#billy malone

Walk-a-mile day is gonna be a real game changer.

Maseo Yamashiro  

sara lance 

andy diggle 

henry allen 

laurel lance 

billy malone 

vincent sobel 

quintin lance 

Billy was nice. Billy was kind. 

It’s no secret that Season 6 of Arrow has left me beyond miserable - but I remain cautiously optimistic about Season 7. However, I still need cheering so I’m remembering times when Arrow made me happy. There was a whole lot of happy and good before I had my heart broken.

Another cheery holiday episode from Arrow!

Felicity could never properly call Malone her boyfriend - which is why he was of no concern to me. He was never a real boyfriend to her.

Susan being insecure but trying to act confidant - you don’t stand a chance

Insecure Felicity - poor girl didn’t realize she could snap her fingers and Oliver would dump Susan like yesterday’s news

What was really going on - thanks for this very informative gif @bindy417

The whole team in the Arrow Cave

I’m with you Felicity - why don’t men listen?

Thea suits up to help Ollie

Felicity finds Oliver accidentally killed her boyfriend - so many feels

Diggle and the team comfort Oliver

NO ONE comforts Felicity - THIS was unforgiveable!!! I’m sure MG had something to do with it!

The return of...I have nothing nice to say....so I got nothing...

While I did quite enjoy Season 5, it did have it low points like everyone comforting Oliver after he killed Billy and NO ONE comforting Felicity - just plain WRONG. The return of LL in any capacity was completely unnecessary. 

Thanks to those who made the gifs

Oh man. This is some heavy stuff, let me get on my computer for this:

The one thing writers did not do in S5 was let Felicity properly develop as a character.

What the writers wanted was for Felicity to go through what they wanted Laurel to in 5 years time, condensed into a time span of 3 to 5 months, this idea of their “island”. Whereas Laurel has a 7 year island, Oliver being there for her one in a half years, present in the last half, with a lot of time to see her develop into a vigilante hero - because she was already a hero in the daylight. When compared to Laurel, and hell, even Thea, Felicity is nowhere near the development of either female characters, and she’s had more screen time at this point in the show - since S3.

Now, full disclosure, I’m comparing her to Laurel and Thea as female leads of the show, not to pit her against the other women. Felicity is *not* a feminist icon, to me, and hasn’t been since ever. (That’s a whole other ask to ask lol)

When Billy dies, we never ever see Felicity and Oliver even talk about it, at all, that he killed her boyfriend. It is literally everyone coming together to hug Oliver and say, “I am sorry you killed someone innocent.” and then having Felicity cry over it and use her anger, immediately, as a reason to hate E2 LL, as a jealous, pitiful, ex-girlfriend of his first-love. The two never talk about it, there’s no verbalization of Felicity even forgiving Oliver or Oliver asking her for forgiveness. There’s not even a funeral or Oliver, as the Mayor, honoring the loss of Detective Billy Malone. It is all around disgusting and emphasizes why they are so bad for each other, in the first place. Felicity only knows the mask, she knows nothing of the man underneath it.

When Tommy died, Laurel blamed The Hood, because she thought he let him die and goes after him. Oliver was so broken for so long that Laurel blamed him - he thought, but Laurel never blamed Oliver, she blamed The Hood, and the moment he says The Hood is him, Laurel understands - she immediately takes back what she says and knows Oliver did his best to save Tommy. This scene really  showed that Laurel will always believe Oliver, she cares about him beyond the mask. Laurel doesn’t know The Hood, she knows the man underneath it.

🤭🤔interesting...