Halbarry Secret Santa

Welcome to the Halbarry Holiday Gift Exchange!

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Halbarry Secret Santa 2025 Timeline

11/3/25: Sign-ups open

11/16/25: Sign-ups close

11/21/25: Secret Santa assignments sent

12/13/25: Extra check-in for those who opted in

12/28/25: Ao3 collection opens; all works set unrevealed

1/10/26: Check-ins to make sure everything’s going okay

Please message us early if you won’t be available on 1/10!

1/12/26: Pinch hitters assigned as necessary

1/12/26 - 1/18/26: Daily writing/art sprints on the Halbarry Network Discord server

1/19/26 - 1/25/26: Gifts posted and Secret Santas revealed!

Tumblr users: please @ your giftee and @halbarrysecretsanta so that we can reblog it!

Ao3 users: please use the Ao3 gift function to “Gift this work to” your recipient, and post to the Halbarry Secret Santa 2025 collection! (we’ll update this with a link once the collection has been created)

1/26/26 - 2/1/26: Extension gifts posted!

See the gifts on Tumblr and Ao3! Thanks for a great exchange!

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Halbarry Week 2026

Halbarry Week 2025 is August 10th through 16th!

All types of fanworks are allowed and encouraged, for as many or as few days and prompts you’d like to create for!  We look forward to your illustrations, stories, metas, edits, playlists, and ice sculptures!  Please make sure to tag your content for potentially triggering material, and with the #Halbarry Week and/or #Halbarry Week 2026 so everyone can find your posts!

We’ll be posting reminders, answering questions, and reblogging participant WIPs here,@halbarryweekfeed, between now and the Week. We’ll also be posting updates on Instagram!

If you have any questions, check out the Halbarry Week FAQ, send us an ask, DM the organizer @chocolateteapotsvis, or email [email protected]!

Full text prompts under the cut!

Monday, August 10

Feet on the Ground/Head in the Clouds

Parallel Lives

"Seriously, stop. We wear masks for a reason."

Tuesday, August 11

Only for You

Medieval

"Hal could do it. Sorry! It just came out!"

Wednesday, August 12

Internalized Homophobia

Undercover

"Yellow. My one weakness."

Thursday, August 13

Confession

Road Trip

"My best friend. My ally, who's saved my life more times than I can count. And I shatter him as recklessly as I shatter our friendship."

Friday, August 14

Another Time, Another Place

Who did this to you?

"I don't know if I was ever truly innocent... but hanging out with the Flash sure made me feel that way."

Saturday August 15

In Your Dreams

Childhood Friends

"Of course he's going to get all the attention. He's the prettiest."

Sunday, August 16

FREE

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Halbarry Week 2026 Prompt/Date Voting

Thanks to everyone who submitted prompts! Now it’s time to pick prompts and the date for the Week!

The poll will be open through Friday, May 1st!

>>> VOTE HERE! <<<

The final prompts and Week dates will be posted May 2nd!

If you have any questions, you can check out the FAQ, send an ask here, email [email protected], or DM the mod @chocolateteapotsvis!

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Vote through Friday!

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Halbarry Week 2026 Prompt Suggestion Box Reminder!

We’ll be posting the prompt poll Saturday, 4/18, so get your prompt suggestions in now!

The prompt poll will be up for about two weeks, with the final prompts and Week date posted early May.

Drop your Prompt Suggestions Here!

A couple guidelines:

Go for prompts that are broad and open for interpretation - for example, instead of “Flash Annual #2,” try “First Impressions” or “Team Up” or “Date Night”

We have to fit these on a graphic, so please keep them short!

Depending on the number of suggestions we get, some suggested prompts may not appear on the prompt poll to choose Halbarry Week’s 2026’s prompts

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Have a prompt you loved from Secret Santa you want to see more of? Suggest it (or anything else!) for the Halbarry Week prompts through Friday!

We'll only be posting a couple of the Halbarry Week posts here, so go check out @halbarryweekfeed if you're interested in the event!

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Halbarry Prompts: AUs!

Prompts:

Absolute Universe

Alternative universe @candy-san1

COWBOYS!

fantasy/medieval halbarry au!

