#kleptoandpyro asks

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Coldflash! "Len was beginning to regret every life decision that he had ever made to lead him to this point."

Barry Allen, he can deal with, drunk Barry Allen, he can tolerate, but drunk Barry Allen turning up unannounced at his safehouse at 3:37am on a Sunday morning and zooming around the place like sonic the hedgehog on cocaine is nothing short of unwelcome.

“Heyy Len, lookk, I’m so-sorry,“ begins Barry, rearranging his creased shirt and swaying on the spot, “I had no idea you’d be asleep, I thought bad guys were always…plotting,” he adds, slurring, and making a wiggly motion with his fingers as if that was the accepted sign language for ‘up to no good.’

Len, standing in his shirt and boxers in the middle of the room, can only stare, before managing to force out - with what patience he does not know - “Glossing over the fact that you know where I live, and the fact that it’s the middle of the night, and we’re enemies: now’s not a great time, Barry.”

And the speedster walks forward with slightly too much momentum, eyes glazed, and says, “I know, I knnow, m’sorry, I’m gona go home, I just need-wh…” and he looks around the four walls as if they’ll provide answers, “where in Central am I, ‘xactly?” but before Len can give any sort of response, verbal or icy, Barry has already flashed his way into a different part of the house, and it takes a few moments of frantic searching before Len finds Barry sprawled on his bed, completely passed out as if he’d ran straight into it, faceplanted and decided to just stay there; something Len is 100% sure is what actually happened.

Perhaps on a different day, at a different time, Len would’ve just frozen Barry where he lay and saved himself a lot of trouble, or taken pictures and blackmailed him on social media, or at least deposited him outside of the door in a drunken heap…but this is today, and Len is tired, so he just runs a hand down his face, climbs in beside the kid and tries not to think about how the cute little nose and soft snores and warm body isn’t entirely unwelcome, before falling asleep himself.

If anyone wants me to continue any ficlets, just let me know!

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Well I certainly wasn’t expecting something like this today. Thank you Nonny, wherever you are. You have warmed my cockles, cleared my debts and replenished my drinks cabinet.

[kleptoandpyro]

1, 10, 12 for the writing ask meme.

Askeths!

1) Is there a story you’re holding off on writing for some reason?

Not actively, no. I only hold off on writing for procrastination reasons, or the Muse has taken some leave time. But are there fics which I don’t want to write because I’m scared of a potential bad response? Nope.

10) Write in silence or with background noise? with people or alone?

If I have to hurry my writing (cos I’m late for a fandom event (which is all the time)) then I have to write in silence to concentrate, otherwise, if I’m just writing at my leisure (which is rare) then I don’t mind some background noise. I always write alone, we ride solo here.

12) Your weaknesses as an author

I’m too critical of my own work and this makes me avoid writing. I can’t plot and just write by the seat of my pants which makes it difficult for me to know the direction of my fic. If I can’t convey exactly what I want to convey then I’ll procrastinate writing entirely. My focus is terrible and I need peer pressure to force myself to write. All in all, this means I only usually write for events because it’s quite mentally taxing for me to write. It takes a lot of energy.

Thanks!

Writing meme is Here if anyone wants to send me writer asks.

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Send this to the 12 nicest people you know or who seem to have a good heart and if you get 5 back you must be pretty awesome. 💘 (@enchanted-lightning-aes)

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Hi! I was wondering if you've ever know the title of a fic that's coldflash i think? But Barry was raised with/by the mardons and has a drug problem (i remember when he was fighting with Mark he called Barry Speed which sent him into relapse) anyway I've been trying to find it again so if you happen to know what it is I'd be v thankful

Hi.

I’ll admit I’m not very knowledgeable when it comes to fics but the good folk in the @flarrowverse-shipyard discord suggested this:

https://archiveofourown.org/series/777654

Their fic wisdom knows no bounds \o/

[kleptoandpyro]

1,5,10, and 12 for the writer ask! (:

Writer asks part 2!

1: Who is the hardest character for you to write?

Of the characters I’ve written I have the hardest time with Mick Rory. I’m quite descriptive and wordy in my fics, bordering on poetic-style, but you can’t write the thoughts of a character like Mick and be too flowery; it clashes with his characterisation. Things need to be more basic, clipped and straight to the point without losing the flow of the fic.

