#nahtp

NOTP- I will probably barf if I see this on my dash

Nahtp- I'm not a fan but won't start wars over it

OTP- This is the greatest thing to exist and I would die for it.

But we're all missing the concept of:

I actually didn’t finish part 1 yet, so idek if there is a part 2 yet or what... I’m guessing Pt. 2 is an Arrow episode though? It always confuses me. Anyway, yeah. I could do without the Olicity bits.

Yes, I mean I love Felicity... I just don’t see what the grounds for their relationship were. Now before I lose 12 followers or something, let me say this: I don’t ever bash olicity shippers (go right ahead and ship what you like) and for the most part I keep my mildly anti-olicity feelings to myself... So if you ship it, just don’t read this post and you’ll be fine, okay? (Okay... And maybe blacklist “no-licity”, just in case).  

Plus, I don’t really even hate-hate them, I more consider them a nah-tp more than a NOOtp. Like I think it's annoying, so I just don’t watch the show anymore. (This is the second DC show I stopped watching over the main couple being problematic. The other one was Smallville in season 8B, after Lana left. CURSE YOU, LOIS LANE!)

Anyway... I felt they had no character similarities... She's this bubbly nerdgoof princess hacker and he’s an emotionally detached statue with manpain. Stark contrasts to the extreme. And it just feels like oil and water. I tried to mix them. I tried to ship it. After all, they are both important ingredients in the cake mix of life (i like metaphors okay?). But they just don’t mix by themselves. (*cough, cough* Barricity was freaking effortless though *cough cough*)

But then I think the writers started listening to fans so I just took a stand and decided not to try shipping them anymore. I can’t conform. Ugh. Sorry. I think the writers started unnaturally changing them both... especially by giving them all this drama that took Felicity from being an awkward nerd cinnamon roll who over-admired Oliver’s physique to being The Only Light In His Darkness, The Only One Who Truly Understands Him, The Eternal Love of His Life. And I guess I just didn’t feel it. (Maybe if Oliver hadn’t also been in love with Laurel and Sara and Helena... and treated them all like they were sooo special.  I could have bought it). I mean, I like my superheroes to have a supportive girlfriend who encourages them. But I just don’t think they are cut from the same cloth. He’s like dark green leather and she’s a cute pastel searsucker... or maybe fuzzy cupcake-print flannel.  And at the point when they were becoming a couple I just couldn’t see Oliver with anyone really. 

I feel kind of betrayed because the fic is absolutely fucking hilarious and I'm enjoying it like a stupid fangirl.  It's not even written that well...