#real cisco

[hedgiwithapen]

DHD: Comfort for Cisco?

Cisco opened the door to his apartment, warmly lit.  Caitlin held up the bottle of cider and  pie she’d brought. Barry was weighed down with additional snacks. 

“Got enough for a dozen Hobbits, here,” Barry joked. 

“Or one of you,” Cisco said, clearing a little space on the table. There wasn't much room, even before Barry started pulling bags of chips and cookies out. 

"It looks like an Elementary school end of year class party," Caitlin said.

"Except that we've got a big screen, not a little rolling TV." Cisco gestured to his living room television, where the DVD menu for The Fellowship of the Ring repeated. "And t-shirts." 

"I like it," Barry said, admiring Cisco's  new shirt. "Tooks Shot First, nice."

"Isn't it a little... Oliver?" Caitlin asked, noting the shade of green and the bow emblem.

Cisco turned so they could see the long quote on the back. "Nah. Oliver's suit is a much darker green. and I wouldn't let him hear you compare this bow to his. The last time I asked if he could do any Legolas trick shots, he was absolutely insufferable about it."

Barry gave a microscopic wince. " yeah... I really don't know why  our one non-nerdy friend is also the one who uses a bow. Weird."

"Super," Cisco said. "Alright, I brought in Guardian, Sara, and Wally to cover any issues. We are officially off call for the next 16 hours, up to and including the end of the world."

"Isn't it only 11 and a half?" Barry asked, his face draining of color. "Is that another change? Oh, god, how badly did I--"

"Relax," Cisco said. "I was counting for snack breaks." He pointed at Barry.  "Eyestrain breaks," he pointed to Caitlin. "And pause to talk about the books and artistic choices." With the last, he pointed at himself. 

"Then let's get started," Barry flopped onto the couch, a plate piled with handpies and scones balanced on the armrest. Cisco beamed. It was nice to finally get a moment to relax. Or an entire Extended Edition Lord of the Rings marathon worth of moments. 

[natikoko]

I’m so lucky im with you..!!!!

[arrow-v-flash-polls]

The second seasons two part episode adventure mostly took part over on Earth-2. Which part do you like best?

[gushingveins]

[ i know i have like fifteen asks in my inbox but. i need to share this. hoffman canonically bites a hole in his hot pockets and sucks the sauce out first. ok i’ll see you all in three business days ]

[fezwearingjellybananas]

"Oh I'll just write a short little ficlet for this idea, I'm sure it won't take long"

Help

[purplecyborgnewt]

[coldflash-corner]

thought about my fandom ocs for so long i momentarily forgot they were my lil guys and almost tried searching fic of them on ao3 :"")

[augustheart]

i’m getting a new pigeon coop built

[whereisthedamndaddymanual]

*I can't believe I am going to say this*

I would accept your tattoos. Doesn't mean I would like them. I really hope you left your upper body alone

Your pictures are amazing though.

[hotvintagepoll]

Propaganda

James Stewart (The Philadelphia Story, It's a Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)—Ough I saw him first in It's A Wonderful Life, where he is very charming as a suicidal family man being absolutely crushed by capitalism. But then. The Philadelphia Story, in my opinion, should get the same kind of press The Mummy does for being a bisexual dream. Now I'm not really bi (not into women) and it's honestly up for debate whether i'm attracted to men or not, but COME ON!! The movie stars James Stewart as well as Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn (and Ruth Hussey). Stewart plays a common working man, a journalist, to contrast with Grant's character, who is mega-rich. He is scrappy and hates rich people. Hot! They have a whole scene together where he's super drunk and being really physical with his acting, which I love because he is kinda wet noodle shaped. Hot! He carries Hepburn in his arms while singing Somewhere Over The Rainbow. Hot! He gets punched in the face by Cary Grant. Hot!!! In The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, we get to see him portray an alternative type of masculinity, opposite John Wayne doing John Wayne. He is even more wet noodle-y, to put emphasis on his incompatibility with the rugged masculinity of the cow-boy, he wears an apron for a lot of the film, again, to blur his masculinity, and he gets shot. Hot! Also he's older here, if that's your thing. Long story short: He's giving librarian chic and The Philadelphia Story made me want to be poly.

Gilbert Roland (Camille, The Cisco Kid movies, The Bad and the Beautiful)—no propaganda submitted beyond pictures below the cut

This is round 2 of the bracket. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage man.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut.]

"Here he is next to Grant, in what I believe to be a promotional shot for The Philadelphia Story. Please don't get distracted by Grant (or do, i'm submitting him next)."

"He’s a nice guy and a good guy and deserves all the happiness and joy ever! Classic boy next door/class president kid that everyone loves for real. Stand-up for the Little Guy vibes. With a charming fun side!!"