I haven’t cracked the code yet but hopefully I’ll get there one day.

5: Do you tell the people in your life that you write fics?

Nope. And I’ll probably take it with me to the grave.

10. When you write fics, how much of canon are you willing to ignore/skip over?

I actually try and include canon as much as possible, I prefer to fill in the gaps rather than write something different. I’ve written the odd divergence and AU but I like to play in the sandbox of canon more. For me, it makes for better immersion and more believability.

12. What is your ideal writing area?

I don’t have a garden or rooftop and I don’t have internet cafes where I am so it’s usually just on my laptop on the sofa with the TV on in the background. But I live in a top floor apartment right next to a woodland park so I have a very pretty view out from my living room.

I’m very prone to distraction and I probably don’t help myself in that regard. But I can’t stand writing on my phone so it’s laptop all the way.

Ask meme is here for those who want to ask.

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Ship that you find disgusting: 💩 Ship that you secretly like: 💚 Ship that you find most sexy: 👅

Welp we are certainly going to get controversial here.

“A Ship that you find disgusting.”

Easy answer: anything that involves a minor and an older character or has the trappings of a parent-child ship.

In the Arrowverse fandom, ships like: Stein/Jax, Malcolm/Thea

In Multifandom, ships like: Starker, Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan, Piccolo/Gohan etc

And it’s scary how many people ship the above, and think it’s cool. No. No it isn’t.

“A Ship that you secretly like.”

I wouldn’t say that there’s any ship out there that I’m actively hiding from the world, I simply don’t talk about them or blog about them. Certainly any Arrowverse ship that I like I’m pretty vocal about.

Outside Arrowverse there are certainly ships that I have that are obscure, maybe taboo and/or reside in the 9th Circle of Rarepair Hell so the main reason they’re hush hush is that I don’t know if anyone else ships them or even likes the shows they’re from.

A few which spring to mind: Tweak/Craig (South Park), Piccolo/Nail (Dragonball Z), The Weasley twins/Snape/Harry (Harry Potter), Ragnar/Athelstan (Vikings)

“A Ship that you find most sexy.”

Now, my first thought burst out with COLDWAVE because, y’know OTP, but the thing about Leonard Snart and Mick Rory is they’re kinda gruff, emotionally stunted men which is endearing but not necessarily the most sexy when they compound all their baggage onto each other. Len sure can be dramatic and charming and Extra, but Cold, and Mick for the most part is manly as all Fuck and Hot, but closed off.

I honestly think, to me, a ship I think fits better, is Captain Canary.

Cos there’s something about those two that, when paired, oozes sex appeal; Len’s suave, confident, bad boy mannerisms and Sara’s badass, fluid yet equally charming nuances. They bounce off each other, their dramatics don’t cancel out but match. They’re both snarky yet in control, and have this energy that reflects that.

No matter what scene they’re in, it always feels that they could up and jump each other’s bones at any given moment.

And that’s sexy.

\o/

Send me a Controversial Shipping Ask!If you want one in return, tell me in your Ask. 

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15, 25

Askeths the 3rd

15) why did you start writing? 

I had spent years reading fanfiction, probably 10 years at least, and one day I just had this fic idea. I had never written before, at least not fiction, and I just thought: I could take a crack at this

And thus my first Harry Potter fic, all 10k of it, was powered out in less than 2 days.

It got a few good reviews and I realised I might be ok at this and it got the ball rolling.

25) copy/paste a few sentences or a short paragraph that you’re particularly proud of 

History.

He had borne it, lived it, outlived it; breathed its air, fled down its many sinuous paths, stood bystander to its atrocities, and felt its wroth firsthand in the deepest chasms of his heart.

History didn’t discriminate; how could it? It was only the memoirs of Time; a force that neither played judge, jury nor executioner yet imprisoned all within its grasp. History didn’t even look down with anything other than indifference at whoever had to fall to their knees so that it may rise up and be seen above the blackening smoke; gave not the slightest hum of judgement to how many voices had to fall silent so that its chorus could be heard above all others; felt no remorse towards the falling of its denizens upon the hard earth as long as a path was left between the bodies for it to move forward.

An excerpt from one of my Rip Hunter fics: A Cold Calculation

Thanks for the asks!