Thank you to everyone who contributed and supported this year's Snowbarry Week! Below, we've listed all the contributions we've received so please go read, like and reblog and share the love to all our content creators!
Day 1: Bloggers / Youtubers / Social Media
A Reaction That Can't Be Contained (fic) by purpleyin
all these shining lights (fic) by thestarkswillendure
Bloggers (art + fic excerpt) by vampcoffeegyrl23
Day 2: Traditions / Holidays
Operation: Haunted House (fic) by shyesplease
Holidays (art) by sci-fi-pony
Day 3: Shop AUs e.g. Coffee Shop AU, Florist AU, etc
Better Late than Never (fic) by shyesplease
Day 4: FREE DAY + any past prompts
Prison Break (fic) by shyesplease
Chemistry (art) by sci-fi-pony
Day 5: Role Reversal / Meta-whammied
all these shining lights (fic) by thestarkswillendure
In the future, with the planet’s resources nearly depleted, Earth’s scientists find a wormhole into an alternate universe’s distant past. Seeing a hope to save what remains of humanity, they gather an expedition to explore and settle this potential refuge. Drs. Snow and Allen are among the first team of scientists sent through the wormhole. While discovering the many wonders of their new home, they also develop a bond with each other, one which may help them both heal from their pasts. But when they uncover a secret that may threaten the very existence of the expedition, they have to act quickly to figure out what’s really going on. Just what is their team leader, Eobard Thawne, hiding from them?
Barry decides to write a blog as The Flash, to let people into what he believes in/ thinks of, to connect with people more, and to deal with the awful things he’s seen. He starts to notice some comments by a user who seems to know exactly what he’s feeling. At first, the comments are anonymous, but when a user with the handle frostygyrl3 “likes” the post as soon as it’s posted it’s pretty clear she was the anonymous commenter as well and has similar comments to what the anonymous poster wrote. After a particularly difficult fight, Barry decides to send a direct message to frostygyrl3. Barry can see that the message is read, but there’s no response. A few weeks later, he gets a reply - just a few words. Something simple, brutal, that cuts deep. He replies back, and the two message each other quite a bit. Around the same time that Barry starts the new blog, he has a few run-ins with a troubled ice queen metahuman woman - Killer Frost - who is not exactly a full villain but isn’t exactly winning any points with CCPD either. Barry has no idea that the metahuman who he spars with out on the streets of Central City as The Flash is really the silly, soulful, and flirty girl he has been texting with for weeks. Who is Killer Frost - frostygyrl3 - and will Barry be able to chip through the ice and bring out the girl whose words he fell in love with? Or will she fall deeper into villainy and freeze out the people most important to her?
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*a brief excerpt below:
Blog #1 - Hi!
written by The Flash!
Hi. Greetings from my super top-secret-speedster-lair!
Okay, so this is my first blog. Ever.
Wow, this is so weird. Like a diary entry the whole world wide web will see . . . but none of you know anything about me. Well, I mean I guess that’s why we’re here, right? You all know who I am . . . just not anything about me the person. (Obviously, I don’t intend to spill every single personal detail about who I actually am. That just wouldn’t be responsible as your friendly neighborhood scarlet speedster - yes, pun intended. No, my name is not Peter Parker - and I really don’t like spiders, but that is not my kryptonite. That’s right - I’m not Superman either. Wrong city - and planet.) I am probably, definitely, absolutely, outing myself as a big nerd right now . . .
Anyways, a good friend suggested I start this blog as a way to introduce myself to the citizens of Central City (and, well, the world I guess) so here I am. Also, another friend was super helpful in helping me set up mazes and labyrinths (is that even the plural of that word!?) of passwords and security measures because what would be the fun of being able to discover them so easily? So . . . yeah. Good luck hacking into this, supervillains. Ha.
Why are we here again? Oh yeah . . . introductions and such.
Hello, Central City (and the world.) I am The Flash - the red blur you’ve seen racing around town stopping pesky bad guys and evil metahumans from mischief and mayhem. My birth name isn’t important, just know that while I do have super speed, I’m just a regular person like all of you. I have family and friends that I care about just like you, so being discreet is important to me in order to keep them safe. My intention is to use my enhanced speed abilities to keep the city safe, and to help other metahumans use their abilities for good as well.
There has been a bit of a misunderstanding between The Flash and those who assist me, the Central City Police Department, and the people of Central City.
As he hit send on his first blog post, Barry sat back in the Star Labs desk chair and let out an exhausted sigh. He still wasn’t sure if it was a good idea - or if it wasn’t going to completely backfire or blow up in his face - but he’d assured Iris he’d at least try. The city - his city, his precious Central City - was really not loving The Flash right now. At all. Iris suggested that if he tried to reach out to the city in his own words, then maybe it would help smooth the speedbumps of those trying to accuse The Flash of ill intent.
“Barry - you’ve already reached over eight million views!!” Iris shouted from the other side of the room in front of her laptop.
“Oh my god . . . this was a bad idea . . . why did I let you talk me into this?”
