#fly with the arrow

[booksandrandomfandoms]

JOMP day 29

This months favorite

I’ve read quite a few books this month … most were ok 🤷‍♀️ I love the fly with the arrow series so I’m glad I finally got to finish it, but also sad because I finished it 😂

I read third shift society on WebToons a while ago (I think it’s been a few years but idk) and I loved it then and I still love it now 😁

[ataurusinabookshop]

Arrow/ Bluebeard: We should get married Izolda: We've known each other 30 seconds Arrow/ Bluebeard: And I think I've shown incredible restraint waiting this long

[thelesbianthespianposts]

hey btw every time you dumb down a superhero in order to make the resident Bat look smarter an angel fucking dies

[slabmaxxing]

pop!

[capes-and-arrows]

Oliver Queen // Mr Robot S4 E11, "eXit"

[corvarrow]

I wanted to do something different this week and tested out this gel pen ~ the headshot was good and then it started skipping really bad when I got to the other one 🤣 idk I have really bad luck with gel pens, if you guys know of any good brown ballpoint pens please let me know

Anyway! I don't think I've ever posted any witch phoenixes here and it's been a while since I drew them anyway, so I thought it might be fun. They are a very large species of avian, pretty much considered a wyvern (they even have a bunch of flexible spines) but with a lot of bird features. The name comes from both where they like to live (near "Witch Mulberry" trees, also a mildly poisonous type of tree), and their coloration. Sadly they do not breathe fire. While they have been known to scavenge they mostly eat fish and the occasional fruit. They are also fairly intelligent but have little interest in humans (except if you are a fishing boat)

[chainymail]

Can I b a hater and say I’ve been searching for knight/medieval inspo playlists for so long and like 99% are ass. I’m not looking for something specific. Pop, metal, instrumental, recreations of medieval music I don’t care! Give me anything, but the people give me hozier, that soldier poet king song, and a “medieval” cover of a modern pop song. IM TIRED!!!!!

Also I realize this means I gotta pick up my lance and deliver my attempt at a good knight vibes playlist and I absolutely will. Please give me a min though.

[kradogsrats]

something something unconditional trust

[motharaya]

Happy 80th! (4/4)

And the final ensemble piece with the entire rail museum! This artwork was featured in the RWS art Collab for this year!

[daisywithnomakeup]

The Gresleys

Old art part 3: la-da-dee 10/11/2024

Trying to figure out what to draw 💔💔

[incorrect-green-lantern-quotes]

In the early days of the Justice League, Black Canary and Superman often tried to get the team together for more casual purposes than fighting alien invasions. It took quite a bit of wrangling to get even a few of the world's finest together, since each was often busy with their own individual adventures, and were spread out across multiple time zones.

The opportunity to gather the whole team came in the form of a fight with Intergang that had been serious enough to require the full League's attention. After the cleanup, Dinah floated the idea of getting dinner and relaxing in the Mt. Justice lounge, a suggestion that the tired and hungry superheroes enthusiastically agreed to.

Whatever initial awkwardness that still existed between the members of the Justice League was finally dispelled by watching Clark thoroughly lose an impromptu pizza-eating contest (he underestimated a speedster's accelerated metabolism). Barry's face went as red as his suit as his colleagues cheered and a glowing green crown appeared above his head.

Waving away the hard-light construct, Barry asked, "Say Hal, how come you only make simple stuff like boxing gloves and baseball bats with your ring? Didn't you say it can make anything you imagine?"

"Oh that's easy- GL's a simple man, and his imagination struggles with anything more complex than his childhood toys!" Ollie said before Hal could answer, then ducked under the construct hand that swatted at where his head had been. "You're only proving my point!"

"It's not as easy as it looks." Hal protested as the other heroes burst into laughter. "Especially when in a life-or-death situation. In those moments, you fall back on the things you're most familiar with."

"Which in your case is sports equipment? I thought you were a test pilot, not a gym teacher!"

"Jets are complex machines, miracles of modern engineering! And I make lots of airplane constructs." Hal sputtered, then grinned. "But if you're so sure you can do better..."

He held out his hand, and the green ring on his middle finger slid off and hovered in the air between the heroes. "Be my guest."

For a moment, none of them moved. Then Ollie cracked his knuckles and plucked the ring out of the air, sliding it onto his finger. "I already wear the 'Green' better, maybe I'll take the 'Lantern' part too."

Hal said nothing, his grin growing even wider as Ollie thrust out his fist... and all that happened was the power ring glowing a little brighter.

"Having performance issues, darling?" Dinah giggled.

"Laugh it up." Ollie grunted, beads of sweat appearing on his forehead. The ring's light grew brighter, and a shining arrow shot out from it, embedding itself in the wall before fizzling out. "Ha!"

