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[nataliealynlind]

under the cut you will find 24 dash icons of the main cast of julie and the phantoms. please like or reblog if you use/save these. all i ask is that you don’t claim them as your own. i went with a sunset aesthetic a la sunset curve!!!

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A little drabble for the Snowbarry Valentine challenge 2020

It didn’t have time to write anything that fits the prompts, but I’ve updated my fic with another (very short) chapter, which also works as a stand-alone

the next day: https://archiveofourown.org/works/16920852/chapters/54084475

(story: When The Ordinary Becomes Extraordinary https://archiveofourown.org/works/16920852/chapters/54084475)

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She’s gone

A little one-shot of Barry dealing with a world after Crisis - a world without Caitlin Snow for Snowbarry Week 19 - Day 4 :)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21534043

Beware of the angst :P

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Snowbarryweek Day 3

So I’ve updated my Story “When The Ordinary Becomes Extraordinary”. I added three more chapters with the latest one (chapter 7) fitting the Halloween prompt :) The chapters can be read separately or as a kind of a story :)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16920852/chapters/39754917 (Story)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16920852/chapters/51331240 (Start of new chapters)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16920852/chapters/39754917 (Halloween)

I hope you enjoy :)

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Barry’s choices - An analysis of the fight between Barry and Iris in 5x19

I’m still not over the fact that the fight between Barry and Iris in 5x19 is actually canon. At first, I was spinning from the whole Iris not caring that Thawne murdered Barry’s mother (and I still am) but recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about Iris blaming Barry for his choices. So again, how is this scene canon?

When way back at the beginning of season 4, Iris told Barry “You left me, Barry. You just left me. Standing there, alone.” I was aghast because it was such a selfish thing to say since we know that “he had to go” and she wasn’t actually the one alone in this scenario. On top of it, she chose a moment to explode with her feelings where Barry couldn’t respond to it since he has to hide his identity and therefore his motivations for his choice from the therapist. But ignoring the setting and the way Iris expressed her feelings, I can understand that she has these emotions. After Eddie dying to stop Thawne and Barry leaving to save the world, add that to finding out her mother didn’t die but left her, yes, I understand that she has these feelings, this fear of abandonment.

Unfortunately, those feelings were never really resolved, they just turned it around and made it about Barry not asking Iris for her opinion on his choice and how they are in it together ( “We are the Flash” *sigh*). Instead, they could have actually had some kind of character development for Iris, like have her be the one who has to make the choice to save others, or something. (It reminds me of an episode of Charmed, where at the beginning of the episode, when asked if they would save one sister or 5 strangers, they confidently choose a sister, but at the end of the episode, because of what they went through, they know they would choose to save the strangers, because it’s their job to save the innocent). But alas, these feelings were never dealt with, which then brings us to Barry’s trial.

Now, when the lawyer wonders about Barry’s reasons for his six month’s absence, Iris says “Is saving the world a good reason?” Without any character development to support her change of heart, this, of course, sounds hollow and hypocritic. They could have used Barry’s trial and him making the choice to go to prison and “leaving” Iris again to show some actual character development on her part, but the writers ignored that opportunity. Now we could assume that she actually did deal with her feelings and is now able to defend (and accept) Barry’s choice instead of blaming him for it. (Not a great choice to have character development happen off-screen, but possible), alas at the end of season 5, this scene happens.

Barry takes Nora back to the future and once again, Iris blames him for his choices, actually saying “… Going to the Speed Force and leaving me? Were you right those times too?” This just shows us that after a year and a half, she still hasn’t dealt with her feelings (making the trial scene even more hypocritic), she still thinks he made the wrong choice to go into the speed force (and save the world). How can she be with him and not agree with, or at least understand, his choices, but actually resent him for them? Especially since, apart from Flashpoint, he actually makes good choices (except when it comes to his relationships with his friends, but those don’t affect Iris). As for Flashpoint, I still believe, that his conversation with Iris, her inability to help him, and his emotions for her and wanting to be what she wants him to be, were the catalyst to that decision.

Since Iris real emotions were never dealt with, it’s now all about Barry’s choices. She doesn’t think he makes the right choices, so she wants to control them and in doing so, make sure that he can’t /won’t hurt her again. And though I can, again, see where she is coming from deep down, still afraid of being left alone, never having dealt with her fear of abandonment, never having accepted that part of Barry’s life or Barry himself; just look at what she has become after Barry vanishes in the crisis (probably without her consent); they are now stuck in a toxic relationship. Iris, wanting to control Barry’s choices, has now made him doubt himself to the degree where he barely makes his own decisions, always waiting for her, or occasionally some other team member, to decide on the next step, asking variations of “what are we going to do?” way more often, and becoming a worse hero that he was in season 1 and 2, for example being unable to phase through poison until Iris tells him to, unable to save Caitlin’s mother without Iris in his ear, frozen, petrified to make the “wrong” choice.

So again, especially after the season finale, I wonder how this can be canon? And WA still a thing? Even the “gold standard”?  How can the writers SHOW us how toxic that relationship is and still TELL us that they are “meant to be”? And how can this have been going on for 3 seasons?

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Snowbarry Valentine FanFiction

So here’s the link to a new chapter to “When the ordinary becomes extraordinary” for Snowbarry Valentine

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16920852/chapters/41829053

And here’s a new one-shot “Bringing her back” for Snowbarry Valentine to the prompt “She smirked as she tossed another pink teddy bear into the roaring flames”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/17729555

Hope you enjoy :)

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When The Ordinary Becomes Extraordinary

Just a few mostly fluffy Snowbarry one-shots for Snowbarryweek (day 4: free)

Hope you enjoy :)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16920852/chapters/39754917

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Imagine Barry dressing up as Green Arrow on Halloween

At that moment, Barry walks in dressed in the green arrow suit. Caitlin’s eyes go wide as she takes in his appearance. Before she can stop it, Frost’s cold voice comes out of her mouth. “Hot damn!” 

Blushing profusely, she presses her lips together, not wanting Frost to embarrass her even more. Barry looks up at her, surprised when he hears Killer Frost’s voice, then seeing her blush, he just grins awkwardly. 

“I know I don’t fill it up as good as Oliver,” he concedes. 

“You fill it up very nicely.” 

The words were out of her mouth once again before she could stop herself because this time it was definitely Caitlin and not Frost. She really didn’t think she could blush even more, but darn it, she has seen Barry in a lot of outfits and it’s not like the Flash suit is hiding anything, but seeing him in this suit makes her tingly in all the right places. 

Still a little embarrassed and self-conscious, Barry replies. “Thanks, but have you seen Oliver’s arms, I mean, I must look like a stick next to him.” 

“A very hot stick.” 

Caitlin curses herself on the inside, this has to stop, she can’t go drooling over Barry and being this obvious about it. Good thing Cisco isn’t here, he would never let her live that down. She takes a deep breath, trying to calm her nerves, and slowly glances back up at Barry, who is just grinning at her at this point. 

“All I’m saying, Barry, is that you don’t need to worry or feel self-conscious, honestly, you pull this off better than Oliver.” 

Weirdly enough that is the comment that makes him blush