It didn’t take long for the comments to start flooding in and to be honest it was a bit intimidating. Iris assured him it was a good thing - a great thing even - that so many people were already so interested in the blog and what “The Flash” had to say.
Most of the comments he glossed over without really reading - especially the harsh ones that just spewed hate and criticism toward The Flash and all superheroes in general. There was one comment in particular, though, that caught his eye right away. It was from an anonymous user, but the words they used felt more personal to Barry than the other comments…
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A.N. I'm sure I probably won't continue this anytime soon, but one never knows.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Flash (TV 2014)
Rating: Teen
Words: 3,101
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Barry Allen/Caitlin Snow
Characters: Barry Allen, Caitlin Snow, Cisco Ramon
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - No Powers, Video Blogger Barry Allen, Video Blogger Caitlin Snow, Science, Getting Together, Falling In Love, Excessive Drinking, Karaoke, Barry Allen Being Corny, POV Caitlin Snow, Not Beta Read
Series: Part 33 of SB fanworks, Part 132 of Arrowverse fanworks
Summary:
Caitlin has a modest science blog and a fairly new YouTube channel, but she accidentally goes viral and also attracts the attention of a certain other science video blogger, Barry Allen. Written for @simplysnowbarry's Snowbarry Week 2022.
Big thanks to everyone who voted in our poll recently. We can now happily announce that Snowbarry Week 2022 is happening from Monday November 7th to Sunday November 13th this year.
We’ve chosen the prompts from those submitted to us so as to speed the process along and give everyone plenty of time to create. And we’ve also got extras for artists, as well as a few song prompts.
prompts:
day 1, Mon Nov 7th - bloggers / youtubers / social media
day 2, Tues Nov 8th - traditions / holidays
day 3, Weds Nov 9th - shop AUs, e.g. coffee shop AU, florist AU, etc
day 4, Thurs Nov 10th - FREE DAY + any past prompts
day 5, Fri Nov 11th - role reversal / meta whammied
day 6, Sat Nov 12th - flings / friends with benefits
day 7, Sun Nov 13th - alternate fandom / fandom fusion, Snowbarry belonging to another fandom e.g. Star Trek, Bones, etc.
extras for artists:
black and white
snow / ice & winter aesthetics
matching / in sync
song prompts:
MYMP - A Little Bit
Imagine Dragons - Sirens
Lady Gaga - Hold My Hand
Posting guidelines will be posted closer to the date. We hope to see you all in November, and in the mean time, HAPPY CREATING!
(!) F.A.Q
Who can participate in Snowbarry Week?
ANYONE! Writers, giffers, manip-ers (?), fan artists smol and toll. We welcome fan fiction, gifsets, manips, fanart, fanmixes, …
Can days be combined?
YES! Social media with shop AU? Or friends with benefits and alternate fandom? All joking aside, you can combine whichever prompts you’d like.
Can I create work for both the artists prompts and the writer prompts?
ABSOLUTELY YES!
Can I use the artists prompts for a fic, or the writer prompts for art work?
GO CRAZY!
If I want to contribute something do I have to do something for every day?
Not at all. You’re free to commit to a single day, and we will be so flipping excited to see it. The point is just to have fun with the prompts, even if it’s just the one.
Can I post a WIP that I started working on before that fits a Snowbarry Week theme?
Yes, of course! We’re not a Big Bang, or even a Mini Bang, we don’t require art or fic to have been created from scratch for exactly this week.
I’m going to be busy/out of town during Snowbarry Week. Can I post early/late?
We’d really like to avoid early posting. If you’re out of town or too busy the week itself you can always schedule posts for the correct dates.
Posting late shouldn’t be a problem. Posting Day 1 on Day 3 is also perfectly fine, just make sure we can tell which day you’re posting for, so our heads don’t start spinning.
What does free day mean?
Basically, free day is where you decide what prompt you want to do something with. As long as it’s Snowbarry (or one of its variations like Savifrost, Flashfrost, etc), you’re okay to do whatever you want. A free day in the middle of the week might also provide some much needed breathing space for all the contributors.
Also, the same as last year, our free day now doubles as an opportunity to create for any of our past prompts! If there was a prompt you didn’t manage to finish something for, or just always liked the sound of doing but missed the opportunity, we’d love to see that for this day to have a fun revival of some of the great prompts from past events.
What does [insert theme] mean?
Oh man, this is a hard one to answer. Bloggers could be about Barry's blog in canon, or a slight AU where Caitlin has a blog as a hobby, or an AU where the characters blog professionally, or it could even be a story told in the style of blog posts! We can’t tell you which roles to cast your characters in, because everyone has different interpretations. If you can justify the connection, we’re pretty sure you’re good.
Does my idea fit the theme?
Like we said above, if you can justify it, we’re pretty sure you’re good. If you’re really not sure, hit us up!
If there are more questions, please don’t hesitate to drop us an ask. Any questions you don’t want published, feel free to come off anon and ask us as well - we promise we won’t publish what you’re not comfortable with, just let us know if you want it answered privately.
