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You will never self-love your way out of human need for community, friendship and romance.

“This is…exactly whatit looks like.” + Leverage

               The barwas empty, which Eliot deemed to be the perfect time to just work on somerecipes that had been sitting in his head the past few weeks. He knew Parkerand Hardison were in the back – doing what, he didn’t know, he didn’t askanymore – and even though he didn’t need them for the cooking part, he wasalready preparing to take his food back there for them to try.

               Afterfinishing up, and plating, Eliot took a step back from his food, grinning abit. He loved this, he loved the cooking, he loved this part of it, when he wassure it was good, because even if he was having his partners give it a tastetest, Eliot was mostly using that asa ruse to feed them something that wasn’t junk food or orange soda.

               Hegathered the plates in his hands, nudging out of the kitchen, and then acrossthe room into the back. He could still hear Parker, her voice excited even ifthe words were low, but he couldn’t hear Hardison, now, as he came into theroom to bring them the food.

“Alright, guys, I finished makin’ this…I think we should addit to…the…menu, Parker, what the hell?” he asked, eyes flitting up as hetrailed, seeing Hardison hanging upside down from the ceiling, clutching therope and squeezing his eyes closed. Parker jumped, spinning to see Eliot,before pointing.

“Oh, this? What? No, this…this is…exactly what it lookslike.” Eliot just blinked, but Hardison’s eyes went open when he realized Eliotwas there, startled.

“Ah, Eliot, man, get me down from here! See, we were tryin’to do the Spiderman kiss, you know, but I thought we could swap it and she was gonna hang upside down, b-“

“Nope,” Eliot replied, not knowing what else to say, beforebacking out of the room, and disappearing back towards the kitchen.

“Eliot! Man, come on, she won’t cut me down!” Hardisonhollered, but Eliot knew Parker would, eventually.

Okay but Hartley as only one Savitar. Savitar secretly being all of the Rogues together wearing the Savitar suit (which gives them the speed power). Savitar as the literal embodiment of three kids standing on each other in a trenchcoat.

Hartley steps out of the suit in front of Killer Frost and she’s all “we’re doing this.” And then Mark steps out and she blinks. And then another person, maybe Shawna. Frost is getting concerned. “How did you all fit in there?”

It’s like a clown car. Lisa is stepping out now. Bivolo is trailing behind.

“This is weird,” Killer Frost steps back.

(For this)

Oops, I did more than 5

1. No surprise to anyone: More Hartley. On Team Flash, As a Rogue as a Reformed Rogue that joins Team Flash. Give me it.

2. People just being smarter (Barry), making better life choices (Barry), Plots that still make sense when you think about them for more than 5 seconds.

3. Bit weird but ACTUALLY A TEENAGER! WALLY. Not a college student but a High School student. I feel we missed out on a lot of potential there.

4. Actual LGBT+ In the main cast (Assuming the Hartley change doesn’t happen but more gay the better!) Get some Bi/Pan Cisco up in this bitch, have Caitlin with an unexpected crush on the hot, very much female, meta of the week. Singh actually appearing in all police relevant episodes. Come on now.

5. Iris actually having a job - you know, instead of hanging around STAR Labs 24/7 and only does any reporting when the plot calls for it. Giving Barry peptalks Every. Single. Episode. is not a job. I want badass INVESTIGATIVE reporter Iris. I want Iris who notices something fishy that no one else does and digs into it by herself and gets herself out of the trouble she gets in. 

BONUSES:

6. Cisco to stop being so fucking creepy with his flirting. Stop. Just stop. Continuing to talk about dating/flirting/wanting to marry a girl after she’s turned you down is fucking creepy. Stop it right now. I was actually shocked that people actually ship Cisco/Cythnia because it was just fucking gross and creepy to me how he acted around her. It’s also why I don’t like many Cisco/Het ships because of how creepy he gets around women.

7. Rogues - Where are they? I don’t give a shit about all these fucking speedsters only around because their insecure about their speed wang. I want the fucking Rogues. The Rogues are such a huge part of the Flash Comics and we get next to nothing regarding them.

8. James FUCKING Jesse. I want ACTUAL James Jesse - not the poorman’s joker knock off we all ways get forced on us. I want Flying Shoes, exploding yoyos, and Parkour (which isn’t in the comics but it should be now that it’s a thing but they’d have to bring him back first which is an entirely different complaint). James Jesse who became FBI after going straight. Gimme him, I’ll even take AU James, just gimme him

@eliotswaugh said: Flash

LMAO I have so much I’d wanna change now that I’m writing but: 

I understand that Barry is the main character and therefore the plot revolves him, which is fine, but I still wish that the show would give more side plots for the other characters and develop them more and give them more fulfilling friendships. 

MORE QUEER CHARACTERS THEY HAVE 2 CANON ONES AND THEY’RE BARELY THERE IT’S RIDICULOUS COME ON 

God can I please have some consistent female friendships on this show, especially with Cait/Iris??? The two main females and they’re not friends??? Are you kidding? They don’t need to besties but can they actually talk more than once per season? (Actually give Iris more interpersonal relationships in general) 

Hm. So this is hard I kind of want to choose Cait’s KF storyline to be better BUT I haven’t caught up so...let’s go with this. I’d want WA to not have been raised in the same house from the age of 11 - if for anything else, to stop the discourse of “they’re siblings!!!!” (they’re not, legally or emotionally). Maybe if it were when he was a teenager or simply was the best friend who was there all the time (because I still highkey love the Westallen family dynamic) I guess I’d change that because that discourse...I am so tired lmao. 

Yeah Cindy is actually called Cindy and her hero name is Charmer. 

Let’s pretend I know what “3 sentence fic” means and that I’m not going overboard here.

“’Bout time we finally caught this little punk,” Mick Rory growled down at him, muzzle of the heat gun pointing at the lightning emblem on the Flash’s chest. He had the meta taskforce’s newest invention on his leg -- they were calling it ‘the boot’ and it seemed to dampen his power.

Inside the suit, the Flash, Barry, the fastest thief in Central City, was starting to sweat.

“’Bout time indeed, partner,” the captain of the meta squad, a Mr. Leonard Snart, agreed, holstering his cold gun, the weapon that had actually slowed him down enough to catch him. “Time to see who’s really under that mask.”

“Y’know,” Barry licked his lips, leaning away from the man, “there are a few other ways this could go down, Captain Cold.”

“That so?” he was reaching for the edge of Barry’s mask.

“I could make it worth your while,” he leered. The man didn’t seem impressed.

“Knowing your face is gonna a lot more worthwhile, kid.”

Barry shifted his attention to Rory, Heatwave, who looked amused. “Think he’s soft on you, Snart.”

“We’ve sure been playing cat and mouse long enough for him to--”

He pulled down Barry’s mask. 

“--have warmed up to...”

“Sure you don’t want to reconsider my offer for how this could go down?” Barry grinned. Snart’s surprised expression (because he was young? because he was hot?) reverted back to cool indifference.

“We’re finally taking you in, Flash.”

He heaved a dramatic sigh, leaning toward the other man instead. “Cuff me, Rory.”

“Got an attitude, this one does,” the man grumbled, pulling out some power dampening cuffs. He pulled Barry’s arms behind his back, perfect range for him to cop a feel. It was plenty satisfying when the man yelped and dropped the cuffs. “Shameless little--”

Barry went for the deal-sealer, since ‘the boot’ was only really affecting his lower half anyway. He vibrated his face with a grin, “you boys do know I can vibrate, right?”