#coldwest

[msanonny]

coldwest in episode 2.09 of THE FLASH

[joanthangroff]

fic rec - best of 2024

I haven't done one in ages so i thought [mariah carey voice] IT'S TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMEEEEEEEE. These are my fave fics from 2024 + two or three I read in 2025 already but I wanted to include them :)

Arrowverse

Once More, Mr. Queen by mybrotherharry

Olicity but turly mostly a genfic with a character study on Oliver!! The monitor makes Oliver travel to different universes to make sure the Ollies from there also become the Green Arrow. Shows different paths Oliver's life could have gone and how much he's grown. i loved it!!

Sacrifice by MaddyBaby

Genfic with a focus on Barry's and Hartley's friendship!! Set in season two when Barry travels back to the events of Hartley's first appearance. In the new timeline created by this, they're friends only that Barry doesn't know and has some trauma from the time Hartley wanted to kill him <3

Cold Storage by @sproutwings

Iris gets locked in a freezer and hallucinations of Snart help her get out of there. But maybe it's actually been him? Set Post-Oculus.

Partial Disclosure by RetroactiveCon

Hartmon bonding!!! Over queerphobia, too lmao. They're still at each other's throats but realise they have a lot more in common than they thought. Trans!cisco my beloved.

An Honest Thief by @sophiainspace

Coldwest team-up!!!! Polyamory!!!! Aromantic!Iris!!!!!! Coldflash!!!! Iconic Mick behaviour!! What more can I say????

The Memories That Hold Us Back by Cogentranting

Set after the Arrow finale where Oliver brought Tommy back to life. He's Mia's uncle and THEY'RE FAMILY. I love them.

Other DC

Perfect Paradise, Tearing at the Seams by McKat

Payneland fic with a truth spell!! Crystal buys a hexed necklace from Tragic Mick and when Charles accidentally touched it, he has to tell the truth.

heartbreak is one thing, my ego's another by @artemisadore

Catwin with SPOT-ON characterization!!! Edwin stops Thomas when he trashes his ex's car, only to find out that they have the same ex. To make him regret fucking them over (and for other reasons) they start fake-dating :)

myself and this body that they stuck me in by @misspickman

Kon has a few realizations about his gender hehehe

straight on 'til morning by @mamawasatesttube

Big brother Kon realizes that throughout his life he has been treated uhhhhh horribly?? And learns to talk about it

Other fandoms

the fubb cinematic universe by @tkffyrpntsndjckt

The most unhinged chatfic i have ever read I LOVE IT SO MUCH!!!! Basically a rewrite of glee starting during ?? season 3 i think?? Blaine doesn't go to McKinley but stayed at Dalton, he and Sebastian are besties. Sebastian used to be Kurt's roommate at Dalton. so many shenanigans. someone dies. someone goes braindead. hilarity and craziness en masse. i had the time of my life reading this

white christmas by @lalalenii

you may think i'm biased but it really!!!! is that good!!!!! leni plays with formatting in the best way. like you FEEL the pauses while you read and it's so awesome. but robert please stop taking drugs

L'Chaim by sebastian2017

Erik's life and how he has been influenced by being a Jew. It's so so good and has so many gutpunches

A Book Half Unread by @jakeluppin

I still don't properly go here because i'm stuck in 911 s1 BUUUUTTTTT we love buddie in this house. and ezra put so much love into this because being a librarian is ezra's passion and you can FEEL it. it's so good. i love how dorky they are. and chris and buck's friendship is just so cute

The Line of Thought by @shotbyafool

Typical House MD episode tbh. The ducklings meddle with House's private life and he decides to play tricks on them. Unfortunately, he enlists Wilson to help him

The Live Forever Job by jessikast

Leverage/The Old Guard crossover!!!! It's so good and placed perfectly tbh.

[aurora-australis-tumbles]

When Barry went into the Speed Force to save Central City, he left Iris with more than just a broken heart. He also left her with a grieving thief, a terrifyingly positive plus sign, and a mandate to keep running. This is the story of how she did just that and still brought everyone home. Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: The Flash (TV 2014) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Barry Allen/Iris West, Barry Allen/Leonard Snart, Leonard Snart/Iris West, Barry Allen/Leonard Snart/Iris West Characters: Iris West, Leonard Snart, Barry Allen, Joe West, Cisco Ramon, Caitlin Snow, Wally West Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon Compliant through Season 3, and then very much not, Pregnancy, Light Angst, Polyamory, Developing Relationship, Relationship Negotiation, gratuitous use of a show’s own science against it

[sophinspace]

Tagged by @nixie-deangel - thank you!

Writing game: post the last line you wrote and tag someone for every word in that line

Never mind her dad and his gun. Iris is going to kill Leonard herself.

Tagging: I don’t know who is currently writing (and I’m well short of 14) but giving this a go - no pressure if you’re not up for sharing/not writing, though! @joanthangroff @puppetsoftomorrow @coldflasher @angst-is-love-angst-is-life @habibialkaysani @kitkatt0430 @itsflake

[devilishheart]

Coldwestallen As a Romantic Comedy • While You Were Sleeping

Leonard Snart is an aspiring con-man and a thief. He comes to the Motorcar every day to listen to the police radios and learn the response times of the precinct, and to flirt with Barry, the cute (but oblivious) guy who always comes in to eat his lunch at the same time as Len. Len may have have accidentally-on-purpose bumped into him a couple times… but he's always stopped short of actually asking him out.