"Well, you're certainly living up to your name." Barry laughed. "Mind if I try?"

"Be my guest." Hal shrugged.

Barry's attempt was immediately more dramatic, as crackles of emerald lightning flickered around the ring... but nothing more than that. He shook his head ruefully as he took it off. "Whew, feels like I ran a marathon. Is there any pizza left?"

Clark fared little better, only managing to form a holographic duplicate of his symbol over his chest and hold it for a few seconds before letting it dissipate. "This really is a lot harder than it seems."

Dinah on the other hand, opted to try a different power, rising several feet off the floor before abruptly falling with a yelp (fortunately everyone present was quite practiced at catching people). "I always wondered what it felt like to fly," she confessed. "But it's so much harder to maintain concentration when you're worried about falling."

The near-disaster left them all a little subdued, but that was quickly replaced by astonishment when Diana created a construct lasso that was the mirror green image of the one on her hip. She twirled it experimentally, then tossed the loop around Hal and pulled it tight, trapping his arms at his sides.

Even when Dinah had fallen, Hal's cocky smile had only slipped for a moment. Now however, he looked absolutely flabbergasted. Still, he managed to quip, "Is this lasso as good as the real thing?"

"Are you feeling particularly truthful?" Diana lifted an eyebrow. "Is imagination truly the only factor in wielding this ring?"

"Nope!" Hal spread his arms, snapping the construct lasso like it was yarn. "To the second question, specifically. The ring can do whatever you can imagine, but it takes willpower to maintain the constructs."

He snapped his fingers and the power ring flew off of Diana's hand and back to its owner. "And I just have more willpower than all of you."

This proclamation was met with veritable hail of bottle caps, pizza crusts, and paper plates from Barry, Ollie, and Dinah, who made their opinion very clear:

"That's a load of crap! You don't even have enough willpower to eat a bowl of chili without a gallon of milk!"

"Boooo!"

"Say that again while holding the real Lasso of Truth!"

"Ollie your chili is a freakin' war crime!" The debris bounced off of Hal's hastily constructed shield as he shouted back at his friends. He then turned to the only member of the Justice League who hadn't tried on the ring yet. "How 'bout you, Spooky? You wanna have a go?"

Bruce merely smirked. "No thanks. Green's not my color."

[ataurusinabookshop]

Grosbeak @ Izolda: when I first met you, I did not like you. Izolda: I’m aware of that Grosbeak: Then you and I spent some time together Izolda: and? Grosbeak: Oh! Nothing changed. 

[nocternalrandomness]

Italian Air Force aerobatic team Frecce Tricolori fly over Milan's Cathedral in Duomo Square May 25 2020

[greenarrow-core]

Can I copy your homework?

This is an old post. I am not even reading Ollie's speech again.

[royboyfanpage]

Lian Harper has a better understanding of Snowbirds than much of the modern fanbase

I've been reading the Green Arrow 80th anniversary special and one part in particular stood out to me. One of the stories in the comic is Roy telling Lian (and Ollie) a story over the phone, specifically *Roy's* story, in the style of a Navajo story, and Ollie and Roy are called Green-Man and Autumn-Son.

During this, obviously, one of the major plotpoints is Roy's addiction and a retelling of Snowbirds Don't Fly from Roy's perspective, in which Roy accounts how Ollie was angry at him. Lian actually *corrects* Roy, saying that Ollie was scared

And honestly? I think this is *how* this was meant to be interpreted when it was written. Snowbirds was never meant to show Ollie as in the right, but it was also never meant to make him the villain. Ollie is, in this story, essentially a caricature of a 70s parent's reaction to finding out their child is using drugs. Keep in mind this was written *during* the war on drugs, a time where misinformation was rampant and every parent's worst fear was finding out their child was an addict. I personally firmly believe that Ollie views Roy as his son, and vis versa, but even if you don't Ollie finding out that the kid/young adult he'd been mentoring is addicted to drugs? Terrifying. Especially since Ollie's aim had always been to teach Roy strength, and addiction was seen as the worst possible weakness, meaning Ollie had not only failed as a father but as a mentor in his eyes. Snowbirds is repeatedly used by Oliver Queen haters to demonize him, to show him as a bad father, but Snowbirds is and always has been a product of its time, not in terms of writing but culturally. Yes, Oliver *would* react like that in 1971. And so would most DC heroes. But you know what? He grew. He developed, he changed his mindset and he *listened* to Roy, and snowbirds ends with him being *proud* of Roy.

So yeah. While there were definitely aspects of his reaction that were undoubtedly angry, that was all vastly overshadowed by *fear*. Lian Harper was, as always, right.

Edit: I did a big post on Snowbirds here

[onecalypso]

old pieces