#yellowflicker09011996

incidentally, it happens to be an mlm harry potter fic, which I don’t really read anymore. it’s called monochrome (nsfw) and it’s by the wonderful @crollalanzaa, a good friend of mine who now writes for a different fandom. this fic is a wolfstar fic and it’s got a dynamic I absolutely love in that remus and sirius definitely fall for each other, but they also are clearly in love with other people at different stages of the fic. for sirius it’s james in the middle, and for remus it’s tonks, right at the end. I absolutely adore the way it’s written and I won’t lie, I’ve probably inadvertently used the general idea of dreaming in colour versus dreaming in black and white in my fic before. I can’t remember the specific fic right now but it’s definitely happened. (I hope you don’t mind, croll. I don’t think I even realised I did it until right this second haha.)

and then there’s basically anything written by @thegreybeyond but especially the colour of distance which is an absolutely amazeballs harmony fic that makes me weep to this day. idc if you don’t ship them, you can’t read this fic and not feel all the feels for these two. it’s so beautifully written. pure poetry. 

I’ve read some stuff in the flarrowverse that has come close, but tbh nothing has inspired me as much as these two fics and the lyricism that I have tried to replicate in my own fics. 

yeah, i had to forget a lot of things and rationalize HARD to make sense of 5.08 *sigh*

it was so great that arrow tonight ended john being such a hero and saving his friends. was it not? it was great

lmao i didnt think it was that bad though

like the talk wasn’t as deep as the others, but i can forgive, idk. i have decided to interpret felicity saying the helix stuff was because of billy because she’s not actually in contact with her feelings that much, and maybe truly believes this was it. does it excuse the writers? not at all. but i make my peace with it. 

and im kinda hoping they talk about the william thing again, but not holding my hopes up.

  My issue with Dinah/Ollie: I might get hate for...

and fuck me too, thoroughly because im not making sense at all, i know. whatever. i literally do not see the point to any of this when oliver is with Susan, felicity has her own story, and so does digg, and dinah has barely been on for more htan 5 minutes.

Look, the reason why I made the post in the first place was because I honestly didn’t understand the idea of Dinah/Ollie. I just thought it was gross and I wanted to voice my thoughts. That’s why this blog exists. 

The reason why I responded to the person you linked me to (even after I told you that this wasn’t about Olicity but you refused to see that after you read her response to me), was because she was being incredibly condescending in a way that I quite frankly didn’t deserve. Somehow she tried to make me seem less feminist for voicing why I do not want Dinah/Ollie to be together because of all the complications that would arise. She didn’t even TRY to see my point of view before putting me down.

People can ship whatever the hell they want. But they should also understand the implications of them shipping a couple. If you ship Dinah/Ollie you should understand how that would affect Felicity. Same goes for if you ship Sara/Oliver and how that would affect Laurel. 

I’m not dictating what other people should and shouldn’t ship. I was merely conveying my confusion because it honestly makes zero sense to me. 

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I cant believe caitlin cisco is unpopular - i was so sure they were canon (or like, close) in love with one another wow

they’d be superpopular if cisco was a white boy lol

   I have zero background on comicbooks (if we dont count that some years ago i did read naruto from start to… middle before it got bad) but i doubt that ppl being upset has anything to do with the name or comic book lore or whatever. Laurel fans are atatched to laurel and pissed she was murdered “for lack of story” just so they could have another woman step in in her exact shoes. Just like ppl were MIGHTY pissed when sara was killed under these exact same circumstances.    

and i’m pissed about that too! i’ve said it in at least two of the posts I’ve made about Tina/Dinah. I hate the circumstances, but these arguments are a lot of what I’m seeing. I have seen a lot of posts about how it’s not true to the comics, and they’re sticking an OC in, and how wrong that is.

I get the anger/pain -- I believe I even said that in the post that you replied to -- but there are arguments of “but comic canon” about why people are upset.

I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time, but saying that real life is a bit hectic lately would be a huge understatement. This year has been a challenge and a struggle, and I can honestly say one of the bright constants through the whole time were both fics and fanfic writers. 

Also, I want to say I have read a lot of fics this year. And I mean A LOT, and there were so many amazing ones, which is why I usually shy away from these kind of recs in fear I’ll write a list that’s going to turn out way too long, or that I’ll accidentally forget someone. 

However, there are a few stories I feel the need to mention, because as the title suggests, these fics seem to own my ass. Big time. 

Every single one of these hit me like all the best books always do, right in the gut. They tell you you’re not alone, or show you the mistake you unknowingly keep repeating, or describe a feeling you yourself cannot find words for, or just run you over with the sheer amount of feelings that overwhelm you. And I needed all of that, this year maybe more than ever.

(Also, a huge part of this post was obviously written before 2017 started. It was supposed to be posted before too, but my chaotic schedule and a bad cold delayed my perfect plan a bit.)

(This turned out to be a long post, so I’m putting the rest after the cut)

otp Westallen <3 <3 <3 

favourite canon pairing WESTALLENNNN

worst pairing ever Screeams idk if you ship it but uh, I’m rather bitter about Sn*wbarry. 

guilty pleasure pairing Westhallen cries 

a pairing you want to see more KILLERVIIIIIBE or Goldenvibe!!!! Or, really, any Cisco ship. 

that pairing everyone likes but you’re like “lol no” This fandom has a weird habit of shipping Harry with the other Flash team and I don’t? See it? 

favorite non-romantic pair Ooh the Westallen family I love them all a lot