Medieval world @candy-san1

Mythology/Folklore AU @chocolateteapotsvis

hitman/victim monster AUs (NO SPECIFIC ONES I JUST LIKE MONSTERS)

soulmates AU @layspotatochipabs

soulmate au first meeting @pnkeki

Soulmate marks/soul bonds but with a twist/non traditional soulmate marks @roboticnebula

dc vs vampires au or just an elaboration about what already happened @astro-mario

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Halbarry Prompts: Part 5!

Last batch before the AUs! Create something, tag the prompter, you know the drill!

Prompt:

starcrossed lovers

t4t smut, literally anything in this category will do @astro-mario

One teaching the other from their particular set of skills @chocolateteapotsvis

time loops / time travel, relationships resetting over and over @astro-mario

Time Travel

(not actually) unrequited love

whump followed by comfort, physical or emotional, hurt that blond @astro-mario

i’m always looking for barry whump with the whole league involved somehow but halbarry 

Winter Adventures @chocolateteapotsvis

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Halbarry Prompts: Part 4!

Even even more prompts! Consider tagging the prompter if you make anything from a prompt!

Prompts:

a quiet night

halbarry using skinship/touch as a form of communication/reassurance

secret relationship with eventual reveal to the justice league/family members @layspotatochipabs

Space adventures!!! @briarmoon1015

space adventure with blue lantern barry @layspotatochipabs

Space adventures/shenanigans; doing missions together @roboticnebula

Space travel @candy-san1

Superhero social media couples content @chocolateteapotsvis

League Surprise Party @chocolateteapotsvis

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Halbarry Prompts: Part 3!

Even more prompts! Think about tagging the prompter if creating something from these prompts!

Prompts:

Losing powers and then getting them back: helping each other through it @roboticnebula

Matching outfit @candy-san1

Medbay

Barry comes on too strong at the beginning of their friendship (see: giving Hal a new book to read every few weeks when they first met, including his PERSONAL childhood copy of H.G. Wells’ Time Machine?? insane). Bonus: AuDHD mis/communication. @toytle

Outsider POV

overworked/exhausted/stressed barry and hal says something that leads to their first major arguement as a couple. and the aftermath of that

Hal is a lab rat to Barry’s scientific curiosity about their powers. For research purposes, of course. @toytle

Get a room, you two!: Barry is a hypocrite about PDA. @toytle

pwp piss kink @pnkeki

parallax hal

angst including parallax hal mention @pnkeki

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Halbarry Prompts: Part 2!

Some more prompts! If you create something from a prompt, why not tag it so the prompt creator can enjoy it too?

Prompts:

Established relationship: either for a very long time, or a fresh, newly established relationship that they're exploring together @roboticnebula

a scenario w established halbarry where none of barry's colleagues have met hal or believes he exists. if this is in third person pov (for fic) I would love you so much, but I'm not picky!!

fwb but never getting together cause hal has commitment issues @pnkeki

Fake Dating

Hanging out with the league :) @briarmoon1015

hanahaki disease

Celebrating the holidays with family is tough. Hal isn’t sure if inviting Barry to spend it with him makes it better or worse. @toytle

Kiss and make up: Hal and Barry get into a fight. It’s both of their faults. @toytle

lost together

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Halbarry Prompts: Part 1

The exchange may be over, but that just means we get to see what prompts the participants came up with! If you happen to make something from a prompt, why not tag the prompt creator so they can enjoy your creation too?

Prompts:

Baking @candy-san1

blue lantern barry

barry becoming a blue lantern and hal realizing his feelings for barry @pnkeki

someone gets brainwashed and they (barry and hal) have to fight each other 

childhood best friends to college AU lovers @layspotatochipabs

the justice league comes out with a dating simulator game and one of them catches the other trying to romance them in the game

@layspotatochipabs

DIVORCE

Domestic/Fluff @briarmoon1015

domestic/intimacy/ celebrating the holiday together in their own way/making their own traditions @roboticnebula

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Chapters: 1/2 Fandom: The Flash (Comics), Green Lantern (Comics) Rating: Mature Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Barry Allen/Hal Jordan (Green Lantern) Characters: Barry Allen, Hal Jordan (Green Lantern) Additional Tags: Hanahaki Disease, Shower Sex, Character Death, Body Horror, Unhappy Ending, Mutual Pining, Communication Failure Summary:

Barry thinks he's been in love with Hal for longer than he's known.

