonably sad right off the bat with this one, but originally, i'd say he has an eevee—an anniversary present that his dad gave to his mom just before she died. afterwards, barry didn’t want her. he was traumatized, the eevee just reminded him of his parents, and frankly, he wished that she had died instead of his mom. but joe coaxed him into keeping her, with a big planned talk about ~responsibility that barry interrupted after thirty seconds by asking if joe would leave him alone if he just said he would keep the thing

the resentment eased up a bit as barry got older and realized he was unfairly putting his survivor's guilt on her, but he still kind of kept her at arm's length (just one more thing to lose, otherwise) and they never got close enough for eevee to evolve into one of the friendship-based forms

but he kept her around (some of joe's talk stuck, after all), and so she was dozing in the hood of his jacket the night that he got struck by lighting after the particle accelerator explosion. when he opened his eyes again, one months-long coma later, it was to find a jolteon sleeping on his chest in the hospital bed, growling without opening her eyes whenever anyone tried to get near him

and barry finally gets it, the way he didn't when he was a kid--they survived something together, and it changed both of them, but the change doesn't have to be a bad thing, and they can (and do) learn how to navigate it together

(and yes, cisco DOES make the jolteon her own little flash mask, once they realize she can keep up with barry. it's a common enough pokemon that it’s not a huge problem, the flash having a jolteon too, but the story about barry’s eevee evolving in a lightning strike made the news, so better to be safe than sorry) (the lightning strike wasn't even the newsworthy part—barry's jolteon bit three cops, two paramedics, and a firefighter before joe finally pulled on a pair of barry's rubber lab gloves and grabbed hold of her long enough for them to put barry in an ambulance)

iris:

joe knows damn well that giving a kid a pokemon is a recipe for them getting in 100x more trouble than they could possibly get into alone, and he resolutely told iris her whole life that she could pick between getting a pokemon or a car for her 16th birthday... right up until they start fostering barry

because iris is an amazing kid, but there's limits to the amount of jealousy any 11 year old can handle. and iris suddenly having to share joe with barry and watch barry be an ungrateful punk about a pokemon he doesn't even want? is probably one of those limits. so, because it's joe's own fault that barry kept the eevee, he tries to preempt any issues by taking iris to pick out one of her own

iris loves her eevee from the second she sees her. she picks the one that walks right up to her, as bold as anything, and joe's only consolation for being 100% right about iris getting in more trouble in the immediate future is that maybe seeing iris with her eevee will help barry work through whatever's making him so upset about his

it backfires; iris's eevee evolves into an espeon within a year, the two of them inseparable, and it makes the situation with barry's eevee all the more awkward as the years go on—when people find out they got their eevees at the same time, they expect to see barry with a matching espeon or umbreon, and the unevolved eevee always seems like an unspoken rebuke (though from which one of them, no one is ever really sure)

but a very protective, very psychic fox turns out to be the perfect companion for an investigative journalist with a habit of chasing down dangerous leads. and after spending so much time around barry, iris's espeon knows him almost as well as she knows iris, so iris doesn't need a panic button once barry becomes the flash—if iris is ever in danger, her espeon will make damn sure barry knows it, even if they're clear across the city from each other

leonard:

i was going back and forth between like four different ice types before i realized i was approaching leonard's pokemon all wrong. leonard is not a pet person—he wouldn't get himself another mouth to feed just for the aesthetic. lisa and the endless parade of rescues she kept sneaking into their house growing up were plenty, thanks but no thanks

leonard would only get a pokemon as a tool, and even then only if he really needed one; like, for example, if his new super-powered nemesis had a very angry electric dog that kept frying the engines of leonard's getaway cars before he could use them to get away. ice types aren't actually very helpful against electric type pokemon—if he wanted something that would cancel out a jolteon's powers like the cold gun does to barry's, he would need a ground type.

and there is one particular ground type that would be perfectly suited to all of leonard's needs, of course. something immune to electricity, small enough to carry into a bank unnoticed in a duffel bag—and related to one of the only animals we know leonard does finds interesting, sharks. which means leonard is absolutely rolling up to his third time going head-to-head with barry, drawling, "think fast, flash" and then underhand-throwing a gible directly into his jolteon's legs like a bowling ball

in this universe, leonard wouldn't even need to torture and blackmail barry's friends to find out he's the flash. his gible just sticks his head out of his bag one day in jitters while leonard is waiting to pick up his drink, and the jolteon leaning against the legs of the kid in front of him gets one look at the gible, yelps, and bolts straight out of line and then out the front doors too, for good measure, before the kid can even turn around.

and when the kid does turn around... leonard recognizes the shape of that mouth, and the pale green of those bewildered eyes, but it's all academic at this point, because now that he's looking for it? leonard's only surprised that he didn't recognize him from silhouette alone

leonard is smirking before he can stop himself, and the kid—the flash—looks about as ready to bolt as his jolteon just did. but then the pretty barista, the one with the espeon, who always lets her fingertips brush leonard's as she hands him back his change, sets a medium flash, extra hot, on the counter and says, "here you go, barry," and leonard finds out that barry doesn't need his suit to live up to the nickname 'scarlet speedster'

(later—two years, seven near-death experiences, and one bonus threat of an actual-death experience from detective joe west later—leonard is still pulling jolteon quills out of the gible on a weekly basis. but now, it's only because iris and barry keep letting the pokemon on the couch whenever leonard isn't home to remind them that they had all expressly agreed not to do exactly that, because the jolteon and espeon shed, no matter what barry and iris say

and the gible is still a gible; leonard says they shouldn't let him evolve because he'll eat "the cats" (his collective name for iris's espeon and barry's jolteon), but really, it's just because he likes the gible the way he is. he says, once, that the gible reminds him of lisa when she was a toddler. cisco gets offended on her behalf, but lisa goes misty eyed—lisa snart, actually misty eyed—watching the gible bite one of barry's favorite sneakers in half, and says it's one of the nicest things leonard has ever said about her.)

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

Ship game: Barry Allen

Let's seeee

Barry/Iris (Westallen)

Barry/Len (Coldflash)

Barry/Cisco (Barrisco) more BROTP tho

Barry/Iris/Eddie (Westhallen) what can I say-- it's been growing on me

Barry/Iris/Len (Coldwestallen) best of both worlds

Barry/Oliver (Olivarry) less now but will indulge occasionally

Thank you for sending my fave :)

[hardwiredweird]

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