#flashatom

DCTV moodboards: Flashatom - moviestar AU

Been meaning to create a lil something for this small but very cute ship for a while. Hope you enjoy @battys-home. :)

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Ray gets a dream job as an actor, starring as one of the leads in a musical. He's working alongside Barry 'The Flash' Allen as the competition for his love interest, which would be great... Except he has to act churlish on camera one moment and fall back to smiles and apologies the next, eager to reassure Barry he actually likes him. The situation gives him emotional whiplash but it's still a fantastic project, exactly the kind of old-school musical he's always wanted to do.

He can't help but enjoy the promotional tour even more, considering it's just him and Barry a lot of the time. They both get to be themselves in interviews, antagonism free and goofing off - their natural enthusiasm for the project, as well as the genre, shining through to everyone's benefit. It's no surprise that he misses it all once it's over and the movie finally drops.

A funny thing happens though, there's a vocal section of fans who insist him and Barry had even better chemistry than him and his love interest, lovely as she was. Ray's kinda pleased to know maybe he wasn't imagining that spark between them, even if it's purely likeminds hitting it off.

When is it?

February 11th-19th

What is it?

Flashatom Valentines Week is a week to celebrate the pairing of Barry Allen/Ray Palmer with fanworks or just enjoying/supporting Flashatom fanworks!

Guidelines:

Any fannish content is accepted! Fanart, Playlists, Moodboards, Fanfic, or anything you can think of!

Content should be Barry and Ray centric. Afterall it is a Flashatom event.

Quasi-Platonic/Queer Platonic content welcome! (as long as the focus is not on any romantic pairings and work is Barry/Ray centric)

When uploading to or sharing on Tumblr remember to put FVW2020 in your first three tags and tag us. You can also add it to our A03 collection here.

Important info:

we have a three day grace period because we understand life is hectic! Please don’t feel obligated to apologise or explain yourself. If the fanwork goes over the three day grace period, we still reblog general flashatom fanworks so you’ll still get lots of love from us! It just won't be included in the master post for the event.

Prompts:

The results of the poll we sent out were fairly inconclusive (which is okay! We are a tiny ship). So it seems to be best if we make the event to general Flashatom content and add some optional prompts! You’re free to interpret these however you’d like or ignore them completely.

1. First Valentines Day

2. Puppy love

3. “I’m sorry, I ruined it.”

4. Morning kisses

5. Carnation Sale High School/College AU

6. “This kitchen is for singing”

7. Surprises

Okay! So obviously Barry and Ray have Nora but now meet her twin sister:

Name: Anna Jean Allen-Palmer

Gender: Female

General Appearance: Anna wears a lot of dresses and skirts unlike her sister

Personality: opposite of her sister Anna's very girly with a tiny hint of nerd hidden in there.

Special Talents: Superspeed like Barry, Can draw and has a photographic memory

Who they like better: Ray. She spends all her time with him either in his lab or at PalmerTech

Who they take after more: both Barry and Ray

Personal Head canon: Iris was Barry and Rays surrogate. Anna gets her first and middle name from Ray's deceased fiancee Anna. It was Barry's idea since Barry knows how hard it is too lose someone and wanted Ray to honor her just like they honored his mother naming Nora

Face Claim: Jessica Parker Kennedy

Disclaimer:

I'm allowed to like or dislike whatever I want, and you don't have to agree with me. Me not liking a ship is not a personal attack on any one person.

A Ship That Pisses You Off:

Arrowverse:

I'm going to have to say ColdFlash. Because it's everywhere. Leonard Snart ships already make me uncomfoy and it's very annoying when I can't search for any of rarepairs or even WestAllen without ColdFlash coming up on the first page because A03 doesn't always let me filter out other tags and I waste so much time sorting out fics that also have ColdFlash. Also every single time I check the tab for my rarepair (which there are currently 54 fics for) I always have to filter out ColdFlash and that's literally 1/4 of the content (23 fics currently) and I'm just at a point where I'm like "Can I search ONE Barry ship without ColdFlash coming up on the FIRST PAGE instead of what I'm looking for?"

Harry Potter:

So, disclaimer for this one. This is kinda controversial and I'm not a dramatic Snape stan and I don't consider myself an anti because I don't care if y'all ship it but like Jilly's relationship progression annoys the fuck out of me and makes me kind of depressed. Like, why is James the golden boy Lily loves just because he didn't turn out to be a blood pureist? Like ... he and his friends still harassed and nearly killed a boy on more than one occasion + thought it was funny for no reasons other than 1) he had "greasy hair". 2) He was in a different house at school 3) He was too close to a girl one of them had a crush on. I know people are like "he changed, he grew up" but we didn't see any of that. To me it just really feels like Lily ended up with the lesser of two assholes. It always felt like she got with him really soon after or around the time Snape called her a mudblood. So ... it always just felt like James bullied her until she liked him and her friend being blood pureist. I'm just sort of sitting here like "Lily deserved better" and I'm usually more inclined to be lenient towards kids because they can grow up and change but there is not a lot of time at all between Hogwarts and when Lily and James got married so I just ... don't like them lmao.

A Ship That is Unpopular But You Still Like:

Arrowverse:

I had to think LONG and hard about this one because my main ships (Steelspeed, Flashclub, LegalFlashClub, Flashatom, etc) Are 90% of rarepairs and honestly I had to name the first 3 myself. (Flashclub with help from the Arrowverse server Flarrowverse Shipyard)

I'm gonna go with FlashAtom because I feel like they have so much potential even as friends in the verse. I mean they already share a favourite musical, and they're cute sweet scientists like??? Can you IMAGINE them talking about science stuff all day??? Like listen I love me some Olivarry but like??? Flashatom??? That would be SO SOFT. I'm weak just thinking about it.

Harry Potter: [Discussions of sex and touch repulsion ahead]

CHARMIONE

I feel that this is a copout because I like a VERY spesific Charmione set up and most ships like this are mostly fanon because we don't see a lot of Charlie but I'm going to be self-indulgent anyway.