Secret Santa gift for Jaybirdies! Prompt: (not actually) unrequited love.

@astro-mario‘s gift for @scogean

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: DCU (Comics), DCU Rating: Not Rated Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Barry Allen/Hal Jordan (Green Lantern), Dinah Lance/Oliver Queen Characters: Barry Allen, Hal Jordan (Green Lantern), Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, Dinah Lance, Diana (Wonder Woman), Oliver Queen, Eobard Thawne Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Missing Persons Summary:

Barry is missing after a fight with Thawne.

  The first part of the fic im (still) writing for astro_mario 's secret Santa gift!! The prompt I went with was "whump followed by comfort, physical or emotional, hurt that blond”

@hal-barry-wally ‘s gift for @astro-mario

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my @halbarrysecretsanta gift for @pnkeki! well, more like stocking stuffer. i wasn’t able to finish on time (and tumblr nuked my first attempt), but i hope you like the sneakpeek until then!

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IMAGE 1: grayscale halbarry fanart comic, dimly lit characters against a light background. in the 1st panel, barry is covering his face and panting heavily, flustered and overwhelmed, taking a peek from behind his hand. in the 2nd panel, hal tilts his head, earring glinting in the light. he raises an eyebrow and smiles seductively at barry as his arm is moving off-screen. his wordless speech bubble crosses both panels.

IMAGE 2: grayscale halbarry fanart comic, dimly lit characters against a light background. barry lowers his hand to say something, hiding his embarrassment by shutting his eyes instead. hal leans in close with an amused, knowing smile, pulling his arm back in an off-screen motion. freckles scatter his face and shoulders. barry’s blush deepens down his chest, revealing lightning-shaped top surgery scars and stretch marks.

IMAGE 3: grayscale halbarry fanart comic, illuminated characters against a dark background. barry’s hair is loose in his face as he leans over an off-screen hal. his eyes are closed and his mouth is parted in a small smile, wordlessly speaking, effortless as if taking a leisurely stroll. distantly, hal is moaning.

IMAGE 4: grayscale halbarry fanart comic, illuminated character against a dark background. closeup of hal’s face, cushioned by the bed below. his hair is disheveled and matted with sweat, eyes shut and eyebrows pinched upward in a feverish expression. his mouth falls open, moaning loudly as he gets his words out in a blank speech bubble.

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@halbarrysecretsanta gift for @roboticnebula! 🫶

Established Relationship + Holiday Traditions

Hal comes to spend the holidays in Central City :)

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Thanks for a Great Exchange!

Thank you to everyone who participated in this year's Halbarry Secret Santa! Every year we've been blown away by the creativity, care, and effort this community puts into making gifts for each other! All gifts have been posted, so check them out Tumblr and the Ao3 collection!

But we're not done yet! We'll be reblogging the rest of the gifts over the next few days, and posting everyone's prompts next week!

What did you think of the exchange? Let us know in the Exit Survey! We're asking additional questions to help us help creators have a better time while still meeting the deadline

If you'd like to be notified for the next Halbarry Week and/or Secret Santa, drop your contact info here!

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/78774486

🎁 A gift drop for @skyvein! Hello!!!! 👋

Also thank you to @halbarrysecretsanta for hosting =]

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Rating: Mature Relationships: Barry Allen/Hal Jordan (Green Lantern) Characters: Barry Allen, Hal Jordan (Green Lantern), Oliver Queen, Diana (Wonder Woman), Bruce Wayne Additional Tags: Pre-Flashpoint (DCU), big ol’ kiss, for plot reasons, Whump, Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Blood and Injury, Mind Control, Emotional Manipulation, (of the fantasy variety), Self-Hatred, Established Relationship, Case Fic, an attempt anyway, superhero mission to save the relationship, Mental Health Issues (Additional minor tags on Ao3) Summary:

Eight hours until the beginning of the end.

Barry knows how Hal is in relationships. Once the honeymoon phase has worn thin, Hal’s insecurities surface and systematically sabotage his chance at happiness. This time, the happiness he’s sabotaging is with Barry.

Barry has been struggling to find a solution to save their otherwise doomed romance. Now that the warnings he’s been watching for have arrived, it’s a race against the clock, one Barry’s not sure he can win even without the complication of an unknown alien lifeform aboard.

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