Link to TCM page submitted for Stewart

"And here he is in colour! From Rope!"

Propaganda for Gilbert Roland:

[creature-wizard]

So, I just read It's Not Impossible: Healing from Ritual Abuse and Mind Control by Svali.

For those who don't know, Svali is a conspiracy theorist who popped up in the early 2000s claiming to be a former Illuminati/New World Order programmer. Her claims are based on the stuff put out by the likes of Mark Phillips/Cathy O'Brien and Fritz Springmeier/Cisco Wheeler, which in turn derives from stuff like The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, blood libel, witch panic, Michelle Remembers, and Alexander Hislop's anti-Catholic conspiracy theories. It's full of your typical Project Monarch psychological pseudoscience that can effectively be used to blame literally any symptom or behavior on programmed DID, whether or not someone actually has DID at all. It's got all the usual stuff about an alleged global cult that practices the most absurdly complicated, messy, and risky forms of mind control instead of just using the regular ol' indoctrination and manipulation tactics that work just fine for your more typical authoritarian assholes.

She is regarded as a ritual abuse/alter programming expert by people such as Ellen Lacter and Alison Miller, and if you search through the citations on many ritual abuse/RAMCOA websites, you'll often find her name. If you didn't have any familiarity with Svali's outlandish claims before, I think after reading this you'll agree that no sensible person should ever be citing her as an authority on anything. Here are some of the weird and ridiculous claims she makes in this book:

Fetuses are tortured and programmed in the womb. They are capable of making choices presented to them in-utero. (Yes, according to Svali, fetuses can fully understand language and process questions.)

Children can be forced to forget things by threatening them with death if they don't. (Literally not how memory works. If anything, death threats would make it harder to forget.)

Toddlers are trained as assassins and sent to kill wealthy targets, because wealthy people tend to have, shall we say, a predilection for children. (Yes, some wealthy people are child molesters. But claiming they're all into this as a group is absurd. It's also two antisemitic conspiracy theory tropes with the serial numbers filed off.)

Alice In Wonderland programming includes games of croquet where the balls are the decapitated heads of children. (Always with the absurdly over-the-top programming methods.)

The conspiracy programs people from birth to have a visceral fear and hatred of Christianity. (The function of this claim is to deny the traumatic impact of Christian religious abuse.)

"Many occultic groups" hate Israel and aim to destroy its national security through infiltration. (Of course we're going to get Christian Zionism in this conspiracy theory.)

"Higher occultic groups" round up Christians "from prisons and camps in third world countries under oppressive regimes" to torture and crucify them. (Typical oppression fantasy of white American Christian conservatives.)

Genetically enhanced individuals were first produced in the 1940s. (Quite unlikely, given that DNA's role in inheritance wasn't even determined until 1943.)

Claims that "The Light of The World" is an occultic painting that depicts the Antichrist. (Actually, it just depicts Christ.)

Theta systems are trained to psychically kill from the time they're in the womb. Theta assassins have sex with the target, then use the resulting soul tie to demonically kill them. (You know you're into some deep far right shit when they're talking about "soul ties" like this.)

Chi is a demonic power. (Always with the racism.)

Kabbalah is used to open portals to install demons. (And of course, the antisemitism.)

Druids can shapeshift into animals and trees. (This is how druids work in modern RPGs.)

Mages can shapeshift into various animals. (So many occultists WISH this was true!)

Cult children are genetically enhanced for intelligence. (Meanwhile in the real world, not a single alleged survivor has ever demonstrated said intelligence.)

Saturn, Prometheus, and Vulcan are demonic deities. (Pure religious bigotry here.)

Mothers of genetically enhanced fetuses are brutally tortured and gradually dismembered throughout the entire pregnancy. Supposedly, miscarriage is prevented with the cult's "state-of-the-art technology" that's "at least 50-75 years ahead of what's publicly known."

Supposedly, "all videos, CDs, computer games and other digital media now have subliminals embedded, that are fed at 0.03 microseconds." She claims that you can't pause the video to see the message because the images will be blurry, as they're only visible when the media moves. How very convenient, Svali. (By the way, conspiracy theorists have been claiming media is full of dangerous subliminal messages for years, programming children to turn into mass murderers and whatnot. So far there is zero evidence that rock music turns you into a killer.)

Direct quote, "It is amazing how desensitized our population has become to sex, violence and the occult due to this mind control technology that sits in everyone's living room." (Literally your old-time Satanic Panic rhetoric.)

Direct quote, "I personally believe that we are very close to the “end times” of Revelations, and that the Occultic messiah (or antichrist) is alive." (Always with the End Times mythology with these people.)