On Christmas Day, Len rescues Barry from the Central City "L" train after muggers push him onto the tracks. He accompanies the comatose Barry to the hospital, where he overhears a nurse mutter that Barry is both an orphan and also the sole heir to the Allen family fortune. Len manages to get his hands on Barry's personal effects by pretending to be Barry's fiance to the staff, hoping that cleaning out the rich stranger's bank account will solve all of his problems.

Unfortunately for him, Len hadn't accounted for Barry's loving, caring, and close-knit foster family, the Wests, and has to invent an entirely imagined relationship with this stranger when he's introduced to them as Barry's soon-to-be husband. Len has to be very careful not to arouse their suspicions if he wants his plan to succeed and agrees to come spend a belated Christmas with the Wests. But there's a catch: Barry has a gorgeous foster sister, Iris, who knows something's a little off.

Iris has just come back to town for the holidays and hasn't seen Barry since he confessed his feelings for her a little over six months ago. Before Barry fell into a coma, she was planning on telling him that she hadn't stopped thinking about him and that she was ready to give this thing between them a shot. Sick with worry over Barry, and suspicious and maybe jealous of Len, she is determined to find out more about Barry's strange fiance. As she gets to know him, however, Iris soon realizes that there's more to Len than meets the eye…

After New Year's Eve, Barry wakes up. He does not remember being in a relationship with Len, so everyone assumes he has amnesia. Wally tells Barry that he needs to let go of his hopeless crush on Iris and focus on what is in front of him. Barry, who has no idea that Iris was planning on confessing to him, follows Wally's advice and starts spending time with Len. To both of their surprise, the two soon discover that they deeply enjoy each other's company, to the point where Barry proposes to Len "again." Caught in his own web of lies, and charmed despite his best efforts by Barry and the rest of the West family, Len accepts. But what Barry doesn't know is that, while he was sleeping, Iris and Len fell in love…

[nerdially]

How about coldflash and Len+anyone else you want for the bingo?

Lila: coldflash!!! I love it. Coldflash and coldwave are my two favorite ships. Coldflash has so many great possibilitys and their dynamic is awesome. They balancing each other out. I would have loved to see Barry and Len on a different earth beeing together. Just imagine Earth1-Barry‘s reaction to it. 😝

Yellow: for coldwest/coldwestallen. I don’t really see them together. Probably because im not really a huge Iris fan. I liked her with Eddie. But that’s it. 🙈

[legendsofamultishipper]

Vote for Your Favorite Iris West Ship

Iris/Barry

Iris/Barry/Leonard Snart

Iris/Leonard Snart

Iris/Cisco

Iris/Cisco/Barry

Iris/Barry/Eddie Thawne

Iris/Eddie Thawne

Iris/Savitar

Iris/Zari Tomaz

Iris/Lisa Snart

Iris/Linda Park

Other

Voting ended onJan 25, 2024

[coldflasher]

been driving myself crazy lately thinking about coldwest and all the things they have in common because there's actually some really interesting ground to cover there. like. there's quite a few commonalities or at least overlaps in their life experiences and yet those experiences vary in such interesting ways

they both come from cop families, but whereas iris really seems to have faith in the institution to the point where she wanted to become a part of it, len is so obviously vehemently against the police force and everything it stands for (clearly the superior take, sorry iris), and both of their worldviews have been influenced by their fathers. lewis was a dirty cop who had the system work against him, whereas joe was a huge believer in that system up until season... 7? 8? i lose track, whatever season it was that they had him quit the CCPD

then there's the fact that both len and iris had a parent who was an addict—again, it's affected them both in very different ways. lewis was in and out of len's life, generally for the worse, he was actively abusive and physically hurt him, i believe it's implied largely due to his alcoholism? meanwhile, iris's mom was actively neglectful on at least one occasion to the extent that she put both their lives at risk (also this defo contradicts canon but i headcanon that iris knew damn well that francine didn't tragically pass away due to illness—six years old is more than old enough to remember a seriously traumatic life-threatening event like having to call 911 to save her overdosing mother during a potentially lethal housefire).

again, that's a very different trauma to having a present abusive father with a violent streak, but. neither of them had a mom growing up. we do love mommy issues, i know the show focuses more on len's daddy issues but he defo has mommy issues as well. i wish they'd addressed even vaguely what happened to both len and lisa's moms—the most obvious explanation is that they both left to escape lewis's abuse, but then neither of them tried to take the kids? len also briefly mentions a grandfather in one ep—i believe the grandfather played a more prominent role in his life in the comics, kinda wish they'd gone more into that relationship in the show as well

i feel like there's more but these are the main things that are rattling around in my brain right now (aka i'm shoving them into a fic that probs won't see the light of day for years), will report back with whatever else comes to me