Yeah, so this is one of the people that therapists pushing this idea that alter programming is a real thing regard as an authority. They're citing a far right conspiracy theorist who claims toddler assassins are sent to kill wealthy targets and that druids can actually turn themselves into trees.

I'd like to reiterate here that the type of alter programming people like Svali claim exist is not something there was ever any real evidence for, and the whole idea originated among conspiracy theorists. This was not a case of something that actually existed just being co-opted by bad faith actors. It is very literally a witch hunt, and one way we know this is that the early modern mythology of satanic witches and today's mythology of alter programming use many of the exact same tropes. And we also know that people can be coached into confabulating memories of events that never took place (you can see very obvious examples of this yourself here and here).

None of this is to say that human trafficking, sex abuse, religious abuse, institutional abuse, and so on aren't real; they very much are. But the kind of stuff that people like Svali push is not, and it's so full of pseudoscience and far right bigotry that it will harm survivors of extreme abuse even more. The function of this mythology, and the quack psychiatry that goes along with it, is to push people into hyperconservative Christianity and scapegoat the religious trauma it causes.

[dr-astrid-zhang-mccoy]

"Of course I'm serious, I will never joke about t-rexes," Astrid smiled, "the silver is from a billion year old meteorite too, so that you'd know that I love you as much as the vastness of space. I spent a lot of time trying to figure out the perfect ring, because I knew that I wanted it to represent us as a couple."

The Real Zhang-McCoys | Astro

dr-astrid-zhang​:

Astrid had waited for the reaction to her song choice as she walked down the aisle - that had actually been one of the things that she had been most looking forward to. And the ceremony had passed by quickly, and yet at the same time it had felt like them. It was fun and fit them perfectly, and she now was married - to the absolute love of her life. 

“Would it really be our wedding day if I didn’t find a way to incorporate Jurassic Park into it at least twice?” Astrid asked, giggling a little as she looked at up at her husband. “So I walked into the theme………..and the red accent in your ring is made from t-rex bone,” she said with a smile, “So you’ll always have a little bit of my inner t-rex with you always.” 

“Not at all, it would just be another fancy party,” Cisco replied, grinning to his wife. His wife. Thinking it brought a smile to his face but he knew that the newness of saying it was going to be with some grins as well. He looked down at his band and his eyes widened a bit at the factoid Astrid shared with him about the token. “Are you serious?” He grinned, eyes alight back to her before he burst out laughing. “Oh my God, I love you.”

[thebisexualdogdad]

1. “I’m confused— what happened last night? And also, are you naked? Why are you naked?”

Barry Allen and male reader? 🤭

Barry Allen x GN!reader (no pronouns used but male reader leaning)

Sunlight shines through the cracks of your blinds, waking you up with a splitting headache.

Stretching your arms out you hit someones back, realizing you aren't alone.

“Huh?” You mumble to yourself, you didn't remember coming home with anybody last night… but wait a second, these were definitely not your bedsheets.

Looking around the room it occurs to you that this was not your home so where the hell were you and who was lying next to you.

The mystery man rolls over and it's none other than Barry Allen.

You hooked up with Barry Allen.

“Morning Y/N,” he mutters and then his eyes fly open, “Y/N?”

“Uh hey Barry,” you say sitting up in his bed, the bedsheets falling around your bare waist.

“I'm confused- what happened last night? And also, are you naked? Why are you naked?” He questions, shooting upright to notice his clothes are also nowhere to be seen, “why am I naked?”

“Guess that special speedster grade alcohol Cisco made really can get you drunk,” you chuckle awkwardly.

Moments from last night start to flash in Barry's mind, from the two of you drunkenly singing karaoke to you having him pinned up against the outside of the bar sloppily making out to clothing being shed as you stumbled through his apartment with your lips on his neck.

“So we-”

“Yep.”

“I'm so sorry Y/N I don't usually do that sort of thing and it's been so long that I've been drunk that I-” he rambles.

You cut him off with a laugh, “Barry it's okay, I don't regret anything that happened.”

“You don't?” He sighs in relief.

“No I don't,” you assure him, “in fact maybe I can borrow your kitchen to make you breakfast and we can talk about if this was a one time thing or if I can possibly take you on a real date sometime?”

Barry smiles, running his hand through his messy hair, “I'd really like that.”

“Great so how many stacks of pancakes do you need to feed that metabolism of yours? 5? 10?” You tease.

“Better make 15 just to be safe,” he jokes.

“15 stacks of pancakes coming up,” you smile, getting out of his bed to look for your pants.

He tries to be a gentleman and not stare at your naked body but damn did you have a great ass.

He really hopes this wasn't going to be a one time thing.